Conan Rick's Investigator

Seeing this monstrous "face", everyone in the control room was stunned for a moment, their brains remained in a state of shock.

Only Qin Zhibo adjusted his thoughts immediately and recalled the name of the monster from the depths of his mind.

Deep diver!

Chapter 1495 Invaders from the Deep Sea

"Then, what is that!"

"monster!"

In the main control room, after a brief silence, several staff members with low will exclaimed.

In addition to Qin Zhibo, Kuroda Heibei, the Akai family, and Director Makino also widened their eyes and stared in disbelief at the ugly and hateful fish face on the big screen.

The ugly face and hunched body are very similar to the Kappa in Japanese monster legends, or the fish-man worshipped by the Phoenicians.

In short, it can't be a human...

"This is the Deep One."

A rational voice brought back everyone's sanity.

Everyone turned to look at Qin Zhibo, and Akai Mary asked, "What?"

"The Deep Ones, an intelligent race that lives in the deep sea."

"But they usually don't go on land..."

This was not the first time Qin Zhibo had seen a deep diver. He had seen both half-human and half-deep diver and complete deep diver with his own eyes.

But the Deep Divers are a race that lives in the deep sea, and especially in modern times, their activities have become very low-key.

Not to mention boarding a human-built offshore platform.

In the surveillance footage on the big screen, a hunchbacked half-man, half-fish creature was walking on a pier in a storm, with dark iron-colored waves washing around its flippers. The scene was so weird that it was creepy.

Fortunately, there is no one on the offshore platform now, so it is understandable to let it come up for a walk.

But I'm afraid it's not here for a walk...

Qin Zhibo was thinking this when the next second, on the surveillance screens of other split screens, he saw dozens of deep divers climbing onto the sea platform from the landing entrance of a small ship.

They climbed ashore, their huge webbed feet stepping on the steps, making a "clacking" sound, and walked in groups like zombies along the circular pier towards the empty square in the center.

"What are they going to do?"

"That's the entrance to the underwater base, and it's now closed..."

As soon as Director Makino finished speaking, his pupils suddenly trembled, and he seemed to have thought of something in his mind.

"not good!"

"Could it be that they want to enter the base through the ventilation ducts?"

Kurodabei turned his head to look at Makino and repeated, "Ventilation duct?"

The latter immediately went to the nearest operating table and transferred the structural blueprint of the central square to the central large screen.

"There are a large number of ventilation holes distributed on the fortress structure next to this downward elevator passage..."

"And these ventilation holes can lead to the various ventilation pipes inside the base!"

On the blueprint on the big screen, starting from the central square of the sea platform, the blue electric current extends to all directions of the base like a spider web.

Seeing this diagram, Kuroda Heibei frowned and asked, "Aren't there any defensive measures set up for these ventilation ducts?"

Director Makino shook his head. "No, because when this base was first designed, it was considered that it would be impossible for humans to sneak into the base through these pipes..."

"But these are obviously not humans." Mary Akai tilted her head and stared at the big screen with a serious face.

At this time, it can be clearly seen from the surveillance footage that the first group of deep divers have arrived in front of the large sunken hole in the central square and calmly jumped into the sea in front of them.

Behind them, there was a steady stream of deep divers climbing ashore from the landing entrance, and like monsters in a tower defense game, they were walking towards the center along the circular pier.

Hiroki Sawada immediately used all the cameras on the offshore platform to count the number of deep divers, and the number of deep divers in the picture now exceeded 200!

Even the ship's landing entrance seems to have installed a monster spawner, constantly refreshing this number!

The next second, the red alarm of the entire base sounded again.

Director Makino immediately announced the situation to all personnel in the base in the briefest words.

"All personnel immediately seek refuge in the nearest enclosed cabin and await rescue!"

"Repeat that, everyone..."

Director Makino issued an evacuation notice because apart from the logistics support personnel, there were civilians like him on the Pacific buoy, and there was almost no combat capability.

Moreover, facing this kind of monster, it is difficult for ordinary people to form effective combat power, and they are scared to death just by being frightened.

The staff at the base did not understand the current situation, and because they could not see the situation on the sea, their evacuation speed was not very fast.

Director Makino could only urge everyone over and over again through the radio to act as quickly as possible.

Seeing this, Akai Wuwu asked Makino: "Are there any usable weapons in this base?"

"There is a weapons room, but the weapons are not very useful..."

"More is better than nothing. Where is the weapons room?"

Qin Zhibo continued the conversation.

……

A moment later, Qin Zhibo, the Akai family, and Kuroda Heibei arrived at the weapons room.

Hiroki Sawada opened the hatch remotely. There were a lot of things in the 20-square-meter weapons room, but most of them were riot control weapons.

For example, riot shields, batons, stun batons, and riot forks are all weapons used to suppress riots and are not lethal.

The only two shotguns were equipped with rubber bullets.

In order to strictly abide by international law and avoid being used as a military base, there is not a single loaded gun on the Pacific buoy.

Qin Zhibo looked at the available weapons and felt that his [Oath-Keeping Sword] was more reliable.

However, in order to avoid suspicion, he symbolically picked up an electric baton.

Two shotguns equipped with rubber bullets, held by Shuichi Akai and Mari Akai respectively.

Akai Tsutomu and Kuroda Heibei each held a riot fork and a riot shield respectively.

After everyone had chosen their weapons, a report came through the headphones that the Deep Ones had invaded the base.

"Three Deep Divers in Area A are attacking the office area!"

"Six Deep Divers in Area B are attacking the infirmary!"

"There are also four Deep Divers in Area C..."

Director Makino's voice was very anxious, because from his perspective, he had seen the deep divers begin to attack the staff in the base.

Although he had issued an evacuation notice, the ventilation ducts were interconnected, and even if he hid in a closed cabin, he could directly airdrop into the cabin through the air-conditioning ducts.

The five people in the weapons room looked at each other and immediately assigned their respective support areas.

Akai Tsutomu and Kuroda Heibei are in charge of Area A, and Akai Shuichi and Akai Mary are in charge of Area C.

Qin Zhibo is in charge of Area B, which has the largest number of deep divers.

Several people parted ways at the door of the weapons room and ran towards their respective support areas.

After leaving the main group for a while, Qin Zhibo pulled out his "big sword" from the prop bar.

Although Deep Ones look stupid, they are actually as intelligent as humans, and they have immense strength and agility that is higher than the average human level.

Fortunately, this race is made up of mortal flesh and is still afraid of physical attacks.

Just as Qin Zhibo was running wildly in the corridor with a sword in hand, the ceiling panel cover on the front suddenly fell off.

A deep diver jumped down from the dark cave and landed steadily in the bright corridor.

Chapter 1496 Qin Zhibo? Or Michael?

When the deep diver fell from the ventilation duct into the corridor, his eyes met Qin Zhibo's.

This was the first time that Qin Zhibo calmly looked into the eyes of a complete deep diver without any obstruction to their vision.

A disgusting fishy smell emanated from the Deep Diver, as if it was coming from the mucous membrane on the surface of its gray-green body.

The appearance of the deep diver is between a human and a fish, or a combination of a human and a frog.

A pair of bulging eyes stared at Qin Zhibo in front of him with a somewhat silly look.

The next second, Qin Zhibo raised his hand and swung his sword.

A cold light flashed, and a long bloodstain appeared between the huge fish head and the thick neck.

After doing all this, Qin Zhibo continued to move along the corridor towards Area B without stopping.

The head of the deep diver that stood there slowly slid off its neck and fell to the ground with a "plop".

The Oathkeeper Sword has extremely strong killing power against evil spirits, including mythical creatures such as the Deep One.

Qin Zhibo was dealing with the deep divers that fell from the ceiling of the corridor along the way. By the time he arrived at the infirmary, he had killed 10 deep divers.

In the infirmary, two medical staff were holding IV stands and confronting three deep divers.

Although the two medical staff looked serious, their trembling hands betrayed the fear in their hearts.

Qin Zhibo said nothing, raised the Oathkeeper Sword and slashed at the Deep Diver from behind.

The first Deep Diver didn't have time to react before smelly blood spurted out from the huge cut on its shoulder.

The other deep diver reacted, raised its webbed hands and grabbed Qin Zhibo.

The latter dodged nimbly, and then another sword slashed the Deep Diver's abdomen.

After all, deep divers live in the ocean. They are not as flexible on land as they are in the sea, and their attacks are also disorganized.

The grayish-white belly was torn open like a caesarean section, and the intestines inside flowed out along with pink blood and thick mucus, and some fish that had not been fully digested flowed out of the belly.

A strong stench instantly filled the entire medical room, causing the two medical staff to make ugly expressions.

"Are you two going to follow me or look for other people?" Qin Zhibo asked the two medical staff.

The two medical staff looked at each other and determined the answer in their hearts without much thought.

"We'll follow you..."

"Then follow me, and be careful above your head."

Qin Zhibo didn't say any more nonsense and went straight to the medical room where Vermouth was.

Vermouth is an important prisoner. As she is still injured, she is currently locked in the infirmary.

The two guards nearby were facing six Deep Divers that fell from the ceiling of other wards.

The electric batons in the hands of the two men were shaking, and they were in a confrontation posture.

"Don't, don't come over..."

"Don't come over here..."

Just then, one of the deep divers stepped forward, its slightly shaky steps somewhat like a drunkard.

One of the guards stared at the ugly monster in front of him, gritted his teeth, made a ferocious expression, and made up his mind.

Fight!

He pressed the switch of the electric baton in his hand and stabbed the deep diver in the belly.

Kaka-

The sound of thunder and electricity only lasted twice and then stopped abruptly.

The electric baton was pressed against the grayish-white belly, and mucus wet the discharge end, but the Deep Diver was still standing there unharmed, staring at the guard in front of him with his bulging eyes.

Suddenly, the Deep Diver swung its thick forelimbs, hit the guard's body, and knocked him into the wall several meters away.