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#356 - Chapter 356: Arctic Search

"Roger that!"

And just like that, Qi Jing was tossed out of the submarine, to be used as a human-shaped fishing device.

As soon as he got out, he encountered a school of fish, casually grabbed a few, and immediately returned.

"Zha Yin, it's too dark outside, I'm so scared~"

After using a Fresh Clothes spell to dry his combat suit, he threw his arms around Tan Zuyin's armor.

"Get down, get down, quickly give me the fish."

"They're all in this fish tank."

Luckily, the fish he caught this time were relatively small, so Qi Jing could put them in his large, personal food container.

Otherwise, Zha Yin would have to personally go into the dimension to ask.

"My little fish, are you awake? Do you remember..."

After handing the fish to Tan Zuyin, Qi Jing stood at the stern of the boat, sensing the land below.

Their current autopilot setting was a distance of one hundred meters from the seabed, maintaining that distance regardless of the ocean's depth.

According to the Pythagorean theorem, Qi Jing's sensing range was roughly one thousand meters to either side of the course.

This was already quite large for them, but for an ocean, two thousand meters was just a line on the map.

Trying to find a light sphere with a diameter of ten meters on a line was practically like finding a needle in a haystack.

However, they weren't really expecting to find it; after all, it was a matter of luck. Finding it would be good luck, and not finding it would be like a vacation, and they could accumulate some experience for future underwater adventures.

Just as Qi Jing was concentrating on using his Observation Haki to sense his surroundings, Tan Zuyin was being bothered by the fish.

"Don't eat me~"

"Aba aba aba aba~"

"I only know what happened within seven seconds, don't ask me~"

"My heart is iron, indestructible~"

"Yash Lei, Shuren~"

Tan Zuyin suddenly felt like eating fish.

When she first asked, the fish were all wailing in fear, not communicating with her at all. Only after using her ability to create sound waves that made them feel safe and brave could they speak complete sentences.

But these words were too terrible, it was better not to listen.

"Yan Cheng, go catch two more fish, these are useless."

Tan Zuyin saw Qi Jing closing his eyes and sensing, and felt it was better not to disturb him, so she thought it would be better to have Yan Cheng and the others, who were tinkering with the console, go.

"Leave it to me!"

Yan Cheng took out the fishing cannon he had drawn before and stuck it out through the small crack next to the window.

The main characteristic of this ship was that it could change in size, not just as a whole, but even individual parts could.

Tan Zuyin had already seen this function when Qi Jing drew the Supreme Synthesis Furnace, but Yan Cheng and the others had just figured it out.

With it, they could widen the gap from the inside to push things out, and with Mo Wang having reinforced it with special materials, it wouldn't cause seawater to flow in, even at a depth of several thousand meters.

"Fire!"

Yan Cheng's cannon fired a large net, shooting towards the fish outside.

But the ship was moving too fast. Although he had aimed at the front of the fish in anticipation, he still missed.

"Uh, again!"

One cannon could fire three times. Yan Cheng didn't believe he couldn't catch a fish in three tries!

Pong!

Pong!

Unsurprisingly, all failed.

Yan Cheng kicked the cannon away and then took out another drawing, tearing it open and summoning a second one.

"This time it will definitely work!"

The prototype of this cannon was the fishing artifact that Qi Jing drew when he drew the Titanic. As long as it hit a fish smaller than the net, it could instantly transmit it back behind him, but it could only fire three shots.

So Qi Jing gave it to Yan Cheng as a template for mass production.

Pong! Pong! Pong!

Obviously, Yan Cheng had only achieved mass production but not mastery of its use.

On the last shot of his fourth cannon, he finally hit an unfamiliar fish.

"Finally caught one, I'll continue, you ask it first."

Estimating that he wouldn't catch a second one by the time she finished asking, he still had to continue fishing.

After nodding to Yan Cheng, Tan Zuyin put it in the fish tank and continued to question it.

"Little fish, little fish, have you seen a white sphere of light?"

"It's over, it's over, it's over~ I'm going to be eaten~"

Looks like she still had to use the soothing sound wave package.

Peace of mind and courage.

"Human, you have successfully attracted my attention!"

A bit too brave, wasn't it!

She used Water Dragon Possession to stir the water in the tank and asked again:

"Have you seen it?"

"No."

It was honest this time.

But still a silly fish that didn't know anything.

"Sister-in-law Zha! I caught some more, this time I caught two at once!"

Hearing Yan Cheng's address, Tan Zuyin felt speechless and waved her hand:

"You continue, I'll handle them."

Calling her anything but 'Sister-in-law Zha' would be fine. Wouldn't that be a blatant attention-grabber? Qi Jing must have told him to call her that. She'd deal with him later.

After putting the two fish into the fish tank, Tan Zuyin continued to ask:

"Have you seen..."

Half an hour passed like this, and they were still empty-handed.

On the contrary, they caught a little penguin swimming in the water.

Yan Cheng asked, "Why are there penguins here?"

Penguins are in Antarctica, and polar bears are in the Arctic. Did he remember it wrong?

"It must be some bored esper who used a portal to send it here. Let me ask."

Tan Zuyin had a friendly exchange with it and learned why it was here.

"It was caught here by a human with golden wavy hair, wearing red leather pants, who fed it two fish and then released it.

And it came here through a mirror that reflected its own image, it should be a portal.

Which foreigner is so idle."

Yan Cheng said:

"Actually, I used to think about doing this, it would be interesting to have polar bears appear in Antarctica."

Song Jiang and Miao Kui nodded silently.

Once they knew the polar bear's name, they would want to bring it to Antarctica, and even want to send the penguin to the Arctic, it's normal.

"How about we take a break?"

Qi Jing saw that everyone had stopped, so he opened his eyes and woke up from his daze.

His Observation Haki, after being released for this amount of time, could now habitually probe the surroundings, not only freeing up brainpower, but even increasing the range by a hundred meters.

"Then let's take a break."

Yan Cheng didn't want to continue fishing anyway.

Mainly because the fish he caught were useless, and they had to be cooked before they could be eaten. If they could be eaten directly, he could have persisted a little longer?

Just as they were about to drink a bottle of soda, Song Jiang and Miao Kui, who had been watching the sonar radar map, discovered something:

"There are people ahead!"

"People? I thought they were alien beasts. What's there to be afraid of from people?"

Yan Cheng clearly knew about the international convention that espers on Earth cannot launch attacks at will.

Unless, the other side are wanted criminals or evil organizations.

Miao Kui shouted:

"Attention! They seem to want to attack us!"

"What!"