The "Observer" small research submarine, about the size of the monkfish transport aircraft, is the predecessor of the "Wild Hunt 1". Because the design depth is unlimited, it mainly relies on the protective barrier to resist water pressure, and the speed and safety redundancy are not as good as Wild Hunt 1.

Even so, the speed of nearly 100 knots was completely uncomfortable for the mermaid and the Naga, and the three sea creatures were shamefully seasick.

Ariel was the most dizzy, and she was doing positioning sensing as she accelerated.

The reason why the mermaid was able to become the ruling class of the sea spirit, in addition to being able to control powerful sea beasts with psychic spells, the mysterious ability to determine the direction as long as they were in the ocean was also the key reason.

It is precisely because the position sensing is too sensitive that the submarine is racing and it is difficult for the mermaid to adapt. It's like installing a car navigation system on a jet, and the young lady in the navigation system will inevitably become a stammerer and end up talking nonsense.

When Ariel woke up, she found herself lying in another cabin, soaking in the water tank. The two Naga guards stood guard at the hatch, wilting and lacking any energy.

Cassus's portrait was cast in the air in front of the water tank, and he asked with concern, "Are you awake?"

Ariel was startled, thinking that Cassus was some kind of flying head. Take a closer look and poke your finger before confirming that it was just a projection.

Some sisters in the valley who often go to the shore to play once said that the human world has changed rapidly in recent years, and they have come up with something called "mirage", which can turn the things in the book into vivid images.

This hand made by Carsus must be something like that.

Ariel tried not to be so uninformed, and responded, "It's okay, I'm fine, it's just this water tank......"

Needless to say, Cassus interrupted her and said, "I'm sorry, I thought you were in a hurry to go back, so we sped up, but I didn't expect you to be used to it." If we don't feel comfortable, we slow it down. ”

"No, no, no......"

Ariel hurriedly defended: "It's just that just now, it's much better now, but then I can't accurately measure the direction." ”

Needus smiled and said, "It's nothing, you can test it every half an hour and tell us which direction to go." At our speed, it shouldn't take us more than a day to reach the maelstrom of your Shandun Valley. ”

Ariel was taken aback again: "One day!? Didn't you say that there would be problems for ten days?"

Cassus scratched his head embarrassedly: "That would be trying to joke with you, there must be a problem in ten days, if it's too slow, I'll get sick." ”

Ariel tried to get water at Carsus, but it was just a phantom, and the fresh water in the tank was not strong enough.

She suppressed her anger and sighed, "So there's that Cheyenne, you're all kidding me, aren't you?"

Carsus sincerely apologized: "This...... I also hope that Your Highness will forgive us, we don't know how to explain it, and letting you know these things from the beginning may scare you. ”

Ariel lowered her head, tugging at her seaweed-like green hair and muttered, "It's true that I'll be scared, but I'm more humiliating than a coward." ”

After a few more words, Ariel carefully positioned for an instant rather than continuously, determining the current position and the position of the maelstrom, and the avatar of Cassus disappeared.

"Hey, I'm not done yet!"

Ariel slapped her tail on the water tank and wanted to shout that she was still soaking in fresh water!

In the end, she still didn't shout, she already understood, it was intentional.

Most of the extraordinary power of the sea spirit comes from the power of the water element, and sea water is the most adequate, and it is much weaker when it is replaced by fresh water.

This was to guard against her, and it was for this purpose that she was initially kept in a freshwater tank on the shore.

Lying back in the water tank, Ariel thought for a while, becoming more and more worried.

A terrible thought floated from the depths of my heart like a string of blisters.

The puppets invented by humans can run so fast in the water, what else do they have to do?

Could the mysterious being who smashed his own boat, or even the mysterious force that killed Leviit, have anything to do with humans?

Now that Cassus and Cheyenne are taking themselves back to the Sandon Valley, what are their intentions?

None of these questions have been answered, but Ariel has now been able to confirm two...... No, three things.

One is that when those humans first communicated with her, they happened to pass by and rescued her, and there must be something wrong with that.

The second is that these people who claim to be from the Red Federation seem to have a relationship with the Dawning Empire, the land ally of the Storm Ocean Sea Spirit, and initially treated her as a prisoner.

The third is that it is indeed advancing towards the Shandun Sea Valley, and at the current speed, it will not take a day to reach it.

Although there are too many questions, Ariel tries to appear calm, and the education she received from a young age makes it easy for her to do so. As long as I returned to Haigu and saw my father, my father would take over all the questions and the pressure attached to them.

In the cockpit, Cassus and Cheyenne chatted silently through their assistants.

Cheyenne said: "Very smart and calm girl, I like her a little." ”

Cassus sighed, "yes, she should understand that we were treating her like a prisoner, but she still tried to pretend to be in the dark." ”

Not letting the mermaid soak in the sea is the minimum precautionary measure, although there is a Xia An, but after all, it is inside the submarine, and what Xia An can't solve if it is damaged.

As for the sudden acceleration that stunned Ariel, it was also Cheyenne's intention.

The support team led by Daniel is on the Wild Hunt 1 behind, and the observer can't fully follow Ariel's guidance, so he has to take the sea route that Wild Hunt 1 can also take, so naturally he can't let Ariel measure at any time.

Xia An said with a smile: "After all, she is still a little girl, I think that as long as we go to Haigu, no matter what our intentions are, we will not be able to turn up any storms, she is very confident in her own clansmen or elders." ”

Needsus also felt a little incredulous: "I thought Leviette was finished, she was like this...... The saint, even if she doesn't commit suicide, will cry and cry and her faith will collapse. But she is like a nobody, she only cares about the stability of the Sea Spirit Clan. ”

Cheyenne said: "So, a lot of things have to be observed and experienced with your own eyes. Before, like you, I thought that the sea spirits worshipped Leviit as a god, and when the god died, their faith collapsed, but now it seems that this is not the case at all. ”

"The low-level sea spirits in the captives, such as the fish-people and some ordinary naga, shouted that the end had come, and they looked a little broken. The merfolk and the high-ranking Naga didn't react much, just like you said, they only cared about whether their rule could be stable. ”

"It makes sense when you think about it, the merfolk are the ruling class, and the king of the sea beasts is just a tool for them to maintain their rule. Merfolk priests like Ariel are the ones who control the Liviet, so how can they believe in the Liviit that obeys them completely?"

Cassus was a little distressed: "Sea Spirit's belief is a bit complicated......"

After the Dark Ages, there was no so-called sea god in the sea spirit of the main plane of the world of Fein. Either the races believe in their own blood gods, or they worship the sea beasts as gods.

It is said that the Goddess of Order had the idea of recreating the god of the sea, but she had to repair the Heavenly Mountain before she could have enough personality and authority. And the god of storms in the northern ice field has won the priesthood of the lord of the ice sea, and has the idea of taking over the other three oceans and merging them into the god of the sea. The god of storms bowed to the goddess of order, and there must have been some kind of bargain between the two sides.

Cheyenne rubbed his beardless chin and said, "If the sea spirit is allowed to develop, either the goddess of order will support the god of storms to ascend to the throne, or they themselves will condense a priesthood and let anyone take the throne." Either way, such a sea god will surely be part of the eternal order created by the goddess of order. ”

Cassus nodded solemnly: "Such an ocean must also be another prison ground for oppressing working people." ”

He also had something else to say: "But there is another problem, the sea is different from the land, and there is also a conflict between the working people of the sea and the working people of the land." It is not possible to simply think that cosmopolitanism can resolve such conflicts, which belongs to the ...... Belong...... Well, I forgot what the teacher said in class. ”

Cheyenne really looked like a teacher in class at this time: "It belongs to the clash of civilizations, and it is infantile to ignore the clash of civilizations." Universalism, which only talks about the clash of civilizations and does not talk about the integration of civilizations, is essentially racist. ”

"That's why I'm coming, let's look first, don't stuff too many prejudices and conclusions in our hearts. ”

The "observer" pulled a broken dark tide in the middle of the sea and slid rapidly towards the bottom of the sea, like a strange sea beast, startling the fish and all kinds of marine creatures to dodge. Behind this steel sea beast, there was another even larger sea beast, following at the same speed, provoking even greater panic.

However, even more terrifying news was being transmitted throughout the Storm Ocean, and this vision did not attract the attention of the Sea Spirits, whose surveillance system in the deep sea had become a mess.

In the cabin of Wild Hunt One, Daniel is engaged in a painstaking communication with the two fishmen.

"Humans, eat fish, enemies!"

"Humans, occupy the beach, enemies!"

For the Ocean Fishmen, humans are the existence of another world, and there is no fundamental conflict except for the conflict over eating fish and developing their own beach into a port and dock.

Even eating fish is not an irresolvable grudge, and the fish-people eat fish too, and they even eat themselves. It is their funeral tradition to eat their dead kind, and to throw their bones into the submarine cemetery.

In contrast, other conflicts are not only irrelevant to interests, but also have no way to resolve them.

"Human, get dressed!"

"Human, female, small, meat delicious!"

Even if you have a translator, it is difficult to communicate with the fish-people. Fortunately, Daniel's Elle, Catherine, and Leia are all at the level of six, and even the guesses are quite smooth.

After chatting for a while, Daniel confirmed that research topics such as "whether humans and fish-people can coexist in harmony" or "whether Finn's cause of homogeneity can absorb fish-people" is more valuable to find fish-people in river swamps than to find fish-people in the ocean.

At least in the swamps of the rivers, the conflict between the fish-men and the humans is more intense. Both regard each other as mortal enemies of the occupied territory, and they are also on each other's recipes, of course, humans have also carried out a certain degree of resource development for the fish-people, such as the fish-man eyeballs, the fish-man dorsal fin and other parts can sell some silver eles, and the fish-man soul crystals absorbed with soul core crystals are also magic materials.

The reason why Daniel is willing to communicate with him is only because he can speak the language of the fish-people, which is just another kind of fish-man in the eyes of the two fish-people.

Daniel felt that this might be a direction, but the essence of this direction was deception, which made him very conflicted.

"Outer Valley, strong!"

"Warriors, ten hundred!"

Daniel talks to the two fishmen about their hometown, the outer valley of the Sandon Valley, a stretch of sea near the Shanton Maelstrom that includes several small islands.

The fish-people are proud of their hometown, and as for the "ten hundred", it is because they can only count to a hundred, and more than a hundred are counted by a hundred. But beyond the superposition of the two layers of units of measurement, they are powerless and can only be expressed in "countless".

Counting thousands of warriors, it is indeed a large tribe.

According to Ben and Bo Ben, the Outer Valley Fishmen are the most powerful fish-man tribe in the Sandon Valley, and the two of them are the most powerful warriors in the tribe, and have been chosen to be the guards to protect Princess Ariel, and follow her to serve the Sea Beast King Liviit.

Speaking of Leviet, the mood of the two fish-people became extremely depressed.

"Poseidon, dead, we, it's over!"

"We, sacrifices, deserve it!"

They thought that it was not wrong for the princess of Aliel to kill them before, and that the god of the sea was dead, and that he needed a sacrifice to appease the wrath of the ocean.

But it's better to be alive, and maybe there's a better sacrifice.

This made Daniel very emotional, what a contradictory nature.

Time passed little by little, and after eighteen hours, two submarines, one large and one small, reached a depth of about 13,400 meters under the sea, which is not the limit depth of the Storm Ocean, but it has almost reached the limit of the depth of Wild Hunter 1.

Cheyenne and Cassus went to the Sandon Sea Valley to investigate the high-level Sea Spirit Society, and Daniel went to the Fish-Man Tribe to investigate the low-level Sea Spirit Society, and by the way, he was a backup for the former.

The protective barrier that enveloped the "observer" twisted and twisted, stretching into a ball, pulled by the currents under the tremendous pressure of the water, and gradually sinking into the deeper whirlpool.

Piercing through a barrier in a violent rotation, the world became much brighter, the currents were unusually moderate, and the instruments reported that the water outside was much warmer.

"Wow......"

Seeing through the bulkhead like a fairytale, Cassus couldn't help but marvel.

Cheyenne was disappointed: "It's almost as I imagined, it's really a routine design." ”

"Wow——!"

Cassus's admiration turned to exclamation, and a turtle almost the size of an observer rose from the multicolored corals, roaring towards the submarine, oscillating with ripples that were clearly visible to the naked eye.

He subconsciously connected to the weapon system and wanted to beat the turtle into a sieve, but was stopped by Cheyenne.

"It's not a sea beast, it's a sea spirit. ”

Cheyenne's divine ability sensed it clearly: "If my guess is correct, it should be an acquaintance of Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

By this time, Ariel had already left the submarine and swam towards the turtle with the Naga Guard.

"Grandpa Boulder!"

Ariel was very happy, this old turtle was the gatekeeper of the Sandon Valley, and she had been guarding the outer gate of the valley for thousands of years, and she had watched her grow up.

"Your Highness Ariel, you're still alive!

The old turtle was very surprised, and telepathically sent a message to Ariel: "Go and see Your Majesty! He is seriously injured, and your brothers and sisters are fighting for power around him, and the valley of Shanton is about to fall apart!"

Ariel was shocked: "Has the news spread about Leviit, I knew it was going to be messy, but why did my father get hurt!?"

The old turtle sighed deeply: "The army of the Momont Valley has only recently withdrawn, and they want to annex us. ”

Ariel's heart was in turmoil: "Grandpa Boulder, open the door quickly." ”

The old turtle whined, swam to the nearby mountain wall, and embedded itself in a strange stone nest. The sea rolled violently around the body, and the turtle shells dotted with countless seaweeds lifted up some devices, causing a small door to slowly open the mountain wall.

Ariel was about to enter, but stopped again, turning back and waving at the gray-black metal artifact.

The old turtle asked, "Your Highness, who is that?"

Ariel frowned and said, "It's human." ”

The old turtle gasped and pulled out a stream of water: "Let humans enter our palace......?" Is that okay?"

Ariel said helplessly: "They must have bad intentions, and now I need their help." ”

In the cockpit, watching Ariel beckon, Carsus asked, "Are you going?"

Cheyenne spread her hands: "Otherwise?"

Sensing Cassus's apprehension, Cheyenne said: "Don't worry, now Her Royal Highness has to rely on us, I feel the breath of the fall of countless creatures, there was a fierce battle here a few hours ago." ”

Needus said with some guilt: "It must be the change caused by our killing of Leviit, and the Storm Ocean Sea Spirit has begun to have civil strife. ”

Xia An laughed and said: "If you say so, Xiaohong and Li Qi should commit suicide first to apologize, because of their arrival, how many people died in the world of Fein?"

As they spoke, the two entered the rearmament cabin, put on the marine armament converted from the magic guide armament, and then penetrated the membrane-like barrier of the hatch and swam towards Ariel.

"Ariel, it looks like you're going on here. ”

Carsus handed Ariel a walk-around and said to her, "Don't worry, we'll help you." ”

Among the corals, in the colorful light, Ariel is like a beautiful scenery in the aquarium.

She hesitated and asked, "What price do I have to pay? Don't be an ignorant girl, I know your human nature, and you will never do anything that is not profitable." ”

Cassus said solemnly, "We are different, we are here for the freedom and happiness of the Storm Ocean Sea Spirit. ”

Without waiting for Ariel to laugh, Cheyenne said, "Okay, let's open the skylight...... Oh, there's no skylight here, so let's open the mask and say something. The price is yours, Your Highness the Princess. It is a blessing for mortals to be able to marry such a beautiful princess as you. ”

Ariel made a choice in an instant, and said in a deep voice, "Okay! If I need your help, and you really help, I'll ......."

She looked at Cassus, "I'll marry Cassus!"

Cassus exclaimed, "Hey, that's not how the script is!"