Gu Xi slowly opened her eyes, her blurry vision gradually focusing.

She found herself lying on her large bed in the room, surrounded by her fish, who looked worried as they circled her bed.

"Pfft! Boss Fish! You're finally awake!" Flame Scale shouted excitedly, rushing to the bed.

Ais calmly held onto its fish tail, successfully keeping Flamescale upright on its back. Then, he released it, and the force swirled back, causing Flamescale to slump to the ground.

Just as Flamescale looked up, preparing to stand up, the octopus, quick as a flash, stepped on Flamescale's head and looked up with its big, teary eyes at its fish owner.

Tears larger than beans fell onto Flame Scale's head, instantly extinguishing its fiery temper.

"Alright, stop arguing, let her calm down." Ai Si picked up the octopus with incredibly smooth movements, tied its tentacles into bows, and then casually handed it to Gu Xi.

Gu Xi ignored the packaged octopus that Ai Si handed her and instead rubbed her temples.

Feeling sore and weak all over, she asked in a low voice, "What happened? Where are we now?"

“We’re safe now,” Ais explained. “You used all your strength to lift the Future, allowing us to escape the Berserker Shark’s attack, and then you passed out.”

Gu Xi suddenly sat up, her vision went black, and a wave of dizziness washed over her. She fell back onto the bed once more.

She frowned, closed her eyes, and asked breathlessly, "Where's the Berserker Shark? Didn't it catch up?"

Flame Scale shook his head and said, "No! We escaped really fast! *whoosh*!"

An SSS-class deep-sea creature suddenly launched an attack. This was no ordinary event. It would be good if one could escape its attack, but Gu Xi couldn't understand why the Berserk Shark would suddenly attack.

"Don't you find it strange?" Gu Xi frowned in confusion, suppressing her dizziness.

Ai Si guessed that she would also be puzzled when she woke up, so he immediately replied with a serious expression: "Pulu~ I have a guess, but you'd better be prepared before I tell you."

Upon hearing this, Gu Xi and the other fish all looked at him.

Seeing Ai Si's serious and increasingly solemn expression, everyone couldn't help but start guessing.

"Go ahead and say it," Gu Xi said, leaning against the bedside. "Don't keep me in suspense."

Ai Si quickly glanced at the crowd of fish and Gu Xi, her face unusually grim.

Then he uttered some horrifying words.

"I suspect that the Rampage Shark was infected by an ancient virus."

"What?!" Gu Xi and the fish exclaimed in surprise.

Some of the fish didn't believe it and asked Ais again, receiving a more definitive answer from her.

"You heard me right, that's the one I'm talking about."

Gu Xi's eyes widened in disbelief. "No way? Even SSS-level individuals can be infected? Didn't they say that the higher the mental strength, the stronger the resistance?!"

Speaking of this, Ai Si's expression also turned sour. He recalled the scene of the confrontation and recounted what he had witnessed.

"During the standoff, I noticed a small wound on its body, which was giving off an abnormal aura."

"That feeling... is very similar to the aura of the corrupted bones mixed with Tal's spiritual power, and I seem to have also caught a faint, eerie fluctuation in it, as if something is secretly controlling all of this."

"Because it is SSS-level, its aura is well concealed, making it difficult for us to detect."

Gu Xi's face turned pale instantly. "If that's the case, then the situation is worse than we imagined."

Although Yan Lin looked worried, he was still a little confused about the situation. "Why did it go 'whoosh'? Isn't SSS-rank the strongest?"

Ais explained, "Precisely because SSS-class is the strongest, the consequences of infection would be unimaginable. Moreover, the Berserk Shark is inherently ferocious, similar to Tal's mental power, making it easier to fuse with."

Gu Xi gritted her teeth, unable to suppress the urge to curse.

"Damn it, the original plan to win them over has to be put on hold for now. A suspected contaminated SSS-class deep-sea creature is even more troublesome than the deep-sea skeletons."

Silence fell over the cabin, and the fish's faces were filled with worry and unease.