The whales were scurrying wildly in the air, but they couldn't get out.
The "glass tank" is a square area with a side length of about 2 nautical miles. As long as the whales swim to its edge, no matter how hard they struggle, there seems to be an invisible but indestructible wall blocking them, preventing them from moving forward an inch. .
At this moment, these dangerous behemoths are like a tank of poor goldfish.
When the "glass tank" rose to nearly half its height, golden light suddenly burst out from the tank, and the desperate whale began to try to use whale breath to break this invisible confinement. But hundreds of beams of light only rose one kilometer before they suddenly stopped and disappeared without a trace.
Seeing this scene, Xia Ye suddenly understood why he hadn't heard the whale's cry for so long - because the sound couldn't spread out of that area at all.
Those whales seemed to be performing a pantomime. Although there was no sound, through those fierce struggles, Xia Ye, as an audience, could still clearly feel their despair.
In the blink of an eye, the "glass jar" had reached three-quarters of the height, and there were only five kilometers left from the dark crack.
It suddenly stopped rising.
The next second, a hissing came from the depths of the crack again, but this time when Xia Ye heard it, he no longer felt confused, and the originally indescribable sound was now within the scope of cognition again.
"Crack, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click."
It was like the sound made by some kind of insect. It sounded a little disgusting, but at least it was much better than the crazy sound the first time.
Then--
In the blink of an eye, dozens of slender tentacles suddenly stretched out from the cracks, each one accurately hitting a prey, piercing all the whales instantly!
These tentacles are extremely long, and the part that extends out of the crack is more than 5 kilometers. Compared with their length, their thickness appears to be very thin. From a distance, they look like a thread.
But these extremely thin lines easily penetrated the whale's body, and these behemoths died without even struggling. Golden blood flows out and settles at the bottom of the "glass jar". The weird shape is like an abstract painting.
Immediately afterwards, bulges rose up one by one along the slender tentacles, and the bodies of all the whales shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Those tentacles are sucking away the whale oil?" Xia Ye asked.
Yaha said in a deep voice: "Most likely."
In just ten seconds, the owner of the tentacle completed its "eating". The slender tentacles shook gently, and the shriveled whale carcasses slipped from the tentacles. The "glass tank" that imprisoned them disappeared at some point, and their huge bodies fell straight down. They did not stop until they reached the same height as the whaling ship, because the buoyancy and weight reached a balance.
High in the sky, the tentacles slowly retracted, and the owner of the tentacles had finished hunting the whales without revealing its true identity from beginning to end.
The crack closed, the sky returned to its smooth and flawless appearance, and the "ribbon"-shaped moth beast also disappeared without a trace.
"Is this the moth beast that you said was 'not that dangerous'?"
Xia Ye pointed in the direction where the tentacles disappeared and said teasingly.
Yaha ignored her weirdness and turned to look at the first mate: "In one minute, everyone, including the barreled whale oil, will be on board."
"I know." The first mate responded and rushed out of the cab.
"Within one minute, put away the airbag!" Yaha continued to issue the order.
"Chief engineer, start the thrusters in one minute and then enter ramjet propulsion mode as quickly as possible."
"Load one main gun, one secondary gun, and one masking bomb each, and adjust the muzzle elevation to the maximum."
…
Just when Yaha was issuing a series of orders like a barrage, the second officer's voice came from the microphone again:
"New moth beast discovered, coming from the 6 o'clock direction, 20 nautical miles away!"
"..."
Yaha's command just in the middle of his words stopped abruptly.
"...Is it the ribbon-shaped moth beast just now?" She asked after a while.
"Yes..." The second officer obviously knew what the moth beast meant.
"Reporting speed, how long does it take to reach us?"
"At least...300 knots, expected to arrive in four minutes."
"It's too late." Yaha muttered.
It would take a minute for the Moby Dick to retract its airbags and activate its thrusters. Even if it entered ramjet propulsion mode at the fastest speed, it would not be able to run very far.
Didn't those whales just escape with all their strength for so long and not escape?
"that……"
"that……"
Yaha and Xia Ye said almost at the same time.
Xia Ye smiled slightly and made a gesture of invitation: "You speak first."
There was a trace of embarrassment in Yaha's unsightly expression. She hesitated for two seconds before speaking: "Well... I want to say... is your previous proposal still valid?"
"Which proposal?" Xia Ye tilted her head and asked with a smile.
Although he knew she did it on purpose, Yaha had to explain: "That's it...the proposal to put socks on you. If I agree, can you prevent the moth beast from flying over? Or at least delay it for a while. meeting?"
"Yes, but the conditions must be increased. After all, this moth beast is much more troublesome than the whale." Xia Ye began to bargain.
"Then what are the conditions after the increase?"
"It's not just once, you have to change my socks whenever I ask for it during the entire voyage." Xia Ye said with a smirk, "...but don't worry, I'm a very considerate person. It will make you do this kind of thing all day long, usually only once a day~"
"..."
Yaha didn't speak, and he didn't know whether he was hesitating or was left speechless by Xia Ye.
"Every second you hesitate, the moth beast is getting closer and closer to us, captain, captain, man~"
"I promise you." Yaha nodded.
"Hehe, that's right." Xia Ye clapped her hands happily, "Ah, by the way, I have another request."
"?"
"Is there any way you can take me to a location 2,000 meters higher than here as quickly as possible?" Xia Ye asked, pointing in the direction above his head.
Yaha was surprised to find that Xia Ye's expression was extremely serious when she said this.
…
"Ahhhhhhhh-"
The wind whistled past his ears, and in his ears was Yaha's almost roaring roar. Xia Ye sat on the broad shoulder armor, holding the peak of the helmet with one hand, and looked at his "booster rocket" with some freshness.
This "booster rocket" is none other than Yaha.
She has transformed into a "red knight", and is even taller than when Xia Ye first saw her - the knight covered in red armor is over three meters tall, like a giant, and his broad shoulders are enough to make Xia Ye Sit firmly on it.
Yaha is holding Xia Ye, running hard towards the sky.
Xia Ye finally figured out a long-standing question - how did Yaha carry the whaling cannon back from the Ether Sea?
At that time, Luka simply said that contracts such as "Red Knight" had this ability.
Now, she finally experienced it for herself - but her weight was much lighter than the whale cannon.
Being able to run freely in the ether wind regardless of gravity, and at the same time not losing magic power due to being blown by the ether wind - this is one of the abilities of the "Red Knight".
No wonder this contract became the choice of some whalers.
"Hey, I have another question to ask you." Xia Ye patted his helmet, leaned over and shouted to Yaha.
(End of chapter)
