Chapter 418 Negotiation
Stop!
Those deformed tentacles, like giant snakes, have stretched out hundreds of meters from the abyss.
They twisted and drifted in the cold, dark water, as if they would entangle the large submarine at any moment, but now they stopped moving.
The atmosphere instantly became extremely tense, and invisible pressure spread in the water.
Now, it depends on what choice the deep-sea monster makes.
“Woo——”
From the bottom of the sea, in the abyss, another terrifying and low cry was heard.
At this moment, Su Xia has arrived at the escape cabin at the tail of the submarine.
As long as he enters the escape capsule and presses the escape button, he will be ejected from the large submarine, separated from the main body of the submarine and become an independent individual.
In addition, the tail of the escape pod will burst out all the power to help Su Xia quickly leave the dangerous area.
Su Xia himself was safe enough, as he also had a trump card that he had not used, such as the six suitcase-shaped "Voices of Destruction" that he had obtained from the wreckage of an alien spacecraft. Each of them was comparable to a small nuclear weapon.
Once it explodes, even the sea monster will not be able to withstand it.
"Does this monster sense danger?"
Su Xia's eyes flickered as she stood at the door of the escape pod, not going in for the time being. Instead, she was waiting for the monster's choice.
The initiative does not favor any side. Both sides have the strength to fight. If they do not compromise, they may end up in a fight that ends in loss to both sides.
A moment later, a voice suddenly exploded in Su Xia's mind: "Human! Leave!"
The sound was like a thunderclap, coming suddenly and carrying a very direct threat.
It seemed that as long as Su Xia didn't leave, the monster would launch an attack regardless of the consequences and turn the sea water into blood.
However, Su Xia was not nervous. Instead, he relaxed and exhaled a few breaths.
As long as it's not a monster with no brains and only brute force.
"Sure enough, a monster this big must have a big brain."
Su Xia was no longer in a hurry and turned around and walked back to the command cabin.
In the command cabin, various danger indicators flashed, red lights merged into one, and alarms sounded continuously.
When Sarah saw Su Xia return, she put away the coldness on her face, smiled slightly, and said, "Captain, that monster doesn't dare to attack."
"Don't say that, it can hear it." Su Xia also smiled and pointed to the display screen in front of the command desk.
The monster's spiritual power was countless times stronger than that of a sea clam, and it could actually transmit emotional words directly into Su Xia's mind.
Moreover, when the submarine first arrived at the rift abyss, Su Xia's life sensing glasses did not detect the monster.
This shows that the monster has some ability to hide its own life signs.
"What kind of ability can escape the life-sensing glasses?" Although Su Xia was relieved, he still had doubts in his mind. This was the first time that this pair of glasses failed.
Fortunately, the failure this time was life-threatening but not fatal.
If it fails to work against enemies in the future, especially against the mechanical race, then we will be in big trouble.
Su Xia stood in front of the console, looking focused, staring at the sea monster, blinking several times, trying to see if the monster would make the glasses ineffective again.
He stared at it for a full half minute, and suddenly several prompts popped up in front of him.
[Deep-sea monster: an unknown creature with high intelligence]
[In order to avoid being hunted down by the Mechanical Divers, it evolved the ability to hide its life signs, making itself look like a reef on the seabed, and hiding in extremely deep seabed crevices for a long time...]
Perhaps because it was not directly observed, the system prompts were very simple and did not even provide the monster's psychic level.
But it can be seen that this monster has extremely strong strength and intelligence, and it is very likely that it was once one of the dominant creatures in a certain sea area.
For such intelligent creatures, the threat of force is secondary. Su Xia wants to try negotiation.
"Human! Leave!"
At this moment, the voice appeared in Su Xia's mind again, with inexplicable anger.
Outside the large submarine, more than a dozen strangely deformed and huge tentacles were waving, stirring up the sea water and stirring up surging undercurrents, making the entire area chaotic.
Even inside the submarine, one can feel the increasingly violent impact of the water flow outside.
The submarine was shaking and trembling, and all indicators were changing.
The monster tried to urge Su Xia to leave the sea in this way.
"Maybe we can cooperate." Su Xia let out a breath and said slowly.
"Leave! Leave! Leave!"
The monster didn't listen at all, as if it only knew this sentence. It kept urging with a tough voice, and there was no possibility of cooperation at all.
Given its power, it seems that it does not need to cooperate with any living creature.
As long as it stays on the seabed, its life safety can be guaranteed, and this sea water is its greatest reliance.
"You know I'm human, which means you've had contact with other humans before." Su Xia said calmly, "Perhaps you are one of the legendary sea monsters at some time in history, which was once the nightmare of many sailors at sea."
"Leave! Leave!"
The monster still refused to listen and waved its tentacles and roared, trying to drive Su Xia out of its territory.
The sea water became more turbid and constantly turbulent.
And Su Xia continued, "As soon as you showed up, you tried to roll my submarine into the seabed, but stopped when the torpedo threatened you. This shows that you know the power of firearms, perhaps you felt it from other humans, or maybe you felt it from the mechanical race."
"What do you know? Get out! Get out now!"
It roared , sounding quite angry, but this time it managed to say a few more words.
During this period, Sarah controlled the large submarine, slowly rising and moving away from the location of the abyss.
At the same time, the small submarine that looked like a humpback whale was also controlled by her to leave the abyss and quickly head towards the lower passage of the large submarine.
Su Xia stood in front of the control console, not impatient or anxious, and asked calmly: "Why did you cover up your life signs? Is it to hide?"
"Get out! Get out! This is not the place for you!"
The monster roared a few more times, the sound rumbling, as if it was right inside Su Xia's brain, making his head buzz.
It didn't give Su Xia any chance to communicate, didn't explain its behavior, and just wanted to drive Su Xia away.
Seeing this, Su Xia smiled faintly and said, "Think about it more. If you cooperate with me, you may not have to hide here anymore."
"Leave immediately!" the monster roared.
"Perhaps you don't know that with current human technology, it is impossible to reach such a deep seabed. I am an exception, and this is why I dare to talk to you about cooperation." Su Xia looked indifferent.
"Go! I don't cooperate with humans!"
"Well, think about it."
After that, Su Xia turned around and said to Sarah, "Let's go and continue north."
Sarah smiled and nodded: "Okay."
The large submarine ran at full power, gradually increasing in speed, and escaped from the chaotic sea area.
Because of the sea monster, the abyss cannot be viewed for the time being.
Su Xia marked the location on the map. When he becomes strong enough in the future, he will come again to explore the secrets of this underwater abyss.
After more than ten minutes, the large submarine had completely moved away from the area where the sea monster was.
At this time, Sarah asked: "Captain, why don't you continue the negotiations?"
"No need for that." Su Xia shrugged. "For a monster like this, the success rate of a negotiation is very low. We can only plant a seed in its mind and let it think about it slowly."
"Is he really hiding?"
"Yes."
Su Xia pointed to the eye and said, "I can see some clues that it hid in the abyss to avoid the mechanical tribe."
"We disturbed it this time. Will it just leave and choose another place to continue hiding?" Sarah asked.
"have no idea."
Su Xia shrugged. The sea monster had a strange temper. Although he had system prompts, he couldn't fully guess what the sea monster was thinking.
The sea monster himself knew that his location had been exposed and was known to people like Su Xia.
If he chooses to leave, then he has no intention of cooperating and just wants to hide forever.
However, if he stayed in the rift, it meant that he was wavering in his heart and wanted to wait for Su Xia's second visit for the next round of negotiations.
There is no need to say this kind of thing, it is tacitly understood by both Su Xia and the sea monster.
No matter what the situation is, when Su Xia comes to this abyss next time, he will have the opportunity to enter it.
"No matter what, it was worth the trip to see the legendary sea monster this time!" Su Xia smiled faintly, feeling that the trip was complete.
The brief encounter just now reminded him of Captain Nemo and the giant octopus.
There are quite a lot of monsters on the seabed, and the monster covered with tentacles just now is just one of them.
Some players on the forum had shown blurry pictures of monsters they had taken in the game. The monsters in the pictures were dark black, like a boulder moving in the sea. They gave a very oppressive feeling and were very different from the monsters Su Xia had seen.
"Speaking of which, why do the Mechanicals capture these sea beasts?"
Su Xia thought about it and thought that it was probably for the purpose of extracting spiritual energy.
After all, land creatures rely on their skeletons to support their own weight, and if they are too large they will crush themselves, while marine animals can rely on the buoyancy of water to carry their own weight and can grow quite large, such as the blue whale on Earth.
The largest psychic creature in the sea is much larger than the Zerg "Giant God Worm" on land.
Let’s not talk about anything else, just take the octopus monster Haidar next to the queen. His true form must be quite astonishing.
"Next time I see Haidar, I have to ask him about the Zerg in the sea... I don't want to think about anything else right now, I'll just read a book first."
Su Xia pondered for a moment, then returned to the seat in front of the console, took out the book on submarine control technology, calmed down and continued reading.
Sarah stood beside him, controlling the speed and direction of the submarine to ensure that they could reach the Far North Sea as soon as possible.
Time passed slowly, and before I knew it, another night had passed.
Since entering this game, Su Xia is either fighting or on the way to fight every day, and rarely has such leisure time.
This is the fourth day of his underwater escape, and the mechanical tribe has been searching for him for more than 72 hours.
Previously, the outside world's rumors that he would not survive more than 72 hours were self-defeating.
"I wonder how long the Mechanical Clan will be sealed off this time?" Su Xia looked at the time and thought for a moment.
The mechanical race are all psychic creatures. Although they do not need to eat, drink, defecate and urinate like human warriors, the daily psychic energy consumption of such a large number of mechanical armies is unimaginable.
Those mechanical creatures all thought that Su Xia could not outlast them, and that Su Xia would be the one who surrendered in the end.
Little did they know that Su Xia had the same idea.
In his opinion, in the end, the mechanical clan will definitely have to withdraw their troops.
In this way, the two anti-counterfeiting machines gradually spent their time in consumption day after day with the same idea.
A few days passed in a flash.
It was the ninth day of the hunt.
At this moment, Su Xia has entered the northern waters and is still some distance away from the Far North Sea in the northernmost part.
The dawn of this day was exceptionally brilliant. The golden morning glow hung in the sky, contrasting with the reflection on the sea. The sea and the sky met, like a gorgeous watercolor painting.
However, the mechanical members in charge of the search were in no mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery.
"Damn masked weirdo! If it weren't for him, the design of my clone structure would have been completed by now!" A member of the Mechanical Clan cursed loudly, and his hatred for Su Xia grew day by day.
If it weren't for Su Xia, he wouldn't be blowing the cold wind on the sea every day, but should stay comfortably in the base.
The sea breeze in this sea area was wet and sticky. When it blew on him, he felt very uncomfortable and even felt as if he was about to be corroded and rusted.
"The entire southern sea area was searched, but he was not found."
"Was he eaten by a fish?"
“…”
As time went by, more and more rumors emerged.
Some people said that the masked man had been seriously injured in his previous escape and was exhausted, so he fell into the sea not long after fleeing and was eaten by the fish in the sea.
There are quite a lot of similar statements, which have led to different versions.
Some versions suggest that the masked man was eaten by a shark, while others suggest that he was swallowed by a sea monster.
There are many different opinions and views.
…
At this moment, in a sea area in the north, the fleet and submarines belonging to the Northern Sailing Club are patrolling slowly.
The sea was calm and the north wind was blowing gently, bringing the freshness of the morning, which was refreshing.
"Ah, another beautiful day!"
The person in charge of this area, Han Hai, stood on the deck, took a deep breath of the sea breeze, with a look of enjoyment on his face.
Of course, perhaps he was the only one who could feel this beauty, and the rest of the crew were a little absent-minded.
Next to him, a crew member asked, "Boss, it's already the ninth day, when are we going back?"
Han Hai laughed and said, "You're anxious after only nine days? I used to go to sea for half a year at a time. I've spent half of my life at sea!"
"Aren't we just pretending to do it for the mechanical tribe to see?" asked the person next to him.
"You have to pretend to be good!"
Han Hai said meaningfully: "The Mechanical Tribe hasn't retreated yet, so how can we retreat? Let's just fight them!"
"That's true."
"Anyway, that masked weirdo won't come to our place, so we can just treat it as a vacation at sea. We can also get paid every day."
The crew members all had similar ideas, just living one day at a time, and didn't pay much attention to the blockade mission.
Moreover, the boss of Hanhai said that if the masked man really appeared, he would be the first to take charge and would not put the lives of the crew members in danger.
"Boss, the more than ten top scientific research submarines of the Deep Blue Research Institute have dived to a depth of nine thousand meters and are currently patrolling the area. Submarines of other specifications are scattered in water layers of different depths." A subordinate reported.
"Nine thousand meters?" Han Hai thought for a moment, "Can we dive further?"
"The research institute said that the design depth of those top-level submarines is 11,000 meters, and they should be able to dive to about 2,000 meters," the subordinate replied.
"Then let's dive. What if the masked man is 10,000 meters below the water?"
"Boss, here are the specific data of the dozen or so top research submarines." The subordinate sent a document to Han Hai and said, "The research institute said that their technology is top-notch on this planet. Even the mechanical race is not much better than them. Ten thousand meters and one thousand meters underwater should be the limit."
"Very good, well done. Please allocate the next round of funds to the research institute." Han Hai nodded, very satisfied.
At this moment, the blockade in the northern waters is not as severe as that in the southern waters.
But with the participation of the Northern Sailing Club, this area can barely be called an impregnable fortress.
As long as nothing unexpected happens, the club will definitely be able to complete the tasks assigned by the Mechanical Clan.
