Chapter 106 Chapter 106 is a dormant Zerg...
Chester Star Area B, Haitai Technology Building.
President's Office.
The woman had just finished three meetings and pushed open the door with a tired look on her face.
She took out a bottle of wine from the wine cabinet, poured it into the glass, leaned in to smell it, and the sweet cherry scent lingered around her nose. She took a small sip.
He leaned back in his chair, eyes slightly closed. After a short rest, he opened his eyes again.
Irina knocked on the electronic secretary beside her.
"How's the situation on Fuwa Star?"
The secretary calculated for a moment and replied, "President, in the current Lim Professional League, the team ranked first in the warm-up match is Zai Lai Yi Kou La Tiao."
The secretary handed over a tablet on which was playing a live broadcast of a professional league match.
"The Garlic Spicy Strips mecha has reached the finish line and is currently performing a passionate dance."
"The Turantis Tactical Team pulled out a giant fishing rod from somewhere and started livestreaming their fishing, but they haven't caught a single fish so far."
"The battle between Kashiwa and Lin of the Space Ghost Team has reached a fever pitch."
"Their captain, however, sat calmly at the entrance. I don't know what was driving her."
"The audience was like a massive throwback to humankind."
"All in all, the stadium was in chaos."
"The Space Ghost Team you invested in is currently ranked third."
This is the summary of the electronic secretary.
Irina pushed the tablet back with a look of pain on her face and pressed her solar plexus.
"Why would I care about this ridiculous competition? I don't need that starship. That's not why I asked Fuwaxing."
"So, why is that?"
Irina: "That workaholic didn't contact me?"
The electronic secretary paused, as if calculating, before quickly replying, "If the workaholic you're referring to is the student in the wheelchair, then no, she didn't contact you at all during the six-hour meeting."
Irina made a "tsk" sound and her pen poked through the back of the paper.
"She clearly said she needed my help with something important today, but she disappeared without a trace."
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“Ding ding.”
A new communication came from the optical computer, and Tao Ying lowered his head to answer it.
A salvaging robot appeared on the screen.
Although it is an unmanned model, its movements are very flexible, as if it is infused with a human soul.
The light was dim, and the robot seemed to be moving somewhere in the deep sea, with huge sharks swinging their tails from time to time.
The light from the flashlight above was too bright, so the salvage robot had to cover the light to avoid attracting more strange deep-sea creatures.
Tao Ying greeted the robot familiarly.
"Found it?"
"not yet."
Ye Xinghui's muffled voice came from the salvage robot.
"Then why send a message?"
"It's too dark here and I'm scared to be alone."
"Oh, so it's because you're afraid of the dark. I thought you were looking for an excuse to chat with me. I made a mistake in judgement."
Ye Xinghui, who was being talked about: "..."
Tao Ying confirmed the coordinates and found that Ye Xinghui had been circling around the sixth sea area.
Tao Ying touched his chin and said, "Are you sure it's in this place? Or maybe look around."
Ye Xinghui shook his head. "I've seen the photos. That poisonous mecha crashed in the Sixth Sea Area. But it's really strange. I've already scanned all the possible areas where it might appear... Could it have been salvaged?"
“Not likely.”
Tao Ying dragged the scan data transmitted by Ye Xinghui and confirmed them one by one.
"Shortly after the mecha crashed, Iowa Tech did go to salvage it. However, due to the red tide toxins that spread across a large area of the sea, none of the salvage workers ever returned. After this happened several times, they gave up the search, probably thinking no one would find it anyway."
"During the years of cleaning up the toxins, the area is strictly guarded by soldiers, and Fuwa Star has just been opened to the public, so the chances of the black box being salvaged are slim."
"Most importantly, I found no relevant records at Iowa Tech."
Tao Ying gave a brief explanation, and Ye Xinghui listened for a long time before hesitantly asking, "Did you go to Iowa's house?"
Tao Ying looked puzzled: "Why would I go to Iowa's house if I had nothing to do?"
Wasn't the point of her explanation just now that the mecha's black box was still in the nearby sea and had not been salvaged?
Xiaoye's train of thought is sometimes quite strange, and he always fails to grasp the key points.
Tao Ying waved her hand, no longer dwelling on the question: "I just checked it online. The Iowa family has digitized some of their information over the years, so it's quite convenient to check."
Tao Ying said this, glancing at the salvage robot's information panel.
The battery level is 30%.
The maximum power level for the robot to rise from the seabed to the top is 15%. Below this ratio, the salvage robot will not be able to float up.
"We probably won't get much today, Ye Xinghui, let's go ashore and recharge first."
Ye Xinghui responded with a "OK".
The salvage robot pushed the flashlight above its head and locked it to the position directly in front to facilitate ascent.
Tao Ying waved his fingers, organizing the collected data, and his eyes glanced at the corner of the screen, and he paused.
Tao Ying sat up straight and moved forward a little.
What was that just now?
In the corner of the screen, a black shadow rushed past behind Ye Xinghui.
That thing was moving extremely fast, stirring up the mud and sand that sank to the bottom of the sea at a rapid speed.
The water behind Ye Xinghui became turbid.
Tao Ying clicked on the replay and zoomed in on the location where the unidentified creature had just appeared. However, after image processing, he could only barely make out that it was a strip-shaped creature.
The length is about 80 cm.
Tao Ying leaned back in her chair, staring at the screen, sitting quietly.
The salvage robot is equipped with top-notch video equipment, which can perfectly capture deep-sea scenes even in low-light conditions.
If there is no way to record the full picture of this creature, there is only one possibility.
It means it is very fast.
But the temperature in the deep sea is usually between 0 and 4 degrees Celsius, which is very cold, and there is a lack of food. Most animals here move slowly, such as luminous jellyfish and giant sharks...
The speed of this creature really doesn't seem like that of a deep-sea creature.
But what else could it be?
Tao Ying put her finger on her chin, pursed her lips, and after thinking for a moment, she said:
"Ye Xinghui, please shine some light behind you."
The salvage robot stopped, seemingly wondering why Tao Ying suddenly asked this, but it still did as it was told.
It turned around, and the beam of light above its head was aimed behind it.
"Is that so?" Ye Xinghui asked carefully.
"About 10 degrees to the left." "Like this?"
"A little further down, yes, that's the spot."
Tao Ying stared at the place where the creature disappeared.
The mud and sand stirred, mixed with marine snow, and the nearby waters became murky. The water's temperature seemed to be transmitted through the screen, extremely cold.
Tao Ying was certain that there must be something there.
Faint spots of light flickered, and a vague shadow appeared and disappeared in the darkness.
Ye Xinghui did not move. The creature seemed to feel safe and slowly "grew" out of the mud and sand, rising inch by inch.
It tilted its head and tentatively moved forward slightly.
Closer, closer—
But Tao Ying didn't have time to see what the creature was.
The camera suddenly shook violently.
The field of vision begins to reverse, making people dizzy and nauseous.
Two rows of sharp teeth suddenly penetrated the blurry sea water and bit the lens, but after a moment, the creature found that the alloy was too hard to bite and seemed inedible, so it shook it off.
At the moment when the camera was about to be swept away by the current, someone grabbed it.
Ye Xinghui's voice came from above his head.
"Xiaoying, something hit me just now."
Tao Ying tapped his cheek.
"Well, let me take a look."
Ye Xinghui quickly re-tied the camera and aimed it at the creature.
It is an adult female anglerfish.
It has sharp, jagged teeth, a luminous body on its head, and five or six fleshy protrusions on its lower abdomen, looking messy.
It swam around Ye Xinghui for a few meters, seeming to be somewhat curious about the salvage robot.
After observing for a while, the anglerfish ran out of patience, flicked its tail, and left leisurely.
Ye Xinghui aimed his camera at the fish, followed it a few steps forward, and asked Tao Ying at the other end.
"Did you just want to see this?"
Why? Is there anything special about this monkfish?
"I remember this species is usually processed into fish oil, which is used as a nutritional supplement to nourish the body."
Ye Xinghui lowered his head and muttered to himself, pondered for a moment, and then chased after him.
Seeing that Ye Xinghui's attitude towards the strange-looking anglerfish had changed from studying its appearance to treating it as food, Tao Ying reached out to stop him.
"No, wait a minute, put dinner aside."
"What I just saw was a long, thin creature, like a long, white worm, about eighty centimeters long, and it was moving very fast."
"Long worms, and they're very fast?"
Upon hearing this, Ye Xinghui stopped and looked around.
That's definitely not monkfish.
There should be no similar creatures on the seabed of Fuwa Star.
"Insects, could they be Zerg...?"
Tao Ying spread his hands and said, "Who knows? Anyway, he doesn't look like a native of this place."
Ye Xinghui circled around a few more times, but the unidentified creature never appeared again.
Tao Ying looked at the battery level of the salvage robot, which had dropped to 20% and was about to reach the critical level.
That creature is easily frightened, and the water is muddy, so it is even less likely to come out. We probably won't get anything today.
Tao Ying then knocked on the screen.
"You come up first. It's so dark, and there's a seven or eight meter long shark circling above you. Aren't you afraid of being eaten?"
Seeing the man's expression as if he was teasing a child, Ye Xinghui's tone instantly became a little weak.
"Xiaoying, you are really naive sometimes. Their diet consists entirely of carbon-based organisms. I am safe now. Moreover, the core data of my consciousness is stored on Chester Planet. Even if I am eaten, I will not die... Alas!"
Ye Xinghui was halfway through his words when he was suddenly bumped into. The seven-meter-long giant shark had poor eyesight and actually swam towards him.
The robot took a frantic step back.
Tao Ying lay on the operating table and couldn't help laughing out loud.
"Why do you always get scammed?"
"Maybe it's because I'm easy to bully."
Ye Xinghui showed helplessness. He stretched out his mechanical arm, pressed the shark's snout area, and pushed it lightly. The shark instantly stiffened its body, turned in a different direction, and swung its tail fin away.
Tao Ying was about to say a few more words when she found that the picture was frozen, stopping precisely at the last frame of the shark's tail fin.
"Ye Xinghui?"
No answer.
Tao Ying thought it was a connection problem and checked the network, but found that the communication was normal.
The next moment, the picture suddenly began to rotate, with a few short, crisp sounds, like the sound of metal being pierced.
The sudden and huge noise penetrated the water flow, and the high-frequency sound that cut through the human eardrum was transmitted to the cockpit.
Tao Ying felt dizzy after hearing this.
At some point, the tentacle monster beside her jumped onto the operating table and shouted viciously into the microphone.
The high-frequency sound on the other end disappeared.
Tao Ying held her head, sat up straight, and looked at the screen.
"Ye Xinghui?"
Covered with snow, the communication signal was completely cut off.
Tao Ying gently clicked the replay button.
In the last scene, the camera precisely scanned the creature that made the sound.
“…”
A giant creature that is ten meters long is buried in the mud and sand on the seabed.
It is a dormant Zerg.
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