Sun Yiming frowned. "Moreover, the reconnaissance team reported that there appear to be signs of a marine community gathering in the distant ocean."
"A gathering of organisms?" Li Ruoyang's representative immediately became alert. "Is it a marine mammal tide?"
"I don't know. Because our understanding of the various races in the deep sea is limited, we cannot yet distinguish between sea monsters and deep-sea creatures."
“However,” Sun Yiming continued, “based on the current characteristics of the sea monsters and deep-sea creatures, the investigators say it feels like an intelligent species is gathering. In addition, considering their size, I am more inclined to believe it is the deep-sea creatures.”
Gu Xi's heart skipped a beat. The establishment of the island, especially the massive energy fluctuations of the island's heart, was bound to attract some unscrupulous deep-sea creatures.
The "sludge monsters" that were cleared out before were rare deep-sea creatures attracted by pure energy. Now, are other races coming to visit as well?
“Ais.” Gu Xi looked at Ais beside her.
Ai Si closed her eyes, and her powerful spiritual energy instantly traversed a vast distance, probing in the direction Sun Yiming had indicated.
A moment later, he opened his eyes, a barely perceptible hint of hesitation flashing in his icy blue pupils.
“Pluh… It’s the Deep Sea Clan.” Ais’s voice was deep. “There are many of them, at least tens of thousands. They are mainly Deep Sea Octopus Clan, but there are also some other races.”
Deep-sea octopus clan!
The name sent a chill down everyone's spine.
They rarely interact with these deep-sea creatures, so how did they become enemies?
"What are they trying to do?" Sun Yiming couldn't help but ask. "Do they have their eyes on our island?"
“More likely, it is our presence that makes them feel threatened,” Li Ruoyang analyzed. “The large-scale gathering of one race may seem like troop deployment to other races, so it is understandable that they would have concerns.”
The atmosphere in the meeting room instantly became tense. The hope that had just been ignited seemed to be shrouded in another shadow.
"Should we fight?" asked a young leader with a rather impulsive personality. "Although we haven't been here long, we've built various defensive facilities on the island, and we outnumber them. We're not necessarily afraid of them!"
“We cannot start a war lightly.” Gu Xi immediately rejected the idea. “We have limited knowledge of the Octopus Clan’s specific strength, and the risk of starting a war rashly is too great. Moreover, once a war breaks out, regardless of victory or defeat, our construction will be interrupted, and it may even destroy the foundation we have worked so hard to build.”
"What can we do then? We can't just sit here and wait to die, can we?"
Gu Xi was silent for a moment, her fingers tapping lightly on the table. She was quickly weighing the pros and cons.
A direct confrontation is the worst possible strategy, and avoiding it is also unrealistic, as the island is too conspicuous. Therefore, only one possibility remains.
“I’ll go talk to them.” Gu Xi raised her head, her gaze calm and firm.
"What?!" Sun Yiming was the first to jump up. "Sister Xi, this is too dangerous! Tens of thousands of deep-sea creatures—this is no small matter. And many of them are not to be trifled with. What if they..."
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