don't you have a wife of your own

The passage ends here, and the dark, wet steps extend to the depths of the water, gradually disappearing.The glowing ore on both sides of the passage can only illuminate part of the water surface at the entrance of the cave, while the farther place is completely immersed in pure darkness.

There was heavy water vapor floating in the air, and the water surface was not calm. Waves of water regularly fluctuated up and down the steps, and then receded.

Xia Youjie tentatively walked down a few steps and stepped on the water-soaked stairs.

The water is very icy, and that kind of coldness can penetrate into the bones, making people who step into it shiver involuntarily.Compared with the steps above, the steps Xia Youjie stepped on had no other difference except that they were colder and smoother after being soaked in water.

He went down two or three steps, and the water immediately covered his calf.Xia Youjie could feel the water waves pushing him back, and the wind blowing from the distant dark depths, blowing the drenched police uniform on his body to bulge back, and he couldn't help sneezing.

"Officer Xia You, are you alright?"

Oi Chuanyuejian was a little worried, and walked towards him while asking him.Xia Youjie just wanted to turn his head to let Ji Chuanyuejian not go into the water, but he was a step too late, and Ji Chuanyuejian had already stepped on the water-soaked steps.

She walked to Xia Youjie's side, and gently grabbed Xia Youjie's police uniform, which was blown up by the wind.The moment he grabbed the corner of Xia Youjie's clothes, Oi Chuanyuejian heaved a sigh of relief.

It's as if a child finally catches a butterfly that nearly flew away and escaped.

Xia Youjie: "I'm fine. I can't go any further. Let's find out if there is any other way out."

The ladder didn't disappear just because the channel disappeared, it continued to spread deep into the bottom of the water.If the two continue to walk forward, they will inevitably be submerged in the water. It is still unknown how long the two can survive in the water when the water temperature is so low.

Oi Chuanyue Jian tentatively stepped on the side of the ladder, but it was empty.She quickly retracted her toes and said in shock, "The side of the stairs is empty!"

Xia Youjie can almost imagine how the narrow and lonely staircase maintains a fixed angle of inclination and goes deep into the bottom of the water under the water that cannot be seen clearly by human naked eyes.Maybe it touched a place deeper underwater, maybe it melted into the darkness that normal humans can't understand in the distance.

He took a deep breath, and stretched out his hand to Oi Chuan Yuejian: "It seems that there is no other way out here, we can only return first."

Ji Chuanyuejian put his hand on Xia Youjie's palm: "Okay."

Her hands were very hot, and when their fingers touched, Xia Youjie had the illusion that Ji Chuanyuejian's fingertips were scalding.He was in a trance for a moment, but quickly forced himself to stay awake, and pulled Ji Chuanyuejian to the place where there was a wall.

The two returned by the same route, and repeated and regular footsteps sounded on the long stairs.

Xia Youjie still walked in front, but this time he was holding Ji Chuanyuejian's hand.While walking on the stairs, he murmured to himself in confusion: "What was that place just now? An underground river?"

Oikawa Tsukimi heard him talking to himself, and retorted in a low voice: "The surface of the underground river cannot be so wide. And the terrain of the aquarium cannot have an underground river... This would not conflict with the original drainage system of the aquarium. Yet?"

For aquariums, the drainage system is very important.Based on the breadth of the water surface they saw just now, it is already completely huge enough to hinder the normal operation of the aquarium.

Xia Youjie was puzzled by this.He thought of the aquarium drainage system that he saw next to the floor plan of the aquarium in the first round of the week—speaking of which, at that time the system had let him pass a dice.

Although he failed.

But this also indirectly shows that there is indeed a problem with the drainage system of the aquarium?Is it related to the huge water surface under the aquarium?The monster in the aquarium should have crawled out of that bottom. Who built this place?And why did they raise such a group of monsters?

The clues are... not so close.

The two of them didn't go far, when suddenly there was a huge sound of water waves behind them.The sound was also mixed with the wailing of some kind of mammal, which spread far in the narrow passage.But the stairs are long enough that those sounds are destined not to reach the ground.

Xia Youjie's expression froze, and he let go of He Chuanyuejian's hand: "You go up first, I'll go back and have a look."

Ji Chuanyue held onto his sleeve, and said with gloomy eyes, "Are you sure you want to go back? It's dangerous."

The warning from the unknown NC—Xia Youjie hesitated.Although he died in the hands of Ji Chuanyuejian in the first week, to be honest, because the way of death is not painful, and it is also a game rather than reality, Xia Youjie has no negative emotions towards this NC.

On the contrary, he actually liked this nc quite a lot.

His appearance and personality both subtly poked him a little bit, similar to the subtle movement of a sudden wife hitting his heart halfway through the chase.

But after a few seconds of hesitation, Xia Youjie still firmly pulled the corner of his clothes out of Ji Chuanyuejian's palm: "I must go, maybe there will be clues about the monster. You don't have to wait for me, just go back to the ground -"

He Chuanyuejian watched his wrist being held by Xia Youjie, and he tore the wet hem that could wring out water from He Chuanyuejian's palm.

Her eyebrows drooped slightly, disappointed and helpless: "What about after going back?"

Xia Youjie was taken aback.He didn't think about the future; after all, this is just a game, and the plot setting is a matter of planning, and players don't need to think so much.

But looking at Ji Chuanyuejian's disappointed expression, Xia Youjie couldn't help feeling a little guilty.He whispered: "You can wait for me on it for a while... 15 minutes. If I haven't come out after 15 minutes, you can leave the aquarium by yourself."

Ji Chuanyuejian raised his head slightly, and stared at Xia Youjie with gentle honey-colored eyes: "Will Police Officer Xia You come back?"

Xia Youjie originally wanted to answer that he would definitely come back - thinking about it on his knees, he knew that such an answer was a good opportunity to increase the favorability of NC.But when he and Oi Chuanyuejian looked at each other, he found that he couldn't lie to Oi Chuanyuejian's eyes.

Obviously it's just game modeling.

But at the moment when his eyes met, Xia Youjie felt that he was looking at the person who should not be deceived the most in this world.If you tell a lie to these eyes, your heart will cough uncontrollably like a cold.

"I do not know."

Xia Youjie said softly, "Maybe he will come back, maybe he won't."

He didn't know what fate was waiting for him in front of the unknown, so he couldn't make a promise to Oikawa Tsukimi.

Oi Chuan Yuejian still looked at Xia Youjie: "If the ending is death, would you be unwilling?"

Xia Youjie was taken aback.He suddenly felt that there seemed to be other meanings in Ji Chuanyuejian's words, a deeper meaning besides caring.But he couldn't see any information from Oi Chuanyuejian's expression or even his tone.

Xia Youjie: "—If you die like this, and die without knowing anything, you should be unwilling."

The terrible thing is probably never death, but paying a high price called 'death', but still unable to get close to the so-called truth.

After saying this, he turned around resolutely and walked back, stepping on the steps more hurriedly than before.Not long after walking, Xia Youjie felt dizzy for a while.He raised his hand and subconsciously pressed the back of his neck, touching the hard scales.

The moment he touched the scales, Xia Youjie's heart sank: Alienation is happening faster than he imagined.

The drenched policeman turned his back on Ji Chuanyue and walked away, leaving only an obscure figure behind.

Oi Chuanyuejian changed to a more comfortable position and lay down on the two pillows, and the manipulator sat down on the spot.As long as she opens the character card next to her, she can see various stats of NC. Now that she is debuffed, if she tracks NC, she will definitely be discovered.

"This nc doesn't listen to advice."

Oi Chuanyue Jian muttered: "I said this is a dead end, there are no clues at all. Even if there are clues, you have to wait until your alienation is over before you can look for them——Damn, if you die, where can I find free labor to help you find them? key?"

"Those blame me for not being able to defeat any of them. In the end, it's still a matter of setting. Didn't I just wear a collar? Why is my force value so low in the setting of the final boss?"

"What did you say that you won't regret it? Of course you won't regret it if you have a file-loading setting! People like me who have the habit of seeing the finale from beginning to end will definitely accept file-loading backtracking and continue to waste time following you through the plot. So Why do you want to set NC so much like a player? It makes me feel that I am not attacking them, but they are here to pick me up..."

Pressing the game button angrily, the girl on the big screen, who was modeled exactly like Oi Chuanyuejian herself, spun around in place, stood up and punched the wall with a few punches.

A dice identification pops up on the screen.

[Player 'Ji Chuanyuejian' attacked the wall and had a fight]

[It is detected that you are a special player, and all dice roll results are automatically regarded as a big success. 】

[Abnormal player data is detected, damage identification is performed. 】

[So, I'm very sorry, in view of your abnormal data, you performed a non-attacking air punch against the wall. 】

[But fortunately, you hit every punch empty, so even if you have no output, you didn't get scratched by the hard ore on the wall. 】

Oi Chuanyuejian: "..."

She sat up, stared at the line of prompts on the screen, and said to herself: "Such an insulting luck, there is no need to give me one."

Xia Youjie returned to the end of the passage, on the narrow steps, on the steps outside the passage, there was a huge monster perched.He couldn't describe the momentary shock of seeing the creature. In front of the creature's huge head, he was so small that it could almost be ignored.

It was a huge humpback whale.

It breathes, its back undulates like a lute, and the barnacles on its body are wrapped in a layer of water, shining brightly by the light.Xia Youjie smelled a strong smell of blood in its heavy breathing. He stood there because he was too shocked, and he didn't even know what to do.

It happened that the sound echoing in the passage was obviously the sound of the injured humpback whale.But why do humpback whales appear underground in the aquarium? !

Why did this creature, which should obviously live in the deep sea, appear on land! ?

Just when Xia Youjie stood still, he was so shocked that he forgot to think for a moment; the humpback whale made a hurried sound, and flapped its front wings and tail at the same time.Its huge size endowed this action with terrifying lethality, and the originally unsettled water surface suddenly set off a huge wind and waves!

A huge wave of water rolled back into the channel, and Xia Youjie was instantly washed out by the current.

【Player has a lucky day】

Amid the sound of the dice spinning, Xia Youjie was swept up the stairs by the water waves, and rolled up the stairs for a while inexplicably.When the water flowed back, he fell with the water again, and fell into a mess.

But fortunately, Xia Youjie was not injured so much after such a dangerous move up and down, nor did he hit the wall of the passageway.

He was a little awake, coughing and stood up, his mouth was salty - it was the water that had choked into Xia Youjie's mouth when the water wave rolled back just now.Xia Youjie was shocked: Sea water?

An aquarium with a humpback whale underground is already outrageous enough, and it turned out to open up a fucking sea? !

Xia Youjie's mind fumbled through all kinds of endings, and suddenly remembered the ore at the entrance that Chuan Yuejian had told him when he came down: the blood of Ecroueth.

The blood of Exerous was named the blood of Exerous by the locals precisely because it was born on the bottom of the sea!

The humpback whale, the legend of the blood of Ekrouus, the fish-headed monster...all of these ultimately point to the deep and mysterious sea.Far away from the aquarium, another field that is completely unfamiliar to humans.

Xia Youjie staggered while holding on to the wall of the passage, but when he returned to the end of the passage, the humpback whale had disappeared.

On the ladder that spread into the depths of the water, wisps of dark blood gradually spread out.The entire water area has been dyed light red, and the bloody smell is mixed in the moist water vapor, penetrating into all of Xia Youjie's sensory organs.

He felt a little difficult to breathe, the air was sticky, so thick that it seemed to be pouring the bloody and expanding water.Xia Youjie walked forward in blood-colored water until the cold water covered his knees.

The blood of the humpback whale did not seem to warm the waters at all, and the water soaking the steps was still freezing cold.Xia Youjie sat down in the icy water, but he kept replaying the huge head of the humpback whale and its heavy breathing in his mind.

That's a humpback whale.

It's not a shrimp, or a Patrick, or a SpongeBob SquarePants—it's a giant, blue and white humpback whale covered in barnacles.

Xia Youjie still had the pipa-like back of the huge sea creature flashing in front of his eyes.

Then the humpback whale was hunted by other unknown creatures before his eyes.

This kind of shock even far surpassed Xia Youjie's shock when he first saw this water area.He couldn't close his eyes and couldn't connect the fragmentary clues together.

The dying humpback whale kept migrating in his mind.

The water wave became calm, gently undulating, kissing Xia Youjie's knees and the back of his hands.He was terrified from the cold, and he regained his senses—Xia Youjie remembered that he shouldn't stay here any longer, he should go back, and went back to see Ji Chuanyue.

Oi Chuan Yuejian was still waiting for him up there.

Taking a deep breath, Xia Youjie stood up, and then touched the back of his neck: he touched a piece of cold scales, which had become much tighter.

At some point, he'll become like those monsters—or his former colleagues.

Walking up the wet stairs, Xia Youjie took a few steps, but couldn't help but turn back.Originally, he just wanted to look at the place where the humpback whale had been lying, but the moment he turned his head, Xia Youjie's excellent eyesight caught a black shadow.

Like a fish and like a man, holding a huge trident-like weapon, at the end of the dim light and shadow, it flashed like a double-speed movie.When Xia Youjie opened his eyes wide and wanted to take a closer look, there was nothing left.

He was suspicious—but he didn't doubt that what he saw just now was a phantom.Xia Youjie believed in his eyesight.

But what is that shadow that flickers past?A killer of humpback whales?