Chapter 107: The Undersea Palace
The second master said: It's not to take a wooden stick to prevent snakes, go, get off the boat. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After speaking, the four of us divided the equipment evenly. Carrying it on his shoulders, he got off the boat.
At the position where I went into the water, I jumped into the water with a plop, and the first feeling was that it was cold! Cool through the bones.
And the water level has reached the neck, and when you slowly swim to the shallows, you can get up from the water, carry heavy equipment, and go to the water's edge.
"We've got to get something, and we have it before we can go into the water." After speaking, the second master first looked for a few tree trunks nearby, broke off all the excess branches, and handed them to us. One per person.
The island is small in size, the size of four football fields, and is lush with trees. The slope is steep.
The second master looked left and right in the dark, as if looking for the mountaineering footprints of the year, and at this moment in the dark night, it was difficult to distinguish the direction, and he couldn't help but be a little anxious.
The second master took out a cigarette from his pocket, I quickly lit the fire for the second master, and then looked at the posture of the second master pinching the cigarette at this moment, and I couldn't help but feel that the gesture of the second master pinching the cigarette was almost exactly the same as the one in my grandfather's photo.
He pinched the cigarette with three fingers!
Generally speaking, both men and women use their index and middle fingers to hold a cigarette. In this way, men find it cool and women feel sexy.
But the second master used his two fingers and thumb to pinch cigarettes with his three fingers, which is in society. I've seen others pinch cigarettes like this, but they all have one thing in common.
They are generally older, and among the young people, no one is so pinched. After all, the posture is not handsome enough.
The second master was smoking, and in the dark, the scarlet cigarette butts flickered and flickered. Judging from the frequency of the flickering of cigarette butts, the second master smoked very hard.
"Damn, it's impossible!" The second master muttered, turned around and asked Li Yuanjiang: Boy, are you sure the route is right?
Li Yuanjiang, who was in the dark, was stunned for a moment and said: It must be right, this is only thirty nautical miles, and it will not be offset.
The second master muttered: That's a bad thing. This island is completely different from the ghost island I came to twenty years ago.
The development of things seems to be beyond imagination, I said: Second master, it's all here, let's take one step at a time.
The uncle in the suit also nodded and agreed: Second master, I will lead the way in front, let's be careful.
The second master shook off the cigarette butt, nodded and said: That's it, go!
On the coast, the wind was very strong, and the equipment on our backs was very heavy, and the sea breeze was blowing around, especially my hair, which was extremely messy.
The four of us, each carrying a wooden stick, led the way by the uncle in the suit, into the jungle of the island.
There are a lot of coconut trees planted on the island and a lot of weeds on the ground. The weeds were more than half a meter high, and it was very laborious to walk, and they had to be stepped on one foot at a time, and in some places there was even mud, although it was not a swamp, but it was quite dangerous.
The island is not big, but the rocks are steep, and once you enter the jungle, you start climbing. The process was slow and dangerous, but fortunately the wind in the jungle was not so strong.
It took about an hour or so for us to climb to the highest point of the island. The second master was in the night, squinting his eyes to look closely, and then felt in his pocket and took out a cigarette, only to find that the cigarette had been smoked.
I quickly took one out of my pocket, and when I handed it to the second master, I said: Second master, smoke less, it's not good to smoke more.
The second master didn't speak, and after lighting it with a match, he didn't smoke, but his right hand was parallel to his shoulder, pinching the cigarette, squinting one eye, and looking at the southeast with the other eye.
The spark on the cigarette is like the crosshair on a sniper rifle. The eyes of the second master, the cigarette butt of the cigarette, and the scene in the distance form a three-point line.
After a long time, the second master nodded and said: This is indeed Ghost Island, but it is completely different from what it looked like twenty years ago.
I said, "Maybe twenty years ago, the trees were very short."
The second master shook his head and said firmly: Twenty years ago, there were no stones on this island at all!
"So what now?" Li Yuanjiang was a little scared.
The second master said: Xiao Li, you come with me. Abu, little suit, you two stand here and wait.
The second master smoked a cigarette and walked towards the west with Li Yuanjiang, walking about ten steps, and the second master said: Insert your wooden stick into the soil, insert it deeper, this is linked to life!
No one dares to mess around with life-and-death matters.
Li Yuanjiang was about to make a move, but the second master hurriedly said: Expose the end you grabbed with your hand, don't insert it by mistake.
After Li Yuanjiang got it done, the second master took out the scimitar, cut a very thin wound on his forearm, and said: Drip your blood on this. Three drops are enough, and then tear off a piece of your clothes, tie it to the top, block the blood, remember?
Li Yuanjiang was a little stupid, didn't reply, and didn't nod. The second master sighed and taught him hand in hand.
When the two of us were left in the suit, the second master pointed to the east and said: Little suit, you go to the east, walk ten steps, and follow Li Yuanjiang.
"Abu, you go due south, walk ten steps, the same steps."
In the end, the second master went to the north, and before leaving, he said: Don't use your own knife, I will cut the wound in a while.
After sticking the stick into the dirt, I shoved it down a lot, and I felt that at least a third of the way into the dirt, it was all against the rocks below, and then I let go.
The second master came over and cut my forearm with a scimitar, and after dripping the blood, I cut off a large piece from the hem of my jacket and tied it to a wooden stick.
After all four of us gathered, the second master put away the scimitar and said, "Stretch out your left arm."
On our left arm, we were all cut by the second master with an identical wound, and the blood has not yet coagulated at this moment.
"Use your knives to rub the blood from every wound to make sure it gets stained with the blood of the four of us!"
The four of us did so, and the second master checked it, four knives, and the blood of four people.
Four wooden sticks, all wrapped in strips of cloth torn from their clothes, occupy four directions, south, east, north, west, and north.
"Let's go! Go to sea! "As soon as the second master waved his hand, we immediately rushed to the south, preparing to go to the sea from there.
When we got to the beach, we started to put on our equipment, so we simply bought an extra set of equipment this time to keep for backup, which came in handy at this moment.
But Li Yuanjiang insisted that he did not need a scuba respirator, and that the water nature of these fishermen was not comparable to ordinary people.
The second master said: It's better to bring it.
Li Yuanjiang finally resigned, he said: Second master, I understand your kindness, the fishermen in the South China Sea may not be good at anything else, if it is water-based, no one will accept it, the equipment should be kept, if anyone has not enough oxygen, you can use it for a while.
Seeing that Li Yuanjiang kept refusing, the second master didn't say anything, and immediately ordered: I will go to the sea in a while, under this ghost island, no matter what you see, don't be surprised, just follow me.
Then a few of us briefly said a gesture to facilitate communication in the water.
After carrying the diving equipment and walking to the deeper water, we put on our diving goggles one by one, bit the scuba breathing apparatus, and got into the water.
Uncle in a suit and I have diving lights above our heads, which are extremely penetrating, but after diving into the water, looking down, it is still pitch black, and we can't see the bottom at all.
Plunged into the water, the further downstream I went, the colder I felt, and the outside of the eardrum was filled with seawater, and I couldn't hear any sound between heaven and earth, and the sound in my brain was blank.
Among the four people, I was the slowest swimmer, and I took a general look, but it was Li Yuanjiang, who did not bring diving equipment, and swam the easiest. Brother Muji Hongdi.
In the water, he is a fish.
The further I dived, the more pressure the sea became, and the more painful my eardrum became, just when I was about to lose it. The second master at the front suddenly stopped, he made a gesture of gathering, and we all hurriedly surrounded us.
The second master gestured to tell us that we must follow him closely for a while, and don't get separated.
Sticking to the foundation stone pillar of Ghost Island in the seawater, continuing downstream, I looked at the water pressure gauge, and at this moment I have already dived more than forty meters!
Generally speaking, the eardrum will hurt if you dive ten meters, but if you have taken the diving certificate, it is no problem to dive thirty meters. Coach-level talent is no problem for 50 meters, I can't handle it anymore.
At this moment, the second master took us around the huge stone pillar, and when we bypassed the stone pillar, the scene that came into view completely shocked me!
Does there really exist an undersea palace in the world?