Under the Deep Sea (7)
A fishy and salty smell hit him in the face, and the sea water squeezed the energy shield formed by the water-repellent beads. Shi Jianxia felt like a soft bubble, being pushed back and forth by various forces.
She wanted to find a fulcrum to maintain her balance, but her body was in a state of weightlessness as she fell, so she could only hold hands tightly with Gongye Jiwang to avoid being swept away by the water flowing from all directions.
The star fire surrounded the outside of the two people's bodies, forming a faint barrier, trying to illuminate the surrounding environment, but the darkness under the deep sea seemed to be able to swallow everything. Even though Shi Jianxia had the power of the water-repellent beads, he could not see the situation five meters away.
However, Gongye Jiwang, as a mermaid, has lived under the dark deep sea since childhood. His eyesight is far better than that of humans, and his visibility is much farther than Shi Jianxia.
At this moment, he stared intently at the huge crack directly above him. Not knowing what he had discovered, he suddenly pulled Shi Jianxia over to him, half-hugged her waist and let her lie on him. With a protective posture, he accelerated his speed and fell into the deeper sea, away from the crack directly above him.
At the same time, the star fire attached to the outside of the water-repellent beads and illuminating a small area nearby quickly went out.
The water-repellent beads blocked the two people's breath, protecting them from merging with the surrounding sea. Darkness engulfed them, and in the dark unknown space, except for the gurgling sound of bubbles, it was as quiet as a dead place.
Shi Jianxia didn't know why, but he keenly noticed Gongye Jiwang's sudden tense mood and immediately realized that something was wrong.
She held his palm with her backhand, slightly bent her index finger, and wrote stroke by stroke: "What do you see?"
The downward trend stopped, and Gongye Jiwang also wrote a few key words on her palm, which roughly meant, "A large tentacle swept through the crack. It might be a deep-sea giant, but it's not certain whether it is a parasite."
tentacle?
A deep-sea giant?
When Shi Jianxia thought of the tentacle monster that was killed by the two of them, her scalp tingled.
A small tentacle monster with a human head was already disgusting enough, but if it were magnified countless times and became a behemoth... she could hardly imagine that scene.
Shi Jianxia couldn't help but worry and continued writing: "What about Baili and the others? Will they be in danger?"
Although everyone was prepared to encounter danger when entering the deep sea to carry out the mission, they did not expect to be separated.
This multiplies the danger and greatly increases the possibility of injury or death.
Gongye Jiwang knew her concerns and patted her shoulder gently, "Don't worry, everyone has a lot of combat experience, and nothing will happen. Major General Lei Xin and the others won't sit idly by. If the other task forces discover we're missing, they'll report it immediately."
To take a step back, even if rescue cannot arrive in time, with the water-repellent beads he gave, Jiang Yingdu and others will have no problem keeping their lives as long as they don't rush into the face of the deep-sea monster.
The most important thing now is to leave here, meet up with the mopping-up team as soon as possible, and conduct a carpet search of this place, rescuing those who need to be rescued, hunting those who need to be hunted, and exploring those who need to be explored.
Shi Jianxia also understood this logic and nodded slightly. If it weren't for this strange space that isolated her from the mimics, making it impossible for her to summon Gonggong and other mimics suitable for underwater survival to observe the situation nearby, she would not have fallen into such a passive situation.
It seems that she has to be more cautious in the future and not release too many mimics at once. She has to keep some in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" for backup to avoid encountering the same situation.
Gongye Jiwang transformed into a mermaid, gently swung his long golden-blue tail, and prepared to take her away quietly.
Shi Jianxia noticed his intention and didn't have time to write anything. She whispered the word "wait" in his ear.
Gongye Jiwang stopped and watched her summon the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" with its light deliberately restrained, and waited patiently for her next move.
Shi Jianxia originally wanted to use his mimicry talent that could predict good and bad luck to determine the best direction of departure, but when he sensed the mimicry in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", he was stunned.
The cubs she had previously released to be alert to the surrounding environment had all returned to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" at some point, and were staying obediently on their own pages waiting for her call.
Shi Jianxia felt strange in his heart.
Even if she left the energy isolation layer created by the black moss, the cubs shouldn't have come back in such a neat group without receiving her call or encountering any danger.
Could it be that during her stay in the secret laboratory, something terrible happened outside, causing all the cubs to suffer fatal injuries and have to return to "Classic of Mountains and Seas" to recuperate?
But she sensed the situations of the many mimics and found that they were not injured. They were all in high spirits. If they were released, they would definitely be able to happily eat a large basin of insect crystals.
Shi Jianxia felt even more strange. She randomly retrieved the memory of a certain cub to check what happened after it was separated from her. She found that after it realized that it could not sense her, it turned around in a circle in a daze, tilting its head and sniffing to the left and right, as if trying to determine her location.
Shi Jianxia knew very well how terrible the black moss was, so he naturally guessed that no matter how much he sniffed, it would be useless.
Fortunately, the mimicry of the gods such as Changxi and Gonggong was quite reliable. They contacted all the cubs under the deep sea and led them to the top of the trench where she disappeared.
Before Shi Jianxia could check the subsequent scene clips, the mimics all turned into streams of light and disappeared. In their perception, they were summoned by her to return to the comfortable and peaceful "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
She didn't move for a long time. Gongye Jiwang lowered his head in surprise and gently poked her palm as a reminder.
Shi Jianxia came to his senses and couldn't understand why all the cubs came back, so he had to put this doubt aside and use the unicorn's talent [Exorcism and Avoidance of Evil].
Somewhere in the dark, a mysterious foresight appeared in Shi Jianxia's heart, pointing in a certain direction to her right.
The two immediately followed the instructions given by the unicorn and quietly left the area. Before leaving completely, Gongye Ji looked back at the huge crack above.
The tail end of the sticky tentacle happened to sweep through the crack, and the deep-sea monster that attacked the secret laboratory seemed to go in another direction.
Gongye Jiwang breathed a sigh of relief without leaving a trace. Relying on his ability to see in the dark, he took Shi Jianxia and quickly left this dangerous place.
The two swam for a long time, and the premonition of danger that had been hanging over their hearts finally disappeared.
For some reason, Shi Jianxia felt that the temperature of this sea area was unusually low, completely exceeding the temperature of the seabed of Tianchen Star. The energy shield of the water-repellent beads could not withstand the pervasive cold, and her body temperature was slowly dropping.
When she was about to fuse with Bifang to keep warm, Gongye Jiwang, having apparently noticed the change in her body temperature, was the first to release the Star Fire, "You conserve your strength, I'll do it."
He can absorb the power of the stars from everywhere. For him, as long as he doesn't empty the power stored in his body in an instant, he will never run out of power. The small consumption of heating is nothing at all.
After swimming so far but still not getting out of this dark sea, Shi Jianxia had a bad feeling in his heart and naturally would not argue over such a trivial matter.
She hesitated for a moment and then said, "Don't you feel that this is not the sea area we came from?"
After hearing this, Gongye Jiwang stopped swimming and said, "I feel the same way."
With his swimming speed, if he had been released, he should have left the deep sea of Nan Teng Star and entered the shallow sea area long ago, but they were still wandering around in this dark and cold sea, as if they had entered a huge maze.
Perhaps it wasn't a maze, but rather that this sea area was incredibly large, which prevented them from getting close to the continent.
Shi Jianxia sensed the effect of [Exorcism and Avoidance of Evil]. The mysterious guidance still existed, and the cubs' mimicry talent was never wrong.
She thought for a moment and said, "Is it possible that we were swept into the sea outside of Nan Teng Star by that vortex? This is not Nan Teng Star at all."
Naturally formed space cracks often exist in hidden and difficult-to-detect places. The terrifying suction under the trench is most likely caused by space cracks.
In order to cooperate with the Zerg extermination operation, she almost memorized the approximate topographic map of the Nan Teng Star Sea. She also knew very well that its area was not that vast, accounting for only 33.61% of the planet's area and was divided into three major sea areas.
The sea area where the mission is carried out has the smallest area and is completely surrounded by the continent.
Although the perception of time becomes blurred in the deep sea, Shi Jianxia can still vaguely feel that half an hour or even an hour has passed since they left the secret laboratory.
After Gongye Jiwang regained his mermaid form, his swimming speed was very fast. He was able to swim from east to west or from north to south in the Nan Teng Star Sea within this period of time.
Gongye Jiwang fell silent.
If this was not Nan Teng Star, Baili Xuanyao and others who were caught in the whirlpool would be in danger. They might still be stranded there, and there was a huge deep-sea monster surviving near that secret laboratory.
"Going back?" Shi Jianxia asked.
Those who came together should leave together. Even if there is a possibility that you cannot find the person, you should go back without any regrets.
Gongye Jiwang nodded, took her by the hand and prepared to swim back, but Shi Jianxia suddenly grabbed his wrist and said, "Wait, my mimicry intuition has become stronger, very strong, and it's urging me to keep going."
If this premonition could become reality, I would probably want to push her forward.
Gongye Jiwang asked doubtfully, "Can you tell what kind of premonition it is?"
Shi Jianxia shook his head. "It's very vague, but it's getting stronger and stronger, it seems..."
Before she could finish her words, a huge deep-sea undercurrent rushed over. Gongye Jiwang was afraid of being separated from her like he was caught in the whirlpool before, so he hugged her tightly reflexively and used the mermaid's natural instinct to survive in the seabed to swim in the direction of the undercurrent.
Shi Jianxia only felt as if he was gently hit by the waves, and then he saw spots of bright blue light in the pitch-black deep sea.
These spots of light were like brilliant nebulae, so beautiful that one could hardly take their eyes off them. They were no less beautiful than the underwater starry sky she had seen before.
Above that spot of light, a huge blue-white whale could be faintly seen. Its size far exceeded the largest battleship currently in the Federation. The bright blue spot of light was emitted by an unknown tissue in its abdomen.
Xia Yu hugged Gongye Jiwang tightly in the turbulent deep-sea undercurrent and whispered in his ear, "Can you find a way to get on its back? My premonition points to this whale!"
Perhaps this huge deep-sea creature is not a whale, but just looks somewhat similar to a whale, but this does not prevent Shi Jianxia from temporarily calling it that.
The gurgling sound of the sea water was dense and noisy. Gongye Jiwang could not hear what she was saying at all, but when he saw her trying to raise her hand and point upwards, he probably understood what she meant. He swung the mermaid's strong and powerful tail, took advantage of a deep-sea undercurrent, and flipped onto the back of the blue and white giant whale.
The back of the giant whale was very smooth, and its texture was a bit like warm leather, which was completely different from the chilly touch that Shi Jianxia had imagined.
It was so huge that Shi Jianxia and Gongye Jiwang were probably no bigger than ants in its eyes. Perhaps they were just insignificant specks of dust that they accidentally picked up while swimming. Naturally, it would not pay special attention to them, nor would they be targeted by it.
The location Gongye Jiwang found was very clever, just behind the giant whale's dorsal fin, so he would not be directly exposed to the force generated by the collision with the ocean current when the giant whale was cruising at high speed.
Hiding in a small space under the protection of the giant whale's dorsal fin, Xia Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief and watched the dark ocean retreat at high speed. She felt an unprecedented excitement, and the premonition in her heart did not disappear, but she just continued to stay on the back of the giant whale.
She turned her head to look at Gongye Jiwang, who was alertly observing the situation nearby. She couldn't help but smile and whispered in his ear, "It's so fast! This is more exciting than flying a fighter jet!"
Without the interference of the deep-sea undercurrent, Gongye Jiwang heard her words intermittently, smiled, and opened his voice to tell her interesting stories from his childhood.
"When I was five years old, I told my father that the sea was so boring. So my father found a giant shark and took me to sit on its back. We watched it rushing around on the seabed, trying to bite me but unable to." At the end, he couldn't help laughing.
The heavy emotions in the two people's hearts were greatly relieved during this unexpected "fast whale journey".
The giant whale's swimming speed slowed down at some point, and their vision gradually widened. The two men suddenly smelled a strong smell of blood, mixed with the sea water, and permeated every pore. They stopped laughing at the same time and looked ahead vigilantly.
Not far away, a familiar trench appeared in front of the two people's eyes, but the terrain on both sides of the trench was completely different from what they remembered.
On the plains on one side of the trench, a gigantic octopus was fighting with a giant shark whose head looked like it was inlaid with a ruby.
One of the octopus's tentacle was bitten off, and the shark was not in a good situation either. A hole was bitten in the right side of its abdomen by the sharp teeth in the octopus' tentacle suction cup. Blood was oozing out of the shark's abdomen. The two were entangled in each other, and the fight continued until death.
The giant whale stopped about 500 meters away from them, motionless, and it was unclear whether it was watching the fun.
It didn't move, so Gongye Jiwang and Shi Jianxia naturally didn't dare to act rashly. They could only watch the battle ahead with trepidation.
Suddenly, Shi Jianxia noticed that there was a person standing on the round inlay on the shark's forehead that looked like a ruby.
It may not be quite right to call it a human, because it has a human body but a mosquito head.
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