Curran frowned, the expression on his face in disbelief at what he had heard.

"You're saying you found a whole pod of whales, and every whale in the pod is about the size of this beluga whale?"

"Yes, and they're all white." Summer Night added with a smile.

"How many whales are there?"

"8-9."

"Well, I think you're lying, Miss Summer Night." Curran shook his head slowly.

"Why?"

"Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I can guess how dangerous this huge beluga whale is, but you said you encountered 8-9 of these whales. If what you're saying is true, I don't think you'll ever come back alive, let alone kill this whale during the siege of the whale colony and drag its carcass back. ”

"When we found the whale, it was lonely, and the pod was about 100 nautical miles away." "However, you're right, Chairman Curran, even then, we wouldn't have been able to escape the whales......"

"But?"

"It's not 'but.'" Summer Night smiled, "It's 'therefore'." So—I used a little bit of incommon tactics to get us out of the whales. ”

"......," Curran looked at her without saying a word.

"You don't believe it?"

Summer Night foresaw this situation in advance, and if Curran still didn't believe it, she had to ask Tang Li to replay the scene when the whales appeared to Curren through a fantasy.

But Curran's answer was beyond her expectations: "No, I believe what you say, Miss Summer Night." ”

She said as she pressed the back of her prosthetic hand. With a "click", a small screen popped up, Curran turned the screen in a different direction, and Summer Night saw that there was a number on the screen: 99.

"99 means 99% probability that it is true. My prosthetic hand has integrated the function of a polygraph contract, which can be used very limited times, and can only be used for one sentence at a time, but it is still very useful when it is critical. Curran smiled.

Summer Night faintly felt that she had been tricked: "Which of my words did you lie?" 'Every whale in the pod is a beluga whale the same size'? ”

"Of course not."

Curran picked up the knife with his prosthetic hand, cut off a piece of whale meat, put it in his mouth, chewed and swallowed it, and then said unhurriedly:

"I'm testing this sentence - 'I used a little trick that I don't use often to get us away from the whales'."

"......" was really tricked, and Xia Ye thought helplessly.

"This sentence is actually true, not a bluff." Curran stared at her, "Miss Summer Night, it seems that I underestimated your strength before. ”

You weren't underestimating before, and now you're overestimating, Summer Night thought to herself, because the contents of the "Rift" contract had changed.

Never mind...... Whether it is underestimated or overestimated, as long as it is not an accurate estimate, it is not a bad thing for yourself.

"I thought we could have been a little more honest." She carefully kept her expression to the level of "angry, but not very angry".

"That's how honest I am, Miss Summer Night." "I could have kept quiet, but I told you frankly anyway. It is beneficial for both of us to know exactly what the other side is capable of, because the likelihood of our cooperation is far greater than that of confrontation. ”

"I hope it's true." Summer Night said.

"It's true, I promise."

Although Curran's assurances didn't add any credibility, Summer Night didn't pursue the matter further, and she returned to the previous topic:

"All in all, here's what I want to tell you: we didn't encounter a beluga whale, we met a pack."

Chris, who had not spoken all this time, finally spoke: "Could it be that near that sea area, there is something that causes whales to mutate, and it makes these whales mutate into beluga whales?" ”

"And then we were lucky enough to meet this group of beluga whales?" Summer Night asked with a smile.

"......" Chrissy was silent, she certainly knew that explanations that attributed the cause to coincidence or accident were often the wrong explanation.

"You want to say...... In the waters west of the Western Islands, all the whales are this beluga whale? When Chrissy said this, she felt her heart pounding.

"Not bad, and my guess goes further."

"What is it?"

"I don't think those beluga whales are any special mutant whales, they are the same species as these 'calves' that live near Debussota, except that they are the 'calves' as adults."

Summer Night recounted her complete speculation in detail. She had only told Yaha about this speculation before, and now Curran and Chrissy were the second and third people to hear it.

After listening, they fell into a long silence.

Whether it's Curran or Chriss, the first thing they think of is the same thing-

"Miss Summer Night, if your speculation is correct, then wouldn't the 'Voyage Ship' ...... back then," Curran said at this point, unable to continue.

Chrissy picked up her words: "Didn't you fall on the eve of imminent success?" ”

Xia Ye glanced at the two with complicated expressions and nodded: "I think so." Actually, I've always been curious, how do you think about the relationship between the scope of exploration and the benefits of exploring the Etheric Sea? ”

Chrissy and Curran looked at each other.

"It's a positive correlation. However, there is also a positive correlation between exploration risk and scope.

"And, as the scope of exploration increases, the risk grows much faster than the returns. In other words, from a statistical point of view, the deeper you go into the Aether Sea, the lower the net income you can get, and after reaching a certain threshold, this net income may even become negative. The one who answered was Chriss.

If Curran had said that, Summer Night might not have been so strange, but she didn't expect that even Chrissy would think so.

"Why do you think so?" Summer Night asked curiously.

This time, it was Curran who answered: "This is what we learned at Bafaria. Miss Summer Night, in fact, the question you asked has been studied by scholars for a long time, and they have come to this conclusion after a series of complex modeling and calculations, based on the observations and experiences of all the traveling witches who have reached Debsota in the past, combined with our knowledge of the Aetheric Sea. ”

"But don't you think this conclusion is counterintuitive?" Summer Night frowned.

Curran shook his head slightly: "It depends on what 'intuition' is." For those of us who came from Downtown, the conclusions learned at Bafalia Academy were intuitive, after all, if this conclusion was wrong, then why had only powerful Traveling Witches been able to travel in the Aether Sea for so many years? ”

(End of chapter)