[Lu Clan, if you cannot leave, we warriors will offer your blood as an offering to the Holy Land!] The elder showed no sign of weakness.
Seeing them bickering, Jiang Ling figured they would be stuck in a stalemate for a while, so he asked Xiao, the driver, to turn around and head to the nearest biological psychic signal amplifier to get a sample. This thing might not be priceless, but it would come in handy sooner or later.
They arrived near the sea surface, and through a thin layer of ice, Jiang Ling saw the group of purple creatures. Some of them sped up their twisting speed under the searchlight, then broke away from the main group and slowly crawled towards the two of them.
These creatures are not afraid of the cold, and perhaps the dead bodies on the ice were taken away by them.
Some of them look a bit like starfish from a distance, but if you look closely, you can see that their bodies are covered with colorful scales and their tentacles come in various shapes, like twisted monsters from a deep-sea horror movie.
Apparently, they were probably some kind of symbiotic echinoderms, living fossils that had survived from ancient times and had retained their original appearance even after a sudden mutation.
Jiang Ling felt that these animals had something in common with the tentacles on the corpses. Perhaps the barnacles selectively exploited other organisms. It wasn't necessarily enslavement; it was more like the billions of bacteria in the human stomach, a symbiotic relationship from birth to death.
She broke the ice, letting some of them fall, and then filmed them with an external viewfinder.
These palm-sized little guys quickly absorbed a lot of water, expanded dozens of times in size, and floated on the sea in a round and chubby appearance.
Compared to their original versions, these creatures have been affected by mutations and have mastered the ability to live both on land and in sea, but their specific adaptability is still unknown, and people on the coast have not seen them yet.
The two of them selected smaller pieces of these bizarre-looking animals and filled several sample jars. Afterwards, Lao Xiao continued to act as the driver, following Jiang Ling's instructions and heading back into the deep sea.
The underwater sampan couldn't go very fast, and Jiang Ling's exoskeleton had been active all day and night, and its energy was running low. To divert her attention, she took the initiative to talk to Political Commissar Xiao.
"Hey, Lao Xiao, have you heard of the siren?" Her tone was very light, pretending to be in a good mood. She didn't sound solemn at all as she did a few hours ago, even though Lao Wu's body parts had not been buried yet.
"Siren?" Political Commissar Xiao's voice sounded a little tired, but he agreed. "Just talk about it casually, just like telling Old Wu a bedtime story. Anyway, we are still a long way from the location you mentioned."
"Since you want to hear it, let me tell you something different."
Jiang Ling silenced the noisy energy alarm inside the exoskeleton, shifted his posture in his gear box, and slowly spoke, "The original sirens come from Greek mythology. The ancients, with their limited imagination, described the sirens as birds. Back then, they couldn't reach the deep sea, and their small sampans were limited, so they could only wander along the shore. Later, as navigation technology advanced, the deep sea and underwater became accessible, and the sirens became fish..."
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