Although Hera didn't understand, it was still a good thing. At least this ability, combined with her memory, would prevent her from getting lost in this godforsaken place.

"But this place is so big, how long would it take to find it..."

Hera slumped her shoulders, sighed dejectedly, and began to wander aimlessly through the mist, swinging her shapely legs.

Seawater mixed with microorganisms that formed a mist was inhaled into Hera's lungs and then exhaled.

This feeling made Hera, who was a bit of a germaphobe, very uncomfortable. After all, to put it bluntly, microorganisms are just tiny insects.

The thought of inhaling insects into my lungs is incredibly unpleasant.

But there was no other way; how could you bring a mask to the underwater world? So all we could do was search as quickly as possible.

In the shadows, a pair of scarlet eyes flickered slightly, staring intently at Hera.

Hera's mind raced, and she turned to look, only to see a shark charging menacingly toward her.

Sure enough... once I have this strange feeling, there is definitely danger.

Hera shifted her body slightly backward, easily dodging the shark's bite.

The shark missed its target, its large eyes narrowing slightly as it turned its body, staring at Hera with disbelief.

The latter simply turned around and swam away, taking off running.

Hera still couldn't bring herself to cruelly kill a shark, so she had no choice but to run away.

The shark hesitated for a moment, then stirred up the seawater and gave chase.

Seeing the other party chasing after her, Hera exhaled a mouthful of water in exasperation, and her swimming speed increased even more.

Hera only slowed down and stopped when the shark behind her grew smaller and smaller until it disappeared from sight.

"Sigh, no wonder it's called the Valley of Ten Thousand Sharks. I just got up and I already ran into a giant shark."

Hera muttered to herself, turned her head to look around, and her expression suddenly froze.

"Oh no, where am I... I was so focused on running that I didn't look around carefully."

She rubbed her temples with both hands, trying to recall the direction she came from. Soon, the scenes that had just happened played out in her mind like a movie.

Although I still couldn't see the path clearly, at least I knew which direction to go back.

"Phew...you scared me."

Hera patted her enormous chest and began to wander around again.

Suddenly, she noticed that there seemed to be a cave not far from her, faintly glowing.

The light was extremely faint; if Hera hadn't possessed such a powerful sensory ability, she probably wouldn't have been able to detect it at all.

She squinted and looked carefully. When she found that there was indeed light, she was overjoyed and quickly swam towards it.

As the light grew brighter, Hera's mood became increasingly joyful.

It's like heaven is helping me! I found the other person in less than half an hour. I guess I'm really lucky.

Hera swam to the cave entrance, looked into the dimly lit cave, and then froze on the spot.

Inside the cave entrance, a male sea bream was bound hand and foot with ropes made of seaweed, and a red and green cloth was stuffed into his mouth, sealing it tightly.

And...isn't this binding method a little too tempting?!

Hera swallowed hard and cautiously stepped into the cave.

Hearing the noise, the sea bream, which had been unconscious, suddenly woke up with a start. Its eyes flashed with fear instinctively. When it saw Hera, it was stunned for a moment, and then a hope for survival flashed in its eyes.

"Ugh...ugh...ugh...!!"

With his mouth gagged, he could only make muffled noises, his body twisting wildly as he desperately tried to grasp Hera as his lifeline.

"Don't worry, I'm coming to save you right away!"

Seeing that the other person had woken up, Hera didn't care about anything else and ran over to untie him.

But after running halfway, the sea bream seemed to have seen something from behind Hera. A look of fear flashed in its eyes, and it screamed wildly.

"Ugh—!!!"

Hera turned around abruptly and saw a bloated humanoid creature with a strange heavy metal mask and pipes all over its body standing silently above the cave entrance like a statue.

The yellow light emitted from the glowing fruit inside the cave enveloped the other person's body and reflected off the cloudy glass lenses of their mask.

"ah--!"

"ah--!!"

Hera and the bloated figure both let out a piercing scream.

The white figure vanished from the cave entrance in a flash, turning into a white trail.

The bulky man was stunned for a moment, then saw the white figure dart back, grabbed the sea bream whose eyes were beginning to show despair, and rushed out of the cave again.

"Wait a moment!"

The figure reacted, turned around and shouted, the voice coming through the metal helmet and sounding extremely deep.

Hera swam rapidly, then suddenly stopped, as if paused, and hovered in the seawater, with only the wriggling sea bream in her hand remaining.

Because she just heard... that person speaking the Great Xia language!

Hera turned around in disbelief, her heart pounding wildly, unsure whether it was from nervousness or joy.

"You..." The masked figure was about to say something more, but after seeing Hera's face clearly, the words he had just spoken were abruptly cut off.

If you look closely, you'll notice that he's actually trembling slightly.

The two stared at each other, and at that moment the seawater seemed to stop flowing.

"Um..." After a long silence, Hera finally mustered the courage to speak, "Are you human?"

As he spoke, he gripped the rope wrapped around the sea bream tightly, ready to slip away at any moment.

"Hmm?" The masked figure looked at it with a puzzled expression through the mask. After a moment of rapid thought, the head under the mask seemed to understand something.

“Yes… I am human!” He nodded vigorously, the metal parts on his body clanging.

Hera's eyes lit up with surprise. Just as she was about to swim over, the sea bream she was holding began to struggle desperately again.

"What's wrong?" Hera stopped and took the cloth out of the sea bream's mouth.

The sea bream gasped for breath and hurriedly called out to Hera.

"Run! This creature is terrifying! It tied me up when it captured me and kept whispering strange things in my ear. It's driving me crazy!"

Upon hearing this, Hera became wary once again.

"What did you do to him?" she demanded of the figure in front of her.

Hera felt a strong sense of kinship with the other person because they were both human and from the same country.

However, Hera wouldn't be foolish enough to believe someone who is a bad person.

The man was somewhat taken aback by Hera's words, but upon seeing the sea bream she was carrying, he immediately understood.

"I...I didn't do anything to him."

"Then why is he like this? And why are you tying him up! And he even said you're abusing him!"

"Abuse?" The masked figure seemed to realize something and frantically waved his hands. "No, no! I just wanted to learn their language, but he kept running around and wouldn't cooperate, so I tied him up!"