Ghost Blowing Lantern II

The falling body suddenly hit a very hot air flow, and the falling force was suddenly reduced. However, the temperature of this hot air was extremely high, and it was suffocating for an instant. In just a few moments, the water in the human body would I was washed away by the hot wind and dried into a mummy, but suddenly there was a chill on the ground and my body fell into the water. I took a few sips of seawater and found Shirley Yang's figure underwater. She was familiar with water and fell into it. We didn't lose our consciousness in the water. We all choked on the water and had no time to think about why we fell here. We hurriedly separated the water and floated up.

As soon as his head came out of the water, he immediately coughed several times, opened his mouth wide and greedily breathed in the air on the water surface, opened his eyes and looked around, and what he saw was all cold and bright light, but it was not the moonlight in the sky. , we were probably sucked into the eye of the sea, and this eye of the sea is a bottomless pit in the undersea mountain range. Surprisingly, it is surrounded by boundless sea water, as if we are in an underground ocean, with domes above our heads and jagged cliffs hanging upside down. ,, everything is visible, the sea eye with a diameter of several miles is just a dozen meters above, there is a chaotic hot wind condensing upward, which has blocked the coral spiral sea water, the sea seems to be protecting it under a mysterious power The secret is that after the ship is sucked into the sea cave, the traces of sea leakage erosion are immediately erased. If it were not for falling inside, it would be difficult to discover the secret realm of this double-layered sea.

I stepped on the water with both feet, and it was difficult to recover from the dizziness that was spinning for a long time. I looked back and saw that the Trident had also landed on the water not far away. There were several large holes in the hull and it was slowly sinking. The Hailiu ship itself has sixteen small watertight compartments. A leak in the hull will not affect the navigation at all. It can be seen that the hull is now greatly damaged and we have to abandon the ship. The people on the ship have also suffered serious injuries. The fat man is commanding Gu Guess dragged the injured from the leaking cabin onto the deck.

When the fat man saw Shirley Yang and I swimming out of the water, he breathed a sigh of relief and waved to us, probably asking us to swim back to the boat to help move things and put the lifeboat in. When I saw this, I was about to go over, but Shirley Yang suddenly pulled me in the water. Me, I followed her gaze and couldn't help but take a breath of air. I saw the body of a dead sea snake lying on its side, with a few shark fins exposed on the calm water next to the body, as if it was close to the water. The launched torpedoes cut through the water waves and were approaching us quietly and quickly.

Shirley Yang and I have never carried shark repellent. Encountering sharks in the water is no small matter. In this underground sea, many protruding brick pillars and bronze figures are exposed on the surface. They are probably the remaining ancient relics on the seabed, which were sucked in by the eye of the sea. , some parts are exposed above the water, and underwater there are layers upon layers of ruins. These huge rough stone pillars have been washed away by falling seawater all year round, and most of them are surrounded directly below the eye of the sea. Fortunately, when we fell into the water just now, , I didn’t hit him head-on, otherwise I would have died in the water with a bloody head, brain splitting, and so on.

Seeing the shark approaching in the water, Shirley Yang pointed to me in the water. There was a huge bluestone pillar there. It was submerged under the water and only exposed an oblique corner more than two meters high. It could be a temporary shelter. The situation was urgent, so what? Without thinking about it, I immediately swam over with her and climbed up the stone pillar one after another. We pulled out our diving knives at the top of the sloping stone pillar to prevent sharks from suddenly jumping out of the water and hurting people. We also shouted loudly to let the fat man and others on the boat pay attention. Movement on the water.

Shirley Yang saw sharks wandering around the stone pillars at her feet. The Trident over there was completely destroyed. She was swept into the abyss under the sea cave. Although she survived, the ship sank. She only relied on two rubber lifeboats to survive on the vast sea. , but it’s not easy, and it’s hard to say whether we can return to the real sea. Even the legends passed down by the sea wolves and the egg people from generation to generation have not even mentioned the situation in "Return to the Ruins". It seems that from ancient times to the present , not even half of them could make it back alive from the eyes of the sea, and they couldn't help but sigh: "Old Hu, I think this time... we are out of the game..."

Seeing that the current situation is really like being in a sleepy city, there are so many sharks, so I can’t even think about swimming across the water to join the people on the boat. I can only wait for Fatty and others to row a lifeboat to pick us up, and I can see the boat from a distance. The five people were all moving, and it seemed that even if they suffered some injuries, they were not serious. At this time, Shirley Yang was heard worrying about everyone's current situation, so he advised her: "I felt that things were going too smoothly from the beginning of going to sea. Wow, it’s so easy to make people feel paralyzed, and they’re almost dazzled by victory. It’s okay to be like this now, risking death and surviving. This is the situation we are used to dealing with. Look at where this place will be. ?”

Shirley Yang raised her eyes and looked into the distance. The width and depth of this vast ocean of water were unknown, and she didn’t know whether it was a lake or a sea. But the water here should be sea water. When it was sucked in by the eye of the sea just now, if it wasn’t Being blocked by a burst of heat, the force of falling from a height of 100 meters was eliminated. Otherwise, it would have fallen directly to the underground sea. Even if it didn't hit the rocks of the ruins, the force would be about the same as hitting the cement wall directly. The sea The eye seems to be a natural phenomenon with a time pattern. When the moon is full and there is a yin fire, the sea hole will leak, but it will be re-closed by the heat flow rising from the ground soon. If it falls for a while at night, the sea hole will gradually increase. The scorching air flow also burned the man and the boat to ashes, but if he caught it a moment early, he would inevitably be blown into pieces by the turbulent currents in the sea cave. It was a miracle that he survived the fall due to the timing of the fall.

I thought to myself that it would not be a miracle if I fell into Guixu and survived. It would be a miracle if the eggs I collected did not fall into the eye of the sea, but returned safely. It would be unlucky to fall in and not die and not get out, but I didn't. When I said this to Shirley Yang, I just told her that there is no sky in Guixu, but the clear light of the stars and moon is no different from the outside world. I think these are due to the situation of Nanlong. The yin fire produced by the condensation of sea air in the dragon's veins is attached to the rock formations. , this phenomenon of moonlight like water will occur. The shadowy light emitted by the sea air is like moonlight. The special light source makes the water in Guixu a dark green. However, when you pick up the seawater with your hands, the color of the water is still transparent. It can be seen that the seawater is too Deep, reflecting into a dark green color.

Shirley Yang listened to the reason I said, but shook her head and said: "The water connected by the sea eye must be Guixu. It is said that there were several cities in Guixu in ancient times, and the residents in them mastered the secret of dragon fire. The bronze civilization It is very developed, but there are too few cultural relics and relics left in later generations. Not many scholars are willing to admit that there once existed such a "mysterious country" overseas that was good at smelting bronze. I think the so-called dragon fire in the remaining veins of the Southern Dragon , in fact, it should be a huge mine under the sea. The clear light we see now is like the moon, and the heat flow that seals the eye of the sea are all caused by the effect of the mineral layer. This Guixu is probably a mine.

I wondered: "Sure enough, the working class is still powerful, right... It seems that there were no industrial workers at that time, they were probably slaves. How could they dig such a big mine?" But then I thought about it, and I felt What Shirley Yang said is very reasonable. In that period when productivity was relatively primitive, bronze was an important weapon of the country and a core material in military, political, economic, and cultural aspects. In order to pursue the high temperature of copper smelting, a large number of virgin forests were cut down at that time. , such as the "Simuwu Ding", a national treasure-level cultural relic discovered in modern times. To build such a copper tripod, the wood that needs to be burned is at least a ten thousand-year-old primeval forest that can cover an area as large as the Summer Palace in Beijing. Where on the sea are there so many forests and trees for making tripods? Perhaps the so-called "dragon fire" is a special kind of ore that is contained in the rock formations on the seabed and can burn in the water.

I said to Shirley Yang: "The collapse of the islands in the Coral Spiral Sea may be related to large-scale mining activities on the seabed. Since we have gone so far, we have fallen into a desperate situation where the sky is not responding and the earth is not working. , it won’t help to stay here and complain about others. If you want to get rich and survive, you have to rely on yourself. I think we should collect the personnel and equipment first, and then find a way to find out the topography and ocean current direction of Guixu."

We discussed it for a while, and the plan was finalized, so we called to Uncle Ming, the fat man, and others on the boat to row over as soon as possible to meet them. However, their actions on the Trident were slow. First, because the hull was leaking and tilting, and on the deck, It is difficult to move around. Secondly, in addition to all kinds of necessary survival equipment, you also need to bring all the young people in the bottom cabin with you. Moreover, Ruan Hei seems to be injured unclearly. It may be that his arm bone is broken, and the fat man did it for him. After some emergency treatment, the broken bones were connected and fixed with splints. The fat man’s hands were neither light nor heavy. The pain made Ruan Hei fainted twice in succession. Duo Ling was wiping her tears and trying to find painkillers and anesthesia. Her own head was Ye Wuzi was bleeding profusely, and Uncle Ming wanted to drag the sarcophagus up from the bottom of the cabin and take it away, but he finally gave up because of his lack of strength. He hurriedly climbed back to the deck with only the bead-bearing mermaid and the backpack containing the moonlight pearl, and was caught. The fat man bumped into him, grabbed the package, and put it on his shoulder.

I saw the chaos on the boat. Although I wanted to help, I was blocked by the sharks in the water and couldn't go to help. I had to look at the water and sigh, hoping that the Trident would sink slower, maybe the water above the head would stop pouring in, The water in Guixu is gradually falling, and more ruins of the ancient city are exposed on the water. Countless sunken ships and the remains of stone pillars, bronze figures, and bronze tripods are gradually emerging, and there is a gray patch of gray on the horizon in the distance. The misty mountain shadow is revealed, as if there is an ancient palace built on the mountain. It changes like a mirage in our sight, suddenly far and now near.

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