First Mate Seth's last words made everyone who was listening suddenly nervous, as it was obvious that the other party had suffered an accident.
Charles put the black mike to his mouth and shouted anxiously, "First Mate Set! Report your current situation! Please answer if you hear me!"
However, no other sound came from the loudspeaker, and now there was dead silence inside.
Charles, with a frown on his face, quickly picked up the nautical chart to check the other party's location.
"Malfoy and Scorpion Tail, you are closest to his location, turn immediately to rescue him! The other ships will arrive soon!"
After hearing two "received" sounds, Charles shouted into the communication channel of the turbine compartment next to him: "Chief Engineer! Speed up! We must rush over immediately!"
"Roger that, Captain!" Odrick's voice came from the circular pipe.
As a low trembling sound began to be heard, the Narwhal began to accelerate, and the others on the ship immediately and tacitly entered a state of combat readiness.
As time passed, the atmosphere on the ship began to grow heavy. The crew members were still calm, as they were used to the fact that casualties were inevitable during any exploration.
Finally, after two hours of chasing, they arrived at the position of First Mate Seth on the seabed. As an exploration vessel, the entire hull was almost an iron lump, especially this kind of vessel specially modified for diving.
But what appeared before Charles were scattered pieces of metal fragments in the underwater canyon. They were so fragmented, as if the iron lumps had been torn into pieces like paper.
The two exploration ships that arrived before him were constantly scanning these things with searchlights, as if looking for some survivors.
But Charles knew that this was doomed to be futile. The water pressure at the current location would kill anyone immediately if they were exposed to sea water.
After thinking for a while with a frown on his face, Charles came to the rear deck and pulled the puppet to the front deck. He pointed at the scene outside the reinforced glass and asked, "Since you have been here, tell me. What caused this?"
The puppet raised its half head and awkwardly turned its rusty eyeballs to look at the debris outside. "Lion."
"What?" Charles almost thought he had heard it wrong, or that there was something wrong with the way it was expressed. How could there be such a thing in the sea
The puppet moved to the glass, looked outside and said dully: "We're almost there, I'm going out"
This time Charles understood that this guy wanted to lead the way for him.
After looking at it hesitantly and thinking for a while, Charles waved his hand and asked Dipper beside him to take it to the decompression chamber.
Although there may be more dangers ahead, now that we have come this far, we can't give up halfway.
"Dipper, send the current coordinates to other captains and gather all the ships!" Since we can't prevent unknown dangers, we might as well just go together.
Soon, the four-meter-tall puppet was sent back to the deep sea. It was obviously different from the sluggish one on the ground in the water. As some blue anemone-like things grew from its joints, the puppet swam easily in the deep sea like a fish.
A few hours later, other exploration ships also arrived one after another. They formed a line with the Narwhal in the lead and followed the puppet silently in the deep sea.
Just when it was about to reach sixty nautical miles, the puppet suddenly stopped. The next second, the radar began to sound an alarm that something appeared above them.
The huge searchlights on the eleven exploration ships suddenly raised upwards, and everyone saw an island lying across the water. The towering island edge, the huge dark red pipe connected to the island, and the hazy mist above it, it was obviously what they were looking for!
The exploration ship carefully surrounded it, and divers carrying oxygen tanks got off the ship and began to approach it.
Charles did not go on this exploration. He decided to stay outside for the sake of the overall situation. The ones who went up were Bandage, Dipper, and other crew members on the exploration ship.
The people brought here this time were not randomly chosen, but were carefully selected specifically for the environment here, to ensure that the task can be completed as quickly as possible.
As for why Bandage went with Dipper, there was a reason. As a deep diver, Dipper was very useful in this deep sea environment. As for Bandage, since he was not affected by the island and would not be trapped in the walled world, he could stay outside to provide support.
Watching them swim into the huge island, Charles couldn't help but feel nervous. Although they had been to this place once and knew that this place would suck people into the wall, this was one of the trunks of the god, and no one could guarantee that other accidents would not occur.
Time passed minute by minute, everyone was waiting anxiously on the deck, and finally they came out.
When Dipper and the others emerged from the deep sea, a large piece of the green scales on his abdomen had obviously been scraped off, and blood was constantly oozing out from it.
As soon as the seawater in the decompression chamber dropped, Charles opened the door and walked in, asking with a serious expression, "How did you get injured?"
Dipper shook his head. "Something is locked inside. It's not just humans who are trapped inside. But it doesn't matter. Captain, what I want to say is that this island is not the island we have been to before. I have searched everywhere, and your left hand is not here."
"What?!"
"Really, I looked for it many times but couldn't find it. At first I thought I didn't look carefully enough."
"Later I recalled that the bandage left some words on the wall to guide us out, but there were none on the wall of this island. This island is really not the one we are going to."
Seeing the bandage next to him nodding to him, Charles began to think. He remembered that when the island sank, other islands also sank, which meant that there were many islands of this type, and he had to find the one he had been to.
The others looked at him silently, waiting for the captain's next order. As the captain, he had the highest command authority.
After a long moment, Charles looked up at the others and said, "Pass my order to the other exploration ships. Everyone, spread out and move slowly along the pipe under the island."
Hearing this, Dipper couldn't help but remind, "Captain, the bottom of the pipe is..."
"I know. If you do as I say, only by finding the source can you find where the other islands are."
The submarines suspended on the seabed began to move. They stuck to the dark red pipes connecting to the bottom of the island and slowly sailed towards the darkness in the distance.
(End of this chapter)