Chapter 42: Crisis
It always feels like we're doing something very dangerous...... "The hollow in the ice and the freighter buried in the hollow."
"If you're scared, can you go back now?" Arashi looked at Yihao with a smile and emphasized. "I'm not going to laugh at you for being cowardly."
"Hey, I'm just mentally prepared for the dangers I might face." Yihao responded with a resigned expression. "Anyway, we're already under the ice, so let's get things done."
"Don't worry, I've been in a much more dangerous situation, whether it's a volcanic eruption or an avalanche, a flash flood is not the same." Lan seemed to be comforting Yihao, but to no avail.
Yihao rolled his eyes and reminded Lan cautiously. "Then please don't expect so much from me."
"No problem, you're much stronger than you know." Lan shook his hand and motioned for Yihao to follow, then jumped out of the hole and swam towards the freighter.
"Much stronger than I know?" Yi Hao chewed on the same place, and Lan seemed to have a lot of meaning, and the mystery of the Demon Slayer Master in his heart increased again.
At this time, Lan had already come to the front of the freighter and was calling him loudly, and Yihao could only temporarily lower the doubts in his heart and jump out of the hole. The cavity is filled with enough seawater to submerge the human body, and under the influence of the surrounding ice, the temperature of the sea is close to zero degrees Celsius. Yihao endured the cold of the ice-water mixture and struggled to swim to the point where the freighter capsized. Fortunately, he was wearing a warm wetsuit provided by the institution, or it would have been a suicide at all.
"Yihao is here."
The freighter's exposed part of the ice was broken, and Yan Zhan Nglan greeted him from standing in a large hollow. When Yihao rushed over, she used her searchlight to look inside and confirm with Yihao. "It looks like this place has direct access to the ship's hold, do you remember where the cargo holds the nuclear materials?"
"At that time, I was basically touching it in the dark, and now that the ship has turned over like this, how can I still remember......" Yihao smiled bitterly and shook his head. But. There should be another way, right? ”
"Well, I brought this!" As if offering a treasure, Arashi took out a hand-held device with a screen from his backpack with a proud expression.
Yihao waited for Arashi to explain, but Arashi's expectant look was more like waiting for him to ask. After a moment's hesitation, Yihao fulfilled her expectations. "Excuse me...... What is this? ”
"This is a radiological device used by a radioactive detector to detect radiation in the surrounding environment. Because nuclear materials will constantly radiate radiation energy to the outside of the steel plate, even if it is separated by steel plates, it is useless. So just use this thing, no matter where the nuclear material is placed, you can find it! "I don't know why Lan's love is quite high.
Yihao looked at Lan blankly. I faintly heard "Finally...... I can also use electronic devices here......" muttered a look of confusion. "Over here?"
"Huh? Ah no. It's nothing. Arashi immediately returned to her normal expression. Then pick up the sonde. Turned on the switch above and stared nervously at the detector's screen. It was as if I was infected by this atmosphere. Yihao also unconsciously held his breath and concentrated, and after a few seconds, a red dot indicating the direction appeared on the screen as the "beep" prompt sounded.
"It's this ......," Lan Di looked at the red dot and then stepped forward without hesitation.
"Wait, it's ...... over there," Yihao called out to Lan, but the word "bulkhead" behind him had not yet spoken, and the cold light of the Demon Slaying Sword had flashed in the darkness.
"What's the matter? Yihao. Lan looked back at Yihao, in front of her, a steel plate several centimeters thick had been lightly cut, and a piece of steel that was enough to accommodate people was slowly falling down with a scream of "squeak".
"No, nothing......" Yihao shook his head and walked over, and at the same time folded his hands in his heart, and bowed to the beautiful woman in front of him again.
The hull of the ship caught in the ice was full of twisted and deformed marks, and the steel and ice fused together in various strange postures, and the ice occasionally saw some unfortunate sea creatures frozen inside. The original passage of the ship's hull was almost completely destroyed, and in such a situation, it was almost impossible to find a way to the cargo hold, and Arashi took the simplest solution to the problem - under the edge of the Demon Slaying Sword, whether it was steel, ice, or a mixture of the two, it was destroyed in an instant.
In the shortest straight line, it didn't take long for the two of them to rush to the position of the cargo ship's cabin, and at the same time as splitting the cabin, the sea water inside spewed out fiercely, and Lan deftly flashed to the side, but Yihao, who was caught off guard, was almost washed down. It took about five or six minutes to flow the sea water in the warehouse, and Yihao was covered in seaweed, shellfish and other debris, and his comical appearance made Arashi almost laugh.
If he was treated like this by other people, Yihao would have to turn his face with her, but it was incredible that he couldn't get angry with Lan at all, and even had a nostalgic feeling of discord in his heart.
"Hmph, this thing is just a little bit of a thing......"
Yihao felt the wonder in his heart as he brushed aside the seaweed that blocked his view, shook off the shellfish that stuck to his body, and entered the warehouse through the hole opened by Lan.
Perhaps it was because his complaint was heard by an unknown god, and just as he jumped into the warehouse, a behemoth suddenly fell from the sky and opened its bloody maws and pounced on him.
"Shark...... Shark! ”
It was a three-meter-long shark that pounced, and Yihao, who had no time to dodge, had to support the shark's mouth with both hands, trying his best to block the sharp teeth that wanted to bite his throat and scream at the same time. "Why are there sharks in this kind of place?"
"Ah, I guess it was brought in by the sea, right?" Lan also came in from the entrance of the cave at this time and gave a leisurely answer to Yihao's question.
"No...... Not the time to say such things! Come and help me! The bite force of the shark's upper and lower jaws was enough to wring the steel, Yihao's hands trembled, and his muscles were exposed, and he couldn't help but ask Arashi for help.
"Where's your Heroic Spirit?" Arashi wondered.
"Ahh Yes...... "Yihao then remembered his secret weapon, and quickly summoned the Nordic warrior, severing the shark's body with a sword, and throwing the shark's head far away.
"You haven't fully mastered your own strength, and your cultivation is far from enough, Yihao." Lan taught him this, and Yihao had nothing to say.
"Okay, it looks like the nuclear materials are around here, so let's split up and look for them." Arashi waved the detector in his hand. So built yì.
"Good...... Good. Yihao's breathing hadn't adjusted yet, and he nodded in response.
Originally, one of the purposes of his coming down was to find the strange bronze sword Lan's Tiyì, which could be said to be exactly what he wanted. Due to the overturning of the hull and the intrusion of seawater, the cargo hold at this moment is already in a mess. Yihao walked through the pile of debris with one foot deep and one foot shallow, trying to evoke the image of the time. With the help of his psychic sense, he was able to clearly distinguish objects in the dark, while the Heroic Spirit was not limited by physical obstacles. It also allows him to sneak in and observe places he can't go in at any time.
After flipping over five or six rows of containers, Yihao kicked something hard under his feet. Confused, he lifted the thing up and picked up the headlamp
Recognized as a Qingtong Guding, the bronze sword was piled up in many antiques, and if there was an accident, it should be in the container in front of you. Yihao excitedly jumped into the container and covered the waist-deep seawater. Many boxes containing calligraphy and painting antiques float on the water. Yihao lamented the fate of these antique places. While carefully searching for traces of the sword.
"Huh?"
In the dark container, Yihao saw something flashing in a trance. To see more precisely, he turned off his headlamp and looked left and right. Seeing that there was indeed something shining under the surface of the water in the completely lightless darkness, Yihao slowly walked in front of the thing, and unconsciously took a deep breath - a golden-colored ancient sword lay quietly under the water, its sword body exuded a warm golden light, swaying with the water waves, and on the hilt of the ancient sword, you can also see the ancient lines engraved on the hilt, Yihao is sure that the ancient sword in front of him is what he is looking for.
He held his breath and cautiously reached out to pick up the golden ancient sword, and the feeling of electric shock did not appear again, but when he took the ancient sword out of the water, the light on the ancient sword also faded at the same time, and the whole thing turned into a rusty and tattered sword.
"Hey, don't do that......" Yihao looked at the rusty sword in his hand and showed a look of crying and laughing.
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When Yihao returned to the bottom with the Rusty Sword, Arashi had been waiting there for a long time, and next to her was a cylindrical metal container with a diameter of one meter, although there was no mark on it, but Yihao guessed that it was the nuclear material they were looking for.
"It's so slow, what are you doing...... Well, what are you holding in your hand? ”
Noticing the rusty sword in Yihao's hand, Lan showed a confused expression. "Where did you get such a tattered sword?"
"This one I just picked up may be a very valuable antique." Yihao didn't want to say what he saw the hallucination, pointing to the metal barrel and asking. "Is this what we're looking for?"
"Well, it was buried there, and it took a lot of effort to get it out at the bottom." Arashi gestured to several smashed-up containers in the distance.
“…… Anyway, if you find it, let's ship it out as soon as possible. Yi Hao pinned the rusty sword to his waist, and went over to pick up the metal barrel, which caused him to stumble twice due to his unexpected weight.
"If you can't move alone, let's come together." Arashi chuckled and tuckled the Demon Slayer behind her back, then lifted the metal barrel up at the other end.
"The radiation leaking out of it isn't dangerous, is it?" Yihao has always been a little uneasy.
"If you're worried, get it out as soon as possible." Arashi's thoughts are always so positive.
Stepping on the tunnel that had been opened earlier, Yihao and Arashi could easily transport the barrels to the edge of the freighter, but the deep pool between the freighter and the ice cave made them a little embarrassed. The heavy metal texture of the barrel made it impossible for them to swim with it, and finally Lantiyì threw the barrel over.
"Throw it over?" Yihao looked at the span of more than twenty meters on both sides with a puzzled expression.
"Well, it's hard to get the direction to ......," it sounds, as if the power is not a problem at all. Yihao tells your Heroic Spirit to stand at the entrance of the cave and prepare it to catch this. ”
"Oh...... Oh. Yihao did as he said and let the Heroic Spirit go.
The glimmering spirit became a signpost in the darkness to indicate the entrance to the cave, and Lan carefully measured the distance between the two, and then lifted the metal barrel with Yihao alone.
"When I shout one, two, three, I throw it together, you know?"
"Know...... Got it. Yihao nodded confidently.
"That'...... One. ”
Following Arashi's instructions, the two of them lifted the barrel and swayed back and forth. As a result of activating his spiritual senses, Yihao's five senses became sharper than usual, and a small sound came to his ears, sounding like the sound of bubbles coming out of a narrow place, mixed with the crisp sound of something bursting.
"Two."
By this time, Lan had already shouted for the second time, and the swing of the barrel increased, and Yihao panicked and prepared to stop her movements.
"Wait, I hear strange noises......"
"Three!"
At the same time as the "three" exit, Arashi threw the metal barrel with a violent movement, but Yihao's reaction did not follow. As a result, the barrel, which had to be thrown accurately by applying the right force to both of them, was shot out like a cannonball under the unilateral strength of one side, but it was greatly deflected and crashed into the ice far away from the hole, and most of it was sunk into it.
"Yihao, what are you doing?" Lan looked at Yihao unhappily, but the latter's face turned pale.
"This ...... This sound ......"
The sound of the ice shattering in Yihao's ears from the heavy impact of the metal barrel had overwhelmed the sound of oozing bubbles, and it was approaching at a rapid pace.
"Not good! Come on! ”
Yi Hao couldn't help but pull Lan to jump off the deep pool, desperately towards the mouth of the hole, but the surrounding ice has begun to vibrate violently, cracks on the wall are about to take shape, under the action of the huge water pressure outside, the sea water is poured into the hole with an extremely fierce attitude, in the fierce whirlpool, Yi Hao used the fastest degree to help Lan put on an oxygen mask, but the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of the huge ice mixed with the freighter is slowly breaking.
(…… Ahhh......h Yihao wailed loudly in his heart, but he didn't notice that the rusty sword pinned to his waist was shining strangely......
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Due to the varying thickness of the ice frozen due to the shipwreck, a part of the ice sheet submerged below the surface of the sea slowly cracked under the tremendous pressure of the sea outside. About one-sixth of the ice sheet was stripped of its original ice sheet, and the weight of the wreck sank towards the bottom of the ocean, a process that caused violent vibrations above the ice sheet. The people who were caught off guard were so shocked that they couldn't stand on their feet, and they all lay on the ground to stabilize their bodies, but they showed panicked eyes and looked at each other at a loss.
"How...... What's going on? ”
The man with glasses was knocked to the ground, holding on to the stake next to him, barely maintaining a half-squatting posture, looking at Hongling with an inquiring gaze.
"I'll take a look!"
Hongling lowered his body during the earthquake and moved to the side of the surveillance equipment in small steps, and the camera had been shaken to the ground, but it still barely showed what the camera was shooting in the tunnel. After Lan and the others went down, Hongling and they were not idle, and put the camera at the bottom of the tunnel about thirty meters with a rope, and there was a camera every ten meters to monitor it. Hongling saw the violently trembling ice from the camera, and then went all the way down to a position of about 100 meters, but the picture was no longer ice, but the appearance of seawater.
"No...... Won't it......"
The light of the camera can illuminate about five meters of seawater, but within the range of the light, neither the outline of the wreck nor the shadow of Lan and the others can be seen, and the deep and dull sea is silent as if it has swallowed everything, and Hongling suddenly panics.
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