Chapter 24: The Sea Without Exit (I)
However, when I thought that the money to buy the boat was all from Shirley Yang, and the Si Tianyu and Kui astrolabe that entered the Coral Spiral Sea, as well as the technique of fishing melons and fishing, were also handed down by her ancestors who moved the mountain, I said this with some confidence, and secretly glanced at Shirley Yang, and saw that she was nodding slightly at me, I immediately felt full of confidence, and said Ruan Hei and the others speechless, so I had to listen to my orders and give up the idea of picking eggs at night.
The wind and waves at sea are merciless, I am ready to accept it when I see it, but I have not yet found the wreck of the Mary Xiannu, but it is a big deal, if the walrus allows it at night, I plan to use the diving bell to reconnoiter the rest of the trenches, I discussed this matter with everyone, even if it is only a photo can be handed over, at this time Uncle Ming in the cockpit suddenly sent a message with a thousand miles of microphone: "You guys come up quickly, the big thing is not good, the fire is burning the sea!" ”
The yin fire finally appeared, after hearing Uncle Ming's voice in the "microphone", I jumped on the bow of the ship in three or two steps, only to see the clouds covering the sky on the sea, the heavy rain was falling tightly, not far away, the dark sea water suddenly boiled and surged, the bottom of the sea was bright, the white light was dazzling, the dome-shaped fire was divided into several at the bottom of the sea, from the bottom to the top of the terrifying black smoke rushed to the sky, the sea water where the yin fire was burning was boiling, and countless aquarium wreckage that was burned by the yin fire floated on the sea.
The black smoke of the dragon fire on the bottom of the sea made the already gloomy sky even darker, and under the surface of the sea was the light of the fire floating, a large cloud of scorching yin fire, as if several rounds of bright moon rose at the bottom of the sea at the same time, illuminating the sea gloomily. When everyone saw this apocalyptic scene on the ship, they all felt their hair stand on end, and a chill broke out in their hearts.
Because we had to enter the "coral spiral" with the help of the moonlight tide, we chose the time around the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, which is the date when the bright moon will be full. The fireballs gushing out of the bottom of the sea swallowed up the surrounding fish, and those who were a little closer to the yin fire and were lucky enough not to die were most likely burned to the ground, struggling and tumbling and jumping out of the sea, and the entire sea surface was shrouded in the shadow of death.
The dragon fire can only burn in the seawater, and it will be extinguished when it leaves the water, and this undersea yin fire called "dragon lantern" in Qingwu feng shui, although it is amazing, is often just flickering and fleeting. I know in my heart that this kind of vision is only found in the remnants of the "Nanlong", and it is the condensation of the wandering Nanlong sea air, which is not comparable to the submarine volcano and oil and gas gushing. Just by looking at the submarine fire sneaking, you know that the surviving crew of the "Mary Xiannu" is true, and the wreck carrying the "King Qin's Bone Mirror" must be nearby.
Our perception of the Yin Fire Dragon Lantern is limited to the skin, and even seeing it is the first time we have seen it, and we don't know how powerful it is. However, although the sea at this moment is thrilling, it is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I hurriedly took out Si Tiankui's astrolabe and recorded the location of a few Yin Fire floating places, where Uncle Ming was also desperately trying his life to drive the boat as far away from the fire as possible.
The yin fire in the "Coral Spiral" sea area, most of them are concentrated on the east side of the "Ghost Island", the west side where our ship is located is relatively safe, the coral forest where the South Pearl grows is concentrated in the west, after preliminary detection, the situation on the east seabed is more complicated, the water depth is at least more than double that of the submarine forest, there are many sea holes and trenches, and there is no time to use the "diving bell" to conduct a detailed underwater reconnaissance there, it seems that the "Mary Sennu" shipwreck is trapped in the bottom of the east of the ghost island.
The latent fire was indeed short-lived, and in a moment it turned dim, and it fell into nothingness, and the sea and the sky lost its gloomy light, and suddenly became pitch black, only the heavy rain still continued to fall. I asked Uncle Ming and Ruan Hei, judging by their sailing experience, what will be the walrus tonight?
The two of them are experienced sailors, and they are determined not to look at the "yin fire burning the sea", but they must not be hazy, there will never be walruses with high winds and waves in the past two days, and it is relatively safe for the boat to stay in this sea area. Shirley Young also believes that when the weather at sea does not cause strong winds, there are no big waves if there is no wind, and although the huge waves that can break the hull of the ship are navigational stars, it is also necessary to beware of special walruses such as sea surges and sea zi.
I thought it was a great opportunity and decided to make it around Ghost Island and to the east of Coral Spiral to look for traces of the wreck. So the Trident turned on its searchlights and sailed through the dark sea, slowly bypassing the side of the black reef island. The island is like an upside-down bowl, the height of the blunt cone-shaped black rock mountain is less than ten meters above the sea, but the slope is extremely wide like the back of a black giant whale out of the water.
I was about to take Gu Chai and the others to the back of the ship to prepare the "diving bell", when suddenly the hull of the boat shook from side to side, and at this time there was no wind on the sea, and the water did not raise waves, and it was unusual for the sudden violent shaking to occur. Uncle Ming and the others also took off their poncho hats, leaned out on the strings of the boat, and carried flashlights to check the sea conditions, the most worried was that the tide level was too low and touched the raised reef on the bottom of the sea.
Didn't wait for everyone to check and understand what was going on, the ground suddenly lit up in front of them, the vision suddenly opened, the rain in the sky suddenly stopped, it turned out to be the cumulonimbus cloud was just burned by the dragon fire after the rising sea gas rushed, the clouds opened the moon, a bright moon emerged from the clouds, hanging overhead, the bright moon was like day, round and bright, shining on the sea surface a piece of bright, the sea behind the water area under the underwater forest, countless snails opened the mussel shell to swallow the pearl, make the moon to absorb the pearl, in order to obtain the moonlight of the yin essence of the qi.
The moon and the moon in the sky and under the water, in the seeping light, there are still a lot of sea fish and sea beasts that have just been burned to death by dragon fire floating on the sea, the bright sea is full of strange atmosphere for a while, the hull of our boat is still swaying, undulating, everyone is inevitably more nervous, a premonition that there may be a disaster rises from the heart, at this time Shirley Yang is the first to discover the situation: "Retreat!" The currents on this sea surface are abnormal! ”
As soon as Shirley Yang finished speaking, I and the rest of the people also saw a terrible scene, only to see that there were countless sea holes on the sea surface east of the "Coral Spiral", although the full moon was bright, but it could not illuminate the pitch-black swirls, and the "Trident" was driving between the two sea holes, and the hull of the ship was swaying back and forth by two undercurrents from different directions.
"Sea holes" are also known as "sea drains" in the mouths of fishermen, just like several large holes suddenly appear in the seabed, and the sea water forms a vortex and pours down, and the boat that inadvertently gets involved in the vicinity often suffers a catastrophe.