Gold is a pleasant color because it symbolizes wealth.
Yellow is equally pleasing because yellow is yellow.
But red can make people nervous because it reminds people of blood.
The shallow area of the etheric sea is like an oil painting made of gold and yellow paint, but the deep sea area seems to have thicker or lighter red mixed into the paint of the painting.
The golden clouds turned into red gold, and the light yellow sky turned into orange-red.
Every time Xia Ye saw the scenery outside the window, he felt as if he had gone from the "weak and soft" Novice Village map to a hard-core high-level map.
In fact, the deep sea area is indeed dangerous.
"Look, there is an ether vortex there...yawn~"
On the observation deck, Tang Li pointed to a location about one kilometer to the port side. The girl seemed a little sleepy. Just after she finished speaking, she covered her mouth and let out a small yawn.
Xia Ye looked in the direction she pointed, but saw only an empty space.
"I didn't see anything," she said.
"You'll see it soon."
As soon as Tang Li finished speaking, Xia Ye saw a cloud beside him slowly drifting past. The cloud drifted faster and faster. When it reached a certain position, it was suddenly torn open by invisible force and turned into a thin The threads rotated and sank into the depths of the etheric sea at extremely fast speeds.
At that moment, Xia Ye vaguely saw a whirlpool. It was almost transparent, but its scope was huge, with a diameter of at least 1,000 meters. But in just a blink of an eye, the whirlpool disappeared before his eyes, and the ether sea returned to being empty. appearance.
"That's..." Xia Ye said in shock.
"That is the ether vortex, which is a vortex formed by the curling of the ether wind. Since the ether wind is invisible, the ether vortex cannot be seen with the naked eye."
Probably to make it easier for Xia Ye to understand, Tang Li temporarily gave up his usual neutral speaking style.
"What would happen if the whale ship was sucked into the etheric vortex? Would it be torn into thin strips like that cloud?"
"That's not true." Tang Li shook his head, "But in the ether vortex, the buoyancy of the ether wind will turn into suction. Our ship will spin while sinking, and will never be able to fly up again."
So this is the etheric version of the Maelstrom, right? Xia Ye probably had an idea.
"Then what is Ether Wind Cut?" She remembered that during the previous discussion, Yaha mentioned Ether Wind Cut.
"It's just a sudden change in the direction of the ether wind, which can easily cause the thruster to stall."
This is easy to understand. Tang Li made Xia Ye understand it with just one sentence.
In short, the flow of ether in the deep sea is much more turbulent than in the shallow sea. At the same time, because the ether is invisible to the naked eye, the deep sea is ultimately much more dangerous than the shallow sea.
"But sister Tang Li can see the ether vortex, right?" she asked again.
"It's possible... but even I need to be very focused to see them, and when I see them, they will be very close. Therefore, now the ship mainly relies on the captain to mark it on the chart. Sailing under the sign, and I, the Sword Immortal, are here and have other tasks.”
As Tang Li talked, he returned to Xia Ye's familiar middle school style.
"What mission?"
"Of course it is to detect the traces of the whale. What I want to see is not only its track, but more importantly, the clouds."
"cloud?"
"Let's look at that one."
Xia Ye followed her hand and saw an ordinary cloud.
"I don't see anything special about it," she said.
"But 'Jian Pu' can."
Tang Li pointed to her left eye. She had taken off the blindfold, revealing her golden eyes.
Although the huge eye pupil suspended in mid-air did not appear, guess what, the "eye of truth" - what Tang Li calls the "sword pupil" has begun to function, similar to a low-energy mode? Xia Ye guessed in her heart.
"...It can be seen that the reason why the shape of this cloud is now is because a whale passed by it before, and a corner of it was knocked apart by the whale, and then slowly reunited, and finally became its current shape."
"It's like the footprints left by people walking on the mud?"
"That's right, except it's much harder to find than a footprint because it's hidden inside hundreds of ordinary clouds."
After Tang Li explained, he said a few words to Yaha through the microphone. After a while, the Mobydick slightly adjusted its course and followed the path the whale had taken.
Things are moving in a good direction.
After entering the deep sea area, it didn't take long for Tang Li to discover the traces left by the whale. Considering that ordinary whales are unlikely to enter the deep sea area, the possibility that these traces were left by the white whale was very high.
The Moby Dick's cruising speed is 200 knots. According to Yaha's last experience, the speed of the beluga under normal conditions is about 140-160 knots. Although it is higher than ordinary whales, it is still slower than Moby Dick. In other words, as long as you keep following the traces, you will always catch up with the white whale.
It was so smooth that Xia Ye originally thought he would have to search in the deep sea for several days.
Of course, this is mainly due to Tang Li's special "eye of truth". Xia Ye guessed in her mind more than once that either Tang Li's "Eye of Truth" was of a very high level, or she was very adaptable to this contract, or both.
——Because this guy's "True Eye" is completely different from what he saw in Lucana before. The relationship between the former and the latter is roughly the relationship between a wife and a wife cake. Apart from the name, there is almost no similarity. at…
Just as Xia Ye was thinking wildly, Tang Li suddenly spoke:
"There seems to be a wake ahead."
So fast? !
Xia Ye glanced ahead subconsciously, but of course saw nothing.
"How far away are we?"
"About...three or four hundred miles."
"Three to four hundred miles...huh?" Xia Ye repeated and suddenly realized something was wrong.
Just a few days ago, Tang Licai said that the detection range of her spiritual consciousness was around a hundred miles, which was about 50 kilometers and 27 nautical miles.
But now...three or four hundred miles?
"I remember you once told me that your monitoring distance is about a hundred miles?" Xia Ye asked.
"That's right, that's how it was. But yesterday, I learned something from the Sword Immortal. Speaking of which, I have to thank Sister Xia Ye for this."
Tang Li said this and smiled at Xia Ye.
"To condense the spiritual consciousness into a bundle, narrow its detection range, and at the same time extend its detection distance - this is the idea that I have long had, however, I have not been able to find a way to realize it.
"It wasn't until yesterday when I was studying 'Maxwell's Method' that I suddenly felt inspired and realized that there was something we could learn from it... I studied it all night, and finally found a way to condense my consciousness into a bundle."
As the girl spoke, she looked at Xia Ye with a slightly proud look, as if to say: How is it? Are you surprised? Isn’t this swordsman very powerful?
Xia Ye was even more surprised than Tang Li imagined.
Just finished learning Maxwell’s equations and used them immediately? !
And what the hell is this bundle of spiritual consciousness? A fantasy version of narrow beam scanning? Can it still be like this? !
Could it be that you have become an expert through radar training?
Just when Xia Ye was full of food and didn't know whether to vomit or not, Tang Li continued:
"Just now, based on the traces left by the whale along the way, I guessed that it was somewhere in the north-west direction, so I concentrated my consciousness into a bundle and tried to detect it. I was lucky and actually found the wake. .
"It's just that, to confirm whether it is really the white whale, we need to see more clearly——
"The Great Illusion--Thousands of Thousand Things--The Eyes of the Sword to Destroy Laws and Kill Immortals!"
With a soft drink from the girl, the big eye with a diameter of more than two meters appeared above the head again. Immediately afterwards——
Xia Ye saw——
A pure white whale.
(End of chapter)
