Chapter 674: 405, Sea Monster_2 Chapter 674: 405, Sea Monster_2 At times , killing someone underwater is too easy—just cut the oxygen tube, and the sailor is certain to die.
The mysterious figure under the sea seemed only interested in confiscating his dagger, not intending to kill anyone.
The sailor thought for two seconds, turned around, and swam back to the Tiger Whale, his knife had been seized, and there was no way to do the job of cutting the buoy.
Moreover, if the other party had the ability to confiscate his dagger, they definitely had the ability to kill him.
Since the other party had already spared his life, he shouldn’t be ungrateful…
At this very moment, the same thing was still happening continuously at the bottom of the sea.
Zhang Jian wrapped his clothes tightly around him, standing on the Arctic’s deck, extremely anxious. Five minutes had passed, but Qing Chen still hadn’t appeared on the surface.
That Qing Chen must be dead by now, right? Who can hold their breath for so long?!
These two were indeed trying to commit insurance fraud!
Unbelievably, these two young students would do such a thing!
In contrast to Zhang Jian’s wild thoughts on the deck, the sailors below the surface didn’t have the luxury to think so much.
They felt as though the legendary sea monsters of the Barents Sea had set their sights on them, with no chance of escape.
A sailor had just reached out his left hand to grab the rope under the balloon buoy, his right hand poised with a dagger ready to cut it.
But a shadowy figure swam past him, and by the time the sailor’s right hand reached the rope, the dagger in his hand was nowhere to be found.
They swam desperately towards where their own ship was anchored, looking back constantly in fear that the shadowy figure was still following them.
These sailors weren’t as lucky as the first one.
The first sailor saw that the person who took his dagger was a human and so was less panicked.
But the rest, too far from the lights of the Arctic to see Qing Chen clearly in the pitch-dark sea, were filled with a fear that occupied their entire hearts.
There are many legends about the Barents Sea.
One of the most famous aircraft collision incidents in the world occurred here. On September 13, 1987, a Norwegian Defence Air Force reconnaissance plane was patrolling when a new Soviet fighter jet appeared from below and streaked past.
The Soviet Su-27 used its vertical stabilizer like a scalpel to slice open a large gash beneath the Norwegian reconnaissance plane’s engine.
This is the well-known “Barents Sea aerial scalpel incident.”
However, this area is also famous for another legend: the giant squid.
Historical records show that the Barents Sea was one of the first places where the giant squid was found, and there are records verifying that merchant ships have indeed been attacked by giant squids in these waters.
For a moment, the sailors, who had never seen a sea monster in this sea area with their own eyes, swam strenuously while recalling those legends, growing more and more afraid.
But they couldn’t understand why the sea monster would want their daggers…
Fortunately, after the ‘sea monster’ took their daggers, it did not continue to pursue them and allowed them to escape back to their own ship.
The captain of the Tiger Whale, Fern, stood at the bow. Seeing the sailors return so quickly, he immediately felt something was off, “What happened? It can’t be so quick to cut thirty buoys!”
A sailor in a diving suit was pulled up onto the deck, quivering as he said, “There’s a sea monster!”
Fern was stunned for a moment, “Sea monster?!”
He looked at another sailor, “Did you encounter a sea monster too?”
The sailor nodded, speaking with inexplicable terror, “It was too dark underwater to see anything clearly, just felt that sea monster swimming very fast, and so powerful!”
Fern frowned. If it had been just one sailor saying this, it might have been deep sea phobia causing a hallucination.
But if all the sailors said the same thing, then there was a problem.
Yet Fern always felt there was something eerie, but he couldn’t pinpoint where…
He looked at the sailor, “Since you met a sea monster, how did you come back?”
Fern finally figured out what was strange—the sailors had all encountered a sea monster, and yet they had all made it back alive. That was the strangest part.
Fern glanced at the panic-stricken crew on the ship and immediately said, “What’s there to panic about? If it really was a sea monster, would it let three divers come back? If there really was something like a giant squid beneath the Barents Sea, you’d be dead by now. Alright, what exactly happened after you encountered the sea monster?”
The sailor replied, “The sea monster took my dagger.”
Another sailor hesitated, “My dagger was taken too.”
Fern laughed coldly, “It must be someone trying to play tricks, not a sea monster. Have you ever seen a sea monster that decides to take a stroll and just takes your daggers? What, is the Barents Sea prohibiting carrying restricted knives?”
He looked out to the Arctic, still adrift on the sea, “Turn on the ship’s lights. This must be something the Arctic stirred up; we’ll know once we go over there. Also, use the radio to tell the Alps and the long-tailed ship about what’s happened here, and ask if they’ve encountered the same thing.”
As he spoke, the lights on the Tiger Whale’s deck all lit up, along with those of the Alps and the long-tailed ship.
The three ships formed a perfect equilateral triangle, completely surrounding the Arctic in the sea.
Zhang Jian, Old John, and Nedup on the Arctic were stunned by the scene. It turned out to be true—just as Qing Chen and Yuan Yuan had said, the three crabbing ships had been right beside them all along!