Chapter 188: Stalking

The next morning, they had breakfast and were ready to go. The yacht has been docked on the dock, Mordin packed up his simple luggage and walked out, and saw a small car parked in front of the girl's villa next door, the waiter of the hotel was helping the girls carry their luggage, and the small luggage car was piled up with 8 huge suitcases. Since most of their time will be spent at sea, the girls let their imagination run wild and move half of their belongings to a yacht. Not counting the two huge suitcases each, and carrying a large backpack full of all kinds of strange things, they walked all the way to the yacht with a smile on their backs.

Mordine got on the yacht. This is a 60-foot-long, 20-foot wide sports yacht, larger than their yacht in Xiamen, the upper and lower cabins have 5 small rooms each, they 8 people plus tour guides, drivers, etc. live in it is not too crowded at all, there is a special restaurant, and a storage room, their diving equipment is placed there, which was specially sent by the nautical club before, and put on the boat in advance.

The yacht slowly left the dock and headed out into the blue sea. Mordin and the others put their luggage away, took out their diving gear, and went to the deck to prepare for their first dive.

The beaches of Maldi are beautiful, the sky is turquoise, and the corals in the shallow sea are even more colorful. But the true beauty of the tropical ocean lies in the deep water, where the most beautiful wonders of the world can be witnessed.

This is how Mordin and Yan Ran really felt after they went into the water together. Although the first day of diving was set to be within 50 meters for safety reasons, the unique charm of deep-sea corals was fully displayed from more than 20 meters under the sea.

Deep-sea corals can grow slowly for hundreds of years due to their stable water temperature and low disturbance in the seabed environment. Compared to shallow water corals, they have a delicate texture like jade and a more colorful color. They are larger, with a variety of shapes and postures, ranging from thick as anemones, stretching like plantains, and slender and graceful as daffodils.

The dense corals of the seabed attract a wide variety of marine animals to feed here. It is a paradise for elegant and colorful fish. Fierce large fish have also begun to appear, with pointed nose fins, sharp teeth, and various magical hunting methods, and there are fantastic scenes of escape and hunting in the reef and under the sand anytime and anywhere.

Mordin and Yan Ran followed a huge sea turtle and walked slowly through a dimly lit trench. Yan Ran took an underwater camera to shoot the turtle very attentively, while Mordin watched next to her, paying attention to her surroundings and the protruding sharp stones.

After more than 4 months of diving training, the diving level of the two has reached the level of deep diving expertise, and the diving depth can exceed 90 meters. At this depth, there is plenty of sunshine and an abundance of marine life, which is enough to meet most of the risky needs of the average diver.

Mordin, of course, is an exception, the last time he explored the bottom of Pingtan Island, he had reached a depth of 120 meters, but that time he didn't stay underwater for long, so the rapid rise after the earthquake did not put him in danger of diving disease.

The turtle swam leisurely in front, and the two slowly followed behind. The underwater world is silent, with the occasional animal cry coming from the depths of the water, but the vast majority of marine animals are silent, and seagrass and corals have grown quietly in this area for millions of years.

Still, Mordin's thoughts couldn't help but diverge again.

"Does this old turtle know we're filming it?" Mordin's head popped into the question.

"300 million years ago, our human ancestors, like this old sea turtle, swam in the ocean, and then slowly climbed onto land. Hundreds of millions of years have passed, and now, we are back. Thinking of this, Mordin seemed to be a little proud, as if he felt like he was returning home: "But they are still swimming around the old place, why haven't they made any progress?

It's a little funny to think about it for a while, the life lineage I am in can evolve into a human by luck, and I don't know if it's natural selection or God's arrangement, what is there to be proud of.

"It must be some kind of accidental factor that led to the emergence of higher intelligent beings on this planet. "Mordin didn't really believe that human beings were the inevitable result of the natural evolution of life on earth, and after meeting the Cyclic God in the sea of consciousness in the Yuan Fetal Realm, his view became even more firm.

"The process of human life should follow a certain designated path, and it cannot be the disorderly development of nature, cremation by chance. His idea was that the birth of humanity was intentional, the result of some kind of force at its disposal.

So I remember that once, Zhu Shiyu asked him a question: "Is there a god in this world?" and his answer was: "There should be." At that time, he did not agree with the divine doctrine of life, but he did not deny the existence of God.

Qingxu Dao Chang said that the Great Dao is the power that dominates all the world, is the Great Dao a god?

People call all unknown forces divine, but as everyone knows, human beings will encounter more and more unknown forces on the way forward, such as quantum power, social power, and the power of destiny.

However, no matter what stage of development, the world is in the hands of the powerful, just as humanity is now the sole ruler of this planet.

"Human beings will eventually differentiate, 10,000 years, 1 million years, 100 million years later, do the current human beings also want to be observed, tracked, and photographed like this old turtle?" Mordin felt that it was entirely possible, maybe it was a robot, maybe it was a cultivator like himself, in short, a higher level of life form would definitely appear, and at that time, the fate of human beings on this planet would be like this old turtle, and they could still swim leisurely in the sea?

In fact, according to their own guesses, the robots in the optical network are real threats, they are different from the intelligent robots created by humans themselves, those robots belong to alien species, Mordin believes that although those alien species are still in the virtual environment, they cannot constitute a direct threat to human beings, but once those alien species enter the real environment through some way, human beings may face extinction.

What should he do?

Time passed slowly in silence and thoughts, and after tracking dozens of kilometers, Yan Ran finally returned satisfied, returning to the yacht moored on the sea.

A group of people chattered about today's diving results, exchanged images with each other, the girls were busy applying sunscreen and touch-ups, and the boys consciously cleaned their diving equipment and went to the restaurant to help bake the tender seafood.

The night was spent at sea, Qin Haiyang and Wang Xian were still interested in night diving, Yan Ran held the computer, showing off the turtles she had photographed during the day with her girlfriends on the Internet, Mordin was quietly slumped on the sofa looking at the sky in a daze, he wanted to continue to think about serious questions about the fate of mankind.

The next day, their destination was the Blue Banana Beauty Island, another different diving experience, with new discoveries and surprises every day.

By the third day, the yachts on the sea suddenly increased, close to the traditional festival of the Chinese world Spring Festival, now many people choose to spend this long vacation, compared to the cold mainland winter, many people are willing to choose to travel to this tropical island country in the middle of the Indian Ocean, many people choose yacht sailing and diving, so where there are Chinese, it means crowded, in the next few days, the yachts on the sea increased dramatically, gradually, the crowd swimming under the sea is more than the fish sea.

After discussing with the tour guide, Qin Haiyang decided to go south to avoid the swarming crowd of tourists. Explore the unfamiliar waters of the relatively remote southern archipelago of the Marti.

Knowing that he was going to explore the unopened tourist areas in the south, Yan Ran naturally cheered and jumped, and Mo Ding had no opinion, as long as Yan Ran went, he would follow wherever he went.

On the fourth day of the trip, after replenishing their supplies, the yacht set off for Sinu Island, the southernmost point of the Malti archipelago.

After a day's sailing, it was already more than 7 o'clock in the evening when we arrived at Sinu Island, and it suddenly began to rain in the sky.

February in the Malti Islands is supposed to be the rainy season, but the changing maritime climate is the most uncertain. They looked at the local weather forecast, and the rainy weather in the area would last for 2 days, which meant that they could not do anything but stay on the yacht and get moldy. Unless they continue south, 500 kilometres away, to the Solomon Atoll, where the weather is sunny and the scenery is even more beautiful.

As for whether to continue the expedition south to Solomon Island, the earth guide Adi objected, on the grounds that he had never been to that place before, and the further south he went, the closer he got to the central deep sea of the Indian Ocean, there were many variables in the unfamiliar sea, and he could not afford to go wrong.

Qin Haiyang strongly advocated going, on the grounds that the yacht they were riding on had excellent performance and was enough to sail for such a distance of 500 kilometers. Moreover, they carry diving equipment, even if there is an accident such as a shipwreck, they have enough survivability at sea, and modern communication equipment and sea rescue systems can ensure that they can be rescued within an hour, so the legendary risk does not exist.

Bai Na also agreed, because her brother was serving on Egmont Island, which is more than 200 kilometers from the southern tip of Solomon Island, and maybe she could go to her brother's base to enjoy the joy of reuniting her brother and sister. Seeing that Bai Na agreed, Wang Xian naturally agreed.

Mei Qing was born in a military family and was born with an adventurous spirit, so she naturally agreed very much, so Xu Zhicheng had no choice but to agree.

Yan Ran and Mordine were left. Yan Ran checked the Internet for a long time, and when she saw the scenery of Solomon Atoll and some nearby islands in the picture, she was finally moved and decided to go with the team, of course Mordin had no opinion.

In fact, in recent years, the area around Solomon Island has become a hot spot for sailing enthusiasts, where there are fewer tourists, the environment is more pristine, the beach is cleaner, and the life under the sea is more colorful, making it a paradise for diving enthusiasts.

In the end, Adi had to compromise, and the yacht pilot, Kusuma, also felt that there was no problem, so that night, the yacht set off for the Solomon Islands.

The yacht sailed into the depths of the ocean on a rainy night, and at a speed of 30 knots, they could reach their destination before dawn.

But they could not have noticed that 20 kilometers away from the yacht, a patrol boat quietly followed, tailing them into the deep sea of the Indian Ocean.