Alvin heard Nemo II's request for help. He smiled and waved a hand. "If your goal is to restore the ocean's ecological balance, I have no reason to refuse you...
"But I still want to know why you came to me.
"Before, it didn't seem like this was your plan..."
Nemo II nodded. "Because we weren't friends before...
"My family is used to solving problems on our own!
"Actually, Nautilus II was built to explore Atlantis..."
As he spoke, Nemo II switched the images on his phone. A chaotic underwater scene was projected onto the wall...
The footage seemed to have been shot by some kind of unmanned exploration machine...
Several terrifying sea monsters lived in the depths of the ocean. They chased schools of fish and hunted every living thing they could see.
Nemo II froze the footage, bringing up the clearest image...
Alvin watched the enormous, nine-headed serpent tear into a deep-sea octopus he had once killed...
He sized up the monster and couldn't help marveling. "What the hell is that?
"I once killed an octopus that wasn't much smaller than a cruise ship...
"This thing looks even bigger than that octopus, and it seems to be having dinner!
"Just how big is it?
"I don't see how something that big could stay hidden. How come we've never seen or heard of it before?"
Nemo II shook his head helplessly. "I don't know either. My family has patrolled the seafloor for nearly a hundred years, across two generations, and this is the first time we've seen them...
"In fact, they appeared very suddenly. If those octopuses and Megalodons showed up because the thermocline was breached...
"Then these nine-headed sea monsters simply appeared out of nowhere a month ago...
"I don't know if you've noticed, but the world has