Just as Chu Ge headed up to search for Mi Xiaolin, Qiu Wuji burrowed down into the bottom of the ship.
She was certain there had to be something like a formation down there causing these strange phenomena.
Sure enough, she soon saw several foreigners armed with loaded guns blocking the entrance to a compartment, seemingly guarding something.
Without a word, Qiu Wuji flashed inside. What met her eyes was a strange Dragon-Shaped Mechanical Device sprawled across the vast bottom of the ship. Around it, several people were watching electronic screens intently, performing operations Qiu Wuji could not understand.
Among them was an elderly white man sitting cross-legged at the dragon's head, his hands forming a strange seal. The fluctuations of his esper ability were unmistakable.
It did not matter that Qiu Wuji did not understand these things. She understood changes in energy.
She could clearly sense that music from every different music zone on the cruise ship was being collected and gathered here. Even the cacophony of voices, screams, and angry roars counted as part of that zone's "music."
Then this strange device amplified and broadcast it, sending it down toward the seabed.
Qiu Wuji had heard of sonar equipment while surfing the internet, but this clearly worked on a different principle. It was not surveying anything through the echoes and changes in sound waves, but through the music itself.
It played all sorts of different music for certain creatures on the seabed, trying to provoke resonance and a response.
At its core was probably this elderly foreigner's esper ability? She was not certain.
Qiu Wuji followed the music downward with her divine sense and clearly saw that different music was indeed affecting marine life in different areas.
First, furious heavy metal swept through. Even the fish and shrimp