The wind was getting stronger, and Seven was swaying a bit on the boat. He prepared to add another talisman to keep the boat stable.
Suddenly, I saw lights and heard people shouting in the distance.
That's our ship.
He could only see two ships rapidly approaching him in the distance.
"Those in front, stop the boat immediately and submit to inspection."
The island has been sealed off; no one is allowed to leave.
"The people ahead must stop their boat immediately for inspection, otherwise you will be responsible for any losses caused by our interception of your vessel."
Seven then realized that the two ships came from completely different directions, and one ship was obviously faster.
The on lights revealed the fully armed crew members on board.
In the other direction, a hand-cranked wooden boat was clearly rocking back and forth in the wind and waves.
The loudspeaker announcement from the staff clearly startled the wooden boat.
Zhu Zi and his men immediately wanted to turn back, but the strong winds made it impossible for him to control the small boat.
When Seven saw the two ships approaching him, a thought suddenly struck him. He was trying to figure out how to lure the staff here, but that was a problem.
After all, nobody knows this is the source, so this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Just then, the wooden boat and the boat in front of it suddenly made a sharp turn, their sterns sweeping heavily across the bow of the pillar.
The metal clashed with a piercing sound, and the ship rocked violently.
Seven stumbled and almost fell.
The sea surface was an unfathomable, dark black color. Under the light, Seven plunged headfirst into the sea.
"Watch out!" the staff member suddenly shouted.
But it was too late; a patrol boat rammed into them from the side.
The impact caused the entire ship to tilt, and Seven felt his feet slip and he fell overboard.
The moment he fell into the water, Seven saw someone jump quickly from the patrol boat.
The ship groaned under the strain.
Broken planks and oil slicks floated on the sea, the pungent smell of diesel fuel mixed with some indescribable stench.
The icy seawater instantly swallowed Seven.
He held his breath and let himself sink deeper.
Indistinct sounds of impact and shouts came from above, but those sounds were quickly drowned out by the sea, becoming distant and unreal.
He quickly stuck a talisman on himself, and now Qi Zai was like a fish swimming with ease, watching the staff swimming towards him.
It frantically waved its limbs, as if desperately pleading for help.
However, during this shaking, the body sank towards the seabed.
The staff were getting anxious. Jumping into the sea in such cold weather was not a pleasant experience, especially since it was so dark that they couldn't see anything.
If it weren't for the faint light reflecting off the water, they wouldn't have even been able to spot the child who had just fallen.
The icy seawater instantly engulfed Qi Zai's body. He held his breath and let himself sink deeper into the water.
I opened my eyes, and the salty seawater stung my eyes, bringing tears to my eyes.
When they descended to a depth of about twenty meters, Seven saw a horrifying scene.
A shipwreck lies silently on the seabed, its hull covered with a thick layer of seaweed and coral.
But what's most striking is that countless luminous particles float around the hull, like a swarm of fireflies swimming in the water.
As Qi Zai swam closer, he discovered that the particles were seeping out from cracks in the hull.
His heart started racing.
He had never seen anything like it before.
The particles had an eerie blue-green hue and emitted a faint glow in the darkness.
Seven carefully avoided them and swam toward the sunken ship.
The ship was covered with strange symbols, like some kind of ancient script.
Qizai gently traced the uneven engravings with her fingers, when suddenly, a sharp pain shot through her fingers.
I pulled my hand back and found that my fingertips had turned bluish-black.
Fear gripped his heart instantly.
It reminds one of the black mold spots in the Liu family tragedy, and of the new virus mentioned by the lockdown personnel.
Could this be the source?
Despite his discomfort, Qi Zai stuck two more talismans on his body to ward off illness.
Continue swimming towards the cabin.
The hatch was rusted. He pushed it open forcefully, and a strong, fishy stench hit him.
The cabin was filled with broken wooden crates, one of which stood out—a metal crate covered with the same symbols as the ship's hull.
The lock on the box was rusted, and the lid was slightly ajar.
When Qi Zai swam closer, he gasped in shock—the box was filled with glowing minerals.
The glass bottle was completely sealed and treated to prevent it from being dropped or bumped.
The terrifying skull on the bottle made it clear that what was inside was definitely not a good thing.
One of the bottles was cracked, and the floating particles were faintly emanating from the crack.
That's the source of those floating particles.
Even more frightening, there was a noticeable crack on the box, from which minerals were slowly seeping out.
Just then, Seven felt difficulty breathing.
He wasn't a proper fisherman. Even a proper fisherman would obviously run out of oxygen if he tried to dive to such a deep sea without oxygen equipment.
There aren't many talismans that allow him to breathe freely in water.
One less is one less.
Knowing he had to go up, he turned around and saw something moving in the corner of the cabin.
It was a fish, but it looked extremely strange—it had two tails and its body was covered with white scales that looked like breathing gills, bobbing and swaying in the water.
In particular, the fish's eyes were an unnatural red.
Seven swam upwards with all his might, the scene he had just witnessed replaying in his mind.
Those symbols, that box, the mutated fish... everything points to a terrible truth: the source of this disaster lies hidden in this seabed.
At the same time, the two staff members who went into the water to rescue the child also saw the boat when they saw Qi Zai.
One person quickly pulled Qi Zai towards the surface of the water, while the other continued swimming towards the sunken ship.
Using the force of being pulled up, Qi Zai casually stuck a talisman on his hand as he passed the staff.
When they finally surfaced, they found the sea was already filled with blockaded ships.
In the distance, the pillar's ship is being intercepted.
The source of the infection has been found.
This truth could cause even greater panic.
As staff members carried Qizai out of the water, more staff members quickly jumped into the water to assist the staff who had just sunk to the bottom.
With no other option, Qi Zai reluctantly decided to spend a fortune. He threw a huge disease-repelling talisman directly into the sea, unsure if it would remove the virus from the contents of the box.
However, with so many people going to the seabed without proper protective measures, almost everyone will get infected.
He has to do something.
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