Chapter 273: Underwater Corpses

After the rain, the water in the pool became very muddy and visibility was poor. Pen Γ— fun Γ— Pavilion www. biquge。 info Ziyang and Su Rui took advantage of the boost of the underwater drone to slowly go downstream together.

When he arrived at the position where the steel cable was broken, Su Rui pointed out the truncation to Ziyang, and under the light of the underwater drone, he could see the neat broken section of the steel cable.

Ziyang has worked on the construction site and knows that if it is a cutting technique such as an underwater welding gun, the section of the steel cable should be relatively smooth; If it is pulled by external force, then the place where the steel cable is broken should be broken into a twisted shape, but the broken steel cable in front of you is different from the above two situations.

Su Rui pointed down with his thumb and motioned to continue diving. After descending a few more meters, I finally saw the mysterious bottom of the pool.

At the bottom of the water are some broken trees and dead branches that have been washed in by the rain, and in addition to that, there is mud and sand and rocks.

The water below is relatively turbid, and the drone's searchlight can only illuminate a small area at the bottom of the cave, Jin Guoqiang manipulated the drone to cruise along the bottom of the cave to explore, and it can be seen that the entire waterhole is like a vertical shaft that goes straight up and down, and the walls of the cave are all hard limestone.

Ziyang wandered around the ground for a while like a headless fly, but found nothing. Su Rui's situation is similar to that of him - there is no magical object at the bottom of the cave

Zi Yang spread out his hands and made a helpless gesture to Su Rui. The result was disappointing, and he didn't know what else to do now.

To be on the safe side, Su Rui brought all the remaining air cylinders with him this time, Zi Yang was not sure how long Su Rui could last at such a deep depth, but he knew that the consumption of air at this depth would be very large, and with the factor of decompression, Su Rui couldn't stay too long.

Zi Yang clenched his right hand into a fist and thumbs up, signaling Su Rui to prepare to float.

Su Rui shook his head and made an OK gesture to him, indicating that he was in good shape.

Su Rui knew that the air bottle she was carrying could only last this deep dive, and if they couldn't find anything in the waterhole, then their expedition would basically be over.

"Captain, did you find anything over there?" Su Rui said through the walkie-talkie.

"No, the bottom seems to be closed." Jin Guoqiang said hesitantly, he just controlled the underwater drone to go around the bottom of the cave, and did not find any dark holes or gaps.

"Unlikely, there must be other holes around, keep looking." Su Rui said.

Jin Guoqiang manipulated the drone against the cave wall and began to slowly circle around, and Su Rui and Ziyang searched the underwater ground with the light of the diving suit to see if there was a hole or a gap or other way to drain water.

After a while, Jin Guoqiang said helplessly: "I can't see any holes or gaps. ”

Su Rui said with some disappointment: "Strange, where did the stagnant water come from?" ”

In order to save power, Jin Guoqiang stopped the drone's thrusters, the drone was suspended in the water, and the light of the searchlight shone obliquely upward.

Zi Yang suddenly touched Su Rui's arm and pointed to it.

Su Rui followed Ziyang's gesture and looked up, only to see that in the pillar of light of the searchlight, the mud and dust in the water seemed to be slowly flowing in one direction.

"The hole is up there! Captain, in the direction of nine o'clock, about ten meters up. Su Rui and Jin Guoqiang reported the next position.

"Roger." Jin Guoqiang controls the drone to push upward. Sure enough, on the wall of the cave more than ten meters above, there was a hole with a diameter of more than one meter wide. Because the water flowing through this cave is very slow, the people did not notice the passage hidden in the cave wall at first.

Just now, everyone's attention was on the bottom of the water, but they didn't expect this waterway to be more than ten meters above the bottom of the water. If it hadn't been for the searchlight inadvertently swept upwards, they might have missed the discovery.

Jin Guoqiang manipulated the underwater drone to the entrance of the cave to look inside, and following the light of the searchlight, he could see that the waterway was stretched horizontally, and the passage inside was crooked, and the bottom could not be seen at a glance.

"Go in and see the situation," Jin Guoqiang manipulated the drone and slowly swam in, and Su Rui and Ziyang followed behind and entered the waterway one after another.

The wide part of the waterway can stand upright, and the narrow part can only allow one person to pass horizontally, and the walls of the cave are all limestone washed out by the water, which looks relatively smooth. After traveling more than ten meters inside, there is still no end in sight.

Su Rui reached out and touched Ziyang, pointed at the barometer, and made a floating gesture - there was only one spare air bottle left on her body, which was only enough for her to return and decompress.

"Captain, it seems that the passage is still very long, and my air tank is running out of air, and I can't support it anymore." Su Rui said regretfully.

"Okay, let's go back." Jin Guoqiang said that the underwater drone stopped moving forward.

Su Rui and Ziyang turned around and swam back, and Jin Guoqiang manipulated the drone to follow them.

"Huh, weird." Jin Guoqiang suddenly said on the walkie-talkie: "Su Rui, where you swam just now, there seems to be a passage on it. ”

Su Rui stopped, swam to the direction where the drone stopped, looked up, and sure enough, there was a vertical hole above, and the hole was relatively narrow, allowing only one person to pass through.

Following the light of the wetsuit, you can see the ripples of water above, as if the water surface is a few meters away.

Su Rui looked at the barometer, silently calculated the consumption needed for the return trip, hesitated for a moment, and still went upstream.

After rising two or three meters, Su Rui's head was exposed to the surface of the water - it turned out to be a closed cavity.

Su Rui turned off the oxygen valve, took off his mask, and tried to breathe - the air was a little dirty, but it was still breathable.

Zi Yang swam up with him, also took off his mask, and asked in surprise, "What kind of place is this?" ”

"This is supposed to be a natural cave, because the hole is sealed by water, so an air bag is formed." Su Rui judged.

The two of them waded slowly inside, the water getting shallower and shallow, and after a while it was only up to their thighs. Through the light on the wetsuit, it can be seen that this is an enclosed space the size of a basketball court.

"Su Rui, look there!" Ziyang lowered his voice and said in horror.

Behind a stone at the bottom of the cave, there seemed to be a black thing hidden.

Su Rui was also taken aback, and the two of them stood there together and didn't dare to move for half a minute, for fear of alarming the mysterious object behind the stone.

At this moment, the underwater drone controlled by Jin Guoqiang also floated up and slowly advanced to their side.

"What's wrong?" Jin Guoqiang said through the walkie-talkie. The black object was on the shore, and the perspective of the drone could not see there.

Ziyang lifted the front of the underwater drone with his hands, and the drone searchlight illuminated the vicinity of the stone, and it could be seen that most of the body of the "mysterious object" was hidden behind the boulder, and only four black limbs were exposed.

"What is this?" When Jin Guoqiang saw this mysterious object, he couldn't help but exclaim on the walkie-talkie.

"Could it be a big spider?" Zi Yang thought of those terrifying creatures in science fiction movies, and his back felt cold. Could it be that this thing has bitten off the outer steel cable?

"Let'sβ€”let's go back." Ziyang's heart was beating like a drum, and her legs were already shaking.

Fortunately, the mysterious object lay there motionless, and had no intention of pounced.

"Don't be afraid, it should be two corpses." Su Rui said in a low voice.

Ziyang looked at her in horror. Is this the gentle and beautiful Su Rui I know? Don't be afraid of two corpses? Why are you so calm?

"Ziyang, don't shake your hands." Su Rui reminded him.

Ziyang had no choice but to bite the bullet and raise the drone with both hands, aiming the light of the searchlight at the "mysterious object" behind the stone.

The two of them slowly moved a few steps forward, and when they got closer, they could see that the few black pieces exposed outside the stone did indeed look like human limbs.

If you go any further, you will have to go ashore, Ziyang put down the heavy drone, and the two cautiously approached.

"Beware of the danger!" Jin Guoqiang said on the walkie-talkie.

Su Rui and Zi Yang slowly walked around the back of the stone, and sure enough, it was not a mysterious creature that was "hidden" behind the stone, but two corpses wrapped in a diving suit. It was their legs that were exposed to the stones.

Zi Yang used the light on the wetsuit to shine on the two corpses, and there were 10,000 question marks in his mind, who were they? Why is it here?

Su Rui took a few steps forward, and suddenly exclaimed, "Nano clothes! ”

Zi Yang was startled, and he could also see that the two corpses were wearing the same two nano clothes they had lost in the hospital.

Su Rui gently touched the corpse's arm with his hand, and the tentacles were soft, as if the nano clothes had lost their effect.

"How, what to do?" Zi Yang looked at Su Rui and looked closer, the head of the corpse was covered by a mask, and the gray moisture in the mask made it impossible to see the faces of the people inside - but the only thing that was certain was that the people inside were dead.

"Bring them in first." Su Rui said in a deep voice.

When Ziyang heard that he was going to hold the corpse, his scalp was numb. But Su Rui didn't seem to have any intention of asking for his opinion, put on a mask, picked up a corpse, and slowly walked towards the water.

Zi Yang had no choice but to bite the bullet and go up to pick up the remaining corpse. This "person" was wrapped in a nano coat, hanging down softly in his hands, like a big slug without bones, not to mention how mad it was.

After entering the water, the corpse did not weigh much under the action of buoyancy, Su Rui was in front, Ziyang was behind, and the two slowly swam out of the waterway. Jin Guoqiang controlled the drone and followed from behind.

The two of them held the corpse and began to slowly float up, and after rising some distance, Su Rui signaled to stop and decompress.

Two people in the water are hovering there looking at each other, each holding a corpse in their hands, the situation is quite strange, this is really a rare life experience.

After several decompressions, the two bodies finally surfaced.

Su Rui took off her mask and looked at the barometer of the air cylinder, it was so dangerous, the gas had been completely used up, and if she was a minute late, she might not be able to come back.

"Su Rui, are you okay?" Jin Guoqiang looked at Su Rui on the shore and looked a little weak, and asked with concern.

"It's fine!" Su Rui unloaded the empty air bottle and slowly swam towards the shore.

Jin Guoqiang came over to help the two of them drag the bodies to the shore, and asked with a shocked face, "What's going on?" ”

Su Rui sat on the ground and gasped for a while, knelt on his knees next to a corpse, and gently pressed and touched the jacket of the nano clothes with his hands, only to hear a few slight clicks, and the built-in safety lock in the nano clothes had been opened.

Su Rui gently lifted the mask of the nano clothes, revealing a miserable white and wet human face.

"I'll go!" Ziyang was so frightened that he took a few steps back. Jin Guoqiang leaned over to look at the corpse carefully, and muttered, "It seems to have been dead for a long time." ”

"Yes, the sealing of the nano clothing is very good, although the person has been dead for a long time, but the body is very well preserved." Su Rui said as he peeled the nano clothes off the corpse.

After a while, a wet corpse wearing only underwear appeared in front of the three of them. The corpse's skin was still smooth and moist, but the muscles had turned into jelly.

Zi Yang couldn't help frowning and twisted his head to the side, he had never seen such a dead person, this scene was really disgusting.

The corpse had been sealed in the nanosuit for an unknown amount of time, and as soon as it came into contact with the air, it immediately emitted a fishy smell of decay.

"Who are these two? How did they end up underwater? Are they Professor Zhang's men? Zi Yang couldn't help but ask.

Jin Guoqiang was silent, turned his head to inspect another corpse wearing nano clothes, and saw that there was a curved cowhide scabbard stuck in the equipment belt on the waist of "it", and the wooden-handled handle that was exposed was not rotten.

Jin Guoqiang stretched out his hand to hold the handle of the knife, and pulled out the blade with force, and everyone's eyes lit up, this turned out to be a cold and shining dog-legged scimitar.

Zi Yang looked at this dogleg scimitar and suddenly felt very familiar - I remember that when he was exploring with Alexander in Lop Nur, James also had an identical dogleg scimitar.

Jin Guoqiang turned around and walked to the stripped corpse, grabbed its left arm and lifted it, only to see that on the inside of the corpse's arm, there was a cyan tattoo: two dog-legged scimitars were standing together, and a hideous skeleton was on top of it.

"Gurkha cavalry!" Jin Guoqiang said with a frown.