The "Ocean" is a water-jet pump pushing boat, and when sailing, the water pump driven by four high-power source energy motors is used as the main power, and there is no such huge noise from the internal combustion engine engine and propeller, which is very quiet.

The sky was blue, with a few sparse white clouds floating, and in the middle of the sea, ships were the only thing that gave people a sense of security.

There is a cold wind blowing on the sea, and the temperature is below 10 degrees Celsius, which seems to be in late winter and early spring.

For these people from the Red Flame Continent, this otherworldly ocean is completely unfamiliar, and the dangerous undercurrents and whirlpools that appear from time to time give people a sense of danger.

At about half past nine in the morning, Ling Li, who had completed his cultivation, opened the hatch, signaled to the two guards standing guard, and then went to the deck of the ship for a walk and the sea breeze. The deck was empty, most of the personnel stayed in the cabins, and only a few crew members were standing in the open air, operating some equipment.

When he reached the aft deck, he saw a man there, leaning against the railing, squinting at a few seabirds that were following the ship, chasing white tracks and flying up and down.

He walked over and saw the man in a thick woolen coat, with a thin face, a pair of silver-rimmed short-sighted glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a pipe in his mouth, which was emitting a faint green smoke.

He recognized the other party as Professor Yuan Chongyue of the Qin Mansion Secret Research Institute, a famous biologist.

So, Ling Li took the initiative to greet the other party, "Professor Yuan, are you observing these seabirds?" ”

Yuan Chongyue smiled when he saw Ling Li, "No, it's just that it feels very interesting." ”

Ling Li also squinted his eyes at the seabirds for a while, and after systematically analyzing the data of these seabirds, he spoke: "These seabirds seem to be very different from the birds on the Chiyan Continent, closer to the Archaeopteryx. ”

Professor Yuan looked at the sea, and the sunlight shone through the faint clouds, sprinkling bits of golden light on the sea surface that were jumping with the waves. There was no wind on the sea, the waves were not very large, and the navigation of the research ship was very smooth.

After listening to Ling Li's words, he seemed to have met a bosom friend, so he said excitedly: "You're right, according to the results of the dissection of marine creatures these days, I judge that this continent is still in the Mesozoic Era, which is equivalent to the Jurassic period on the Red Yan Continent. ”

"Are there no humans?" Ling Li said softly, but he felt a little relaxed in his heart, maybe mixed with a little disappointment.

"There shouldn't be ......," Professor Yuan shook his head, mammals should have only been around for millions of years, and they wouldn't have evolved to this extent. From an evolutionary point of view, the evolution from an advanced primate to an ape-like man has gone through a long evolutionary process of more than a million years. The evolution of animals is very slow, and it is possible to speed up this evolutionary process unless there is interference from foreign civilizations. ”

Ling Li smiled, "I heard that Professor Yuan has a lot of research on the origin of the demon and demon races?" ”

Professor Yuan Chongyue spread his hands, "In a biological sense, they should belong to human beings, and there is no essential difference between them and us, and there is no reproductive partition, but the choice of organisms in the direction of the final evolutionary form is different." In terms of physical structure, the demon and demon races consume more source energy, which is also the main reason for the decline of the demon and demon races on the Chiyan Continent because of the depletion of source qi. If it weren't for the revival of the source qi after the cataclysm, the demon and demon races would almost eventually die out, and after the cataclysm, human beings have produced many 'aliens', in fact, because the body has other genes. ”

Ling Li said, "Your statement has been opposed by many people, especially the Western Church, the True God Cult, the Holy Heaven Sect, etc., they think that this is blasphemy against God. ”

Professor Yuan laughed out loud after hearing this, "Hehe, they attacked me precisely because they were afraid, because they hit the nail on their head. Except for the period of cataclysm and chaos, the development of real modern science of mankind is only more than 200 years old, and our understanding of the world is still very shallow. I am an atheist, and I do not deny the existence of powerful transcendent beings, but I reject the idea of the so-called omnipotent and omnipresent Lord. The transcendent are not the embodiment of truth, they have only mastered more laws of heaven and earth, maybe they can create one astral continent after another, but the real universe has always been the result of natural evolution. In essence, the so-called faith is just a tool for human use, and the 'Almighty Lord' was created only out of the interests of certain interest groups. ”

Ling Li thought for a moment, "What do you mean, there can't be a 'smart life' on the Red Xuan Star?" ”

Yuan Chongyue said: "We have not experienced scientific exploration and verification, and from a rigorous attitude, we cannot deny that there will be such an existence." The rigorous definition of 'intelligent life' is actually human beings, no matter what form he exists, such as carbon-based life, silicon-based life, or arsenic, gallium and other elements, from our current understanding, the basic elements that make up living things must be semiconductor elements, so as to achieve energy storage and release in organic molecules, and only the emergence of biological energy waves will produce the initial biological nucleic acids...... Of course, this does not rule out the fact that there are also elemental properties that we do not recognize. ”

"What do you mean...... Can't evolve 'intelligent life' on Chixuan Star yet? ”

"But they don't deny their existence...... Professor Yuan smiled slyly, "maybe they exist, but they are just like us, most likely from an alien group." ”

……

The fog thickened on the sea, and the wind became stronger.

"...... Uproar"

"...... Uproar"

The sea breeze stirred up huge swells and collided violently with the steel-made ship, and the black waves broke apart at the bow of the ship, blooming into white mist. It turned out that the scientific research ship that was sailing smoothly was also in the wind and waves, up and down, and became shaky.

Two days after leaving Dengxian Island, the "Ocean" did not encounter any special dangers, and some people even had the idea that the danger level of the sea area in this area seemed to be similar to that off the coast of the Chiyan Continent. It turns out that on this mysterious otherworldly continent ocean, there is no such possibility.

As soon as Ling Li entered the ship's dining room and was about to have dinner, the sirens on the "Ocean" sounded a series of shrill sirens. The red light flashed, and many members of the scientific expedition team did not react to what the alarm meant. The convoys, on the other hand, hurried to their combat positions after the sirens sounded.

"Level 1 alert, fifteen nautical miles ahead, found large sea creatures, is approaching our ship, very fast, please return to their cabins by the members of the scientific expedition team, and the members of the escort team return to their combat positions......"

On the radio in the cafeteria, a voice came from the command room......