Chapter 30: The Narwhal Among Beluga Dicks
Lucifer stood in the middle of the crowd undressing, he was shivering, not from freezing, but because he felt ashamed to undress in front of so many people. Two people stepped forward to help him change into a wetsuit, which was very heavy and felt like a stinger, not as silky as an ordinary wetsuit.
"The wetsuit is characteristic, it has a layer of air pressurized inside, which can withstand 30 atmospheres, and there are special metals between the foam synthetic rubber, which play an absolute role in keeping out the cold, and can even use oxygen to warm up if necessary. ”
"It's a little cold, much warmer than just now. Lucifer admired the wetsuit, and he asked the equipment department for one after considering whether he wanted to finish it.
"Nanocables, underwater communication tools, but also prevent you from being pulled back through cables in case you lose consciousness underwater. Oguyedu hung the black plastic-wrapped thread on the wetsuit.
"Heliox is enough for you to be underwater for three hours, more than enough to get the job done. Oguyedu said as he put the oxygen tank on his back.
All the gear was ready, the wetsuit was a little bloated, Lucifer felt like a bulky penguin, Asa stood by and looked at him, he was wearing the same wetsuit, Lucifer was the first diver and Asa was the second.
The first diver is responsible for underwater detection, reporting the target status to the sea surface, and the sea surface formulates corresponding rescue measures according to the information given, and the second diver is responsible for carrying the relevant rescue implementation tools to meet with the first diver, and the two carry out rescue at the same time.
Lucifer was exposed to diving at a very young age, and when he grew up, he was trained as a professional instructor, and he was very good at the water and had most of the diving knowledge, so he was selected as the first diver for this mission. Everyone looked at him, even Asa, who had a serious expression, and Lucifer had seen him so serious for the first time. He felt that he had a long way to go, and there was a lot of pressure.
"Then the dive begins, good luck!" said Oguyedu, with his hand on his wetsuit, pushing Lucifer down.
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"Whoa!
"Lucifer, Lucifer, are you okay? Oguyedu asked, looking at the monitor. The first thing Lucifer did after entering the water should have turned on the camera on the head of the wetsuit and maintained communication with the surface command center.
There was an image on the display, a gray blue, "I'm fine, everything is fine." Lucifer turned on the camera.
After entering the water, I obviously felt a chill, not to mention the cold, there was a feeling of staying in an air-conditioned room, which can be said to be very comfortable. The wetsuit looks quite bulky, and it is even easier to dive than a sharkskin swimsuit. Lucifer was even more determined to ask the armament department for a set after the mission was completed.
All sorts of fish swirled around him, and Lucifer only recognized the Arctic cod, much smaller than the Atlantic cod. The fish and chips were made with Atlantic cod, and he thought it tasted good. He waved his hand to chase the fish away, and the manometer showed that he had descended to a depth of sixty meters, and the shadow of the Ohio was still clearly visible.
Lucifer was a frequent diver, but except for the one time he sank to 3,000 meters in a deep-sea submersible, the deepest he actually dived was only 120 meters.
One hundred and twenty meters at the bottom of the sea, the sunlight can still shine in, but it is very dim, not even as bright as a ten-watt incandescent lamp, and the visibility is so low that you can see your hands, but you can't see your feet. Some people often say that they want to go to the bottom of the sea alone, and Lucifer wants to say that if that person does come, he may not think so. The bottom of the sea is so quiet, there is no sound at all, as if you are the only one left in this world. Sometimes when we look at a picture of the blue sky blending with the sea, standing alone between the blue sea and the sky, we will also have a great sense of loneliness, not to mention that we are now in this isolated world.
It was dark in front of him, and he couldn't hear anything in his ears, and Lucifer suddenly became frightened, and he went upstream without hesitation, and later the instructor told him that when he climbed on the yacht, his expression was as if he had seen something most terrifying under the sea.
The pressure gauge showed that a hundred meters, he dived another forty meters. The pressure around them increased noticeably, and the sunlight began to dim.
"Talk to me. Lucifer said suddenly.
There was silence for a few seconds, "I'll tell you a story." The headphones came the voice of Oguyedu.
"Professor, I'm on a life-threatening business, do you think it's appropriate to tell a story at this time? I just want you to say a few words, not too quiet. ”
Lucifer was always hard-mouthed, and Oguye knew that the prince had his own pride. He smiled softly, "No way, I really want to tell a story now, do you have a way to refuse?"
Lucifer really couldn't refuse, the headset was directly connected to the wetsuit, and it could only be taken off when the wetsuit was taken off. He did not speak, and acquiesced to the fact that Oguyedu continued.
"Once I went to the North Pole to collect snow samples, I encountered a blizzard, the helicopter was destroyed, and I was not killed, but I was alone at the time, I was thrown in the ice and snow, I couldn't go to the village or the store, and I was very helpless. ”
Lucifer thought to himself, "Who can you blame yourself? Who can't send so many people from the equipment department, and he still runs around the world all day long when he is old." If you don't talk about snow, you have to go to the North Pole to get it. ”
"Fortunately, I usually pray less, and Allah helped me at the critical moment. The next day I woke up from the cold to find a snow dog beside me, a huskies, sniffing around me, with a soft, affectionate expression. ”
"Snow dogs, so your Allah is a dog!" Lucifer held back.
"A huskie dog with reins meant that there were Inuit not far away, and sure enough, within an hour someone found me, it was the Inuit. ”
"That was probably the only time I've lived in an igloo in my life, and the Inuit were so welcoming that they grilled a lot of cod for me to eat, and I stayed there for almost half a month before waiting for the school's rescue. ”
Lucifer thought to himself, "It's good that the Inuit are more enthusiastic, and in the past, they still had cod, and they would have stripped you of your clothes and were still in the ice cave!"
"I heard a legend that was widely spread in the Arctic. It is said that one day, a polar bear came to the vicinity of an Iglu, where three people, a woman, and a brother and sister lived. The father had been out hunting for a long time, and their food was about to run out, and the woman thought it was the food that God had given them, so she asked the boy to kill the polar bear, but the boy was disabled and was a half-blind child, so the sister helped the brother to draw the bow, and the boy shot an arrow through the heart of the polar bear. However, the bad-hearted woman lied to the boy that he didn't shoot the polar bear, and it turned out that the boy was a stepson. At night, the woman and her daughter ate fresh bear meat, and the poor boy could only satisfy his hunger with dog food, and at night, an old man who was about to freeze to death knocked on the door, and the old man was very hungry and wanted to ask for something to eat, and the woman drove away the old man, and the boy took advantage of the woman's inattention, and secretly gave half of the dog food that had not been eaten and played to the old man, and the old man thanked him and said that you will meet a beluga whale by the lake, and you must climb on the back of the beluga whale. The boy did as he was told, and the white whale took him underwater and brought him back to shore, and every time he went ashore, the boy's eyesight recovered a little, and by the third time, the boy's eyesight had all recovered, and then the stepmother saw the white whale and hit the white whale with a harpoon, and the boy went to stop the stepmother, but the stepmother pushed him away and tied her hands with the harpoon with a rope to prevent the white whale from escaping. As a result, in the end, the stepmother was dragged into the water by beluga whale. Her body swelled up, her long hair swirled into a spiral-like tusk, and she turned into a narwhal, and the locals say that if you see a narwhal in a beluga whale colony, it's the woman who turned. ”
"It's a fantastic story, but the truth is that the horns of the average female narwhal are always hidden in the upper jaw, and only the male narwhal has an extended horn. Lucifer said.
"So this is the only female narwhal with horns, and it's legendary. Oguyadu said.
Lucifer was about to say something, but a black dot suddenly appeared in his vision, and he exclaimed, "I see the target!"
"We've seen it too. "On the display is a pattern from Lucifer's camera, a black dot that is gradually being magnified in the dim blue.