As they ran through the passages, the two girls occasionally noticed dust falling from their heads, and the sound of crackling walls and floors. Ruling out the possibility that the sea water shook the fortress, it is estimated that the strong fortress has stress defects and is deforming. This is a red flag, is this fortress long past the age when it should be decommissioned, is it an old antique?

As she approached her room, Kiki suddenly stopped and whispered:

"Lingji, that's not right. The normal reaction after the shock is not to hide back in the room, but to run outside. ”

"Makes sense." Lingji nodded.

The two turned and ran out, and after a few corners they met Akentero, who said with concern:

"Okay, you'll get out on your own. Save me from going to you, and come with me outside to have a look. ”

Lingji looked at Kiki and asked, "Master Akentero, what happened?" Is it an earthquake? ”

"I don't know, maybe. I was so shocked that I fell out of bed. "But it doesn't seem like an earthquake, it's more like this fortress is sneezing." ”

"What did you just say? Earthquakes? Kiki had a better heart: "No, what about my mother and the merfolk who summon food for the whales?" ”

"Don't worry kid, the sea distracts power. The earthquake did little damage to the fortress, and they were safe. Arcantero added: "They are also very important to me and I will not give up on them easily. ”

"So what's the matter with the fortress sneezing?" Lingji asked.

"I can't say exactly what happened, but I'm sure it's a bad sign. Something is about to happen! Akentero replied.

As they spoke, the three of them had already arrived at the gate of the fortress, transformed into mermaid form, and swam out of the fortress. Follow Arcantero's instructions to swim down to the top of the Nautilus Fortress and stay there.

Due to the strange tremors just now, the movement on the bottom of the sea gradually subsided, but the party of wind, rain, thunder and lightning and waves on the sea surface did not stop. Although it is gradually dissipating, the movement cannot be stopped for a while.

"Are we here to see the scenery?" Lingji asked curiously.

"Children, I suddenly want to ask you, do you know the story of the sinking of this fortress?" Acantero said slowly.

"Got a story? I want to hear it. "Kiki loves to hear stories.

"Okay, I'll tell you a paragraph!" Arcantero unveils the dusty past:

"That's the story of the last Merfolk World War. Many years before the Great War, a remarkable energy scientist appeared among the merfolk of the seabed. In order to develop new energy, he researched the development of submarine volcanic energy and explored and counted a large amount of data.

But during an experiment to develop geothermal energy from an undersea volcano, an accident occurred, and the scientist was killed, his right-hand man. As a result of the accident, people began to doubt the feasibility of his research, although he tried very hard to gain recognition for his research. In the end, the scientific research department of the imperial city issued a document ordering the experiment to be stopped.

But he is unwilling to give up, and scientists are very keen on scientific research, almost taking scientific research as their own life and research results as their own children. Asking him to stop researching was like someone reaching out and grabbing his neck.

Later, in order to have a more accurate data reference for the experiment. Scientists command their pets to visit the mysterious sea area called the Hundred Curtain Triangle, from where more and more accurate data can be measured and collected.

When he returned to his hometown with a conscious return, people noticed that he had changed. He seemed to be nearly a hundred years older than when he left his hometown not long ago, but he didn't care. There's nothing to be afraid of time being stolen in a place like Hundred Scenes.,Fortunately, I got new data.。

The Imperial City's Ministry of Scientific Research, the Senate, and the Ministry of State Security unanimously rejected the scientist's application for a new experiment. People think scientists are crazy.

It didn't take long for the scientist to leave his homeland. No one knows where he went, it was as if he had evaporated from the world.

One day, the Nautilus Fortress, a mobile fortress funded by the Imperial City, is about to be completed. This made the officials from all over the imperial city who agreed with this fortress very happy, and felt that this fortress would become a symbol of military strength and a guarantee of national security.

Later, war broke out, and the Nautilus Fortress was sent into battle without much performance testing. Only to discover that the scientist who had disappeared for a long time appeared in the camp of the rebels. He wants to prove to the world that the power he has discovered is the difference between victory and defeat, so he decides to destroy or sink the Nautilus Fortress.

It is a very complex vector operation, which takes into account the earth's magnetic field, lunar tides, ocean currents, atmospheric circulation, deep-sea undercurrents, ambient temperature, wind magnitude, and most importantly, the comprehensive data vector operation of submarine volcanic activity. Simply put, it is the blasting operation required for the development of submarine volcanic energy.

But the scientist's purpose is quite terrifying and crazy, he wants to create a tsunami that can be controlled by humans. Using the power of the tsunami to sink the Nautilus Fortress, he wants to show the people of the Imperial City that it was their loss to keep him out in the first place.

This time he succeeded, as he wished. But the Nautilus Fortress would rather be sunk than surrender to the bad guys, and later the people of the Imperial City hated him even more and believed that he was a madman. The tsunami he created not only sank the Nautilus Fortress, but later the so-called butterfly effect occurred. It directly endangers the ecosystem, including terrestrial, and brings very large losses.

In the end, I don't know who assassinated the scientist. People clapped their hands and cheered when they found out, so no one cared who killed the scientist at all. They even thought the killer was a hero. ”

When Arcantro's story came to an end, he smiled helplessly.

"What are you laughing at?" Lingji asked suspiciously.

"There's another strange thing about that mad scientist." Acantero said.

"Oh, what's the matter?" Kiki asked.

"His pet is also a bug. A worm that looks a bit like a bone-eating worm and can tolerate temperatures of several hundred degrees, like a worm called a Pompeii worm. In fact, when I think about it today, the person who killed him in the first place is likely to be the owner of the Anemone Castle. However, all is in the past. The people involved are almost dead, and the law is only valid for the living, and it is meaningless for the murderers who have already died. ”

"So that's the case, maybe the case called an unsolved case is not that no one can find out the real murderer, but that no one wants to investigate!" Kiki sighed: "Almost all the people killed in the case have a reason to die. ”

"The words are getting farther and farther away." Arcantero reached out and stroked the shell of the fortress and continued: "What happened in the fortress tonight reminds me of this past, and I can only make a bold guess: after the scientist died, his scientific notes were secretly taken. If the technique is restarted according to the vector algorithm in the note, the blow to the Nautilus Fortress will be fatal. ”

The two girls gasped when they heard this, the use of science and technology should have been innocent, but the people who use these technologies are good and evil; There is a good or bad purpose or motive for use.

"Your concerns are quite valid, but they lack relevant evidence to support them." Kiki said.

"Hopefully, my guess is wrong, the risk of an artificially created tsunami is high. Wouldn't anyone activate this technology in order to destroy or sink the Nautilus Fortress again, leaving the safety of the marine and terrestrial biospheres behind? ”

Facing the underwater world around them, which was gradually subsiding, the three of them did not speak for a long time. It's like thinking with the sea, reminiscing together, breathing together, and melancholy together......