Two figures wearing diving suits met head-on on the underwater street.
One of them, wearing a dark green diving suit, seemed to be in a hurry, while the other person, wearing a black diving suit, was walking towards him. When he passed by, he suddenly bumped the other person's shoulder with his elbow.
Both ordinary people wore masks and communicated using electronic bracelets.
"Old Zhang, you didn't even recognize me? Look at you in such a hurry, what are you doing?" the man in the black diving suit asked curiously.
"Lao Wei, you haven't heard? The patrol office has found new food! Now on Pearl Street, they are giving out a small amount of new food for everyone to try. It is said that it will be supplied to the whole city in the future." The man in the dark green diving suit quickly replied He said, "No more, I have to go there quickly. The two little cubs at home are crying about being hungry every day, so I have to grab some."
"Ah?" The man in the black diving suit was stunned for a moment, but immediately said: "Wait for me! My family complains about not having enough to eat every day."
Both of them accelerated their swimming speed and swam towards the patrol department headquarters.
Wait until they arrive at the gate of the patrol station.
I found that a dense crowd had gathered here.
"Don't mess around, don't rob!" An extraordinary man with silver scales on his body shouted directly from the water to maintain order, "Another batch of food will be shipped tonight, and by then, every household will have it! It’s just a taste now, please obey the order! After getting the food distributed by the staff, leave voluntarily!”
The person who spoke was naturally Lu Xuejiang. He was currently leading many members of the patrol department and several disc-shaped submersibles to maintain the distribution order at the scene.
It turns out that just this morning, when Lu Xuejiang drove his new vehicle, the more advanced B-9 disc-shaped submersible, to go out on patrol in person, he brought back some shocking news.
He discovered a huge underwater ecosystem!
It is a magical undersea canyon filled with various marine creatures. The deeper you dive, the larger the creatures become.
And the scale of this ecosystem is impressive.
Lu Xuejiang flew the B-9 all the way over the canyon, and finally estimated that the length of the canyon reached an astonishing dozen kilometers... And if the density of organisms in it was similar to that of the section he inspected in depth, then this would undoubtedly be a very huge canyon. ecosystem!
The food in it supplies the 800,000 people in the Crystal Palace, and at least it will not be exhausted in the short term!
And Lu Xuejiang didn't tell anyone about the process of discovering it... because it was actually a bit bizarre.
He found it by following a dolphin.
This morning, he was just patrolling around aimlessly, but the bottom of the submersible made a "winter" sound. It turned out to be a dolphin more than two meters long, which directly hit his B-9 submersible.
Lu Xuejiang immediately became energetic.
dolphin? Where there are dolphins, there should naturally be a large ecosystem.
So he followed him all the way. The performance of the new car B-9 was much better than the original B-2 submersible, so he could easily keep up.
Eventually he watched the strange dolphin swoop into the canyon.
If it weren't for the dolphins that led the way, it would be unlikely that Lu Xuejiang would have found this place.
First, it is quite far from the Crystal Palace, and second, the crack at the top of this submarine canyon is actually very narrow! There are some ravines on the seabed that are normal, and it is impossible for the patrol to investigate every one of them in depth.
Lu Xuejiang roughly surveyed the canyon. The gaps at the top of this sky-line canyon are uneven in thickness, and some places are even completely sealed. Therefore, when viewed from above, it is not a complete line, but more like a broken line on the roadway, intermittent.
The inside of the canyon is accessible.
Inside the canyon, Lu Xuejiang discovered many creatures, and he used the B-9 submersible's built-in mechanical arm and catching net to collect a large net of fish, shrimps, crabs and other small creatures, about one ton in total, using the diving Drag the weapon back to the Crystal Palace!
These marine creatures are ironclad evidence of the existence of the ecosystem.
As for now, the Patrol Department has dispatched more teams, about a hundred disc-shaped submersibles, to the coordinates he described in an orderly manner, bringing with them more professional equipment to conduct large-scale food collection.
It is also the decision of Crystal Palace management to distribute food in advance now.
The reason is that due to lack of food, this underwater city has begun to show many signs of instability! Security incidents occur frequently, and since the entire police station was wiped out some time ago, the newly established police station is short of manpower... People are in urgent need of a reassurance!
This glorious and prestigious task fell on Lu Xuejiang, and no high-ranking official had any intention of competing for this credit.
After a rush of "robbing" at the scene, Lao Zhang and Lao Wei each received something and went home slightly uneasy.
What Lao Zhang received was a palm-sized crab and a small snail.
Lao Wei received an ugly flounder shaped like a leather boot.
On the way home, Lao Zhang was pinched on his hand by a crab, but the crab quickly turned into a pot of soup, and the shell changed from green to attractive red.
"Try it." Lao Zhang looked at the two children at home.
The family sat around the small dining table, all looking surprised. They were used to eating pureed food. Where had they seen such truly original food?
The little girl couldn't help but break off a crab leg, and the little boy grabbed a crab claw.
The two clumsily pried open the shell and carefully tasted the small amount of meat inside.
"Hmm...it's delicious!" The eyes of the two little guys immediately lit up!
In fact, there was just a little salt in the pot without any other seasonings, but the taste of this thing... was still extremely sweet.
The two little guys who are used to eating synthetic food puree want to gulp it down as usual! But this thing has more shells and less meat, and its structure is complicated! Suddenly his face turned red with anxiety.
"Be careful, let me peel the shells for you." The mother of the two children looked worried and began to help them peel the shells. She carefully picked out the crab meat and placed it in front of the two little guys, while she gently sucked the shells. and debris, but also showed an intoxicated expression.
"Is this the new food found by the Patrol Department?" Lao Zhang sighed as he tasted the snails next to him, "If they are all this kind of delicacy and can control the quantity, then Director Lu from the Patrol Department will really be the common people in the city. My savior..."
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About half a day later, at midnight.
The patrol department's hundreds of disc-shaped submersibles finally returned to the Crystal Palace amid much anticipation.
Behind each submersible is a huge net, which is full of all kinds of marine life!
Some citizens who saw this scene immediately cheered. While the patrol team members were unloading the goods, several team captains led by them quietly found Lu Xuejiang.
"Director, I have something to report to you." The expressions on the faces of several team leaders were not very good.
"What's the matter?" Lu Xuejiang asked curiously.
"We encountered this when we were collecting food in the canyon." A team leader took out a virtual video.
In the image, what was recorded was a crab-shaped submersible cooperating in setting up a fishing net, and at this time, a terrifying huge arm passed over the canyon.
The video only captured less than 2 seconds of footage, so the length of the arms and legs cannot be determined, but the thickness is at least two meters in diameter.
