As time went by, the rope used for diving bottomed out, and Joey was now at a depth of one hundred meters underwater.
The highest recorded free diving depth for ordinary people without special equipment is 113 meters.
When the diving depth exceeds 100 meters, the water pressure will skyrocket, which is equivalent to a fingernail bearing the weight of a large watermelon.
With his spiritual vision turned on, Joey could barely see everything around him. It was like a bottomless abyss, pitch black, with nothing but ice-cold water.
No more diving! Thinking like this, he pulled the rope tied around his waist five times. The water pressure made it difficult for him to perform this simple action.
After waiting for about ten seconds, the force from the rope slowly pulled him upward.
With the sound of water, Joey returned to the ground.
Because I needed to adapt to the water pressure, it took me seven or eight minutes to surface.
"How's it going? Have you seen those things?" Gul asked.
Anne and Olivia also looked at him with curious and inquiring eyes.
After a while, he shook his head and said leisurely: "I didn't see anything."
He asked in a suspicious tone: "Gul, was that thing really caught here by you yesterday?"
He took off his diving equipment and put on his own clothes. The scorching sun finally made him feel a little warm.
Gul scratched his head, his rough voice buzzing in his ears: "It's impossible. We only dived seven or eight meters yesterday and we encountered each other."
As he spoke, his expression became very exaggerated and he waved his hands: "You don't know, we were all scared at the time and thought it was a crocodile."
Joey said: "Crocodiles don't appear in places like this."
"Who says it's not the case, but who could have thought of so many things at that time? They all ran to the shore with all their strength, and they couldn't even see the black cloak below."
Gur seemed to be talking more and more enthusiastically, and began to describe it vividly: "It's weird, that thing is following us upstream like a fool."
According to Gur, after they emerged from the water, they finally saw what was in the water.
It was nothing more than a larger catfish, and a few people caught one together.
"You said you saw seven or eight of them yesterday!"
"Yes, I remember it clearly, but I don't know why I disappeared today."
After calming down, Joey decided to go back first.
After getting some fresh water, the four of us started walking back.
He and Gur each carried a bucket of water, while the two girls were empty-handed and hid the diving equipment they brought with them by the pool for next time.
The general appearance of this island is like a desert or a tropical rain forest. There is a large area of yellow sand along the coast. Only a hundred meters deep can there be shrub vegetation. The deeper you go, the more lush the vegetation is.
Even further away, you can still see towering cliffs and some thick trees.
If there were a few more coconut trees and a few houses built, it would be a great resort.
The four of them walked very slowly. During this period, they would intentionally or unintentionally chat about some household chores or interesting things they encountered, which invisibly shortened the distance between them.
The hot climate wears away patience the most, and Olivia gradually fell behind.
It doesn't take much thinking to know that people like her who love literary works definitely don't get much exercise.
But no one seemed to notice her abnormality. Joey glanced behind him and saw a red face.
He said: "Take a break, I'm too tired."
A flash of joy flashed across Ollie's face.
I found a shady spot and put down the bucket on my back.
Joey wiped the sweat from his forehead, opened his arms, and let the sea breeze blow on his cheeks. It felt very comfortable. It would have been better if the wind didn't pour yellow sand into his mouth.
Gul sat down aside and poured out the sand that had run into his shoes.
Annie was in the best condition among the four. She glanced at Joey and said, "How about I do it?"
"What did you say?" Do I look weak? Joey looked down at his fairly strong muscles, and then at Annie. Well, it seemed like they were really not as good.
"It's better not to." He had already noticed that Gur was looking at him with a strange look.
Annie turned to look at Joey, patted the dust on her body and said, "Let's go."
She walked in front, followed by Joey, Ollie, and finally Gul.
After resting, the pace accelerated a lot.
Slowly, Joey fell at the back. It was not because he was weak, but when he was walking in front, he always felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at him from behind.
This feeling made him very uncomfortable.
4 people, a series of footprints, neatly arranged.
In fact, you can roughly judge something through a person's pace.
For example, Annie's steps are very heavy every time. This should be a subconscious behavior in training for fighting.
Olivia's steps were also very heavy, but she was a little messy, probably because she lacked physical strength.
As for Gul, he still couldn't see anything as always, and he didn't know whether it was because the other party was hiding it too deeply, or because it was nothing at all.
Joey was so absorbed in thinking that he accidentally bumped into the back of the person in front of him.
"Why did you stop?"
"There seems to be something ahead." Annie pointed in a direction ahead.
Looking in the direction of her finger, I saw a small dirt bag, which at first glance looked a bit like a grave bag.
The man-made traces are very serious and do not look like natural formations.
Several people's eyes met, and they all understood what this meant.
It shows that apart from them, there are other people on this island.
“Go and have a look”
The earthen bag was as high as a person's calf, with half a piece of cloth exposed on one side, which looked like a person's clothing.
Joey's Adam's apple squirmed and he swallowed, his heart pounding. He turned to look at the other three people and asked, "dig?"
Although it is just a guess, there is a high possibility that there is a person buried inside.
The deceased is the most important person, so digging up a person's grave is easier said than done.
The atmosphere fell into a brief silence.
After waiting for about ten seconds, Annie said: "Oli, step back."
The two girls retreated to the back. Joey naturally understood what Annie meant. He looked at Gul and then dug.
Without tools, I had to use hand planing.
Soon, a piece of clothing was pulled out.
Nothing? Joey looked at the clothes in his hand that were corroded by the wind and sand in astonishment. It was a light blue coat.
Gur came over, glanced at it, and complained: "Working in vain, I thought there was a person down there."
Annie came over and asked suspiciously: "Nothing?"
"Not necessarily!" Joey shook his head and turned his gaze around: "Spread out and look around, maybe there are other things buried."
He didn't say that he had actually seen that dress before.
"It's not necessary." Gur looked depressed, looking at the vast yellow sand, and complained: "This thing may have washed up from the sea during high tide."
Annie's eyes were fixed on Joey's face for two seconds, and she said seriously: "Did you find something?"
"It's hard to say now, let's find something first."
Ollie asked timidly: "The range is too large, I'm afraid it's hard to find."
"It's okay." Joey thought for a moment: "Use this as the midpoint and spread out 10 meters to search."
"Okay, this is a bit like a gold digger"
"That's pretty much what it means." Joey looked at Ollie with a complicated expression, and silently added in his mind: I'm afraid what he took out was not gold.
People spread out to search, but he stayed on the same spot and continued digging.
Logically speaking, it should have been buried under something, but if it was not found, it was probably because the high tide dragged the sand to another place.
He dug deeper and finally found only one shoe.
When I saw this shoe, the uneasiness in my heart became even stronger, and the expression on my face changed, but I didn't say anything.
At this time, a faint cry came from not far away.
Looking for a sound, Gur was winking at him.
Found something? He walked over.
It was a withered bush with a low depression on the side, obviously shorter than the surrounding sand dunes. It would be difficult to spot it without looking carefully.
"Look!" Gur pointed to a place and lowered his voice: "Is that a human leg?"
Following the direction of his finger, half of his trousers were exposed from the sand.
The two looked at each other, Joey nodded slightly, and then started digging along the pants leg.
Legs, thighs, body, and soon a complete corpse was dug out.
When he saw the corpse's appearance, Gul let out a piercing scream.
"What's wrong?" Annie came over and asked in surprise.
Ollie was also walking this way, and Joey pretended to kick the sand casually, just covering the head of the corpse.
"It's nothing, it's a corpse. Don't look at it. The dead one is the most important."
Annie's eyes stayed on Joey's face for a second, and without asking any questions, she held her nose and walked away.
When Olivia heard that it was a human corpse, she raised her stepping foot and was stunned for two seconds before falling down. Her face turned pale. Annie went up to hold her hand and pulled her aside.
"Don't be stunned." Joey pushed Gul who was in a daze beside him: "Bury the person back."
Gul's voice trembled, and his mouth opened again and again, but in the end no words came out.
He didn't let out a long breath until all the bodies were buried back in the sand.
Some things don't have that big of an impact as long as they're not in front of you.
"You didn't see anything, you know?" Joey whispered.
Gur nodded dully.
Starting again, the speed was obviously much faster than before.
Gul walked at the front, walking very quickly, as if he wanted to get away from this place as quickly as possible.
Joey slowed his pace, and before he knew it, Annie was beside him.
"What did you see?" she asked.
"You really want to know!" Despite his indifferent expression on the surface, in fact, when he saw the corpse, he was no less shocked than Gur.
"You don't have to say it." Anne looked at Joey with a half-smile, her threat undisguised: "Don't forget, the supplies on the ship are in my hands."
Ah! Scared me. He sneered in his heart, but on the outside he looked flattering: "How dare you?"
His expression suddenly became serious: "Remo Lewis"
Even though Annie had a strong heart, when she heard this result, she was stunned on the spot.
"Are you serious?"
"This thing is a bit weird. Come back tomorrow and don't tell anyone in the camp yet."
"How is this possible? It's still a long way from the seaside."
This is what Joey finds strange.
While the two were talking, they had almost reached the camp and had to pause their conversation.
Mi Pang trotted over and helped Joey unload the bucket from his back.
Joey noticed that Mi Pang's face looked a little strange.
He turned around and asked Mi Pang: "Fat man, where are we? Are you the only one?"
Except for the four people who came back, Mi Pang was the only one present.
"They all followed Anderson to the beach. I originally wanted to go, but I was afraid that you wouldn't find anyone when you came back, so I stayed behind."
Joey was stunned for a moment, and his brows couldn't help but knit together.
"Who are you talking about? Anderson?"
He spoke loudly, attracting everyone's attention.
Mi Pang had a puzzled look on his face. He didn't understand why Joey's reaction was so big.
"Anderson, they didn't make it. They said the kayak was overturned by the waves. Anderson was washed back to the shore. The professor doesn't know where he went. Now everyone is going to the beach to look for someone."
Everyone else also heard what Mi Pang said.
Gur looked panicked. Just when he was about to speak, he was interrupted by Joey: "Okay, let's help find him too."
With that said, he pulled Gul along without any explanation and walked towards the seaside.
"Annie, let's go too." Olivia pulled Annie in a daze.
The camp cannot be without people, so Mi Pang continues to stay.
Considering his weight, he can't stand while lying down.
He waved to the four people leaving: "Come on! I'll give you extra food tonight."
The campground is not far from the coast.
"When you see Anderson later, no matter what happens, don't talk nonsense."
Gul nodded slightly.
If you didn't look at his appearance, he would look like an older Joey.
Gur is the rebellious child who is careless, and Joey is carefully admonishing him.
Soon, several people arrived at the coast.
Anderson stood on a rock, hunched over, with his hands in front of his forehead, as if looking out.
Sensing the arrival of Joey and others, he hurried over.
Perhaps it was because of the angle of the light that the expression on his face could not be clearly seen.
It wasn't until he got closer that he saw the anxious look on Anderson's face.
"Great, you are here too"
Not sure if it was an illusion, but Joey caught a hint of weirdness on Anderson's face.
He seems to be looking forward to our coming?
He went to sea with the professor, but now only one person came back, and the professor's body appeared in another place.
If I were Anderson, how should I hide it?
Joey couldn't help but put himself into Anderson's character and think about the problem.
From an ordinary person's perspective, Anderson is the suspect.
But when it came to transcendence, he had to be cautious.
Decided to pretend not to know anything and stabilize Anderson first.
"Pang Mi told us everything. Gul and I went to look in that direction." There happened to be no one in the direction he pointed.
The reason why I brought Gul with me was because I was afraid that this guy wouldn't be able to keep his mouth shut, and I didn't dare to let him have contact with Anderson alone.
Chris is a lesson learned from the past. Anderson's scheming is too deep, and he will notice it as long as the tip of the spear is revealed.
As for Anne, he wasn't worried.
Even if he is exposed, with Anne's methods, Anderson will probably be the only one who suffers.
In the following time, until the sun went down, everyone ended their search and returned to the camp one after another.
Everyone looked very ugly.
Although the time we got together was short, the old professor's character was still deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Knowing that he was probably dead, everyone was in a low mood.
That night, Joey didn't sleep all night. It wasn't until the sun was about to rise that he squinted briefly.
He had no choice but to keep an eye on Anderson. This guy was now a key suspect. It would be very troublesome if he took advantage of everyone's sleep to carry out operations.
When she opened the door, the door on the opposite side also opened. Annie had big dark circles under her eyes and looked tired.
"You didn't sleep either?" Joey looked at her in shock.
Upon hearing this, Annie, who was still in a daze, suddenly opened her eyes wide.
He made a cold snort in his breath, glared at Joey fiercely, turned around and left, leaving Joey with a beautiful back.
