Volume 2 Eyes of the Deep Chapter 21 Underwater Corpses
Looking at the miserable white face, under the action of water, it slowly deformed, gradually distorted, and gradually sank again. I touched my chest, and my heartbeat was at least 120 at this point. I cursed secretly, I still can't participate in this kind of thing in the future, otherwise I will be scared out of a heart attack sooner or later.
Looking at the water surface that is gradually returning to calm, I still have palpitations, it seems that this water surface is not so calm as it seems, Wenmo still hasn't come up, will there be something, I shouted Wenmo's name a few times, but still no one responded. I couldn't hold it anymore and decided to go into the water to have a look, I pulled out my short knife, turned on the flashlight, shook my teeth, and plunged headlong into the water.
The moment I jumped into the water, I was very nervous, I was afraid that when I opened my eyes, I would see a terrifying picture in front of me, I first stroked a few times in front of me with my hand, and sure enough, my hand touched something a little soft, I pushed it aside, and when I opened my eyes to look at it, it was the dead body just now. The corpse shook and sank to the bottom of the ship.
I know that after a person dies in water, at the beginning, because the density of the human body is greater than that of water, the body will sink into the water, but as time goes by, the human body begins to release decay and decompose, so that the density of the human body decreases, so that slowly the person will rise again.
It can be seen that this person should have just died not long ago. I don't know if there are any other bodies in the water, and my heart hangs in the air while I search.
Under the flashlight, I saw some cargo boxes stacked in a corner of the cabin, which looked like they should be heavy. The water in the bilge was muddy, and a lot of tattered debris was floating in the water. For a while, I didn't find any trace of Wenmo.
Suddenly, I saw four things on the side of the cabin, side by side, as if hanging several large fish, not far from the light in the murky water, I could not see very clearly.
At this point, I had reached the limit of my breath-holding, so I hurriedly surfaced, changed my breath, and dived down again. This time I swam straight to the row, I slowly approached, and when I brushed aside a broken hat floating in front of me, and shone the flashlight on top of those things, I froze, and I was horrified to find that these four things were not big fish at all, but four dead people!
I felt my scalp blow up, my chest tightened, and I couldn't help but relax, and I choked on the sturgeon. I swam as hard as I could, and when I surfaced, I gasped for air, and the spasms in my chest made me cough violently.
Suddenly, next to me, there was a splash, and a person also floated up, I thought it was another corpse, and I was so scared that I was about to scream, but I found that the person who floated up was actually Wenmo.
Wenmo patted me, "Are you okay?" I just saw you choking in the water, so come and have a look. What happened to you? ”
I coughed and said, "Dead! There are dead people in there, do you see that? ”
"See, the one floating in the water?"
"It's not that," I waved my hand repeatedly, "and there's a row of dead men on the side of the cabin!" Don't you see? ”
"What!" Wen Mo was also surprised, "I was checking the goods on the side just now, and I didn't pay attention to the side." I'll go down and take a look. With that, Wen Mo plunged into the water again.
"Wait for me!" I took a sharp breath and followed him in.
We came to the side of the cabin one after the other, and this time with Wenmo by my side, I was no longer alone, and I was a little bolder.
The dead bodies, driven by the water, swayed their limbs with the waves. From a distance, these dead bodies seem to be dancing a strange dance, and this scene is really terrifying and weird.
We swam to the side of the corpses at the very edge and noticed a strange phenomenon, the corpses were only moving on all fours, and their bodies were tightly attached to the hull of the boat.
We pulled it with our hands, but we couldn't pull it. We examined the front of the corpses again, and found that there were no injuries, and there were no ropes on them, so I wondered, how the hell were these people fixed to the hull? It can't be glued. And what exactly is the purpose of doing this?
At this time, my breath-holding time was almost at the limit, and I gestured at Wenmo and began to float upward. On the water, I communicated with Wenmo, and he didn't know why these people were fixed there.
I originally wanted to suggest that the situation here is unknown, so I should go back first, after all, everyone here is dead, and I am afraid that if I stay any longer, I will get into trouble.
But Wenmo told me that he had found some strange supplies in the cargo, including satellite communication equipment, guns, and even feng shui compasses and explosives!
Hearing Wen Mo say this, I have a feeling that this should be a peer. I'm afraid the people on this ship have the same purpose as us. Listening to the second uncle, this incident of the Qin Dynasty's maritime relics has alarmed many people, and it seems that this ship is one of them.
If this is the case, we decided to go down and find out, so that we can also have a precaution against falling into the same path in the future.
We thought we'd have to pull up a dead body anyway, even if we cut it with a knife, and we'd have to get one down to see what's behind it.
Having made up our minds, we dived in again. Although it was the third time I had seen it, the strange "dance" of the dead body in the water still made people shudder to watch.
The corpses were held very securely in the cabin, so we tried to find an easy one to get our hands on, so we tried to pull one after the other to see which one was a little looser. But until we tried the fourth, it was still barely moving.
I was a little discouraged, staring at the dead corpses in a daze, and suddenly I actually saw the stomach of the dead corpse closest to me, and it actually agitated, I was startled, and quickly rubbed my eyes, and looked over again, but found that there was nothing abnormal in the stomach of the corpse, could it be the effect of water patterns that made me dazzled?
When I was scratching my head, Wenmo patted me and pointed to the hull next to the fourth corpse, I looked in the direction of his finger, but was surprised to find that there was a hole in the mouth of a bowl in that place. I shone a flashlight on the cave wall, and it looked like it was completely penetrated, and I speculated that it might have been caused by an inadvertent impact during the storm just now. But with such a big hole, it stands to reason that this ship should have sunk a long time ago, how could it still float on the sea!
I was thinking about it when Wenmo patted me again, pointed to the corpses, then to the hole, then to the side, and finally gestured with his hand to a five.
I was stunned for a moment, and instantly understood what he meant. Wenmo meant that there should have been five dead bodies here, but for some reason one floated away, it should be the dead body I saw when I went into the water. And this hole is where the dead bodies were originally fixed.
I think Wenmo's analysis makes sense, but how did such a small hole fix these dead bodies? I couldn't figure it out, so I leaned my head over and leaned down in front of the hole to look out.
To my surprise, I found that the sea outside the cave entrance was neither dark blue nor pitch black, but a faint blood red mixed with a hint of off-white.
What's going on? I retracted my gaze and wondered, is this the color of the water after the storm?
Wenmo asked me with a gesture, what did you see? I shrugged my shoulders and signaled that I didn't understand and asked him to see for himself.
Wen Mo also leaned on the entrance of the cave with some doubts, and looked inside carefully. Then he immediately raised his head, then frowned as if thinking, and then looked out of the cave again, and when he saw this, his face changed greatly, and he suddenly turned around and pulled me, signaling me to run!
Although I don't know why, it must be extremely unusual to make Wenmo so nervous. Hurriedly turned around and was about to swim in the direction of coming.
And the moment I turned around, I was horrified to see all the corpses' stomachs move, as if something was about to break out.
I was shocked and desperately swam upstream. As I approached the hatch, I turned my head to look, and through the murky water, I could dimly see that it was a black thing that had emerged from the stomachs of the corpses and swooped down in my direction.
I scrambled to crawl towards the hatch out of the water, and just as my leg was about to come out of the water, I suddenly felt one of my legs being held by something, and pulled it down with great force. I let out a scream, grabbed the iron railing at the hatch, and barely held on to the thing below.
Wenmo, who went up first, hurriedly ran back when he saw me like this, stretched out his hand and pulled me, but he didn't pull it. I yelled, "Holy! I was grabbed by something's leg! ”
Wen Mo didn't say a word, picked up the short knife and slashed it under the water, and soon I felt my legs loosen. I didn't dare to slack off, so I quickly jumped out of the bilge and closed the hatch hard.
We ran to the deck as fast as we could. I was surprised to find that the second uncle and the old thunder head on my ship had already set up the large harpoon launcher, facing us.
I was stunned for a moment and shouted, "Second uncle! Don't shoot! It's me! ”
The second uncle scolded loudly: "Nonsense! Lao Tzu knows it's you! Hurry up! There is danger! ”
I'm wondering, why does the second uncle also know that there is danger? Could it be that his old man has reached the realm of being able to pinch and calculate? I was thinking about it, when suddenly there was a violent shake under my feet, and I felt it all at once, and the ship was sinking.
I immediately panicked, threw myself on the rope that connected the two boats, and began to climb back as hard as I could. At this time, the boat was already in the water very badly, Wenmo had no time to untie the rope, cut it with a knife, and then ran in two steps, kicked the string of the boat hard, jumped high above my head, and then landed firmly on the deck of our boat.