Chapter 5: The Trench of the Dead
What the hell is this place?
Wang Qi looked around again, and it was still the same environment. The black-brown sand of the seabed, with its strange color, exudes the cold water, and is silent. A qiē and a qiē have cast a veil of mystery over this strange sea area.
How does it feel so much like how I used to walk through the cemetery at night?
Wang Qi's body trembled a little, he had been swimming here for a while, and he couldn't see anything else except for finding a large trench.
Check it out, maybe you'll find some creatures there.
Wang Qi was already hungry, but he hadn't found a single sea fish yet. His body urged him strongly to go to the trench to look, but his instinct told him not to go.
Wang Qi once hid next to the trench and looked into the trench a few times, but the trench was so deep that he could see nothing but darkness. And every time I look at it, I feel a palpitation.
Wang Qi continued to swim, but he still did not find food, and the intense hunger was like waves rushing to the beach, wave after wave, wave after wave. Wang Qi gritted his teeth, determined to return to the trench.
The waters around the trench were deeper than the other places Wang Qi swam, and had a faint stench, like the smell of a corpse that had rotted for a long time. Wang Qi had never smelled the rancid smell, but this smell instantly made Wang Qi feel this way.
Wang Qi slowly sank along the edge of the trench, the stench getting stronger and stronger, and his vision became more and more blurred. Sharks have good night vision, but there is no light in the trenches, and no matter how good their eyes are, they can't see it.
I don't know how many meters it sank, Wang Qi felt that the water pressure around him was a little more than the water pressure he was living in, and he could clearly perceive his own heartbeat, "puff puff". Wang Qi was a little panicked, the excessive water pressure let him know that this was not a place he could stay for a long time.
Can't dive any further. But Wang Qi has not yet reached the bottom of the trench, so what can be done? Go upstream, but there is no food around, so you can only starve to death. Dive, just the water pressure, Wang Qi almost couldn't bear it. But staying at this depth, surrounded by darkness where you can't see your fingers, you can only be blind here, and there is no food.
Keep diving, I don't believe that the dignified Wang Qi Great White Shark will be trapped in this hellish place.
Continuing to dive for about four or five meters, Wang Qi felt that his eyes were a little brighter, and he no longer had the feeling that he couldn't see at all before. These rays of light are composed of fluorescent dots, and if you look at these fluorescences alone, they are still relatively beautiful, but in this weird environment, Wang Qi only felt a little chill in his body.
These fluorescences are emitted from insects the size of fingernails. These can't be bad bugs that kill fish without blinking. Wang Qi watched these insects swim over in fear, and imagined in his heart the tragic scene of being eaten into fish bones by these insects.
It's horrible. Wang Qi turned around and slipped away, only to find that there were these bugs everywhere, and there were more bugs in the deeper part of the trench.
Suddenly, Wang Qi felt a wave of water, like the waves of a big fish swimming. Swimming along the fluctuations, sure enough, Wang Qi found a big fish that was swimming very slowly, which looked like a sailfish. It swam very slowly, barely moving. The scales on the body are not shiny, and the flag-shaped fins on the back are even more drooping, and the whole thing looks half-dead and about to die.
Just as Wang Qi swam closer, the swordfish overturned and died. And at the moment when the sailfish died, the surrounding insects rioted, and a nest of crazy frantically rushed to the dead fish, wrapping it tightly and forming a biological light bulb.
Looking at this sudden situation in front of him, Wang Qi was shocked, and with this huge "light bulb", Wang Qi saw the situation at the bottom of the trench clearly. Bones, endless bones, at least everywhere he could see. Due to the poor lighting, the bones were grayish-white, and they were all fish bones, large and small, ranging from small fish less than the size of the palm of a hand to whale bones with a tail bone equivalent to Wang Qi. It is dense and covers the entire bottom of the trench.
This is the grave, the burial ground of the fish.
No wonder there are no fish here, no wonder the smell here is so bad, not a normal fish will come, and because of the huge amount of decaying organic matter gathered here, even plants can't survive.
Wang Qi, who has seen through the truth, is not as scared as before, and fear comes from the unknown. Wang Qi, who was more relaxed, continued to swim, without the restraint of fear, Wang Qi instead gave birth to an inexplicable exploration**.
What is that. Wang Qi suddenly found a unique set of bones. Its body is elongated, like the skeleton of a sea serpent, but it is several times larger than a sea snake. What made Wang Qi feel the most strange was that there were four limb bones under this slender skeleton, and this inexplicable skeleton made Wang Qi inexplicably think of an animal-dragon.
But isn't the dragon not a zài? Wang Qi looked at the head of the skeleton, I don't know if it is a psychological effect, Wang Qi always feels that there are two protrusions on it.
Shaking his head, Wang Qi continued to observe the skeleton and found that the skeleton was coiled, as if it was protecting something. Wang Qi couldn't see the thing in the center of the bone clearly, but the outline of that thing was very familiar to Wang Qi, like a small tree.
Yes, it's a small tree, Wang Qi is sure. It's just that a tree can grow in the sea, which is too mysterious, and it grows in the tomb at the bottom of the sea, and there is a sense of immediacy like a tree demon grandma.
The light suddenly dimmed, and Wang Qi turned his head to see that the dead sailfish had been gnawed by insects. Fortunately, the insects were not interested in live fish, otherwise Wang Qi would have turned into dry bones a long time ago.
The fainter light made Wang Qi even more unable to see, and he could only bite the swordfish bone first to prevent it from sinking. The water pressure around the dragon-shaped skeleton was not acceptable to Wang Qi, and if Wang Qi wanted to see the small tree in the center, he had to use something to smash the dragon-shaped skeleton open.
Wang Qi threw the swordfish skeleton at the dragon-shaped skeleton, perhaps soaking in the water for too long, and with a slight smash, the entire skeleton was shattered, revealing the small tree in the center.
What a small tree, the roots of which were tightly coiled around the fishbones beneath it, and the branches twisted together to form a cone, and a small branch protruded from the sharp corners, and a fist-sized fruit grew at the top. The whole tree, from the roots to the fruit, is the same color as the fish bones.
I have never seen a gray-white tree, let alone a gray-white fruit. But as soon as Wang Qi saw this gray-white fruit, a longing welled up in his heart, which was even stronger than Wang Qi's most powerful desire.
Get it, eat it. Wang Qi's mind was full of this thought. Ignoring the discomfort of the water pressure, he forced his way down. Blood was surging wildly in his body, and Wang Qi only felt that he was about to be squashed, and he was squeezed by the water pressure.
Just as Wang Qi approached the small tree, a large amount of blood oozed out of his skin, like a devil who had just come out of the pool of blood. But Wang Qi didn't pay attention, he only knew that he had to eat the fruit, even if it was death.
Biting off the branch, Wang Qi swallowed it directly without chewing. As soon as Wang Qi swallowed the fruit, he felt a powerful force surging from the inside of his body, and he struggled to swim upstream, swimming out of this dead bone trench at an extraordinary speed, swimming in a certain direction.
At the bottom of the trench, after Wang Qi had bitten off the fruit, the small tree shrank rapidly at a rate visible to the naked eye, leaving only its roots still entrenched in the entire tomb. The bugs also extinguished their fluorescence and fell silent.
The Trench of the Dead has truly become a dark underworld, and there is no light coming out.