Chapter 33: The King Squid (Part II)
In a period of chaos, I actually held the back of the King Qin Bone Mirror in front of me, thinking that the back of this mirror had been illuminated by ancient corpses for thousands of years, and it is said that the corpse qi born from the shape of zombies was sucked into the mirror, and I don't care about anything else, but it is really unlucky for a living person to be illuminated by it.
The underwater environment was so dark that I couldn't see what was behind the mirror, just a dark and deep place. I feel so strange in my heart, how can the back of King Qin's bone mirror be so black as if it had been burned by smoke and fire? I wanted to see what was going on, so I hurriedly raised my hand to grab Gu Chai's arm holding the searchlight, pressed the light to the body of the mirror, and looked carefully, it turned out that the back of the bronze mirror was sealed by fire paint, and there were indentations on the paint to ward off evil spirits.
My heart moved: "The owner of the cruise ship probably also knows about this ancient mirror, so he simply covers the back of the mirror, and it is much safer in the process of collecting, appreciating or trafficking, so it seems that the legend that the three of them became tigers and the king of Qin is a bone mirror is a bad thing." Then he put the ancient mirror into the diving bag, slapped the bag at everyone, and retreated.
Rley Yang helped unload the scuba leaking from my back, the dive mission was almost complete, and it didn't matter if there was one less oxygen tank in a group of two, but she still nudged me, as if to blame me for being bold and reckless, daring to take the lamp to look at the back of the mirror, in case the dark side of the ancient mirror was not covered, what if?
I thought to myself, I had already taken a picture in person, even if I didn't use a searchlight to see clearly, it would be too late, I wouldn't be like Gu Chai, who caught him in the water with two eyes, and he would have used the knife with whomever he wanted, if I hadn't weighed the priorities in advance, I wouldn't have rashly looked at the dark side of the back of the mirror. But it was hard to tell the difference underwater, so I had to make an upward gesture and prepare to lead the dive team out of the Marisanne. At this time, the stern of the wreck fell into a floating current under the water, and under the impact of the submerged current, the steel keel of the hull kept trembling, and it felt very real in the bilge. There were sharks on the part of the wreck hall, so we had to find another way.
The four of them turned to a broken porthole in one of the cabins on the side of the ship, and the undercurrent between the outside of the ship and the wreckage of another masted wooden ship was rapid. I was about to go out and see if I could get up from here, but Shirley Young was the first to do so, and she leaned out of the porthole and beckoned to us to leave.
I asked the fat man and Guchai to throw away the heavy demolition tools, then grabbed the diving knife and followed Shirley Yang out of the porthole, and the turbulence around him seemed to be as tight as a burst of water, and the buoyancy seemed to be useless, and only by holding on to the cracks in the sunken ship could I barely move forward.
Shirley Yang and I saw that although there was a lot of turbulence outside the shipwreck, it could be forced through, and there was not so much sewage outside the ship, unlike the dark inside the cabin, so we took the fat man and Gu Chai out one after another. I suddenly felt that there was something strange about the turbulence, took the diving searchlight, looked down at the depths of the water, and the huge propeller of the Marisianu kept spinning in the undercurrent, and it was said that the power of the ship had long been lost, and there was no sign of motive in the cabin, but the wreck was like a haunted, and the propeller at the bottom turned at this time.
I was afraid that it was the ghost of the captain who was haunting us and wanted to evacuate in a hurry, but the underwater turbulence was turbulent, and if we did not catch the wreck, it would be difficult to approach the surface, and the propeller at the stern of the ship whirred wildly, rolling up the wreckage of the wooden ship in the floating current, shattering the fragments of the hull, surging back and forth with the turbulence, and the Mariciano also shook like a mountain, and we were attached to the wreck, trying to hold our bodies extremely tight, let alone trying to move upwards.
The sudden tremor under the water suddenly stopped, and a swirling current suddenly appeared at the propeller. Several huge tentacles full of suction cups protruded from the dark water, like a gray sea serpent crawling up the wreck. It turned out that the Mary Xiannu sank into the ruins, just in time to suppress the cave of the king squid, trapping it in it. The king squid usually only reaches out its tentacles to hunt the water tribe passing through the hole, and it may have just been it that flicked the propeller blades of the wreck, and felt a living creature crawling out of the wreck, so it immediately stretched out its tentacles and rolled over.
I saw the blue-gray giant underwater clinging to the wreck, and I couldn't help but be terrified, if I bumped into some zombie beast on land, gritted my teeth, at least I could give up my life to escape, but under the deep water, the water pressure made people move slowly, and it was difficult to do anything. The king squid in the deep sea can drag and sink the ship, if it weren't for the heavy cruise ship, it wouldn't be able to hold it down, and the four of us knew that it was powerful, so we had to climb the hull of the ship and desperately go up in the turbulence.
But no matter how fast the man's action is, how can he be as fast as the deep sea monster underwater, and a gray tentacle as thick as a water tank is behind him in an instant. In the turbulence, I held unsteadily in my hand, and the underwater searchlight of "Poseidon's dazzle" fell off my hand, and was immediately caught by the tentacles of the king squid, and the light was extinguished immediately, and more than ten kilograms of searchlight were immediately rolled into a ball of shredded paper in the tentacles full of suction cups.
The king squid shook off the searchlight, suddenly stretched out his tentacles, and went towards Gu Chai when the skull was covered by the dense size of the suckers under his feet, like countless eyes that suddenly opened. Gu Chai looked back at the sunken ship, Rao was brave underwater, after all, he was still young, and he couldn't help but be stunned, and he forgot to dodge and resist in the water.
I happened to be beside him, and saw that Gu Chai had already been blinded, although he was a remnant of the dragon family who penetrated the sea, but he still belonged to the toad in the well, and he didn't know how to react if he hadn't seen much of the sky. I was eager to save people, and I pulled out a cold firework from the diving bag, and slapped it desperately behind Gu Chai to hand it out, and the white fire in the water made people's eyes light up, just poking at the inside of the king squid's tentacles. Under a puff of white smoke, the dense suction cups contracted sharply and retreated in fright, driving the turbulent water like the autumn wind turning leaves, almost sucking us all to the bottom.
The cold smoke and fire that fell illuminated the bottom of the wreck, and you could see that the bottom was the wreckage of many ancient ships, and the blades of the propellers of the wreck were cloudy, and it seemed that it was the lair of the king squid. Two of them had the longest tentacles, usually used to catch fish and shrimp and eat, but one foot retracted, and the other wrist foot still poked along the hull of the boat. The fat man and I threw down a few emergency cold fireworks that we had brought on our bodies, and the king squid was afraid of the fireworks and had to wave them again and again.
I know very well that the wrists and feet of the king squid can drag pigs and cows into the water, and once they are wrapped in it, they don't have to wait until they are dragged away and eaten, and they will break their bones and bones on the spot and die. But it was trapped in the cave and had a very limited distance to stretch, and it could only get out of danger by climbing up to the middle of the sinking ground as soon as possible, but it was tired of dealing with the two python-like wrists and feet, and where could they pull out and retreat to the water.
Seeing the tentacles covered with eye-shaped suction cups hit me again, I reached into the bag and felt that the cold fireworks were gone. Spearguns are highly poisonous. It can be effective against smaller sharks, and it is useless to shoot the squid king with rough skin and thick flesh and a large body. I saw a huge tentacle stretched out behind me, and immediately it would slap down, and the fat man and Gu Chai panicked, and everyone wanted to stab me with a diving knife, I thought to myself, it is difficult for ants to shake the pillar, how can the diving knife used for self-defense hurt it, but at this time, what can be done except to die and struggle.
Suddenly, he had an idea, made a diving gesture to everyone, grabbed the nearest Shirley, Yang followed a downward turbulence straight into the water, and the fat man also grabbed Gu Chai by the arm and followed. The two connected to prevent being swept away by the undercurrent, and soon reached the propeller at the stern of the wreck. Everyone held on to the huge paddles to hold their bodies, and at the same time, the wrists and feet of the king squid poking out of the gap in the propeller were still where we had stayed, close to the wreck, searching for prey, and the narrow area behind the paddles was a dead spot that it was difficult to reach.
I put away my diving knife, looked at the squid squid in front of me, and pointed to the propeller fan for everyone to push together, under the light of the diving flashlight hanging from my chest. The other three immediately understood my intentions and swirled the paddles underwater as a winch to cut off the wrists and feet of the king squid.
The front axle of the propeller of the wreck has been broken, and the paddle pages have lost their fixation, and they can all idle when they are pumped by the current. It is not difficult to turn it underwater, and we know that the king squid has a lot of power, and the propeller may not be able to cut off its tough wrists and feet, so as soon as it comes up, we will use all our strength to show mercy, and we will not be merciful, and even the strength of milk will be used in the fight for life and death. The king squid in the depths of the cave was unprepared, and as soon as the paddle blades turned, its bowl foot was immediately twisted inside, and streams of dirty blood flowed out, and it panicked under the pain, and did not compete with the meat stirr at the tail of the sunken ship, but wanted to pull out the injured wrist and foot with the rotation, but unexpectedly twisted the paddle blades tightly, Qi Gen was cut off, one tentacle was cut off, and the other was only half connected, and when it understood that it was too late, the rest of the short feet in the cave quickly stretched out and twisted the paddle blades in the opposite direction, and finally pulled out the remaining tentacles that were seriously injured.
The bottom of the water was mixed with its blood, and it was frightened and painful, and it spewed out thick ink, and it was even more stained with five fingers. As soon as its main wrist was broken, the remaining few short wrists were not much of a threat. I felt the rest of my companions and pushed them up, and the group received the signal and quickly climbed the wreck in the dark turbulence and swam to the surface.
Everyone was a little depressed, and my heart was beating suddenly, not only swimming out of the bloody and intense water, but the other three were not injured, and quickly gestured to each other to get out of this dangerous underwater as soon as possible. However, returning to the surface after diving must be carried out rhythmically and slowly according to the plan, and also stop near the decompression line for a while, otherwise the diving disease caused by the change in water pressure will cause bubbles in the blood, and the weight will be fatal, so although the heart is anxious, do not dare to rise rashly.
As we climbed the hull of the wreck and swam to the break in the central hall of the Marisanne, the turbulent currents under the water had gradually weakened. The sharks in the wreck are still inside, and the huge cracks in the hull allow them to enter and exit freely, or they may be led away by the blood underwater, and it is very risky to swim directly through this gap anyway.
I saw that there were many sharks in the water above, and it seemed that there was danger everywhere, and a few meters away was a group of thick stone pillars sunken in the water, judging by the position of the wreck, our sea willow boat Trident was stranded above the remains of the stone pillars, and the gap between the stone pillars was narrow and cramped, if it could be used well, it would be a safe way to retreat, and then led the team to swim into the ruins of the stone pillars.
By this time, I had run out of oxygen in my scuba and had to alternate with Shirley Young on a respirator. I used a diving flashlight to shine a light on the surrounding terrain and ruins, which were unimaginably magnificent, and I couldn't imagine what the buildings were, and how they were built in that primitive production environment, and even if I couldn't see the whole picture in the water, I could feel an invisible deterrence from thousands of years ago, and I really didn't know what the haters who used to live here wanted to do.
I asked everyone to prepare to slowly float to the surface according to the plan in the gap between the ruins of the stone pillar, but when I saw Gu Chai mouth and short knife, his whole body trembled for a while, and I knew that he was probably due to excessive tension just now, but it was not a kind of fear, but a kind of nervous tension under great danger and pressure, causing the muscles of the whole body to tremble and be difficult to control. The U.S. military believes that this phenomenon is not a mental illness like bullet shock, but a kind of nervous and muscular suggestive response in a state of tension, which is related to the innate nervous coordination system of the human body, just like some people will have spasms in the hand holding the knife after the first killing, and they are used to drug treatment or early prevention. When I led the troops to fight on the front line, there were also young soldiers in the company, and this situation occurred at that time, when we generally relied on ideological work to relieve pressure, such as swearing a few words, telling some jokes, etc., which could have some obvious stress relief effects. But there was nothing I could do in the water, and I was worried that something would happen to him, so I had to let the fat man hold him in order to keep him safe.
The diving team was almost exhausted by the time they got here, and managed to make it to the decompression line. Suddenly, the water flowed chaotically, and the gray-backed white-bellied shark that haunted like a ghost suddenly appeared in front of everyone's eyes. It tried to get into the stone pillars and bite people, but its body was too large to enter, so it had to turn around and circle around the stone pillars. It swam fast, rolled up a burst of water, the ruins that had already tilted and collapsed on top of each other suddenly crumbled in the water, and the stones and bricks on it continued to roll down, and the white shark was also startled by the falling stones, looking extremely manic, and the shark's body swept to the edge of the ruins, and the thick stone pillars shook for a while, and then slowly fell into the water.