C60 Source of Blue Light
"What's that?"
DickPound suddenly looked at the rock wall near the bubbling mouth. Above it was a narrow entrance to the cave.
If it wasn't for the rising sea, this cave would still be five to six meters above us. But she was currently only a little taller than Darwin.
There was clothes hanging on the protruding stalagmites outside the cave.
"M's coat!" I exclaimed.
"Amaranth!"
Stepping on DickPound's back, I stuck my head into the hole and shouted.
"Is there an answer?" DickPound could no longer hold me back and asked impatiently.
"Colonel, why don't you fucking arrange it so that I won't be able to catch your breath." It wasn't easy to take revenge on the DickPound, as long as they could step on him.
He called out a few more times, but there was still no sound.
"I can only climb in and take a look." Darwin thought for a while before saying.
I looked at the hole, it was almost as wide as my shoulder, maybe Darwin could just try, but DickPound's body definitely wouldn't be able to pass.
"Don't tell me you want to leave me here alone?" The fatty revealed an expression that was even more bitter than a bitter gourd.
Why didn't you think of such a day when you usually swallow a piece of pizzas all by yourself?
I resisted the urge to roll my eyes and patted DickPound's shoulders, showing a serious expression:
"Logistics is very important in successful strategic deployment, Colonel. A battle without logistics is impossible to succeed … "
After all, DickPound agreed to stay outside.
Darwin threw the anchor into the water. "Turn off the motor, adjust the searchlight's brightness to its lowest possible power supply. If we don't come out within two hours, you can go out and report to the police."
I took the flashlight out of my bag and shone it into the hole. "This hole seems to be going down."
Trembling, Sayaka carried the bundle of rope on his back, and gave Darwin the searchlight we brought.
"If you're afraid, then don't go in. Just wait outside." Darwin looked at Sayaka and said.
"I... "I'm fine …" Sayaka bit her lips.
Darwin is in the front, I am in the middle and Sayaka is in the back.
At first, it was easy to climb, but the interior of the cave was relatively smooth, and there was plenty of oxygen.
Soon, however, the cave entrance became narrower, and more and more stalagmites appeared. Only Darwin was in front, flashing his flashlight. In the darkness, I felt that my hands and knees were all worn out.
In a completely secluded space, the mentality must be good. Don't ever think about that.
Otherwise it's easy to develop claustrophobia.
Darwin didn't crawl very fast, perhaps to take care of us girls. In order to stabilize our mentality, we talked nonchalantly.
"Darwin, as a top student, what do you think of this trash?" I asked as I climbed.
"... I don't like the word straight-A. " After a while, Darwin's voice came from the front.
"Everyone has their own talent."
It was indeed the Terminator. His words seemed to indicate that I had picked up something wrong.
After a while.
"Wang Wangwang, why did you join a special ability society?" Darwin asked me.
"I …" I was speechless.
Actually, I never thought about it.
I never had any friends before. Most of the time, he was just a laughingstock.
"Hey, look at that girl, her name is Wang Wangwang ~ ~"
"Hahahahaha, isn't that a dog? "So funny ~"
Since primary school, maybe I've looked like a dog to most people.
I remember the first time I went to the cinema to watch "Gossip to the West," the samurai said at the end:
"Look, that man looks like a dog."
Everyone in the cinema was laughing. Only I cried for no reason.
Ever since I was a child, almost everyone who knew me remembered me from and ended up with dogs.
I decided to join the society, maybe it was the instant when I turned around and saw the DickPound in the auditorium.
He also had a stupid name.
When everyone thought he was a laughingstock, he was still sitting on the stage with a head full of sweat. The moment he tried to prove himself, I suddenly believed that he could become my friend.
And there was also Darwin. Although his words were harsh, and he was the only one who could get what he wanted, he wouldn't try to please anyone and was even a little mean.
But no matter what absurd thing the DickPound did, he wouldn't laugh at him.
Instead, she silently accompanied him in doing so.
I envied their friendship.
"... How did you and DickPound become friends? " I asked Darwin as I climbed forward.
"I forgot." he said flatly.
As expected, they couldn't continue the conversation.
After a while.
"... Darwin, do you have a girlfriend? " Sayaka asked.
"Nope."
"Then... What type of girl do you like? " Sayaka asked softly.
"Sayaka, do you think that there are girls that can withstand his character?" I rolled my eyes.
Sayaka actually did not speak.
Darwin did not say anything either.
I felt a little awkward crawling around in the middle.
"Pfft."
Just as I was about to relieve the atmosphere, I suddenly farted.
I was wrong.
In the darkness, I could feel Darwin starting to move at full speed.
After a while, the cave suddenly opened up and we began to walk in a crouch.
There was the sound of water.
I could clearly feel the temperature and humidity around me rising.
There was light.
Blue light.
In front of us, is actually a larger cave space.
As far as the eye could see, the endless surface of the underground lake was suffused with a faint blue glow. It was like the Milky Way, sparkling and dimming.
The surrounding stone walls were filled with clumps of brightly colored flowers that bloomed amidst the luster of the waves.
The searchlight we had brought could reach up to a distance of two thousand meters. Now, we were shining the searchlight everywhere. The light beam was completely out of reach.
"M!" I shouted.
No one responded, only the echo winding around the beam.
Darwin ignored us, but stared at his electronic watch.
"You just yelled that, and the echo disappeared in about fifteen seconds. The speed at which sound travels in the air is 340 meters per second, so this is at least 12 million square meters. "
"Oh my god," Sayaka exclaimed. "This is the real Sea of Lost in the Indian legends!"
So it turns out that the real Sea of Lost is still deeper underground!
"So hot …"
I don't know if it was the tension or the rising temperature in the cave, but I was sweating and soaking my clothes.
"The water here is coming from a place closer to the earth's crust, like a hot spring, so the temperature of the entire cave is higher than it is outside." Darwin whispered.
Sayaka and I didn't hear what he said at all, and each took out our phones to take a picture.
"Hey, you two don't want to die!" Darwin said in a low voice. "I still don't know what's going on."
"This is a major discovery of the geography world! The three of us found it! You might even end up naming this place after us! " I couldn't suppress the excitement in my heart. "If we don't take some pictures now, how can we prove that we've come here in the future?"
Sayaka also nodded with all her might.
Seeing that it could not stop us, Darwin sighed, "Turn off the flash."
My mobile phone is also the first generation of Motorola color screen phones, no flash light 2 million pixels out of the dark as shit. Sayaka's phone was not much better. We clapped for a while and gave up.
Darwin took off his jacket, observed the interior of the cave, and extinguished the flashlight.
The only remaining source of light was the dim blue glow that emanated from the lake. Using the light, we slowly climbed down the stalactite outside the cave. After climbing about fifteen meters, we finally landed on the ground.
There was a thick layer of moss growing on the ground. Only when we got close to the lake shore did I realize that the blue fluorescence was coming from the bottom of the water, not the surface. Every speck of light was slowly moving.
"It's the angler that's shining in the water!" I finally saw a dot of light.
The angler is what we call a lightbulb fish. Its teeth are terrifying, but it has a cute little light bulb on top of its head — millions of luminescent bacteria, in fact — to attract other small fish for food.
"Kawaiya ~ ~" Sayaka immediately recognized it as a common ingredient used in Japan.
"These fish must have lived in the dark for many generations. Their eyes have completely degenerated."
In addition to the fish, there were many transparent fish the size of a thumb in the water. These fish did not emit light and had no eyes. Their bodies were transparent and the flow of blood under their skin could be seen.
We squatted down and looked closely at the snakefish that surrounded the shore. They had no eye sockets at all, and their cheeks were as smooth as if they had never had an organ like an eye.
"Blind Catfish …" Sayaka was indeed from Stabbing Body Nation, she knew all about the fish like the back of her hand.
"What kind of fish is this?" I asked Sayaka.
"The blind catfish is a kind of catfish. It can lay many eggs each year. It reproduces very quickly and is a scavenger …"
As soon as I mentioned catfish, I immediately understood. Isn't it one of our common food ponds for southerners?
In the past, when I was in primary school, Shuyue wouldn't let me eat it.
I remember one episode where I walked into an unscientific program and introduced a family's toilet. The noise came from catfish that fell into the toilet. This fish's ability to adapt to the environment has reached a heaven-defying level.
"Judging from the complete degeneration of these fish eyes, they have lived here for at least two hundred thousand to four hundred thousand years." Darwin said.
"How do you know?"
"I guessed."
Wipe.