"Ling Hao! Sisi, go back quickly, the palace has collapsed." Zhu Xin's tears had already fallen.
Shi Si did not say a word, nor did she drive the "Pippi Shrimp" back. Her eyes were red, but she held the joystick stubbornly and rushed towards the position where the "Stone Crab" sank at full speed. She knew that even if she went back, she,
Zhu Xin and Zuo Pengfei couldn't do much. She believed that Ling Hao and the others could save the day, because they had always done so. Even if she was reluctant to give up and wanted to go back to save people like Zhu Xin, she would have to
Force yourself not to do this. Your most important task is to take Zhuxin and the others out safely. When Ling Hao and the others come back, you must return a lively sister-in-law to your brother.
Zhu Xin grabbed the backrest of the seat and slumped there, already sobbing. She didn't go back any more. She knew what was right to do. As a police officer who had withstood the test of blood and fire, even if there was one
A momentary loss of emotional control will not affect her from doing the right thing.
After the palace collapsed, although the ruins blocked the entrance to the cave, the water level of the underground lake was still slowly declining, but not as fast as before. Most of the Dragon King Salamanders and many large spotted snakeheads were chasing each other and were also caught in the whirlpool.
Wrapped into the underground lake on the next level, the remaining ones no longer wanted to fight and scattered in all directions. They escaped completely in an instant, which allowed Shi Si and the others to successfully return to the "Stone Crab" and
The "Pippi Shrimp" docked with it, and then continued to drive back. By the time they rushed back to fix the "Stone Crab" on the pulley, the water level of the underground lake was already less than 150 meters, and the next few people could only
Obediently, they began to decompress as the water level dropped. They had no intention of letting the archaeological team pull them up. On the contrary, Yuan Bing and the others would come down. After the water in the underground lake completely dried up, they would rescue Ling Hao and the others. This was
Everyone agreed.
As the signal was interrupted, the water column like a large waterfall suddenly broke off and turned into a small waterfall. The deafening sound of the water finally turned into a gurgling sound. Ling Hao's smile solidified on his face.
, he knew that the palace collapsed, and in a sense, he, Tian Yong, and Xueting were buried alive here.
"Stop being stunned and leave quickly!" Shui Lingxing grabbed the unconscious Tian Yong and Xueting and ran towards the distant island like a swordfish, with no intention of waiting for Ling Hao.
The latter's awareness in the water is so high now. Naturally, he knew that there were many Dragon King Salamanders swimming under his feet. It was hard to say whether he would be attacked. Ling Hao didn't want to take risks. When he was about to leave, he inadvertently saw something.
There is an object floating on the water in the distance. Judging from the color, it looks very similar to Natasha's clothes. Needless to say, there are no other modern human objects in this place except her. Just ignore her if you want.
Ling Hao felt that it was inappropriate to leave her here and let the dragon king salamander bite her. After hesitating, he decided to take the risk and bring Natasha's body to the island for burial.
Ling Hao is now in the state of "Zhenhai Longhu". He can swim at a speed not to mention that of a dragon king salamander. Even dolphins may not be able to catch up with him. With just a vigorous swing of his legs, he has already jumped several meters away.
Far away, in a moment they came to the suspicious object floating on the water.
Ling Hao's eyelids twitched. There was no doubt that this was Natasha, but her condition was really hard to describe. Her right arm was blown away, her right leg from the knee down was also gone, and her golden hair had almost been burned away.
His whole body was scorched black, and there seemed to be a hole next to his belly. Blood was slowly overflowing, gradually dyeing the lake water red, and attracting predators in the surrounding water.
Ling Hao was just about to grab Natasha's clothes and drag her away, but this person who looked like a corpse just now suddenly opened her eyes, stretched out her remaining left hand, grabbed Ling Hao's wrist, and said hoarsely
Said: "Ling Hao, please give me a happy life."
"I'm not an executioner who kills people on sight. It's your own fault that you ended up like this. Don't make it look like it was me." Ling Hao ignored her request and just dragged her by the wrist and quickly walked towards Shui Ling.
Swim in the direction the star is heading.
The island in the lake is not big, only a few hundred square meters. It is filled with a kind of soft red soil. I don’t know what the composition of this red soil is, but it smells like a faint fishy sweet smell. At this moment, Shui Lingxing
Having already landed, Tian Yong and Xueting were placed on the ground. Tian Yong's dark face was hit with five or six crisp, big slaps, which directly woke this guy up and looked to his left in confusion.
He looked to his right, then rubbed his burning face again.
"Your wife, you can wake up yourself, and I won't do anything." Shui Lingxing chuckled, looking ungrateful.
Just as Tian Yong was giving "artificial respiration" to Xueting, Ling Hao also arrived, holding the dying Natasha in his hand.
"Is she still alive?" Xueting, who had just woken up, pushed Tian Yong away who was still giving "artificial respiration". She stood up like a carp, took out her diving knife and wanted to take action.
"Forget it, she won't survive long without you taking action. There's no way she can be saved." Ling Hao checked Natasha's wounds, shook his head and sighed. Originally, he couldn't bear to watch this double agent being fished on the water like this.
Eaten alive, if there is still a possibility of survival, at least it would be better than death. Unexpectedly, when I saw the wounds on her abdomen after landing, many internal organs were either missing or damaged, and I didn’t know how much blood had been lost.
It is already a miracle that he is still alive and even still conscious.
"Ling Hao, I beg you, please give me pleasure and don't torture me." Natasha said with a dying breath.
Ling Hao sighed: "We don't have any grudges at all. You are like this, so why should we torture you? I just want to save your life, but it seems that you are too injured and I'm afraid I can't save you."
I’ll save you, but even so, I won’t let you soak in the water and be bitten by fish. This island is not bad, so let it be your burial place.”
Natasha's blue eyes, which had become cloudy, stared at Ling Hao blankly. The fear in her heart was gone. She closed her eyes with peace of mind and stopped breathing.
"It's a simple death. You worked so hard to drag her to the island. I won't kick her back into the water. It's not a problem to leave her here. If any of you are willing, just dig a hole and bury her. Anyway,
I don't want to." In this situation, it is unknown whether she can get out. Xueting already hates this double agent. Even if Natasha is dead, she will not forgive her.
Tian Yong smiled "hehe". If his wife-to-be wasn't going, how could he let Ling Hao, the leader of the team, go? He had no choice but to run to a relatively inner part of the island and dig the hole with his bare hands.
"That's not right!" Xueting suddenly stood up with a slap on her thigh and said to Ling Hao: "Because I didn't feel any discomfort, I just remembered now that we were originally underwater at a depth of nearly 200 meters. That was nearly 20 meters deep.
With a pressure of one atmosphere, why do we appear on the surface of the water without decompression without any physical reaction? It stands to reason that we will all suffer from severe decompression sickness, and there will be accumulation of bubbles all over our bodies, right?"
Ling Hao also reacted, but his body's current tolerance is very different from ordinary people, so he really didn't think about this problem just now. Although he was fine, Tian Yong and Xueting were different.
Well, decompression sickness is no joke. Even if it is fatal, it is painful and difficult to treat. Ling Hao immediately became nervous when he waited for the sequelae of aging.
"Don't worry." Shui Lingxing walked forward unsteadily, pulled out the weapon that looked like a magic pestle from Ling Hao's leg, shook it in her hand, and it turned into her silver trident with a "click".
His movements were extremely heroic, and he said coolly: "You know water pressure, don't you know 'earth pressure'? Do you know how far we are from the surface of the earth?"
Ling Hao blinked and calculated mentally: "It's about 300 meters from the ground to the bottom of the lake on the upper level. Adding the height of our current space, it's nearly 400 meters, right?"
"The 300 meters above are about the same, but if you take a closer look at the height of this floor, it may be different from what you imagined, right?" Shui Lingxing looked at Ling Hao jokingly.
The latter looked up, but it was a good thing that he didn't look at it. He was so frightened that he was scared to death. When he fell, he was smashed to pieces on the water, which made him think that the height of his fall was tens of meters, but in fact
Now he visually inspected that the height from the blasted hole above his head to the water surface below was not only tens of meters, but even two hundred meters. If he fell from such a high height, even if there was water below, it would be no different than falling on the concrete floor.
What's the difference? But none of the three on our side were injured, and even Natasha, who was seriously injured, didn't fall to death. What's going on? And what's going on with the "earth pressure"? It's the same as water pressure.
Does that make sense? No, I heard that mines with a few hundred meters are everywhere, and mines with several kilometers are not uncommon. I haven’t heard that the miners who work in the mines need to decompress. Ling Hao and others all have a look on their faces.
He looked at Shui Lingxing suspiciously, waiting for her explanation.
Shui Lingxing chuckled and said: "Only when you know your ignorance can you make progress. Listen carefully to me. The underground confined space is different from the mine. It is not connected to the outside world and the pressure is different. The underground confined space is more dense.
The deeper, the greater the corresponding pressure. Otherwise, under the squeeze of the surrounding earth and rocks, this space cannot exist at all. When the upper layer is connected to the ground, the pressure has been balanced, and all we face is water pressure.
This is a problem, and this space is so huge, and the hole just opened to the top is relatively small, and it was closed again in a short time, so the 'earth pressure' here is much higher than the surface pressure. You fell from the upper lake bottom
, it happens to pass through the place where the two space pressures interact. Under the squeeze of the space pressure below, your falling speed will be as slow as using a parachute. Otherwise, you will definitely fall to death from a height of more than 200 meters. Now
The pressure here is probably similar to the water pressure of nearly two hundred meters at the bottom of the lake. Even if it is smaller, it is within the tolerance of your body, so you will not have uncomfortable symptoms. However, you still need to decompress if you want to get out from here.
The problem is, this is a matter of life and death, so you must never forget it.”
Shui Lingxing was frothing as she spoke. In fact, everyone understood it halfway through her words. Ling Hao went to help Tian Yong dig the hole in silence, while Xueting began to look through Natasha's diving bag.
Is there anything we can use? This made Shui Lingxing pout, looking like a little daughter-in-law who had been treated unfairly.
Natasha really brought a lot of good things with her, including a German-made P11 five-shot underwater pistol, two anti-infantry grenades, a "whaling harpoon" military knife, and a lot of medicines.
, Xueting unceremoniously packed everything into her carrying bag, including several packs of high-calorie chocolates and a pack of Russian "Mountain Special Field Rations".
At this moment, Ling Hao and Tian Yong said "Hey" at the same time, attracting both Shui Lingxing and Xueting. The two of them dug a hole near the middle of the island. The soft red clay hand digger had no difficulty.
After a while, there was a big pile piled next to it, and the hole was dug to a depth of half a meter. But the strange thing is that going down further is like encountering rubber material, and there is no way to go deeper.
"What's going on? What is this?" Shui Lingxing asked.
Ling Hao shook his head and said: "I don't know. There are a lot of 'Spiny Silkworms' in this red soil. There are so many on the top, so it's not unusual to have them here. But if you dig up to this point, you can't dig down. The stuff below is so pink and tender."
, a bit like fat meat.”
"I know, we must have dug Tai Sui." Tian Yong patted Ling Hao on the shoulder and said firmly.
"No way, we have cleared a large area on the table. How old is Tai Sui?" Ling Hao didn't believe it.
Shui Lingxing didn't say anything, but walked to the edge of the island and dug several times with his trident. Sure enough, there was still this kind of thing under the red soil. After being punctured by the tip of the halberd, there would be light red liquid flowing out, and it would look even more like
It squirms and trembles like a living thing and tightens the wound. What is this if not a living thing?
"Stop guessing, I think I know what this is." Shui Lingxing greeted everyone, and everyone came to her side. "This is an ancient life, similar to the 'Andean Alonzo protozoa'
A kind of creature, the entire island is part of its body. These so-called 'spiny lugworms' do not seem to be lugworms, but just one of its symbiotic insects. The red soil should be its excrement.
Already."
"Uh... what bug? You mean we're standing on a bug? You're kidding!"
"You're not standing on a bug, you're standing on a pile of bug excrement." The crowd suddenly exploded and started shouting.
"Shut up and listen to what I have to say!" Shui Lingxing shouted, making everyone stop. "What's wrong with the bug shit? This kind of bug shit is rich in protein and vitamins. If you really have nothing to eat, you can still survive by eating this."
Shui Lingxing ignored Xueting, who was already nauseated, and continued: "In 1959, a Portuguese scientist named Alonso collected rock samples for geological research in a cave in the Andes Mountains.
A huge magical primitive creature was excavated from the sedimentary rocks of the Pre-Proterozoic Eon, Sinian Era and the Great Ice Age, so it was named 'Andean Alonzoa'. The key is that it is like a small house.
When the huge creature was excavated from the rock formation, it was not a fossil, but a living existence. It is said that the reason why this animal, which looks like a large ball of conch meat, is alive is because it raises a large group of insects to provide it with food.
, but these bugs feed on its excrement. The bugs raised by this protozoa can be found almost in areas with a radius of hundreds of kilometers, and they are common ones. You can imagine how huge the number is.
This symbiotic relationship is impeccable. Andean Alonzoa is a creature between coelenterates and annelids. Its nervous system is very simple and is not that of ordinary organisms.
A tree-like neural network is a wheel-shaped neural network. This kind of neural tissue has no nerve center, which means that its body and nerves are separated. Even if the body dies, the wheel-shaped nervous system can continue to survive. In addition,
This kind of bug reproduces by division. New life will replace the dead life in the old body and inherit the past wheel-shaped neural network. Although this way of survival greatly limits the number of this animal, the advantage is that this kind of bug
It is almost immortal. Time cannot kill it. The bugs that live with it will radiate for hundreds of miles. It will eat animals, plants, minerals, anything, and it will not starve to death. Although this is a very primitive life,
In a sense, it is a perfectly evolved 'super creature'."