The Soviet side airdropped the diving equipment needed by the survey team as quickly as possible, and after obtaining the diving equipment, after debugging, the survey team decided to start diving in the morning of the next day.

The next morning, two members of the survey team put on their diving equipment and entered the wetland from the measured area. At that time, the diving equipment was completely different from the current one, extremely bulky and inconvenient, and it was difficult to get out once it was entangled in aquatic weeds or other plants in the wetland, so Sakharov gave his team a death order to retreat immediately in case of an accident.

After the two team members entered the water, the people above began to nervously calculate the time, one minute, five minutes, ten minutes, until fifteen minutes passed, and there was still no reaction below, Sakharov was anxious, he thought that there must be an accident.

Karlev and Ozerov calmed him down, and at the same time observed the values on the equipment, according to the instructions of the values, the two of them should be about five meters underwater, five meters underwater is not dangerous, maybe the team below has found something.

In the end, an hour passed, and there was still no reaction, and they decided to recycle the oxygen supply tube, as long as the oxygen supply tube was recovered, they could naturally drag the underwater people back.

But when they took back the oxygen supply tube and the safety cable, they found that not only the oxygen supply pipe was broken, but the safety cable was also broken, which means that the two divers really had an accident.

After observing the oxygen supply line and safety cable, they found that the cause of the break was not something biting or tearing, but it seemed to have been corroded by something. This makes it strange that there is anything else in the water that can corrode the oxygen supply pipes and safety cables? It is important to know that the hardness and corrosion resistance of the safety cable are first-class, and the service life is also very long, even if there is a problem with the oxygen supply pipe, the safety cable cannot be easily broken, let alone corroded.

But the facts are right in front of you, even if you don't believe it.

Ozerov of the security group immediately reported the situation and waited for instructions from above, and soon a telegram was sent back, instructing them to stand by and if possible, to find out as much as possible the cause of the accident between the two.

The people of the investigation detachment knew very well that if they wanted to find out the cause of the accident between the two people, they had to go underwater, and the underwater situation was unknown, and sending someone to send them to death was tantamount to sending them to death, and the order of the higher authorities was very clear, and if there were conditions, they would find out, and if there were no conditions, they could not carry it out.

In addition, the diving equipment had been damaged, and the Soviet Union had to completely evacuate China at that time, and finally under the consultation of Sakharov, Karlev and Ozerov, it was decided not to look for the missing two, evacuate the Wild Frog Gully according to the scheduled time, and return to the Soviet Union.

What they didn't expect at all was that nightmare began that night.

According to Ozerov's later recollections, at three o'clock in the morning that night, the members of the security team in charge of the night patrol clearly heard the sound of water coming from the location of the wetland, although the sound was not very loud, but it was still possible to tell that something was struggling in the water.

The team members didn't know what was going on, so they had to call another person to the source of the sound to take a closer look, trying to figure out what it was. Is it an animal or an enemy attack? They even wondered if the Chinese had sent someone to spy on them.

When the two approached, they found that there was a person wearing a diving suit lying at the source of the sound, and they realized that it should be one of the missing people, so they immediately stepped forward to rescue, and after hurriedly taking off the helmet of the diving suit, they found that there was no one in it except for a bunch of plants like algae.

The two of them were stunned on the spot, completely unaware of what was going on, so they immediately woke up the others.

After the others were woken up, they rushed to the scene of the incident as fast as they could, and then quickly disassembled the entire wetsuit, and found that in addition to the algae, there was a human chest skeleton left.

Sakharov recognized at a glance that the skeleton belonged to one of the missing persons, because the man's ribs had been broken and he had undergone surgery later, so it was clear at a glance.

But why is there only the chest skeleton left in the wetsuit, and the rest of it? It looks like the flesh has been dissolved by something, but why is it that only the chest skeleton is still there?

The research team headed by Karlev was also helpless in the face of this situation, after all, no one had encountered such a situation.

After deliberating, they decided to take the wetsuit and its contents back to the tent and inspect it inside and out to see if anything was missing.

After the survey team carried the wetsuit back to the tent, they sent the security team to check the nearest location to see if they could find the other missing person.

After the wetsuit was completely disassembled, the research team found that there was a glue-like mucus in the inner wall of the wetsuit, the mucus was transparent, without any strange smell, and after being directly exposed to the air, it began to slowly evaporate within more than ten minutes, and only a small amount of smoke appeared at the same time as evaporation.

Because the equipment was not very complete, the research team couldn't determine what the slime was, but they also found that although the inner walls of the wetsuit were full of slime, the algae filled with the wetsuit did not have a single trace of slime, which made them find it strange. However, later on the examination of the algae, it was found that the algae had countless small pores, and there was the kind of mucus in the small holes, as if the mucus was secreted by the algae.

There are about 2,100 genera and 27,000 species of algae plants. According to the different pigments, cell structures, and reproductive methods contained in them, they are divided into ten types: green, fall, wheel, gold, yellow, silicon, a, blue, brown, and red. If it is divided according to the color of the pigment alone, it can be divided into three categories, green algae, brown algae and red algae.

Chlorella only has green pigments, which are often referred to as chlorophyll. Brown algae only have brown and yellow pigments. Red algae have red and blue pigments.

Brown algae can only grow in seawater, while green and red algae can also grow in fresh water, and some algae can survive out of water, such as green algae can grow on tree bark or damp old walls.

This is where the researchers found that the algae in the wetsuit are brown algae, which can only live in the sea, but the wetland is freshwater, and brown algae cannot survive in this environment.

The discovery of brown algae made researchers curious about the ecological environment under the water, and they speculated that there should be some reason for the change in the underwater ecological environment, no, it should be called mutation. This led to the creation of brown algae in the water below the wetlands.

But what is the mucus secreted by brown algae? Could it be that this slime dissolves the flesh of the missing person A?

The researchers continued experiments, applying mucus to the meat to observe the changes, but the mucus also evaporated quickly and did not dissolve the meat.

Just when the research team was at a loss, they heard gunshots coming from outside.

After participating in this mission, Ozerov once warned his KGB members that they should never use firearms unless absolutely necessary, and try to use cold weapons when they can, after all, this is China.

Ozerov rushed out of the tent as soon as possible, ran in the direction of the gunshots, and pulled out his pistol himself, and before he could run, he heard gunshots again, which made him feel that the situation was serious.

When Ozerov led people to the scene of the incident, he found that one of the team members was clutching the wetland ground next to him, dragging the plants next to him, crying for help in pain, and the lower body of the team member was in the wetland, and something seemed to drag him into the water.

Ozerov did not bother to ask, and together with the others, they dragged the crew member ashore.

The team members sat there in shock, looking at the water for a long time and speechless.

Ozerov asked: "What happened?" ”

The team member raised his hand and pointed to the location of the puddle and said, "He, he's back." ”

What does it mean he's back? Ozerov was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted: "It's Peter? ”

Peter was one of the missing, and the rest of the people were stunned, looking into the puddle, not quite understanding what it meant. Why would the group say Peter was back and drag him into the water?

The crew then told Ozerov that when he and one of them were patrolling the area, they heard the sound of water, shone it with a flashlight, and clearly saw a man in a diving suit crawling out of the water, and they immediately went to help, but Peter pushed one of them into the puddle and jumped into it himself.

Seeing this, the team members didn't know what was happening, and immediately called for two people nearby to come to support.

They stared at the puddle and shouted, but there was no response, and just as they were wondering, Peter emerged from the puddle on the side, grabbed one of them by the leg, and dragged him into the wetland, so fast that neither of them could react.

On top of that, Peter's speed was simply extraordinary.

The two crew members began to go back to back, and at the same time decided to use the radio to call for backup, and the moment the radio was taken out, Peter came out again and pounced directly on one of the team members, and the team member directly raised his hand and stabbed Peter in the chest, but even this did not stop Peter from dragging him into the water.

The rest of the team members panicked, and directly took out their pistols and shot into the water, but after the water splashed, there was no response. The team didn't know if they had hit Peter, or if Peter was afraid of the gun in his hand, so he didn't come out for a while.

At this time, the team turned around and prepared to run in the direction of the camp, just a few steps away, Peter came out of the puddle on the right side of the front, the team members were quick to shoot, although the bullet was solid on Peter's body, he was also thrown directly into the puddle by Peter.

After the team fell into the puddle, they turned over and grabbed the mud next to him and the plants next to him, so that Peter did not drag him directly into the water, and it happened that Ozerov arrived with someone and rescued him.

This was what the crew had experienced in just a few minutes, Ozerov motioned for his men to be vigilant, and he searched around, recognizing by his footprints that it was indeed the footprints left by the diving suit, and he also found the knife that the previous team member had stabbed Peter.

Ozerov shone a flashlight on the knife and asked, "Are you sure you stabbed Peter?" ”

The team member replied, "Yes, I can clearly see that I was stabbed." ”

Ozerov frowned, since he was stabbed, why was there no blood on the knife?