The northern abnormal region of the Desert Peninsula is connected to the alkaline freshwater sea of Water God Star, almost bottomless, with no light visible around, except for the occasional sight of a few bioluminescent plankton.
The sovereign of the Desert Peninsula, always in short supply of freshwater, cares little about whether it's alkaline or not. As long as it's freshwater, they'll pump it vigorously from the abnormal region, continuously transporting it to the depths of the desert, creating a sizable inland lake in a short ti.
However, the lake water remains weakly alkaline, as is the desert itself, so there's no worry about any bizarre chemical reactions occurring.
Yet, when the water flowed out in large volus, it brought along so strange things.
Originally thought to be at the oceanic stage of initial life on Water God Star, a sudden ergence of a string of giant "balloons" from the deep sea overturned previous assumptions.
To be precise, that string of "balloons" should be described as an ocean plant's airbag cluster, with the largest diater about 30 ters and the smallest at least ten ters, totaling around six, with a bag wall thickness of about 5-20 centiters, transparent and extrely tough. Even when wilted to a pale yellow, the strength hasn't diminished much, even able to withstand close-range continuous gunfire from light gunpowder weapons.
The airbags contain air with oxygen, allowing carbon-based life forms to breathe, and the entire plant seems to possess the ability to capture gases and perform decarbonation reactions from water.
The six airbags are connected by thick, hollow stems in a bunch, like grapes, with very tough stems having the largest inner diater of four ters, the smallest half a ter, with friction marks left from biological activity inside, suggesting that these alkaline water deep-sea airbag plants do not grow independently but possess a symbiotic nature with other deep-sea plants.
The reason the wilted part of the stem floated up is that seeds nurtured over a hundred-year tispan finally matured. After rising to the surface, they were catalyzed by a light source, and the seed shells as hard as steel turned brittle, allowing a green shoot to naturally sprout out, suitable for both freshwater and saline water. This indicates the existence of high-salinity layers within Water God Star's ocean, similar to layers with varying salt concentrations found in Blue Star's oceans.
The shoots grow rapidly under catalysis, reaching over ten ters in just three days, with the main stem diater over a foot, constantly branching out, and small bump-like features erging on the vine-like stems, which will eventually grow into air sacs of various sizes.
After decoding so genetic fragnts, scientists discovered that this alkaline water deep-sea plant has a growth cycle of 8000 hours. The first cycle grows rapidly, the second cycle halves, and the third cycle halves again, entering a stable phase of slowly enhancing its strength by the fifth cycle. It retains a strong ability to branch, easily growing a massive bunch of airbag clusters, with numbers no less than 100, and a diater of 30 ters isn't necessarily the limit. The overall lifespan of the plant is around 1000 years, maturing every hundred years, naturally breaking off a few mature seed-bearing airbags, floating up, germinating with constant star light, and then sinking back into the deep sea, repeating the cycle of reproduction.
From a certain perspective, this plant can almost beco a natural marine habitat. If properly utilized, even humans could settle inside, though it's unknown how large it can get, possibly growing into an underwater city, hence it was nad Dragon Palace Algae.
Despite acquiring a juvenile Dragon Palace Algae, an extrely valuable alkaline water ocean plant, it is rely one of Water God Star's many undiscovered special resources, representing an abnormal region of Water God Star that is difficult to explore. The top is unreachable, and the bottom is unseen. Simply attempting to verify the depth has reached over 50,000 ters without showing signs of bottoming out.
This is even before approaching the water surface, as the abnormal region only captures part of Water God Star's depth, not the entire sea area.
Compared to the Giant Turtle Star anomalous region within Persian sovereignty, where Chen Fei forcibly took access rights, the Ordovician Star anomalous region on North Arica's Gali Peninsula and Water God Star anomalous region on the northern Desert Peninsula, with their completely unsealed and "leaky" surroundings, have been illegally intruded upon recklessly by adventurers, making it impossible for local sovereignty to control. It should be said that they lack any ans of stopping them, even if the sovereign military arrives and is stationed, they're still heartbrokenly incapable of doing anything effective.
The stationed military's performance is not much better than the Persian sovereign army, both eager to make a fortune, but without an "isolation" window left, they can only trick a few uninford people out of peanuts while missing the scent of real money.
Especially the Water God Star abnormal region, with its natural entry threshold, if one lacks professional diving equipnt, they can only rely on water system abilities and diving skills,
The all-around alkaline freshwater is enough to deter most adventurers, making Water God Star have the least exploration value.
Yet, as it stands, the Persian sovereign's Giant Turtle Star anomalous region remains the most valuable of the three abnormal regions. Unfortunately, Chen Fei exhibited extre strength, impervious to threats, and anyone daring to provoke him would be t with the main gun of an airship. Shells fired at multiple tis the speed of sound have diaters thicker than a person's waist, and ordinary A-level and Earth Order supers in a prepared state might survive one hit without dying but would be in dire straits, while unprepared Heavenly Order supers couldn't withstand it.
Even more so, with an S-Class Space Ability User assisting in locking targets, escape is simply impossible.
With external assistance, Chen Fei's combat power must not be underestimated.
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While fiddling with various crystals entering the warehouse, Chen Fei overheard Miyoshi Xuesen muttering to himself.
It's been three days, and the monk still can't shake off his despondent mood from stepping on "Lightning," looking lost from dawn till dusk, having shattered three teapots and killed without twenty, at least eighteen delicate small tea cups. If the charcoal fire weren't lukewarm, his robe might have caught fire, causing a real case of "ignition."
But most of the ti, the monk forgets to stoke the charcoal fire, ending up with cold water tea, sipping tastelessly without even noticing.
The temporarily recalled S-Class Ability User Heseman Brown couldn't bear the muttering in his ear, scratching his head in complaint: "What is that monk muttering about all day long? Enough already!"
Decapitation leaves nothing more than a bowl-sized scar. Even if the monk provoked a formidable figure, a clean death is the worst to fear. Best to be sensible and give your bald head a shot or cut open your belly, ending everything crisply, no need for such anxiety, it's just scaring oneself.
If it were truly about killing to silence, even Heseman Brown couldn't stop it. There are more than one S-Class supernatural power users in this world, all virtually following sovereign will. An expert assassin might exist, after all, Miyoshi Monk's A-level Dark System ability pales in comparison.
"Ti is the best healing dicine. In a few days, he'll be fine."
Chen Fei heard Mr. Brown's complaint but had no intention of comforting the monk.
First, even with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI "Adam," he's still busy every day, needing to count the Giant Turtle Star's special resource collection data, monitor the automated analysis of an independent laboratory, establish or adjust the tasks and progress of the Erald Star base, and occasionally ask young engineers from the Northern Weapons Industry Group about the completion of the Crystal Jet project, and frequently tweak the structure and functionality of the giant airship.
Second, the monk himself is an adult, used to weatherstorms, should know how to adjust himself. Even with these concerns, staying cooped up here like hatching chickens is pointless; he should properly find a safe place to hide until everything blows over.
Third, Chen Fei doesn't want to be dragged down by the monk and should avoid acting like a Madonna, inviting trouble for no reason.
Soti, the monk perked his ears up, overhearing the conversation between Chen Fei and S-Class Ability User Heseman Brown, and imdiately protested angrily, "Easy for you to say. If you were there at the ti, do you think you could've gotten away with it?"
He himself deals with shady jobs, naturally knowing the terror within. A swift end might be fortunate; the fear is being worse off alive.
"Hehehehehe..." ×2
The other two exchanged knowing glances, letting out schadenfreude chuckles.
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