"Cologne, is there anything wrong with the water quality test report?" A woman wearing a heating suit asked her colleagues while observing the nearby sea with a telescope.
The George Wia research vessel belongs to the Cermak Ocean Fisheries Group. Because of the maritime war between Genghai Group and Taigao Company, which caused great changes in the marine environment, large fishing groups have always been carrying the name of an enterprise with original sin.
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After the devil salmon flood, most offshore fishery companies either transformed into aquaculture industries or simply went bankrupt.
Cermak Group is one of the few companies that has persisted to this day. On the one hand, it vigorously develops finished product processing technology and strives to optimize the taste of devil salmon to a level that humans are willing to accept. On the other hand, it constantly discharges research ships to explore waters where various devil salmon cannot breed.
New fishing area.
If Tang Ji were here, he would definitely be able to find the shadow of his childhood in the logo of Cermak Group, which is the largest producer of Devil's Salmon.
"Everything is normal, Verna. The turbidity is a little lower than last year. I don't understand why there is a blank area in this area." Colon stared at the electronic display, but all his attention was on the progress bar next to it, which had passed nine percent.
On the coffee machine of ten.
"The previous report from the group said that nuclear radiation residue was detected on the nearby ice shelf. What do you think caused it?" The captain is a very serious-looking man. The Georgia Wia is an old-fashioned research ship that is behind the times.
The ship is over forty years old and requires close cooperation between sailors and captain to keep everything running smoothly.
The good news is that this ship was built for the polar scientific expedition and is of excellent quality. The bad news is that the captain and sailors are also as old as the ship.
"Captain Wilson, the nuclear radiation on the ice sheet dozens of kilometers away will not affect the Ross Sea area." The woman explained: "We'd better not pay too much attention to things there. The group also prohibits us from approaching the ice shelf."
"In our time, this place was an absolute protected area, but now, some people are even carrying out nuclear explosions here!" Captain Wilson complained and ended the topic. He knew very well that what he said was nothing but nonsense.
The woman knew better that the nuclear bomb was dropped by the military technology group, and the ground facilities there belonged to the Petrochemical Alliance. God knows if this was the beginning of another round of conflict between the corporate alliance and the Petrochemical Alliance. The senior management of Cermark strictly prohibited them from getting involved.
In this matter.
"It looks like we're going to get nothing today again." Cologne, who was sitting in the equipment room, picked up his coffee cup with satisfaction. Although this old ship didn't leak air everywhere, the heating equipment obviously didn't meet the requirements.
The cabin is always below 15 degrees Celsius. Drinking some piping hot coffee is definitely the best enjoyment.
Just as Cologne was enjoying this warm moment, a warning suddenly came from the radar. According to the feedback data, a huge object with a length of more than 80 meters passed under the ship just two hundred meters underwater.
Cologne didn't care about this. This is an extension of the Ross Ice Shelf, and icebergs often appear underwater. It may be a bulge in the underwater ice, or it may be the edge of a sunken iceberg.
But soon, the radar alerted again, and another huge shadow flashed a hundred and fifty meters below the ship. This time, its shadow projection area was a hundred meters long, and it formed a path with the last shadow.
Crossed.
This is not the projection of ice or iceberg!
"Captain Wilson, the radar found that there is a large foreign object wandering under the water under our ship. It is not a metal object!" Colon tried to make his voice calmer and opened the log upload simultaneously during the conversation. In line with the instinct of an oceanographer, his keen
Be aware that the problem they are investigating has another possible outcome.
That is, a super-large underwater creature that can use all creatures as nutrients has appeared underwater in this area!
When Colon was in college, his teacher had hypothesized that the ocean system had self-defense properties. Because of the existence of devil salmon, under the survival of the fittest, a new species would eventually be born to limit the number of devil salmon within a reasonable range.
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And because the devil salmon is almost the final form of the small fish template, this new species is either a medium-sized social species, similar to dolphins, or it is extremely large like a whale and chases the devil salmon to live in schools.
"Cologne, how big is the underwater foreign object you mentioned?" Captain Wilson's voice sounded a little strange, as if there was a hint of excitement and fear in the confusion.
"I don't know, maybe eighty meters, maybe a hundred meters, our radar." Colon was interrupted by the captain before he could finish his words.
"No, it's at least two hundred meters in size." Captain Wilson said firmly, as if he had already seen the thing.
"My God! It." Verna's voice became the last voice left to the world by the Georgian research ship. No one knew what happened to it afterwards, and it just disappeared.
Cermak Group did not pay too much attention to this news. After all, compared with the ups and downs of the stock market, a missing expedition ship is a trivial matter. They have other things to worry about outside of the stock market, such as a certain person with a shareholding ratio of more than
Nine percent of the major shareholders suddenly disappeared and were said to have participated in the Phoenix Plan.
Compared with the indifference of the Cermak Group, Mikkelsen was much more concerned about this news.
Although the Cermak Group is not a member of the corporate alliance, the Joint Investigation Office's influence in the European Union is not small. Mikkelsen received the exact news twelve hours after the disappearance of the Georgivia research ship.
Most of the time was wasted on secondly confirming whether the Georgian research ship had encountered a storm and lost its signal.
"This is a satellite image of the local waters twelve hours after the Georgia Wia disappeared. There is no wreckage, no debris, and no oil stains. It is like it disappeared out of thin air." In the huge conference room at the Lost Mountain base, Mikkelsen once again
A meeting was held.
Everyone present knew very well that the disappearance of the ship was obviously directly related to Gluttony. The last recording from the Georgia Wia already named the appearance of the giant creature on the seabed.
With the ability of gluttony, it is not impossible to eat up an entire sea area and grow to an exaggerated size of two hundred meters.
When it was in the polar warehouse, its size had already exceeded the limits of humans, and its only limitations were its daily food intake and living space.
"I have sent an investigator to the Ross Sea to look for traces of Gluttony. What we will discuss next is how to deal with Gluttony if he is found." Mikkelsen set the theme of this meeting.
As the mastermind behind the Joint Investigation Office, Mikkelsen not only eats and occupies his own fruiting bodies, but also has a group of investigators who are superhumans themselves.
This time, the investigator he sent was nicknamed "Sea King". He was almost sent to hunt down Tang Ji underwater who had just robbed the Moonlight Gold.
Mikkelsen now thinks about the big ship that carried Mr. Good Luck and the Furious Lord. If Neptune had gone there, I'm afraid it would have been celebrating its anniversary by now.
"The problem is that it is difficult for us to physically eradicate Gluttony now. The protein conversion rate of the biological tissue remains you brought back last time was briefly maintained at 67%." Wu Qianying frowned: "Still
Is there any way you can imprison it like the pioneers?"
Mikkelsen shook his head helplessly: "That's why we have to hold a meeting to discuss how to deal with gluttony."
According to the information submitted by Cermak, they discovered a large-scale decline in the total biological community in some areas of the Ross Sea two and a half months ago. This situation soon became more and more serious, and even formed the so-called
Blank biosphere.
Judging from the time, it coincides with the time point when Gluttony went into the water. Obviously, Gluttony quickly adapted to the pressure of 500 to 800 meters underwater after a short period of recovery and evolution, which is also where Antarctic krill are.
habitat depth.
That is the largest amount of food that fishing companies have obtained in the ocean over the years. They reproduce quickly, have a short cycle, have a high conversion rate, and are rich in nutrients.
According to the Cermak Group's estimate of the area that formed the blank biosphere area, the fishing boats were supposed to harvest about 6,000 tons of krill there, but in fact the fishing nets only harvested less than three tons.
According to this figure, Gluttony has obtained an average of 75 tons of food every day in the past eighty days. If we also consider that it was in a state of cultivation in the early stage and was unable to effectively obtain food sources, this number is gradually increasing, then its
Appetite and predictable reminders are too surprising.
"So the problem we encountered is how to destroy giant marine creatures." Wu Qianying knew that some of the people present could not make specific associations through words, so she simply pulled out a photo of a blue whale: "This is the extinct blue whale, the largest
Individuals can grow up to thirty meters long, with a total weight of about one hundred and eighty tons. The record of Gluttony being observed this time was described as being over two hundred meters long, and the entity data detected by radar exceeded one hundred meters.
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"According to the density of the blue whale's body, its current weight should be in the range of 500 tons to 1,000 tons." Wu Qianying enlarged the blue whale and thoughtfully placed the Beamon armored truck that Tang Ji had collected next to it.
The length of that thing is just over twelve meters.
Tang Ji had a rare feeling of numbness in his scalp. He was currently fighting enemies from another world. He could see flying and fire-breathing creatures of the same kind every day, but this was the first time that he felt like he was fighting against his appearance.
Creature combat.
The last time he saw Gluttony, although the pile of meat had given people a shock from the soul, it was obviously not as good as this time - a real free-range state, unlimited gluttony.
"We have reason to believe that if there is no upper limit for Gluttony's size, I'm afraid this is just his infancy." A marine biologist who was specially called to the meeting coughed and spoke with excitement: "Because of the emergence of the devil salmon,
As well as the extinction of large underwater mammals such as cetaceans, Antarctic krill are actually in a dangerous state where it is difficult to reproduce."
"But now, the emergence of gluttony has filled the vacancies left by creatures such as whales. It eats krill on a large scale and will eventually excrete iron-containing excrement. In the process, it releases enough carbon dioxide to make Antarctic phosphorus
The shrimp community has returned to its former size." The marine biologist talked eloquently, as if he had returned to the days when he was teaching in school: "Eventually, he will continue to grow before the gluttonous food intake completely exceeds the peak endurance of the Antarctic krill community.
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"The number I'm talking about is more than 500 million tons of edible parts every year." The oceanographer explained loudly: "If Gluttony can maintain the current protein conversion rate, then the only limit on its biological size is the natural limit.
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"In other words, thinking about it in a positive direction, if gluttony is really completely controlled by instinct, it is likely to be self-supported to death in the future." Wu Qianying told a cold joke at the right time: "On the contrary, it may become a real thing.
Leviathan.”
"Can you completely cover a creature of this size with your flames?" Mikkelsen's smile disappeared. When an enemy completely relied on instinct to break through all the blockades, in an unchangeable way,
It's hard to laugh when it's against you.
"Underwater?" Tang Ji frowned. He was also a little helpless about the new form of gluttony: "It's difficult to do. When I was in Paris, I borrowed the anger in the hearts of the citizens, but in Antarctica"
He didn't finish his words, but everyone understood what Tang Ji meant.
"What if greed is also on our side?" Mikkelsen asked again, but this time it was Wu Qianying.
"If he can drag a thousand-ton giant out of the water a thousand meters deep, we may be able to find a way to imprison Gluttony." Wu Qianying stroked her glasses: "You can try it, at least
No loss."
"If everything goes well, we will also need a pit big enough to burn and dissolve the body of Gluttony." Tang Ji added, and this proposal was supported by everyone.
And throughout the whole process, no one mentioned what to do if Gluttony didn't cooperate with them.
They obviously needed to take some risks, first find Gluttony under the water, and then reason with it and persuade it to let others slaughter it.
Anyway, they have already killed one of the Seven Deadly Sins, so how difficult is it to do it again, right?
"I still need a few new weapons." Tang Ji looked at the caliber of the prelude, then looked at the tactical dagger he carried with him, and suddenly felt a little shabby.
"There is a metal 3D printer in the base. No matter what type of cold weapon you want, you can print it out within two hours." Wu Qianying replied: "I hope they can really be used."
"It's better to think about who else we can find as a helper."
