Chapter 171 Whispers in the Deep Sea!

Zhou Jue understood what Chen Jianguo meant.

"Uncle Chen, is there anything I can help with?" Zhou Jue asked. After three years of seclusion, she felt like her bones were rusting!

“There really is something I can help with.” Chen Jianguo smiled upon hearing this.

"Do you remember the Immortal Cultivation University?"

Zhou Jue nodded: "I remember."

“You hold the title of vice principal, even though you don’t actually do anything, you still have to make an appearance so the students know you exist,” Chen Jianguo explained.

"Although only a little over a month has passed on Earth, the first batch of children who enrolled have already been in the apocalypse for two to three years."

"More than two years?" Zhou Jue was somewhat surprised.

"Yes," Chen Jianguo said with emotion, "The children are all working very hard, but some of them miss home. So we have arranged regular 'family visit leave' so that they can occasionally return to Earth to reunite with their families and avoid becoming completely disconnected from society."

"These children are our hope for the future, and their mental health is very important."

“They also encountered many problems in their cultivation. Although the instructors could solve most of them, some exceptionally talented students raised questions that went beyond the scope of their mentors.”

"Especially the children, their ideas are so imaginative that they often stump Cheng Gan and Commander Qi."

Chen Jianguo looked at Zhou Jue with a hint of expectation in his eyes: "If you have time, you can go to the school, give a lecture to the children, or answer their questions. You are a legendary figure in their hearts."

Zhou Jue thought about it and realized he didn't have any special plans for the future, so he figured it might be a good idea to go and take a look.

"Okay, I'll go check it out in a bit," she readily agreed.

“There’s also the ‘Hundred Arts Project,’” Chen Jianguo continued. “If you’re interested, you can participate.”

Zhou Jue understood that the country was doing everything possible to explore various paths to immortality.

Orthodox cultivation is one path, while entering the Dao through skills is another.

It's always safer to have multiple options than to stick to one path.

Just then, the communicator in Chen Jianguo's pocket suddenly rang. Chen Jianguo's expression turned serious, and he immediately took it out. He glanced at the screen and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"It's Cheng Gan." With that, he pressed the video call button.

"Report!" Cheng Gan's voice was crisp and clear.

When her gaze fell on Zhou Jue beside Chen Jianguo, her eyes instantly lit up with surprise: "Xiao Jue! You're out of seclusion!"

"Sister Cheng Gan." Zhou Jue smiled and waved to her.

Cheng Gan's joy was fleeting, but she quickly regained her professional demeanor and turned to Chen Jianguo to continue her report: "Report! The mission was successfully completed. All targets have been driven out of our territorial waters, and we suffered no losses."

"Well done." Chen Jianguo nodded approvingly.

“However…” Cheng Gan’s tone shifted, and his expression turned serious: “We made a new discovery during our return patrol.”

"explain."

"The ship's sonar system has detected a very peculiar sound wave near an extremely deep trench in the South China Sea." Cheng Gan pulled up a file and sent a complex waveform diagram to Chen Jianguo's communications.

"Its frequency is very strange, unlike any known marine life, and completely different from infrasound generated by geological activity. Our technicians' preliminary analysis suggests that... it's somewhat like some kind of... some form of communication."

"Exchange?" Chen Jianguo and Zhou Jue exchanged a glance.

“Yes.” Cheng Gan nodded: “It’s intermittent, but very regular. We tried responding with sound waves of various frequencies, but we didn’t get any feedback.”

"Requesting instructions on whether a professional deep-sea scientific expedition team should be dispatched to investigate?"

Chen Jianguo did not hesitate at all.

deep sea.

Unknown sound waves.

The combination of these words represents extremely high research value, and may even conceal unknown risks or opportunities.

"Maintain your current coordinates, stay put, and activate the highest level of alert," he ordered in a deep voice. "I will report immediately."

He picked up a communicator from another secure line, walked aside, and quickly and quietly reported the situation.

Zhou Jue's eyes remained fixed on the peculiar sonic waveform; her intuition told her that this thing was not simple.

A few minutes later, Chen Jianguo returned.

"The higher authorities have approved a top-notch research team composed of marine and biological experts, who will carry the latest 'Jiaolong' deep-sea submersible and depart immediately. However, equipment debugging and personnel assembly will take time, and they will arrive at least three hours later."

"Your mission is to seal off that area of ​​water before the research team arrives, to ensure that nothing goes wrong."

Three hours...

Zhou Jue frowned slightly. For the ever-changing deep sea, three hours was too long.

What if it's something special and gets disturbed, then runs away?

What if it's something dangerous and causes trouble in these three hours?

She made a decision instantly: "Uncle Chen, I'll go too."

Chen Jianguo was stunned for a moment, then realized what was happening.

Oh right! How could he forget about Zhou Jue!

With her around, I feel more at ease than with ten scientific expedition teams!

"Great!" Chen Jianguo immediately approved. "With you here, we feel much more at ease!"

Zhou Jue looked at Cheng Gan in the video: "Sister Cheng Gan, send me the precise coordinates of your ship."

"receive!"

Cheng Gan had no doubts and immediately carried out the order. She knew Zhou Jue's capabilities; if she said she was coming, she must have a way.

Soon, Zhou Jue's phone vibrated, and a string of encrypted, precise coordinates was sent to him.

"Uncle Chen, I'll go check things out first," Zhou Jue said to Chen Jianguo. "Tell the expedition team to proceed as planned. I'll contact you immediately if I make any discoveries."

"Okay, you must be very careful!" Chen Jianguo solemnly instructed.

Zhou Jue nodded and immediately gave the system a command in his mind: "System, simulate teleportation, target lock coordinates, the ship's command room where Cheng Gan is located."

[Command confirmed, teleportation talisman simulating... Simulation successful! Target locked! Initiating teleportation!]

A barely perceptible silver light instantly enveloped Zhou Jue. Chen Jianguo only felt a blur before his eyes, and Zhou Jue, who was standing in front of him, vanished into thin air without even a gust of wind.

He smiled and shook his head. This girl was becoming more and more elusive.

...

Meanwhile, inside the command center of the guided-missile destroyer "Gepard".

Cheng Gan had just ended her communication with Chen Jianguo. She turned around, preparing to give the order to remain on guard.

Just then, the air beside her rippled slightly, like water. Everyone in the command center sensed this anomaly and instantly became alert!

"What……"

He hadn't even uttered the word "person" yet.

Zhou Jue's figure appeared gracefully in the center of the command room.

"..."

Zhou Jue looked at the room full of petrified soldiers and waved his hand helplessly.

"Hi, Sister Cheng Gan, I'm here."

"Xiao Jue!" Cheng Gan excitedly stepped forward and gave Zhou Jue a big hug.

Before the two sides could exchange pleasantries, the sergeant in charge of sonar monitoring suddenly snapped out of his daze. He pointed at the screen flashing red in front of him, his voice trembling.

"Captain! Major General Zhou! Look!"

Everyone's attention was instantly drawn to it.

On the sonar screen, that mysterious sound wave reappeared!

Moreover, this time the waveform was countless times more complex than before! It was no longer a simple, intermittent signal, but a series of short, rapid pulses!

"It...it's back again!" The sergeant's voice trembled with excitement. "And it seems...it seems to be responding to our probe!"