Chapter 68 Chapter 68
◎When a whale falls, all things come to life (Part 2)◎
Because the whale fall incident was imminent, the Fisheries Bureau sent the information of several selected experts early the next morning. Lian Jiu picked a few and planned to meet with all these experts after interviewing the kindergarten teachers.
With Bai Ze's help, there is no need for a re-examination. We can directly pick out a few good candidates, including the experts.
Lian Jiu originally thought that he would give them some time to prepare before going to the demon world, but he didn't expect that both the teachers and the experts had already packed their luggage and were just waiting for Lian Jiu's final decision to follow them.
This was fine, but before taking everyone there, Lian Jiu still went through the usual procedures.
Tell everyone in advance where you are going.
When we were about to go to the conference room with the teachers and experts, someone else pushed the door open and came in.
The director of the Fisheries Bureau was followed by a man wearing a bucket hat. He said, "Director, to record these scenes, we've specially invited this professional photographer. Would you mind coming with us? He's very experienced in underwater photography."
Bai Ze leaned over to Lian Jiu's ear and said, "You have good fortune and are very compatible with animals."
That means this person is okay.
"Hello, Director. My name is Ji Luo." The man held out a business card. "We met at the airport a few days ago, but we didn't know each other then. I took a few pictures for you."
Lian Jiu knew this matter well. He would be on the hot search every few days for some strange reasons.
This time it was because of this person.
She glanced at the business card and it seemed that the person had his own studio.
Although Ke Yuansi has experience, he is still not good at underwater shooting, so this person is just right.
She put away the business card and said, "Okay, let's go together."
Lian Jiu ushered everyone into the conference room, closed the door, and took out a pre-printed confidentiality agreement. "Before we enter the mountains, I need you to sign a confidentiality agreement to ensure that nothing you do in the mountains is disclosed to the outside world. Before signing this agreement, you can also decide whether or not to enter the mountains at all."
Compared with the first recruitment, Lian Jiu is much more confident this time.
After all, the conditions in the mountains are no longer the same as before, and the welfare benefits are much better than those in the outside world. There are also many hidden benefits that are not available in the outside world.
At Lian Jiu's signal, Bai Ze distributed the reassurances he had prepared in advance one by one to prevent anyone from being frightened.
Everyone was confused. We were just going into the mountains, so why did we have to take medicine and sign a confidentiality agreement?
But thinking of the blue whale that was about to die, he didn't care about much else. He hurriedly swallowed the medicine and then opened the confidentiality agreement.
"Wait a minute." Seeing that everyone was eager to put pen to paper, Lian Jiu asked Jingwei to come forward and said, "Everyone, take a look at this first."
Jingwei stood in the center of the conference room and smiled at everyone in a particularly sunny way.
Everyone seemed to be infected by this smile and couldn't help but smile.
Then the next second, this beautiful girl turned into a bird...
A...bird.
The conference room was suddenly in chaos. Fortunately, Lian Jiu had experienced this kind of situation before and started pouring water calmly.
After the whole circle, these people either sat on the ground in a daze or huddled together in the corner, but no one rushed out.
"Have you finished reading it?" Lian Jiu helped several older experts to their feet. "This is the secret of our mountain."
Ji Luo looked at the bird in confusion, then at the smiling Lian Jiu: "Did you invent some magic trick again?"
Ever since he knew that the person he was photographing was the principal of a kindergarten, he went to learn more about the kindergarten and discovered that every child there had special skills.
So when I saw this person suddenly turn into a bird, my first reaction was probably that this was magic!
"It's not magic." Jingwei walked up to him, looking down at him, "I am the monster."
Ji Luo: “…”
Please don't make light of such a scary thing!
Lian Jiu said gently, "As you can see, the reason everyone thinks our mountain is special is because the residents are all monsters. This matter is kept secret for the time being, so we need to sign a confidentiality agreement with everyone. Of course, you can still choose to stay or leave."
"What if you don't go?" Ji Luo asked, "Aren't you afraid that people who don't go will tell others about this?"
Before Lian Jiu could say anything, Jingwei and Bai Ze moved to the door in a sinister manner and began to rub their hands together: "Who dares?"
“…”
Walking in the mouth.
"They're just trying to scare you." Lian Jiu laughed. "Our demon world doesn't just have monsters, it also has ancient demon gods. If you choose not to go, they'll naturally find a way to make you forget what happened here."
Ancient demon god? !
Everyone was shocked.
Several experts were both afraid and yearning: "Then... can these demon gods be studied?"
Jingwei and Bai Ze turned their heads sharply: "Yes."
Before the experts could breathe a sigh of relief, the two demon gods smiled harmlessly and said, "Then we will use you for research as well."
Also!
Do you think you are cute?
"Alright." Lian Jiu stopped the two little idiots from making trouble and sat down. "This is the secret of our mountain. If you still want to go, then we can start signing the contract and confidentiality agreement."
Everyone looked at each other.
The experts are relatively easy to deal with. They are all older, knowledgeable and calm. Moreover, they are all obsessed with academics, even to the point of being a little crazy.
They often become obsessed with research and forget to eat and sleep. With Cheng Xianying in the lead, they ultimately trust Dean Cheng.
If we cooperate with monsters, wouldn’t there be great progress in many research areas in the future?
No matter what the situation is inside, it’s worth it!
So they signed the confidentiality agreement one after another.
Several teachers hesitated for a long time. At first, they were attracted by the atmosphere and strangeness of the kindergarten, but this peculiarity now has an explanation. If they go, it will be like facing a new world all over again.
But after seeing Lian Jiu, and thinking about the scenes I saw in the live broadcast and videos, I felt that this new world seemed better.
Aren’t those teachers and doctors who were recruited before doing well now?
After much thought, I signed the contract and agreement.
As for Ji Luo...
Not only was he the first to sign the confidentiality agreement, but he also tried to sign other contracts with Lian Jiu: "Besides Nanyu Mountain, do you need to shoot anywhere else? I can go anytime!"
Lian Jiu laughed and said, "Aren't you someone hired by the Fisheries Bureau?"
"That's not it." Ji Luo said, "I'm interested in whale falls, so I agreed to them. After the filming, everyone went back to their homes. I always take pictures wherever I go, no matter if there are many people or not."
Lian Jiu thought about it and realized that not only would photography be needed for the film industry in the future, but if he wanted to develop all the demon worlds, he would also need to take pictures of other places.
In fact, it is not impossible to cooperate.
She nodded: "Let's solve the whale fall issue first, then we can discuss other things."
This is something we can discuss!
Ji Luo was so excited: "I will move all the equipment to your mountain right now."
Then he stared at Ke Yuansi, who was photographing white dolphins in the mountains.
Ke Yuansi's face was filled with a look of shattered worldview: "Why is it you, you idiot!"
"We're from the same class, and no one is superior to the other." Ji Luo said proudly, "Don't turn your nose up at me!"
Lian Jiu: "You...know each other?"
They both said in unison: "I don't know him!"
Very good, that’s acquaintance.
Lian Jiu put their hands together and shook hands in a friendly manner. "In that case, Xiao Ke, you will be responsible for coordinating our filming process with Ji Luo. The dolphins and the land will be left to you, and the sea will be left to him."
Ke Yuansi, with an expression as if his hands were stained with dirt, let go and chased after Lian Jiu: "Director, why did you recruit him?"
"What's wrong with him? I've seen his films, they're pretty impressive." Lian Jiu asked curiously, "Are there any conflicts between you two?"
"That's not really a conflict." Ji Luo had caught up at some point, and the two of them put their arms around Ke Yuansi's shoulders like brothers. It was obvious that Ke Yuansi was here. "He's just looking for trouble and can't stand my excellence."
"You're talking nonsense!" Ke Yuansi glared at him, "Let go, I have nothing to say to you."
"Oh, after not seeing you for so many years, Master Ke's temper has improved."
Lian Jiu could see that the two of them should have a good relationship, but for some reason, he always felt like they were enemies.
She was about to leave the battlefield, but saw that Ke Yuansi had turned around angrily and continued to film the dolphins.
Ji Luo shrugged: "Don't be offended, Director. He has always been like this. Our personal grudges will not affect our work."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a splash. Ke Yuansi, who was filming on the boat, somehow fell into the water.
Ji Luo cursed: "Fuck, this idiot can't swim."
Then he immediately turned around and jumped in.
Lian Jiu was worried that something might happen, so he hurried to follow, but he found that Ji Luo, who jumped in after him, didn't seem to be able to swim either.
Several white dolphins lifted the two people up speechlessly: "What's wrong with you? Why did you jump down if you can't swim? It's not like you're making dumplings."
Lian Jiu felt relieved and then pulled them up with all his strength.
Ke Yuansi wiped the water off his face and cursed angrily: "Are you an idiot? You jump down everywhere?!"
Ji Luo was also frightened: "Then you fell down because of the loss of coordination of your limbs. I can't just watch you die without helping you."
Lian Jiu couldn't help laughing: "Personal grudge?"
The two of them were stunned for a moment, turned their heads away and stopped talking.
"Go change your clothes." Lian Jiu rowed out, then remembered something and said to the dolphins behind him, "Thank you, you guys come out and play for a while too."
Several white dolphins immediately followed the boat and helped Lian Jiu push it.
The two grown men were too embarrassed to let the director row the boat, so Ke Yuansi handed the equipment that had fallen onto the boat but luckily didn't get wet to Lian Jiu: "Let's do it."
Lian Jiu didn't refuse. After taking the device, he saw that everyone in the comments was laughing at these two weirdos.
She also joked: "Netizens say you are also monsters, don't be weird."
"Bullshit." Ke Yuansi said, "He was the one who left me first."
Ji Luo sighed: "Master Ke, I've told you so many times, we are different."
"Shut up, I don't want to talk to you."
"Then tell me." Lian Jiu saw that they were just embarrassed. "What do you mean by abandoning you to satisfy my curiosity?"
Wei Jingxuan once said that Ke Yuansi was a little psychologically introverted and unwilling to communicate with others because he didn't fit in with others.
If I were in the same class with Ji Luo and we had a good relationship, maybe Ji Luo could solve this problem.
Ke Yuansi turned his head and glanced at Ji Luo, who lowered his eyes: "Can you please stop looking at me like that?"
Ke Yuansi sneered and blurted out all the things he had buried in his heart over the years: "It's him! He said he would be with me no matter what we filmed or did in the future, but after graduation he disappeared, and I couldn't find him anywhere I looked."
Ji Luo rowed the boat and laughed, "Are you still a child? You're on live broadcast right now, letting the whole country see you make a fool of yourself?"
“People who don’t keep their promises are a joke.”
"I'm back, aren't I?" Ji Luo said, "I found you, haven't I?"
Ke Yuansi was stunned.
Ke Yuansi glanced at him and said, "From now on, whatever you shoot or do, I will be with you."
Ke Yuansi glared at him: "Who cares!"
"You said it yourself."
Lian Jiu was confused by what he heard, but since they had already reached the shore, it was not appropriate to ask any more questions.
After dinner, the experts watched from afar the blue whales that appeared from time to time on the sea. They wanted to go and see them but they kept in mind that they should not be disturbed at this time, so they could only stay where they were.
The human teachers who had been hired were now curious and asked, "Why don't we see the children?"
Although I was prepared that this was the demon world, I didn't see any monsters along the way, except for the Jingwei bird that suddenly appeared in the conference room before.
"They're all in the sea," Lian Jiu said. "Let me take you there first. It's time for everyone to come up and watch the video."
The teachers and experts from the human world must be introduced to the monsters.
I walked to the place where I watched the video before, and sure enough, the monsters, big and small, were already waiting there.
Everyone looked curiously at the group of people following Director Lian Jiu.
Lian Jiu stood aside and said, "These are teachers from outside. They will teach the children in the kindergarten in the future. And these few are experts who came to our mountain to study marine ecology. They will have a lot of exchanges and communication with us in the future."
A few humans stepped forward awkwardly and introduced themselves.
Then it was met with warm and sincere applause, which made people feel warm inside.
The uneasiness they felt about arriving in the demon world disappeared when they saw the glowing eyes of these demons. The experts could not get close to the blue whale for the time being, so it would be nice to learn about the underwater world from the demons. So, both the teachers and the experts quickly became friends with the demons.
It turns out that this person was chosen by Bai Ze, so there won’t be any mistakes.
The experts' attitude toward the villagers reminded me of former Dean Cheng.
So, are all these experts going there for the blue whale? Why haven't they gone yet?
[We don't have to wait until the whale falls, do we? But wouldn't it be nice to go and see it beforehand?]
Ke Yuansi was filming the monsters over there, while Ji Luo was already debugging his equipment to aim at the blue whale.
Lian Jiu walked up to him and asked, "How is it?"
"Almost there." Ji Luo said, "Director, please give me your account number and I'll connect in a moment."
Originally, the filming of the blue whale was to use the Fisheries Bureau's account, but that was the footage after the whale fell.
And out of selfishness, Lian Jiu didn't want Blue Whale's final moment to fall into the hands of others, so she used the new account of Nanyu Mountain Monster Kindergarten.
The first video and the first live broadcast were used on the Blue Whale, and from then on the Monster Kindergarten carried its hope and new life.
After Ji Luo logged into his account, he looked at the blue whale on the screen and suddenly said, "Thank you."
"Thank me?"
"Yeah." Ji Luo lowered his head, looking at the screen, and said, "Xiao Ke hasn't had a good time in the past few years, but after going to your kindergarten, he's been in a much better state."
Lian Jiu looked at Ke Yuansi who was not far away: "I think his condition may have something to do with you."
"Maybe." Ji Luo sighed, "I promised to take Xiao Ke with me to photograph blue whales, but I didn't take him with me, and I never encountered a blue whale."
Lian Jiu turned his head silently, waiting for him to continue.
"We used to be classmates and roommates. Xiao Ke always has some strange ideas, which may seem a bit strange to outsiders, but I think they are great. Similarly, I also have some stubborn ideas that others can't understand, and he can always give me positive feedback, so we naturally became close friends. He said that no one understands him, so we will set up a studio together in the future and shoot whatever we want and do whatever we want."
Ji Luo paused: "But I broke my promise."
"Why?"
"Whether studying art or working in the arts, connections and money are crucial." Ji Luo smiled. "But I have nothing. I can't support Xiao Ke's dream, and I don't want to be a burden to him."
After spending so many days together, Lian Jiu roughly understood what kind of personality Xiao Ke had.
Stubborn, must do whatever you want to do.
Money was not a big deal to him. He really did what he said and started working on it in a hurry when he wanted to build a cinema in the mountains.
Lian Jiu looked at the expensive equipment in Ji Luo's hand and said, "But aren't you also in this line of work now?"
"Yeah." Ji Luo nodded. "I've persevered through those difficult times. Later, I became a self-media blogger. I didn't expect to gain unexpected rewards and continue to pursue my and Xiao Ke's dreams."
"Days that are hard to get through?"
"We're just an ordinary family, and it was great that I could study art," Ji Luo whispered. "Then my father became seriously ill, and all our savings were gone. We even owed a lot of money. I couldn't see a future in this, and I was timid and cowardly, so I went into hiding."
"I always told Xiao Ke that our cameras were used to capture dreams, but in those years, I was only capturing mediocre things. I was running around like a headless chicken trying to pay off my debts," Ji Luo said self-deprecatingly. "I was afraid he would see me straying further and further from the path we had agreed on."
"So how can I take him with me?" Ji Luo said, "He has always lived in a perfect world and shouldn't be dragged down by me. Now that I'm fine, I can get closer to him."
He adjusted his camera, then suddenly laughed and turned around to shout, "Kezai, come and see! I promised to show you the blue whale!"
Ke Yuansi stood far away, looking down on his gesture of goodwill.
But I couldn't help but walk over and look down at the scene in the camera.
Ji Luo said proudly: "How is it, isn't it a good shot?"
"Just barely." Ke Yuansi snorted, "It seems I haven't been affected by those messy Taobao snapshots."
The smile on Ji Luo's face suddenly froze, and he looked at Ke Yuansi in disbelief.
The latter looked at him coldly: "This young master has plenty of money. No one can hide what I want to know. I'm just waiting for you, you idiot, to come back and admit your mistakes to me!"
Ji Luo was completely speechless.
Ke Yuansi almost punched him into the sea: "Can you please stop being so self-indulgent? How big of a problem would it be if you told me?! Don't you just want me to help? Is it okay if I don't help?!"
Seeing the two men laughing while fighting, Lian Jiu also smiled silently, turned around and walked away.
Seeing Si Lan sitting alone on the reef, she climbed up and sat down: "Did you hear that?"
Without having to say it, Si Lan knew what she was talking about: "Yeah."
"If it were me, I'd also want my friends to tell me everything," Lian Jiu said. "No matter what they're facing, or what they've done for me, I want to know. Otherwise, I'll always feel useless. What do you think?"
Si Lan lowered his eyes slightly: "Then it would be better if the other party never knew about it."
"..." Lian Jiu laughed, "You really are stubborn."
Si Lan also laughed: "Since it has already been done, these assumptions are meaningless."
"That's right." Lian Jiu sighed, "People's hearts are really complicated."
"Then don't think too deeply about people's hearts."
Lian Jiu couldn't help but admire Si Lan's open-minded attitude. Just as he was about to ask for his advice, he saw an expert approaching him: "Director, I have something to ask you."
Lian Jiu treated the experts with respect: "Please speak."
"You don't have to be so polite," the expert said, a little embarrassed. "You said earlier that the blue whale requested that we stay away from it before this. Did it say anything else?"
Experts said: "In the past, we couldn't understand what it was saying and we didn't know how much we had missed."
Thinking of what the blue whale said in the sea the night before, Lian Jiu was silent for a long time, and then he said softly: "It said that it never thought its death would be so meaningful."
The expert never expected to receive such an answer and was dazed for a moment.
Ji Luo, who was not far away, saw the expert and Director Lian Jiu chatting, so he walked over with the camera and started the live broadcast.
With the preheating of several live broadcast rooms, even though it was a new account, Ji Luo's live broadcast room immediately attracted a lot of people. With one notification after another, the popularity soared.
Lian Jiu looked at the blue whales in the distance and said slowly, "For them, the journey from birth to death is a very long process. No one can tell them what they can do or what the meaning of survival is. Everyone only knows that they are the largest creatures in the ocean, but they don't know that this is also their greatest loneliness."
"It said that since its meaningless birth, it had been waiting for this meaningless death. It didn't even know that its death would be called a whale fall."
The distant cry of whales could be heard again. Lian Jiu stood up and said, "We are insignificant to it, and likewise, it is insignificant to the ocean."
She looked at the live camera and said: "If someone is lucky enough to encounter such a gentle creature in the future, perhaps you can try to tell them that their existence is actually anticipated by many people. They are the origin and dependence of many creatures in the world."
"All creatures have spirits, and they don't necessarily have to understand each other," she said gently. "Sometimes, animals can sense even the smallest kindness. At the very least, don't let them spend their lives in loneliness. Perhaps staying with them for a while can become something they look forward to in life."
"Their value isn't just for research; their very existence is valuable, and this is true for all living things in the world."
I was a little shocked. Is this what Blue Whale thinks?
If I were to be so lonely for decades of my life, I would go crazy.
[The blue whale is gentle, and Jiujiu is also gentle! ]
The sound of whales roaring was heard again on the sea. Lian Jiu frowned slightly and looked at the sea level.
The blue whale seemed to be swimming towards him.
Si Lan's words came to mind, saying that it would come to find him before dying. Lian Jiu's heart skipped a beat: "Si Lan!!!"
Si Lan had stood up and stood behind her without her knowing: "It's looking for you."
Lian Jiu immediately got off the reef and went straight into the sea.
"Here!" Jingwei and Bai Ze drove over in a small boat. "Director, come up quickly!"
Boating is always faster than swimming. Lian Jiu got on the boat, and Ji Luo followed immediately behind him.
The whale stopped some distance from the shore and looked at Lian Jiu from a distance.
The boat was also parked not too far away. Lian Jiu got off the boat and swam over and asked, "Are you looking for me?"
"Hmm." The blue whale sank its huge body into the water. Without mentioning its impending death, it said, "Come on my back. I'll take you to see the sea."
Lian Jiuyou swam to its back and sat on it smoothly with its cooperation.
Because there was a person on it, the blue whale moved very slowly and swam towards the deep sea with Lian Jiu.
A few white dolphins seemed to have noticed something and followed closely.
The blue whale glanced around and said with a smile, "When I was little, I followed my mother like this too. Later, when I grew up, I left her. In all these years, I have never encountered her again in this ocean. Tell me, how big is this ocean?"
Lian Jiu couldn't answer. She sat quietly on the blue whale's back for a long time before she said, "I don't know."
"I don't know either," said the blue whale. "After all these years, I still haven't been able to measure the width of the ocean. I just feel that it is huge and indifferent."
After a pause, it continued: "But I still like it here."
It stopped and said, "Look at the sky."
Lian Jiu raised his head and saw the clear Milky Way and the gentle moonlight.
The blue whale is also watching: "Every time I see this starry sky, I begin to look forward to the next day's sunrise. I know it will be dazzling. Even if every day is the same, I will still wait, because at that moment, I feel as if I can live another day."
"When the sun sets, I look forward to the moon rising. The little light from the stars and the moon in the darkness makes me feel beautiful, as if the sea is shining."
"I chase the clouds, the sun and the moon every day."
“When I see birds flying, I expect them to land on my back.”
“When I see someone, I expect them to stop and look at me from a distance.”
"When I see schools of fish on the seabed, I want to see if their direction of travel overlaps with mine. It would be best if we could travel together for a while, even as playmates for a while."
“When I see beautiful plants, I can’t help but stay a little longer to remember what they look like, hoping to see them again in the next sea area.”
After finishing speaking, the blue whale asked: "This is the sea in my eyes, do you see it?"
"I see it." Lian Jiu leaned gently against its back and said, "I can see the stars and the moon. They are very beautiful."
The blue whale smiled and let out a long cry: "I never thought that one day I would be able to share these things I discovered with others. So even though I am lonely, I still live every day with these small expectations, thinking that maybe one day someone will listen to me, and then this journey will be worthwhile."
It whispered, "I have kept these wonderful secrets to myself for eighty years, and now I leave them to you."
Lian Jiu's throat choked up a little: "Thank you, I'm honored."
"You're welcome." The blue whale sighed softly, "The starry sky is so beautiful tonight, and tomorrow's sunrise will definitely be beautiful. Can you take a look at it for me?"
"Okay." Lian Jiu looked at the boundless sea and said, "Not only me, but for many years to come, there will be countless creatures because you can see the sunrise and sunset every day."
The blue whale was stunned for a moment, thinking of whale fall, which was another meaning of its own death.
Lian Jiuqing held it in his arms and said, "You've kept the secret for so many years, and now you've told them in a different way. They can hear it."
"Yeah." The blue whale's voice was relieved. "It turns out they can hear my voice."
After a moment of silence, it suddenly asked, "Have you seen my tail? The splash it makes is very beautiful."
Lian Jiu's heart suddenly jumped up, and he blinked unconsciously, listening to Blue Whale say: "Let me show you."
Lian Jiu got off its back and saw that it was getting farther and farther away from him, and finally stopped at a position that was neither too far nor too close.
Then a deep and long whale cry was heard, and the sound pierced the heart.
In the moonlight, it passed over the sea, and its huge tail slapped the sea surface, creating stunning and shocking waves.
Then, its body and tail completely disappeared into the sea, and there was no sound.
Jiang An, who was sitting on the boat, stood up suddenly and opened his mouth but no sound came out. After a long while, he mumbled, "It... is gone."
The live broadcast room was silent as Ji Luo placed his underwater camera under the sea.
Under the sea, Lian Jiu swam towards the huge blue whale.
The blue whale's tail slowly drooped at this time.
Lian Jiu swam to the blue whale, whose eyes were already closed. She raised her hand and gently stroked the silent blue whale, saying softly, "From now on, all things will grow, and every one of your expectations will be fulfilled by them."
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