Chapter 39: Disappearance
I didn't give up, and after reading the second column, I pulled the fat man to the left, ready to look at the third column, but the fat man shook his head, pointed to the oxygen cylinder behind us, and signaled that I wanted to save my physical strength and not delay time so much.
I just remembered the matter, and couldn't help but scold in a low voice, and secretly warned myself: Wu Xie, Wu Xie, you are here to save people, not to shoot exploration and discovery, you have to be angry, don't care about these things.
Just as I was warning myself, I suddenly noticed that a cold yellow halo in the distance below, suddenly moved, and it was moving in a circle, if I remember correctly, it should be the search range of the German beauty, and the circle is our pre-agreed signal, which means that there is a discovery, and to see this signal, everyone must gather.
I took one last look at the ingenious and breathtaking complex, and then I turned around with the fat man and swam to the lower right, and as I dived, I looked at the water pressure gauge, and the numbers on it showed that we had dived nearly forty meters, except for the fifty meters where the tide had receded, in other words, we were actually more than ninety meters below the sea.
The diving equipment on the surface of the water cannot dive to this depth, and the little dragon girl is obviously equipped with military equipment, but we all tacitly did not open our mouths about this.
Soon, the fat man and I swam to the location of the signal light, and I found that it was Zhang Bald, whose bloated body was wearing a diving suit, much like a toad with a belly turned, and at this time, the German beauty and the gray mouse also converged from all directions, and soon, we both swam to the vicinity of Zhang Bald.
I looked around, it was dark water, there was nothing, I asked him what was going on, squinted my bald head, and pointed downwards to signal his discovery below.
We couldn't help but lower our heads, but because of the range of the searchlight, I could only see the darkness below the water, but although Zhang Bald was unreliable, he would not fool us in this kind of thing, so I swam downstream, and when I dived more than three meters, something suddenly flashed in my realization.
It was yellow, flashing by the light of a searchlight, and it seemed to be some moving sea creature, the size of a man. At the moment when the thing floated by, there was another person next to me, and I thought it was a fat man, but when I turned my head, it was bald.
He stared at the place where the creature appeared, his eyes widened, and he gestured, and I immediately understood that the thing I had just seen was discovered by Zhang Bald.
I said in my heart, what's the fuss about this, people used to think that there were no creatures in the deep sea, but modern science has long explored that there are sea creatures even thousands of meters below the sea, not to mention that the sea water drop here is only 100 meters deep, and it is not uncommon for one or two sea creatures to appear in sight.
Before I could figure it out, Zhang Bald had already begun to dive, and what didn't match his body shape was that his diving skills were good and looked easy, probably related to his marine biology major.
I immediately beckoned to the fat man and others, signaling to follow, with the posture of diving, I looked at the water pressure gauge on my wrist, and couldn't help but be shocked, because the water pressure gauge showed that we were already 80 meters below the sea, plus the 50 meters of water depth at low tide, we had actually descended more than 130 meters, and our diving equipment, the sea pressure that can be withheld, is 150 meters.
I couldn't help but chuckle in my heart, feeling that something was wrong, now because of the tide, the water level has not yet recovered, so the water pressure is only eighty meters, but once the tide stops and the water level recovers, then our water pressure will rise to one hundred and thirty meters at once, that is, for the sake of insurance, we can only dive at most a distance of fifteen meters, otherwise it is easy to have an accident.
I was just about to draw attention to the water pressure gauge when I suddenly noticed that the yellow thing appeared under my line of sight, but this time I saw that it was not a sea creature at all, but a floating yellow object.
If I had to describe it, it would feel like a rag floating in the sea.
And the most peculiar thing is that under the surging of the sea, the rag only floats in a fixed range, as if it has been bitten by something and cannot break free.
I finally know why Zhang Bald Tou hit the gathering signal, and estimated the next distance, at this moment we should be more than fifteen meters and less than twenty meters away from the rags.
It's a bit of a thrilling statistic, but as long as you get back before the tide returns, you shouldn't be able to do anything. So I continued to dive, and I paused, presumably thinking the same thing, but when I dived past him, he immediately followed.
This not only changed my opinion of him, but it seems that this person is not a braggart, but he also has some guts.
As soon as the fat man saw me downstream, he also led the others downstream, and soon, we reached the top of the rag, and at this moment, its original appearance was completely displayed before our eyes, and everyone was stunned, only to feel that the cold water, through the diving suit, came a cold air.
The 'yellow rags' were in fact rotten clothes, but the fabric was of a strange texture, and I don't know how long it had been soaked in the seawater, and all of them had rotted into strips of rags, all of which came from a dry skeleton.
These dry bones were wrapped in iron chains to stone pillars. The stone pillar is visually measured, the diameter is about two meters, the shape is irregular, obviously it is also made of local materials, artificially made along the structure of the reef, everywhere looks uneven, these dry bones, are tied to the black reef in no order, and it is impossible to see how many there are.
They don't know how many years they have been immersed in the seawater, and the clothes on their bodies have been rotten into strips of cloth, tangled together with the surging of the sea.
We looked at each other, because these were not the most peculiar, and the strangest thing was that these dry bones were hidden in the tangled fabric, but the color of their bones was bright red as blood, and the bright red eyes stared at us, which looked shocking.
I don't know how the others feel, but the moment I saw these bloody skeletons, I felt a dense layer of goosebumps on my body, and when I looked at the rest of the people, I obviously felt terrified, and the three Germans couldn't help but swim back a few times, but the German beauty had seen the world, except that her face was a little pale, and there was no other change.
After a moment, several of us looked at each other, and couldn't help but look further down.
That stone pillar, from our position, can not see the bottom so far, our underwater searchlight, the illumination area in the water is only about five meters, plus five meters of divergent aperture, in fact, we can see up to ten meters, and it is very blurry.
The sight in front of me made me realize that this pillar was very tall, and that it could be erected here means that there must be something else to its base cloth.
I calculated the water pressure and couldn't help but be a little frightened, although the water pressure at the moment showed 95 meters, but this is a false number, the actual water pressure, we are even already overloaded.
No one thought that this island bucket would be hidden so deeply. I thought back to Li Zhaosi's words, he only said about 100 meters, but this left and right, definitely not more than 12 depths, I can't help but think, could it be that the second uncle and they entered through other entrances at that time?
It would be a very dangerous move if it continued to go down now, because the sea would rise at any time and the water pressure would increase in an instant.
I thought about the current situation, and couldn't help but look at the German beauty, this woman came without knowing anything, the second uncle could enter the island so smoothly at that time, obviously knowing what information can be so courageous. And what about German beauties? Did she get any information? Or rather...... Do the German forces behind her know any information?
In the end, I couldn't help but have an urge to sigh, but unfortunately this is the bottom of the sea, sighing is too wasteful of compressed air, so I endured it, and finally decided to continue diving.
Finally I gestured to a few people and motioned to continue. The fat man looked at his water pressure gauge, made a lip shape at me, and said to take a look at it.
I said: Don't look at it, it won't look like it anymore.
The fat man shook his head, obviously disagreeing with my risky approach, but I was already ready to die this time, and even before leaving, I made a will at the lawyer's office, and if I have no news a month later, then half of the funds and real estate in my name will be donated to charity, and half will be left to my parents.
I have dug graves and robbed graves in my life, and I have indirectly killed many of my companions, doing so can be regarded as accumulating yin virtue for myself, I am not afraid of death, but if there is really hell, I am afraid that I will go down to the eighteenth floor, no way, I am afraid of pain.
I gestured to the fat man, signaling him not to take any chances, and then ignored the German beauties and the group, taking the lead, staring at the data of the water pressure gauge and diving deeper.
Soon, the water pressure gauge reached the position of one hundred and one and began to flash red, signaling that it was in danger range. And that's when my feet finally hit the ground.
To be exact, it was the buoyancy of the water, floating on the surface, and I could feel the hard reef under my feet, but there was no feeling of exertion.
I looked up, several German beauties were still floating above, did not move, but to my comfort and helplessness, the fat man followed me one step to the ground, in the end, he hit my helmet with his helmet head, I was frightened and quickly held my helmet, and said that this is a guy who lives at the bottom of the sea, but he has to be the ancestor for it, who dares to hit it I am in a hurry.
The fat man looked like he hated iron but not steel, and he didn't say any nonsense, he made a gesture, signaling to hurry up and search.
Just when we were about to search, German beauties and others also slowly sneaked down, I have no objection to this, although we have lived and died together, but after all, we have different positions, in this world, there are too many helpless things.
This time, the equipment has been generously gifted by the German beauty, and I am not qualified to expect anything else.
But just as I was looking up, I suddenly felt that something was wrong, because there was one less person on it.
Since the heavy people are all wearing wetsuits, and the distance between us is relatively large, so I can't know who is missing except for the fact that there is one less person to think. I counted five people swimming down from above, but the number was wrong.
We came down this time, a total of eight people, me, the fat man, the gray mouse, the same son, the other is the German beauty, the bald head, and the other two German strong men. And at the moment, the fat man and I are at the bottom of the sea, and it stands to reason that there are six people left, but now, only five people have dived towards us, and one person is missing.
My eyelids jumped, and my heart pounded. This is at the bottom of the sea, the person who disappeared, it is impossible for him to hide where to pee, if he dares to dig out the root of his life at a hundred meters of water pressure, I guarantee that he will not be able to pee out in his life.
So, who is that person who disappeared? Where is he?
The experience of many years ago made me immediately grab the fat man's hand, and immediately after, I moved my body and leaned back to back with him.
This is a typical defensive posture, the fat man knows it, I saw his face in the diving helmet, flashed a look of surprise, and then looked around alertly, sometimes, no need for extra words, no need for extra posture, can understand each other, this is tacit understanding.
Soon, the people above swam closer, and I looked over one by one, and I was shocked, because I found that it was a German beauty who had disappeared.