Elder brother's garrison

Little White kept moving in the dark waters toward the direction marked by the will of the deep sea. She sank deeper and deeper, and the gurgling sound of the surrounding seawater gradually disappeared as Little White continued to sink.

Inside the seawater shield, Xiaobai took out his phone and turned on the flashlight mode as a light source. Unfortunately, the surrounding seawater was too dark, and the range of Xiaobai's phone light was very limited, only able to see a distance of less than one or two meters in front of him.

But that's enough.

Little White held its breath and continued to sink.

The sinking lasted for a full half hour.

After an incredibly tedious half hour, Xiaobai felt she hadn't even reached the seabed yet. But as she moved around, she discovered numerous building ruins in the surrounding water. These ruins were piled up underwater, reaching an astonishing height. Xiaobai approached the buildings with her phone and observed them closely. She noticed that although the underwater ruins were highly corroded and covered in algae, their shape and size were similar to those on the surface. They were likely fragments of buildings that had collapsed and sunk down the waterway.

Did it fall from above...?

Xiao Bai held his phone and thought for a while before nodding.

Xiao Bai had been wondering why this thing that attracted him was in such an odd location on the seabed. Now that he thought about it, it seemed that this thing that attracted him was originally on the surface of the water, but due to the collapse of the city or some other reason, it accidentally fell from the surface of the water to the seabed.

We're almost at our destination.

—What kind of good stuff is it...?

Xiao Bai gripped his phone with anticipation as he floated through the piled-up building ruins, eventually arriving at a building ruin stacked into a spire after more than ten minutes.

In Xiaobai's mind, her current location perfectly overlapped with the little red cross.

"Right under your feet!"

Xiaobai slowly landed on the wreckage, squatted down and gently touched the steel bars under its feet. The wreckage fragments under Xiaobai's feet had been covered with thick red and green rust from years of underwater erosion, and various kinds of seaweed and snails grew on the rust, forming a seamless whole that was difficult to touch.

As Xiaobai stood on the wreckage, somewhat troubled and unsure of what to do, two dark seawater tentacles grew from the edge of the seawater protective shield that was protecting Xiaobai. The seawater tentacles were like two thick and powerful arms, wrapped around the rusted and solid steel bars, and with a fierce tug, they tore open a large opening in the ruins, big enough for Xiaobai to pass through, with a creaking sound.

It was the will of the deep sea that helped.

Xiao Bai whispered his thanks, then eagerly crawled through the opening.

The ruins were filled with intertwined steel bars and plates, and dark seawater. Each layer was as sturdy as the first. Xiaobai relied on its two seawater tentacles to tear through the ruins and explore downwards. Finally, as the last layer of steel bars and plates was torn apart, Xiaobai landed in a place with a texture similar to rock. It seemed that it had finally reached the seabed.

Xiao Bai stood on the seabed rocks, holding his phone and looking around.

"Huh...it feels surprisingly spacious...is it an open space created by the debris that fell to the seabed?" Xiaobai murmured, bending down and using the light from her phone, which was only a meter or two away, to observe and search her surroundings.

I have arrived at the place marked by the little red cross by the Deep Sea Will, and I have already touched the seabed. Logically speaking, the thing that the Deep Sea Will mentioned that attracted me should be right next to me.

what is it then……

It's a gemstone...

It's equipment...

It's a special kind of machinery...

Or perhaps it's a mysterious treasure that holds secrets about this city...

The more Xiaobai thought about it, the more excited she became. The feeling that the answer was right in front of her made Xiaobai happiest. She simply squatted down and carefully moved around, not letting go of any clue.

then.

As Xiaobai was carefully searching, she felt her toes touch something while she was moving.

The sensation coming from my toes was somewhat peculiar. This feeling was different from the hard, solid texture that Xiaobai had experienced when interacting with the underwater debris; it was soft and squishy.

Huh?

Have we found it?

Xiao Bai quickly turned around and shone the light from her phone on her side.

The phone's light illuminated the seabed around Xiaobai.

Little White looked towards its toes.

then.

The expectant expression on Xiaobai's face froze instantly when he saw what was at his feet.

"Ah—oh!"

Xiao Bai instinctively shouted and sat down hard on his backside, his phone falling onto the seabed rocks with a thud.

Xiaobai sat on the greasy, slippery seabed, supporting herself with her hands behind her. She stared ahead with her eyes open, momentarily at a loss for what to do.

The phone's light, which had fallen to the bottom of the sea, shone straight ahead, illuminating a small area within Xiaobai's field of vision.

With the help of the phone's light, Xiaobai was finally able to see the "object" in front of him clearly.

The "thing" that Xiaobai's toes just touched turned out to be a dark, black hand.

Following the palm, one could see an intact wrist, and an intact arm. Continuing forward along the arm, Xiaobai saw a dark-skinned woman buried among bricks and metal blocks. Most of the woman's body was concealed within the bricks and metal, with only her head and one arm visible.

The dark color is not the color of mud or lime, but rather the skin tone that this body naturally possesses.

The exposed limbs did not show any obvious damage.

But... it remained completely still.

In Xiaobai's perception, this body did not convey any signs of life.

Sitting on the ground, Xiaobai stared blankly at the woman in front of him, subconsciously swallowed, and stood there dumbfounded for a long time.

……

This is a... corpse.

Chapter 1991 The Corpse of the Deep Sea Dean

Sitting on the ground, Xiaobai stared blankly at the corpse in front of her, her mouth slightly open, lost in thought.

In the darkness, the phone that had fallen to the ground was pointing towards the corpse. The light shone on the body, and the dark-skinned corpse remained motionless.

The black corpse in the ruins only had its head and an arm showing. The head was covered with thick mud and grime, making it difficult to see its features for the time being.

but……

It should be safe for now...

Xiao Bai observed the black corpse in front of him. After confirming that all signs of life in the corpse had completely disappeared and that it would not scare him like a zombie in a horror movie, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"...This...what exactly is this..." After catching her breath for a while, Xiaobai finally came to her senses from the shocking scene before her. She mustered her courage and climbed up from the seabed rocks, carefully picked up her phone that had fallen to the ground, and then examined the black corpse from a distance by the light of the phone.

This corpse... is probably not human.

Judging from the extent to which the nearby ruins and wreckage were severely corroded by seawater, this body must have been submerged for more than just a year or two. Furthermore, according to Xiaobai's observation, although the body had been immersed in seawater, the cuticle layer showed no signs of swelling. If it were a human body, it would have rotted away even after only five or six days in water, let alone a year or two.

In other words... this body belongs to the deep sea?

Xiao Bai seemed to be deep in thought.

When ordinary deep-sea creatures die, their bodies are immediately decomposed by the deep-sea atmosphere in the seawater and disappear completely within a few days. The corpse in front of us is so well preserved. Although it is covered with a lot of mud and looks a bit dirty, it can basically be described as lifelike, which is obviously not in line with the standard of ordinary deep-sea creatures.

"What a strange corpse..."

Xiao Bai murmured softly, then looked around.

There was nothing around Xiaobai except for the black corpse, and Xiaobai was currently standing on the little red cross marked by the Deep Sea Will. Logically speaking, the "treasure" she was looking for should be right next to her.

"..." Xiaobai's gaze silently shifted back to the black corpse.

This thing...

Could this be the "treasure" I've been looking for?

Wow……

No way……

This...this is too bizarre...

Xiao Bai never expected that the entity emitting the black light was not a gem, not a machine, not equipment, but a dark corpse.

Xiaobai instinctively gripped her phone tightly, swallowed hard, and nervously crouched down, shining her phone's light on the rubble that was pinning down the black corpse. For a moment, she hesitated to approach.

The ruins that pinned down the black corpse were a pile of heavily rusted steel plates. These steel plates had formed a sandbag-like shape on the seabed. Xiao Bai guessed that these were things that had fallen naturally from above along with the black corpse several years ago. Their sturdiness was average, and Xiao Bai should be able to dismantle them with his seawater tentacles.

Xiao Bai stared at the black corpse with a complicated expression, lost in thought for a long time.

finally.

Curiosity about the corpse overcame resistance, and Xiaobai tried to extend its seawater tentacles to dismantle the steel plates piled up on the black corpse piece by piece.

It was because the corpse in front of him was so well preserved, with its exposed skin naturally black and without any wounds, and its arms and hands slender and well-proportioned, that Xiao Bai's aversion to the dead dissipated by almost half.

If the corpse had any serious injuries, or if Xiaobai accidentally saw any exposed bones or bloody wounds, Xiaobai said he wouldn't even think about it and would turn around and leave without saying a word.

click -

boom--

The seawater tentacles pried apart the rusted scrap iron and steel bars. After the supporting components were removed, the stacked steel plates collapsed with a muffled thud in the water, sinking to both sides. They crashed onto the mud and rocks on the seabed, stirring up large patches of black mud, and the murky seawater spread in all directions.

The seawater mixed with black mud was completely blocked by the seawater shield around Xiaobai, but strong smells of seaweed still penetrated the seawater and entered Xiaobai's nose.

Little White covered its mouth, waiting for the mud and sand in front of it to settle.

After a short while, the view in front of him gradually became clear, and Xiaobai quickly looked in the direction of the black corpse.

"Phew... That's great, it's intact..." Xiaobai murmured with relief after seeing the black corpse beneath the rubble.

The black corpse beneath the ruins finally revealed its full form.

It was the corpse of a woman with a rather voluptuous and mature figure, and skin that was almost jet black. The corpse was dressed in a tattered black and yellow trench coat, which was several sizes too small for its owner, exposing her shoulders, arms, waist, thighs, and other areas. Although the corpse had been buried under heavy rubble and soaked and eroded by seawater for countless years, there were no wounds on the exposed skin.

This is the scene that Xiaobai hopes to see.

Xiao Bai breathed a sigh of relief. The seawater tentacles then enveloped the black corpse, slowly pulling it out of the ruins and dragging it in front of Xiao Bai. Then, two seawater tentacles kept slicing across the black corpse's body, patting away the mud and dirt piece by piece, revealing its previously hidden appearance.

Xiao Bai leaned forward, grabbed the phone, and glanced down at the black corpse's face.

Unlike the ship girls and deep-sea deans in the newbie naval base, whose skin is mostly delicate snow-white or pale white, even the occasional dark-skinned ship girls with exotic features mostly have a healthy bronze or wheat-colored complexion... But the skin of this corpse is so pure and black, like ink, that Xiaobai says he has never seen it before.

“First of all, we can confirm it’s not human…and we can also confirm it’s not an ordinary deep-sea creature…” Xiaobai murmured, approaching the black corpse and gently poking it with her finger. “Oh…the texture of its skin is soft and elastic, just like a living person…why is that…”

Xiaobai released the Admiral's Network, enveloping the black corpse in front of him.

Xiao Bai had considered that perhaps the owner of this corpse wasn't actually dead, but rather in a state of hibernation that was difficult to detect by conventional means. That's why the body hadn't decomposed after sitting on the seabed for so long. However, when Xiao Bai's Admiral Network covered the black corpse, Xiao Bai felt as if his Admiral Network had passed directly through inanimate objects like tables, chairs, rocks, and water without any obstruction. This kind of tactile manipulation of a spiritual entity only occurs with lifeless beings. Clearly... although the body was preserved to a very high standard, this "person" was truly dead beyond any doubt.

"Sigh..." Xiaobai shook his head regretfully.

at this time.

Xiao Bai suddenly felt that the familiar suction force was coming into her body again.

Xiao Bai quickly realized that the will of the deep sea was looking for him again.

That's true.

Having been at sea for so long, hoping to find some treasure, I ended up with this thing instead. It's only natural that the will of the deep sea would want to have a meeting with me.

Xiao Bai closed her eyes, surrendering to the suction within her body and immersing her consciousness in the spiritual world.

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spiritual world.

Xiao Bai's body emerged from mid-air and slowly landed on a grassland.

"Huh? This time it's moved outside from the villa..." After landing on the familiar grassland, Xiaobai subconsciously took a breath of air mixed with the scent of grass, and then muttered as it searched for the figure of the Deep Sea Will around it.

The Will of the Deep Sea stood on an open space not far from Xiaobai, her back to Xiaobai, her head tilted back, silently observing a huge LCD screen in front of her. The scene on the LCD screen was Xiaobai's first-person perspective in the real world, directly facing the black corpse.

“Deep Sea Will…” Xiaobai walked to the Deep Sea Will and called out to it, “I…”

"I didn't know before that the mysterious object that attracted you was this thing." The Will of the Deep Sea stared at the LCD screen in front of him, interrupting Xiaobai's words, then turned his head and calmly looked at Xiaobai, "...I'm sorry, it was my oversight."

"Uh..." Xiaobai closed her mouth, which was halfway open. She scratched her head and said to the Will of the Deep Sea apologetically, "No... no need to apologize... Although I was indeed startled by this corpse at first, it was well preserved. It was a bit black, but thankfully it didn't look like a ghost or a zombie. It was more like a human being, so I wasn't under too much pressure..."

"That's true. If it were a human corpse that had been soaked in water for too long, you'd probably vomit just looking at it."

"..." Xiaobai was silent for a while, "Then... this older sister... shouldn't be human, right?"

"Certainly not."

"That doesn't seem to be the deep sea..." Xiaobai murmured softly.

"No, she is the deep sea," the will of the deep sea spoke.

"...Huh?" Xiaobai was taken aback. The Deep Sea Will's reply puzzled Xiaobai. "Deep Sea Will...you mean she's a deep-sea creature?"

"Yes."