Because behind the coral reef was a giant sea turtle, entrapped by a fishing net that had wrapped around its neck, preventing the sea turtle from retracting its head.
And because it was unknown how long it had been tangled in the net, the sea turtle’s neck was deeply indented by the ropes of the net, the surrounding flesh turned white, and the wounds had festered.
Wen Xian was even more shocked by this scene.
While swimming over here just now, everything under the sea looked so beautiful, but it didn’t take long to discover a giant sea turtle that had been trapped here indefinitely.
It might even have been trapped for several years.
At this time, Lu Xiao had already taken out a dagger and was approaching the giant sea turtle, cautiously trying to cut through the net.
Wen Xian helped him hold down the giant sea turtle.
Seemingly feeling the pain, the giant sea turtle struggled slightly, and Wen Xian, looking at its festering wounds, felt an especially unpleasant feeling in her heart.
She knew that this giant sea turtle was almost several decades old, much older than her, and should be swimming freely in the vast, endless ocean; yet, at this moment, it was trapped here because of human error, deprived of its freedom.
Gradually, the sea turtle seemed to understand they were trying to save it, and it stopped struggling, simply stretching its neck, waiting for the net to be cut.
Wen Xian felt particularly heartbroken, and just then, she saw something else in her field of vision and was instantly shocked.
Not far away, another giant sea turtle was swimming towards them.
Wen Xian’s eyes inexplicably warmed up.
It turned out that this sea turtle had been with the trapped turtle all along, accompanying it.
Even though the trapped turtle had been unable to leave this place for years, it had always been guarded by the other.
After the sea turtle arrived, it swam around them.
It seemed to understand everything they were doing.
Wen Xian couldn’t help but stroke the thick shell, soothing it.
At this moment, Lu Xiao finally managed to cut through the thick fishing net. As the net was embedded in the flesh, he retracted his knife, carefully removing the net from its neck.
The giant sea turtle instantly freed itself from the net’s control, flapping its flippers in the sea, and darted out like flying.
Immediately, the other turtle swam over, and the two turtles were finally free.
However, after swimming around for a bit, they returned, and Wen Xian took out some underwater-specific anti-inflammatory medicine, swam over, and applied it to the injured turtle’s wounds.
The other turtle, meanwhile, circled around her flipping over, as if happily dancing.
After everything was taken care of, the two turtles swam in circles in front of them, seemingly reluctant to leave, and as Wen Xian and Lu Xiao swam with them a while longer, they eventually parted ways.
They swam towards deeper waters, farther places, into the vast ocean.
A trapped sea turtle meant the loss of freedom for two.
These turtles, having lived for decades, were very spirited.
And what moved Wen Xian the most was that when its other half was in danger and even lost its freedom, the other accompanied and protected it all along.
This behavior is something many humans would find difficult to achieve.
Wen Xian and Lu Xiao continued swimming, clearing a lot of plastic waste from the seabed, until Wen Xian felt somewhat weak, and the two of them returned to the surface, back onto the submarine.
As Wen Xian surfaced, she removed her breathing tube, took off her diving mask and placed it on her head, breathing deeply the fresh air above the sea.
Lu Xiao also surfaced.
Without a word, Wen Xian swam towards him and hugged him tightly.
[Jiuge: More updates tonight, babies, ask for some little stars first!]