"Thank you for your hard work. The Chinese people will always remember your silent contributions."
Jiang Yuan spoke with utmost sincerity. The reason why China was able to remain intact after the catastrophe was because a million warriors rushed to the war zone in the early stages of the catastrophe, protecting the lifeline of the entire country and giving the rear a chance to breathe and grow.
Such contributions are indelible and continue to be made; heroes, even if nameless, deserve to be remembered.
Deng Kuan straightened his back and saluted, saying in a firm voice, "Major General Jiang, the Tiangang Special Forces Team One has lived up to its mission; the whereabouts of the 'Sea-Stabilizing Needle' have been confirmed!"
"real?"
Jiang Yuan was quite surprised, because he had been inquiring about the whereabouts of the Sea-Stabilizing Needle ever since he entered the Prison Abyss, but he had never heard any news about it, while Deng Kuan and the others had already received this news.
"Originally, Number Five, also known as Xiaoyu, entered the Ancient Sea Abyss with the Mermaid Clan's Heirloom Pearl. Because of the Heirloom Pearl, we obtained a lot of information here, but we only knew how to retrieve the Sea-Stabilizing Needle, while the location of the Sea-Stabilizing Needle could not be determined."
"However, after we were imprisoned in the Abyss, Number One made a discovery."
Deng Kuan paused, a look of sadness on his face, and said, "He guessed that the eighteen levels of the Prison Abyss were part of the Sea-Stabilizing Needle."
"The Prison Abyss?" Jiang Yuan frowned. This was too audacious, because he himself had never thought of it in this direction. "Go on."
"However, Number One was not certain. He needed to verify it, so he kept committing crimes and was repeatedly demoted to deeper levels of the prison. By the seventeenth level, he had confirmed his guess. But at the same time, he also paid the price with his life."
At this point, Deng Kuan gritted his teeth. Clearly, their team had a way of communicating information. Before Yuwen Sichen sacrificed himself, he had already shared the intelligence with a team inside the Prison Abyss.
"How did he verify it?" Jiang Yuan pondered, but he had no clue. During the time he stayed in the Ancient Sea Abyss, there was no Heavenly Gang Special Forces Captain. Moreover, since An Xiaoyu had previously possessed the Inherited Mermaid Pearl, she could enter many places, and he was already behind in terms of information.
Deng Kuan took a deep breath and said, "The great array that covers the Prison Abyss—the Nine Netherworlds of the Sea—is actually the array pattern on the Sea-Stabilizing Needle. Number One would study the array pattern of the Nine Netherworlds of the Sea every midnight, but because the upper layers could not see the full picture of the Nine Netherworlds of the Sea, he continued to go deeper until the seventeenth layer, when he saw the Sea-Stabilizing Needle when the Nine Netherworlds of the Sea opened at midnight."
"hiss!"
Jiang Yuan took a deep breath. He wished he could slap himself twice. He had always called himself the number one array master in China, yet he had missed such an important detail.
Looking back now, the great formation that could cover the entire Prison Abyss and stabilize the seawater hundreds of thousands of meters above it must be related to the Sea-Stabilizing Needle.
Deng Kuan noticed Jiang Yuan's unusual state and comforted him, "Major General Jiang, you don't need to blame yourself. This is not your fault."
"call!"
Jiang Yuan took a deep breath and said, "Continue."
"Therefore, the most urgent task is to recall the second and third teams and once again use the power of the inherited mermaid pearl to retrieve the Sea-Stabilizing Needle," Deng Kuan said urgently.
However, Jiang Yuan shook his head and said helplessly, "The Merfolk will not lend us the Mermaid Pearls again, because that would undoubtedly make the Merfolk betray the Sea Clan. Even for the sake of peace between the land and the sea, they would not put their own race in danger."
One could glean some meaning from the mermaid elder's words: the mermaid pearl had already been lost once in the ancient sea abyss, and they could not borrow it a second time, because doing so would drag the entire mermaid race down with them.
Moreover, the current merfolk gods are not friendly to humans. If the truth is exposed, the merfolk gods might even defect to the sea race and join the invasion of the land. So they cannot gamble.
"What should we do then?" Deng Kuan was anxious. He was unaware of the merfolk's decision-making process here, and now that he heard Jiang Yuan say this, he was completely at a loss.
"Alright! You can stay on the 18th floor for now. I'll go to the earlier floors in the next couple of days and bring your teammates back."
At this point, Jiang Yuan paused for a long time, looked up at the vast deep sea, and said, "As for the Sea-Stabilizing Needle, leave it to me, I will handle it!"
The Tiangang Special Forces have done enough for China; now it's Jiang Yuan's turn to step up.
Deng Kuan said dejectedly, "I'm sorry, Major General Jiang. We're useless. Not only did we fail to complete the mission, but we also had to ask you to come and save us."
"Now you just focus on healing your wounds. Seafood is plentiful."
Jiang Yuan didn't want the atmosphere to become so pessimistic. Even though their comrades had sacrificed their lives, they still had to live on with their will. This was the spirit of every Tianfu warrior.
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