Chapter 447 Snake Group
The fleet set sail again and headed towards the original direction of Yunhai City.
The wind was too strong and not suitable for diving, so Xia Xiaoman and his team could only sail slowly based on their feel and use the underwater searchlight on the bottom of the ship to check the terrain ahead.
The searchlight has a limited shooting distance. In turbid water conditions, it can only see within 20 meters. In order to avoid hitting the mountain, Xia Xiaoman and his team could only drive forward carefully.
After driving for almost a whole day, Xia Xiaoman and his companions finally entered the territory of Yunhai City.
"What is that? Water plants?" Wang Shijin pointed at the green objects floating on the water in front of him.
Xia Xiaoman took out a telescope and looked at the floating objects on the water. After just one look, Xia Xiaoman's scalp went numb, "Let everyone be alert, that's not water grass, it's a snake, a water snake!"
Wang Shijin's face changed drastically when he heard that. There were densely packed green floating objects in front of him. If these floating objects were water snakes, then how many snakes would there be in the water!
Wang Shijin did not dare to delay and quickly sounded the alarm, putting everyone on alert.
The water snakes gathered on the water are emerald green all over, with diamond-shaped, slightly flat heads, and you can tell at a glance that they are highly poisonous.
Watching the ship slowly sail into the snake swarm, Xia Xiaoman's heart was in his throat. There were at least hundreds of snakes in the water, if not thousands. If all of them crawled onto the ship, they wouldn't be able to stop them even with machine guns and cannons.
Compared to Xia Xiaoman's nervousness, Maodan seemed very calm, and even had the mood to roar and provoke the water surface. The snakes gathered together on the water surface raised their heads to look at Maodan, then lazily shrank back, not taking Maodan seriously at all.
Su Ran had been bitten by a snake before, and seeing the densely packed snakes, he suddenly felt dizzy and all the hair on his body stood up. He looked at Xia Xiaoman and said in a frivolous tone: "Sister Xiaoman, do you want to shoot?"
Xia Xiaoman shook her head. "No, these snakes are not attacking us, so don't do anything for now."
The green snakes were lazily basking in the sun on the water. When they saw the ship approaching, they swam to the side with some unhappiness, but did not show any attacking behavior. Until the ship left the snake group, the green snakes did not react much.
Xia Xiaoman saw Xie Yi walking towards the stern of the ship and stopped him. "What are you going to do?"
Xie Yi said, "I want to catch a snake and bring it back to the underground city for research in the laboratory."
"No!" Xia Xiaoman refused. "These snakes didn't attack us and gave way to us, which shows that they have a certain degree of intelligence. If you catch the snakes, they may attack the ship. If something happens, can you be responsible?"
Xie Yi frowned, "The IQ of these snakes shouldn't be that high! But I only caught one."
"Not even one. When you complete the mission and return, you can tell the laboratory the location of these snakes and let them catch them themselves."
These snakes were different from the mutants, who attacked them on their own initiative. They took two corpses back as trophies. But these snakes did not attack them, and their current performance showed that these snakes were intelligent. If they caught the snakes and caused the snakes to go berserk, it would be a loss.
Seeing that Xia Xiaoman insisted on not allowing him to catch snakes, Xie Yi had to give up the idea.
After safely passing the snake area, Xia Xiaoman breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that it was almost 12 o'clock in the morning, Xia Xiaoman asked someone to drive the boat to a safer place to stop and rest.
After a day of extreme mental tension, Xia Xiaoman fell asleep soon after lying in bed.
I don't know how long I slept, but suddenly a wolf howl sounded beside my ears. Xia Xiaoman frowned in her sleep. Why is there a wolf howl in her dream? Wolf howl? Wolf howl!
Xia Xiaoman sat up without even opening his eyes and put on the shielding suit next to him. Li Yu'e and the others had already woken up, and when they saw Xia Xiaoman putting on the shielding suit, they followed suit.
Before the shielding suit was put on, the ship suddenly shook violently. Xia Xiaoman stumbled to help Maodan put on the shielding suit and oxygen mask, and then ran out quickly.
Xia Xiaoman thought that some creature was attacking the ship, so he ran out and found that there were no living creatures around, but the mountains on both sides were sinking rapidly.
The mountain sank, and many rocks and soil fell into the water, causing waves, and the ship swayed violently with the waves.
Xia Xiaoman looked at the people who were on guard today, "What happened? Why did the mountains on both sides collapse?"
The other party shook his head blankly, "I don't know either. There was no sign. I just felt the ship shake, and then the mountains on both sides began to sink."
Xia Xiaoman wanted to ask him some more questions, but before he could open his mouth, he heard Sun Qing pointing in a direction and shouting excitedly: "Look, are those mutants?"
Upon hearing this, Xia Xiaoman looked in the direction of her finger and saw a dozen mutants stumbling down one of the mountains. They ran to a cliff and jumped into the water.
"Will those mutants attack us? Xiaoman, should we strike first?" Sun Qing looked at Xia Xiaoman.
Xia Xiaoman frowned, "Wait and see, there's no rush."
There was still half of the guns and ammunition left on the ship, so she tried to use them as sparingly as possible, otherwise she was afraid that they would run out and she would have to sit and wait for death if an emergency occurred later.
Xia Xiaoman took out a telescope and looked towards the place where the mutants jumped into the water. After watching for a while, she found a familiar face among the mutants.
"Wang Shijin! Wang Shijin, come here and see if there is anyone you know among the mutants?" Xia Xiaoman shouted loudly.
When Wang Shijin heard her voice, he quickly ran over and took the telescope to look in the direction Xia Xiaoman pointed. After taking a look, he said with a strange expression, "How could Fu Baiwei become a mutant? And appeared in Yunhai City."
Xia Xiaoman said, "Do you also think that mutant is Fu Baiwei?"
Wang Shijin nodded. "Although there are changes on her face, I think it is her. Do you want to sail over to save her?"
Xia Xiaoman shook her head and said, "We are on a different side from her, and she may not want us to save her."
As they were talking, the mountains on both sides had sunk to the point where only a small mound of earth remained above the water.
After the mountain sank into the water, the water surface gradually calmed down. The dozen or so mutants had already discovered the ship in the water and were swimming towards them.
Xia Xiaoman picked up his rifle and fired a shot in the direction of the dozen mutants. Then he took out a loudspeaker and shouted at them, "We are the official exploration team of Floating City. Please leave immediately and don't come near, otherwise we will fire at you!"
When Xiao Zheyu heard Xia Xiaoman's nonsensical warning, he couldn't help laughing, "Sister Xiaoman, your warning is not domineering at all. Why don't you let Officer Xie try? He is a professional after all."
Xia Xiaoman glanced at him without saying anything. She took out a loudspeaker to warn the mutant. Her purpose was to let Fu Baiwei recognize her voice and leave on her own accord. It was not a real warning.
Sure enough, Fu Baiwei, who was paddling in the water, heard Xia Xiaoman's voice. She looked at the ship with a complicated look, turned around and slowly left with the dozen mutants.
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