The bright light from the headlights pierced through the surrounding dark sea, illuminating this mysterious and awe-inspiring scene.

Through the porthole, the whale's appearance can be clearly seen; its enormous body appears even more magnificent against the backdrop of the puppet manatee.

This whale had clearly only recently perished; its body was still relatively intact, and it even retained its last breath.

It kept emitting mournful cries, the pitiful sounds echoing in the sea, seemingly telling of its pain and resentment.

After a hearty meal, the manatee began to wander contentedly around the whale carcass.

Xi Xi was surprised to find that the manatee seemed to have grown considerably larger than before, as if it had undergone an astonishing growth in a short period of time.

Just as she was pondering, a strong undercurrent suddenly surged forth, like an unstoppable force that swept everything away.

Immediately afterwards, a huge vortex appeared in front of them.

Before anyone could react, the cart and the oxen were swept into the vortex by its powerful force.

Xi Xi felt dizzy and disoriented; her body was being violently shaken inside the car, and the world seemed to be turned upside down.

The dashboard of the RV was flashing wildly, and various alarms were sounding one after another on the central control screen.

After an unknown amount of time, when everything finally calmed down, Xi Xi finally regained consciousness from the violent shaking.

The airbag in the driver's seat had popped up at some point, and Chu Zhiqin was holding her tightly in her arms.

Xi Zhongcang, standing to the side, held the "Yamato Kaguya-hime Bamboo Tube" and was shining it around.

Xi Xi rubbed her temples and began to carefully observe her surroundings.

It was pitch black all around, without a single ray of light. The bioluminescent plants and mutated bioluminescent organisms that are often found on the seabed were nowhere to be seen.

Just then, Li Jinshao's voice came from the light screen: "Everything is normal."

After everyone had reported their information, Xi Xi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Chu Zhiqin's voice rang in her ear, carrying a reassuring gentleness.

Xi Xi patted her mother's hand and broke free from her embrace.

"Where exactly is this?" Cheng Xu broke the brief silence.

“It’s said that the center of the vortex is similar to the eye of a typhoon. I suspect we’ve been caught in the center of the vortex.” Li Jinshao’s answer made everyone gasp.

"What kind of whirlpool is this big?" Liu Enxi's voice trembled slightly, clearly not yet fully recovered from the shock. The mermaid baby's murmur could be heard beside her, "Will we still be able to get out?"

Xi Xi stood up and looked outside with Xi Zhongcang.

She found herself in a soft, damp area that looked like moss, wet and seemingly wriggling in the water.

There were no reefs, no corals, not even a single mutated creature to be seen. The surroundings were eerily quiet, utterly silent; it didn't seem like the center of a whirlpool at all.

Suddenly, as if remembering something important, Xi Xi began to summon the puppet manatee. With her calls, a series of sticky, tearing sounds gradually came to her ears.

Upon closer inspection, the father and daughter were astonished to discover that the puppet manatee was actually gnawing and chewing on the surrounding "ground"!

This bizarre scene was chilling. Could it be that this faintly undulating patch of ground wasn't actually a mutated seabed moss?!

"Something's not right!" Xi Xi suddenly realized the problem.

Xi Zhongcang also noticed this unusual situation. He quickly took out a bamboo tube and shone it down.

The "seabed" in front of us is a mottled pink, even intertwined with some pinkish-purple protrusions.

Xi Xi was astonished. She suddenly realized that this seemed to be a living thing!

Combining what she had heard and seen before, a bold guess emerged in her mind:

They were very likely caught inside the whale! The whirlpool just now wasn't formed naturally, but rather a death throes of the whale, and this place was precisely the whale's stomach and intestines!

"Look!" Chu Zhiqin exclaimed, pointing to the suddenly surging waters around them.

A huge wave suddenly appeared on the once calm water surface.

Even more horrifying, pieces of mutated fish carcasses were floating along with the current, their bodies twisted and deformed, emitting a nauseating stench.

Xi Xi's face instantly turned ashen.

Based on its appearance, she was certain that the whale belonged to the baleen whale family. Therefore, it must have a four-chambered stomach.

The whale's four-chamber stomach structure is similar to that of a ruminant. The first three chambers store and soften food, while the last chamber secretes strong acid for digestion.

In other words, even if this whale is about to die, if they drift to the fourth stomach chamber, they will certainly not escape death.

Because its corrosive power of stomach acid is even greater than that of the previous coral areas!