Chapter 221: By the Sea (End)
Seeing a living whale and seeing a dead whale are completely different experiences.
Beyond that, the difference between seeing a whale’s corpse floating on the sea surface and accidentally swimming, alone in the deep ocean, into the gaping mouth of a dead whale is like heaven and earth.
No wonder there had suddenly been a fishless vacuum zone underwater—it turned out this area was actually inside the whale’s mouth!
A wave of intense fear hit Herbert, and he couldn’t control himself, “gurgling” out a stream of bubbles.
As he flailed in panic, the video footage began shaking violently.
[Actually, from the moment I saw those whale harpoons, my consciousness started to blur. It was like being drunk—chaotic light spots appeared before my eyes, everything seemed to come alive, sprouting tentacles, twisting and coiling, emitting strange, dizzying murmurs…]
[The high-pressure environment, deep-sea fear, cold exposure, and nitrogen dissolving into the nervous system causing nitrogen narcosis… all these factors combined pushed me into complete madness. At the most dangerous moment, I even wanted to rip off my breathing mask. Fortunately, Marno noticed something was wrong and swam down to pull me back…]
In the rest of the video, the camera continued to shake wildly.
Everly sped up the playback and skipped through the rest of the footage.