Seeing Mo Xi's vow, I understood that there must be some secret that I didn't know about, so I suppressed my doubts for the first time. Anyway, even if I didn't press the sonar button, under the current situation, the Jiaolong would definitely be caught up.
, just believe it and give it a try!
The next moment, I raised my hand and pressed heavily on the sonar button.
The moment I pressed the sonar signal, the lights above me flickered on and off, the external lights of the Dragon were all extinguished, and the sound of the thrusters that could still be heard completely stopped at this moment.
However, at the cost of completely losing power, a sound wave that could not be heard by human ears flew out in all directions with the Jiaolong as the center.
I pressed my hand tightly on the button and raised my head, staring intently at the observation window with Mo Xi.
There, taking advantage of our loss of power, the monster almost caught us. Its ugly face with blurred features, like a hill, could be clearly seen through the observation window.
However, what surprised me was that even at such a close distance, the monster unexpectedly stopped moving completely.
Not only that...
I blinked my eyes and was surprised to see that the monster's body was slowly distancing itself from us and sinking towards the dark sea bottom...
It, it seems to have given up its attempt to attack us? What happened all of a sudden?
And, for some reason, I suddenly felt a deep sense of disappointment in the slowly sinking monster.
"really……"
Just when I was still confused about my feelings, Mo Xi next to me took a deep breath and said to herself: "This guy regards us as its kind..."
Listening to Mo Yan's story, I was completely confused and asked her what happened just now? What does it mean to treat us as the same kind?
"Remember the huge sonar signal we just received? That signal was actually exactly the same as the distress signal we first heard from the submarine submersible. In other words, the distress signal we heard first was actually from this monster.
The cry that came out."
Mo Xi told me that in fact, the sonar system invented by humans was originally a device based on the sounds of mammals such as whales in the ocean. The difference between the two is only in frequency.
It's different. The monster that just appeared in front of us may have a similar biological sonar organ, which can emit special sound waves with a frequency similar to artificial sonar.
I nodded and roughly understood: "So you are saying that the monster mistook our sonar signal as the cry of its own kind?"
"Yes." Mo Xi looked up at the monster that was already drifting away from us, and said with some sadness: "In fact, its behavior is not to attack us, but to say hello to us. It's like we are on the road.
When I see the back of a familiar figure, I will go up and pat him on the shoulder to see who he is. The monster just wants to confirm whether the Jiaolong and the submarine submersible are its companions, so it captures him.
Live them."
"I think that monster must have a certain degree of intelligence. Do you still remember that the bureau once said that it will appear in this sea area at a fixed time every month? I searched for information and found that this sea area has always been nearby.
It is the only way for whales to pass from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and that monster will appear here at a fixed time, perhaps to find its own kind among those whales."
"Perhaps in that monster's opinion, the whale that can make sonar-like sounds should be a creature similar to itself. Although the sounds of those whales are different from it, it thinks that the whales that pass by here are not the same as those of whales.
Among them, you should be able to find some companions that sound similar to it."
"But this time, when the monster heard the sonar signals from the submarine submersible and the Jiaolong, it may have thought it had found its companions, and then came up to say hello to us. Of course, it did not realize that
, its power is far beyond what the Jiaolong and the submarine submersible can withstand. Under its action, the submersible was directly destroyed, and our Jiaolong was almost crushed by it."
"After the submarine submersible machine was destroyed, the monster made a cry that we mistakenly thought was a distress signal. I think the meaning of this cry was actually asking about the status of the submarine submarine machine. It should not be able to understand why.
After the submersible was touched by it, it sank to the bottom of the sea and stopped moving. The second cry it made should be an inquiry to the Jiaolong. I think it meant that it wanted to ask
Why should we stay away from it?"
What Mo Xi said, or should be said to be speculation, is really unbelievable, but it is also reasonable. Because her statement can completely explain all the puzzles we encountered, except for the last question.
"Then why did you ask me to turn on the sonar signal again just now? Since the monster regarded us as its companions, why did it leave us when it heard the second signal?"
"Because the sonar signal we sent out for the second time made it understand that it was actually wrong."
"Make a mistake?" I said a little dumbfounded.
Mo Xi nodded and said: "Yes, do you remember that the monster didn't attack us immediately after catching us? That was actually because it was confused. It must have been thinking at the time why the Jiaolong looked completely different from it.
?It was wondering whether the cry it heard was actually made by the Dragon Horn."
"After that, the monster chased after us when we ran away. It was also because it hadn't figured out the matter yet, so it was unwilling to let us go. But the sonar signal I asked you to press was
Let the monster wake up completely. When it saw with its own eyes that the sonar signal was actually sent from the Jiaolong, the monster should have understood that everything was actually due to its misunderstanding. The Jiaolong was different from it in appearance.
Something that is far away cannot possibly be of the same kind."
At this time, I fully understood what happened, and I also understood why I felt a deep sense of loss from the monster just now. It turned out that this was all because the monster discovered the truth of the matter, and that was its
The feeling of disappointment after knowing that the Jiaolong was not the same kind it was looking for.
I walked to the observation window, wanting to take a final look at the monster with my own eyes.
The monster didn't sink very fast, but I saw that while it was sinking, the monster's head was always looking at us, and the sight from its bright red eyes was always fixed on the Jiaolong.
I asked: "Dr. Mo, why do you know what that monster is thinking?"
"Probably..." Mo Xi also came to my side, looked at the monster outside the window that was almost blurry, and said, "Probably because, like it, I feel lonely in this world.
"
As the two of us watched the monster gradually disappear from our sight, the lights in the cockpit suddenly turned on again, and then the sound of the propeller engine also sounded again. It seemed that the power was temporarily interrupted due to the release of the sonar.
Supply has returned to normal.
As a result, the Jiaolong finally began to float toward the sea again.