dognovel Chapter 1020
Chapter 1020
The emergency light's beam spread out in the water, illuminating only a three-meter area ahead.
In the remaining space, there were only fine grains of sand floating in the light and shadow, like crushed stars.
At a depth of fifty meters, the sea water begins to become viscous.
Qi Mingyu adjusted his breathing and heard his steady heartbeat in the headphones.
He turned his body and the beam swept around.
The seabed here is a flat sandy terrain. Because there are no seaweed, shellfish, etc. swimming around, even under the sea, you can see the desolation of the surroundings.
Continuing to dive to one hundred meters, the water pressure began to squeeze the diving suit, and the air pressure regulator in the helmet made a slight "hissing" sound.
He stopped at the edge of a trench, and the light of the emergency light shone down along the trench wall. He could see some broken wooden boards and plastic bottles piled up at the bottom of the trench, which should be garbage left behind by passing ships.
There was no shadow of the container, not even a reflection of metal.
He flapped his flippers and swam southeast along the trench.
That was the direction they had previously judged the tsunami would push.
If a large number of containers really sank, they would probably sink over there.
The silence under the sea is more suffocating than you might imagine.
There was no sound of waves, no sound of fish swimming, only the subtle sound of the joints of the diving suit rubbing against each other.
It's quieter than driving a submarine.
The beam of the emergency light suddenly shone on a dark shadow. Qi Mingyu's heart skipped a beat and he stopped immediately.
After waiting for a few seconds, the black shadow slowly unfolded under the turbulence of the sea water.
It turned out to be a huge black plastic bag. At first glance, it looked like a fish swimming in the sea.
I don’t know how I got here.
Could it be the same source as that container?
He looked around the huge black plastic bag and found that it was empty. There was no other object around except the plastic bag.
Time was tight, so Qi Mingyu continued to swim forward.
By the time we reached a depth of more than 140 meters, the sea water was already freezing cold.
Even with the insulation of the wetsuit, I could feel the chill seeping into my joints.
The sand here is full of holes of all sizes.
He continued to dive, and when he could clearly feel the surroundings getting colder, he turned on the depth gauge on his wrist and saw that he had reached two hundred meters.
According to the plan, this was the limit of the dive.
He turned his body so that the emergency light beam swept across the entire sea in a fan shape.
The sandy seabed was as flat as a huge piece of black cloth, with only a few protruding reefs. On the reefs were tattered fishing nets, with a few small fish that had long since rotted hanging in the nets.
There were no containers, no signs of metal colliding, not even a trace of obvious human activity.
Qi Mingyu frowned slightly. He looked into the distance with his night vision goggles, but unfortunately the seabed was not clear at this time, and the distant place was just a blur in his sight.
He was just about to dive another five meters to try when he suddenly felt a slight tug on his ankle.
Looking down, I saw that the protruding buckle on the leg was hooked on a reef.
Qi Mingyu swam over with his flippers and reached out to unlock the buckle.
At this moment, the beam of the emergency light accidentally swept across the side of the reef, and his movement suddenly stopped.
Stuck in the crevice of the reef was a small piece of white plastic, with what seemed to be some pattern printed on it.
He moved closer and gently pushed aside the seaweed on the reef with his fingers.
The plastic piece was very small, only as big as a fingernail, and its edges had been corroded by sea water to the point of being hairy, but the pattern on it could still be seen clearly.
It was a red triangle with a book-like shape inside. This was the warning sign printed on the container they had lost before!
My heart instantly rose to my throat. These were fragments of the container!
He did not surface immediately, but swam deeper along the reef.