three days later.
Sinbad rides on the gondola and slowly rises from the sea.
"How do you feel?" As soon as she took off her heavy helmet, Mu Li eagerly greeted her, "Is the underwater world interesting?"
Not much better than the desert, although there are many bizarre animals and plants living, but it is better to have nothing to relax. Every time I sink into the sea, I always feel like I'm being swallowed up. The ubiquitous pressure makes it hard to move, and even breathing is a little difficult. Although Sinbad thinks so, he can see Mu Li's expectant look in his eyes. He swallowed the words that came to his lips, "How can I say... The scenery is quite beautiful."
"It's great... If only I could go down and have a look." Mu Li sighed.
Looking at her big light brown eyes, Simbadi suddenly remembered that a year and a half ago, when the clansmen set off from the Clear Water Port to the southern end of the desert, she also had the same expression on the stone boat, in an unfamiliar environment. , she can still separate the spirit to comfort herself, in a group of panicked people, she is like an alien.
For some reason, he felt a little uneasiness in his heart.
"Nice job, your performance surprised me." The next person who was hoisted out of the water was Rex, who applauded and stepped down from the gondola, "Balance, air intake, composure, sense of direction are everything you need for diving. The quality of the people is so excellent, is this the innate talent of the sand people, or are you good at it? I don't mean to offend, when I chatted with Miss Mu Li, she mentioned that you are not a powerful one in the clan. warriors."
Mu Li stuck out her tongue at Sinbad, turned and ran to chat with the assistant.
"There is a water pool in the oasis where the Fishbone Clan lives. When we were young, everyone liked to dive deeper than anyone else, so it can't be considered inexperienced..." Sinbad said helplessly, "but she's right, even if it's better than this , I'm not the most powerful one in the clan. If Caron is asked to try, maybe one day will be enough."
"Carrone? Who is that?"
"The strongest young generation in the clan, whether it is hunting or fighting, is not inferior to the peers of the big clan. However, he only participated in the dispatch team once, and now he should be holding some kind of work in the clear water port... Even if you want to find him, you have already Too late."
"Yeah," Rex shrugged, "I don't think so."
"Not necessarily what?"
"He's better than you." The fjord man took off his diving suit a little bit. "If you want to go deep into the sea, technology is not the first thing. The first thing you need is an open heart."
"Open...heart?" Sinbad said stunned.
"Accepting the unknown and overcoming one's self is also the gap between the pool and the sea." He looked towards Daqing Port, "Unbelievable changes are taking place here, but the Carron you mentioned only wants to come here once. In this respect, he is far worse than you. If I was looking for him, I probably wouldn't be able to convince him to put on a diving suit and go into the water."
Sinbad gave him a sullen look, "If it wasn't for Mu Li saying she wanted to try it herself, I wouldn't agree to you."
I wanted to take them to the water hole and get ten golden dragons and leave, but the group of people can do whatever they want, but I didn't expect that Mu Li had already developed a strong interest in that peculiar device. She raised her hand almost immediately when she learned that the salvage job still needed a helper.
In desperation, Sinbad had to promise to help the Fantastic Item Society to the end, and followed Rex into the water cave in person. Fjords people stay together. Even though she knew she would still be in the water one day, at least the risk was much less.
"Hahaha," Rex said with a nonchalant smile, "but you finally crossed this line and took a step towards a new field, didn't you? Maybe it's because of this that Mu Li likes it more. Get along with you?"
"Wait, you… what did you say?"
"Why, didn't you find out?" He spread his hands and said, "When that girl was chatting with me, your name appeared very often. She said that when you were young, you were obviously not brave, and you were often beaten up and cried. , but the curiosity is not small, but after growing up, it has restrained a lot, and it has become a lot more silent."
Simbady twitched the corners of his mouth, "She really... tells you everything."
"I guess it's easier for outsiders to talk about it," Rex grinned. "I don't quite understand the customs of the sand people. Maybe personal force is really important, but you may have been underestimating yourself."
"You obviously don't understand anything," Sinbad snorted lowly.
Although he said that, he didn't have much resentment in his heart. In fact, even he himself felt incredible. In just a few days, he became so familiar with a fjord person. At first, it was clearly to prevent the other party from contacting Mu Li alone. I was reluctant to stay and help.
Thinking about it carefully, Sinbad found that there was not a trace of contempt in the other party's speech and behavior, and there was an unexpected sense of ease in getting along with him. Compared with those northern nobles or fjord merchants who have high self-esteem, this can be said to be very unusual. . It was probably for this reason that Mu Li ran to the Strange Objects Camp whenever she was free.
After a moment of hesitation, he posed the question to Rex.
"Why do you ask..." The latter thought for a while, "and there is no special reason, because of discrimination and contempt, we have tasted enough."
Taste... Enough? Sinbad couldn't help but be stunned for a while. He was able to promise thirty golden dragons in one breath. How could he have a lot of wealth? Where does contempt come from? Just before he could continue to ask, an assistant came over, "Teacher, the equipment has been fully debugged, and the official dive can start at any time."
"How's it going?" Rex looked at him, "Diving should be familiar to you, right?"
He had no choice but to suppress the doubts in his heart, "As long as there are no problems with the things you made."
"Of course, I've been researching it for almost ten years, and in order to be foolproof, I've invested almost all my fortune in this..."
"What?"
"Cough, cough, no, it's nothing, don't worry about it," Rex turned his head away, "Since that's the case, then I announce that I will enter the water cave after noon and start my first expedition!"
…
The reason for choosing noon is very simple. Since the air pipe can meet the depth requirements, ensuring a good field of vision has become the top priority of diving. At this time, the sun was right on the top of the cliff, almost directly hitting the sea surface. The seabed more than 50 meters deep can be seen at a glance, not to mention the water hole on the half waist of the rock wall.
If you wait until the low tide in the evening before moving, it is easy to lose your way.
"I'll be waiting for you at the entrance," Rex put on his helmet and gave a thumbs up, then took the gondola and sank into the sea.
After about a quarter of an hour, the assistant blindfold nodded to Sinbad, "It's your turn."
Sinbad took a deep breath and put the heavy helmet on top of his head. Mu Li stepped forward to help him tighten the connector, and then said loudly against the helmet, "Come on, I'll be here waiting for you to come back!"
He gave her a deep look, turned and walked towards the gondola.
With the roar of the steam engine, Sinbad slid down a little bit, and the blue sea surging with waves was getting closer and closer to him, gradually occupying the entire field of vision. For a moment, he had the illusion that it was not his whereabouts, but that the sea took the initiative to meet him, trying to swallow him.
A familiar sense of fear resurfaced.
But it only lasted for less than a breath, and he adjusted.
"Accept the unknown and overcome yourself."
In addition to Mu Li's twinkling eyes, Rex's words came to mind.
Sinbad sighed and accepted the embrace of the sea
In an instant, the whole world turned into a clear blue, and the sun shone from overhead, like countless swimming golden snakes.
After slowly sinking twenty meters, the hanging basket stopped moving.
A deep hole appeared in front of him as if surging with cold currents.