At that moment, everyone who was originally shouting and trying to escape back to the base suddenly became quiet.
Everyone was so frightened by the monster in front of them that they even forgot about the idea of escape.
However, among us, there are still "warriors" or "reckless men" who dare to take action...
Agent Harris was the first to react from the shock. He has the ability to breathe in the sea. He has explored the depths of the ocean many times before. He may have seen some strange underwater creatures.
When he recovered from the shock, his first thought was to pull Jamie, who had collapsed on the sea bed, and swim towards the base.
But before Harris could swim very far, the octopus-like monster above us suddenly waved its tentacles, which were probably more than ten meters long, towards Harris and the others.
This tentacle suddenly stretched out to Harris and the others. At the same time, we actually saw that a mouth full of sharp teeth slowly opened at the tip of the tentacle!
This is not an octopus at all! No octopus has its mouth on its tentacles!
The next moment, the tentacle that had turned into a mouth bit towards Harris and the others.
Caught off guard, Harris also reacted quickly. He kicked on the spot and ran out from his original position. However, Harris who escaped seemed to have forgotten one thing, that is, Jamie, who was originally with him, unexpectedly
He was abandoned on the spot.
Seeing this scene, Colonel White, the leader of our expedition team, was the first to react.
"Harris! What are you doing?! Dr. Jamie, run away!"
After hearing Colonel White's words, Harris reacted and turned around to swim back toward Jamie. However, by this time, it was already too late.
The tentacle with a mouth stretched out to Jamie's side and swallowed Jamie in one gulp without any hesitation.
The way this tentacle devours something is like a python. Jamie's upper body was first bitten, and then, as if there was a suction force from inside the tentacle's mouth, it began to slowly suck in Jamie's whole body.
Inside the tentacles.
This process was not fast, but by the time Harris arrived, almost all of Jamie's body had been swallowed into the tentacles, with only two legs still exposed.
But even with two legs, Harris was unwilling to give up just like that. After all, before we set off, this guy swore to us that he would take care of our safety, but when an accident really happened, he did it for himself.
He lost his life and forgot his responsibilities. Even if he is a Pandora agent, Harris's behavior is a serious dereliction of duty. If he doesn't do something, I'm afraid Colonel White will want to look good on him in the future.
After grabbing Jamie's feet, Harris inserted his legs into the seabed, and at the same time began to exert force all over his body. As he shouted loudly on the radio, we actually saw that the muscles on Harris' body seemed to be
The ball began to inflate, and Jamie, who was about to be completely swallowed into the tentacles, actually began to slowly retreat out of the tentacles under Harris's best efforts.
At this time, several of us had completely recovered from the initial shock, and Mike and Elizabeth began to cheer Harris on the radio, hoping that he could rescue Jamie.
"Come on Harris!"
"Try hard, it's just a little bit close!"
The encouragement from Mike and the others did not last long. At this time, Colonel White saw that the monster's attention seemed to be attracted by Harris, so he said to the rest of us: "Don't just stand there! Go back to the base quickly.
!Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!”
After he said this, Mike and the others realized that now was indeed not the time to cheer up, so everyone began to run towards the entrance and exit of the base. Only Colonel White was left behind, and he looked back at Harris from time to time.
situation.
When we were almost at the entrance of the base, Harris's shout suddenly sounded on the radio.
"No!!!!!!"
We turned our heads and saw that Harris had pulled Jamie out of the monster's tentacles, but what he pulled out turned out to be only Jamie's two calves! The part above the knees had been completely covered by the monster's tentacles.
A tentacle swallowed it!
After the tug-of-war with Harris, the tentacle began to stretch back, and then a new tentacle swam towards us.
"Damn it, Harris, come back!"
Colonel White gritted his teeth, finally gave up the idea of rescuing Jamie, and swam back to us with Harris, who failed to rescue.
This time, no one died at the hands of the monster, and we successfully escaped back to the base before its tentacles approached.
…
On the deck of the diving cabin, everyone looked exhausted, and they didn't even bother to take off their heavy diving suits.
If Fiona's death was just an accident at first and didn't touch us much, then this time, Jamie's death really hit us all.
Especially when we saw Harris climbing out of the water holding Jamie's legs, we realized that the danger just now turned out to be so close to us. If it weren't for Jamie, every one of us would
It's possible that he could end up like this.
In addition to being frightened, some of us are also feeling angry.
When Harris was out of the water, Mike rushed up, grabbed his tights, and yelled at him: "It's you! It's all because of you! You damn bastard! It's all because of you.
Jamie will die if you throw him away!"
"Sorry, but that was an accident."
"Accident? Just because of your accident, Jamie died!"
"Enough!"
At this time, Colonel White also happened to climb out of the water. When he saw this scene on the deck, he immediately separated the two of them.
"Mike, we are all very sad about Jamie's death. Harris is indeed responsible for this. I will report this matter to the foundation after we return to the sea."
Then he turned his head again and said to Harris: "Harris, do you have any objection to what I just said?"
Harris said sadly: "No. Jamie's accident was indeed my dereliction of duty."
"Okay, you know the rules of the Foundation, so be mentally prepared. I need an incident report now, and you will be responsible for it."
Harris nodded, took Jamie's legs and was about to leave, but White stopped him again and said: "By the way, take Jamie's legs to the infirmary first, just like Fiona's body."
Crash him into a body bag, and when we regain contact with the sea, we will take him back."
After Harris left, Colonel White took out the walkie-talkie from his helmet and asked Dean in the central control room: "Dean, where are the monsters outside?"
"Colonel, it seems to have left."
"Leaved?"
This news made us on the deck breathe a sigh of relief.
"Dean, continue to monitor and tell me immediately if there is any new information about the monster."
After saying that, White put down the walkie-talkie, then looked at us who were still sitting on the ground in a daze, and said: "Everyone, do you want to sleep here? Take off your equipment and take a shower. What happened to Jamie is indeed a pity.
, but our lives must go on.”
After hearing White's words, we put aside our concerns for the time being and began to take off our diving suits one after another.
However, when taking off the diving suit, Mike suddenly asked Elizabeth something.
"Elizabeth, can you tell me what kind of monster killed Jamie?"
Elizabeth had a blank look on her face: "Sorry, I don't know, I've never seen anything like that. Although it looks a bit like an octopus or a squid, it doesn't have the tentacles of an octopus or a squid.
There will be mouthparts on it.”
After thinking for a while, Elizabeth added: "Right now I can only judge that the creature just now is probably a new species that humans have never encountered before."
"Another new species? Is it the same as the sharks that ate Fiona?"