"Bang~!!" Charles, wearing a diving suit, hit the water heavily, and he quickly sank towards the island below.
The distance below is not too deep. The draft of the Narwhal is 5.5 meters. Judging from the fact that there is still 1.5 meters left between the bottom of the ship and the island, the island has only sunk 7-8 meters below the sea level.
Although compared to those islands that sank directly into the deep sea, this place did not sink much.
But it is just this short distance that turns an island habitable to humans into a useless shoal in the lightless ocean.
"Bang, bang, bang!!!" Other sailors also sank to the bottom of the water wearing heavy diving suits. The huge weight allowed them to resist the buoyancy of the sea water very well.
The light of the flashlight shines from the diver's helmet, illuminating everything on the dark seabed.
They were currently on a shallow beach, surrounded by giant seaweeds everywhere. Standing among them was like standing in a dense forest.
There was a thick layer of moss on the seabed, which was very slippery and uncomfortable to step on.
"Our ship changes location every 20 minutes. Now disperse and look for clues. If you find any clues, give them a heads-up immediately." Charles ordered the five divers using flag signals.
"Deep, Feuerbach, be on guard all around, don't let anything affect our companions' search." The duo in the water nodded and quickly dispersed in all directions.
If there really is a key on this island, then there is no need to look for such a large key; it can be easily seen with the naked eye.
But things can't be that simple. Put yourself in their shoes. If you were the foundation, not only would you have to hide something as important as the key to the surface, but you also have to hide it very secretly.
This matter cannot be rushed, it must be looked for slowly.
"Bang, bang, bang~!!" Charles was interrupted by a series of knocking sounds while thinking. He turned around quickly and found that it was another sea otter, using its steel diving helmet as a tool to smash shells.
Charles waved his hand and drove it away. The sea otter seemed unwilling to give up and wanted to come back. When it saw the white arcs of electricity flashing on Charles' body, it quickly left.
"Have these guys never seen anything hard? There are so many rocks on the seabed, can't they just pick up one? Do they have to use my helmet to hit them?"
Charles looked around and was somewhat surprised to find that there were really no small stones for it to pick up. "Haha, it seems that I blamed it wrongly. How come there is not even a single stone here?"
Just as Charles was thinking this, he suddenly discovered that the sea otter that had just swam away had disappeared.
"No, something's wrong!" Charles immediately became alert and started searching quickly with himself as the center. Finally, he found a huge toad with a black face and a red bottom crawling on the seabed behind a large seaweed.
Its big mouth, as wide as its body, opened and closed as if it was chewing something.
Just as Charles was looking at it, the other party also saw Charles.
The situation underwater was completely different from that above. The giant toad instantly launched an attack, and its battering ram-sized tongue hit Charles directly.
Although he was wearing a diving suit weighing more than 200 kilograms, Charles was still agile and easily cut the spindle-shaped tongue in half.
Charles immediately understood the strange contrast of this thing. "It turned out that it didn't attack us just now because we didn't move. This thing only eats things that move!"
Of course Charles couldn't let the toad go. If the toad ran away, it would attract more of its kind, which would be troublesome.
He raised his steel prosthetic limb and shot at the giant toad. The anchor hook, carrying a group of bubbles, pierced directly into its wrinkled back.
"Click, click, click~" The chain was pulled, and Charles quickly approached the other party.
The toad stretched out its limbs, opened its big mouth and pounced forward aggressively, as if it wanted to swallow Charles whole.
The huge, bloated body began to tremble violently.
"Die!" Charles jumped in front of it, raised the black blade in his hand and stabbed it hard in the toad's head.
He didn't just stab the dagger, but as he continued to exert force, Charles pushed his entire arm into the toad's brain.
As he stirred vigorously, the huge ugly body slowly softened and died completely.
Charles pulled his arm out of its body, and the white liquid was also brought out, which made him feel very nauseous.
"Puff, puff, puff~!" The hazy sound came to Charles' ears through the water.
He was shocked to see the white eyeballs on the toad's back struggling to come out. They were not eyes, but a group of creepy giant tadpoles, whose sharp teeth looked particularly hideous.
As soon as the huge tadpole, which was more than 34 centimeters long, came out, it rushed towards Charles frantically.
The heavy steel diving suit creaked as they bit it.
Charles could already imagine that the bite marks on his clothes were increasing rapidly.
The big toad couldn't deal with Charles, and neither could the tadpoles. With a flash of white light, all the tadpoles quickly turned their bellies inside out and floated toward the surface of the water.
Charles began to surface rapidly. He could deal with the toad monster, but the other divers might not be able to do so. They had to change their strategy.
The water surface suddenly broke open, and Charles, wearing a diving suit, swam to a huge lotus leaf and stood up.
Just as he was about to open his helmet, Charles was suddenly stunned. His boat was gone!
Charles looked behind him in confusion. There was nothing around him except huge lotus leaves and dense seaweed. He was trapped.
"What happened? I wasn't down there for long, and my oxygen tube is still connected to the boat."
When Charles quickly rolled up the oxygen tube, he found that the end was broken.
“When I was fighting with the giant toad just now, there was still oxygen in the oxygen tube. In other words, the boat disappeared when I surfaced
"There's definitely something wrong here, this is happening too fast!"
Charles, standing on the lotus leaf, thought carefully for a moment and decided to stay where he was. No matter where his crew members were now, they would definitely come looking for him when they found out that he had disappeared.
Now that we don’t have any coordinates, if we run around randomly, we will be more likely to get lost in this seaweed forest.
This is what Charles thought and did, but the indigenous people of this sea area did not think so.
"Tada tada." There were extremely dense footsteps approaching rapidly. Charles turned around quickly, but saw nothing.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer! Just when those footsteps overlapped with Charles's.
He looked down at the lotus leaf under his feet in astonishment. The footsteps came from the back of the lotus leaf, and something was standing right below him.
(End of this chapter)