The White Triangle Under Siege

Xiwo picked up the headphones and listened closely, concluding that it was another sea monster.

"Two sea monsters?" Su Ming frowned. Gigantic zombified creatures probably weren't the sort to stick together-did that mean someone was controlling them?

"Su Ming, the ships on the outskirts are acting strangely," Zijin suddenly said. She was observing the sea through a pair of binoculars.

Su Ming glanced at the radar. Sure enough, the ships that had been scattered around them had quietly gathered, and the closest were only a dozen or so kilometers away. He checked farther out and found quite a few more. Together, the ships formed a rough semicircle, closing in behind the White Triangle.

"It's a trap. We've been set up," Su Ming told the other two.

He didn't yet know where things had gone wrong, but the other side clearly knew the White Triangle's movements.

"Interesting!" Su Ming murmured.

Zijin had switched to a spotting scope and was carefully identifying the enemy ships. "The ones in front are pirate ships disguised as ordinary vessels." She counted them. "Twelve ships. The ones farther back probably are too-the pirates in these waters have turned out in force!"

"A force this big must cost a lot. Looks like the mastermind behind the sea monster incident is determined to kill us," Xiwo said. "Should we call the Federation for support?"

Without the White Triangle's wide-area underwater search capabilities, the Federation couldn't resolve the sea monster crisis. That was probably why the enemy had singled the ship out for this attack.

Su Ming shook his head. "No. If the Federation comes, we'll have even more enemies to watch out for."

"Huh!" Zijin suddenly spotted something. She reached out and activated a spell, retrieving an object from the sea.

It was a huge conch shell, yellow