Desharow Mermaid - Chap 85

Chapter 85

　”Oh, really?” Rhine showed a puzzled look, and he approached me straight away, staring at my bottom in disbelief, regardless of the presence of other people, he started to take off my pants: ” Come on, baby, let me check.”

　I dodged in embarrassment, and Nick and the others behind me froze there, looking at us in astonishment, not knowing what was going on. They obviously didn’t know that I knew Rhine, let alone that Rhine would treat me with this attitude.

　”Hey, did you forget the kiss last night?” Rhine leaned over angrily, hugged my waist even harder, and teased me flirtatiously, as if deliberately trying to make other people misunderstand me and his relationship relation.

　I punched him in the stomach in disgust, and he grabbed his arm quickly. The punch didn’t hit him, but I saw him suddenly bend his neck, rub his nose, and it dripped from his nose. A line of black water came out and dripped on my shoe. I retracted my feet in astonishment, and saw that he raised his head and wiped his face, looking at the black water in his palm, with an expression more surprised than mine, and his glassy blue eyes revealed a kind of expression that I had never seen before in him. of fear.

　I know the trick Agares played on him last night really worked.

　I stared at him gloatingly, and took a few steps back: “I warned you, you’d better stay away from me. There are some existences that you can’t afford.”

　When I said these words, my heart For some reason, there was a faint sweet sense of superiority, as if showing off one’s magic weapon to the enemy in a show of power——Look, I have a patron saint, my sashimi-sama. I belong to him, if you dare to touch me, you are looking for death.

　God knows if it wasn’t for Nick and the others, I’d really like to say that.

　This sudden situation forced Rhine to give up pestering me, and hurriedly slammed the door and left. I think he went to the doctor (but the doctor may not be able to save him).

　At noon that day, we arrived at the end of the strait, our destination – an abandoned nuclear power plant built in this closed canyon.

　Standing on the boat and looking over it, it looks like it has been completed as a ruin. Some steel and iron bones are still embedded on the steep rock wall, but the complete building structure can no longer be seen. Most of it has been reduced to a piece of coke and buried. Amidst the thick, solidified dust, it was as if buildings were buried in ash after a volcanic eruption. Even this nuclear power plant, which is quite far from the main island of Hiroshima and under the protection of the strait, has become like this, which is enough to show the destructiveness of the nuclear bomb to Hiroshima. Although I have heard about it from the news records, it is inevitable to see it with my own eyes. It was shocking.

　I noticed a helicopter with a German flag parked on a makeshift tarmac on the reef near the nuclear power plant. This reminded me of the plane that Rhine mentioned that arrived in Hiroshima first when Agares controlled Rhine and interrogated him about the whereabouts of the mermaid spores. He said it should be this one, but what about those people and Agareth’s mermaid spores?

　With doubts, I looked in along the water entrance of the nuclear power plant. The scattered steel bars were blocked between the eight huge stone pillars, leaving only a gap of about two meters. Can’t see what’s going on there. This group of people must have entered here with mermaid spores first. What is the purpose of Rhine and the others?

　As I was thinking about it, I saw that Rhine had already started to deploy those armed personnel, and he didn’t seem to have been greatly affected yet. I hurriedly approached Nick and the others so as not to be left behind by them.

　As time has passed for nearly fifty years, the radiation index here has dropped to a safe range, but we still need to put on a radiation protection suit outside the diving suit, wear a transparent oxygen helmet, and dress ourselves up like a simple version astronauts even carry one more set of climbing tools than astronauts.

　After everything was ready, we approached the water entrance of the nuclear power plant in a kayak, but the journey inside had to be done by swimming in the water. Fortunately, the nuclear power plant is located on the continental shelf, and the sea water is not deep, so we can step on the bottom and expose our heads. There is no need to consume too much oxygen for the time being.

　We went through the narrow entrance in groups. Like the structure of any nuclear power plant, its internal structure is like the bottom of an iron tower, and the place we entered is the original elevator entrance. Passing through here, I couldn’t help but feel nervous, because the nuclear power plant looked crumbling, and the interlaced steel bars above the head were all wrapped in a shell made of gray dust, which made me feel that they were just fragile plaster strips, which could collapse at any time.

　My throat is tight, and the transparent helmet covering my head is full of oxygen, but it makes me feel difficult to breathe. The complexity and difficulty of the environment I have to face this time may be the superposition of the difficulty of the cave exploration I have experienced. Hearing the noisy breathing from the pager, I could tell that other people were as nervous as me, and even Rhine, who had extensive experience in cave exploration, looked solemn. I subconsciously touched the trouser pocket containing the scales of Agares. I couldn’t touch it through two layers of protective clothing, but I could feel a faint force that seemed to flow into my chest, making my heart beat nervously. Calm down a little.

　—You are with me, aren’t you, Agares? I will follow your lead to find you.

　Just when I was thinking this way, a series of strange sound waves suddenly flashed through the pager in my helmet, which sounded like low-pitched voices, which immediately lifted my spirits and looked at the surrounding water, but in Under the light of the searchlight, only the body of the person I was traveling with and the steel and concrete pillars embedded in the bottom of the water could be seen in the dark blue water, and there was no trace of Agares suspected. The entrance we came in sees a beam of daylight, which is scattered on the water surface. The reflection is gentle and there are no waves. I can even see some water bugs that have survived the radiation tenaciously jumping on the water surface, but I clearly feel it. There is a current of water at the bottom that seems to be gradually hitting me.

　I squinted my eyes, stared at the water, and carefully felt the direction of the water flow…

　”What’s wrong, Desaro, why did you stop?”

　Nick’s voice suddenly sounded on the pager, and my shoulder was lightly tapped Shooting, I almost froze in fright, and the faint water flow disappeared suddenly, as if it was just my illusion.

　”Damn…it’s nothing, I’m just a little paranoid, I’m too nervous.” I shook my head and quickly turned back to follow the team.

　After advancing for about a hundred meters, the sea became shallower and shallower, and large and small reefs were exposed on the seabed. We have reached the innermost part of the nuclear power plant, and there is a steep rock wall in front of us. Between the end of the reinforced stone pillar and the rock wall, there is a deep crack that looks like it was split by an axe. The water scattered by the reef forms several small waterfalls and converges into this rift valley, disappearing into the deep darkness, as if falling into a bottomless world.

　I thought to myself that it is absolutely impossible for a nuclear power plant to be built on such a deep ditch, unless the Japanese are crazy. This deep trench could only have been formed by the impact of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb that cracked the seabed, as if a portal to another dimension had been torn from the sea alive. Just like in the face of the unknown, people’s fear of black holes and the deep sea is a natural instinct, not to mention that we are about to go down here and stand on the edge of it, which inevitably makes my scalp a little numb.

　”Squad A, call Team A, please report the depth you have reached immediately! Have you confirmed the location of the submarine?” At this moment, Shinichi’s voice rang through the pager, and I couldn’t help being surprised. submarine? How did the submarine get off here?

　”Report Doctor! 312.6 meters! The radar has scanned a big guy 105 meters below, which should be the location of the submarine!” A quick response came from the pager.

　”What’s the radiation index?”

　”It’s not very stable, it’s close to 10 now, doctor!”

　I couldn’t help but feel nervous. Although such a radiation value won’t cause immediate death in a short period of time, it will easily cause the human body to develop radiation over a long period of time. Terrible cancerous change, this abyss is simply a dead zone, if a normal creature falls into it by mistake, it will definitely die. Looks like we’ll have to go down in this nasty radiation jacket.

　After fixing the rope device with rollers on the still strong pillars and reefs of the nuclear power plant, we slid into this abyss of death in groups. Hanging on the rope, sliding into the unfathomable darkness, the searchlight can only illuminate the distance of arm’s length in the diffuse fog before being swallowed, each of us dare not be too far apart, me and Nick and Luo Di Ya kept a very close distance to ensure each other’s safety. The damp wind blows upwards from the soles of my feet, like an invisible ghost enveloping my body. Layers of chill penetrates the skin surface and penetrates into the bone marrow. Even the radiation protection suit can’t resist it, making me get goose bumps all over my body.

　In the process of slowly descending, I found that there are many large and small holes on the cliffs of the abyss, as if countless pairs of black ghost eyes are peeping at us, which makes people feel creepy. The narrow holes are about the size of a human head, and they are big enough to accommodate two people. I suspect that this may be a bird’s nest or something. But what kind of bird would live in such a place? Eagle?

　The desire to explore creatures in my bones was faint again. I resisted the urge to take a searchlight to inspect the inside of these caves. I carefully tightened the rope and slid down the cliff. When the depth value displayed on the rope reached 200 meters, Rhine ordered us to stop. The entrance to the gap above the head is completely invisible, and above and below us are surrounded by a floating thick fog. Except for the searchlight above the head, we can see scattered and slightly flickering fluorescent lights in the holes around us. , this kind of scene is not uncommon in underground caves. Insects and plankton in absolute darkness are usually luminous bodies.

　Everything is in a terrible silence, as if this place is a huge tomb. I can only hear my own breathing, and the airflow forms a small mist on the transparent helmet visor from time to time, making the surroundings very similar to the space environment in American documentaries, making people feel a sense of depression and helplessness that makes it difficult to breathe. , and the faint sense of fear floating in the air, it is like the toxin hidden in the oxygen bottle, along with the oxygen and the blood flowing into the heart, each mouthful makes these negative emotions more intense. I even think that just staying here for a day is enough to make people suffer from depression.

　”Call Team A!” Rhine’s voice suddenly exploded in the silence, which made me tremble violently.

　But what responded to him was only a buzzing noise, which sounded like the noise of a tape jam, and no one answered him. A sense of ominousness suddenly surged from the soles of my feet: Did something happen to the people below? Nick and I looked at each other at the same time, and at the same time pulled out the gun pinned to our backs. Rhine waved his hand to signal us not to move, then took out a few fluorescent sticks, flicked them brightly and threw them down.

　The green light traced a short path in the mist, and was immediately engulfed in the darkness without a sound.

　Rhine adjusted the pager a few times and continued to call Team A, but still did not get any response. He violently punched the rock wall, and my heart also sank. We are faced with a looming dilemma – whether to return to the top, or continue down.

　But I will continue to go down anyway, because I know that there is an entrance to Atlantis below, and Agares will definitely go.

　”We shouldn’t continue, something must have happened to the people below. I don’t want to share this share.” Nick retreated first. He is a smart man. After experiencing the ghost ship incident, he obviously realized that life is more important than money. Much more important.

　”So, Nick, deliver a letter for me.” I looked over my head, and was about to tell him that there was a letter in the drawer of the Poseidon that I sent to my family, but then I thought that the Poseidon had been burned, and I couldn’t help it. With a wry smile, “You all go up, I have to continue.” ”

　Why, Delt? Are you not afraid of death? You have to save your life to make money!” Lodia said excitedly, and her breath came from the pager. The hooting sound on the mask, maybe her voice was too harsh, Rhine stopped immediately and said: “Shut up!” As soon as

　he finished speaking, a series of noisy noises sounded from the pager, Suddenly, there seemed to be a black shadow above my head. I raised my head, and saw something sprang out of the hole above me, and it was pressing towards Nick above me. He immediately bounced off, grabbed the rope and slid down several meters. , exclaimed: “Damn, why is there such a big spider here? Desaro, get out of there!” ”

　That’s not a spider!” Rhodea exclaimed.

　The sound of hard objects passing over the cliff came from far and near from the dense fog above. I grabbed the rope in horror, stepped on the rock wall, and quickly slid down with the crowd. One jump would have to slide down the limit of the rope’s load. It feels like bungee jumping. But maybe because my physical strength has been greatly enhanced by the mutation, I can even maintain a relatively steady breathing when experiencing this extreme exercise. With the help of the searchlight, I saw a few black shadows approaching along the stone wall in the thick fog with long limbs, which looked like spiders at first glance. I simply turned off the headlight, and through my good night vision, I saw those things clearly in an instant—it was a group of things that looked like spider crabs, but the centers of the limbs were not crab bodies at all, but A mermaid!

　What kind of monster is this, the spider crab is parasitic on the mermaid, or a mutant that combines the mermaid and the spider crab? !

　I opened my eyes wide in astonishment, and felt a chill. At this moment, a black shadow rushed towards me. I hurriedly stepped on the rock wall to avoid it, raised the gun in my hand, and shot at it. There was a burst of flame, but it didn’t hit me, but it rushed straight towards Rhine. He raised his gun and shot, and in an instant, several “spider mermaids” rushed towards him one after another, as if watching Like Nick and the others, who were obviously closer to them, I regarded Rhine as a concentrated attack target.

　Immediately Rhine was surrounded by them, I leaned against the rock wall, looked down in amazement, vaguely understood that maybe this was designed by Agares, he turned Rhine into a bait for these monsters, so as not to make me being attacked.

　As much as I wish I could get rid of the Rhine bastard for good, it still doesn’t feel good to witness this. My nerves were racing in my head, but in fact I couldn’t see anything, only the noise from the pager was a mess, the deafening gunshots rang out, and his rope was overwhelmed. The air trembled violently due to the fall, and reached the limit length in an instant, stretched straight all of a sudden, then snapped apart, and bounced back up quickly like a rubber band. In an instant, the ropes of all of us suddenly sank!

　I realized that Rhine’s broken rope had damaged the roller somewhere, and the next moment, before I could do anything to remedy it, I heard the rope above my head vibrate violently and make a terrible rattling sound. I didn’t know what this meant, my heart seemed to be hung by a rope, and everyone immediately leaned against the rock wall, their faces pale. I didn’t dare to approach the holes behind me, but the state of last resort prompted me to rush to get closer to one of them. But as soon as I stretched out my arm, there was a muffled sound from above, and the rope that restrained my body was suddenly loosened. Accompanied by the screams around me, I also lost my center of gravity in an instant, and fell to the bottom unexpectedly go!

　The intense weightlessness swept across the whole world, I opened my mouth wide but could not utter any sound, I just felt the wind blowing past my ears, my heart seemed to jump out of my mouth from my throat, all my nerves were stretched into a thread, death seemed to come from I have never been this close to me before, so close that it will swallow me like this darkness in the next second. Suddenly, my back tightened violently, the downward trend of my body barely stopped in the air, and the sound of hunting wind stopped abruptly .

　My head seemed to be thrown off my body, dangling in mid-air, dizzy, staring at my eyes, for a few tens of seconds I couldn’t help thinking that my body was broken in two, because I could see my calf when I turned my head . It took me a long time before I realized that my rope might be caught by something, which made me hang in mid-air. I stared down in a daze and almost passed out.

　The bottom is a darkness covered by dense fog. It is impossible to judge how deep it is. Maybe there is no end at all. I may be suspended above the 10,000-meter abyss.

　Damn it…

　I tried to move my hands and feet, and it didn’t feel like a serious problem, but it was difficult for me to move in such a horizontally suspended posture, and I was close to two meters away from the nearest rock wall, which required me to borrow strength I swayed, but there was only air around me, and I didn’t know how long this rope would last.

　Just when I was feeling dizzy about my extremely difficult situation, a series of strange noises came from the pager. Although the current noise was loud, I could still tell that the voice was calling me in a low voice. name.

　”Agares, is that you? Where are you?” I looked around, and there was only thick darkness around me. The rope that was tied to me shook at this moment, as if something was crawling towards me from top to bottom. Then, I smelled an extremely familiar fragrance, but I didn’t see anything.

　I looked for Agares in confusion, and suddenly remembered that he has now become a four-dimensional creature, and he can be invisible. He is clearly somewhere nearby, but why doesn’t he answer me? Is it because he can’t talk to me directly while hiding in another dimension?

　”I’m here, Desaro…” The low beep rang through my pager again, and it sounded like he was so close, almost so close.