Five years later.
The Deep Blue family's research vessel slowly sailed into port.
The sound of the whistle echoed across the dock.
I stood at the very front of the deck.
Over the past five years, I had led the Deep Blue family in completing three historic deep-dive records.
I had also extracted deep-sea active substances of major medical value from the Blue Hole Core Zone.
More importantly, the Deep Blue family had established the strictest deep-sea rescue response system in all of Asia.
Every distress signal had to be entered into the public record.
Every dispatch order had to be subject to maritime supervision.
No one could ever again decide another person's life or death with the words "commercial logic."
The gangway was lowered.
The fourteen crew members who had survived tha
