Chapter 243: Survival at Sea Day 9 (3) Insulated Electric Eel
It will like you.
These words kept ringing in Hua Bie's ears, and he didn't even know how he walked back into the house.
After Huabie left, Xiaoguai, who was originally very interested in the cat toy that Yingying brought, also whimpered twice and walked back into the house with proud little steps. It was not known whether he was tired from playing or felt very proud of having driven the person away.
Looking at Xiaoguai walking away, Yingying felt very disappointed. She was just one step away from interacting with the cat.
Seeing Yingying's expression change and the look in her eyes like a dreamy cat, Yu Miaomiao jokingly consoled her, "Yingying, Xiaoguai has gone far away. You don't have to watch him anxiously anymore."
Yingying complained, "Wow, wow, Sister Meow, you can't understand the pain of someone like me who loves cats but is also allergic to them. In my old world, I loved going to catteries to see the cute cats, but every time I went, I'd get an allergic reaction and could only watch from afar. If I got too close, I'd even have an asthma attack. But I just spent quite a while with Xiaoguai, and I didn't feel any discomfort at all. I don't know if it's because Xiaoguai is in good health, or if he's just making me happy. Anyway, I really want to pet a cat!"
Yu Miaomiao: ...
Could this be because Xiaoguai has a good physique?
Isn't it because Xiaoguai is not an ordinary cat, so he might not be allergic?
As expected, as long as you want to pet a cat, nothing is a problem.
"What's wrong, Yingying?" Lulu walked over with sleepy eyes.
Just as the three of them were reminiscing about the past and discussing how to live together in the future, the middle float suddenly pushed up, interrupting their conversation, and the two boats tilted upward at the same time.
The three of them looked at each other, hurriedly grabbed the iron pillar, and divided the work.
Yu Miaomiao went back to the house to look after Xiaoguai and asked people on other servers about the situation. Lulu contacted people around her, and Yingying used all the equipment to survey the underwater situation.
As Lulu walked, she had already retracted the float between the two boats and tied the anti-collision tires that had been prepared long ago to the side of the boat.
There were also more than 20 tires placed next to Yu Miaomiao's boat at the beginning, which was just offset from Lulu's boat.
Two ships with different signatures cannot be directly connected. Unless Yu Miaomiao is willing to abandon her ship and go directly to Lulu's ship, there will always be a gap between the two ships.
Yu Miaomiao held on to the iron pillar all the way. Before she returned to the front of the house before the big waves shook her, she saw Xiaoguai coming out of the house.
After wearing the oxygen mask several times, Xiaoguai has learned how to flip the switch around his neck to take off this uncomfortable mask.
But it’s useless to just know how to take it apart, you also have to know how to put it on.
At this time, Yu Miaomiao's boat was swaying from side to side very obviously, even stronger than the breeze of the previous two days.
She had a gyro that could stabilize her, and this was the case even though the other ship had enough items loaded under it and was shaking even more noticeably than hers. What about the others?
Before she could find out about the situation of other people, Yu Miaomiao hurriedly picked up the oxygen mask that Xiaoguai had taken off the ground. Just as she was about to put it on him, she passed by Xiaoguai who rushed out of the house in an instant.
"Little darling! Come back! It's dangerous outside!"
She reached out and grabbed it, but it was empty.
Its speed was too fast for her to catch it. Although not as strong as it was at its peak, Xiaoguai was now more powerful than when they first met in the desert world.
As she chased after him, she could only see a fixed rope tied inside the room extending outward.
The rope kept rubbing against the boat, making a rustling sound, proving that Xiaoguai was still tied with it, and she felt relieved.
As she followed, she heard Yingying shout, "Sister Meow Meow, there's a monster underwater."
Lulu shouted simultaneously, "Chenchen, Dudu Dalei and his crew's boats were overturned by the waves, but luckily they have fixed ropes and life jackets, so no one is hurt. I'll make some weights for them."
Yu Miaomiao responded, "What monster is in the water? Any information?"
As soon as I asked, I saw Xiaoguai dive into the water like a flying sword, not caring at all about what was in the churning sea water, and not even leaving a word of cat language.
"Come back, little darling!!"
The boat was shaking violently. She grabbed the chain connected to Xiaoguai with one hand and held the iron pillar tightly with the other hand, trying to pull it out of the water.
Xiaoguai is so excited, there must be a monster or food in the water that he is very interested in.
But now the sea was as dark as if covered by a layer of gauze, and she couldn't see the situation in the water at all. She always felt that there was something wrong in the sea water. Yu Miaomiao's first reaction was to pull it up first.
If you can't pull it out, go down wearing an oxygen mask.
Yu Miaomiao warned herself not to be too anxious. She immediately bent her legs and leaned against the nearest iron pillar, pulling the chain hard while calling Xiaoguai non-stop.
Hua Bie was also trying to find out the situation when the waves rolled in. When he heard Yu Miaomiao's shout, he immediately ran out of the house. After hearing the question she had just asked, he hurriedly picked up the biological sensor and followed Yingying to shine around, trying to find the information Yu Miaomiao wanted to know as soon as possible.
When searching the sky, the two of them briefly explained the division of labor in the scanning areas, and browsed the latest news from around the world while scanning quickly.
A minute later, Hua Bie shouted, "It's an electric eel, an insulated electric eel. We can't sweep it out here. It's too deep. Someone from another district said it."
"I'll help you investigate the situation more clearly." Hua Bieyin started, and Yu Miaomiao said at the same time, "Please determine the monster's location and situation."
The two looked at each other tacitly. Yu Miaomiao had already put on her oxygen mask and was ready to go into the water at any time.
Hua Bie glanced at Miaomiao's situation and then said to Yingying, "Miaomiao seems to be pulling something. The underwater monster is too deep to be detected. I will go down to the sea to look for it first. You go and help her."
"Brother Huabie, you..." Before Yingying could say anything, she saw him running to the back of the cabin and disappeared.
The two of them had already swept back and forth on both sides of the float several times, but they couldn't sweep out anything, and there was no display on the screen.
All the people in the nearby waters were contacted. Even those who were forced to "take a bath" in the sea could not see the situation underwater clearly. Going into the sea was the only way Hua Bie could think of to find the monster.
Yingying looked along the end of the rope in Yu Miaomiao's hand and saw that the fixed rope that came out of the opposite house was already deep underwater. She immediately understood what was going on. She wondered why Brother Hua Bie asked her to help, so she anxiously asked the other side: "Sister Miaomiao, did Xiaoguai go into the sea just now?"
"Yes." Yu Miaomiao could feel from the rope that Xiaoguai was still diving and had no intention of coming up.
She has practiced with Xiaoguai several times and should have a tacit understanding. As long as she pulls the rope, she must come back unless there is an extreme situation.
But what are extreme cases?
When she just told Xiaoguai that her life was in danger, did Xiaoguai really understand?
Just when she felt the rope pulling downwards and her hands were aching, Yingying threw out a few floats from her bag. As the previous wave just fell, she jumped over from the opposite side one step after another neatly and stood behind Yu Miaomiao.
Yu Miaomiao turned sideways and saw Yingying grab the chain behind her.
"Sister Meow Meow, let me help you pull it." Yingying's face flushed red, she used all her strength in her hands, her eyes full of panic. This was the first time she had close contact with a cat, and it was such a well-behaved, great, and cute cat. She didn't want Xiaoguai to get hurt.
Yu Miaomiao really couldn't understand how someone who loved cats but couldn't get close to them felt, but looking at Yingying's shaking hands, she must have fallen in love with Xiaoguai at first sight, but more of a fear.
"Xiaoguai is a ferocious beast from the end times. He is both powerful and smart, so don't worry too much."
Yu Miaomiao said words of comfort, but she was a little hesitant in her heart. In fact, it seemed more like she was speaking to herself.
This was not the first time that Xiaoguai had insisted on going into the sea. He had also come with me when I wasn't paying attention, but the weather today was too weird. It was a typhoon that had never been seen in reality.
Probably sensing the movement on the water surface, Xiaoguai in the water did not continue to swim downwards. Instead, he stopped in the water, holding his breath and spinning in place.
Yu Miaomiao could feel the rope in her hand being deliberately twisted, as if beckoning her to get down.
As she said herself, Xiaoguai is powerful, even a dominant force. In the desert world, it is the absolute strongest. In the sea world, it is only limited by the lack of oxygen underwater. It is still very flexible in the water. She should believe Xiaoguai.
Yu Miaomiao released her hand, placed it over Yingying's, and said, "Yingying, I'm going downstairs to look for Xiaoguai. If anything unexpected happens, can you call someone to pull us up?"
Yingying looked a little confused. It seemed that there was no one around except herself. Was this brave little girl in front of her going to put her life and Xiaoguai's life in her hands?
Yu Miaomiao gave a few instructions, including what the signals meant, and that if she couldn't be pulled up, she could consider asking Chenchen for a hoist.
After finishing the long string of words, Yingying was still in a daze.
Yu Miaomiao waved her hand and asked, "Yingying, is it okay?"
Yingying recalled everything Miaomiao had just said, confirmed that there was no problem, and nodded solemnly.
After receiving a positive answer, Yu Miaomiao pulled the zipper again, confirmed Xiaoguai's general direction, and decided to give up riding in the underwater aerobic cabin. After all, this small cabin definitely could not accommodate Xiaoguai of such a large body.
After putting on all the equipment, Yu Miaomiao went into the water without hesitation.
She turned on the mining lamp and waist lamp she had picked up from Buqqian. The two small balls of light looked very small against the dark water.
The moment she entered the water, the waves only hit her for a second before returning to her original peace.
The jet device was turned on, and the body was drilling down hard, but there was no sense of resistance. Instead, the whole person rushed straight down and soon came to Xiaoguai's side.
There are limited searchlights in the water, especially in today's strange weather, the sea is so dark that there is almost no light, and the only lighting equipment Yu Miaomiao has is useless.
She and Xiaoguai now have more and more tacit understanding, and soon found Xiaoguai's figure in the water through the rope.
Looking at the familiar zebra tiger head, Yu Miaomiao's heart finally settled down. She took out a simple oxygen mask and put it on it.
Xiaoguai really didn't like this thing covering his head, so when he put it on, he subconsciously turned his head away and stretched out his claws to pull it open, but when he saw Yu Miaomiao's hands, he immediately retracted his hands.
After Yu Miaomiao drained the water from its mask with satisfaction, she used the light to gesture to Xiaoguai.
Fortunately, most of her previous communication with the animal was through gestures, so even though Yu Miaomiao couldn't hear its meow in the water and the animal couldn't hear her speak, Xiaoguai still understood through gestures that Yu Miaomiao wanted to take it back.
To be precise, Yu Miaomiao had already grabbed the back of its neck with one hand and was about to pull it upstream.
After understanding the human's intention, Xiaoguai immediately twisted his body and began to struggle. She had no choice but to let go and let the cat continue to swim downwards.
This place is bottomless, dark and there is no telling what monsters may be there. Getting into trouble with Xiaoguai will only make things more difficult.
Xiaoguai led the way in front, and Yu Miaomiao followed closely behind. They swam like this for almost 10 minutes. Until the rope was completely straightened and could not be stretched any further, Xiaoguai stopped.
Watching it flipping in the sea, stretching its claws to scratch the chain, and struggling with the fixed rope with its whole body, Yu Miaomiao understood that it had to continue going down.
It has to go there to find out what is at the bottom of the sea.
Insulated electric eel?
If it has an electric shock effect, we don’t know whether the diving suit on Yu Miaomiao is conductive or not. Can the little darling withstand the electric shock?
Moreover, it is insulated, which means that the electric baton she just got is useless. Bullets are useless, and the only things left are some bombs and cold weapons. How big is the electric eel that can stir up the sea water? Can she beat it?
The most important thing is that the fixed rope has reached the end.
If they want to continue going down, they must untie the rope, and then she and Xiaoguai will completely lose connection with the boat. If something unexpected happens, can they still go back?
Yu Miaomiao tied the shoelaces to her shoes in advance, neither tightening nor loosening them, just waiting to be used when she returned.
This alone is not enough. She has several weights in her backpack that can be tied to Xiaoguai's fixed rope. She uses a separate simple chain to connect her waist and the fixed rope. She needs a way to go back, a retreat when the special props fail.
She didn't want any accidents.
Xiaoguai is used to seeing this human tinkering with all kinds of magical things, and has even seen her help it avoid danger. As long as she doesn't insist on going back, it can wait.
Yu Miaomiao glanced at Xiaoguai, who was always floating in the sea water.
Why did she feel that this scene was so familiar, just like the former "Sheriff".
At that time, as long as the Sheriff was a cat, he could sit leisurely by the window and bask in the sun. No matter whether she was doing anything in the house, he would just watch quietly, unlike other cats, who would follow her and make trouble when they saw her busy or taking something.
The memory scene flashed by, and was replaced by increasingly thick sea water.
As she swam continuously, she could already feel that the water here was not like ordinary water, but very soft glue.
When she touched the glue through the diving suit and soft armor, it felt very real. She wondered if this could be an electric eel.
Xiaoguai, who was leading the way in front, was obviously also affected by this gelatinous substance, but he did not look excited at all. It seemed that this was not a monster yet.
Until finally, it simply changed from swimming to tearing forward, directly helping Yu Miaomiao to tear out a soft rubber road that could also be walked on.
Following behind this broad body, stepping on a pile of strange glue, Yu Miaomiao felt for the first time that Xiaoguai's image had become truly tall and could escort her in front.
The man and the cat walked on this sticky path for more than 10 minutes before they finally crossed the path that was forcibly dug out by Xiaoguai. A ray of light shone from one side of the passage.
Is there light at the bottom of the sea?
While walking, Yu Miaomiao also replied to messages from several people. Some of them gave her the latest news about the typhoon, and some asked about her current safety. She responded to all of them one by one.
When others saw that she could reply to messages freely, they felt relieved about her going online and only reminded her to be careful.
Yu Miaomiao had just finished replying to a few people and closed the chat interface when she saw the scene in front of her.
“Ding ding.”
There was new news coming, but she had no time to read it.
An eel head was curled up in a snail, with only its nine parts showing. The light she had just seen came from the snail shell.
Yu Miaomiao pointed at the monster, which was several times bigger than herself, even several times bigger than Xiaoguai, and pulled Xiaoguai, meaning, let's go. How do we fight this monster?
Xiaoguai, wearing an oxygen mask, didn't even turn his head, but treaded water and swam towards the monster that looked like everything and was nothing.
Yu Miaomiao looked at Xiaoguai, who was crawling forward with his body bent in the dim light. This was his fighting posture.
She followed him reluctantly, taking stimulants and following closely behind.
After they left the tunnel, streams of water flowed away from the channel as if they were weightless. The force was not strong, but it still made Yu Miaomiao's swimming process more difficult.
This phenomenon is like this strange eel is trapped in a place isolated from the outside world. Xiaoguai tore open the insulation...
Insulation, so the area she just passed through is an insulating area.
“Ding ding.”
“Ding ding.”
The two of them were almost swimming to the eel. Yu Miaomiao didn't know why she received several messages at the same time, as if there was some new situation on the sea. She quickly opened them and took a look. One of them was from Yingying, saying that the sea had completely calmed down.
She turned off the holographic screen and met the single eye of one of the nine heads.
It was a bottomless black bead. The moment she saw it, she felt as if she was frozen in place, unable to move.
Then, the eel that was originally curled up in the snail crawled out of the shell, and slowly arched its body towards her with an enchanting posture.
Yu Miaomiao could clearly see every twist of the eel, but she just couldn't move.
She thought to herself, oh no, could it be that I would be frozen when I saw the fish's eyes?
She tried hard to close her eyes, and her hands immediately became free, and her feet, which were suspended in the air, could also move freely.
Being able to close your eyes means you can move, which is probably some kind of illusion.
She lowered her eyes as much as possible, observing the eel's movements, and looking for an opportunity to cut off one of its heads with a pair of scissors in the water.
As she lowered her head and looked out of the corner of her eye, a cat swam straight over.
"Little cutie!"
Yu Miaomiao shouted into the oxygen mask.
How can a cat be so brave?
Yu Miaomiao picked up the scissors, put on her flippers and followed.
Yellow blood flowed down from the head of the first eel and flowed into the tunnel along the water flow.
After the originally translucent passage was stained with blood, it gradually began to liquefy from the middle of the passage.
This blood... was pulled out by Xiaoguai.
At first, Xiaoguai was in the oxygen mask, baring his teeth and trying to bite, but he found that the mask blocked his view, which greatly affected his performance. He was so angry that he used brute force, and now the whole cat is floating in the water.
Yu Miaomiao saw this scene.
That's probably why it hates oxygen masks.
Or maybe that's why it's always clamoring for grilled shrimp.
It hopes to increase its underwater combat time through food, rather than relying on this prop that humans rely on for survival.
Xiaoguai's fighting power lies not only in its flexibility, but also in its terrifying teeth and bite force.
Yu Miaomiao secretly made a note that she must collect enough shrimp meat for Xiaoguai to eat so that it would not feel so depressed anymore.
Swimming past Xiaoguai, she gently patted the cat's soft head that was completely soaked by the sea water, indicating that she should go first this time.
She just saw what was going on behind Xiaoguai.
This eel uses its eyes to freeze people, then stretches out its head, trying to strangle the enemy with its brain.
But Xiaoguai was so flexible and nimble that he not only dodged the twisting body, but also avoided the eel's bloody mouth.
Oh, and this isn't an electric eel.
Electricity.
Yu Miaomiao used herself as bait and did the same thing. When she was frozen, she half closed her eyes. When she felt the waves and the eel's figure twisting in front of her in the dim light, she took out a pair of scissors and cut off the eel's head accurately.
She was very confident in her accuracy. Xiaoguai had already demonstrated it once by tearing it apart with his bare claws. She only needed to learn Xiaoguai's previous technique and cut it cleanly and neatly at the same position.
After each head was cut off, it would turn into a thick yellow liquid, and Yu Miaomiao had no chance to put it into her backpack.
Xiaoguai, who was originally a little discouraged, swam over unwillingly after seeing Yu Miaomiao kill six heads. He used brute force and tore off the remaining two heads with his two claws, as if he was competing with this human.
Yu Miaomiao: ...
She just wanted to kill monsters, but Xiaoguai did it out of a desire to win, which was a good thing, I guess.
The nine heads were quickly eliminated, leaving only the big snail shell.
Is this the carcass of an insulated electric eel?
Yu Miaomiao tried to put it into her backpack, but failed.
It seems that just destroying the head is not enough to kill this monster.
Yu Miaomiao was still feeling lucky the last second. Fortunately, the eel's head twisted one by one, and she and Xiaoguai had enough time to kill the heads of these green and black monsters. When she and Xiaoguai swam closer, they saw that another green and black meat had grown in the snail shell.
"Swish."
Before the newly grown head could bite her, Yu Miaomiao cut it off with one snip.
New ones will continue to grow, so all we need to do is destroy this shell.
Just as she cut off the new head, Xiaoguai seemed to realize how to completely kill this monster and stretched out his claws to grab the middle of the snail shell.
"Little cutie!!!"
Yu Miaomiao saw that the moment its claws touched the snail's shell, it fainted instantly with electric currents flowing through its body.
Electric eel...
The electricity is in this snail shell.
Yu Miaomiao grabbed Xiaoguai and carefully observed the condition of the oxygen tank.
It's still consuming energy, which means the cat is still alive, just stunned.
She felt a little distressed. She remembered that the medical kit could treat electric shock injuries. When she took out the medical kit and used it on Xiaoguai, she received an error message from the system.
You can't use medical kits in the sea...
I can only go back.
But before leaving, she must kill this snail. Here is what Xiaoguai has been thinking about, which must help it improve its underwater combat capabilities. She has finally arrived here today. If she doesn't get rid of it, Xiaoguai will definitely come back after waking up. Who knows how many heads it will grow next time and what the situation in the water will be like.
Since the snail shell is electrified, pure iron products cannot be used. The scissors in your hand are made of metal at the connection between the handle and the scissors mouth, so it definitely won’t work.
There was an item that had been lying in the backpack for a long time without being used - a spear.
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