"Ling Hao! Sisi, go back quickly, the palace has collapsed." Zhu Xin's tears had already fallen.
Shi Si did not say a word, nor did she drive the "Pippi Shrimp" back. Her eyes were red, but she held the joystick stubbornly and rushed towards the position where the "Stone Crab" sank at full speed. She knew that even if she went back, she, Zhu Xin and Zuo Pengfei couldn't do much. She believed that Ling Hao and the others could save the day, because they had always done so. Even if she was reluctant to give up and wanted to go back to save people like Zhu Xin, she had to force herself not to do it. His most important task is to take Zhuxin and the others out safely. When Ling Hao and the others come back, he must return a lively sister-in-law to his brother.
Zhu Xin grabbed the back of the seat and slumped there, already sobbing. She didn't go back in a fuss. She knew what was right to do. As a police officer who had experienced the test of blood and fire, even if she lost control of her emotions for a moment, it would not affect her from doing the right thing.
After the palace collapsed, although the ruins blocked the entrance to the cave, the water level in the underground lake was still slowly declining, but not as fast as before. Most of the Dragon King Salamanders and many large spotted snakeheads were chasing each other and were also caught in the whirlpool. Wrapped into the underground lake on the next level, the remaining ones no longer wanted to fight and scattered in all directions. They escaped completely in an instant, which allowed Shi Si and the others to successfully return to the "Stone Crab" and The "Pipi Shrimp" docked with it, and then continued to drive back. When they rushed back to fix the "Stone Crab" on the pulley, the water level of the underground lake was already less than 150 meters, and the next few people could only Obediently, they began to decompress as the water level dropped. They had no intention of letting the archaeological team pull them up. On the contrary, Yuan Bing and the others would come down. After the water in the underground lake completely dried up, they would rescue Ling Hao and the others. This was Everyone agreed.
As the signal was interrupted, the water column like a large waterfall suddenly broke off and turned into a small waterfall. The deafening sound of the water finally turned into a gurgling sound. Ling Hao's smile solidified on his face. , he knew that the palace collapsed, and in a sense, he, Tian Yong, and Xueting were buried alive here.
"Stop being stunned and leave quickly!" Shui Lingxing grabbed the unconscious Tian Yong and Xueting and ran towards the distant island like a swordfish, with no intention of waiting for Ling Hao.
The latter's awareness in the water is so high now. Naturally, he knew that there were already many dragon king salamanders swimming under his feet. It was hard to say whether he would be attacked. Ling Hao didn't want to take risks. When he was about to leave, he inadvertently saw something unexpected. There was something floating on the water in the distance. Judging from the color, it looked very similar to Natasha's clothes. Needless to say, there could be no other modern human objects in such a place except her. He had the intention to leave her alone, but Ling Hao felt that it was inappropriate to leave her here and let the dragon king salamander bite her. After hesitating, he decided to take the risk and bring Natasha's body to the island for burial.
Ling Hao is now in the state of "Zhenhai Longhu". He can swim at a speed not to mention that of a dragon king salamander. Even dolphins may not be able to catch up with him. With just a vigorous swing of his legs, he has already jumped several meters away. Far away, he came to the suspicious object floating on the water in a moment.
Ling Hao's eyelids twitched. There was no doubt that this was Natasha, but her condition was really hard to describe. Her right arm was blown away, the part of her right leg from the knee down was gone, and her golden hair had almost been burned away. He was dead, his whole body was scorched black, and there seemed to be a hole next to his belly. Blood was slowly overflowing, gradually dyeing the lake water here red, and attracting predators in the surrounding water.
Ling Hao was just about to grab Natasha's clothes and drag her away, but this person who looked like a corpse just now suddenly opened her eyes, stretched out his remaining left hand, grabbed Ling Hao's wrist, and said hoarsely Said: "Ling Hao, please give me a happy life."
"I'm not an executioner who kills people on sight. It's your own fault that you ended up like this. Don't make it look like it was me." Ling Hao ignored her request and just dragged her by the wrist and quickly walked towards Shui Ling. Swim in the direction the star is heading.
The island in the lake is not big, only a few hundred square meters. It is filled with a kind of soft red soil. I don’t know what the composition of this red soil is, but it smells like a faint fishy sweet taste. At this moment, Shui Lingxing had already come ashore and placed Tian Yong and Xueting on the ground. He slapped Tian Yong's dark face with five or six crisp, big slaps, which directly woke this guy up with a confused look on his face. He looked left and right, then rubbed his burning face again.
"Wake your wife up by yourself, and I won't do anything." Shui Lingxing chuckled, with an unserious look on his face.
Just as Tian Yong was giving Xueting "artificial respiration", Ling Hao also arrived, holding the dying Natasha in his hand.
"Is she still alive?" Xueting, who had just woken up, pushed Tian Yong away who was still giving "artificial respiration". She stood up like a carp, pulled out her diving knife and wanted to take action.
"Forget it, she won't survive long without you taking action. There's no way to save her." Ling Hao inspected Natasha's wounds, shook his head and sighed. Originally, he couldn't bear to watch this double agent being eaten alive by fish on the water. If there was still a possibility of survival, it would at least be better than death. Unexpectedly, when he came ashore and saw the wound on her abdomen, he found that Many internal organs were either missing or damaged, and an unknown amount of blood had been lost. It was already a miracle that he was still alive and even conscious.
"Ling Hao, I beg you, please give me pleasure and don't torture me." Natasha said with a dying breath.
Ling Hao sighed: "We don't have any grudges at all. You are already like this, so why should we torture you? I just want to save your life, but it seems that you are too seriously injured and I'm afraid I can't save you." I’ll save you, but even so, I won’t let you soak in the water and be bitten by fish. This island is not bad, so let it be your burial place.”
Natasha's turbid blue eyes stared at Ling Hao blankly. The fear in her heart was gone. She closed her eyes with peace of mind and stopped breathing.
"It's a simple death. You worked so hard to drag her to the island. I won't kick her back into the water. It's not a big deal to leave her here. If you want, just dig a hole and bury her. Anyway, I don't want to." In this situation, it is unknown whether she can get out. Xueting already hates this double agent. Even if Natasha is dead, she will not forgive her.
Tian Yong smiled "hehe", if his wife-to-be is not going, can he still let Ling Hao, the team leader, go? I had no choice but to go to a relatively inner part of the island and dig a hole with my bare hands.
"That's wrong!" Xueting suddenly stood up with a slap on her thigh and said to Ling Hao: "Because I didn't feel any discomfort, I just remembered now that we were originally underwater at a depth of nearly 200 meters. That was nearly 20 meters deep. The pressure is one atmosphere, so why do we appear on the surface of the water without decompression without any physical reaction? It stands to reason that we will all suffer from severe decompression sickness, and there will be accumulation of bubbles all over our bodies, right?"
Ling Hao also reacted, but his body's current tolerance is very different from ordinary people, so he really didn't think about this problem just now. Although he was fine, Tian Yong and Xueting were different. Decompression sickness was no joke. Even if it was life-threatening, it was painful and difficult to treat. When the sequelae of old age appeared, Ling Hao immediately became nervous. got up.
"Don't worry." Shui Lingxing walked forward unsteadily, pulled out the weapon that looked like a magic pestle from Ling Hao's leg, shook it in her hand, and it turned into her silver trident with a "click". He said in an extremely heroic and elegant manner: "You know water pressure, don't you know 'earth pressure'? Do you know how far we are from the surface?"
Ling Hao blinked and calculated mentally: "It's about 300 meters from the ground to the bottom of the lake on the upper level. Adding the height of our current space, it's nearly 400 meters, right?"
"The 300 meters above are about the same, but if you take a closer look at the height of this floor, it may be different from what you imagined, right?" Shui Lingxing looked at Ling Hao jokingly.
The latter looked up, but it was better not to look, but the sight frightened him to death. When he fell just now, he hit the water surface and was smashed to pieces. This made him think that the height of his fall was tens of meters. In fact, he now visually inspected that the height from the blasted hole above his head to the water surface below was more than dozens of meters. , I couldn’t stop even for two hundred meters. Falling from such a high height, even if there is water below, is no different from falling on the concrete floor. However, none of the three of us were injured, and even Natasha, who was seriously injured, did not fall to death. What happened? thing? And what about the "earth pressure"? Is it the same as water pressure? No, I heard that mines of several hundred meters are everywhere, and mines of several thousand meters are not uncommon. I haven't heard that miners who work in mines need to reduce their pressure. Ling Hao and others looked at Shui Lingxing with suspicious expressions, waiting for her to answer their questions.
Shui Lingxing chuckled and said: "Only when you know your own ignorance can you make progress. Listen carefully to me. The underground confined space is different from the mine. It is not connected to the outside world and the pressure is different. The underground confined space is more dense. The deeper, the greater the corresponding pressure. Otherwise, under the squeeze of the surrounding earth and rocks, this space cannot exist at all. When the upper layer is connected to the ground, the pressure will have been balanced, and all we face is water pressure. This is a problem, and this space is so huge, and the hole just opened to the top is relatively small, and it was closed again in a short time, so the 'earth pressure' here is much higher than the surface pressure. You fell from the upper lake bottom , it happens to pass through the place where two space pressures interact. Under the squeeze of the space pressure below, your falling speed will be as slow as using a parachute. Otherwise, you will definitely fall to death from a height of more than 200 meters. Now The pressure here may be similar to the water pressure you have at the bottom of the lake, which is nearly two hundred meters. Even if it is smaller, it is within the tolerance of your body, so you will not have uncomfortable symptoms. However, you still need to decompress if you want to get out from here. This is a matter of life and death, so you must never forget it."
Shui Lingxing was frothing as she spoke. In fact, everyone understood it halfway through her words. Ling Hao went to help Tian Yong dig the hole in silence, while Xueting began to look through Natasha's diving bag. Is there anything I can use. This made Shui Lingxing pout, looking like a little daughter-in-law who had been treated unfairly.
Natasha really brought a lot of good things with her, including a German-made P11 five-shot underwater pistol, two anti-infantry grenades, a "harpoon" military knife, and a lot of medicines. , Xueting unceremoniously packed everything into her carrying bag, including several packs of high-calorie chocolate and a pack of Russian "special mountain field rations."
At this moment, Ling Hao and Tian Yong said "Hey" at the same time, attracting both Shui Lingxing and Xueting. The two of them were digging a hole near the middle of the island. The soft red soil hand digger had no difficulty. After a while, there was a pile next to it. The hole was dug to a depth of half a meter. But the strange thing was that the hole was dug deeper. It was like encountering rubber material, and there was no way to go deeper.
"What's going on? What is this?" Shui Lingxing asked.
Ling Hao shook his head and said, "I don't know. There are a lot of spiny silkworms in this kind of red soil. There are so many at the top, so it's not uncommon to find them here. But when you dig up here, you can't dig down. The stuff below is so pink and tender." , a bit like fat."
"I know, we must have dug until Tai Sui." Tian Yong patted Ling Hao on the shoulder and said firmly.
"No way, we have cleared a large area on the table. How old is Tai Sui?" Ling Hao didn't believe it.
Shui Lingxing didn't say a word, but walked to the edge of the island and dug several times with his trident. Sure enough, there was still this kind of thing under the red soil. After being punctured by the tip of the halberd, there would be light red liquid flowing out, and it would look like It squirms and trembles like a living thing and tightens the wound. What is this if not a living thing?
"Stop guessing, I think I know what this is." Shui Lingxing greeted everyone, and everyone came to her side. "This is an ancient life, a creature similar to the 'Andean Alonso protozoa'. The entire island is a part of its body. These so-called 'Spiny Nereis' do not seem to be Nereis worms, but they are It’s just a symbiotic insect, and the red soil should be its excrement.”
"Uh...what bug? You mean we're standing on a bug? Are you kidding!"
"You are not standing on a bug, but you are standing on a pile of bug excrement." The crowd suddenly exploded and started shouting in all directions.
"Shut up and listen to what I have to say!" Shui Lingxing shouted loudly to silence everyone. "What happened to the bug shit? This kind of bug shit is rich in protein and vitamins. If you really have nothing to eat, you can still survive by eating this." Shui Lingxing ignored Xueting, who was already nauseated and vomited, and continued: "In 1959, a When a Portuguese scientist named Alonso was collecting rock samples for geological research in a cave in the Andes, he dug out a rock from the sedimentary rock layers of the Proterozoic, Sinian and Ice Ages 700 million years ago. A huge magical primitive creature, so we named it 'Andean Alonso protozoa'. The key is that when this huge creature like a small house was excavated from the rock formation, it was not a fossil, but a living existence. It is said that this animal, which looks like a large ball of conch meat, is alive because it raises a large group of bugs to provide it with food, and these bugs feed on its excrement. The bugs fed by this protozoa are almost It can be found in areas with a radius of hundreds of kilometers, and it is a common kind. You can imagine how huge the number is. This symbiotic relationship is impeccable. And the 'Andean Alonso protozoa' is a kind of something between The nervous system of a creature between coelenterates and annelids is very simple. It is not the tree-like neural network of ordinary organisms, but a wheel-shaped neural network. This kind of nervous tissue has no nerve center. In other words, its body and nerves are separated. Even if the body dies, the wheel-shaped nervous system can continue to survive. In addition, this insect reproduces by division. New life will replace the dead life in the old body and inherit In the past, the wheel-shaped neural network, although this way of survival greatly restricted the number of this animal, the advantage is that this bug is almost immortal, time cannot kill it, and the bugs that live with it will radiate for hundreds of miles, and the animals , plants, minerals, it can eat anything, and it will not starve to death. Although this is a very primitive life, in a sense, it is a perfectly evolved 'super creature'."
