The cockpit of the Luan Bird Starship was eerily quiet.
Zhao Zijie could even hear his own heart pounding violently in his chest.
"Gurgle..."
The sound of Gao Yang swallowing saliva came from beside him.
"W-what's going on?" Gao Yang turned to look at the porthole and said tremblingly.
Outside the porthole, it was dark.
Even the phoenix's powerful searchlight could not dispel the surrounding darkness in such severe weather.
"But, maybe the extraction device malfunctioned because it was soaked in liquid methane for too long?" Zhao Zijie said, slightly stuttering.
He tried to find a reason to convince himself.
But clearly, this reason is not strong enough; it cannot even deceive Gao Yang.
"That can't be..." Gao Yang's face was a little pale. "Didn't Zero say there were no problems with the evaluation?"
Zhao Zijie fell silent.
The unknown is always the most frightening thing.
The thought that there were only two humans on this vast planet filled Zhao Zijie with overwhelming fear.
"Zi, Zijie!" Gao Yang's sharp shout echoed throughout the cockpit.
"The sea! There's something in the sea!!!"
Zhao Zijie didn't have time to think it through and immediately turned his head to look at the porthole next to him.
"Bang!"
A dull thud came from outside the porthole!
Even starship pilots who have undergone various training programs cannot withstand this kind of shock.
"Holy crap!!"
Zhao Zijie exclaimed in surprise, instinctively taking a half-step back: "What the hell?!"
"I...I don't know either." Gao Yang's voice was filled with fear. "Could it really be some kind of creature?"
"Stay calm, stay calm."
Zhao Zijie's slightly pale lips trembled slightly as he stammered, "Even if it were a living being, it wouldn't be able to break through the outer shell of the Luan Bird Starship."
He swallowed hard, suppressing his fear, and slowly walked towards the porthole.
"Watch out!" Gao Yang's warning came from behind.
...
Zhao Zijie leaned against the porthole and looked down at the sea.
When he saw the "thing" that made the impact sound, he gasped sharply!
"hiss!"
On the slightly deep sea, a large, pale yellow object was floating.
Clearly, this pale yellow thing is alive.
The reason is quite simple.
That damned thing was already halfway out of the sea and stuck to the hull of the Luan Bird Starship!
It's even climbing upwards at a visibly slow pace!
With just one glance, Zhao Zijie felt his sanity plummet.
Sooner or later, we'll tear Gao Yang's crow's mouth apart!
While cursing in his heart, this thought flashed through Zhao Zijie's mind.
"Holy crap..." He rubbed his eyes hard, trying to clear them. "Gao Yang, come quick!"
A series of hurried footsteps approached.
"Holy crap!!"
It's another classic exclamation.
"What is this thing?!" Gao Yang shuddered slightly. "It feels... disgusting."
"It looks a bit like a big, moving lump of fat... Ugh!!"
Seeing Gao Yang's nauseous expression, Zhao Zijie immediately smiled with satisfaction.
That's fair.
“Now that you mention it… it does look somewhat like one.” He took a few steps back, touched his chin, and said thoughtfully, “But I think it looks a bit like a jellyfish.”
"To be precise, it should be the bell of a jellyfish; at least I haven't seen any tentacles underneath it yet."
Gao Yang looked at it carefully and said with a disgusted expression, "There seems to be some slime on the surface, it's really disgusting."
The words had barely left his mouth.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
A series of muffled sounds came from the outside.
"...Surely not?" Gao Yang's eyes widened in surprise. "They can hear me?"
Zhao Zijie turned around and gave his teammate a hard slap: "Shut your mouth!"
"Didn't you see there was more than one lump of fat in the seawater?"
The dull thuds of impact continued to resound.
More than ten minutes later, Zhao Zijie, ignoring his nausea, stood by the porthole and gazed at the surface of the Kraken-Mare Sea.
"How many of these deadly things are there?!"
Looking out, the once vast sea was now filled with pale yellow jellyfish-like creatures!
These jellyfish had a clear objective—to submerge the Luan Bird Starship in the sea.
"One, call Mars!"
Seeing the strange creatures leaping from the sea and lunging at the Luan Bird Starship, Zhao Zijie made a decisive decision: "Contact Professor Lü directly!"
This situation is beyond the capabilities of ordinary people!
...
The long-distance communication was established quickly.
After listening to Zhao Zijie's report, Lü Yongchang, who was on Mars, showed great interest in his eyes.
"You mean, there are large jellyfish-like creatures in Titan's oceans?"
Do you have body measurements?
Zhao Zijie nodded quickly: "Professor, I'll transfer the camera footage to you right away."
As he spoke, he reached out and swiped the holographic image in the air, bringing up the camera feeds around the starship.
Upon seeing the image, Zhao Zijie froze on the spot.
"What's wrong?"
Lu Yongchang keenly noticed Zhao Zijie's unusual expression and immediately asked, "What happened?"
Zhao Zijie shook his head slowly, a strange look on his face.
"It's not really an unexpected situation."
"only……"
"Most of the cameras on the outside of the starship were covered."
"These damn jellyfish seem to be climbing upwards. I wonder what's attracting them inside the Luan Bird Starship."
As he spoke, he transmitted the video footage to Lü Yongchang.
He glanced hesitantly at the porthole beside him.
A lump of pale yellow "fat" blocked his view.
Through the porthole, Zhao Zijie could even clearly see the sucker-like structures on the bottom of these creatures.
Presumably, this is how these jellyfish climbed onto the Luan Bird Starship.
Lu Yongchang’s voice, full of interest, came from the loudspeaker.
"The average diameter of a single organism reaches 5 meters... This thing is quite large!"
"It might be because of the weak gravity."
“Professor…” Zhao Zijie gave a wry smile, “I don’t think now is the time to discuss this.”
"These jellyfish have almost completely enveloped the phoenix!"
Lu Yongchang didn't look up, but carefully observed the images captured by the camera: "Calm down, calm down."
"Trust in the quality of the phoenixes; these little guys pose no threat to you."
Zhao Zijie, Gao Yang: "..."
The two glanced again at the enormous, disc-shaped creature in the porthole directly in front of them.
You call this a little guy?!
Although they had a lot to complain about, the two of them kept quiet.
A few minutes later, Lü Yongchang in the video looked up again and said something surprising.
"Do you have any way to catch one?"
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