"No!" Fatty covered his head and shouted, "It's not just me, it must have sensed them too, they're not dead! None of us are dead!"

Imperceptibly, the way he referred to himself changed, transitioning from "the woman" to himself.

"Everyone's alive! No, it's you, you're all alive, hey... hey..., all living inside my body..."

......

When he opened his eyes again, he was greeted by dazzling sunlight. Fatty found himself lying on the ground, or rather, on the wet sand, with a wave washing towards him.

He was so startled that he scrambled to his feet.

"Awake?"

It was the doctor's voice.

Fatty turned around in surprise and found the doctor lying not far behind him in a dug-out sandpit, his face covered with a large leaf of unknown origin, blocking the direct sunlight.

If they weren't in such a place, Fatty would have thought he was on vacation.

"Doctor, what's going..."

"How do you feel?" Jiang Cheng removed the leaf. The intense sunlight made it hard for him to open his eyes, so he placed the leaf on top of his head and squinted at Fatty. "If you're okay, take a few steps."

Before he could figure out what was going on, Fatty decided to listen to the doctor. He really did get up and walk around a couple of times, then stomped his feet as instructed.

"Doctor, I feel fine, all parts of my body are working well," he said, forcing himself to stand straight on his slightly numb legs. He swallowed and said with some doubt, "I just want to know what happened?"

"How did I end up here when I opened my eyes?"

Jiang Cheng thought for a moment and said, "You fainted just now, I helped you get over here."

"Just like that?" Fatty blinked, looking incredulous.

"Just like that."

Fatty looked around, then said helplessly, "Doctor, there's no one else here, don't mess with me. With you being so lazy, you wouldn't have bothered to carry me all this way without a good reason, would you?"

His memory had a gap.

He only remembered the doctor asking him a question, and then... then he didn't remember anything. When he opened his eyes again, he was lying here.

Fatty watched Jiang Cheng open his mouth again, and his heart couldn't help but start pounding.

He had a feeling that this lost memory was important to him. If he could get it back, some things would become...

"Don't you know what kind of build you have?" Jiang Cheng said with emphasis, his head covered with the large leaf. "Carry you? You wish. To tell you the truth, you were dragged all the way here by me."

Fatty looked to his side as if seeking confirmation. Sure enough, there was a winding, snake-like trail on the ground, starting not far from his feet and extending to the vicinity of the cliff.

There were also several large arc-shaped pits in the middle.

Fatty could imagine that the doctor must have gotten tired of dragging him and just dumped him on the ground, kicking him and making him roll along.

"If you still have a breath left, come with me to take a look near the forest," Jiang Cheng said with a hum. "If you're dead then..."

"Doctor," Fatty sighed, "I'll go with you."

Although Fatty hadn't directly touched the seawater near the beach, his whole body was still wet from the splashing waves. At the moment, Jiang Cheng was specifically choosing to walk in the shade under the cliffs.

A gust of wind blew, and Fatty couldn't help but shiver.

"Why are you so close to me?" Jiang Cheng asked, tilting his head. "If you're cold, go walk in the sun."

Fatty followed Jiang Cheng with small steps, repeatedly shaking his head and saying, "No, Doctor, being close to you makes me feel very happy."

"Tsk," Jiang Cheng thought for a moment, feeling like he'd heard someone say that before.

Fatty had his own guesses about what happened after he blacked out, but they were all related to the nightmare mission. But with so few clues at the moment, it was obviously unrealistic to try to figure anything out.

Fortunately, the doctor was by his side after he lost his memory.

He might have seen something.

Thinking of this, Fatty pursed his lips and then looked at the doctor. They had already gone around a large circle along the cliff and had now arrived at the edge of the forest.

According to the doctor, he hadn't seen Su Xiaoxiao and her younger brother Su An come out of the forest during the time he was unconscious.

The two of them were probably... in mortal danger.

But only standing here did Fatty truly feel the eeriness of this forest.

The entire forest was silent.

There were no birds singing, and no sounds of small animals running around. The forest... was as quiet as death.

Every tree and every plant within sight looked perfectly normal, but when they were put together, a strange feeling emerged from somewhere.

As his gaze extended inward along the gaps between the trees, the strange feeling became more and more obvious, until Fatty realized something was wrong and tried to withdraw his gaze, but he found that he couldn't.

The darkness in the depths of the forest was like a pool of viscous liquid, and once you touched it, you couldn't pull away. He felt his whole body slowly sinking, sinking further and further...

The surroundings changed to a patch of darkness, as if he was being sunk into the deep sea.

In his ears...

Fatty's pupils, which had been in a state of stagnation, suddenly constricted. In his ears... echoed a wondrous sound.

Melodious, grand, he had never heard anything like it, but almost at the same time, he realized what the sound was...

Whale song!

It must be the whale song they mentioned!!

From the grand sound, he detected the muffled sound of a deep-water bomb exploding, slow yet full of power. It was the whale's heartbeat, he judged almost instinctively.

A vast pressure poured down, instantly shattering the darkness in front of him, and Fatty also woke up in the next second.

His back, which had already been dried by the sea breeze, was once again filled with cold sweat.

He... actually heard it too...

Whale song.

"Get back!"

Fatty, who had not yet recovered, heard a loud roar. He subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound, but was then pounced on by a huge force.

In terms of mass, the thing that pounced on him wasn't heavy, but it had a lot of force, otherwise, even if he wasn't prepared, such a large body wouldn't be just for show.

But the reality was that not only was he pounced on by the thing, but it was also riding on him in a very embarrassing way.

Pressing him down so he couldn't move.

Fatty, whose head was spinning from the impact, finally locked onto the identity of the guy riding on him amid the multiple afterimages. "Doctor?" he called out.

At this moment, the doctor completely ignored him, but immediately got up and looked at the forest. Two figures were supporting each other, stumbling out.

It was Su Xiaoxiao, and her younger brother, Su An.

"Save... save us!"

The moment she saw Jiang Cheng, Su Xiaoxiao's eyes, which had been extremely weak, suddenly burst with a ball of light, but then, as if it had burned out, her body swayed.

The two of them fell to the edge of the forest.