Undersea robots have been building the first area of the mining base on the seabed day and night. On the other hand, the researchers are already preparing for the first underwater field exploration. In addition to assisting in the construction of the base, the team members also protected these researchers from entering the trenches by small submarines to search for combustible ice veins.
Detachment 15 escorted three researchers to the west side of the north of the Mariana Trench to search. The wide trench straddles the middle of the sea, like a deep, bone-deep scar on the earth. The black below was thick and dark, and there was a dead silence. The cliff on the west side is very steep, the ancient giant rocks are stacked vertically and horizontally, and the complex rock structure is difficult to dive. The interior walls of the narrow and deep submarine project the scene outside the boat, as if the entire submarine is transparent. The strong lights illuminated various bizarre landforms, and the farther place was the endlessly spreading darkness, which was quite like a group of demons.
Unfortunately, Han Qi was among the three researchers. When Tang Yi saw Han Qi now, he had the urge to pull out all the blue hairs on the boy's head, but Han Qi probably also sensed the strong murderous aura around him. Every time he was with someone, he was never caught by Tang Yi. When it comes to acting alone. This made Tang Yi very angry.
The other two researchers include a geologist, Dr. Zhao, a female research officer at the Energy Agency. Dr. Zhao analyzed the position of combustible ice between 300 meters and 1,000 meters under the sea, so they dived to a depth of about 500 meters and used detectors to locate them.
There were few fish in the silent darkness. The sun has disappeared here, diatoms are floating in the sea water, and the occasional fish are strangely shaped and dull in color. Pairs of white eyes seemed to be monsters swimming in from a different dimension channel. Occasionally, ghosts flashed past the submarine and hid in the crevices of the rocks.
Tang Yi did not like this place. The infrasound here is not the same as the sea water elsewhere. The sound here is extremely far-reaching, as if it runs through time and space, mixed with some goosebumps, and it is unclear whether it is the sound of some unknown creature. That darkness is a field that human beings have hardly set foot in. Who knows what is in it
Jonney and the others told him about the mysterious disappearance of the five sailors rushed back into his memory, and Tang Yi had a cold war.
Mercury noticed that Tang Yi's face suddenly turned pale. He wanted to reach out and pat him on the shoulder, but he had just raised his hand halfway and put it back again.
The lonely submarine is like a small fish floating on the abyss, with a little faint light, swaying in the tide. Han Qi excitedly took pictures of those fishes, and suddenly, he was stunned for a moment.
"what?"
Dr. Zhao glanced at him, "Did you find anything?"
"I think I just saw something like a fossil seaweed on the stone."
Dr. Zhao smiled, "It's impossible in such a deep place that large algae that can leave fossils can survive."
Han Qi showed him the camera in his hand, Dr. Zhao's smile froze, and he immediately ordered the submarine to retreat a little. Tang Yi couldn't see any algae fossils, just some winding patterns on the stone.
Another female researcher said, "It looks a lot like Sargasso, it needs light to grow, how could it be here?"
Lin Maochen chewed his gum and said with a smile, "Maybe there was sunshine here in the shallow sea tens of thousands of years ago?"
The three researchers started chatting and discussing again, and the team members had nothing to do, so they had to continue playing cards. Tang Yi didn't play with them. He sat on the side by himself and listened to the strong rhythm music with headphones on his ears. Peacock suddenly sat next to him and ripped off one of his earphones with his fingers.
"You look very down lately?" Peacock smiled half-smile, with a playful expression.
Tang Yi grabbed the earphones back, "No."
Peacock whispered in an infrasound that only the two of them could hear, "Did someone piss you off?"
On the other side, Tsuruta Craftsman was already looking at them. Tang Yi squinted at Peacock, "Why do you care so much about me? Could it be that you deliberately made your master jealous..."
"Sometimes it's really a good way to make the other party jealous." Peacock leaned back on the bulkhead, a sly smile on his face, "You and Luo Wei did a good job before, he has already started I care about you. It was just possessive, but there was progress."
"Enough." Tang Yi interrupted him coldly, "I don't want to play your game anymore, you should be optimistic about your own master."
At this moment, I suddenly heard Dr. Zhao roar excitedly, "I found it! I found it!"
I saw that I turned a steep corner, and suddenly there was a large piece of crystal clear ice in front of me, like a small lake, stored between the grooves of a pile of boulders. The holy white reflected the dazzling light, and some were like frosting candy. Generally spread on rough stone walls. This is the energy that human beings rely on to survive - combustible ice.
Dr. Zhao insisted on putting on the anti-pressure diving suit to go out to collect some specimens and return to the base. He had no choice but to leave Luo Wei and Tan Mingyuan, who were driving the submarine, and two other researchers, and the rest of the team took the Kraken and Dr. Zhao out.
The pressure of the sea water pushed heavily on the anti-compression suit, and Tang Yi felt a burst of tightness in his chest and shortness of breath, and his actions were a little slow. The sea-monsters can still move freely in this environment, and Mercury swims around him flexibly, which makes Tang Yi very envious.
But at this time, the words of mercury came from Tang Yi's headset, "This place makes me feel very bad."
Tang Yi looked up at him suspiciously, "What?"
"Don't you feel it? This trench feels like a grave."
Tang Yi cleared his throat, "Don't think about it, we won't go too deep."
With the help of Tsuruta, Dr. Zhao carefully stepped on the edge of the flammable ice lake and opened a special high-pressure freezing bottle. In the other compartment, Lin Maochen chiseled a few pieces of ice with a dagger, and carefully placed them into the high-pressure bottle with tweezers.
At this time, Tang Yi heard a strange sound coming from the abyss.
The extremely hollow voice, as if the wind was blowing from a bottomless cave, was too clear. Tang Yi turned his head abruptly, and found that Tsuruta Craftsman was also raising his head to listen. All the sirens present also stopped their movements.
"Something's wrong!" Tang Yi shouted, "Quickly withdraw!"
Dr. Zhao wanted to protest, but Tsuruta Craftsman couldn't allow him to object. He closed the pressure bottle and grabbed Dr. Zhao, who was planning to jump from the edge of the cliff into the sea and swim back. At this moment, a lamp appeared in the abyss beneath his feet.
The small lamp flickered like a ghost, and it was impossible to see what it was. But even people with no common sense know that such a cluster of small lights should not appear in such a deep trench...
Everyone was stunned for a while.
"Don't be in a daze, let's go!" Tsuruta roared, turned on the propeller of the diving suit, and pulled the doctor to rush in the direction of the small submarine at full speed. However, the speed of the light rising suddenly accelerated, and almost in an instant, everyone suddenly saw the face of the thing clearly.
It was a fish, a fish the size of the Blue Whale.
The fat body is covered with sharp thorns like sharp swords, the rough skin is like a stone cast, the ugly and huge face has a pair of white eyes, a long whisker in the middle, and at the end hangs the lamp that they have seen between them. "Little Lamp". However, the most terrifying thing was the giant mouth that almost occupied the entire face of the monster fish.
It was a huge mouth large enough to swallow a sperm whale. It opened wide, and the crimson mouth inside was full of razor-sharp teeth.
The strange fish stirred the current, and everyone felt that their bodies were involuntarily being sucked in. Tang Yizheng was unsteady and was swept in by the current. His screams echoed in his helmet, and he was suddenly hugged by Mercury, who forcibly pulled him out of the rapids. Tang Yi was only a dozen meters away from the mouth of the ugly big fish just now.
Mercury whispered in his ear, "It's all right."
Tang Yi swallowed his saliva and calmed down a little. Damn... such a thing suddenly came out of the abyss, and the speed is so fast, it's so stupid! Isn't that supposed to be a very safe task? !
He suddenly realized that he was crawling on Mercury like an octopus, and quickly let go of his hand and stepped back. At this moment, he heard a peacock exclaim.
But I saw that the strange fish seemed to have a target, and rushed towards the direction of the submarine. The first to bear the brunt were Tsuruta Takumi and Dr. Zhao. The peacock roared over with an ultrasonic wave, and the fat body of the strange fish trembled heavily, but became even more angry, and took a sip of water. Hetian and Dr. Zhao were sucked into the mouth of the strange fish by the powerful ocean current, and the peacock instantly turned into a blue lightning bolt and rushed through the turbulent current, but only had enough time to grab Hetian's body.
Dr. Zhao screamed and was swallowed by the strange fish, and his mouth full of sharp teeth overlapped in an instant. A streak of blood spread in the air.
It all happened so fast, not even a minute. Mercury was the first to burst out an ultrasonic wave, and Lan Huang joined later. The strange fish flipped its huge body between the bombardments of the two forces, and the violent currents caused all humans, including submarines, to be unable to control themselves. Submarines pass by the rocks on the cliff again and again, and the danger is full of dangers.
Tsuruta's order came, "Retreat!"
Quicksilver shouted, "I'll cover, you all go back to the submarine first!"
Tang Yi also opened the wrist gun to shoot at the strange fish, in line with the rhythm of the mercury ultrasound. The strange fish roared, and the sound waves rolled up and rolled over. Tang Yi was barely able to maintain his balance and continued to shoot.
It's just that he's running out of ammo. This time, I was just out for preliminary exploration, and I didn't expect to encounter such a thing.
Tsuruta Peacock, as well as Lin Maochen and Lanhuang have approached the submarine. Tang Yi shouted to Mercury, "Enough! Let's go!"
Tang Yi turned on the propulsion device on the diving suit, and the two stumbled towards the direction of the submarine. But the strange fish was already irritated by the two of them, and didn't plan to let them go, and suddenly rammed in the direction of Tang Yi like crazy.
"Be careful!!!"
When Tang Yi saw the iron-like body of the strange fish squeezing towards him, Mercury suddenly appeared in front of him, hugging him and crashing into the cliff.
Tang Yi closed his eyes reflexively, and heard loud noises like landslides and ground cracks all around, and everything around him was shaking. However, Mercury hugged his body tightly, and the two cheeks rubbed together. His breath was so close that it surrounded him layer by layer.
He suddenly had a thought: It would be good to die together like this...
When the shaking stopped, the angry roar of the strange fish was still lingering in a slightly distant place, and Tang Yi opened his eyes. He and Mercury were now curled up in a deep cavern between the stone walls, the entrance of which had been knocked down in half by the strange fish. Outside, a giant white eye of evil was staring at them through a crevice in the rock.
Tang Yi couldn't help but scolded, "Mother Fucker!!!"
Luo Wei shouted nervously from the headset, "Brother Tang! How are you! Are you okay?!"
Tang Yi pressed the button of the headset and replied, "Me and Mercury are still alive."
The other side seemed relieved, but then became nervous again, "You wait, we'll find a way to save you right away."
"Don't! This fish is very irritable, you should go back first and find some more sirens to come back and deal with him together!"
The other side was silent for a while, presumably they were discussing right and wrong. After about a minute, Tsuruta's voice came, "You and Mercury hold on, we'll be right back."
Tang Yi breathed a sigh of relief and spread out. The strange fish was still clinging to their hole, purring low.
The cave was pitifully small, and he was huddled with Mercury. Mercury's solid chest was rubbing against him, and his breath blew out from his small cheeks, turning into small streams of water blowing on Tang Yi's helmet.
The atmosphere was really embarrassing.
Tang Yi coughed, "It seems that we can only wait... How can you produce such ferocious seafood in the sea..."
"Looks like an anglerfish, a deep-water creature, but I've never heard of one this big." Quicksilver swept away a few boulders with his tail, "and... I think this attack is very strange, it seems to be intentional Want to target submarines."
Just as he was talking, the strange fish suddenly slammed into the stone wall again. Pang Ran's strength shook the entire cave violently, Tang Yi and Mercury huddled together, and the stones slammed on him.
"Can the fuck stop for a while!!!"
Obviously, the strange fish did not intend to stop, hitting the hole again and again. If it goes on like this, they will definitely be buried alive in this small cave.
"No way! Rush out!" Tang Yi shouted.
With a scream of mercury, the stones blocking the entrance of the cave were shaken away, and the sudden attack caused the strange fish to retreat a few meters. Taking this opportunity, Tang Yi and Mercury swam out of the cave, but the Lubei strange fish was blocked, and they had to dive down toward the abyss. The angler fish behind him roared and chased after them with the weird "lantern" swaying.
In the process of sinking in the abyss, Tang Yi once again thought of the ghost stories Jonney and the others told about the Mariana Trench. At that time, he also felt that he would never go to such a deep place.
But now it seems that his bad luck is not over yet.