Chapter 6: Deadly Jellyfish
There was silence in the depths of the dark ocean except for the roar of the engine at the tail of the passenger ship, and the elites of the various legions of the Dark Church, which totaled nearly three hundred people, did not say a word at this time, and under this deep sea, people had no desire to speak at all.
As I dived, I suddenly thought of a question, as mentioned in the latest report on the depth of the world's oceans, the average depth of the ocean is 3,682 meters, and the deepest known depth of the ocean is the Fichaz Abyss in the Mariana Trench, which is more than 11,000 meters. I seem to have heard Saines say that the continent sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean 20,000 meters, but you can't find this depth in the oceans on Earth. , doesn't the Dark Church even have that bit of scientific knowledge?
It's just that my heart does have a lot of work, and I can't find it better, and it will be more dangerous if I find it.
The passenger ship dived all the way under the protection of dark energy, and I looked at the dozens of dark mages supporting the shield, and I didn't know what the black crystal on the top of their staff was, which could continuously release dark energy.
After a long slow dive, through the black translucent protective cover, it seemed that he was about to reach the bottom of the ocean, and under the light of the passenger ship, the bottom of the sea seemed to be empty and unfounded.
In the captain's room of the passenger ship, several high-ranking figures of the Dark Church are exchanging views on images of underwater landscapes on computer screens. After a while, it seemed that there was a consensus of opinion, and the passenger liner headed west again.
After stopping and diving for a while, the passenger ship slowed down and circled around an area, with searchlights shining around, as if trying to discover something, as if the place that the Dark Church was looking for was near this area, but it was not as deep as the legend, at best more than 3,000 meters.
At this moment, a dark knight beside me was fiddling with a small satellite map imager in his hand, and I leaned over to take a second look, and saw that the passenger ship was on a vast and uninterrupted submarine mountain range.
After shuttling back and forth for a while, he suddenly heard a strange person in the captain's room, which attracted the whole ship to look at him.
It turned out to be an elderly priest of the Dark Church, standing by the door of the captain's room, pointing to the computer screen, and excitedly whispering to the others around him, I heard him seem to shout, "This is it, this is it!" (Itishere!)
From the Dark Knight's microsatellite map imager, after continuous magnification of the image, we are located in the middle of three mountains that are almost in a straight line, and the three mountains around it seem to form an equilateral triangle, and our passenger ship is parked in the center of this equilateral triangle, and below is a deep-sea basin.
Could it be that this equilateral triangular basin has something to do with the Great Western Continent that the Dark Church is looking for? I am a little skeptical, because from the satellite imagery, it is surrounded by mountains and does not have any peculiar representations. Perhaps the Dark Church also has other geographical features of the Great Western Continent, but this is not known.
Just as I was thinking about it, the passenger ship turned around and headed towards the top corner of the east side of the equilateral triangular basin, when the ship's radio suddenly heard the voice of the supreme commander of the expedition, a member of the Dark Church of the Presbyterian Church "Bresta".
This is the case with the submarine cave, and if this is still the past, otherwise it is not at all in line with the scientific common sense of the current exploration.
Sure enough, when the passenger ship finally arrived at the top corner of the eastern basin, under the illumination of several huge searchlights, a huge cave appeared more than 200 meters away from the bow of the ship, and the diameter of the hole was about 100 meters.
Under Bresta's arrangement, twenty mages were left on the passenger ship to be answered, and all the others entered the cave. We followed the path formed by the dark mages with dark energy, and stepped into the deep underwater cave.
After entering the cave, the huge water pressure from the bottom of the sea was reduced a lot, and we used our own energy shields to protect ourselves under the orders of the various team leaders, giving the mages a breather. Seeing that the other Dark Church and others had formed a black energy shield around their bodies, only a few mages, mercenaries, and I took different ways to protect themselves, such as one of the mercenaries, whose way of self-protection was to form an extremely thick layer of stone skin on the surface of his body. Of course, those who can be chosen by the dark church to come here must be people with some ability.
The path in this cave is apparently artificially made, and although badly damaged, it is smooth and wide. We walked down the stone stairs that had been excavated for I don't know how many years, and through the waterproof and pressure-resistant flashlights in the hands of each team member, we could see that there were many strange carvings and symbols on the cave walls from time to time, all of which I had never seen before, perhaps this came from the ancient Atlantean civilization.
The cave leading to the depths of the undersea mountain range has grown from wide and narrower to the bottom. We continued to swim down the bottomless cave, and after walking for more than an hour, the cave had changed from nearly 10 meters wide to about 5 meters in diameter.
Blindly following the team in front of me, I silently swam in the water, and after a while, I suddenly felt that there seemed to be some light ahead. At this time, the team in front suddenly stopped, and Soromu's voice came from the headset: "Everyone prepare for battle, the team in front has found countless swarms of deep jellyfish. ”
The overclocking contacts designed and made by the Dark Church for each Dark Knight in this operation are not bad, and the communication between the team members is quite clear under such a deep sea.
According to the management model, our team is managed by Soromu, who only obeys the dispatch of Sines, and so on at all levels. As for the calls and orders between the top management of Sines and above, we do not hear them.
When I heard that a large group of jellyfish appeared in front of me, I immediately remembered some information about jellyfish: jellyfish appeared longer than dinosaurs, according to authoritative scientific speculation, it can be traced back to 650 million years ago, there are more than 250 kinds of jellyfish known in the world today, the diameter of the head umbrella is between 10 cm and 100 cm, and the lifespan generally ranges from a few months to 1 year, and the life span of deep jellyfish will be longer.
Jellyfish often have very long tentacles under the umbrella head, the longest of which can reach more than 70 meters. Although the jellyfish look beautiful and docile, they are actually very ferocious, and under the umbrella, those tentacles are actually their digestive organs, but also their weapons, and these tentacles are covered with spiny wires, like poisonous wires, which can release highly poisonous venom, and the prey will quickly paralyze and die after being stung by the sting.
For example, if an adult man is stabbed by the stinger of an adult killer jellyfish (such as a "sea bee jellyfish"), he will be paralyzed and die in just a few minutes. After the death of the prey, the jellyfish will use its tentacles to retract the prey under the umbrella, and wrap the prey with the polyps under the umbrella, each polyp can secrete enzymes to quickly break down the proteins in the prey.
The largest distribution area of jellyfish in the world is the Atlantic Ocean, the most famous jellyfish in the Atlantic Ocean is called "Arctic Xia Jellyfish", the umbrella cover reaches 2-5 meters, and there are eight groups of tentacles at the lower edge of the umbrella cover, each group has about 150 tentacles, each tentacle can reach more than 40 meters after elongation, and can shrink to one-tenth of the original length in one second.
The tentacles of the Arctic jellyfish are full of stinging cells, which can turn out the spiny wire radiotoxin, and when all the tentacles are extended, it is like laying a net of heaven and earth, and the net cover area can reach 500 square meters.
The long line of the Dark Church began to move at a very slow pace, and it turned out that in the lower part of the cave, a huge underground cavern appeared, the area was unknown, and the surrounding area was filled with countless floating giant jellyfish, from which a faint transparent orange light emanated.
These jellyfish floated in the water and did not move, as if they were asleep, and from the appearance, they were similar to the appearance of the Arctic Xia jellyfish, each of them as if they were wearing a monk's hat, and below them were countless extra-long tentacles.
However, these jellyfish are at least twice the size of the Arctic jellyfish and have longer, sharper barbels on their tentacles.
According to my estimates, we are at least 5,000 meters below the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and it is common sense that there can be no such thing as a jellyfish at this depth, and I don't know what kind of jellyfish this kind of jellyfish can emit orange light in the sea, which is really unseen.
In my impression, most of the jellyfish live in stagnant water areas, life is extremely tenacious, almost no need for oxygen, jellyfish eat everything, plankton, big fish, small fish, fish eggs, etc., because the natural enemy of jellyfish seems to be only one kind of mysterious turtle, the flourishing of jellyfish will directly lead to the reduction of fish in the surrounding seas.
This underground cave must be super vast, and the secret giant orange jellyfish float around our group, what do they eat for a living, and it seems that there are no other fish in this cave.
Afraid of frightening these terrifying big guys, we cautiously continued to walk downstream along the stone steps one by one.
At this moment, I don't know which fool in front of me accidentally kicked a stone under his feet, and the stone rolled down the stone steps and hit another larger stone, and then the stones on the stone steps below rolled down one after another like a chain reaction.
The falling stones suddenly woke up the countless jellyfish that seemed to be sleeping around me, and I was shocked to see that the orange brilliance of these giant jellyfish suddenly became more brilliant and bright. Just watch them begin to move from slow to swift, and with the twisting of the tentacles on their lower bodies, the umbrella body stretches and shrinks towards us.
"Speed up and prepare for each other's defenses, and if necessary, they can counterattack in any way, but they can't use bombs. "Soromu conveys instructions from above to us.
, resist a fart, if you use a figurative metaphor to describe the scene in front of us, we are almost like entering a world made of jellyfish tentacles, and the eyes are full of translucent tentacles that flash orange, and people can't help but feel a little weak. Brother really never thought that he could see such an exaggerated scene.
Almost in tens of seconds, these translucent orange tentacles surrounded each of us, and due to the layers of tentacles, we couldn't even see the team members who were only a meter away in front of us. At this point, all the members of the Dark Church can only fight for themselves for a while.
, such a drastic change has taken place in just a dozen seconds, which the leaders of the Dark Church did not expect before.
Wrapped and contracted by countless tentacles, I felt like I was being pulled up by countless tentacles. , at the same time, the tentacles are dense with spikes trying to penetrate my flesh. Fortunately, there was a layer of innate vitality all around my body to protect me, and the thorns could not penetrate me, but a trace of orange venom released by those thorns soon filled my vitality shield.
The next thing I was surprised was that these orange venoms were actually corroding my brother's vitality shield!, because I could feel that the vitality around me was being eaten away and weakened little by little. Damn, the venom of these devil jellyfish seems to corrupt the energy of the vitality.
This is a big problem, if these orange jellyfish are allowed to continue to eat away like this, no matter how full of vitality they are, they will not be able to withstand being corroded by them all the time. At this time, the sound of machine gun gunfire was already ringing in my ears, and the sound of bullets shooting out of the water was a shuttle sound of "whoosh, whoosh".
I don't know how the other dark knights can resist, Lao Tzu can no longer let his innate vitality be consumed, and as soon as his mind moved, the blue light on the scabbard of his old friend "Heavenly Thunder Golden Sword" on his waist appeared, and a miniature electric field was immediately formed around me.
In the water, the conductivity is very strong, although I only distribute electricity on the surface of my body, but after the high-voltage current is transducted by the water, it still immediately causes all the jellyfish tentacles within 20 or 30 meters around my body to be electrocuted into white wool in an instant.
As soon as I exerted my strength, all the Dark Knights within twenty or thirty meters around me were freed from the entanglement of the jellyfish because of me. Unfortunately, although they got rid of the jellyfish, they also felt the electricity in the water around them, and some even stirred up a little blue electric spark outside the dark energy shield.
Seeing this, I quickly collected the electric field, at this time everyone is a grasshopper on the same boat, or it is the right thing to get rid of jellyfish with one heart and one mind.
After a slight hesitation, the jellyfish again gushed out large strands of tentacles and wrapped around them. This time I learned to be smarter, so I kept the electricity smaller, and waited for the tentacles to come over, and then released the electric field. This time, the range of the shock was much smaller, and the closer I was to the tentacles, the higher the voltage, and the shock was again reduced to inches of white flocculent.
The jellyfish apparently have some intelligence, and when they found out that the effects of my electric shock were terrifying, they targeted the other Dark Knights as their main target, and finally the tentacles were no longer tangled around me.