NOVEL NEXT Chapter 774 Strange Sounds
What is the deep sea like?
And what is the deep sea within the South Pacific like?
Bi Fang still remembered the scene when he was diving in Dolphin Bay, which, although not deep sea, highlighted an even more obvious contrast precisely because it was just a shallow bay.
Even within human harbors, there was a lot of biological activity, quite bustling.
Countless small fish darted between the rocks, exploding into a dramatic scatter at the approach of strangers, vanishing without a trace. Only those who have personally experienced this scene could truly understand its charm, which seemed like a group of playful ocean spirits playing hide and seek with you.
Different colors of algae freely spread and grew at the sea bottom, over every inch of seabed irregular coral clung, and scaly predators lay in wait.
Such scenes would naturally not be present in the deep sea, where thousands of meters of water blocked out the sunlight.
The pitch-black deep-sea environment might harbor life, and the mere existence of life there is a miracle not to be summarily concluded upon. The toughness contained in evolution is beyond human imagination, but what is certain is that its ecological richness cannot compare to places bathed in sunlight.
Yet, with sunlight, it is still a silent death, the contrast all the more severe.
It's the clarity that makes it so genuinely terrifying.
When one's vision stretched tens or even hundreds of meters only to see emptiness, the heart could only pulse with endless palpitations.
There was nothing beside you, just an endless, transparent expanse of sea water.
The sunlight was so bright and warm that one would not feel cold even in the water, but the camera's vision captured nothing.
Daylight streamed through the sea surface, fracturing into beams of light that tapered off, their tips dissolving into the deep water.
A dead silence.
It was as if someone had configured a seascape only to cleanse it of all its bustling scenes with the push of a button, leaving behind nothing but clear, empty sea water.
[I can't breathe, can't breathe.]
[I'm going to die, going to die, going to die.]
[When rowing a boat, I imagine there's a creature beneath the water, one of its eyes bigger than the boat... then it turns and dives deeper, who knows how deep the water is... Just thinking about it, I'm about to lose my mind.]
[I dare not get on a boat, swim, or go to deep places, even the sight of fish scares me... I don't like the color blue... especially deep blue... Seeing images of whales, sharks, or the deep sea makes me feel dizzy, weak, tense(fear of death), instinctively closing my eyes or turning off the images.]
[I feel nauseous, dizzy, if I went to the underwater world... that feeling... it would be unbearable...]
Bi Fang's heart thudded wildly.
The further he travelled, the more landscapes he saw, and there were few scenes that could make his heart pound so violently just from sight alone.
Without realizing it, Bi Fang had descended thirty meters.
His lungs were further compressed, and his body's density underwent subtle changes.
Bi Fang sank without any preparation, as though slowly dropping from the sun-pierced sea surface into pitch-black fog, but it was all an illusion.
Here, sunlight could penetrate the clear sea water without obstruction, reaching hundreds, even close to a thousand meters below.
Bi Fang felt the pull of Earth's gravity, silently sinking deeper.
In the first person, it was as if the audience was transported into a true sensory experience, feeling their bodies becoming more and more out of control, as if shrinking in size.
In this boundless deep sea, a person is but a grain of sand.
Bi Fang plummeted impassively, feeling the pressure of the sea squeezing his body, as the invisible force attempted to invade his bloodstream, setting off subtle reactions, with the sea trying to numb this arrogant fool who dared to dive alone without any protection.
But by now, Bi Fang had been through these experiences countless times and was completely unaffected.
His body was bombarded by the relentless waves.
The audience could faintly hear the sound of bubbles gliding past me, as if the noise was that of a track athlete who had just run 1000 meters, amplified over a thousand times as they gulped down water right after a race.
The view seemed unchanged, even at a depth of fifty meters, with the light still ample, everything was crystal clear.
Then, deep in his mind, arrived another peculiar sensation, as if both heart and brain were hollowed out, akin to the tranquil feeling of seeing a light at the moment one is about to die.
Bi Fang was enjoying this eerie atmosphere within the belly of the Earth, leaving behind a lucky imprint on the edge of death.
There was clearly no danger, yet such feelings persisted.
Under the sunlight, the sea appeared warm, with the air glowing a green hue, reminiscent of the cross-section of vintage glass—sted with the stillness of death.
Bi Fang even felt like a decaying ancient wood, encased within a massive block of glass.
[Damn it, I can't stand this immersion experience, I'm out.]
[Call me when you come out, the sense of suffocation is too strong.]
As the audience was engulfed by the fear of the deep sea, a declarative barrage comment caught the attention of some, and through discussion and spreading, it was noticed by even more people.
[Here's something creepy, it's hard for life to survive at Nemo Point, but there's a mysterious noise here.]
[In the 90s, about 2011 kilometers east of Nemo Point, scientists detected a strange sound. They named this sound "Bloop".]
[And this sound was louder than the ones made by Blue Whales, audible over long distances to several hydrophone arrays. It's worth noting that Blue Whales are not only the largest animals known on Earth but also capable of producing the loudest sound of any known species.]
[Therefore, scientists believed it to be a mysterious, extremely large marine creature, calculating from the sound source to the hydrophone, that this creature was at least 76 meters long.]
[I know, that thing is called Cthulhu (Dog's head).]
[What an unsolved mystery of the world.]
[Let me enlighten you, my lord.]
[Really? That's kind of scary.]
Although some found it unimaginable, the information conveyed in the comments still sent chills down everyone's spine.
Three minutes later, as the claustrophobia was about to hit its peak, Bi Fang finally grasped the rope and swam upward, reaching the surface within half a minute.
Accompanied by the sound of splashing water, Bi Fang lay on the canoe, gasping for air, and glanced at the barrage comments.
"That's fake," he said.
"In 2005, scientists came out to debunk it, Brian Dunning analyzed the original Bloop sound with various sounds made by marine life and ocean phenomena and found that the so-called strange noise was actually the sound of glacier calving."
"By 2012, a recording of an Antarctic glacier breaking apart also supported this theory, so the so-called mysterious sound of Nemo Point was actually caused by ice quakes resulting from breaking icebergs."