Chapter 45: Into the Water
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The coffin was full of yellow-brown liquid, emitting a foul stench;
Zhao Zhu knew that these were corpses, he took out a miniature gas mask from his backpack and put it on his face, took out the silk gloves and put them back on, and then started the next step.
Corpse water is the product of the deterioration of proteins and sugars of many microorganisms. After the death of the human body, the body is no longer metabolized and cannot function normally, so it is easy to generate corpse water. Because when a person is alive and the body is functioning normally, the body's defense virus system inhibits the survival and reproduction of bacteria and viruses in the body; However, after death, bacteria and viruses multiply without the control of the body's defense system, and through dehydration, sugars and proteins form soluble compounds, which are dissolved in water to form corpse water. Because there are a large number of scavenging bacteria and fungi living in the corpse water, and the metabolites of these microorganisms have certain toxins, the corpse water is toxic.
The corpse in the coffin was taken out by Zhao Zhu, thrown outside the coffin, and soaked in the corpse water for four hundred years.
Not long ago, in the Yangtze River, a passenger ship named "Oriental Star" capsized, causing more than 400 people to be killed, and those who dived into the steamer to carry out search and rescue exploration personnel have undergone psychologist psychological treatment after this search and rescue activity, because you can imagine entering an underwater steamer and looking at the hundreds of corpses that have been soaked in water to become giants, the sense of picture impact is enough to become a person's life's nightmare!
Taking out the corpse, Zhao Zhu began to grope in the coffin again, and soon, he made a major discovery, this coffin has no bottom!
That's right, there is indeed no bottom, when Zhao Zhu's arms have almost penetrated into the corpse water, he still didn't touch the bottom of the coffin, Zhao Zhu took out a soft rope from his backpack, tied a small plumb to one end of the rope, and then threw the plumb down, the soft rope is nearly twenty meters long, these twenty meters have all been put down, the plumb is still not in the end, so deep!
Zhao Zhu's guess became a reality, and the passage to the next tomb was inside this coffin!
However, another problem was placed in front of Zhao Zhu, could it be that below this, there was a liquid similar to corpse water?
If so, how can you dive yourself?
"No, it shouldn't be all corpse water, and there aren't so many corpses piled up to make such a terrible corpse water abyss."
Zhao Zhu muttered to himself.
This coffin has no bottom, but it should be the use of oil or other liquids, isolated at the bottom of the coffin and the water surface below, and the use of liquid to isolate it, so the corpse in this coffin will produce corpse water, but it is only this coffin, the water in the abyss at the bottom of the coffin may not be as pure as the 'Evergrande Ice Spring', but after all, it is groundwater, and there is no factory sewage on the ground near the deep mountains and old forests, so it is not dirty.
Diving equipment, Zhao Zhu is definitely not brought, there are not many things that can be carried, a bag will be plugged down, Zhao Zhu is not allowed to get a diving suit and oxygen cylinder, but Old Man Han's equipment is indeed complete, there is even a "scuba inside", this scuba is not an oxygen cylinder, but a few materials that look like animal spleen and stomach, can inject air and make balloons, and the material of this thing is very delicate and not easy to break, so it can be tied to the waist and put into the water, When ventilating underwater, you can directly take off a scuba for use, which is a must-have for people who have been inverted in the early years.
Zhao Zhu filled a total of four scuba with air, in fact, there were a few in the bag, but Zhao Zhu didn't plan to hang it anymore, otherwise the buoyancy would be too great, would he still be able to dive with a balloon tied?
"Whew...... Call...... Whew......"
After taking a few deep breaths by the side of the coffin, Zhao Zhu plunged into the coffin, and sure enough, Zhao Zhu felt the resistance of a layer of viscous liquid at the bottom of the coffin, and after breaking through it, he entered the relatively clear water, the water was a little cold, and the visibility was not very high, Zhao Zhu groped his way inside with a flashlight in one hand.
At this time, the most important thing is to find the right direction to go, after all, the time under the water is very precious, there must not be too much waste, Zhao Zhu first turned the flashlight around, the bottom, anyway, it can't be seen or illuminated, Zhao Zhu is not interested in continuing to dive in, in his opinion, he should swim through an area and float up to another tomb, not to say that he desperately dives to catch the blind, and the further down the water pressure is, Zhao Zhu has no professional diving equipment, even if he wants to dive, he can't dive, The consequence of insisting on diving down is that you will be crushed to death by this water pressure!
Suddenly, Zhao Zhu's eyes were locked on a chain, this chain was not below, but on the top of Zhao Zhu's head, the top of the head was the foundation part of the cemetery above, this chain should be used to lock something, but at this time it just pointed out the direction to Zhao Zhu, Zhao Zhu kept his body as much as possible in the upstream part of the water level, and then swam along the direction of the extension of the chain.
Three minutes later, Zhao Zhu untied the first scuba, sucked the air inside, and continued to swim forward, and three minutes later, Zhao Zhu untied the second scuba, if he could not find the floating point if he could not find the floating point if he swam further, Zhao Zhu could only choose to return, otherwise the scuba ran out, and he would have to drown in this water.
However, at this time, Zhao Zhu made a new discovery, and next to the position of the chain, more and more obvious claw marks began to appear, as if something had scratched desperately on this stone wall, and the chain also began to break and break.
Looking at this posture, this chain should be used to lock something, but that thing broke free, and it was itself that broke the chain, and then looking at the scale of this chain, the guy tied up is definitely not small.
This discovery made Zhao Zhu's heart shrouded in a layer of dark clouds, God knows what the Manchu Qing Dynasty had locked down here, but, four hundred years have passed, even if something was locked here, it should be dead, right? But don't do asexual reproduction here.
Just when Zhao Zhu only had two scuba left, in front of Zhao Zhu, a little light appeared, Zhao Zhu's heart was overjoyed, and he immediately swam there even more desperately, because he felt that the exit was about to arrive.
However, as the distance got closer and closer, Zhao Zhu felt more and more that the light was a little strange, the light, as if it had its own thinking, was not so pure, but Zhao Zhu still continued to swim there, after all, he couldn't be stunned here, right?
Every minute or even every second under the water is so precious.
Finally, after the distance was shortened again, Zhao Zhu finally understood the reason for his strange feeling before, the light in front of him, where was the light of the exit, it was clearly the two eyes of a huge underwater creature, that size, larger than a lantern, most of its body was still faintly visible, but that volume was definitely terrifyingly large, no less than an adult great white shark!
That thing should have discovered Zhao Zhu a long time ago, and it had been watching Zhao Zhu swim towards it little by little.
In fact, this is also a hunting method for some underwater creatures, using luminous bodies as a source of attraction to attract nearby fish to gather towards them, and then start hunting and devouring.
At this time, it seemed that it felt that Zhao Zhu's distance was close enough to it, so it began to shake its body and emerge from the darkness, a bloody mouth that could swallow a cow rushed towards Zhao Zhu, and the surrounding water began to stir violently!