Chapter 80: Strange Beasts
The sea beast on the screen looked blurry. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info microphone turned the signal reception power to the maximum, and only then did he faintly see what it looked like. "What's that?" Someone asked, confused.
All eyes were on Mike. At this time, he is the one who has the most voice. Mike's brow furrowed slightly, but he didn't recognize it. Chen Tianci squinted his eyes, looked carefully and looked at it carefully, and suddenly felt that the form of the sea beast shown on the screen was very similar to a sea turtle.
It has a turtle-like shell, but it is much larger. As the picture got closer and closer, he was even more surprised to see that this sea beast, which was suspected of being a sea turtle, had sharp claws on its limbs.
"It's not going to be a turtle." Chen Tianci said in a low voice.
Lu Mengqi glanced at Chen Tianci, and was about to speak, when a sea beast appeared again on the screen on the surveillance screen. When everyone saw it, their eyes widened, and they were stunned, and they couldn't speak for a long time.
It was a strange sea beast. Its upper body looks as if it is a human body, while its lower body is in the form of a sea serpent. On the back of its humanoid upper body, it has a pair of wide wings.
The sea beast that appeared to be a sea turtle and the strange sea beast fought together in the blink of an eye, and the surveillance footage suddenly became even more blurry. "What the hell is this?" Someone finally couldn't help it and asked in shock.
"It looks a lot like a mythical monster." Lu Mengqi said slowly.
The crowd looked sideways at her. Chen Tianci also looked at her with curiosity. Lu Mengqi's face gradually became solemn, and he commanded sideways: "Mike, let your detection robot lurk on the spot and cut off communication at the same time." Wait until everything is calm. ”
Although Mike was puzzled, he still acted according to his words, giving the order to the detection robot to lurk in place, and at the same time cut off the communication link. The screen on the surveillance screen instantly turned into a pitch black color, and then turned off. The atmosphere in the dinghy gradually became a little tense.
Everyone looked at Lu Mengqi. Lu Mengqi didn't speak, just frowned, as if she was thinking about some major issue. The crowd did not dare to say more. Chen Tianci was also very interested and did not ask again. The atmosphere was a little dreary for a while.
It took a long time for the waters outside the dinghy to subside. Lu Mengqi only instructed Mike to turn on the monitor again at this time, wanting to take a look at the situation outside.
But to everyone's surprise, the signal to detect the robot has completely disappeared. "Damn, I can't find its place." Mike said exasperatedly.
Lu Mengqi seems to have known this result for a long time. She waved her hand and said disapprerovingly, "If you lose contact, you lose contact." No need to look for it, if my guess is correct, I'm afraid it has become food for one of the two sea beasts by now. ”
Everyone looked sideways at her. Lu Mengqi slowly explained at this time: "I once studied at Shenzhou Academy for a period of time, you know this, right?" ”
The crowd nodded. Chen Tianci looked at her curiously, not knowing what the inevitable connection between Lu Mengqi's study at Shenzhou Academy and what happened here.
Lu Mengqi slowed down and continued: "When I was in Shenzhou Academy, I once heard from a professor that some evil organizations had tried to fuse the genes of multiple organisms to create mythical monsters. I just heard it as a joke at the time, and now it seems that it is very likely to be true. And, I'm afraid, some have already achieved some results. ”
The crowd was horrified. Chen Tianci hurriedly asked, "You mean, the two monsters just now are very likely to be man-made?" ”
Lu Mengqi nodded, and while recalling, he said: "That sea beast that looks like a turtle may be made after the mythical Xuanwu. And the human-faced snake body with two wings may have been made in the shape of a snake. Both monsters are characters from ancient legends. ”
"Are you talking about the characters recorded in your ancient Chinese mythology "Classic of Mountains and Seas"?" Mike asked suddenly.
Lu Mengqi nodded. Mike gasped, but the rest of the group was still a little confused. Chen Tianci also had an expression that he didn't know what to say. Lu Mengqi shrugged her shoulders and didn't want to say too much on this topic.
She said, "Okay." Anyway, it's a good thing that you didn't die, and if we hadn't stayed in place and sacrificed that probe robot just now, I'm afraid we would have been in trouble at this time. Now, Mike, send a few more detection machines out and keep an eye on the surrounding situation, if those two guys don't leave, then we will be in danger. ”
Mike nodded, and according to Lu Mengqi's instructions, he released all the detection robots on the dinghy at once. At the same time, he had the robots drop a detector at intervals, just in case.
After a period of probing, Mike confirmed, "It's safe." Those two horrible things should be gone. I've put up surveillance around here, so it should be safe for now. ”
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Lu Mengqi then took everyone out to investigate a few times again. Many of the buildings on the far side of the pyramid have suffered varying degrees of damage during previous events.
For the sake of safety, Lu Mengqi led everyone to avoid those areas far away. After some exploration, several peeled skins of sea snakes were found again in a small building.
These sea snake skins were much larger than the ones Chen Tianci had seen before. The largest one is already three people long and one person wide. The bulge on the snakeskin's head became more and more pronounced, and it really looked like a sharp horn.
Lu Mengqi carefully examined the snake skin, pondered for a moment, and led everyone to search the next place again. The search had to be halted for nearly ten hours after nearly ten hours.
Chen Tianci, like everyone who participated in the search, felt a little tired. In long-term deep-sea diving operations, although there are diving suits to isolate the pressure of seawater, the loss of temperature and the consumption of physical strength are very huge.
Lu Mengqi reluctantly took all the snake skins she found and returned to the dinghy with everyone. At this time, Mike also made a preliminary judgment on the translation of the text on the mermaid statue.
"This is supposed to be an ancient hieroglyph. There is no record in our database, so we can't translate it for the time being. He said helplessly.
Lu Mengqi waved his hand, and then led everyone into the inner warehouse to rest. After a short rest, Mike returned to the makeshift camp in the dinghy.