Just when I was about to be able to leave, this happened.
This made Lu Yuan feel extremely uncomfortable.
"Sigh! This journey has been so arduous. Why is reaching the Amazon so difficult?"
Lu Yuan even wants to ask the high priest what's going on and whether the Amazon is really a suitable place for them to set up camp.
Then the captain took out a diagram from the office next to him and handed it to Lu Yuan.
"This is what the monster we found underwater looked like. You can take a look."
Lu Yuan nodded, took the paper, and glanced at it.
What you see is a gigantic octopus, extremely large in size. According to the length indicated on it, this octopus is about fifty meters long, with eight huge tentacles, each with a sucker as big as a bathtub.
Next to the octopus was a small fishing boat for comparison. The small fishing boat was about thirty meters long, and in the hands of this huge monster, it was like a toy. It could easily pull the fishing boat to the bottom of the sea.
Upon seeing this, Lu Yuan couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. Suddenly, he thought of the giant beast in the dimensional space.
"I wonder if the behemoth can handle this giant octopus."
So Lu Yuan turned his head and asked, "How many more mutated monsters like this are there?"
"There's quite a lot. We filmed many sets of footage before, but we didn't upload them because of the image quality. Our ship has been docked in the port ever since."
However, we have deployed a lot of monitoring equipment in the ocean. If you are interested, I can take you to see the footage we just filmed; it's still in the monitoring room.
Lu Yuan nodded, and then led Zhou Tong to the monitoring room.
In the monitoring room, everyone was wearing headphones and had a screen in front of them. The screen displayed footage from the monitoring equipment placed in various sea areas.
These surveillance devices all use night vision technology. Because they are filmed at underwater depths, the images are very blurry, but they are the best images that can be captured at present.
Before the apocalypse, the ocean floor, tens of meters deep, could be clearly photographed. However, now, without sunlight, the seabed is pitch black, making it difficult to spot even with night vision devices.
The captain then inquired about the location of the camera that had just spotted the monster, and pointed to it at the soldier sitting nearby.
Lu Yuan and Zhou Tong followed him to the soldier. The captain patted the soldier gently on the shoulder and asked him a few questions.
The soldier quickly switched to another computer next to him and opened the footage he had just captured. The footage showed a huge fish.
This fish looks very unusual, because apart from its mouthful of teeth and scales that resemble a fish, the rest of it looks like a giant bird.
It has two large wings, but instead of feathers, they are covered in scales. It has two huge claws behind it and a long mouth full of teeth. After questioning, Lu Yuan learned that this monster was more than ten meters long.
As the video continues, dozens of these gigantic mutated monsters can be seen roaming back and forth in this sea area, which is also a place their ships must pass through.
The captain sighed: "If we want to reach the Amazon River, we must pass through this sea area, and the fish in this sea area are extremely territorial."
They attack all passing ships and other mutated beasts. Their territory is vast; we don't yet know its exact size. They are among the most numerous mutated beasts we've discovered—we've found over three hundred so far!
Upon hearing the other party's words, Lu Yuan fell into deep thought. He had originally thought that he could easily deal with these mutated beasts simply by releasing the giant beast.
However, the situation seemed to exceed his expectations. There were many of these mutated beasts, and they were extremely ferocious. They liked to fight in groups. Could the giant beast's body structure withstand the attack? But if so many monsters attacked, even a giant beast with a body that was hundreds of meters long might not be a match for them.
For a moment, Lu Yuan didn't know what to do.
Then the captain led them to the nautical chart, where he drew a line on the top of the chart to indicate the route they would take.
"This route is the only way we can take. We can't pass through the other routes because of the reefs on the seabed. This is the only route we can take so far!"
Lu Yuan nodded slightly and pointed to the sea chart: "Just how many monsters are there along this route?"
"I don't know how many monsters there are, but there are probably more than ten kinds. This is only what we have discovered so far, because our ships have only made a dozen or so round trips since the apocalypse."
"The last time we entered the waters off Pakistan was half a year ago. There was a severe thunderstorm then, so we took advantage of that opportunity to enter. With the cover of the thunderstorm, the chances of these monsters spotting us are much smaller. If you really want to leave, we might need a storm!"
Lu Yuan stared at the sea chart in silence, and after a long period of contemplation, he decided to release the giant beast to see if they could leave ahead of schedule.
"Captain, I have an idea. We could try walking slowly, and if it doesn't work, we can turn back and see if that works."
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