Surprisingly, after a while, all the "survivors" were the three masters and apprentices in the small lifeboat floating alone on the water.
"What happened?" Shukang's heart sank, and he was on high alert.
The entire water surface returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.
The three of them remained silent and remained vigilant. After waiting for another long time, the unknown thing that caused the huge collision did not appear again to clean up the last three "remnants".
"Master... master... a whole boat of people are gone! Are they all dead?" Yao Qiao was so nervous that she stuttered, but she couldn't help but ask the question first.
"I don't know. I don't even know how deep the water is and what its condition is. I can't tell." Shukang told the truth. She was only used to being in the swimming pool and knew the gradual change from 1 meter to 3 meters. She had no idea what it was like to be deep. She had no idea what it looked like under the surface of this natural water surface—and it was a non-terrestrial surface.
"Then what should we do now? Should we continue paddling to the beach? Or go back to the pier?" Jiao Yue's opinion was very pertinent and objective.
"I want to find out what is going on under the water." At this time, Shu Kang no longer had any longing for spending the night on the beach by the sea. The "death" of so many people just happened in front of him. A major traffic accident requires urgent clarification of the situation.
Human lives matter!
In fact, are all the people who disappeared really "dead"? This is a result that Shu Kang does not want to believe. After all, the first time she jumped into the deep pool when she came to this ghost place, there was a "different cave" here. Therefore, she felt that the disappearance of those people was not "death" but a "transportation method" to another place, although this method seemed as rough, rude, cruel and arbitrary as ever.
Even if they are all "dead", there must be an explanation!
What’s even more strange is that if boat capsizing accidents often happen here, why are there so many people rushing here at night, like in the photos? Aren't they afraid of death?
Also, Shukang looked toward the seaside. There were no other ferry boats there, nor any lights. There were no sea-view rooms, resort villas, seaside landscape sculptures, windmills, yachts, or port terminals.
It should be just a piece of pure "wild sea".
Shukang felt more and more that the seaside was not people's real "destination", but maybe the water.
Except for the small yellow lifeboat he was riding in, there was just a dark water all around, and he couldn't see anything at all.
Shukang decided to try it out.
He took out a wooden hairpin, drew a detector like an "anchor", tied a long rope behind it, and threw it into the water.
This "anchor" was floating back and forth in the water, and it seemed that a long time had passed. All the lengths of the drawn rope had been released, and it had not yet reached the bottom, as if it was floating in the air.
"Come again!" Shukang drew another large roll of long rope, estimated to be 100 meters long, tied it to the tail of the original rope dragged behind the previous "anchor", tied it tightly, and dropped it again.
The combined weight of the rope and anchor was about to overturn the small inflatable lifeboat. Shukang knew that he had to strengthen his "foundation", so he arranged for his two apprentices to hold the tail of the rope tightly together, and he freed up his hands again. A larger and sturdier wooden fishing boat is drawn next to it.
"Come on, come up first! Try again on top." Shukang was the first to get on the newly painted wooden boat, tied a safety rope around his waist, then leaned out, and took Yao Qiaoye on board first, and then Passing the rope in Jiaoyue's hand, Yaoqiao took the senior sister to the boat safely.
"Do you want to fish out the lifeboat too?" Jiao Yue asked the master.
"No, its time is coming soon, and it will disappear on its own in a while. We have to hurry, all the things I drew are only valid for a certain period of time, we must hurry up and complete the next step." Shu Kang knew that he would go to "Science" The time for "exploration" is not long, and there is not much time to take into account "art". Practicality, for now, comes first.
"Master, how long would you like to book the wooden boat we are riding on now?" Yao Qiao asked worriedly.
"48 hours should be enough. No matter how long it is, there's nothing I can do about it. Currently, in this lowest-level "Se Shi An" vegetarian group, no higher time limit can be set. This is already the longest time that can be set. We must find out the answer and escape during this time!"
Shukang is also in a dilemma. There are really very few things he can do at this stage. After all, it is too low-end.
Walking to the bow of the ship, he threw the "anchor" down again. When the water rippled, only the end of the rope was left in his hand. Shu Kang found that this length was still not enough. Still didn't hit anything.
Come again! Shu Kang tied the end of the rope and drew a thicker and longer roll, which was about 2 or 300 meters long. After catching the end of the rope, he tied it firmly and continued to lower the rope.
This time, when the rope was about 50 meters long, I found that there was a kind of force reflecting up. It was no longer the empty feeling of emptiness, but something had been touched.
"Great!" Shukang and his two apprentices worked together to pull the rope up. After a long time, some messy things hung on the anchor head, which were exposed out of the water.
"Let's see what it is?" Shukang was very curious. What was going on underneath the sample taken this time? He saw that the double hooks on the tip of the anchor had hooked up a bunch of plants that looked like waterweeds, and there was a bunch of them at the roots. A gelatinous, earthy substance.
This lump of soil is particularly strange. Its texture feels like soft and delicate glutinous rice flour used to make glutinous rice balls. After you fish it out, there is a shiny water film on the surface, but when you break it from the middle and crush it, It's actually dry inside, and it's driest toward the bottom.
What kind of soil is this? How come there is such a characteristic? In other words, it bears water, but forms a "water-isolating layer" with the lower layer. In other words, is there a dry world underneath this layer of "glutinous rice soil"?
It is simply unimaginable that under such a large area of water, there would be some dry or even hollow "unique caves"? In other words, it is very possible that those people who fell into the water just now broke through this water barrier and entered another place?
Thinking about it this way, Shu Kang felt that the possibility was very high, so he decided to try a few more faces and take samples from many places to draw a comprehensive judgment.
Then I found 5 approximately equidistant points from all sides of the hull, and cast and closed 5 more times. The result:
