A heavy sailing ship like Hou Yi would never be faster than ten knots on Earth, but everything is different in this magical world. The propulsion provided by the crystal power, plus the diversion array developed according to fluid dynamics on the bow and bottom of the ship, has increased the speed of Hou Yi to about twenty knots. This has surpassed the level of many ironclad ships on Earth. This speed also exceeds most ships in this world, except for those small ships that also use magic as power. Other ships are simply far behind. Therefore, Xiao Chen is not worried about those guys who secretly inquire about their information, because they can't catch up at all.
On the first night after departure, the high-level mage Lin Lichuan, who was in charge of monitoring, and the colonel commander of the Marine Corps, the great magician Huang Zheng, came to report to Xiao Chen: "My mage eye found that there seems to be something following us in the sea."
"When did you find out?" Xiao Chen asked.
"Around dusk, I discovered something in the sea. It had been lurking under the sea surface, but when the waves were high for a while, part of its body was exposed. It should be something not much bigger than a human." Lin Lichuan reported, "Because I observed it through the Mage's Eye floating above the fleet, I couldn't see it clearly at that moment. Later, I asked Huang Zheng to help. The two of us observed it for a long time. Before it became completely dark, we saw the thing two or three times. It kept changing its position, sometimes in front of our ship, sometimes behind our ship."
"That is to say, it can catch up with our ship. This speed should not be achieved by any human being." Xiao Chen said.
Huang Zheng said: "Look at this."
He projected an image in the air, a light grey shadow floating in the dark brown sea at dusk.
Xiao Chen said: "Let Herez figure it out."
A few minutes later, Herrera came into the room. He stared at the image for a long time and said, "This thing looks like a dolphin."
Huang Zheng was surprised and asked, "Isn't he a spy from the Sea Clan?"
"Our boat is as fast as flying. Ordinary sea creatures can't swim that fast. They can't catch up with us without boats, unless the mermaid wizard takes action to control the water flow to increase the speed, but the magic fluctuations caused by that should be noticed by the adults soon." Heres thought, he walked into the picture and observed it more carefully for a while, and said: "However, some sea creatures have the ability to communicate with animals, and they may be able to control dolphins. Dolphins usually live together in groups, but it's strange that there is only one here. Maybe a sea creature is lying on this dolphin and following us."
"If there is a sea creature hiding under this dolphin, is it possible to catch him?" Huang Zheng asked.
Herrez said, "I don't think it's possible. According to your description, the dolphin only showed up two or three times in the whole day, but we didn't even see its appearance clearly. If there really is a spy from the sea tribe hiding under the dolphin, as soon as he finds us moving, he just needs to hide underwater and we can't do anything to him. There is an old saying in the southern city-state: Never go underwater to compete with the sea tribe. You can't imagine how agile the people of the sea tribe are in the water. Fighting in the water is very dangerous even if you are one level higher than the opponent."
"This is a troublesome matter." Huang Zheng said, stroking his chin. If it was on land, the enemy would have no chance of escaping from a great magician like him. However, in the deep sea, the way of fighting has changed significantly. The water's resistance to magic attacks is obviously greater than that of air, so the effect should not be ideal. "Maybe we can try to use mental blast."
Xiao Chen shook his head and said, "No matter what the other party wants to do, there will definitely be other actions. We just need to be careful and wait patiently. There is no benefit in alerting the enemy now."
Houyi and Xingtian sailed non-stop for three days. The two ships had left the Crescent Peninsula and entered the Pearl Islands. Lin Lichuan and Huang Zheng on Houyi, and Crete and Wu Qi on Xingtian took turns on duty and found that the dolphin still appeared around them. Dolphins are animals that breathe with lungs, so they often need to emerge from the sea. When the magicians tried their best to observe the surroundings, it was easy to observe it.
The dolphin approached the fleet three times every morning and noon, staying for only a few minutes each time, but then disappearing in the distance. It seemed to know that the people on the ship were paying attention to it, so it tried to keep a distance from the fleet.
At noon on the fourth day, Xiao Chen and Luo Ling were chatting with Mei Tiantian on the deck of Hou Yi. The three of them had been studying and discussing how to cause more effective damage to underwater enemies. Mei Tiantian is now twelve years old and has grown a lot taller, now reaching Xiao Chen's neck. Since she gained the memory fragments of another world, her realm has advanced by leaps and bounds, and now she is the youngest great magician in the Tower of China. When Xiao Chen, Liu Yisheng and Lorenzo were assigning people to find the Seventh Tower, she gave up the task of staying behind and insisted on joining Xiao Chen's fleet.
Xiao Chen originally rejected her because she was too young and the journey was too dangerous, but Mei Tiantian challenged Xiao Chen privately. The result of this challenge was unknown to anyone except the two parties and the referee Luo Ling, but the next day Xiao Chen withdrew his objection and agreed to let Mei Tiantian join the fleet.
Mei Tiantian is now slightly closing his eyes, recalling something, "In those memories, there is basically no information about sea battles. In the world I experienced, we had basically no involvement with the sea tribe. So there is no experience in this area.
But although the new large-scale ice magic you tried yesterday looked good, I don’t think it was a good idea.”
"Why do you say that?" Xiao Chen asked.
"The essence of ice is still water, but the temperature of the water has changed. If the opponent's mermaid wizard is good at water magic, he can make the water flow violently to interfere with and destroy the magic. Then it will become a battle for water magic. From my combat experience, it is the most unwise to compete with the enemy for control of the same magic, because it will become a hard fight of mental strength."
"What's your opinion?" Luo Ling asked.
Umeda Tian smiled: "How about using electric magic? I remember that in that world, the simplest and crudest way to catch fish was to use high voltage electricity to electrocute them." (To be continued)