Deep Blue Totem: The Orca Xingdi and the Love of an Orca
When marine biologist Lin Xi suffocates and sinks into a blue hole in the Pacific, her consciousness awakens inside the body of an orca calf. Reborn as a resident orca named Xingdi, she is forced to struggle for survival in an ocean ruled by the law of the jungle: orca pods carve up territories, civilization is passed on through sound waves, and coral records ancient wars. Moska, a wandering warrior who saved her, carries the wounds of betraying his pod and a possessive obsession that drags Xingdi into the bloody struggle for territory. From manta ray storms to glowing jellyfish ramparts, from shipwreck labyrinths to whale-fall temples, the two gradually uncover the shocking conspiracy behind her “rebirth in the blue hole” as they battle pollution-born monsters and mutated clans: she is the ultimate spark of life sent by the will of the ocean to fight human pollution. When Moska falls into darkness and imprisons her for love, and the titanium-plated bones of the Ironjaw chief tear through the ocean, Xingdi must combine human intelligence with orca instincts to reclaim an eternal future for the deep blue amid a devastating sonic war and the apocalypse of Leviathan’s awakening…
