The sea is undulating and the sea is rippling.

At a glance, beneath the deep surface of the sea lies a deep blue, hiding countless secrets.

"Hoo ......"

The evening sea breeze blew through Mercer's clothes.

His expression was blank and motionless, as if he had become a statue, suspended quietly on the surface of the sea.

An invisible coercion was slowly released from him, majestic and heavy, getting heavier and heavier, like a mountain, as if it was going to be pressed down and smash the vast ocean below!

Around him, several subordinates were nervous, looking down at the sea.

They knew that Mercer seemed to be calm, but the anger was still there.

"Lord Mercer is not happy with us." There was a subordinate who felt bitter in his heart and couldn't help but think to himself.

Night is coming, and it's been a whole day.

They dispatched so much force that they didn't even see the shadow of the masked monster, and they didn't catch a trace of him!

Such a big living person seems to have disappeared out of thin air.

Is this possible?

In this world dominated by machines and metals, is it really that difficult to find a flesh and blood creature?

The southern seas are a fairly large area for humans, and many places are full of unknowns, as if shrouded in a layer of fog.

But the main base of the Cyborg Deep Diver camp is here, right on this stretch of sea.

This is the home of the mechanical creatures of the Deep Diver faction.

The mechanical people have been operating here for many years, and even how many uninhabited islands there are in this sea area, and the location, characteristics, and species of animals and plants of each island are clear.

Previously, many people had speculated that the masked monsters would soon be caught or killed after being forced out to sea and unable to find a place to hide and resupply.

Not only them, but also many creatures within the automaton think so.

Even some of the mechanical creatures felt that the scene of this dispatch was too big.

"Is it necessary to awaken the sleeping warriors of the entire continent in order to deal with a single human?" This morning, in some of the mechanical sub-bases, this voice was heard.

"Now that there is a shortage of energy, there are not many psionic resources in each base."

"The war for more than 20 years has consumed too many resources, and it has not eased up yet......"

The Automata are a highly efficient race.

Generally speaking, as soon as an instruction is conveyed from above, someone below immediately executes it, and almost no one questions it.

But this time, there were more doubts.

Not only the Middle Continent, but even many mechanical bases on the left and right continents have received orders for full action, all for the sake of the high-level wanted criminal codenamed "Masked Monster".

Many mechanical creatures don't understand why this masked monster has such a high internal priority.

Although they questioned, they did not dare to disobey the order, so they could only carry it out with a sigh.

"Alas, every action consumes immeasurable psionic resources."

There are sighs, and naturally there are voices of support and confidence.

"It's the will of the Lord Lord, don't question it, and grab that human called the masked monster at all costs!"

"With this level of search, it won't take more than a day to capture him back to the base!"

"It's just a day, and how much energy does it cost?"

However, more than half of the day has passed.

The islands in the entire southern sea have almost been turned upside down, and many islands have even been dug up, but not even a single hair of Su Xia has been found.

On the coastline, the layers of blockade nets have been triggered many times, but most of the time they catch the seagulls who want to go to the dock to make fries.

As for beneath the surface......

The entire camp of deep divers, the underwater forces that can be dispatched, have already been dispatched.

However, there are still a few of these mechanical creatures scattered in the vast sea, and there is still no accurate exploration result, but a few shipwrecks from the last century have been found, and some decaying metal that is not of much use has been dug up.

"Lord Mercer is so angry, most likely because he thinks we are not doing our job." On the sea, several subordinates thought of this.

"Yes, even we didn't expect that the entire race would not be able to find a small human in full action."

Several subordinates glanced at each other and passed information to each other, and each other was extremely helpless.

In fact, there are some problems within the mechanical race, which manifested themselves in Seahorse City.

As another high-ranking mechanical Todd said at that time, the mechanical race has been peaceful for a long time, and many mechanical creatures have forgotten their honor, which is not as good as they were during the war.

If you go back in time to the war with the Terrans, the time when the situation seemed dangerous, but it was the time when the automatons grew the fastest.

During those years, external pressure was everywhere.

It was as if a voice was roaring in the hearts of every mechanical creature, demanding that they continue to evolve and continue to become stronger, otherwise the race war would be lost!

It was a history of madness, and the whole world seemed to be on the verge of destruction.

But it was also the best history of the automaton.

Under the threat of war, unprecedented technologies have emerged, countless bottlenecks that have plagued predecessors for decades have been broken, and the whole world has ushered in an era of scientific and technological explosion.

After the end of the war, the mechanical people won a complete victory, how energetic were they at that time?

Back then, every mechanical creature thought they could do anything from now on!

But now, they can't even find a human!

"Could it be that the masked monster has gone to the bottom of the sea?"

"The supplies he carries with him can't last him long, maybe there are creatures in the sea to pick him up?"

By now, many mechanical creatures have had to look to the depths of the sea, just as Mercer is now.

Mercer had always believed to himself, and this time it was still the same.

Time passed, and the last trace of the sky was about to disappear under the sea level, he slowly closed his eyes, and said, "He...... There is no escape. ”

"My lord, what do you command?" Several subordinates stepped forward one after another.

"Contacting the major bases, I need more fighters who can be active underwater for a long time to speed up the transformation."

"Yes!"

"A total blockade of the seabed." Mercer then commanded, "Don't trust any detection equipment, trust what you see...... The Masked Monster may have a stealth submarine, don't look at him with your current technological eyes. ”

……

At the moment, under the surface of the sea, somewhere, inside the submarine.

Su Xia was half-squatting in the submarine, wearing translucent gloves, holding a blue-gold metal long sword in his hand, with a serious expression and a careful look.

This long sword, which was found in the wreck by those little robots before, is now in the submarine.

[Iris Imperial Sword: A symbol of imperial power, only the monarch can pull out ......]

A description pops up.

Just like Su Xia guessed, it was the sword of the empire that had been lost for a hundred years.

Now this long sword has decayed more than half, and the surface is rusty, and it is no longer visible what it once was.

"It's a pity, it's just an ordinary weapon." Su Xia sighed that his bone sword had been destroyed, and only fragments remained, and now he really wanted a cold weapon to take advantage of.

This legendary sword of imperial power is not as magical as it is rumored.

After losing that layer of royal brilliance, it was no better than the great sword made by the village blacksmith, and in Su Xia's eyes, it was just a useless piece of scrap metal.

A sword, if it can't kill someone, what's the use?

Judging from the degree of corrosion of this broken sword, if you use it to cut people, you may not be able to hack people to death, and the sword body will be completely shattered.

"Captain, there are too many boxes for gold coins, and the storage compartment space of this sightseeing submarine is not enough, so you need to return to the main submarine and transfer the gold coin boxes." Sarah snapped up.

"There's no need, just let me throw it in storage."

Su Xia put down her sword and put away her thoughts.

He glanced at the image behind the monitor and saw a large black shadow, as if a giant beast of the sea was following in the water behind him—it was the big submarine.

In order to prevent accidents, Sarah has been distracted to control the large submarine, making sure that the two submarines are not too far away.

At this time, in the storage compartment of this small submarine, there were already more than thirty small boxes, all of which were full of gold coins without exception.

"Captain, how does it feel to hunt for treasure under the sea?" Sarah asked with a smile.

"It's okay, it's a dream that came true an hour later." Su Xia sighed lightly, his mood had calmed down, and he didn't have the initial feeling of excitement.

Compared with the story described in the book "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", Su Xia's experience on this trip is indeed too much and lacks a lot.

Now, he was looking forward to the starry sky above him even more.

It's a much bigger world, worth a lifetime to explore.

Su Xia left his seat, bent over, walked to the outside of the storage cabin, opened the hatch, stretched out his hand and waved lightly, and the more than thirty boxes of gold coins disappeared like this, entering his storage space.

"The storage space is really like a game world." Sarah pursed her lips and chuckled.

At the beginning, Su Xia's ability to collect things in his hand made Hal startled.

Hal also thought that Su Xia could tear the space with his bare hands and directly open the rift in the other dimension.

"What if this is the game?" Susha asked her.

"Then it's a pleasure to meet you, Player-sama."

Sarah still smiled, disapproving: "However, Captain, have you ever thought that maybe the real earth you think is also a game world?" ”

Su Xia shook his head: "What do you think?" ”

"Truth and falsehood are relative concepts and idealistic concepts." Sarah smiled, "As long as you think it's true, it's true, and if you think it's fake, it's fake." ”

“……”

Su Xia shrugged his shoulders, said no more, and returned to his seat.

He really didn't want to discuss this kind of mysterious topic, because in the end he would definitely enter a dead end.

Next, Sarah activates the rest of the small exploration robots and sends them all into the shipwreck to carry the small gold boxes.

Boxes of gold coins were carried back to the submarine, and Suxia's fortune was skyrocketing.

At the same time, the search for the rest of the wreck did not stop.

More than ten minutes later, there was a new discovery.

"Captain, the little robot has found a special box." Sarah snapped a reminder.

Hearing this, Su Xia raised her head.

In the upper left corner of the monitor, the little robot found a large chest in the corner of a room on the third deck.

The shape of this chest is similar to that of those small gold coin boxes, and the surface is covered with gray-black flocculent seabed sediment, and the original appearance is not visible.

"Open it directly?" Sarah asked.

"Well, open it."

After receiving the command, the little robot in the wreck immediately took action and struck hard at the position of the box lock.

Kacha, the already rotten lock was immediately shattered, and a crack popped up in the chest.

The little robot reached out and pressed the two ends of the lid of the box, slowly opening it, so that the contents of the box were presented in front of Su Xia's eyes.

"No gold."

Su Xia stared and saw a very ordinary glass bottle in the box.

The glass bottle was green, translucent, and somewhat rough, and was the favorite type of sugar wine of the sailors of the last century.

Naturally, there is no need to solemnly lock such a wine bottle inside the box.

Su Xia noticed that through the translucent glass bottle, a rolled up object could be faintly seen, which seemed to be a scroll.

"Drifting bottles?"

This bottle, as well as the contents of the bottle, inexplicably triggered some of Su Xia's memories.

"Bring it back and see what's in the bottle." Susha gave the order.

"Okay."

After a while, the little robot returned to the submarine with the box.

The surface of the box was wet, and a smell of decay came to the face, as if it had been buried in the swamp for a long time, and the smell was indescribable.

Su Xia put on gloves as usual, and put on a gas mask by the way, and then took out the glass bottle from the box.

He shook it slightly, and there was a shaking and colliding sound from the bottle.

"It's a drifting bottle." Su Xia reached out and pinched the stopper at the mouth of the bottle, and pulled it out lightly, and with a bang, he pulled out the stopper.

He turned the bottle upside down and shook it a few times, and the rolled paper in the bottle fell out and fell into his hand.

The pages were yellow, but fortunately they were well sealed, not eroded by seawater, and still dry.

[You got the item "Prince's Letter", open it and take a look]

The system suddenly popped up a prompt, which made Su Xia a little baffled.

He gently lowered the glass bottle and casually wiped the seawater on his body, then took off his gloves and returned to the seat in front of him with the scroll.

Su Xia turned on the light on the top, and the cockpit of the submarine suddenly lit up a lot.

He slowly opened the letter and began

[Item: Prince's Letter]

[At two o'clock in the morning, the various watertight compartments of the cruise ship began to enter the water, and the ship was destined to sink, I didn't expect my freedom trip to end here]

【……】

[Latecomer, when you read this letter, I should have died]

[I am the prince of the Iris Empire, and the next monarch, and I am the one who is destined to wait for the throne of the kingdom]

[But I'm tired of endless struggles and power, and I'm tired of the throne of the palace that is high up]

[I don't want to raise that heavy imperial sword]

【……】

Su Xia sat in his seat, his expression serious, his eyes focused, and he carefully read every line of text.

In this letter, the prince expresses his dislike for power.

At that time, the Iris Empire was at its peak, and he had a position of power that countless people envied, endless wealth to squander, countless beauties to choose from, and almost anything he wanted...... But he found this life very annoying.

His ideal in life is to find a calm and peaceful place, meet a quiet and elegant lover, and live an ordinary and ordinary life.

For the sake of his ideals, he finally acted, took the sword of power with him, and took a little money with him, escaped from the palace, and began this journey of freedom.

"A little money?"

Su Xia's eyelids twitched, and he couldn't help but look back at the storage cabin behind him, and when he saw the boxes of shining gold coins, he didn't know what to say.