Xia Ye was immediately shocked.
"Can even this kind of thing be mimicked?" she asked Xiu Ji.
"Don't underestimate the mimicry ability of our species. Don't talk about it. Things more complex than this can be mimicked... But the premise is that you know enough about the thing you want to mimic."
"I see……"
When Xiuji explained this, Xia Ye understood immediately. It seems that the most important thing about mimicry is cognition. As long as there is specific and clear cognition, realization is just a matter of course.
This also explains why he can "pinch" his head so smoothly, and the chief engineer can simulate complex propeller models.
After all, for the chief engineer, she was even more familiar with the aether ram thruster than her own body.
"So, if you put it in the ether wind, can it enter the ramjet propulsion mode?" Xia Ye asked curiously.
Xiu nodded, then shook his head: "No...the tail will be broken..."
Xia Ye imagined that scene and couldn't help laughing.
But at this moment, a wonderful idea suddenly came out of her heart.
"Then this thruster...can it be made larger?"
"No...this is the limit..."
"Because your tail is still very young, meow~" Xiu Ji said, "But if you think of it as a shoggoth, it should be able to grow up, as long as you feed it well."
"Huh?" Xiu tilted his head, expressing that he didn't quite understand.
Xiu Ji put his little paw into his belly and fumbled for a while. When he pulled it out, there was already a white bone fragment on his paw.
It was a fragment of a whale's wing bone.
"Speaking of which, this is what you fed to my cat. My cat didn't finish it, so he kept it in his belly. Now try feeding it to your tail."
Xiu took the bone piece from Xiuji's hand and brought it next to the tail that had released its mimicry. The tail carefully licked it first, then opened its mouth and swallowed it in one gulp.
Chew, chew, chew, chew, chew...
The tail was like eating potato chips. It ate all the bone pieces in a moment, and then it opened its mouth again.
"It still wants..." Xiu said.
"Then feed it, not just the wing bones, but also the body of the moth beast. If you have extra magic power, you can also feed it... In short, the diet should be balanced, so that it will grow up quickly. I can grow up."
Xiu nodded.
"When your tail can imitate something bigger, I have an idea that I guarantee you will be interested in." Xia Ye said.
"what idea?"
"It's a secret now, hehe..."
While she was trying to show off, Tang Li's voice suddenly came from the microphone.
"Moth beast found directly ahead of the course."
Xia Ye's attention was immediately attracted.
"How far away? How many are there?" Yaha asked.
Until then, everyone including Xia Ye and Yaha were still calm. This is not the first time he has encountered a moth beast this time he went to sea. Moreover, when Tang Li reports his "discovery", the target is probably still far away - far enough for Yaha to call the management together for a meeting, and then Calmly adjust course.
But Tang Li's next answer made Xia Ye almost think that she had heard wrong:
"The target is less than 20 nautical miles away, and the number... is only one..."
"20 nautical miles? Not 120 nautical miles?" Yaha confirmed
"Yes, it is 20 nautical miles. Because it is so small, I didn't notice it until it was so close."
Now Moby Dick's speed is 180 knots. Even if those moth beasts don't move, there will only be 6-7 minutes left before they will collide with it head-on.
However, Tang Li said that the moth beast was very small, and there was only one, so it might not be a troublesome obstacle...
But Yaha's expression suddenly became tense.
She immediately issued an order: "Share what you see with us."
After a while, Xia Ye saw the moth beast 20 nautical miles away. It was indeed very small, only 3-4 meters long. No wonder Tang Li had never discovered it.
The most conspicuous feature of this moth beast is the seven wings on its head, and the shape of the wings - if you want to use a metaphor, it is somewhat like an elongated four-leaf clover blade.
Each wing is about 3 meters long. They are arranged in a circle like windmill blades, forming a circle. In the center of the circle, there is a cavity densely covered with fine teeth. Behind the mouth is a cylindrical body, less than 2 meters long, with long tentacles trailing behind the body, fluttering as they advance.
Their bodies are almost pure white, with a smooth texture. They only have curved red lines on the front of their wings. There is one line on the wing at 12 o'clock, and two lines on the second wing counting clockwise. The third piece has three lines... and so on.
Compared to the two moth beasts she had seen before, Xia Ye actually felt that this moth beast looked normal and was not big in size. She couldn't help but start to think about whether to simply catch it and feed it to Xiuji.
But after Yaha saw the moth beast, his expression became even more nervous.
"Left rudder! Don't get close to that moth beast again!" she shouted loudly.
Immediately afterwards, more commands were issued:
"The main and secondary guns each load a delayed shot shell, turn to starboard and wait for the firing order!"
"First mate, is the beluga's carcass still intact?"
"It's much better than expected." The first mate's voice came quickly, "It was not much damaged by the whale's breath."
"Okay. Now call all the fellers immediately, half of them will guard the back deck, and you lead the other half to guard the front deck."
"receive."
It seems that the moth beast is more trouble than imagined.
After Yaha finally finished issuing the order, Xia Ye asked, "Have you ever seen this kind of moth beast?"
"Well, this is what I said before. The moth beasts I encountered when I went to sea last time. I called them 'seven-leaf beasts'. That time, I saw a whale being surrounded by many seven-leaf beasts. Kill."
"But there is only one of it now, and I remember you said that this kind of moth beast is not very strong individually, right?"
"Indeed. But..."
Before Yaha could finish speaking, Tang Li's voice sounded again from the microphone:
"The target is approaching us quickly! The speed...cannot be judged, the distance is only 5 nautical miles...3 nautical miles, 2 nautical miles. Huh? It suddenly stopped..."
"Because it found us."
Yaha sighed softly: "Helmsman, turn the rudder back to the right direction and let the ship sail due north. Don't get closer to the east."
After saying that, she walked to the window and looked at the sea of clouds on the starboard side. Soon, she pointed to a small white dot in the distance and said to Xia Ye:
"It's there."
Following the direction of Yaha's finger, Xia Ye soon saw it too. The seven-leafed beast had stopped swimming forward. It stood upright with its seven wings facing the sky and slowly rotating in a clockwise direction.
"What is it doing?" Xia Ye was a little strange.
Yaha did not answer directly: "In the past, I myself had guessed that the hunting method of seven-leafed beasts was like this: when searching for prey, they would spread out, and each seven-leafed beast would search an area. And once a certain seven-leafed beast Once it spots prey, it stops and, like this, calls out to all its mates in the swarm."
"Since it is summoning its companions now, why don't we attack it quickly? For example, fire a shot at it and maybe kill it?"
"It can indeed be beaten to death, but it is useless. If I guess correctly, its companions have been summoned to it."
"Huh?" Xia Ye looked over again, but the airspace was still empty.
Just when she was wondering, Yaha had already ordered: "Main gun, fire to starboard now!"
The sound of cannons sounded quickly, and the light spots of delayed shotguns slowly flew towards the moth beast, and then exploded into countless rays of flaming radiation near it.
Each ray represents a projectile that flies into seemingly empty space and then hits something with a bang.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang——
Nearly every pellet hit.
Immediately afterwards, Xia Ye saw that the same moth beast appeared one after another next to the "lonely" seven-leaf beast.
At first, only those seven-leaf beasts that were hit gave up their invisibility.
But soon, more Seven-Leaf Beasts took the initiative to reveal their existence.
There were hundreds of them, arranged in a neat rectangular formation, like a majestic wall, blocking the direction of the starboard side of the Moby Dick.
(End of chapter)
