"You're backing down already?"
Xiahou Ming felt it was a pity: "Why don't you hold on a little longer? I still have more than ten kinds of poisons..."
"..."
Klaus was truly terrified: "Spare me, spare me!"
"Alright, stop making things difficult for it. Tell me about the deep sea."
What do you want to know?
"Regarding the concept of the deep sea, I'd like to know how you sea creatures define the ocean? Before the apocalypse, the international standard seemed to define anything below 200 meters as the deep sea. Is there any difference?"
"How can anything below 200 meters be considered deep sea?"
Without hesitation, Klaus replied, "According to our current unified understanding among the sea creatures, the ocean is now divided into shallow sea areas, mid-water sea areas, and deep sea areas, which are simply referred to as [shallow sea], [mid-water sea], and [deep sea]."
"Shallow seas are the area between 500 meters and the surface, but the area between 500 meters and 1,000 meters is the mesosphere, and the area below 1,000 meters is the deep sea."
Zhang Hao said in surprise, "But it seems that the pressure of the seawater is already quite high below 200 meters, and the water flow is relatively slow. Without light, most ordinary fish cannot survive."
Klaus explained, "That was before the apocalypse. Now the sea creatures are also mutating. The higher the level of the sea creatures, the more they can withstand the pressure of the seabed. Two hundred meters is nothing at all. There are a great variety of marine life."
"But there is no doubt that the deeper the sea, the stronger the sea creatures are, because any weak ones cannot withstand the high pressure underwater, let alone the cold and other external factors. Moreover, we sea creatures are a dog-eat-dog world."
"The hierarchy is very clear. Basically, most sea creatures can only live within a designated area. Stepping into someone else's territory is a very provocative act. Those who are confident will choose to annex other sea creatures."
"The manta ray clan in the Qiongzhou Strait is the kind of sea creature that doesn't like to fight, so it's not that they don't go elsewhere, but that they can only stay in the Qiongzhou Strait."
"I see……"
Zhang Hao stared at him: "What is the distribution of sea creature strength in different layers of the sea?"
"Shallow waters are generally classified as level 1 to 3, mid-waters as level 4 to 6, and deep waters as level 7 and above."
"Does that mean that in the deep sea, level seven is the threshold?"
"That's right."
"Do you have level nine in your deep sea areas?"
"have no idea."
Zhang Hao's eyes flashed with hostility: "Don't know? Still hiding it at a time like this? Xiahou Ming... give him another go."
"No! I really don't know!"
Klaus said bitterly, "As I just said, most sea creatures can only live in designated areas. We deep-sea dragonfish only live at a depth of 5,000 meters in the deep sea. I've never been to any deeper areas."
"I don't have the strength to go there. Although I am an eighth-level sea creature, the water pressure is greater and the temperature is lower as you go down, and my body can't withstand it. I'm also very curious whether our sea creatures have a ninth level."
“I tried it once before... I had just descended to 5,500 meters when the pressure suddenly increased so much that my skin was bleeding. I couldn’t descend any further. I’m not lying to you.”
Zhang Hao frowned: "Then when you led the sea race to attack Qiongzhou, weren't you acting on orders from a level nine sea race?"
"Of course not, it was my own idea."
Klaus replied, "I find the ocean too difficult to survive in, especially the deep sea where it's pitch black and you can't see anything. Most of the time I don't like to stay in the deep sea; it's too boring."
"The middle layer of the sea isn't much different. There are too many sea creatures in the shallow sea. Even if there are glowing sea creatures, they're not very useful. Isn't the land great? There's plenty of sunshine, and we can even transform into human form. Why don't we come to the mainland?"
"Is this your reason for invading?"
"Yeah, what else?"
Zhang Hao suddenly found it very funny.
Because the ocean was dark, these sea creatures were not comfortable living there, so they came to the mainland.
But that's actually quite normal.
The ocean is vast, more than enough for marine life to thrive.
But it's no use being big. The sea creatures aren't unable to survive there; they're just tired of being at sea, which is why they need to go ashore.
"..."
Zhang Hao tentatively accepted this claim: "Then do you guess whether there are nine levels below 5,000 meters in the [deep sea]?"
"I guess... probably not?"
"How so?"
"Although we live in a world where the strong prey on the weak, and even though the warlike sea creatures in the flat sea often fight each other, sometimes even wiping out several types of sea creatures in an area, sometimes going too far is not good."
Klaus pondered for a moment and said, "Although the sea creatures are numerous, their constant internal strife is bound to have drawbacks. Therefore, we, the sea creatures of level seven and above in the [Deep Sea], have decided to each manage a region of sea creatures."
"To prevent them from fighting too fiercely, I am in charge of the chieftainship of the South China Sea. For convenience, I also oversee the chieftainship of a mid-level sea area, and the chieftainship of the mid-level sea area oversees the shallow-level sea area, and so on."
“As long as there is no major internal conflict, minor frictions are fine. However, there are also frictions among the level 7 and level 8 and above sea creatures in the deep sea. We can stop the level 7 sea creatures, but there are no level 9 sea creatures to stop us.”
"So... I think it's not true."
"..."
Xiahou Ming and Zhang Hao exchanged a glance.
I couldn't help but marvel.
These sea creatures are damn smart!
Despite having such a large population, they still understand the importance of avoiding internal strife and even have their own management system.
Although it's relatively rough.
However, for the numerous sea creatures, such a crude management method is more than sufficient.
However, Klaus's guess is indeed quite reasonable.
Perhaps not.
After all, it's only been two years since the apocalypse started, so it's normal for level eight sea creatures to appear. There are just too many resources in the sea... As long as you have enough talent, it's normal to reach level eight.
Even if we take a step back and say...
Even if they do exist, the number of level nine is certainly not large.
If they weren't discovered by the level eight sea creatures, they probably didn't want to be discovered. Besides, I don't have the ability to dive to a depth of 5,000 meters right now, so there's no need to worry too much about this trip.
Zhang Hao thought for a moment and asked, "Do you know which sea race governs the waters near the Solomon Islands? What is their strength? What race are they?"
"The Solomon Islands? I know that."
Klaus said, "That sea area is called the Solomon Sea. There are too many small islands there, and we don't care about them... There is only one level seven sea creature in charge of it, a vampire octopus."
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