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Conch continued translating, "The Big Orca cursed again, 'You're such a trash seal! You provoked someone else's leader and made them angry, quickly feed them some fish.'"

A fish was thrown at Lu Yuan's face, which he agilely dodged.

"Yi yi yi!" the orca deliberately tried to please.

These guys had poor qualities, their whiny behavior concealing a rude heart.

However, they seemed like the type that could be tamed, so Lu Yuan gradually felt relieved.

But unexpectedly, Conch's tone changed, and he frowned, "Bad news, they're about to enter the terrifying waters! We need to retreat!"

"Those who retreat slowly will be eaten by those damned Mirage Dragons!"

The orcas turned around and left like the wind.

Only a group of human experts were left, totally confused, wondering why everyone had suddenly left!

Our fish, was it all just a waste?

"Mirage Dragon? What's that?"

Lu Yuan's brows slightly furrowed, "Quick, catch up and ask."

"Okay." Conch mounted a flying dragon and caught up with the orca group.

Then, communication between them was quite strenuous.

The whiny creatures were thrilled, excited that someone could understand them, incessantly "yi yi yi" chirping, energetically jumping out of the water, cheering joyously.

After quite some time, Conch finally rushed back.

"They said that ahead in the waters, there is a volcano and a terrifying oceanic creature called 'Mirage Dragon,' which dominates this region."

"About 10 kilometers ahead is the territory of the Mirage Dragon, and we'll be sensed once we enter. Ahead... about 100-200 kilometers, I'm not sure, might be a large volcano."

"How big is this 'Mirage Dragon'?"

"It might be a hundred meters long... those orcas aren't very smart, they couldn't give a precise estimate... They looked very frightened, so I didn't press them."

"100 meters..."

Lu Yuan pondered, if it's a high-level extraordinary creature, it could grow to a hundred meters; if it's an anomaly, it could grow even bigger.

On the other hand, the reconnaissance team's young men were eager to go.

Lu Ying said excitedly, "Wow... it's been a year since we last launched, and now it's a big one!"

"If it's a high-level extraordinary creature, a value of five hundred spirit essences isn't too excessive, right?"

"If we could tame it to mine the seabed minerals for us, it would be a hundred times more efficient than us."

Lu Yuan also felt somewhat excited, "But it seems that creatures in the sea aren't that easy to handle..."

Such high-value creatures were indeed worth assembling troops to collectively think of a solution.

To prevent any unforeseen events, Lu Yuan even ordered Sky City to stop moving, not to rashly enter the 'Mirage Dragon's territory, and activated a Concealing Rune.

Then he dispatched the Flying Team to scout afar.

The Flying Team was a combination of small-sized Insect Soldiers and human reconnoitre soldiers, totaling just over a hundred people.

A troop's strength lies in quality, not in quantity; these soldiers all had the "Qi Skill" of reconnaissance direction and were skilled.

About an hour later, the soldiers came back excited, their faces flushed, as if they had been injected with adrenaline, eager to start scavenging immediately!

Lu Ying, who was leading the group, held a bunch of photos, "Report! 142 kilometers to the southeast, there really is a huge mountain peak, possibly 1,500 meters high, an active volcano!"

"The crater has astonishing energy fluctuations! Magma is spewing out, smoke is swirling, and due to the presence of unknown life forms, we dare not approach hastily."

"Additionally, we saw some artificial structures on the oceanic continental shelf near the volcano."

"A large part has already been buried by magma, but it indeed possesses a vast amount of man-made structures. Some of it is reinforced concrete, which suggests that the site might at least possess technology from the second industrial revolution."

These photos simply shocked everyone on the shore.

Initially, they had intended to domesticate a group of orcas, but unexpectedly, they had stumbled upon a relic of civilization!

And it was the orcas that told them about it!

The direction of this relic wasn't the same as the direction of Sky City, it was off by about a 45-degree angle!

"Should we give those orcas something good to eat? To make up for it?" a female "People with Animal Affinities" suddenly said.

"They've already run off!"

People couldn't help but laugh, each one looking off into the distance, filled with anticipation.

Pangu Continent, Ninth Epoch, the 27,860th day.

Having drifted for less than a year, the humans... encountered a peculiar volcano in the ocean.

Amidst it lay the remains of a civilization!

The volcano emitted billowing thick smoke, the black smoke like a heavy dark cloud blanketing the sky, and the air was filled with a pungent sulfur smell.

The magma roiled tumultuously inside the crater, like a scarlet dragon, its fiery glow penetrating the layers of black smoke, illuminating the surrounding rocks a glowing red, and raising the entire ocean's temperature by one degree Celsius.

"Didn't expect our luck to be this good, to find a site of civilization just a few years after arriving in the ocean, guarded by a creature like the 'Mirage Dragon', this luck couldn't be too bad."

"This is a great opportunity! As long as this relic is slightly better than the Meida Civilization, no, it can't be too strong... our current income could completely jump by a large margin!"
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This news was truly stunning, and in less than an hour, it had reached the social elite, causing a huge sensation.

Every person entering the conference room was bursting with excitement, including pioneers like Jin Dongliang, Lu Tiantian, and Lu Ying...

Including the newly recruited Rat Artisans, who squealed with all their might, their hands clenched into fists, waving high, their emotions supercharged, "Look, this is it… Fortune! Why doesn't our Shu Mi Dam Civilization ever encounter such an opportunity?"

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" These ratmen, disregarding decorum, screamed excitedly.

This might be the first proper discovery of ancient civilization remains in the history of the Human 18th Civilization!

Well, although Green Grass Civilization·Sky City is also a large civilization site, it was before the Human 18th Civilization was established, so the history of The Sha Li Clan cannot be merged into the Human 18th Civilization.

Moreover, the Green Grass People haven't yet been exterminated, the city belongs to the conches, no one is allowed to snatch it!

The Mandala Empire is also considered a relic, but definitely not from a prehistoric era.

The wealth of the Mandala Empire is actually quite ordinary. All together, it's just a few hundred Spirit Essences.

As for the relics of the Meida Civilization... the Meida Civilization is slightly weaker, really not warranting loud fanfare and spending a lot of time excavating.

So, this relic right here is the first in history, the first time the whole nation could participate.

At five o'clock that afternoon, still more data came from the front-line recon team, including more photos of the buildings, more details.

Mobile "Water Flea Bugs" even managed to find some materials from some underwater structures and brought them back!

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(PS: The new plot still hits some writer's blocks, I will need to carefully plan it, the word count today is a bit low, sorry.)