The sea, the cradle of life, holds scenery on its floor that is in no way inferior to the wonders on land... The afternoon sun shone upon the sea, but after being refracted and obstructed by the seawater, the light could only barely illuminate the seabed a few dozen meters from the surface... Below that, the seabed was a world of darkness, untouched even by sunlight...
"Wow! This place is so beautiful!" Kiana, who stirred up a flurry of bubbles as she descended, looked around through her diving helmet. Floating around her were sea moon jellyfish that were like transparent... jellies...
One by one, the transparent, crystal-clear jellyfish, resembling jelly, swam gently, as beautiful as the little sprites from fantasy novels...
"I wonder if there are any sea monsters?" Kiana's pair of large, azure-blue eyes gazed through her diving helmet at the colorful underwater landscape. The diving helmet designed by Schicksal was very convenient and comfortable. The transparent visor, which took up a large part of the helmet, was made of a special material that wouldn't be affected even by the underwater pressure...
" . ... . " Li Xuan maintained a straight face, his expression a little pale as he followed behind the group... To be honest, his swimming and diving skills weren't fully leveled up yet... He remembered learning to swim in his first year of high school... taking his younger sister to her elementary school to learn the breaststroke...
"Class Rep Fu Hua, where is the Honkai energy reaction?" Mei asked, looking at Fu Hua who was fiddling with her instrument. She reached out and shooed away the fish that were curiously circling her...
"According to the Honkai energy detector, it should be over there..." Fu Hua looked at the instrument in her hand, which was pointing to the left...
"Alright, let's follow the direction of increasing Honkai energy concentration then!" Himeko, with the 'Sunfire Greatsword' on her back, still swam effortlessly, treading water as she spoke. The place with the strongest Honkai energy concentration must be near 'Jiuyou'...
"Stay calm, stay calm." Li Xuan took a big gulp of the oxygen in his diving suit, forcing his somewhat nervous heart to calm down... As a semi-non-swimmer, he was a little too nervous on his first dive...
'Just think of it as a normal swim...' Li Xuan closed his eyes and felt the sea currents slowly flowing past him. Faintly, he seemed to sense something...
Within the azure seawater, there was a certain rhythm... It was like the peculiar pulsation produced by the slow beating of a giant creature's heart... giving Li Xuan the feeling of facing a giant...
On the back of Li Xuan's right hand, which was covered by the black, form-fitting diving suit, a faint red glow emanated without anyone noticing... The Turtle Shell Sigil pattern among the Four Symbols suddenly began to glow faintly. It was the Black Tortoise sigil, which represented water...
"Wah!" A sudden scream came through the communicator into Li Xuan's ears, directly interrupting that peculiar feeling of his... That profound and mysterious feeling vanished like a mirage... as if it were just an illusion...
"A-a giant sea snake!!" Kiana's scream echoed throughout the entire channel... It was the first time the white-haired furball had been so flustered.
Li Xuan, who had been somewhat annoyed that his strange sensation was interrupted by Kiana's scream... opened his eyes and looked in Kiana's direction... and then he, too, was stunned...
"Did this thing eat too many hormones as a kid?!" Li Xuan's pupils couldn't help but shrink... What appeared beside Kiana was a sea snake with black and grayish-white stripes all over its body... However, this sea snake was clearly a leader in the sea snake world, quite extraordinary...
There are 23 species of sea snakes along the coast of the Divine Land, with abundant resources in Guangdong and Fujian, and the most in the Beibu Gulf... Sea snakes are generally only one to two meters long. In ancient times, there were giant sea snakes, but they eventually went extinct due to survival reasons. The remaining species, at most, are two meters long...
However, the sea snake that appeared beside Kiana seemed to Li Xuan to be on the verge of becoming a spirit! Its body was as thick as a water bucket, and perhaps because it hadn't had much contact with humans... its triangular snake head had a pair of large, black gem-like eyes that were staring curiously at Kiana's small frame...
" . ...Kiana, don't move!" Himeko hurriedly shouted through the communicator. Sea snakes generally do not attack people unless provoked... so as long as Kiana carefully backed away, she should be fine...
" . ..." Kiana looked at the giant sea snake head just inches away and swallowed hard. She felt her bladder getting a little full...
"This isn't scientific... A sea snake can't possibly grow this big!" As a native of Guangzhou, Fu Hua was well aware of the characteristics of sea snakes... A sea snake of this size, practically a giant python, was theoretically impossible...
"Ahhhhhhh!!" When the giant snake's head moved closer to Kiana again, Kiana broke down! Even if she was a white-haired furball, an idiot, an unlucky scrub... she was still just a young girl at heart, and girls hate slimy things like snakes the most!
"Wait, Kiana, don't be rash!" Himeko, who had taken the 'Sunfire Greatsword' from her back, was about to make a stealthy move when she saw Kiana's action...
"Go to hell for me, ahhhhhh!!" Kiana's voice even cracked... She violently pulled out the dual pistols holstered on her waist. The Honkai energy stored in her Valkyrie armor 'Domain Armor: White Comet' surged into the dual pistols in her hands, [Fairy Bow Silven], like sharks smelling blood...
"Klak! ~" A crisp transforming sound echoed in this underwater space. The dual pistols, emitting a faint green glow, suddenly split open from their bodies... Honkai energy flowed, condensed... and the energy converged through special patterns...
In the next moment... a pale green, transparent blade appeared. The energy blade, thin as a cicada's wing, pierced through the resistance of the seawater and materialized from the hilt of the 'Fairy Bow Silven'. The blade, emitting a faint green light, was as dazzling as a large light bulb in the somewhat dim seabed...
"Hiss hiss! ~" The giant sea snake, instinctively sensing a threat from the weapon Kiana held in both hands, its scales all over its body suddenly stood on end... It opened its foul-smelling mouth wide and lunged to bite Kiana's body, its two black fangs popping out...
'No!!' Himeko's heart skipped a beat when she saw this. A sea snake of this size would have a bite force that could definitely tear a human body to shreds... If something happened to Kiana, Theresa... might show that expression from a year ago again?!
"Kiana!" Mei reached out as if to grab Kiana, but the distance between them made it impossible... Her eyes were filled with the image of Kiana about to be devoured by the giant snake... and a barely visible purple lightning flickered within her black pupils...
" . ... " Li Xuan was stunned; he hadn't even come back to his senses yet... and he was still some distance from Kiana, so he couldn't rescue her in time...
The seawater was churned up by the snake's massive body, and the sand from the seabed clouded the water... Just as the snake's bloody maw lunged to bite Kiana's upper body... Kiana, as if by instinct, crossed the dual blades in her hands and swung them out...
"Pssh! ~" Crimson blood gushed out like a fountain, dyeing the originally clear seawater and forming a blood-red 'cloud'...
"Coach, I want those guns too...." Li Xuan murmured as he watched the electrifying scene unfold before his eyes...
The sea snake, which had been so arrogant just moments ago, was directly taken out by the crossed 'Fairy Sword Silven'. Its upper body, including the head, was directly cut into four pieces like an octopus sausage...
"This is not scientific..." Bronya frowned, feeling that things were not so simple...
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"Sister Sakura..." Yaoye, looking like a young lady, lay on a deck chair and tugged at Yae Sakura, who was virtuously peeling an apple with her head down. "I think I heard something fall into the water..."
"I didn't hear anything..." Yae Sakura said with a gentle smile. Her fair little hands held a fruit knife and 'swish', she cut the apple in her hand in half and handed it to Yaoye.
"Ooh, is that so..." Yaoye, nibbling on the apple, shook her head, her laurel-like long hair swaying slightly... She must have misheard, right?
At the same time, Second Lieutenant Mu Jin, standing on the deck, glanced at Yaoye and Sakura, feeling a bit nostalgic for her own lost youth...
"Captain, unidentified vessel spotted!" Suddenly, a short-haired woman next to Second Lieutenant Mu Jin pointed in horror at the sea not far from the ship. There, a comical-looking big yellow duck had appeared out of thin air...
"That is..." Second Lieutenant Mu Jin picked up a pair of binoculars beside her and looked at the approaching yellow duck boat... Then she saw the black symbol on the front of the big yellow duck... a black symbol like a horizontally inverted 'S'.
"That's Anti-Entropy!..."
(End of this chapter)