In fact, Ling Tian was not cultivating. At this moment, Ling Tian's mental power had attached itself to an albatross.
In these tropical waters, there were many albatrosses. Ling Tian sent the albatrosses to fly towards the island, so as not to arouse suspicion from the people on the island.
After all, the appearance of a sea eagle in the vast ocean would be very abrupt.
The strange barrier near this island, although it had a great impact on electronic equipment, had little effect on animals. There were many seabirds like albatrosses and seagulls here.
Ling Tian's albatross circled above the island at an altitude of over 200 meters, occasionally diving into the sea to catch a fish.
Some merfolk also noticed this large bird, but they paid no attention to it, as the bird's actions were no different from other albatrosses. They simply took it for a common albatross migrating and foraging on the island.
The albatross circled the island's coastline. In fact, the albatross could only fly in this area. Further inland, near the immortal ruins on the island, the air seemed to have an invisible wall that prevented surrounding birds from getting close.
Albatrosses have excellent eyesight and can see fish in the water from thousands of meters high. Ling Tian quickly grasped the situation on the island.
To Ling Tian's surprise, he saw Xuanyuan Changfeng among the working crowd.
Ling Tian picked up his phone, intending to inform Xuanyuan Jie of this news, but he stopped halfway through dialing.
Ling Tian did not have absolute confidence in rescuing Xuanyuan Changfeng and the others. Rather than letting the Xuanyuan family see hope and then despair, it was better not to tell them for now.
Ling Tian found Aurora and called everyone to the conference room.
"Everyone, I just cast a spell to scout the situation on the island. Now I will report the island's situation to you..."
Everyone looked at each other, completely bewildered. They had clearly seen Ling Tian sitting there, as if he were asleep, and had no idea he had such a trick up his sleeve.
In the conference room, there was a whiteboard used as a tactical board. Ling Tian picked up a whiteboard marker and drew a map on it, which was a top-down view of the island.
Then, Ling Tian used different colored pens to make annotations on the map.
"According to my preliminary observation, there are over 600 humans and more than 300 merfolk on this island.
These humans are building a very strange structure under the supervision of the merfolk.
This structure looks like an altar, and I suspect it might be a magic array..."
"There are only over 300 merfolk, but why don't these empowered individuals resist?
The island is, after all, land, and most of these people are empowered individuals," Aurora said in disbelief.
Ling Tian smiled and said, "I noticed that these people were not restricted in their personal freedom, but they all wore something around their necks. I suspect that this thing suppressed their powers, preventing them from resisting.
Also, they have no weapons, and fighting these merfolk bare-handed is very difficult!" Ling Tian explained.
"Furthermore, I also discovered that the merfolk on the island are not all there. Merfolk frequently come and go from the sea. I suspect there are many more merfolk in the sea!"
As Ling Tian spoke, he drew a circle in the sea outside the island on the tactical board.
"I also detected from the air that at this location on the island, 3 kilometers from the island, there is a strange circle beneath the water surface.
I'm not sure what this circle is, but I can see that after the merfolk enter the sea, they head towards the circle.
I suspect this is the merfolk's rear base, and there might even be more merfolk here!"
"Mr. Ling Tian, do you have any suggestions?" Lancelot asked.
Ling Tian turned to look at Svenson.
"Mr. Svenson, do we have any weapons that can attack underwater targets?"
Captain Svenson chuckled.
"Mr. Ling Tian, our ship is equipped with four torpedoes and twelve depth charges.
Although torpedoes are used to attack submarines and warships, they can also be used to attack underwater targets if the instructions are modified.
However, the magnetic field here is very chaotic now, and the torpedoes may not work properly. Depth charges should be fine!"
Depth charges are weapons that have been around for over 100 years. They were invented to counter the threat of submarines.
The structure of these things is not complicated. The innermost part is explosives, and outside the explosives is a cavity. This cavity is designed to allow the explosives to release their full power when they detonate.
The fuse of a depth charge is also simple. It is not a trigger-type fuse, but a timed fuse. As soon as the depth charge is thrown into the water and sinks to a certain depth, it will detonate.
Because the explosives detonate in the water, they cause a violent water hammer effect, which magnifies the power of the explosion several times.
In fact, the principle of this water hammer is not complicated and is common in life. If you throw a firecracker into an empty water缸, the water缸 will be fine after the explosion.
But if you throw a firecracker into a water缸 filled with water, you'll probably get a beating after the explosion.
Ling Tian nodded after hearing Captain Svenson's words: "Very good. If we are going to act, we will first use depth charges to attack these underwater structures!
Even if they cannot cause any casualties, they will attract them to come to the rescue, thus relieving the pressure on the island!
Tonight, I will go to the island again to see the situation of those prisoners!"
After the meeting, Ling Tian went directly to the deck and leaped into the sea.
In the sea, Ling Tian cast the Water Repelling Spell, and the surrounding seawater was separated by a membrane.
Ling Tian summoned his flying sword, stepped on it, and shuttled rapidly through the water, releasing his mental power and constantly searching for targets!
Soon, Ling Tian found his target and charged rapidly in one direction.
At this moment, a fierce battle was breaking out in that sea area, and a large area of seawater was stained red with blood.
Two huge corpses floated on the surface of the sea, covered in wounds and with several spears stuck in them.
And in the water, the battle was even more intense. A killer whale, about 8 meters long and weighing nearly 5 tons, was madly attacking its surrounding enemies.
At this moment, more than a dozen merfolk, riding sharks beneath them, were holding their weapons and hunting the killer whale.
This scene was like a group of African primitives holding spears and hunting a lion.