The other side.

At the moment when the submarine piloted by Sisi was pulled out by a tentacle as thick as a bucket, the random light of the searchlight instantly disappeared into the silent deep sea in the distance along with the submersible that was sent out.

"Si!"

The tail couldn't help but exclaim, but through the bulky diving head blue, no sound could be heard.

After a full minute, there was a muffled sound of rolling thunder in the distance.

The submersible appeared to have crashed into the bracket of a turbine generator set, causing a small collapse.

Looking at the turbidity rolling in the dark, the group of panicked tails in their hearts had nothing to do.

There was silence in the communication channel, muddy mud obscuring the last rays of light.

The whole body of water seemed to be silent again, and the silence was terrible.

There is no light here.

There is no air.

There was also no sound.

There was only the boundless silence and darkness, and the occasional cold and echo of the bubbles, like the murmur of something indescribable in the abyss.

Controlling the rate of his breathing, his tail cautiously retreated to the side of the ruins, cowering under a metal stand that bulged outward, trying to make himself look smaller.

The round spherical detector was not far to her left, still quietly working.

The cable that connects it to the submersible has drifted away with the current.

Now the tail has finally figured out where the current that blew the probe crooked came from.

It's the monster's "snort"!

Realizing that the monster was not far below him, his tail felt a tingling of his scalp, and his eyes kept drifting to the spherical detector next to him that was holding the terminal.

"Oh my gioo! Loosened?"

Just as her words fell, the slick spherical probe suddenly withdrew its mechanical arm held on the metal stand.

Seeing that the rising Yangdu was about to wash it away, Tail quickly stretched out his arms and hugged it, holding the basketball-sized detector tightly in his arms.

"That's it!"

Looking at the detector in his arms, the tail let out a breath and a smug expression appeared on his face.

However, before he could be happy for two seconds, the smug expression froze on the face of the ground.

Here's the problem.

How was she going to bring this thing back?

This body of water is located in the middle of the southern sea, and it would take four hours to sail by speedboat.

Relying on the diving suit on her body, I am afraid that I will not be able to swim back even if I am tired.

Not to mention the possibility of encountering xenomorphs more terrifying than the tentacle-wielding sea monsters along the way.

"Mommy...... It's the end of the calf! 「

Sure enough, it was too early to be happy just now.

Just as she was in a hurry, there was a rustling of electricity in the communication channel, followed by an intermittent sound.

"Ah Wei...... How's it going for you?"

Hearing the familiar voice, Tail exclaimed excitedly and quietly.

"Si! Great, you're alive! 「

After confirming that the tail was still alive, Siss, who was sitting in the cockpit, breathed a sigh of relief, and then couldn't help but curl the corners of his lips slightly.

"What's that called, I don't die that easily...... But then again, you're still in the mood for a joke, so it seems like there's nothing wrong with that."

Tail smiled and said energetically.

"Oh! That's of course, the tail is so good now! 「

Siss: "That's great...... By the way, Ah O, can you see where the guy who knocked me off is?"

"Ugh...... It's a little difficult," Tail cautiously stuck his head out of the gap in the ruined building, and glanced out, feeling as if he was soaked in dark ink, "I'm dark here

I can't see my fingers, I can't see anything."

Sisi sighed.

"That's right...... "This is the deep sea."

Not to mention that it's night outside, even during the day, I'm afraid there isn't much light that can reach that deep.

Listening to the silent rustle in the communication channel, Tail took a deep breath and plucked up his courage to speak.

"Do you want me to find a way to lure it out? I've got a flashlight here—"

"Don't do that!" Hearing this dangerous statement, Si Si interrupted her without thinking, and hurriedly continued, "It's hard to say whether the weapons we brought will be useful to that guy, and if we can, we need to avoid firefights as much as possible...... In a moment I'll fire a few flares near you, and they'll mark your path to evacuate, if you can. Try to bring the detector out as much as possible, we need the data from above."

Tail: "Oh! Give it to the tail!"

Listening to the energetic answer in the communication channel, Si Si's face couldn't help but show a reassuring smile.

"Hmm! I'll leave it to you!"

Although Ah Wei usually doesn't look very smart, he is still very reliable when it is critical.

Stretching out his index finger and pointing at the central control screen of the cockpit, he cut the ammunition of the remote-controlled weapon station to the signal flare, aimed at the approximate position of the detector and pressed the firing miss.

With a few short blunt thumps, shattered milky white bubbles trailed forward, and bloomed with a demonic orange-red light in the half-company of flight.

The faint rays of light were like matches struck in the darkness, drawing a crooked trajectory in the dark ruins.

The light of the flares confirmed the route of evacuation. The tail hugged the probe tightly in his arms, and with a kick of his legs, he quickly left the half-collapsed metal support, and slowly floated towards the half-metal blade illuminated by the signal flare more than ten meters away.

The tentacle-wielding sea monster was nearby.

She can't get too close to the flare or she'll be spotted, and she can't get too far away so she can't see anything around.

Maybe it's because it's so quiet that Tail feels his heart pounding so hard that he can even hear the beat of his pulse.

「giao………」

This is also so exciting!

The darkness that envelops all sides is like the open mouth of a monster, and it is difficult not to be drained of the courage of the whole body just by looking at it.

This is true for those who are in it, and it is true for those who are outside it.

Sit in the cockpit of the submersible. Siss's eyes were fixed on the flickering green dot on the central control screen, and he couldn't help but hold his breath.

"Good Ao!"

There are only the last fifty meters left!

Looking at the green dot that was getting closer and closer, her lips slowly squirmed, and a trace of sweat oozed from her clenched palms.

Forty meters!

Thirty-five!

Thirty –

The green dot was about to be bottled out of the wreckage of the power station, but at that moment, a mutation suddenly happened!

I saw that the flashing green dot on the screen seemed to hit a wall, and the momentum of progress was slammed.

Si Si, who was staring at the central control screen, was suddenly startled, and before he had time to hesitate, he immediately turned on the searchlight on the front of the submersible.

A dazzling light pierced through the darkness and shone directly below the struggling Ah Ao and the detector in her hand.

I saw a tentacle as thick as a bucket stick out of the ruins on one side, firmly grasp the heavy deep-sea diving suit, and circle it.

In the end, it is a deep-diving equipment that can withstand the pressure of one million pascals, and the tentacles as thick as water did not immediately crumple it together with Ah Wei inside, but just listening to the voice in the communication channel, I can guess that Ah Wei's situation at the moment is not optimistic.

"Gurgling—"

Seeing that the tail was built by the tentacles of the sea monster, Sisi suddenly panicked, and hurriedly operated the forced control weapon station, aiming at the eyes of the tentacles.

"Hold on! Ah Oo!"

While shouting loudly, she decisively pressed the button of the launch.

Two thick harpoons were launched from the belly of the submersible, and the deep sea of stone made two cotton-white trajectories, one of which burrowed into the depths of the ruins, while the other hit the tentacle sticking out of the ruins impartially.

The head of the harpoon pierced the monster's skin, and then the explosives tied to the harpoon exploded, and the fire flickered and opened a milky white bubble.

As the bubbles dissipated, a washbasin-sized wound was imprinted on the tentacle's eye, and dark green liquid seeped out of the breach—it seemed to be its blood!

Even though these two harpoons weren't professional underwater weapons, they were just cobbled together with harpoon launchers and mixed explosives.

But in the face of sufficient equivalence, the xenomorph still suffered a lot of injuries.

Surprisingly, however, it didn't let go of its tail-holding tentacles because of the damage, and the deep-sea diving suit under heavy pressure was already emitting an overwhelmed scream.

By the light of the searchlight, Si Si was surprised to find that the large wound was wriggling with tiny cilia and healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

That's a yield that even a tank can overturn!

What the hell is this monster?!

Can't wait any longer. Si Si immediately made a decision, quickly switched to the grenade launcher, and shot it towards the healing wound.

The dense bubble shuttles were like arrows off the string, shooting the eyes of the tentacles that gathered flints.

As a series of thuds exploded, the large mouth of the basin was instantly buried by a fine burst of bubbles and mud.

However, this grenade is not a professional underwater offensive weapon in the end, although it is invincible in the jungle of the province, but the deep sea below 100 meters still seems to be a little stretched.

The tentacles that had been sturdy and bombarded by a round of bombardment did not move at all, and the damage effect was far inferior to the previous two "goblin harpoons".

There was a deep roar from the depths of the sea, and the sound was like a taunt from a sea monster.

"S-I can't hold on anymore!" At this time, there was an intermittent sound of a tail in the communication band, and the sound seemed to be as if it might be quarming at any time.

"Hold on, Ah O!"

Struggling to calm himself down, Sis stopped firing meaninglessly. Operate the searchlight and search around the four circles. Try to find the weakness of this giant sea monster.

This guy is very cunning, hiding behind the ruins of a massive turbine engine, relying on metal brackets and turbine shells as cover to protect most of his body.

Sith even had a feeling that the reason why he exposed one of his tentacles, instead of taking his tail back behind cover and eating it after being injured, was to use her as bait and wait for him to pass!

His eyes followed the searchlight and searched around, and Sith soon discovered that directly below the sea monster's solid-ring turbine was a porous reef and rows of bent metal supports.

With a move in his heart, he immediately adjusted the crosshair of the remote-controlled weapon station, aiming at the bottom of the turbine generator to empty the bomb bay.

One by one, fragmentation grenades stuck into the narrow space like flying locusts, quickly blasting and shattering the reef and metal supports that supported the ring turbines.

In a burst of overwhelmed metallic screams, the ring turbine, which had been looking backwards, collapsed like a landslide and pressed heavily against the sea monster hiding behind it.

The huge size didn't have time to dodge, and the giant sea monster shaped like an octopus was instantly crushed by the giant turbine more than ten meters high, and asked the rolling mud in a dull scream.

"Ahem!"

There was a snort of her tail in the communication channel, and she was thrown out by the detached tentacle holding the detector, rolling in the ocean current and crashing into the ruins beside her.

Aiming at the signal from the probe, Sis pushed the output power to the maximum, piloted the submarine and chased after her, and turned on the interrogator the moment it approached

Doors.

"Come on in!"

The tail that hit the rubble almost fell off the spot, and the head of the wetsuit already had a red warning light on the blue.

Fortunately, the physical fitness of the awakened made Ran barely hold on, reached out and grabbed the open hatch, and then slammed into the side roll of the rolling detector with a side.

The hatch slammed shut.

The pressure indicator applied to the suit rapidly decays, and the seawater in the buffer chamber begins to empty outward.

Looking at the green signal lights lit up in the darkness and gloom that disappeared through the cracks in the hatch, the tail that sat slumped on the ground took several breaths before he calmed down, rolled his eyes and stuck out his tongue.

"Ahem-giao! The tail almost turned from tail to tail sauce!"

In the communication channel, he couldn't hold back a puff, and Sisi, who was holding back a smile, coughed dryly, and asked with concern.

"Are you alright?" "I'm—"

Tail was about to answer, but no time could she open her mouth when a massive force slammed into the nearby hatch, sending her flying from the floor to the ceiling in an instant.

A muffled sound of a "bell" passed through the Celestial Spirit Cover, and she felt that her jaw might be dislocated, and she reached out to get it back, but was blocked by the mask of her diving helmet.

Before she could recover from the previous impact, a second blow soon followed.

The sea monster crawled out of the collapsed turbine generator as if in doubt, and hid around in the darkness against the waist

The submersible is a rattling hammer.

When he was about to fall unconscious, his tail finally touched the folding chair with a seat belt in the cushioning building, and he couldn't unfold the chair, so he fixed himself to the chair with nylon on it.

Listening to the clanging sound coming through the bulkhead, Tail laboriously grabbed the helmet from the wetsuit where he was, and groped his hands for a while to break the dislocated jaw back.

Thanks to the game's excessive pain, it will be blocked, and if it were in the norm, she would have fainted in pain.

The tinnitus gradually dissipated, and Siss's voice was heard in the communication channel.

「…… That guy isn't dead yet! I'm worried! 「

Tail: "Giao! This boss's blood is too thick!"

Siss: "It's not just the thickness of the blood, the healing speed of the wound is not like an ordinary xenomorph, maybe it's a genetically modified synthetic variety!"

Tail: "Synthetic God?!"

Siss: "That's right...... I can't think of anything other than the Torch Church!"

Tail: "So what now?!"

"There's no way, the weapons on our submarine have little effect on it, and now we can only pray that it's not fast, and that we can escape as long as we can get out of this ruin......

Gan!" Sisi, who was still calmly analyzing a second ago, suddenly let out an exclamation.

Tail, who heard the exclamation, was also startled, and hurriedly asked.

"What's wrong?!"

"Powertrain...... That freshly repaired thing looks like it's broken again!"

「giao?!「

Looking at the flashing power failure alarm on the central control screen, Si Si was sweating profusely, and his index finger poked violently on the screen.

However, the submersible did not listen to the call at all, and rolled forward with the current under the action of inertia.

At this moment, the rampage of the submersible snapped, and the surrounding bulkheads made a creaking and grinding sound.

Through the side window of the cockpit, Sith saw a large tentacle that circled the outside of the dome's drum-like stalker and circled solidly.

She could even see the vine-sized suckers sticking to the broken glass on the outside!

It seems that their good fortune has run out of good fortune, and the sea monster that lurks in the dark stone has finally caught them.

"Gan ......"

The pressure sensors in the four directions of the screen are instantly filled.

The heart of the earth also mentioned the noise eye for a moment, and the memory of fear resurfaced again.

Before she could react, a few G's of acceleration pushed her to the chair.

The tentacle tightened the lead ball in its hand, and raised the submersible high and made a starting gesture for throwing the ball at the ship.

Seeing that the tentacle was about to smash them on the reef with the people and the boat, the metal sphere shaped like a sea urchin suddenly fell into the silent deep sea with a string of bubbles.

It is about half a man's diameter and has tapered firing pins the length of a small arm.

The sea monster crawling on the reef at the bottom of the sea clearly spotted the uninvited guest, but did not take it seriously.

Soon, though, the guy paid a heavy price for his rashness.

Only the moment the iron ball approached his back, a blinding light lit up the silent deep sea in an instant.

The burgundy flames wrapped in the broken pieces of iron exploded in an instant, and a bubble cavity of several meters was instantly opened in the deep sea below a hundred meters!

The scorching heat caused the tentacle-wielding kraken to let out a painful wail.

Large bubbles poured out of the reef, and the whole sea trembled under its writhing.

The tightly held tentacle subconsciously let go, and threw the submarine in his hand out as if it were throwing it short.

"S-we're flying!"

Listening to the excited exclamation in the communication channel, Si Si only felt like a rocket was inserted under his seat, staring at the dark outside the secret and tensing his nerves.

"Most, the best thing is to fly!"

In this deep sea where there is no light, she can't tell the difference between east and west.

At their current speed, if they hit a reef or the bottom of the sea, they will end up with scrap metal, and then they can only wait for others to come and archaeology them-

If the monsters of this sea are going to leave them with a whole corpse.

Thankfully, the worst didn't happen.

After flying for a while, the submersible stopped accelerating under the resistance of the current, and floated quietly in the water like a jellyfish.

「…… This! What was the bombing just now?!"

Listening to the excited voice in the communication channel, Si Si, who was leaning on the seat, gasped for a moment and said slowly.

"It's supposed to be a bomb from the Federal Patrol...... It seems that they still made a move. 「

Tail: "Huh!? Doesn't the tail owe them another favor?"

Siss: "I can't talk about it...... As long as we can bring this probe back, they will be the ones who owe the favor. 「

She had no doubt about it.

Although the research team has not yet analyzed the data, the sea monster lurking beneath the ruins is enough to say a lot.

The terrifying ability to recover was like the handiwork of the Torch Church, and its desperate attempt to prevent them from taking any clues from the Legacy meant that there must be something they were looking for!

At this moment, there was another dull loud noise not far away.

The Federation Patrol's speedboat dropped a second depth charge on the Kraken, and it was probably the last one on the boat.

The depth charges filled with picric acid and high explosives were enough to overturn a submarine with a displacement of 10,000 tons.

Even though the sea monster had amazing recovery abilities, it was still a little bit less interesting in front of this professional underwater weapon.

After two consecutive hits, the tentacle-wielding sea monster finally swallowed its last breath in humiliation after a painful scream, and fell heavily on the ruins of the current power station and the broken reef.

A moment later, a cacophony of voices came from the communication channel.

「…… How's it going? 「

Adjusting his breathing, Sisi spoke.

"It's okay, but the power system and pressure sensor are damaged...... Others are fine. 「

"That's bad.

"What's wrong?"

"The Federation fleet is heading towards us...... The movement you just made was too big! 「

There was a hint of annoyance and anxiety in his voice.

Obviously.

It's going to be a hassle for him.

After thinking calmly for a few seconds, Si Si spoke.

"Can you find a way to lure them away?" Muda: "Do you think they're idiots?!"

Sisi took a deep breath.

"That can't be helped...... Do us a favor."

Muda was stunned.

"What?"

Siss: "Take the probe to Fries Harbor for me, and I'll share its coordinates with you later...... Our researchers are able to analyze the data. Remember, be sure to bring it to Port Fries if you still want to find out the truth."

Muda: "What about you?"

Siss: "E... For the sake of how much you've helped us, how about giving you a first-class credit?"

Muda: "What?"

Without waiting for the guy to respond, Sisi stretched out his index finger and hung up the communication on the central control screen, and then transferred the communication to the tail sitting in the buffer cabin.

"Ao, throw the probe out."

"Huh?!" Tail was surprised and leaned his face to the small window of the buffer door, looked at Si Si sitting in the cockpit and asked, "Throw it out?!" Don't you bring it back?"

Si Si made a helpless expression.

"I'd like to, but it's a pity that this broken submarine is no longer working, and the Federation's navy is on its way here...... We can only ask the NPC named Muda to help us deliver this express. 「

"Oh! Understood!"

Tail nodded, put the head thief back on, waited for the sea water to fill the buffer chamber, manually opened the outer hatch, and then threw the spherical probe out of the chamber with all his might.

The silver metal ball floated into the sea, and soon slowly rose.

It won't be long before it will float to the surface and be retrieved by the speedboat waiting there.

After doing all this, the tail closed the hatch of the buffer cabin and floated back to the chair and sat down.

The water in the buffer chamber was not immediately emptied, and the tail was in the middle of the communication channel.

"What about us? What's next?"

Sis leaned back in his seat, his index finger and thumb pinching his tired brow.

"Let me think about it......

First of all, this is the submersible of Vault 70.

Although they have shown their faces in the Ring Departure, not many people have seen the face of the ground after all, whether they were captured as residents of Vault 70 or directly identify the identities of Vault 404 residents are viable options.

Comparing the two options, she actually prefers the former.

This will give you access to the Federation's top brass and may be able to figure out what the sea monster is all about, while avoiding a direct diplomatic dispute between the Alliance and the Federation of the Southern Islands.

Of course, there is actually a third option.

That is to find a place to bury yourself.

It takes three days to be resurrected in Dawning City, and a maximum of five days to return to Port Fries by airship, which is the easiest way to do it.

Just when Si Si was undecided, a light blue antenna icon jumped out on the radar of the central control screen, and then an unfamiliar communication request was automatically accessed.

「…… This is the Dolphin, and we have received your distress signal and are heading in your direction."

Not only did Sisi hear the voice, but also the tail sitting in the buffer cabin, and a surprised expression suddenly appeared on his face.

"What's the situation?"

Sisi was stunned with the central control screen, and swallowed unconsciously.

"I don't know...... I guess it was some of the submarine's safety detection equipment that automatically sent a distress signal, and the Dolphin was probably the Vault 70 submarine patrolling the waters around the area?"

At the same time, the rough sea in the distance has emerged

A majestic shadow of the ship.

Quite unlike the Federal Patrol's speedboats, the ship was a full-fledged warship, carrying two thick barrels, torpedo launchers, and powerful close-in guns.

That's the destroyer of the Federation.

Standing on the bow of the speedboat, Mu Da held a walkie-talkie in his hand, and looked at the flagship in the distance with a hint of complexity written in his eyes.

He was thinking about how to explain it to his superiors for a moment.

Of course, what complicated his mood was more complicated than how to explain it to his superiors was the signal he had just captured through the terminal of the telepathic interference device.

The telepathic interference device was a gift from the Torch Church to the Federation of the Southern Islands, and the technology did not exist in Vault 70.

Even if the Vault dwellers had mastered the principles, they were far less proficient in application than the Federation.

There is only one explanation for why the signal that should not have appeared appeared in the waters controlled by the Federation of the Southern Islands without knowing it, and evading search after search.

This is by no means something that a single captain can do, at least someone in the Naval Staff or even in the upper echelons of the authorities, or even a group of people!

For some reason, the ghost hindered, or even completely misled, the federal authorities' investigation into the ruins of the Ocean Current Power Station.

If that's the case—

Was it really Vault 70 that blew up the Ocean Current Power Station?

Looking at the approaching warship, a trace of solemnity gradually rose between Mu Da's eyebrows.

I always feel like things are getting troublesome......