Chapter 6: Surfacing
It was late at night, and what had just happened was like a terrible nightmare, and no one could easily fall asleep. That night they lay in their tents, and the people tossed and turned in thought.
Hua Ge was sitting alone at the door of his rest tent at this time, looking out, and he could hear the faint crying sound coming from Diana's tent. The sound that surrounded the mountain cols on all sides, and the dark and rainy night with dark clouds, made people shudder like the footsteps of the Grim Reaper
It reminds him how fragile life is, and this mission may be his talisman. He had never been so scared, but the rustling sound of the walkie-talkie in his hand made him a little desperate.
No one answered......
For some reason, Bell's communication with the port was completely cut off from the moment he died. Maybe the flash flood disaster was very serious, I don't know if the rescue planes were busy rescuing civilians at this time, and I don't know how many mountain roads will be washed away by the heavy rain. Maybe they'll be able to get in touch with the rescue team again soon.....
The rain seems to be gradually subsiding......
He picked up the walkie-talkie again and continued to try, but there was still only a rustling sound on the walkie-talkie......
He looked at the place where the strange corpse had been found, the entrance to the cave, which seemed not suitable for further investigation.
It could rain heavily for several days, and the entrance to the cave was almost submerged by the rising lake. Hua Ge, who had been shaken by Hyde and Ina Mo's request in the past two days, firmly believed that this exploration should not continue. Murders and natural disasters have made all expeditions into the mountains uncontrollable. The safe evacuation of bodies and other researchers was a priority. And the inexplicable death of the two people during the day made him nervous for the comfort of the whole team.
The inexplicable killings and bad weather undoubtedly added to the complexity of the entire expedition, and although the rain was much lighter, he could tell that tomorrow was likely to be another day of heavy rain...... After tonight, no one will find them tomorrow, and the preservation of the two bodies is in question......
While he was still thinking about these troubles.
In the drizzle of the night, there was a sudden blue light! Is it lightning?
He rubbed his eyes...... The light did not disappear, but under the lapping of the rain, it shimmered brighter and brighter......
He looked over carefully, and it seemed to be a person! He could faintly see the man coming out of the tent farthest away from him, and he seemed to have a blue lamp in his hand!
He took a closer look at the man's figure: was that her? Iris! What is she going out to do so late!
He had long been suspicious of this woman's suspicious behavior, and his body seemed to be one step ahead of his reason, and he instinctively followed her without the slightest hesitation. Putting down the walkie-talkie in his hand, casually putting on a piece of clothing, braving the light rain, the two of them walked one after the other, from the top of the flooded cave into the mountain and farther away......
He was extremely cautious behind her, but suddenly he had a sense of déjà vu, wasn't this the path he had taken when he found Sanmoto's body?!
This undoubtedly made him even more suspicious of this woman: she had no alibi evidence when the two murders occurred, and when Bell died, she said that she went to find Sangben, but Sangben is also dead now, which can never be a coincidence! She may be the murderer of these two people!
As the rain went on, it seemed to become lighter, and the thick clouds in the sky opened a crack, just revealing a round moon, which shone like a guiding light in the darkness over a spring of water.
However, this spring has formed a peculiar landscape, except for this hot spring, the clouds are thick and drizzling, but there is not a single cloud above this spring, not a drop of rain......
Sure enough, it's here! As he expected, this was the same hot spring he had found in Sangmoto!
He followed closer, and watched the woman stop beside the moonlit spring...... She didn't wrap herself as tightly as usual. Although he was wearing a raincoat, a black cloak and hat on his head, and a pair of rubber gloves on his hands...... But it was so easy to see her facial features, and she was rarely exposed to the moonlight at this time.
Maybe it was a little rain just now? She doesn't care about her sensitive skin? But the woman didn't know that it wasn't raining here, and he shook his head: how could it be...... She could not have had such an unpredictable prophetic power......
Iris paused for a moment, then put his rubber-gloved hand into the spring and fiddled with it a few times, as if to test the temperature of the water......
After a moment of getting up, she slowly removed her gloves, then took off her rain boots and raincoat...... And Hua Ge was staring at her intently at this time, but suddenly she began to take off her clothes again...... Slowly remove the T-shirt from the bottom up......
The scene in front of him was really a little fragrant, and Hua Ge immediately realized that he should "look at it indecently", he turned his head to the side, and cursed himself secretly in his heart: Maybe women love cleanliness too much, and when they heard that this is a hot spring, they want to take a bath!
He got up and wanted to walk away, laughing at himself in his heart that he was really a man who didn't know how to "pay attention": how could she, a woman who loves to be so exquisite, suddenly forget to pay attention? He began to suspect that it seemed to be his own villain's heart, and turned to leave.
"Poof!"
The sudden sound of falling water made him involuntarily reflexively look in that direction......
The waves splashed on the water, and Iris disappeared into the water, and her clothes and shoes and socks were placed on the shore, but the bottom of the water seemed to glow with a blue light, and it kept looming back and forth in the water!
He was stunned for a long time, and suddenly realized: This woman is diving?! She seems to be looking for something! Curiosity made him crouch in the same place again, and he wanted to catch this woman when she caught something!
But waiting, time passed minute by minute...... That woman didn't even come up all the time!
He looked at his watch: It's been thirteen minutes?! How is this possible! Not once aroused?
As a second lieutenant, he can be regarded as a leader in underwater breathing, but the longest time is only sixteen minutes! At this time, the blue light under the water seemed to be getting fainter and fainter, so faint that it seemed to sink......
All terrible thoughts flashed through his head: she was drowning!
Don't think twice, every second counts! He quickly took off his shoes as he ran, and with a pop, jumped into the water......
…… Before entering the water, the experience of diving for many years made him mentally prepared for everything. But this hot spring, which he originally had some residual temperature when he fished for Sangmoto's corpse during the day, was extremely cold at this time! As soon as you enter the water, the water temperature is almost bone-chilling!
This unexpectedly cold of about minus ten degrees made his body shake a few times, choked a few mouthfuls of water in a panic, and he quickly floated up from under the water to breathe deeply...... Dive down again. But this time, he was a little dizzy......
Is it because of the fatigue of the past few days?! Or is it surprisingly cold, or is it a time bomb in his head that is alarming? At this time, he was dizzy and weak, and it was almost difficult to control his consciousness.
But he didn't have time to go ashore, she hadn't come up for a long time, and every minute could bring her one step closer to death...... Floating on the surface again, with a deep last breath, a fierce man plunged into the water again......
The water was completely different from what he had imagined, it was not as muddy as it was during the day, it was clear enough to open his eyes, the spring seemed to have some depth, and in the depths the blue light shone brightly, and he endured the pain in his head and dizziness and dived hard...... The blue light slowly floated upward, but although the light was beautiful, it seemed to be a little dazzling, and he felt as if he was hypnotized, tired and dizzy...... The body seemed to stay in the sky lightly, a little fluttering and a little magical...... Suddenly, he lost all strength and his body was weak, and he finally moved away from his consciousness......
He thought, he might have drowned...... At this time, he opened his eyes slightly, watching the light get closer and closer to him, but he muttered ridiculously in his heart: It's okay! That's good! Heroically saving people is also a good way to die. But he hated being dragged to death by this woman.
Slowly closed his eyes and let himself sink. Suddenly, a force pushed him up! It was as if the water had taken on a life and was pushing him up little by little!
In a trance, he opened his eyes, and there seemed to be a blue light in front of him, and in that light there was a beautiful woman, she opened her mouth and blew a huge bubble into his face, and the whole bubble shone on his head, and suddenly he could breathe, as if grasping at a life-saving straw, and he was trying to breathe in this bubble...... He doesn't want to die yet!
…… Looks like he can't die yet! But he felt that the bubble was like his life, and it could burst at any moment...... A vague consciousness allowed all the forces to bring his body to the surface......