Chapter 99 Entering Sichuan
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"This is it."
Under the guidance of the sea dragon, the ship finally arrived at the end of a rather barren cape in the southern waters.
The sea dragon's neck was clamped with an energy lock, and it lost the ability to attack, but its pair of long fins were still tightly attached to its abdominal cavity, hiding the two baby dragons underneath.
When Hai Jiao saw Shang Youqing approaching from the cabin, he subconsciously took half a step back.
Shang Youqing ignored her and stood on the bow deck. He used his spiritual sense to push away the sea surface pointed by the sea dragon. It was just as the sea dragon said, the two disappeared cargo ships were hidden deep in the seabed covered with algae.
If one did not specifically open their spiritual sense to investigate, no one would have imagined that there was a seemingly abandoned ship hidden under this seaweed forest.
She withdrew her spiritual sense, turned around and told the specific location of the shipwreck to Shen Jichuan beside her. Shen Jichuan responded and gave orders directly into the headset, ordering the submarine following behind to dive and search.
During this period, the sea dragon had been leaning in the corner of the cabin, looking at Shang Youqing with fear, who clearly had the aura of the Nine Heavens God. When Shang Youqing looked at her again, she finally lowered her dragon head tremblingly and told the truth.
"I know the center of the South China Sea isn't the right place for us sea beasts exiled to the cape, but... food resources have always been scarce here at the cape..."
"The better territories have all been occupied by stronger sea beasts. My partner lost his life while fighting for territory with other sea beasts, leaving only me and two newly born cubs."
"But I myself... in this small corner of the sea, I really can't hunt for more food resources. For the sake of my children, I had no choice but to... had to take the risk and rob those two freighters. But I really have never harmed human lives... I beg you, no matter how wrong you are, please don't implicate my two children. They don't understand anything, they are innocent..."
As Hai Jiao choked up as she spoke these words, Shang Youqing's gaze lingered for a moment on her two shrunken fins, then quickly shifted away and asked Shen Jichuan, "What will Colonel Shen do with her?"
"We'll have to take him back for interrogation before we can make a decision. But—"
Chen Jichuan paused for a moment, then retracted his gaze and continued, "If the final investigation results are indeed as she said, that no human lives have been harmed, the Trial Office for Sea Beasts will also consider relevant punishments as appropriate."
The implication is that the sea dragon's life will not be destroyed.
Hai Jiao then breathed a sigh of relief and let Chen Jichuan's men take her away.
Cheng Huang followed Shang Youqing and Chaojue inadvertently interrupted, "Not bad, not bad, Colonel Shen is quite humane."
As soon as he finished speaking, Shang Youqing turned around and glanced at him, then immediately shut his mouth.
"What's wrong?"
Chen Jichuan walked back and found Shang Youqingzheng frowning slightly and looking towards the center of the sea, then he asked.
Shang Youqing: "I'm wondering, why do we drive those sea beasts to the cape and prevent them from approaching the center of the sea?"
Before Shen Jichuan could answer, Cheng Huang raised his hand first to answer.
"I know this. It's related to the Heavenly Dao's prohibition. In the center of the sea lies the Penglai Immortal Mountain, which is rich in spiritual energy. They prevent sea beasts from approaching the center of the sea. Naturally, this is also to prevent the emergence of dragons that become gods in the future—"
As Cheng Huang was speaking, he realized belatedly that he had stepped on his Phoenix's sore spot. He shut up in time and looked at Shang Youqing nervously.
However, Shang Youqing's expression remained calm and he said, "Oh."
Chen Jichuan looked back and forth between Cheng Huang and Shang Youqing, pondered for a moment, and was about to say something when a huge wave crashed into the hull.
As the ship shook violently, sea water rushed onto the deck.
Chen Jichuan reached out in time to hold down Shang Youqing, who was nearly knocked over by the seawater, and heard Cheng Huang exclaim loudly, "Phoenix, look over there!"
Shang Youqing looked in the direction of the sound and saw that not far from the originally calm sea, the waves were like rows of collapsed mountains, surging towards the ship.
The ocean currents were twisted and turbulent, dull and deep, like a giant sea monster with its mouth wide open, tearing and swallowing up the clouds wherever it passed.
The sky above seemed to be swallowed up in an instant and became completely dark.
Chen Jichuan had been stationed at sea for many years and had never seen such a strange and terrifying scene. He knew very well that it was impossible for ordinary sea beasts to create such a huge wave in the sea.
Seeing the surging waves getting closer and closer in the hissing wind, Chen Jichuan urgently covered Shang Youqing with his coat, pushed her towards Cheng Huang and said in a hurry: "Cheng Huang, take Shang Youqing away first--"
However, before he could finish his words, a huge wave as tall as a cloud suddenly appeared behind him and collapsed directly towards his head.
Shang Youqing hadn't gotten the spiritual weapon yet, so she couldn't just watch Shen Jichuan get into an accident. She grabbed Shen Jichuan's arm with lightning speed and pulled him away, condensing the phoenix fire to block the huge waves above her head.
The huge wave stopped for a moment when she blocked it, but in the next second, the pervasive cold current broke through the Phoenix Fire Barrier, and the raging waves dragged Shang Youqing off the crumbling hull.
Shang Youqing was submerged in the vortex of the icy cold current and was rapidly swept into the glacier.
The majestic and trembling low roar seemed to penetrate from the bottom of the abyss.
I don’t know how much time has passed.
The deafening roar faded away, and the surroundings returned to a cold silence.
The only sound left was the dripping sound of melting glacier snow flowing into the icy stream.
When Shang Youqing climbed up from the stone wall, his slender neck tensed slightly because of the spreading coldness. He propped up his upper body with pain, opened his eyes, and stared at the endlessly cold glacier cave in front of him.
She gently pursed her lips that were white from the cold, tensed her body, went down the stone wall, looked around at the deep cave structure, and searched for the exit in the direction of stronger light.
Suddenly, Shang Youqing paused slightly. She stared at the huge and eerie dragon skeleton lying across the winding cave, and instinctively stepped back.
But the next second after stepping back, his thin, tense back suddenly collided with an ice wall, followed by a familiar, ancient chill...
Shang Youqing turned her head and was shocked to see that face as cold as ice. The dragon horns on both sides of his forehead were surrounded by a faint blue glow, like a glacier god, looking at her indifferently.
Shang Youqing only looked at him for a second, and the shoulder blade he had just touched was forced to lean back slightly due to the coldness, and the skin and bone marrow of his whole body were penetrated by the coldness.
Her face was calm, but the fingertips of her hands hanging by her side curled up slightly in response, and she retreated to her previous position, with her back against the cold stone wall.
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