Chapter 217: Strange Light
Before Gamble could answer, one of the scientists said, "Captain Gamble, this action is very important to humanity. Leaving aside the two factions, the mystery of the Sea of the Gods has not been solved, and humanity has struggled to investigate the Far South. Theoretically, the windless land is in line with the environment as a base. Everyone has their own reasons for coming to the Sea of the Gods, and since a few of us are willing to participate in the voyage of the Sea of the Gods, we are ready to die in a foreign land. ”
"I insisted on joining the mission, and I begged to join the response team in consideration of not causing trouble to the pathfinder team. ”
Gamble finally understood, this set of sets, yes, to be the commander recommended by the family is very thoughtful. Not only let the other three families send out the superpowers, but also the people who dig up the Poseidon. But Commander Purton had already stated that he would be the leader of the most dangerous pathfinder group, and with the two scientists fearing life and death, Gamble really didn't know what to say.
Fang Shi whispered in Gamble's ear, "I'll go." ”
Gamble vetoed: "No." ”
Fang Shi said: "Anna and Zhang Ming can't be dismantled, you have three wives to support, and I won't be able to take over the Poseidon in ten years." Besides, I'm the best in water, so I should go anyway. ”
Can you not go? Yes, the Poseidon can not send people. But the Poseidon is also very curious about the windless land, especially the death of the former captain in the windless land, which is inexplicable. Second, Dolly is telling the truth, if the Poseidon does not send people, their danger will be greatly increased. The last reason, perhaps, was the courage shown by two ordinary scientists.
The gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, and prefers to go to the tiger mountains. It's not Fang Shi's style, but it's a sailor's style, or it can be called a sense of responsibility. Fang Shi also has a small reason, that is, yellow leaves, if you don't guess wrong, yellow leaves may also be related to the windless land.
Gamble said, "We're going to have a discussion." ”
Commander Puton said, "Of course, I hope to give us an answer within today." ”
Gamble nodded, and Fang Shi left the conference hall.
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All the crew members of the Poseidon restaurant were seated, and Gamble talked about it, hoping that everyone would give their opinions. Unlike normal days, there is silence in the restaurant.
After a long time, Zhang Ming, who was still angry with his book, spoke first: "It's not appropriate to go or not, go, we know that there is danger, and it is very dangerous, or it is an unknown danger." If you don't go to the Poseidon to accompany you, the success rate and safety of the mission will be greatly reduced. It's a matter of two schools of thought, we don't get involved, but scientists put forward a variety of points of view that we can't take seriously. In addition to worrying about the Demon Land, the Star Alliance is worried about the Sea of the Gods. Unlike the Land of Demons, the Sea of the Gods is a complete mystery, inhabited by a variety of large sea creatures that do not exist in the outside world. There are even rumors of primates in the Sea of the Gods. These seven scientists are among the world's top scientists and express humanity's desire to explore the realm of the gods. ”
Anna said, "Listen to you...... Are you in favor of sending people?"
Zhang Ming: "I am in favor of sending people, but I don't approve of sending people...... I'm willing to accompany them on a trip, and I know you'll object. Every time I pass by a windless place, I will stand on the bow of the boat and wonder, what kind of place is this? Human beings have explored step by step, first on land, then on the mountains, and finally on the ocean. It took hundreds of years to explore the oceans, confirming the theory that the planet is round. In modern times, although it is not possible to say that we fully understand the ocean, we have begun to use it. The Sea of the Gods is more mysterious to humans than the ocean. The Windless Land is a mystery of mysteries compared to the Sea of the Gods. ”
Gamble asked, "You want to go?"
Zhang Ming nodded: "I want to go." ”
Anna stood up: "I disagree. ”
Zhang Ming said: "I know you will disagree, but I have made up my mind. ”
Anna: "Why should we take risks? Isn't it good for us to honestly follow the A line and live an ordinary life? Why do we do it when we know it's dangerous?"
Fang Shi raised his hand and put it down, signaling that he wanted to speak. Fang Shi said: "I'll go, Zhang Mingshui is not as good as me, and I have low morals, so I can do something to throw everyone away and run for my life." Another reason I went was that the survival rate was higher than everyone else. That's it......"
After Fang Shi finished speaking, he nodded to everyone and left the restaurant first.
Su Jia followed out, and Gamble asked someone else to sit down.
On the side of the deck ship, Fang Shi turned his back to Su Jia and said, "You wonder why I would approve of going to a windless place, right?" turned around and looked at Su Jia with a smile.
Su Jia looked at Fang Shi and looked at it for a while: "Pretending to be smiling?"
"Laughter is for life, handsome is for life and death. Fang Shi said: "As soon as Gan Bo said, everyone knows that the most suitable person is me." Zhang Ming wanted to go, but firstly, Anna disagreed, and secondly, Zhang Ming's poor water and underwater skills were not a star. Zhang Ming went, and there was not much difference between him and ordinary abilities. ”
Su Jia walked up to Fang Shi, looked at the sea, and asked, "What about you, aren't you afraid of death?"
Fang Shi said: "To be honest, I'm also very strange, I'm really not afraid of death. Maybe it's because I've been messing with the old ghosts for a long time, and I've heard too many stories of life and death. It is also known that death is only the end of one form and the beginning of another...... I'm just a little worried about you, you stupid girl is easy to be deceived. ”
"You're lying. ”
"Hehe, of course it's best if you don't die. Fang Shi said: "There is another reason to go, I think Huang Ye may also be in the windless land." In addition, the matter of Gamble's grandfather has always been Gamble's heart, and he hates his cowardice as much as his father hates his cowardice. ”
Su Jia nodded: "Since it's decided, let's go." ”
Fang Shi was a little surprised and a little disappointed: "I thought you would dissuade me." ”
Su Jia smiled and asked, "Why did you dissuade you?"
"This ......"
"Let's go together. ”
"No, I can't. Fang Shi refused.
Su Jia: "I've decided. ”
"You have no reason to go. ”
"Accompanying a friend is the best reason. ”
Fang Shi said: "I won't agree. ”
"You think you're better than me?"
Fang Shi replied: "At least on the sea, I haven't met an opponent yet. ”
Su Jia said: "Two choices are given to you, one choice is not to go, and the other is to go." ”
Fang Shi said: "I don't choose to go...... Hey, I won't die, the old ghost told me my fate, I can live to be 99 years old, and I have a long life, so I am qualified to be willful. ”
"But what if ......"
Fang Shi said: "Do you remember that I was hunted down and killed six years ago? If you think that the windless land will be more dangerous than chasing and intercepting in the northern capital, then I can not go." ”
"There's no way, and now you have a choice. ”
Fang Shi looked at the sea: "Choose...... We all hope that our relatives, friends, and family can live a peaceful and ordinary life. In fact, everyone has the blood of adventure in their hearts. A Windless Land...... Let me put it this way, I've been on Line B once, and if I had to take the route to the Far South, I'd go with Line B. At least it won't be so boring, and the boring voyage makes you feel like your life is wasted in a boring life. A hundred years of life is short-lived...... But I'm also a sane person, although I want to choose the B line in my heart, but there is no good reason for me to take risks, I will not take risks purely for the sake of taking risks. ”
Su Jia understood: "So you found a bunch of reasons, these reasons are all excuses, in fact, you want to go in your heart." Especially Tang Er and Huang Ye have all entered, you don't think you will lose to them. ”
Fang Shi nodded: "Yes, there is this reason. ”
"Young people are very competitive. ”
"You're old. ”
Su Jia smiled when she heard this, and asked, "Do you want me to stay on the ship obediently and wait for you to come back?" ”
Fang Shi said: "Prepare something to eat." ”
Su Jia nodded: "I know that if I go you will be very stressed...... Okay, I'll wait for you to come back. If you don't come back, I'll be like the female ghost of Haiwei, waiting for you, and I will wait for you when I become a ghost. ”
Fang Shi said: "Don't be stupid, people can wait for a thousand years to be high, and you will become a lonely ghost." ”
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Early the next morning, the 13 Adepts were assembled, and Commander Pupton, as the leader of the pathfinder group, would lead the five into the island and search the island in a comprehensive way. Fang Shi will lead six Adepts to cruise around the island, establishing a connection between the island, the sea, and the ship.
During the mission, the helicopter will continue to rise into the air and the receiving team must remain in view of the helicopter. The first phase of the mission lasts up to two days, and within two days, two groups of people must leave the windless land.
In addition to the Anomalous, archaeologist and historian Sell-Meng and biologist and natural environmentalist Desa followed the group. The number of the receiving group reached nine, and the Conquest provided a medium-sized vessel equipped with a radar system, similar to a smuggling ship, capable of reaching speeds of up to 50 knots.
Fang Shi and Commander Puton held an hour-long meeting in the early morning on the cooperation of the two groups, and before leaving, Fang Shi held an intra-group meeting. The content of the meeting is just one sentence: "I am the team leader, I want to come back alive, I will do whatever I say." ”
After understanding the structure of the team members, Fang Shi was a little surprised that there were two goddess guardian knights in his group, one man and one woman. But come to think of it, if the Guardian Knight has been hiding in the greenhouse, he may not necessarily grow. Fang Shi didn't know that these two guardian knights thought that the Windless Land might be related to the Goddess Temple, and as guardian knights, they had a stronger ability to survive than other clansmen. Besides, as a guardian knight, you usually enjoy better treatment, so you should stand up at this time.
It's very simple, Fang Shi appointed two guardian knights as deputy team leaders.
The male guardian knight's name is Alexander, a member of the Edward family. The female guardian knight's name is Alex Pattiver, a member of the Purton family. Fang Shi referred to them as Shanda and Lux.
At nine o'clock in the morning, a landing craft and a medium-sized boat headed for a windless place, followed by helicopters and a reconnaissance plane.
Entering the windless land, the first feeling everyone feels: the sun. No one ever thought that it would be so happy to be exposed to the sun. Wisps of sunlight shine through the colander-like white clouds on the boat, and everyone subconsciously raises their hands to look at the sky and touch the sunlight with their hands.
The second feeling: stuffiness.
It is almost impossible to feel stuffy at sea, and it is called a windless place, and there is really no wind, and you can't feel a trace of wind. Only when the ship is in motion can the wind appear.
The pathfinder team soon arrived at the island and began to land on the island. Fang Shi Group stayed one nautical mile away and established a three-point formation.
Fang Shi took off his coat and pants, only wore a pair of big shorts and a diving vest, and said, "Shanda, you are in charge of the ship for the time being, and I will go to the sea to take a look." ”
Scientist Desa was about to speak, Fang Shi said, "I'll go down and take a look first." ”
Fang Shi said, jumped into the sea with equipment, this sea water should be about fifteen to twenty meters deep according to its color. Fang Shi sank into the sea, about the same depth as he expected. There are fish, there are algae, and there is not much difference from the ecology outside. But something is missing. Fang Shi swam and went to the depths. It's a cliff, black and bottomless. Fang Shi opened his compound eyes, clasped eight wooden sticks with both hands, and slowly sank.
As if isolated from the world, it took more than a minute to reach the bottom of the sea, and it was appropriate to look up and see that it was so deep, at least 150 meters. 90% of the planet's oceans are more than 1,000 meters deep, and human beings have a relatively clear understanding of the ocean ecology of 200 meters, but little understanding of the ocean of more than 200 meters.
The sea is like the land, with mountains and valleys...... But as on land, there will be no pillars.
But this is indeed a stone pillar, Fang Shi dug out the sand and mud on the bottom of the sea next to the stone pillar, and stroked it for a while, although it was very rough, but it was definitely a man-made structure. How long I don't know, it's up to archaeologists to ask. Fang Shi carried an underwater camera, turned on the lights and slowly filmed around the seabed.
About ten minutes later, a flash of lightning appeared in the sea......
I was shocked for a second, and then looked, a bright light appeared like lightning in the deep sea in the distance, and then this bright light bloomed and grew irregularly like a plum blossom branch. As soon as the branches were retracted, new branches appeared more than ten meters away.
What is it? Fang Shi closed his compound eyes and looked at it again, but there was no light at all. When the compound eye was opened, the bright light was already close to 100 meters. This light instantly produces a branch-like segment of varying lengths, and the old light disappears as the light blooms. The overall feeling is that a ray of light that can move on its own is bouncing irregularly.
The speed is not fast or slow, Fang Shi waited quietly, the bright light was close to twenty meters, passing from Fang Shi's side, Fang Shi could see clearly, the length of this bright light was about three meters, the straight branches were slightly forked, stayed for half a second, and with a flick forward, a new branch was generated ten meters away. Fang Shi followed sideways, and he could clearly feel that the light of the branches was weakening, and after following for about three hundred meters, the light of the branches disappeared completely.
Fang Shi swam towards the sea, and was a little surprised when he got out of the sea and looked left and right, he actually followed to the edge of the windless land, only more than a hundred meters away from the edge.
When the helicopter saw Fang Shi's diving outcrop, he thought it was being attacked, and immediately became anxious, and shouted with a loudspeaker: "What about the others?"
Fang Shi pointed in the direction of the ship, the helicopter: "I see." "I was scared to death, and I thought it would be wiped out in more than an hour.