Chapter 21: The Man-Eating Mussel (I)
Seeing that Uncle Ming and I agreed to continue diving, Shirley Yang made a more careful sign language, and the three of them connected each other with diving ropes, turned on all the lighting equipment that could be turned on on their bodies, and dived down into the dark valley at the same time in a string of white bubbles emitted by the air valve of the diving helmet. \\.//
We dived down along the stone wall, Shirley Yang casually pulled out the diving knife and scraped off a thick gray-white sediment, only to see that the rough boulder surface was exposed, the bumps and undulations seemed to be ancient monuments, I couldn't help but reach out and touch those ancient traces, was about to continue diving, suddenly felt a violent tremor from the stone wall.
As soon as my hand touched the stone wall that looked like a ruin under the sea, I felt an unusual tremor, and I was shocked, the secret path was not good, I forgot to look at the yellow calendar before entering the water this time, how could I catch up with the underwater earthquake? Staying in the trench may be buried and crushed to death, what is there to hesitate at this time, two ducks and one duck, hurry up and withdraw to the sea.
I was about to inform Shirley Yang and Uncle Ming to evacuate quickly, but I saw Shirley Yang suddenly raise his square hand and make a "careful" gesture, I was slightly stunned, and I realized that the vibration of the stone wall was not an earthquake, but something moving in the trench, and the downward undercurrent suddenly increased, it seems that the thing that picked up the stone wall was above our heads, and in the situation of unknown circumstances, it must be impossible to rise up, Shirley Yang took me and Uncle Ming to hide behind the collapsed stone pillar at the bottom of the sea by a submersible surge.
This trench is not as deep as imagined, due to the complex darkness of the internal undercurrent, it is difficult to see the terrain below with a searchlight on it, but once it dives down, at the bottom of the trench using a fluorine bulb of strong light equipment "Poseidon dazzle", where the light pillar points to, the scenery within tens of meters is vivid, the three of us crouched behind the stone and held two searchlights to scan everywhere, concentrating on the surrounding movements.
I followed the searchlight pillar and quickly glanced at it, and found that the trench was not a natural formation, and the thick stone pillars lined up showed that it was once a magnificent and huge complex of buildings, and the great catastrophe that destroyed the world caused it to sink to the bottom of the sea, and the top layer of the building was covered with sea sand and silt, and over time, it formed a brittle and hard slurry shell, and the reason why this trench was exposed. It wasn't that a shipwreck had fallen, because there was no sign of a modern ship nearby, and there was only the wreck of an old wooden ship next to us that had been corroded to the point that only the keel of the frame remained, and it was not just an ancient shipwreck that had sunk into the sea in a lifetime, but the gap that had just dived down was probably caused by the collapse of a few stone pillars in our hideout.
The coral spiral is long from east to west and narrow from north to south, and the dense areas of the submarine forest are mostly concentrated on the east side of the terrain depression, and the terrain gradually rises to the west, and when the tide level is low, there will be black ghost islands surfacing the water. We dive
The trench is between the Coral Forest and the Ghost Island, and when I first reconnoitred with the diving bell, I found that there were many black holes and ravines on the seabed in this area.
Thinking of this, I was slightly distracted, and suddenly felt Shirley Yang gently arch my left hand, and the thing on my head also dived down, I couldn't help but raise the speargun to prepare to meet the enemy, Uncle Ming shook his hand again and again, signaling that it could not come hard, there must be some huge sea beast hidden in this trough, it may not have discovered us, now quickly extinguish all the light sources on the body, so as not to expose the target, and wait for it to swim away, and then try to sneak back quietly.
Shirley Yang also agreed with Uncle Ming's approach, we quickly turned off the lights, in addition to the searchlight "Poseidon's dazzle", and the hanging lamp headlamp worn on the body, the metal diving helmet, there are also two dim lights, this kind of dim light is a water pressure switch, it will be automatically turned on when it enters the water below 30 meters, and it cannot be manually turned off, it can illuminate the range of about half a meter in front of your eyes in a dark and high-pressure environment, and it can also let your companions in the vicinity see your face, reduce psychological pressure, and the dim light in the helmet is more than a strong searchlight, but it is too inconspicuous, and it is precisely because of the weak light that even if you let it shine, you don't have to worry about exposing the traces.
As soon as the light source was extinguished, the bottom of the sea suddenly fell into a pitch black, and there was a death-like silence everywhere, thinking of the ancient city of Guirus that year was wiped out, the haters in the city, not allowed men, women and children or chickens, dogs and cats were probably fed to the fish, and the egg people in the South China Sea did not rush to mention the "pearl" Yu when they picked eggs, it is said that it was because there were ghosts and ghosts guarding the mussel beads at the bottom of the sea, and those evil ghosts were the souls of the dead in the ancient city? Thinking of this, in the dark ruins of the seabed, I really get a little hairy, and I am busy persuading myself not to think nonsense.
But the special environment of the seabed, coupled with the water pressure at a depth of more than 100 meters, all give people an inexplicable psychological burden, and the inexplicable sense of panic lingers, thinking that Shirley Yang is around, I finally overcame this inappropriate emotion, but I can feel the undercurrent around me suddenly fluctuate, knowing that there is a big guy passing by us, I can't help but feel a little nervous, I don't know that this is a normal psychology produced in the deep sea, almost every deep-water diver will appear, secretly scolding himself for being useless, Back then, the bayonet didn't even blink when he saw red, why did he become so useless when he got to the bottom of the sea? But don't let it be seen from Shirley Yang and Uncle Ming, otherwise I won't have the face to get on the boat.
Although I was nervous, but someone was more nervous than me, Uncle Ming seemed to be stabbed by a sea stinger, his whole body was like electricity, a long string of blisters came out of his diving helmet, Shirley Yang and I were startled by him, but we immediately understood, Uncle Ming was frightened, I saw that he was going to pull out the helmet with his hand, and secretly scolded the old gang farmer and didn't know which tendon was wrong, and quickly reached out to hold him down, and passed his body, and waited for a look by the faint light, it turned out that a squid came out of nowhere, and this squid is not big, The body is as big as the two fists of an adult combined, stretching out its tentacles and tightly grabbing the frog mirror on Uncle Ming's diving helmet, its body is pale, full of purple and brown spots, staring at the two gray eyes Qing squirmed back and forth on Uncle Ming's face.
Uncle Ming's vision was completely blocked, how did he know that it was a squid, and he thought that he was swallowed by some sea beast, his eyes were full of wriggling stomach, Rao is he ran across the boat and crossed the sea, and he was panicked on the spot, I was afraid that Uncle Ming would tear off his breathing tube, and hurriedly held his hands firmly, Shirley Yang gently picked off the squid's wrists and feet with a diving knife from behind, and peeled it off Uncle Ming's diving helmet, her hands were very light, and the squid did not feel any threat, and never spit out the ink.
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