Xie Xuan is in the water.

It was dark all around, the water was cold, and wrapped in soaked clothes I felt a very uncomfortable, sticky, and cold feeling.

Xie Xuan's terminal was disconnected from the Internet, but some basic functions could still be used normally. She turned on the flashlight, and the light dispelled the small darkness around her.

Xie Xuan originally thought that she would see densely packed fish eyes, but there was nothing. The water was very quiet, and even the people who had been thrown down before had disappeared.

The oxygen in the lungs was becoming increasingly thin. When Xie Xuan was about to return to the surface to breathe, a string of small bubbles suddenly emerged from underwater.

Although they were small bubbles, they were all the size of Xie Xuan's fist, and all of them floated towards Xie Xuan with a clear target.

Xie Xuan tried to catch the first bubble. The surface of the bubble felt a bit sticky and could be popped with a little force.

The second bubble floated directly in front of Xie Xuan and stuck to her face.

Xie Xuan subconsciously took a breath, and the uncomfortable feeling of holding her breath was immediately relieved.

Are these bubbles filled with air? Xie Xuan lowered her head and saw a string of bubbles, even larger than the previous ones, slowly rising.

Xie Xuan felt that there was no worse means of trapping than this, but it worked. No matter what was creating the bubbles underneath, she planned to find out first.

The closer they got to the depths, the bigger the bubbles floating in the water became, and in the end they were even able to contain Xie Xuan's entire body.

Xie Xuan also quickly found the people who were thrown down at the beginning in the deep water. They were all wrapped in huge bubbles, and a light red meridian extended from the bottom of the bubbles, binding them all to a huge plant.

In the little lighting provided by the terminal, Xie Xuan saw that the plant in front of her, growing on the seabed, had branches spreading outward like a towering tree.

However, what grows on these dark red branches are not leaves, but bubbles that trap people.

These bubbles hung upside down on the branches like unripe fruits. The outer layer of transparent bubbles wrapped around the human, while in the human's arms was another light red oval object that was almost as tall as him.

Two objects that looked similar in size coexisted strangely in the bubble. Xie Xuan once again used her dagger to cut open a huge bubble that was floating towards her, and took a breath before the gas inside completely melted into the water.

Now the surface of these bubbles has become quite flexible. If it weren't for this sharp dagger that was so sharp that it could cut anything, Xie Xuan might have joined the team floating above the giant tree.

Xie Xuan swam forward for a distance, and she finally saw clearly what was in the oval object that the person in the bubble was holding.

They are fish, no, it’s not quite accurate to say they are fish, they are more like fish-men that have not yet fully developed.

The fishman wrapped in the fish eggs has grown pale and slender limbs. His pair of black eyes looked through the fish eggs and bubbles, and moved a few times as if he was looking at Xie Xuan.

On the contrary, all the people trapped in the bubble had fallen into a coma, their faces abnormally pale. After getting closer, Xie Xuan saw that each person's belly button was connected to the fish eggs by a light red, thumb-thick, blood vessel-like thing.

And this umbilical cord finally passed through the bubble and connected to the branches of the giant tree.

Xie Xuan was the first to cut the bond of the bubble closest to her, but as the bond broke, the bubble exploded with a "bang", and the blood flowing from the broken end dyed a small area of ​​sea water red.

The people who left the bubble quickly began to choke on the water and suffocate. Xie Xuan cut the umbilical cord connecting the human and the fishman with another knife. Blood spread out again. The fishman, who had not yet fully hatched, twitched violently a few times, and sank into the water with his eyes wide open, motionless.

Xie Xuan and her companions immediately swam towards the bubbles that were still being generated nearby, but at this moment countless small blue spots suddenly appeared in her field of vision.

They seemed to appear out of nowhere, appearing around the giant tree without any warning, and swarmed towards Xie Xuan extremely quickly.

Countless blue lights surrounded Xie Xuan. The school of fish was still spinning, and the flickering light on their dorsal fins left a series of afterimages in the rapid rotation.

Xie Xuan had seen the description of the underwater starry sky on the Internet, and now she not only saw it, but was also in the middle of the starry sky in person.

The rapid rotation of the school of fish not only prevented Xie Xuan from leaving, but also caused her to feel strongly dizzy, and her perception of time and surroundings became dull.

I don’t know how long it took, but the school of fish suddenly dispersed, and the blue fluorescence seemed to disappear again suddenly, completely blocked by the shadow of the giant tree.

A huge bubble slowly floated in front of Xie Xuan. She subconsciously raised her dagger and pierced the bubble. After taking a quick breath, Xie Xuan realized what she had forgotten.

The person whose umbilical cord she broke is gone.

When Xie Xuan was about to go look for it, something suddenly floated slowly onto her.

She turned her head, and what fell upon her was a very clean human skull, a chillingly cold white in the terminal lighting.

Xie Xuan picked up the skull, and a thumb-sized blue fish suddenly emerged from the eye socket of the skull and quickly disappeared behind the giant tree.

So, the fish school just now ate the person who brought her out of the bubble?

Even if Xie Xuan didn't want to admit it, the other equally clean bones that were slowly sinking would not allow her to deceive herself.

She had just killed someone. Even though she wasn't the murderer, it was her assumption that had caused the person to die prematurely, missing out on a possible chance to be rescued.

But now is not the time to blame herself. Xie Xuan thought that the piranhas just now came out from behind the giant tree. She put the skull down and swam back to the back of the giant tree.

[The current spore concentration detected is 50%, and the parasite has lost control.]

As the system's voice rang in Xie Xuan's mind, the fish eggs in the bubble began to shake, as if the fishman inside was about to be born.

Xie Xuan forced himself to ignore the bubbles floating above the giant tree, and kept looking for unusual places on the giant tree.

The fish eggs were shaking more and more frequently, but Xie Xuan had no way to stop them.

The smell of blood from cutting the umbilical cord will attract piranhas, and not cutting the umbilical cord will cause them to die slowly.

There were at least forty or fifty people trapped in this tree, and Xie Xuan had no way of saving them.