Charles stared straight at what was inside the periscope, which was a human skeleton.
Dead people were not scary to Charles. What he was thinking about now was how this thing came from and what the purpose of coming here was.
Three seconds later, the other party suddenly disappeared, and the periscope became dark again.
Charles immediately let go of the periscope and walked towards the cockpit door.
"Captain, where are you going?" Dipper hurriedly followed.
"Go out and meet this guy, you come with me,"
"Gurgle~" A roll of bubbles floated up from the sea, and Charles followed Dipper into the dark sea.
The freezing sea water made Charles shiver all over, and he felt his body temperature was below zero degrees.
Charles' night vision seemed to be suppressed here, and he could only see about ten meters away.
Charles pushed himself on the hard deck with his hands and swam to the place where he put down his diving goggles. He saw that the thing he had just seen was still there and was floating slowly in the water.
"Puff~" The anchor hook in Charles' hand directly pierced through its diving suit and pulled it over.
The chainsaw turned quickly and cut open the opponent's helmet, and a tangled mass of bones slowly floated out with the water.
"This skeleton is not moving?" For some reason, Charles felt a little disappointed.
He pushed the skeletons aside with his hands and looked inside the man's diving suit, but found nothing inside. It was just an ordinary diving suit.
"Besides me, who else is exploring here? What are they looking for? Could they be looking for the key as well?" Charles thought to himself as he looked at the emptiness and darkness around him.
He originally thought that the most likely possibility was that the Foundation was also here to retrieve the key, but this old-fashioned diving suit proved that his guess was wrong.
The Foundation is an organization that can create the sun, so how could it use such a shabby diving suit? This diving suit is much more outdated than the one Charles is wearing.
But it doesn't make sense to say that this diver is from the Earth Sea. Let alone the trench, the people from the Earth Sea would not even go into the sea unless they had to.
The only goal of all explorers is to find a living island with fresh water. Even fishermen who really go to the sea to look for fish will never look for them here.
"Captain! Look at the oxygen tube on its back! It seems to be connected to something." Dipper said from the side.
After hearing Dipper's reminder, Charles noticed the oxygen tube covered with brown moss on the back of the diving suit. It was like a long snake in the sea water, swaying in the darkness.
"Stop diving and head south in parallel." Charles gave orders using flag signals to the periscope next to him.
As the ship's rudder began to turn, the Narwhal slowly turned and headed towards the oxygen tube.
The space under the trench seemed very large. After driving for three minutes, Charles finally saw the oxygen connection.
A spindle-shaped black submarine stood motionless in the cold sea water, with seven or eight divers with oxygen tubes floating around it.
The dead divers were shaking slightly with the sea water. Seeing this scene, Charles suddenly had an illusion that the huge submarine seemed like a giant octopus, and those divers were its tentacles.
"Why does this thing look familiar..."
"Captain, are we going over?" Dipper asked, but after asking for a long time, he found that his captain ignored him.
He swam over to Charles's wetsuit and wagged his finger inside. "Captain, are you all right?"
Under the huge illumination of the searchlight, Charles Deep and his companions slowly approached the submarine.
When the crew members standing on the deck saw this scene, they couldn't help but feel nervous.
Charles did not expect that there was air in the submarine. To be precise, only half of the space in the submarine was filled with air, which was why it was standing upright in the deep sea.
"Captain? What happened to you just now? Why did you suddenly freeze?" Dipper asked in surprise after surfacing.
Charles took off his heavy diving suit and looked up at the dusty corridor above. "Nothing, I just feel like I've seen this submarine before. Let's go and see if there are any clues here."
Dipper nodded, grabbed a dusty lamp stand beside the hallway, and began to climb up.
To be honest, the entire submarine is upright, turning the submarine's corridor into a straight shaft, which is very difficult to climb.
Fortunately, Charles and Dipper had both undergone physical enhancement by Personality 096, so this was an easy task for them.
Soon they came to the first circular hatch, which looked like a bedroom. The entire submarine was stood up, turning the floor into walls and the walls into the floor.
In order to withstand the wind and waves, the tables were firmly fixed to the wall and did not fall down.
Dipula opened the drawer and carefully searched for anything with records. "Ahem! There's so much dust! How long has this place been parked here?"
Charles touched the dust on the wall with his fingers. "It hasn't been that long, otherwise the submarine would have leaked long ago."
Looking at the furnishings of the room and the bedroom being located in the position of a submarine, Charles was suddenly stunned. He suddenly remembered where he had seen this submarine!
When I went to the British Isles to look for diving methods, the hull designers had taken out some submarine drawings to deal with me.
At first, I asked them to prepare to build a submarine, but it was later stranded due to some unexpected events.
"So this submarine was built in the British Isles? Why did the British Governor send people here? What are they looking for?" Charles pondered.
"Wait, since they built this submarine, then the captain's cabin must be..." Charles thought of this and rushed back to the corridor and continued to climb up. "Dipper, follow me!"
Following the submarine blueprint in his mind, Charles quickly compared it to the water tank, utility room, kitchen, and finally came to the captain's room.
Just as Charles used all his strength to pry open the rusty door of the captain's room, a figure inside pounced towards him.
"Bang!" With a sudden kick from Charles' right foot, the figure hit the wall hard and fell to the ground again.
It was not a dangerous monster, but a skeleton. It looked like it had been lying at the hatch before it died. As soon as Charles opened the door, it fell out.
The clothes on his body confirmed the identity of the skeleton; he was the captain of the submarine.
He looked around the captain's room warily, and after finding no danger, he slowly walked in.
"This guy committed suicide." Charles saw the pistol held in the hand bones and the hole in his temple.
(End of this chapter)