Chapter 58
In a sense, an aircraft carrier was similar to a mobile fortress in fantasy novels. Its greatest significance lied in enabling fighter jets to take off directly from the ship, serving as a massive mobile fortress that supports operations away from the homeland or in ocean warfare. It could swagger up to someone else’s doorstep and flaunt its power without worrying about supply issues.
Nowadays, if a bomber drops a bomb, it had to fly for more than ten hours over the ocean. Along the way, it would be detected by military satellites or radar, with surface-to-air missiles waiting for it!
Moreover, how much aviation fuel is consumed during such a long flight?
Without that weight, could you carry an extra bomb?
Of course, the above-mentioned top-notch activities of swaggering up to someone else’s doorstep were all carried out by the United States and the United Kingdom.
Thinking that having an aircraft carrier was impressive, the world’s policemen thought that justice was always on their side.
In reality, underneath the cloak of justice, there were only the underpants of interests. Oh right, don’t forget that American soldiers were famous for calling for air support all day long. The aircraft carrier was their biggest psychological pillar.
However, the flaws of aircraft carriers were also very obvious. They were too big a target and were prone to attacks. Therefore, a single aircraft carrier often constituted a fleet, with numerous cruisers, escort ships, destroyers, and submarines following for protection.
It’s a grand sight—this was why Abiseth the octopus has liked aircraft carriers for so long, but the sirens have always forbidden it to play with it!
It’s too dangerous.
Even before getting close, the sonar system was sufficient to detect the traces of sea monsters, and torpedoes and missiles were not something to be trifled with.
Although sea monsters were powerful, they do not have the ability to withstand the power of more than ten exploding missiles. They will not actively interfere in human wars or overturn ships.
As for humans, if they want to capture sea monsters alive, they will certainly not use missiles to bombard them.
This strange balance and stalemate have been broken by the advent of the apocalypse.
To be precise, this was a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The aircraft take off and land using electromagnetic catapults. The core of this system was a linear catapult motor, similar to a maglev train.
Therefore, as you might understand, when the nuclear reactor shuts down for self-protection, all the operating systems on the aircraft carrier also shut down, and there isn’t even a chance to escape by plane.
The most troublesome thing was that the aircraft carrier originally had a freshwater production system, so the supplies related to water were not abundant.
After the apocalypse, many people died directly on the deck. The surviving people had disagreements, and the military almost mutinied. In the end, only about a dozen people were left trapped on the aircraft carrier because they didn’t grab lifeboats.
They lived by drinking water from the officers’ cabins and the water pipes in the original bathrooms. Thanks to the solar energy, it was still warm. It was even more exciting when it rained.
They could collect a bunch of bowls and basins on the flight deck, which was enough for bathing. The food reserves on the aircraft carrier were plentiful, so there was no need to worry for the time being. The trouble was that they couldn’t control the aircraft carrier and could only let it drift on the sea.
The aircraft carrier was heavy and has a deep draft, so it will definitely run aground in shallow waters of about ten meters deep in the end. Then it won’t be far from the shore, and swimming up might be a hope for survival—no one expected a sea monster, a giant octopus, to appear!
But they still didn’t dare to jump into the sea to escape!
These dozen or so US Navy personnel were nearly scared to death.
A tentacle, over ten meters long, crashed onto the aircraft carrier’s flight deck with a splash of seawater, treating the row of fighter jets like a scratching post, rubbing back and forth.
Perhaps it was too comfortable, as the suction cups distributed along the tentacles opened up several rows of razor-sharp teeth inside them, horrifyingly.
Where did this monster come from? It’s even more exaggerated than in science fiction movies!
And now that there’s a monster, why hasn’t there appeared a hero to save the people by killing the monster?
Obviously, a few pilots and an officer on the aircraft carrier suddenly gained powerful superpowers, just like in the movies!
But they still ran away. What on earth is happening in this world?
From the moment this sea monster appeared, for over ten hours straight, it acted like it owned the aircraft carrier, constantly changing its tentacles’ positions on it. There was even one time it attempted to wrap around the command tower, its bulbous brain tightly pressed against the hull. It probably couldn’t tow the carrier, but it consciously pushed the aircraft carrier into a current.
Indeed, following the waves, it drifted near this island, where Li Shao and Annie came from.
In the waters over thirty meters deep, Abiseth reluctantly released its tentacles. This was just the right height for it to stretch its entire body without suffocating in the air, but the aircraft carrier, carried by the inertia of the current, continued to drift forward, heading straight for the island.
Xia Yi looked up, stunned, at the aircraft carrier towering over eighty meters high, too afraid to intervene. He quickly followed the dolphin as it swam to the side.
As the aircraft carrier approached the island, its massive body began to jostle. It had collided with a reef, and the long, sharp bottom of the ship deeply pierced into the seabed, stirring up murky sediment, but it successfully ran aground and stopped moving.
The little dolphin whizzed away with a “whoosh,” swimming away at lightning speed, almost like a torpedo.
Xia Yi looked at the sudden appearance of this artificial island on the sea surface, unable to speak for a long time.
“Splash!”
Abiseth emerged from beside him. The concentric blue rings on its body were even emitting a faint glow in the night, a terrifying sight no matter how you looked at it, as if a prehistoric monster was about to devour humans.
“Xia Yi! Huh, where’s Siren?”
Turning his big head left and right, although his eyes were in the seawater, only his bulbous brain and tentacles were exposed above the surface:
“According to the source of the sonar, he should be around here!”
Xia Yi wasn’t easily frightened by Abiseth’s appearance anymore; he just paused slightly, seizing the flaw in Abiseth’s words.
“So, Siren is still with you?”
The survivors, terrified, saw an island not far away and hastily climbed down the gangway. When they reached a certain point, they didn’t even dare to look back as they plunged into the sea, desperately swimming forward, praying fervently that the octopus hadn’t become savage enough to come ashore and eat people.
Xia Yi’s pupils contracted slightly as he gazed at the island in the distance.
He could only be grateful that he had his clothes on before going into the sea. On the island, there were only two empty cans and a piece of tattered clothing that he had found.
Indeed, in the apocalypse, one had to carry everything with them, even on a deserted island, or else it would attract unwanted attention.
“Sigh, Xia Yi, where are you going? Don’t you think this collectible is great? It’s a pity Siren said not to sink it…”
Xia Yi finally couldn’t help himself:
“Can you sink it?”
“No…”
Abiseth regretfully slapped the sea surface with its tentacles.
If it could, it would have done it the moment it encountered the aircraft carrier. What’s the point of calling for Siren? Good things should be kept to oneself; it wouldn’t share.
“I can’t reach it even if I go up. Xia Yi, you sink it. With the high waves, it will… Aah!”
Abiseth quickly retracted its tentacles and fled into the distance, shouting loudly as it fled:
“Siren, you’re too much! This is mine, you can’t snatch it!”
In the churned-up waves, a faint silver fish tail flashed, but before Xia Yi could see clearly, a strong current slapped against his side. Then, silently, two arms reached from behind and firmly held him.
There was a cold touch rubbing against his neck and ears.
The fingers, pale with a thin layer of membrane in between, were distinctly jointed and ambiguous as they touched Xia Yi’s chest.
All the buttons on his shirt had long since fallen off after so many days in the sea.
With a deft flick of the fingertips, the wet shirt clinging tightly to his chest was peeled away. Siren smoothly made contact with Xia Yi’s chest. There were tiny scales on the palm and back of the mermaid’s hand, very rough, rubbing against Xia Yi’s skin, causing a faint pain.
“Siren?”
“…”
But the mermaid remained silent, gently exhaling on Xia Yi’s neck.
Following Xia Yi at a distance, neither too close nor too far, Siren had been doing so for a long time. But never before had it been so desperate to go ashore, gripping his chest tightly, dragging him forcefully as if trying to pull him into the depths of the sea, refusing to let go!
But when the critical moment came, Siren restrained itself. It didn’t want Xia Yi to be completely out of reach.
Feeling Siren’s tongue lightly licking the contours of his ear, Xia Yi shuddered. Especially those cold yet restless fingers made him very uneasy, and he felt a bit feverish.
He immediately reached out, turning around:
“Siren, have you been following me all this time?”
With wet silver hair clinging tightly to his cheeks, and purple eyes, pure and focused, in close proximity, Xia Yi couldn’t help but hold his breath.
“Yes… I like you, just like Abiseth secretly follows this kind of ship!”
Xia Yi was first stunned, then speechless.
Is that so? Is the sea monster’s way of expressing affection to secretly follow for a long time, hoping for an opportunity to seize what it likes and take it home?
His thoughts became so intense that they transmitted directly as subsonic waves.
“What seizing? I found it! Found it!”
Protested the distant giant octopus.
“You were found by me too, in the sea,” Siren said earnestly.
At the time, it saw something fall from the cruise ship and swam over to pick it up!
Xia Yi was momentarily speechless, so he remained silent, looking at Siren with complex emotions.
Mermaids were truly the most beautiful creations of nature, powerful, agile, and beautiful. In the moonlight, as she murmured and leaned closer, it was simply a deadly temptation.
So when Siren was not pushed away and kissed Xia Yi, a sudden burst of genuine joy erupted.
At least Xia Yi did not refuse!
With one being cold and the other gradually heating up, their breaths became increasingly rapid. Xia Yi felt dizzy and decided to hold his breath. His body was still in the sea, and his ability allowed him to neither breathe nor suffocate underwater.
But the sensation between their lips and teeth, the upper palate and tooth roots being sensitively rubbed, caused uncontrollable tremors throughout his body. He hugged tighter, feeling a chill down his spine. The sensation was of smooth scales, as if Siren had tightly wound his tail around him. He couldn’t even struggle slightly, feeling himself slowly sinking into the sea.
“Ah, you guys…”
Abiseth’s subsonic waves startled Xia Yi, and sensing his emotions, the mermaid reluctantly let go of him.
“I mean, you can act like I don’t exist…”
The giant octopus rolled up a dozen fish with its tentacles, devouring them with relish. Suddenly, it noticed some movement nearby and swam over with excitement.
“Dolphins—so delicious!”
“Don’t eat it!!”
Abiseth’s tentacles had already encircled the dolphin. Perplexed, it turned its head:
“Why not?”
“That belongs to Xia Yi!”
Abiseth watched with great interest as the panicked dolphin desperately jumped around, just before it hit the water, it accurately enclosed it again with its tentacles, teasingly bumping into its body. The frightened dolphin darted around:
“But it looks so delicious, I’ll trade you for that ship!”
“Do you think that ship still belongs to you?” Siren glanced at the giant octopus.
The water where the aircraft carrier ran aground was not even twenty meters deep, so Abiseth couldn’t get past.
The octopus froze, not even noticing when the dolphin jumped out of its tentacles and escaped. With big eyes fixed on the aircraft carrier, it began to cry inconsolably:
“Siren lied to me, you lied to my ship!”
Far away in the Indian Ocean, Thomas raised his head from the seaweed, chewing on delicacies while exhaling a breath from his throat, connecting to the global roaming: [Idiot!]
“Ships are meant to be sunk!” declared Kraken, in the Mariana Trench.
“Abiseth, you actually got fooled? Siren, you’re really something!” exclaimed Volcus in the Bermuda Triangle of the Atlantic Ocean.
“Abiseth, are you as dumb as Eurybia?” mocked Neptus, the giant jellyfish in the North Pacific.
“Am I dumb?” earnestly asked the Emperor Crab in the Ross Sea of Antarctica.
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