The violence of the "Pippi Shrimp" is undeniable. Under the action of a powerful hydraulic system, the two mechanical arms can suddenly pop up in 0.1 seconds. The force of the stinging hammer reaches 700 kilograms, which is equivalent to the full strength of three heavyweight boxing champions. The sum of one hit.
There was a muffled "thud" sound, and the "coelacanth" was hit in the tail, and the fish's scales flew away in a flash. Professor Levins shook his head and sighed: "In this environment, its injury means death."
"The same is true for us." Ling Hao said calmly from the side. He was not interested in the compassion of these scientists at all, and even felt a little pedantic and hypocritical. Would the old man be willing to really let them trade their lives for this fish? Even if he is willing, he is not willing yet.
The submarine is still rising slowly along the cave wall. What is amazing is that there is something on the cave wall emitting a faint blue light, and there are more and more of them, illuminating the surrounding seawater as if it is covered with a layer of hazy moonlight. of.
In addition to these luminous things, there is also a long seaweed growing on the cave wall. The shape is somewhat similar to kelp, but it is as dark as linoleum. Schools of small fish, shrimps and squids shuttle among these seaweeds.
The professor and Adeline used a camera, one with a camera, and kept taking pictures. The professor said: "The thing that is glowing should be either some kind of mineral or a luminous algae of the 'dinoflagellate' type. Don't look at it, it's just a little bit." The light source is the light of life in this deep seabed, which allows these seaweeds and small fish and shrimps to survive. You see, these seaweeds, because they cannot absorb sunlight and have no chlorophyll, are completely dark. Color, they must be at the bottom of the food chain in this water. They feed the small fish and shrimp, and then the small fish and shrimp feed the bigger fish. This is a complete ecosystem that has been independent for 80 million years. If the outside world evolves and develops alone, this is a veritable 'lost world' and 'time capsule'." Professor Levins became more and more excited as he spoke.
However, Ling Hao and Tian Yong's eyes were fixed on the moving figures gliding through the darkness in the distance. In terms of size, none of them was smaller than an adult man.
The "Pipi Shrimp" began to use its spare robotic arm to collect samples of luminous substances on seaweed and stone walls. Even some small fish and shrimps were caught with a dip net and put into aquariums for temporary cultivation.
Adeline seemed to notice the strangeness in Ling Hao's expression, and followed his gaze to the distance: "Are we being monitored by large fish?"
"Perhaps they were treated as prey. It is probably because they have never seen creatures of our type before, so they didn't dare to get close for a while. However, as more and more of them gathered, they would eventually be unable to help but rush forward. After you collect the samples, we will continue to float up, perhaps changing the water layer, and these big fish will no longer surround us," Ling Hao said.
The "Pipi Shrimp" soon began to continue to float. According to the instrument display, their water depth was now less than 300 meters. Whenever they saw new species along the way, they would stop to capture them as samples. Stopped, just enough to decompress simultaneously.
The higher you go up, the more luminous substances are on the rock wall, the seaweed plants become more lush, and the varieties begin to diversify, but without exception they are all completely black, as if they have been carbonized.
What was supposed to come would eventually come. "Gongsame" was the boldest and most curious, and finally couldn't help but start to approach the submarine.
Five sharks nearly two meters long began to swim around the "Pippi Shrimp" and took a bite at the bright lights from time to time. Yang Xueting ignored them. Anyway, the bright lights were protected by lampshades, so their mouths were capable of biting. Not bad, but it gave the two professors a chance to take a close-up. The two of them were so excited that they giggled, leaving Ling Hao and the others speechless.
Suddenly, the warning light in the submarine came on. Yang Xueting immediately stopped floating and carefully checked the instruments.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Yang Xueting.
The latter said with an inexplicable expression: "The alarm system showed that T*NT and hexanitrodiphenylamine were detected in the water, so we called the police."
Ling Hao and Tian Yong were stunned for a moment before they realized: "This ingredient is the explosive in the mine. How can there be mines in a place like this?!" Ling Hao's hair stood on end. Fortunately, "Pippi Shrimp" During the upgrade, in order to better understand the composition of the seawater outside the submarine and increase the safety of divers leaving the cabin, a real-time monitoring system for seawater composition was installed to provide alarms for dangerous components of the seawater around the submarine.
The sensor is installed on the top of the submarine, and even the slightest leakage of ingredients in the mine is detected, which shows how close the submarine is to the mine. At this moment, Ling Hao didn't have the time to think about how this thing got here. What he was most concerned about was where it was now.
He put on the diving mask without hesitation and planned to go out to check. Tian Yong also put on the mask and got out of the submarine with him.
As soon as they got out of the submarine, they almost peeed in fear. Less than two feet above the "Pippi Shrimp", a black sphere with a diameter of nearly one meter was quietly suspended there. More than a dozen "contact fuses" protruding from the sphere are clearly visible, making it look like a large "meteor hammer." Due to being in the water for too long, it is covered with corals and vines. Pots and other attachments, God knows where these things drifted here from.
"Damn, luckily it's a trigger-type 'floating thunder'. If it had been any other type, we would have been totally fucked." Tian Yong was so frightened that he began to curse.
Ling Hao said to the communicator: "Xue Ting, there is a trigger-type 'floating mine' from the Second World War less than 1 meter directly above the submarine. Listen to me, slowly descend 5 meters, and you must be slow. I'm afraid that if the blisters get bigger, it will cause serious trouble, and then you move 5 meters to the left and then stop and wait for us."
Then he looked at Tian Yong and said, "I can't tell. For safety's sake, let's take a look around to make sure there's not a second one."
The "Pippi Shrimp" cautiously began to dive. Yang Xueting's bangs were wet with cold sweat. The locks of hair stuck to her forehead, and the hand holding the joystick was trembling. She gave the professor beside her a stern look and said something through her teeth: "Professor Levins, you were only a few dozen centimeters away from meeting Darwin. Maybe you can meet him." It’s a very happy thing, but we died unjustly.”
The old professor was almost scared out of his mind at this moment: "I...how did I know there would be such things as mines here? I..."
"Okay, now is not the time to talk about this. Let's avoid this mine quickly and go pick up Ling Hao and the others." Adeline advised.
At this moment, Ling Hao and Tian Yong were patrolling the left front of the mine with their APS underwater assault rifles. Although no more mines were found, they were surrounded by a large group of "Gong Sharks".
"Be careful, don't hit the mines and the 'Pippi Shrimp'." Ling Hao instructed, and the two began to fire on the "Gongshark". A "gongshark" died.
Perhaps due to the harsh living environment, these ancient sharks are extremely bloodthirsty. Their killed companions were immediately swarmed up to bite and eat them. Some of them were not even dead yet, and their stomachs were torn open. After a while, Just gnawed until nothing was left.
"Hurry! The 'Pipi Shrimp' has already arrived. While these 'gongshao' are killing each other, let's go in quickly!" Tian Yong grabbed Ling Hao, and the two of them got into the "Pipi Shrimp" as if they were running away. ", the submarine began to slowly continue to surface.
"Point the top camera upwards. This time we have to pay attention to the top." Ling Hao took off his diving mask and gasped.
The atmosphere was no longer as relaxed and comfortable as before. The mine left a serious psychological shadow on everyone. Now it was more like walking through a minefield, and the air was so tense that it seemed to freeze.
At the bottom of the 400-meter-deep cave, the students had cleared a large area. Apart from staying far away from the torpedo, they did not encounter any danger, and everyone gradually relaxed their vigilance. Some students even felt that the "safe house" was in the way, so they didn't bother to use it when they moved frequently, and were directly exposed to the blue.
A student was kneeling on the seabed, using a small shovel to gently scrape up the surface sediment. The remains of half a meter-long "Sword Shooting Fish" had been exposed in front of him. Before he realized it, a huge black shadow had appeared in the darkness not far away.
A scream sounded in the communicator, and everyone trembled in their hearts and stopped what they were doing. Shi Si suddenly turned on all the bright lights on the Stone Crab and saw a huge shark nearly four meters long. It had a person in its mouth and was shaking its head. The person's upper body was already in the shark's mouth, and the back half of his body was in the shark's mouth. Still exposed, still kicking and struggling, the shark bit hard, and the man split into two with a "click". His lower limbs fell on the sea bed and trembled, and the blood was poured in like ink. The water quickly filled up and the scene was very bloody.
Shi Si spat out the lollipop in his mouth and shouted into the communicator: "Come back, hurry up!"
The students, who had all been frightened, finally came to their senses and swam desperately to the "Stone Crab". The students who stayed in the "safe house", either because they were reluctant to part with the "artifact" or because they felt safer inside, actually lifted it up from inside and walked back from the seabed step by step. It’s not that they didn’t want to run, the resistance of seawater on the seabed was too great, and although this “safe house” was made of carbon fiber and was relatively lightweight, it still weighed at least eighty or ninety kilograms, so they fell far behind everyone. behind.
After the shark ate the student's body in two bites, it rushed straight towards the "safe house". Shi Si shouted into the communicator: "Pete! Why are you so stunned? Hit it with the 'Softfoot Shrimp'!"
Pete, who had been driving the "Softfoot Shrimp" outside and used a robotic arm to carry things, happened to be between the student who had the accident and other students. The horrifying scene just now happened in front of him. At this moment, he was so scared that he lost his mind. The soft-footed shrimp, let alone crashing into it with a mini-submarine, was lucky that he didn't urinate directly in the submarine.
"Coward!" At this time, Zuo Pengfei had already put on a diving mask, picked up an APS and left the cabin. He did not dare to bet the lives of these young people on Yuan Bing's "safe house".
However, the "safe house" was useless if it was not put to use. The shark swung its tail a few times and caught up with the three people who were running at the back. It carried the three people in the "safe house" and bit it with its big mouth.
A miraculous scene happened. The shark hit the "safe house" with huge momentum, causing the three people to get rid of it immediately. The "safe house" hit the sea bed, splashing a piece of sand, and was deeply dented like a trampoline. Go down, wait until the shark's momentum is exhausted, and then bounce it out. Although half of the three students inside were frightened and fell on the seabed, they quickly got up under the strong desire to survive and continued to pick up the "safe house" and run back.
The shark was not stubborn. Seeing that it could not handle this prey, it shifted its target to other people who were almost swimming next to the "Stone Crab". The thick tail swung twice, and then it rushed forward like an arrow from the string. It opened its bloody mouth, and its sharp teeth like razor blades came out. It saw that it was less than 3 meters away from a student. .
Is another living life about to be torn apart? Shi Si closed his eyes and no longer dared to look.
