Chapter 2: Deep Sea Terror

The huge monster beneath him slowly lay under the mermaid's shadow and stopped moving. It unexpectedly became extremely docile, like a loyal hound guarding its master's tomb.

Medusa held his breath, forced himself to calm down, turned on the brighter searchlight on his wrist, and swam up. The light depicted the appearance of the mermaid inch by inch. Although he had read almost all the historical materials about mermaids, he was still shocked by its appearance and forgot to breathe for a moment.

It stood quietly in the ice, like an ancient fossil preserved in amber. Its dark curly hair was frozen in a cloud-like upward shape, covering most of its face. It seemed that it had sunk here from the sea above, and it was unknown whether it was dead or alive.

Similar to the video footage of a black-tailed mermaid he had seen before, the tail of this mermaid was also about three meters long, but it was a golden color that had never appeared in any previous photos or videos. The tightly packed scales seemed to be carved out of gold, like an ancient artifact from an Egyptian tomb... Gorgeous, dazzling, and extremely aggressive, it was dazzling, especially the six-leaf tail fin that flowed with a bright halo, like the six wings of an archangel in mythology, as if it was melted from the sun's rays.

Looking upwards, the mermaid's upper body seemed to have a skin color that was a slightly darker cold bronze after being tanned because of the sun-like glow emanating from the fish's tail; it was obviously a male, with graceful, streamlined and tight muscles, but its bones did not seem to have fully grown, like a young mermaid.

After noticing the abnormality on its chest, Medusa's hand holding the searchlight paused - there was a strange dark golden totem on the mermaid's chest, but what surprised him was not this, but the mermaid's heart...

There was a foreign object embedded in it.

It turned out to be a long, curved blade. The surface of the blade was as white as biological bones, and had undulating texture like a snake's spine. It pierced through the mermaid's chest.

With such serious injuries, can this mermaid... still be alive?

His heart sank, and Medusa involuntarily reached out his hand.

"Snap."

The moment her fingertips touched the ice, a crack appeared on the ice in front of the mermaid's chest.

The moment he instinctively retracted his hand, a bunch of white unknown soft objects rushed out from the cracks, split into several thin filaments, wrapped around his five fingers like the tentacles of some creature, and climbed up the back of his hand. The ice in front of him seemed to be squeezed by this horrible thing, covered with radioactive cracks, and broke into pieces.

The icy water from the Antarctic glacier gushed onto the mask, and among the broken ice fragments, he unexpectedly saw the mermaid's face among the black hair.

——It was indeed a face belonging to a teenager, about sixteen or seventeen years old in human terms. It looked just like its fish tail, like a work of art from ancient times, with extremely handsome features as if carefully carved, deep brows and cold bronze skin, making it look as if it had the blood of ancient Egyptians or Persians. At this moment, because it closed its eyes and was sleeping, all its edges were restrained, appearing quiet and mysterious, which made him think of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, who died young and was famous for his curse.

Could this thing wrapped around his hand also be a cursed object?

Medusa grabbed the unknown object wrapped around his wrist, pulled out his diving knife and cut it off. The white tentacles did not break at all, but tightened suddenly, and more of them rushed out from the gaps, pulling him to the completely cracked ice surface.

——The next moment, he suddenly met the mermaid’s opened eyes.

The cold green pupils reflected the light of the searchlight, emitting a circle of faint light, glowing with a bloodthirsty wildness, like the eyes of a saltwater crocodile hiding in a dark swamp, staring at him and slowly blinking...

The diamond-shaped pupil shrank into a narrow line.

This mermaid, which had been frozen in the ice for who knows how long, suddenly woke up.

And at this moment...it was obviously full of aggressive intentions.

Medusa pulled the power device ring behind him with force, raised his leg and kicked the mermaid hard. He was bounced backwards by the jet of water. He caught a glimpse of the white tentacles that had condensed into a bracelet on his left wrist, and his heart sank.

Damn it, that was his dominant hand, if it was so useless...

My ankle suddenly tightened!

The whole person was dragged in the water and he looked down.

The mermaid caught him.

The webbed claw that grasped his ankle was sharp and powerful, and had easily penetrated the surface of his diving suit. The cold water from the deep sea flowed in through the cracks, like thousands of steel needles piercing his skin. His body was dragged down by a crazy force, and his back hit the hard rock bed on the seabed, causing a sharp pain as if his spine was broken. He curled up his body to protect the back of his head, but his throat was suddenly strangled by the mermaid's webbed claws!

A black shadow loomed above him, and the mermaid was looking down at him almost face to face, one webbed claw strangling his throat, the other grabbing his calf, and holding him underneath in an almost invasive posture. The strength of this was definitely different from that of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old human skeleton, and was no less terrifying than any mechanical creation used for combat.

The long, curly black hair covered his entire field of vision outside the transparent hood like ink, so that he could only see the pair of narrow green eyes staring at him.

At the same time, a blazing heat rose from the soles of his feet. He looked over and saw that there was a ball of fire clearly burning on the mermaid's golden tail fin...

Flame.

That sun-like brilliance is not just about color...

But it is real fire that can burn in the deep sea..

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