2. These phytobenthos and mollusks of all shapes and sizes classify and keep on classifying. A field full of coelenterates and echinoderms. Varied forked worms, lonely life of the hornworms, pure eyeball worm, called snow-white coral shrugged up as a mushroom-shaped mycetozoa, muscle discs affixed to the ground of the white head ...... arranged into a flowery land; and then set with a knot of sky-blue silk tapestry collars of saffron stone warts, scattered in the sand between the starfish like stargazers, full of small insects in the sea plate car, this All this is like a fine lace embroidered by the hands of the water nymphs. The colors of the flowers swayed with the slightest fluctuation caused by our walk. To have the beautiful varieties of mollusks, the ringed sea-fan, the mallet-fish, the shells - the real jumping shells, the puddle shells, the vermillion shells, the angel-winged sleeve shells, the leafy shells, and so many other endless sea creatures, scattered over the ground, trampled under my feet, was hard to bear, and a pity to see them. sorry. But we had to go, and we went on, and above us were swarms of tubular jellyfish, with their sky-blue tentacles outstretched, floating in a cascade through the water. Then there was the moon jellyfish, whose creamy-white or pale rose-red umbrellas, sheathed in sky-blue frames, shaded us from the sun. In the darkness, there were even more glowing hemispherical jellyfish, emitting phosphorescent light for us and illuminating our way forward.
3. At that moment, I saw the captain's gun sharply pressed against his shoulder, aiming at something that was walking among the jungle. The gun went off, I heard a slight whistling sound, and the animal fell down with a hit a few paces away What fell down was a very good looking otter, a water beast, which is probably the only quadruped that lives in the sea. The otter was a meter and a half long and must have been of great value. Its skin, chestnut-brown on the surface and silver-white on the underside, makes a very good-looking tube, and is a very rare hide in the Russian and Chinese markets. The softness and fineness of the fur and its smooth color dictate a price of at least two thousand francs. I admired the novelty of this mammal, with its round protruding head surmounted by short ears, round eyes, white urn whiskers like a cat's whiskers, palmate and armored feet, and tufted tail.
4. Ned volunteered for the mission. So Captain Nemo led a dozen brave sailors, axes in hand, towards the central staircase, ready to strike. "The Nautilus floated to the surface, and the crew member closest to the top of the stairs gently loosened the lock on the hatch. But only halfway, the hatch cover immediately popped open automatically, apparently by the large octopus suction cups up. At the same time, two octopus tentacles immediately wrapped around a crew member standing at the front as fast as lightning.
5. But hope is always ingrained in the human heart! And we are two again. Finally, I want to be sure - and this seems impossible - that even if I were to break all illusions in my mind, even if I were to "despair", I could not do it now! It was about eleven o'clock in the night when the battleship collided with the whale. So we had to swim for eight hours until the sun came up. We'll swim for eight hours instead of the other way around. The sea was quite calm, and we were not overworked. Sometimes my eyes tried to see through the deep darkness, but I could see nothing but a little sparkle from the waves that were stirred up by our swimming movements. The bright waves that broke under my hands dotted the mirrored, glittering water like pieces of greenish-gray metal.
6. It was a marvelous and rare undersea forest, with tall woody plants, and small trees with clumps of branches reaching straight up to the surface of the ocean. There were no branches, no leaf veins, like iron rods. In the midst of all the different shrubs, which are as tall as a temperate forest, there are corals of all colors with vivid flowers growing all over the place. It was beautiful!
7. In front of us was a ship, on which the broken mast-guard was still hanging from the chain, and the hull appeared to be in good condition, the ship having sunk only a few hours before at most. Three broken masts, cut down two feet above the deck, showed that the shipwrecked vessel had been obliged to sacrifice her mast-walls. But the ship was lying on her side, and the interior, filled to overflowing, was tilted to leeward. This sight of the wreckage, which had fallen in the waves, seemed truly dismal; and still more dismal was the sight of the bodies still lying on the deck hanging from the ropes! I saw four bodies-four men, one of whom stood at the helm, and a woman, with a child in her hands, standing on the lattice of the aft lookout. The woman was young. Illuminated by the electric light of the Nordilius, I could make out her face, not yet corroded by the sea. In a last desperate effort, she held the child above her, and the poor little creature was clasping its two little arms around its mother's neck! The attitude of the four sailors seemed to me very human, for their bodies were convulsed beyond recognition, and they made a last effort to free themselves from the ropes which had entangled them in the ship, before they died. Only the helmsman, who watched the course, was more composed, with a very clear and grave face, his gray hair plastered to his forehead, and his spasmodic hand resting on the tiller, as if he were still steering his shipwrecked three-masted vessel at the bottom of the deep.
8. I then lay down on the ground, just behind the mossy jungle, and when I picked up my head, I saw some immense and unimaginable body emitting phosphorescent light, and approaching with great impetuosity the blood in my veins curdled! I saw approaching us very formidable sharks, a pair of fire sharks, the most fearsome of the shark class, with huge tails, dull, gloomy eyes, and many holes around their mouths, from which spewed phosphorus, glittering. Really big and fearful fire sharks, with their beds of iron teeth, which could bite a whole man to a pulp! I wondered if Conseil was keeping an eye out to categorize them, and in my case, I took a very unscientific view of their silvery-white bellies, mouths full of sharp teeth, not so much in the capacity of a biologist as in that of a man who would be devoured.
9. It was ten o'clock in the morning. The sun's rays were projected on the surface of the water waves at a rather oblique angle, and the rays, due to the zigzag effect, were broken up as if through a triple pike mirror, and the flowers, stones, plants, mesopods, and coral-like animals on the bottom of the sea, as soon as they came in contact with the broken up rays, showed on the edges of them seven different colors of the sun's spectral rays. This intricate intertwining of all the intensity of color, really is a red, orange, yellow, green, green, blue, purple colorful kaleidoscope, in short, it is very elaborate watercolorist a whole set of colors! It seems truly magical and a real eye candy! How could I tell Conseil about all the new feelings I had in my mind! How can I join him in his marvels! How could I, like Captain Nemo and his companions, utilize an agreed notation to convey my thoughts! For lack of a better way, I had to speak to myself, and shout from inside the brass box that held my head; though I knew that speaking these empty words consumed a little more air than intended, I'm afraid.
10. There was no grass growing on the forest floor, and none of the branches clustered on the small trees spread outward, nor did they bend and droop, nor did they stretch out in a horizontal direction. All the grass stretched straight out to the ocean. There were no branches, no bands of foliage, no matter how small, all were straight as iron rods. Kelp and algae, influenced by the powerful density of the sea, grow unwaveringly along vertical lines. And these forks of water plants were stationary; when I separated them with my hand, as soon as I let go, they immediately returned to their original straightness. This forest is simply a world of vertical lines.
11. The island of Ceylon, at the southern tip of the Indian peninsula, is in front of us. Alonas took Captain Nemo's advice and walked to the undersea pearl quarry. Suddenly, a giant shark lunged at the bead pickers. Captain Nemo, short sword in hand, stood up and fought the shark. When Captain Nemo was overwhelmed by the shark's huge body and in critical condition, Ned Lang quickly threw his sharp fork and struck the shark in the heart. The captain rescues the poor pearl picker and gives him a packet of pearls from his own pocket. From this, Aronnus felt that there were two things worth noting in Nemo: his unparalleled bravery, and his spirit of sacrifice for mankind. It seemed that this eccentric man had not completely severed his feelings of love for mankind.
12, We trod for a quarter of an hour on a bright layer of sand, which was composed of powder not yet turned into shells. The hull of the Noctilius, which appeared like a long reef, had faded into obscurity; but its searchlight, which shot out a very clear bright light, could, in the darkness of the water, direct us back to the ship. People1 have only seen this brilliant white light on land, and it is not easy to understand the effect of electric light under the sea. On land, the air is full of dust, which makes a ray of light like a bright cloud: but at sea, as under the sea, the electric light is very translucent, and not at all blurred.
13. At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Aronnus went with Captain Nemo on a novel journey; they had their feet on the summit of a mountain on a sunken continent, an Atlantic continent, and watched the spectacle of a volcano spewing sulphurous flints from its submarine vents. At the foot of the mountain is a view of a devastated city - the entire submerged city of Pompeii. The book describes the legendary underwater city of Atlantis. (www.lz13.cn)
14. In the distance is a volcano. Below the peak, in the middle of the usual rocks and slag, a broad spit of fire spat out rapids of sulphurous flint, scattering in all directions as a cascade of fire, which plunged into the sea and shone down on the plains beneath the sea floor to the far end of a devastated city, collapsed houses, broken and fragmented arches, and stone pillars fallen to the ground, as far as my eyes could see. Farther away, the ruins of some minor works. Farther away, there was a collapsed city wall, a wide unoccupied continent, an entire underwater submerged Atlantis, all now resurrected and appearing before my eyes.
15, when the Nautilus arrived at the South Pole, intends to float to the surface for air, who knows that their way to the surface is frozen, can not change air, although the Nautilus is very advanced, but still can not make their own oxygen, no oxygen can not survive, they use the punch horn to hit the ice, with a cross picks chiseling the ice, but they chiseled the ice at the same time, the ice is also thickening, and later, they used a high-pressure water gun to spray the hot water melted the ice and only then escaped with their lives.
16. The sun rose one after another, shining more brightly under the water, and the ground gradually changed. After the fine sandy ground, then came the jutting rocky road, which was covered with a carpet formed by mollusks and phytobenthos. In the midst of the varieties of these two phyla, I saw thin-shelled placenta shells of different sizes, a species of oyster peculiar to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean; orange full-moon shells with rounded shells; cornucopia shells; a number of Persian vermilion shells, which supplied the beautiful colors of the Noctilius; polygonal rock shells, fifteen centimeters in length, which stood erect under the water as if they were trying to grasp a man's hand; horned snail shells, with spikes all over their bodies; open-mouthed tongue shells, duck shells, and the like, which were also very beautiful. tongue-shaped shells, duck shells, which are edible fly shells supplied to the Indian market of Sdan; the armored jellyfish, which emits a faint pseudo-bright light; and lastly, the fan-shaped round-eyed shells, like very beautiful fans, which are one of the most easily reproduced dendritic creatures of this part of the sea, were seen to the admiration of the people.
17We went down a rather steep slope, and our feet trod the floor of a sort of rounded well. Here Captain Nemo stopped and he pointed his finger at an object, but I could not yet make out that it was a pearl mussel of enormous size, an immense and immense cart-drain, a tray of holy water holding a pool of water, a great mantle more than two meters wide, so that this mussel was even bigger than the one kept in the living room of the Noctilius I approached the front of this surprisingly rare mollusc. Its fibrous bands pinned it to a granite slab to which it was attached, and it grew up alone in the calm waters of this rocky cave. I estimate the weight of this shell at three hundred kilograms. And a shell like this can have fifteen kilograms of net flesh, so there would have to be the stomach of a kagandua to favor a few dozen shells of this magnitude I think he brought us here just to show us a natural curiosity. I was mistaken. Captain Nemo has come for the special purpose of learning about this car canal.
18. Captain Nemo did not answer; he made a sign to me to follow him into the parlor. Noctilus submerged into the sea a few meters below the depth of the panels opened I hurriedly walked to the glass partition to watch, only to see the base of the coral reef covered with mycorrhizal plants, tubular plants, emerald seaweeds, lithophyllum small grasses, under it, in the thousands of things very lovely fish "abalone, carved fish, the Secretary tube fish, cracked bone fish, goldfish) in the middle of it, I recognized the salvage machine can not be salvaged by the salvage of a number of salvage items, such as the iron horse-ledge, anchors guns, shells, winch racks, bow scraps, etc., all things left behind by the shipwrecked vessel, now clothed in living flowers.
19. The submarine headed for Kandy Island. At this point, another strange thing happened: with the appearance of a diver at the window of the submarine in the early hours of the morning, Captain Nemo took millions of gold out of the cupboard, wrote down the address, and sent away in a dinghy. Where to send so much gold? Aronnus feels that the mysterious Nemo is still somehow connected to the land.
20. Soon, Captain Nemo announced to everyone that the propeller had suddenly been bitten by a large octopus and could not turn. Therefore, it was necessary to go out immediately to start a life-and-death struggle with these monsters!
21. The crew member gasped for air and cried out for help in a mournful manner, but then fainted. His body was now being sucked in by the large octopus's suction cups, hanging in mid-air. Captain Nemo bellowed, immediately jumped out of the hatch cover, and the others followed, not retreating. They all swung their axes in a desperate attempt to rescue their unfortunate companion. However, just as we were about to join forces to attack it at the same time, it suddenly spewed out a large amount of ink from its abdomen, and everyone's eyes immediately went black. By the time the ink cleared, the wounded octopus and the unfortunate crew member were long gone.
22. Nodilius was heading straight down a dark and deep undersea tunnel. As the tunnel sloped, the submarine went down with the rapids like an arrow. Narrow high walls on both sides of the tunnel, only to see the speed of the speed of the brilliant lines drawn in the electric light, straight into the strip. It made our hearts beat.
23, the submarine sailed through the warm currents of the Atlantic Ocean, known as the king of storms, to the site of the sinking of a French patriotic battleship. Nemo spoke passionately about the history of the ship. This drew the attention of Aronnus to the fact that the closure of Captain Nemo and his companions in the hull of the Nordilius was not an ordinary indignation, but a very noble hatred. Had it not attacked certain ships that night in the Indian Ocean? Was not the man buried in the coral graveyard a victim of the conflict caused by the Noctilius? And over all the seas, too, men were chasing this terrible machine of destruction!
24 And there is much more to be wondered at! The Professor and Conseil soon discover that the sun still shines through, even though it is now 10 meters below the surface. The light was cast on the quiet sea floor as if it were a spectrum of light that had been bent and analyzed, and the colors were breathtakingly beautiful. Even the living creatures, grasses, trees, shells and corals on the bottom of the sea are tinted with the colors of the sunlight, making it a sight to behold.
25, this day hit a lot of new types of fish, such as: sea frog fish, the fish's action is very funny and ridiculous, so it is called the ugly fish. The black noise poof fish with many tentacles. The curved arrowfish with ripples has a red pattern surrounding it. Bent moon shaped foo-fish, this fish has extremely powerful venomous juice. Several olive-colored octopus eels. Seal fish, this fish is covered in silvery white scales. Spinning Hair Fish, this fish generates electricity with a power equal to that of an electric eel and an electric fish. Multi-scaled striped finfish, this fish has bronze-colored horizontal and diagonal banding on its body. Pale greenish-colored turtle fish. Several species of goby, etc. And finally, some larger fish, a garoupa with a bulging head, several beautiful meter-long carp with sky-blue and silver-white bands, and three gorgeous tuna. No matter how fast they moved, they couldn't get out of the bag net.
26, er, the submarine went through the stranding, the natives siege and other dangers, sailed peacefully to the Indian Ocean. At this time a strange thing happened. Captain Nemo looked out over the sea and saw something that suddenly filled him with anger and hatred. He roughly confined Aronnus and his companions to a small room and forced them to sleep. The next day, Aronnus awakens, and Captain Nemo asks him to treat a badly wounded crewman. The crewman dies. Captain Nemo sadly takes a funeral procession and buries the dead man in a forest of coral trees, glorious and magnificent at the bottom of the sea. Here, he said, the coral polyps would seal the dead off forever from sharks and men!
27. Aronnus wished: "If Captain Nemo had always dwelt in the ocean of his choice, may all hatred have been laid to rest in this stubborn heart! ...... May he, a masterful scholar, continue the work of peaceful exploration!"
28The submarine passed through the boiling currents of the waters of the volcanic region of the island of Santorin, came out of the Strait of Gibraltar, sailed into the Atlantic Ocean, and came to rest on the bottom of the Gulf of Vedo. This was a naval battleground back in 1702, when ships carrying gold and silver to the Spanish government sank here, paving the seabed with gold and silver jewelry. Nemo sent a crew to load millions of gold and silver into the submarine. Aronnus lamented that this much wealth could not be distributed to the poor. The captain was agitated to hear this and replied, "Do I salvage these riches for myself? Do you think I do not know that there are countless suffering people in the world, oppressed races, and victims to be avenged?" Aronnus then realized to whom Captain Nemo had given away the millions of gold on that occasion when he passed through the island of Kandi.