Xilin followed the sound and saw the gray cat crouching in front of a plant, sticking its paws into the reef next to the plant and digging out.

Gollum –

A small round ball rolled out with the gray cat's retracted paws.

It is the size of an ordinary pigeon's egg, with a bright pale blue color.

"Cillin, I think this thing is quite valuable." The gray cat said as she bent her paws and fiddled with the little crystal-like ball.

Xilin picked up the ball and looked at it, it was a little cool, not too exciting and cold, with a little bit of plant fragrance, which only made people feel very refreshed.

"Oh, I didn't expect this to happen here." Takaya walked over, "People call it 'Guardian Heart.'" ”

"Guardian Heart?" The gray cat listened carefully with his ears pricked up, and Takashi's explanation made him feel that the little crystal ball was really valuable.

"Well, this is something that can only be produced in some special sea areas, and the quality of the Guardian Heart produced here in Sea Heaven is the best, and the effect is also the best."

Ryu explained to Sirin and the gray cat the origin and purpose of the Guardian Heart, this crystal-like ball is actually synthesized from some plant roots on the coral reef, and its purpose is to expel sea beasts and some beasts and insects that eat plants. These balls will slowly move towards the surface after the root system is formed, but will not show the surface. These hedrons can be found in many places around the plants near the surface, forming circles to protect the plants and drive away some small sea beasts. As for the large sea beasts, even if they can't be expelled, they can make those sea beasts lose their appetite for plants. I won't bite down.

"The breath above the Guardian Heart smells pleasant to humans, but it feels like something disgusting to sea beasts. So when you find out that there are some plants on the coral reef full of sea beasts, there are no small sea beasts around them. That means that its roots form the 'Heart of Protection'. Strangely, many researchers have tried to synthesize the drugs that work in this spar, but the results are not satisfactory. Therefore, the price of this natural spar in the market has been high. The price of Sea Heaven's 'Guardian Heart' has always been the highest among this kind of spar. If you like this one, it is estimated that it will be able to sell for six to seven figures. This thing could be dug up a little more, though. If it is not fully formed and has not been moved to the surface, there is no need to dig it, and these plants are left to drive away sea beasts. ”

Long said the latter sentence to the gray cat, looking at the gray cat's eyes that were getting brighter and brighter, especially when he heard the words "very valuable". Those cat's eyes are exceptionally bright.

As he spoke, Xiying, who had gone to gather information, walked over from the other side.

"There are a lot of hallucinogens in seawater, and indigenous organisms can develop resistance, but outsiders cannot." Xiying showed Xilin some of the analysis data, and also mentioned the distribution of the sea beast populations that stayed on the coral reef around him.

"The sea beasts here and some of the fish in the sea can't be eaten directly," Long said, suddenly remembering that the gray cat had eaten a lot of food when he cleaned up this area before, Long turned his head to look at the gray cat who was energetically fishing for hedrons next to other plants, and looked like Xilin: "Does it really matter what the cat eats?" ”

"It's okay, it's still worth it. Leave it alone. ”

Xilin is used to it, in the past, when he was in the Lansa Empire, the gray cat ate a lot of sea beasts, although the sea beasts here are a little special, but they will not make the gray cat tummy.

"Dashao, the probe found something." Someone over there said.

After landing in the atoll, several of Taka's subordinates quickly lowered their probes into the sea to probe the surrounding sea. Especially in the direction pointed by the star map, Long asked his subordinates to put a few more detectors.

"What's going on?" Takashi asked.

Xilin and Xiying also walked over, leaving only the gray cat who was still struggling to dig "treasure" around a few plants on this side of the jungle.

"Now the probe has descended to 3,000 meters below the surface, and this is the result of the probe." The man handed the electronic board to Takashi in his hand.

There is a wavy line on the electronic board. Due to the particularity of the environment here and the strangeness of the planet Haitianzheng, the probe does not have any very detailed data, it only shows some images and areas of detection waves and energy anomalies, and draws them into a three-dimensional map. Each depth corresponds to a point on the 3D map, and at 3 kilometers the probe detects an anomaly, from where the color on the 3D map begins to change, and as the probe continues to sink, the color on the 3D map deepens.

Looking at the results on the three-dimensional map, Takashi looked very excited, he knew that the "Tears of God" must be in that place, where the energy reflection was different from that of other seas, so far, only this area had such abnormal results, and there was no such anomaly on the detectors in other directions.

"How can there be a staircase here? Is this normal? Cillin asked, pointing to a place on the three-dimensional map.

Below the surface of the atoll, there is a steep slope that is clearly visible from the 3D map drawn by the probe and that there is a staircase on this steep slope. One end of the staircase goes down to the seabed.

"Such a staircase is not for people to walk, is it a sea beast?" Long said.

No one knows if this is man-made or natural. But I have to say that such a step feels very strange to several people.

"Keep an eye on the probes in this area, and by the way, get ready, we're going to be on the move after the probes are done." Long ordered the others.

"Wow-"

There was a sudden long howl from the small jungle where the gray cat was.

Xilin and the others turned their heads to look over, between the bushes, there was a tail with dark stripes flicking, and the plants about twenty or thirty meters tall could not cover this tail at all, and the branches and leaves of those plants were torn off by the big tail and scattered everywhere. Some of the small sea beasts not far away were frightened by this roar and fled in all directions.

Poof-

Blue blood sprayed, splashing on the large leaves of the plant and making a swishing sound. The movement of the big tail twitching the leaves gradually subsided.

It didn't take long. There was a rustling sound from far and near, and the leaves swayed on the other side of the small jungle. It didn't take long for a large sea beast's head to be revealed.

What stunned the people was that they were stunned. The gray cat bit a long tentacle around the sea beast's mouth and dragged the sea beast directly. At first glance, the contrast of body types is really exciting. In comparison, the individual type difference in the previous clearance was much smaller.

The sea beast dragged by the gray cat looked somewhat like an eel, with a trunk diameter of nearly five meters. In its torso there are many pairs of feet. Compared to the small sea beasts that were cleaned up by the gray cat before. This sea beast is supposed to be in a higher food chain.

As the gray cat dragged it, the sea beast gradually revealed its full appearance, as well as a long wound on its abdomen, and blue blood flowed out. Due to the drag of the gray cat, a blue trail was formed in the back.

After the gray cat dragged the sea beast to Xilin, he asked Xilin and the others, "Do you want to eat it?" ”

Pascaldo shook his head in unison. Looking at this sea beast that was still with its mouth wide open and revealing its fangs, Pascaldo had no appetite at all, and the blue drag mark and some internal organs on the trail alone made Pascaldo a little sick to his stomach.

"No, the sea beast is not a strict amphibian sea beast, although it can crawl on the reef for a while, but not for a long time, it will only rush to the reef when it is predatory, but now is obviously not the time for it to hunt. And the little sea beasts in this area have been driven away by snoring, so what is this big guy doing here? Ryu said, rubbing his chin.

The gray cat licked the blue blood on its paws, and quickly clarified itself, "It came out of the sea, I didn't bother with it originally, I dug the treasure and dug it hard, who knew that this guy would rush straight over, and there were a lot of gems I dug out over there, I can't let it swallow it!" It's not like I'm trying to get into trouble. This guy bumped into it. ”

Invik looked at the surface of the sea and said, "There are schools of sawtooth fish." ”

The sawfish is in the information collected by the Andreira family, and it is more detailed, and it is a typical population. Sawfish live in pelagic waters, acting in small groups, and each school is large, tens of thousands of sawfish are enough to discourage some large sea beasts in the pelagic waters.

Adult sawfish can reach up to five meters, and their mouths and jaws can open at an angle of up to 270 degrees, and their powerful bite force can directly bite the bones of those small sea beasts. Therefore, the people of the Andreella family usually avoid this population far away when they come. It's not like escaping the first drop of blood to have a chance to escape.

"Those sawfish are hunting. The big guy just wanted to take refuge on the reef. "In about five minutes, the pioneer army of sawfish will pass through this atoll. ”

Tashi sighed, "In other words, even if we want to act, we will have to wait until all these troublesome guys are gone." ”

Ingwick nodded solemnly: "Theoretically, that's the case. ”

Xilin had to admit that in the marine environment, he was indeed less sensitive than someone like Wiki, and the reason why Wiki was able to say these words so definitely was also known through sea beasts and fish in the seawater.

Being able to adapt to the new environment and start domesticating sea beasts so quickly, Wiki is worthy of the old fox Andreira. One of the top 10 bodyguards around Focos.

"Go inside the aircraft, there will be a lot of sea beasts on the reef later, let's avoid this wave first." Long beckoned Xilin to take refuge inside the aircraft.

The gray cat handed over all the "Guardian Heart" it dug up to Xilin for safekeeping, and it was going to stay outside to watch the excitement, anyway, if the reef was too crowded, it would fly into the sky.

After Xilin entered the aircraft, some sea beasts ran to the coral reef one after another, but the "lords" of those areas did not come out to drive away, but only warned and did not move, unless the intruders made too much trouble, those "lords" would come out to fight, in addition, they all hid in the caves, nervously paying attention to everything outside.

Whew-

In addition to these flying fish, several small sea beasts also crawled from the outside of the atoll into the lagoon inside the atoll, and the lagoon, which was still quite deserted, suddenly became noisy.

The enclosed lagoon provides protection for these little ones. Because those sawfish can't get on the reef and can't jump. With the atoll in between, the flying fish have escaped the slaughter of the sawtooth fish.

But. These flying fish have escaped schools of sawtooth fish, but they have to face other predators, such as gray cats that fly through the air with their wings outstretched.

The gray cat hung there with its wings outstretched, waiting for the flying fish to come to the door, and it just opened its mouth and waited. If you don't want to eat it. Deliberately stretch out the fat cat's claws to beat the flying fish back one by one, or shoot the flying ones directly at the place where the other sea beasts are on the reef.

How can it be delivered to the door not to eat?

Therefore, the sea beasts who were originally lying on the coral reef for refuge directly opened their mouths for the flying fish that were photographed in front of them.

Pascado and the others, who were hiding in the flying machine, saw this scene and had a thought at the same time: This cat is really so cheap! Those flying fish are expected to be depressed, how could they encounter this evil star.

There are more and more sea beasts on the reef. And the sawfish also showed their shadows.

On the surface of the sea, elongated triangular dorsal fins are exposed to the water, and some poor creatures who have not had time to jump onto the reef or cannot get on the reef at all are directly torn apart and swallowed by the sawfish. In addition to the sawfish that were hunting, there were many mutilated bodies that had been half-bitten or mostly bitten, and were thrown out of the water because of the biting and swinging of the sawfish.

The waters, which were already blue, have become even bluer.

Xilin remembered the sentence again: The blue of the sea is dyed by the blood of sea beasts.

Five minutes later, the sea was full of floating triangular dorsal fins, and that was just the forerunner of the fish. There were other members of the school of fish coming in the back, and the waters below the surface were full of these murderous creatures.

Boom!

The gray cat, which was shooting a flying fish in the air, jumped into the sea.

"What's that fat cat doing?" Pascaldo asked.

"I guess I'm bored in the sky, go underwater to see the excitement." After a pause, Xilin said again: "Turn on a monitor." ”

After Takashi turned on one of the closed monitors in the aircraft, Xilin motioned for Xiying to connect the monitors to the gray cat's side.

Soon, the monitor showed the underwater scene, which was what the gray cat saw, and it transmitted what it saw back to the aircraft.

The waters beneath the surface of the atoll are a complete battle of predation. After all, there are only a few species that can climb up the reef or fly directly like flying fish, and most of the hunters swim here and are blocked by the "wall" of the atoll, and they have no way back, because the sawfish school has already forced over.

There was minced meat and scales everywhere, the sawfish's signature large mouth and teeth everywhere, and the water was noticeably darker than before.

The people inside the aircraft were watching the horror displayed on the monitor, and the results sent back by the probe diverted everyone's attention.

"The probe has reached the seabed!" One said excitedly.

From the results sent back by the probe, everyone could see that a strange scene appeared in the three-dimensional map.

It was like a city under the sea, and although it was only a rough outline, it made Takashi quite excited to see this.

Yes, the Tears of God must be there!

"Isn't the video screen on? Why aren't there video results over there? Takashi asked.

"Dashao, all three probes who reached the seabed have lost contact."

"Da Shao, the fourth one who got there has also lost contact."

"Big Young...... The fifth, too, lost contact. ”

After the five probes sent to that coordinate reached the seabed, they were unable to capture even the video footage, and they completely lost contact with the aircraft.

Xilin remembered some of the things that Ah Yue had mentioned when she talked about "Tears of God" before.

When the people of the Xi family were studying the "Tears of the Gods", in order to better understand those sea beasts, they once lived at the bottom of the sea for a while.

Ah Yue used the word "lived" rather than "stayed" or other words, and in connection with this vague outline on the three-dimensional drawing, Xilin thought: Could it be that the Xi family built an undersea city under the sea?

Although it is strange to say, after all, this is a "sea paradise" and not other ordinary sea areas, and it is difficult for aircraft to fly here, let alone build a city under the sea. But the Xi family is indeed not a family inferred by common sense.

Perhaps, it is possible.

"How long will it take for those sawfish to leave?" Ryu looked at Wiki.

"Theoretically, it would take at least another hour."

"But?"

"But if you're in a hurry, we can try to tame those sawfish and get them to leave early."

Long thought for a moment and waved his hand, "That's still it, there are too many fish, it's too draining, and we will need a lot of energy to go underwater at that time, so it's better to save some energy now." It's all here, so why wait another hour. ”

Xilin looked at Xiying with a thoughtful expression on his face and asked, "What did you find?" ”

"The loss of contact between the five detectors was caused by magnetic interference." Xiying replied.

"Magnetic field? Isn't that an instrument that can resist the planet's magnetic field? Our Andreira family spent a lot of manpower and material resources to make it. Ryu frowned.

Sikage shook his head, "They do withstand the strength of the planet's magnetic field, but, at one point of interest, the magnetic field is two or three times stronger, making it impossible for those five instruments to work properly. ”

"Is it their handiwork?" Cillin asked.

"They" refers to those people in the Xi family back then.

"Yes." (To be continued.) )