Faced with the surging tide, Zhang Ming had no time to beg Old Turtle for help and hurriedly scrambled into the Seashell.
In the pitch darkness, only a silvery-white pearl glimmered faintly. It felt cool in his palm, and he sensed a connection with it.
This was probably the strange object that controlled the Seashell's opening and closing, but there was no need to open it now. If seawater flooded in, he would be done for.
"Ah, everything that happened today..."
"It was just too bizarre."
Zhang Ming sighed deeply. The Mysterious Zone held unfathomable depths; the more he learned about it, the more he understood its mystery and terror.
The road home seemed even longer now...
When would he finally get home, brag to his friends and family, and tuck into some KFC?
Forget it, forget it. Stop thinking about it...
He was already mentally exhausted and weak in every limb. Thinking about these depressing things only left him more dazed.
He might as well think about something more interesting.
"Hey... I saw a big geoduck while I was running for my life. It looked pretty tasty... but the seawater must have swept it away by now."
"Was that fat fish a pufferfish? They say pufferfish meat is delicious. I should be able to eat a little now, right?"
"Pufferfish liver has the most pufferfish toxin. I'll have a serving of that."
"And jellyfish... now that I've broken through my bottleneck, I can eat those too. I wonder what they taste like."
Zhang Ming kept daydreaming about them, because his good friend the sea turtle loved eating jellyfish.
With a curl and a slurp, the turtle sucked a jellyfish down as though it were bubble gum.
Zhang Ming had considered trying them several times, but had never dared.
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