The South China Sea Returns to the Ruins Chapter 18 Exploring the Sea and Watching the Southern Dragon (Part II)
I saw the sea from a distance shrouded in clouds, the ship to the near but nothing can be seen, it is estimated that it is the two mountains under the sea that are encircled, so that the sea air is changing, this is due to the thick clouds in the sky, otherwise by the sun, there will be a mirage here, and then look at the two Si Tian secret weapons pointed, this is almost the area of the Yin Fire in the remaining veins of the Southern Dragon.
The south, north and middle of the dragon vein in the world, although the north dragon and the middle dragon from Kunlun are steady and condensed, there is an image of eternal indefatigability, but it is the largest of the southern dragon, but the whereabouts of the southern dragon are erratic, the king is insufficient, the dragon vein has a head and no tail, starting from Mount Emei, and Jiangdong enters the sea from the mountains of Haiyan in Zhejiang, from the strait between Korea and Japan through the meandering go, I don't know what its ending is, it can be said that the dragon can appear its head, but not its tail, if it is not the most virtuous and sage, it is not suitable to build a longevity hole in the southern dragon, the coral spiral at the end of the South China Sea, belongs to the southern dragon branch, The strangeness of the shape is rare in the world.
However, this is only a preliminary judgment, and further confirmation is needed before using the "diving bell" to enter the water for reconnaissance. I asked Uncle Ming to stop the boat, take out the white rice and oil prepared in advance, and pour them into the sea, only to see that the white rice did not sink, and the oil could not float, which was the image of the undersea ruins. If there is a yin fire dragon lantern under the sea, it should be here, and the depth of the sea water is measured, and the boat line is less than 70 meters, and the plumb weight with the buoy is immediately sunk to locate it.
Next, everyone immediately held a meeting on the deck to discuss the plan of action, this sea area is almost the core of the coral spiral, so far it is considered a qiē shun lì, but the situation here is unknown, whether the wreck can be found is still unknown, from now on I have to add twelve points of caution, do step by step. In order to avoid staying in this place for too long, simply take advantage of the fact that the wind and waves are not too strong now, and start acting immediately. First go into the water to conduct reconnaissance, find the location of the wreck and Nanzhu, and after mastering the topography of the seabed, then deploy the mission according to local conditions.
There were only two "diving bells" on the ship, each of which could accommodate one person, and in the end it was decided that the ship's boss Ruan Hei and I would go into the water to reconnoitre. Since Ruan Hei has been an egg farmer and has personally gone into the water to collect eggs, he is quite familiar with this Tao, so I let him go into the water as my partner. The arrangement was completed, and the fat man led Gu Chai and others to prepare the "diving bell" and check whether the equipment was reliable.
Before entering the water, Shirley Yang instructed me: "Although we have entered the coral spiral, but things are going too smoothly, but I can't rest assured, I heard Professor Chen say that the sea eye located in the coral spiral is the ruins between heaven and earth, and all the rivers, lakes and seas in the world will eventually fall into the nothingness of the sea eye, and the water flow will never end, but the ruins are always dissatisfied." This incident has repeatedly appeared in various ancient books and documents, and even most of the people who ran the boat know that there is such a sea eye, but you look around for thousands of miles, and there is no huge sea eye vortex on the sea, of course, the ruins are legends after all, I hope I am too worried, but after you go into the water, you still have to be more careful, don't act recklessly. ”
I nodded in agreement, anyway, the "diving bell" is extremely strong, and if anything happens to the bottom of the sea, at least it can ensure that the scouts can get out of the way. Under the trend of strong curiosity, I was anxious to dive to see the situation under the sea, explained a few words to Shirley Yang, and hurriedly got into the "diving bell" prepared by the fat man and others.
The bronze "diving bell" is completely sealed and dives to a depth of 55 meters, with observation windows around it, and is equipped with a special underwater illumination "Poseidon dazzle", which is equipped with a telephone called a diving telephone to communicate with the commander on deck. Although there was a ventilation pipe connected to the mercury on board, we carried oxygen cylinders inside the copper boat in case of accidents.
When I got ready in the cabin, I gestured to the people on deck, and the "diving bell" began to sink slowly, and I didn't feel much on the surface of the sea, but after sinking into the bottom of the sea in the bronze bell, I immediately felt a strong and irrepressible feeling of depression, and a fear of being isolated from the world was born from the bottom of my heart. I tried to focus my attention on looking out the window, trying to distract myself from this uneasiness and anxiety that was difficult to get rid of.
Although the depth of the dive was only more than 50 meters, the process seemed extraordinarily long, I looked out the window at the sea, while secretly counting the sound of venting gas with intervals in the exhaust valve of the copper boat, when the fifteenth count, the diving bell was finally put to the end. In cloudy daytime environments, the visibility of the seabed is in the middle to lower range, but it gets darker and darker below 20 meters, and the impurity particles in the sea water increase, and the visibility plummets. There were lighting equipment inside and outside the copper cabin, and I first found the diving bell where Ruan Hei, the boss of the boat, was, and gave him a thumbs up, indicating that I was normal here, and Ruan Hei responded in the same way.
We then used the "Poseidon dazzle" lighting to start a reconnaissance of the underwater terrain and then report back what we saw on the guò dive phone. This mysterious water, which is rumored to be haunted by ghosts, slowly reveals its true face under the lights. Dozens of meters deep at the bottom of the sea, all dense submarine forests, surrounded by mountains, there is a deep trench like a deep stream between the undulating terrain, the sea water inside from time to time emerges one after another strange whirlpools, with a searchlight to shine in the past can not see the bottom, its depths seem to have black objects to probe the head and tail, but can not see what it is, the fish in the sea are afraid to approach.
In the coral grove at the edge of the deep stream, there are many iron trees, one of which is tens of meters high underwater iron tree is extremely abnormal, and the whole body is translucent, like a hawksbill turtle. The tortoiseshell is also called the poison turtle, there are thirteen pieces of main armor on the back, overlapping such as covering tiles, light yellow and slightly black, with black spots, its outer armor can be cooked and soft after processing, and various precious ornaments are manufactured. The big tree at the bottom of the sea, the color and shape are very similar to the stacked tile shape of the tortoiseshell, the tree is full of old snail giant mussels, the smallest is as big as a millstone, the shell of the mussel slightly opened and closed as if there was a moonlight flashing, attracting the sea aquarium to compete around the side.
I swallowed my saliva and thought to myself that there were eggs at the bottom of the sea, and that it seemed that the trip was worthwhile, but there was no wreck of the Mary Sennu in the vicinity. Not to mention that this shipwreck is not, there is no shadow of other shipwrecks in the entire seabed. I suspect that if the legendary shipwreck cemetery really exists, the only possibility is in the abyss in the coral forest, and if the Marisennu sinks into it, once it exceeds two hundred meters deep, there is no way to salvage it with our ability.