On an early autumn night, a steamer was moving smoothly on the water near the Three Gorges.

The boat's colorful lights illuminate the nearby waters all four weeks ago.

On the bow deck, a group of young men sat around a table drinking and eating, the noise of which could be heard far away on the silent river.

"Knock, knock." Suddenly, there were two violent crashes from the bottom of the ship.

Then the drunken crowd began to run around in fright, scurrying around like headless flies.

In the crowd, a middle-aged man with glasses came to the deck to take a look, and the water hit the ship and made him gasp.

A long huge black shadow crossed the water, and the middle-aged man's wine woke up for the most part: "That... What is that. Is it a snake? ”

But he thought about it, how could there be such a big snake in the water. Could it be a dragon underwater? But the knowledge he had received told him that the dragon was nothing more than a fictional thing, perhaps because he had drunk too much and was hallucinating.

"Knock, knock" There were two crashes from the bottom of the ship, and the hull of the ship had already tilted over.

The middle-aged man standing on the deck picked up the invisible walkie-talkie and said something, and then ordered everyone to jump into the water to escape.

With a wave of spray, all the people who jumped into the water were swallowed by a huge snake-walking black shadow.

The screams, the cracking of bones were particularly permeable in the silence of the night.

Immediately afterwards, the serpentine black shadow devoured the people who had jumped into the water and escaped from the boat, and then swam to the bottom of the boat and hit the bottom of the boat fiercely.

After a few moments, the hull of the ship shook a few times, and then disappeared into the unfathomable waters near the Three Gorges, as if nothing had happened.

The serpentine black shadow that had struck the bottom of the sinking ship and devoured people finally surfaced, its long body covered with gray-brown scales, its large mouth full of white teeth, and two long whiskers growing on either side of its mouth. It has two bulging bags growing on top of its head.

Look at that appearance, it is clearly a dragon without horns. But the dragon is the legendary Siyu dragon god who stirs up wind and rain, how can he devour living people?

Three days later

In a water conservancy testing station, a staff member found an abnormality on the radar screen and hurriedly ran to report to the leader: "Report, a huge snake-shaped black shadow was found in the waters near the Three Gorges, and the data analysis may be some kind of python-like creature." ”

At the same time, in an archaeological command center in Beijing, the phone rang non-stop. The content is basically the same: "Report, one of our archaeological ships has lost contact near the Three Gorges for three full days. ”

The person in charge of the archaeological center did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly called his superiors for instructions.

Soon, a water monitoring boat full of salvage teams, divers and marine police appeared in the waters where the accident had occurred three days earlier.

Both sides of the water are densely packed with armed police officers and soldiers responsible for searching for clues about the missing boat.

"Are you sure the signal from their ship is missing in these waters?" On the boat, a tall, thin old man with gray temples nervously asked a young man with glasses behind him.

"Yes, head, that's where their ship signal disappears, and no one on board can be reached." The young man with the glasses nodded.

"Continue the search, I continue to ask my superiors to send someone to help." The tall, thin old man sighed, then turned and walked towards a room with a telephone.

"Divers have spotted an anomaly and are sending out danger signals." A woman sitting in front of a radar screen shouted.

The tall and thin old man hurriedly hung up the phone and ran towards the radar screen, which kept showing an SOS English logo.

"They're crying for help? Did they encounter something underwater? Hurry up and let them withdraw first. The tall and thin old man panicked and hurriedly asked the divers, who had been in the water for several hours, to evacuate first. 17

After a long time, a diver surfaced.

The people on the boat reached out and pulled him up, and when he took off his diving mask, his face turned pale and his whole body trembled.

"What happened to you underwater? What about the others? The tall and thin old man crouched beside him and asked.

"Dragons ... There are dragons... There's a dragon in the water... They... are all dragons... I ate it. The diver said in horror.

"Fart! Where in this world are dragons? Are you dazzled?" The tall and thin old man looked at him unquestionably.

"Really... There really are dragons... How many of them ... All... was eaten. The diver's face grew paler and paler, and after a while he fainted.

The wreck was already visible on the radar screen at this time, but a long black shadow appeared around the wreck.

"Don't panic, everyone, it's just aquatic plants in the water." The tall and thin old man hurriedly comforted everyone.

"Report, that dark shadow is swimming towards our ship."

"Report, that dark shadow has disappeared near our ship. ”

"Is it a school of fish? Or a anaconda. The tall and thin old man stared at the radar screen and fell into deep thought.

There was a loud bang, and the ship began to shake violently.

"Report, there's something under the water attacking our boat."

"Reported, there has been a leak in the bottom of the ship."

The tall and thin old man gritted his teeth and looked at the unfathomable surface of the water, and waved his big hand: "Withdraw first!" Then the boat slowly swam towards the distant shore.

It is reported that an archaeological ship loaded with burial goods mysteriously disappeared while passing through the waters of the Three Gorges, and all 18 archaeological teammates on board were also missing. At the same time, a huge snake-shaped black shadow was found on the radar screen, which, according to expert analysis, could be a python in the water. There is nothing associated with the mysterious disappearance of the ship. "The major news outlets across the country are scrambling to be the first to report on this.

"The latest news, the salvage team has been salvaging in the waters of the Three Gorges for three days, and still no trace of the wreck has been found, and the divers who went into the water were attacked by unknown creatures underwater, and only one person escaped."

"Please, 18 archaeological teammates, may you all be well. According to the latest information, there are still no clues for the missing persons. ”

For a time, newspapers everywhere published the shipwreck.

On television, the 18 missing archaeological teammates and the families of the divers were gathered around and weeping.

"Hello! I heard that there was also a diver who came back alive, right? We have some questions we want to ask him. "Outside the hospital, reporters have long been around.

It was at this hospital that the unconscious diver was treated, and the tall and thin old man was also guarding here, because he needed to know what had happened to the missing man and the ship, and what had happened to the search and rescue divers underwater.

After all, the 18 missing archaeologists were his best students.

This time, they went to a Xia Dynasty tomb for rescue excavation, and all the burial goods and data in the tomb were on the missing ship.

Those burial goods and data can better restore the history of ancient China. If all those things are missing, it will be a catastrophe, and it will be an irreparable loss for archaeology, as well as a loss for the study of ancient Chinese history.

Soon, this incident alarmed the central government.

The central government immediately issued a red-headed document: search and rescue the missing people and salvage the sunken ship at all costs.

At the same time, a search and rescue team composed of experts and professional salvage teams was also dispatched from Beijing.