Law Enforcer's Handbook

Chapter 745 Lord of the Tide
"Sea monster? Are you referring to a monster like a big octopus?"

Song Lan felt that this title sounded a bit incompatible with the scientific worldview. These terrifying creatures that inhabit the deep sea often only appear in folklore around the world.

He is timid and has a deep-sea phobia. He has always read those folklore as half a horror story. When he thinks that there may be monsters as huge as mountains in the bottom of the sea, he panics and can only It's a good thing they live on land.

"Big octopus!"

Yelu's eyes were shining brightly.

Because she was convinced that it was edible, she had tasted the takoyaki made by the locals when she went to Silver Moon Harbor before, and it was one of the few snacks that made her linger.

Silvermoon Harbor is also one of the most common escape places for apostates, because once they are out to sea, the church's judicial institutions can no longer catch them.

The archbishop has also issued a clear order prohibiting all going to sea.

Lu Xiang nodded and said, "The local legends of Yinyue Port describe them like this, but no one has ever seen their appearance with their own eyes, or people who encountered them during the voyage died, only people in the Misty Islands know safe route between the two places."

"Looking at them from a scientific perspective, they are probably mutated from certain marine organisms."

According to Song Lan's observation, most of the mutated creatures in this world will grow exponentially in size, just like their good friend Death Crab. They were originally crabs, but after mutating, they swelled to the height of a building. When passing through the desert area, his spiritual ability sensed that there were unknown creatures several times larger than the death crab in the depths of the desert.

If those businessmen know what lives deep in the desert, people may suffer from "deep sand phobia".

Fortunately, those big guys just looked scary, but they were easy to deal with.

At least when a few of them passed by, I didn't feel sorry for them.

This is what a good friend does. No matter what those unknown creatures living under the desert think, Song Lan has unilaterally regarded them as good friends in his heart.

"The people who gave the exploration order thought so too."

Lu Xiang clicked his tongue in amazement, "You guys said about the same thing."

It's just that at that time, the person who said this sentence was still called the admiral, not the war criminal in the eyes of people later, "Because of this, he led three explorations into the unknown sea, and all three explorations ended in failure. In the end, the man who went to sea never came back, and even his own fleet was buried in the unknown sea."

You must know that the concept of fleets in this era is not the same as those old sailing ships in the Middle Ages. When the admiral set off for the last time, he was on a strategic-level aircraft carrier, which was equipped with enough armaments to handle a small war.

They originally went to sea with the idea of ​​fighting.

"Currently the coalition government has information that only the unknown sea area has strong signal interference, and the source is unknown, which will cause all communication equipment to fail. This is why the fleet was unable to convey what they saw back to the coalition government before it disappeared."

Even the last expedition, on which they had placed high hopes, failed.

The admiral was forever buried somewhere in the unknown sea, and now more than ten years have passed since their death. Since then, the coalition government has never set foot in that sea again.

The sky and the ocean are forbidden areas for human beings. Without a foothold, even the six-star rescuers cannot adapt to the environment of sea combat.

Lu Xiang added, "There is also a group of sea believers in the sea of ​​mist. They think that those sea monsters are ruled by the Lord of the Sea Tide, and he will guide the way for the believers. Only the most devout believers can pass through that sea area." .”

"It's getting more and more like folklore."

"That's not necessarily the case. For a long time, the believers of the Misty Islands have been the only people who can pass through that sea area. The intelligence workers of the coalition government have also asked them about the secrets of the voyage. That's why they provided them."

"In this case, why not let the intelligence personnel mix into the ships of those believers?"

"Of course they did, but some of them were assimilated into believers of the Lord of the Tide, and those who refused to believe in the Lord of the Tide were thrown off the boat to feed the fish halfway through the voyage." Lu Xiang Explained, "Not only that, the coalition government once launched a high reward, hoping that someone would provide a nautical chart, but all neutral ships that went to explore unknown seas also lost their news."

So more and more legends about the unknown sea were born.

"Unknown" is the name given to that sea area by the coalition government, and these two words are enough to reflect the helplessness of the coalition government for that sea area.

"Increased knowledge."

Song Lan got goosebumps all over his body. According to Lu Xiang's description, he could easily think of those deep-sea monsters that existed in horror legends. He even couldn't help but think of the scene of the admiral and his fleet in the storm. Horrible encounter.

Although the ocean expedition led by the admiral failed, the coalition government can always find a way to regain confidence-Kolo Films filmed a superhero movie involving uncharted waters there, and took the opportunity to launch The new savior "The Reef" they touted.

Song Lan still remembers the uncomfortable image of the sea monster in the film.

But like all superhero-themed movies, "The Reef" eventually defeated the raging sea monsters and gave the locals a happy ending.

"Why, are you afraid of sea monsters?"

One of the reasons why Lu Xiangyue became more active was that she noticed the change in Song Lan's expression, which made her feel that the ghost stories she experienced in school would be scary, and it was one of the few entertainment methods for the students. Her former roommates were often so frightened that they called her at night to pick them up and go back to their dormitories.

"That's a sea monster! It's as big as a mountain, and it suddenly appears in front of a ship while sailing, and it can drag the whole ship into the sea at once!" Song Lan felt that he had to emphasize how terrifying the sea monster was, "I think I I'm going to have nightmares tonight."

"It's ok."

Lu Xiang smiled slightly, "If you are scared at night, you can hug me to sleep."

"Yelu is here, what are you talking about!"

"Ok?"

Ye Lu, who was concentrating on cooking, heard someone calling her, raised her small head, and looked at Song Lan with confused eyes——when the story progressed to the admiral and his fleet, she had lost interest. Exploration is not the part she is interested in. She thinks that this story should incorporate more introductions of local snacks.

She and Song Lan looked at each other for a long time before making a tentative request, "Tomorrow I would like to request to eat octopus."

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Late at night, Silvermoon Harbor.

"Emperor" is no stranger to this port city, and it used to be one of his main research locations.

Today's Silvermoon Harbor has changed a lot from when he came last time.

After the civil war in the third neutral country ended, the port returned to life, and Cuenca and the rebels did not seem to cause any damage after they moved in. Instead, they integrated well into the lives of the locals and established a line of defense in the coastal area.

He learned about the recent ships to the Misty Isles.

The last ship has already set off, and the next ship will only have to wait until a week later.

And there was only one reason for him to come to this port city.

In the dark, it seems that there is something calling him here. Ever since he fought those unknown deep-sea creatures, he has heard some whispers from time to time.

It was a language he had never been exposed to. He tried to remember some pronunciations, but even the linguistic experts of the coalition government did not understand this unknown language system.

He walked along the pier to the bottom.

The sea under the darkness of night stretches as far as the eye can see.

For a moment, he felt hallucinated.

When he stared at the sea, it seemed that there was a pair of eyes staring at him from the depths of the sea.

　Small theater its 150 II:

　　On a certain day of a certain year, a certain month, Friday, at noon.

　　At noon that day, Song Lan, who was taking a nap in the office, received a summons from Lu Xiang.

　　Walking to the door of Lu Xiang's office, he couldn't help but recall what happened to him every time he came to Lu Xiang's office, and he couldn't help becoming vigilant.

　　"What are you doing standing at the door? Come in."

　　Lu Xiang smiled and waved at him.

　　"Old Lu, you don't have any conspiracy, do you?"

　　This smile made Song Lan more convinced of the ominous premonition in his heart. He looked around suspiciously, trying to find out the trap set by the other party.

　　"Why, weren't you very stubborn when you came last time? You still wanted to threaten me with videos and photos."

　　"Misunderstandings are all misunderstandings."

　　"It doesn't matter if you don't come in. Speaking of which, recently, many people have asked me what your unique move is. It seems that I still—"

　　"Enough, come on!"

　　Facing Lu Xiang's threat, Song Lan was heartbroken, went straight into the office, and closed the door behind him, "Old Lu, why are you looking for me today?"

　　"Business."

　　"Business?"

　　"Recently, more and more people have left our department, and it has become more and more difficult to recruit people, while your department is hard to find a job, and many people have submitted applications for transfer to your place, so I want to learn from you."

　　"...Is it really just learning from scriptures?"

　　"Want to hear the truth or a lie?"

　　"Truth."

　　"It's an act of revenge in the workplace."

　　"I'm going to investigate now."

　　"No, you only have two choices now, one is to find a way to make me happy, and the other is to accept the punishment obediently."

　　
　
(End of this chapter)