The fear of death diluted Nelly's joy of discovering the wall carvings.
She did not stay in place for too long. After taking the photo, she continued to swim forward. However, the story of the wall carvings did not end there. Although Nelly forced herself to focus on finding a way out, she would also glance at the wall carvings around her from time to time.
She had no choice. Unless she looked straight ahead, she would always catch a glimpse of the wall carvings while looking for a way out.
The dive computer showed that she had now reached a depth of 35 meters. This place was nearly ten meters deeper than where they usually dived. In other words, there was an additional atmosphere of pressure, and the compressed air in the gas cylinder was consumed faster.
At the same time, the content of the wall carvings changed from romantic to gloomy. The grown-up children returned to the sea and gathered together. There were a lot of them, and they followed two leaders. One of them was a mermaid just like them, but it was much larger. The other one was a giant snake with nine heads.
Speaking of Hydra, in addition to a famous villain organization in the Marvel Universe, the most famous one is the monster Hydra in Greek mythology. Of course, it is also an out-and-out villain.
And this also seemed to be reflected in the wall carvings. Under the leadership of the Big Murloc and the Hydra, the merfolk stirred up trouble in the sea, holding strange and disgusting rituals. In addition, they would also lure the nearby natives, using shoals of fish and a kind of gold-like object to trade with those natives, in exchange for the right to mate with those natives.
The importance these mermaids attached to reproduction was beyond imagination, but for some reason, they could not mate with each other, so they could only deceive humans. When necessary, they would even pretend to be pirates and attack some seaside towns to kidnap the people there.
The subsequent wall carvings made Nelly feel a little nauseous. She no longer felt romantic.
But what really scared her were the next few wall carvings.
On the wall carvings, the mermaids summoned something to make the underwater pearl divers lose their way. Then, they lured the pearl divers to their nest to reproduce for them.
When she saw this, Nelly broke out in a cold sweat. Great panic hit her like a tide. Although the wall carvings were colorless, Nelly knew what the mermaids summoned.
That's right, it was the sudden red tide outside.
In other words, she was now experiencing the same thing as the pearl divers on the wall carvings. Although Nelly knew that the most important thing to do in the face of danger underwater was to remain calm, and she had always told the divers she brought with her, it was difficult for her to remain calm at this moment. Her hand holding the flashlight could not help but tremble.
Compared to dying here, being forced to mate with those monsters was undoubtedly more terrifying. Nelly did not even want to move forward, even though the residual pressure of her cylinder was only left with 60 bar.
As a professional diver, Nelly knew very well that every second she spent here would reduce her chances of returning to the shore. Even so, she could not take a single step forward.
This was especially so when the thing in front of her took out the flashlight and flashed it at her. Nelly's mind was completely occupied by fear. Subconsciously, she turned around and fled.
However, the thing could obviously see Nelly's reaction. After that, a black shadow quickly swam toward her from the other end of the tunnel. Its speed was much faster than Nelly's. With an elegant kick of its flippers in the water, the water around it automatically parted from its side. It then swam behind Nelly, but it did not immediately attack Nelly.
Instead, with another kick, it directly passed by Nelly and arrived in front of her. While moving forward, it even turned its head and showed Nelly a gloomy smile. Nelly's heart almost stopped beating.
When she saw the appearance of the thing clearly, Nelly almost screamed out loud.
But then, Nelly saw an arm suddenly stretch out from behind the rock next to the monster, directly grabbing the fin on its back, and then pressing the monster's head against the rock.
The ugly half-human, half-frogfish monster was obviously stunned by this sudden turn of events, especially after it hit its head. The gloomy smile on its face froze.
But because of the resistance of the seawater, it actually did not suffer any injuries. At the same time, the collision also aroused the ferocity in its bones.
It kicked the rock with its legs, trying to get out of the predicament. At the same time, it waved its hands behind it, trying to use its sharp fingernails to deal with the attacker. However, the guy behind it moved much faster than it expected. While it was still stunned, Zhang Heng jumped on the monster's back.
After that, he used his other hand to stab a sharp stone he picked up along the way into the monster's eye, blinding one of its eyes on the spot. And before the monster could react, Zhang Heng quickly killed the other eye, plunging the monster into complete darkness.
The pain caused the monster to quickly roll in the water, and Zhang Heng, who was on its back, was thrown around. The two even hit the stone wall on the side.
Nelly was stunned by the sudden change in front of her.
She had already recognized that the person who saved her was Zhang Heng, but she did not know how he appeared here. Zhang Heng's appearance was even more sudden than the monster's. Before this, Nelly did not feel that someone was following her at all, and Zhang Heng had clearly advised her not to continue chasing after the light beam. But now, he was also here.
However, Nelly also knew that now was not the time to dwell on this issue. Although Zhang Heng destroyed the monster's eye as soon as he came up, he was obviously in some trouble now.
If he were on land, Zhang Heng, who had just leveled up his assassin skill to Lv.3, had no less than a hundred ways to kill the half-man, half-frogfish monster in front of him. However, he was underwater, and especially without a weapon, every move he made seemed to be replaying in slow motion. It would be a little difficult for him to deal any damage to this scaly, thick-skinned monster with the natural weapons he picked up along the way.
Fortunately, Nelly also noticed this problem, and she quickly threw her diving knife to Zhang Heng.
In most cases, a diving knife like Nelly's was not used to fight in the water, but to deal with some special situations where she was entangled by seaweed or nets. She did not expect it to come in handy at this time.
Zhang Heng did not choose to get rid of the monster because the latter was now in a frenzied state. If Zhang Heng chose to get down from its back at this time, there was a high chance that he would be hurt by the monster. He just consciously guided the direction of the monster's struggle, and he successfully picked up the knife that Nelly threw to him.
Before the monster could hit the stone wall again, he stabbed the knife into the monster's heart!
The sharp stainless steel was much more lethal than the uneven edges of the stones. It easily pierced through the monster's skin. The monster struggled a few more times, and the nearby seawater seemed to turn even redder. But soon, the struggling of the half-man, half-frogfish monster weakened until it finally stopped moving.
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