Song Zhou asked in a low voice, "What happened? Did something happen down there?"
"Nothing. Professor Huang got emotional and cried on the seafloor."
Lu Ao had always found the professor mild-tempered and calm, so he truly had not expected him to start crying in the sea.
For some reason, Lu Ao wondered whether the professor would cry alone in his hotel room at night after learning that Coral could die.
Just thinking about it made Lu Ao feel strangely miserable.
Even for Professor Huang's sake, he had to keep these Coral specimens alive.
After Huang Ningna rested for a while and felt that he was fine, he strongly insisted on going back into the sea. He wanted to take some photos promptly and document the condition of the Coral.
He also wanted to collect more samples from the seafloor and find out why the Coral had suddenly recovered.
He had a feeling that if he could figure out why the Coral had recovered, the difficulties of Coral cultivation might be resolved in the future.
Night diving was nothing to Lu Ao.
Since Huang Ningna insisted, he took Huang Ningna and Lin Qiyan down again.
Lin Qiyan silently followed beside them, carrying the heavy underwater camera. His diving skills were a little better than Huang Ningna's, so Lu Ao was not too worried about him.
Huang Ningna recorded, sampled, and analyzed. They did not head back by boat until after ten, and by the time they returned to the hotel, it was already past midnight.
Lu Ao had originally wanted Song Zhou to teleport him home.
But Song Zhou did not agree. Instead, he took him to the city's only five-star hotel, booked the presidential suite, and brought him upstairs to rest.
Lu Ao was so tired that he could