The bubbles are gushing out through the scuba diving apparatus and float vertically towards the surface of the water, making it impossible to clearly feel the direction on the seabed without light, which is a natural way to identify the direction.

The pitch-black sea is like the starry sky at night, and Hong Yuesheng and the others with the lights turned on are like shooting stars in the night sky, swimming in the direction of the bubbles under the power of the thrusters behind them.

From time to time there was a vibration in the water from the direction of the old city, due to the chain reaction caused before, everyone inevitably still had palpitations, every time the vibration came, they couldn't help but chuckle in their hearts, everyone had their own worries, each had their own worries, making the already long journey up the sea more depressing.

Da, da.

There was a tapping sound over the communicator.

Sound travels through the water faster than the familiar surface, making it difficult to discern where the sound is coming from on your own, but a sonar radar is built into the dive watch on the wrist of each member's Exosuit. Following the direction shown by the radar, Hong Yuesheng saw the plump Bonnie swimming above him tapping his helmet rhythmically with his hand.

Bang bang, bang bang.

Bonnie switched to a light slap again.

Emily laughed too, and she followed suit.

Da, da, da.

Bonnie turned his head and gave her other hand a thumbs up to Emily, who had always been the pistachio on the Mantaray team.

More and more people followed the drumbeat, and the percussion melody gradually formed, and even the green snake and the white tiger joined the ranks.

"You see, the people in the city really know how to play." Green Snake didn't forget to use the popular phrase to pretend to know how to say to the white tiger that although most of his melodies were wrong, it didn't prevent him from twisting his body to the melody while playing the beat indiscriminately.

Everyone who was in a heavy and nervous mood before finally relaxed a little in the sound of the music, and even the red-haired Arya, the captain who was always calm and strict, did not stop this behavior, just shook her head, but laughed silently in private.

"Hum a song, huh?" Emily used the communicator to encourage Hong Yuesheng in Yaning.

"What did you say?" Hong Yuesheng, who was originally in a heavy mood, was asked inexplicably.

"Hum a song."

"I can't sing." Hong Yuesheng bluntly refused.

"You will, you kept humming while you were unconscious. I don't believe you ask them. Emily, the attending physician for Hong Yuesheng's heart transplant, pointed to the green snake next to her, the white tiger.

Hong Yuesheng turned his head and looked at Bai Hu through the mask, he knew that Bai Hu was an honest man and would not talk nonsense.

The white tiger's innocent face appeared behind the spit blister, and he laughed stupidly, "Hehe~"

Then he even hummed twice in a southern and northern tone, which turned out to be the song about the big river, although Hong Yuesheng didn't know that the canal actually led to the vast sea.

"Look!" Emily's triumphant voice came again, and then she hummed along, the same incomplete pentatonic voice.

"Now, you say you're sorry (Emily changed the lyrics herself),

I feel like it's been so unreal all along~"

"But you told me, "Lo~~~ve" (Emily changed the lyrics again) is too vulgar,

You have more ideals. ”

"Huh~~" Even the other team members coaxed in Yaning, and the beating became the melody of this music, and the unsmiling tank girl who was still in a coma on her shoulder couldn't help but hum along.

Hong Yuesheng shook his head helplessly, but the other two were really out of tune, and in order to defend this important song, he finally couldn't help but hum along.

The song floats in the vast sea, and more long-lived deep-sea fish also swim to join in the fun, because of the long life in the dark, these deep-sea fish species called starfish have glowing skin, and there are multiple green glowing spots all over the body, the shape resembles an axe, the mouth is surprisingly large, almost taking up most of the body, but they have a gentle temperament, they swim around the team, forming a flowery underwater carnival parade. In this moment of isolation, everyone temporarily forgot about the differences in race, status and country, and enjoyed a brief period of peace.

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The red-haired Arya's sonar radar flashed with slight fluctuations in the regularity caused by the squad's singing.

Everything is normal, Arya thought to herself. She gestured to the team to slow down and check her compression air balance. Everyone's casual song activities have also come to an end.

"Why do we have to stay for a while every time we ascend?" Hong Yuesheng asked.

"Decompression stops are made to relieve the pressure of the water, and although our Exosuit protects us, it's always good to be conservative." Emily went on to explain to Hong Yuesheng: "The pressure under the water is greater than that on the land where we usually live, and the deeper it is, the greater the pressure, and the volume of the air will be compressed and reduced. ”

Emily inhaled, "This means that the compressed air we breathe in the deep ocean will actually be several times the volume of air on land. If we rise too fast, the air will expand rapidly and cannot be expelled from the body in time, eventually ......"

She did a magic trick, "like "Orps's lover"! ”

"Orps's lover?" Hong Yuesheng didn't understand.

"Haven't you even heard the story of Orps' lover?" A curious Bonnie also manipulates the Exosuit to swim over. Even from the huge mask of the diving suit, you can see the clear line of career between Bonnie's plump breasts that are tightened by the wetsuit.

Hong Yuesheng shook his head, there is a big difference in culture between the Yaning and the Meda Busuoya, and many legends or prophecies that are popular in the traditions of both sides are not widely known among the other people.

"Tell me about it?" Seeing Bonnie coming, the green snake also hurriedly grabbed the white tiger to join in the fun. "Why are you all the time?" Emily rolled her eyes at the green snake.

"Alright, alright," Bonnie rounded, glancing at the dive watch on his wrist, and there was still some time - as a team that often participates in diving missions, it is common to do decompression stops underwater, so in order to relieve the boredom, everyone will tell each other some stories to kill time, many of which are also hearsay, mixed sources, and often even several different legends are compiled together, but everyone doesn't care, just the meaning is right.

Bonnie said to Emily, "Since you started it, tell the boys about it." Waiting is waiting anyway. ”

Emily hung her head helplessly, her recent cold image had failed. But now that everyone has gathered around, they have no choice but to speak:

"Inner ......," she cleared her throat, "Orps, a warrior in the ancient mythology of our Medabsuya, was attracted by the sound of a goddess who had relegated to the mortal world, and fell in love with the goddess. ”

Hearing the sound of the piano, Hong Yuesheng's mind came to mind the appearance of Feng Die playing the guitar, she smiled silently at him, and sang softly.

But the good times did not last long, and the sun god, who also loved the goddess, because of jealousy, out of love and hatred, mistakenly pushed the goddess into the sea. Enraged, Orps killed the sun god despite being accused of betraying his tribe, and his tribe was forever shrouded in darkness. He resolutely dived into the depths of the sea in order to save his lover. ”

Everyone couldn't help but look at their feet, and the water below was pitch black, as if something was watching them in the dark.

Hong Yuesheng felt like Orps, swimming and swimming with Emily's story, swimming and swimming, I don't know how many days and nights, and finally reached the unfathomable bottom of the sea, where like the land where our ancestors lived, there are towering submarine mountains, through all the world's oceans, and there is no boundary. In the deepest part of an undersea crater, in the fracture valley of bubbling red magma, is where Kraken, the giant of the North Sea, is entrenched.

Orps (or Hong Yuesheng) couldn't see Kraken's face clearly, because there was no light at the bottom of the sea. Only the occasional passing arowana with glowing lures reflects the silhouette of the Kraken's massive body. It has been there for centuries, capturing the unfortunate undead who have fallen into the sea and giving them to the giant sea beasts that are sealed beneath it.

Legend has it that one day in the future, when the sea beast has eaten enough of the undead, it will wake up and spew out a scorching flame that will burn the entire ocean floor into a blood-red color, and both humans and gods will witness it, and it will rise from the bottom of the sea with a roar, and everything on the surface of the sea will be destroyed.

"Please spare her soul!"

Orps pleaded with Kraken, and his plea was so genuine that it moved Kraken. In addition, because the darkness he brought to his tribe would bring enough undead to resurrect the sea beasts, Kraken made an exception and allowed Orps to take his lover's undead.

"However, you have to keep a promise, and if you break it, the price will be terrible." Kraken's heavy voice warned Orps, who replied firmly: "I have come to my senses. ”

"Don't look back until you lead your lover out of hell, or she will fall into the deep sea again and never return to earth, and you will be cursed to never return."

With that, Kraken, the troll, closed his eyes, and his lover's soul resurfaced before Orps's eyes—her transparent, crystal-like body, changing colors in the light of the deep-sea Arowana. Orps hugged his lover, happy and didn't know what to do.

"And then? Are the two of them happily together? White Tiger asked innocently, completely mesmerized by Emily's story.

"Don't interrupt me, I'm not done yet." Emily continued.

So Orps happily swam back with his lover, but he was so anxious that he swam too fast to notice that his wounded lover could barely follow him. Seeing that the earthly sun had shone a pale blue through the sea, indicating the direction of their exit, Orps was completely immersed in his excitement. ”

Hong Yuesheng seemed to see the light cast down when the manta rays had just risen up and opened the airtight compartment below at the ruins of the Imperial Park a day ago. At that time, he looked at the light and excitedly exclaimed, "Our ship is coming!" ”

Emily's words changed sharply, and she became melancholy again: "But her lover is tired, and Orps grabbed her wrist and it hurts, so she wanted to call Orps, hoping that he would slow down, but somehow she couldn't call his name, so she called ......"

"Behind! Behind! Emily learns her lover's voice.

Poor Orps heard his lover's call, and forgot Kraken, the giant of the North Sea, and turned around.

Hong Yuesheng, Green Snake and White Tiger all listened with bated breath.

Emily exhaled vigorously in the mask, expelled several large bubbles through the respirator, the bubbles rose vertically in front of her eyes, Emily put her hands together, and then opened like a lotus flower, and the force generated in the water pushed the bubbles up rapidly.

"Bang!" She made an explosive onomatopoeia.

The bubbles burst and become more tiny blisters that dissipate in the water.

Orps's lover screamed, and the Kraken's astonishing claws slammed into her from the bottomless depths of the sea, and her body instantly turned into countless bubbles, and then burst with them, all disillusioned.

“The_end. (That's it.) Emily said word for word, and there was silence in the circle.

A large shadow flashed silently behind Emily.

The white tiger's eyes widened, pointing behind Emily's back.

"Back ......"

"Hah! You're my three-year-old! I've just told the story and you're trying to scare me! Emily looked at the white tiger, "I'm not afraid." You don't let me go back, I'll go back! As she spoke, she jerked her head back.

The green snake rolled its kaleidoscopic eyes through the diving mask, spit out a long tongue like a snake letter, sucked and flitted, and looked like a deep-sea monster fish, waiting behind Emily.

"Wow!!!" Emily was so frightened that her hands and feet swayed like Hot Wheels.

"You bastard!" As soon as she came to her senses from the fright, she beat the green snake and made Hong Yuesheng and Bonnie laugh, while the white tiger still pointed to the dark sea behind Emily and muttered, "...... behind."

"Wow! Your respirator broke me! The voice of the green snake reached the ears of the red-haired Arya not far away, and she sighed and said to herself:

“Am_I_a_scoutmaster_of_a_bunch_of_kindergarten_kids?

(Am I a big sister in kindergarten with a Boy Scout?) )”

It was time to move on, she looked at the dive computer on her wrist, and almost at the same time, the sonar radar in the computer showed sharp fluctuations, accompanied by a rapid alarm.

Others were also alerted, and the laughter abruptly stopped. An ominous roar was heard in the deep sea......

Could it be that there really is some legendary Kraken of the North Sea Monster?!