Chapter 41: Light in the Deep Sea

"Brother Captain, look, what's that?" Before Zhou Xin's words could be finished, he was interrupted by Atlas's exclamation.

Because of the inertia of thinking, the moment they heard the exclamation, everyone, including Zhou Xin, focused their eyes on the screen full of data. However, after a period of careful observation, they did not find any anomalies in any of the data.

Just when Zhou Xin was puzzled by this, the corner of his eye suddenly caught a glimpse of the picture on the big screen in the center. It was this glimpse that caught his attention and allowed him to discover what surprised the little girl.

At the first moment, Zhou Xin's eyes focused on the big screen. Then, before he could open his mouth to remind everyone, many people also noticed the changes on the screen and set their eyes in the same direction.

On today's big screen, what should have been pitch black is glowing with a faint blue light. If it was just a point of light, then Zhou Xin would have thought it was just a glowing sea creature passing by occasionally. But the truth is that most of the area of the screen is glowing faintly at this time. Although the light was weaker than the light of the sea creatures he had seen before, Zhou Xin could still be sure that it was a little brighter than the pitch-black screen before.

"What just happened?" After being stunned for a moment, Zhou Xin came back to his senses, and he asked eagerly, "Which direction is the camera of the detector pointing in now?" Surface? ”

"At this depth, it's impossible to see the light even when you're pointing at the water." Atlas said categorically, and then she began to answer Zhou Xin's question, "Nothing happened just now, the detector was tracking those attackers normally, and the camera was always pointing in the direction of the bottom of the sea, and then suddenly the sea water slowly lit up." Well, the attackers are not out of sight yet. As she spoke, the little girl's hand pointed out a few small faint shadows in the dim picture.

"That's weird, how could it suddenly light up down there?" Zhou Xin muttered to himself suspiciously.

Suddenly, Dart clapped his palms and said, "Eh, you say, could that glowing place be the gathering point of those attackers?" ”

"Don't say it, it's possible." As soon as he heard this, Zhou Xin immediately became excited, "Such an abnormal phenomenon is only reasonable if it is related to them." ”

"However, the scope of that glowing area is too large, is it necessary for them to lay out such a large area?" Spred expressed his doubts, "What's more, the other party didn't see them turn on the lights when they dived, and now this is all of a sudden-"

"What other explanation can you make?" Zhou Xin interrupted Spred's words and asked rhetorically.

"Oh, what's there to discuss, don't you know if someone sends a probe down to investigate." At this time, Atlas interjected.

"Well, that's right." Zhou Xin nodded, "Then let's go down and have a look." He then reminded, "Be careful, there may really be a gathering place for the attackers, don't let the detector be spotted by them." ”

"People get it."

Then, as the sent probe slowly dived, the picture on the screen lit up little by little. After a while, Atlas reported: "Brother Captain, on the surface of the preliminary detection results, there is a thin shell-like structure about three hundred meters below the location of the probe, and the specific composition of the structure is unknown. ”

"That must be the outer wall of the hideout." Without thinking, Dart continued, "What we see must be the light from the façade. ”

"Thin shell-like structure?" Spred muttered to himself, confused.

A few minutes later, the probe descended to a depth of about 100 meters, and the scene in the footage was comparable to that of a full moon night. At this moment, Zhou Xin found that the brightness of the original light curtain was not exactly the same, but there were some brighter or dull parts, and these different parts of light and dark intertwined a complex pattern in the picture. Not only that, but such a complex pattern is changing every moment, as if it were alive.

At first, Zhou Xin also tried to find some patterns in the changing patterns, but after some careful observation, he finally found nothing, compared to the regular patterns, the picture at this time is more like the effect that fluorescent dyes can produce when they diffuse in water. Not only that, but as the depth of the dive continued to increase, the original light and dark light curtain turned into a large number of active light clusters densely packed together.

"Strange, how could it be like this." Such a bizarre scene was really a bit unexpected for Zhou Xin, and he couldn't help but have some suspicions. When a large number of dense light points could also be clearly distinguished in the light cluster, especially when many light points were moving, Zhou Xin's doubts also reached the peak at the same time.

"It seems—this—" At this time, even Dart noticed the anomaly, and he subconsciously spoke.

At the same time as Dart spoke, a small number of identical small dots of light began to appear at a very close distance in front of the detector's lens, and with the help of these close spots, Atlas finally recognized them for what they were.

"Brother Captain, they have nothing to do with those attackers, those little things are just glowing creatures in the sea." As soon as Dart's words fell, the little girl's voice rang out.

"Is it just sea creatures?" Hearing that Atlas had rejected his original idea, Dart's first reaction was disappointment. But soon he was surprised, "What?!" Halobios?! How can there be so many sea creatures here?! Not only him, but many people also showed surprised expressions after reacting.

"It's just some sea creatures, really." As he spoke, the detector's lens zoomed closer to a small spot of light. As a result, everyone present also saw the true face of those points of light.

The little guy who appears on the screen looks like a thin willow leaf, only slightly longer than a knuckle of the pinky finger. Its entire body is transparent, with small bluish-white dots of light at each end of its body near the slender tip, which is where the light it has seen before comes from. Not only that, Zhou Xin and the others also saw that its willow-like end was swinging up and down at an extremely high speed, and it was by relying on this swing that the little guy was able to move freely in the water.

While Zhou Xin and the others were carefully observing, the little life in the picture seemed to sense the probe that was close by, and it quickly adjusted its direction of activity and swam towards the area with dense light spots below......