Volume 2, Xuanhai Immortal Mountain_Chapter 190, Underwater Crisis
The visibility in the water is relatively low, and there are already a lot of fish swimming, aquatic plants, and reefs, and it is not surprising that strange things will float by.
Maybe I was too nervous, after all, my nerves were already tense in such a quiet place.
The most frightening thing in the sea is the deathly silence, which fills the heart with uneasiness, and when you can't hear anything, only your own breathing, you will unconsciously think that something is wandering around you.
"Where, the fuck?" I searched for another five or six minutes, but I still found nothing, and the others didn't seem to find any clues, so I looked at the capacity of the oxygen cylinder to see how long it could last. It's just that diving is not so easy, I control my breath to support my feet, and I can't stand it for a long time.
"Where the hell is it?" I was muttering in my heart, the back of my neck suddenly felt slightly cold, and I turned around suddenly, but all I saw was darkness, did I feel wrong?
If the eyes can see wrongly, then there is no way something can be wrong with my senses, and after so many lives and deaths, I have an astonishing sense of danger, and anything that might threaten me will make my body react.
There must be something underwater, and this thing is hovering around me.
I looked around cautiously, and at that moment, a green glow appeared in the darkness ahead, shaking several times in succession, which was a signal from other divers, and it seemed that something had been discovered.
I immediately walked in the direction of the green light, and when I arrived, several divers had already arrived, and one of the divers pointed behind me when I got closer, and under several illuminated light sticks, I could clearly see that this was a positive cabin of about five or six square meters, which was not too large, but it was actually located in the front half of the hull, and from the position I speculated that it might be because the Treading Wave was dragged after sinking, causing many structures inside the hull to be misaligned. Leaning in, the surface of the cabin was so rotten that I couldn't feel it through the wetsuit, but I could clearly see that the side of the cabin door was completely closed, with a layer of metal firmly sealed, and it didn't look like it was leaking.
From the external situation, this cabin should be the place where the Treading Wave placed the logbook and navigation charts, first, the place is not large, second, the cabin is very well sealed, and third, the cabin can be separated from the hull itself and idle.
The diver next to me gestured to me to mean they swam up and had the sling dropped, while the rest of us looked for a place to hang the sling at the edge of the cabin.
Everyone nodded, and the diver began to swim upstream, and I continued to observe around the cabin, when suddenly some red liquid floated down from above, and gently slid in front of my eyes, and I looked up strangely, and at this moment my pupils dilated, and I saw an incredible scene.
The diver who wanted to swim to the surface just now didn't know what was attacking, and at this moment, his body was torn in half! Blood and crumbling pieces of flesh sank, and I and the other divers were shocked.
It's so quiet underwater, so quiet that we can't even hear what is attacking the divers overhead. It was only a few minutes from the time he went upstream, to the time we found the blood and death, what was so fast in the water, and what had the ability to tear my wetsuit that was difficult to cut with a dagger!
The other divers immediately became nervous, and two of them took out underwater harpoons from their backs, pistols could not be used in the water, and the daggers were too inconvenient to wield, so the harpoons were the best weapons, and they could be used for self-defense in hand-to-hand combat, and they could be used to attack in ranged combat, so to speak, killing two birds with one stone.
I looked around, and I thought there was some monster wandering around, but now it seems that it was probably not my hallucination.
The two divers made a careful gesture to me, I frowned, flipped my palms, and the waves of water in my hand spread out to both sides, turning into a huge ripple and pushing around. This is a means of detection, and it is possible to quickly spot if there are any monsters in the area swept by the waves. It's a bit like underwater radar, but it's much more rudimentary than high-tech.
I closed my eyes, and as the waves spread, everything around the hull began to appear gradually, but most of them were dead objects, and even in the dozens of seconds that the waves spread, there was no breath of any living creatures, except for the two living divers.
Isn't there even a live fish around? There were no aquatic plants or creatures living among the rocks, and when I opened my eyes, I couldn't help but be surprised to find that this was a terrible space with absolute dead silence.
Nothing will survive here!
I sensed something was wrong and immediately swam to the two divers in front of me, reaching out and patting them on the shoulder in order to get them to swim to the surface immediately, but I felt bad when I reached out and did not respond to my touch. With a slight force, the two of them slowly turned around, and their chests were actually opened with two holes, and their hearts were completely empty. Blood was scattered along the water, and the harpoon was still in his hand, and there was no sign of even a move.
I immediately withdrew my hand, from closing my eyes to opening them, but for a few tens of seconds, I could never make a mistake in my detection, and there was no breath of any living creature in the detection except for the breath of the two divers at the beginning. So what the hell is attacking them? Could it be a water ghost?
Water ghosts are not legends, there are people who have died unjustly in the water, they will become water ghosts in the water, and in some places they are called water monkeys, and they will bewitch children on the shore or delirious old people and drunks, lead them to the water's edge and then pull them underwater, and finally kill them in the water.
We didn't encounter any powerful water ghosts this time, and we killed three people quietly.
Looking around vigilantly, there was still nothing around, fighting underwater was not my forte, and it wasn't safe, I frowned and prepared to swim to the water. But as soon as my body moved, the situation changed, and there was a black thing swimming towards me not far from the blurred water, and the posture of swimming was very strange, like a black cloth swaying back and forth under the water, there was no rule at all, and I couldn't see what was wrapped under this black cloth.
I took my breath back into my palm, this thing must have come from a bad person, although I haven't seen what its body is, but I will inevitably have to do it. The black cloth stayed about two or three meters in front of me, spinning back and forth, as if waiting for something and as if it was hesitating or observing me.
"See? If you look at it, then Lao Tzu is welcome! I decided to strike first, the aura of water gathered between my hands, and then I pushed forward hard, and the ripples that should have spread out condensed to a point in this instant, and the explosion was like a terrible waterjet cut straight into the black cloth opposite.
The black cloth hurriedly dodged, easily dodging the attack of the water jet, and with a light touch of my finger, then my wrist flicked, and then the water jet that flew out turned around and came back again. I cut the black cloth from behind, and I saw a pale green light light light in the black cloth shattering, and then a strange thing was cut in half by a water knife and dissipated in front of my eyes.
"What's that?" I frowned, the pale green thing looked familiar, I swam over, there was still some strange green liquid left around the black cloth, it looked different from the glow stick, it felt like a green light powder mixed in the water. My brow furrowed even tighter, as if I had thought of something.
There seems to be a record of this in "Strange Tales of the Mountains", and I remember that the name of this thing seems to be water worm, and it seems to be a strange earth beast similar to a spirit.
Water worm is a kind of earth beast that lives in deep lakes or rivers, their body is very small, only about one-third of the size of a human head, and they like to hide in dark places, so when they go out, they either carry water plants, or cloth or silt. But the character is very brutal and likes to kill, and it is said that the favorite place for water worms to hide is the human heart.