Chapter 417 Undersea Volcano
"You mean, that weird entity's mother nest is a huge floating island?!"
When everyone in Infinity heard the news, their faces changed. Just Ryan's words gave people a huge sense of oppression. And from Erica's description, this thing seemed to appear during the day.
"That's right."
"Do you know when it appeared?" Ryan said in a serious tone, "10 days ago, to be precise, after the Dawn City Defense Battle, this thing suddenly appeared on the sea, accompanied by a sea storm area with a diameter of more than 100 kilometers."
Lin Xian frowned when he heard this: "Are you saying that this thing is related to the matter of Dawn City?"
Ryan shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Who knows, but after that, a lot of strange things did happen." He looked at Lin Xian and his group and said: "The sea groups within a few hundred miles of Haiyan Island have been affected to a certain extent. Several small organizations have been wiped out. Now that direction is very unstable. I suggest you make some preparations. Otherwise, you will not see land for several days after leaving Haiyan Island unless you fly. Several base stations in the ocean section have lost contact. No one knows the specific situation."
"It's so dangerous, and you actually want to hunt them?" KIKI was puzzled when he heard this: "Isn't this courting death?"
Ryan spread his hands and said, "Including us, there are currently four sea groups, a total of more than 2,000 people."
Lin Xian heard that this matter seemed to be not simple, and smiled: "Two thousand people, have you confirmed what that floating island is? Are you so sure?"
"Are you hunting just for level 4 blood essence?" Monica also asked.
Ryan made a "please" gesture, indicating Lin Xian and his group to follow him into the aircraft carrier.
"If you are willing, we can synchronize the information we obtain with you. I believe that after you understand it, you will understand why we do this. It has a great relationship with you. By the way, I will take you to visit our home on the sea."
"Okay." Lin Xian nodded and did not refuse Ryan's invitation.
Passing through the green field area on the deck, the group came to the hatch on the side of the island. The heavy explosion-proof door slowly slid open, and a damp and warm breath blew in their faces.
The first-floor space in the cabin has been transformed into a multi-layer three-dimensional planting area. LED fill lights are hung on metal brackets, illuminating rows of culture troughs. Lettuce, tomatoes and strawberries are thriving in the nutrient solution. Several staff members in protective clothing are checking the growth of the plants.
"This is our artificial light hydroponic area." Ryan introduced: "There is a small nuclear power plant on board, which provides enough electricity to maintain year-round planting. However, in order to save energy, most crops still rely on natural light on the deck. We have turned off the main nuclear power reactor for two months, mainly for safety reasons."
In the planting area, a middle-aged man wearing a straw hat raised his head and saw Lin Xian and his group. He then looked at Ryan and pointed at the strawberries: "Guest? Would you like to try some?"
Before Lin Xian could reply, Shasha's eyes lit up: "Wow, is it okay?"
"Of course!" The man smiled and handed over a few bright red fruits. "After the apocalypse, there are not many opportunities to eat fresh fruits, let alone at sea. These strawberry seeds are worth several blood essences."
Sasha took one and took a bite. The sweet and sour juice burst in her mouth: "Mmm... so sweet!"
Monica looked around. "How do you solve the pollination problem?"
"In the early days, we relied on manual labor, and later we introduced... some bees." Ryan pointed to a few transparent beehives in the corner with an inexplicable smile: "We found them on Haiyan Island, but we have to be careful not to let them sting people. The post-apocalyptic bees... are a bit fierce."
"There are still bees alive." Lin Xian was a little surprised.
"Actually, there are quite a few." Ryan responded with a smile: "There are the most cockroaches, geckos, ants, and reptiles. If you are careful in the wild, you can find some. There are also some fish in the sea, but we don't catch fish easily, you know."
Afterwards, Lin Xian and Ryan passed through several material warehouses. Inside the explosion-proof doors, there were piles of Wu Zixu, neatly classified and stacked on metal shelves. Food, medicine, tools, weapons... There was even a whole wall of entertainment supplies, from playing cards to old-fashioned game consoles.
“You have collected quite a lot.”
"Some of them are from the previous fleet." Ryan walked in front: "In addition to going to the island, most of our sea group is fishing at sea."
"Fishing?"
"There are so many." The mechanical man Azir took a step and said jokingly, "Sometimes you can encounter hundreds or thousands of containers along the ocean currents. They are all floating containers from sunken ships after the Apocalypse. When they are fished out, there are all kinds of strange things. It's like opening a blind box. It's quite interesting."
"We will also buy them on the black market, or exchange with other sea groups." On the other side, Vanessa turned to look at Lin Xian and said meaningfully: "There are not many people you can meet on the sea."
When Lin Xian heard this, he immediately remembered something and asked them, "We came from Taku Deepwater Port yesterday. Do you know what happened there?"
"Robbery and murder."
Erica walked in front and said coldly without looking back: "It is the first port for Asia-Pacific to go out to sea. I don't know how many people who wanted to be the fishermen or the oriole died there. Moreover, it is also a disaster area for strange body attacks after dark. It has long been a ghost port. Many train groups have had accidents there. You are lucky."
Lin Xian was shocked when he heard this. The situation was pretty much as he had guessed.
A thin girl was counting canned food. When she saw Ryan coming in, she immediately ran over to report: "Captain, there are only 20 boxes of compressed biscuits left in Warehouse No. 3. We need to replenish them as soon as possible."
Ryan ruffled her hair and said, "Got it. Send a team to the East Coast tomorrow to have a look."
Lin Xian noticed a few broken drones and power armor parts piled up in the corner: "You also do mechanical repairs?"
Azlan grinned, revealing his steely teeth: "There are no 4S stores on the sea. If it breaks down, you have to fix it yourself."
As we walked further, the noise gradually became louder.
In a spacious cabin, sparks were flying as several mechanics were modifying weapons and vehicles. The corners were filled with welding equipment, hydraulic tools and disassembled engine parts.
"This is our small arsenal." Azlan patted a half-finished power armor: "Although it is not as good as the Phoenix Order's technology, it is still enough after some repairs."
A young man with greasy hands raised his head and shouted excitedly: "Captain! The sonar has been repaired! It can be used tonight!"
Ryan nodded. "Well done, Tom."
Afterwards, Lin Xian and his group followed Ryan to the flight bridge of the aircraft carrier, which is also the information and wisdom center of the Falcon Sea Group.
This is a circular cabin surrounded by display screens and operating tables. In the center is a huge chart table with detailed information about the nearby sea areas. Several operators are monitoring radar and sonar data.
"Welcome to the Neptune," Ryan smiled.
As soon as Lin Xian and his companions came in, they noticed that the wall was covered with many hand-drawn drawings with various strange marine creatures marked on them: "What is this...?"
"Our 'Enemy Guide'." Gaddy walked over and pointed at one of the pictures. "This is a giant deep-sea squid. It has barbs on its tentacles that can easily tear apart a ship. This is a human-faced jellyfish. It is electrified and can launch mental attacks to pull living creatures directly into the deep sea..."
"Human-faced jellyfish..." When Lin Xian saw this, he remembered what Viola had photographed underwater in Taku Deepwater Port. It seemed to be this thing.
Looking at the various drawings on the wall, Shasha shrank her neck: "Why are there so many monsters in the sea..."
"I don't know about that, but we found that many strange creatures have some similarities with the original deep-sea creatures of Blue Star." Ryan turned his head and said in a deep voice, "It is said that there is only one Star Abyss in the sea. If you insist, isn't the entire Blue Star Ocean an abyss?"
His words made Lin Xian's face change: "What did you say?"
Ryan shrugged, looked at Lin Xian's serious expression, and said casually: "Those monsters hide in the abyss of the seabed, day or night, and they look like monsters that have mutated from the carriers of the blue star creatures. From this point of view, the whole sea is actually the star abyss, isn't it?"
Lin Xian was stunned for a moment, surprised at his idea, and then he came to his senses and said, "It makes sense."
"In fact, I didn't expect to meet the Sword Bearer here. Maybe it's God's will. You helped Vanessa and Gaddy. This information may be useful to you." Ryan walked to the main screen and called up an aerial photo: "This is a picture of the submarine cliff area on the east coast of Chasan Island. Erica's air patrol team took it from the air. Chasan Island is the farthest island in the southeast of Haiyan, less than 100 nautical miles away from the storm area."
Lin Xian and Monica's team focused their attention on the aerial photo. They didn't notice anything unusual at first, because it was a bird's-eye view of the sea under the blue sky and white clouds. But a second later, everyone's faces changed, because when they zoomed in, they found that this seemingly ordinary aerial photo concealed a terrifying scene.
Under the blue sea, I saw a circular bottomless abyss disturbing the water flow in a rotating posture. It looked like a huge underwater abyss. What's more terrifying is that this abyss whirlpool is only a few miles away from the coast. The white shallows under the sun extend not far to the dark submarine cliff. The huge mouth seems to be some kind of living creature, which makes people shudder.
"This...what is this, an underwater whirlpool?" KIKI, who has a fear of the deep sea, felt unwell when he saw it and immediately frowned and spoke.
"That's not a whirlpool."
Gaddy crossed his arms and pointed to the center of the aerial photo: "Do you see our unmanned reconnaissance ship? The sea is calm."
"Strange entity?" Monica frowned. "This scale must be more than just a special level."
"This is just one place." Ryan immediately switched the picture and said to Lin Xian: "Now many places on the east and south coasts of Haiyan Island have discovered this strange sea situation, and the storm floating island is approaching Haiyan Island at a certain speed."
"This is an unusual situation, and we have also found that the number of ghosts that appear frequently during the day on Haiyan Island has almost tripled in the past 10 days."
Lin Xian stared: "Do you think there is something on Haiyan Island that attracted this strange nest?"
Ryan said frankly: "Vanessa and Gaddy are here to confirm this guess."
“Oh~”
KIKI understood at this time: "So you think there is something on Haiyan Island that attracts the surrounding special-level sea monsters and the floating island on the sea, so you want to wait and kill the special-level monsters and take the level 4 blood essence?"
After this was said, Ryan and the others were silent. It seemed that KIKI was right.
Monica crossed her arms and smiled leisurely: "Are you kidding me? Hunting a special level, but not even one, what's the difference between this and committing suicide?"
Ryan smiled, not angry at Monica's teasing, but looked at Lin Xiandao
"Captain Lin, if I tell you that if we use level 4 blood essence to cultivate crystal lattices at the destruction level, the success rate will be at least 90%, will you take the risk?"
"No." Lin Xian said indifferently: "If this is the only plan, then it is simply stupid, but I think it must not be that simple, right?"
Vanessa and the others beside him looked calm, indicating that Lin Xian's guess was correct. Ryan took a deep breath and said
"Yes, level 4 blood essence is now an extremely precious material for the Interstellar Army and the Phoenix Order. It is absolutely hellish for us, the survivors of the sea group, to get the special level, not to mention that it may be a group."
As he spoke, he switched the pictures on the screen. At this time, a three-dimensional hologram of the underwater continent was displayed. Ryan pointed to a special sea area northeast of Haiyan Island. The terrain there was extremely strange, like a cone. Lin Xian reacted immediately after seeing it and said in a deep voice
"Undersea volcano?"
"The Garan volcano is located in the Garan Trench southwest of the Pacific Ocean Ridge, 96 nautical miles away from Haiyan Island. It is an active volcano. Although this volcano has been active at a low frequency for more than 2,000 years, the last time it erupted, the tsunami caused was more than 490 meters high, dividing Haiyan Island into 14 pieces..."
Lin Xian frowned: "Is this related to the strange body?"
"No, it has something to do with something on Haiyan Island." Ryan said shockingly.
"What? Volcanoes are related to things?" KIKI looked puzzled: "What are you talking about?"
"It's some forbidden object."
Gaddy turned around and looked at Lin Xian and the others, and said frankly: "When we got this information, we had the same expression as you."
Lin Xian was shocked: "There is a forbidden object that can control the underwater volcano, so you plan to use it to hunt down the strange body?"
Ryan shook his head, looked at Lin Xian, and said sincerely
"Lin, don't you understand? The current situation is that we are being hunted."
Vanessa came out at this time and said to Lin Xian: "Level 4 blood essence is very precious, but our main concern is not this, but how to safely leave this sea area surrounded by these special-level weird bodies that appear during the day and under the premise of the abnormal movement of the Garan Volcano."
Ryan nodded and added: "This is indeed very risky. Now besides us, there are people from the Holy City who are also looking for this thing on Haiyan Island, so we are also considering ourselves. Blood essence... In fact, in our plan, it is the last consideration."
Lin Xian glanced at the several large ships surrounding the Neptune. If this fleet wanted to leave, they could only go north and circle the deep Pacific Ocean. If this aircraft carrier wanted to move and circle a large bay, it would be difficult to do so during the day, so Lin Xian immediately understood what Ryan meant.
At the same time, his heart sank. He did not expect the situation on Haiyan Island to be so complicated at this time. According to the information provided by Ryan, the special-level strange bodies in the surrounding waters were probably attracted by the forbidden object or the movement of the Galan Volcano, and Haiyan Island was the center of the affected area.
Fortunately, he had taken into account the possibility of orbital breaks or storm areas before entering the ocean. The Infinity has underwater propulsion and military-grade diving capabilities above 500 meters. If he is in desperate situation, even if there is a risk of S-level atmospheric creatures in the clouds, he can drive the Sky to take a cross-ocean flight and head towards the Republic Islands. Therefore, for Lin Xian, he is not desperate.
However, after seeing the aerial photos of the deep sea, he really didn't want to go into the water or fly into the air unless it was absolutely necessary. The experience of Qingluan Sky City was still vivid in his mind. At this time, Lin Xian knew that Ryan's plan seemed to be mainly to join the so-called hunt in order not to be affected, so he was also curious about the mastermind of this plan and what the complete plan was for.
"I'm very curious. If a volcano really erupts, let's not talk about whether you can deal with the strange body, but how will you survive?" Monica had the same idea as Lin Xian and asked directly to the key point.
"We are looking for this forbidden object because we don't want the volcano to erupt. If it falls into the hands of the Holy City, that would be the worst outcome."
Vanessa said at this time: "The information we have obtained is that this taboo may have the power to affect the thermal energy of the volcano. It can be used to attract those strange creatures that appear during the day, and then actively attack during the day."
Monica thought for a moment, "So we should just hunt down the special-level weird entities directly?"
"Yes." Ryan nodded, "And we think daytime is the best time."
"Why?" KIKI asked puzzledly.
"Three reasons," Vanessa explained.
"First, adaptability." She held up a finger. "We have come into contact with evil spirits that have just adapted to the daytime. Although they have evolved a biological force field, their lifespan and vitality are extremely poor. This should be the price of breaking through the night. This is precisely our advantage. The daytime is our home turf."
"Second, the lattice power." Gaddy took over the conversation and showed the lattice pattern on his arm: "Our dark energy is more effective during the day, so there is no need to worry about the dark mark."
"Third, the monster tide." Ryan added, "There will be no large-scale monster tide outbreaks during the day. We only need to deal with targets within the range, not endless monster tide reinforcements."
"Wow." KIKI said with interest, "You guys are really thoughtful, but have you ever thought about what would happen if more than one special level creature was attracted? For example, who knows how many strange creatures are there in that strange nest?"
Lin Xian looked at Ryan and the others with a complicated expression, and then said to KIKI
"If I'm not mistaken, they want to activate the nuclear power reactor of the aircraft carrier and transfer it at full speed while hunting."
"And Haiyan Island and Garan Volcano are a large ..." Lin Xian looked at Ryan and the others and said word by word.
"Enemy attractant!"
(End of this chapter)
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