Forget about this stubble, in addition to a large piece of fleshy wings, the ray does have a long tail, I thought it was soft, but it was actually a stinger.

Suddenly, I heard Min Ziqin's voice on the other side of the phone, "The size of this ray seems to be much smaller, Brother Li, what we saw that day seems to be much bigger than this." ”

Because I saw it on the screen, I directly ignored the size, and when Min Ziqin mentioned it, I found that it was true that the size of these rays was much smaller, and it was less than half a meter when it was unfolded.

Min Ziqin said: "A big ray can grow to a few meters long, and this size is a small ray at best. ”

"You mean we can do it?"

Su Er's voice came from the phone, "Look!

Xi Fan and I looked at the mobile phone on the shelf, and saw that the shells of the cage had opened their shells, revealing the huge pearls on the shell wall.

Xi Fan exclaimed, "No!"

There was no sound on the other end of the phone, I asked Xi Fan to concentrate on driving, staring at the screen by himself, this time the ray approached the oyster to observe the color, seemed to feel quite satisfied, and suddenly plunged into the shell, and then we saw it come out with a huge pearl in its mouth, and the oyster slowly closed the shell.

"This is definitely not a ray!" Min Ziqin cried, "the mouth of the ray is on the ventral surface, but this fish is at the end of the snout." ”

I also understand what Min Ziqin means now, the mouth of the ray is on the side of the flat abdomen, and the sharp part of the front is just a top of the head. But now this fish actually has a mouth on the pointed part, and it directly takes out the pearl, so it is obviously not a ray.

"What's the thing?"

"I don't know yet, but you see it's a different shape now, and the tail underneath is not long, and it has a tail fin, not a stinger like a ray. ”

"Well, no matter what it is, catch it first. ”

Su Er interjected: "No, I'm not sure if they have the ability to attack, I think that mouth seems to be very powerful, if you want to go down, it's best to follow quietly, don't alarm them." ”

As he spoke, the fish took out another pearl, and the previous one had been swallowed by the girl.

We have also arrived at the base, the door is open, we rushed directly to the causeway, got out of the car, and saw the administrator and an assistant waiting for us, I took off my clothes and said: "It's too late to explain, Mr. Shen will be there soon, we will go into the water first, do you have any underwater communication equipment here, bring it to us this time." ”

"It's enough, there is underwater short-distance intercom equipment, but I'm afraid it's not good. ”

"Come on, then give me a waterproof case, I can take my phone with me. ”

"Are you going to go into the water or are you going to go to sea?"

"Don't ask so much, I guess I won't be able to get up for a while, maybe I really have to swim out. ”

"Then I'll get you two harpoons. ”

"And this thing?"

"Yes, I haven't used it since I bought it. ”

"Okay, go back and let Mr. Shen give you a salary increase. ”

We were dressed neatly, the assistant helped us check the equipment, the administrator got us two belts, with an underwater flashlight and a small waist pack hanging on them, we sealed the phone and put it in, and then one of us raised a harpoon and walked forward, to the vicinity of the No. 21 monitor, and quietly dived underwater.

Because it was night, there was almost no visibility underwater, Xi Fan carefully led me forward with the light, he was a veteran, and he had also taken the diver test, if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have gone into the water tonight.

Soon we approached the cages that the monitor was staring at, the lights passed, and a few thieves were still harvesting there, originally I was worried that the lights would frighten them, but Xi Fan told me before that the fish are still very sensitive to light at night, but they are phototaxis, or a big myopia, so they will not run away.

Sure enough, the thieves continued to steal as if no one was around, and the three fish had already finished harvesting all the pearls in the cage.

We lurked not far away and watched, and it is estimated that Shen Lingyi and they can all see us from the surveillance screen. I thought, how much do these guys want to steal, this cage has at least twenty or thirty pieces. When the last mother oyster closed the shell, the three thieves swung their bodies and began to swim away from the cage instead of looking at the cage.

We hurried to follow, this was to slip away, and even if we rushed up and got the harpoon strings together, we could recover the pearls, but our goal was to find the thieves' lair, so we fell so far away. After a while, we swam to the fence, which was not above the water, and we floated a little and crossed over.

The number of fish around me began to increase, and I didn't even know if I was swimming along the coastline or toward the depths of the ocean. But Xi Fan didn't give me any signal, so I could only swim forward with him, thanks to the group of thieves who didn't swim fast, but I thought they had swam for at least an hour, and there was still a black hole in front of them, and I could only see their tails dancing up and down leisurely.

Suddenly Xi Fan gently pressed my shoulder, I saw that the fish in front of me did not stop, I was very puzzled, Xi Fan swept left and right with a flashlight, and suddenly drew a circle with a flashlight, and then looked at me, I didn't understand, he drew a few more times.

I saw it this time, there was actually a hole in front of me, a hole under the water, he pulled the diving instrument and pointed to me at the air content, I compared an OK gesture with him, he took me to continue to swim forward, as soon as I entered the hole, I felt that the light was brighter, before because there was water all around, the light of the flashlight was all dispersed, and now into the hole, the light refracted on the wall of the cave, and it was naturally brighter.

The hole is huge, at least as wide as a double carriageway. We swam at an accelerated pace for a while to catch up with the three fish, this time only for about five minutes, and suddenly we saw the three fish start to float up and then disappear from our sight.

Xi Fan pulled me up carefully, it turned out that this hole was not here, there was a pool of water above, in order to prevent decompression, Xi Fan pulled the instrument and slowly took me up, thanks to our dive is not deep, and when we were careful to come up, I almost didn't knock it.

Xi Fan shook the flashlight, took off the respirator and said to me: "Brother Li, there is air here, it seems that this side has reached the sea level, and there is another hole." ”

I touched the top of my head and said, "It looks like a wide hole at the bottom, how did it get so narrow." ”

Xi Fan swept left and right again, pointed in one direction and said, "They should have swam along here." ”

When I looked, there was a stone wall above my head, and there was only one passage in that direction.

We swam in that direction, Xi Fan stopped me, buried his head in the water and took a lamp to shine it, "Be careful, don't kick the stone wall, I guess we can stand up after swimming in." ”

We both buried ourselves in the water together, climbed down the passageway, and as soon as we stood up, hey, it was up to my chest.

Xi Fan looked at the meter again and said to me, "The oxygen we have left now is enough to go back and exit this cave." Now do you want to go in and look for it, or do you want to quit and find someone to help?"

I pulled my phone out of my waist bag, and it had been an hour since I had been with me, and there was no signal for my phone here. After thinking about it, "Since we can walk in here, let's take a walk again, and if we can't walk in fifteen minutes, we will go back first." ”

Xi Fan had no objection, we carefully groped the stone wall and half-swam forward, this passage was much smaller than just now, only two meters wide, and slightly inclined, the lower the water level was the more we went.

The two of us leaned forward on one side, and I joked with Xi Fan: "You said that if the tide is high, will this passage be completely flooded?" ”

Xi Fan nodded, "The water level will rise." ”

He looked at the date and calculated, "This time happens to be the low tide period today, and we still have some time." ”

I don't understand this thing anyway, it seems that there is a calculation formula or something, and I have never studied it as a child living in the mountains. The two chatted in a whisper, and suddenly felt that the light changed, Xi Fan stopped and swept left and right, "Be careful." ”

I looked carefully, it turned out that I had already reached the mouth, Xi Fan leaned forward, "It's not a waterhole." ”

When we walked out of the passage, we found that it was a huge karst cave, the water level of the passage was only up to our calf, and a few steps forward was the bare ground, and the water continued to flow forward along both sides of the cave, like a small platform in the middle, and there were many irregular stones on the platform.

I took the lamp and looked up, and the top of the cave was quite high, the whole cave was the size of half a basketball court. We walked a few steps along the platform, and saw that the other half of the cave was full of water, and Xi Fan picked up a small stone and threw it inside, making a "bang" sound.

"It's another deep pool, maybe leading to some other underground cavern. ”

"There must be a hole in the top of this cave, or else there is water on both sides of the water. "I swept the dark walls of the cave.

Xi Fan nodded, "It's just that I can't climb up, I think even if I climb up, it should be a cliff by the sea outside." ”

I pulled out my phone again, "There is still no signal, so it stands to reason that we should be above the sea by now." ”

Xi Fan said: "It may be that the place is relatively remote, and this cave should be under the mountain, and there may be a very thick stratum on it." ”

I shone my flashlight at the waterhole, "It's over, did you think those three fish went down this pool?"

"I guess, we didn't see any other passages just now. ”