luo jia shan ju
Chapter 53 The Underwater Gate
"...When I was thrown out of that psychedelic tunnel by a strange force, I vaguely remember being thrown out through a door.
It was a door deep in the dark seabed.
Then I was tossed up and down by the dark currents and whirlpools in the sea.
I wasn't sure where I was or what form I was in, but I couldn't struggle, so I could only drift with the current.
After an extremely long drift, I had no sense of time at all. Did it feel like a hundred years, two hundred years, or three hundred years?
I was just drifting in the sea, wrapped in ocean currents and giant waves. I wasn't washed out of that area, I was always in it, until I was picked up by that passing fishing boat.
Under the sea, I experienced too much darkness, and my eyes couldn't adapt to the sunlight on land at all. I couldn't open my eyes when I was first picked up, and it took me a long time to slowly open them.
I was indeed rescued, but the price I paid for it was the lives of thirty-one crew members.
Not long after the fishing boat strayed into that strange sea area, the waves swallowed the fishing boat, but the fishing boat did not sink to the bottom, but experienced an "inversion" (upside down).
Inversion means that the entire fishing boat is turned over, head down and bottom up, sailing below the sea level.
The crew on board were concentrated in the cabins and cockpit because of the earlier wind and waves. The sea water instantly filled these two places, and all thirty-one people drowned, dying in a very tragic state.
The sea water did not harm me. I had survived under the sea for so long, even if I was submerged in the sea water, I would not die.
I was like an indifferent bystander, watching coldly as the sea water took their lives, but unable to change anything.
The inverted ship sailed in that sea area. Later, a huge undercurrent surged from the bottom of the sea and pushed the ship out of that area.
As soon as it left that sea area, the fishing boat returned to normal, turned out of the sea, and returned to its normal appearance.
The sea water in the cockpit and cabin was discharged, but the people were already dead and began to rot, and a rotten and foul smell appeared.
After all, the fishing boat belonged to them, and I couldn't throw them into the sea to feed the fish, so I dragged their bodies one by one into that closed and dry fish hold.
The fishing boat was drifting aimlessly in the ocean. I didn't know where the shore was or where I could go ashore. At least there was a feeling of land on the boat. I didn't want to go back to the sea and be swept away by the waves.
Later, I don't know how long I drifted at sea, but I finally saw the coast, and the fishing boat also drifted towards the shore.
I wanted to take the opportunity to disembark and go ashore when the ship docked, but who knew that the fishing boat would be discovered? The next thing is what you know. I wanted to hide, but there was nowhere to hide, and I was finally discovered."
After saying that, I spread my hands and said, "Are you sure you want to go to that sea area to die?"
"The door under the sea... the upside-down fishing boat..." Han Yu muttered these words silently, immersed in thought.
Fatty didn't care whether he understood or not. The truth seemed to have no concept for him. He only knew that my experience revealed danger.
And Rou Yi obviously did not expect that the experience after the fishing boat encountered the accident would be so tortuous, which made her a little at a loss for a while.
Looking at everyone's helpless appearance, I added another knife: "In my impression, my body seems to have been broken up once and then reassembled. I don't think your adventure will bring me a glimmer of hope. I appreciate your kindness, but there is no need to take risks."
This sentence was also what I wanted to say but didn't have time to say when Rou Yi said she wanted to risk her life to save me.
"We can only find that door under the sea."
Han Yu suddenly blurted out such a sentence, obviously not taking what I said seriously,
"Since you were thrown out of that door, the secret that can save you may be in that door."
Rou Yi and Fatty understood what Han Yu meant and nodded repeatedly.
I had already guessed that they would persevere relentlessly, but I didn't expect them to be so disregardful of life and death. I couldn't help but swear:
"Damn, you guys really don't want your lives."
Han Yu said lightly: "Don't have such a big psychological burden. Maybe I just want to know the secret of the Himalayas... To know this answer, I am willing to take risks..."
Rou Yi changed her thinking and wanted me to put myself in her shoes.
"If you were me, what would you do?" Rou Yi said.
I was silent. If Rou Yi suffered this disaster, I would also rush up without hesitation.
Thinking like this, I seemed to understand them.
But I still couldn't help but say, "You're really a bunch of lunatics."
Rou Yi shook her finger at me and said seriously, "We don't fight unprepared battles. Whether it works or not, we will definitely take self-protection precautions. After all, we can't let everyone die."
Rou Yi's words gave me a little confidence, and I began to feel guilty for my initial concealment. I felt that I had become sensitive and suspicious since discovering the hidden content in my father's letter.
Fatty put his arm around my shoulders in a carefree manner. I could smell the sweat on his body. He clenched his fists and said, "Fatty, I am not afraid of any demons or ghosts. I will eliminate all monsters. They all saw my heroic fighting process just now. With this body and this physique, I can't say I can fight five, but at least three strong men are not a problem. Tell me, Fatty, can I escort them?"
I remembered Fatty's performance in the underground palace. He could indeed be described as heroic and unparalleled, but in the face of strange things, nothing worked. I didn't refute him, but I still had no confidence in my heart.
Rou Yi only remembered Fatty's sentence "Hao...ah...again", and forgot everything else. After Fatty's bragging, she tried hard to hold back her laughter, and her face turned red.
"We won't say anything else." Rou Yi waved her hand and said, "Jennifer has already discovered us. We have to make a plan to move quickly."
"Jennifer?" I asked doubtfully.
As soon as Fatty heard Jennifer's name, his face turned red. He immediately thought of that wonderful "misunderstanding". His hands were faintly hot, like he had just touched a hot kettle.
"Jennifer is a child that Daniel adopted from an orphanage before. Jennifer has very deep feelings for Daniel. When I returned to China to take over Daniel's project, she was the number one opponent who opposed me. She was very difficult to deal with." Rou Yi frowned, "Since she found this place, she won't let it go easily."
Fatty had many ghost ideas. He came up with a way to have me put on his clothes, hat, and sunglasses and leave with Rou Yi first, while he stayed here.
If Jennifer's people were staring outside, there were four people when they came and four people when they left, which would not arouse suspicion.
Rou Yi and others thought it was feasible, so they agreed to Fatty's plan.
Fatty was much bigger than me. After I put on his clothes, I stuffed a lot of things into the gaps in his clothes to barely prop up the clothes. From a distance, it was not easy to tell whether it was me or him in the clothes.
Fatty changed into a well-fitting sanatorium "patient uniform" and stayed in the sanatorium to wait and see.
Rou Yi planned to arrange everything properly and then let Li Decha come to pick up Fatty.
Afterwards, I left the sanatorium with Rou Yi and his party.