Chapter 73 Chapter 73 (Update) The Tost Giant Squid Reappears...
As the GoPro footage penetrated deeper and deeper into the seabed, the scenes seen by those who had been in the sea before began to emerge.
First is the shallowest ocean, the endless blue, which at this time is still a comfortable blue that makes people's pores open instantly.
You can also vaguely see the cables they placed layer by layer on the sea surface. From the bottom of the sea, they look like big bubbles one after another, full of a sense of danger. I think this is also the reason why the monsters are reluctant to approach easily.
However, the shallow ocean is only a small area after all. The monsters under the sea will not easily come to the surface of the shallow ocean. The deep sea is their most comfortable area.
As Shifang chattered about his previous diving experiences, Chang Ruijia kept lowering the rope in her hand, and the color of the sea water began to gradually darken.
Until, only a little bit of the sea surface could be vaguely seen through the light leaking from the upper layer.
"Oh, why is it becoming increasingly difficult to see clearly?" Zhang Rui wiped the screen of his mobile phone and squinted his eyes to watch the gradually changing picture.
"You don't understand this," Shifang boasted. "The ocean below isn't as clear and transparent as those snorkeling videos you saw before. The deep sea is a mysterious and fascinating place."
Seeing Zhang Rui seeming to be irritated by his boastful tone, Shi Fang hurriedly explained seriously, "Normal people usually dive to around ten meters. Professionals can dive above fifteen, but not to twenty or thirty. But look at that bundle of rope in Sister Chang's hand. It's at least several hundred meters long. This isn't the ocean you normally think of."
"The color of the seawater is all due to the reflection of sunlight. The farther away from the sea surface, the less light the seawater absorbs and reflects. At a certain distance underwater, there is not even any light at all. That is where there is true darkness."
Shi Fang, who was seriously teaching science, had a kind of handsome and serious teacher-like manner. Even Zhang Rui, who was used to arguing with him, couldn't help but be fascinated by him as he talked.
"What do you think? Do I know a lot?" Looking at the dazed Zhang Rui, Shifang suddenly leaned forward slightly, lifted his bangs and said confidently.
"Who, who said that! You're so greasy, you talk so much as if you know more!" Zhang Rui turned his face away and spoke loudly, stuttering under Shifang's burning gaze.
However, Zhang Rui blushed unconsciously when he turned around.
"Be careful, monsters may appear at any time in the deep sea!"
Chang Ruijia's words broke the unspeakable atmosphere between the two people. Shifang, who wanted to say something else, swallowed his words back and waved his fist in frustration, but also attracted everyone's attention.
One meter, two meters...
With every subsequent distance, Chang Ruijia was extremely careful, fearing that she would accidentally miss the appearance of the underwater monster.
Everyone's heart was hanging in the balance, and the surroundings fell into an eerie silence.
Finally, a dark shadow successfully entered the camera!
Perhaps Lu Baian and the others had not disturbed the monster's activities before, or perhaps the monster had already fed its stomach. When the monster saw this object that was obviously not from the deep sea, it did not directly swallow the GoPro into its stomach like the one Chang Ruijia had encountered before.
"Here it comes!" Lu Baian, holding the GoPro video playback app, reminded in a low voice.
Maybe they were afraid that the monster would hear their voices through the GoPro, but everyone held their breath and didn't dare to disturb the monster circling around the GoPro.
"Closer, closer, closer and you will be able to see the monster's appearance." Yu Jianyi muttered softly at the side, but he expressed what everyone was thinking.
The light under the sea was too dim. If the monster could get closer, they would be able to see its specific appearance clearly.
Chang Ruijia, who was controlling the GoPro rope, was the one who exerted the most energy, but looking at the monster that was just circling around in the picture but not getting closer, she still pursed her lips and exerted slight force to make it move slightly under the sea.
The rope controlling the GoPro was too long, and Chang Ruijia didn't dare to use too much force on it. By the time Long Lili reached the bottom of the sea along the rope, several minutes had passed.
The people waiting at this end could see that the scene under the sea suddenly shook and kept swaying within a limited range.
Getting closer and closer.
Watching the scenes where the wandering monsters occasionally approached, everyone's heart became excited, and they held their breath waiting for the final result.
Finally, a figure darker than the ocean without a trace of light approached the GoPro screen. It was a monster of huge size!
The part of the GoPro that is close to it looks like a huge eyeball, staring at the thing that is infinitely small in comparison.
Before Chang Ruijia and the others could scream in surprise at the monster's stare, the monster, as if it had discovered something interesting, grabbed the GoPro tied with a rope and kept wrapping it around it under the sea.
"Hah~" Looking at the violently shaking scene, Zhong Yuan couldn't bear the pain anymore, so he climbed to the edge of the floating object and couldn't help but retching a few times.
The shaking scene was even more unbearable than the previous huge storm on the sea. Even Shifang, who had a good ability to accept various things, couldn't help but suppress his rebellious stomach.
Looking at the fragmentary information transmitted from the screen, Lu Baian did not force everyone to continue to endure such a scene. After confirming that it was correct, he directly disconnected from GoPro.
Seeing the image finally stop at a black screen, the other people who had been holding back were finally able to relax and lie down on the floating objects, facing the clear blue sky and slowly calming their bodies.
Chang Ruijia didn't expect such a situation to happen. According to her assumption, the worst case scenario would be that she would be swallowed by the monster fish. Who knew that it would cause such a series of reactions.
However, thinking of the parts of the monster that she had just vaguely seen in the picture, Chang Ruijia nodded with some understanding. If the monster fish was of this species, such a scene would not be surprising.
"Are you all recovered?" Lu Baian also calmed down for a while, looked at the groaning figures who fell on the floating objects with no desire to live, and finally spoke.
"Okay," Shifang nodded. "I never dreamed that my momentary brilliance would end up on a GoPro. It's truly unjust."
"Come on, you're not smart at all..." Even when Zhang Rui was arguing with Shi Fang, her voice sounded a little weak. It was obvious that the scene just now had caused her too much harm.
"It's okay if you've recovered. Now let's discuss the fragments of information we just saw and see if we can come up with something."
Lu Baian had no intention of letting them continue their bickering. Chang Ruijia rushed back and came directly to tell them the news. Now that they had been delayed for so long, it would be better to finish it early so that she could return to her place and have a good rest.
If Zhang Rui, Shi Fang and others knew what Lu Baian was thinking at the moment, they would probably spit at him for "valuing women over friends". Unfortunately, they knew nothing and could only sit up immediately after hearing what Lu Baian said.
"I don't know much," Zhong Yuan said, reacting most strongly to the scene. Although he calmed down for a moment, he still felt a little uncomfortable. "All I could see was that pair of giant eyes."
"It's okay, it's okay," Zhang Rui looked at the frail little girl with a distressed look, "It's okay as long as you can see this little bit. It's not like we weren't staring at the screen. We also remembered other things."
Shi Fang rarely argued with Zhang Rui. "That's right, listen to your sister Rui, have a good rest, and listen to us talk about other discoveries."
"I'm old and my eyesight isn't good, so I didn't see much, but I vaguely thought I saw a huge suction cup flash across the camera." Yu Jianyi touched his chin and said as he recalled.
"Yes, I saw it too," Shifang nodded. "If there's anything else, it seems like something long and thick passed by when the suction cup appeared."
"Something thick and long?" Lu Baian had been operating the mobile phone and video in his hand. His examination of these things was not as complete as others. Now when he heard this adjective, he was a little hesitant and recalled in his head whether he had seen this thing before.
Seeing that several people had said almost all the information they could, Chang Ruijia waited for a while and interrupted their desperate attempts to recall without waiting for others to say more information.
"I think I should know what that thing is under the sea." Chang Ruijia's words attracted everyone's attention, and they waited for her to continue with a serious look on their faces. "It's a creature called the Atavistic Toster Giant Squid."
Tost Giant Squid?
This term is really rare for other people. Obviously, no one has ever heard of this name in real life. But it makes sense. How common can something be with the word "atavism"?
But, giant squid?
"What does it have to do with squid?" Shi Fang asked Chang Ruijia with curiosity.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he said this, Shifang looked up and saw that everyone else was looking at him, with disapproval on their faces. However, he seemed to vaguely see some approval in their eyes.
It seems that this group of people have wanted to ask this question for a long time.
"I'm not sure, but I think they're closely related," Chang Ruijia replied, ignoring the others' curious looks. "I caught this monster fish more than once before it disappeared from the sea. Apart from its seven or eight-meter-long body, it looks just like the grilled squid you see at the night market."
"Hahahahahahahahaha," as if they were amused by Chang Ruijia's expressionless words, and the scene that should have been a serious discussion about the monster fish under the sea was suddenly filled with bursts of laughter.
"Then it seems that the monster fish from before has reappeared without a doubt," Lu Baian managed to get the topic back on track, "but it's obvious that we have never seen this kind of monster before."
"Isn't that natural?" Shifang rolled his eyes. "Who among us can be like Sister Chang? She was able to fight those monsters for three hundred rounds before, and even captured monsters like this more than once."
That's true, Lu Baian nodded, but before he could finish thinking about it, he heard another voice.
"What's more, don't forget the previous storm. Although we connected all the floating objects and got through it safely, in that environment, how could we not even move? How could we still be in the same place?" Zhang Rui continued speaking along this line of thought, not noticing Lu Baian's hesitant look beside him.
Who had he provoked? Lu Baian rubbed his head with a headache. These two usually fought like a bunch of idiots, but how come they instantly united as a team when it came to him? He was addicted to arguing with him, wasn't he?
"It's a pity we couldn't see it clearly," said Yu Jianyi, who had just felt a little uncomfortable. "If we could see the specific appearance with our own eyes, maybe we could come up with some solutions."
If Yu Jianyi said he could think of a solution, then he could. The fact that Yu Jianyi, who usually didn't speak up, suddenly took on the task instantly unified everyone's opinions.
"If I could..." Zhang Rui looked at Chang Ruijia hesitantly, but didn't finish his words.
Judging from their previous attitude, any discerning person can see that once GoPro goes into the market, there will be no coming back.
But this kind of thing is always in high demand no matter where it is placed, especially at a time like this. No one can persuade Chang Ruijia to take out another such priceless thing just for their empty talk to come up with a solution.
"Why are you looking at me? If you want to see it, just watch it again!" Chang Ruijia held the only remaining GoPro in the storage box and looked at the other people's hesitant expressions.
She is not really heartless. She has not forgotten the previous ban on those people in group chats. Now it’s just a GoPro appearing every night. What is there for her to be reluctant about?
"Wow, I knew that Sister Xiao Chang is the best!" Zhong Yuan, who was feeling uncomfortable, ignored her discomfort and spoke excitedly.
These brothers and sisters, with their mouths like saw blades, couldn't even express their feelings to each other before. If I pointed my finger at them, I'm afraid that Sister Chang wouldn't even hear a word of thanks for her good intentions, and their efforts to make friends would be wasted.
As expected, the moment Zhong Yuan opened her mouth, the brothers and sisters who had "welded saw blades" immediately cast admiring glances at her.
It has to be Xiao Zhong!
"I know, I know, you little clever boy!" Chang Ruijia was not blind, so she could naturally see the exchange of glances between them. She smiled and nodded at Zhong Yuan's head from a distance.
He threw the phone to Lu Baian, and their subsequent operations seemed familiar.
Swapping, turning on the video, putting down the ropes, taking seasickness pills...
Uh, it seems like there's something weird mixed in there.
Having prepared herself mentally in advance, Chang Ruijia dared to quickly lower the rope when facing the monster under the sea this time. After all, it didn't seem easy for the giant squid to eat the GoPro in one bite. At most, it would just be entangled by its giant legs.
However, I don’t know if the previous GoPro disturbed the Toster giant squid. This time, Chang Ruijia didn’t even put the rope halfway down when she saw a huge figure rushing over.
"Look carefully!" Chang Ruijia warned immediately the moment she saw the shadow, "We may only have a moment."
"I understand!" The responses from the sea came one after another.
They were not the kind of people who would take advantage of an inch. It was already a luxury for them to let Chang Ruijia take out another set of equipment and go into the sea to see the true face of the monster. If they were distracted and couldn't even see its appearance clearly before the end, then they would be really heartless.
Moreover, the dangers under the sea are constantly changing. Who knows when the life of GoPro will end? They can't control the monster's actions.
But no one expected that the monster was so fast. Before the response voice was finished, a huge figure was already entangled with the GoPro and was speeding away.
A sigh came from the hearts of several people. They didn't expect that their luck would be so bad. Last time they at least saw part of the face, but this time there was only a giant leg left.
Zhang Rui, who had mentioned his previous experience in the adult entertainment industry, had already put down his phone. Looking at Chang Ruijia, who was still staring at the screen, he was about to take the initiative and offer some comfort, but unexpectedly, Zhong Yuan, who hadn't been able to bear it for long before, suddenly exclaimed, "There's an accident! The GoPro was released!"
What? Zhang Rui didn't bother to say anything more. He quickly picked up his phone and stared at the screen in front of him.
Previously, the GoPro was carried too close to the body of the giant squid. Now, even if it was suddenly released, as long as Chang Ruijia did not quickly retract the rope, she would be able to briefly capture some images.
They were helpless against the giant Tost squid before, but now their hands and feet seemed to be trembling as if facing a powerful enemy. They stared closely at what was in front of them and did not dare to relax at all.
"One, two, three, four..."
Shifang muttered that he had found nine legs pointing forward like grappling hooks. He didn't know what they saw, but the surrounding sea water seemed to have encountered some kind of vibration, and even began to ripple.
"Wait, what is that?!" Zhong Yuan looked at the animal that appeared in front of him and suddenly shouted, "Dolphin? Why do I feel like I saw a dolphin?!"
"You're not mistaken, it's a dolphin!" Lu Baian also looked at the picture carefully following Zhong Yuan's voice, and soon answered affirmatively.
"Oh my God, there are dolphins under this treacherous sea?" Zhang Rui looked at the picture on his phone in shock. With such a smooth body and sharp mouth, how could it not be a dolphin?
To everyone's shock, they saw the dolphins in the picture starting to play with the giant squid.
Relying on its small size, the dolphin was able to move around in the Tost's giant squid's nine legs at a very fast speed, almost forming a series of phantoms. The Tost's giant squid could only rage helplessly and had no way to deal with the dolphin.
As the GoPro continued to fall into the deep sea and was about to lose the image of the two giant beasts, several people could vaguely see that the Toster giant squid was directly entangled into a huge bow by the dolphins. No one knew who taught it to be so naughty.
"Oh my god, that dolphin is so amazing!" Zhong Yuan, who was usually calm, said excitedly, "It would be great if I could see that dolphin again."
Chang Ruijia silently held her forehead. How could she not recognize the dolphin that was playing with the Tost giant squid?
That was clearly Xiao Ai who was left outside by her!
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