chapter 35 – the cannibal mussel (next)

At this time I feel the darkness around me, the current turbulence, rolled up a good strong surge, there is a white fuzzy shadow in the vicinity of the probe head off tail, the distance from us has been close at hand, I know that the hide can not be hidden, in a hurry, snatched Shirley Yang grabbed the squid, a hard pinch, and then loosened it, the squid ate the pain of the shock, out of instinct, immediately spit out the ink want to hide from themselves to get out of the way.

Squid coated with black ink, as a seabed black smoke, its body also shot up sharply, the darkness really is a sea beast was fleeing the squid attraction, in front of us turned around and chased after the dim light lamps can not see what exactly is a what, only feel the white cloudy piece of a big and scary, that thing swimming with gas current is very strong, like the seabed blew up the tornado, if not we hold the stone column, almost to be rolled away by it! If we did not hold the stone pillar, almost be swept away by it, and the submerged eddy surge for a long time, I was secretly surprised, so long will be what is it? Could it be that there are really dragons on the bottom of the sea?

Not to think again, in front of a large mass of black ink has been taken away by the current, see that the white practice like the growth of the shadow swallowed the squid, and then turned toward us to swim, we are wearing a heavy-duty diving suit, even if the action underwater with the help of the buoyancy of the hands and feet is still very slow to escape at all impossible, this time we have to go out of the way, I raised my spear, want to feed the huge poisonous fish arrows to shoot it, Shirley Yang is half a beat ahead of me! Shirley Yang was half a beat ahead of me, turned on the underwater light searchlight, dazzling white beams of light straight out, the opposite side of the sea beast swimming in the light.

Only see a white giant in the light, head like a bull’s head, body like a python, scales and horns have, we were horrified, this is a dragon or what? If it is a dragon, but there is no claws on the body, if not a dragon, the bull’s head shaped head are block born horns, the body is as long as a white practice, see the head and not see the tail, I looked dumbfounded, and for a moment I forgot to shoot the fish arrows.

The monster was bright light, the original rushed to our head suddenly a turn, diagonally around the searchlight beam, long body swept in front of our eyes, the strong current with the three body shaking, it seems to be afraid of the bright light, a head dive into the ruins of the ancient city of the deeper gullies, and no more movement.

Did not wait for us to celebrate, behind us a few stone pillars itself in the sea surge repeated impacts have long been not solid, by that burst of intense submerged current, a rumbling want to fall, I pointed to the side of the ancient shipwrecks not far away, there seems to be a stone hall behind, hide inside may be able to avoid collapsing stone.

The stone column has been tilted, said to fall, and can not judge the falling stones will hit where, we judge the dead angle of falling stones, quickly moved to the wreck skeleton inside, broken stone column followed by the collapse, was stirred up by the sea floor mud and sand produced a cloud of smoke, the area we just stayed covered, fortunately did not cause a chain reaction, but no one can not assert that the rest of the area will be safer than that solid, the ancient temple sunk thousands of years ago, I pointed to the side of the ancient temple not far away, it seems to be able to avoid the collapse of stone hall, may be able to avoid. There are no safe zones in this ancient city that has been sunk at the bottom of the sea for thousands of years.

We ducked into the wreck’s keel, take the opportunity to take a breather, Uncle Ming suffered a series of scares, some can not calm down, hands and feet at a loss, he grabbed the underwater writing board, hastily wrote a word for us to see, this kind of underwater writing board is given to divers to communicate with each other, unless it is a long time to get along and produce a tacit understanding, or else there are some complex information between divers are difficult to hook up in a timely manner, encountered this kind of situation, will use the underwater writing board to communicate with each other. When this happens, they will use the underwater writing pad.

I look at Uncle Ming wrote a “dragon” word, know that he said he just saw a big sea beast is a dragon, this time in big trouble, I have not seen a real dragon, I do not know whether Uncle Ming has seen it with their own eyes, but the Maxism of a thousand things, in the final analysis, there are only two words “rebel! “What is rebellion? What is rebellion? It is to dare to do for the world’s people do not dare to do, the dragon and the fish in my worldview is not much difference, I raised my hand to Uncle Ming’s fishing arrows, and so on to the surface of the sea, that monster if it dares to show up again, I have to let it eat a few of my arrows, so that it tastes stained with the blood of the people of the people’s vengeance of the arrows is what flavor.

Shirley Yang waved her hand, indicating that we do not need to worry, she wrote on the writing board “big sea serpent” three words, and pointed to the searchlight, I just remembered two days ago on the boat, she mentioned to me the deep sea sea snake, the westerners call it “sea serpent”, and the easterners call it “sea serpent”, and the easterners call it “sea snake”. Oriental people call it “dragon”, in fact, is the same kind of marine life, floating unpredictable, often in hurricanes and storms attack boats, devouring the ship carrying the population of livestock, so the crew talked about the color change, the ancient seaside temples more than depicted sea monsters swallowing boat overboard scenes, the five-clawed dragon’s image is the sea serpent for the original shape, but because It is afraid of light, so usually only infested in the dark sea floor, as long as carrying powerful underwater lighting equipment, there is nothing to be afraid of, if found early is a big sea snake, do not have to listen to Uncle Ming’s bad idea to turn off the light to hide, just now extinguished the lights of the move was nearly attacked.

Uncle Ming also know the origin of the sea serpent, after a while, if not very special circumstances, the sea snake will not risk the light to attack boats and divers, he shook his hand in the strong light searchlight, after a good while before finally calmed down, to us picked a big finger, said do not have to worry about him, there is no problem.

Shirley Yang and I held up the diving flashlight to look around, only to see behind the ancient shipwreck although only the remains of the wreckage, but still can be seen with the appearance of the Chinese ship is far away, full of exotic Arabian region, most of the hull is covered with sea sand, can rot almost all rotten, probably a Yuan and Ming dynasty maritime trade ship, I do not know what was encountered in a shipwreck only to be involved in the coral spiral.

Around the ruins of the ancient city has also lost all the original appearance, these things may be for archaeologists, is an amazing discovery, but in my opinion there is no value to explore, swam around the shipwrecks, and then did not find a “Mary Cenu” and other shipwrecks of the trace, the size of the underwater ruins, but divers can go to a very limited place, the collapse of the walls and walls of the sea, and the sea has a lot to do. First, the collapsed walls and pillars blocking the way, the second is that there is always inside the danger of collapse, perhaps unintentionally touch something, will lead to the collapse of the house, it seems that even the sea aquatic know the danger here, in the vicinity of the figure of their presence, completely a dead heavy ghost area.

There are several dark abyss in the ruins, the sea serpent is disappeared into one of the deep ravines, I want to close to see, but the water in those places are spinning, strange slippery incomparable, even if it is a swimming fish is difficult to get close to, only to give up, I gesture to Shirley Yang, there is no shipwrecks we are looking for, it seems to be “King of the Qin Dynasty Bone Mirror” this The big green head and not good fishing, under the sea in the ruins of the ancient city of crisis, is not a place to stay, or withdrawn back to make plans.