Chapter 15 The Mermaid
Li Huarong picked up the body and asked Xie Qiuling to help him take off the diving suit. Xie Qiuling took off the diving suit as instructed. However, without the wrapping of the diving suit, the body was just a pile of broken bones. If Li Huarong hadn't removed these
Holding the skeletons in his arms, these skeletons are probably disintegrated.
Li Huarong carefully observed the pile of bones in his arms. Xie Qiuling also stepped forward to check. Only then did he realize that the bones of the corpse were very badly damaged. There were obvious signs of fractures in the ribs of the chest and the phalanges of the left hand. The spine connecting the lower body was almost
When it is broken into powder, even the skull has obvious cracks.
It's hard to imagine what this corpse went through during its lifetime... What can be confirmed is that this corpse was definitely not stuck in the coral and drowned. It must have been attacked by something before it died.
Is it possible that there are really monsters attacking people in this sea?
Xie Qiuling thought and stopped looking at the corpse. Instead, she began to observe the corpse from near to far, trying to see if there were any clues about the corpse in the surroundings.
It's okay if you don't look at it, but when you look at Xie Qiuling, you are frightened.
Because he discovered that there seemed to be many...skeletons buried in the sand around the bottom of the trench.
Xie Qiuling quickly told Li Huarong what she had discovered, who was still observing the body. After Li Huarong found out, he put down the body in his arms and turned to look at the sand at the bottom of the trench.
What's strange is that once you take a closer look, you will find that those pits are actually made of human bones and sand, and some corals have grown out of them.
Li Huarong was obviously not calm when he saw this scene. He signed to Xie Qiuling and asked Xie Qiuling to dig out the human bones with him. In order to confirm the number of deaths represented by these human bones, he asked Xie Qiuling to only dig out human skulls.
Xie Qiuling nodded. He also wanted to see how many human bones were buried at the bottom of the trench. If these human bones were from people who had entered the trench before, there would have been heavy casualties.
Xie Qiuling and Li Huarong held on to the thick corals, dived to the bottom of the trench, stood on the sand at the bottom, and started to dig out the human bones buried at the bottom like children digging in the sand. It was okay not to dig, but once they dug, problems arose.
Because they found that there seemed to be no end to all these skulls. After digging out more than forty skulls, they were still able to find them. Moreover, this was only the stock of skulls in a small area. There seemed to be more skulls in the surrounding areas and even further away.
More.
Xie Qiuling looked at the more than forty skulls that were dug out and placed neatly on the sand, and fell into deep thought.
Of these more than forty skulls, not to mention that the first and second batches of people who entered the trench all died and turned into bones, even if Xie Qiuling and the others were included in the third group of people who entered the trench and died, there should only be eighteen.
A skull, where did the more than forty skulls come from? Moreover, the skull content at the bottom must be far more than that. Xie Qiuling made a rough estimate. If these places have the same skull content as the land dug by Xie Qiuling and Li Huarong,
So there are at least thousands of skulls at the bottom of this trench.
How many people have died here?
Xie Qiuling suddenly thought of what Zhao Lin had told him before about the local custom of throwing evil people into the bottom of the sea. So is there a possibility that these skulls are the skulls of evil people who were thrown into the bottom of the sea?
Thinking of this, Xie Qiuling felt that everything gradually became more reasonable. He started to look around again to see if there was anything else that could be discovered. This time, there was nothing that could be discovered. Xie Qiuling and Li Huarong looked at each other.
He glanced at it, then nodded, preparing to leave here and go up to meet Zhao Lin.
The two began to rise gradually, reaching the top of the coral forest, but when they looked up, they saw no sign of Zhao Lin.
It stands to reason that in this deep black seabed, if you are wearing a Jiaolong 8 diving suit with a flashlight on your chest that shines, you will be very conspicuous on the seabed. However, Xie Qiuling did not see Zhao Lin now.
This left Xie Qiuling confused. Li Huarong also noticed something was wrong and accelerated his ascent. The two of them ascended to the position where they had just separated from Zhao Lin, only to find that there was no one there.
Were you staring at Zhao Lin just now? Do you know where she went? Li Huarong asked Xie Qiuling in sign language, and Xie Qiuling indeed shook her head.
Just now, he and Li Huarong were concentrating on observing the corpse and the bones at the bottom of the trench, so how could they have the attention to keep an eye on Zhao Lin.
Li Huarong immediately signaled to Xie Qiuling and him to go around separately to look for Zhao Lin and then meet up here. He specifically said that they must be careful. If they lost either of them, it would be the end.
Xie Qiuling followed the order and went to find Zhao Lin. He adjusted the flashlight on his chest to the maximum, hoping that Zhao Lin could see him. With his increased visibility, it would be easier to find Zhao Lin.
Xie Qiuling thought that Zhao Lin must be not far away, so she only searched near the place where they had just agreed to meet. Sure enough, not long after searching, Xie Qiuling found a human face hidden among the coral forests at the bottom. That must be
It's Zhao Lin...wait...a human face?
Shouldn't Zhao Lin be wearing a helmet? How could he find a human face?
Xie Qiuling reacted. He looked at the face hidden among the coral forest and found that it was not Zhao Lin's face, but the face of another man. This face gave Xie Qiuling an indescribable sense of weirdness, but
Xie Qiuling couldn't care so much now, he thought as he moved closer to the man's face.
Who is this person? Could it be that he is the first or second group of people to enter the trench? He... why is he not wearing a diving helmet? Isn't he afraid of being crushed to death by water pressure or suffocating due to lack of oxygen? Or is it that his helmet fell off?
Already?
As Xie Qiuling thought about it, she felt more and more that this person was in a dangerous situation. If the helmet fell off and the person didn't float to the surface immediately, he would most likely die from lack of oxygen underwater.
Thinking of this, Xie Qiuling quickened her pace to get closer to the face, but just when Xie Qiuling was about to reach the face, the face shook for a moment and then disappeared.
Huh? This man ran away when he saw me? Why did he run? Do I look like a monster?
Xie Qiuling was dumbfounded, but the next second, he found that the place where the face originally disappeared actually appeared again... one... two... three... countless faces.
Oh my god, what's going on? Are you hallucinating? Why do so many faces suddenly appear?
Xie Qiuling looked at those faces and stopped approaching. He felt something was very wrong...
However, Xie Qiuling stopped, and those human faces swam towards Xie Qiuling. The lower body of the human face instantly appeared from the shelter of the coral forest. Only then did Xie Qiuling realize that these human faces were not human, they were clearly a group of human-like faces.
The face is a human-faced fish with a length of more than one meter!
"What the fuck!" Xie Qiuling exclaimed, and then subconsciously swam backwards, trying to get away from these weird human-faced fish. However, his speed underwater was not as fast as these human-faced fish.
Chapter completed!