Regarding the Kirin question last time, I would like to clarify again. Most of the Japanese materials I mentioned record that the unicorn is a hoofed beast, but the part of the information I found is like this, not that the Japanese unicorn has long hooves and the Chinese unicorn has long claws. In fact, there are many Chinese materials that describe unicorns with hooves, so please don't get me wrong.

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"Come closer, right?" I asked Red Moon.

"You'll find it if you get closer. ”

"What then?"

"There are many ways, it depends on whether you want to do them a favor or make trouble. ”

"What do you mean?"

Hongyue said: "If you want to help, go directly down to explain the situation, if you want to make trouble...... Aren't you good yet?"

"I don't know this guild, and I don't know if they are looking for things for China or the Japanese, so it's really hard to decide for a while. The last time I saw them, the situation was a little strange, and it was hard to say. ”

"What's this strange method?"

"At that time, little Japan was in front, and they were behind. The distance between them is not too far, but they don't notice each other, and they don't react to the big movement of our war. It can be understood that they were chasing small Japan to get back China's things, and it was really far away at that time, so they didn't hear it. But this explanation is a bit far-fetched. The other direction can be understood as the delivery party, and small Japan is here to pick up the goods. They are simply embarrassed, sending and receiving one by one. Pretending to be chasing the Japanese is actually escorting the Japanese away. ”

"You say that, it's not a small problem. ”

"So I don't know whether to sabotage their operations or not. ”

"Otherwise, let's try something else. ”

"What's the method?"

"Isn't your pet capable of moving in the water? find someone to pretend to be a player and come out. ”

"Isn't that a scareless snake?"

"Can someone in the darkness defeat the two of us? Can't we really defeat those night pearls, it's dark around us and we can see things, and I'm afraid we won't be able to deal with these fools?"

"Then try it!"

A few minutes later, Ayana wore a suit of armor I had put together for her, posing as a player, and swam down the chain. The other party was stunned when he saw Ayana, but there seemed to be no hostility. Ayana landed on the hull of the ship and said loudly: "I am the progress supervisor sent by the Japanese side, how are you going? We don't have much time. ”

A well-dressed man ran out of the wreck of the boat below, because it was underwater, and everyone used a full-coverage mask, so he couldn't see his face clearly. The man swam to Ayana's side. "If you're in a hurry, just catch it yourself. Last time, we gave you something, but you yourself were found out and sunk, what does it matter to us?"

I could clearly hear Ayana's voice with my psychic contact, and now everything was clear. Ayana got my instructions and didn't bother anymore. "Anyway, you guys hurry up, it's tight above. With that, she turned and swam up.

Ayana swam all the way until she was completely out of sight, then turned around, circled around and turned back again. I helped her remove the armor she was putting on the outside. "That's good, I didn't expect you to have a talent for acting. ”

"Of course, doesn't the master know that mermaids are all natural performers?"

"Okay, okay, you can blow it!"

Red Moon pointed over there and said, "They seem to be preparing to evacuate. ”

I quickly looked over there, and sure enough, I saw the people running around. But the men didn't go far before they stopped, and then turned back to look at the battleship. The chains shook for a moment, and then the metal twisted and torn. It seems that they began to salvage.

However, the situation did not seem to be the same as expected, and the battleship did not leave the bottom of the sea after being towed by the chains, and it seemed that the pull was not enough. Just when we were puzzled, the battleship suddenly shook a little, and then suddenly the system error was raised!-0x000000008,112619180 up. The chains pulled the battleship up, and then suddenly it loosened, and the battleship slammed into the bottom of the sea with a loud bang. Underwater the sound is relatively easy to travel, and we feel as if the battleship is landing right next to us.

The chains didn't mean to pull the battleship up, but kept lifting the battleship and putting it down, and they were hitting the hull. The battleship was already riddled with holes by us, and when it sank, it was broken into several pieces due to water ingress, and now it was almost completely broken up by their repeated hits. Fortunately, the bottom of the deep sea is not like a lake full of mud, so the water is not muddy. The sand and gravel here are pressed by pressure, so they can sink quickly after floating.

The repeated collisions finally broke the battleship apart, and the broken iron sheets and parts scattered in all directions, and the mess fell everywhere. That's what they're for, those lifting equipment is not to salvage the battleship but to break it up.

Fragments of the ship's wreckage were scattered around, and the players regrouped back around the ship and began rummaging. They must not have been able to find what they were looking for just now, so they deliberately scattered the ship to make it easier to find it, after all, the inside of the battleship was deformed in many places due to shelling, and some doors could not be opened, and some of the aisles might not be able to pass through, so it was better to fall apart and find it.

The large booms hoisted the remaining large pieces of wreckage, and some players went inside to look for them, while most of them began to rummage through the pile of trash like scavengers. In this way, it seems that the target is actually not very big, otherwise it would not be so difficult to find.

"What do you think could be the thing that made them go through such a big deal?" asked Red Moon.

"Anyway, it's not equipment, otherwise it wouldn't be transported by a battleship, and it would be safer to find someone to carry it. So it must be something that doesn't fit in storage. ”

"So it's something used on a battleship or in a city?"

"Not necessarily. In addition to the technology used by cities and warships, there are quite a few things that meet the conditions, such as creatures. But it seems that this transportation is not a living thing, otherwise it would not have been solved in such a rude way. ”

"That's one of the two?"

"No surprises, yes. ”

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"Look there. Red Moon suddenly pointed to a person over there. The guy was shaking a box in his hand, and everyone around him gathered around. But they looked at it for a while and seemed to argue, and one of them threw the box away. The box was empty, there was nothing in it, and the reason for the quarrel was probably because the box that was supposed to contain what they needed was actually empty.

The box was located closer to the periphery, and I asked Hongyue not to move, and groped my way to get closer to the box. With the help of the rocks on the bottom of the sea, I managed to get behind the rock next to the box. While they weren't looking, I pulled the box into my hand as fast as I could, and then reached back to Hongyue.

Hongyue took the box and studied it and said, "It's just a very ordinary box, nothing special!"

I took the box back and said, "There's a lot of information on it." First of all, judging by the internal shape of the box, the system is wrong!-0x000000008,112619180 The thing we are looking for is a spherical object, or something like a spherical one. Judging by its size, it's a bit bigger than a basketball, and it's very heavy. This box is lined with a steel support frame, apparently for reinforcement. Also, there is no soft lining on the surface of this box, which means that this thing is very strong, at least it belongs to something that is not afraid of falling. ”

"The analysis makes some sense, but there is still one missing. ”

"Huh?"

Red Moon snatched the box and pointed it out to me. "Here, see? There's obviously something embedded in this place. This means that there are three to five protruding parts on that spherical object. ”

"Can't you really see that you still have a woman's carefulness?"

"What do you mean by that?

"No, no, no!" accidentally poked the hornet's nest. Hurry up and interrupt. "Look here. ”

"What's wrong?"

"The locking device of this box seems to have been forcibly knocked out by something. ”

Hongyue looked at it for a long time and said, "That thing is no longer in the box, which means that the box was opened before it sank to the bottom of the sea." And this thing must have been placed in an important part of the ship at that time, and this should not have happened. Unless ......"

"It was hit by a shell. "I called out at the same time as the red moon.

Red Moon continued to reason: "You said that the ship was sunk by our fleet, which means that it sank after being shelled. Judging from the wreckage of the hull, the armor of this battleship is very average, and if it is the secondary gun of our battleship, it should be able to shoot shells into the deep hold. Maybe a cannonball hit the storage place and blew the lock of the box off. ”

I then reasoned: "Then the ship broke down, which meant that the compartment with the fracture became exposed. If the box had been in a nearby compartment at the time, it would have probably fallen out of the ship when it sank. ”

Red Moon then raised suspicions. "But the box was near the wreckage, and it didn't go far. But why is it gone?"

I added, "There is only one possibility." Someone took something away. This thing is so important, it can't be left unattended. The man found that the hull was broken, and the contents of the ship ran out, so he must have chased it. ”

"But little Japan didn't get anything. ”

"That means the man wasn't able to salvage the item. ”

Hongyue suddenly said, "Maybe he rescued the items but couldn't send them to another ship." ”

I nodded, "At that time, the surrounding ships were basically wiped out, and all the people in the water were killed by rapid-fire guns, maybe that little Japanese was killed together." ”

"That means this thing sank later than the ship. The currents in the ocean are unstable, and if the time interval between falls is large, things may be distributed in different locations. ”

"Blah blah. I shouted to stop: "It doesn't seem to be the case, our analysis is wrong." If a Japanese had ever seen that thing break away from the hull, why did they come to search for it? Since little Japan had asked them to come and find it, they would have told them that it was no longer in the ship. So no one should have seen it when it left the ship. ”

Hongyue said: "What is the reason for that?"

I said, "The currents you just talked about may be the cause." ”

"Ocean currents?"

"Let's summarize the gist of the matter. First of all, the battleship broke when it sank, and most of the contents fell out. The second bullet point. The lock of the box was broken by a shell before it could fall into the water, and it could open itself at any time and drop its contents out. The third point is that this is the sea, the currents are very unstable, and that thing can land anywhere. ”

Hongyue said: "I understand. You're saying that the box opened itself after falling into the water, and the contents fell out. ”

"Yes. That thing must have fallen out. Otherwise, it would have been discovered along with the box. Different things have different specific gravity and shape, and their ability to drift with ocean currents is also different. Something of a specific weight is not easy to drift and will appear very close to the sinking site, while something with a small specific gravity may be carried far away. ”

Hongyue said: "The box has been reinforced, the system is wrong!-0x000000008, 112619180, the mass of the things inside is very large, and judging from the volume of the box, it is not very large, which means that this thing has a large proportion." The round shape is not easily carried away by ocean currents. So that thing must be somewhere between where the accident happened and here. ”

I said, "But I don't know where we're at war." ”

"Then follow the current and look upstream, that thing must have bottomed out in advance. ”

I hurriedly said to Ayana, "Can you feel the current?"

"Of course. If you can't feel it, it's not a sea creature!"

"Now take us upstream. ”

Instead of taking us away immediately, Ayana whispered, "I don't sound like I missed something from your conversation just now. ”

"What are we missing?" Red Moon looked at Ayana curiously, waiting for her answer.

Ayana replied, "You didn't grow up in the sea and probably don't know this, but I know it very well. Unlike lakes and rivers, seawater is not stable. In some places, the currents change so badly with the seasons that they can even turn up completely. ”

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"But it's only been a few days, and the currents won't change so badly, right?"

"It's not just the seasonal currents that are the problem. Another problem is laminar flow. The flow of water in the ocean is stratified. The surface water flows in different directions than the underlying seawater. In some places, the water drops vertically by 100 meters, and the sea water changes direction three or four times in a row. The surface water is affected by the wind, the middle layer is affected by the salinity and temperature of the seawater, and the bottom water is affected by the topography of the seabed and the gravitational pull of the moon. The change would be so great that there would be no way to determine the direction of the currents as you say. We merfolk once experimented by throwing a stone down every 1 minute from the same point on the surface of the sea, a total of 100 stones. As a result, they each fell in 100 discontinuous positions with each other, the two farthest stones separated by more than 700 kilometers. It was a relatively stable day, and if there was a storm or something, it would be over. ”

Red Moon and I were dumbfounded. Is there such a strange situation in the sea? It seems that we have thought things simple!

I asked Ayana, "How do you know how we can determine the exact location of that thing?"

"It's impossible to completely recreate the currents of that day. If you knew the ratio of the drag coefficient in the water to its specific gravity, I could calculate the approximate radius of the possible range near the point where it entered the water. But you don't even seem to know what that thing looks like, so that's impossible. There's also unfortunate news, and I said you have to stand up. ”

"Is there anything worse than this?"

"Absolutely. Let's say a giant sea creature swallows that thing as food...... and from what you just analyzed, it can't digest it, and if that creature pulls it out, it could cover the entire planet. For example, migratory creatures like whales will run around the globe, and they may not know where it will be pulled out. Maybe in the Pacific, maybe in the Atlantic, it's a needle in the bottom of the sea anyway. If that thing doesn't get out of its belly, it's even worse. Trying to find something that can run around in the sea is more troublesome than looking for a needle in the sea, you can't always catch all the sea creatures and disembowel them, right? Besides, with the size of that thing, it is possible that the number of organisms that swallow it is calculated in billions, and it is impossible to know for sure. ”

"Isn't that just going to be found forever?"

"The only way is to look for possible areas and hope that nothing eats it. Most sea creatures don't eat inanimate things, so the likelihood of being eaten isn't too great. You don't have to worry too much. ”

I rekindled my hope: "So how big is this possible area? I'll see how long it takes to search for it." ”

"At least 5,000 square kilometers!"

"Forget it, when I didn't say it. "After such a large area has been searched, it is time for the national war to begin. It's good to find such a large area on land, but it is impossible to find such a large area in the sea.

Hongyue also said: "Unless we have 5,000 people searching, it is impossible to find it." That's too big!"

I nodded: "I think it's better to send someone to monitor them, as long as they don't find it, we still don't waste that manpower, the project is too huge!"

Ayana said: "Actually, I have a way. ”

"What's the solution?"

"Please, Atlantis, help find it. Merfolk can find things in the water just as easily as you do on land, and you can offer a bounty of two magic crystals to ensure that a lot of merfolk will help you find them. ”

"That's a solution, but anyway, now isn't the time, let's go back first!"

"What about this side?"

"Let's sabotage the speed of their search first. ”

"Who?" suddenly came from behind us. Ayana pulled the two of us forward and let go of the flying harpoons. It's terrible that it was discovered.

Those players didn't know how to spot us, but luckily we were fast. The little dragon girl quickly brought up a piece of sand and gravel with her tail to muddy the water, and Hongyue and I stepped onto the speedboat and quickly evacuated. We must have speedboats that are much faster than those players, and the speed of the little dragon girl and Ayana is not much slower than the speedboat, and after the sand and gravel settled, they only saw a string of blisters, and the people were long gone.

Driving the speedboat upwards, we stopped when we reached the rectangular steel frame. I easily slashed the chains with eternity, and the steel frame immediately sank into the depths, and now they were busy. Back on the boat, but our target wasn't Isenghe, but Atlantis.

The White Shark Clan has a lot at stake, and I'll have to make it clear to Atlantis the Great myself, and I can also ask the merfolk to help find it. Another reason to travel to Atlantis is that it's so close to Atlantis that it's too far back to Isengard. Anyway, since we have the crystal resonance communication technology, we and Atlantis have already had a system error!-0x000000008,112619180 has a special communication line, and we can direct things in the guild like Atlantis.

With Ayana leading the way, we soon arrived in Atlantis, and the situation here was somewhat unexpected. It was as if Atlantis had just been hit by an atomic bomb, and all the buildings in the city had collapsed, while the protective cover for waterproofing flickered as if it were about to disappear at any moment.

Red Moon's first reaction was, "Could it be that the White Shark Clan attacked Atlantis?"

"Not so fast, right? Even if they are treacherous, they can't attack here before us! War preparation takes time!"

"How do you explain that? Did they fight themselves?"

"Ayana. "Seeing the damage to Atlantis, Ayana rushed over, and I didn't stop shouting. Although she has become a demon pet, she is the princess here after all, and she is also a place where she once lived.

The situation in front of him looked like it had been attacked, the real Atlantis was in ruins, and there were many places on the surrounding submarine mountains that had collapsed and been damaged, and it was obvious that the blow was crazy, almost indiscriminately attacked, and even the mountains were blown up.

There are three small satellite cities around Atlantis, and the damage in these three small buildings is also very serious, but the waterproof protective cover is still very complete, and you can see a lot of merfolk gathering over there, probably moving the little mermaids. Merfolk who have not survived their infancy cannot survive in the water for a long time, so the merfolk have made so much effort to make a waterproof cover. Now that the city waterproof cover is falling apart, they must be busy moving the little mermaid to a safe small city.