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In response to my questioning, Zhang Tian flipped his hand and took out a small miner's lamp from somewhere.
"You're right." He sighed in embarrassment, then smiled at me and began to check his water. "I shouldn't have taken a risk with you. Then stay here and see you later."
Seeing him start to be polite to me, I took a deep breath, a little bit incredulous: "Seriously? Reorganize your words."
He looked at me, maintaining the same smile, his expression unchanged.
My heart sank and I knew he was not joking.
So, I took a step back, bargained with him, and said sincerely that I would be a ruthless lighting machine. If he died, at least I could mourn him on the spot and see him off to the end of his life.
"Well, that's a good idea."
Zhang Tianyi actually paused for a moment, nodded approvingly at me, and seemed to be relieved again: "Ranran, you have really grown up and become sensible."
Even though he seemed to agree, the tone he used was just a casual remark to please me.
Damn, this is not my brother, he is a stubborn psychopath who can’t be pulled back by eight bulls.
I was really furious, but then he said that there was a backpack he brought with him in the grass nest on the shore. His changed clothes, equipment and communication tools were all in it.
I was stunned, and suddenly a surge of hope arose in my heart.
What do you mean? I'm still stuck in the water, and I'm a landlubber. He was explaining the equipment on the shore to me. Did he have any arrangements for me to cooperate with? Or was he just exploring the way and would take me to the shore later, and I was too anxious and misunderstood the "see you later"?
Since I couldn't escape this job, I calmed down and thought that I could still tolerate him being a lone hero for another five minutes.
He couldn't just leave me in the water to die, with all that shit still on my head and back.
I saw him tie the small mining lamp behind his waist, tie the wrists and ankles of the floating object, and swim around me. I don't know what he did, but I felt that the floating object I was leaning on had become much more stable.
He reached out his hand again, and this time he handed me a small folded stool.
I was stunned, took it blankly, and felt a little dazed.
At this point I must describe my situation:
Because of the things behind my back and head, even though I was wrapped in a blanket, I was basically lying on the floating object with my four legs in the air like a stupid seal. I even listened to the whole story in such a funny way. In the middle, I didn't complain at all, and I didn't choke to death when eating compressed biscuits.
Now, my brother gave me a stool. What does that mean? Should I put it on my head?
There was a moment when I really thought about it very seriously. Is there actually an inconvenient "lake" or "seal" legend that requires me to sacrifice my personal image? Should I start heading the ball and applauding immediately?
Just as I was trying to think, without any prior warning, he dived into the water with the sound of water moving, and there seemed to be a faint smile on his face.
"Zhang Tianyi!" I was startled and immediately came to my senses, cursing loudly. The shadow in the water swam like a fish to the pile of tangled tree roots.
At this time, the body's reaction was faster than the emotions. My light arrived immediately. This guy still had some conscience, so he pushed aside the floating corpses and those floating aerial roots that were blocking the way, allowing me to observe them carefully.
Unlike the extremely pale and swollen banyan tree above, and also different from the floating black aerial roots with corpses attached to the side, I immediately realized that the color and material of the large mass below seemed to be wrong.
It was a slightly darker black-grey color, very heavy in the water, and the entire bottom of the water was also extremely dark and deep. The light shining on it seemed to be swallowed up a little, unable to move forward.
I subconsciously murmured: "...Stone?"
Zhang Tianyi gently hung it on it at the same time, and began to exert force with his fingers. Sure enough, he broke off a small piece directly, but it seemed to have a very crisp texture and turned into powder when pinched.
At the same time, I don’t know if it was the interference of the underwater light, but I felt that there seemed to be something transparent and tiny twisting in the powder under the light.
I reminded him loudly, but he didn't turn around. He just raised his hand to indicate that he understood.
Then, as he destroyed it, a gap half the size of a person appeared on the "stone" that was as big as a house. The broken part made my back start to feel cold.
Because it was sticky and a creepy blue color.
The color was very unpleasant, not moss or algae or anything moldy, but I had a strong sense of familiarity with it, and I was sure I had seen it a short time ago.
But cyan, cyan, what could be this color? Impossible, the colors I was most exposed to were pale and those bright colors like poison, the impressions were extremely vivid, and there was absolutely no cyan.
While he was thinking hard, Zhang Tianyi had already put half of his body inside. He pushed his entire center of gravity backward and pulled out an unconscious body like pulling a carrot.
He pushed away the mud that had not yet completely peeled off the man's face, stared at the face for a while to identify it, then let go and pushed the man to the surface of the water.
I just felt a flash, and seemed to see scattered blue on that person, but it disappeared immediately, as if it was just an illusion.
A few minutes later, the unconscious body was pushed directly next to me, and I could still see strands of "hair" stuck to his body, all the way to the deep end of the rock at the bottom of the water.
"I'll send everyone up first, don't let him deal with it."
Zhang Tianyi gave a brief instruction and replaced the oxygen bag that came with the water bank, saying that rashly breaking the tree roots might alarm the big guys below.
I immediately grabbed him and reminded him of the anomaly. He seemed to have known about it for a long time, nodded his head and said strangely that this was normal and I would understand it later.
I frowned, not knowing where this judgment came from, but still worriedly said, "Then leave the person in the water, don't leave the water yet."
As for how to keep the person in the water, I was still thinking about it for a while, when I felt my arm get cold, and my arm was dragged out from the blanket, and then a sticky and cold thing was stuffed into my hand.
"Okay, I'll leave it to you."
After saying that, he turned around and dived into the water again.
I suspected that he did it on purpose, and I stared in amazement as I pulled the ball of "hair". I watched the human body floating up and down in the water, occasionally hitting my calves.
No, a normal human body should sink to the bottom. What is this thing? Is it really still alive?
I was having difficulty moving, and was afraid of tearing the thin aerial roots by using too much force. After a lot of effort, I finally put my hand on the body, sweating all over.
During this process, I pressed on this guy who was already a little swollen and wrinkled, and found that his chest was abnormally swollen, as if there was something underneath.
The man was still alive. Not only was his chest rising and falling slightly, but his breathing was also obvious, just like that of someone pulling a broken cart.
After peeling off the mud shell, it seemed that some capillaries on the face and back of the hands were broken, and there were also some small torn wounds, which looked really miserable.
After confirming that it was a living person, I had time to look at his face. I was immediately happy and relieved.
This is Xiao Liu.
Although Zhang Tianyi, no, my reliable and steady elder brother had said before that the person could still be saved, but now that I saw with my own eyes that he was safe and sound, the feeling was completely different.
While I was checking, ripples appeared on the water surface and bodies of people floated up one by one like boiled dumplings, slowly moving closer to me along the current.
I waved the stool and used the legs to hook the roots one by one. I pulled the aerial roots of the people one by one and gathered them in my hands, while I still lay on my back with my arms and legs spread out with my belly facing the sky.
The scene was so bizarre and ridiculous, yet also had a hint of indescribable eeriness, that it reminded me of the human head balloons in a classic cartoon, except that now the heads were still attached to their bodies and my hands.
When I thought about it this way, I felt a little scared again.
However, the speed of work underwater had obviously been accelerated. I also roughly counted and saw that Captain Wildcat and his men seemed to be all there, but Zhang Tianyi never surfaced.
There is still a senior six, and one more senior six is not here.
I patiently waited for a few more minutes, but the time limit had obviously exceeded the oxygen content allowed for diving. I remembered that the oxygen bag could not last that long, and my heart suddenly sank.
But there was no blood, not a single speck of blood floating on the water.
The densely floating human bodies around me blocked my vision, making it completely impossible for me to observe underwater.
I felt something was wrong.
The current situation seems to be deliberately designed to stabilize me and make me feel at ease.
Are you kidding? I'm still trapped in the water. This is impossible.
Just as I was getting anxious, I heard a wow, someone woke up, and his body suddenly sank. He immediately paddled in the water to stabilize himself, and then his chest moved, and he suddenly vomited out a bunch of transparent, wriggling things. The pile of things disappeared in the water like insect eggs. I was shocked and immediately turned on the mining lamp to the maximum. Then the guy kept vomiting, and finally vomited until only stomach acid was left. He kept retching, and tears kept flowing.
As soon as the light came on, I felt cold all over and found that those things that were spit out were also thin tree roots. They twisted in the water and began to gradually harden and turn black.
The guy vomited for a long time, wiped his face with a dizzy feeling, and vaguely saw me. He looked at my weird appearance, as if in a dream: "... Consultant?"
Yes, this Tibetan fox face with a lucky and long life is a square mastiff.
I nodded. I really didn't have time to reminisce with him, so I asked him to press down on the others to induce vomiting immediately.
He was still very weak after just waking up and didn't know what had happened. He responded subconsciously, but at the same time he couldn't help scratching his chest, wondering why it was so itchy.
Before I could stop him, my back felt numb, and I saw him lift up his clothes. The skin under his bulging chest was stretched to be somewhat transparent, and there was something foamy underneath, with countless transparent tree roots entwined and surging inside. Finally, a few branches stretched out and circled around his back and behind his head, as if a suit of armor had grown on his flesh.
What frightened me the most was that at that moment I saw faint traces of dried blood on the tiny cracks on his skin.
Suddenly, I had an absurd answer. The sporadic blue flashes under the water and the blue on the broken edge of the huge "stone" made me know what it was.
It's blood.
The distance that light can reach is limited. Most of the light will be absorbed after about ten meters. By about one hundred and fifty meters, there is basically no light that can reach.
Therefore, in deep water, the red light almost disappears, and the blood actually appears a dark green.
The fleeting blue color I saw on Xiao Liu's body was just a few drops of blood. After floating up, it turned back to red and I ignored it.
Then the underwater scene was reconstructed in my mind, and it gave me chills.
In other words, the lake bottom and the black and gray stones that I thought were very shallow were actually infinitely shortened the moment Zhang Tianyi swam over. He suddenly dived into a deep water where even blood could only appear green.
And that "stone" that seemed so huge to me, almost the same size as a house, was probably countless times larger than I had imagined because of the distance.
And the surface of that "stone"...
I took a deep breath and tensed up. My brain told me that it was not stone. It was something huge and translucent, with sticky blood coagulating inside.
Zhang Tianyi opened a hole in the water, went in and pulled my companions out. At this time, the water surface and the bottom were silent, and there was no change.
Fang Ao looked at me in horror, stuttering a little: "Advisor, you, what were you talking about just now..."
He paused, and immediately said in shock that it was impossible. If this was the case, people would become extremely small in it, so how could I see them at their normal size? No one can ignore the distance and not change the size of their body.
After saying that, he immediately froze, speechless and looked at me in horror.
"...Yes, there is. We have seen this kind of scene before."
I murmured, a chill creeping up my body. "That's what people in the fog are like."
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