History of the Greatest Territory Design - Episode 262
262fury. Mermaids enjoy steaming (1)
[Start scanning.]
A message appears before your eyes.
With that, Lloyd looked everywhere..
Originally, it was a dark deep sea floor where no light could be found..
Fortunately, Haviel, who is with me, illuminates the surroundings with his auror..
I could barely see my surroundings with that little light..
But everything changed when I used the surveying skill..
Tsutsutsutsutsu……!
It's like using infrared night vision goggles..
The vision was processed to black and white, and all surrounding scenery was clearly visible..
Deep-sea hydrothermal vents glowing nearby.
Other than that, it's mostly a flat, quiet wasteland..
That was the view of the deep sea floor reflected through surveying skills..
But Lloyd had no interest in the mystery of such deep-sea landscapes..
‘The deep sea landscape is a mess as we have to find the treasure site first.!’
His gaze was directed to the bottom of the deep sea..
5 meters below the bottom of the deep sea.
We paid attention to the underground appearance seen through underground scanning..
There was a confident smile on his lips..
‘Why are you looking for a treasure site while digging with a shovel yourself? There is underground scanning..’
Option for surveying skills that can scan from the surface to 5 meters below ground..
He has benefited a lot from this option so far..
If you glance, you can see all the way to the basement..
There was no need to struggle to analyze underground structures one by one..
Of all the skill options he had, it could be said to be the most convenient function..
Lloyd thought it would be like that today too..
‘Anyway, everything will be visible through surveying, whether it’s the seafloor or something else. The same goes for the treasure buried beneath it..’
So just do it like this.
Activate the surveying skill and survey the entire bottom of the Arctic Ocean..
Of course, it will take a month or two because the area is quite large, but you will be able to find what you want thousands of times faster than if several people were to dig in and search for it one by one..
he was sure.
And exactly one minute later.
His confidence began to bounce and bounce like the look in the eyes of someone who missed the last train home right before his eyes..
‘what? What is this. Pearl... … why is it so thick?’
His eyes moved constantly..
We looked at the underground beneath the seafloor in various places..
But all I could see was pearl..
All I could see was very thick pearl and mud..
The only thing that could be seen clearly was a deep-sea eel writhing in the mud..
As such, Lloyd was able to realize the moment he watched the deep sea eel's ascension dance live using his surveying skills..
‘Damn it, it's ruined.’
The pearl accumulated on the sea floor was much thicker than expected..
Because this is a deep sea.
Because it is an environment that is subject to extremely little influence from ocean currents and does not change,.
It is simply a place where various organic matter and dust, fluttering down like snowflakes from the shallow sea far above, accumulate thickly..
‘The thickness of the pearl is thicker than the underground scanning option range of the surveying skill. Not just here, there, there, it's all the same.’
Lloyd clicked his tongue inwardly..
‘If I do this, I’m leaving..’
From the beginning, he was someone who felt sorry and pitiful for Rotorua, which was said to have been digging the seabed to find a treasure trove..
I thought I would be different.
Because I have surveying skills.
'Cause underground scanning will shine.
I believed that and came here out of curiosity..
But when I actually came and measured it, I felt like a disappointment..
‘Write it. What do we do.’
I got embarrassed.
It is unknown where the treasure may lie on the bottom of the vast deep sea..
However, due to the pearl piled up thicker than expected, even the surveying skills were rendered useless..
Moreover, Rotorua was secretly asking questions next to me..
“How about coming and taking a look in person? There is hope that we will quickly find the site of the gem.?”
“no.”
Lloyd suppressed his annoyance and honestly shook his head..
He didn't come this far to save his image or face..
In order to prevent the phenomenon of restoration of fate.
To find a way to stop it.
I came all this way to discover the gem of truth..
‘There isn't even a lot of time. 3 years later in the ending spoiler? 3 years may seem like a long time, but it will go by quickly..’
If you think about it, it really was like that..
It had already been more than three years since he entered this place, the Iron Blood Knight novel..
So, if you spend some time, the phenomenon of restoration of destiny will soon begin..
Lloyd took that fact to heart and readily admitted his mistake..
“When I came here, I saw that it was bigger than I thought. Moreover, the pearl on the sea floor seems to be too thick..”
“also. I thought you would say that..”
“yes. But were you digging out that thick pearl by yourself and searching for the gem??”
“Because there was no other way..”
Rotorua smiled bitterly..
“It's not that I or my ancestors didn't think of another way. The simplest and most efficient solution would have been to enlist the help of other mermaids. But even though I knew that, it was a method I couldn't use..”
“There were no mermaids to cooperate..”
“exactly.”
Rotorua's smile became more bitter..
“That person has also visited the mermaids here and asked them about jewels, so I think he knows the atmosphere of this place well. Mermaids here? No one cares about jewels. It's just a legend from a distant past. How do you find it? Most people even wonder why they need to look for it..”
“Is it because there is no inconvenience in living like this??”
“Probably something like that. Some people think that it is better to train your body by swimming than to waste time searching for gems..”
“That's right too.”
Lloyd agreed with Rotorua's words..
Clearly, none of the mermaids here seem to care about Bo-ok..
But persuading them and mobilizing them to explore the treasures means?
It must have been impossible.
‘Write it. Still, it's a bit of a waste. The mermaids here are definitely physically at an insane level. If I could mobilize it, I could use that crazy muscular endurance to shovel the ocean floor all day long..’
Lloyd clicked his tongue in regret..
The more I let my imagination run wild, the more pitiful it became..
If you mobilize hundreds of mermaids with such incredible physical strength,?
It would not have been a task to dig up and turn over the seabed in this area..
Then, the probability of finding the gem site would be much higher..
‘So this is the same as the odds of winning the lottery..’
It was a simple problem.
One person digging a vast seabed or hundreds of people digging..
Buying just one lottery ticket or buying hundreds of lottery tickets from the same period.
The latter probably has a higher chance of winning..
Of course, there is no guarantee that you will win..
Nevertheless, the probability will definitely increase..
If Javiel joins in and flips over the pearls that fill the sea floor,?
Then I thought I could find the treasure site..
‘So, it would be great if we could mobilize the mermaids. Or should I just summon Yongyong and throw him away? no. If that happens, it will be revealed that I was behind the Yongyong incident last time..’
Lloyd shook his head..
This time, I can't call Bone Dragon Yongyong..
However, it would also be ineffective to just have Javiel shouting loudly..
‘He could blow out thousands of auras and remove pearls from the ocean floor. However, its power will be much weaker than on the ground. Because the water pressure here is extremely deep..’
The water pressure in this deep sea is beyond imagination..
It wasn't just about transcending it either..
As an extreme example, if a nuclear bomb were detonated at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth.?
Even if you detonate the RDS-200, the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear bomb in history?
‘I saw it in a documentary before. Tsar Bomba? That wasn't a joke. It is said that with the power of 50 megatons of TNT, the shock wave circled the Earth three times, and the height of the mushroom cloud alone rose up to 56 kilometers in the sky..’
That wasn't all.
The shock wave alone swept away and destroyed everything in an area of a thousand square kilometers..
The energy released alone was enough to evaporate an entire lake..
Just the diameter of the fireball created when the explosion reached 10 kilometers..
The top of the crater almost reached the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere..
‘But what if it explodes here in the deep sea? The results will be very different.’
The size of the crater, which would be 10 kilometers on the ground, will only grow to 1 kilometer..
The crater will be crushed by the enormous water pressure and turbulence..
The crater that is broken in this way will eventually turn into some warm radioactive bubbles and rise to the surface..
‘Just let out a loud radioactive fart in the water. It just ends there. Because of that enormous Tsar Bomba water pressure. Crushed by water pressure.’
That was the power of deep-sea water pressure..
So the thousands of auras that Haviel will fire?
It would not have been possible to sweep across hundreds of meters of land in one go like on the ground..
‘Of course, tens of meters would be possible. It would be much better than me or Mr. Rotorua doing the digging. Still, I regret that. There are high-quality human resources called mermaids who are optimized for this environment, so it's a shame to only rely on Javiel.?’
Beings familiar with the water pressure here.
Mermaids who can use their strength effortlessly even here.
If I was going to use manpower, I wanted to mobilize those people..
That would significantly increase the probability of discovering the gem site..
But there was no way to persuade and mobilize them..
‘Write it. There must be some way..’
Apparently, mermaids were too coveted to just give up..
It was from then on..
‘Move, brain. Roll, frontal lobe!’
Lloyd rolled his head and agonized in earnest wish..
I thought hard about the method and thought about the secret plan..
As a result, I started pacing around without realizing it..
I started swimming along with the waves as if I was wandering around..
How worried were you?.
How far did you swim?.
Suddenly, he felt that the surrounding scenery had changed slightly..
‘uh?’
An unfamiliar scene unfolded before my eyes..
Chimney-like pillars rising from the ground.
A stream of hot, black water gushes from the top of the pillar..
Deep-sea creatures gathered around a black stream of water.
The acrid smell of sulfur is finally felt..
It was a place that I briefly saw in the distance when I activated the surveying skill earlier..
‘deep sea hydrothermal hole?’
A hydrothermal well was a type of underwater hot spring where groundwater seeping under the seafloor crust was heated to a high temperature by the heat of magma from deep inside and gushes out again..
‘Tsk, let’s avoid it..’
I was so wrapped up in my worries that I was swimming aimlessly and ended up in this place..
Toxic seawater full of hydrogen sulfide spewing out from hydrothermal vents..
Lloyd was frightened by the acrid smell and heat and hurriedly turned away..
But it was in the meantime.
‘what? for a moment.’
sparkle.
A bright idea appeared in his cerebral cortex, frontal lobe..
I stopped turning around..
I looked around the hydrothermal hole at the speed of light..
“Hey, Rotorua? There's one thing I'm curious about.”
Rotorua followed me here with a worried look..
asked him.
“Mermaids like you, do joint diseases tend to get worse as you get older??”
“what?”
“Joint disease. Joint pain, such as frequent aching of the joints..”
“Well, roughly... … That's right.”
Rotorua nodded shakily..
“As you've probably seen, we mermaids have very strong physical strength. Most mermaids often experience strain on their joints due to their excessive strength. In particular, as such problems accumulate, the number of people suffering from joint pain increases as they age..”
“Is that so? also.”
The corners of Lloyd's mouth slightly turned up..
He was thinking about an incident not long ago, when he was burying jewels among mermaids..
To be precise, at the time when he was being treated as if he knew the Tao, he was thinking of an old mermaid who was very annoyed with him..
‘That's what the old mermaid said back then. Even though she is like that, her joints are sore and it's driving her crazy, so why does she bother holding on?.’
The old mermaid was constantly tapping her shoulder and waist..
He really looked like a person with severe joint pain..
But looking back, I realized that the old lady was not only a mermaid..
‘Grandpa's mermaid and uncle's mermaids were like that too. Among the many mermaids I caught, most of them who were past adolescence looked like they were aching and in pain somewhere..’
Just like an office worker who sits at a desk all day.
Like taxi and bus drivers who have to stay behind the wheel all day..
No, rather, like an athlete who retired after overworking his body in the name of training..
He was often seen habitually massaging or tapping painful joints..
So I guessed.
I kind of guessed it.
I wonder if the mermaids here are always overworking their joints due to excessive muscle strength..
So, I wonder if we naturally suffer from joint pain as we age..
‘That guess was correct. Then there will be plenty of possibilities.’
Lloyd had a hunch..
connected with intuition.
combined.
Mermaids suffering from chronic joint pain.
Just discovered a hot deep-sea hydrothermal hole..
Information obtained from what I saw and heard here.
Situations and factors that seem completely unrelated.
put it together.
Mixed, assembled, combined.
Finally, it was conceived as a business..
I also thought of a way to achieve my goal through that business..
To prevent the restoration of fate.
to find out how.
To unearth the treasure trove of truth.
I have grasped the secret to mobilizing the manpower of countless mermaids. I took it out.
“I think it would be a big hit if we built a sauna here..”
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