under the sea

He Zexi looked at the king crab whose body had begun to rot and mutate and was thrown aside by the flower branch, and four words came to his mind—ocean pollution.

"The nearby sea area is no longer liveable."

"Is it serious?"

Huazhi nodded.

He Zexi was silent for a while and didn't speak. In fact, he didn't need to ask him to know that it was serious.

Otherwise, how could these king crabs living on the bottom of the sea have such a degree of lesions? He Zexi frowned and looked at the wounds on the little blue whale, then said in a deep voice, "Let's go, get out of here."

The injury on the little blue whale has not healed yet, and now a new big hole has been added. It needs a sea area with better water quality to recuperate its wounds, and it cannot be infected again, so they have to leave this sea area.

"Will the water quality in the South Great Trench be better?" He Zexi asked, remembering that he had surveyed this area before.

"Looking south?"

Hua Zhi was about to nod when she heard the words, when she suddenly thought of something that He Zexi had brought back from the boat, and her expression suddenly became weird.

He sized up He Zexi a few times, but he didn't see anything unusual on his face. He couldn't help but feel a little strange, but he still kept a certain amount of vigilance—"Wangnan is not very good."

is it?

He Zexi was a little skeptical, his eyes fell on Huazhi's tense face, looked at it for a while, and said lightly: "We have been to that sea area before, because it is far away from the continental plate and few people come, so it is the entire Great Eastern Ocean. The place with the best water quality and the least ocean pollution.”

Being exposed by He Zexi on the spot, Huazhi was immediately ashamed and annoyed, so angry that she fixed her eyes on He Zexi, feeling that his motives for wanting to visit the South China Sea Trench were very impure!

He Zexi ignored Huazhi who suddenly fell ill, pondered for a moment, and made a decision, "Then let's go to Wangnan."

[good. ] The little blue whale swayed its tail and bowed its head to Jersey, beckoning him to come up quickly.

Although it is still a wounded fish, compared to its size, it is not a problem to hunch over He Zexi and Huazhi, so it directly lowered its body to signal them to come up.

"En." He Zexi nodded.

Huazhi stood there with a dark face, motionless.

He Zexi didn't know what nerves he was having again, and asked with a headache, "Aren't you leaving?"

Huazhi stared at He Zexi for a long time, and squeezed out a word between her teeth, "Go!"

Why don't you leave, he doesn't feel at ease to let He Zexi go alone!Worry in every sense.

Thinking of what's in that ghostly place in Wangnan, Hua Zhi felt extremely upset.

He sat on the back of the wounded whale with his chest crossed, with a straight face, glaring at Jersey all the way.

Being looked at by Hua Zhi with such eyes, He Zexi couldn't help but feel a little headache, he didn't know what he did wrong again.

Because the little blue whale was injured, it left slowly.

Passing by their small house on the way, Huazhi pointed to the house, and asked He Zexi in a very bad tone: "Do you want the things in the house?"

He Zexi glanced at the large water tank full of various deep-sea specimens at the door of the small house with a complicated expression, and after a long time, he said solemnly: "No, they were very important to me before, but they are different now... ..."

Huazhi stared at He Zexi suspiciously, and asked, "Really don't want either?? And don't you want that ugly spring guest in the box?"

"What Quanke?"

Huazhi said angrily: "Just that little puppet! Merman!! Don't you like it very much??? You still want to go to Wangnan!!!"

"Oh, you mean that little mermaid doll?" He Zexi reacted, looked at Huazhi with a strange expression, and couldn't help frowning, "What does my going to Wangnan have to do with liking it?"

Hua Zhi gave He Zexi an angry look, not wanting to speak.

He Zexi thought for a while and explained: "Actually, I don't like it very much, but it has a different meaning to me."

"But now it's broken, it doesn't matter if you take it or not..."

Seeing that He Zexi really didn't seem to attach much importance to that thing, Huazhi's face softened a little, but the next moment, He Zexi said - "Let's take it."

With a dark face, Huazhi turned her head to look at He Zexi, who was going back on what he said, and he was in a bad mood—he really likes sharks!

He Zexi didn't notice Huazhi's sudden jealousy, so he loosened his frown and said, "Forget it...let's take it."

After all, it was the only toy he had since childhood... and it was given to him by the professor.

With a very complicated psychology, He Zexi stopped the little blue whale, and then he went to pick up the little mermaid doll.

After being soaked for too long, the upper body of the Little Mermaid puppet has begun to rot and fade, and the body is covered with a strange sticky colony. The fabric can be crushed with a little force, leaving only the fish tail made of shellfish on the lower body. It still retains its original appearance.

This is his childhood toy... When he was a kid...

Holding the Little Mermaid puppet in his hand, He Zexi tried to recall his childhood memories, the kindergarten he went to, the junior high school he attended, and the university he entered... But for some reason, he always thought he remembered these things clearly The memory that is clear and within reach, when he really wants to think about it, it is like a veil, hidden and vague, making it hard to see clearly...

Did he go to Southeast University or Southwest University?

He Zexi put the Little Mermaid puppet in front of him and fell silent.

Huazhi glanced at the little mermaid doll with lowered eyes, and He Zexi, who was thinking about something, snorted coldly from his nostrils, and the air pressure around him was terribly low.

Suddenly, a violent sound of sea water interrupted He Zexi's thoughts. He pulled out of his own world, looked up to the side, and saw a group of dolphins swimming towards them from afar.

There were about forty or fifty of them. He Zexi observed them carefully for a while, and saw that their appearance characteristics should belong to bottlenose dolphins, which are called "smiling angels" by humans. They are close to people and not afraid of ships. They belong to very Tame and common dolphins.

I just don’t know why the color of this group of bottlenose dolphins seems to be different from the general bottlenose dolphins. They are not tile gray, but covered with mottled black, as if they were stained with a layer of slippery paint .

He Zexi scrutinized it for a while, and then understood—the oil spill.

It turned out that the severe marine pollution was caused by oil spills on the sea surface, and the dark mottled stains on the bodies of these dolphins were the oil that they accidentally picked up after they surfaced.

Faintly, there was an unpleasant smell coming from his nose.

He Zexi raised his head, sure enough, at some time, the little blue whale had led them away from the dark and sunless deep sea area, and now their heads were boundless sea level.

On the sea level, instead of a piece of blue, there is a thin layer of black filth covering the sea surface in the mist, covering the sea as black as dark clouds, and gradually spreading out with the rippling waves.

The sea...it's hurting.

A desolate "scream" came, and He Zexi was startled. He turned his head and looked in the direction of the "voice".

A slow-moving bottlenose dolphin in the group of dolphins stopped swimming. It opened its mouth forcefully, as if talking to its companions. After struggling a few times, it sank slowly.

The group of dolphins started to stir, swimming around the sinking companion.

Dolphins do not have a swim bladder and sink to the bottom of the ocean when they die.

This bottlenose dolphin is dying.

There were no other injuries on its body, and it seemed that it died of poisoning from an oil spill.

He Zexi looked up at the top of his head, feeling a little heavy, "This place is also seriously polluted."

Obviously they have gone a long way, how far has the oil spill from the offshore drilling platform spread...

The dying dolphin finally sank to the bottom of the sea, and the group of dolphins issued a strange and mournful cry, which was the same as the "scream" heard just now, and He Zexi had never heard it before.

The sad and heavy ceremony ended, and the group of dolphins resumed their migration, getting closer and closer to He Zexi and the others.

"hurry up!"

There was a dry urging in his ear.

He Zexi turned his head reflexively and looked at the flower branches beside him, only to see that his face was tense, his face was a little pale, and he was forced to sit calmly, with both hands involuntarily grasping his two tentacles. Wrist, looks very, very nervous.

He Zexi suddenly remembered that the natural enemies of squids are dolphins.

But that's an ordinary squid, squid like Huazhi shouldn't be included... right?

He Zexi glanced at Huazhi, he was staring at the group of moving dolphins with his eyes fixed on him, his behavior was not normal at all.

He Zexi pondered for a second, then asked tentatively, "Are you afraid?"

"I'm not afraid." Hua Zhi pursed her lips tightly, her whole body was stiff, watching the dolphins getting closer and closer to her, Hua Zhi's face suddenly turned pale.

He Zexi: "..."

The group of dolphins passed by them, stopped curiously as they passed by, circled around the little blue whale and then left in a mighty way. Their swimming trajectory brought a series of splashes in the sea.

After watching the dolphins leave, He Zexi lowered his head, looked at Huazhi, who was pale, with straight eyes, and almost fainted from fright, and comforted him in a warm voice: "Don't be afraid, they have already left."

"I'm not afraid."

"..." He Zexi glanced at Huazhi speechlessly, then supported his forehead feeling powerless, "Get up from me quickly if you're not afraid."

Hua Zhi sat up straight, and secretly glanced at He Zexi who looked disgusted, her face suddenly turned red and white.

Angrily, he stretched out one of his tentacles and kicked the tattered mermaid in front of He Zexi.The mermaid puppet rolled twice on the head of the blue whale, and then the upper body fell off, leaving only a fish tail.

Looking at the tattered mermaid with only a fish tail left, Huazhi snorted coldly, and immediately felt a little better.

He Zexi: ...