Chapter 21: Man-eating clams (Part 2)

At this time, I felt the water flowing in the darkness around me, and a strong spiral was rolling up. A white blurred shadow was exploring the head and tail nearby. It was close to us. I knew I could not hide it anymore. I was quick to snatch the squid that Shirley Yang grabbed, and squeezed it hard, and let it go. The squid was in pain and frightened. Out of instinct, he immediately spit out the ink and wanted to escape.

The dark and thick ink painted by the squid was like a stream of black smoke under the sea, and its body also shot out quickly. In the darkness, a sea beast was attracted by the escaped squid. He turned around and chased us. He couldn't see what it was under the dim light. He could only feel that the white was so big that it was very big. The water flow of the thing swimming with air was very strong, like a tornado blew on the bottom of the sea. If we hadn't been holding the stone pillar, we would have been almost swept away by it, and the undercurrent vortex was endless. I was secretly surprised. What would it be like to grow up like this? Could it be that there was really a dragon at the bottom of the sea?

Before I could think about it, the large ball of black ink in front of me was taken away by the water flow. I saw the shadow growing like a white train swallowing the squid and swam towards us again. We were wearing heavy diving suits. Even if we were underwater, we were still very slow and we were unable to escape. At this time, we had to take the initiative. I raised my spear and wanted to shoot him with the fish arrows that had been fed with huge poisons. Shirley Yang turned on the underwater searchlight and shot the dazzling white beam directly, illuminating the sea beast swimming opposite.

I saw a white giant object in the light, with its head like a cow's head, its body like a python, and its scales and horns. We were shocked. Is this a dragon or something? If it was a dragon, but there were no claws on its body. If it was not a dragon, the horns were all grown on the head-shaped head, and its body was as white as white. I saw the head but couldn't see the tail, and I was stunned and forgot to shoot out the fish and arrows for a moment.

The monster was shining with a strong light, which had already rushed towards us suddenly turned, and bypassed the searchlight beam in the oblique thorn. Its long body passed by us. The strong current of water caused the three of them to sway. It seemed to be afraid of the strong light, and dived into the deeper abyss and valleys in the ruins of the ancient city, without any movement.

Before we could be glad, the stone pillars behind us were no longer strong under the repeated impact of the sea surging. They were about to fall down by the violent undercurrent. I pointed to the ancient shipwreck not far away from the side. There seemed to be a stone hall behind me. Hiding in might prevent the collapsed stones.

The stone pillars had already tilted and fell down as soon as they were said. We could not tell where the falling stones would hit. We judged the dead corners of the falling rocks and quickly moved into the skeleton of the shipwreck. The broken stone pillars collapsed immediately. The stirred sand of the seabed produced a piece of smoke, covering the area we had just stayed. Fortunately, it did not cause a chain reaction, but no one could assert that the rest of the area would be safer and stronger than that. There was no safe area in the ancient city that had been sunk for thousands of years under the sea.

We hid under the keel of the wrecked ship and took the plane for a breath. Uncle Ming was frightened one after another and couldn't hold back his breath and was at a loss. He grabbed the underwater writing board and hurriedly wrote a word for us to see. This underwater writing board is for divers to communicate with each other. Unless it is a tacit understanding after a long period of running-in, the divers will have some complex information that is difficult to communicate with each other in time. In this case, they will use the underwater writing board.

When I saw that Uncle Ming wrote the word "dragon", I knew that he said that the sea beast he just saw was a dragon. This time I encountered big trouble. I have never seen a real dragon, and I don't know if Uncle Ming had seen it with his own eyes. However, Maxism is full of ideas. In the final analysis, there are only two words "rebellion". What is rebellion? It means that people dare to do what the world dares to do. There is no difference between dragons and fish in my worldview. I raised the fishing arrow in my hand to Uncle Ming. When it floats on the surface of Shanghai, if the monster dares to show up again, I will let it eat a few arrows, and let it taste what the sharp arrows are covered with blood and tears of the egg people.

Shirley Yang waved his hand and told us not to worry. She wrote the three words "Sea Snake" on the writing board and pointed to the searchlight. I remember that two days ago, she mentioned the sea snake in the deep sea to me. Westerners called it "Sea Snake", while Easterners called it "Dragon". In fact, it is the same marine life, unpredictable, often attacking boats in hurricanes and rainstorms, devouring the population and livestock carried on the ship.

The crew members were afraid of talking. In ancient times, there were scenes of sea monsters swallowing boats and capsizing boats in the sea temples. The image of the five-clawed dragon inside was based on the sea snake. However, because it was afraid of light, it usually only appeared on the dark seabed. As long as it carried powerful underwater lighting equipment, there was nothing to be afraid of. If it was discovered that it was a sea snake, there was no need to listen to Uncle Ming's bad idea to turn off the light source and hide. The act of extinguishing the light just now was almost attacked.

Uncle Ming also knew the origin of the sea snake. After a while, if it weren't for a very special situation, the sea snake wouldn't have attacked the boat and divers in the light. He shook the searchlight in his hand. After a while, he finally calmed down and picked the big finger at us, saying that he didn't have to worry about him, and there was no problem.

Shirley Yang and I held the diving flashlight and looked around. Although the ancient shipwreck behind us was left with only wreckage, we could still see that it was far from the appearance of the Chinese ship, and it was full of the exotic style of the Arab region. Most of the hull was covered with sea sand, and almost everything that could be rotten was almost gone. It was probably a merchant ship that had maritime trade between the Yuan and Ming dynasties. I don’t know if it was a shipwreck that was caught in the coral spiral.

The ruins of the surrounding ancient city have all lost their original appearance. These things may be amazing discoveries for archaeologists, but in my opinion, there is no exploration value. After swimming around the shipwreck, I did not find any traces of "Mary Fairy Slave" and other shipwrecks. Although the undersea ruins are large, the places that divers can go to are very limited. First, the collapsed walls and stone pillars block the road, and second, there is a danger of landslides here at any time. Perhaps something accidentally touches will cause houses to collapse. It seems that even the aquariums in the sea know that they are dangerous here. There are no figures of them nearby, and it is completely a lifeless ghost domain.

There are several dark abysses in the ruins. The sea snake escaped into one of the deep valleys. I wanted to get close to check it, but the water in those places was spinning, which was extremely slippery, and even if it was a swimming fish, I had to give up. I made a gesture to Shirley Yang. There was no shipwreck we were looking for. It seemed that the big green head of the "King of Qin's Bone Mirror" was not easy to catch. The ruins of the ancient city under the sea were full of dangers. It was not a place to stay for a long time, but to withdraw and make a decision.
Chapter completed!