Chapter 21 Man-Eating Mussels (Part II)
At this time, I felt that in the darkness around me, the water was agitated, rolling up a strong swirl, and there was a white blurred shadow poking its head and tail nearby, and we were so close to it, I knew that I couldn't hide it, so I grabbed the squid that Shirley Yang caught, pinched it hard, and let it go casually, the squid was frightened by pain, and out of instinct, immediately spit out ink and wanted to hide itself.
The black ink painted by the squid, like a puff of black smoke under the sea, its body also shot out, in the darkness there was indeed a sea beast attracted by the escaping squid, in front of us turned around and chased, under the dim light can not see what it is, only feel that the white misty dk93 is a big and terrifying, the thing swims with air The current is very strong, like a tornado blowing on the bottom of the sea, if we don't hold the stone pillar, we will almost be swept away by it, and the undercurrent vortex has been surging for a long time, I am secretly surprised, what is it so long? Could it be that there really is a dragon at the bottom of the sea?
Before we could think about it, the large cloud of black ink in front of us had been carried away by the current, and we saw that the shadow that grew like a white practice swallowed the squid, and swam towards us, we were wearing heavy diving suits, even if we moved with buoyancy underwater, it was still very slow, and it was impossible to escape, so we had to let go. I raised my speargun and tried to shoot it with a poisoned arrow, but Shirley Young turned on the underwater searchlight and shot out the dazzling white beam, shining directly at the sea beast swimming on the opposite side.
I saw a huge white creature in the light, with a head like a bull's head, a body like a python, and scales and horns. We were horrified, is this a dragon or what? If it is said that it is a dragon, but there are no claws on its body, if it is not a dragon, the head of the cow has horns on it, and the body is as long as Bai Lian, and I am stunned to see the head but not the tail, and I forgot to shoot the fish arrow for a while.
The monster was illuminated by the strong light, and the head that had been rushing towards us suddenly turned around, and the long body swept in front of our eyes, and the strong current of water caused the bodies of the three people to sway, it seemed to be afraid of the strong light, and dived into the deeper ravines of the ruins of the ancient city, and there was no more movement.
Before we could rejoice, the stone pillars behind us had long been unsturdy under the repeated impact of the sea, and they were about to fall down by the violent undercurrent, and I pointed to the ancient shipwreck not far from the side, and there seemed to be a stone hall behind it, and hiding in it might be able to avoid the collapsed stones.
The pillar was tilted, and it was impossible to tell where the falling stone would fall. We judged the dead angle of the falling rock, and quickly moved into the skeleton of the wreck, and the broken stone pillar collapsed immediately, and the stirred up seabed sediment produced a cloud of smoke, covering the area where we had just stayed, fortunately it did not cause a chain reaction, but no one can say that the rest of the area will be safer and stronger than that, this ancient city that has sunk under the sea for thousands of years, there is no safe area at all.
We ducked under the keel of the shipwreck to catch our breath. Uncle Ming was frightened one after another, and he was a little out of breath, and he was at a loss. He grabbed the underwater clipboard and hurriedly wrote a word for us to see, this kind of underwater clipboard is for divers to communicate with each other, unless it is a tacit understanding after a long period of running-in, otherwise divers have some complex information between each other is difficult to communicate in time, in this case, they will use the underwater clipboard.
As soon as I saw that Uncle Ming wrote the word "dragon", I knew that he was saying that the sea beast I had just seen was a dragon, and this time I was in big trouble, I had never seen a real dragon, and I didn't know if Uncle Ming had seen it with his own eyes, but Marxism has a thousand clues, in the final analysis, there are only two words "rebellion", what is rebellion? It's just that I dare to do what the world doesn't dare to do, and there is no difference between dragons and fish in my worldview. I raised the fishing arrow in my hand to Uncle Ming, and when it surfaced on the sea, if the monster dared to show up again, I had to let it eat a few arrows from me, and let it taste what the sharp arrows stained with the blood and tears of the egg people tasted like.
Shirley Yang waved her hand, signaling that we don't have to worry, she wrote the word "sea snake" on the clipboard, and pointed to the searchlight, I just remembered that two days ago on the boat, she mentioned to me the sea snake in the deep sea, Westerners call it "sea snake", and the Oriental people call it "dragon", in fact, it is the same kind of sea creature, unpredictable, often in the hurricane storm to attack the boat, devour the people and livestock carried on the ship, so the crew talked about the color change, in ancient times, there were many scenes of depicting sea monsters swallowing boats and capsizing, The five-clawed dragon inside is in the form of a sea serpent, but because it is afraid of light, it usually only haunts the dark seabed, and as long as it carries powerful underwater lighting equipment, there is nothing to fear. If it was discovered that it was a sea snake earlier, there would be no need to listen to Uncle Ming's bad idea to turn off the light source and hide, and he would have almost been attacked when he turned off the lights just now.
Uncle Ming also knew the origin of the sea snake, after a while, if it was not a very special situation, the sea snake would not brave the light to attack the boat and divers, he shook the strong searchlight in his hand, and after a while finally calmed down, he picked a thumbs up at us, saying that there was no need to worry about him, no problem.
From Shirley Yang and I looked around with a diving flashlight, we saw that although there were only wrecks of the ancient shipwreck behind us, it could still be seen that it was far from the shape of the Chinese ship, full of exotic customs in the Arabian region, most of the hull was covered by sea sand, and almost all of it was rotten.
The ruins of the surrounding ancient city have all lost their original appearance, and these things may be amazing finds for archaeologists, but in my opinion they are of little value to explore, and after swimming around the shipwreck, there is no trace of "Mary Fair" and other shipwrecks. Although the scale of the underwater ruins is large, the places that divers can go are very limited, one is the collapsed walls and stone pillars blocking the way, and the other is that there is a danger of collapse at any time, maybe accidentally touching something, it will cause the house to collapse, it seems that even the sea aquarium knows the danger here, there is no figure of them in the vicinity, it is completely a dead ghost area.
There are several pitch-black abysses in the ruins, and the sea snake has escaped into one of the ravines, I want to get close to check, but the water in those places is swirling, and it is extremely slippery, even if it is difficult to approach even if it is a swimming fish, I have to give up, I gesture to Shirley Yang, there is no wreck we are looking for, it seems that the big green head of "King Qin's bone mirror" is not easy to fish, and the ruins of the ancient city under the sea are full of dangers, not a place to stay for a long time, or withdraw to do it again.