Chapter 1452 The Sampan Skeleton Beast Is X? !
In the city-state world of the Age of Discovery, even sailing ship girls had no effective means of dealing with sailing ships catching fire.
But fortunately, whether it is an Iris shipgirl or a Sardinian shipgirl, there is always a Rubik's Cube fire extinguisher in the ship's storage space.
With the concerted efforts of everyone to put out the fire, the fires on the four sailboats that were in distress were quickly brought under control.
And the only sail cargo ship with a relatively complete hull survived.
After about half an hour, all the goods were transferred smoothly.
Hehe and Portsmouth also returned to Lin Lan with these eight sailing ship girls from the Skanman city-state.
"My Goddess of the Sea, I would like to thank you very much, Commander of the Hurricane Fleet, for lending us a helping hand."
The outfits of these eight sailing girls with different looks are all tentacle style.
However, Lin Lan noticed that the wooden ships of the eight sailing ships did not have naval guns and other equipment, but each wore a melee weapon.
From this, he judged that these sailing girls should be just ship girls born with the concept of merchant ships, and they were different from the well-known pirate ships Harmony and Royal Fortune in the history of Blue Star.
Hearing the name of the leading black-haired sailing girl as she thanked him, Lin Lan knew that the other party had roughly learned their identities from He He.
"You don't have to be so polite, but you guys, there were no casualties, right?"
Lin Lan saw that these sailing girls were more or less injured, so she asked with concern.
At the same time, he also signaled the goddess Meta to prepare medical supplies for these girls.
When the sailing ship girl saw him asking his companions to bring bandages and disinfectants, she looked grateful to him, then sighed, with a wry smile on her face and replied:
"Fortunately, your Excellency, Commander, came in time and no one suffered particularly serious injuries.
"It's just that for this batch of supplies ordered by the Goddess Church, even if you and everyone rescued them in time, only 30% of them could be saved... This business is really a loss."
Hehe took over what the sailing merchant girl said and explained to him in detail:
"The city-state of Skanman is famous for its grape production, and the neutral city-state of Omiroga Island is the wine production site of the Goddess Church."
Lin Lan nodded thoughtfully. He had seen this kind of maritime trade many times in other worlds.
"So, what enemy attacked you just now?"
"It's a herd of sampan skeletons. There are so many sampan skeletons that there is no end to them. Your Excellency, Commander."
With the help of Tartu and Mistral, the black-haired merchant ship girl who had bandaged her arm wound showed a hint of fear on her face and truthfully described what had just happened to him and the ship girls on the deck.
It turned out that just about an hour ago, this group of sailboat girls were suddenly attacked by a herd of sampan wrecks coming from all directions.
Those terrifying ghost sea monsters were like endless tides, and gunfire hit the sailing ship they were transporting goods one after another, making them extremely desperate.
But just when they were about to be torn into pieces by the sampan skeleton beasts that boarded the deck, these monsters suddenly fled in panic for some unknown reason.
"How can the perception range of this group of monsters be so far away... actually wider than the range of the Arbitration Agency's radar and carrier-based aircraft?"
Lin Lan fell into deep thought after listening to the words of several sailing merchant ship wives who had received treatment.
"Okay, He He, let your friends go to our third ship to rest first.
"As for the merchant ship whose hull is still intact, let's drag it along to Omiroga Island for repairs."
After hearing his arrangement, He He nodded gratefully to him, and these ship girls who were in distress all saluted and bowed to him to thank him.
"You are worthy of being the commander who led the Hurricane Fleet to defeat the Reverb Fleet and discover the Fountain of Youth. This kindness... we will never forget!"
At first, Lin Lan didn't understand why these sailing girls were so grateful to him.
But after Portsmouth ventured to explain it to him, he understood why.
Maritime trade in the city-state world is actually not safe. Pirate sailing ship girls will often loot these ships and merchant ship girls without naval guns.
Being protected by the hurricane fleet is like finding a protective umbrella for this group of sailing ship girls.
Whenever they meet pirates in the future, they can tell this story so that their losses can be minimized.
"Well, I really haven't considered this, but it doesn't matter. Let them do whatever they want."
Lin Lan had an indifferent attitude towards this.
There are so many city-states and sailboat girls in the city-state world, and it is fate to meet them by chance. Anyway, this is no loss to him.
After He He led the sailboat girls from the deck to tow the sailboat, everyone quickly continued on their way.
Lin Lan asked Xiafei and Tianying to continue to guard the carrier-based aircraft, and then returned to the office of the flagship cabin with Marco Polo, Frendel, Herophant, Miss D, Memphis Meta and the Vesta Meta.
The decoration style of the mass-produced light cruiser's office is also decorated in the style of a captain in the Age of Discovery.
The tables and walls were filled with oil paintings, ceramics and other decorations, and the slowly burning incense also filled the room with a light fragrance.
"Commander, this is the test report we just conducted on the nearby seawater while everyone was putting out the fire."
Without him having to say anything, Memphis Meta took the initiative to hand the tablet in his hand.
As a powerful meta ship girl and arbitration agency, how can we let the enemy escape from under our noses again and again.
"There is good news and bad news."
Memphis meta took a deep breath and said to him seriously:
"The good news is that we did not capture the experimental agency signal around, which means that the sampan skeleton beast has no direct connection with the local experimental agency.
"As for the bad news..."
The pink-haired meta cruiser girl hesitated for a moment, and finally told him the analysis results in a deep voice:
"The residual material of the sampan skeleton beast, I compared all the databases with the two arbitrators, and the only similar sample obtained...
"It is the X-mimetic beast."
Obviously this is just a very common term, but after Memphis meta said this word, Lin Lan clearly felt that the atmosphere of the girls in the room dropped to the freezing point.
"X?"
Lin Lan looked at the data marked in red on the tablet in his hand, and his face showed a look of sudden enlightenment.
No wonder those monsters can avoid them at such a long distance, and even the meta ship girls and arbitration agencies can't detect them.
He should have thought of it earlier. Only a mysterious enemy named X could do this.
But this result was still incredible to him.
X actually existed in the city-state world.
And according to what Harmony and Portsmouth Adventure said, these Xs may have been dormant in the city-state world a long time ago.
So how did the city-state world survive for so long without being destroyed by X?