Chapter 262. Mermaids taste best with steam (1)
[Start scanning.]
A message pops up before your eyes.
With him, Lloyd looked around.
Originally, it was a dark deep sea floor where no light could be found.
At least Xaviel, who was with me, lit up the surroundings with an aura.
I could barely discern my surroundings with that little light.
However, when using the surveying skill, everything changed.
Tsutsutsutsutsu…!
Like using infrared night vision goggles.
The field of vision was processed in black and white, and all the surrounding scenery was clearly visible.
Deep sea hydrothermal vents blazing nearby.
Other than that, it’s mostly flat, quiet wasteland.
It was the scenery of the deep sea floor reflected through the surveying skill.
But Lloyd had no interest in the mystique of such a deep-sea landscape.
‘The deep-sea landscape is a mess at a situation where we have to find the treasure site first!’
His gaze was deep, and he went downstairs.
5 meters below the deep sea floor.
I paid attention to the appearance of the underground peeping through underground scanning.
A confident smile formed on his lips.
‘Why are you looking for a treasure site while digging with a shovel? There is underground scanning.’
An option for surveying skills that allows you to scan all the way from the surface of the earth to 5 meters below ground.
So far, he has benefited from this option a lot.
If you just glanced at it, you could see all the way to the basement.
There was no need to struggle to analyze the underground structure one by one.
It could be said to be the most convenient feature among the skill options he has.
Today, too, thought Lloyd.
‘Anyway, the bottom of the sea or whatever will be visible through surveying. It must be the same for the grounds of the jewel buried under it.’
So just do it like this
Activate the surveying skill and investigate the entire bottom of the Arctic Ocean.
Of course, the area is quite large, so it will take a month or two, but you will be able to find what you want thousands of times faster than if a few people shoveled one by one.
he was sure
And exactly one minute later.
His confidence began to bounce and bounce like the eyes of a person who missed the last train home in front of his eyes.
‘what? What is this. Pearl…Why is it so thick?’
His eyes moved nonstop.
I looked underground under the sea floor everywhere.
But all I could see was Pearl.
Only thick pearls and mud were visible.
The only unusual thing that could be seen between them was a deep-sea eel wriggling in the mud.
As such, Lloyd was able to realize the moment he watched the deep-sea eel ascend dance live with his surveying skill.
‘Damn it.’
The pearls piled up on the bottom of the sea were much thicker than I thought.
Because it’s so bad here
It is an environment where there is no change due to the extremely small influence of ocean currents.
It’s just a place where all sorts of organic matter and dirt that flutter down like snowflakes from the shallow sea far away accumulate thickly.
‘The thickness of the pearl is thicker than the underground scanning option range of the surveying skill. It’s not just here, it’s all the same there and there.’
Lloyd clicked his tongue inwardly.
‘If I do this, I’ll leave.’
It was he who felt sorry and pitiful for Rotorua, who had been shoveling the sea floor in the first place to search for the treasure site.
I thought it would be different.
Because you have surveying skills.
Because underground scanning will shine.
Believing in that, I came all the way here with a sense of wonder.
However, when I came and measured it, I felt like a waste.
‘Write. What do we do.’
It got embarrassing.
A situation where you don’t know where the treasure is located on the vast deep sea floor.
However, because of the pearls that were thicker than expected, even the surveying skills would become useless.
In addition, Rotorua was secretly asking questions from the side.
“How about you come and take a look? Do you see any hope of quickly finding the prison site?”
“no.”
Lloyd suppressed his embarrassment and honestly shook his head.
He hadn’t come all this way to save his image or face.
To prevent the phenomenon of restoration of fate.
to find a way to stop it.
He had come all this way to unearth the jewel of truth.
‘It’s not even that the time is flat. 3 years from the ending spoiler? Three years might seem like a long time, but it’ll be pretty soon.’
In hindsight, it really was.
It had already been over three years since he had entered the iron-blooded knight novel here.
So, if you spend time with Eoyoung and Buyeong, the phenomenon of restoring your destiny will begin soon.
Lloyd took that fact to heart and meekly admitted his mistake.
“When I came here, it was much wider than I thought. Besides, the pearls on the bottom of the sea seem to be too thick.”
“also. I knew you would say that.”
“yes. But were you digging out that thick pearl alone with a shovel while searching for jewels?”
“Because there was no other way.”
Rotorua smiled bitterly.
“It’s not that I and my ancestors didn’t think of other ways. The simplest and most efficient solution would have been to enlist the help of other mermaids. But it was a method I knew and could not use.”
“It seems that there was no mermaid to cooperate.”
“exactly.”
Rotorua’s smile grew bitter.
“I think you know the atmosphere of this place well, as you have visited the mermaids here and asked about jewels. Mermaids here? No one cares about the jewel. It’s just a legend from a distant past. how do you find it The majority of people even think why they need to find it.”
“Is it because there is no discomfort in living as it is now?”
“Perhaps it is. Because they think it’s better to train your body by swimming than to waste your time looking for gems.”
“As expected.”
Lloyd agreed with Rotorua’s words.
Certainly, none of the mermaids here seemed to be interested in jewels.
But what about persuading them and mobilizing them to explore treasures?
It must have been a crowd.
‘Write. It’s a bit close though. The mermaids here are definitely at a crazy level. If I can mobilize it, I’ll be able to shovel the bottom of the sea all day with that insane muscular endurance.’
Lloyd clicked his tongue in pity.
The more I fantasized about it, the more pitiful it became.
What if hundreds of mermaids with such great physical powers were mobilized?
It would not have been a task to dig up and overturn the seabed in this area.
Then the probability of finding the prison site would be much higher.
‘So this is the same as winning the lottery.’
It was a simple matter.
One person digging the vast seabed, and hundreds of people digging it.
Buying just one lottery ticket at the same time and buying hundreds of tickets.
The latter is probably more likely to win.
Of course, there is no guarantee that you will win.
Even so, the odds will surely rise.
What if Xaviel was added and the bottom of the sea surface was turned upside down?
Then it seemed that the prison site could be found.
‘So, it would be really nice if we could mobilize the mermaids. Or just summon Yongyong and throw it away? no. If I do, it will be revealed that I was behind the Yongyong incident last time.’
Lloyd shook his head.
I can’t call the bone dragon Yongyong this time.
Even so, it would have been inefficient to roll only Xavier.
‘He could blow thousands of bundles of auras and remove pearls from the bottom of the sea. However, it will be much weaker than on the ground. The water pressure here is extremely deep.’
The water pressure of this deep sea is beyond imagination.
It wasn’t just about transcending.
As an extreme example, what if a nuclear bomb explodes at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth?
Even detonating the most powerful nuclear bomb in history, the RDS-200 Tsar Bomba?
‘I saw it in a documentary before. Tsar Bomba? that wasn’t a joke With the power of 50 megatons of TNT, the shock wave circled the earth three times, and it is said that the height of the mushroom cloud alone soared to an altitude of 56 kilometers.’
And that wasn’t all.
The shockwave alone swept and destroyed everything within a thousand square kilometer range.
The energy emitted was enough to evaporate an entire lake.
The diameter of the crater created when it just exploded reached 10 kilometers.
The top of the crater almost touched the troposphere-stratosphere boundary.
‘But what if I explode it here in the deep sea? The results will be very different.’
On the ground, a crater that would be 10 kilometers across will only grow to a kilometer.
The crater will be crushed by the tremendous water pressure and turbulence.
Such a broken crater will eventually rise to the surface as a little warm radioactive bubble.
‘Just one big radioactive fart in the water. That’s it. Because of that enormous Tsar Bomba water pressure. Because of the water pressure.’
That was the power of deep sea water pressure.
So what about the thousands of strands of Aura that Xaviel is about to fire?
As on the ground, it would not be possible to sweep the ground in a range of hundreds of meters at once.
‘Of course, it is possible to do it for several tens of meters. It’s far better than me or Mr. Rotorua shoveling. I’m sorry about that though. There are high-class personnel called mermaids that are optimized for the environment here, but isn’t it a pity to rely only on Xaviel?’
Beings familiar with the water pressure here.
The mermaids who can use their strength without any hesitation even here.
If we were to use human resources, we wanted to mobilize them.
That way, the probability of finding the prison site would definitely increase.
However, it was difficult to convince and mobilize them.
‘Write. There must be some way.’
Apparently, mermaids were too coveted manpower to just give up.
It was from then.
‘Move your brain. Roll the frontal lobe!’
Lloyd shook his head and agonized over it with earnest desire.
I thought hard about the method and thought about the secret plan.
As a result, I wandered around without even realizing it.
As if standing still, I began to swim with the current.
How worried were you?
How far did you swim
Suddenly he felt that the scenery around him had changed slightly.
‘uh?’
An unfamiliar sight was unfolding before my eyes.
Pillars like chimneys rising from the floor.
A hot, dark stream of water gushing out from the top of the pillar.
Deep-sea creatures huddled around the dark stream.
The acrid smell of sulfur that I can finally feel.
It was a place that I could see from afar when I activated my surveying skill earlier.
‘Deep sea hydrothermal vent?’
A hydrothermal vent was a place that could be called a kind of undersea underground hot spring where groundwater seeped under the seabed crust was heated to a high temperature by the heat of magma in the depths and bubbled up again.
‘Tsk, let’s avoid it.’
It seemed that I had come to this place after swimming aimlessly, engulfed in worries.
Toxic seawater full of hydrogen sulfide spewing out of hydrothermal vents.
Frightened by the acrid smell and heat, Lloyd hurriedly turned away.
But it was in the middle of that.
‘what? for a moment.’
sparkle.
A brilliant idea flashed in the frontal lobe of his cerebral cortex.
I stopped turning my feet.
I looked around the hydrothermal vent at the speed of light.
“Hey Mr. Rotorua? I have a question for you.”
Rotorua, who followed me all the way here with a worried expression.
asked him
“Do mermaids like you get worse when they get older?”
“what?”
“Joint disease. Joint pain, such as aching in the bones from time to time.”
“What a rough…It is.”
Rotorua stuttered and nodded.
“As you’ve probably seen many times, we mermaids have very strong muscles. Most mermaids often suffer from joint strain due to their excessive muscle strength. Especially as such a group accumulates, quite a lot of people suffer from joint pain as they get older.”
“Is that so? also.”
Lloyd’s lips curled up slightly.
He was thinking about the time when he went around burying jewels from mermaids not too long ago.
Do you know the degree exactly? He was thinking of a certain grandmother mermaid who was very annoying at the time of being treated.
‘At that time, that grandmother mermaid said that. Even if it’s true, I’m going crazy because my joints hurt, so why bother holding on to it?’
The grandmother mermaid stretched her shoulders and patted her waist.
He seemed like someone with really bad joint pain.
But looking back, it wasn’t just the old woman’s mermaid.
‘Grandpa mermaids and uncle mermaids did the same. Among the numerous mermaids I caught, most of those who had passed their adolescence looked sore and sick somewhere.’
Like an office worker who sits at a desk all day.
Like taxi bus drivers who have to be behind the wheel all day long.
No, more like a retired athlete who overworked himself in the name of training.
He was often seen habitually kneading or tapping painful joints.
So I guessed.
I kind of guessed.
I wonder if the mermaids here are always overworking their joints because of their excessive muscle strength.
That’s why I wonder if it’s natural for me to suffer from joint pain as I get older.
‘That guess was correct. Then there will be plenty of possibilities.’
Lloyd had a hunch.
Connected intuition.
combined
Mermaids suffering from chronic joint pain.
A hot hydrothermal vent just discovered in the deep sea.
The information you see and hear here.
Situations and factors that seem completely unrelated.
tied it together
Mixed, assembled, combined.
Finally conceived as a business.
He also thought of ways to achieve his goals through the business.
To prevent the phenomenon of restoration of destiny.
to find out how.
In order to excavate the treasure house of truth.
He grabbed the secret to mobilizing the manpower of countless mermaids.
“I think it would be great if we made a jjimjilbang here.”
