Chapter 34 Cannibalistic Mussels (above)

The capacity of the water lungs is limited, under the water can not be too much delay, Shirley Yang saw that Uncle Ming and I agreed to continue to dive to the depths, so he made a more careful sign language, the three of us with a dive rope connected to each other, turn on all the lighting equipment that can be turned on the body, in the dive helmet valve discharged a series of white bubbles, and at the same time, dive down into the pitch-black deep valley.

We dive along the stone wall, Shirley Yang casually pulled out the diving knife to scrape off a thick gray-white sediment, only to see the inside reveals the rough surface of the boulders, bumps and undulations seem to be an ancient monument, I couldn’t help but reach out and touch those ancient traces, was about to continue to dive, and suddenly felt that the wall of the stone in the midst of a burst of violent trembling.

My hand just touched the stone wall like the seabed relics, I felt an unusual tremor, a shock in my heart, secretly bad, this time before going into the water and forget to read the calendar, how to catch up with the seabed earthquakes? Stay in the trench may be buried and pressed to death, all this time there is what can be hesitated, two ducks plus a duck, hurry up and withdraw to the surface.

I was about to notify Shirley Yang and Uncle Ming quickly retreat, but Shirley Yang suddenly raised his right hand, made a “be careful” gesture, I was a little stunned, I have realized that the vibration of the stone wall is not an earthquake, but there is something in the trench is moving, downward current suddenly increased, it seems to hit the wall of the thing is in our head! Shirley Yang took me and Uncle Ming to take advantage of a submerged current to hide behind the collapsed stone pillars on the seabed.

This trench is not as deep as imagined, due to the complexity of the internal submergence of darkness, on top of the searchlight can not see the terrain below, but once the dive down to the bottom of the trench using krypton bulb light equipment “Poseidon’s Dazzle”, the light column refers to the place, dozens of meters within the scene vividly, the three of us crouched behind the rock holding two The three of us crouched behind the rock holding two searchlights and scanning everywhere, gazing at the surrounding movements.

I hurriedly glanced along the searchlight light column, found that the trench is not a natural formation, rows of standing rough stone pillars, indicating that this was once a magnificent huge complex, the huge disaster that destroyed the sky and earth so that this place sank to the bottom of the sea, the top layer of the building was covered by sea sand and silt, years and years, forming a layer of brittle pulp shell, the reason why this trench is exposed, not a shipwreck fell, because there is no recent nearby Ships in the vicinity, next to us there is only an old wooden shipwreck corroded to the point where only the keel of the frame remains, that is no longer just an ancient shipwreck that sank into the sea in which life, the gaping hole that we have just dived down is most likely due to the collapse of a few stone pillars produced by the collapse of the place where we hid.

Coral spiral east-west long, north-south narrow, dense submarine forests are concentrated in the eastern side of the topographic depression, the terrain to the west is gradually high, in the low tide there will be a black ghost island surfacing, we dive into the trench is precisely between the coral forests and the ghost island, the use of the diving bell when the initial reconnaissance, I had found that this area of the seabed has a lot of dark holes and gullies, and now that I think of it, perhaps all the following are the ruins of the return to the ruins of the ancient city. The remains of the ancient city of Returning Ruins were quite impressive in scale.

I thought of these, slightly distracted, suddenly felt Shirley Yang gently pressed my left hand, the head of that thing also followed the dive down, I can not help but raise the fish gun ready to receive the enemy, Uncle Ming shook his hand repeatedly, indicating that we can not come to the hard way, this sea groove is sure to hide what a huge sea beast, it may not have already found us, and now hurry up to put out all the light sources on the body, lest expose the target, and so on, when it swims away Shirley Yang also agrees with Uncle Ming.

Shirley Yang also agreed with Uncle Ming’s approach, we hurriedly extinguish the lights, in addition to the searchlight “Poseidon’s Dazzle”, as well as the headlamps worn on the body of the headlamps, metal diving helmets, there are two micro-lighting lamps, this micro-lighting lamps are water pressure switch, into the water below 30 meters will automatically open, can not be manually closed, can be in the dark high-pressure environment to illuminate their own eyes, the light will be on. Dark high-pressure environment lighting their own eyes about half a meter range, but also in the vicinity of the companions to see their own face, to reduce the psychological pressure, helmets within the micro-light lamp compared to a strong searchlight, can be too inconspicuous, it is because of the weak light, even if you let it light up, but also do not have to worry about exposing the trail.

The light source is extinguished, the seabed was plunged into a dark, everywhere is dead silence, think of the ancient city of the ruins of the year was devastated, the city’s hate of the sky, regardless of men and women, young and old, or chickens, dogs, cats and probably fed the fish, the South China Sea egg people do not rush to mention the word “beads” when they pick eggs, it is said to be the seabed because of the sea floor has a ghosts of evil ghosts guarding the mussel beads, those evil ghosts is not the ancient city of the ancient city of the sea, the sea is the sea of the sea. Are those evil ghosts the souls of the dead in the ancient city? Thinking about it, in this dark undersea ruins, I really a little hairy, busy persuade themselves not to think.

But the special environment of the seabed, coupled with more than a hundred meters deep water pressure, all give a person a kind of difficult to describe the psychological burden, inexplicable sense of panic lingers, think of Shirley Yang on the side, I finally overcame this uneasy mood, can feel the side of the submarine suddenly fluctuated, know what is a big guy is passing by us, can not help but a burst of nervousness, I do not know that this is a normal psychological phenomenon produced in the deep sea, almost always in the deep sea! I do not know that this is a normal psychological phenomenon in the deep sea, almost every deep-water diver will appear, secretly scolded himself useless, when the bayonet to see red even without blinking, how to the bottom of the sea has become so unproductive? Don’t let Shirley Yang and Uncle Ming see it, or I won’t have a face on the boat.

Although I am nervous, but some people are more nervous than me, in front of Uncle Ming like being stung by the sea sting, the whole body as over the electricity, a long series of blisters from his diving helmet came out, Shirley Yang and I were startled by him, but we then understand, Uncle Ming this is what the shock, I see him to use his hands to pull out the helmet, I cursed this old Hong Kong farmers and I do not know which tendon is wrong, and hurriedly reached out to him to hold down, to pull over his body, and to pull out the helmet. I saw that he was going to pull out his helmet with his hands, and quickly reached out to hold him down, and took a look at his body by the dim light, and it turned out to be a squid that appeared from nowhere, and it was not a big one, with the body of an adult’s two fists combined, and it stretched out its tentacles and tightly grasped the frog’s mirror on Uncle Ming’s diving helmet, and it was pale, with purple and brown spots all over, and stared at its two gray eyes as it squirmed back and forth on Uncle Ming’s face.

Uncle Ming’s line of sight was completely blocked, how do you know it is a squid, thought he was swallowed by some sea animals, in front of all the wriggling intestines, even if he had run the boat down to the sea, but also on the spot was shocked and panicked, I was afraid of Uncle Ming to pull off his breathing tube, hastily and firmly hold down his hands, Shirley Yang from the back of the dive knife to gently pick open the wrists and feet of the squid, to peel it from Uncle Ming’s diving helmet, her hands! The squid didn’t feel any threat and never spat out the ink.