This was the first time that Markshas—and even the entire operation team—had seen their enemy clearly.

The camera above Marksias' head captured the opponent's whole body. It was a humanoid creature, surprisingly short in stature. The height is no more than 1.2 meters, the whole body is covered with blue scales, the torso is curled up and the back is raised like a turtle, and each arm has three fingers, with thick joints and frog-like webs growing between the fingers. The face and neck are covered with scales, the mouth has a bony protuberance like a bird's beak, and a pair of weird scarlet snake eyes.

That image makes people involuntarily think of the legendary Kappa. But this monster does not have the iconic bald head and lotus leaves of the kappa, and the kappa should not have blue scales, and it is holding a bone blade made of the bones of more than one creature.

The bone blade was also of particular concern. The black blade in Marchesias' hand was made of a special alloy, sharp enough to cut gold and iron. However, in the collision just now, he failed to cut the opponent's bone blade, and the hardness of the bone of something could be higher than that of steel!

"die!"

Markesias was obviously also really angry. This usually silent boy let out a rare angry cry, trying to cut off the monster in front of him on the spot with more force on his double blades.

In fact, his current state is not much better than that of seeing the gods, the two of them floated up together, and the severe decompression sickness and nitrogen narcosis are also affecting his body at this moment. At this moment, his blood was also churning like boiling, and just moving his muscles would bring back amazing pain.

This pair of partners had also killed an opponent who was much more dangerous than this for many years, but today they were so embarrassed in front of such an enemy, which made the young man uncontrollably furious, and his killing intent boiled like a sea of ​​anger.

"Squeak——!"

After the phantom was pierced by Marchesias, the creature showed obvious panic, and screamed sharply at Marchesias. The exposure to the light obviously made it extremely uncomfortable, and it started to run back and escape obviously, trying to escape from this area in a panic.

"It wants to escape!"

Someone shouted this in the cabin, and everyone present could see that it had this intention. But even Marchesias, who met it face to face, couldn't stop its movements. It obviously has a structure different from that of the human body, and even if it can support it, it can also fly backwards against common sense in this situation.

"Don't chase!"

Seeing that Markesias clearly had the intention to take action, Xi Wei hurriedly stopped her in the channel:

"Don't fight with him! You are wearing diving suits that are far more fragile than usual. Once this deep diving suit is scratched, it will be fatal to you!"

"..."

So Markesias stopped flying, and he cautiously returned to Jian Shenxiu's side, the two of them panting heavily together.

The two of them stood back to back, taking deep breaths, trying to balance the pressure difference between the internal body and the outside world, trying to relieve the symptoms of decompression sickness. Just listening to the bellows-like breathing of the two people in the channel, one can feel how bad their state is at the moment. The sound of breathing is mixed with the groans of the internal organs, and the two of them seem to use all their strength just to swallow.

They have just floated up hundreds of meters. Under normal circumstances, the decompression at this depth will last for several hours anyway. If they want to ensure safety, they will even need to decompress for several days. However, all the fleeing and fighting between the two just happened within ten minutes. The extremely dangerous and dangerous environment of the deep sea put too much pressure on this operation.

"Go back to the diving bell first."

Xi Wei persuaded in the channel.

"We have already discovered the real body of the enemy, and we will make a long-term plan after the elimination of the enemy."

[Today's operation has failed. ]

The same idea also emerged in Nanami Kazumiya's mind. He is also from the Department of Biology, but his judgment of the situation is even more accurate than that of Xi Wei who studies marine life. He knew very well that Shenxiu and Marcheshas had definitely reached the limit of the human body, and even real sea fish would be severely injured in the face of such intense decompression. The fact that the two are still conscious now has proved that they are worthy of being the strongest combination of the Search Bureau. But no matter what they say, it will not change the fact that they must receive treatment immediately, and they may not last a quarter of an hour if it is delayed.

Think long term? Considering the current state of the two, this is indeed the most reasonable suggestion. But in the camera, neither Shenxiu nor Markeshas showed signs of continuing to rise, and the two even descended a little tacitly. In the camera of the diving bell, the figures of the two can be seen gradually moving away from the diving bell.

"Sir?!"

A strong feeling of badness began to emerge in Xi Wei's heart. Looking at the two people on the screen, she suddenly understood what they were thinking.

really. No matter from any point of view, temporary retreat is the most reasonable approach.

But this operation was not a reasonable thing from the beginning, and the search bureau couldn't find a second diving team at all. If you see Shenxiu and Marchesia returning to the diving bell at this moment, wait for them to return to the boat, spend a few more days to complete the decompression, choose a sunny weather for the second dive, and complete all the steps. The series of processes took at least a week——

The rescue operation, presumably, can also be directly renamed as a corpse search operation.

"Be quiet, Xi Wei."

Sure enough, seeing Shenxiu's voice sounding like this on the channel. The extremely bad state made his voice hoarse, and it was difficult to maintain the calmness of the past, and he even showed unconcealable fatigue from the inside out. However, everyone could still hear the determination in those words.

"The battle is still going on."

"..."

But Qihai Hegong was stunned when he heard this sentence, his eyes widened in disbelief.

"Your bodies are almost reaching their limits! You need to return to the diving bell immediately to adjust the pressure for treatment!"

"It's still around."

But seeing Shenxiu's reply just came through the channel like this. When he was talking, the sinking of him and Marchesias was still going on, and the two people in the camera were getting farther and farther away from the camera, seeing Shenxiu looking around vigilantly while talking.

"Xias, try to find his location again."

"You are really crazy! Do you think this is also handsome?" Nanami Kazumiya's eyes widened, and he said angrily in the channel. "You are really going to die! You are playing with your own lives!"

"Did you know that fishermen catch fish from the deep sea, if they feel that the size is not suitable and they want to release it into the ocean, do they need to make a hole in the belly of the fish?"

However, seeing Shenxiu suddenly said such words in the channel, a pair of tactical daggers slipped from the satchel into his hands, and he flipped his wrists and fluttered like butterflies in the water.

"Because even fish can die of decompression sickness if they don't poke a hole. The water pressure is equal, it's just as affected by it as we are."

"..."

Nanami and Gong were stunned.

"It's very smart, this time it came back useless, next time it might not come out again."

Seeing that Shenxiu licked his sticky lips due to ulceration, he licked a little fishy and sweet breath.

"One dive is expensive, and the boat was borrowed from Asahina's family. If we miss this time, we may not have a second chance."

"..."

Qihai and Gong were silent, because what Shenxiu said was also true.

"The surroundings are chaotic...it has the ability to control water waves." Markesias whispered into the conversation at this time: "I lost his position."

"It's okay, the killing intent became obvious in the darkness. Ahem, it got angry and wanted to hunt us down—coincidentally, so did we."

Seeing Shenxiu coughing and saying, the bloodshot eyes made his pair of red pupils look extraordinarily ferocious, but he kept taking deep breaths, his forehead was dripping with sweat, like a wounded beast forcing himself to calm down, only In order to swing the most deadly claw at the most appropriate time.

"The killing intent exposed his position, this time it's me, and you are responsible for making up the knife."

"Okay." So Markesias nodded immediately, and the two adjusted their postures and switched their tasks.

...

"...You are really going to die. You still have a quarter of an hour at most. It can be delayed for a quarter of an hour until you die."

At this point in the conversation, Qihai knew very well that he could not change his decision to see Shenxiu, and the white-haired boy gradually calmed down from the excitement just now. However, this sentence still blurted out from his mouth subconsciously, the voice was low, as if he was speaking to himself.

"You are betting your own lives on an opportunity that may never come."

"Isn't the whole life a big gamble? Time, money, status, body and even life, everything is your bet. You are always actively and passively investing in something, and then expect it to bring you Greater rewards, always calculating gains and losses, but don't know why to gamble. Cough cough..."

Jian Shenxiu grinned and coughed dryly, staring at the surroundings while speaking, looking for a strange location. However, in this tense moment, he was still answering the boy's question, and he kept talking non-stop.

"But one day you will encounter something, and you will never give in to everything related to this matter. At that moment, all the haggling over the years has meaning, and you have been living to be able to hold All your bets are placed on the poker table. You no longer care about what gains or losses, what rewards. You just want to do that and keep that bottom line. That is the meaning of your life."

The black-haired searcher swayed in the water waves, his mouth and nose began to bleed, dripping on the transparent mask of the diving suit, forming conspicuous stains, and making his already pale skin even more bloodless . But that tactical dagger was firmly held in his hand, and he never relaxed at all from the beginning to the end.

"Stop talking." Qihai and Gong gritted their teeth and struggled. "You have ten minutes at most."

"Ten minutes? Enough. I bet on myself anytime. And you..."

Seeing Shenxiu smiled. He was in a terrible state, his long black hair was wet with sweat and scattered on his forehead, making this smile look really unconvincing. But suddenly his eyes lit up, and at that moment you didn't feel at all that this was a person under heavy pressure.

At that moment, the man's voice instantly rose, and a strong killing intent suddenly emerged from him, as if thousands of sharp knives burst out from him. For a moment, everyone in the channel retreated subconsciously, as if they were afraid of being cut by the killing intent.

"Learn no matter when!"

But that killing intent wasn't aimed at everyone in the channel, they just spread a little bit with their blooming edge. The second after the voice fell, Shenxiu suddenly rushed out in one direction, and the figure wrapped in the diving suit was so sensitive that he was as graceful as a dragon! He pierced through the dark deep sea and stabbed the sharp blade in his hand, the power was unstoppable piercing through gold and cracking stones!

He guessed right! That weirdness really didn't go away. Under the dual effects of seeing through the illusion and decompression sickness, it was surprisingly angry. It used the dark sea water to quietly lurk near the two and still wanted to kill the two prey. But the growing killing intent revealed its position. This time, under the surprised eyes of everyone on board——

See Shenxiu grab the upper hand!

"Bet on me to win—!"

"squeak--!"

In the darkness, the sharp blade in the man's hand pierced precisely into the crevice of its ribs, piercing through its heart! The monster's gills suddenly let out a distorted neighing, it never thought that such a change would happen, the killing intent disappeared in an instant, and it wanted to escape in a hurry, but seeing Shenxiu's hands tightly holding it like iron tongs, the wound As the struggle intensified, dark blood like ink poured out from the wound, like flowers blooming in sea water.

"Squeak——!"

Markesias also followed quickly, piercing the monster's shoulder blade with one hand to fix himself, and frantically piercing the monster's body one after another with the other hand. This one-meter-two monster has not lost its mobility after suffering such trauma, screaming and struggling to escape. The scales and bone spurs on its body tore through the two's diving suits, and a large amount of oxygen emerged from the two's openings and turned into countless bubbles, rushing upwards. The air pressure in the gas cylinders of the two plummeted, but seeing Shenxiu still laughing wildly, he never let go of the sharp blade in his hand.

"Die to me!"

The three of them rolled into a ball in the sea, and quickly sank into the deep sea under the pull of the monster. As the wound expanded, the flesh and blood festered to reveal the white bones, which were so strong that they were not damaged in such a collision. It was only at this time that everyone knew what material the weapon it used was made of, it was clearly from the bones of its own family.

etc……

Same race?

While the three were fighting in the deep sea, at some point, a black shadow with a height of two meters quietly appeared in the camera of the diving bell through the undercurrent of the water waves.

That is--!

The monster also seemed to have noticed the gazes of everyone on board. The strange face with blue scales before the action obviously turned to the camera, and showed a distorted and ferocious smile. Then, in front of everyone, held the bone blade high rise.

At that moment, a chill suddenly rushed into the minds of everyone on board.

"No!"

Xi Wei realized what it was going to do, and exclaimed from her mouth immediately.

But it was too late to do anything. They could only watch helplessly as the white bone blade faced the black cable called [umbilical cord] that transported oxygen, electrical signals and hot water to maintain the lives of the two of them——

all down.

[click——]

There was a hoarse electric sound, the pictures of the two people's body cameras, and the voices of the two people in the channel.

Disappeared in an instant.

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