At first, he thought it was a regulator malfunction and was about to get Yan Sheng a spare level 2 head. However, Yan Sheng indicated that this head could not breathe either. Only then did Yan Shenyu realize the seriousness of the problem and quickly took out his own spare level 2 head to share with Yan Sheng.
This time, there were no more problems. Air entered her mouth again, and Yan Sheng's expression gradually returned to normal.
He gestured to Yan Sheng to ask if she wanted to go up, but she said not for the time being and turned her gaze to the coral reef in front of her.
Their slight delay was noticed by the team ahead. Fu Jingran had already swum to the front, and it would take some time to return. Fu Da, who was closest to the diving guide, took a spare oxygen tank and handed it to him.
After ruling out any anomalies, Fu Jingran returned. He felt extremely guilty for abandoning Yan Sheng while engrossed in diving.
He looked at Yan Sheng with concern, made an upward gesture, and asked him if he wanted to end the dive and return.
Yan Sheng shook her head, gave an OK sign, and the two continued forward.
This time, Fu Jingran didn't run around. He stayed close to Yan Sheng the whole time, acting as her backup.
Although Yan Shenyu also enjoys diving, he's not an enthusiast. Worried about someone getting into trouble, he keeps a close eye on all the data and the group's movements.
He glanced down at his diving watch; just 30 minutes had passed, the depth was 24 meters, and all the data was normal.
Yan Shenyu kicked her feet to catch up with the instructor. The diving spot they were at was a cliff, and corals only grew on the side closest to the cliff. Their entire activity route was around the cliff.
This terrain and method of movement made it very difficult for him to detect creatures coming from the side.
He bypassed a dense coral forest, and just as he continued forward, a gigantic animal suddenly emerged from the coral reef beside him, almost grazing past him.
It has a head that resembles that of a Qing Dynasty princess, with a row of sharp teeth sticking out, and a back and body like a shark.
Shark... hammerhead shark...
It almost grazed his nose; Yan Shenyu even felt as if he had touched it!
Yan Shenyu was too scared to move. He stood there, frozen in place, and didn't even dare to breathe, afraid that the bubbles he exhaled would alert the shark to him.
It wasn't until a hand suddenly pulled him that Yan Shenyu came to his senses, and, still shaken, gave Xie Siyan an OK sign.
Shortly after the sharks left, their air tanks were almost empty, and they slowly surfaced under the guidance of their dive guide.
As soon as she surfaced, Yan Shenyu removed the breathing valve from her mouth and exclaimed excitedly, "Did you just see that shark? It practically swam right past my face!!"
“I saw it,” Xie Siyan said, lying on the shuttle boat and reaching out to Yan Shenyu in the sea. “It’s huge.”
Yan Shenyu got up, took off his mask, and was still unable to contain his excitement.
"I've never seen a shark in the sea before. It was so big, I even felt like I touched it! Its head was so flat and soft..."
Xie Siyan nodded and listened quietly to his story. A moment later, he removed the air tank from Yan Shenyu's body and said, "Let me loosen your wetsuit first; it's uncomfortable to be wet and tight."
Yan Shenyu nodded, watching the other diving buddies emerge from the sea one after another, and couldn't help but ask excitedly, "Fu Jingran, when are we going cave diving?"
Fu Shuyu glanced at him, somewhat surprised: "You want to go cave diving?"
"Hmm, it felt pretty good." Yan Shenyu nodded. "I saw manta rays and sharks in the sea. There should be even more beautiful scenery inside."
Fu Shuyu glanced at him, her tone tinged with bitterness: "Your luck is truly something else, even a shark likes you..."
Yan Shenyu smiled and said, "I guess this is what it means to be unlucky at the card game but lucky in the game of cards."
Fu Shuyu ignored his words and said coldly, "The cave diving will start this afternoon. Come if you're not afraid of death."
These words were a bit heated, so Fu Jingran stepped in to smooth things over: "The cave dive is scheduled to start at 3 p.m., but I don't recommend beginners challenge themselves with dive sites that are not up to their level. It would be better to wait until you have done more dives before coming."
"Actually, it's not too difficult. Beginners have their own way of playing. Just do what you can and don't blindly challenge yourself," Fu Da suddenly said. "The main thing is that the caves here are connected to the seabed, but they have a unique ecosystem. Going down from here, you can see a completely different scene from the corals on the seabed. If you miss it this time, you might regret it later."
Fu Shuyu opened her mouth, but ultimately said nothing more.
The atmosphere became tense for a moment.
Yan Shenyu nodded as if he hadn't seen it: "That's right, since we're already here."
"You're going?" Fu Shuyu looked up at him, her eyes full of distrust. "This is a dive site that's close to 4 stars. If something happens to you, we'll have to take care of you."
“Then I want to go too.” Yan Shenyu just smiled at him.
Xie Siyan, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up: "What level of diving certification have you obtained?"
Yan Shenyu: "AOWD".
After a moment of silence, Xie Siyan spoke, his tone indifferent: "Go if you want, I'll be your diving partner."
Yan Shenyu laughed happily, but just then, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his hand and couldn't help but hiss.
"What happened to your hand?" Xie Siyan grasped his right hand, her expression showing some concern. "Are you injured?"
Yan Shenyu looked down and noticed a scratch on the back of her right hand. It wasn't deep, but it was quite long, which made it look rather alarming.
"It's nothing. I was probably too excited when I encountered the shark and got scratched on the coral reef."
"Luckily there was no bleeding, otherwise it might have been a different story." Fu Jingran chuckled sheepishly, only to be slapped hard on the arm by Yan Sheng.
Xie Siyan looked at his hands, which were slightly white from being soaked in water, and said in a deep voice, "Don't go this afternoon. If you want to go, I'll bring you again later."
Yan Shenyu looked up at him with a pitiful expression.
Xie Siyan: "Don't be afraid, I'll stay on the ship with you."
“It’s not serious,” Fu Da’s voice rang out. “His wound isn’t bleeding, so it shouldn’t affect his diving.”
“Yes, this little scratch is nothing,” Fu Jingran added. “Back in Hawaii, I went diving two weeks after getting stitches. That time underwater, all I could think about was whether the wound would reopen.”
Upon hearing this, he was beaten even more severely by Yan Sheng.
"I advise you to focus on recovering from your injury," Fu Shuyu glanced at him and said calmly. "Giving up just because you scraped your skin, what's the point of diving?"
Yan Shenyu smiled and said, "Then I'll go too."
No one spoke after that, and the shuttle boat quickly arrived at the yacht's waterfront platform. After boarding, Xie Siyan took Yan Shenyu to find the ship's doctor.
The doctor glanced at the wound and said casually, "It's just a scrape, nothing serious. You don't even need to bandage it; it will heal on its own."
Yan Shenyu: "Is it easier to get an infection if you dive down after your skin is broken?"
The doctor glanced at his wound, which wasn't bleeding at all, and shook his head: "Logically speaking, that's how it is, but this can't even be called a wound."
Yan Shenyu: "But what if I touch my wound again after I go down? What if a fish bites my wound? What if the water pressure breaks my wound? What if I get infected by some germs..."
Doctor: "It's not that serious..."
“I understand,” Yan Shenyu nodded, looking certain. “I have an external injury, so I can’t go diving.”
doctor:"……"
Yan Shenyu smiled: "Isn't that so?"
Doctor: "Well... to be on the safe side, that's indeed the case."
Yan Shenyu: "If anyone asks, please say the same thing to them."
The doctor nodded, looking completely bewildered.
Xie Siyan remained silent throughout, only speaking after they returned to their room: "Weren't you really keen to go just now? Why did you suddenly decide against it?"
When Yan Shenyu looked up again, the smile on his face had vanished.
"I suspect there's something wrong with someone on board."
"Is there a problem?" Xie Siyan's face darkened.
"Do you remember when Yan Sheng ran out of oxygen halfway through his dive?" Yan Shenyu asked him.
Xie Siyan nodded.
“Because of excitement, or breathing too fast in the early stages, he may consume more oxygen than others,” Yan Shenyu said. “But don’t you think he’s using up his gas too quickly? Besides, he’s not a beginner, so he shouldn’t be making the kind of mistake that only beginners make.”
"Could it be that the regulator is leaking air due to freezing?" Xie Siyan thought for a moment, then shook his head. "But we are in tropical waters, so this kind of problem shouldn't occur."
Yan Shenyu: "And what's even stranger is that I didn't find his spare oxygen tank at the time, which is why I gave him my level 2 helmet."
The oxygen tank is leaking, and there's no spare. If her dive buddy isn't around either, then what awaits Yan Sheng is...
Xie Siyan's face suddenly darkened, and he said coldly, "Was this a man-made accident?"
Chapter 56 could not be Fu Da.
Before lunch, Yan Shenyu called Yan Sheng to his room and shared his speculations.
“But,” Yan Sheng looked up, somewhat bewildered, “the device check before I went to sleep was done by Fu Jingran.”
"What?!"
Yan Shenyu and Xie Siyan were both surprised by this possibility and fell silent.
After a long pause, Yan Shenyu finally spoke, hesitatingly saying, "Perhaps there's some misunderstanding..."
Xie Siyan: "It's also possible that there was no problem at the time, but a malfunction occurred after it was launched into the water."
Yan Shenyu asked Yan Sheng, "Do you remember anything unusual after you went into the water?"
Yan Sheng shook her head and said she hadn't paid that much attention.
Yan Shenyu remained silent for a while before slowly saying, "To be on the safe side, you shouldn't go into the water this afternoon. Xie Siyan and I are both on the boat, so we can look out for each other."
"Aren't you going cave diving?"
"My hand is injured, I can't go into the water," Yan Shenyu made up an excuse.
Although he was unclear about the current situation, such an accident that happened to Yan Sheng in the morning could happen to someone else in the afternoon. He didn't want to take the risk while things were still uncertain.
"Okay, I understand." Yan Sheng nodded, her smile somewhat forced. "Thank you for telling me all this."
"Be careful, and come find me anytime if you have any problems."
After Yan Sheng left, Yan Shenyu turned to Xie Siyan and slowly said, "You're quite familiar with the Fu family. What do you think is going on?"
Xie Siyan was silent for a moment, then speculated: "If I choose to take action against someone, there are two main reasons: one is that he has infringed on my interests, and I want to teach him a lesson or get rid of him directly; the other is that dealing with him is just a pretext, and I want to achieve some purpose by harming him."
Yan Shenyu nodded in agreement, saying, "If it was Fu Jingran who did it, then it shouldn't be the first possibility. As for the second possibility, judging from his feelings for Yan Sheng, he probably wouldn't do such a thing. That leaves only..."
Xie Siyan: "Fu Da and Fu Shuyu."
Yan Shenyu: "Do you know much about them?"
“Not much,” Xie Siyan shook his head. “Fu Da is older than us. Although we have met quite a few times, it’s always in public, so we don’t know him very well. Fu Shuyu has lived abroad for many years and only recently returned to China, so I know even less about her.”
Yan Shenyu knew that Fu Shuyu had a crush on Xie Siyan, but Fu Shuyu did not do anything out of line in the original novel and was not a lawbreaker.