Four o'clock in the morning

Everything is silent, but only a little light flickers in the interior of the island, which is still bustling. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this time, most people are still asleep, only the new humans who are still sticking to their posts and the ship girls cruising on the sea, silently maintaining the hard-won stability.

The general work and rest time of human beings has not been changed by the changes of the times, after all, the habit of human beings returning from sunrise to sunset has lasted for too long. Even in the era of fallout in the midst of change, this detail of life has not changed.

The catastrophe destroyed the stable homeland and predatory rule that mankind had maintained and built for countless years, but it did not completely destroy human civilization. The survivors excavated the technology and culture that had been buried by the scourge in the ruins, and adapted to follow the changes in the world and build a new civilization structure. Resilient human civilization still exists in many corners of the world, and human civilization will continue to be passed on until it is sublimated or completely destroyed by the deep sea.

And Arrites' unusual early wake today was not only due to the noise caused by his parents being called away by an urgent mission at one o'clock in the morning, but also for some unknown reasons.

He could feel that his mental state was very unstable during this time, and he looked at his schedule to determine that his life had been regular before, but for some reason he suddenly felt something abnormal.

A few days ago, he was reprimanded by his mother for mental exhaustion, and then since yesterday he has entered a state of high mental concentration, and his five senses have been greatly strengthened, and his state is so good that he can't sleep at night.

Of course, he did not deny that he couldn't sleep and that after his hearing was inexplicably enhanced, he was lying in bed bored and counting the rhythmic sounds made by the two people next door......

But at this moment, he can't sleep at all. Even if the outside world is peaceful, the over-exuberant spirit makes him not tired.

Arantus raised his wrist and looked at the time recorded on his watch.

30:12:45 since last sleep

He didn't know what to do about this sudden change, and the feedback after the injection of the home micro-diagnosis and treatment chip was that all physiological indicators were normal. Such a conclusion made him sigh, and his subjective feelings were difficult to present through this instrumental test, and he could only wait slowly for this state to subside.

Of course, Aritus didn't know that this change was detectable, but there was no device in the Consin Islands to detect changes within the human body in this state.

The island's safe area in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows is silent, and sparse figures can occasionally be seen. Aritaus knew it was the vigilantes on patrol, who were standing firm in the deep darkness, vigilantly watching everything around them.

Arantus didn't know what to do for the time being, and sat silently in front of the window watching the darkness fade away.

Weather forecast at 6 a.m.: 26°/42° to 10 a.m. rain (Radiation II) today

The watch flashed automatically, causing Aritaus to look away. This is the weather forecast from the Sin Chew Town Guard, although it is not too accurate, but it can still bring a lot of convenience to life.

Let's go out for a walk.

Such a thought suddenly popped into his head, and Aritus decided to leave now, for he was quite irritated by the fact that he had nothing to do all night, and needed to find something to vent his unhappiness.

Before leaving, Alitus opened the door to his house and walked along the stone path from Gate 7 to the Eclipse Cliffs in the outer area

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Far away on the outskirts of the Sin Chew Islands, Apetos was standing in a hidden harbor somewhere, watching the second formation on a mission, his eyes flashing as if he was thinking about something. Turning his head to the woman next to him who was concentrating on receiving the message with her eyes closed, he said:

"Didn't you notice that Xiao Ya didn't sleep well last night?"

"Hmph", the woman who still had her eyes closed snorted softly and kicked him, putting on a look of reluctance to deal with him.

“…… Suddenly remembered that ten years ago was also this month, the deep sea riot invaded the Star Continent, ah......", Apetos didn't dare to tease the women next to him anymore, and changed the topic to get down to business. Eyes moved to the distance, nostalgic for the battle when he was young and fought to the death with the shipwives to protect the satellite island.

"This time is much better than the last time, at that time, including me, you only have sixteen people who can enter the battle, and the Third Fleet has to face the deep sea ...... one by one before it is fully staffed", the woman seemed to remember the battlefield full of artillery fire and death, and her body trembled a little and then regained her calm.

"But you still brought us back to life, and by the way, became one of the pioneers of the Sin Chew Islands." , the woman suddenly told the exploits of the man in front of her in a gentle voice.

"No...... It's me who doesn't command it properly...... The two of them might have ...... if it weren't for my miscommand," Apetos seemed to remember some painful memory, and couldn't help but close his eyes and prayed softly, as if begging for forgiveness from the two departed souls.

"It's not your fault...... With so many deep seas, you can't fully maintain your spiritual network...... That's ...... already gone," the lady said suddenly in a resolute tone, and it was evident that she was trying to relieve the man in front of her of him from guilt.

"But, Ah Apetos, since we were born as ship mothers, our destiny is not to die vigorously after the decisive battle with the deep sea on the battlefield...... " The lady's face was filled with a hint of sadness, but she still said it calmly.

In fact, not only is it a ship girl like her, but the admirals who died in the war are also innumerable. Or maybe after his ship's mother died under the roar of the deep-sea artillery fire, I don't know that the admiral couldn't bear this despair and chose to commit suicide.

The reason why human beings have built a naval academy to train admirals and a school dedicated to teaching ship girls, and vigorously protect the new admirals, is because their losses in the war are too amazing.

If it was just a weekday defense of the deep sea that interrupted the human transportation route, the casualties of the Admiral and the shipwives were not large, but in contrast, they were attacked by the deep sea on a small scale and the human beings died more.

But in the face of organized and regular large-scale raids on human settlements in the deep sea, the consumption of the Admiral and the Shipwreck is calculated in the hundreds. What's even more terrifying is that if it weren't for their lives to defend against the attacks of the deep sea, human casualties would have increased by a hundredfold. Under the onslaught of the deep sea, the small human stronghold without the protection of the Admiral will be silently submerged, and there will be no more news.

A dead silence held the two together, they knew each other's intentions, but they didn't want to continue.

Finally, a message from the distant fleet broke the silence.

"This time it's also solved in Guam, and it looks like she'll soon reach the third energy level." Through the spiritual network connected to Apetos, as a secretary ship, she can naturally know what is happening in the distance.

"It's true that the potential and growth rate of the highly rare ship girl is significantly faster...... It's just a pity that Guam's defense capabilities are weak. Apetos commented.

"After all, she is a speed-specialized type, and perhaps she is more suitable to lead a cruiser on a mission." , a woman who is a secretary ship made such a suggestion.

"By the way, when did you get the new radar? I don't remember that I purchased a new radar. Apetos, who was staring at her secretary ship, who was also her partner, noticed that her ship's outfit seemed to have changed.

"It is a new model given by Guam...... Surprisingly, I was able to use it, and although it was a little troublesome, the performance was much improved compared to the previous one. ", the woman explained.

Generally speaking, the ship's outfit between the ship's mother is not universal.,Just like the destroyer Niang can't use the main gun of the cruiser Niang.、Non-aircraft carrier Niang can't use carrier-based aircraft can only use reconnaissance aircraft.,The use of the ship's equipment is not only limited by the type of the ship's own mother.,There are some special restrictions.,Only ships with similar sources can use similar ship equipment.。

"Should you be commended for saving a fortune on new equipment?"

"No, in fact, it took 60 units of various resources to build this radar."

"Next time you ask the new ship to make new equipment, you have to say hello to me first."

"Okay." Although the woman replied so, Apetos estimated that she would do it again next time something like this happened. But as a secretary ship, she has a lot of power in a sense, and the most important thing is that he also trusts her to make correct judgments.

The cold, cold wind with moisture in it made Apetos take two steps back, as if trying to return to his makeshift stronghold.

"The weather outside doesn't seem to be very good...... It seems that every deep-sea riot is in this kind of rainstorm season...... This kind of weather is really not good for our defense......", Apetos muttered to himself as he watched the battle in the distance with his mental network.

Under the gray sky, the icy wind and rain disturbed the otherwise calm green sea. On the empty sea, an eerie hissing sound could be heard in the wind and rain, as well as the muffled roaring and popping sound.

The battle between human beings and the deep sea has been going on again and again on this turquoise sea, and it has never stopped.

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The outer part of the island is home to an unevolved old human settlement, with low houses, muddy roads, and an empty silence that makes it hard to imagine that this is a human settlement of nearly 10,000 people.

The new humans can't help them more, and even the benefits of having the old humans help dig the open pit mine are less than one-third of the cost of the old humans.

The new humans are not without compassion, and the new humans who have also fought bloody battles with the old ones are not unwilling to help their former comrades. Originally, the new humans were also involved in solving the radiation response of the old humans on a global scale, but after the new humans spent a lot of energy to find a solution to the radiation reaction, they were silent.

According to the researchers' experiments, only a certain amount of pure seawater can be taken every day to alleviate the radiation response in old humans, and it cannot even be eradicated.

This is too difficult, and even if the new humans have mastered the method of purifying seawater, their daily production capacity is extremely limited. In addition, pure seawater is a special product for a creature called a ship girl after being crafted in a certain way, and pure seawater can exist as a military item in the face of deep-sea pressure.

Even if the production capacity of pure seawater was slightly higher later, it was often purchased by the admirals who had old humans at home, and there was no possibility of fully putting it into use for the old humans under the extremely scarce situation, so the new humans had no choice but to give up the original idea.

A very small number of researchers did not give up and finally found a solution, that is, to carry out nanoscale genetic modification. However, despite its low success rate, the high cost and non-universal nature of this approach will eventually not be promoted.

Aretus walked quietly on the edge of the eroded cliffs, looking at the old human settlements in the distance, thinking about the history he had read, and couldn't help but sigh.

He didn't feel that he was entitled to laugh at the old humans, but he was also incapable of saving the old humans.

In this dangerous world full of radiation, the emergence of new humans itself represents a kind of evolution and adaptation of human beings, and the old humans who failed to adapt are extremely difficult and painful to survive in this world, even with the help of new humans.

A little drop of rain fell on his forehead, waking him up from a deep reflection in the distance.

"It's raining...... No wonder no one came out of the village outside...... After all, the radiation rain still hurt them too much. Gently stretching out his palm, looking at the rain falling on the palm of his hand, he could see a trace of green. This world, even the rain and fog that seems to be a little hazy and beautiful, has terrible radiation. And the old humans avoided this kind of light radiation rain.

Of course, even new humans are not uniformly resistant to radiation, and some new humans will still have a slight reaction after being exposed to a large amount of seawater with high levels of radiation, but it is not life-threatening. And he seems to be very resistant to this kind of radiation, even if there is a strong radiation rain (radiation V) weather, he will not give up the idea of going out to see the sea, because the rain does not harm his body.

Perhaps because of his proximity to the sea, his mind that was disturbed by the unusually high spirit also became clear, and looking at the emerald sea, a wonderful feeling suddenly rose in his heart.

Closer, closer.

The thought ran through his mind so inhibitibly that he couldn't control himself, and he slid down the steep cliff face, his feet gradually turning from rock to gravel, and finally he came to a halt on the beach.

A few steps further on, the ocean of radiant energy, the emerald green was endless danger and weirdness, even though it was safer near the coast, but he was not walking in a safe zone cleared by humans, but walking on an undetermined beach.

But the feeling was still there, and the body walked uncontrollably towards the shallow water, finally stopping in front of the fine sand.

Stretching out his still immature hands and submerging them in the sea, his spirit suddenly connected to some kind of omnipresent will.

The moment he came into contact with the sea, he forgot that this was a sea with strong radiation and countless dangers.

He only remembered that life originated from the ocean, which was an ordinary but extremely great thing.

All life comes from the ocean, whether it is the birth of single-celled life countless years ago, or the birth of the deep sea in the era of radiation, different forms of life come from the sea with infinite possibilities.

The warm, kind, and confused feeling completely calmed the excitement in his mind, as if he had been satisfied, and his heart became very peaceful. The sea contained everything about him, both mental and physical, and at that moment it seemed as if it were non-existent, for he was only a small point compared to the ocean.

His spirit no longer seems to be confined to his body, and the ocean is the vehicle of his will.

At this moment, the world became incomparably wonderful in his spiritual world, all the movements seemed to slow down, and the trajectory of the rain that originally fell from the sky could be easily captured by him, falling from the sky into the sea, and merging with the whole sea. All this was so natural, the waves and the undercurrent were clearly displayed in his mind at this moment, and even the underwater scenery was carefully observed by him.

Curious about the changes in the flow of water, he put more spirit into it, the microcosm of the world is constantly changing, and his perception enters the lower world structure, feeling the wonder of the world.

Eventually, his vision broke through the atomic level, the microcosm no longer changed, and his spirit observed some kind of wavering pale green particle.

Slightly curious, he tried to use his spiritual power to get closer to those particles, but he didn't want a large amount of spiritual power to flow into the water liquid in his palm, causing the sea water to change.

A strong sense of emptiness pulls him out of the microcosm, and his face is pale at this time, but there is a vague intuition.

He can manipulate the water in his palm.

It was just a thought, and the droplets that had been flowing in the ocean were gathered by an invisible force, and they broke away from the ocean and were suspended in his palm.

This didn't last long, and he couldn't continue to do so, and soon the water was gravity back into the sea.

Watching this scene, he realized something, and he now desperately needed to go home and think about what happened today.