Chapter 1 A Completely Oceanic Planet

The enclosed black cavity caused by curvature navigation rapidly dissipated, and at the end of the navigation route filled with red and blue shifted spectra appeared a blue planet. This planet was quickly enlarged on the spaceship's holographic projection, and soon the details of its surface could be seen—its beauty was breathtaking.

This was a planet completely covered by the ocean. The boundless ocean covered the entire field of vision. Clouds, storms, waves, and whirlpools, all the embellishments fell on a blue scroll. The sense of openness and magnificence it brought almost instantly dispelled the depression and solemnity brought about by the civilization ruins journey of the past three days. The passengers in the lounge stared at Aioi in a daze, and from time to time someone praised in a low voice.

They had never seen a planet completely covered by the ocean, and they hadn't even imagined it.

When Jean Lucas saw Aioi, he couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows slightly and muttered in a low voice: "As expected of the hometown of the sirens... it's all water."

"That's nonsense, how can the place where the sirens live not be all water," Hespera glanced at this old opponent who had been fighting with her for many centuries, and then suddenly showed a teasing smile, "Oh, right, you're a landlubber, you cramp when you see water, right?"

"The Blood Clan has never liked water, okay?" Jean Lucas's eyes twitched, "Only a freak like you is not only not afraid of water, but not even afraid of holy water—I'm too embarrassed to be in the same race as you."

"Lady Vivian is not afraid of these things either!" Hespera proudly put her hands on her hips, "So this is the performance of a high-level Blood Clan! Let me tell you, if you want to go further, you must work hard to overcome your racial defects. If you trust me, go back and find our Hespera family, I'll get you a collapse-style therapy, soak you in holy water, if you don't die, you'll achieve sainthood..."

Jean Lucas: "..."

He felt that he couldn't keep up with the rhythm of this disgrace to the race!

While the two of them were chatting idly, the silver-white Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace had already plunged into the atmosphere and gradually approached Aioi's vast sea.

"Are we going to land directly on the sea this time?" a vampire nobleman said with a frown. "I don't like it very much."

"There must be something like a landing field," a shadow demon guessed, "Or we'll change ships after we go down."

"Wait, there seems to be something on the sea... What is that?!"

The blue sea quickly zoomed in, and some neatly arranged small black dots appeared abruptly on it. When the distance was close enough, the details of those small black dots finally appeared in front of everyone—they were a series of steel cities floating on the sea!

One oval-shaped artificial island floated on the Sea of Aioi. They had exactly the same shape and size, and were connected to each other by huge steel bridges and pipelines. Ancient and dilapidated buildings were densely piled on the land made of steel, like ruins after some kind of disaster. On the edge of the artificial islands, you could see many things that were obviously added later—there were simple trestle bridges extending into the sea, some supports erected next to the trestle bridges, and seafood was drying on the supports. There was a net-like structure woven from metal cables, and in the net-like structure were clumps of drifting seaweed. There were also some simple boats cruising between these things, seemingly collecting products.

That should be the fishing grounds and farms built by the residents of the islands.

On the bridge of the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace, Hao Ren also saw the things that appeared on the sea. The main body of the floating city group had not changed much compared to when he left—the Ark residents obviously had not changed the abilities of these ancient starships. Even if all of them received academic education, it would take at least two or three generations of efforts to restore to the point where they could operate those ancient equipment. However, some new things had appeared around the city group: those simple trestle bridges and metal nets that were obviously used to cultivate edible seaweed, as well as simple boats cruising in the offshore area. These things should have been researched and created by the Ark residents themselves after he left.

"It seems that Lawrence's work is progressing well," Vivian nodded with a smile, "The Ark residents have begun to seek resources from the natural environment of Aioi—this is not easy for a group of exiles who have been confined in a spaceship for ten thousand years, which means they have begun to learn how to survive after leaving the Ark life support system."

"And they have also learned to build ships," Lily also looked particularly happy, "They dare to go into the water! When these people first saw the sea, they were so scared, they stayed as far away from the shore as possible..."

"I hope Eva is getting along well with these new residents," Hao Ren thought of the newborn Ocean Spirit, "Speaking of which, she should have noticed us, right..."

Hao Ren was right. Eva had indeed noticed the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace falling from the sky—for the curious "new Ocean Goddess", anything falling from the sky was a treasure worthy of attention. Therefore, before the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace had landed on the sea, the seawater below suddenly surged, and then a huge female figure quickly bulged out of the seawater, forming Eva's form. This transparent "water giant" curiously looked at the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace floating in front of her, and then finally recognized it. So she excitedly raised her hand and began to wave—哗啦啦, 哗啦啦, the huge sound of water resounded throughout the world.

The spaceship slowly descended, and Eva's huge body also slowly descended and shrank, and finally turned into a female water giant "only" a dozen meters high on the sea. She looked excitedly and expectantly at the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace that was slowly opening its hatch, looking like a dog that had been waiting at home all morning, finally waiting for its owner to come home with spareribs.

Forgive Hao Ren for not being able to think of a better adjective—who told him to see Lily's silly face full of expectation and appetite every time he came home.

The spaceship stopped steadily, but the first ones to come out were not Hao Ren, but a group of sirens including Katrina. They jumped directly into the sea from the spaceship, and then layers of light blue halos expanded in all directions with them as the center. Where the halos spread, the water surface quickly calmed down and underwent incredible changes—it formed a solid surface like glass. A layer of "hardened water layer" only a few millimeters thick covered the sea surface and quickly expanded to the end of the field of vision. Then the people who walked out of the spaceship were surprised to find that the seawater under their feet had formed a layer of hard and stable "land." They were a little apprehensive when they first stepped on it, but soon they were all amazed by the sirens' power to control "water." Even Hao Ren was slightly amazed by Katrina's skills.

This is much more high-end than Nangong Wuyue rolling around at home all day wiping the floor.

After creating a ground for others to stand on, Katrina and the sirens jumped out of the sea: the "hard" water surface, of course, had no effect on them. They walked freely between the hardened water layer and the seawater as if they saw nothing.

Katrina swayed her snake tail and wound her way to Eva. She stretched out her hand towards the surging seawater: "Eva, we've come to see you."

Eva made a burst of rushing water sounds and curiously lowered her height, eventually turning into a transparent girl about the same height as Katrina. She felt the familiar aura on the other side, and the rushing water sounds became louder and louder, with a cheerful atmosphere.

"See..." a vague voice came from the rushing water, although the tone was strange, it was barely possible to hear that it was a syllable other than the sound of water.

Hao Ren immediately showed a surprised expression, and he and Vivian next to him looked at each other: "Eva finally understands language communication?!"

"She deals with those Ark residents every day," Vivian looked thoughtfully at the floating city groups not far away, "Perhaps it was in this process that the concept of language communication was generated. But she obviously doesn't understand the language we use, she was just repeating syllables just now."

Hao Ren immediately squatted down and pressed his hand on the hardened water layer. Although this water layer had been blessed by Katrina's magic, it was essentially still an extension of Eva's body (the entire Sea of Aioi is actually part of Eva), so after contact, a water-like thought quietly flowed over. Hao Ren looked up at Eva's incarnation, and the latter also turned to look at him—the mental connection between the two had been established.

As Vivian said, Eva understood the concept of language communication in the process of dealing with the Ark residents, and she had even learned the language of those Ark residents!

"Her learning ability is very strong," Hao Ren stood up with a smile, "I just transmitted several language materials from Earth to her through mental connection, and she quickly learned them—the existence of natural will is indeed extraordinary. As long as she understands a concept, everything under this concept is simply easy for her."

"Eva, these are gifts from the sisters on Earth," Katrina opened her travel bag, which was so large that it was a bit ridiculous, and carefully took out the things that were carefully wrapped inside, "The sirens are living very well on Earth, these are the treasures they collected there, look, this is what is produced in the ocean on Earth..."

Katrina opened the gifts one by one and pushed them to Eva. There were colorful giant shells, bracelets and necklaces carefully woven with seaweed, manganese nodules from the ocean floor, beautiful gems collected from near underwater volcanoes, and rudder engine parts and fragments removed from the Bismarck—I don’t know if they were removed after the ship sank or before the ship sank…

Hao Ren: "..."