The light underwater was dim, a pitch black, making it impossible to see anything.

This group of strange creatures suddenly swam, stirring up the sand and silt of the seabed, making the water murky. Although I had a searchlight on my head, it was difficult to see them clearly.

Plus, they were moving so fast, almost flashing before my eyes. Wearing a diving helmet, I could only vaguely see afterimages.

But what shocked me was that these afterimages didn't look like streamlined fish, but rather humanoid creatures. I myself could hardly believe it, but I actually saw something like human arms on those creatures.

I chased after the afterimages again, but they had already gone far away. I smiled and quickly dismissed my absurd thought.

How could those creatures be human? At most, they were just fish that looked like people when they swam. Didn't the ancients often mistake dugongs for mermaids?

It couldn't be that there really were mermaids living in this vast ocean, could it?

At this moment, I looked back and saw Uncle Mei also gazing at the departing fish. I didn't know if he had noticed something strange as well, but because we were both wearing diving helmets and in the deep sea, we couldn't talk directly. We could only make gestures to each other.

I looked at Uncle Mei, and Uncle Mei looked at me. We stared at each other.

Ma Hailong waved at us, signaling us to approach the treasure ship. Following his guidance, I looked at the treasure ship and saw that the local divers were already skillfully approaching the hull, trying to find an entrance to get into the cabins.

This Ayutthaya treasure ship, over twenty or nearly thirty meters long, was made entirely of wood. It was a miracle that such material hadn't rotted after sleeping on the seabed for so long.

I wondered what it had encountered on the day it sank, but it was clear that it had broken into two sections from the middle.

The two sections of the hull were stuck in the seabed's sand, tilted about thirty degrees to one side. This made it impossible for us to board the ship directly from the deck. Instead, we had to find gaps and crawl into the cabins.

I tried to approach the ship, came to its side, and grabbed a piece of ship planking that had long since decayed and shattered, hoping to make a hole here.

As it turned out, this planking was covered with an aquatic plant I couldn't name. This aquatic plant was like seaweed, but especially slippery, and wrapped everywhere. In addition to this seaweed, the planking was also infested with shellfish, which were firmly nailed to the wood.

This actually helped me, because these shells were like doorknobs, giving me a place to grip the planking.

I grabbed them and pried outward with force. It didn't take much effort, and I successfully pried off a piece of planking.

Unfortunately, the planking was too badly decayed to be pried off completely. I only managed to carve out a small piece, creating a gap the size of a palm.

I shook my head helplessly. This gap was not big enough for a person to crawl through.

At this time, looking down at the bottom of the ship, I found that many divers had simply dived to the seabed. They seemed to be digging something in the silt.

At first, I didn't understand their intention and even thought their behavior was a bit foolish, but after watching for a while, I suddenly understood!

Because when this Ayutthaya treasure ship sank, it capsized and embedded itself in the seabed, so many goods were thrown out of the cabins and onto the seabed.

So they could dig up a lot of treasures by digging directly on the seabed now.

More importantly, the space on the seabed was relatively spacious, so there was little danger. Picking up treasures directly on the seabed was much safer than risking entering the cabins.

These people were indeed experienced salvage veterans.

Soon, this patch of seabed was occupied by divers. In a short time, there were more monks than gruel, and even if we went down now, we probably wouldn't find anything good.

So even though I was envious, I could only miss the opportunity.

I sighed helplessly, looked up at the gap I had carved out, and was about to reach in and make the gap bigger, at least big enough for one person to crawl through.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the light from my headlamp shone into the gap, and I suddenly saw an eye peering out from inside, staring at me intently through the gap!

It was a green eye, an oily green! Just like the eyes of a lizard in the TV show "Animal World."

Moreover, the size of that eye was very large, even larger than my own eyes.

I cried out in fright, but since I was wearing a diving helmet, I guess no one heard my voice. I subconsciously took two steps back, away from the gap. At this time, the green-eyed creature in the gap seemed to sense the fear, blinked, and instantly disappeared into the cabin.

"Damn! What the hell is that thing!"

I couldn't help but mutter to myself.

That green eye was like a human but not a human, like a fish but not a fish, more like the eyes of a reptile like a snake or a lizard.

But in the moment I was thinking, I suddenly felt a chill all over my body!

Because I thought of one person, the one locked in the second floor of Little Wang's villa, the one infected with a strange skin disease.

His eyes, I remembered, were also green.

And Liu Huangshu!

Liu Huangshu I encountered in the Qu Shang underground palace!

At that time, his eyes had also turned this strange green.

Although the eyes I had just seen were not exactly the same as their eyes, they were both that oily green. Just thinking of the two of them, I felt my diving suit filled with cold sweat!

"No way? This should just be a coincidence, right?"

I muttered to myself, this might just be my own wild thoughts.

When I came back to my senses and looked into the gap again, the green eyes in the cabin had disappeared.

I mustered my courage and looked inside again, but I didn't see any trace of the green eyes.

Just then, I heard a muffled sound not far away. Looking back, I saw Big Hand Ma Hailong didn't know where he got a crowbar, and he actually pried open the ship planking on one side, creating an entrance large enough for one person to pass through.

He tapped the hull with the crowbar, deliberately making noise to attract our attention, and then waved at us, signaling us to come over.

We quickly changed direction and swam towards his location.

"Sure enough, you have to follow the big guys to get some meat to eat."

I muttered to myself. I had been sweating profusely trying to make an entrance myself, but Ma Hailong fiddled around and found us a passage.