The two walked side by side into the corridor. It was still very dark and quiet here, but the effect was completely different from the Deathly Stillness inside the laboratory.
Even in the darkness, they could see ripples spreading through the murky water in the corridor, reflecting a faint, negligible trace of daylight that somehow made them vividly alive.
There were also faint sounds coming from the glass curtain walls on all sides—the underwater creatures, drawn by the light, gathering one after another and brushing against the glass.
The quieter it was, the louder those sounds seemed.
Once, unable to contain his curiosity, Xie Junping shone his beam into the water and hit a short-snouted alligator dead on. Seeing that savage head slam into the glass curtain wall with a bang, Xie Junping instinctively dodged—only to crash hard into the curtain wall on the other side, hard enough to bring tears to his eyes.
After that, he behaved himself. No matter what, he stayed along the centerline of the Underwater Corridor and even took the initiative to dim the lights. At last, they reached the end of the corridor without incident.
There was clearly a turn here. Xie Junping cautiously approached the corner and shone his wristband ahead. What came into view was a heavy alloy door. Looking at the rows of steel bolts running down its surface, he felt terrible all over.
Xie Junping rushed over and fiddled with it for quite a while. In the end, he viciously kicked it three times, but only dull thuds sounded. Clearly, the other side had already been packed solid with water, earth, and silt.
Then he remembered the most important matter and lowered his head to check the signal. "There seems to be a little? We should only be one or