But despite his serious demeanor, he was secretly gossiping.

"I heard it was about the team in our grade."

He suddenly spoke, his voice very low.

"Remember Team B? They took on that B-rank reconnaissance mission in the northern glaciers last month."

Blore noticed the slight snap of the bottom of his coffee cup against the tray as he set it down.

"It was just a routine ecological sampling operation. The mission briefing didn't even include a combat warning."

Bai Di quickly pulled up the map from the terminal. The coordinates of Zhidong Garden were flashing red near the aurora belt.

"But the day after they entered the permafrost, the association suddenly upgraded the mission to A-rank."

"What's even weirder is what happens next."

He swiped the screen to pull up the medical report, and several sets of violently fluctuating brain wave patterns emerged on the three-dimensional projection.

"All personnel displayed signs of mental image degradation, with hippocampal metabolic rate reduced by 37%. Initially, this was thought to be temporary damage caused by the extreme environment, until..."

His finger suddenly hovered over a microscopic image of a virus.

When Ma Tuan immediately moved closer to see the pathogen with a thorn-like structure, he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck.

"This isn't your average glacier bacteria."

Bai Di's coffee is completely cold.

"The laboratory isolated dormant ancient viruses from permafrost samples, and their RNA sequences..."

His throat suddenly felt itchy and he started coughing.

"Excuse me."

He whispered,

"Now I understand why the Association sealed off the entire North Wing Medical Station. Those students' symptoms are clearly contagious, and..."

Bai Di's gaze swept calmly across the surveillance camera in the corner of the reading room, and the cold light reflected by the glass lens flashed across his eyes.

He lowered his voice, his knuckles making a dull sound on the wooden table:

"Under the ice cap of Zhidong Garden, it's said there's something even more dangerous than the 'Sea of ​​Blood' we encountered in our last mission."

The air suddenly froze.

His eyes swept across the surveillance camera in the corner of the reading room.

"It's said that something even more dangerous is buried beneath the ice cap of Zhidong Garden."

At this moment, everyone fell silent. Ma Tuan and Nan Song began to exchange glances, and Blore grabbed the Bai Di coffee and gobbled it up.

Bai Di was helpless and glanced at everyone.

"Hu-yi" After a while, Nansong started talking again with some gossip.

"Ma Tuan, where's that guy? Why aren't you two together today?"

Ma Tuan rolled his eyes at her.

"Please, I'm busy too. Besides, I'm a grown man and don't need anyone to protect me."

Ever since the four of them arrived safely at the academy, Ma Tuan had forgotten everything Zhima Wan had said to him.

Or maybe he subconsciously never thought that Zhimawan would come to him after he had a body and memories.

And what about him? A mixed-race person ostracized by his race, his only precious talents were talent and looks.

"call--"

A long cloud of smoke suddenly appeared above the long river flowing in Nansong's spiritual picture, and a violet mist circle suddenly appeared under the dim light of the reading room and twisted into an indescribable shape.

She squinted her eyes and tapped the crystal glass lightly with her fingertips, making a crisp sound similar to the friction between the bones of a school of deep-sea fish.

"Ma Tuan~"

She deliberately added a touch of honey to her voice. "Where's your 'guardian'? Why would they let you out alone today?"

Ma Tuan felt his eyes nearly rolling back to the top of his head, but whenever he recalled that night, a shiver like an electric current would still run through his spine. He clearly remembered -

After the report that day, the principal was suddenly called away by the council.

He was the only one left in the office at eleven o'clock in the evening. The blue light of the tidal lamp fluctuated in the crystal chandelier, stretching his shadow on the wall into the shape of some deep-sea creature.

He was just lowering his head to adjust the seaweed knot on the file bag when he suddenly heard the door lock make a sound like pearls rolling.

(Later, Nansong insisted that it was the mermaid's way of unlocking the door using sound waves)

The moment Zhimawan walked in, the atmosphere in the entire office changed.

The moonlight condensed into translucent stairs under His feet, and each step left a phosphorescent footprint.

The file bag in Ma Tuan's hand fell to the ground with a "bang", and the parchment scattered all over the floor. Among them, the drawing with the sketch of the giant creature under the ice abyss was now moving on the floor without wind, as if it had suddenly come to life.

"Good evening, cub. We can see each other every day from now on."

The god's voice vibrated with a low-pitched tremor, like the resonance of the deep sea. Most terrifying of all, the human teeth revealed when he smiled—so perfect, so perfect that it reminded Ma Tuan of his own straight teeth, which had only grown when he was fifteen and were considered evidence of his pollution by his tribe.

As He walked past the painting "Migration of Mermaids," real sea water suddenly seeped out of the frame.

Ma Tuan watched the waves in the painting surge towards him. A silver fish made of paint even jumped out of the canvas, leaving a cool touch on the back of his hand.

Zhimawan just snapped his fingers lightly, and the fish solidified into a crystal specimen, "just" falling into the interlayer of his file bag.

"I...you...you...are you really here?"

Ma Tuan just felt that his vocal cords seemed to be entangled by seaweed.

He could smell the scent coming from the other person - not perfume, but the purest ionized smell produced when sea mist collided with glacier.

This caused all the scales hidden behind his ears to open up. This was the instinctive reaction of a mermaid when encountering a higher-level being of the same origin.

Zhimawan reached out and brushed the globe on the principal's desk, and the liquid sealed inside immediately began to rotate counterclockwise.

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