The Lost Tomb : Sea Of Sands

Chapter 23: Night Dive

That night, Wu Xie and the others pushed the raft into the haizi. While pushing, there was a brief interlude where Li Cu heard Wu Xie say to Wang Meng, "If this thing leaks midway, your salary this month will be gone."

"You should deduct the manufacturer's salary. Why would you deduct mine?"

"Because you didn't find it and mend it when you were blowing it up."

"Boss, when you eat bad strawberries, do you blame the strawberry washers or the strawberry seller?"

"I blame myself for eating them even after I know they've gone bad. It's my own fault for courting disaster, right?"

"......"

The group of four pulled the heavy raft's leather handles, pushed it into the haizi, and jumped in. Ma Rila rowed while the others organized their equipment.

Li Cu asked: "Wu... Boss Wu, how are you going to do it? Even if there wasn't any water and we were walking, this place is so big that we'd have to look all day."

Wu Xie waved his hand and said to him, "We have our ways, so don't worry about it. It's useless for you to learn this skill since we don't want others to know."

When the raft reached the middle of the haizi, Wang Meng and Ma Rila put on their equipment and dropped into the water. Since they didn't have diving equipment, they had to rely on diving goggles and underwater flashlights for this exploration. Li Cu didn't understand how Wu Xie could search the entirety of the haizi's bottom so confidently and quickly with such crude equipment.

Wu Xie apparently didn't intend to go down in person. He smoked on the raft while watching the lights swaying underwater.

But Li Cu didn't understand the answer to his question just now, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Can you give me a hint? I don't want to learn, I just want to know."

"No."

"Boss Wu, if you don't need my help and don't want me to know your skill, then why bring me on the raft? Are you deliberately holding back on me?" Li Cu was a little depressed.

"Yes, I'm holding back." Wu Xie said.

Li Cu looked at Wu Xie's face and felt even more upset, thinking this fucker has a brain problem. If he hadn't hurt his back, he would have jumped into the water and swam straight back to shore.

"Do you want to know why I've been holding back the entire way here?" Wu Xie asked when he saw that Li Cu wasn't speaking.

Li Cu shook his head: "If you're not a pervert, then you're the legendary Mad Persecutor, so I'm not the only one you hold back on."

Wu Xie went on to say: "It looks like you already feel that I won't casually harm you, so you dare to start arguing with me. But you don't know that although I look a little nervous, I'll bury you in the sand if I really lose patience with you."

Li Cu sighed and said to himself: I don't know you, I don't know who you are, and I don't know what you want to do."

Wu Xie continued, "In fact, I always hold back because you remind me of how I used to be."

"What were you like before?"

"Just like you are now, like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered at any time, not knowing anything: when it will be killed, why others hurt themselves, and why it's involved in all of this. Just waiting, not knowing what will come."

"So you're saying you used to be a fool?" Li Cu asked, quickly closing his mouth after he spoke, and thinking, It's over. Now I'll really be buried in the sand!

Wu Xie only looked at him for a long time before nodding: "You have a good understanding."

The two stopped talking.

The desert was very cold at night, and Li Cu felt colder and colder as soon as he stopped speaking. He regretted coming here a little and became even angrier. This crap had nothing to do with him at all. He would have slept in the tent if he had known.

After about two cigarettes, Wang Meng floated up first and Wu Xie pulled him onto the raft. It appeared that diving and searching in the cold water was so exhausting that Wang Meng was gasping for breath and couldn't even speak.

Wu Xie waited for him to recover before asking, "How is it?"

"I haven't found anything yet, but something is missing." Wang Meng gasped, "Boss, I think there's something wrong. The sand under the water keeps moving, but there's no current. I don't know if there's something in the sand."

"What's missing?" Wu Xie asked.

"Ma Rila is gone, I can't find him. Visibility is so poor that you can only feel the sand under the water moving."

Li Cu looked around and found that it was completely dark. Only the moon's reflection was on the water's surface, and the underwater lights were gone.

Wu Xie leaned forward on the bow and also looked around while Wang Meng kept talking, "I think there are monsters under the water, and they must be very big. The whole bottom is moving."

Wu Xie had been looking at the water quietly the whole time and suddenly clicked his tongue before saying, "Shit, I don't think so."

"What's the matter?"

"The water is moving." Wu Xie said. With that, he tugged on Wang Meng's diving goggles, flipped over, and went into the water. It didn't take long for him to reach the bottom, and then he rose to the surface and shouted at Li Cu, "Hurry! Get to the shore!"

"Shore?"

"Don't sit there in a daze! Row! This haizi is moving!"