Saving baby sea kings

In the early morning, the light begins to rise.

The snow outside the cave had stopped at some point.

There was a thin mist all around, and it was still very cold.

Meli woke up first. She added the remaining dry branches to the fire, and the dying flames rose a lot.

Rosinante lay beside the fire, his complexion looking much better, his breathing calm, and Luo curled up beside him.

Meli went forward and checked Rosinante's temperature. It was neither cold nor hot, and it seemed that he was out of danger.

Seeing that both of them were sleeping soundly, Meli left the cave alone without saying goodbye.

She must rush to rescue the sea king cubs as soon as possible.

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Even at noon, the sea surface was still leaden gray, giving people a gloomy feeling.

Meli sat on top of Miloro, the name she gave to this sea king.

The two of them travel together, and it always feels a bit inconvenient without a name.

As we got closer to our destination, the surrounding sea water began to surge unnaturally.

One after another, sea kings appeared around Milo Luo, and gradually more and more of them gathered.

These sea kings rushed to this sea area early after learning the whereabouts of their cubs.

Rapid, disordered, uneasy, anxious...

All the negative emotions of the sea kings were clearly transmitted to Meli's mind, making her ears buzz and her throat tighten.

But why didn't the sea kings rescue the cubs first, but instead wandered back and forth in the sea not far from the target island?

Meli quickly realized that it was not that they didn't want to rescue, but that they couldn't get close to the destination and couldn't rescue.

Various colorful sea kings float and sink on the sea surface, and the closer they get to the target island, the deeper the emotion becomes.

The destination is getting closer.

An ice island appeared ahead, several times larger than yesterday's deserted island. It was surrounded by circles of reefs, protecting the people on the island.

Tens of thousands of meters away from the target, a circle of transparent sound waves suddenly spread out around the island shore without warning, expanding outward with the island as the center, visible to the naked eye.

Buzz!

Meli first felt his eardrums buzzing and he lost his hearing, and then it felt like thousands of silver needles were piercing his brain, causing him excruciating pain.

Milo Luo under her was in an even worse condition. His pupils were instantly filled with bloodshot and he let out a painful roar.

Its huge body twisted in pain, and its enormous tail slammed the sea surface, raising a huge wall of water.

The next second, Meli was thrown into the air and almost thrown out.

The sea kings around were also struggling and rolling frantically.

What’s even more terrifying is that the second sound wave followed closely, and it was even sharper than the first one.

Buzz!!!

A lot of blood flowed out of Meli's throat, and she hurriedly gave an order to all the sea kings present.

“Stand back!”

If it wasn't a forced order, those sea kings would probably be in so much pain that they wouldn't be able to control their bodies at all.

Under the invisible restraints, the sea kings all changed direction in an instant and retreated at an accelerated speed.

Milo Luo swung his huge tail fin, creating a wave wall as high as a mountain, which swept all his companions away and dragged them back.

Meili used her tentacles to suck on Milo's head to steady her body. The little hair on her head had already fallen off, and her hair was blown into a mess by the wind and waves. Her body swayed with the waves, but her eyes were always fixed on the island.

We must find a way to get everyone closer to the island.

It was not until they were away from the range of the sonic attack that the condition of the sea kings improved a little.

After her headache subsided, Meli immersed her senses in the sea, and the nautical chart of the nearby hundreds of nautical miles unfolded inch by inch in her mind.

Reefs, trenches, shipwrecks...all the conditions in the ocean were clearly reflected in Meli's mind like a holographic chart, except for the conditions on the islands, which were unknown.

Judging from the situation in the surrounding sea areas, this is a natural fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

There is a sonic tower set up at regular intervals around the island. The sonic towers are unmanned and have extremely dense coverage.

Any living creature over two meters long that approaches will instantly trigger a sonic attack, but smaller creatures are not affected.

In the center of the island, you can vaguely see a large semi-arched building, and the main switch should be inside.

This is not a big deal. Meli is only about one meter long now, and she also has the ability of camouflage, so it is no problem for her to reach the island alone.

Most of their own sea kings were injured by the sound waves. They were too huge and too obvious a target to get close to.

Merry must find the main switch of the sonic attack and destroy it so that the sea kings can approach the island.

As long as they can get close to the island, it should not be a problem for sea kings to capture a small island.

I hope there are no strong people on the island.

[I'm going to destroy the island's defenses. Everyone, wait for my signal.]

Having made up his mind, Meli will communicate the decision and battle plan through brainwaves, transmitting it to the minds of each sea king one by one, and then prepare to land on the island alone.

Milo and other sea kings lowered their heads like mountains and said goodbye to Meli.

[Your Highness, please be careful.]

Merry sank into the sea, used his mimicry ability to blend in with the surrounding sea water, hid his body, and swam silently towards the island.

A group of silver shrimps swam by, and Meli swam along the water ripples created by the shrimps, successfully avoiding detection by the guard sonar.

It was high tide at the moment. Meli climbed up the reefs along the surging waves, and crawled forward along the gaps between the reefs, leaving only a faint trail of water.

After getting ashore, Meli used his water control ability to drain the water off his body before continuing to dive towards the arched building.

The arched building stood at the highest point. It was much larger than Meli had sensed when he looked at it from afar. It was unknown what material it was made of. The whole building had a silver-gray luster, like a huge semicircular cover upside down on the ground.

The walls were smooth, with no gaps between them as the cold light flowed through them. No windows or doors were visible.

Meli walked around the perimeter but couldn't find the entrance, and was almost discovered by patrolling soldiers.

After searching for a long time, Meli finally found a small ventilation hole in a hidden corner.

The octopus mermaid's body slowly liquefied and softened into a pool, and it slipped into the ventilation duct through the narrow gap.

A tentacle walked in front, sensing the movement ahead and exploring the way, slowly wriggling.

The walls of the ventilation duct were so cold that Merry felt a little stiff.

"boom--"

A sudden roar came from deep in the ventilation duct.

A violent gust of air swept over in an instant.

The speed was so fast that before Meli could react, he was completely sucked into it.

The liquid body was suddenly hit against the left wall by the airflow, and then bounced back to the opposite wall, being rolled back and forth like a ball.

Meli was caught in the air current, bumping back and forth, with stars flashing in front of his eyes.

Just as Merry was feeling dizzy, a high-speed rotating turbine appeared from deep within the ventilation shaft, its teeth sharp.

White teeth!

If this thing gets caught in it, it will definitely be chopped into pieces on the spot!

Between life and death, Meli suddenly opened all his tentacles, and the suction cups at the bottom tightly stuck to the smooth well wall.

The howling wind was like countless invisible hands, pulling Meli's suction cups bit by bit.

Boo-boo-boo-

The suction cup of one tentacle was broken off, and six tentacles were still holding on.

The wind pressure was still coming like crazy, 1 second, 3 seconds, 6 seconds...

Just when Meli was about to give up, the humming sound of the air flow suddenly stopped.

Finally stopped.

Silence returned to the ventilation duct again.

A bloody taste filled Merry's mouth, and he collapsed into a trembling liquid pile.

So scary!

Merry gasped silently a few times, and the ends of his tentacles twitched.

However, she only rested for a few seconds before forcing herself to stand up again.

Who knows when that airflow will appear again? We must leave here quickly!

Just now, when she was caught in the air current, she seemed to vaguely see a spot of light, which might be an exit.

Meli dragged his trembling body against the wall, struggling to move forward.

The light spot was getting closer and closer. It seemed to be an inspection cover, which was not closed properly, leaving a gap.

Meli first extended a tentacle down to confirm that there was no one around, then compressed his body into a thin piece again and squeezed through.

A figure that no one could see successfully entered the building.

Merry's body recondensed into a half-human, half-merman form, but still blended in with the surrounding environment.

She kept squirming along the ceiling, and every time she passed a closed door, she would quietly insert a tentacle into the crack of the door.

The nerves at the ends of the tentacles act like miniature lenses, projecting and transmitting what's happening in the room to the brain.

Merry eliminated room after room and continued to move forward.

Occasionally, when he met a guard on the way, Merry would lie flat on the ceiling, hold his heartbeat, and remain motionless.

The guard walked past without noticing and disappeared at the end of the corridor.

The footsteps disappeared, and Merry straightened up again and continued to move forward silently.

An airlock door appeared in front of them, and bursts of faint green fluorescence shone through the gap in the door.

Merry stretched his tentacles into thin sheets and reached in through the crack in the door, his vision transmitted back synchronously along the tip of the tentacle.

Huge cylindrical tanks stood in rows, filled with green liquid and soaked in all kinds of strange creatures.

A dolphin with three heads and dilated pupils, a rabbit covered in strange tentacles and black horns, a wolf with eagle wings, and a strange lump of meat whose original appearance was unrecognizable...

People in white coats walked around, their masks covering their expressions, revealing only pairs of excited and bloodshot eyes, and from time to time one or two discussions could be heard.

"The neural bridging rate has exceeded 89.8%..."

"We've also got 89.9% of the neurotransmitter response data..."

"It seems that this xenotransplantation experiment went very smoothly. Let's continue..."

"No problem, you can proceed to the next step."

......

Mellie pressed herself against the ceiling at the door. She could neither read the instruments nor understand the data they were talking about, but she could sense the pain, depression, despair, and roars emanating from the creatures in the cylindrical tanks...

Her tentacles trembled slightly with empathy, and her stomach churned.