Chapter 901: Blood and Greed (1)
"We have found the treasure of the Heavenly Abyss Country."
As soon as Professor Liu said this, it suddenly caused an exclamation. Not only the soldiers around him, but even An Xiaoyu and Dong Xiaoguan, and even Rong Rong in Professor Liu's arms were taken aback.
Who of these people who have lived in Haiti for many years has not heard the legend of your Haitian treasures? Of course, the legends in their impressions are really just legends, and the stories that stay in the small talk books and advertisements have no credibility at all.
Of course, as Haitian residents, many people may have fantasized that the treasure of the illusion of Haiti may be real, and that one day they can find it, if not with their own hands, they will witness the birth of the treasure. But they also know that illusions are just illusions after all.
But now someone suddenly tells you that these illusions are real, not just delusions in their minds, and that there are really people who have realized this illusion, and that the so-called legends are actually true. How could they not be shocked in such a situation?
An Xiaoyu was shocked that she had previously felt that the treasures of Haiti had actually been found, destroyed, or simply non-existent in the first place. So from the beginning to the present, she has not associated Professor Rong's accident in this regard.
But now that I think about it, yes, there's no reason why these people just suddenly appeared in Haiti and shot at an expert in ocean exploration research. No matter what Professor Rong is researching, there is no doubt that it is related to the exploration of marine resources, but what is in the ocean?
Biological, mineral, electrolyte, water conservancy? Even if these are obtained by them, can they still be openly developed? The only thing that can make people so crazy is "treasure". A treasure hidden in the deep sea for many years, ah! What a crazy thing.
"We discovered the treasure of the Heavenly Abyss Kingdom in the spring of this year." Professor Liu finally spoke, and continued: "That day, we went out to sea to explore as usual, using a newly developed ocean-going diving bionic detector that we recently developed. ”
As he spoke, Professor Liu opened the center console of the laboratory, and the three-dimensional projection suddenly appeared in front of everyone, forming a roughly two-meter-long shark shape.
"The biomimetic detector is made in the shape of this shark, which is a very common predatory fish in the nearby ocean, especially in the spring, when they follow schools of fish and currents to the shallow waters here, and appear in large numbers within the range of human activity."
"This kind of detector can withstand the pressure of 15,000 kilometers in the deep sea and can operate non-stop in the ocean for more than a year. This time, we will challenge the exploration of the ultra-abyssal zone in the ocean, and the epochal preservation of the ultra-abyssal zone of the ocean. ”
The soldiers around him didn't understand, but An Xiaoyu understood. She had also learned about this before, but it was because of the investigation of the East China Sea Sea Clan, or simply the relevant information obtained directly from the mouth of the East China Sea Sea Clan.
On the planet where the Zhige Continent is located, the area of the ocean is more than 80% of the entire planet, and the scope is staggering. In such an ocean, there is only the existence of the land of the Zhige Continent, and there are a large number of scattered islands, which can be said to be the main environment on the planet.
And this vast ocean, human beings have not been able to completely conquer it so far, and they do not even dare to set foot too far in the deep sea.
The general human definition of the deep sea is the ocean depth below the surface of the sea reaching more than 8 kilometers. The ocean bottom of more than 8,000 meters is called the abyssal zone, and the depth of the ocean is more than 15,000 meters.
At present, human beings have not yet discovered where the deepest part of the entire ocean is, and even more than 15,000 meters of the ocean range, due to the limitations of conditions and materials, it is impossible for modern technology to reach this range, and even cultivators cannot enter it.
There are many reasons for this, the first of which is the problem of water pressure and temperature. The water pressure below 15,000 meters is undoubtedly terrifying, and there may be some volcanoes under the sea that have not been extinguished in the primeval period, such volcanoes cause a large amount of sea water to be in a state of high pressure and boiling at very high temperatures.
And in such a deep sea, close to the leylines of the earth, there is no doubt that the state of the law is also very unstable. Although it is not as chaotic as the depths of the Far North, for most cultivators, such a place is absolutely forbidden. It's not that they can't enter, it's a question of how to get back after entering.
Of course, the most terrifying thing is the existence of deep-sea sea beasts.
The Celestials created most of the world's creatures, including sapient beings, humans, and primeval beings; It also includes plants and animals on land, birds in the sky, and fish in the water; Of course, there are also many magical things, such as Xuanwu.
But there are far more creatures in this world than these, what kind of attempts did Heavenly Dao make before creating the Heavenly Spirit Race? What kind of things did it create during the period of the fall of humanity and the Celestial Spirit Race after the Voice of the Destruction of the World?
These sea beasts, those mythical spirit beasts in ancient times, and even the sea tribes in the East China Sea, filled the entire world with microorganisms, bacteria, fungi, and viruses, all prove that the Heavenly Dao has absolute control over the creation of living beings. And outside the control of the Heavenly Dao, at the moment when the heavens and the earth first opened, there were more terrifying creatures.
Frost wolves and dust wolves.
Such beings were born at the beginning of the opening of heaven and earth, and the master of the world's primordial law, mixed with the power of the Great Dao, possessed infinite power.
And what kind of place do these terrible creatures live in now? In the forbidden land, above the nine heavens, in the deep sea? Or other realms that humans can't yet touch, such as the Void Behemoths that live in nothingness.
Are there still a large number of such creatures in the deep sea, waiting for humans to visit and explore? After all, humanity has spent countless years trying to conquer this ocean, but the people who entered the ocean have all lost their news and never returned.
It wasn't until recent times, when satellite technology made a huge breakthrough, that it was possible to take pictures of the entire planet and transmit it to people on the ground, so that they could see how vast the ocean was.
But what kind of terrible things are hidden in these seawaters, they still need to move forward step by step to encounter them.
That's what Professor Rong wants to do.
Using the disguise of sea creatures, they can almost use real detectors to explore the creatures in the deep sea, looking for things that humans have not found so far and hindering their access to the ocean, and see what they are.
Of course, in the past, the main difficulty that limited people's exploration of the oceans was mainly the limitation of the range of communication. In the era when there is no satellite communication, people's communication range is centered on the base station, and if the range exceeds the base station, or if it is affected, the signal will be lost.
As one of the largest research bases in the entire empire, Professor Rong's laboratory was of course the first to obtain the right to use satellite communication technology. After obtaining this technology, Professor Rong and Professor Liu immediately applied it to the technology of deep-sea exploration.
This time, the bionic shark they built is equipped with a satellite platform, even if it goes deep into the deep sea, there is no need to worry about the distance, and the signal can be transmitted through satellite communication. So the two of them got on the boat with confidence and let the three sharks out.
"Wait, Three-Headed?" An Xiaoyu immediately grasped the key to the matter: "In other words, the person who leaked this news was the researcher who controlled the third shark with you at that time?" ”
Professor Liu smiled bitterly and nodded: "Actually, strictly speaking, this secret did not come out of his head, but originally belonged to him. Because the person who discovered the location of the treasure of the Heavenly Abyss Country at that time was simply the bionic detector he controlled. ”
"At that time, the three of us each operated a bionic probe into the deep sea, headed in three directions, and entered the deep sea of more than 10,000 meters for exploration. It's an area we've never been involved in before, so it's pretty cautious. ”
"It was smooth at first, we didn't encounter any problems, and we didn't touch any other creatures. After the bionic detector continued to sink, it began to turn on the low-light detection device, and the picture became slightly blurry. ”
"After about forty minutes, the probes operated by the three of us went to the depths of the ocean according to the established orbit and continued to dive. But at this time, Yu Boyan suddenly told us that he had found something amazing. ”
"But after saying that, he suddenly exclaimed, and when we rushed over, we saw that the signal on the feedback screen of the detector he controlled had lost its signal, and we asked him what he saw, and he just shouted excitedly, and found the ruins of the Tianyuan Kingdom!"
"At that time, we replayed the footage of the probe's teleportation, and sure enough, in the direction of the probe, a layer of transparent gum suddenly appeared, covering a trench on the bottom of the sea. Although the probe has not yet entered, judging by the shape and coverage of this layer of gum, it should be a trench. ”
Yu Boyan apparently discovered this place as well, and controlled the probe to move in the direction of the trench, and soon reached the top of the layer of gelatin. The footage finally stopped at the moment when the probe entered the trench through the gum, and a violent tremor came, the picture was shaky, and before it could all pass through the gelatin, it had been completely destroyed. ”
"But at the last moment, the probe still came back with a blurry image, which happened to be the image below the gelatin, above the stone wall of the trench." Professor Liu pressed the button on the center console, entered a password, opened a folder that no one had ever seen, and a photo appeared in everyone's eyes.
"This is ......" An Xiaoyu was shocked: "Psychic text? ”
"Psychic text?" Professor Liu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, shook his head and said, "I don't know what a spirit medium text is, but Yu Boyan said that he had seen similar words in the historical records of the Tianyuan Kingdom, and after searching, we really found similar symbols. ”
"At that time, we all thought that we had solved another mystery of human beings similar to the sea, but because the matter of the treasure of the Tianyuan Kingdom was too deep, even the colleagues on the ship did not tell it, but controlled the remaining two probes to go to the trench to check."
"I remember! At that time, Professor Liu, you said that you encountered a ferocious sea beast and destroyed Professor Yu's detector, and later told us that the remaining two detectors were also attacked, and then the exploration was fruitless, and we never went to that sea area again......"
Said one of the researchers at the institute.
Professor Liu nodded: "Yes, that time." Rong and I took control of the remaining two probes to the trench, Rong Rong's probe went in the direction of the trench, and mine stayed behind to observe what was going on. But I'm not lying, our probe was indeed destroyed by ferocious sea beasts. ”
"At that time, the video had been secretly taken away by Yu Boyan, and I couldn't show it to you, but at that time, my detector did capture a huge sea beast, and the range of the camera couldn't even cover its entire body."
"Huge! It's huge! Professor Liu said with trepidation: "I have never seen such a huge sea beast. He just poked out a long tentacle and smashed the probe that hadn't entered the trench yet, and then the one I controlled! ”
"Later, we hid this secret, and after returning to the research institute, Lao Rong and I discussed with Yu Boyan and informed the upper echelons of the empire of this secret. Because we all feel that the current situation is no longer something that we can deal with alone. ”
"But Yu Boyan objected?" An Xiaoyu quickly thought of the trajectory of the story.
Professor Liu nodded: "Yu Boyan opposes handing over the discovery to the empire, and Lao Rong and I are kind enough to persuade him, but he is very stubborn. Later, Lao Rong also saw it and asked him if he wanted to get the treasure of the Heavenly Abyss Kingdom, and the conversation that night ended unhappily. ”
The next morning, Lao Rong wanted to hand over this matter to the empire, without Yu Boyan's consent. In fact, this is not in accordance with the rules, after all, the first person to discover this relic was Yu Boyan, but Lao Rong is a person you know, in the face of right and wrong and personal reputation, he will definitely not hesitate to choose the most correct direction. ”
"But when we arrived at the laboratory, we found that all the information was gone, and Yu Boyan was gone." Professor Liu said sadly, "Then we reported this matter to the Empire, but we didn't get any response because we didn't have any evidence. ”
"Lao Rong and I both know that Yu Boyan will definitely continue to look for that ruin. He even did not hesitate to give up his future, gave up his identity and status in the scientific research community, and made it clear that he was planning to gamble, so Lao Rong made up his mind to ......"
"To find a way to enter the ruins before him, and he succeeded?" Ann whispered.
Professor Liu nodded: "Although Yu Boyan has taken away all the information, his level is not as good as me and Lao Rong after all, and we have the entire research institute that has been exploring this sea area for thousands of years, and there are a lot of regular manpower and material resources, which he can't compare." ”
"So we raced against time to secretly restore the ocean coordinates and the entire marine environment of the day. Including the mysterious layer of gum, the huge sea beast that was encountered at the beginning, analyze how to enter the interior of the gum layer, and even make the sea beast lose its attack strength. ”
"Later, we secretly took advantage of our position to go to the vicinity of that sea area, quietly made various attempts to make various attempts on our speculation, corrected it through data collection, and restored the topography of that trench and the form of sea beasts."
Professor Liu pressed it on the center console, a large amount of data and models appeared, and An Xiaoyu saw a sea beast similar to a jellyfish.
"We have thoroughly prepared for these, and have determined that this sea beast will not react to objects that are no larger than 0.5 cubic meters in size. However, it is obviously a difficult project to make a detector of this size, but capable of diving into the sea at a depth of tens of thousands of meters. ”
"For half a year, Lao Rong and I put the research and development of detectors at the top of the entire research institute. We say to our colleagues that this is our first step towards the ocean in the future. Yes, this is our first step towards the ocean, but this step is also to kick away any obstacles in front of us. ”
"To be honest, my husband and wife didn't tell this secret to any of our colleagues, and we didn't intend to keep this treasure for ourselves, whether it had a lot of money or not, we had a good life, we had each other, we had our life's work, we had our children."
Professor Liu held Rong Rong in his arms and said miserably: "But we can't believe that other people, as long as they are normal people, they are all impulsive, and everyone likes money sometimes." So Lao Rong and I secretly explored, and deceived everyone, in fact, we wanted to at least take pictures of what was in the trench. ”
"I discussed with Lao Rong that after the development of the probe was completed, we would go to the depths of the trench to have a look. If there's nothing in there, or just a whole bunch of ruins, then we're going to open it up to the entire research community. If any mysterious ruins or a large amount of treasure are found, then we will hand over the evidence to the upper echelons of the Empire. The empire won't sit idly by anymore, right? ”
"But just last month, when our probe was about to be completed, Lao Rong received the photo and Yu Boyan's message, asking to communicate with Lao Rong."
Lao Rong and Yu Boyan talked on the phone, and the mailing address was a hidden number, and Yu Boyan asked Lao Rong to cooperate with him to develop the treasure in the trench. Of course, Lao Rong disagreed, and Yu Boyan told Lao Rong that he had found an ally to cooperate with, and if Lao Rong didn't join or call the police, he would ......"