"I've been diving in the waters off Norway before, and I've seen something similar there."

Caesar took control of the submarine and added, "Schools of fish swim, either mate, migrate, or have tiny microbes in the water for them to eat." ”

There must be a very special reason why these fish gather in the Greenland Ice Sea.

Of course, there won't be too many edible microorganisms in this kind of place, and that is something that is releasing pheromones that lure fish.

Generally speaking, it is to attract these fish as their own food reserves......

"So the dragon is ready for dinner?" Jiang Shouyun chuckled, breaking the dull atmosphere.

This discovery undoubtedly deepened the solemnity of the atmosphere and verified the most reluctant to admit the guess.

In the sea of ice, there is really a sub-breed or even a primordial seed that chooses such a cold and barren place as its own hatching ground.

"Is that lucky?" Caesar also smiled and said, "If we can really find a primordial species that has not awakened, maybe our name will be written in the history books of dragon slaying." ”

"That big guy will also feel quite lucky, and a big meal will be delivered to his mouth before he wakes up."

Fingal interjected and complained: "Compared to these small fish and shrimp, one S and two A's are obviously a big meal, as for me, ......"

"My meat is too old, and I will stuff my teeth when I eat it, I just hope he can let me go of this stinky fish and shrimp."

Hearing this, Chu Zihang glanced at him, and a thought suddenly popped up.

He suddenly felt that Jiang Shouyun had made a very wise choice to let Fingal come with him.

When the time comes to encounter a pure-blooded dragon, push Fingal out first.

If that pure-blooded dragon really ate Fingal, who hadn't bathed for a week, it would have been so disgusted that it would vomit and then it would have no appetite to eat the three of them again.

Chu Zihang thought so in his heart, and said so in the end.

This is not in line with his previous reserved nature, but Fingal and the others are actually the same.

Their journey had only covered a certain distance, but they already felt lonely in their hearts, and they couldn't help but want to say something to warm themselves.

In a few moments, they have reached a depth of 500 meters, which is no longer a shallow layer of biologically dense water.

At this moment, there is only darkness outside, as if the universe had begun, and they are suspended in the middle of the empty world.

The three of them more deeply realized the deep meaning of Jiang Shouyun's "Sea Girl" story.

This is like the "dematerialization effect" mentioned in "The Three-Body Problem", a concept of outer space navigation in astronautical psychology.

When people are in the earth world, they are surrounded by material entities, and the subconscious image of the world is both material and physical.

But in outer space, far from the solar system, the stars are only distant points of light, and the Milky Way is only a glowing mist, and the world has lost its sense of mass and substance, both sensory and psychological, and space dominates everything.

As a result, the image of the world in the subconscious consciousness of the "Voyager" has changed from material to void, and on the psychological level, the spaceship has become the only material entity in the universe.

At sub-light speeds, the movement of the spaceship is imperceptible, and the universe becomes an empty exhibition hall with no boundaries, the stars are like illusions, and the spaceship is the only exhibit.

This can lead to a huge sense of loneliness, passivity, and insecurity.

Chu Zihang's feelings at this time were like this.

The bright light of the submarine will decay beyond the range, and the darkness as thick as ink will always erode the light.

They looked at the dark and deep sea that had no edge, and the only feeling left was dead silence and loneliness.

Once you fall into silence, loneliness will continue to build.

Until the invisible embankment in the heart completely bursts, and the gathered loneliness falls from the sky like a black storm, which will instantly exceed the limit of what they can bear.

However, when Chu Zihang looked at the figure beside him, his tense body suddenly relaxed.

Jiang Shouyun sat there cross-legged, presenting a stable inverted T-shape, like a hard iron anchor.

He didn't react to the conversation between the three of them, just quietly admired the fish, and the soft light reflected in those eyes.

In this dark seabed, it seems so small and bleak.

But the light in Jiang Shouyun's eyes was even deeper, and it was farther away than the strong light of the submarine.

Looking at those eyes, Chu Zihang's mind inexplicably popped up with a small poem that he had read in middle school.

The sun had gone down, and the mountains, the trees, the rocks, the rivers, all the great buildings, were buried in the shadows, and the men had funly lit their little lamps, delighted in what they saw, and hoped to find what they wanted.

"According to one estimate, less than 1% of the planet's biomass is on land, and the remaining 99% of life is in the ocean."

Jiang Shouyun looked at the sea and said coldly: "This is the homeland of all living things on the earth, in the hundreds of millions of years after the earth was solidified, the sea was warm and rich in organic matter, and biologists called it the primordial soup. ”

"This pot of soup has been boiled for hundreds of millions of years, the organic molecules in the seawater have collided hundreds of millions of times, and after countless failures, finally a successful reaction has occurred, and microorganisms have been born, which is the origin of all things."

"The sea is the home of all living things." As he spoke, he looked at Chu Zihang and the others, and said with a smile, "You said that the dragon chose the bottom of the sea as its hatchery, is it because it is too homesick?" ”

“…… Mr. Jiang, what you say is like talking about a bear child who ran away from home. Fingal was silent for a moment, then spoke.

Hearing this, Caesar couldn't help but smile.

Only this master would describe a monster suspected of being a secondary or even a primary species as a "bear child".

It is also strange to say that the load in his heart was extremely heavy, but after hearing Jiang Shouyun's indifferent voice, he gradually relaxed.

Meanwhile, Schneider sat in the middle of the library, listening to the dive group's chats in the communication channel.

Different images are presented in the form of holographic projections, in front of him, left and right.

Norma gathered all the information on Schneider's side, the results of sonar scans, underwater footage taken by the Nautilus, the weather conditions in Greenland......

After dealing with a screen, you can wipe it to the right, and the holographic projection screen disappears instantly, but a new screen is projected, and new things join the ranks of "waiting to be processed".

Schneider stared at the progress of the mission, as if he and Jiang Shouyun were on the scene in person.

He was always a little uneasy.

With Schneider's knowledge of Frost Gattuso's group, the old guy should have sent an investigation team to intervene as he had done before.

However, the supporters of this mission, in addition to Principal Angers, there is a very special person.

Pompeii Gattuso, Caesar's stallion father, the true head of the Gattuso family.

According to the school rules, the executive department has the right to send students to carry out tasks, and Caesar himself has no doubts about this arrangement, and the school board cannot directly manage the executive department, so he can let Caesar join the diving team.

The only person who could stop the matter was Caesar's father, who had to be Pompey himself, not Frost, who was acting for him on the board of trustees.

But Pompeii, who was Caesar's biological father, did not stop his son from taking the risk, and even took out a submarine from his collection and donated it to the Executive Department.

That incredible stallion old man, showing unusual enthusiasm, really didn't seem to care about his son's life or death.

Schneider had an inexplicable feeling.

Pompeii seemed to know something.

He knew what they were looking for.

So he didn't mind letting his own son go on the adventure.

"What an old bastard." Schneider sneered in his heart, "You'd better keep yourself from playing out, or rather, you'd better have an illegitimate child to take Caesar's place." ”

Thankfully, so far, so far.

Schneider glanced at the information on the big screen.

The depth has reached 1000 meters, and the Nautilus is functioning normally.

But at this moment, Fingal's slightly trembling voice came from the communication channel.

"I ...... Depend on! ”

Schneider's expression froze, and he grabbed the microphone and asked in a low voice, "Fingal, what did you see?" What do you see? ”

“…… Professor Schneider. There was a brief silence, then Caesar said bitterly, "What's the biggest sea creature you've ever seen?" ”

"Overlord squid, 15 meters long."

Schneider took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "Some people have deduced from the sucker scars on the sperm whale that there may be a king squid with a body length of more than 80 meters in the deep sea, but no one has ever seen it. ”

The weight of land animals is limited by the weight-bearing capacity of the bones, but marine animals have buoyancy to support their bodies and can grow indefinitely in principle.

"That's lucky." Chu Zihang said softly, "You can see it today." ”

In the huge black waters at a depth of 1,000 meters, the Nautilus floated silently in the water, and the "Vasley" spotlights had been turned off.

Jiang Shouyun looked outside through the 10-centimeter-thick plexiglass.

The schools of fish in the surrounding waters were still swimming, but suddenly they all left, and all they could see was the dark blue water.

The water is boundless, and there seems to be infinite terror in the depths of darkness that cannot be seen.

In the sea, a slender black shadow swam, its long tail swinging slowly, and it moved calmly.

But everyone can see that it can burst out at an incredible speed at any time, rushing towards the target like a torpedo.

It was an impossibly large squid, still hovering above the submarine.

"Such a big overlord squid?" Caesar said with his lips.

"The body length is more than 100 meters." Chu Zihang is also lip language.

Click! Click!

The Overlord Squid has its own biological sonar and is able to detect the vibration of sound waves.

In order to avoid detection, they had to cut off the power and close all the valves.

"It's kind of like ...... The North Sea Monster? Jiang Shouyun's eyes flickered, and he said in a low voice, "I didn't expect that there was such a thing in the world." ”

"In the unfathomable depths of the sea, the North Sea Monster is sleeping, it has been sleeping for centuries, and will continue to rest on the giant sea worm, until one day the sea worm's flame will warm the seabed, and both people and angels will witness it rise from the bottom of the sea with a roar, and everything on the surface of the sea will be destroyed."

- Alfred the Great, King of the Kingdom of Wessex during the Anglo-Saxon England period

Legend has it that when it surfaced, some sailors mistook its body for an "island" and even climbed the island, camped on it, and died at the bottom of the ocean when it sank.

The North Sea Monster has multiple giant tentacles that can sweep giant ships or ships to the bottom of the sea, so it is believed that its prototype is actually the king squid near the Norwegian Sea.

Now it seems that I am afraid that there really is.

At that moment, the squid suddenly disappeared, and immediately after, a muffled noise came from the submarine.

"......" Caesar, Fingal, and Chu Zihang all froze, and slowly turned their heads in unison.

Outside the window was a huge, sun-like golden eye, and in the sea water next to it, bucket-thick wrists and feet danced lightly, covered with suckers half a meter in diameter.

It seemed to be intrigued by the strange object, and moved one eye to the center of the viewing window to look inside.

Boom!

"Holy! What is this guy doing here? ”

Fingal swallowed his saliva fiercely and said tremblingly: "I have high cholesterol and fat content, which is not good for your health, and it is not very suitable for your taste, you can't eat junk food indiscriminately!" ”

He didn't think he could read the eyes of a fish.

But at this moment, no matter how you think about it, you can feel that this squid is enjoying the main course of dinner.

After all, he had just seen with his own eyes that this big guy had swallowed a thirty-meter-long shark alive.

It has more than a dozen tentacles, and there are many suction cups on the tentacles, all of which look as powerful as pythons.

It didn't even give the shark time to resist, just watched as the ring-shaped mouth rolled a few times before swallowing its prey alive, the bulge that had slid from its throat to its stomach still undulating.

"Don't be afraid, the submarine has no temperature or smell, it doesn't know what we are, and it doesn't target us."

Jiang Shouyun shook his head lightly and said comfortingly: "If you don't want to confront this big guy, what we have to do now is to stay calm and don't move." ”

With the terrifying size of that big squid, even a tentative bump would be troublesome.

In terms of weight alone, the metal submarine may not be inferior, but if it knocks a crack in the Nautilus's shell, the entire Nautilus may collapse completely.

Even Jiang Shouyun was unwilling to face it in this deep-sea environment.

Therefore, they can only be like the Siberian hunters say, once they encounter a horse and bear, they can't move rashly, the shotgun can't kill it, you can't run as fast as it can run for its life, and if you want to survive, you have to lie down and stay motionless.

"How long is it going to look?" Fingal couldn't help but say.

"It can be as short as a few minutes, as long as a whole day." Caesar said with his lips.

Caesar's voice fell, as if a flag had been planted, and the submarine suddenly began to shake, and the safety rope tied to it made a tooth-aching sound.

They saw the black shadow slowly rise, slowly wrapping itself around the submarine with the wrists and feet of a giant snake, and its eyes radiated a red golden light.

Apparently, it is also a subspecies of dragon's blood, with an apparently much higher IQ than the average squid, and has come to see them as prey.

(End of chapter)