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Volume One: The Lotus Buds Just Begin to Emerge, Chapter Twenty-Eight: Ferocious Beasts in the Water
Both Li Junjie and the black man were quite surprised to see the broken nylon rope!
This specially made nylon rope can withstand a weight of 20,000 kilograms, which is a massive 20 tons! Even cutting it with a knife wouldn't be so easy.
There is no doubt that the people who went down were in danger, but it is unknown what caused the nylon rope to break.
Sweat beaded on Fu Tianlai's forehead. His only worry was Fu Ying. If the mission could be completed, that would be great. If it couldn't be completed, there was nothing that could be done. But at this moment, nothing was more important than his granddaughter Fu Ying!
Even if you're in a hurry, there's nothing you can do but wait by the entrance to the water cave.
The moment Zhou Xuan's body completely sank into the water, even through the diving suit, he still felt a chill all over his body. He immediately turned on the diving light switch above his head and looked down. The five people below had also turned on their diving lights, and the beams of light from the lights in the water were crisscrossing and swaying back and forth.
The water cave is shaped like a triangle, with the top being the apex, widening as you descend. When Zhou Xuan had descended three or four meters along the rock wall, he could feel a surging undercurrent flowing from west to east. It was invisible to the naked eye, but there were clearly two circular openings, each two or three meters in diameter, at the east and west ends. The rapid current flowed out from the west opening and in from the east opening, so he had to be careful, or he might get caught in the undercurrent and be in trouble.
Zhou Xuan carefully pulled the safety belt off the nylon rope and descended, circulating the icy energy from his left hand throughout his body several times, without feeling any discomfort.
The water above his head swayed slightly. Zhou Xuan looked up and saw another person coming down. He glanced at the blindfold and saw that the eyes were bright and pretty. Zhou Xuan recognized them. It was Fu Ying!
Unexpectedly, Fu Ying still went into the water!
To be honest, Zhou Xuan admired Fu Ying quite a bit. As a young lady from a very wealthy family, she was no less courageous or talented than any man. What Zhou Xuan admired most about her was that he couldn't find a trace of the affected mannerisms typical of rich girls in Fu Ying.
Fu Ying waved to Zhou Xuan as a greeting. Zhou Xuan waited a moment, letting Fu Ying dive to about the same distance as him before they both dived down.
When they dived to a depth of thirty or forty meters, the seven people were not far apart, and their lights shone on each other, but none of them could see the edges of the other sides. The underwater world was incredibly vast.
Furthermore, because there is no light at all underwater, everyone can only rely on the light from the diving lights on their heads for illumination, unlike in the ocean in New York, where there is still light penetrating even when you dive to a depth of one or two meters.
However, there is an advantage to going deeper: the water at the bottom no longer has any undercurrents, which can be seen under the beam of light. Some transparent fish, about four or five inches long, swim by in the water, and their bones can be clearly seen under the light.
At this point, the nylon rope attached to the seatbelt began to hinder their movement. Since there were no underwater currents and they didn't consider the danger of being swept away, Itoh was the first to unbuckle his seatbelt, and then the Wolf brothers also unbuckled theirs.
Zhou Xuan glanced at his watch; the diving depth was 67 meters. He couldn't tell exactly how deep it was, but the pressure was nowhere near as great as in the ocean.
Zhou Xuan just wanted to dive to the bottom of the water to see if there were any yellow stones. Fu Ying, who was next to him, was very interested in a transparent fish that swam in front of them. She reached out and slowly touched it. Under the light, the fish's eyes seemed to be unable to see anything at all. When Fu Ying's hand touched its body, the fish suddenly jumped up and swam away.
Zhou Xuan also unfastened the safety buckle, and Elena, Ono Yuriko, and Fu Ying also unfastened theirs, spreading out slightly in all directions.
Except for Ito, who descended a little faster, the other six were not far apart.
It had been about five or six minutes since they went into the water, and the quiet underwater had nothing to do with the danger Fu Tianlai had mentioned. None of the seven people who had gone down felt any danger.
As Zhou Xuan was still thinking this, he suddenly felt some turbulence in the water. He immediately steadied himself and observed whether there were any hidden currents or underground rivers.
Since absorbing the new ice energy from the yellow stone last night, Zhou Xuan's sensory abilities have become much stronger than before. As soon as he stabilized his body and focused his mind, he immediately sensed that the turbulent water flow was coming from his right front.
Zhou Xuan glanced to the right and saw Wolf and the Daniel brothers on this side. The light shone on the water, and a huge black shadow was rushing towards them at high speed about ten meters ahead.
Zhou Xuan was startled and shouted at the Wolf brothers, only to realize that they couldn't hear him at all!
In fact, the Wolf brothers saw it themselves, and both of them aimed their crossbows at the dark figure, but they were immediately swept away by the water stirred up by the dark figure.
Zhou Xuan could see clearly from behind that the black shadow had rushed very close in an instant. Its long and huge mouth was open, and the teeth inside were interlocked and gleaming with a cold white light. Each tooth was the size of a fist. It had four legs, and its legs and body were covered with scales. Its whole body was almost seven or eight meters long!
Zhou Xuan was stunned. He had no doubt that this thing could swallow the Wolf brothers whole!
In a moment of crisis, Wolf fired his crossbow. The alloy steel arrow struck the monster's head, but only knocked off a scale, which then fell to the bottom of the water along with the arrow.
Daniel was even more flustered than his brother Wolf. He spun halfway through the swirling water and fired an arrow without aiming, but the arrow hit Fu Ying behind him!
Zhou Xuan was shocked and reached out to pull the swaying Fu Ying to his side. The arrow struck Fu Ying's right wrist, piercing through it.
Through the blindfold, one could see that sweat was seeping from the corners of Fu Ying's eyes, clearly indicating that she was in extreme pain.
Ignoring Fu Ying's pain, Zhou Xuan pulled her back, and the huge monster had already swallowed Wolf whole!
The horror of swallowing a tall man, over 1.8 meters tall, alive is indescribable!
Daniel was terrified and hurriedly grabbed the rope to swim upwards. The monster opened its mouth wide and charged at him again. Zhou Xuan saw Wolf's two legs still stuck in its throat!
Without thinking twice, Zhou Xuan dragged Fu Ying down with all his might. When they reached the bottom, they saw Ono Yuriko and Elena also rushing down.
The monster missed its target, but its massive body, seven or eight meters long, stirred up a rapid and violent current of water. Zhou Xuan's sinking body couldn't maintain its balance, but in that instant of tilting, he looked up and saw the monster's two fist-sized nostrils. He roughly aimed his crossbow in his right hand and pulled the trigger with all his might. The powerful arrow left a white trail in the water and shot into the monster's nostrils in an instant!
The monster roared and spun around. Its long tail swirled, and the tip struck Zhou Xuan's crossbow. Zhou Xuan's hand jolted, and one of his arms went numb as if he had been electrocuted. He dropped the crossbow, which sank into the water and disappeared in an instant.
Fortunately, the monster seemed to have poor eyesight. Although it was stirring in the water, it didn't see the people sinking. Daniel, who was desperately swimming upwards with the nylon rope, was getting less and less able to swim. The swaying rope wrapped around the monster's body. The monster, feeling restricted, suddenly opened its mouth and bit the rope. With a twist of its head, the nylon rope, which could withstand a weight of twenty tons, was instantly bitten through!
Daniel panicked even more and swam upwards with all his might. Before he even reached the dark current, the monster had already rushed up and opened its huge mouth, biting Daniel in two. One half was in its mouth, dripping with blood, while the other half was swept into the dark current of the underground river and quickly disappeared into the dark cave to the east!
What the hell is that monster?
It looks a bit like a crocodile, but crocodiles aren't this big, are they? A crocodile's mouth is also quite different from this monster's, and crocodiles don't seem to be able to survive in such cold water!
Zhou Xuan dragged Fu Ying down with his left hand, trying his best to dive deeper, because he saw the monster turn around and swim down again.
When life and death are at stake, there's no time to think. Elena and Yuriko Ono also dived desperately into the water. Ito had already seen them and was lying in wait by the rock wall with his crossbow.
The monster charged backward with its mouth wide open. Just as it reached the spot where Ito was crouching, Ito pulled the trigger. The powerful arrow shot into the monster's mouth, piercing through its skull and going straight into its brain!
The powerful arrow couldn't penetrate the monster's body, but its mouth was a soft spot. When the arrow pierced its brain, it immediately tumbled violently a few times before going limp and sinking motionless into the water.
It was clear that Ito's arrow was fatal; the monster was dead!
Thick blood gushed from the monster's mouth, and because its body was so heavy, it sank very quickly.