That amount of air was enough to ensure he could return safely.
Lu Ao relaxed slightly. He gradually began to enjoy this empty, solitary feeling in the deep sea.
He swam downward nimbly, his chest growing slightly warm. He wanted to shift back into Dragon Form, but reason forcibly restrained the impulse.
Twenty meters, ten meters, five meters... He was about to reach the seabed.
Lu Ao narrowed his eyes and continued downward.
He had reached the seabed.
Suddenly, a fish shot toward Lu Ao like a cannonball. Startled, he instinctively dodged aside.
The frightened fish darted away and vanished in an instant.
Lu Ao steadied himself and looked closely. The fish's rounded tail looked especially familiar.
Who knew what kind of damned luck he had? On his very first dive, he had found the mission target.
Lu Ao stood there in a daze, his emotions complicated.
After a long while, he raised a hand to the cameras fixed to his buoyancy control vest. With a twist of his fingers, he crushed both cameras one by one.
Since this was not a Chinese scientific expedition team, he could not let news of his discovery of the Spear-tail Fish leak out.
At most, he would help them fill two extra bags of sand.
He would have to collect the sand elsewhere as well, lest they analyze any traces.
Discovery
Lu Ao searched underwater for over twenty minutes and soon found traces of the Spear-tail Fish.
There should have been quite a few Spear-tail Fish in these waters. He spotted four—three large and one small. All were extremely cautious. Apart from the first one that had been startled into darting out, the other three hid among the rocks, quietly exposing only tiny parts of themselves.
Lu Ao ignored them. He found a