Barry ran into the dormitory smelling bad, and Qin Minghuang walked slowly behind him.
She walked to a dormitory, knocked on the wide-open door, and said to the flirting couple inside, "Excuse me, what kind of marine life is being studied at this marine life research base?"
Li Xi sat on Lei's lap, turned to look at her, and casually replied: "How should I know? The employees who really did the research have left. I'm not responsible for that."
Lei looked Qin Minghuang up and down, expressed regret for her not-so-full breasts and buttocks, and then withdrew his uninterested gaze.
Qin Minghuang: "Okay, then do you know what else is kept in the pool at the base?"
Although he had no sexual interest in her, she was a member of the opposite sex after all, so Lei still answered her: "Most of them have been salvaged and moved away. Maybe there are still two sharks left in the indoor pool?" He spoke casually, and seemed unsure.
Qin Minghuang: “…” Amazing, two sharks. If there were really two sharks in that pool, they would have been dead and sunk to the bottom of the water by now. No wonder the water in the pool stinks.
"I noticed that the water in the pool hasn't been changed for a long time, and no sharks have been fed. Are all the sharks dead?"
Lei opened his mouth to answer, but Li Xi covered his mouth with a jealous look, forbidding him to care about other women. She said impatiently, "Let him die. The person in charge has locked us up here and doesn't care about us. Why should we care about sharks? Just take care of yourself! If you want, take care of it yourself and don't bother us."
Facing a door that almost hit him in the face, Qin Minghuang touched his nose and said, "Okay, I'll take care of it myself."
Knowing that there might be two sharks in the pool, she really wanted to go and see if they were still alive.
She turned back to the indoor pool, fumbled for a while, and opened the entire wall and all the windows facing the pool. The light from outside immediately illuminated the empty indoor pool.
The next step was to drain the water, which would take some time. She found a chair and sat on the platform at the junction of indoor and outdoor areas, waiting for the water in the pool to drain.
She first sat up straight and elegantly subconsciously, but then she remembered that she had been transformed from a laid-off girl into a refugee in another world, so why should she care about her image? No one here knew her.
So she relaxed herself for a second, assumed the most comfortable sitting position, and let out a long sigh.
It's so cool—
She looked at the strange empty sea gradually approaching on the horizon and gave a subtle, inappropriate smile.
She became a candidate for the clan daughter when she was very young, and later was chosen as the new generation clan daughter. She had to pay attention to her image all the time and be particular about this and that, which was too tiring for her.
Unlike Ming Hui, the eldest daughter of the Qin family, she was born into a branch of the Qin family. Her family was very poor, and because her parents had both passed away, she was sent to the Qin family orphanage.
With such a background, she was able to become a daughter of a clan, of course not because of luck or her ability to eat, but because she went through rigorous examinations and hard training, and stood out among many girls of the same age.
The position of a clan daughter was too important, so before she became a clan daughter, she had to go through a variety of assessments. The use of body movements, martial arts, and cold skills was fine, but what she couldn't stand the most was the cumbersome etiquette, manners, conversation, and appreciation classes. The teachers at the Qin Clan basically trained them to be a group of savages who could fight, and then forced them to be elegant beauties.
Qin Minghuang thought with a sigh, after studying so hard for so many years, she became unemployed as soon as her wife came. She was considering whether to go to other places in the Qin family to make some contributions, but she ended up in a different world just after she got started.
Life is so unpredictable.
While lamenting the impermanence of life, she happily decided to let herself go from now on. She would no longer be the woman who couldn't even say dirty words to others, had to pay attention to the amplitude and posture of her walking, and always manage her facial expressions.
"My Lord, I don't know if you are responsible for my ability to travel through time after my death, but I know you are definitely protecting us. If you can hear me, I have no intention of disrespecting you. If I do something that embarrasses you, please bear with me. I am forced to do this for a living."
Qin Minghuang skillfully clasped his hands together and prayed, then happily let go of all psychological pressure and burdens.
Qin Minghuang: "Hehehehehehahahaha, no one can control me now!"
She stared at the empty sea in the sky with a swelling look and burst into laughter. In the pool behind her which was more than half drained, a huge black shadow was also expanding.
That thing was entrenched in the pool, with more than twenty octopus-like tentacles stretched and entwined in the water. The place where the tentacles converged was not an octopus head, but more like a giant sea anemone, like a blooming flower disk, with overlapping "petals" opening and closing and wriggling, giving a feeling that was both weird and beautiful.
As if noticing the falling water level, he floated up from the water and approached the edge of the pool. His black tentacles with three rows of round suction cups rested softly on the edge of the pool.
At that moment, the black tentacles turned the same white as the floor tiles beside the pool, and his body in the water turned the same color as the water, and the "head" exposed to the air - the sea anemone became transparent.
He hid himself perfectly.
Hearing the faint sound of water behind him, Qin Minghuang turned his head and squinted his eyes at the calm pool.
Just at that moment, she seemed to hear the sound of something moving.
Could it be a shark in the water? No way, if it's not dead yet, it must be very strong.
She walked to the edge of the pool and looked down, and was puzzled to find that even though the water level in the pool had dropped to this level, there was still no sign of a shark.
Not giving up, she prepared to walk around the pool to take a closer look. The moment she raised her foot, a soft tentacle landed right where she was standing, making a clicking sound.
Qin Minghuang seemed to be completely oblivious to the noise, and was concentrating on searching for sharks in the water. But after a circle, she had to admit that there were no sharks in the water. She might have been deceived by the couple, otherwise how could there not be even a trace of shark remains when the water level had dropped to the bottom of the pool
"Could it have been transferred to the pool outside?" she said to herself, and walked towards the pool outside, draining the water in that pool as well.
There is a small platform connecting the indoor and outdoor pools. Just as a few transparent tentacles were about to explore the outdoor pool, the tips of the tentacles turned the same dark green as the pool water, and then the pool water was released with a clang, and the water level dropped rapidly.
The tentacles hanging by the edge of the pool failed to touch the water surface. A dark green color flashed in the air, then turned transparent again and retracted.
"Damn, there are no sharks outside. I was looking forward to it." Qin Minghuang waited until the water in the pool outside was drained, left the pool with green hair in disappointment, and went back indoors.
In the drained indoor pool, there is a layer of dirty stuff attached to the bottom and walls of the pool. Even if you touch it with gloves, the sticky and slippery touch makes your scalp tingle.
Qin Minghuang tried to wipe it twice and gave up.
No wonder Barry and the others didn't come to clean it. It would be too tiring for one or two people to clean such a large pool.
She took off her gloves and rummaged around in the tool room next to the sink. There were some instruments there that seemed to be related to cleaning the sink, but she had never touched them before so she couldn't recognize them and didn't know how to use them.
If you give her a gun at this time, she might be able to get familiar with it faster.
There was no gun, but she found a water gun.
She had never used a high-pressure cleaning water gun before, so she spent some time figuring out how to use it.
She held the water gun head and flushed it towards the pool, watching the spraying water wash away the dirt on the pool wall, revealing the original white color underneath.
Amid the sound of splashing water, the monster that had left the pool wriggled its thick tentacles back into the pool.
The sound of the water gun echoed throughout the room, but the sound of the monster entering the water was insignificant and did not attract attention. However, Qin Minghuang did not use the water gun to flush the monster step by step, but rather flushed it randomly like playing.
The monster stayed at the bottom of the pool and was nearly hit by the water gun several times, so he could only keep moving and was chased around by the directionless water column.
Qin Minghuang had been cleaning the "empty" pool with a normal expression, but for some reason, he could not help laughing out loud occasionally, and no one knew what he was laughing at.
She spent a day cleaning the pool and replacing it with clean water. The previous filth and stench were swept away, and even the old house looked a lot brighter.
The water in the pool was clear. Qin Minghuang looked at the transparent, empty pool, smiled again, and walked out shaking off his clothes that were mostly wet.
She murmured quietly, "Should we add salt to the water? I hope we won't die if we use fresh water."
Leaving the indoor pool, Qin Minghuang looked at the camera next to him intentionally or unintentionally.
She had discovered when she was wandering around that there were many cameras in this base, so many that it was a bit ridiculous, just like the ridiculously high walls.
Isn’t it strange
Moreover, these cameras are still working. Several other colleagues said that they could not contact the person in charge and no one is in charge here. So who is watching these cameras
Logically, there should be a monitoring room in the base where the images captured by these cameras can be seen, but she didn't find any monitoring room at all.
She had long felt that this place was not a marine life research base, but more like a place for some mysterious experiments, just like those horror movies she had seen before, where there were always some Frankenstein monsters hiding in some secret place observing everything.
After the experience of cleaning the pool just now, she is now more certain of this. Doesn't Frankenstein like to study some weird things
After taking a look at the surveillance video, Qin Minghuang twisted her sleeves and walked into the restaurant. After doing physical labor for so long, she would starve to death if she didn't eat something.
In the clear indoor pool, strange flowing patterns suddenly appeared in the transparent water. Those patterns changed into various colors in the water, outlining the shape of scattered tentacles, and quickly turned back to translucent, and finally completely invisible in the water, no longer visible to the naked eye.
The surveillance camera nearby was quietly recording all of this, and the man sitting behind the camera also saw the scene just now. From the moment Qin Minghuang walked to the pool, cleaned the pool, and then left, the man behind the camera watched motionlessly, with a fanatical, expectant light in his eyes.
In the dim room filled with surveillance screens, he held his trembling hands, his handsome face distorted due to excessive excitement.
"Great, it didn't repel her!"
He clicked on the surveillance video again and used another capture device to capture the invisible sea creature on the computer. Its movement trajectory became extremely obvious here.
The man watched it approach the woman several times and put its tentacles at her feet, with uncontrollable joy on his face.