Chapter 31: Tracing the Trace
"There was no extra equipment on board at that time, so I had to jump straight into the water."
The man's low, hoarse, gruff voice, which had always made people shudder, now made the crew feel more familiar.
Professor Schneider, it turned out that he did not die in Li Wuyue's raid. It seems that his physical condition is much better than before his "retirement".
As for why he wanted to hide himself, everyone understood and didn't ask much.
"I dived to a depth of 170 meters, and the task force's dive bell was at a depth of 300 meters. I gently stirred the seawater, and it froze in pieces and shattered like a mirror.
I didn't hear the students mentioning, and I didn't see any 'doors'. That's when the Leviathan, codenamed Leviathan, suddenly appeared behind me, with a whale-like tail, but much more slender and nimble than a whale, and not very large, perhaps less than five meters long. β
Most of those present had heard of what happened next: a Leviathan breath that made Schneider unable to get out of his wheelchair again.
"I shot him with an APS underwater assault rifle and actually shot him."
Schneider paused.
"I inhaled His blood, and in just a split second, the water froze.
I was contaminated with a high concentration of dragon's blood. That's why I survived twice. β
He had arterial lock implantation, just like those high-risk hybrids on the unnamed island of the Pacific.
The Leviathan had only just hatched at the time, and he had crossed the blood limit by relying on the ancient dragon fetal blood.
"Is that whale a Leviathan...... My answer is not sure.
Creating low temperatures is a natural talent for the ocean and water, and his powerful spiritual ability shows that his bloodline is extremely noble. β
Schneider tried his best to restrain his emotions and avoid making assumptions. Even in the past ten years, he has been eager to dig out the heart of the "Leviathan".
"There's a lot of doubt about that.
If the Leviathan was suddenly hatched by our alarm, did He create the strong hallucinations and the 'doors' that the Commissioner saw? Can an embryonic dragon have that power?
Second, even for a newly hatched dragon, the Leviathan's body was excessively weak. At a depth of 170 meters, the APS rifle could not even kill large sea fish.
Also, it was unusual for me to encounter Leviathan. This means that after being forced to hatch early, he attacked the mission commissioner, and despite the fragile body of the dragon, he immediately ascended to the surface and tried to attack the ship. But He quickly disappeared after being wounded. β
Assuming that the "Whale King" is Leviathan, then he has acquired a huge dragon body and gathered a huge whale herd in ten years. Or, there are two high-level dragons, and the true Leviathan has yet to appear.
Schneider's doubts made the originally clear facts a little confusing.
Chu Zihang waved earnestly at the mentor, and Schneider gave his trademark terrifying smile and cut off the communication. That angry and withdrawn boy will eventually become the leader of the lions.
"The Damocles system has locked on the coordinates of the whale, which is 4.5 nautical miles away from us and has never swam far.
I recommend observing the target for a while. If He rises up and attacks us, He strikes with Heaven's damnation. β
Caesar silently aimed his space-based weapon at the target. Ang nodded hotly, this should be a relatively safe plan at the moment.
"So, what are they going to do?"
Lu Mingfei pointed to the villagers who were quite emotional, as well as the father and daughter of Nua who were in an embarrassing situation.
It is estimated that in the eyes of the villagers, they who attracted the "Leviathan" can be called the mourning star meteor shower. But the mourners seem to have repelled the "gods" head-on, and it is not appropriate for the villagers to run away now, and it is even more important to scold the streets or start a war.
"Noua, the snow is the same kind as us. Her abilities are very dangerous and need to be guided carefully. β
"The same kind?"
"She has dragon blood."
Chu Zihang did not mention what a dangerous bloodline the Speech and Spirit Judgment meant. Even if she is a descendant of the White King, Eri is an exception among the exceptions.
A bloodline out-of-control, a dragonblood polluter, or a pure-blooded dragon, this girl satisfies at least one of them.
"Noua, we must take her away, her abilities will kill all nearby creatures if they get out of control. The point is, will you be with her? β
Too much had happened in just a few hours, and Noah was in a state of confusion. He looked back at his hut and at the villagers with nervous and frightened eyes, and realized that it was time to leave.
He had everything he held dear here, but at the moment, there was not much left.
"I'll get on the boat, and I'll help you map the course of the whales. You swear that you will not hurt the snow. β
"As long as she doesn't hurt others."
Chu Zihang held Nua's hand, and the palm of the dragon scales that had just faded was as hard and cold as a stone.
Noah took her daughter's hand and got on the academy's sleigh, trying her best to ignore the eyes around her and behind her, two tears frozen before they reached her cheekbones.
The aftermath of the village will be handed over to the support team.
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Once a person is entangled in bad luck, he may be caught off guard and reborn in another world at any time.
Mai shuddered and cursed, her body heating up in trembling, melting the frost on her body's surface.
With hundreds of rooms and heating, water and electricity systems, the massive Yamal is a giant labyrinth that she can hide in at will.
After most of the commissioners disembarked, the rest of the people were guarding the engines, power reactors, and hostages, and it was impossible for them to notice her.
A few minutes ago, she was lying on a sofa chair, drinking ice wine and watching a soap opera. A thirty or forty-meter-high wave smashed straight into the windows, and tons of icy sea water flooded the guest rooms.
Before she could figure out what was going on, the luxury suite was turned into a freezer, and the sofas and chairs were frozen to the floor.
"Potato - Chipsββ! Why did the old lady suddenly become a frozen fish?! β
"One good news, two bad news."
"Good news."
"Leviathan has temporarily retreated, and the monster content of the Kassel Academy is seriously exceeded."
"The bad news is that the attack was not a coincidence, he broke away from the whale herd, changed course, and hit you in the right direction.
The Academy has more to offer than we expected, and they're going to keep tracking the whales, and the Leviathan is keeping an eye on you. β
Mai sighed. For the trip to the North Pole, she reluctantly changed her usual dressing style, but it didn't help facing the extreme cold of the Leviathan.
The boss gave her the task of simply staring at the actions of the academy. There is no script, lines or anything.
Maybe the college's plan is not in the boss's plan at all, or maybe it just doesn't have her role.
"Mr. Miscellaneous Fish has completely the Evolutionists, and the Doomsday Sect has not responded, and maybe it will be on fire.
Sanwu Niu had to rush over, and some of the shadows had to be used in advance, for fear that the so-called dark side monarch dog would jump off the wall in a hurry......"
The potato chips Su Enxi eats this week can be worth two months in normal times. She is running all the way towards "Su Yin Xinrixi".
Between the lines, Jiude Mai only heard four words, eventful. It is clear that there is still more than a year before the day of the prophecy, but the situation has been pushed to the brink of detonation. And they are just three wet nurses.
"How long has it been since the boss contacted you?"
β...... For a long time. β
Silent.
Mai thought of the new world promised by the boss, a half-breed no longer needed to hide, and dragon blood was no longer a cursed world. At this time, all she saw was a fog that was getting darker and darker.
If one day, the three of them retire honorably, it is better to form a band. She sings, dances zero, and the useless potato chip chick is responsible for the pay...... That's good end, and you don't have to clear the game to win.
And his own short-legged sister, who missed her wedding herself. Aki didn't even know he was alive.
"It's freezing."
......
"A dragon king, awakened for ten years, all his interest is in whales, and he spends his days in the North Pole as a street stalker.
The Dragon King has been close to achieving nothing for ten years, this can't be. β
Lu Mingfei casually analyzed. The dragon king is not his decrepit boy, and his youth is all in the Internet cafΓ© at the door of his house.
It was as if someone was staring at him viciously from behind, probably hallucinating.
"The best of the next generation, the power is just as impressive. Samson, Lim Fung Long, Managarm ......"
That's right, Samson. Chu Zihang remembered the old dragon servant who had been "inherited" by him.
Samson hibernates off the coast of Manhattan to watch over Constantine before he awakens. And "Leviathan" and his whales are also watching over something when they cruise in the icy sea all year round?
Gu Jiong
Guarding something, somewhere, or someone. He glanced at the snow without a trace, and the girl moved away from the crowd and leaned against the railing with her "father".
"Noua, our doctor needs a simple physical examination of the snow. The process is not complicated, and you can accompany you throughout the process. β
If the maiden named Snow is an ancient dragon, that's a risk they can't afford to take. Although there are different positions within the dragons, they are only one of the few who have limited goodwill towards humans.
The Yamal's engine is fully open, and the stable and powerful power of the nuclear reactor drives the 10,000-ton hull to crush the frozen sea surface of the giant whale and open up a new course in the direction of the setting sun.
......
"Don't be nervous and keep your hostility in check. You'll feel it when the killing intent is aimed at something. Like this. β
Eri is demonstrated with a killer knife, and the wrist-thick stainless steel railing is sliced one by one.
Xue's physical examination results were nothing unusual, she was just malnourished and needed some vitamin supplements.
Excluding pure-blooded dragons, the contemporaries of the holders of rare spirits such as Time Zero and Mirror Pupil are often in the single digits. Theoretically, the holder of the judgment can only rely on his own words.
But there are exceptions, and Teacher Eri is temporarily on duty and teaches in person. The passengers are far away from the teaching site, and if they accidentally rub against them, they can enjoy the only permanent benefit of the executive department - air transportation of remains.
Noah encouraged his daughter from time to time, and Uncle Inuit's pride in "my daughter is so strong" made Caesar very worried about his intelligence.
Imani was also watching from a close distance. She felt that the judgment was strong, far more fierce than Indra's thunder and lightning, and simulated in her mind how to deal with it.
The Yamal sailed quietly, changing day and night. They are getting farther and farther away from the human world.
No dragons, no auroras, no lost islands. The sky is paler, the sea is purer, and the world is dead.
"He's still behind us, and the whales are gathering on a bigger scale."
For the first time, the sound brought back by the scythe was so clean that the background noise in the human world was almost gone.
All Caesar could hear was the sound of the wind, the sound of the water, the crumbling of the ice sheets. And then there's Leviathan and his whales.
They had intended to keep an eye on the Whale King, but in fact, it was they who followed the route that Noua's memory had followed, and the Whale followed the Yamal.
The sun went down again, and the twilight seemed to divide the surface of the sea into two parts.
"We call it Sunset. It is the final destination of the sun, at the border between the sky dome and the barren sea, at the end of the world.
To reach the Eternal Island, mortals must follow the whale's tail, cross the sea of auroras, and see the light of God. β
Sunlands, Avalon, Isle of the Dead, at the end of the day, all refer to the same place. The Kingdom of Odin.
"It's getting dark, let's change shifts."
Caesar retracted the scythe and walked to the cabin. He shuddered and paused.
"Norma, turn on sonar detection."
The extremely faint sound of friction on the hull of the ship is easy for the sickles to ignore. Thankfully, in this snowy country, they have become more sensitive.
"All on alert!"
Dazzling thunder tore through the twilight, thunder slammed into the railing, and steel was used as a carrier around the entire hull.
Imani, who was on duty, punched three times, and the electric light became more dazzling each time, and the air was full of the smell of ozone.
Hiss! Hiss!
Painful, piercing snake chirps were heard all around, and thousands of slender sea snakes twitched in the thunder and lightning, breaking away from the ship's hull.
800 vampire sickles whistled and covered the group of snakes attempting to board the ship, the stench of snake blood pooling like a stream at the edge of the deck.
"It's a viper! Imani, keep your distance! β
The white-haired girl spat blood very naturally, and a few small jumps retreated two meters, kicking the ground, twisting her hips, and punching, and the blazing white thunder burst out layer by layer.
On the sonar image, under the stern of the Yamal, a giant strange creature is glued. Like a big ball with tentacles.
The number of venomous snakes with short arms continued to increase, and they tried to land from all over the Yamal's hull more than 100 meters long, and the razor-like vampire sickle cut wildly over and over again.
Uzi submachine guns rained down on the various duty points, and only the stumps of the vignant sea serpents were able to land on deck.
"Why are you so noisy all of ...... all of a sudden?"
Out of the knife, swing the knife, swing the knife, put the knife in one go. A little monster passed by.
The world is quiet. The space where the snakes are located is locked by "death", the pioneer snakes die en masse, the reinforcements continue to die, and the second batch of reinforcements still dies.
The commissioners on duty were suddenly stunned. The so-called "uneven world" probably means this.
"Don't relax, pay attention to the defense."
The big guy at the stern hasn't shown up yet, that's the owner of the snakes.
Rumble!
The crane-like head of the snake bit into the hull, and the strange "tentacle" creature lifted half of its body onto the aft deck.
Its belly was so bloated that it was almost a sphere, making its body dozens of meters long stagger.
Its rounded belly connects outwards to the necks of five train classes, its vicious head bears distinct dragon signs, and its slender tail is extremely disproportionate.
According to common sense, this ugly thing that resembles a hydra Xudra is not a pure-blood dragon, at least not a high-level dragon. But if it is a subspecies, its size is also extremely prominent among the giant species of ancient dragons.
Hydra's five heads locked onto the enemies that hurt its cubs, and the prey it pursued.
The light of judgment flared up again.
Snakes are perhaps the most hated animal of the head of the Uesugi family - she hates humans less now. The snake reminds her of cruelty and coldness, those who hide in the shadows and take pleasure in devouring others.
And Xudra, its form is a thousand times more hideous and twisted than all the poisonous snakes combined, no less than throwing a neutron bomb on the aesthetics of Eri Ai.
A cut of the trial cut straight into the cervical vertebra of one of Xudra's heads, and the wound nearly a meter deep could not heal.
An ice spear pierced into Xudra's ribcage, piercing through its body. The Snow's release judgment has yet to be improved, but Xudra's goal is too big.
There was a heavy muffled sound, the crash of two giant snake skulls breaking and falling to the ground. Before he could fully board the deck, he lost two heads. A few more times, and it can't be called Xudra.
It slammed its skull into its abdomen, cracking its skin to the limit, and tons of small sea snakes poured out, writhing in the mucus, and initiating a charge.
The unsuspecting Eri almost died on the spot, her eyes polluted by this scene to the point of near-blindness.
Sine!
It was Xudra who was obviously seriously injured and slaughtered tens of thousands of cubs, but Eri looked more like the injured party.
When she opened her eyes, she found that Hydra had abandoned all of its cubs and had returned from the stern of the boat, running away at incredible speed.
Caesar understood. Xudra didn't release the cub in her womb to attack Eri and Yuki, it was just to lighten the load, delay time, and create favorable conditions for the runaway.
The onlookers, Lu Mingfei, handed a glass of ice water to Eri Yi in time, and the head of the Uesugi family drank it all. Bad luck, it's so bad luck, why cut this kind of thing.
The frightened crew began to clean the deck for heat sanitization, and the Yamal continued deep into the Arctic Circle after a brief period of confusion.
No one figured out what Hurdra was or why he attacked them. But after such an accident, no one could sleep.
It sailed until midnight, slowing down, but the lights were still bright on the Yamal.
Even with the starry sky overhead and the Yamal's searchlights on, the sea was still unusually dark.
Slowly, even the starlight dimmed, and the strong light of the icebreaker could only illuminate a distance of one or two hundred meters.
The heavy black, like a piece of weight, is overwhelming. The speed slowed down again, dropping to just five knots.
"Look at the sea, what is that?"
The light was on the surface of the sea on the left side of the ship, and the dark water was mixed with a dark red color that was difficult to distinguish, and an unknown piece of flesh the size of a horse.
"Stop the boat. Stop the boat immediately. β
Chu Zihang saw clearly what those pieces of meat were: a giant sea snake that had been chopped, and its broken body was also five or six meters long.
He remembered the large snakes that violated the laws of growth, and that they had appeared with Odin's Heroic Coffin.
The sea ahead was already scarlet, and swarms of large snakes were slaughtered, and their stumps drifted around. And the most conspicuous is the multi-headed sea snake tens of meters long, Xudra.
It managed to escape from the onslaught of the Judgment and converged with other giant sea serpents. However, it didn't extend its life much longer.
The super icebreaker more than 50 meters high is like a steel peak on the dark sea. Heaven and earth are so silent, but Chu Zihang feels that the whole world is their enemy.
In the distance, the whale song of the Leviathan was heard. Desolation, emptiness, anger, fear.
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