The message Roger sent was simple, just a few words.

Without too much nonsense, he was concise and to the point, asking Meng Lei about his current progress.

More than three hours have passed since the request of the alliance was accepted.

It is reasonable for Roger to ask about the situation with some concern.

Meng Lei glanced at the time when the text message was sent, it was more than half an hour ago, and couldn't help chuckling, this Roger can quite calm down.

Fingers swiped across the screen, and Meng Lei replied with a few words as easily.

"Mission accomplished, heading home."

Gently click the send button button, and a whoosh flashes, and the text message only appears after a period of time.

The immediacy of underwater long-range wireless communication is very poor, and instantaneous synchronization cannot be achieved.

The more complex and large the content of the message, the more severe the latency.

Simple text messages are not enough, let alone video communications, which can be stuck in doubt.

Therefore, during ocean activities after leaving the gathering place, generally no one uses video chat to communicate.

The transmission of video data is also affected by network latency and becomes extremely slow.

While waiting for Roger's reply, Meng Lei had already sent the battle video he had captured in advance to the other party.

The video content begins with the battle between the Sea Locust and the Luke and Colin, and continues for nearly half an hour until the shaft entrance to the Lava Outpost is completely destroyed.

Although the entire video is very dim, it is almost impossible to see a clear battle situation.

However, with the combat coordinates and the sonar feedback data at the time as proof, it is also possible to determine the completion of the mission from the side.

After a long time, Roger sent a message.

"What you said is true?! The shaft entrance to the lava outpost has been destroyed?! ”

From Roger's tone, it can be seen that Roger feels very incredible about the efficiency of Meng Lei and his group.

Meng Lei lit a cigarette, half-lay on the leather seat in the command room with Erlang's legs crossed, a chuckle on his face, and replied:

"The video has been sent to you, and we'll see it later."

This time, Roger's reply arrived quickly.

"Received, I will immediately arrange for technical personnel to analyze and collect evidence, and notify you as soon as the results are available!"

Shortly after this text message was sent, Roger followed with another one.

"Captain Meng, my friend, you are really a person who constantly creates miracles, and once again brought me a surprise! Without your help, we might still be in the dark about the tragedy of this Molten Outpost, let alone bring those behind it to justice! Thank you so much! ”

In the smoke, Meng Lei silently took a handful of Versailles and replied simply:

"It's just a matter of effort."

Roger was obviously very excited at this time, but he seemed to be busy with something, and he didn't have much time to communicate with Meng Lei.

Again:

"After completing the task, go back to the city as soon as possible, I am looking forward to meeting you next time, and I promise that your reward will be paid after the technical department confirms it, pay attention to safety on the road."

After that, there was no movement on Roger's side.

Meng Lei put away the tablet, got up from the chair and stretched.

For a while, I just felt refreshed.

After going to sea for three days, I earned two or three million, and this is just an obvious harvest.

The prestige of the alliance is respectable, and it can buy any commodity at a seven-percent discount, and these two hidden harvests are no less valuable than those goods and eggs that have been brought in for nothing.

Chen Yu doesn't know about this matter yet.

He was looking forward to seeing what kind of expression Chen Yu would have on his face when he heard the news.

It's funny to think about that picture.

The time soon came to twelve o'clock in the evening, Meng Lei looked at his watch, and suddenly felt a burst of hunger in his stomach.

At this time, he suddenly remembered that until now, everyone had not bothered to eat dinner.

The high-intensity combat and rush of continuous rotation make people completely forget about eating.

Now that Meng is free, his stomach begins to protest unhappily.

Meng Lei shook his head and smiled bitterly.

I thought that after going through the seven-day novice trial, my routine and diet would return to normal.

Now it seems that it is a little too difficult to live a normal life in the deep sea nearly 3,000 meters below sea level.

Of course, if you are willing to live a peaceful life in the gathering place,

Except for the starry sky, everything is not much different from being on land.

After stopping the fleet, Meng Lei gathered everyone on the Sea Locust and had a simple dinner.

During the banquet, everyone discussed the night duty again.

Meng Lei finally decided that the fleet would stay where it was for the time being, and that there would be no hurry to leave.

Now they don't have many people, and they can't even do the minimum of two people guarding each ship.

In addition, today has experienced another life-and-death crisis, and everyone is exhausted.

In this state, it is easy to go wrong.

Therefore, Meng Lei asked Simon to turn off the engines of the three submarines they picked up and hover over the seabed.

Then everyone gathered in the sea locust to rest, so as not to have an accident at night and not be able to rescue in time.

In addition, the Sea Locust has also turned on energy-saving mode, kept the sonar silent, and turned off all external lights.

In this way, the four submarines are like four cold reefs, quietly sinking to the bottom of the sea, which can avoid being detected by most living things.

However, there are still people on duty at night.

This task was temporarily handed over to Xu Hui, and due to his injury, he did not need to bear most of the usual work, and he had a lot of time to rest during the day.

The night guard does not require too much physical labor, and it is only fitting that he should be the night watchman.

After hurriedly eating supper, everyone adjusted the submarine, and immediately returned to the crew room to fall asleep.

Meng Lei just touched the bed, changed into clean pajamas, and didn't hold a book of alien plant encyclopedia to read two pages.

A thick tiredness hit, and the upper and lower eyelids began to fight unstoppably.

He dragged his tired body out of bed, turned off the light in the captain's room, and prepared to go back to bed.

At this moment, in the incomparably dead darkness, there seemed to be a little red light flashing away.

At first, Meng Lei thought it was his hallucination, because he was too tired, which caused problems with the optic nerve.

But when he just climbed into bed, the quilt was not covered.

The surging red light lit up again, and it was fleeting.

Meng Lei saw it really this time, and he found that the red light was projected from outside the porthole on the bulkhead of the captain's room, very faint, but obvious.

"Something outside the ship?!"

This thought flashed quickly in Meng Lei's mind.

He immediately realized that the red glow he had just seen was not his hallucination, but that something had really swam through the window.

However, the thing did not touch the bulkhead, and wandered silently in the darkness.

Meng Lei suddenly came to his senses, immediately got up and touched the edge of the porthole, and subconsciously looked out of the round glass hole.

Outside the window, there was a deep, dead dark void where nothing could be seen.

The boundless darkness was as deep as ink, completely enveloping the entire captain's room, revealing a suffocating panic and unease.

The red mangs did not appear and everything was peaceful.

Meng Lei stared for a moment, but he didn't find anything, but the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

He immediately prepared to go to the bridge command room and asked Xu Hui to turn on the sonar and probe the nearby sea area to see if there was anything abnormal.

But the moment his gaze withdrew from the porthole, he suddenly saw a huge red sphere suddenly appear in the depths of the darkness in the distance!

The feeling that moment brought him,

It's like some behemoth hidden in the dark, inadvertently opening its eyes, and then staring at him coldly!

Just in the dark and unknowing, motionless, quietly looking at him!

Meng Lei suddenly felt a tingling in his scalp, and subconsciously retreated backwards.

He couldn't imagine what kind of creature it was, with such breathtaking eyes.

Based on his current knowledge of the alien sea monster, only beings like Morok, the Banshee of the Abyss, and the Hammerhead Empress could be estimated to have such a large size.

But none of these monsters seem to have an organ like an eye.

At least the Banshee of the Abyss and the Hammerhead Mother Empress, these two monsters have absolutely no eyes.

So what exactly is the red glowing sphere that appears outside the window at this moment?!

The point is that when the two looked at each other, they didn't even give a hint to the golden finger.

Obviously, what I see is not the essence of this thing!

Meng Lei felt extremely frightened for a while, and the combination of the scene in front of him and the surrounding environment made him very uneasy.

At the same time, a mysterious voice entered the eardrum from outside the boat.

The sound was strange, not particularly huge, but it could easily penetrate the bulkhead and be clearly captured.

Because it is different from any sound source, it maintains a high degree of specificity.

It's like some kind of mysterious electric sound, a little distorted, and it might be more appropriate to say it's static noise.

When the voice rang out, something strange happened.

Meng Lei couldn't feel any horror and uneasiness anymore, and all kinds of negative emotions only lasted for a short second in his thinking consciousness, and dissipated in an instant.

Immediately afterward, his mood suddenly became happy.

That pleasure is full of excitement, from physical to psychological, even more intense than the excitement of "dreams come true"!

Suddenly, the red orb outside the window seemed to be no longer so terrifying, and became intoxicating and fascinating.

And the environment outside the window, which is wrapped in infinite darkness, gradually becomes colorful.

The surrounding environment and the sea water are no longer incomparably deep black, and the dark shades of dark green and deep blue emit light in the mold lake, intertwined and blended in the field of vision, and everything becomes distorted and spread unconsciously.

And faintly with a hint of ghosting, as if it was an abnormal hallucination after eating a poisonous mushroom.

Only in the center of the line of sight, the piercing scarlet, exudes an eternal and unchanging clear shimmer.

It seemed to have a strange magical power, which firmly attracted Meng Lei's mind.

Meng Lei suddenly felt that everything in this world was no longer important.

What bullshit crosses, survives, finds the way home, all obsessions and desires. Hope is completely dissipated and has no meaning.

Slowly raised his steps like a walking corpse and came to the edge of the porthole.

The palm of his hand touched the cold glass, and his slightly green and delicate face was deeply obsessed and intoxicated.

Meng Lei's eyes were confused, and he pressed his whole face on the glass surface of the porthole.

At this moment, he just wanted to quietly look at the red glowing sphere, indulge in that boundless pleasure forever, and never wake up again.

Forever, forever sinking. Fall.

…………

When Meng Lei woke up again, it was already more than eight o'clock the next morning.

The soreness of his body, accompanied by the feeling of suffocation of tightness, and the coldness of being wet and close to his body, became Meng Lei's first feeling after regaining consciousness.

He opened his eyes blankly, and the dazzling white light stimulated the child's hole to shrink sharply, and there was a tingling pain in his eyes.

At this time, Huo Ye's anxious and happy voice sounded in his ears.

"Commander awake, Commander awake, Gina, Dr. Gina, come on!"

Immediately afterwards, Jia Quan also shouted loudly on the side:

"Commander, you're finally awake, do you feel anything uncomfortable?! Remember who I am, no? ”

Meng Lei struggled to get up, only to feel a sharp pain in his brain.

It took him a long time to get used to it before he finally opened his eyes.

only to find that he was tied to the ship in the captain's room with five flowers, and the straight captain's uniform was wet and clinging to his body, and the whole person was embarrassed.

"This ...... What's going on?! Why are you tying me up?! What happened?! ”

Meng Lei was a little dazed for a while, and he couldn't figure out the situation at all.

How can you wake up and be tied up like a criminal?

"Commander, you don't remember what happened last night?"

Huo Ye got closer to Meng Lei, his face was slightly solemn, and there was a hint of fear.

From his uneasy eyes, Meng Lei could tell that he must have experienced something terrible last night.

Meng Lei carefully recalled, trying to remember everything that had happened in those few hours.

However, his memory seemed to be stuck in the time when he got out of bed and turned off the lights.

Beyond that, there is no impression at all.

And, whenever he tried his best in the depths of his mind, trying to dig up that hidden memory.

A sharp tingling sensation would hit him, and it would be painful for him.

After a while, Meng Lei shook his head with a pale face, a trace of pain appeared in his expression, and he said in a deep voice:

"I don't remember, I don't have any impression at all, it seems that I saw something strange, and I don't know later."

Romance

Hearing this, Huo Ye and Jia Quan glanced at each other, nodded affirmatively at the same time, and said in unison:

"Observer!"

"What an observer!"

Hearing this, the doubts in Meng Lei's heart became even stronger.

"What observer, what the hell is going on?"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, and the sound of Simon and Hans and others could be faintly heard.

Immediately afterwards, the visitor bell rang in the captain's quarters.

Huo Ye turned around and opened the door, and Gina and Simon immediately rushed in noisily.

As soon as they entered the door, everyone chattered and asked questions.

"Captain, are you alright? It scared the hell out of me last night! ”

"It's good to wake up, it's good to wake up, fortunately I found it in time, otherwise it would be a big trouble!"

……

A few people, you said a word, and directly surrounded Meng Lei.

Only Gina had a rare seriousness on her face, stepped forward and pushed Meng Lei down, her slender cold but incomparably tender fingers, involuntarily broke Meng Lei's eyelids, and took a small flashlight and clubbed Meng Lei's eyes.

Meng Lei struggled in horror and subconsciously shouted:

"What?! What are you doing? Does anyone care? What the hell is going on! ”

At this moment, he was completely confused.

When I woke up, except that my identity had not changed, it seemed that everything had become different, and everything was weird.

Meng Lei was extremely curious, what did he do last night?

Why is there no impression at all?

"If you don't want to leave sequelae, let me take a good look, don't become a fool and a crazy person one day, or say goodbye to sex from now on, and then it'll be too late to regret it!"

Gina's soft voice revealed cold words.

At this moment, she finally had the appearance of a doctor.

Hearing this, Meng Lei suddenly gave up struggling, raised his head with a trace of sadness on his face, and was at the mercy of Gina.

Next, Gina simply did a full body examination of Meng Lei, and even ripped off his pants.

Meng Lei struggled, trying to retain his last dignity.

can think of the so-called sequelae, and the whole body is still tied up, and there is no ability to resist at all.

In the end, he forcibly self-hypnosis, constantly building himself psychologically, bringing himself into the role of a patient, and allowing himself to accept the examination calmly.

After a while, the bewitching red. The lips gently exhaled a mouthful of wine.

The seriousness on Gina's face receded, and she became enchanting again. got up, patted Meng Lei's forehead, got up from the bed and said:

"Okay, it's not a big deal, the impact time is short, just rest for two days."

As she spoke, she moved her gaze downward, glanced at Meng Lei, and said meaningfully:

"My dear little captain, it's not too young to be very capable, and if you had been there yesterday, I think we would have been able to have a wonderful evening, and there would have been no more to come.

Tsk tsk, it's a pity, it's inevitable that I have a little regret in my heart......"

Meng Lei felt that the part she was staring at was cold, and she was suddenly embarrassed, her old face turned red, and she said to a few people next to her:

"What are you doing in a daze, put pants on me!"

Huo Ye and Simon stepped forward with a wicked smile and sorted out Meng Lei's appearance with all their hands and feet.

At the same time, he kept quipping:

"Captain, I didn't see it, it's really hidden!"

"I really didn't expect that the little commander was actually quite magnificent and talented!"

……

In the face of commercial blowing between the same sex, Meng Lei subconsciously smiled:

"Hey, concede, concede!"

After saying that, he immediately realized that something was wrong, and scolded again:

"Don't be poor, brothers, can we untie me first?! What the hell happened last night? I don't know what you're doing! ”

At this time, Huo Ye pulled out a diving knife from his waist and raised his hand to cut the rope that bound Meng Lei.

Meng Lei suddenly felt a sense of relief, rolled over from the bed, jumped on the spot twice, and shook his sore arms and legs.

Then Hans spoke:

"Captain, don't blame us for being so heavy, you were under the influence of the observers last night and almost sank our submarine.

If I don't tie you up, maybe you'll do something cruel to yourself.

As a last resort, we can only restrict your actions and stabilize you first. ”

Hearing this, Meng Lei was shocked.

He never imagined that during the period of his amnesia, such a major thing would happen.

He hurriedly asked:

"What is an observer? What have I done? ”

Hans says:

"The Observer is also an alien sea monster, but unlike other alien sea monsters, it will never attack any target under normal circumstances.

They will only maintain a certain level of attention and gaze on the targets they are interested in, such as submarines and divers.

Once they spot a target, they silently approach the ship and gaze through the portholes at the movements of the ship's crew.

But ......"

Hans paused, and then said:

"Although the observer has no malicious intent, their large, red-glowing eyes can affect people's spiritual consciousness, and their influence is extremely huge!

Anyone who looks at it, mentally and physically, will involuntarily fall into an instinctive pleasure that borders on madness, and people can't help themselves.

The point is, this kind of crazy pleasure usually causes people to do a lot of incomprehensible actions without control.

Like Captain, you ......"

Speaking of this, Hans glanced up at Meng Lei, and a trace of fear flashed in his eyes.

Meng Lei, who looked at him with that look, felt more or less guilty in his heart, and it was difficult to look directly, so he asked embarrassedly:

"I ...... What did I do last night? ”

At this time, Huo Ye interjected:

"Commander, you looked like a ghost last night after everyone was asleep, at three o'clock in the morning!

Dressed neatly, he walked out of the house, and then in the toolbox on the wall of the corridor, he took out a plasma cutter, ran directly to the ballast tank, and began to cut the wall frantically!

If Xu Hui hadn't seen your abnormal behavior from the surveillance, Hans would have woken up in time when he heard the noise of the observer.

God knows what the outcome will be in the end! ”

Hearing this, Meng Lei was stunned for a moment.

No wonder he was wearing a wet captain's suit, and his feelings were that he didn't even wear a diving suit and ran to the ballast tank.

No wonder everyone looked at him with a hint of fear.

If no one really stops him, let him continue to act, and he will do something else.

When the time comes, the whole ship will have to be buried with them!

Thinking of this, Meng Lei couldn't help but shiver, and felt a chill rush to his head.

It's horrible, it's horrible.

He had no memory of what had happened last night, and he couldn't find even some remnants of it.

If no one intervenes to stop him, it is really possible that he will not even know how to die in the end.

"At first, Xu Hui thought you were sleepwalking, and everyone thought so, but Dr. Gina thought you were suffering from acute psychosis.

Until Hans established the presence of the observer by the static noise emitted by the observer,

Only then do we have a rough judgment that you are under the influence of the observer.

As you know, our submarine sonar was in a state of silence at that time, and it was not even turned on the passive sonar, so it was impossible to detect anything approaching outside the ship.

By the time you're settled, the observer has long since left, and the sonar detector hasn't found anything out of the ordinary. ”

Simon made a brief summary of the follow-up of this incident.

Meng Lei nodded thoughtfully when he heard this, and something in the depths of his memory was touched.

A touch of scarlet tore through the shackles of memory, breaking free from it and resurfacing in his mind.

Meng Lei faintly recalled that before going to bed, he seemed to have seen something.

A red ball!

No, it's a red eye!

He told the story about it, and it immediately aroused Hans's affirmation.

"It is certain that you are undoubtedly influenced by the observer, captain, and the red sphere outside the porthole is the most characteristic eye of the observer.

Speaking of which, we actually have to thank you. ”

Hearing this, not only Meng Lei was stunned, but Huo Ye and Xu Hui and several other Blue Star players also turned their heads to look at Hans in confusion, and some couldn't understand the meaning of his words.

Hans explains:

"The gaze of the observer, capable of ignoring the hull structure, has a mental effect on the crew inside.

Normally, it has to be dealt with in a timely manner, which means that we need to deal with it in some way, but usually in violent ways.

However, we were all asleep at that time, and no one could notice the presence of the observer.

If it weren't for the fact that the captain took the initiative to look at the observer and aroused the interest of the other party, thus ignoring the observation of us.

Then all of us, including it, will be more or less influenced by the observer in our sleep. Good spiritual response.

When the time comes, it will most likely be even worse! ”

Hearing this, the corners of Meng Lei's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but say:

"You mean that as long as an observer is interested in one target, they will always stare at the other object and will not focus on other targets?

So I'm counting this, blocking the gun for you?

Alone with a lot of damage that should have been evenly shared? ”

Hans smiled and nodded, "You think so, but there's nothing wrong with that. ”

Meng Lei's facial muscles twitched, and he almost wanted to cry without tears.

At this time, he suddenly realized a problem again and said:

"By the way, I remember when I went to bed, it was just after twelve o'clock in the evening? The observer also appeared at that time, how could it be that when he went out, it was already three o'clock? Did I look at that thing for three hours? ”

Hans shook his head, spread his hands and said helplessly:

"It's not impossible, the observer's gaze can give people a serious illusion of space and time, and sometimes you may think that only a second has passed, but in fact a long time has passed.

In that state of mind, the human mind and consciousness have lost their subjective judgment, and everything is a very confusing concept. ”

After saying this, Hans suddenly frowned, and said:

"The presence of the observer this time is somewhat unusual.

Rather than the confusion of time, I think there's another issue you should be thinking about right now, Captain. ”

Hearing this, Meng Lei couldn't help frowning.

Hans's tone gave him a hint of danger, as if something bad was about to happen.

Meng Lei suddenly wondered, "What's the problem?" ”

Hans said in a deep voice:

"Observers usually live in the flat zone at a depth of 5,000 to 10,000 meters, and rarely move in the shallow zone, combined with the appearance of the clown in Eugene before, I think......

A new round of space tide may soon erupt! ”