Chapter 72 Deep Sea

"A little closer?" I asked Hongyue.

"If you get closer, you'll be discovered."

"What should we do?"

"There are many ways, it just depends on whether you want to help them or make trouble."

"what does it mean?"

Hongyue said: "If you want to help, just go down and explain the situation. If you want to cause trouble... aren't you good at it?"

"I don't know this guild. I don't know if they are looking for things for China or for the Japanese. It's hard to decide at the moment. The last time I saw them, things were a little strange. It's hard to tell."

"What a strange method?"

"At that time, the Japanese were in the front and they were in the back. The distance between them was not too far, but they did not notice each other, and they did not react to the big noise we were fighting. It can be understood that they were chasing the Japanese and wanted to take back things from China. , it was indeed far away at the time, so I didn’t hear it. But this explanation is a bit far-fetched. Another direction can be understood as that they are the delivery party, and the Japanese are here to pick up the goods. They are simply working together as a gang, one delivers and the other picks up. Pretending. Cheng's pursuit of the Japanese was actually escorting the Japanese away."

"If you say so, the problem is not small."

"So I don't know whether I should sabotage their operation or not."

"How about we try another method."

"What method?"

"Isn't your magic pet capable of moving in water? Find an impostor player and cheat him out."

"Isn't that just a warning?"

"Can anyone defeat the two of us in the darkness? If we really can't destroy those night-light pearls, we can only see things in total darkness. Are we afraid that we won't be able to deal with these idiots?"

"Then give it a try!"

A few minutes later, Ariana wore a set of armor I made for her and pretended to be a player and swam down the chain. The other party was stunned when they saw A Di Na, but there didn't seem to be any hostility. A Di Na landed on the hull and said loudly: "I am the progress supervisor sent by Japan. How are you doing? We don't have much time."

A well-dressed man ran out from the wreckage of the ship below. Because it was underwater, everyone was wearing a full-coverage mask, so his appearance could not be seen clearly. The man swam next to A Di Na. "If you are anxious, you can just fish it out yourself. We already gave you things last time. What does it have to do with us if you were discovered and sunk by others?"

I could clearly hear the voice that Grandma heard through my spiritual contact, and now everything became clear. A Di Na received my instruction not to bother me any more. "Anyway, hurry up, the pressure from above is tight." After saying that, she turned around and swam up.

A Di Na swam all the way until she was completely out of sight, then turned around and circled back again. I helped her take off her armor. "That's great. I didn't expect you to have acting talent."

"Of course, master, doesn't he know that mermaids are all born performers?"

"Okay, okay, just blow it!"

Hongyue pointed over there and said, "They seem to be preparing to evacuate."

I quickly looked over there, and sure enough I saw those people running around. But these people stopped before they ran very far, and then turned back to look at the battleship. I saw the chains shaking for a moment, and then I heard the sound of metal twisting and tearing. It seems they have started salvaging.

But the situation seemed to be different from what was expected. The battleship did not leave the seabed after being pulled by the chain. It seemed that the pulling force was not enough. Just when we were confused, the battleship suddenly shook, and then suddenly rose. The chain pulled the battleship up, and then suddenly let go, and the battleship slammed into the bottom of the sea with a loud bang. Sound is easier to propagate underwater, and we feel as if the battleship is landing next to us.

The chains did not mean to pull up the battleship, but kept lifting and lowering the battleship. They were hitting the hull. The battleship had been punched with thousands of windows and holes by us, and it was broken into several pieces due to water intrusion when it sank. Now it was almost completely broken up after being repeatedly hit by them. Fortunately, the bottom of the deep sea is not full of mud like the lake, so the water is not muddy. The sand and gravel here are very dense due to pressure, so they can sink quickly after floating up.

Repeated collisions finally broke the battleship apart. Broken iron sheets and parts were scattered in all directions, and messy things fell everywhere. This is their purpose. Those lifting equipment are not to salvage the battleship but to break it up.

Fragmented battleship wreckage was scattered around, and the players gathered back around the battleship and started rummaging. They must have been unable to find what they were looking for just now, so they deliberately scattered the ship to make it easier to find. After all, many places inside the battleship were deformed due to shelling. Some doors could not be opened and other aisles may have been deformed and unable to pass through. It would be better to break them apart. try to find.

Those large crane arms hoisted the remaining relatively large pieces of debris. Some players entered its interior to search, while most players began to rummage through the pile of rubbish to find their targets like scavengers. It seems that the target is actually not very big, otherwise it wouldn't be so difficult to find.

"What do you think would make them spend so much time?" Hongyue asked me.

"It's not equipment anyway, otherwise it wouldn't be transported on a battleship. It would be safer to find someone to carry it. So this must be something that cannot fit into the storage space."

"So it's something used on battleships or in cities?"

"That's not necessarily the case. In addition to the technology used by cities and battleships, there are many things that meet the conditions, such as living things. But it seems that this transport is not a living thing, otherwise it would not be solved in such a crude way. ”

"Is that one of the two?"

"Not surprisingly, yes."

"Look over there." Hongyue suddenly pointed at a person over there. The guy was holding a box in his hand and shaking it vigorously, and everyone around him gathered around. But they looked at it for a while and seemed to argue, and one of them threw the box away. The box was empty and contained nothing. The reason for the quarrel was probably because the box, which was supposed to contain the things they needed, was empty.

The box fell closer to the periphery. I told Hongyue not to move and I groped my way towards the box. With the help of the rocks on the seabed, I successfully 'touched' behind the rock next to the box. While they weren't paying attention, I grabbed the box into my hand as quickly as possible and then 'touched' it back to Hongyue.

Hongyue took the box and studied it and said, "This is just an ordinary box, nothing special!"

I took the box back and said, "There is a lot of information on it. First of all, judging from the internal shape of the box, the thing we are looking for is a spherical object, or something similar to a sphere. Judging from the size, this thing is bigger than a basketball. And it’s very heavy. This box is lined with steel support frames, obviously for reinforcement. Also, there is no soft lining on the surface of this box, which means that this thing is very strong, at least it is something that is not afraid of falling.”

"The analysis makes some sense, but there is still one missing piece."

"Huh? Que?"

Hongyue snatched the box and pointed it out to me. "Here, do you see it? There is obviously something embedded in this place. This means that there are three to five protruding parts on the spherical object."

"Can't you tell that you still have the attentiveness of a woman?"

"What do you mean by that? Are you saying that I don't look like a woman?"

"No, no!" He accidentally stung a hornet's nest. Interrupt quickly. "Look here."

"What's the matter?"

"The locking device of this box seems to have been forcibly knocked off by something."

Hongyue looked at it for a long time and said: "The thing is no longer in the box, which means that the box was opened before it sank to the bottom of the sea. And this thing must have been placed in an important part of the ship at that time. This kind of thing should not happen. Unless..."

"It was hit by a cannonball." Hongyue and I shouted at the same time.

Hongyue continued to reason: "You said that this ship was sunk by our fleet, which means that it sank after being bombarded. Judging from the condition of the hull wreckage, the armor of this warship is very average. If it is our warship The secondary secondary gun should be able to drive shells into the deep cabin. Maybe a shell hit the storage place of this thing and broke the lock of the box. "

I then reasoned: "The ship later broke, which means that the cabin with the break became an exposed position. If the box was in a nearby cabin at that time, it was probably in He had already fallen out of the battleship when it sank."

Hongyue then raised doubts. "But the box is near the wreckage and hasn't gone far. But why are the things inside gone?"

I continued: "There is only one possibility. Someone took the thing away. It is so important that no one can take care of it. That person must have chased after the things inside the hull that broke and escaped."

"But the Japanese didn't get anything."

"That means the person was unable to salvage the items."

Hongyue suddenly said: "Maybe he rescued the items but failed to send them to other ships."

I nodded and said: "At that time, all the surrounding ships were basically wiped out, and all the people in the water were killed by rapid-fire cannons. Maybe the Japanese was killed together."

"That means this thing sank later than the ship. The water flow in the ocean is unstable. If the time interval between the falls is relatively large, the things may be distributed to different locations."

"Wait, wait, wait." I shouted: "That doesn't seem to be the case. Our analysis was wrong. If a Japanese had seen that thing break away from the hull, why would they come to search the ship? Since it was the Japanese who asked them to come. If they were looking for it, they would definitely tell them that the thing was no longer in the ship. So no one should have seen the thing when it left the ship."

Hongyue said: "What's the reason?"

I said: "The ocean current you just mentioned may be the reason."

"Ocean current?"

"Let us now summarize the main points of the matter. First, the battleship broke when it sank, and most of the contents fell out. The second point. The box was broken by a cannonball before it fell into the water. It could happen at any time Open it yourself and fall out the contents. The third point is, this is the sea, the ocean currents are very unstable, and the thing may fall anywhere."

Hongyue said: "I understand. You mean that the box opened itself after it fell into the water, and the contents fell out."

"Yes. That thing must have fallen out. Otherwise it was found together with the box. Different things have different abilities to drift with ocean currents because of their different specific gravity and shapes. Things with heavier specific gravity are not easy to drift. "It will appear very close to the sinking site, while things with a lower specific gravity may be carried far away."

Hongyue said: "The box has been reinforced, and the contents inside are of great mass. Judging from the volume of the box, it is not very large, which means that the object has a large specific gravity. And the round shape is not easily carried away by ocean currents. So that thing must be somewhere between where it happened and here."

I said: "But I don't even know where we started the war."

"Then follow the ocean current and look for it upstream. That thing must have hit bottom early upstream."

I quickly said to Grandma: "Can you feel the ocean current?"

"Of course. If you can't feel it, it's not a sea creature!"

"Now take us upstream."

A Di Na did not take us away immediately but whispered: "It sounds like I missed something in your conversation just now."

"What did we miss?" Hong Yue looked at A Di Na curiously, waiting for her answer.

A Di Na replied: "You may not know this if you did not grow up in the sea, but I know it very well. Sea water is not like lakes and rivers, its flow direction is not stable. In some places, the ocean currents change seriously with the seasons, and even completely Turn it upside down.”

"But it's only been a few days, and the ocean currents won't change so badly, right?"

A Di Na said: "The problem is not only seasonal ocean currents. There is also a problem of laminar flow. The flow direction of the water in the ocean is layered. The surface water and the sea water below flow in different directions. In some places, the vertical drop is 100 meters. , the seawater will change direction three or four times in a row. The surface seawater is affected by the wind, the middle seawater is affected by the salinity and temperature of the seawater, and the bottom seawater is affected by the seabed topography and the gravity of the moon. This change will be very large, and there is no way to do it. Determine the direction of the ocean current as you said. We, the mermaid tribe, once conducted an experiment. From the same point on the sea surface, we dropped a stone every 1 minute, for a total of 100 stones. As a result, they landed in 100 discontinuous positions, among which The two farthest rocks are more than 700 kilometers apart. It was a day when the ocean currents were relatively stable. If there were wind, waves or other things, it would be over."

Hongyue and I were dumbfounded. Are there still such strange things in the sea? It seems we have kept things simple!

I asked Grandma: "Then based on your knowledge, how can we determine the specific location of that thing?"

Ariana said: "It's impossible to completely reproduce the ocean currents that day. If you know the ratio of that thing's resistance coefficient in water to its specific gravity, I can calculate the approximate possible radius near its entry point. But It seems like you don’t even know what that thing looks like. This seems impossible. There is also some unfortunate news that I told you to resist."

"Is there anything worse than this?"

"Of course there is. For example, let's say a giant sea creature swallowed that thing as food...! From what you just analyzed, that thing can't be digested. If that creature pulls that thing out, where will it appear? It is possible to cover the entire earth. For example, creatures like whales that like to migrate will run all over the earth, and they may not be sure where they will be pulled out. Maybe in the Pacific Ocean, maybe in the Atlantic Ocean, anyway It's like finding a needle in a haystack. If the thing can't come out of its belly, it would be even worse. Finding something that can run around in the sea is more troublesome than finding a needle in a haystack. You can't catch all the sea creatures. Open it up and search for it? Besides, given the size of that thing, the number of individual organisms that could possibly swallow it is calculated in units of hundreds of millions, so it’s impossible to be sure.”

"Wouldn't that mean we'll never find it?"

"The only way is to look for possible areas and hope that nothing eats it. Most marine life will not eat inanimate things, so the possibility of being eaten is not too great. You don't have to be too Worry."

I regained hope: "So how big is this possible area? Let's see how long it takes to complete the search."

"It needs to be at least 5,000 square kilometers!"

"Forget it, just pretend I didn't say it." After searching such a large area, it's time for the national war to begin. It's easy to find such a large area on land, but it's impossible to find such a large area in the sea.

Hongyue also said: "Unless we have 5,000 people searching, it will be impossible to find it. This range is too large!"

I nodded: "I think it's better to send someone to monitor them, as long as they don't find them, we'd better not waste that manpower ourselves. The project is too huge!"

A Di Na said: "Actually, I have a way."

"any solution?"

"Please ask us in Atlantis to help us find it. Mermaids can find things in the water just as easily as you can find things on land. You can offer a reward of two magic crystals. I guarantee that many mermaids will come to help find it."

"This is a solution, but now is not the time anyway, let's go back first!"

"What should we do here?"

"First, destroy their search speed."

"Who is it?" A voice suddenly shouted from behind us. Grandma pulled the two of us forward and jumped away from the flying harpoon. Too bad it was discovered.

Those players didn't know how they discovered us, but luckily we acted quickly. Xiao Longnu quickly brought up a piece of sand and gravel with her tail to muddy the water. Hongyue and I got on the speedboat and evacuated quickly. The speedboat we have is definitely much faster than those players. The speed of Xiao Longnu and A Di Na is not much slower than the speedboat. After the sand and gravel settled, they only saw a string of blisters, and the people were long gone.

Driving the speedboat upwards, we stopped for a moment when we reached the rectangular steel frame. I used Eternity to easily cut off the chain, and the steel frame immediately sank into the deep sea. Now they were busy. Return to the speedboat and hit the road again, but our goal is not Isengard, but Atlantis.

The matter of the White Sharks is of great importance. I have to make it clear to Emperor Atlantis in person. In addition, I can also ask the mermaids to help find the thing. Another reason to go to Atlantis is that it is relatively close to Atlantis, and returning to Isengard is too far. Anyway, since the advent of crystal resonance communication technology, we already have a dedicated communication line with Atlantis. We can also direct things in the guild when we get to Atlantis.

With Grandina leading the way, we quickly arrived at Atlantis, and the situation here was a bit unexpected. The entire Atlantis looked like it had just been attacked by an atomic bomb. All the buildings in the city collapsed, and the waterproof protective cover flickered as if it would disappear at any time.

Hong Yue's first reaction was: "Did the White Sharks attack Atlantis?"

"Not so fast, right? Even if they are treacherous, they can't attack here before us! War preparations also take time!"

"Then how do you explain this? Did they do it themselves?"

"Ana." Ana rushed over after seeing the damage to Atlantis. I didn't even stop shouting. Although she has become a demon pet, she is still the princess here, and this is the place where she once lived.

The situation in front of me looks like it has been attacked. Atlantis is really in ruins. Many places on the surrounding undersea mountains have collapsed and been damaged. It is obvious that the attack is crazy and almost indiscriminate. Even the mountains have been attacked. It blew up.

There are three small satellite cities around Atlantis. The interiors of these three small buildings are now severely damaged, but the waterproof protective covers are still intact. You can see many mermaids gathering there, probably The little mermaid is being moved. Mermaids who have not passed through early childhood cannot survive in the water for a long time, so the mermaids spent so much effort to build a waterproof cover. Now that the city's waterproof cover is falling apart, they must be busy moving the little mermaid to a safe small city.