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Chapter 287: Underwater Palace

At noon that day, the "construction site" suddenly became busy. Several of Prasad's subordinates helped the staff carry things. He was not idle either. He was squatting there to help the young man wearing glasses seal the precision instruments one by one with a waterproof bag. The old man was standing by his hands behind his back and silently watching them work.

From the other people, the taciturn old man's surname is Qin, and all the staff members with him call him Qin Gong.

The young man's surname is Chen, and everyone calls him Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen told Prasad that the staff found an underground cavity under the water. In order to facilitate further investigation, they were planning to use it as an outpost, and most of the equipment would be transferred to the outpost.

Xiao Chen seems to trust Prasad very much and always takes the initiative to tell Prasad about the progress of the survey.

Prasad actually doesn't care about these things. Years of experience tell him that just take care of what you have at your hands, and the less you know about other things, the safer it is.

But the young man wearing glasses was very talkative, and Prasad's seriousness became the best listener in his eyes. He kept talking in his ears, and he couldn't refuse even if he didn't want to listen. He couldn't block the young man's mouth.

"If you want, you can go down with us. Diving is very fun. As long as you try it once, you will fall in love with it." Today, everyone except Prasad was going to go into the water. Xiao Chen thought Prasad was afraid of diving, so he sincerely invited him.

"Don't worry, with me as a professional coach here, there will definitely be no problem." It seemed that in order to dispel Prasad's concerns, Xiao Chen patted his chest and called for a guarantee.

"How big is that place?" Prasad finally couldn't help asking curiously.

He was also wondering, can he put so many equipment and so many people down there?

"It's big, like an underground palace." The young man blinked at him, and a smile pursed at the corner of his mouth.

It seemed that this discovery made them very excited. All the staff were talking and laughing, but Qin Gong stared at the pool with his hands behind his back, looking thoughtful.

After everything was cleaned up, Prasad operated an excavator on the shore and used the steel cable on the winch to deliver a large number of instruments, equipment and staff such as oxygen cylinders, supply boxes, and staff to the water.

Qin Gong and the young man also put on diving suits and dived down the ropes. Only Prasad was left on the shore.

They originally planned to leave a set of diving equipment for Prasad, but he refused.

There is a reasonable reason to leave someone on the ground.

Prasad sat in the cab and couldn't help but frown when he looked at the dark clouds in the sky.

It is a very dangerous behavior from his point of view that so many people and equipment go down into deep water. He is not sure what the young man calls "underground palace" looks like, but he knows that if there is any accident, the bottom of the water is equivalent to a sealed coffin.

But he had no right to raise any objection, and the decision to set up an outpost underwater was made by Qin Gong. Prasad's order was to obey the arrangements and cooperate with the work of the engineering team.

The command power is with Qin Gong.

There is a small screen in the cab with an optical cable connected to it. The optical cable goes down to the deep water with the equipment. At the end of the optical cable is an underwater camera, from which you can see the approximate situation at the bottom of the water.

The young man kept in touch with Prasad through a telephone.

"It's here." said the young man.

Prasad braked the winch, and judging from the length of the steel cable, the pool was at least seventy meters deep.

This depth shocked Prasad. He didn't expect that this inconspicuous pool would be so deep, far beyond his imagination.

The visibility at the bottom of the water is relatively low, and the staff start to get busy as soon as they arrive at the scheduled location. They remove the things from the steel cables and then transport them one by one to the "underground palace".

Prasad stared at the screen for a while and heard a crackling sound from the top of the cab, and a heavy rain was coming.

This downpour was coming in full force, with a vast water curtain between the sky and the earth, and rainwater from all directions gathered into the pool through two rivers, east and west. The water level was rising rapidly, and the excavator's tracks were almost touching the water surface.

"The outpost, this is the base. Are you considering withdrawing? It was raining heavily above and the water level rose very quickly. I don't know if it will have an impact on the bottom of the water." Prasad said his advice to the telephone.

"I know, we also noticed that there is an undercurrent below." The young man's words were filled with breathing sounds, and exercising in deep water was indeed very exhausting.

"Don't worry, the plan remains unchanged - there is still the last batch of equipment left." Xiao Chen's words were very sure, which made Prasad give up the attempt to dissuade him again.

Prasad looked outside the cab. The pouring rain covered the cab's glass tightly, and he couldn't see clearly what was outside the window. When he turned around, he found that the screen was covered with white space.

"Outpost, outpost, I can't see you anymore." Prasad said to the telephone, and there was a noise coming from the telephone.

No one replied to him.

Broken! No signal anymore!

Prasad immediately determined that the optical cable was broken. It might have been the branches washed down by the rain, or the team members accidentally pulled and broke while carrying things.

Now he had no choice but to sit in the cab and wait. He now regretted that he had agreed to let these people go down so easily.

Calm down, Prasad said to himself, the outpost should soon find that the optical cable was broken, and they should send someone back to repair it. The five members who followed the engineering team were all elites among the Gurkha cavalry, and they also brought two underwater guns. They were a little more open to Prasad.

Prasad looked at the pool outside. The water surface was covered with rain. There should be a channel for water discharge under the water. I don’t know if it is undercurrent inside.

Prasad was staring at the water and was stunned when he suddenly felt the excavator shocked.

Prasad was shocked.

A few seconds later, the heavy excavator swayed slightly, and the steel cable rubbed against the winch and made a harsh sound. Prasad looked up outside and saw that the winch was rotating. The brake [31 Novel Network] had failed. There seemed to be an extremely powerful force under the water, pulling the steel cable and moving down quickly.

Prasad opened his eyes wide and saw that there were fewer and fewer steel cables on the winch, and the steel cables of more than 100 meters were about to run to the end soon.

Prasad was shocked and ignored the heavy rain outside, so he opened the cockpit door and jumped out.

As soon as my feet landed, I heard a few loud "rattle" sounds, and the steel cable was finally pulled to the end. The heavy excavator shook and was pulled and slid towards the pool!

After sliding forward for a while, the excavator was probably stuck at a certain position under the water and stopped in the water. Only the fuselage was still shaking, and it stopped after a while.

At this time, most of the excavators that were originally parked on the shore had already been submerged in the water, leaving only the cockpit exposed.

Prasad fell into the mud and watched all this in a daze.

Such a terrifying power is by no means a human force. What did the staff and the Gurkha cavalry who went down? Are they still alive?

After a few minutes, a burst of fine bubbles emerged from the pond water. After a while, a man in a diving suit surfaced and slowly swam to the shore.

He is a Gurkha mercenary under his command!

After seeing the person coming, Prasad hurriedly rushed to the water and pulled him up. As soon as he took off his diving mask, the Gurkha cavalry immediately spit out a few mouthfuls of blood from his mouth.

"Go away! There are monsters under the water!" he said with struggle.

Prasad picked up the Gurkha cavalry, whose mouth was constantly oozing blood foam, and ran to the shore.

Behind them, a large number of bubbles suddenly appeared in the pool, and a fishy smell began to fill the air.

Prasad ignored the changes in the water and placed the injured Gurkha cavalry flat on the ground, took out a syringe and medicine from his first aid kit, and injected him with central nervous system stimulants.

This drug can improve respiration and circulation functions and promote the excretion of nitrogen dissolved in the blood.

When using scuba dives deep, because the pressure is too high, a large amount of nitrogen will be incorporated into the diver's blood. If it floats too fast, the nitrogen dissolved in the tissues of the body will quickly dissolve, and the blood will "boil" like beer foam.

After injection of central nervous system stimulants, the Gurkha cavalry coughed a few times and sprayed a few more mouthfuls of blood foam.

Prasad knew that the drug could only prolong his death. If he did not perform emergency decompression, he would undoubtedly die, but there was no equipment for decompression here.

You can't let him die so quickly! Prasad must know what happened below.

"What did you encounter? Tell me!" Prasad asked, shaking his shoulder.

"He, they opened the gates of hell and released evil, demons." The Gurkha cavalry said in a speechless manner.

Prasad was stunned. Could this mysterious deep pool lead to hell?

At this time, it was almost dusk, and twilight gradually fell, heavy rain suddenly stopped, and a faint mist rose on the water surface.

The pool under the fog was surging, as if something was emerging from the bottom of the water.

"Hurry, run, the demon, the demon comes out..." The Gurkha mercenary opened his eyes wide and looked behind Prasad in horror.

Prasad turned his head and saw gray shadows suddenly appearing on the water surface covered by mist. Under the faint twilight, you can see these "gray shadows" with slender claws and their mouths protruding with pointed protrusions. The "skin" exposed outside is bare, and it looks like a layer of mucus like a film.

These gray shadows float quietly on the water, like sculptures.

Prasad stared at these gray shadows and did not dare to show off his might.

Suddenly, the Gurkha mercenaries coughed violently again. The gray shadows were alarmed by the sound, shrugged their shoulders, and their slender claws slowly stretched out. There was a pair of huge wings behind them. After they were fully extended, they were two or three meters wide!

Prasad hurriedly covered his teammate's mouth, but it was too late. Gray Shadow flapped her wings and flew up from the water.

Prasad didn't bother to think too much, and carried the Gurkha mercenaries and ran to the village. After a few gray shadows flying in the air hovered a few times, he suddenly rushed from the air to the ground like a sharp arrow. Prasad, who was running, was like a tiny rabbit, shrouded in the huge shadow cast by the gray shadow.
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