Chapter 425: The Sea of the Far North
In this particular era, there is only a thin line between the good guys and the bad guys. Public opinion on the Internet is chaotic, making it impossible to distinguish between truth and falsehood, but fortunately, there is still some truth in the real world.
Minister Wu sighed, turned off the display screen, looked worried, looked at the sky outside the window, and only felt that the future was gloomy, and the future road was not clear.
If the Machines believe these rumors on the Internet, then the end of the club will be very bleak.
"It really shouldn't be like this." He couldn't help but sigh, the mechanical clan would definitely not tolerate the word betrayal, maybe in a few days, his head would fall to the ground.
It's all to blame on those stupid people on the Internet, it's really stupid, how can they be stupid enough to think that their club is undercover?
"Alas......" Minister Wu sighed again, full of sorrow. After a while, he was stunned for a moment, and a very fatal question came to his mind.
"We ...... Could it really be an undercover agent? As soon as this question appeared, it lingered in his mind, like a deep imprint that could not be erased.
Minister Wu took a few deep breaths, abruptly stood up from his chair, and walked around the office, thinking about this terrible question, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.
On this planet, there have been many famous undercover characters. Some died quietly in the process of undercover, and some became famous, retired with full honors, and even wrote autobiographies that sold well all over the world, and were even later changed into movies and TV series, becoming a generation of classics.
Minister Wu remembers that he had read a book on this subject, in which there was a very clever method, called - I didn't even know that I was an undercover agent!
Only at the end of the undercover mission will someone show up and tell you that you are also undercover.
"If that's the case......" Minister Wu's expression was dark, his mouth was full of words, his fists were sometimes clenched, sometimes released, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
…… Northern seas, underwater world. A large whale swam slowly across the ocean floor, its massive body stirring up an undercurrent, startling the rest of the surrounding creatures to flee in all directions.
Not far to the left of the big whale is a cigar-shaped black submarine. Inside the submarine, in the command cabin, Su Xia sat in front of the console, with a relaxed face, a book on the left hand side, and a glass of sugar wine on the right hand side, not like she was running for her life, but like she was enjoying life.
"It turns out that you are at the bottom of the sea to avoid those robots." The voice of the big whale sounded in Su Xia's mind.
"Yes." One man and one whale communicated for a long time. During this period, Su Xia slowly told the big whale about his experience during this time.
The big whale listened with relish, after all, he is not a terrestrial creature, he doesn't know much about what happens in the terrestrial world, and in order to avoid the pursuit of the mechanical clan for many years, he has been hiding in the deep sea for a long time, almost isolated from the world.
"I'm also dodging robots, and speaking of which, we're the same kind of people." The big whale paused, and then added, "No, I'm not human...... We should be the same kind of creatures. ”
"Well, that's right." Su Xia agreed.
"I didn't expect that although your life is short, the story is so exciting." The big whale praised.
"Your life is long?"
"Anyway, it's much longer than your life, probably dozens of times."
"That is, how many hundred years old are you?"
"I can't say for sure, I have a vague concept of time, there should be hundreds of years old, I have lived through the era of you human beings from wooden ships to steam iron ships......" The big whale chattered and told his story.
He never seems to worry about life, he lives just to eat, he sleeps when he is full, and he continues to eat when he wakes up, he doesn't know how long he can live, anyway, he feels good about himself at the moment, and there is nothing wrong with his body.
He broke away from his own group at an early age and swam alone in the sea, where he met many strange creatures like him and experienced many battles.
Most of the battles in the past have been related to humans.
"I used to be able to meet many whaling ships, but then those robots developed, fighting with you humans, fighting, there were fewer whaling ships at sea, I guess those people were killed, which makes me very grateful to those robots, but those robots will catch me later......" The big whale has lived a long history and witnessed every progress of the human navigation industry in the past few hundred years.
His figure has appeared at various stages of history, has been witnessed, recorded, and even left with blurry photographs, which have been written into books, and even made into a documentary of mysterious events.
When he recounted his own experience, Su Xia was also correspondingly to certain historical events in this world according to his narration.
"It turns out that you are the 'Moorish Behemoth', which appeared in Beiyang Bay more than four hundred years ago." Su Xia flipped through the information book and found a very famous historical event.
"Moorish Behemoths?" The big whale paused,
"It does seem that humans do call me that."
"More than 400 years ago, you crashed into three whaling fleets in Beiyang Bay, slaughtered the crews of more than 100 whaling ships, and finally only one sailor named 'Moore' survived, he told the world for the first time about your existence, and described your appearance, and after that, people named you after him...... "That was the first time that the big whale appeared in the field of human vision, and it shocked countless people as soon as it appeared.
In the long years that followed, he went on many different names, such as:
"Vengeful Whale",
"Poseidon Messenger",
"Nightmare of the Deep Sea" and so on, is a rather famous sea monster.
"Those humans want to capture me and slaughter my compatriots, and I can only fight back and kill them all first." The big whales didn't feel much of these slaughters.
In the last few hundred years on this planet, the whaling industry has been quite developed. Whale meat is edible, a single whale can satisfy the meat needs of the entire tribe, whale skin can be made into leather products, and the economic value of whale oil is even higher.
A century or two ago, many homes relied on whale oil for lighting at night, and whales were once seen as swimming wells.
"Those humans are so cruel, I saw those compatriots killed by them, they were dismembered, I was very angry, they can kill us, we can kill them." The big whale said.
"Well, natural selection, that's right." Susha said.
"But I still didn't kill as much as they did."
"It's enough, at least enough to give them fear...... "For a long time, this big whale was a nightmare for whalers at sea, a synonym for fear.
At that time, people could not understand why a whale could grow so big, so many people saw him as a messenger of the god of the sea, sent by the god of the sea to punish the whalers.
It is also said that he is the aggregate of the souls of countless whales on the ocean after death, the embodiment of their resentment, and that he came to earth to destroy all whaling ships and kill all whalers.
That's his too
The origin of the name "Vengeful Whale". Therefore, in those days, many people would pray to the gods for peace before going out to sea.
Of course, prayer is pointless. It's all about luck. If you're lucky, you'll go back alive, and if you're unlucky, you'll die at sea.
It's not that no one has tried to catch a big whale, after all, whoever can catch this deep-sea beast can leave his name forever in the history books, but in the end they all failed, and the losses were huge, and the most one lost more than 20 large ships.
"In these hundreds of years of history, there are more than a hundred records about you." Susha said.
"So, I'm still quite famous on the human side, and does anyone still know about me?"
"Now it's less." Su Xia sighed slightly, flipped through the information, and said: "The last sighting record about you was more than thirty years ago, and most people nowadays no longer believe in your existence and think that you are a monster made up by those sailors at sea. ”
"What do you mean?" The big whale is puzzled,
"Why make up monsters?"
"Because it shows the bravery of the sailors."
"Can it still be like this?"
"Yes." Su Xia nodded and said, "Some crew members will brag to people about their experiences at sea, such as fighting sea monsters, hearing mermaid songs, entering uncharted waters, etc., more than 90% of these experiences are false, it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and stories about you are mixed in them, so there are many people who don't believe it." ”
"So, those people think I'm being blown out?"
"Hmm."
"It seems that I've been showing up too little over the years." The big whale said: "Your human firearms are too powerful now, much more powerful than the previous cannons, so I rarely show up. "The last time he was seen was more than 30 years ago, in a sea area of the Western Continent, overturning several modern whaling ships.
But he was also hit by a torpedo fired from a small frigate nearby, and his injuries were not light. Although he has rough skin and thick meat, he can't make waves against modern firepower, and the monsters in film and television dramas that can't be killed by nuclear bombs are fake after all.
The development of modern firepower has put an end to the legends of many mysterious monsters.
"On the day the psionic energy came, a loud bang erupted in the sky, and many meteorites carrying psionic energy exploded on the surface of the sea, and after that, I gradually gained some unusual abilities." The big whale talked about the source of his abilities with some memories.
"Do you control the water pressure?" Susha asked.
"Controlling the water pressure is just one of them, I can also spit out energy bubbles that explode......" The big whale regretted that these energies could protect him, but they still couldn't give him the ability to fight back.
In the past few years, he has been active in this area of the northern sea of the Central Continent, sleeping most of the time, and his daily life is almost the same, until today, he met Su Xia.
"I've known that tentacle monster for a long time." The big whale said,
"He's a pretty unreasonable monster, and as long as a larger creature enters his territory, whether intentionally or unintentionally, he will be dragged into the abyss, so ...... I was quite surprised when I felt his breath on your submarine, how did you convince him? ”
"I couldn't talk about persuasion, I threatened first, and then negotiated some conditions." Su Xia briefly talked about the process at that time.
"I see, that guy must be depressed now." The big whale conveyed happy mood swings: "I have fought him several times before, and he does not collide with me head-on every time, relying on his many tentacles and fast speed to swim with me, consuming my physical strength......"
"Is his body a squid?" Su Xia was more curious about this question. Hearing this, the big whale thought for a while, and seemed unsure: "It should be, a giant squid that doesn't know how long it has lived, older than me." ”
"Outlived you?" Su Xia was surprised.
"Yes, if you look up the information of your human beings, you will definitely find out the relevant incidents." "For many years before I was born, the tentacle monster was making waves at sea, and his favorite thing to do was to wrap his tentacles around the ships at sea and drag them out into the sea," the whale said. ”
"He also has a grudge against humans?"
"This ...... I don't know. "Sea monsters, occasionally a few fights, occasionally exchange information with each other, in general, are not friends or enemies.
Their communication is not deep, and they rarely explore each other's past life experiences.
"However, I've heard from that annoying electric eel that the tentacle monster seems to have followed a human, a pirate to be exact, who was caught and hanged." The big whale told a gossip that was circulating among sea monsters.
According to him, the tentacle monster used to make waves on the sea for a pirate, plundering many human ships, and once made the pirate the emperor of the sea.
That pirate, relying on the tentacle monster, possessed countless riches, and built the wealth into a golden island, attracting countless sea pirates to join, and finally even had a large sea fleet.
Later, the pirate swelled up, wanted to negotiate terms with the Iris Empire at that time, had a haughty attitude, and even wanted to marry the princess, which caused the wrath of the Iris King at that time.
Later, the king of the Iris Empire wielded the sword of power and sent an invincible naval fleet to completely wipe out the pirate forces on the Golden Isle after a great war that lasted for more than half a year, and the pirates were naturally caught and executed.
"However, it is rumored that the wealth he accumulated during his lifetime is not only that Golden Island, but also another mysterious area, after so many years, only the tentacle monster still remembers the location of that area......" The big whale recounted intermittently, presenting an epic sea war in front of Su Xia's eyes.
Of course, this war is just a rumor. In the official history, Su Xia did not find this information, and most of the records about the sea monster were also marked
The word "legend". The sea is so mysterious and magnificent that there are so many legends, characters and treasures that it is difficult for later generations of scholars to sort out all the things that happened in the sea, even if they wanted to explore it.
A man and a whale chatted slowly like this, from dawn to dark. Su Xia told the big whale stories on land, and the big whale told Su Xia stories in the sea.
Three days flew by. In the evening of this day, Susha finally arrived at the outskirts of the Far North Sea.
"It's finally here!" The big whale let out a long screech, and if it weren't for the fact that he was hiding his tracks, he would even want to jump out of the water and cheer.
In his memory, there was an abundance of delicious food in the Far North, a small red shrimp.
"Let's go, please eat shrimp!" The big whale said.
"No, I'll need to find a place to go ashore as soon as possible." Susha replied.
"So fast?" The big whale was stunned for a moment,
"In a hurry?"
"Hmm."
"It's a pity, I wanted to take you to take a good walk around the Far North Sea, there are many mysterious areas, which you humans have always wanted to explore."
"Mysterious area? What is it? ”
"More than two hundred kilometers further on, you can see a mysterious area." The whale replied, "It's a city." ”
"City?" Su Xia was surprised.
"Yes, it's the city under the sea that you humans call it!"