As the whaling ship tipped over, seawater poured into the vessel through the passages on the deck, and the hull began to sink slowly.
Some people jumped straight into the sea and swam toward the distance, while others fled upward, eventually climbing onto the steeply raised starboard rail and clutching the handrails tightly.
Of course, some turned their attention to the lifeboat. After considerable effort, several sailors finally lowered it into the sea.
The people floating in the water immediately swam toward the lifeboat. The crew members hanging from the ship's side knew the whaling ship would sink sooner or later. If they remained aboard, they would only sink to the bottom with it, so they too jumped into the sea.
Just as everyone from the whaling ship swam toward the lifeboat, a huge blue-black figure slowly approached them beneath the waves.
The volunteers aboard the anti-whaling ship noticed it first. Watching the blue whale's massive body swim toward the people who had fallen into the water, they could not help but feel deeply worried.
Although they knew blue whales were gentle by nature and had never attacked humans, the blue whale had just overturned the whaling ship. They could no longer regard it as an ordinary blue whale, and they had no idea what it might do next.
For a moment, the anti-whaling ship fell into an eerie silence.
The whaling sailors in the sea, however, did not notice anything unusual about the people aboard the anti-whaling ship, much less the blue whale's arrival.
But when a water column over ten meters high suddenly blasted up from the sea, they instantly realized that the blue whale they had been hunting had come right beside them!
Looking up at the thick column of water nearby and feeling the icy seawater