Chapter 1144

"Your Highness!" A line of ancient men dressed in neat Leather Armor respectfully saluted.

Ren 8000 nodded with a smile and looked at the short and strong young man at the front of the team. He seemed to think of something and had some reverie in his eyes.

Han smiled and asked, "pirate king?"

"Governor!" The young man smiled a little embarrassed.

This young man is Chao Zhong, the freshman who almost dropped out of school after watching the pirate king.

"More than ten years have passed!" Ren 8000 sighed that he could still vaguely see the young man standing in front of him and saying that he was going to drop out of school.

Although the great ideal of dropping out of school to be the pirate king did not succeed, he planted a seed in his heart.

Now the seed has finally taken root.

After learning that the imperial court was going to build steel ships and explore the sea, he volunteered to join them.

"Let me introduce you." Ren 8000 smiled.

"Yes."

"This is Zhenbo, over there is Zhentao, 142 m 3 long, 12 m 9 wide, with a displacement of 3380 tons, a full load displacement of 3760 tons, a speed of 19 knots... Carrying 122 people... The maximum speed is 19 knots, and the endurance speed is 12 knots, up to 30 days..."

While listening to Chao Zhong's words, Ren 8000 approached and touched the steel armor shell of Zhenbo. It felt cold and fishy.

When I got on the ship along the gangway, my face suddenly opened up.

The blue ocean, extending to the end of sight, gradually turns black.

"How much do you know about the troposphere now?" Ren 8000 looked at the distance and asked. The troposphere is not only a sharp blade in the world's oceans, but also a barrier in the world's oceans, blocking human steps and firmly limiting human beings to land.

The troposphere generally appears thousands of meters to tens of thousands of meters away from the coast, and there is no trace from the appearance. However, a few meters below the sea surface is filled with countless chaotic and turbulent undercurrents, as if countless hands are tearing, and ships can hardly escape when they enter the troposphere.

Even a steamship with a steel shell can't escape.

Not to mention the countless strange marine life in the troposphere, it is also a great danger to ships.

"The Research Institute of the observation station once put several observation devices underwater. Although it soon lost the news under the strange water surface, it was not without any discovery."

"I don't know what the undercurrent in the troposphere contains, but it has a little impact on the signal. Moreover, the undercurrent speed is very fast, and the observation device will be rolled up where the signal can't reach in a short time.

Under the ocean, there seems to be something affecting the current. We found many eddies under the water, which is an important reason for the formation of undercurrent

The ocean is very deep. There seems to be a huge crack under the water, like being cut by a sharp axe... "

"At present, we don't know the range of the troposphere. The detection range on the sea surface has exceeded 300 kilometers, and still hasn't broken through the troposphere... Moreover, there is a turbulent undercurrent in the air above the ocean 300 kilometers away, and some extreme weather often occurs... The UAVs explored by the observation station several times towards the external area were destroyed 300 kilometers away."

Ren 8000 had known most of the situation before, but I still need to hear more from Chao Zhong.

"Sail, let's go and have a look, and let me see your level." Ren 8000.

"Yes!" With a proud look, Chao Zhong ordered the people to prepare.

"Have you learned to swim?" Ren 8000 suddenly asked with a smile.

Chao Zhong's expression was stiff. Then he said, "I have suffered a lot in order to learn to swim."

Most of the ancient people are dry ducks, or those with the weight attribute. When they go into the water, they sink to the bottom.

If it's close to the coast, it's OK to stabilize your body and come out directly under the water, otherwise it's a dead end.

This group of pioneers of the Navy suffered a lot from it and did not know how much seawater they drank.

Before long, the Zhenbo sounded its horn and set sail.

"It's moving!"

"Tut Tut, you can do it without sails and oars!"

"Rely on the waves... All rely on the waves..."

Many onlookers on the shore looked surprised when they saw that the armored ship stopped for several days suddenly started.

The ship didn't go too far, but it was more than nine kilometers away. When I looked back, I could see the shore, and the ship stopped.

At this time, the ocean has taken on a dark blue color, and some in front, the ocean has turned black.

"Your Highness, the troposphere is ahead."

Ren 8000 nodded and stared at the sea ahead. In addition to the color changes, he could not see too many differences. Although there were waves on the sea, it seemed relatively calm.

"Drop markers." Ren 8000 commanded.

"Prepare to put the marker." Chao Zhong immediately shouted.

A moment later, a red wooden ball with a diameter of two meters was thrown into the distance. The density of this kind of wood was very high. After being put into the water, it just fell below the water surface.

Soon, Ren 8000 saw that the sea seemed to be irritated. Although there was no big change on the surface, the wooden ball under the water began to move rapidly and irregularly under the water.

This is the effect of subsurface currents.

But for a moment, the wooden ball seemed to be concentrated by a heavy hammer and suddenly broke into countless pieces of wood, which continued to float and sink in the water.

Here is the power of undercurrent, which can even deform steel under the power of countless undercurrent.

A huge wave suddenly rose on the sea, and a "huge" monster suddenly emerged from the water.

It looks like the tentacle of an octopus, more than 30 meters above the water, twisting and swinging on the water, and there is a huge mouth full of sharp teeth at the upper end.

"This kind of" one firewood "is everywhere under the water." Chao Zhong said. "Its own strength is not particularly strong, but there are too many."

This is not a tentacle of a giant monster, but the body is like this.

Then he picked up a bow from the side, bent the bow and took an arrow. An arrow pierced the air and plunged into the shaking hand. Suddenly, a big hole appeared.

Blue blood sprayed everywhere.

The sea suddenly churned up, and the tentacle beat wildly around.

Even a large hole is not fatal to this creature.

And compared with its shape under the water, it is like a huge monster on the water, accounting for only one-third of its volume.

"A piece of firewood?" Ren 8000 turned his head in doubt. The name makes people feel uncomfortable.

"Hey, that's what we call it privately. The people at the observation station call them heteromorphic leeches." Chao Zhong said with a smile.

"There are many such things under the water?"

"Many, everywhere."

"You need a lot of food for your size? They have so much food?"

"There are more marine biota under the water than expected, especially those undercurrents. Although they are turbulent, they also bring a large number of fish from a distance."

"How can this thing not be torn by the undercurrent under the water?"

Ren 8000 listened to Chao Zhong's answer and nodded gently from time to time.

Looking into the distance, he sighed in his heart: it seems that there is a long way to go to solve the mystery of the ocean.

But this is not the most important thing. At present, the most important thing is to find a route along the coastline.

As for whether we can achieve our goal, no one knows now.

Although the ocean looks very deep, there is a troposphere outside and a coastline inside. There is only such a curved path for ships. No one knows if it will be stuck by reefs somewhere.