Silin followed the sound and saw Huimao squatting in front of a plant, his claws digging into the reef next to the plant.
Rumble …
A small round ball rolled out as Huimao retracted his claws.
It was the size of a pigeon egg, and was a bright blue.
"Silin, I think this thing is worth a lot." Huimao bent his claws and fiddled with the crystal-like ball.
Silin picked up the ball and looked at it. It was cool to the touch, but not too cold. It had a faint plant fragrance, and it was very refreshing.
"Oh, I didn't think there would be something like this here." Lung walked over. "People call it the 'Guardian Heart'."
"Guardian Heart?" Huimao listened carefully. Lung's explanation made him feel that this crystal-like ball was really worth a lot of money.
"Yes, this is something that can only be found in some special areas of the sea. The quality of the Guardian Heart produced in Sea Heaven is the best, and the effect is also the best."
Lung explained the origin and use of the Guardian Heart to Silin and Huimao. This crystal-like ball was actually synthesized from the roots of some plants on the coral reef. It's purpose was to repel sea beasts and other beasts and insects that ate the plants. After the synthesis of the roots, the ball would slowly move towards the surface, but it would not come out. There would be many of these crystals around the plant near the surface. They would form a circle to protect the plant and repel some small sea beasts. As for the large sea beasts, even if they couldn't be repelled, they could make them lose their appetite for the plant and not bite it.
"The smell of the Guardian Heart is very comfortable to humans, but it's like something disgusting to the sea beasts. So when you see a plant on a coral reef full of sea beasts without any small sea beasts around it, it means that the plant's roots have synthesized the Guardian Heart. Strangely, many researchers have tried to synthesize the medicine from these crystals, but the results were not ideal. So the natural crystal's price in the market has always been very high. The Guardian Heart from Sea Heaven has always been the most expensive of these crystals. If it was this one, it would probably fetch a price of six to seven digits. We can dig more of these things, but if they aren't fully formed and haven't been moved to the surface, we don't need to dig them. Leave them for the plants to chase away sea beasts. "
Lung's last sentence was directed at Huimao. Looking at Huimao's eyes that were growing brighter and brighter, especially when he heard the words "very valuable", those cat eyes were especially bright.
While they were talking, Czedow walked over from the other side of the room.
"There are a lot of hallucinogenic substances in the seawater. The indigenous creatures can develop resistance to them, but outsiders can't." Czedow showed some analysis data to Silin and mentioned the distribution of the sea beasts living on the coral reefs.
"The sea beasts and some of the fish in the sea can't be eaten directly," Lung said. Suddenly, he recalled that Huimao ate a big meal when he was cleaning up this area. Lung turned to look at Huimao who was digging excitedly for crystals next to other plants. He looked at Silin and asked, "Is it really okay for that cat to eat anything?"
"It's fine. It can still consume these things, so don't worry about it."
Silin was already used to it. Back in the Mist Bodhisattva Empire, Huimao ate a lot of sea beasts. Although the sea beasts here were a little special, they weren't enough to give Huimao a stomachache.
"Young master, the scanners have found something," someone said from the other side.
After landing on the atoll, Lung's subordinates quickly put their scanners into the seawater to investigate the situation around them. Lung especially asked his subordinates to put a couple more scanners in the direction the star map was pointing at.
"What's going on?" Lung asked.
Cillin and Czedow also walked over, leaving behind the gray cat who was still digging for "treasures" around a couple of plants in the small forest.
"The scanners have descended to three thousand meters below the water surface. This is the result." The man passed the electronic board to Lung.
There was a wavy line on the electronic board. Due to the uniqueness of the environment here and the strangeness of the planet, the scanners didn't have any detailed data. All they could do was display some images and areas with abnormal energy waves and draw them into a 3D map. Every depth corresponded to a point on the 3D map, and the scanners detected an anomaly at the three thousand meter mark. From that point on, the color of the 3D map began to change. As the scanners continued to descend, the color on the 3D map deepened.
Lung looked very excited when he saw the result on the 3D map. He knew that the Tear of Gods had to be at that place because the energy reflection there was different from the rest of the sea. Up until now, this was the only place where the scanners had detected an anomaly. The scanners in the other parts of the sea didn't show anything like this.
"Why are there stairs forming here? Is this a normal phenomenon? "Silin pointed at a place on the 3D map and asked.
There was a steep slope below the coral reef, and from the 3D map drawn by the scanners, it was clear that there was a staircase at the top of the slope. One end of the staircase extended all the way down to the seabed.
"A staircase like this isn't meant for humans. Could it be a sea beast?" Lung said.
No one knew if it was man-made or natural. But they had to admit that the staircase gave them a very strange feeling.
"Keep paying attention to the scanners in this area and prepare yourselves. We're going to move after the scanners are done," Lung instructed the others.
"Uwaa — —"
Suddenly, a long howl came from the small forest where Huimao was.
Celine and the others turned their heads to look. Between the trees, there was a tail with dark stripes swaying. The plants that were twenty to thirty meters tall couldn't hide this tail at all. The branches and leaves of those plants were snapped by the huge tail and scattered in all directions. Some of the smaller sea beasts nearby were frightened by the howl and fled in all directions.
Pu — —
Blue blood sprayed out and splashed on the large leaves of the plants, making a rustling sound. The twitching of the big tail and the movement of the leaves gradually subsided.
Not long after, a rustling sound came from afar. The leaves of the small forest swayed, and soon, the head of a large sea beast appeared.
To Lung and the others' astonishment, Wheeze bit down on a long tentacle around the sea beast's mouth and dragged it over to them. At first glance, the size of the sea beast was really exciting. In comparison, the difference in size between the sea beast that was cleaned up earlier was much smaller.
The sea beast that Huimao dragged over looked like an eel, its body was almost five meters in diameter. There were many pairs of legs on its torso. Compared to the smaller sea beasts that Huimao cleaned up before, this sea beast was probably at a higher level of the food chain.
As Huimao dragged it, the sea beast gradually revealed its full appearance, and there was a long wound on its abdomen. Blue blood was flowing out, and because of Huimao's dragging, it formed a blue trail behind it.
After Huimao dragged the sea beast in front of Silin, he asked Silin and the others, "Do you want to eat it?"
Pascado and the others shook their heads. Looking at the sea beast that had died with its mouth wide open, revealing its sharp teeth, Pascado and the others didn't have any appetite at all. Just the blue trail and some of the internal organs on it made Pascado feel a little nauseous.
"Something's wrong, that sea beast isn't strictly an amphibious sea beast. Although it can crawl on the coral reefs for a while, it doesn't stay there for long. It will only rush to the coral reefs when it's hunting, but it's obviously not hunting now. Besides, all the small sea beasts in this area have been chased away by Wheeze, so what's this big guy doing here?" Lung said while rubbing his chin.
The gray cat licked the blue blood on its paw and hurriedly clarified itself, "It came out of the sea. At first I didn't want to deal with it because I was busy digging for treasures, but who would've thought that it would charge straight at me. There are still a lot of gems I dug out over there, and I can't let it eat them! I really didn't want to cause trouble, this guy just bumped into me. "
Ying Weiji looked at the sea and said, "There's a school of sawtooth fish."
Sawtooth fish were recorded in the information collected by the Andriera family, and it was quite detailed. This was a typical species. Sawtooth fish lived in the middle and upper layers of the sea, and they moved in groups. Moreover, every school of fish was very large, and tens of thousands of sawtooth fish were enough to make some of the larger sea beasts in the middle and upper layers flinch.
Adult sawtooth fish could reach up to five meters long, and their upper and lower jaws could open up to 270 degrees, and their powerful bite force could directly crush the bones of the small sea beasts. Therefore, when the Andriera family came over, they would generally stay far away from this school of fish. This was not a school of fish that could escape even if it was the first drop of blood.
"Those sawtooth fish are hunting in a circle. That big guy just wanted to hide on the coral reefs, that's all. " Ying Weiji continued, "In about five minutes, the vanguard of the sawtooth fish will pass this area of the atoll."
Lung sighed, "In other words, even if we want to make a move, we have to wait for this group of troublesome guys to leave first."
Ying Weiji nodded seriously and said, "Theoretically, yes."
Silin had to admit that in the marine environment, his perception was indeed not as sensitive as someone like Ying Weiji. The reason why Ying Weiji could say these words with such certainty was also because of the sea beasts and sea fishes in the sea.
Ying Weiji was indeed one of the top ten bodyguards of the old fox Andriera Phocos, to be able to adapt to the new environment and start taming sea beasts in such a short time.
"Go into the aircraft, there will be a lot of sea beasts coming up to the coral reefs later, let's avoid this wave first," Lung called out to Silin to take refuge in the aircraft.
Huimao handed the "Guardian Heart" to Silin for safekeeping, and prepared to stay outside to watch the show. Anyway, if the coral reefs were too crowded, it would fly into the sky.
After Silin entered the aircraft, some more sea beasts came up to the coral reefs one after another, but the "feudal lords" of those areas did not come out to drive them away, they only gave a warning, and then there was no movement. Unless the invaders caused too much trouble, those "feudal lords" would come out to fight. Other than that, they were all hiding in the caves, nervously watching everything outside.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh — —
Some fish flew out of the water with their wings outstretched, they flew from the outside of the atoll all the way to the lagoon inside the atoll. In addition to these flying fish, several small sea beasts also crawled from the outside of the atoll into the lagoon inside the atoll, the originally quiet lagoon suddenly became noisy.
The enclosed lagoon provided protection for these little guys, because those sawtooth fish could not land on the coral reefs, nor could they jump or fly. With the barrier of the atoll in between, those flying fish could be considered to have escaped the hunting of the sawtooth fish.
However, although these flying fish avoided the sawtooth fish, they still had to face other predators, such as Huimao, who spread its wings and flew in the air.
Huimao spread its wings and hovered there, waiting for those flying fish to come to its door. It only needed to open its mouth and wait. If it did not want to eat anymore, it would deliberately stretch out its fat cat claws to hit those flying fish back to where they came from, or directly slap those flying over to where the other sea beasts were on the coral reefs.
How could it not eat those that came to its door?
Therefore, the sea beasts that were originally lying on the coral reefs to take refuge opened their mouths wide when they were slapped by the flying fish in front of them.
Pascado and the others who were hiding in the aircraft saw this scene, and all had the same thought at the same time: This cat is really despicable! Those flying fish would probably be depressed about how they encountered this malefic existence.
There were more and more sea beasts on the coral reefs, and the sawtooth fish also revealed their shadows.
On the surface of the sea, elongated triangular dorsal fins emerged from the water, and some poor guys who did not have time to jump on the coral reefs or couldn't get on the coral reefs at all were directly torn apart and swallowed by the sawtooth fish. In addition to the sawtooth fish that were hunting for food, there were also many half-bitten or incomplete bodies that were thrown out of the water because of the sawtooth fish's biting.
The originally blue seawater became even bluer.
Silin thought of that sentence again: The blue of the seawater is dyed by the blood of sea beasts.
Five minutes later, as far as the eye could see, the sea was full of those floating triangular dorsal fins, and this was only the vanguard of this school of fish. There were other members of the school behind them, and the water below the surface was also full of these ferocious guys.
Thud!
Huimao, who was swatting the flying fish, jumped back into the water.
"What is that fat cat doing now?" Pascado asked.
"It probably got bored playing in the sky and went underwater to watch the show." A pause later, Silin said, "Turn on a monitor."
After Lung turned on one of the closed monitors inside the aircraft, Silin motioned for Czedow to connect the monitor to Huimao's data.
It didn't take long for the underwater scene to appear on the monitor. This was also what Huimao saw, and it transmitted the scene back to the aircraft.
The water below the atoll was a terrible battle for food. The sawtooth fish were forcing other fish and sea beasts towards the atoll. After all, there were only a few species that could climb onto the coral reefs or fly over them like the flying fish. Most of the prey were blocked by the "wall" of the atoll, and they had no way out because the sawtooth fish were already closing in on them.
There were minced meat and scales everywhere, and the iconic big mouths and teeth of the sawtooth fish were everywhere. The color of the seawater was obviously much darker than before, and it sent chills down everyone's spine.
The people inside the aircraft were staring at the terrible scene on the monitor when the result from the detector attracted everyone's attention.
"The detector has reached the seabed!" someone said excitedly.
From the results sent back by the detector, everyone could see a strange scene in the 3D image.
It looked like a city at the bottom of the sea. Although it was just a rough outline, Lung was still very excited to see it.
That's right, the Tear of God must be there!
"Is the video not turned on? Why isn't there any video? "Lung asked.
"Young master, we've lost contact with the three detectors that reached the seabed."
"Young master, we've also lost contact with the fourth detector."
"Young master … we've also lost contact with the fifth detector."
After the five probes sent to the coordinates reached the seabed, they lost contact with the aircraft before they could even capture a video image.
Cillin recalled the things Moon had mentioned when he was talking about the Tear of God.
When the Xi family was researching the Tear of God, they once lived at the bottom of the sea for a period of time in order to better understand the sea monsters.
Ah Yue had used the word 'lived', not 'stayed' or anything else. Connecting the dots to the blurry outline on the 3D map, Cillin thought: Did the Xi Family build an underwater city at the bottom of the sea?
Although it was unbelievable, this was "Sea Paradise" and not any other ordinary sea. It was already difficult for an aircraft to fly here, let alone building a city at the bottom of the sea. But the Xi family was not a family that could be judged by common sense.
Perhaps, it was really possible.
"How long until the sawtooth fish leave?" Lung looked at Ying Weiji.
"Theoretically, it will take at least an hour."
"But?"
"But if you're in a hurry, we can try to tame those sawtooth fish and let them leave earlier."
Lung thought for a moment before waving his hands. "Forget it. There are too many of them, and it'll take a lot of energy to go underwater. Let's save our energy for now. We're already here, so what's the harm in waiting for an hour? "
Silin stared at the thoughtful Czedow and asked, "Did you find anything?"
"The five detectors lost contact with the planet's magnetic field," Czedow answered.
"Magnetic field? Aren't those instruments capable of resisting the planet's magnetic field? The Andriera Family spent a lot of manpower and resources to build them. "Lung frowned.
Czedow shook his head. "They can resist the planet's magnetic field, but the magnetic field is two to three times stronger at the target point. That's why the five instruments can't function normally."
"Is it their doing?" Silin asked.
The "them" he was referring to were the Xi family members.
"Yes."
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