bestfiction Chapter 1034
Chapter 1034
The sea breeze, carrying a rotten smell, blew on Qi Mingyu's face. He subconsciously raised his hand to cover his nose, and the rough feeling of the salt frost on the reef still remained on his fingertips.
He Chengshi saw this and explained, "This smell won't go away for a while. There are indeed a lot of fish carcasses buried underneath, trapped by this steel frame. We have limited manpower, and it took us over a year to clean up only half of them."
"After cleaning for so long, Brother He should be very familiar with the situation down there, right?" Qi Mingyu suddenly said, "I want to go down and take a look. Is that possible?"
He looked up at He Shicheng with a serious expression: "Down there is clearly a city where humans used to live. I want to go down and take a look."
A trace of nostalgia for his past life appeared on his face.
He Chengshi was stunned, as if he had not expected him to make such a request.
But he quickly agreed: "Okay!"
The shallowest part of this sea is only thirty meters deep, and there are subordinates watching everywhere. Even if Qi Mingyu wants to make some small moves, he can't make any waves.
He also kindly warned, "But let me be frank, the steel and concrete structures underneath are complicated. Don't try to get into this place. If something happens, no one will save you."
Qi Mingyu nodded and said okay.
When he and Mu Mu got off the cruise ship, they were already prepared to go into the sea to take a look, so they both brought diving suits.
Mu Mu immediately handed over a diving suit and lowered his voice: "Brother-in-law, it's too dangerous, don't go!"
Qi Mingyu patted his shoulder and said in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Don't worry, I know my limits. You stay up there and keep an eye on He Chengshi's movements. If anything seems amiss, raise the alarm, or even jump into the sea."
But in fact, Qi Mingyu always has an illusion.
He Chengshi wouldn't turn against you so quickly!
He solemnly invited them to their territory, so he must have something else in mind!
Qi Mingyu turned and walked to the edge of the reef. Under the watchful eyes of He Chengshi and his men, he quickly put on his diving suit and checked his oxygen tube.
Then take a deep breath and slowly sink into the water.
As soon as I entered the water, a cool feeling enveloped my whole body.
The fishy smell is stronger than on the surface of the water, mixed with a faint smell of decay.
He adjusted his breathing, slowly dived, and his vision gradually became clear.
At first, there were patches of clam shells, which not only covered the reefs on the water surface, but also extended along the "roots" of the reefs to the seabed, as if wrapping the sunken city with a thick layer of brown armor.
If someone with trypophobia sees this, they might get goosebumps all over their body.
However, Qi Mingyu just took a look and swam down along the gap in the clam shell.
When he dived down to a depth of three or four meters, he discovered that those so-called reefs actually grew from the tops of tall buildings!
An office building with more than ten floors stands on the seabed. The top few floors have been washed away by the waves and are incomplete. Steel bars protrude from the broken floor slabs and are twisted into various shapes.
The reefs grew out of the gaps between the steel bars and floor slabs. Cement and rocks were mixed together, and the surface was covered with clam shells and withered seaweed.
From a distance, it looks like the tall building itself grows on the reef, or like the reef emerges from the tall building. The two have long been integrated, as if they have existed like this since time immemorial.
Qi Mingyu was shocked and continued to move downstream.
Most of the windows in the office building were broken. He swam in through a window and the scene inside made his heart tighten.
There were still documents from before the apocalypse on the desk, the paper swollen by sea water and the handwriting was blurred.
An office chair lay on the ground, its wheels still rolling, as if the owner had left in such a hurry that he didn't even have time to pick up the chair.
The water dispenser in the corner has long been rusted, and there are still a few drops of solidified water hanging on the water outlet, as if water will flow out in the next second.
He swam out of another window of the office building and saw a wide street in front of him.
The shop fronts on both sides of the street are still there, but some of the window glass has been completely shattered, and the shelves inside have fallen to the ground, with a few pieces of clothes hanging on them that have been soaked white by sea water.
Those were the T-shirts and jeans that were common before the apocalypse. The fabric had become so fragile that it would break at the slightest touch.
A convenience store sign still had a dim light on.
It was a kind of fluorescence. I don’t know if it was because the material of the sign itself reacted in the sea water, or if there was some other reason.
Only half of the words "Open 24 Hours" were left on the sign, and the other half was hit by a fallen concrete slab and was twisted and deformed.
The door of the convenience store was open, and there were several bottles of mineral water on the shelves inside. The bottles were covered with seaweed and the patterns on the labels were blurred.
Qi Mingyu swam to the middle of the street and suddenly saw a car.
The car door was open, and there was a skeleton sitting in the driver's seat, its fingers tightly gripping the steering wheel, as if it was still controlling the vehicle.
The skeleton was surrounded by a few strands of seaweed, and the hair on the top of the head had long fallen off, leaving only a bare skull.
Qi Mingyu's heart sank. This should be the person who was driving on the day the tsunami hit, right?
The tsunami came so fast and so violently that he didn't even have the chance to get out of the car and was trapped here forever.
Until the corpse is completely rotten by the erosion of sea water, leaving only bones!
He continued to swim forward, and the scene before him became clearer and clearer.
The exterior wall of a kindergarten still has some resemblance to the cartoon graffiti on it.
A smiling little bear holding a balloon with the words "Grow Up Happy" written on it.
The kindergarten door was open and the slide and swings inside were lying on the ground.
Suddenly, he saw a flash of light in front of him.
Out of curiosity, he swam over faster and found that it was a jewelry store.
Although the window glass of the jewelry store was broken, the counter inside was still there, and the jewelry on the counter was shining faintly under the sunlight.
Diamonds, necklaces, bracelets...
These things that symbolized wealth before the end of the world now lie quietly on the seabed, wrapped and entangled by sea water and seaweed, and have lost their former glory.
He continued to dive and found that the scope of the sunken city was larger than he had imagined.
There are hospitals, schools, shopping malls, parks...
Every place retains the scene of the moment the tsunami hit, as if time was frozen in that day forever.
In the hospital corridor, a stretcher lay on the ground with a worn stethoscope on it;
In the school classroom, textbooks and pencils were still on the desks, and the words "There will be a test tomorrow" were written on the blackboard;
The elevator in the mall stopped at the middle floor, the elevator door was open, and the buttons inside were rusted...
Qi Mingyu's oxygen tube began to make a "gurgling" sound, and he knew that the oxygen was almost used up.
He took one last look at the sunken city, feeling mixed emotions.
This land, swallowed by the sea, was once the home of many people, but now it has become a ruin on the seabed.
Only the "reefs" growing out of the high-rise buildings and the clam shells crawling all over the reefs seem to have reshaped the life here.