Ma Dalin's face grew grave.
He knew all too well how dangerous it was to be struck by a massive creature underwater while diving.
Besides, the water was deep and visibility was limited. He couldn't even make out what was charging toward him.
But those things seemed to have spotted him, and they sped up.
Soon, Ma Dalin could see what they were. His face filled with disbelief. They were all Baiji dolphins.
These supposedly extinct national treasures had appeared before him in a whole group—and there were an astonishing number of them.
But then he panicked even more, because the Baiji dolphins were charging straight at him.
They seemed to have just burst out of the darkness, drawn by the searchlight on his equipment.
And when you suddenly saw light after being in darkness, your eyes couldn't adjust right away.
That was true for people, and surely it was true for fish, too.
So the Baiji dolphins might have been blinded by the light and were charging around blindly, straight at him.
The problem was that he didn't have time to turn off the searchlight.
The next moment, he felt an impact and went completely dazed. Then came a second impact, a third...
At last, he passed out, his body slowly sinking toward the riverbed.
On the riverbank.
Qi Kaiyou and Chen Li's faces changed at once as they stared at the screen.
The footage transmitted by the equipment was blurry, so they hadn't been able to make out what the things were.
Now the screen had gone completely dark. The searchlight had been smashed.
"Quick, go save him!" Chen Li immediately grabbed his walkie-talkie and called to the rescue team from You City's Min River tributary that he had brought with him.
He was getting anxious.
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