star hunter

Xilin followed the sound and saw the gray cat squatting in front of a plant, inserting its paws into the rocks next to the plant and digging.

Gululu——

A small round ball rolled out as the gray cat retracted its paws.

It is the size of an ordinary pigeon egg and is bright light blue.

"Xilin, I think this thing is quite valuable." The gray cat said as he bent his paws and played with the crystal-like ball.

Xilin picked up the small ball and took a look at it. It was a little cool, not too irritating, and had a faint plant fragrance, which made people feel extremely refreshing.

"Oh, I didn't expect this to be here." Takashi came over, "People call it the 'Guardian Heart'."

"Guardian Heart?" The gray cat listened carefully with his ears raised. Long's explanation made him feel that this crystal-like ball was really valuable.

"Well, this is something that is produced in special sea areas. The Guardian Heart produced here in Haitiantian is of the best quality and has the best effect."

Long explained to Xilin and Gray Cat the origin and purpose of the Guardian Heart. This small crystal-like ball is actually synthesized from the roots of some plants on the coral reef. Its purpose is to repel sea beasts and some beasts that eat plants.

, insects, etc. This kind of small ball will slowly move to the surface after the root system is synthesized, but will not be exposed to the surface. There will be such crystal stones in many places near the surface around the plant. They form a circle to surround the plant.

Protect it inside and drive away some small sea beasts. As for the large sea beasts, even if you can't drive them away, you can still make those sea beasts lose their appetite for plants, let alone bite them.

"The breath on the Guardian Heart smells very pleasant to people, but to those sea beasts, it is like something disgusting. So when you find that there are no small sea beasts around some plants on the coral reefs full of sea beasts,

.That means that its root system has synthesized the 'Guardian Heart'. Strangely, many researchers have tried to artificially synthesize the drugs that work in this crystal, but the results have been unsatisfactory. Therefore, this natural

The price of crystals in the market has always been high. The price of Haitian's 'Guardian Heart' has always been the highest among this kind of crystals. If it is like this one, it is estimated that it can be sold for a price of six to seven figures.

This thing can be dug more, but if it is not fully formed and has not been moved to the surface, there is no need to dig it. Leave these plants to drive away sea monsters."

The last sentence Long said was to the gray cat. He looked at the gray cat's eyes that were getting brighter and brighter, especially when he heard the words "very valuable". Those cat eyes were particularly bright.

Just as he was talking, Xiying, who had gone to collect information, came over from the other side.

"There are many hallucinogenic substances in seawater. Indigenous organisms can develop resistance, but outsiders cannot." Xiying showed Xilin some analytical data and also mentioned the distribution of the surrounding sea beast populations on the coral reefs.

Condition.

"The sea beasts here and some fish in the sea cannot be eaten directly," Long said, suddenly remembering that the gray cat had a big meal when he was cleaning this area before. Long turned his head and looked at the fish that was energetically fishing for crystals next to other plants.

Shi's gray cat looks like Xilin: "Does it really matter what the cat eats?"

"It's okay, these things can still be consumed. Don't worry about it."

Xilin was used to it. Gray Cat had eaten a lot of sea beasts when he was in the Lansa Empire. Although the sea beasts here were a bit special, they would not make Gray Cat upset.

"Young Master, the detector found something." Someone said over there.

After landing on the atoll, several of Long's subordinates quickly put detectors into the sea water to detect the conditions in the surrounding sea areas. Especially in the direction pointed by the star map, Long asked his subordinates to place a few more detectors.

"What's going on?" Long asked.

Xi Lin and Xi Ying also walked over, leaving only the gray cat who was still digging hard for "treasures" around a few plants in the small jungle.

"Now the detector has descended to three thousand meters below the water surface. This is the result sent back by the detector." The man handed the electronic board in his hand to Long.

There is a wavy line on the electronic board. Due to the particularity of the environment here and the weirdness of the Haotianzheng planet, the detector does not have very detailed data. It only displays some images and areas with detected waves and energy anomalies.

And drawn into a three-dimensional map. Each depth corresponds to a point on the three-dimensional map. At three thousand meters, the detector detected an anomaly. From there, the color on the three-dimensional map began to change, and with the detection

As the vessel continues to sink, the color on the three-dimensional diagram deepens.

Looking at the results on the three-dimensional map, Long looked very excited. He knew that the "Tears of God" must be in that place. The energy reflection there was different from that in other sea areas. So far, only this area has such anomalies.

As a result, there was no such abnormal display on detectors in other sea areas.

"Why are there steps formed here? Is this a normal phenomenon?" Xilin asked, pointing to a place on the three-dimensional map.

There is a steep slope below the sea surface of this annular coral reef, and it can be clearly seen from the three-dimensional map drawn by the detector that there is a ladder on this steep slope. One end of the ladder extends downward to the seabed.

"Such a staircase is not for people to walk on. Could it be that it is a sea monster?" Long said.

No one knows whether this is man-made or natural. But I have to say that such a step gives some people a very strange feeling.

"Continue to pay attention to the detectors in this area, and prepare by the way. After the detectors are completed, we will take action." Long ordered several others.

"Wow——"

There was a sudden roar from the small jungle where the gray cat was.

The people in Xilin turned around and looked over. Between the trees, there was a tail with dark stripes swaying. Plants about 20 to 30 meters high could not cover the tail. The branches and leaves of those plants were cut off by the big tail.

Scattered in all directions. Some small sea beasts not far away were frightened by the roar and fled in all directions.

puff--

The blue blood sprayed and splashed on the big leaves of the plant, making a swishing sound. The movement of the big tail twitching the leaves gradually subsided.

Not long after, there was a rustling sound from far to near, and the leaves in the small jungle were swaying. Not long after, a big sea animal head was revealed.

What surprised Long and others was that the gray cat bit a long tentacle around the mouth of the sea beast and directly dragged the sea beast over. At first glance, the contrast in size is really impressive.

Exciting. In comparison, the body size difference during the previous clearing was much smaller.

The large sea beast dragged over by the gray cat looks a bit like an eel, with a trunk diameter of nearly five meters. There are many pairs of legs on its torso. Compared with the small sea beasts that the gray cat cleaned up before, this sea beast should be

at higher levels in the food chain.

As the gray cat dragged, the sea creature gradually revealed its full appearance, including a long wound on its abdomen, with blue blood flowing out. Due to the drag of the gray cat, a blue stripe was formed behind it.

Mark of.

After the gray cat dragged the sea beast to Xilin, he asked Xiang Xilin and the others: "Do you want to eat it?"

The Pascals all shook their heads. Seeing this sea beast with its big mouth open and its fangs inside, the Pascades had no appetite at all. It was just the blue drag mark and some internal organs on the marks.

Organs made Pascaldo feel a little nauseous.

"Something's wrong, that sea beast is not strictly an amphibian sea beast. Although it can crawl on the coral reef for a while, it doesn't last long. It only rushes onto the coral reef when it's hunting for prey, but now is obviously not the time for it to hunt. And this is

All the small sea beasts in this area have been driven away by Snort, so what is this big guy doing here?" Long said while touching his chin.

The gray cat licked the blue blood on its paws and quickly clarified, "It came out of the sea. I didn't pay attention to it at first. I was digging for treasures, but who knew this guy would come straight towards me?"

, there are still a lot of gems I dug out over there, I can't let them swallow them! This is really not what I want to cause trouble. This guy bumped into me."

Yingwei looked at the sea and said, "There are schools of sawfish."

Sawtooth fish is included in the information collected by the Andrela family, and it is relatively detailed. This is a typical species. Sawtooth fish live in the middle and upper waters, and move in groups, and each fish group is very large.

, tens of thousands of sawtooth fish are enough to scare away some large sea beasts in the middle and upper layers.

Adult sawtooth fish can reach five meters, and the opening angle of their upper and lower jaws can reach 270 degrees. The powerful bite force can directly crush the bones of those small sea beasts. Therefore, generally people of the Andrela family

Whenever I come here, I will stay away from this group. This is not something you can get away with just by escaping the first drop of blood.

"Those sawtooth fish are hunting. The big guy just wanted to take shelter on the coral reef." Invicki continued, "In about five minutes, the pioneer force of the sawtooth fish group will pass through this atoll area."

Long sighed, "In other words, even if we want to take action, we have to wait until all these troublesome guys have left."

Ying Weiwei nodded solemnly and said: "Theoretically, that's the case."

Xilin had to admit that in the ocean environment, his sensitivity of perception was indeed inferior to that of people like Ying Wei. The reason why Ying Wei could say these words with such certainty was also learned from the sea beasts and sea fish in the sea.

of.

Being able to adapt to the new environment so quickly and begin to tame sea beasts, Yingwei is worthy of being one of the top ten bodyguards around the old fox Andreira Vokos.

"Go inside the aircraft. There will be many sea beasts boarding the coral reefs outside later. Let's avoid this wave first." Long asked Xilin to take refuge inside the aircraft.

The gray cat gave all the "Guardian Hearts" it dug up to Xilin for safekeeping. It planned to stay outside and watch the fun. Anyway, if the coral reef was too crowded, it would fly into the sky.

After Xilin entered the aircraft, some sea beasts came to the coral reef one after another. However, the "lords" of those areas did not come out to drive them away. They just gave a warning and then there was no movement. Unless the intruders made too much noise, those "lords"

Only then would they come out for a fight. Other than that, they were hiding in the cave and nervously paying attention to everything outside.

Swish swish——

Some fish with outstretched wings flew out of the sea water, and they flew from outside the atoll into the lagoon inside the atoll. In addition to these flying fish, there were also several small sea animals that crawled into the inside of the atoll from outside the atoll.

The lagoon, which was originally quite deserted, suddenly became noisy.

The closed lagoon provides protection for these little guys. Because the sawtooth fish cannot board the coral reef, nor can they jump and fly. With the barrier of the atoll in the middle, the flying fish can be regarded as escaping the sawtooth fish.

of hunting.

However, although these flying fish have escaped the sawfish school, they have to face other predators, such as gray cats that spread their wings and fly in the air.

The gray cat just spread its wings and hung there, waiting for the flying fish to come to the door. It just opened its mouth and waited. If it didn't want to eat, it deliberately stretched out its fat cat claws to knock the flying fish back to their original position one by one.

place, or take pictures directly to the coral reef where other sea animals are.

Is there any reason not to eat what is delivered to your door?

Therefore, the sea beasts that had been taking refuge on the coral reefs opened their mouths directly to the flying fish that was photographed in front of them.

Pascaldo and others who were hiding in the aircraft had an idea when they saw this scene: This cat is really so mean! Those flying fish will probably be depressed about how they met this evil star.

There are more and more sea animals on the coral reefs. And the sawfish also show their shadow.

On the sea surface, elongated triangular dorsal fins emerged from the water one after another. Some poor guys who didn't have time to jump onto the coral reef or couldn't get on the coral reef were directly torn to pieces and swallowed by the sawtooth fish. Except for those who were hunting, the ones jumping on the sea surface were

In addition to the sawtooth fish, there are many incomplete bodies that were half or mostly bitten, and were thrown out of the water due to the bite and swing of the sawtooth fish.

The originally blue water became even bluer.

Xilin thought of that sentence again: the blue color of the sea water is dyed with the blood of sea beasts.

Five minutes later, looking around, the sea surface was full of those floating triangular dorsal fins, and these were just the pioneers of this school of fish. There were other members of the fish school surrounding them behind, and there were also fish everywhere in the water below the surface.

They are all these brutal guys.

Boom!

The gray cat, which was photographing flying fish in the air, jumped into the sea.

"What's that fat cat doing?" Pascaldo asked.

"I guess I'm bored playing in the sky. Let's go and watch the excitement underwater." After a pause, Xilin added: "Turn on a monitor."

After Long opened one of the closed displays in the aircraft, Xilin signaled Xiying to connect the display with the gray cat's data.

After a while, the underwater scene appeared on the monitor. This was also the scene the gray cat saw. It transmitted what it saw back to the aircraft.

In the waters below the sea surface around the atoll, it is a fierce fight for prey. The sawfish schools push other sea fish and sea beasts towards the atoll. After all, there are only a few species that can climb onto the coral reef or fly directly over like flying fish.

, most of the hunted people swam here and were blocked by the "wall" of the atoll. They had no way out because the shoals of sawtooth fish were already approaching.

There are minced meat and scales everywhere, the iconic big mouth and teeth of the sawtooth fish are everywhere, and the sea water is obviously much darker than before, which makes people feel chilly when they look at it.

The people inside the aircraft were looking at the tragic scene displayed on the monitor. The results sent back by the detector diverted everyone's attention.

"The detector has reached the seabed!" one person said excitedly.

From the results sent back by the detector, everyone can see that a strange scene appeared in the three-dimensional picture.

It was like a city under the sea. Although it was only a rough outline, Long was quite excited to see it.

Yes, the Tears of God must be there!

"Isn't the video turned on? Why are there no video results over there?" Long asked.

"Master, all three detectors that reached the seabed lost contact."

"Young Master, the fourth one who arrived there also lost contact."

"Young Master...the fifth one has also lost contact."

After the five detectors sent to that coordinate reached the seabed, they were unable to even capture video images and completely lost contact with the aircraft.

Xilin thought of some things A Yue had mentioned before when she talked about "Tears of God".

When the people of the Xi family were studying "Tears of God", they lived under the sea for a while in order to better understand those sea beasts.

Ah Yue used the word "lived" instead of "lived" or other words. Considering the vague outline on the three-dimensional map, Xilin thought: Could it be that the Xi family built an undersea city under the sea?

Although it sounds incredible, after all, this is a "sea paradise" and not other ordinary sea areas. It is difficult for an aircraft to fly here, let alone building a city under the sea. But the Xi family is indeed not a family that relies on common sense.

Maybe, it's really possible.

"How long will it take for those sawtooth fish to leave?" Long looked at Invicki.

"Theoretically, it will take at least another hour."

"but?"

"But if you are in a hurry, young master, we can try to tame those sawtooth fish and let them leave early."

Long thought for a while and waved his hand, "Forget it. There are too many fish schools, which is too energy-consuming. We will still need a lot of energy to go underwater. It's better to save some energy now. We are all here, wait.

An hour doesn’t matter.”

Xilin looked at Xiying, who had a thoughtful expression on his face, and asked, "What did you find?"

"The loss of contact between the five detectors was caused by magnetic field interference." Xiying replied.

"Magnetic field? Isn't that an instrument that can resist the magnetic field of this planet? Our Andrela family spent a lot of manpower and material resources to create it." Long frowned.

Xiying shook his head, "They can indeed withstand the planet's magnetic field strength, but at this target point, the magnetic field has been strengthened two to three times, making those five instruments unable to work properly."

"Is it their handiwork?" Xilin asked.

"They" refers to those people in the Xi family back then.

"Yes." (To be continued..)

{Piaotian Literature www.piaotian.net thanks all book friends for their support, your support is our greatest motivation}