Ancient Invasion [End Times]

Day 160 Six After the Invasion

The pipes were not filled with water, indicating that the deck on the fourth floor had not been submerged in seawater.

this is a good news.

The upward distance of the 40-meter curve, the narrow and dark space, the rising water level, and the salty smell of the sea water filled the humid air, undoubtedly a double severe test for everyone physically and mentally.

The width of the pipe is about half a meter, and you need to use the cross support of your legs and arms to move up.

Duan Yi moved up six or seven meters and then stopped, glanced at the group of people following him, and said simply: "Take a break first."

Du Jingshu breathed a sigh of relief, imitating Duan Yi and Du Nanrong, bending his legs against the side wall of the pipe, panting slightly.

"How far have we come?" she asked.

"Hurry up, it's been a long time." Lin Qian said angrily.

He looked at Luo Xiaonan who was riding on Duan Que's shoulders, and asked, "Is the little guy okay? Are you afraid?"

Luo Xiaonan shook his head quietly.

"Duan Duan, do you want me to recite it for a while?" Lin Qian asked again.

"Speak less and save energy." Duan Yi glanced at Lin Qian.

Zhang Jiuzhang chuckled beside him.

Lin Qian touched the tip of his nose, it was because he disliked him for talking too much.

A group of people rested on the spot for two to three minutes before continuing to climb.

The pipeline is not completely straight upward, there are four or five bends in the middle, and several people use the bend as a rest point, and stop to rest every time they move up to a bend.

Du Jingshu only felt that the time in this pipeline was extremely long.

She also remembered that a long time ago, when she was trapped under the ground fissure because of the earthquake, she still vowed in her heart that she would never go into this strange, confined space again, but now she came in again.

The little girl thought of that very famous saying - people are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves.

"It's almost here, there should be only seven or eight meters left." Seeing Du Jingshu's tiredness and faint depression, Xu Ying encouraged her aloud.

Du Jingshu nodded.

They continued to push up.

The further you go to the back, the faster your physical strength will be exhausted, and the more rapid your breathing will be.

Duan Yi walked in the front, controlling the speed of the entire team.They can't walk too fast to avoid excessive and ineffective consumption in advance, and they can't walk too slow to avoid being chased up by the water level below.

Zhang Jiuzhang cut off his tail. From time to time, he used a flashlight to shine down on his body to observe the height of the water level and communicate with Duan Yi.

So far, it's been going well.

But that seems to be the end of luck.

Duan Yi stretched his arms upwards, and when his palms touched the inner wall of the pipe above his head, he paused suddenly.

A tiny stream of water flowed down the palm of Duan Yi's palm.

Duan Yi's pupils shrank slightly, and his face changed: "Water is about to come in."

Cheng Sheng was taken aback for a moment, but immediately came to his senses, and quickly touched the wall of the tube.

A small amount of seawater trickles through the pipes.

"The deck is sinking." Cheng Sheng said in a low voice.

Duan Yi speeded up: "There are still a few meters left, in time."

Du Jingshu obviously felt that the speed had increased. She suppressed her uneasiness and gritted her teeth to keep up with the person in front.

After a period of more than 30 meters of climbing, the muscles were so weak that it was difficult to exert strength. When Du Jingshu stepped on the wall of the pipe, he slipped down suddenly and was supported by Zhang Jiuzhang.

"I'm sorry!" Du Jingshu broke out in a cold sweat, and immediately swallowed hard and said to Zhang Jiuzhang with a trace of crying and fear.

Zhang Jiuzhang saw that Du Jingshu was exhausted, he said coldly: "Continue to climb up, don't look back, I will entrust you."

Du Jingshu pursed her lips and nodded.

Above Du Jingshu is Xu Ying. After Xu Ying noticed the situation below her, she reached out to grab the little girl from time to time so that Du Jingshu could use her strength to come up.

"Hurry up." Xu Ying whispered, looking at Zhang Jiuzhang.

Zhang Jiuzhang's eyes darkened, and he nodded slightly.

The speed at which the seawater poured in through the pipe was astonishing. At first, it was a small stream, like a small stream accidentally sloshing in during the sloshing, and then gradually, the water flow merged into a larger water column, which rushed straight against the wall of the pipe. And down.

Du Jingshu also felt the more and more obvious water rushing down the wall of the pipe. She was startled, and then looked at the serious faces of the others, and knew that this must mean some bad signal.

She didn't make another sound, and mustered all her strength to climb up.

It's almost the end.Du Jingshu thought in her heart, hold on a little longer.

Duan Yi almost climbed to the mouth of the pipe, he grabbed the edge of the slide pipe with all his strength, and pushed his body out of the pipe with a sudden force.

Before he had time to look at the situation outside, a big wave rolled in from the left, slapping his head in Duan Yi's direction with his fangs and claws.

Duan Yi's complexion changed, he retracted suddenly, and shouted loudly: "The waves are coming! Hold on!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he took a deep breath, hugged Luo Xiaonan, and blocked it with his back to the mouth of the pipe, and then a big wave crashed down on his head.

The water jet that fell down was icy and urgent, making Du Jingshu's face ache.

But the waves come fast and go down fast, Duan Yi quickly shouted: "Come out, it's going to sink!"

Duan Yi pulled Cheng Sheng out, and yelled for Cheng Sheng to grab the side of the boat.

Cheng Sheng grabbed the ship's side, and Luo Xiaonan, who was on Duan Yi's shoulder, hugged tightly, watching the entire overturned giant ship slowly sinking.

They were at the bow of the ship, which sloped down significantly.

An indistinct sound of explosion was suppressed by the sound of the waves. Cheng Sheng looked sensitively at the direction of the explosion, and black smoke rose from the bow of the ship.

Cheng Sheng gasped, a small explosion would speed up the sinking of the ship, and they ran out of time.

Lin Qian, Du Nanrong and Xu Ying had all come out. They grabbed Du Jingshu's arm and dragged the little girl out, followed by Zhang Jiuzhang.

As soon as Zhang Jiuzhang climbed out, before he had time to breathe a sigh of relief, the hull shook violently, and a group of people hurriedly grabbed the side of the boat.

There was another slight blasting sound, accompanied by a low, muffled and terrible moan from the bow, the entire bow deck tilted again, quickly slanting towards the sea.

Du Nanrong suddenly opened his eyes wide, and his body tilted uncontrollably to the ship's side and the sea.

The deep blue water was like a brick wall, quickly zooming in under his eyes.

"Fuck." Zhang Jiuzhang only had time to curse out a word, and everyone smashed into the sea.

Du Jingshu plunged into the water suddenly, and the huge current with an irresistible force wrapped everyone around, turned over uncontrollably, and rolled under the sea surface.

Duan Yi only had time to yell out to be careful, just as he threw himself on Luo Xiaonan who didn't know what to do, the side of the boat was smashed underwater and smashed towards him.

Bubbles came out of Duan Yi's mouth, and he was hit by the ship's side and passed out.

Cheng Sheng grabbed Duan Yi's sinking body, and soon Lin Qian and Xu Ying who fell into the water swam over to hold Duan Yi up.

Seeing this, Cheng Sheng pointed to the sinking hull, and took the lead in swimming to the other end.

The turbulent sea was like a huge grinder, and small whirlpools formed around them, making it impossible for them to emerge from the water, so they had to go around and swim into the cabin again.

The hull cabin was like a temporary oxygen chamber, and everyone jumped out of the water, taking a deep breath of air.

The water was up to their necks, and they all kept treading water to stay afloat.

Duan Yi coughed out a mouthful of seawater and woke up. He wiped the back of his neck with dull pain, and let out a soft "hiss".

Luo Xiaonan was so frightened that he wanted to cry without crying and grabbed Duan Yi's hand, knowing that Duan Yi was knocked unconscious to protect him.

Duan Yi flushed the blood from his palm, rubbed Luo Xiaonan's head twice, frowned and looked at Cheng Sheng: "Where is this?"

"The cabin on the seventh floor." Cheng Sheng said, he checked Duan Yi's wound, the wound was not deep, only a small cut was made, and the bleeding stopped soon.

"Why did it suddenly sink just now?" Du Jingshu stepped on the water and raised his head with difficulty, "Then shall we escape to the deck?"

"There was an explosion in a small area of ​​the bow, which accelerated the tilting and sinking speed of the bow." Cheng Sheng said, "It also made the waves on the sea surface chaotic and violent, and there were sinking vortices all around, making it impossible to swim out for a while."

Du Jingshu spat out water, and followed Cheng Sheng and his team to swim out: "Then shall we swim to the stern now? The bow of the ship is tilted and sinking, and the stern should be lifted up from the sea level?"

"If we arrive before it sinks in time," Cheng Sheng said, "We're still going up, and we're not far from the bottom. It will take more time and energy if we head diagonally up to the stern."

Du Jingshu nodded to show that he understood.

The higher it went, the water level dropped to the chest level little by little, at least there was no need to step on the water and raise the head to take a breath of air, which made Du Jingshu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The seventh floor is distributed with restaurants, accommodation cabins and entertainment areas.There are quilts, plastic sheets, even dining tables, chairs and stools floating everywhere on the water. From time to time, you can see something coming slowly along the water.

A group of people avoided obstacles and walked forward with the water level above their waists.

Lin Qian suddenly took a breath and stopped abruptly: "Captain Duan, doctor, look over there!"

Looking in the direction of Lin Qian's finger, Zhang Jiuzhang's expression changed, and he saw a triangular gray-black fish fin protruding from the water, approaching them from the corridor without haste.

"Shark?!" Du Nanrong gasped, "Swimmed in?"

Everyone hid in a cabin.

Xu Ying said with a serious face: "If the explosion just now blows off part of the bow of the ship... it is not impossible to attract sharks."

Everyone held their breath subconsciously, staring at the gray-black triangular fin that gently knocked open the door of the cabin.

Duan Yi's hands turned into beasts. Seeing this, he took a sharp breath and plunged into the water.

"Team Duan be careful." Lin Qian said, holding the dagger in his hand, staring at the end of the fin.

"No..." The fish fin approached, Cheng Sheng looked at the triangular fish fin and suddenly said, his brows loosened, "This is not..."

Before he finished speaking, Duan Yi got up from the water with a "wow", holding a shark-shaped model in his hand, about one meter long, like a child's toy.

Everyone looked at this panic-inducing toy in awe.

Zhang Jiuzhang cursed, grabbed the model and threw it far away.

"It's a false alarm again." Du Nanrong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, what he was most afraid of encountering in this sea, but these are used as decorations on the ship, which is also a major feature of the cruise ship.

Du Jingshu felt so tired, her heart could hardly afford such a thrill.

She raised her hand from under the water and brushed the wet hair from her cheek.

She paused slightly, and gave a soft "Huh" in doubt, and took off the flesh-pink beard-like thing wrapped around the back of her hand.

It's quite fleshy when pinched.

"What is this?" the little girl muttered wonderingly.