Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 882 - 127: Beginning of Extreme Narrowness

Chapter 882: Chapter 127: Beginning of Extreme Narrowness

Actually, the reason Xiang Shan so decisively said "let’s go" is because he gradually recalled more details.

For example, Mr. Ola Freeman has always disliked Xiang Shan.

Because of the Scale-horn Gastropod Snail matter, Freeman indeed held a sense of gratitude towards Xiang Shan for quite some time. But this positive perception was almost exhausted by 2040. Around 2060, Ola Freeman’s routine activities included "ranting on social media against news reporting on Xiang Shan-related information."

There were too many reasons for Mr. Ola to hate Xiang Shan. Xiang Shan is a technologist, an industrialist, and a highly skilled capitalist. Meanwhile, Ola Freeman is an environmentalist with a tendency to oppose large-scale industry. And towards the end of the secret war, Ola Freeman felt that Xiang Shan, who founded Superman Enterprise, had to take some responsibility for the decadent situation.

In short, Xiang Shan and this guy were fundamentally at odds.

In the forties and fifties, Ola was still firmly convinced that Niyaguti and Yawgmoth joining Superman Enterprise was a huge mistake, contributing to the inequalities of the capitalist world.

Judging from the behavior of that old soldier, Ola Freeman seemed to have considerable influence at this underwater base. And judging by how he spoke just now, the grudges of those years didn’t seem to have entirely disappeared.

Xiang Shan staying here might also appear somewhat awkward. In that case, it would be better for him to proactively request some supplies and leave.

As long as Panic is safe, then the people here and the Whale Gang have done a great help.

He never expected that Ola would actually invite him to stay.

"I can’t possibly refuse her guardian’s asylum in front of the child. Besides, Kledec told me some things. It seems you’ve encountered that bastard Yawgmoth’s army." Ola Freeman waved his hand. "Your equipment is entirely unfit for underwater use. I think the supplies you need aren’t just ’a bit’... you’d better craft them yourself."

At this point, the Sperm Whale Hopkins emitted a long call. According to Xiang Shan’s understanding of whale language, this should mean that it is planning to leave. Ola nodded and said something to Hopkins. Then, a bulky Killer Whale nudged Xiang Shan, signaling him to walk on his own.

Xiang Shan jumped off the whale and turned to wave goodbye. The big whale also waved its fleshy fin. It seemed to understand the human body language for "farewell."

Then, the massive Sperm Whale led three young Killer Whales towards the Shallow Sea.

In the Shallow Sea, there are plankton to provide food for them.

Soon, the whales disappeared into the darkness, leaving only the melodious Whale Song echoing in the infrasound frequency.

Ola and the soldier led Xiang Shan forward, while the dolphins pushed Panic’s escape pod and darted back and forth among them, quite content. Xiang Shan couldn’t help but feel a little curious: "This time they were exposed to some violent humans, right? How come they don’t feel any pressure?"

"Pressure? The ocean has already put too much pressure on them." Ola sighed. "Survival is already difficult enough. Adding more pressure wouldn’t change much, right? Why question them, ’why do you want to be happy’?"

"True." Xiang Shan nodded. "It’s quite challenging. Those big fellows have to take care of the young of other species, constantly looking for food?"

"Although they use electricity instead of respiration, their bodies still need nutrients, they still get hungry. And the dolphins can only be well-fed during their youth. Killer Whales, too; only in their youth are they allowed to drink the milk of Baleen Whales or Toothed Baleen Whales. After reaching sexual maturity and undergoing their first estrus, they will permanently abandon their flesh bodies to enter mechanical ones, further reducing consumption. And even their discarded bodies won’t be wasted..."

Xiang Shan was shocked: "Like this..."

"Does it seem strange?"

"No... don’t you fear prion diseases?"

Prions, also known as prion proteins, are infectious agents without nucleic acids. They are accidental creations from misfolded proteins in humans, unexpectedly capable of converting "properly folded proteins" to their misfolded state. In every living organism, these misfolded proteins continuously generate and accumulate. However, the immune systems also actively destroy these misfolded proteins. Cannibalism easily leads to misfolded proteins exceeding the body’s self-purification capacity threshold.

"Some Killer Whales’ diets originally included their own kind." Ola looked up at the murky darkness above, sighing: "Killer Whales are actually a very complex species. Before the Great Infection, they existed in different tribes, each with different dialects and dietary preferences, even differences between ’settling’ and ’nomadic’ lifestyles. Some whale tribes did indeed hunt Killer Whales from other tribes."

"In fact, many large Toothed Whales will prey on other whales. If prions were really that terrifying, whale communities with cannibalism traditions would have long gone extinct."

At this point, Freeman sighed: "Moreover, it’s only industrialized meat and bone meal that leads to the widespread infection of mad cow disease. Rendering meat from leftover bits and pieces from cows into meat and bone meal and feeding it to the next generation of beef cattle, cyclically, incrementally raises prion levels. It’s the same among cannibalistic human tribes. Their funeral practices involve consuming the flesh of their kind to inherit their bravery, strength, wisdom—and also misfolded proteins. A tribe must have such funerals repeatedly and engage in mutual cannibalism for many years before achieving this sort of problem."

"But here, the creatures come from different species. With just a bit of caution, it’s difficult to encounter such issues. This meat, along with whale milk, and sometimes Baleen Whales bring back small fish or shrimp. We make those fish and shrimp into mincemeat—they can only eat such things for their lifetime."

Talking about these whales, Ola Freeman’s tone became much more natural.

Soon, Xiang Shan and his group arrived at a certain location. The dolphins stirred their tails violently, dispersing the mud to reveal a lid. The Martial Artist opened the lid, and then everyone went inside.

This was a pipeline made of artificial material. The pipe initially went straight down, then bent into a U-shape, and went straight towards Xiang Shan. After this, the passage behind Xiang Shan was sealed by a gate, entering a sealed area. The pressure began to gradually decrease.

After decompression, they continued moving forward.

"Alright, we’re here." Ola’s tone finally carried a hint of briskness: "This is the result of our two hundred years’ work, the Dolphins’