Yaha's first instinct was that he had misheard.

"What do you say? Four pairs of bony wings? ”

“…… Right. ”

"Are you sure?"

"Can't ......" even Tang Li himself doubted, "It's too far away, I'...... Can't be sure. ”

When there is too much contrast between the facts and common sense, people's first reaction is often not "what to do", but "something must be wrong".

Yaha and Tang Li are currently in this situation.

The summer night felt much better, and the vague thoughts that had been looming before, but which had been lingering, finally became clear.

You only need to confirm it again.

"I'll fly closer with the second officer and take another look, and I can be sure." "Soon, it takes less than two minutes to go back and forth." ”

This time Yaha didn't hesitate: "Okay. ”

……

"Are you ready, Sister Tang Li, I'm ready to take off."

"This—this posture ......"

"Is there anything wrong with this pose?" Summer Night asked with a natural face.

She was hugging Tang Li in the posture of a princess. Speaking of which, Tang Li is taller than Xia Ye, but fortunately, his figure is almost as slender as Xia Ye, so his weight is still within the range that Xia Ye can bear.

"My wings are stretched out from the back of my waist, since I can't carry you on my back, I have to hold it, fortunately you are not very heavy......"

Tang Li: "......"

"Alright, let's take off. Fix my head into a harness and tie it to her so that it doesn't fall off. ”

Xiu "meowed". Xia Ye's head suddenly flowed down from her neck as if melting, transforming into a thin and long tentacle that bypassed Tang Li's slender waist and thighs, and tied her firmly to Xia Ye's body.

"No, you don't have to tie this sword fairy, ah, it's so itchy, babbling......"

Ignoring Tang Li's objection, Xia Ye crushed the 'Thunder Feather' in his palm, and at the same time as the wings were spread, the whole person, together with Tang Li, turned into a crimson thunder light and flew towards the west.

The "Thunder Feather" can fly 18 kilometers in 12 seconds, which is about 10 nautical miles. After the maintenance time ended, because there was no target for the attack in the summer night, the wings disintegrated into 99 rays of thunder like a large firework, shooting in all directions.

At the same time, Xiu Ji, who was lying on the shoulders of the summer night, swelled up like a balloon that had been rapidly blown up.

In the blink of an eye, the cat that was less than a foot long turned into a "cat balloon" with a diameter of more than five meters, and Xiu's head and body became round, like a cartoon fat cat, but the limbs were stretched thin and long, like a rope around the body of the summer night, hanging her and Tang Li in the air.

The balloon slowly flutters forward under inertia.

"I didn't expect that Sister Summer's spirit pet would have such a usage." Tang Li looked at the top of his head and said in surprise.

"Well, some time ago, it ate a lot of snacks and gained a lot of weight, so it suddenly occurred to me that if Xiu Ji inflated into an air bag, it should be able to float in the air with people, and it is really feasible to try it today."

"This cat is not fat! Just growing the body! The overhead Xiu protested.

"What's the matter, cats are cute when they're fatter. When the time comes, you can change back. ”

Xiu meowed, his body shrank rapidly, and he returned to his usual appearance, lying on his shoulder on the summer night.

As soon as he said that on a summer night just now, Tang Li took a closer look at Xiu Ji at this time and found that it was indeed a lot fatter than before......

The scattered thunder light had already retracted into a "thunder feather", suspended in the palm of the summer night, she crushed it again, flew forward another 10 nautical miles, and then Xiu Ji turned into a cat balloon again, hanging the two of them in the air.

"Sister Tang Li, you should be able to see this position clearly, right?"

The two had traveled about 20 nautical miles compared to Moby Dick's position, and during that time, the whales had swam about 3 nautical miles. As a result, the distance to the whale has been shortened by about 110 nautical miles.

Tang Li nodded, opened the "Sword Pupil" again, and huge eyes appeared from the crack, immediately occupying the position of the cat balloon.

Xiu "meowed" in protest and reluctantly gave way to the side. And the big eyes, under Tang Li's command, cast their gaze due west.

Due to the shortening of the distance, Tang Li could see much more clearly this time, and at the same time, he also had the spare energy to share his vision with Xia Ye.

Soon, the summer night also saw -

It's not 5 wakes, it's 8, and each represents a whale.

They are all white and have four pairs of bony wings; Each one was several times larger than the one seen in the shallow waters.

Yahab thinks she's got a special whale and is obsessed with it. To hunt it down, they built the Moby Dick and gathered a group of good whalers who searched from the shallow waters to the deep and eventually found it, just when everyone was ready to fight it to the death......

They were stunned to find that there were eight more of the same beluga whales, and they were speeding in this direction, and it would take less than an hour to collide head-on with the Moby Dick.

"Why...... There are so many mutated beluga whales? Tang Li's expression was both shocked and puzzled, "Could it be that something has changed in the deep sea area?" ”

"Probably not." Summer Night said, "Let's go back to the ship first." I had a conjecture before I came, and now it seems to have been confirmed. ”

With that, she asked Xiu Ji to return to her shoulder, and then crushed the "Thunder Feather", turned into a flash of light, and flew in the direction of the Moby Dick.

……

Think about it, how did the witches of Debussota learn about whales in the first place?

It all came from the traveling witch, who had inadvertently mentioned the creature in the chat, but she boasted more about her prowess than the whale in detail; And the people who heard about it were only skeptical at first, and they didn't pay much attention to it.

It wasn't until later, when someone actually encountered this huge creature in the waters near Debussota, that it was finally determined that the whale really existed.

And as more people go to sea and more whalers find whales, the appearance of those whales in the shallow sea has also become the "common sense" that all whalers know:

The length of the whale is about 60-80 meters, it has two pairs of bony wings, the back is golden yellow, the belly is light yellow, and the main means of attack is whale breath.

Since all whales encountered by whalers look like this, whales are certainly such creatures.

As for the deep sea zone? Few whalers dared to enter the deep sea; Of these, only a small fraction of them will come back alive; As for those who came back alive and also found whales in the deep sea - not at all.

As a result, "common sense" about whales is maintained in Debussota to this day.

Until one day not long ago, a captain named Yaha claimed that his whaling ship had been wrecked by a white whale, which was large and dangerous, a special mutated whale.

Most people don't believe her, thinking she's telling a stupid lie; A small number of people believed her words, and at the same time acquiesced to one thing - the beluga whale was a special, mostly mutated whale.

This is a reasonable guess, because "common sense" tells them that normal whales are not like this.

So, for the sake of Mor, fame, and fun (someone), they set out to find and hunt the "special white whale".

They found it — and more, the exact same white, four-pairs of bony wings, nearly 200 meters long.

So, is the beluga whale that Yaha met really a special mutated whale?

"Common sense" misleads all whalers, as well as summer nights; But as an outsider, Summer Night has only accepted this "common sense" for more than ten days, and therefore, it is easier for him to jump out of its shackles than whalers.

In fact, as early as the first sight of the beluga whale, that conjecture loomed

Because of its bony wings, whether they are in front or behind, the connection between the two pairs is so natural that it is as if one of them is separated from the other.

So, why can't there be such a conjecture:

Whales in shallow waters are not "normal" whales, but only juvenile whales.

Juvenile whales reach a certain stage of growth and enter the deep sea, where they become larger, their color turns white, their bony wings split, and they become four pairs – eventually, they become an adult whale.

This is the "white whale" that Yaha encounters by chance.

It is even possible to speculate further:

Perhaps the whale, like the witch, is also an oviparous creature. Adult whales generally only move in the deep sea area, and only enter the shallow sea when they are spawning, because the shallow sea is safer (not taking into account the witch whaling factor) and more suitable for juvenile whales, which explains why no one has ever brought back beluga whale information before Yaha.

After all, the whaling industry in Debsota has only been emerging for a few years, and the possibility of encountering beluga whales in the shallow sea is itself small, and even if it does, it will not be able to return to Debsota alive.

Until the appearance of Jaha.

In the wheelhouse of the Moby Dick, the summer night recounted the above conjecture as quickly as possible.

"So, I think, that's what Moby Dick really is."

After saying this, Summer Night stretched out his hand to Yaha.

"And you, my captain, are a true hero to all the whalers of Debussota."

(End of chapter)