Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 764 - 762: Site Selection
I pray to myself? And it actually worked?
Li Ang's eyes lit up. This was one of the effects he had hoped to achieve: allowing other intelligent creatures to communicate with him remotely through the Evil God Statue.
And as for the other effect he wished to realize...
Li Ang held his breath and concentrated, repeating *Chai's Revelation* in his mind, repeatedly contemplating the greatness of the Lord of Flesh and Swamp.
He had always been confident in his ability to do this. It didn't take long before he felt he had generated about 0.1 units of Power of Faith within his body. This power extended to the Evil God Statue and then returned to him through it.
It works!
Li Ang breathed a sigh of relief. With this, another problem was resolved. He could place the Evil God Statue and the hive together into the sea, using the Evil God Statue as a signal base station to remotely control and monitor the bug swarm, communicate with them, and simultaneously gather Power of Faith from them remotely.
Li Ang entertained the idea of exiting the space. The next second, his consciousness returned to the Alchemist's Workshop in the real world. He looked at the clock hanging on the wall; less than a minute had passed.
Although he wasn't clear about the specific principles of the space created by the Evil God Handicraft Clay, Li Ang speculated that it might be a crude, low-tier version of a God Realm or God's Kingdom. Its function was merely akin to Elsa's statue in Fairy World: monitoring the faithful and collecting and transmitting Power of Faith.
Li Ang called over some Brain Worms and conducted a series of experiments revolving around the Evil God Statue. He discovered that its Divine Power transmission range was incredibly far. The prayers of the Brain Worms within the Evil God Statue's space were clearer. If prayers were offered within a certain range of the Evil God Statue, the Power of Faith would automatically flow into it and be transmitted to Li Ang. Moreover, this transmission process was more secretive and harder to trace than in the Automated Pet Box.
After confirming these points, Li Ang exerted some effort and put a scaled-down Dragon Head Mask on the Evil God Statue itself. He found that the giant statue in the Evil God Statue's space also donned the same mask. This way, the risk of the Evil God Statue being discovered and exposing Li Ang's identity could be somewhat reduced.
Once the experiments were completed, Li Ang briefed Chaichai on the current situation. Chaichai was pleasantly surprised and quickly adjusted some content in *Chai's Revelation* to better fit the Evil God Statue's Special Effects.
After all this, Li Ang finally reached the moment to release the bug swarm into the real world.
「Nighttime, Pacific, Ogasawara Islands.」 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦
The Ogasawara Islands are an archipelago of the Japan Islands located between the Pacific Ocean and the Philippine Sea, at 27°45′N, 142°10′E. Composed of more than thirty islands, they are an exclave of the Japan Islands in the Pacific.
The archipelago is formed from limestone, mudstone, and other materials effused from the sea. Located in the subtropical zone, it produces sugarcane, cocoa, coconuts, and other specialty crops, and has good harbors and a whaling industry.
It was now deep in the night. Fishing boats and cargo ships of various sizes were docked at the island harbor, bobbing up and down with each gust of sea wind and the churn of the waves. The coastal area was brightly lit. Foreign tourists of diverse skin colors, wearing breezy beachwear, sat in bars drinking and chatting. Music sounded from afar, and young men and women danced and partied in wooden houses near the beach.
No one noticed that not far off the islands' east coast, a massive, spindle-shaped shadow moved swiftly over a hundred meters below the sea surface.
It was a giant whale, nearly thirty meters long. Its body was streamlined, its skin a pale blue with faint, light-colored patterns on its back, and its chest and abdomen were covered in folds. Compared to a Sperm Whale, its head was small and flat, with two blowholes on top. From any perspective, it appeared to be an ordinary Blue Whale.
A marine mammal of the baleen whale suborder, it is the largest animal known to have ever existed on Earth.
No, that's not right. The definition should be followed by 'the largest mundane creature by volume.' Looking up at the starry sky, one wonders if a dragon still lives on that bright moon.
WHOOSH—
The colossal whale flapped its tail, stirring the water as it swam rapidly beneath the sea surface.
The swimming speed of a typical blue whale is 28 kilometers per hour. It only reaches 50 kilometers per hour when startled or chasing other whales.
But this whale swam at a speed close to 58 km/h, and it had been doing so without a moment's pause for nearly three hours.
HUMMM—
A low-frequency, deafening sound rose from beneath the sea. Ahead of this blue whale, a pod of more than twenty blue whales appeared.
Blue whales usually travel alone. At most, groups of two or three form family units to swim and forage in the ocean. But with the advent of the Slaughter Games, Earth's ecological environment and animal habits were also changing, so pods of twenty blue whales were no longer as rare as before.
HUMMM—
The blue whales within that pod had noticed this solitary kin. They emitted low-frequency, powerful sounds around 20 hertz that permeated the vast waters, singing to the distant blue whale.
However, the rapidly swimming blue whale completely ignored the beautiful and melodious songs of its brethren, merely adjusting the direction of its head before diving into the ocean depths.
One hundred meters underwater.
Two hundred meters.
Three hundred meters...
The sea was gloomy and ice-cold, devoid of even the slightest glint of light. The special blue whale, like Don Quixote the Knight charging at windmills, hurtled towards the ocean floor.
Just as it seemed about to crash headfirst against the sturdy seabed, its skin about to be scraped raw by rocks and gravel, the blue whale's ventral skin suddenly opened. It revealed six exceptionally sturdy legs with distinct arthropod features. Like mechanical grappling hooks, these legs firmly anchored to the ground. Combined with high-pressure water jets spraying from beneath the whale's belly, they steadily supported the marine behemoth weighing hundreds of tons.
The surrounding fish, frightened, darted away. Less intelligent shrimp and crabs also followed their mysterious instincts, swimming and crawling away from the odd 'blue whale'—or rather, the Behemoth disguised as a blue whale.
BANG!
The camouflage armor plating on Behemoth's belly automatically shot off, releasing a slightly cumbersome armored figure.
That was... Li Ang.
He donned a deep-sea diving suit crafted from aluminum alloy and special alloys. Below the transparent glass mask, a small and exquisite Worker Bug emitted a greenish, glowing light, illuminating the underwater world.
Life beneath the sea surface was richer than one might imagine: mollusks, crustaceans, corals, echinoderms, sea anemone-like creatures... They reflected an odd light under the luminescence of the Worker Bug.
Biomass. That was sufficient.
Li Ang stepped onto the fine seabed sand, turned, and looked south, not far away. There lay a submarine cliff, its drop hundreds of meters high. Standing at the edge and looking down, one could only see a thick, suffocating darkness lurking below.
Perfect. It could be used to hide the hive.
