"Captain, are the two things we encountered before connected? Are they in the same group?" Dipper asked nervously while looking at the two points on the map.
"I don't know. I just hope that the thing that attacked us is not the same as the one just now." Charles said solemnly, looking at the map in front of him.
We can’t just go back to the previous location to confirm. If these two things are the same, it will be a big trouble.
That meant that the Narwhal had been targeted by that thing. No matter what that thing was, its huge size alone would be enough to cause fatal damage to them even with ordinary movement.
The Narwhal, which had finally escaped, was moving forward into the darkness. After what had just happened, the crew members immediately became extremely alert and the ship began to enter a wartime state.
The sailors standing guard on the deck were not allowed to go downstairs even for their meals, and had to ask the chef and the assistant to bring them up directly.
Time passed minute by minute, and it was proved that it was always better to be careful. Soon another white ball reappeared in the darkness, this time it was located about ten kilometers to the lower left corner of the Narwhal.
According to the sailor on duty, it was not there just now, but suddenly appeared.
But this time was different from the previous ones. It just stopped there motionless, as if it was a dead object.
"How long are we to the edge of the Foundation's exploration?" Charles, standing on the deck, looked up and shouted towards the cockpit.
"At the current speed, there is still half a day left."
After hearing the report, Charles frowned and continued to look. There was only a small white dot the size of a grain of rice in the distance. He was now trapped in the most troublesome thing in the exploration process, which was the unknown.
He was not afraid of how powerful this thing was, but he was afraid that its abilities or abnormal abilities could not be predicted.
They were not the only ones who encountered this white ball. Before seeing this thing for the first time, the ship of the Haik tribe had also seen it. Not only did they see it, but they also went into it. Apart from the pollution of the fresh water, the crew did not suffer any losses.
But Charles also did not forget the exploration ship that was dismembered into metal rain. The same thing had two completely different endings, which made him really unable to figure out the specific situation of this thing.
"How about... send someone over to take a look?" A slow voice sounded from Charles' ears, making him look at the first mate who walked to his side in surprise.
"Are you crazy? God knows what that is! And you're going there to get yourself killed?"
"It has been following us. What if these three are the same thing? It is better to face it than to run away."
Charles frowned as he looked at the white dot in the distance and thought for a while. "Wait a minute, let's keep moving forward and see if we can avoid it."
The captain's order was quickly distributed to the entire ship. The Narwhal continued to move forward into the darkness, and the rice-sized moon at the bottom gradually disappeared.
This journey lasted for half a day, and by this time, all the intelligence previously discovered by the Foundation had been used up.
Next is an area that has not been explored by anyone. Whether they can survive depends on the strength of the crew, but the good news is that the white ball has never appeared again.
However, reality always plays tricks on everyone in unexpected ways. On the third day when the Narwhal entered the unexplored area, a white round cake suddenly appeared in front of the bow without any warning. The distance was so close that Charles could see large and small holes on it.
"Full right rudder! Avoid!" As Nico, who was frightened and sweating, turned quickly at the fastest speed, the Narwhal finally avoided a head-on collision before it collided.
The moonlight from the white cake cast a layer of silver on everyone's extremely ugly faces. It was just a cake just now, but now it has turned into a ball.
"Quick! Go check if the water in the tank is contaminated!!"
Hearing Charles' extremely nervous order, Bandage quickly swung his hand, and a green vine quickly broke out from the mouth of his bandage and quickly swung towards the cabin door.
This time being so close to this strange thing, he was really afraid that he would encounter the same trouble as the previous exploration ship. Charles felt that those few seconds of waiting were like years. Fortunately, when he saw the bandage nodded to him, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The Narwhal evacuated quickly and waited until the sphere became the size of a ping-pong ball again before it stopped completely.
Looking at the thing in the distance, Charles frowned. He knew he couldn't wait any longer. This thing was weird. He had to find a way to figure out what it was, otherwise God knew how long this thing would follow him.
"Lily, find some mice to take a look!"
Soon, a half-man-high helicopter that looked like a toy was dragged onto the deck by the sailors. Several colorful mice climbed up after squeaking a few times. One of the mice was carrying a bottle of fresh water on its back.
The propeller spun rapidly, and the wind blew Charles' bangs swaying continuously. Under the gaze of everyone, the small plane flew towards the white ball in the distance.
"Look! We are all very smart! There is no problem in operating this! You didn't believe it before!" Lily raised her head proudly and said to Charles.
Charles touched Lily's head with his hand and said, "Compared to the mouse plane, I actually need a drone with a camera more."
Watching them pass by, Charles was prepared for the mice to never come back, but to his surprise, the mice actually came back safe and sound.
For safety reasons, Charles did not let them stop on the deck immediately, but kept them three meters away and asked Lily to translate their meaning.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak! Squeak, squeak."
"They said it was a maze with many paths and nothing in them. It smelled like rattan balls. The white stuff was hard and tasted a bit like bones, but it didn't have any taste."
"By the way, when they came back, they found that the bottle of water they brought had gone bad."
The mouse's answer was almost the same as what the previous explorer said, but it also couldn't explain why this thing followed Charles. Was he the only one in this situation, or did the previous explorer also encounter the same situation
"Wait, open that bottle of stinky water and let me see." Hearing Charles' order, the mice immediately did as they were told. The cork was unscrewed, and in an instant the sweet and greasy smell of corruption filled everyone's nose.
Charles immediately covered his mouth and nose and ordered the mice to throw away the stinky water. Looking at the falling water bottles, Charles was in a dilemma for a moment. What should he do next
(End of this chapter)