boyutpedia Chapter 139 Sea Serpent, You've Messed Up with the Wrong Person
Chapter 139 Sea Serpent, You've Messed Up with the Wrong Person
Lin Chen took a yellowed photo.
There are words written in red ink on the back of the photo.
The sea eye has appeared; let us offer this as a sacrifice.
The middle-aged man holding up the bronze fish talisman in the middle of the photo has a facial profile that is seven or eight parts similar to Lin Chen.
That was Lin Jianjun, Lin Dafa's eldest son and Lin Chen's uncle.
Twenty years ago, he disappeared during a deep-sea fishing trip, vanishing with his boat in international waters, leaving his family with an unverifiable news of his death.
Standing behind Lin Dafa was the young sailor Lu Guoqiang.
At the property rights exchange center, the old factory director demonstrated an attitude of being willing to dedicate everything to the factory.
Thirty years ago, he was also a core member of this Pioneer 1.
Lin Chen pieced together the events leading up to his grandfather's death, his uncle's disappearance, Gao Zhiyuan's betrayal, and Lu Guoqiang's cover-up. This photograph was the clue.
At this moment, the system's voice rang in Lin Chen's mind.
"Notification: Daily intelligence has been updated. Please check your inbox."
Lin Chen pulled up the virtual panel.
Intelligence 1: Lu Guoqiang, the director of Sihai Shipyard, will go to the abandoned cemetery behind the shipyard at 10:20 pm tonight to pay tribute to Lin Dafa, who died 30 years ago.
Intelligence Item 2: The new Asia-Pacific head of Deepsea Eye, Sea Serpent, secretly arrived in Binhai this evening. He is currently using Lu Guoqiang's granddaughter, Lu Xiaomeng's life as leverage to blackmail Lu Guoqiang into adding a high concentration of radioactive cobalt-60 to the special titanium alloy steel customized by Longji Fresh. If successful, Deepsea Diver 1 will release deadly radiation after launch, causing all the technicians involved in the commissioning to die from bone marrow failure within three months.
Lin Chen looked at the second piece of intelligence.
sea snake.
Black Shark solves problems with torpedoes and violence, but this woman uses radiation.
High concentration of cobalt-60.
Once this substance is melted into the titanium alloy, the entire batch of steel is ruined.
Not only that, the core members of Longji Fresh, including Zhou Dazhuang and those old craftsmen, will die from inhaling radioactive dust.
This tactic is to use someone else to do the dirty work.
Lin Chen turned off the control panel and checked his watch.
9:45 PM.
The rain outside is getting heavier.
He took a black waterproof windbreaker from the drawer, put it on, and walked out of the Longji Fresh Building alone without disturbing Sun Heizi and Zhou Dazhuang.
Behind the Sihai Shipyard lies a forgotten, chaotic graveyard.
Most of the nameless sailors who died at sea in the early years were buried here.
There was no tombstone, only a few numbered wooden plaques, which had rotted away in the wind and rain.
The muddy road was slippery, and muddy water flowed down the mountain gully.
Lin Chen stepped through the weeds, without turning on his flashlight, relying on his night vision to walk in the dark.
There are lights ahead.
A figure was squatting on the ground among several pine trees.
Lu Guoqiang, wearing an old raincoat, was throwing sheets of yellow paper into the fire.
Rainwater fell on the edge of the fire, causing black smoke to rise.
"Brother Dafa, I'm so sorry."
"For thirty years, I still dream about the moment the ship sank every day."
"Take my hand and let me take the things back."
"But I don't dare. Those people are devils. They will kill my whole family."
"Now they're here again."
"They kidnapped Mengmeng, and Mengmeng is only eight years old."
"Brother Dafa, if you're watching from heaven, tell me, what should I do?"
"Do I really want to kill your grandson?"
As Lu Guoqiang cried, he used his fingernails to pick at the pebbles in the mud, his fingernails filled with black mud and blood.
Lin Chen stood five steps away from him, watching this scene.
He didn't say anything, then stepped forward.
A laminated photograph lay on the wet mud next to the fire.
The firelight illuminated the face in the photograph.
Lu Guoqiang stopped crying.
He stood frozen in place. Turning his head, he saw Lin Chen standing in the rain.
"President Lin?!"
Lu Guoqiang shrank back and sat down hard in the mud.
Lin Chen stepped forward, bent down to pick up the photo, and wiped off the mud and water with his thumb.
"Director Lu, you know all the people listed here, right?"
Lu Guoqiang looked at the photo, unable to utter a single word.
"The one on the far left is my grandfather."
"The person on the far right is Gao Zhiyuan, or rather, Gao Zhiyuan's father."
"The one in the middle is my uncle, Lin Jianjun."
Lin Chen flipped the photo over, revealing the line of red text: "The sea eye has appeared; offer this as a sacrifice."
"Director Lu, could you explain to me what 'using this as a sacrifice' means?"
Lu Guoqiang closed his eyes, his whole body trembling.
"I don't know, I really don't know."
"Why do you think I'm here tonight?" Lin Chen squatted down, looking directly into the old man's eyes. "Sea Serpent told you to add Cobalt-60 to my titanium alloy steel plates. Have you considered that when that batch of steel was smelted, all the workers and technical backbone of the Sihai Shipyard would perish with it? Including you, Lu Guoqiang."
Upon hearing the words "Cobalt-60" and "Sea Serpent," Lu Guoqiang's defenses crumbled.
He gasped for breath. "You, how do you even know this?"
"They were just..."
Lin Chen interrupted him: "Every step Deepsea Eye takes in Binhai is under my control. I was able to snatch the Poseidon from Black Shark and swallow Tianhai Group. Do you think a mere sea serpent can make a fuss? Lu Guoqiang, your only way out is to spill everything that happened thirty years ago. Otherwise, tomorrow Binhai Bay will have another nameless corpse."
"I'll talk, I'll talk!"
Lu Guoqiang knelt in the mud, supporting himself with his hands, and revealed the secret from thirty years ago.
Thirty years ago, Brother Dafa discovered a safe waterway to enter the core area of the sea eye.
"Back then, we all thought it was just a legend."
"But when Brother Dafa went in, he brought something out with him."
"What is it?" Lin Chen pressed.
"It's a bead."
"Brother Dafa calls it a water-repelling bead."
"That bead is magical. As long as you hold it in your hand, the water within a three-meter radius will automatically avoid you."
"The people from Deepsea Eye somehow got the information and forced me to play inside, so they tampered with the keel of the Trail Blazer 1."
Lu Guoqiang cried, "I was blinded by greed back then, I was so desperate for money. But I never imagined the ship would sink so quickly! Before he died, Brother Dafa entrusted me with the mother body of that water-repelling pearl, asking me to take it to Jianguo. But I was scared! I was afraid the people from the Eye of the Deep Sea were watching me, so I hid the pearl here and lied to them, saying that the pearl sank to the bottom of the sea with Brother Dafa. I kept this secret for thirty years."
Lin Chen looked at the unmarked tombstone behind Lu Guoqiang. "The bead is right under here?"
"Yes, it's down there." Lu Guoqiang nodded. "I put it in a lead box and buried it in a hidden compartment under the tombstone. For all these years, every time I come to burn paper money, I'm actually guarding it."
Lin Chen stepped forward and gripped the stone tablet with one hand. His physical abilities had been enhanced multiple times by the system, giving him great strength, and he managed to move the stone tablet, which weighed over a hundred kilograms, a crack in the wall.
A hole is visible beneath the stone tablet.
Lin Chen reached inside and touched a metal box.
The box surface has some oxidation, but the seal is still very good.
"High-energy unknown active substance detected: Water-repellent bead matrix (incomplete)."
System notification: "This substance can be used to upgrade the host's water-avoidance skills, or as one of the core power sources for the deep-sea exploration mothership Leviathan. It is currently sealed and requires 10,000 points to deconstruct and fuse."
Lin Chen saw the notification on the system panel.
He tucked the lead box into his pocket and turned to look at Lu Guoqiang, who was sprawled in the mud.
"President Lin, I've said everything I can. Please, save Mengmeng!"
Lu Guoqiang crawled over and tried to pull Lin Chen's trouser leg, but Lin Chen dodged to the side.
"Do you think you deserve my forgiveness?"
Lin Chen looked down at him.
Lu Guoqiang was stunned, then lowered his head.
"You killed my grandfather and caused my uncle to disappear for twenty years. I will settle this score with you one by one after I uproot the Eye of the Deep Sea."
"However, your granddaughter is innocent. I won't watch an eight-year-old child die at the hands of a sea serpent." After saying this, Lin Chen turned around and walked down the mountain.
"Besides, since the sea serpents have come to us willingly, there's no need for us to go back."
Lin Chen's figure quickly disappeared into the rain.
The wind was strong on the way down the mountain.
Lin Chen's phone suddenly vibrated in his pocket.
He took it out and saw that it was a satellite call without a caller ID.
After the call was connected, there was only electromagnetic noise in the receiver.
Then, a woman's voice came out.
"Mr. Lin, it's a pleasure to meet you. Did you like the little gift I gave you?"
Lin Chen didn't speak, he just listened.
"That old coward Lu Guoqiang is such a coward. I bet he's already handed over the Water-Repelling Pearl to you, hasn't he?"
The woman laughed. "But it doesn't matter, that was bait for you anyway."
"Now, let's make a choice. Your convoy is delivering goods to the provincial capital tonight, right? If you don't want to see fireworks on the way, bring the water-repelling beads and come to the abandoned cold storage at Binhai Port No. 3 by yourself. Oh, by the way, that little girl from the Lu family is giving me a headache from crying. If you're late, I can't guarantee she'll still be breathing."
The call was disconnected.
Immediately afterwards, a text message with location information was sent.
A red alert sounded in Lin Chen's mind.
"Warning! High-energy explosive detected at abandoned cold storage facility No. 3 in Binhai Port, target area! The explosive yield is estimated to destroy all buildings within a 200-meter radius! Countdown: 35 minutes!"
"Warning! Wide-range strong electromagnetic interference detected. System positioning and radar functions are severely limited. Host, please take precautions!"
Lin Chen stopped in his tracks.
He looked at the red location dot on his phone screen.
sea snake.
Putting away his phone, Lin Chen rushed down the mountain at full speed through the rain.