"Something's wrong... this isn't right..."
Hope gazed out the porthole with a grim expression, muttering to himself.
"What? What happened?"
Beside him, Hansent was as frantic as a monkey, craning his neck to look through the porthole in front of him, trying to spot whatever Hope thought was wrong.
"One's missing..."
Hope's murmur came from beside him.
"Wh-what?" Hansent froze, then quickly turned his gaze into the distance.
The flickering orange-red lights stood out vividly in the pitch-black depths.
One, two, three...
Where was the fourth?!
Hansent felt his heart give a slight tremor.
They were in serious trouble!
"I said, one of the giant fish is missing!!"
Hope sounded anxious.
He raised his hand and quickly pulled up the feeds from every working camera around the hull.
The repeated impacts had damaged quite a few cameras. Only those with reinforced protection were still working.
As a result, with the active sonar detection function switched off, the simulated 3D image supplied by Zero had developed some blind spots.
"The first giant fish is gone!"
Hope quickly explained to his teammate, "There are only three giant fish out there now. The one that ate its fill is gone!"
Meanwhile, in the Command Center on Dawn Star, thousands of miles away, the tension had reached its peak.
Where had that giant fish gone?
Just as everyone was puzzling over this, an orange-red glow flashed across the feed from a camera on the Exploration Ship's underside.
"Watch out!"
Seeing it, Lü Yongchang blurted out, "It hasn't left! It's right beside you!"
A moment later.
"Warning!"
"Impact warning!"
The synthesized voice rang in everyone's ears.
Before Hope and Hansent could react, a deafening crash rang out, followed by that familiar shudder.
"Damn it... it's back!!" Fighting his dizziness, Hope managed to say, "What does