Otherworld Bone Dragon Operation Guide

Chapter 74: Sea Monster Discovered!
Zijin didn't respond, but Su Ming suddenly realized something. "Are you referring to the day you were drunk, and I manipulated and cut off your magic?"

That was the first and only time Su Ming used the White Bone Mark's authority.

No, that wasn't your fault; I shouldn't have drunk.

Violet seemed quite bothered. Su thought for a moment, then said, "I'm sorry about this; I couldn't think of any other solution at the time. However—" He paused, then added, "I'll resolve this in about two months, three months at the latest."

【solve?】

You can guess the specifics.

Siwo discovered something and called out to Violet from afar. He was indeed very skilled in sound-based spells; his Wind Spell easily traversed several kilometers across the sea.

The girl flew over.

“There are fragments of sea monster tentacles on this piece of wreckage,” Siwo said, pointing to a piece of ship hull floating in the sea. There was a sharp piece of iron on it, with a bit of white flesh sticking out of the gap.

"Should we take it out?"

"No, take the whole ship, hull, back with it."

"Okay," Zijin replied, then sent a message to Su Ming: [Su Ming, move the boat closer.]

Wait a moment, I'll turn the corner.

After retrieving the wreckage onto the deck, Zijin and Xiwo began their focused study. Su Ming took out the microscope he had brought from the hospital for testing and taught them how to use it.

"This lens is really clear, and the magnification is high too," Siwo praised, moving the slide holding the sample. "Strange, it really is giant octopus cells." He was puzzled by his discovery. "Why would a giant octopus grow so big and come to the surface of the sea?"

Su Ming kept expanding the encirclement radius, and the circle drawn by the white triangle grew larger and larger, forming a circular search area. The group collected data, studied the information, and occasionally exchanged opinions, discussing various ideas and strategies for dealing with the sea monster.

Gradually, they came up with two possible plans to deal with the sea monster.

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At dinner, Siwo personally cooked a meal with an otherworldly flavor. Su Ming took a bite and thought it tasted like Vietnamese food; it wasn't particularly delicious, but it was palatable.

An alarm suddenly sounded from the driver's cab. Violet used her omniscient vision to check, "Hey, the sonar has detected a strong signal!"

The three men quickly ran into the driver's cab. The sonar detected a strong echo at a distance of 56 kilometers, at a depth of about 1300 meters, moving slowly at a speed of a few knots.

Su Ming quickly slowed the ship down and refocused the target within the sound converging range. Based on the echoes, he calculated that the target was over 100 meters long.

The target itself also made a sound. Su Ming handed the earphone to Xiwo, who listened carefully and said, "The rhythm of the sound is indeed like an octopus swimming. It's a very large mollusk!"

This almost certainly confirms it's a sea monster.

"Can we track them?" Zijin asked Su Ming.

“It’s a bit difficult.” Su Ming nervously adjusted the course and speed. “If we go too fast or too slow, we will leave the sound converging zone. We must maintain a distance of about 56 kilometers.”

But there was no other choice but to follow. Su Ming slowly adjusted his direction to align with the target, and then he kept trying to control the distance, frequently adjusting the speed of the White Triangle.

Two hours later, the target suddenly surfaced and hunted several sharks in the shallow water.

Siwo listened to the sound while wearing headphones. "It eats a lot, has teeth, and makes sounds like tentacles writhing around."

"Does your world have long-range weapons for attacking underwater?" Violet asked.

"We have torpedoes," Su Ming replied. "But it won't work." Leaving aside where to get the entire torpedo system and how to summon it to another world, Su Ming had never heard of Earth having torpedoes capable of attacking marine life. This would require changing the torpedo's navigation design and modifying its fire control program—but would the military factory be willing to modify it for him?
There may be possible ways and means, but Miao Xin is still in the United States on a mission to acquire weapons from the White Triangle, which is currently impossible to implement.

“Magic decays rapidly underwater,” Violet said. “Even if I flew over, I wouldn’t be able to penetrate hundreds of meters of water to attack it.”

“It would be good to continue tracking it and observing its activity patterns,” Siwo said.

The chase continued until dawn when the target suddenly accelerated and disappeared from sonar view. Su Ming quickly increased the ship's speed, but after chasing for a long time, he still couldn't find the target.

He had pinned his hopes on the second underwater acoustic convergence zone, at 110 kilometers, but the sonar failed to detect any further signals.

“There’s nothing we can do, it’s too agile.” Siwo looked at the record of the sea monster’s activities over the past few hours in his hand. “Not bad, we’ve obtained some brand new data.”

"Su Ming, go and rest. Let Xiao Hei steer the boat and continue the search. We'll call you if there's any news," Zi Jin suggested.

"What about you guys, aren't you going to rest?"

“We need to activate the communication tower, report our findings to the Federation, and also present the plan we discussed earlier for hunting the sea monster,” Violet replied.

Su Ming nodded and went to rest first.

The next day, when Su Ming got up, he found Zi Jin still asleep. He didn't see her until lunchtime. The girl stretched, which was unusual for her, and walked into the workshop, her hair a little messy.

"Did you stay up very late last night?" Su Ming asked.

"The Federation agreed to the first plan, and the second plan is a backup. We spent a lot of time communicating the details." Zijin said, yawning. "Grandpa Xiwo is old, so he'll probably need to sleep for a while."

The first plan was the trap strategy proposed by Siwo. It involved deploying a decoy ship to lure the sea monster into an attack. The White Triangle began its return journey last night, heading towards the Central Pacific Islands to receive the decoy ship prepared overnight by the Federation.

“Then I’ll have to take turns with you,” Su Ming said. “When executing the decoy plan, we must keep one person in the cockpit in control.”

Zijin thought for a moment, "That's how it should be. Shall I eat first and then go take a nap?"

"Okay, let's hand over the duties at dinner time."

"it is good."

After having lunch, Zijin returned to her room to continue resting.

Su Ming checked on Miao Xin's situation. She was still 1500 kilometers away from Virginia and could only get there by hitchhiking in trucks at night in the United States. It was estimated that it would take another two or three days.

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Sivo didn't get up until the afternoon, ate something, and came to the driver's seat.

"Is the Federation in a hurry?" Su Ming asked, noticing the old man's continued fatigue.

“Trade between the two continents is no laughing matter,” Siwo replied. “Our achievements on the first day were very encouraging. So as soon as we put forward the plan, they wanted to finalize it immediately and started preparations at dawn.”

"That's really proactive," Su Ming remarked.

Thinking back to the past few days when he and Zijin were modifying and adjusting the boat, he felt a little ashamed because he had been a bit lax in his time management.

So next, we need to work harder to extract more rewards from the Federation!

(End of this chapter)