Master of Thermodynamics

In the next few days, what happened to the exploration team fully confirmed Elon's warning that the road to "Hell's Gate" was very dangerous.

At noon that day, the exploration ship docked next to an island reef with an area of ​​several hundred square meters. The chef began to prepare lunch. The crew drove three magic boats to salvage conch and sea shells in the surrounding area and give themselves a meal.

During the storm season, conch and sea shells are one of the few fresh seafood that are easily available.

After all, they don't have long legs, and their swimming ability is pitifully weak, and they can't return to the deep sea like marine fish and sea beasts.

At this time, it was the end of the wind-tracing month, and most of the conch and sea shells were still active on the bottom of the sea, trying their best to capture plankton or algae in the sea, and seizing the last period of time, desperately storing energy.

Once they enter the cold winter months and the temperature is close to freezing point, they will dive into the sand, bury themselves, and survive the coldest two months.

However, the depth of the burial of conch and seashell is not deep, and it may be difficult to dig by manpower, but it is very simple to use magic machinery to get them out.

When Renault first arrived in the Hai Tide Islands, he relied on the digging of white sand clams to solve the food shortage problem.

Throughout the following storm season, the "sand drill" team on Odin Island never stopped working, allowing the people of the island to spend a time full of "white sand razor clams".

Today, the fishery company affiliated to the Government Affairs Department has a highly specialized team and is equipped with more than 20 magic shell digging machines with crawler chassis.

Their footprints are all over the various islands around Odin. Where there are beaches, there will be magical shellfish digging machines.

With these machines with extremely high digging efficiency, the fishery company can stably supply more than 12,000 tons of conch and seashells every week.

"Hey, there is a long strip of reef over there, as if there is a sea shell attached to the surface of the reef..."

A sailor looking around suddenly pointed in a certain direction and yelled.

A sailor maneuvering the magic boat, gently swinging the steering wheel, the boat drew an arc on the water, the slender hull broke the waves, and slowly sailed towards the reef.

When the distance was close to about 10 meters, the sailor who found the sea shells couldn't help hissing:

"This is really a big guy..."

This sea shell is quite large, exceeding 5 meters in length. Even in the otherworldly sea shell, which is known as "big", it can be regarded as a giant.

The sailor driving the magic boat nodded in agreement:

"It's really big enough, I bet you can dig up at least 200 kilograms of seashell meat... I hope its meat tastes better..."

The shape of this seashell is extremely irregular, the shell is dark and rough, with a rocky texture, and there are traces of seaweed growth on the surface, which makes it look like a reef.

People who have bad eyesight or are unfamiliar with seashells may find it difficult to tell when they come close.

Another sailor laughed:

"Dies, your eyes are so sharp, you can see it from so far away."

"Of course!" The sailor called "Dies" said triumphantly, "Hey, I have lived by the sea since I was a child, and I often dive into the sea to catch conch and shellfish... I don't know how many seas I have seen over the years. shell……"

While talking, Dies quickly jumped from the bow of the ship onto the reef, carrying a magic hand drill towards the seashell.

This kind of sea shells that like to attach to reefs, like oysters on the earth, secrete a kind of colloid, which firmly sticks the shell on the surface of the rock so as not to be washed away by the tide.

The colloid secreted by the alien seashells is more viscous, and heavy weapons such as maces are difficult to smash down. You must use a magic drill that can penetrate even stones to get it off.

"Bang...Bang..."

The military boots embedded in the steel plate stepped on the surface of the reef and shook slightly.

"puff!"

The seashell's shell opened slightly, exposing a gap, and jetting out a stream of sea water.

This scene frightened Diez, and he couldn't help but pause.

When he saw that the shell was just spraying water and no other movements, he smiled and continued to stride forward.

When he walked 4 or 5 meters away, the seashell trembled, and the shell suddenly opened, and the angle exceeded 90 degrees.

The shell meat swelled violently, and three wet tentacles burst out, blasting in front of Dies like lightning, and tightly wrapped his body, pulling it towards the shell.

This is actually a weird carnivorous seashell!

There is no doubt that it intends to eat Diez.

The sudden change caused Dies to panic and struggle, and the other people on the magic boat also became a mess.

"Shoot the shells!" a sailor shouted loudly.

A group of people just woke up like a dream, one after another they pulled out their pistols and aimed at the carnivorous shells.

However, before the sailors had time to shoot, the flesh of the carnivorous shell swelled up again.

"puff!"

Large swaths of brown mucus spewed out quickly, and Diez poured all over his head and face.

Then something terrible happened.

Diez's face melted like a liquid.

The skin and muscles melted into yellow liquid, flowing down like a waterfall, and the whole face was instantly non-human, looking terrifying and disgusting.

"Ah~~"

Diez was howling frantically in pain, struggling with all his limbs.

At this time, a group of sailors finally opened fire.

"His...His..."

Dense bullets enveloped the carnivorous shellfish.

Most of the bullets hit the shells, or the rocks next to them, and made a "banging" sound, but the shells were thick and hard, and the bullets could not penetrate the shells at all, leaving only shallow pits. .

Only a small part of the bullets accurately hit the shellfish and tore a wound, but this could not prevent the tentacles of the flesh-eating shell from continuing to drag Diez.

Seeing that the carnivorous shell was about to "bite" the hapless sailor, there was a sharp whistling sound in the air.

"Woo..."

A figure carried a gust of wind and appeared in front of the Carnivorous Shell in a nearly teleporting manner.

It was Renault.

He glanced at the tentacles that pinched Diez, a sharp expression flashed in his eyes, and shook his right hand.

After only hearing a few "pops", the tentacle was torn off by an invisible hand violently, and the juice spurted wildly at the fracture.

The carnivorous shell seemed to feel bad, and the broken tentacles quickly retracted into the shell.

Renault hummed, and tapped the carnivorous shell with his right hand.

"boom!"

The carnivorous shell is like being hammered heavily by a thousand-ton giant hammer. The hard shell that was originally difficult to damage by the bullet is instantly shattered.

The force of this blow was so great that even a few cracks appeared on the reef.

Then the raging flame ignited out of thin air, and in a flash, the carnivorous shells were cooked.

"Woo..."

Another gust of wind blew, Renault and Diez, who was seriously injured and dying, disappeared at the same time.

At the same time, a majestic voice rang in the ears of all crew members:

"I order that everyone who leaves the survey ship must wear protective clothing and helmets..."

...

It is a pity that despite Renault's full rescue, the corrosive venom from the carnivorous shell has flowed into Diez's brain and severely damaged the brain tissue.

After just 30 seconds, the sailor who had joined the navy for only one year stopped breathing.

This is the first death in this exploration operation.

This mist-shrouded sea area is obviously more dangerous than everyone thinks, not only because of the sinister terrain, but also because of all kinds of weird and cruel sea monsters.