Chapter 1637: Chapter 1639: Laying a False Trail
Feng Jun headed to the Spirit Stone Mine one evening, as he had set up a tracking system, saving him the effort of travelling.
When he arrived at that sea area, it was not yet dark. He slowly rose from underwater and, as he was about to breach the sea surface, he noticed a fishing boat less than a kiloter away from him.
The visibility at sea level was quite clear, and so people even had binoculars to look into the distance. Feng Jun dared not surface, so he subrged again, traversing over three kiloters underwater before erging and releasing his Divine Sense to perceive his surroundings.
Once he sensed his surroundings, to his surprise, within an area of a hundred square kiloters, there were actually fourteen or fifteen ships.
Feng Jun sighed; three months had passed, yet the heat of activity here hadn’t diminished much.
However, the ships weren’t very evenly distributed, allowing him room to maneuver. He chose a relatively empty spot—a location he had previously surveyed as suitable for placing a small bell.
Placing the bell took Feng Jun nearly ten hours because even a slight movent would attract attention from other ships, and he did not want to be scanned again.
Despite his caution, during the final steps, a slightly exaggerated action caught the attention of two ships, which changed their course and sailed towards him.
Now, Feng Jun needed to leave cautiously; otherwise, if pursued again and constantly scanned, it would be troubleso to escape and even worse if soone noticed sothing significant happening underwater.
Carefully sneaking away took him over an hour; by the ti he surfaced again, dawn was approaching.
This ti, he flew close to the water surface for over a thousand kiloters, and as daylight started to break, he subrged again, releasing the Broad-backed Python that had been killed by Weimian’s Force.
With an enormous body, the python didn’t bleed because it was killed inside the Longsheng Folding Fan by Weimian’s Force. Feng Jun held onto its massive form, swiftly traversing the sea.
The high-rank power of the Dust-Free level is absolutely formidable; Feng Jun’s advancent this ti used a total of eleven Heavenly Fragrance Fruits. Although he lost so Spiritual Energy to others, he absorbed the vast majority.
To know, his advancent from the fourth to fifth level only used four Heavenly Fragrance Fruits, while from the fifth to the peak of the sixth level only required seven. This ti the amount was the sum of both but still hadn’t reached the peak of the seventh level.
Dragging the imnse Broad-backed Python, his swimming speed in the sea exceeded fifty kiloters per hour—not that he couldn’t go faster, but further speed would be beyond normal understanding.
In Earth Realm marine life, many fish species surpass a hundred kiloters per hour, but such massive creatures typically aren’t very fast, and the Python’s size and weight exceeded Earth Realm’s largest animal—the Blue Whale.
Sure enough, as such a gigantic entity sped through the sea, remaining relatively close to the water surface, it was detected by a fishing boat’s radar about five hours later. “Oh my heavens, what is that thing?”
The fishing boat started pursuit but, unfortunately, due to its slower speed, the chase progressively widened the distance.
That fishing boat had friends at sea—technically collaborators and competitors—after realizing they couldn’t keep up, they called friends for the interception.
By the ti darkness fell, five fishing boats were involved in the blockade, seeing that the enormous and unknown creature was being surrounded increasingly closely. Unexpectedly, the creature rapidly subrged into the deep sea, disappearing amidst complex hydrographic conditions.
At dawn the next day, the massive entity reappeared, and everyone was prepared, recording its radar characteristics. Sure enough, after an hour, it vanished once more.
By midday, it appeared again outside the encirclent, once more “discovered.”
Three days later, seven or eight fishing boats, along with a scientific research vessel, had gathered, planning to capture an image of the enigmatic gigantic creature… This ship had previously operated in the sea area where the Spirit Stone Mine was located.
Feng Jun finally managed to divert these ships, then flew out a thousand kiloters, using his Storage Bag to retrieve a piece of Big Stone weighing over a thousand tons from the seafloor, flying to an altitude of about two thousand ters and hurling it towards the sea.
To avoid detection by satellites or ships, he executed this operation at night.
Throwing over a thousand tons of stone from such a height, the shock… Interested classmates can roughly calculate the magnitude of the impact it would have caused.
Of course, throwing it onto the sea surface surely is better than onto land, yet the imnse effect was undoubtedly significant.
Everyone speculated about what might have caused such a colossal impact, adding yet another unsolved mystery to the list.
By this ti, the sea area Feng Jun had been monitoring saw greatly reduced attention. The next day when he returned, only so sonar buoys remained, with no ship in sight.
Feng Jun finally had a relatively relaxed operational environnt, so he worked day and night for three consecutive days, completing the setup of all eight bells without disturbing the sonar buoy.
He was busy setting up the formation and naturally had no ti to continue laying false trails at the other two places. After three days of fruitless searching, the personnel and ships at those two locations were also planning to leave.
Just then, the first fishing boat to leave lost contact. Imdiately after, two more fishing boats lost contact—strictly speaking, it was the people on these three boats who went missing, as the satellite phone signals were still present.
However, no one paid much attention to this—except for the families of those crew mbers. On the sea, you never know what kind of situation you might encounter. Once busy, it’s possible to temporarily not answer the phone.
On the fourth boat, there was a lucky crew mber who escaped disaster. At that mont, he was under the deck repairing equipnt when he suddenly felt nauseous, dizzy, and sleepy. It took him a while to regain his strength and he crawled up to the deck, limbs weak.
He was surprised to find that on the ship, eight people including the captain and the first mate were unconscious, leaving only himself awake. Terrified, he picked up the captain’s satellite phone to seek help from the outside world.
As for what happened at that mont, he had so vague mories. “It seed like I heard a clock chi, and I felt a bit dazed… Does the sea even have a NASDAQ Exchange now?”
His reaction drew high attention from the scientific research vessel. The helicopter on board took off, found that ship, and indeed saw that one crew mber was listless while the other seven were unconscious.
The helicopter could not land on the fishing boat, and the two people who descended with ropes were not doctors. Although they had basic first aid knowledge, this situation was clearly beyond their control.
The research vessel received the report from the two and just then, the location of another missing ship was confird. The helicopter left this ship and flew toward the other one.
The only conscious crew mber begged desperately, hoping they could save his colleagues, but the two coldly stated, “We have reason to believe that, after they wake up, faced with the high cost of rescue, they’d rather pass out again.”
It’s not that they were cold-blooded; it’s just that the doctors in Mai Nation are so noble. If you fall into the water, people on the research vessel might save you on a whim, but if you’re unconscious… Sorry, no one is willing to treat you for free, and ergency fees are indeed frighteningly expensive.
In fact, they weren’t that cold-hearted, “Hey, buddy, don’t be so sad. At least the two of us can act as witnesses to prove that you indeed tried to save their lives. That’s good news for you, isn’t it?”
Soon, the helicopter arrived at the location of the second ship, descended again, and sure enough found that all eleven crew mbers aboard had fallen into a coma.
The research vessel realized they might have encountered an overwhelming surprise and couldn’t bother to explore what had fallen from the sky; they imdiately started at full speed, heading directly for the second ship.
This ti, they intended to save people with a research-oriented attitude.
While the research vessel was on its way, the news from the third ship also arrived, reporting that all nine crew mbers were unconscious…
This news even alard the military of Mai Nation. The clock chis… Is so country testing a newly invented sonic weapon?
Luckily for the unconscious crew mbers, due to the high attention from the military of Mai Nation, their lives were safeguarded.
As chaos ensued, the initiator had already put away the Soul-Suppressing Bell, following the footprints to the location of the large formation, chanting a series of complex spells, “Formation rise!”
A slight yet frequent tremor emanated from the seabed, though most people couldn’t feel it. Standing on the seabed with a keen sense, soone like Feng Jun would only feel a slight discomfort.
“It feels a bit like ultrasound,” Feng Jun exerted all his strength, suppressing the large bell in the center.
After the formation was fully activated, the large bell in the middle underwent so changes. Its size didn’t alter, but there was a slight spatial distortion inside, akin to a Storage Bag.
However, whereas a Storage Bag cannot actively absorb items, this bell can, so describing it as a miniature black hole seems more fitting.
In fact, the other seven bells are the sa, considered ultra-miniature black holes, and they will channel the Spirit Stones they capture to the large bell in the center. This is the basic effect of the formation.
The tremors emitted by the seven bells also transmitted to the central bell, so Feng Jun’s task was to exert all effort to suppress the central bell.
As the Big Boss said, this kind of suppression isn’t easy. Feng Jun had to maintain a high Spiritual Energy output to make the bell’s vibration subtle and unnoticeable.
The large formation’s full activation took more than half an hour. By this ti, Feng Jun was left with less than forty percent of his Spiritual Energy, aning he consud over sixty percent of his inner Spiritual Energy to fully activate and stabilize the formation.
He is currently at the seventh level of Out of Dust, with more than sixty percent of Spiritual Energy, which is more than all the Spiritual Energy he had at the sixth level of Out of Dust. And considering the control over Spiritual Energy at the Interdiate Level of Out of Dust is far less adept than at the High-Rank level.
Indeed, the Big Boss is worthy of being a Big Boss, saying that the Interdiate Level of Out of Dust wouldn’t suffice, and indeed it doesn’t, even though Feng Jun possesses stronger Spiritual Energy than cultivators of the sa cultivation level.
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