Chapter 39: The Primal Fear

Magellan is sinking, and it doesn't seem to stop at all. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He held his breath for a long time, felt that he couldn't do it, and wanted to change his breath on the water, but he couldn't stop his body from sinking.

Until now, he had not rang the bell because he believed that the mage's rhinoceros horn would be useful.

In the end, Magellan couldn't hold it anymore, he inhaled hard, water got water in his nose and throat, and he coughed for a while. Magellan still did not ring the bell, and it was clear to his mind that some kind of change was taking place.

After a while, the cough subsided, Magellan had not drowned, and he was finally sure that the mage's rhinoceros horn really worked.

The flow of water through the trachea and nasal passages between breaths is quite fresh, like a blocked nose when you have a cold, and it is difficult to inhale, but after slowing down the breathing rhythm, it is almost the same as breathing air normally, and the oxygen brought by each flow is completely sufficient. The touch of the water flowing through his lungs made Magellan, who had just been basking in the desert, swoon and lingered.

The mage's rhinoceros horn proved very useful, and Magellan began to try to open his eyes.

Most people can't open their eyes in the water, but Magellan squinted this time, but he didn't feel the stinging pain he used to have.

He opened his eyes and looked around, and a pale green stream of water surrounded him, and it was pitch black all around, except for a round hole in the top of his head that let in a little light.

The green stream of water came from the rhinoceros horn on Magellan's right hand, like a piece of sugar melting, and the rhino horn was constantly making this pale green around him. Magellan was convinced that he was able to breathe underwater and open his eyes because of the green current, but he did not know how it did it.

It was pitch black all around, and Magellan felt the water carefully, and found that he was still sinking, and the circular light above his head was getting smaller and smaller, but the mage's secret never appeared.

Magellan grinned and grinned at the key in his mouth, leaving it exposed, wanting to see what would happen.

And yet nothing happened.

When he coughed just now, the key was well protected by Magellan's pressure under his tongue, but the clear water that the small fish melted was sprayed out, and he didn't know if this would cause any problems, looking at the unchanged darkness, confused.

After a while, a strong current suddenly appeared, carrying Magellan towards the depths of the water. Magellan was like a ball in the hands of a naughty child, spinning and spinning all the way forward by the time he stopped.

In the water, because of the presence of buoyancy, gravity is almost imperceptible, Magellan is dizzy, as if he is standing on a flat ground, but the flat ground is suspended upside down, causing him to fall into the abyss, which is bottomless, like a nightmare, and the fall never ends.

Magellan knew in his heart that this was a human delusion when there was no gravity, and he did not dare to let go of the rhinoceros horns, and in a very awkward posture he put his hand into his pocket and lit the sun with one finger.

The feeling of the fall suddenly dissipated like a low tide, and Magellan let out a long breath and spat out a stream of water.

He looked around, looked up, looked down at his feet, and saw a small light far away on his left.

Magellan remembered that there was darkness everywhere underwater, and only where he came down was that there was a piece of sunlight that could penetrate the surface of the water and shine underwater. But he knew that among the creatures that lived in dark and deep water, there were those who relied on the light of the creatures as bait to hunt, and they were afraid of being bitten as prey.

After hesitating for a while, Magellan found that there was no water around him, and the sinking had stopped, and the place was so quiet that it was maddeningly quiet, and he couldn't help it, so he swam towards the light.

The mage's rhinoceros horn is still reliable, but it's so dark that you can't see the green stream. Magellan swam for a short time, and found that the point of light was not the water from which it came, but a glowing object, and he quickly stopped, only to find that there were many small fish gathered around.

Magellan didn't dare to go any further for fear that the glowing object was a carnivorous fish, but the small fish passing by him obviously didn't think so.

In the darkness, the water continued to pass over Magellan's face, and the fish in the water nimbly bypassed him and went straight to that little bit of light.

Magellan began to wonder if he was wrong, even if he ignored the fish, this was not the deep-sea environment he was familiar with, and maybe it was not a predatory fish fishing.

He staggered closer to the light, and gradually he could see the schools of fish gathered around it.

It was a scene of harmony beyond his imagination.

The small fish converge to form a whirlpool-like school, and some of the larger fish shuttle through the school without meaning to mouth the small fish.

This is by no means because those big fish are vegetarian, Magellan still has the ability to distinguish between fish and meat, so he was very surprised by such a harmonious scene.

The closer you get to the light, the more you can see how diverse the fish are, and oddly enough, Magellan found that all the fish here can be divided into four colors, regardless of their body size.

This is obviously unreasonable, because most of the creatures that live in the dark are transparent, such as the fish in the dark rivers of the caves, and some can even see the internal organs through their muscles.

Magellan felt that the scene was becoming strange, and he thought of a possibility: most of the time, there was light here.

A sudden stream of water appeared, causing Magellan to stagger, whirling and flying out.

It was a giant fish with an elongated body and no dorsal fin, and where the light came out was a dull white.

Then, behind the giant fish, another, bigger fish appeared.

It was an elegant predator, and Magellan understood the moment he saw it, and the big fish in front of him was fleeing for his life.

It was a large red fish, the scales on the outside of the body looked more like the texture of an exoskeleton, and did not have the smooth texture of fish scales, the head was fusiform, and a large mouth of a meat eater made it look like a snake, and the eyes were terrifyingly large.

Then Magellan saw that the big fish stopped, and it was chasing the big white fish that had escaped forward at a very terrible speed, and then with a graceful tail swing, the overlord of the water stopped beside Magellan, with his head facing Magellan, and did not block the light.

Then Magellan saw the eyes of the giant fish.

At that moment, Magellan rang the bell, although he had no fear.