After Skorint sank, the temperature in these waters kept falling.
The Research Vessel could operate fully automatically, so none of the crew wanted to stay on deck.
For that very reason, no one noticed when Chu Mu appeared on deck.
"Are you still there?" Chu Mu asked, standing by the railing.
A whale's call sounded beneath the water.
The gray young whale pushed aside the floating ice and came up beside Chu Mu.
The big creature was not particularly intelligent, possessing only the intellect of a two-year-old human child.
Scientists from the Interastral Peace Corporation stationed on Deep Blue Star had studied the giant whales and confirmed that they were the products of biotechnological modification.
Although this species, which defied the laws of evolution, had gained unimaginable enhancements in the short term, in the long run, it had no potential to evolve and would instead slowly degenerate.
Compared with the original giant whales, the giant whales of today were not only less intelligent but also much smaller.
Even so, this so-called young whale was fifty meters long.
It was probably the last giant whale on this planet.
The giant whales that had dived ten years ago had all become nourishment for the Swarm.
Chu Mu wore a Synesthesia Beacon by his ear. It stored over a hundred million languages, but the giant whales' language was not among them.
To the universe as a whole, the giant whales were a tiny, insignificant race, so insignificant that no one cared what they said.
But to the natives of Deep Blue Star, the giant whales were immense, immense enough to carry an entire civilization, with countless lives and their joys and sorrows unfolding upon their backs.
Chu Mu reached out, rested his hand against the young whale, and said:
"You really did follow