Chapter 73

This is a lively coast; looking at it, the shore is occupied by anglers.

Nearby, an aunt is shouting hard:

"These are prepared for guests who return empty-handed; come and buy them, there are all kinds of fish."

"There are also dried goods, but don't say you caught the dried goods yourself."

"You can show off your skills in front of your children when you go home; come and buy them."

An uncle looked at the crowd gathered around the aunt asking for prices and shook his head: "It's rare to come fishing, what's the point of buying? I really can't stand it."

He came to a boy wearing a black hat and fished with him.

"It's here!" Ten minutes later, the boy's float moved, and he immediately pulled the fishing rod with joy, but what he hooked was a black boot.

Looking at the boy's discouraged look, the uncle pointed out: "Even if the bait is expensive, you won't necessarily catch fish; I crush the shells in this area as bait."

"It's here!" As soon as he finished speaking, the uncle pulled the fishing rod violently, and a small fish was caught.

At this moment, the boy's fishing rod sank again.

Seeing that he couldn't pull it up, the enthusiastic uncle stepped forward to help: "This summer, the number of people coming here to fish is several times the usual; the seabed is full of broken fishing lines, as many as spider silk."

The boy asked: "Why?"

The uncle scratched his head: "The ocean research institute here seems to have invented a sonar device that can attract schools of fish. With more fish, there are naturally more people fishing; what have you caught?"

The boy looked at his empty fish basket awkwardly: "Nothing..."

The uncle comforted: "At your age, you won't catch big fish."

The boy retorted: "Possible! My friend caught a very large red sea bream, so I want to catch a bigger fish."

But half an hour passed, and the boy still gained nothing.

Time came to 4:30 in the afternoon; seeing that there was no hope today, the boy reeled in his rod and left with the uncle.

On the way, the uncle met a familiar fisherman and asked them how they had been doing recently.

The fisherman shook his head: "No, there are too many people fishing here; it's hard to catch fish in this sea."

Uncle: "No way, so many people come to 'nest', the fish should grow fatter."

Fisherman: "We are also strange, but the seawater has become more and more turbid recently; some people say that the nuclear sewage discharged before has flowed into our sea area, so there are fewer and fewer fish."

The uncle cursed along, saying that those officials really don't know what they are thinking; they don't use money to deal with nuclear sewage, but instead promote everywhere that the discharge is harmless.

At this moment, the boy's eyes lit up and pointed to a large red fish in the boat: "Uncle, what is this?"

Fisherman: "I don't know, I've never seen such a strange fish; could it be mutated by nuclear pollution?"

The boy didn't care about these: "But it's big, bigger than the fish my friend caught; Uncle, sell this fish to me."

The fisherman thought for a moment: "I can give it to you, but you must promise me not to eat it; it's likely poisonous."

The boy naturally agreed with his mouth full.

After putting the fish into his fish basket, the boy and the uncle said goodbye to the fisherman and prepared to go home.

When passing by the ocean research institute mentioned by the uncle, a car attracted the boy's attention.

"I know, this is the Victory Feiyan's Drum car!" The boy was pleasantly surprised.

Looking at the man and woman getting off the car, the uncle also exclaimed: "That young man is really handsome."

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The male member is Qi Ming, and the female member is Emi; they came here to investigate two things.

"This research institute should be the one in the 12th episode of 'Tiga', 'Emergency Rescue from the Deep Sea'."

"But where did that 'σ wave' come from?"

This area of the seabed has been emitting "σ waves" in the past few days; Moroboshi Dan guessed that it might be related to the recent frequent undersea earthquakes, so he let Qi Ming and Emi bring a "strange dead fish" to ask the ocean research institute.

"The analysis results of the DNA composition are out, and it contains recombinant DNA factors caused by radioactivity." The director of the research institute said.

Emi: "So, this is a creature that existed before, and it suddenly changed into a mutant; was it caused by nuclear sewage?"

The director said: "The possibility is very small; the harm of treated nuclear sewage is not that great."

"The most likely cause is a series of nuclear tests previously conducted by the United States in the Pacific."

"And the recent undersea swarm earthquakes may also be caused by nuclear tests."

"Due to the eruption of undersea volcanoes, the migration routes of plankton fish have also changed greatly; if they pass through polluted sea areas, such 'strange dead fish' will become more and more..."

After talking about the harm, the director said again: "We are using the latest equipment to find ways to solve the harm of nuclear tests to marine life."

He took Qi Ming and Emi to the laboratory and introduced proudly:

"This is an ultrasonic induction transmission system."

"Simply put, it is to use ultrasonic waves to gather schools of fish and control marine life to avoid polluted sea areas."

"This is a buoy equipped with a transmitter..."

After the director finished talking endlessly, Qi Ming said: "I suggest using this thing cautiously."

In the original "Tiga" series, this ultrasonic induction system attracted the mutated skin fish—Rayloys.

And in this world that has almost gathered all the people and things of the Ultra series, God knows how many marine monsters can be attracted...

Seeing him question, the director asked Qi Ming what high opinions he had unconvincedly.

Qi Ming: "There are many giant monsters in the ocean; if they are also attracted, can you hold on here?"

Director: "Such large monsters should not have the characteristics of ordinary marine life."

Qi Ming: "What if it just has them? For example, ordinary marine life mutated, or it could grow that big in the first place."

The director was silent for a long time: "We have to continue the experiment further and observe the data to improve the system. If monsters really appear, the Victory Feiyan and the Defense Force will eliminate them, right?"

Qi Ming: "If Earth monsters appear actively and start destruction, they will definitely be killed, but..."

Can those attracted by the ultrasonic system be counted as "active"?

It seems I have to find a time to explore Japan's main dragon vein; after finding Renlong, I will talk to it formally.

At this moment, Emi asked about the second thing: "The sea area near the research institute is always emitting 'σ waves', which is very unusual; do you have any clues?"

Director: "We have also noticed this, but so far, everything is normal."

"Beep." The next moment, the communicators of the two rang.

Moroboshi Dan sent a message, telling the two that a monster had just appeared and attacked an offshore oil exploration station.

Qi Ming looked at the image data and thought: "It's really you."

The monster in the picture is like a green puffer fish, with a terrifying appearance; it is the monster that suddenly mutated under the influence of underground nuclear tests in the original "Tiga" series—【Rayloys】.

(End of chapter)