69novels Chapter 240 begins the exploration of the underwater secrets.
Chapter 240 begins the exploration of the underwater secrets.
“Theoretically, what you said is correct, but Little Twilight, as a guardian spirit beast, it seems you don’t really understand your family environment!”
"Awooo—Awooo! (Impossible!)"
"Ha, you don't believe me? Come on, come with me. You little guy, remember this: exploration is always a three-dimensional thing. The sky is boundless, and sometimes you can just look at it and move on. But underground or in the sea, it's the same as on land; you have to explore it inch by inch."
As they were talking, Long You had already brought Xiao Muyang to the base built in the mountain. Under Long You's command, Bourne, who had taken over the base's intelligent control system again, pulled up the underwater topographic map drawn by the underwater exploration robot.
"Come on, take a look at this blueprint. Can you spot anything different?"
I don't know if it's a characteristic of blessed lands, but blessed lands that appear in relatively safe places (referring to those without particularly powerful or aggressive spirit beasts guarding them) always have a special geographical environment around them. They either deceive people's eyes so that they can't be seen at all, or they have a special magnetic field that makes them visible but impossible to enter.
If Longyou hadn't been determined to build an underwater base and port, and hadn't sent underwater robots to meticulously scan the map inch by inch, he would never have discovered this ocean secret realm teeming with life energy.
That's right, it's the Ocean Secret Realm, a small world attached to the main world. Longyou has already sent underwater exploration robots to carefully explore this place. After entering the secret realm, the environment is no longer covered by seawater, but rather a group of islands in the sea.
According to the investigation, this secret realm hasn't been formed for very long. Although the life energy within is abundant, there aren't many animal life forms; it's mainly plant life. As Long You anticipated, this kind of environment would easily produce rare and precious materials. He didn't need many; one would suffice. Moreover, Long You would leave behind seeds, since all he needed was to reach the Soul Emperor level as quickly as possible.
To be honest, Long You really feels like he's been granted the privileges of a chosen one. He's not surprised at all that he can find blessed lands or rare treasures on the new continent; what surprises him is the difficulty of entering those blessed lands.
Although Lulian Island is called an island, it is ultimately part of the mainland. A continental shelf surrounds the island, resulting in shallow waters that cannot support large spirit beasts (generally, the larger the spirit beast, the stronger it is). This significantly reduces the difficulty for Long You to enter this blessed land. Although Long You still cannot be certain whether powerful spirit beasts are lurking within the blessed land, as long as this marine secret realm remains freely accessible, he is confident he can develop it without harm.
"I can't see anything special about this nautical chart, I can't see anything at all."
While Long You was brainstorming, Xiao Muyang stared intently at the nautical chart with his big, round eyes. After a while, Xiao Muyang blinked helplessly, indicating that he was giving up.
"If you can't figure it out, that's fine. You can follow along during the next underwater robot exploration and you'll see. We need to conduct intensive mechanical exploration in the near future, and then the two of us will have to go out and do the on-site exploration."
The sooner we find a stable place where life energy converges, the sooner the surprise I'll give you will unfold. Of course, I believe the place where life energy converges itself will bring us enough surprises.
Although he very much wanted the underwater exploration robots to begin exploring the ocean's secrets right now, considering that these soul-guided robots had been operating independently for a long time, and out of responsibility for the lifespan of these soul-guided machines, Long You still needed to conduct a detailed inspection before putting these soul-guided robots back into service.
It's inevitable that the soul-guided robots put into use will experience bumps and knocks. It's only because Long You has Bourne, the intelligent life assistant, that Long You feels he would have spent half a month just to complete the maintenance.
Three days later, a large-scale deployment of organized underwater exploration robots was launched. This time, Longyou was willing to suffer heavy losses of these robots in order to quickly ascertain the level of danger within the ocean's hidden realm, and at the very least, to understand the distribution of the sources of danger.
Seeing that the underwater exploration soul-guided robot had been deployed, Xiao Muyang shrunk his size and jumped directly in front of the monitoring screen, staring intently at the soul-guided display. While Long You was busy repairing the soul-guided robot, Xiao Muyang hadn't been idle either. He not only examined the sea charts more than once, but also boldly dived into the seabed to explore. However, just as Long You had said before, Xiao Muyang hadn't found the existence of that underwater secret realm at all. Therefore, unable to contain his curiosity, Xiao Muyang finally had to come here to get the answers he wanted.
When Xiao Muyang saw the underwater exploration soul-guided robots of the brigade crash through a curtain-like barrier right before his eyes and disappear from the view of the external monitors, his already round cat eyes instantly became even rounder.
"Awooo, awooooo..."
Little Muyang was still a child, and compared to its peers, it was quite knowledgeable. However, what was happening now was beyond its comprehension. The little guy thought that the underwater detection soul-guided robots sent out by Longyou had been attacked by an unknown enemy and had suddenly disappeared, so it cried out in panic.
"Oh dear, don't be in such a hurry! Can't you see that it says the signal is being reconnected?"
The reason why Longyou believed that this underwater secret realm was a small world attached to the main world was because after entering the underwater secret realm, the transmission of communication signals would be severely interfered with, or even directly blocked.
During previous explorations of this underwater secret realm, a large number of underwater exploration soul-guided robots lost contact due to signal transmission interruption. It wasn't until Long You remotely controlled the intelligent clone left behind by Bourne at the base and dispatched auxiliary intelligent robots carrying clear instructions that all the underwater exploration soul-guided robots that had lost contact in the underwater secret realm were brought back.
Thanks to the video content stored on the recording array by these robots, Long You discovered this underwater secret realm so close to his base. In order to keep track of the underwater detection soul-guided robots' movements in real time during this large-scale exploration, Long You upgraded the communication modules of some of the underwater detection soul-guided robots during the robot maintenance process to ensure that the signal could penetrate the membrane of the secret realm.
"Alright, quiet down. I can't really explain what this place is. What we need to do now is to watch the surveillance footage and find any potentially dangerous spots, regardless of whether they are fatal."
Seeing that the video signal transmission had been restored, Long You pressed down on Xiao Muyang, who had shrunk up and down, trying to figure out what the underwater secret realm was all about, and focused intently on taking notes while staring at the screen.
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Shrek Academy, Sea God Pavilion. As the gathering place of Shrek Academy's strongest forces and the academy's highest decision-making body, meetings are actually held very rarely in this magical wooden building. However, in recent years, perhaps since Long You enrolled, the frequency of Sea God Pavilion meetings has increased significantly.
Just now, a serious meeting of the Sea God Pavilion had been held only a few months ago, and now the entire hall of the Sea God Pavilion was once again filled with the elders of the academy. And, yes, there was one more person present: Zhang Lexuan. After all, this meeting was actually convened because of the news Zhang Lexuan had brought back.
"So, this kid Xiao You asked you for help without even asking me, the dean? Is that damned little rascal so afraid that the academy will find his new continent first? Didn't we already say that the academy wouldn't interfere with his activities on the new continent?"
Although protective of his son, Qian Duoduo was quite dissatisfied that Long You hadn't directly sought his help this time, or rather, Qian Duoduo sensed his father's disappointment.
The other elders in the hall paid no attention to Qian Duoduo's complaints, which were essentially just looking for trouble. They were well aware of how many eyes were watching them around the academy. If Qian Duoduo, as the vice dean of the academy, left the academy at this time, no matter how careful he was, he might not be able to escape the surrounding surveillance. If he ended up helping the Sun Moon Empire find the new continent before Shrek Academy was prepared, Shrek Academy would be furious.
"Alright, enough of the useless talk. What we need to decide now is who to send to sea to accompany the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Guidance Warship."
Just like what Xiaoyou said, the positioning array is both reliable and unreliable. If conditions permit, we should destroy the array and rely on human tracking directly.
However, the current problem is that we need to secure a foothold for our maritime tracking personnel. The academy previously had no intention of developing the oceans, so it hadn't invested much in shipbuilding. Finding a ship capable of keeping pace with the Sun Moon Empire's modified soul-guided warship is not easy.
Considering that the Sun Moon Empire's soul-guided warships are unlikely to stop moving and are equipped with very powerful detection soul-guided devices, it is not advisable for a single person to approach and detect them by flying. Therefore, we must ensure that the anti-detection capabilities, movement speed, and observation distance of the tracking ships can reach a very high standard.
If building such a soul-guided ship were a mission, could the Soul Guidance Department complete it? Or, how long would it take to complete?
"Elder Mu, the Soul Guidance Department isn't entirely without a foundation in building Soul Guidance ships. When Xiao You was studying at the Outer Academy, he tried to build a Soul Guidance powered sailboat. Moreover, after the competition, Xiao You even built a Dragon Abyss boat that could dive. All of these blueprints have been uploaded to the Panlong Realm."
I've seen it before; the production difficulty isn't particularly high. However, to meet your standards, Elder Mu, we'll probably need to add some of our own elements. Considering the time constraints for various aspects, it will likely take us close to a month to build a qualified warship.
"A month is too long; we can't just wait around. Here's what we'll do: issue a mission to the inner court students, anyone above the Soul Saint level can accept it. First, find the Sun Moon Empire's warship on the high seas, and look for an opportunity to retrieve the positioning array that Yu Hao placed."
Wait, let's add another layer of protection. All students who accept the mission must undergo a stealth level test in reality. Students who fail the test are prohibited from accepting missions. Students who pass the test will then simulate removing the positioning array from the Soul Guiding Warship in the Panlong Realm. Only students who successfully remove the positioning array more than ten times consecutively can accept the mission to destroy the array. Other students can only perform tracking missions.
Regarding the intensity of the test, Qian Duoduo, you should consult Mr. Long Guozhang and increase it appropriately. Also, if the number of students is less than ten, include the Soul Saint and Soul Douluo level teachers in the academy; at least make a team of ten.”
"It's Elder Mu."
"Fanyu, leave all the above matters to Qian Duoduo. Your only task is to quickly produce a radio capable of long-distance communication. Before the tracking team sets off, there must be at least two qualified radios to ensure smooth communication between the team and the academy."
"Don't worry, Elder Mu. I've already looked at the blueprints for the radio. The difficulty is only equivalent to a level six soul tool. After a few tests, I should be able to make it soon."
"Alright, meeting adjourned. These are turbulent times, but we cannot stop moving forward; there is still much preparation to be made."
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Sun Moon Empire, Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. There were four students who wanted to intimidate Huo Yuhao. However, since these four students had not, or rather, had not yet, touched a nerve with Huo Yuhao, he did not do anything to them. He simply told them with undeniable facts: "Don't try anything funny. You are no match for me."
Zi Mu, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke all accepted their defeat in light of Huo Yuhao's display of strength and his leniency. Only Wang Shaojie, with his royal background from the Sun Moon Empire, saw Huo Yuhao's actions as an insult to him.
Wang Shaojie, who was highly valued by his family since childhood because of his reputation as a genius, had everything go smoothly and developed a habit of arrogance. He never reflected on his behavior.
After recovering from the extreme cold, still shivering, Wang Shaojie was single-mindedly focused on revenge against Huo Yuhao. After all, in Wang Shaojie's limited mind, he couldn't possibly analyze how Huo Yuhao, an exchange student at Shrek Academy, was any different from the other ordinary students at the academy. In Wang Shaojie's view, such a student with no connections would simply disappear without a trace in a few days if he went home and gave the word.