Seven Lù had shown Xia Chujian pictures of the Deep Divers Haidagong.
They had membranous wings on their backs, heads like seahorses, long horns, thick limbs, grayish-green scales, white bellies, very long bodies, and they breathed fire.
But if you looked at them from this close, their heads also looked like toads...
In the video transmitted by the probe, the figure standing in the seawater a little further away was exactly the same as the pictures Seven Lù had shown her! Except it wasn't breathing fire.
Just as Xia Chujian was thinking this, suddenly, a red blaze rushed towards her face, as if it would burn through the lens and onto her!
Xia Chujian was startled and leaned back abruptly, as if to avoid the flames.
Chu Qingjuan and Sun Jiahao didn't even find it funny.
Sun Jiahao said with a straight face, "...We were also startled at the time. Then the probe lost signal. We don't know what that thing is."
Xia Chujian originally wanted to say it was a Deep Diver Haidagong.
But on second thought, if these people asked her where she knew about it, how would she make something up? She didn't want to try again the lesson of lying being fun for a moment, but covering it up being a crematorium.
Xia Chujian changed the subject and said, "Was that fire? They can make fire at the bottom of the sea?"
In fact, she knew it was the Haidagong breathing fire.
Chu Qingjuan spread her hands and said, "We don't know how they make fire either."
"But from our years of combat experience, creatures that aren't afraid of fire, and can even play with and control fire, are not simple."
Xia Chujian thought, of course they're not simple.
Only intelligent creatures can control fire.
And the Deep Divers Haidagong, not only can control fire, but also breathe fire, and can also live forever...
Xia Chujian had previously thought that after ten thousand years, even if the humans on Senze Star were extinct, the Deep Divers Haidagong would definitely not survive.
Because they feed on humans.
Of course, maybe they have developed other foods, and humans are no longer their staple food.
But, if humans encounter them, they probably won't let go of this opportunity to "feast"...
Xia Chujian's eyes narrowed slightly.
She suddenly realized that this mission was a death-level mission!
But they were only given the rank of a Colonel-Ranked Officer!
Were the Military really stingy with military merits, or was this a consolation prize? Could they really all go back alive? For the first time, Xia Chujian felt a sense of confusion.
...
While Xia Chujian was lost in confusion, Huo Yushen was walking on the streets of Chuyun Lane.
Chuyun Lane, the largest city on Da Zang Star in the East Tianyuan God Country.
Huo Yushen had been here for three weeks.
In these three weeks, he had inconspicuously walked through the residences of the Special Security Bureau's field agents.
Without exception, these people had disappeared.
It seemed that the intelligence previously received was indeed correct.
The former Chief Executive Officer of the East Tianyuan God Country, Wenren Zhao, had indeed pulled off something big this time.
Being able to wipe out the field agents sent by other countries, this ability could indeed be called a "miracle."
Huo Yushen was wearing ordinary hunting clothes, his face was covered with a stubble beard, and he was wearing sunglasses that covered half of his face.
Carrying a hunting gun and a worn-out special plastic bag containing game he had hunted from the mountains, he walked on the most prosperous street in Chuyun Lane as if no one else was there.
The buildings on both sides of this street were no more than five stories high, because they could not be taller than the ancestral home of the Wenren family, the Chief Executive Officer.
On both sides of the wide and clean street, there were many theaters, bars, tea rooms, and restaurants, as well as museums, libraries, and memorial halls.
Pink and white cherry blossoms could bloom all year round, a famous species specially cultivated by the East Tianyuan God Country.
Huo Yushen walked into a restaurant he had visited several times and said to the manager there, "Here is a freshly hunted Phoenix-Tailed Luan Bird."
"This time is very rare, all three are yearlings, very tender, so the price is a bit higher."
The restaurant manager was overjoyed and said, "Mr. She, you are amazing! Phoenix-Tailed Luan Birds are especially hard to find, and you managed to get three at once!"
Huo Yushen said, "It was just luck. I happened to lose a bet recently and needed to earn some quick money to pay off the debt, so boss, I won't sell for less than this price."
The manager quickly said, "I'll go find the boss right away!"
He hurried to the second floor of the restaurant, found the boss who was doing the accounts, and said, "Boss Tian! That hunter brought Phoenix-Tailed Luan Birds this time!"
Boss Tian stood up abruptly, his eyes widened, grabbed the manager's collar, and said fiercely, "Are you sure?! Are they really Phoenix-Tailed Luan Birds?!"
"Not just wild birds with dyed tails trying to fool us?!"
The manager was choked and could barely breathe. After coughing twice, he said, "This time it's definitely real!"
"Because that color can't be dyed at all!"
Boss Tian released him suspiciously, "...There are colors that can't be dyed? You probably don't know how awesome Mechanical Intelligence dyeing is!"
But as he spoke, he still followed the manager downstairs.
When he saw the Phoenix-Tailed Luan Birds in Huo Yushen's worn-out bag, he was indeed dumbfounded, and said repeatedly, "Mr. She, name your price! I'll buy them no matter how expensive!"
The long tail feathers of the Phoenix-Tailed Luan Birds in the bag were a particularly rare shimmering purple.
This color shimmered under sunlight and lamplight, and could change into different colors. It was said that even Mechanical Intelligence mapping could not reproduce this color.
Moreover, the bosses of restaurants in Chuyun Lane all knew that the Chief Executive Officer of their East Tianyuan God Country, the current Divinely Blessed Daughter Wenren Zhao, loved to eat Phoenix-Tailed Luan Bird soup, and loved to use the tail feathers of Phoenix-Tailed Luan Birds to decorate her hats and skirts! This shimmering purple was the only color of Phoenix-Tailed Luan Bird tail feathers that Wenren Zhao had publicly stated she had not collected!
Huo Yushen looked impatient and said, "I lost twenty million Dongyuan Coins the day before yesterday. Can I sell them for that price?"
The exchange rate between Dongyuan Coins and Beichen Coins is ten to one.
That is, ten Dongyuan Coins can be exchanged for one Beichen Coin.
Twenty million Dongyuan Coins sounds like a lot, but it's actually only two million Beichen Coins.
Boss Tian immediately said, "No problem, no problem! I'll give it to you right away! Do you still want cash?"
Huo Yushen said impatiently, "Of course, it's cash!"
The largest denomination of Dongyuan Coins is one hundred thousand.
Twenty million Dongyuan Coins is only two hundred bills of one hundred thousand Dongyuan Coins.
Boss Tian quickly retrieved a small handbag from the second floor and handed it to Huo Yushen.
Huo Yushen opened the handbag and carefully counted the money.
He was skilled, and he knew whether the money was real or fake with a single touch.
After quickly counting two hundred bills of one hundred thousand denomination Dongyuan Coins, Huo Yushen nodded, revealing a smile, and said, "Thank you, boss! You're very generous!"
Then he threw the worn-out bag directly to the boss and turned to leave.
His figure disappeared from sight before the manager whispered to Boss Tian, "Boss, is this person okay?"
Boss Tian said with a smile, "We are so close to Goddess Zhao's residence, and the Light of the Gods is always shining above us."
"If there is something wrong with this person, the gods would have warned us long ago."
The manager breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "That's right. Goddess Zhao has been so powerful recently!"
"She has arrested all the spies and traitors from all countries!"
Boss Tian chuckled and said, "Not just human traitors, even bionic robots can't hide under the Light of the Gods!"
"Alright, stop gossiping, quickly clean up these three Phoenix-Tailed Luan Birds, stew the meat into soup, process the tail feathers, and send them to Goddess Zhao together."
"Goddess Zhao hasn't had Phoenix-Tailed Luan Bird soup in a long time! She will be especially happy this time!"
The two were talking happily, completely unaware that Huo Yushen had changed his clothes and swaggered back, sitting not far from them, preparing to order.
This time, Huo Yushen turned his hunting clothes inside out, revealing a very casual and high-end outfit.
He changed into a Face Mask, and the beard on his face was naturally gone, replaced by a very ordinary, very cowardly man's face.
He kept his head down, and when ordering, he was very timid, completely different from the arrogant hunter from before.
The restaurant owner and his foreman passed by Huo Yushen, sneering with contempt.
As men, they looked down on this kind of cowardly man without any masculine spirit.
Huo Yushen kept his head down while ordering, then slowly ate his meal.
After he finished eating, he saw the restaurant owner personally carrying a stew pot towards the Wenren family's ancestral home.
The Wenren family's ancestral home occupied one-tenth of the entire Chuyun Lane.
And the population of the entire Chuyun Lane was 120 million.
The Wenren family, including all their servants, numbered less than three thousand, showing how spacious the area was.
From the entrance of the restaurant, looking at the Wenren family's ancestral home, one could only see large patches of greenery and lush flowers.
They concealed the magnificent palace buildings within.
This was the East Tianyuan God Country in the Beichen Galaxy, formerly called the East Tianyuan City-State.
They formed an alliance of offense and defense with the Southern Cross Star Kingdom and the Ximanielli Federation, and looked down on the Beichen Empire from the bottom of their hearts.
And when Huo Yushen thought of these things, he only felt it was laughable.
Because these three countries prided themselves on having a more advanced political system.
But in fact, the highest head of state of the East Tianyuan God Country—the Chief Executive Officer—although elected by votes, had never been someone other than the Wenren family in thousands of years.
This position was actually hereditary within the Wenren family.
And now, the East Tianyuan City-State directly changed its name to the East Tianyuan God Country, unwilling to even play the superficial game of voting, clearly heading towards the route of Wenren Zhao being crowned as empress.
The Grand Duke, the highest head of state of the Southern Cross Star Kingdom, had always been hereditary, not even bothering with the superficial work of voting. What difference was there between him and an emperor? And then there was the Ximanielli Federation, where their highest national institution, the Federal Council, was monopolized by the ten major families.
If any family below wanted to rise, the ten major families would unite and exterminate that family.
Huo Yushen had always believed that the political system of the Beichen Empire was garbage, which did not mean that he thought the political systems of the other three countries were any better.
In his opinion, the political systems of the other three countries were simply the garbage of garbage.
But it was this garbage of garbage that caught him off guard.
Huo Yushen paid the bill and slowly walked out of the restaurant.
The sky outside was gradually darkening, and an unspeakable pressure descended from the sky once again, sweeping over the city.
But basically no one felt the existence of this pressure, even high-level Rank 3S Gene Evolvers with Mental Strength.
Except for Huo Yushen.
He did not act rashly, but silently felt this mental pressure, which was like a radar scan at irregular intervals, then pulled down the brim of his hat and walked slowly down the street.
At this time, the restaurant owner had already delivered the Phoenix-Tailed Luan Bird soup he had just stewed to Wenren Zhao's table.
This is the first update. The second update will be at one o'clock in the afternoon.
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