He flopped out of the water, treading water and looking around.
All you can see is the calm sea, the blue sky, and a few seagulls flying overhead.
The fierce underwater battle that was going on just now seemed as if it had never happened.
"...As expected of the Demon God of the Universe, no one can guess her purpose at all." Atreus thought for a moment and sighed.
At first, he thought he was thrown into a parallel world where Lily also existed. Then he wondered if he was simply reading the death record. When he fell into the water again, he was still looking forward to whether his mission was to save Lily from certain death.
He was rescued, but now it seems that all his guesses were wrong. The reason why he traveled through time and space may be because...
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—
Atreus was still trying to reason, but the large area of seawater in front of him had begun to "bulge" upwards. Then the tension of the water surface was destroyed and the water flow spread out, revealing a spindle-shaped silver submarine below.
If nothing unexpected happened... Atreus looked at the hatch on the low "tower" of the submarine.
Card -
The watertight door opened, and the blonde "Lily" came out holding a silver trident.
The most obvious difference compared to "last time" is that she is in human form instead of mermaid form. She is now wearing a cool uniform with silver as the base and decorated with gold and purple, and her expression is more capable.
After she stepped out of the hatch, she raised the half-arm-long trident without hesitation, aimed it at Atreus and activated it with magic power. Then, a large net flashing with bursts of electric light was directed at Atreus.
Spread over here.
"Oh, is this the way of hospitality in Atlantis?" Atreus flashed directly onto the deck of the submarine, avoiding the net.
"That's the way to treat 'uninvited guests'," Lily twisted the handle of the trident to make the net disappear, and then turned the trident head to point at Atreus: "The United Kingdom explicitly prohibits any freaks from 'Gotham'
When entering territorial waters, don’t say you don’t know.”
"No, I'm from 'Beach City', not 'Gotham'." Atreus said smoothly.
In the previous world, among the information Atreus heard from Lily, only "Beach City" had a good relationship with Atlantis. Although this world may not be the same, it shouldn't be too different.
"Beach City?" As expected, although Lily was still on guard, she was no longer as vulnerable as before: "Then how did you end up here?"
"The airship crashed," Atreus had no idea where this place was, so he just continued to talk nonsense: "It was blown up by some 'Gotham Freak'. Because the force was so great, not even a single complete piece of it could be found."
In fact, it's not completely nonsense. Wasn't the "airship" that sank to the bottom of the sea in the previous world built by the so-called "Gotham Freak"?
"Really?" Lily raised her hand to her ear, and the pearl earrings shimmered blue: "James?"
"——" Someone seemed to be answering her question, but Atreus couldn't hear it clearly.
It doesn't matter, he didn't lie anyway, not even a scrap of that airship was left.
"..." After listening to the report, Lily's eyes towards Atreus had changed from vigilance and confusion to sympathy. Although it was only a little bit and she quickly took it back, it could not be hidden from Atreus's eyes.
.
Obviously, no matter how heroic, smart and capable she looks on the outside, she is still the silly little mermaid on the inside.
"We can take you to the nearest dock, but then you have to find a way back by yourself," Lily lowered her trident slightly and gestured towards the cabin: "Follow me."
————
Unlike Atreus's impression, most of the submersible's internal structure and decoration are in human style, with only some mermaid and ocean elements artificially added to some corners.
After Lily took Atreus into the submersible, the behemoth dived into the sea quickly, and they met many crew members along the way. They all greeted her and looked at Atreus with vigilance, disgust and even hatred.
Since his identity this time was different from last time, and he was almost half a prisoner, Atreus couldn't take the initiative to talk, so he followed Lily honestly, hoping to analyze clues about the world from her conversations with other crew members.
"Captain." "Yeah."
"Ma'am." "Take a break."
"Laura, this..." "There's nothing interesting to see, go to work."
Obviously, although she controls powerful war weapons, the entire world is in a state of relative peace. Although the United Kingdom of Atlantis has conflicts with some cities on the surface, looks down upon each other and prohibits entry, it still
Not to the point of breaking out and starting a war.
But if both sides are fully prepared before starting a war, the intensity will not be comparable to that of the previous world.
"My intuition tells me that you are a good person, and my intuition has always been accurate," Lily led Atreus to a public space that looked like a restaurant, and then said: "So we will temporarily trust you and provide
food."
If you really trusted me, you wouldn't have asked your name and introduced yourself until now.
"I will not betray your trust," Atreus shrugged, then looked at the chef in the restaurant: "But he obviously doesn't think so."
It was a very ugly, rather fat, humanoid creature that was obviously a fishman. He was wearing a chef's uniform and a high hat. He was standing behind the sealed food cabinet and stared at him with vicious mung bean eyes. It looked somewhat funny.
On the wall behind him, there are three motto inscriptions hanging, the contents are as always:
[1: No waste of food]
[2: Provide free food to shipwrecked people]
【3: Do not attack women.】
"Okay, Peter," Lily waved to him: "My judgment has never been wrong. This gentleman will not be a spy. Give him a crew meal."
"That's not possible," the chef named Peter said while heating the food. "Because we have to salvage this guy, we have delayed a lot of travel. If other spies reveal the route, we will not be safe.
Already."
"We haven't started a war yet. Even if we start a war, no one will target a submarine that is regularly cruising. You——"
Woo——woo——
In the middle of Lily's words, the red alarm light on the top of the cabin suddenly turned on, and at the same time there was a mechanical sound.
"[Our ship is locked by an unknown energy weapon. Repeat, our ship is locked by an unknown energy weapon. Please immediately——]"
"Varied……"
Chi-buzz!
Before Atreus had time to react, everything in front of him was completely drowned by the dazzling green light, and the sound in his ears was also drowned by the huge white noise.
Maybe for a moment, maybe after several seconds, the green light dissipated, and Atreus saw the other half of the submarine very far away from him in the air, and everything in front of him before, whether it was half of the restaurant, the chef Peter or Lily,
All have completely disappeared.
Boom boom boom...
It was only then that the giant submarine began to emit bursts of explosions, as if it suddenly realized that it had been cut into two pieces, and the sea water and water pressure also began to perform their duties assigned by Newton.
An electronic clock was swept by the turbulent seawater and floated past the somewhat sluggish Atreus. The [1989] displayed on its electronic screen flickered for a few times before finally going dark.
