Matoimaru's words were like a cardiotonic injection, reenergizing Lin Ye to continue searching for Skadi.
It's just that the effectiveness of this shot was almost exhausted in the next week's aimless search.
Yes, they had been searching for a whole week, and couldn't find any useful clues. The soldiers of Ursus rummaged almost all the islands around the town of Harlan and could not find the shadow of any large creatures, let alone the deep sea treasures they were struggling to pursue. For Lin Ye and his party, Skadi's clue was also gone. They never saw the island again thereafter. That island disappeared under their noses and never showed up again.
On the eighth day, a strong typhoon hit the town of Harlan. For safety reasons, SilverSword issued an order not allowing any team to go to sea on a typhoon day. In fact, his order was rather unnecessary. Everyone's patience ran out throughout the week. There were only a few islands around Harlan, and each island had their footprints, but nothing was found. No one would ever venture out to the sea in this kind of weather.
The rain fell on the top of the tent, making a grumpy sound. The wind was whistling, and the tent was shaking fiercely as if it would be set off by the wind in the next second. The atmosphere inside the tent was in sharp contrast with the appearance of the tent. Aside from those noises, inside the tent was simply terrifyingly quiet.
It took nobody-know-how-long before Magallan softly opened her mouth and broke the silence, "Well, Mr. SilverSword of Ursus just sent a notice. Be prepared and we can evacuate in two days."
Raising her head, Matoimaru looked at Magallan with some surprise "Evacuation? What do you mean?"
"Literally." Skyfire who was also sheltered from the rain in the same tent on the Rhodes Island side, said. After getting along with the group for a week, she became acquainted with Blue Poison and Magallan. She often come to their tent to discuss academic issues from time to time.
"He thinks it will be a futile effort if we continue the search. We have searched the surrounding waters completely, and we can't find a little clue, which only means there is nothing we want here."
Frostleaf took off her headphones, and then slowly said, "So he just wants us to go back where we came?"
"Exactly, It's just a polite way of saying the mission failed." Skyfire shrugged, "How boring. I was quite interested in seeing large creatures from the deep sea."
Blue Poison said, "You will change your mind when you see a real one."
"Tsk, I don't think so. I don't think anything in this world would scare me. "Skyfire said, "As long as it can be killed."
Skyfire was a little proud. She sounded like those overly confident game players that Lin Ye saw on the Internet in his previous life.
The "as long as there is a HP bar on it, I will kill it. There is no such thing as an unkillable BOSS", type of person.
Normally, Lin Ye would definitely banter with her, but he was not in the mood, especially when he learned that the mission was about to end.
"By the way, I have a question I want to ask all the time." Skyfire looked at the people of Rhodes Island and asked, "Where is your Abyssal hunter? Why didn't she never show up, even though the mission is about to be over? What information did she really find?"
Everyone exchanged glances, but they didn't know how to answer Skyfire.
Skyfire was not stupid. Looking at everyone's reaction, she hummed, "Nevermind, I know you have something you must hide from me. If you don't want to say it, then don't say it. I thought we were getting along quite well this week. But it doesn't matter. The joint operation is about to disband, so goodbye." She opened the tent and left in the rain as she talked, and her departure also made the Rhodes Island operators in the tent somewhat relieved.
Lin Ye sighs helplessly.
Though the week they had been with Skyfire, they knew she was not that bad of a person. She was just a good person with a little lady's temper. They were also very happy to get along with her, and some of them admired her wide knowledge in Originium arts. It's just that they could never talk about Skadi when Skyfire is around, and Skadi is the most important goal of their trip.
Matoimaru looked at Magallan and asked, "Are we really gonna leave? We haven't found Skadi yet."
"Only we are looking for Miss Skadi. Ursus doesn't know." Magallan said helplessly, "What they are looking for are large-scale creatures, the treasure in the deep sea. Moreover, Mr. SilverSword doesn't know that Miss Skadi is missing, and is very dissatisfied that we never let Miss Skadi show up."
"Tsk, it's really annoying," Matoimaru sighed and looked at Blue Poison, "Just where the hell could that Island be? What did the oceanographic expert from Lungmen say? You guys have all been discussing it for a week."
Magallan answered her immediately, "There is no point in continuing to discuss this kind of problem. From a scientific point of view, it is absolutely impossible for an island of this size to be gone unnoticed by any of us in one day … or less than three hours, to be more specific"
"But it did disappear."
Blue Poison suddenly said, "Then it can only be explained from other aspects. There are two possibilities."
Everyone looked at her. Lin Ye also raised his head.
"The first possibility is, do you remember what happened to us on the island?" Blue Poison explained. "At that time we were hypnotized several times by spells."
"Yeah," Matoimaru nodded, "What's wrong with it?"
"In that case, is it possible that we were hypnotized at the very beginning?" Blue Poison said, "Before going to the island."
Frostleaf frowned at this" From the very beginning … you mean, that island did not exist at all? We have always been on the boat, and we have never entered a cave?"
Blue Poison nodded.
"How is this possible?" Lin Ye added in this own thoughts, "Magallan's drones were damaged on the island and we found Skadi's communication device there too"
"... Then there is only one possibility left. This one I am sure I am right." Blue Poison said word by word, "That is, that island was living."
"Didn't you say it is impossible for an island to move?" said Matoimaru, "Aren't you denying your own sayings?"
"Islands are indeed impossible to move, but what if that thing is not an island, but something else?" Blue Poison said, "Were it a giant living being, or something similar to a mobile city, then it is not impossible for it to disappear in two hours."
"Mo-moving city or creature?" Matoimaru's eyes widened, "Are you kidding me?"
Magallan thought about it for a while and then said, "The probability for a moving city is very small. First of all, with current technologies, it is not difficult to move an island of that size, but it is absolutely impossible to do it in complete silence. At least us that were three miles away can definitely hear it moving. Secondly, as far as I know, there is no country or region who's able to place a mobile city in the sea. Finally, if it is a mobile city, I should be able to see it that night."
Blue Poison slightly nodded, "I don't know much about mobile cities, but since you said that, it can only show that the island itself is a huge creature. That night, we didn't find an island… But the body of a huge creature"
The corners of Matoimaru's mouth twitched slightly: "Isn't it even more impossible? Even in the deep sea, does such a huge creature exist? And the appearance looks like an island, no, it's not the appearance, we all entered it... Wait, according to what you just said, could it be the cave that we went to? It was inside of a thing?"
Everyone paled.
"Although I have never seen such a large creature. "Blue Poison sighed softly, "But since it is something from the deep sea, it may be the truth. It's a different world. Not everything there can be explained by logic."
Lin Ye didn't say a word. But he was also thinking about Blue Poison's explanations.
That island is actually a giant creature itself?
This sounds incredible, though. But having eliminated all wrong assumptions, he must accept the truth.
If the island was some giant creature itself, then many of the previous doubts could be explained.
But the biggest question remains unanswered. That is, is Skadi still alive? If she is still alive, where is she? It has been half a month since Skadi lost her traces. If they still cannot find her...
Lin Ye grasped Maple's handle to vent his inner emotions, but he suddenly sensed a little difference from Maple. The handle was slightly shaking. Lin Ye wasn't sure if it was some misconceptions or his own hand shaking.
"But anyway, we can't just go back like this." Blue Poison said, "We have to think of a reason and stay here for a few more days. We must wait until the typhoon is over and go out to sea again.
"I agree." Magallan also nodded, "No matter what, we can't give up on finding Miss Ska-."
The tent suddenly opened before she could finish her sentence, and the cold wind rushed into their tent instantly.
Everyone turned their heads and found Skyfire at the entrance, completely drenched .
Something isn't right here.
Lin Ye stood up and went straight to her with a towel.
"What's wrong, Skyfire?" Lin Ye asked.
Her face was a little pale, Lin Ye originally thought she was cold but soon he would know he was wrong.
"I want to ask, have you received an immediate retreat notice?" her voice was as quiet as a whisper.
"No, why do you ask like that?" Lin Ye raised his brow.
"Because...the other tents are … empty."
{Rhodes Island's Psychologist}
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