"Ah... then let's forget about it..."
"They are almost gone... Why don't you follow them? Do you still have the church in your eyes?"
"You're so nagging." The man continued to complain, "It's obviously your fault that the sea chart was lost. Everything was already arranged. We just needed to kill Agor after we went out to sea. It doesn't matter if you want to control a few foreigners..."
"Shut up!" Hashem was about to piss him off.
"How dare you say something like this so casually!?"
"What's the use of saying it? Whoever hears it can be killed..."
……
At the same time, in another sea area that gradually changed from azure to pitch black, a strange shuttle-shaped ship was sailing at a constant speed underwater.
A round of duty had just ended, and the crew members who were on duty came to the restaurant to rest. While enjoying the seafood prepared by the chef, they discussed the upcoming voyage. Everyone looked a little worried.
Leon had just taken care of his wife. Baliwu was a little seasick, so he fed her a few pills and watched her fall asleep before he left.
He met Aman in the corridor, who stopped him and asked, "If I'm right, are you in trouble?"
"There are problems." Li Ang thought for a moment and said, "But we can solve them ourselves."
He guessed why A'man was actively contacting them, and he could understand it if he put himself in their shoes.
After all, it was that level of hatred. If he lost Balyu, he might have behaved even more unbearably.
But this matter is of too great a significance - regardless of whether there are other sea monsters in the tomb, the remaining eight stone slabs alone are a huge harvest.
You have to know that many years ago, Mar-Bakinsa only fished up one of the pieces and made it famous as the "Holy Stone Tablet". That thing can directly protect and save countless people, and its preciousness is unimaginable. Of course, he didn't dare to reveal the truth.
Fortunately, A'man didn't bother him and just said that he could ask for help if he needed it. Li Ang thanked him politely and left.
He strode through the narrow corridors, greeted the crew members he knew, ate half a fish fillet when passing by the restaurant, and turned around to see Xishilo Torres and Mapus Darent playing cards over there, while Guimee Cybertron was watching the game on the side.
"Hey! I drew the ninth 'Holy Slate'! According to the words written on it, collecting all nine slate cards can summon the Mechanical Sun Goddess. This is a victory according to the rules. I win!"
"How can you be so shameless? This card is clearly drawn by you!"
"Just tell me whether you recognize it or not~"
"How can I recognize it! Your drawing is so ugly...at least get the perspective right!"
Shaking his head and leaving, Leon went directly to the main control room and saw Tennie was still driving the boat.
"Do you need some rest, Your Highness?"
"Being not……"
Turney didn't even turn his head.
"If you need to rest, please don't force yourself."
After a few words of encouragement, Leon left and continued to go deeper until he found Ethan in the library.
After not seeing him for a day, Ethan had a few more strands of white hair on his temples. He was consuming tobacco leaves by the bucket, and when Li Ang first came in, he even thought there was a fire inside.
"Ahem! What's the situation?"
Opening the door and dispersing the smoke, Leon looked at the man behind the table.
Ethan had a pile of books in front of him.
There were at least twenty books spread out on the table, as well as a large number of nautical charts and notes. A feather pen was inserted in an ink bottle and tucked into the corner, and the ink in it was completely dry.
"I basically read all the books they found."
Taking away the ashtray full of cigarettes, Ethan leaned back in his chair.
"What we can confirm now is... they are investigating the lost city of Oujin City, and they have some ideas about Colosseum Port."
"That's it." Li Ang nodded, half sighing and half complaining: "If they could trust us a little more... all this effort could be saved."
"That's not what you say." Ethan laughed.
"You have led a team before, so you must be aware of the importance of confidentiality. In extreme cases, only one person can hold secrets and make decisions. The fact that we can see these things is their instruction."
"Have you decided?" Li Ang asked him.
"Are you really going to Colossae?"
"Here's my plan." Ethan nodded. "We can't take the stone slab with us, so let's just mark the location first... My idea is that if they survive, there's a high chance they'll go to Colossae Harbor. We'll go there and wait for them, maybe we can wait for them..."
"I'm not trying to hit you." Li Ang looked at him seriously.
"The Pierre searched such a long distance before but couldn't find it... That piece of debris couldn't have flown that far."
"I know!" Ethan interrupted him, his tone irritated.
After a pause, he continued: "I have experienced more dangerous things than this..."
"I believe them, nothing will happen."
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So why do humans make such a big fuss when they get married? Wouldn't it be more fun to spend the money on your wedding on yourself?
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Chapter 106: The Legend of Seahorse Fjord 5k
After sailing silently with a purpose in mind, the Pierre finally arrived at Hippocampus Fjord a few days later.
Hippocampus Fjord is located at the junction of the Goliath Plate and the Elsa Continent. The edges of the two continents form an irregular outline. Standing on the cliff high above the fjord and looking down, it looks like a giant seahorse.
The Pierre first cruised nearby for a while - it did not dare to surface. After all, according to the intelligence they had obtained, this place had long been covered by gray fog. They had also listened to Hitzfeld's analysis of the "two worlds" theory, and were afraid that they would be lost in the gray fog after surfacing.
But there was some gain: they found that something was not right in the nearby waters.
"The sea water has become a lot more turbid." Baliu was wearing a white coat when she came out. Of course, this was just symbolic and did not mean that she planned to change her job.
Baliu has recovered from her illness. As a tree person, her energy and endurance far exceed those of humans, so she has been in charge of this aspect.
"Tangpu measured it 20 times, and the results were the same. Some elements in the seawater were obviously above the standard, and there were also some strange fungi that we had never seen before."
"The most important thing, gentlemen." A young man wearing black-framed glasses came out of the laboratory. "The closer you get to the sea surface, the higher the concentration of microorganisms in the seawater becomes."
"What does this mean?" Darent looked at the others, wondering if he was the only one who didn't understand.
"Does this mean there's something wrong on the sea?" Saibot speculated. "Didn't Aisuen say before that the gray fog connected to the evil god's realm? If the gray fog is a passage, then that means that things from that side are coming through the gray fog at all times."
Cybert also knows a little about medicine, so in her speculation, this "thing" naturally includes bacteria and microorganisms.
There is really no need to just stare at the sea monster. The sea is still too vast. Why not study and find the sea monster when there is such obvious evidence in front of you? They are here to investigate, not to explore.
The few of them discussed for a while, and the young man named Tang Pu tried hard to explain to them with gestures - at the same time, a large amount of blood components could be detected in the sea water.
"This is what it looks like under the microscope," he said. "We measured it many times, changing locations and getting the same result. To be honest, the ingredients were sometimes so concentrated that I suspected someone was pouring blood down there, and it was non-human blood that I couldn't figure out."
Looking at each other, they came to the watchtower again.
Ethan was studying how to use the periscope. Although the sailor on guard had already explained it to him, there were some things he still had to see with his own eyes to feel at ease.
"Is this okay?" Darent asked worriedly.
"It shouldn't be a big deal." Li Ang shook his head. "The influence of the gray fog is completely blocked by the sea surface. As long as we don't go up there, we'll be fine."
The tube of the periscope rose a little bit as the wheel rotated. Ethan turned on the searchlight under his instruction, frowned and looked for a long time, then said, "Why are there so many fish here?"
He saw many schools of fish in the waters near the sea surface.
All kinds of fish, such as silverfish, barracuda, swordfish, tiger fish, etc., are swimming around in groups, and no one knows what they are doing.
"That's right, Ethan." Leon stepped forward and told him the laboratory's findings, then concluded: "If the content of various microorganisms is really higher the closer to the sea surface, I mean, if there is even blood in it, it is normal to attract fish."
“Will it attract that monster as well?” Darent grimaced.
The others remained silent and turned to stare at him.
Three seconds later, Darent's eyes remained unchanged and he covered his mouth with his hand.
"It shouldn't be possible to lure it here." Feeling that everything was normal outside, Leon breathed a sigh of relief. "The water in the fjord is still too shallow. We have to be very careful when sailing here. What if that thing comes over? A lot of it will go to the surface of the sea."
"Then if the gray fog is really a passage, I mean, if - if, for example, it really catches up with us, and we deliberately lead it to a shallow area, and then when its body just emerges from the water, the gray fog changes... do you think it will be cut in half?"
"Half of it is with the evil god and half is in the water, right? Hahaha, Mapus, you are really good at making associations."
"I'm serious." Darent was the only one who didn't laugh. He nodded seriously, "Otherwise, why would there be blood on it?"
“Hahaha…?” Now no one was laughing anymore.
What he said seemed to make sense.
"Mapus, stop messing around." Li Ang's mouth twitched. "Tang Pu wrote me a report. That density can't be achieved by just a few dead things... You're just overthinking when you suspect those small fish and shrimps!"
Having said that, the Pierre then tried its best to patrol and circle around to make sure that there was really no "huge corpse" left on the seabed.
That basically ruled out Darent's guess, but then they were even more confused: where did all the blood come from?
"Could it be possible?" Darent continued to speculate with his imagination, "The world on the other side of the gray fog is inside a giant monster, so its blood is constantly seeping in."
"Then what you see in the periscope should be red blood mist, right? You also looked just now, okay? Is there anything red on it?"
"With that visibility, you're asking me about the color? Blood isn't that bright even under natural light!"
"But a little color in a gray and black environment will be very eye-catching!"
"Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist!"
"Stop arguing..." Ethan was reading a report sheet, and his head was swollen from their arguing. He put down his things and rubbed his temples, then asked Li Ang, "Have you considered going up to investigate?"
The others immediately shut up. Even the calmest Baliu looked at Ethan as if he was a madman.
Go up? Does he want to hear what he is saying?
Is it true that nothing unexpected will happen if we rashly float on the gray fog sea?
For example, being cut in half by the intersection of different dimensions...it's too dangerous no matter how you think about it.
"I've thought about it." Li Ang first affirmed Ethan's idea, then looked at the others with contempt.
You guys don't care about anything all day long, you just hang out together playing cards... How can we have a common language?
Ethan is still the best, he is a man who gets things done.
Well...just talking about these few days, even Teni is more reliable than you.
"What do you think?" Ethan became interested and was obviously very satisfied with Leon's reliability.
In the command sequence, Xia Yibing was ranked behind Hitzfeld, but both of them had accidents, so the next one behind him would be herself.
But what about the next step? Then it's Li Ang.
I've heard of him before... the rebellious boy from the Cornerel family. I couldn't tell much about him when they first met on Iris Street, but now he is relieved because even if something happens to him, Leon is capable of leading the team.
"I asked Ge Lan," said Leon.
"Isn't she crazy?" Torres interrupted.
The Goliath girl was not originally qualified to board the ship, but according to some survivors, she had met Hitzfeld before the incident. In order to investigate the story, they brought Glenn on board as well.
It is true that they dug out the entire process of the girl's going to the hotel in bits and pieces, of course - if they were not sure that she cared so much about Colossae Port, why would they plan to wait for her?
Torres said she was crazy, which was probably not an exaggeration. After Glenn boarded the ship, she locked herself in the cabin and never left the house. She kept herself in the quilt all day and night. Except for the people who took care of her, anyone who dared to touch her would be scared by her screams.
At first they suspected that she was faking it in order to evade accountability, but after the doctor came, he basically ruled out this possibility - she was simply too frightened and her body's protective mechanism was triggered.
"At least she can still say something." Li Ang frowned, "And she's getting better... Maybe she'll be fine next time you see her."
"What did she say? About Seahorse Sound?"
"The deepest part of Hippocampus Fjord is nearly 300 meters, but the shallowest part is less than 10 meters... She said that this was a place where many ships were wrecked a long time ago. In fact, she was right. There are many shipwrecks below."
"Cuckoo-"
The movement coming from Darent's stomach.
"Let's go to the restaurant." Ethan stood up. "We've been busy all morning and everyone is tired. Let's eat something and talk while we eat."
According to convention, they would get the dish they wanted within 15 minutes of making the request, but today they waited exceptionally long. After all kinds of speculations and discussions, there was still no movement in the kitchen.
