Otherworld Bone Dragon Operation Guide

Chapter 76 The Heroic Sacrifice of the Pig
"No, Grandpa."

“I wasn’t praising you!” Siwo glared at the girl.

"So we're now the most outrageous heretic in the history of the Temple of Light?" Su Ming said helplessly, the hatred had been stirred up to no end. If the Temple of Light recovered, he and Zi Jin would definitely be in big trouble. Even if it didn't recover, the disintegration of such a behemoth would undoubtedly lead to countless remaining believers seeking revenge against them in the name of purging heretics.

Just thinking about it is like being in hell.

"The Empire and the Church have temporarily lost half of their enemies, which is great." Violet felt much more relaxed.

No, not at all! Su Ming sighed, no longer even thinking about asking what the other half was.

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That night, Su Ming was resting when he was suddenly awakened.

He was dreaming that Doctor Doom, Apocalypse, and Thanos, riding Godzilla and King Kong, were besieging him with 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals, and the battle was so fierce that the earth shook.

He opened his eyes and paused for a moment, then realized that the white triangle was making a sharp turn.

[What's wrong, Violet?] Su Ming quickly sent a message.

Another sea monster has been spotted!

Su Ming was surprised. How could he be so lucky as to find a target two nights in a row?

He rushed to the driver's seat and found that Violet was starting to move according to the pre-arranged plan.

The target is at the 9 o'clock position of the White Triangle, the direction of movement is 2 o'clock, and the speed is 3 to 4 knots. According to the plan, the White Triangle needs to circle around to the front of the sea monster while maintaining a distance of 56 kilometers to keep the sound waves converging.

Seeing Su Ming approach, Zi Jin angrily tossed him the flight path calculation sheet, saying, "Why are these calculations so complicated!"

Su Ming suppressed a laugh as he took the document and quickly came to a conclusion: first, maintain the course unchanged, adjust the speed to 5.5 knots, and then gradually accelerate to turn left.

Seeing that the course immediately became stable after Su Ming took over, Zi Jin snorted and went to sit down on the side.

“Xiao Jin was never interested in geometry when she was little,” Siwo laughed. “When I lived near her house and did research, I would teach the children in my spare time. She was the worst one; she couldn’t draw any shape except a circle.”

"Grandpa, don't talk about my embarrassing past," Zijin said, displeased. "It's as if I don't have any embarrassing stories about you."

"No way. At that time, I thought, this child is so clumsy and sickly. If I don't take good care of him, he might die young," Xiwo said, his eyes filled with nostalgia.

The scholar fell silent.

“Zijin has never mentioned anything about her childhood to me,” Su Ming suddenly said. “If it’s not a very pleasant memory, there’s no need to talk about it.”

Zijin shook her head. "It's not something shameful to talk about. In my hometown, everyone lets their children roll around in the ground. Everyone does the same thing. But I'm different from them. If I hadn't met Grandpa Xiwo, I really would have died."

The old elf reached out and patted Violet's head. "The thing I'm most grateful for is that I took care of this little angel for this world."

"Grandpa, I'm not a child anymore!" The girl turned her head away.

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Three hours later, Su Ming finally circled around to the front of the sea monster. During this time, the sea monster changed direction several times, and Su Ming made timely adjustments each time, while Zi Jin watched intently from the side.

Another hour passed, and the sea monster began to rise to the surface, its swimming speed increasing to 8 knots. "It's about to start hunting!" Siwo judged.

Violet nodded to the two, left the cockpit, and led the zombies to the decoy ship. She had the zombies raise the decoy ship's sails, then sent most of them back to the White Triangle, leaving only two to control the sails. Then she cut the towing cable connecting the decoy ship and the White Triangle.

The decoy ship's sails billowed, and it began to approach the sea monster's location. Gradually, it moved further and further away from the White Triangle.

Su Ming picked up the intercom and pressed the call button. "Can you hear me?"

"I can hear you, the sound is clear," Violet replied through the walkie-talkie. The distance was now beyond the range of conventional wind communication, so Su Ming activated the ship's onboard radio.

Su Ming checked the radar, located the decoy ship's position and course, and instructed, "Turn 10 degrees to the left."

“Okay, turn 10 degrees to the left,” Zijin repeated.

Guided by Su Ming, the decoy boat steadily approached the sea monster's location. The sea monster surfaced to shallow waters and began its hunt. It rarely changed direction, eating any large creature that came near, showing no pickiness.

Once close enough, Violet opened the decoy ship's hatch, which contained many pigs. As soon as the door opened, they all rushed onto the deck, creating a noisy commotion.

She reached out and grabbed a pig, threw it into the sea, and then after a while, another one appeared.

By the time the tenth head was thrown, the distance between the two sides was less than three kilometers.

"It's eaten the pig!" said Siwo, who had been listening intently, then his expression suddenly changed. "Watch out, it's accelerating!"

Su Ming also confirmed on the sonar display screen that the target was beginning to approach the decoy ship.

"Purple Violet, the target is within one kilometer and is expected to arrive in one minute. Initiate Phase Two!"

"Roger!" Violet clipped the walkie-talkie to her waist and floated into the air on her broom. She reached out and threw a few underwater flares near the decoy ship to attract the sea monster's attention and make it easier for herself to see the target later.

Boom! Water splashed everywhere! A giant tentacle suddenly emerged from beneath the decoy ship, coiling around it. Violet was caught off guard and struck head-on, slamming back onto the ship, crashing into the cabin, and then onto the deck. She quickly rolled away, narrowly avoiding the following tentacles, and amidst the flying wood chips, she darted through a gap and soared out of the tentacles' reach.

"Your information is wrong!" Violet said angrily. Her broom was already damaged and she had thrown it away; she was now flying without any aids.

"Damn it, sonar delay!" Su Ming realized the serious mistake he had made. The speed of sound in the sea is 1.5 kilometers per second, and the White Triangle was 56 kilometers away, meaning the sonar information was almost 40 seconds behind!
In the current sonar footage from the White Triangle, the sea monster is even half a kilometer away from the Violet's decoy ship.

Beneath the violets, several enormous tentacles touched the livestock, quickly coiled up, and dragged them underwater, creating large white splashes. Using the light of underwater flares, the scholars saw a huge, circular, dark shape beneath the ship's hull.

She assessed the depth of the main body and realized that even if she cast the spell from a high vantage point, more than half of the attack's power would be absorbed by the seawater.

"How are you, Violet?" Su Ming asked anxiously.

"I'm alright. The target has taken the bait. Its head has been hidden underwater the whole time, making it difficult for magic to attack its body," Violet reported on the situation.

"Don't use large-scale spells. If there's a high concentration of magical energy, it will run away," Siwo warned.

(End of this chapter)