The underwater clearance project was still ongoing. Nikai, as a specialist of the investigation team, was wearing a blue diving combat uniform and standing guard at her post.
The greatest source of fear for humans in the sea wasn't the pressure of the water, but the silence.
The lights were dim, and the pressure of the water meant that all the humans moved slowly. All was quiet, as if one was in a sealed box. They were desperate to escape this accursed silence and oppression, but the icy sea water always surrounded them.
The seaweed was like the extended arms of ghosts and demons, and fish of various strange forms waved their fins and tails as they watched these land creatures who had intruded upon their world from the shadows.
