Underwater Civilization

"Hey? Talk to me, will you? It's too dark here. I'm scared." In the midst of absolute nothingness, Jiang Xiao muttered to himself.

At this moment, he seemed to exist only as "consciousness." He had no sense of his own body at all and could only let the deep-sea Giant Whale carry him onward.

"Whale Bro? How about we discuss this? Can you let me go?"

"Whale Bro, even if you won't tell me where we're going, at least let me see where we are, huh?"

Jiang Xiao was talking to himself. Far behind the deep-sea Giant Whale, several tiny figures trailed along in the distance.

Although Jiang Xiao was talking to himself, his body was speaking along with his consciousness. And since he was speaking Chinese, Juliet was suffering terribly because she couldn't understand a word.

Inside the enormous bubble, Sophia controlled its direction, her eyes fixed on the deep-sea Giant Whale's tail ahead as she pondered in silence.

"Sophia." Prince Bino drifted over and spoke through the bubble. "This won't do. I don't sense any hostility from this huge creature. Perhaps I should go take a look and try communicating with it."

Sophia said flatly, "You might not even know how you died."

Prince Bino looked awkwardly at Jiang Xiao, who sat inside the bubble. Jiang Xiao's face was blank, his hollow eyes staring ahead as he spoke. "But Jiang Xiao Pi—"

Sophia said, "Let's follow it for a while and see what it's up to. We'll widen the distance a little more and be ready to leave at any moment if something happens."

Prince Bino thought it over and said nothing more. The three-person team followed Jiang Xiao from far behind the deep-sea Giant Whale.

The journey was utterly uneventful and exceptionally safe.

When a giant beast