In the Mirror Plain region of the central Arctic Ocean, as the temperature gradually rose, the vortex passage, which should have collapsed in three days, fractured prematurely.
The once calm seawater suddenly churned due to changes in pressure and temperature.
In the blink of an eye, Yang's father and mother were swallowed by the water, followed closely by Yang Lin.
A normal person falling into such waters would be crushed into a pulp by the high pressure in mere seconds, with no time to suffocate or freeze to death.
Therefore, this was almost a death sentence, and Yang's father and mother clearly realized this, so they simply gave up struggling.
But just as they fell into the seawater, a colossal dark shadow rapidly approached them.
In the second before they lost consciousness, they felt themselves being swallowed into a dark space.
Before they could react, something else quickly followed, then heavily crashed in front of them.
"Ptooey, ptooey! Why am I still spitting out mud?"
It was only when this familiar voice rang out that the shocked couple remembered to take out their flashlights and shine them.
The next moment, Yang Lin, his head and face covered in green seaweed, appeared before them.
"Son, how did you get here too?"
"Didn't you escape just now?"
Facing his parents' questions, Yang Lin, while clearing the seaweed from his body, complained:
"Are you kidding me? Hundreds of meters deep underwater, how could I escape? Am I a firecracker, whoosh and I'm up?"
"By the way, you said we still had a million in savings and a house, was that true or false?"
Hearing Yang Lin's question, Yang's mother's face first showed embarrassment.
"What do you think?"
"Of course, it's fake. Where would you two get a million for me, let alone a house?"
Yang Lin said, rolling his eyes.
"Hehe, we just thought we were about to die, so we wanted to give you something to look forward to, so you wouldn't be too sad when you went back."
Yang's father also said with a simple smile.
"No, I'd be even sadder. Mom and Dad are gone, and the money and house are gone too."
"Our son is so rational."
...
After some idle chat, the atmosphere quickly became silent again, especially for Yang's father and mother.
"This is probably inside the belly of some giant marine creature. It just swallowed us."
"Although we're saved in the short term, we'll be digested and turned into poop before long."
Shining his flashlight around, Yang's mother analyzed the situation with great seriousness.
Yang's father, after hearing this, quickly comforted her:
"It's okay, at least the three of us are together."
"Oh, and there's a little arctic fox, so that makes us a family of four."
"This way, even if we're digested, the family will be reunited as excrement."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yang's mother gave him a glare.
However, they didn't notice that Yang Lin, holding the little arctic fox beside them, appeared as if nothing had happened, with no trace of panic or fear on his face.
Noticing this, Yang's mother couldn't help but curiously ask:
"Son, you're only in your twenties, have you already accepted it so much?"
"No, I was just thinking about a friend of mine..."
"A friend? What friend, a girlfriend?"
Yang's father and mother quickly moved closer to Yang Lin.
But Yang Lin's answer left them somewhat disappointed.
"No, an animal friend."
"An animal friend? We're about to die, and you're thinking about animal friends."
Before Yang's father could finish speaking, a beam of light suddenly appeared from ahead.
Seeing this beam of light, Yang Lin's face immediately showed a smile.
"Let's go, my friend is sending us up."
The next moment, to the astonished gazes of Yang's father and mother, Yang Lin was the first to walk towards the direction of the light.
After a few seconds of愣, the couple quickly followed.
As the light grew brighter and brighter, a scene beyond their wildest imagination appeared before them.
They were stunned on the spot.
Following their gaze, they saw a giant mouth as large as a house first appear before them.
Beyond the giant mouth was a bright white ice field, above which hung a bright white sun.
"Where is this..."
Although it was hard to believe, everything before them told them that they had successfully returned to the surface world from the dark and lightless seabed.
While the two were in a daze, Yang Lin, who had successfully stepped onto the ice field, spoke.
"Don't just stand there, come out. It's rude to keep standing on someone's tongue."
Hearing Yang Lin's words, the couple finally noticed that they were standing on a long tongue.
Combined with the details they had just seen, they now realized that they were standing inside the mouth of a whale.
While surprised, they quickly emerged from the giant mouth.
When they stepped onto the ice and looked back, they saw a colossal blue whale, pale blue and of immeasurable size, floating on the sea with its mouth agape.
Undoubtedly, they had been swallowed by this giant blue whale before, and now this blue whale had successfully sent them out.
After understanding this, the couple suddenly felt that everything they had just experienced was so fantastical.
Involuntarily, they thought of the friend Yang Lin had mentioned earlier.
It seemed that Yang Lin had not panicked from the beginning; he seemed to have expected all of this.
"Son, you..."
Yang's father was about to ask, but was stopped by Yang's mother's eyes.
At that moment, excited dog barks were heard from the side, along with a cacophony of footsteps.
Following the direction of the sounds, the couple immediately saw an even more astonishing sight.
Dozens of meters away from them, two beasts that looked like wolves but also like dogs were herding four massive polar bears towards them at full speed.
Behind them were a group of Inuit people dressed in animal skins and holding hunting rifles.
With such an imposing appearance, the couple's legs went weak with fear. It was only when they saw Yang Lin's calm expression again that they vaguely sensed something.
"Son, are they also your friends?"
Hearing Yang's father's question, Yang Lin immediately chuckled.
"Of course, how is it? My son's social skills are pretty good, right?"
Upon receiving Yang Lin's affirmative answer, the couple couldn't help but exchange glances and then nodded in a daze.
Now, even if you told them that their son had befriended aliens, they would likely believe it.