"What is that thing? What is it going to do now?" Charles, who was in a diving suit, stared closely at the green lotus leaf beneath him.
A black blade with a cold glow has appeared in his hand, and he is just waiting for the opponent's head to pop out so that he can chop it off with one blow.
One minute passed, two minutes passed, three minutes passed, and the thing under the lotus leaf remained motionless, without any movement, as if it had left.
But after experiencing so many life-and-death tests, Charles' sixth sense clearly indicated that there was definitely something under the lotus leaf.
Since the other party didn't move, he started to move. Charles held the weapon in his hand and slowly walked towards the edge of the lotus leaf.
The lotus leaf, which was the size of a basketball court, reached the edge in just a few steps. In the dark environment, the sea water looked like a pool of sticky ink and was completely invisible.
"What's down there?" Charles thought to himself.
After hesitating for a moment, Charles didn't want to wait any longer. He made up his mind, bent down, grabbed the edge of the lotus leaf with one hand and turned it violently. His whole body, covered by the diving suit, stood upside down.
With a "splash", the heavy steel helmet fell into the sea. Through the transparent glass, Charles looked underwater with his night vision eyes.
But to his surprise, there was nothing underneath except some seaweed and some small creatures scattered among the seaweed.
A small fish with a yellow line on its tail flashed past Charles.
"The footsteps were made by that fish?" Charles rejected it directly. It was an ordinary threadfin mullet, a very common edible fish. There were many of them in the waters of Hope Island.
He pushed himself up with both hands, and most of his body, which was upside down in the sea, emerged from the sea again and fell heavily back onto the lotus leaf.
However, at this moment, the hurried footsteps suddenly appeared again, this time not under the lotus leaves, but right behind him!
Charles barely thought about it, he clenched the black blade in his hand and stabbed it directly behind him.
"It's me, the captain!"
The blade with afterimage stopped abruptly in mid-air. Charles turned around and saw his boatswain Dipper standing behind him. He screamed and stepped back repeatedly.
"Why are you here? Where are the others?"
"I was thinking about the same thing. Feuerbach and I were patrolling the periphery, but for some reason I couldn't find him and his red sharks."
"When I got out of the water, I couldn't even see the boat. I saw you walking towards the lotus leaf. By the way, Captain, why did you dive into the sea just now?"
"Just me and Dipper?" Charles touched the edge of the black blade with his hand, thinking of various possibilities in his mind.
"Captain, what should we do next? Should we go look for them?" the fishman asked, blinking his translucent eyelids.
"Wait, if they are all together, they should come to us first, after all, they have more people over there."
"Okay, then I'll listen to you." Dipper nodded, with a helpless look on his face, and sat cross-legged on the lotus leaf.
Charles walked over and sat down next to him. "Dipper, how is your child's illness?"
The fishman nodded repeatedly. "Oh, he's fine. He's almost recovered from his illness."
Instantly, the white electric arc covered the fishman's entire body. Dipper screamed as he was charred black.
Looking at the coke emitting black smoke in front of him, a hint of coldness appeared on Charles' face.
"Although I don't know what the person impersonating Dipper is, he followed me."
As soon as Dipper showed up, Charles was already on guard. With his lively personality, if he found out that he had already started shouting from a distance, he would never stand behind him out of the blue.
Just as Charles stood up from the lotus leaf, with a "swish" sound, "Dipper's" charred body instantly separated into three, and quickly drilled into the lotus leaf like an earthworm, leaving three black holes.
Before Charles could come to his senses, the entire lotus leaf began to turn yellow, dry and brittle rapidly. That thing was trying to pull Charles into the water.
"Not dead yet?" Charles twisted open his huge helmet with both hands, and completely transparent tentacles emerged from it and pierced into the lotus leaf holes.
As Charlton roared, his entire body was wrapped in thunder, and bright arcs of electricity followed the transparent tentacles directly into the sea.
The surrounding sea surface was illuminated by thunder, and the oppressive darkness was quickly driven away.
After more than ten seconds, Charles, breathing a little quickly, looked at the lotus leaf on the ground. It was no longer turning yellow, but had completely turned charred black.
The water around the lotus leaves began to boil, emitting constant mist.
Everything is normal, nothing unusual happened.
Just as Charles changed to another lotus leaf, a white light in the distance caught his attention. He turned his head and was surprised to see the light in the distance.
That object was none other than the Narwhal's searchlight.
I don’t know if it was the flash of lightning from Charles that caught their attention, but the Narwhal and their crew have been found.
Four thick ropes stretched down from the deck, wrapped around Charles and pulled him toward the ship.
With a "bang", Charles and his diving suit fell heavily on the deck. All the crew members immediately gathered around nervously, talking about his concern.
"Captain, are you all right?"
"It's coming back, it scares us."
"Where... did you go?"
"Okay! Stop! Let me ask first!" As Charles shouted, the deck became quiet.
Charles pointed at the soaking wet Dipper next to him, "When did you find out I disappeared? What was the exact time?"
"About 7 minutes after entering the water, I found some traces of human beings and wanted to find you to identify them, but I found that you were gone."
"7 minutes?" After thinking quickly, Charles found that this seemed to be the time period when he encountered the sea otter.
He didn't know what it meant, but he sensed that something was wrong with the otter.
"Then how did you find me here?" Charles took out his cell phone and checked the time.
"When we saw you were missing, we looked in the direction of the oxygen tube, but we found nothing. Then we started searching in a spiral with the original direction as the center."
"But I was able to find you thanks to Audric. When he turned into a bat and flew in the sky, he heard a loud noise over here."
"Captain, what happened to you? You are now two or three nautical miles away from your previous location."
(End of this chapter)