217: Enjoyable underwater travel

At this moment, Liu Xiaolin, who was in the cockpit, saw Hong Tongtong helping everyone find seats on the screen. Only then did he remember that his underwater tour group hadn't even prepared a team leader. So, he might as well go over and be the team leader himself.

Therefore, he said a word to the pilot and came to the living cabin to help everyone find seats and place their belongings with Hong Tongtong. Soon, everyone was seated.

"Cockpit, please note, the tourists in the living cabin are ready. Over."

"Received, we will depart immediately," the pilot replied.

"This is Explorer II, calling Ground Command Center, we are ready, requesting departure. Over."

"This is Ground Command Center, approved for departure, be careful, over."

After receiving approval from the Ground Command Center, pilots Chen Haisheng and Wang Zhenliang piloted Explorer II away from the dedicated dock and headed into the deep sea.

"This is Explorer II pilot Chen Haisheng, my assistant is Wang Zhenliang. Hello, members of the tour group, the route for this underwater tour was planned based on the video recorded during our first trial run. Therefore, we will stop in multiple underwater areas. Please look forward to it."

"The sea area we are currently diving in is the place with the most frequent and dense global ocean current exchange. Therefore, it gathers a large number of fish species from all over the world. In the shallow sea area, there are patches of coral reefs stretching up to the sea surface, which are strangely beautiful. In the deep sea, there are countless bizarre and varied marine organisms, as well as vertically rising stalactite groups and rock caves that stretch endlessly. These unique underwater landscapes will open up a brand new underwater world and bring you a wonderful journey."

As Chen Haisheng spoke slowly, Explorer II reached the coral reef area in the shallow water.

"General Manager Liu, can we go diving in the shallow sea? I really like these coral groups and colorful sea fish."

"I also want to touch the coral and take pictures with the little fish."

"General Manager Liu, can we go? Since it's an underwater tour, this is also considered underwater, so we should be able to go diving, right?"

"The coral groups here are too beautiful, watching on the big screen is not enough."

Liu Xiaolin saw that everyone really wanted to play in the shallow sea area. Of course, he had to satisfy everyone's request: "No problem, this is also our selected diving area. Everyone put on your diving equipment, we will dive in the shallow water coral reef area for half an hour first."

When pilots Chen Haisheng and Wang Zhenliang pressed the button, a hanging basket capable of holding ten people appeared. This hanging basket was specially prepared for the tour group.

After the ten tour group members, who were fully equipped with diving gear, stepped onto the hanging basket, the basket was pushed out of the sub. Subsequently, the internal passage door closed, and the external hanging basket door opened. The ten tour group members immediately swam out like fish.

Liu Xiaolin and Hong Tongtong were among these ten people, because they were responsible for taking care of and protecting everyone.

Next, the remaining forty tour group members came out of the sub in four batches.

Everyone swam around in the clear and transparent water, drilling in and out of the coral reefs.

Before leaving the sub, Liu Xiaolin had told these people that they didn't need to bring cameras because there were more than a dozen cameras outside Explorer II, which could clearly capture everything within a radius of fifty to sixty meters. Upon returning, everyone would receive an edited video compilation from their personal main character perspective.

With this information, everyone naturally played at ease.

Some chased butterflyfish and raced them in swimming, some leaned against the coral reefs and stared blankly at the sunbeams piercing through the sea surface, while others took a deep dive to see how tall a branch of white jade coral was.

The transparent breathing masks couldn't hide their relaxed and comfortable smiles. The pressure eliminators seemed to not only eliminate the pressure from the seabed but also the pressure from their hearts. The snug diving suits felt like skin growing on their bodies, comfortable and warm.

Everyone was very happy, everyone was very relaxed.

While diving, Liu Xiaolin and Hong Tongtong were constantly observing everyone, and the positioning data of every tour group member was monitored by the cockpit and reported to Liu Xiaolin at all times. This was to absolutely ensure the safety of every tour group member.

After thirty minutes, Liu Xiaolin signaled everyone that it was time to go back, otherwise it would affect the day's itinerary. Later, they still needed to see the stalactite groups and rock caves, and then there were marine organisms at 1000 meters and 1500 meters deep.

Everyone returned to Explorer II inside the sub by taking the hanging basket in reverse order of exiting. Liu Xiaolin and Hong Tongtong were in the first group to exit the sub and the last group to return.

After everyone returned to the sub, they only took off their breathing masks and buoyancy compensators and other diving equipment, but did not take off their diving suits. They just took out bath towels and draped them over themselves.

"This way we can go out of the sub to play anytime, it's convenient."

"Yes, that's a good idea, I'll do that too."

"And, I think this diving suit is so comfortable to wear, it's as snug as my own skin."

Liu Xiaolin found it a bit funny that everyone was reluctant to take off their diving suits: It seems everyone prefers diving to see the underwater world. No wonder Hong Tongtong asked me to quickly develop diving equipment, it turns out they had the same idea.

"Wasn't my suggestion right?" Hong Tongtong, wrapped in a bath towel on the side, bumped Liu Xiaolin with her shoulder with a smile and said, "If we couldn't dive and directly interact with the seabed, definitely not so many people would have signed up."

"Yes, yes, yes, you are right, you did well." Liu Xiaolin smiled. The income from this underwater tour group could relieve Niu De of worry about research and development costs for a while.

Next, they stayed in the 800-meter deep seabed area for more than half an hour. The scenery here was magnificent because they reached the stalactite groups and rock cave area.

The tour group members exited the sub in sequence again as before. The stalactite groups here had various shapes, and large fish fifty to sixty meters long could be seen everywhere. In their eyes, these human little fish were completely insignificant, as they swam around slowly and leisurely, without any sense of danger at all.

After Liu Xiaolin's Popular Science ( Popular Science - popular science/education), the tour group members knew that these large fish were not aggressive, so they were all at ease and leisurely swam around the large fish that were more than twenty times bigger than themselves, giving a 'V' sign, lingering among the stalactite groups, and drilling in and out of the rock caves. Everyone felt like they had become a fish in the sea.

While constantly communicating with the cockpit to check if the tour group members' positioning was compliant and always paying attention to everyone's safety, Liu Xiaolin and Hong Tongtong also had a great time. They held hands and went into the rock caves and explored the stalactite groups together, and even stole a kiss through their breathing masks.