The Underwater Alliance Chapter 1

When the end of the world comes, the protagonist is on a ship...

Because of fairy tales and legends, the sirens that bring disaster and fear have become beautiful and kind mermaids in people's minds.

In fact, their way of loving is to use all means to drag people into the endless waves, even if it means death, they will get it, even if it means hugging a corpse, they will never let go, and will whisper in the ears of suffocating and desperate people, you are mine, but mine...

↑According to the author's usual level of deception, someone will tell you that if you believe the above words, you lose╮(╯_╰)╭

Living in the end times, with his life uncertain and his life waiting for death in desperation, Benjamin Xia encountered an unimaginable accident when he thought he would be swallowed by a sea monster.

The main storyline has no impact. We apologize for the trouble this has caused you.

January 8, Ross Sea, Antarctica.

This is a large bay surrounded by a narrow coastline extending from the South Pacific Ocean into the Antarctic continent. It is larger than the two provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan combined and is covered with ice all year round. In the beautiful intersection of ice and blue, there are two or three deep black holes and narrow cracks that can barely allow small ships to navigate. Below is the extremely cold sea water.

But at this moment, this quiet and distant ice sea was boiling. Countless chubby penguins and seals staggered forward and jumped into the cold sea water one after another. The icebergs in the distance made a huge roar, which was the ice sheets melting and breaking.

"really weird!"

A whaling ship passing through the Ross Sea, the crew members on board all looked sideways.

Penguins will leave some of their companions behind to look after the younger members. It is really weird to see them dragging their young ones into the sea without thinking, regardless of whether the chicks have learned to swim or not.

"Leave quickly! The ice may be broken! It will be troublesome if we are trapped here!"

Everyone on the boat started shouting, but somehow the propeller kept turning slower and slower, and finally stopped. The motor made a strange, harsh noise, and as the crew were cursing, the whole boat suddenly started to shake strangely.

"God, what is that?"

A long tentacle thicker than a bucket broke through the ice. What made people shudder was that it was not covered with densely packed round suction cups, but extremely sharp barbs. Water droplets fell from it one after another, so bright that they were reflecting the light.

And then the second one!

It hit the hull with a clean bang, and the steel made a teeth-grinding creaking sound.

The whaling ship lost its balance, with one end tilted high up, and cold sea water poured in. Although the crew who fell off the deck grabbed something firm in time, the entire ship was entangled and was dragged under the sea in less than fifteen seconds.

A person will die in one minute under the icy sea water. He will not die from drowning but from freezing to death.

Some strong crew members managed to hold on a little longer. In the last moments of their lives, they looked at the icy depths of the sea in despair. A pair of terrifyingly large black eyes were staring at them fiercely. Their huge bodies only stretched out three tentacles and easily dragged a ship into the sea. Two much longer tentacles floated in the sea, and they leisurely let seals and penguins trample on their bodies.

These crew members who died in vain did not know that terrible changes were taking place above the Ross Sea.

The ice was melting at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the seals that didn't have time to escape let out shrill cries.

Under the cold deep water, the sea monster tilted its bulging forehead back and stretched out its tentacles again. The entire ice layer covering the sea water was smashed into pieces by it with great force. Some penguins and seals fell into the sea water smoothly, but it was still a little late. Some were already twitching painfully in the water. Immediately, many seals and penguins swam over. They did not hesitate to use their bodies to hit them, just to quickly carry these injured fellows into the deep sea.

At this time, the crew members who were frozen to death by the cold sea water slowly sank. The sea monster poked them one by one with its tentacles without barbs, probably unable to understand why these humans died faster after reaching a safe place.

Realizing that all signs of life on the ship had disappeared, the sea monster released the three tentacles that were wrapped around the ship.

There were obvious marks of strangulation and horrible mottled marks on the sturdy steel hull. Those were left by the barbs on the sea monster's tentacles. These roughly triangular barbs had extremely sharp tips and would rotate 360   degrees after strangling. Nothing could withstand them.

It was as if an invisible god of death was wreaking havoc. Within just a few minutes, there was no more wailing of any living creatures above the Ross Sea.

Sea water has become the only barrier and the boundary between life and death.

In another fifteen minutes, the ice melted completely, and the bodies of those unfortunate creatures fell into the water. The sea water temperature gradually rose, forcing the surviving penguins and seals under the sea to endure the limit and dive deeper into the sea. They are not fish, and the time they can stay underwater is limited.

This sea monster, which looks like a squid but is more than 40 meters long, is swimming not far from the sea surface. After a while, probably realizing that the sea water has not evaporated, it carefully stretched out its tentacles and emerged from the sea surface. The thin and long tips swayed like tentacles, leaving a long water mark on the sea surface with a splash. Then it immediately sank rapidly, and wherever it passed, there was an echo of infrasound waves that could not be detected by human ears.

As if they understood the meaning of the message, the penguins and seals in the sea began to surface.

But some of them sank into the icy sea forever.

Now there is only one whaling ship floating aimlessly on the ice-free sea.

This might become the ghost ship in the legend. The instruments on the ship are intact, but all the crew members have disappeared.

Or the mottled marks on the hull could prove that it encountered a terrible sea monster.

The kind of terrifying creatures that attack ships and eat humans alive in legends.

***

At 15:51 on January 6, a certain country's satellite detected a terrible change in the atmosphere of a magnetic field hole in the Ross Sea, causing all the ice in an area of   100,000 square kilometers to melt. The direct radiation killed many lives within ten minutes. The sudden thinning of the atmosphere caused the temperature in this Antarctic region, which was in the polar day, to rise sharply, and the sea level rose by several meters. Although the surrounding atmosphere slowly moved in to fill the gap, it was still a disaster tantamount to destructive destruction.

The beginning of doomsday movies or novels is always like this: people are busy starting their day's work, completely unaware that the shadow of death is gradually looming and the world is about to be destroyed. If not, the biological virus has spread, then the aliens have stopped outside the earth's orbit. In short, the poor little people can only panic and struggle in despair in the face of the sudden change.

But when the real doomsday comes, not only are there signs, but the god of death holding a scythe is always slowly moving closer.

But its movements are so slow that they are almost imperceptible.

When people meet, at most they will say a few words about how the climate is becoming increasingly weird, with no distinction between spring and autumn, and summer coming directly after winter. They will support environmental organizations in publicizing the adverse effects of the ozone hole and complain about the increasingly serious global warming. That's all.

"A large number of dead fish appeared on the British coast a few days ago, and at least tens of thousands of bodies were washed up on the beach by the waves. Scientists analyzed that it might be because the sea temperature was too low, which led to the mass death of marine life..."

The female anchor appearing on the LCD screen hanging in the airport terminal is reporting the morning news.

Public places are somewhat noisy, and you can’t hear the news clearly if you are far away. You also need people with good eyesight to see the subtitles.

In the crowd, a man wearing a gray woolen coat and a scarf was flipping through a morning newspaper.

News on page B, with the headline in boldface letters: "A large number of seabirds mysteriously fell to their deaths in a small town on the coast of America."

He suddenly looked up at the TV screen, but the news report had ended. The female anchor was talking about the war situation in the Middle East. The man read the news about the mass death of seabirds in his hand carefully, thoughtfully.

This is one of a series of bizarre deaths of creatures that have occurred in coastal cities around the world over the past week.

The so-called scientific explanation is nothing more than the disparity in climate change or the suspicion of man-made infrasound. It seems quite logical, but anyone who thinks about it carefully will find it strange. How could only this one kind of creature die in the same area? It's like this news article, a kind of small petrel fell like rain in a small town in America, and no signs of poisoning were found, as if they suddenly couldn't fly and fell straight from the sky. But in this small town, other birds and animals were safe and sound.

And from the news just now, it seems that the carcasses washed up on the British coast are all from the same species of fish.

The world is getting weirder and weirder!

The man's name is Benjamin, he is 27 years old, and he is one of the ordinary people in the entertainment industry. He is the kind of person who, when his name is mentioned, will make people think for a long time and then ask, "Who is this? Is he a star?" Obviously, he has acted in many TV series, but his predecessors, peers and even juniors have all become famous, but he is neither up to the same level nor down to the same level. It seems that he is a third-rate actor who only people in the industry know of his existence.

Benjamin was waiting for his flight. Next to him sat a young man with a round face and rimless glasses. He was yawning and looked unhappy. He looked no different from the white-collar workers around him who were doing business. This was Benjamin's assistant Rayan, who had just been with him for three months. In fact, he was also a newcomer in the industry who had just finished training. He had no experience and no ability. Benjamin didn't have much to do, but he was able to keep him busy.

Rayan is short-sighted and likes to make a fuss about little things, but time will slowly temper his character. It doesn't take much, just eight or nine years of experience in this circle, and he will also become a steady, reliable, and excellent agent with a tortuous mind, but the prerequisite is that he really has this opportunity.

"Brother Xia, I told you to go with the company's chartered plane, but you refused to do it and kept dragging it out for a whole day. I wonder what those people are going to say behind your back!" Rayan began to complain, "According to the itinerary, we were supposed to arrive in Sanya at noon today and board the 'Tarasa Luxury Cruise' to the high seas in the afternoon. You didn't even have time to take a look at the beauty of Sanya. If you had come yesterday, you would have been able to..."

Ah, seafood barbecue under the coconut trees, just thinking about it is a pleasure.

Assistants in entertainment media are as tired as celebrities who are busy with filming and running around without even a day off. If they could have a long vacation, they would panic. If celebrity actors have no work, they have no income. What future do they have?

"By the way, Brother Xia, do you think that Boss Han who is dating Sister Liu is really going to marry her? This is a big deal. He first bought 30% of our company's shares, then chartered a luxury cruise ship and invited all the company's artists to join him, and held an annual meeting..."

Rayan's eyes lit up when he thought of the famous ship, the Goddess Tarasa.

It has all the entertainment facilities you need, including a billiard hall, a shooting range, a swimming pool, and even a casino. When it reaches the high seas, it will hold luxurious parties day and night. It is simply a dream scene from a movie.

In fact, Rayan was so excited that he couldn't sleep when the company announced the news a week ago.

Compared to him, Benjamin was not interested at all and just folded the newspaper. At this time, a sweet female voice in the terminal was repeating the flight number of the upcoming security check. Benjamin ignored Rayan's chattering, bent down and pulled the handle of the suitcase, dragging it away first.

"Ah? Brother Xia, wait for me."

Rayan quickly picked up the remaining luggage and ran to catch up.

There were people coming and going in the waiting hall, but Benjamin was inconspicuous. In fact, when he walked outside, he was rarely recognized. It was probably because he was a die-hard fan who would be puzzled after a glance at him, and then suddenly realize what he was after a few more glances.

However, for someone like Benjamin who specializes in playing minor supporting roles,