"(Dian diàn) down!" a column of ancient men dressed in neat leather armor saluted respectfully. Wild Sands Literature .net

Ren Baqian nodded with a smile, and looked at the short and stout young man at the front of the team, as if he remembered something, and there was some reverie in his eyes.

He asked with a smile, "One Piece?"

"Governor!" the young man smiled a little embarrassedly.

This young man is the freshman Chao Zhong who almost dropped out of school after watching "One Piece".

"More than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye!" Ren Baqian said with some emotion, and it seemed that he could still vaguely see the scene of the young man standing in front of him and saying that he was going to drop out of school.

Although the great dream of dropping out of school to become One Piece did not succeed, it planted a seed in his heart.

Now that seed has finally taken root.

After learning that the imperial court was going to build steel ships and explore the sea, he volunteered to join them.

"Tell me about it. Ren Baqian said with a smile.

"Yes. ”

"This is the Zhenbo, over there is the Zhentao, which is 142 meters 3 long, 12 meters 9 wide, with a displacement of 3,380 tons, a full load displacement of 3,760 tons, and a speed of 19 knots...... Carrying 122 people...... The maximum speed is 19 knots, the range is 12 knots, and it can reach 30 days ......"

While listening to Chao Zhong's words, Ren Baqian approached and reached out to touch the steel armor shell of the Zhenbo, which felt cold to the touch and had a little fishy smell.

I boarded the boat along the gangway, and my front suddenly opened up.

The blue ocean, which stretches to the end of the line of sight, gradually turns black.

"How much do you know about the troposphere now?" asked Ren Baqian, looking into the distance. The troposphere is the blade in the world's oceans, and it is also a barrier to the world's oceans, blocking humanity's footsteps and confines humanity firmly to the land.

The troposphere generally appears at a distance of several thousand meters to tens of thousands of meters from the coast, and it looks inconspicuous from the outside, but a few meters below the surface of the sea is filled with countless chaotic and turbulent undercurrents, as if countless hands are tearing, and ships can hardly escape when they enter the troposphere.

Even a steamship with a steel hull stuck in it will be difficult to escape.

Not to mention the myriad strange marine life in the troposphere, which is also a great danger to ships.

"The observatory's research institute has placed observation devices underwater several times, and although it was quickly lost under the strange surface, it is not without any discoveries. ”

"I don't know what the undercurrents in the troposphere contain, but they have a little effect on the signal, and the undercurrents are very fast, and in a short period of time, the observation device will be swept into places where the signal cannot reach.

Below the ocean, there seems to be something affecting the current, and we find a lot of whirlpools underwater, which is a big reason for the formation of undercurrents......

The ocean is very deep, and there seems to be a huge crack under the surface of the water 10,000 meters away, as if it has been cut by a sharp axe......"

"The extent of the troposphere is not yet known, the detection range on the sea surface has exceeded 300 kilometers, and the troposphere has still not been breached...... And three hundred kilometers away, there are turbulent undercurrents in the air above the ocean, and some extreme weather often occurs...... Several times the observatory's drones exploring the outer area were destroyed at a distance of three hundred kilometers. ”

Ren Baqian had already understood most of the situation before, but he still had to listen to Chao Zhong's introduction.

"Let's take a look, and let me see how good you are. "Ren 8000.

"Yes!" Chao Zhong commanded the crowd with a proud look on his face to prepare.

"Have you learned how to swim?" Ren Baqian suddenly asked with a smile.

Chao Zhong (情qíng) stiffened, and then said: "I have suffered a lot in order to learn to swim." ”

Most of the ancient people were landlubbers, or the kind of scales (sex xìng), which sank to the bottom when they went into the water.

If it's close to the coast, it's good that you can stabilize (身shēn) and walk out directly underwater, otherwise it's a dead end.

The pioneers of this group of navy suffered a lot in this, and they don't know how much seawater they drank.

It didn't take long for the horn to blow.

"It's moving!"

"Tsk, no sails or oars, it can work!"

"Rely on the waves...... It's all about the waves......"

Many onlookers on the shore who came to see the fresh sight showed surprised looks when they saw the ironclad boat parked here for several days suddenly start.

The boat didn't go very far, but it was just over nine kilometers away, and when it turned back and could see the shore, it stopped.

By this time the ocean has taken on a deep blue color, and a little ahead, the ocean has turned black.

"(Temple diàn) below, there is the troposphere ahead. ”

Ren Baqian nodded, staring at the sea in front of him, except for the change in color, he couldn't see much difference, although there were waves on the sea, it seemed relatively calm.

"Drop markers. Ren Baqian commanded.

"Prepare to drop the marker. Chao Zhong immediately shouted.

A moment later, the ship threw a red ball of wood into the distance, two meters in diameter, which was so dense that it was just below the surface of the water when it was thrown into the water.

Soon, Ren Baqian saw that the sea seemed to be enraged, although there was not much change on the surface, but the wooden balls under the surface of the water began to move quickly and irregularly under the surface of the water at high speed.

This is the effect of undercurrents below the surface of the water.

In just a moment, the wooden balls suddenly shattered as if they had been concentrated by a heavy hammer, turning into countless wooden blocks that continued to float and sink in the water.

This is the power of the undercurrent, and under the power of countless undercurrents, it can even deform steel.

Huge waves suddenly set off on the surface of the sea, and a "strip" of behemoths suddenly poked out of the water.

It looks like an octopus's tentacles, sticking out of the water at a height of more than 30 meters, twisting and swinging on the surface of the water, and at the top there is a huge mouth full of sharp teeth.

"This "piece of firewood" is everywhere under the water's surface. Chao Zhong said. "The strength of Ben (身shēn) is not particularly strong, but there are too many of them. ”

It's not just a tentacle of a giant monster, it's what it looks like.

After speaking, he picked up a bow from the side, bent the bow and set an arrow, and an arrow pierced the air and pierced the shaking hand, and suddenly a large hole appeared.

Blue blood sprayed everywhere.

The sea suddenly churned, and the tentacle flapped wildly in all directions.

Even a large hole is not fatal to this creature.

And compared to its size under the water, it is already a giant monster on the surface of the water, which only takes up one-third of its size.

"A piece of firewood?" Ren Baqian turned his head a little puzzled, this name makes people feel awkward no matter how they hear it.

"Hey, that's what we call it privately. The people at the observatory called them alien leeches. Chao Zhong said with a smile.

"There's a lot of this stuff under the water?"

"Many, everywhere. ”

"They need a lot of food for their size, right? They have so much food?"

"There is more marine life below the surface than you could have imagined, especially the undercurrents, which, although turbulent, also bring in a large number of fish from afar. ”

"How is this thing not torn apart by the undercurrent under the water?"

Ren Baqian listened to Chao Zhong's answer and nodded lightly from time to time.

Looking into the distance, he sighed in his heart: It seems that there is a long way to go to solve the riddle of the ocean.

But this is not the most important thing, the most important thing at the moment is to find a route along the coastline.

As for whether the goal can be achieved, no one knows now.

Although the ocean looks deep, there is a troposphere on the outside and a coastline on the inside, and there is only such a winding path for ships to pass, and no one knows if it will be stuck in the reef somewhere. Fupin Chinese