Fog Formula-Warning Book of Fog City Search Chief's Strange Talk - Chapter Forty-Three

“Under the sea.” Jian Shenxiu said softly.

“About three hundred meters.”

“Yes, about 300 meters.” Xi Wei swallowed a mouthful of saliva as she glanced at the dashboard. The sonar showed that the bottom of the sea was more than 310 meters from the sea level, which was absolutely deep sea. Even with the support of equipment, that is the limit that humans can reach.

Then she apologized: “I’m sorry, the steel cable can’t descend to that depth, the diving bell must stay here.”

This dive was too hasty, originally the diving bell had to accompany them all the way down to the bottom of the sea. Because people need a long decompression process when they return from the deep sea. The decompression at a water depth of 300 meters may even last for several days. If the decompression is hasty, the high-pressure gas they are breathing now will be like countless bombs in their bodies. The limbs swelled, blasting them into a leaky sponge. Therefore, without a diving bell, even if they encountered danger underwater, they would not be able to escape immediately. Going up directly is nothing more than a different way to die.

Only by relying on the diving bell can they quickly evacuate underwater. The diving bell can maintain the internal high-pressure environment, and they can be pulled onto the boat and then slowly decompressed.

But there was too little time for them to prepare, and Xue Jianze hadn’t done this kind of deep dive for five years. For a while, they couldn’t find a steel cable of sufficient length. And welding is even more unreliable-this is the only deep diving team they have now, and if there is a breakage, the people on the ship can’t even try to rescue them.

So after weighing it over and over again, the search bureau finally chose this plan. In this case, the diving bell can definitely guarantee their safety, but the disadvantages are also obvious. Once the diving bell goes deep into the sea below 150 meters, there is no way to give them any support. Even if danger occurs in the deep sea, they need to return to the diving bell at the 150-meter water layer with a huge pressure difference of 15 atmospheres.

But Jian Shenxiu finally agreed with this plan. He is the executor and the supreme commander of this operation, and he agrees that the others have no reason to object. So the task was quickly assigned, and the action began.

“The rest is up to you.”

That’s why Xi Wei said that, at this depth, they can no longer provide him with any support except the oxygen and electrical signals provided by the [umbilical cord].

“The plan I made, why does the executor need to apologize.”

However, seeing that Shenxiu just said this, the moment the diving bell stopped, he turned on the searchlight he carried with him, and led Markesias to break through the water layer and continue diving. The only pause was to look back at the body of the diving bell , there is an obvious deep depression in the position he is looking at.

That was the trace left by the diving bell from the previous collision with the hull. It was obvious that it was a violent collision, and the water-tight compartments of the hull were smashed into a deep hole, but the sturdy diving bell was not completely damaged.

“…”

Xi Wei was speechless for a while, but she has gradually gotten used to this attitude of seeing Shenxiu during this period of time. Seeing that Shenxiu is such a man, it is hard for others to imagine that his usual indifference is actually a kind of protection for the people around him. He has always only acted with Marchesias, because when he is excited, he shows his sharpness, and everyone except the assistant will inevitably be cut by him.

So everyone on board saw that the two people on the screen even speeded up their dive, and they disappeared into the darkness in the distance within a few seconds from the camera from the perspective of the diving bell. At that moment they realized that the speed they had maintained was just waiting for the diving bell to be lowered, and they were only going down with the diving bell to watch over it. In fact, the diving bell was slowing them down. If it weren’t for the portable cameras on their heads, the two of them would have lost track of the ship at this moment.

You must know that the surrounding water pressure has reached a full fifteen atmospheres. If the gas they breathe has not been gradually replaced with a special gas mixed with helium and oxygen with the depth, the nitrogen narcosis alone is enough to kill at this depth. It was extremely difficult for others to breathe at this depth, but their speed was astonishingly fast.

At this moment, it was Xi Wei’s turn to get nervous. She looked around and hesitated whether to drive these people out of the command room. When fighting against anomalies, the Search Bureau has some hidden methods that are not suitable for being exposed to the public. At this moment, there are many ordinary people in the field, and she wonders whether they should be dismissed.

However, when she was hesitating, she saw another senior investigator quietly making a tactical gesture to her at a certain corner, which meant [silence]. This made Xi Wei, who had been concentrating on the action before, stunned, and turned her gaze back to the screen.

It’s as if nothing just happened.

…

One hundred and fifty meters.

One hundred and seventy meters.

Two hundred meters.

The two people underwater really sped up their speed. From one hundred and fifty meters to two hundred meters, they were almost quickly approaching the bottom of the sea below. After staying away from the diving bell, the only thing that can stop them is water pressure, but with the support of equipment, water pressure is not an insurmountable obstacle for these two people. The two black figures walked through the water layer like sharp swords, breaking through one water layer after another with the help of the counterweight.

The content of those strange fluorescent substances in the surrounding waters has also increased, and it has gradually reached the point where stars can be seen in the seawater with the naked eye. Those macromolecular light sources quietly suspend and settle in the seawater, and they emit a light blue halo in the dark seawater, reminiscent of the slowly drifting snow in winter.

However, after crossing two hundred meters, the dive suddenly encountered resistance, and there seemed to be an intermittent surge in the seawater that prevented them from continuing to dive. At first the force was weak, but the strength of the surge increased with depth. Vision is more pronounced than touch. The fluorescent suspended matter around them was also affected by the surge. The two of them can still maintain their own figures and continue to descend by virtue of their own weight and counterweight, but at a depth of 200 meters, it can already be seen that those luminous strange substances are affected by the fluctuations and float upwards from the bottom of the sea, no longer sinking but in the water Hover in layers.

Like a surging sea of ​​stars.

“…”

See Shenxiu and Marchesias looked at each other. Seeing Shenxiu make a gesture to him, Markesias nodded lightly, took out two black sharp blades from the satchel beside him and held them in his hands. Then the two changed direction and began to approach the edge of the abyss. Jian Shenxiu swims in front, and Markesias swims behind him with the help of the water wave that Jian Shenxiu breaks. At the same time, he starts to adjust his familiarity and increase his physical strength reserve as much as possible.

It sounds stupid to fight with cold weapons in the water, and watching exercise will increase their oxygen consumption. But in fact, this is a helpless move. In the hundreds of years since the birth of gunpowder, humans have never invented thermal weapons that can be used under such water pressure. All underwater firearms are limited to shallow layers within 30 meters. The huge water pressure at a depth of 200 meters made all the guns and bullets look like a joke. Unless they can hold missiles and weird duels.

…

“…”

The two of them didn’t talk, so everyone on board didn’t know what happened to them. But the undulating fluorescence of the sea floor captured by the body camera is abnormal enough. It is actually very dangerous to approach this kind of cliff when diving, because they have a long [umbilical cord] behind them, and it is easy to get caught by some protrusions when approaching this kind of uneven mountain wall. Everyone in front of the screen who saw the action of the two began to subconsciously tense up. Even Marchesias, who was doing nothing, stared at the screen quietly, looking at the undulating sea of ​​stars on the bottom of the sea, wondering what he was thinking.

…

After approaching the edge of the abyss, the intermittent fluctuations weakened. In fact, when the two moved sideways for a certain distance, the intermittent fluctuations had significantly less impact on them. From a sensory point of view, the range of fluctuations is not particularly large compared to the width of the entire sea abyss, but when they fell, they just happened to land directly on top of it.

Two hundred and ten meters.

Two hundred and fifteen meters.

Two hundred and twenty meters.

The two continued to fall, this time their whereabouts appeared cautious. On the cliffs on both sides of this sea area, there are large black and slender algae, which densely cover the stone walls behind, swaying in the water with the waves, like black wheat fields blown by the wind. In order to avoid being entangled, they also kept a certain distance from the cliff. After reducing the impact of the water waves, continue straight down.

So even though the visibility in this sea area was abnormally low, they gradually approached the truth of the light source on the bottom of the sea. The dotted lights of those strange substances increased around them, and in the end they were almost surrounded by them. Now the two of them can catch some of that subtle fluorescence just by reaching out their hands.

In this case, they can finally see the most primitive appearance of these things, which are indeed countless flocculent organic matter, as Nanami and Gong said. They are indeed marine snow—glowing marine snow.

But marine snow shouldn’t be gushing up from the bottom of the sea like this. They should come from the algae in the shallow water layer and the fish residues that fell down. They should fall from the high upper layer of the sea water, and slowly fall into the bottom of the sea like snowflakes to feed the many creatures on the bottom of the sea, instead of falling from the bottom of the sea like this. It spewed up against it.

Two hundred and twenty-five meters.

Two hundred and thirty meters.

Two hundred and thirty-five meters.

Getting closer, getting closer. Jian Shenxiu and Markesias turned off the underwater lights they carried with them at the same time. In fact, there is no need for lighting here anymore. Countless fluorescent snowflakes illuminate this sea area like daytime. What’s more, there is a fluorescent ocean emitting huge light below.

Two hundred and forty meters.

Finally, as if piercing through the protective shield of a hazy halo, Jian Shenxiu’s scarlet eyes suddenly saw clearly the giant below. His dive body suddenly paused. The face under the mask was indescribably astonished and shocked.

That’s a… no, half a whale carcass! Half a huge, glowing whale carcass! It’s only in half, but it’s still astonishingly over 50 meters long, and the width of its tail fin is close to 40 meters, so its full body length should exceed 100 meters! No creature in human history has ever reached such an astonishing body size, which is so exaggerated that it makes people tremble!

It is said to be a whale carcass because it has obvious signs of decay, half of the fish body is riddled with holes and festers, and you can’t even see a complete shape, and a quarter of the end of the body even reveals a pale and complete spine. It was clearly a dilapidated corpse, but it looked so sacred, both its body and the shattered debris exuded a jade-like light. Even if it is corrupted like this, you can only see the meaning of holiness in it, and even when you see it for the first time, tears flow from your heart unconsciously, and the heart twitches as if there is endless sorrow.

It is impossible for any creature to be so damaged that it can still move. However, the broken whale tail was still moving with all its strength, stirring the sea water and throwing the countless fluorescent lights around it to the high water layer. Those fluorescent debris fell from it, and then flowed countercurrently along the surging water and poured upside down towards the surface of the sea.

It tried so hard to throw those debris away, like releasing a bird. It was so gentle when it fell back to the bottom of the sea, as if it was afraid to disturb the fish. This makes this action feel inexplicably sacred like “martyrdom”. It’s like some mysterious religious ceremony, cutting off one’s own flesh and blood, and raising free creatures.

Whale falls. Jian Shenxiu has heard this term before. Whales have the largest bodies in the world. When they die, their bodies fall to the bottom of the sea. The remaining nutrients can nourish a miniature biosphere. People call it whale fall. He also finally understood what those glowing marine snows were. Those were indeed flocculent organic matter, which fell from the giant whale and were thrown into the high water layer by it.

But there is no such shocking whale fall in the world, which can make [Snowflakes] roll back to [Sky], and [Stars] flow back to [Tianhe].

It’s like the gods are merciful to all living beings.

“see it?”

Seeing that Shenxiu’s voice was shrill like a child’s under the influence of helium, but no one in the channel laughed at his tone. Everyone was shocked by the scene in front of them, and looked at it in a daze.

“[Earth] falls to [sky] with snow.”

He said softly, as if sighing, and as if he was talking about a topic that was mentioned before.

“…I saw it.”

After a long silence. The slightly low-pitched answer from the white-haired boy finally sounded on the channel.

“It’s a really big, big hand.”