The next day, everyone and their equipment were withdrawn to the ground, including Ling Hao's decompression chamber. Because there is no room for staying on the "underground level", the water has accumulated to a depth of five to six meters, and is still rising rapidly.
The hole leading to the "second underground floor" has been sealed with a huge steel plate. The hovercraft carrying a "dozer shovel" is like a bulldozer and has piled stones from countless palace ruins on it. These things will be flooded in the future. They will harden together under pressure and sedimentation. Even if the steel plate is no longer corroded in the future, it can continue to seal the hole and isolate the two spaces. As for whether the "Andean Alonso protozoa" below is still alive, it is hard to say.
The scene on the ground was really unparalleled. The sky seemed to be leaking. The heavy rain "falled" from the sky like a waterfall. The surroundings were covered with water mist. No one could imagine what it would be like to encounter such a heavy rain in the desert. What a scene. At first, water could seep into the dry sand quickly. As the rain became heavier and heavier, the water content of the sand became saturated, and the penetration rate could not keep up with the precipitation. Water began to accumulate in the sand pit, as if it were at the seaside. Beachy. The sound of water "rumbling" in the distance must be that the old course of the Chelchen River has been restored to a large rushing river. The tall sand dunes have been flattened by heavy rains and turned into a flat river.
Except for Ling Hao and the other three people in the decompression chamber, no one else had the time or mood to appreciate the scene in front of them. All mechanical equipment should be hoisted onto the car, and those that could drive away on their own should load up as much supplies as possible and drive away. , and people in the wind and rain are still soaked even if they are tightly wrapped in raincoats.
The convoy drove cautiously along the high ground. It was impossible to distinguish sand pits with water from those without water at a distance. If you accidentally fell into it, you would be completely ruined. The speed of travel was not much faster than walking. It could only cover a few kilometers in an hour. That’s all.
As soon as they left the area of the underground lake, the convoy stopped. Anne ordered the explosion. A dull rumble was heard, like rolling thunder. The ground behind them suddenly sank, forming an extremely huge sand pit, and the surrounding water quickly filled it. Go, and soon a lake was formed. The explosion seemed to have disturbed something. It was obvious that some creatures were running away quickly on the sand, leaving behind a series of small footprints, but it was impossible to tell what they were.
However, since the ground collapsed, something subtle seemed to have changed. The air that was so dull and depressing seemed to disappear quickly. The rain became lighter and lighter, and finally stopped, and the dark clouds revealed a Rays of golden sunlight shine on the desert that has become much flatter. The air here has never been so moist and fresh, and everyone's mood has relaxed from the previous tension. After asking Master Long Lit and Ling Hao for their opinions, Anne ordered all personnel to camp on the spot, and the equipment was still put away. In the car, you can break camp and set off at any time.
The high-intensity work for nearly half a month had pushed many people's physical and mental abilities to the limit. Many people lay down on their car seats and fell asleep before their tents were set up. Many others suffered from severe injuries. Injury, taking the opportunity to rest, Jiang Mingyu began to check the wounds and change dressings for everyone one by one.
After resting like this for three days, Ling Hao and the other three also finished their rapid decompression and came out of the decompression chamber. That is to say, they have good physical fitness. Most people have to decompress for at least a week. However, they are used to it and have enough understanding of the safety limits of the decompression process and their own physical conditions, so they dare to speed up the decompression at such a speed.
As soon as they got out of the decompression chamber, Ling Hao and Zhu Xin hugged each other, completely unaware that Annie's face not far away had changed from "sunny to cloudy".
"Oh my god, what does it smell like? You're almost like a rotten fish. Wash yourself quickly and change your clothes!" After hugging him for five seconds, Zhu Xin pushed Ling Hao away with a look of disgust. It's no wonder that she, the three of them wore one diving suit for a month, during which time they sat and rested in piles of insect excrement. In addition, the mucus and blood of countless protozoa had almost covered their entire body, and the smell It's weird if it's good. It's already good if it doesn't choke anyone.
The three of them also knew that they were buried. Fortunately, there were sand pits filled with rainwater everywhere. They took toiletries and a change of clothes, and each found a sand pit in the distance and began to take a bath.
Men naturally bathed much faster than women. Ling Hao and Tian Yong returned to the camp and had already started chatting with Annie and the others. Xueting hadn't come back yet, so naturally everyone didn't take it seriously, but there was a sudden scream. Everyone became nervous immediately and rushed towards the sandpit where Xueting took a bath.
"Ah! Turn around!" Xueting screamed even more sharply. As soon as Ling Hao and others rushed to the edge of the sandpit, they saw a white figure hurriedly picking up clothes from the ground and covering them in front of his chest. , the strong desire to survive caused several men to turn around gorgeously and smoothly. Zhu Xin and Anni didn't have so many worries. They rushed forward and used a knife to pry off a palm-sized transparent object from Xueting's back. Blood began to flow from a three-point wound on her fair skin.
Xueting couldn't care less about the pain of the bleeding wound, and quickly put on her clothes with her face flushed, while Zhuxin took out bandages and medicines from her backpack to bandage her.
"What is this?" Annie asked in surprise as she used the tip of her knife to pick up something that looked like a starfish but had a transparent body like a jellyfish. The thing's body was pierced by the tip of the knife, and it was still struggling and twisting, making a "squeaking" sound.
Xueting finally put on some clothes. Master Longlite stepped forward and grabbed the monster. A ball of flame rose out of thin air in his hand, and with a scream of "squeak", he burned it directly to ashes. As expected, The great wizard's methods are really eye-opening.
"This is the alien space creature. This is the smallest and least harmful species. Fortunately, the underground space was closed in time, the earth veins returned to normal, and the alien space passage was closed. Otherwise, something bigger would come out. Trouble." Longlite said with a solemn expression.
Ling Hao suddenly asked: "The passage to the alien space is closed? After we closed the underground space before, we felt that the oppressive and dull air disappeared instantly. Is this the reason? Those things that left footprints on the sand and escaped quickly were This little animal from another dimension?”
Longli nodded: "Yes, there should be a lot of these little things released. They are ferocious and extremely aggressive, but they are not poisonous. You don't have to worry. The air and environment of this world are very different from the place where they live. The big difference is that without the breath support over there, they won't survive for long. Fortunately, this is a desert no-man's land, so we'd better leave as soon as possible to avoid unnecessary danger."
Longlit was forcibly brought here from the port city by Annie because strange creatures such as the Dragon King Salamander, Spotted Snakehead and Spiny Nereid were found underground, which felt very strange. In order to avoid encountering some incredible things that he could not deal with, Master Longlit participation is necessary. Although he was not of much help this time, the master was overjoyed after seeing the "Blood Coagulation Beads" and "Earth Gentian" that Ling Hao and the others brought. As Shui Lingxing expected, these things were extremely helpful in treating Ling Hao's father's voodoo and would greatly shorten his recovery time.
The entire team was almost rested, and the convoy set out on the return journey again, driving very slowly and cautiously along the way. It took them three days to return to Qiemo County, where the Russian and British scientific expedition teams who had escaped early were already waiting here. Well, they chose to leave in the violent storm. Naturally, they encountered some accidents on the road. Several cars deviated from the route and fell into the rapids of the "Cheerchen River". They disappeared in an instant, and there were more injuries caused by rollovers. A total of more than a dozen people died or lost contact, and most of the equipment was scrapped.
Because the Chinese scientific expedition team was forced to stay by Anne, there were no personnel losses, but there were also a lot of equipment losses. Professor Yu originally wanted to ask if there was anything found in the ruins of the underwater ancient city of Qiemo, but he saw that Ling Hao and the others were dead. Escape, there are also some questions that cannot be answered. Seeing Tian Yong carrying an object that was more than a foot long and tightly wrapped in a torn diving suit, he wanted to interrogate him, but he sensed the sinister aura on the other person's body and finally did not dare to speak.
Ling Hao was more kind and took the initiative to tell him about the vault in the ruins of the underground ancient city, and provided the precise coordinates. If he wanted to get this large amount of gold, he should dig a deep enough shaft above the ruins. It can be successful, but that has nothing to do with Ling Hao and the others.
As for the true identities and mission intentions of Natasha and Professor Stevenson, Ling Hao did not say that since everyone was dead, there was no point in pursuing them. He only said that these two died below. As for the others, , especially the matter of the "Sword of Damocles" was not mentioned at all.
Professor Yu was originally worried because of the loss of troops in the scientific expedition mission. When he heard that the gold was missing and he could finally have a result to compare with, he was immediately overjoyed and thanked Ling Hao profusely.
A week later, the exhausted Ling Hao and his party all returned to the port city. Master Longlit hurriedly went there in a hurry to refine the antidote using "Blood Coagulation Beads" and "Earth Gentian". Annie looked at Ling Hao, as if she had a thousand words to say, but when she saw Zhu Xin, who had a concerned expression and was always by Ling Hao's side, she hesitated several times, and finally said nothing, but simply said goodbye. Then he returned to Shanghai. Ling Hao is naturally not the kind of person who doesn't know what is good or bad. This time Anne helped him like God. This was a life-saving grace. Although Ling Hao only said "I won't say thank you for the kindness", he still felt that this was a huge favor. Keep it in mind, and sooner or later it will be returned in a suitable way.
Everyone has lost a lot of weight, especially Ling Hao and the three of them, who are almost out of shape. Even Zhu Xin has a thin face, black and blue eyes, bloodshot eyes, and her originally fair and tender skin has become dull. Quite a few. If you don't take good care of yourself for ten days and a half, how can you recover?
Now that the relationship between the two has been made public, there is nothing to hide. In the beach villa, the two lived together shamelessly and blatantly. In addition to them, Xueting and Tian Yong also They merged the rooms without any shame or shame. This was undoubtedly a critical hit to the remaining people, with a total of tens of thousands of damage points. Shi Si started eating snacks, Zuo Pengfei started crazy about romantic dramas, Jiang Mingyu often stared at the sea in a daze, and Yuan Bing even bought a plane ticket to go find his island policewoman.
For half a month, Ling Hao and Zhu Xin spent the whole day together except visiting Ling Yuan every day. Master Longlit's newly refined medicine has obvious effects. Ling Yuan can already recognize Ling Hao and Li Liang. Although he is still a little unfamiliar with Zhu Xin, his attitude is obviously much better and his thinking logic is much clearer than before. Ling Hao was very happy and told Ling Yuan a lot about his childhood. Some things Ling Yuan remembered, some he hadn't remembered yet. The most profound thing in his memory was Ling Hao's mother. Ling Yuan told Ling Hao He talked about a lot of things about his mother, some of which Ling Hao didn't even know.
The relationship between Zhu Xin and Ling Hao is also heating up rapidly, and they are like a young couple. However, happiness is always short-lived. Zhuxin's vacation is coming to an end in a blink of an eye, and the two reluctantly say goodbye at the airport.
"I'll go back and report the progress of our relationship to my parents. I'll see when it's appropriate for you to come over and see your parents. If there are no big cases in the near future, I can still sit quietly in the office for a while. You must report to me every day. Report your whereabouts, and you have to make a video call so that I can see you." Zhuxin acted coquettishly like a little girl in love.
Ling Hao nodded like a chicken: "Absolutely. Can you live a nine-to-five life? You work 8 hours a day, sleep 8 hours a day, and you can use the remaining 8 hours as you like. "
Zhu Xin showed a sweet and intoxicating smile: "Fool, you work for 8 hours, sleep for 8 hours, and I will spend the remaining 8 hours loving you, okay?"
