Chapter 425: The Far North Sea

In this special era, there is only a fine line between good people and bad people.

Public opinion on the Internet is so chaotic that it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood. Fortunately, there is still some truth in the real world.

Minister Wu sighed, turned off the display screen, looked at the sky outside the window with a worried look on his face, and felt that the future was bleak and the road ahead was unclear.

If the Mechanical Clan believed these rumors on the Internet, then the outcome that awaits the club would be very bleak.

"It really shouldn't have turned out like this." He couldn't help but sigh. The mechanical race would definitely not tolerate the word betrayal. Maybe in a few days, his head would fall to the ground.

It’s all the fault of those fools on the Internet. They are so stupid. How could they be so stupid as to think that their club is an undercover?

"well……"

Minister Wu sighed again, his heart full of sorrow.

After a while, he was stunned and thought of a very fatal question.

"Are we...re we really undercover?"

As soon as this question came up, it lingered in his mind, like a deep brand that could not be erased.

Minister Wu took a few deep breaths, stood up suddenly from his chair, and walked around the office, thinking about this terrible problem. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.

There have been many famous undercover agents on this planet.

Some died quietly during the undercover process, while others achieved success and retired with many honors. Even their autobiographies were sold all over the world and were later adapted into movies and TV series, becoming classics of a generation.

Minister Wu remembered that he had read a book on the subject, in which there was a very clever method called - he himself does not even know that he is an undercover agent!

Only when the undercover mission is over will someone show up and tell you that you are also an undercover.

"If that's the case..."

Minister Wu had a gloomy expression, and he was muttering to himself. His fists sometimes clenched and sometimes unclenched, and no one knew what he was thinking.

…

Northern waters, underwater world.

A huge whale swam slowly across the seabed. Its huge body stirred up an undercurrent, scaring the other creatures around it and causing them to flee in all directions.

Not far to the left of the big whale is a cigar-shaped black submarine.

Inside the submarine, in the command cabin, Su Xia sat in front of the control console with a relaxed look on his face, with a book on his left hand and a glass of sugary wine on his right hand. He didn't look like he was running for his life, but rather like he was enjoying life.

"So you were at the bottom of the sea to avoid being hunted by those robots." The voice of the giant whale sounded in Su Xia's mind.

"Yes."

The man and the whale communicated for a long time.

During this period, Su Xia slowly told Big Whale about her experiences during this period.

The big whale listened with great interest. After all, he was not a terrestrial creature and didn't know much about what happened on the land. In order to avoid being hunted by the mechanical race, he hid in the deep sea for a long time over the years and was almost isolated from the world.

"I'm also avoiding robots. In fact, we are the same kind of people." The whale paused and added, "No, I'm not a human... We should be the same kind of creatures."

"Yeah, that's right." Su Xia agreed.

"I didn't expect that although your life was short, your story is so wonderful." The big whale praised.

"Your life is long?"

"Anyway, it's much longer than your life, probably dozens of times longer."

"So, how many hundreds of years old are you?"

"I can't say for sure. I have a vague concept of time, but it should be several hundred years. I have experienced the time when you humans developed from wooden ships to steam iron ships..."

The big whale chattered on and on, telling his story.

It seems that he will never worry about his life span. He lives just to eat. He sleeps when he is full and continues to eat when he wakes up. He doesn't know how long he can live. Anyway, he feels good and has no health problems.

He left his tribe very early and swam alone in the ocean. During this time, he met many strange creatures like him and experienced many battles.

In the past battles, more than half were related to humans.

"I used to come across many whaling ships frequently. Later, the robots developed and started to fight with you humans. As the fighting went on, there were fewer whaling ships on the sea. I guess those people were killed. I was very grateful to the robots for this, but they also wanted to catch me later..."

The great whales have lived through a long history and have witnessed every advancement in mankind's maritime industry over the past few hundred years.

His figure has appeared at every stage of history. He has been witnessed, recorded, and even left behind blurry photos. He has also been written into books and even made into a documentary about mysterious events.

When he was telling his own experiences, Su Xia was also corresponding certain historical events in this world based on his stories.

"So you are the 'Moorish beast' that appeared in Beiyang Bay more than four hundred years ago." Su Xia flipped through the reference book and found a very famous historical event.

"Moor Beast?" The whale paused, "It seems that some humans do call me that."

"More than four hundred years ago, you rammed three whaling fleets in Beiyang Bay and massacred more than a hundred whaling crew members. In the end, only a sailor named Moore survived. He told the world about your existence for the first time and described your appearance. After that, people named you after him..."

That was the first time that the giant whale appeared in human vision, and it shocked countless people as soon as it appeared.

In the long years that followed, he had many different names, such as "The Whale of Vengeance", "The Messenger of Poseidon", "Nightmare of the Deep Sea", etc. He was a very famous sea monster.

"Those humans want to capture me and massacre my compatriots. I can only fight back and kill them all first." The big whale didn't feel anything about these massacres.

Whaling has been a fairly developed industry on this planet for the last few hundred years.

Whale meat is edible, and one whale can meet the meat needs of an entire tribe. Whale skin can be used to make leather products, and the economic value of whale oil is even higher.

A century or two ago, many homes relied on whale oil for lighting at night, and whales were once considered swimming oil wells.

"Those humans are so cruel. I saw with my own eyes my compatriots being killed and dismembered by them. I was very angry. If they can kill us, we can also kill them." said the big whale.

"Well, it's the survival of the fittest, that's it." Su Xia said.

"But I still can't kill as many as they do."

"It's enough. At least it brought them enough fear..."

For a long time, this big whale has been the nightmare of whalers at sea and the symbol of fear.

In that era, people could not understand why a whale could grow so huge, so many people regarded him as a messenger of the sea god, sent by the sea god to punish whalers.

Some people also say that he is the aggregation of the souls of countless dead whales in the ocean, transformed from their resentment. He came to the world to destroy all whaling ships and kill all whalers.

This is also the origin of his name "Whale of Revenge".

Therefore, in that era, many people would pray to the gods for safety before going out to sea.

Of course, prayer is pointless.

It's all luck.

If you are lucky, you can return alive, but if you are unlucky, you will die at sea.

It’s not that no one has ever tried to capture a giant whale. After all, whoever can catch this deep-sea behemoth will have his name recorded in history books forever. But they all ended in failure and with heavy losses. The most losses in one attempt was more than 20 large ships.

"In these hundreds of years of history, there are more than a hundred records about you," said Su Xia.

"So, I'm pretty famous among humans. Does anyone still know me now?"

“Now it’s less.”

Su Xia pondered for a moment, flipped through the information, and said, "The last recorded sighting of you was more than thirty years ago. Nowadays, most people no longer believe in your existence and think that you are a monster made up by those sailors at sea."

"What do you mean?" The whale was puzzled. "Why did you make up a monster?"

"Because it shows the bravery of the sailors."

"Is it possible?"

"Yes."

Su Xia nodded and said, "Some crew members will brag to people about their experiences at sea, such as fighting sea monsters, hearing mermaids singing, entering mysterious seas, etc. More than 90% of these experiences are false and it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false. Your story is mixed in with them, so many people don't believe it."

"Is that so? Those people think I was blown up?"

"Um."

"It seems that I have not appeared in recent years." The big whale said, "Your firearms are now too powerful, much more powerful than the cannons of the past, so I seldom show up."

The last time he appeared was indeed more than 30 years ago, when he overturned several modern whaling ships in a sea area in the western continent.

But he was also hit by a torpedo fired by a small frigate nearby and was seriously injured.

Although he has thick skin and flesh, he cannot withstand the modern firepower and cause trouble. The monsters in movies and TV dramas that cannot be killed by nuclear bombs are ultimately fake.

The development of modern firepower has put an end to many legends of mysterious monsters.

"On the day when psychic power descended, there was a loud bang in the sky, and many meteorites carrying psychic power exploded on the sea. After that, I gradually gained some unusual abilities." The big whale talked about the source of his abilities with some memories.

"Control the water pressure?" Su Xia asked.

"Controlling water pressure is just one of them. I can also spit out energy bubbles that explode..."

The big whale felt a little regretful. These energies could allow him to protect himself, but they still could not give him the ability to fight back.

In the past few years, he has been active in the northern waters of the Central Continent, sleeping most of the time. His life was almost the same every day until today, when he met Su Xia.

"I have known that tentacle monster for a long time." The big whale said, "He is an unreasonable monster. As long as a larger creature enters his territory, whether intentionally or unintentionally, he will drag it into the abyss. So... when I felt his breath on your submarine, I was quite surprised. How did you convince him?"

"It's not really persuasion. I threatened him first, and then we discussed some conditions." Su Xia briefly described the process.

"So that's how it is. That guy must be very depressed now."

The big whale expressed his happy emotions: "I have fought him several times before. He never confronted me head-on. He relied on his many tentacles and fast speed to swim against me and consume my energy..."

"Is his true form a squid?"

Su Xia was quite curious about this question.

Hearing this, the big whale thought for a while and seemed unsure: "It should be, a giant squid that has lived for an unknown period of time is older than me."

"Live longer than you?" Su Xia was surprised.

"Yes, if you check your human data, you will definitely find related events."

The big whale said: "Many years before I was born, the tentacle monster had been causing trouble on the sea. Its favorite thing to do was to use its tentacles to entangle ships on the sea and drag them into the sea."

"He also has a grudge against humans?"

"That... I don't know."

Sea monsters occasionally fight with each other and exchange information with each other, but generally speaking, they are neither friends nor enemies.

Their communication was not deep, and they rarely explored each other's past life experiences.

"However, I heard from that annoying electric eel that the tentacle monster seemed to have followed a human before. To be precise, a pirate. Later, the pirate was caught and finally hanged." The big whale talked about a piece of gossip circulating among sea monsters.

According to him, the tentacle monster had once stirred up trouble on the sea for a pirate, plundered many human ships, and once made the pirate the emperor of the sea.

That pirate, with the help of the tentacle monster, possessed countless wealth, and built his wealth into a golden island, which attracted countless sea pirates to join, and finally he even had a huge sea fleet.

"Later, the pirate became arrogant and wanted to negotiate with the Iris Empire. He was arrogant and even wanted to marry the princess, which angered the Iris King at the time.

"Later, the king of the Iris Empire wielded the sword of power and sent out the then-invincible naval fleet. After a war that lasted for more than half a year, the pirate forces of the Golden Island were completely wiped out. Naturally, the pirate was also captured and executed.

"But, according to legend, the wealth he accumulated during his lifetime was not only in that Golden Island, but also in another mysterious area. After so many years, only the tentacle monster still remembers the location of that area..."

The big whale told the story intermittently, presenting an epic naval war before Su Xia's eyes.

Of course, this war is just a rumor.

Su Xia did not find this information in the official history, and most of the records about the sea monster were labeled as "legend".

The sea is extremely mysterious and magnificent, and it has buried too many legendary stories, characters, and treasures. Even if later scholars are interested in exploring, it is difficult to sort out everything that has happened in the sea.

The man and the whale chatted slowly like this, from dawn to dusk.

Su Xia told the big whale stories about land, and the big whale told Su Xia stories about the sea.

Three days passed in a flash.

In the evening of that day, Su Xia finally arrived at the outskirts of the Far North Sea.

“We’re finally here!”

The big whale let out a long, sharp cry. If it weren't for the need to hide his whereabouts, he would even want to jump out of the water and cheer.

In his memory, there was a lot of delicious food in the Far North, a kind of small red shrimp.

"Come on, you'll have some shrimps!" said the big whale.

"No, I have to find a place to go ashore as soon as possible." Su Xia replied.

"So fast?" The big whale was stunned for a moment, "Are you in a hurry?"

"Um."

"What a pity! I wanted to take you to explore the Far North Sea. There are many mysterious areas that you humans have always wanted to explore."