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The ship girls' firepower is not as dense as the deep-sea ships' cannon fire, but the damage is much, much higher. If a shot hits the enemy, the enemy's ship armor will be instantly stripped of a layer of shell.
Boom boom boom boom...
The sounds of explosions rose and fell, like a banquet was being held.
It seems like it can be stopped for the time being.
The Deepsea Commander is the only one who knows how to leverage the sheer number of Deepsea ships. Once Veneto finds and sinks the Deepsea Commander, these organized and disciplined Deepsea ships should collapse.
Thinking of this, Xiao Bai felt a little relieved, then closed his eyes and continued to connect to Veneto's ship equipment.
When Xiaobai reconnected to Veneto's ship equipment, all he could see was complete darkness.
This was certainly not because Veneto and the others had suffered any accident.
However, Veneto and her companions have now plunged into the fog of deep-sea resentment and hidden in the blind spot of the barrage of cannon fire.
"Veneto?" Little White called out.
"I'm here," Veneto's voice came through.
"How are you?"
“No problem, we’ve now entered the deep sea fog and are searching for the location of the Deep Sea Dean,” Veneto replied.
As Veneto answered, a red dot appeared in the pitch blackness before Xiaobai's eyes.
Veneto fired a shot, and an orange-red light exploded in the mist like a bomb, before the red dot disappeared.
“That’s a deep-sea fish,” Veneto explained, then turned to look at the company.
"Let's go there first!" the company pointed in a direction.
When encountering unfamiliar roads, ask the company to guess a direction. Although they may occasionally take a longer route, they will most likely arrive at the destination by pointing.
Veneto nodded, then led the team toward the company.
“The Deep Sea Dean is probably still gathering strength, otherwise he wouldn’t have been hiding like this.” Veneto told Xiaobai his guess as they walked. “If it were a normal Deep Sea Dean, he should have already led the enemy to counterattack by now.”
"Since you're not fully developed yet, why expose yourself?" Xiaobai asked.
"It must have been a subconscious urge to attack the large groups of humans and ship girls," Veneto explained.
Xiaobai nodded.
The Enterprise's guidance seemed to be exceptionally effective. After several unpredictable turns, Veneto and her team had been led onto a special path by the Enterprise and had not encountered any more Abyssal Fleet ships coming out to ambush them.
The company seemed to be leading Veneto and the others behind the Dean of the Deep Sea, and was constantly approaching them from behind.
Finally, after traveling for some time, the fog surrounding Veneto and her companions began to dissipate.
The expressions of the five men, including Veneto, turned serious.
The dissipation of the fog basically means that they are very close to the enemy.
Veneto and the ship girls slowed their pace and quietly moved forward.
Sure enough, after walking quietly for a few more minutes, Veneto and her companions finally spotted a huge figure in their line of sight.
It was a huge figure that seemed to be four or five stories high, and even when it wasn't deep in the mist, it was shrouded in layers of dark fog.
A series of heavy roars, like mournful cries, reverberated from this enormous sound in all directions.
Beneath the enormous figure, hundreds of deep-sea amphibious ships stood in formation, guarding the deep-sea dean like terracotta warriors.
Whether it's a deep-sea amphibious ship or a ship girl, their bodies are much, much smaller than the ship equipment in human history.
However, the Dean of the Deep Sea in front of us was like a real warship, with an astonishingly large size.
This kind of oppressive force is nothing like that of a Deep Sea Dean from the first chapter.
"Rumble—" Just then, the huge figure seemed to have noticed Veneto and the others. With a huge rumble, the figure turned around, and the giant waves that formed beneath it crashed against the surrounding deep-sea ships, breaking them out of formation.
With this action, the mist on its body finally disappeared.
Veneto's pupils constricted slightly upon seeing the dean's appearance clearly.
It was a huge, golden mechanical whale.
Its golden scales looked as if they were sculpted, its size was as large as a mountain, and it had an astonishing aura that seemed to devour the sky and the earth.
This is definitely not a deep-sea amphibious vessel that can be cultivated in the sea area of the first chapter.
"Admiral, this Deep Sea Dean is an outsider!" Veneto said to Little White. "Please be vigilant. This Deep Sea Dean is not from Chapter One!"
Veneto looked at the "mountain" in front of him with a solemn expression.
This is a special deep-sea environment that only appears in high-altitude areas, possibly the seventh sea area, or even more advanced deep-sea habitats.
This is a frigate directly under the command of the powerful Deep Sea Dean, a war machine stripped of all rationality and wisdom.
Unexpectedly, it appeared in the First Sea Area, and it seems to have broken free from the control of the Deep Sea Dean, gained the favor of the Deep Sea Resentment, and was directly granted the evolutionary potential of the Deep Sea Dean.
The strength of the Deep Sea Dean is related to the strength of the deep-sea resentment in the sea area because the strength of the deep-sea resentment directly represents the evolution level of the deep-sea amphibious ships in this sea area. However, if a fully evolved deep-sea creature from outside accidentally enters this sea area and becomes the Deep Sea Dean, its strength after becoming the Deep Sea Dean will no longer be related to the deep-sea resentment.
The Deep Sea Resentment doesn't need to be distracted by evolving the Deep Sea Vessel; it can simply bestow the Deep Sea Vessel upon the creature and wholeheartedly enlighten it.
Therefore, the strength of the Deep Sea Dean in front of Veneto may not even be inferior to that of Pachina or Deep Sea Yamato at their peak.
At that moment, a chilling red light also shone on the bodies of the deep-sea amphibious ships beneath the Deep Sea Dean.
They turned their heads toward Veneto as if controlled by the same person.
Hundreds of eyes, along with a giant mechanical whale, stared coldly and indifferently at Veneto on the sea surface.
"Ho ho ho ho"
The enormous whale opened its mouth, and a sound incomprehensible to humans roared from within.
In an instant, the enormous sound waves created ripples on the surrounding sea.
Xiaobai felt a tearing sound in her eardrums and instinctively covered her ears.
The link to the Admiral's Network has been lost.
Xiao Bai took a few quick breaths and then stood up.
The director of the Deep-Sea Center is actually an outsider?!
"Lord Su!" Xiao Bai shouted to the surroundings immediately.
"Huh? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!" Sukhbaatar, who was handing out water to the admirals who were carrying boxes of miscellaneous items, heard Xiaobai's voice and quickly came over. "Little girl, were you looking for me?"
Xiao Bai quickly reached out and put his hand on Sukhbaatar's shoulder: "Lord Sukhbaatar, the Deep Sea Dean over there is an outsider!"
"Outsiders?!" Sukhbaatar was startled. "What's going on?"
"The new Dean of the Deep Sea is a giant golden whale!"
"A golden whale?"
“Yes! Lord Su, aren’t you the guardian of the First Sea Area? Do you remember that whale?” Xiaobai asked Sukhbaatar.
“Uh—whale…” Sukhbaatar pondered for a moment, looking at Little White.
Then she looked at Pachina lying on the ground next to Xiaobai and thought for a while.
Damn it.
It seems there is.
Sukhbaatar immediately showed a look of astonishment.
Isn't that the thing that Pachina rode into human society?
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Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.
Because the plot has recently reached an important point, I won't be adding extra chapters. Otherwise, I might accidentally write a bunch of plot holes. I'll add extra chapters after this part of the plot has passed.
Chapter 321 Deep Feelings, Down It in One Bite!
Sukhbaatar recently recognized a giant golden whale, which was Pachina's mount. It was the deep-sea vessel that she rode to the outer edge of the First Sea Area, but it should have been sunk by his own shot a few days ago.
If this thing is chosen by the deep-sea resentment before it dies, and is endowed with intellect and wisdom, becoming a quasi-dean of the deep sea, that would be quite a troublesome matter.
Pachina came from the deep sea, a region with the densest deep-sea atmosphere in the world, a place even humans dare not touch, where the strength of the deep-sea amphibious ships nurtured is also the strongest in the world.
Pachina is one of the deep-sea amphibious ships.
The golden whale was Pachina's escort ship. Nurtured by the rich aura of the deep sea, it possessed almost the same talent and potential as the Deep Sea Dean. However, under Pachina's rule and deliberate guidance, it did not evolve into the "humanoid" Deep Sea Dean, but instead became a "beast" war machine.
That thing remained at the level of a deep-sea amphibious vessel because of pachina's idea that "two tigers cannot share one mountain," and never evolved into a deep-sea dean.
But now that it has broken away from Pachina and been chosen by a new deep-sea grudge, the situation is quite different.
Having gained intellect and wisdom, it immediately recalls every day it was enslaved by Pachina. As a proud being independent of the Deepsea Abyss Ship, this thing is probably thinking about how to kill the Deepsea Dean who controlled it back then.
On the other hand, after this thing became the Dean of the Deep Sea, the nature of the anomaly in the First Sea Area also changed.
This is a complete invasion by an alien species.
Sukhbaatar has completely failed in his duty!
Thinking about this, Sukhbaatar broke out in a cold sweat.
Although being the guardian of the First Sea didn't come with a salary or subsidies, nor any prestigious medals or work badges, Sukhbaatar still quite liked having a job. He had been working honestly for decades, and since nothing major had happened, and he was about to leave his post, Sukhbaatar had become a little complacent lately.
Just like how bread always lands with the jam-covered side facing down, things always seem to end up in the worst possible way.
In the few days that Sukhbaatar was careless, an alien species successfully invaded the First Sea Area and was promoted to Dean.
Sukhbaatar angrily threw the things he was carrying on the ground and prepared to run towards the beach.
"Lord Sukhbaatar, what are you doing?!" Xiao Bai saw Sukhbaatar running towards the beach with a fearless expression and quickly grabbed her.
"I...I...it's all my fault!" Sukhbaatar cried out, clutching his head with a guilty expression.
"what?"
"I put that fish in here!" Sukhbaatar shouted as he climbed onto the railing, looking like he was ready to settle things with it. "I'll go and catch that fish right now!"
"Huh?" Xiaobai was startled.
She had only thought that Sukhbaatar, as the guardian of the sea, might know the background of this Dean of the Deep Sea, but she never expected that Sukhbaatar would give her such an incredible reply.
So, Sukhbaatar released this whale?
This is so realistic!
This isn't some yellow croaker or knife fish that you can just release. This is a massive deep-sea amphibious vessel, comparable to a mountain peak. What was Sukhbaatar thinking when he released such a "big fish" into the first chapter's sea area?
"Lord Su, please calm down!"
"I, Sukhbaatar, will take full responsibility for my actions! Don't stop me, I'll be right back!"
“Lord Sukhbaatar, you can’t control your ship’s equipment, so there’s no point in going like this!” Xiaobai said, pulling on Sukhbaatar’s hand.
Sukhbaatar's abilities had been explained to Xiaobai over the past few days, so Xiaobai knew that Sukhbaatar wouldn't be able to use his strength beyond that of a supply ship unless he got really angry. If Sukhbaatar charged into the deep sea with a look of grief and indignation, he would probably be hammered into the bottom of the ocean by the deep-sea ships.
"I'm so sorry to the ship girls and the people!" Sukhbaatar covered his head, looking like he was filled with regret and wished someone would slap him.
"Lord Su, please don't be so impulsive. Tell us about the background of the Deep Sea Dean first, okay?" Xiaobai felt helpless about Sukhbaatar's self-destructive state, but regretting it here was useless. It would be better to consult Sukhbaatar about the background of the Deep Sea Dean. Maybe he would have some solutions.
Sukhbaatar then quieted down.
She awkwardly clenched her hands and gave Xiaobai an embarrassed smile: "Don't be angry after I tell you, okay?"
"Huh? What are you angry about?"
Sukhbaatar looked around, then whispered to Little White, "That Dean of the Deep Sea, he was the mount that rode over here a few days ago."
"Ah!?" Xiaobai was startled again.
“You know what happened back then, right? They used some tricks to get her and it pretty much done for, but at the time, I figured they were already in pretty bad shape anyway, and they'd die sooner or later if left unattended, so I forgot to finish them off. I didn't expect it to survive like that…” Sukhbaatar said, “The resilience of deep-sea amphibious ships is unbelievably strong…”
Did you forget to finish him off?
Xiao Bai was about to say, "Lord Su, you must be joking," but then she remembered that this ship girl in front of her could sleep soundly even when sharing a room with the Dean, so she couldn't help but believe it.
Well, it seems that Sukhbaatar really is capable of doing this.
Xiao Bai could only give Sukhbaatar a resentful look.
"I am guilty, I admit my mistake." When Sukhbaatar saw that even Little White was looking at him like that, he was so ashamed that he couldn't lift his head.
"In short, the problem now is with Veneto. Lord Su, how strong is this Dean of the Deep Sea?" Xiaobai asked.
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