"Xiangyu," I shouted and rushed towards the direction of the mural.
However, the human face on the mural suddenly seemed to be hiding among the stone pillars again, and was no longer visible to the naked eye.
I pulled out my short saber and kept pricking it on the stone pillar. However, due to the pressure under the water and the hardness of the stone pillar, I could hardly hurt the stone pillar at all, let alone make a hole in the stone pillar.
Rescue Xiangyu from the stone pillar.
Just when I turned around to ask Zhang Jisheng to come over and help, I found that Zhang Jisheng's condition was very wrong, as if he was lacking oxygen.
The diving equipment provided by Lao Li is the most advanced, even comparable to that of the national scientific expedition team. We have been in the water for less than two hours, so there is no way we will run out of oxygen. Besides, our equipment is the same.
, I’m still breathing freely.
"Zhou Cang," was Zhang Jisheng's painful voice.
The convulsive intercom suddenly returned to normal again.
"Jisheng, how are you?" I asked anxiously and swam quickly towards him.
"I don't know what's wrong with my oxygen tank. Suddenly it seems like it's almost out of oxygen." As he spoke, he was already taking off the respirator.
When I heard this, I felt that this was a big deal. Zhang Jisheng would not have been able to stay underwater for a few minutes without scuba diving.
"Jisheng, please hurry back along the traction rope and wait for me on the boat. Xiangyu is still among the stone pillars. We can't leave her alone." I said anxiously.
At this time, Zhang Jisheng had already torn off his respirator, leaving only a blindfold. He also dropped the oxygen bottle. Without answering my words, he quickly surfaced lightly and walked back along the guide line.
Just when Zhang Jisheng's back disappeared from my eyes, I found that there seemed to be something wrong with my oxygen tank. The amount of oxygen delivered was obviously reduced, and my breathing began to quicken. It felt like someone suddenly pumped the oxygen into the tank.
Just pinch it.
What should I do? Xiangyu is still in the stone pillar, and there is a problem with my oxygen tank. Do I really have to leave Xiangyu alone and return to the ship first?
I was struggling in my heart. The values I had formed since childhood prevented me from doing this, but my human sense of survival kept telling me to quickly follow the tow rope back to the boat.
At this time, I took a deep breath and took off the respirator and oxygen tank.
"The most important thing is to overcome your fear underwater." Suddenly, this sentence came to my mind.
My father told me this the first time I went diving with him.
"You must know that humans originally evolved from marine creatures, so you have to believe that we have the instinct to live underwater. It's just that tens of millions of years have passed and we have forgotten this ability."
"Cang'er, as long as you are in the water, no matter what time, you must treat yourself as a fish. Human self-suggestion ability is very strong. When you treat yourself as a fish, your body will think that you are a fish."
My father's words are revolving in my mind one by one. These words are guiding my body.
Slowly, I adjusted my heartbeat, relaxed my muscles, and let myself float to the edge of the stone pillar again.
I knew that my maximum diving time was 23 minutes, so I adjusted my condition and told myself to find Xiangyu within 20 minutes and bring him safely to the boat.
Otherwise, give up.
"Zhou Cang, you can do it, you can definitely do it." I kept cheering myself up.
Once people calm down, and in such emergency situations, they can always discover something that was previously ignored.
Just like now, I was floating in front of the rock paintings and suddenly discovered that the painting method of the portrait of a human head and a snake body sitting on auspicious clouds is slightly different from other portraits in the rock paintings.
The painting technique of the human-headed snake-body statue is close to realism, especially the lines and colors of its face, which are almost like an ink painting. Under the human-headed snake-body statue, the king, the clansmen crawling on the ground and the twelve hours
Jun, although it is also done in a realistic way, the overall look is more casual and not as careful as the statue with the head of a human and the body of a snake.
I swam forward a few steps and then touched the stone wall with my hands. Even though I was wearing a diving suit, I could still feel that the murals on the stone pillars were painted on a layer of silk. The feeling was indescribable.
silky smooth.
Could it be that there is a double-layered mural inside?
Thinking of this, I scraped the stone pillar with the short saber in my hand, because if it was a double-layered mural, I should be able to scrape off the upper layer.
However, the short saber rubbed against the stone pillar for a long time, but the murals on the stone pillar remained intact, as if they were not affected at all.
At this moment, some dark red bead-like liquid oozed out from the place I had just scraped with a short knife, which felt like blood.
Could it be possible that the portraits in this mural are still alive?
I stared at this rather huge mural at close range. Suddenly, the short saber fell off in my hand, and I kicked back a few meters, and my heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
Among the portraits on the stone pillars, among the people kneeling on the ground, I seemed to find the back of a person, who looked a bit like Xiang Yu.
At the same time, the walkie-talkie made a violent "buzzing" sound as if it had been interfered by something again, which gave me a headache.
The sudden change in mood made it difficult for all parts of my body to coordinate. In the past, the highest record I could hold my breath was 23 minutes, but now it seems that it should be less than 15 minutes.
I let out a little bubble, and then planned to swim closer again to see what was going on. Because it is absolutely impossible for Xiang jade to appear on the mural, it was probably because I was dazzled.
Because at a depth of more than 20 meters underwater, it was almost absolute darkness. When I observed all the scenery around me, the light source came from the hernia lamp worn on the top of my head, coupled with psychological factors and other issues.
, it is very possible that I saw it wrong.
At this moment, a large amount of muddy water covered with sand suddenly emerged from behind the giant wolf-tooth pillars.
Ah, my heart beat suddenly.
Could it be that we encountered an underwater sandstorm?
A large amount of muddy water continuously emerged from behind the giant pillar group, and the surrounding visibility suddenly dropped to less than three meters.
Now I really have no choice but to go back home, go back to the boat first, wait for the sandstorm to pass, and then go into the water to check the situation.
God, you must ensure that there is no problem with Xiangyu's oxygen tank. In this case, she will not have a problem surviving underwater for dozens of hours.
Although I still felt a strong sense of self-blame in my heart, I still followed the guide rope and rushed to the surface of the water quickly.
At this moment, someone grabbed my feet. In an unprepared state, I was dragged down several meters, and the traction rope fell off.
Oops! Did I encounter the legendary water ghost?
There has always been a legend in my hometown when I was a child: there are water ghosts in lakes where people have died. They will stay in the water for three years. When the three years are up, they will find a substitute to guard the lake, and then reincarnate themselves.
In modern times, not only many people have lost their lives in the waters of Laoye Temple, but if the legend in my hometown is true, then there should be countless water ghosts at the bottom of the lake.
Could it be that the interference that the walkie-talkie received just now was caused by them?
The oxygen in my body was already extremely low, and my legs were being dragged down by an unknown creature. I struggled to free myself reflexively, so I couldn't hold my breath all of a sudden.
My chest breathed a sigh of relief, and then countless amounts of sludge-laden water poured into my nose and mouth. There was more and more water in my stomach, making me want to choke.
, my heart was beating very fast, my limbs were gradually losing temperature, and my breathing seemed to have stopped.
In my daze, I seemed to see a bearded man with a pair of big eyes, almost touching my face.
His skin was cold and he had a disgusting fishy smell.
One last thought flashed through my mind - water ghost.