Yaha's first reaction was that he had heard wrongly.
"What did you say? Four pairs of bone wings?"
"……right."
"Are you sure?"
"It can't be..." Even Tang Li himself became suspicious, "The distance is too far, I... can't be sure."
When the contrast between the facts and common sense is too great, people's first reaction is often not "what to do" but "there must be something wrong".
Yaha and Tang Li are currently in this situation.
Xia Ye felt much better. The vague thoughts that had always been vague but lingering before finally became clear at this moment.
Just need to confirm again.
"I'll take the second officer to fly closer to take another look, and I'll be sure." Xia Ye said, "It's very fast. It only takes less than two minutes to go back and forth."
This time Yaha did not hesitate: "Okay."
…
"Are you ready, Sister Tang Li? I'm getting ready to take off."
"This, this posture..."
"Is there anything wrong with this posture?" Xia Ye asked matter-of-factly.
She was holding Tang Li in a princess hug. Speaking of which, Tang Li is taller than Xia Ye, but fortunately his figure is almost as slender as Xia Ye's, so his weight is still within the range that Xia Ye can bear.
"My wings extend from my waist. Since I can't carry you, I have to hold you. Fortunately, you are not very heavy..."
Tang Li: "..."
"Okay, it's time to take off. Xiuji, turn my head into a seat belt and tie it to her body to prevent her from falling later."
Xiuji let out a "meow". Xia Ye's head immediately flowed down from her neck as if melting, and transformed into a thin and long tentacle, which wrapped around Tang Li's slender waist and thighs, and tied her tightly to Xia Ye's body.
"No, you don't need to tie me up. Ah, it's so itchy and grunting..."
Ignoring Tang Li's objections, Xia Ye crushed the 'Thunder Feather' in his palm. When his wings spread, his whole body, together with Tang Li, turned into a crimson thunder light and flew towards the due west.
"Thunder Feather" can fly 18 kilometers in 12 seconds, which is about 10 nautical miles. After the maintenance time expired, because Xia Ye did not specify an attack target, the wings disintegrated into 99 rays of lightning like a big firework, shooting in all directions.
At the same time, Xiuji, who was lying on Xia Ye's shoulder, swelled up, like a balloon that was quickly inflated.
In the blink of an eye, the cat less than a foot turned into a "cat balloon" with a diameter of more than five meters. Xiuji's head and body became round, like a fat cartoon cat, but its limbs were stretched and stretched. Thin and long, it went around Xia Ye's body like a rope, hanging her and Tang Li in the air.
The balloon slowly floats forward under the influence of inertia.
"I didn't expect that sister Xia Ye's spiritual pet could be used in such a way." Tang Li looked above his head and said in surprise.
"Well, it ate a lot of snacks some time ago and gained a lot of weight. It suddenly occurred to me that if Xiuji expanded into an air bag, it should be able to float people in the air. I tried it today and it is indeed possible."
"This cat is not fat! It's just growing!" Xiuji protested above his head.
"What does it matter? Cats are cute if they are fatter. When the time comes, you can change back."
Xiuji let out a "meow" and quickly shrunk, returning to his usual appearance and lying on Xia Ye's shoulder.
After Xia Ye said that just now, Tang Li took a closer look at Xiu Ji and found that he was indeed much fatter than before...
The scattered lightning had already regrouped into the "Feather of Thunder", suspended in Xia Ye's palm. She crushed it once again and flew forward another 10 nautical miles. Then Xiuji turned into a cat balloon again, hanging the two of them in the air. .
"Sister Tang Li, you should be able to see clearly from this position, right?"
Compared to Moby Dick's position, the two of them were about 20 nautical miles ahead. During this time, the whales also swam forward about 3 nautical miles. As a result, the distance to the whales has been shortened by about 110 nautical miles.
Tang Li nodded and opened the "Sword Pupil" again. Huge eyes appeared from the slit, immediately occupying the position of the cat balloon.
Xiuji protested with a "meow" and reluctantly stepped aside. Under Tang Li's command, the big eyes turned their sights due west.
Because the distance was shortened, Tang Li could see much more clearly this time, and at the same time, he had enough energy to share his vision with Xia Ye.
Soon, Xia Ye also saw——
Instead of five wakes, there were eight, each one representing a whale.
They are all white and have four pairs of bony wings; each one is several times larger than those seen in the shallow sea.
Jaha thought he had found a special whale, and he couldn't forget it. In order to hunt it, they built the Moby Dick and gathered a group of outstanding whalers. They searched from the shallow sea to the deep sea, and finally found it, just when everyone was ready to fight it to the death. when……
They were shocked to find that there were eight more of the same beluga whales, and they were speeding in this direction. It would take less than an hour for them to collide head-on with the Moby-Dick.
"Why... are there so many mutated beluga whales?" Tang Li's expression was both shocked and confused. "Did something change happen in the deep sea area?"
"Probably not." Xia Ye said, "Let's go back to the ship first. I had a guess before we came here, and now it seems that it has been confirmed."
After saying that, she let Xiuji return to her shoulders, then crushed the "Thunder Feather", turned into a bolt of lightning, and flew in the direction of Moby Dick.
…
Think about it carefully, how did the witches of Debsotta first learn about whales?
All this came from the traveling witch. She accidentally mentioned this creature during the chat, but she was more about showing off her own strength than introducing the whale in detail; and the people who heard this incident also started to I was just doubtful and didn't pay too much attention.
It was not until later that someone actually encountered this huge creature in the waters near Debsota that people finally confirmed that whales really existed.
As more people go to sea and more whalers find whales, the appearance of whales in shallow waters has become "common knowledge" that all whalers know:
The whale is about 60-80 meters long, has two pairs of bony wings, has a golden back and a light yellow belly. Its main attack method is whale breath.
Since all the whales encountered by whalers look like this, the whale is certainly such a creature.
As for the deep sea area? Few whalers dare to enter the deep sea; and among them, only a small number can come back alive; as for those who come back alive and find whales in the deep sea - none at all.
As a result, "common sense" about whales remains in Debsota to this day.
Until one day not long ago, a captain named Yaha claimed that his whaling ship was destroyed by a beluga whale. The beluga whale was huge and dangerous, and was a special mutant whale.
Most people didn't believe her and thought she was telling a stupid lie; a small number of people believed her words, and at the same time, they also acquiesced in one thing - Beluga is a special whale, most likely a mutated whale.
This is a very reasonable guess, because "common sense" tells them that normal whales are not like this.
In this way, for the sake of magic, fame and fun (someone), they set out to find and hunt the "special white whale".
They found it - and more, exactly like it, a huge white whale with four pairs of bone wings and a body length of nearly 200 meters.
So, was the white whale Yaha met really a special mutant whale?
"Common sense" misled all whalers, as well as Xia Ye; but as an outsider, Xia Ye only accepted this "common sense" for more than ten days, and therefore, it was easier than the whalers to break out of its shackles.
In fact, as early as the first time I saw the beluga, that suspicion appeared vaguely.
Because of its bone wings - whether it is the front or the back, the connection between the two pairs is too natural, as if one pair is separated from the other pair.
So, why can’t we have such a conjecture:
Whales in shallow waters are not "normal" whales, but just young whales.
When young whales grow to a certain stage, they will enter the deep sea area, where their size will become larger, their color will turn white, and their bony wings will split from two pairs to four pairs - eventually, they will become An adult whale.
This is the "white whale" that Yaha encounters by chance.
You can even guess further:
Perhaps whales, like witches, are egg-laying creatures. Adult whales generally only move in the deep sea area, and only enter the shallow sea area when they are laying eggs, because the shallow sea area is safer (regardless of the factor of witch whaling) and more suitable for the survival of young whales, which explains why in Before Jahab, no one had ever brought back information about the white whale.
After all, the whaling industry in Debsota has only started for a few years. The possibility of encountering a beluga in the shallow sea is very small. Even if you encounter it, you will not be able to return to Debsota alive.
Until Jahab showed up.
In the cab of the Moby Dick, Xia Ye recounted the above conjecture as quickly as possible.
"So, I think, this is what beluga is really like."
After Xia Ye finished speaking, she pointed at Yaha.
"And you, my captain, are a true hero to all the whalers of Debsota."
(End of chapter)
