Chapter 1648 - Going In (1/2)

Chapter 1648: Going In

Li Du had no other choice but to swear on Sophie and his child.

After hearing him swear, the Inuit nodded in satisfaction. He said, “Alright, now I’ll tell you what’s the most dangerous part of this expedition is: it’s the water pressure at a hundred meters. If you’re not good at diving — and I mean good — then you’ll have to be careful.”

Li Du understood him instantly. He asked, “We’re diving to the bottom of the lake then? To where the spiral rises from?”

The Inuit confirmed with a nod. “Yes, we are.”

Water pressure at a hundred meters deep was terrible, but solving this issue was easy for modern technology. They had a submarine at the camping ground which could enable people to dive down to thousands of meters deep — a hundred meters was nothing.

The Inuit told him, “You can’t rely solely on the submarine, because there are places that it can’t reach. You’ll have to rely on yourself. You can wear diving gear and bring an oxygen tank with you, but you’ll have to be able to deal with the water pressure on your own.”

This was something that Li Du could not do. He had learned how to dive before. He had also learned to scuba dive; he did a really good job when he had been harvesting black gold abalone back in Australia.

Even then, however, he had not gone as deep as a hundred meters. Now he had to pull off the real deal.

Diving so deep required professional training. Inexperienced people could not handle the issue just by relying on equipment.

Luckily, Li Du was not a stranger to deep diving. After all, he had learned diving before. With the help of diving gear made especially for deep diving and some medicine, he could dive that far down for a brief period.

Li Du spent a whole day preparing for this. He assigned tasks for the people at the camp, then carried with him the heavy diving gear and other tools before following behind the Inuit, walking towards the wilderness.

Godzilla could not help but shout, “Boss, it’s too dangerous for you to go alone! Pick someone to help you!”

The Inuit shook his head insistently and Li Du waved his hand impatiently. “Wait for me to come back, brothers. I’ll go alone to find out what’s going on and then I’ll be back.”

Brother Wolf said with a heavy heart, “We’ll be waiting right here for you. If you’re not back, we won’t leave this place!”

His tone changed, becoming heavier. “We’ll start looking for you if you’re gone for too long, and we’ll find you even if we have to drain all the water from Lake Angikuni!”

Li Du nodded with a smile, then responded, “Alright, don’t worry.”

Brother Wolf and the rest of the men listened to him, but the little ones did not. They trailed behind him adamantly — even Ah Bai, with his broken leg, struggled to crawl up his arm, tugging at his sleeve and refusing to let go.

Li Du asked, “Can I bring these animals with me?”

It was a simple question but the Inuit jumped in shock. He was so shocked that he was almost flailing about and repeatedly insisted, “No, no, absolutely not! You can’t bring them along! Hurry and send them back!”

Li Du was puzzled at the man’s reaction, so he asked, “Why? Is one of your people allergic to animal fur?”

The Inuit blinked a few times, then said emphatically, “Yes, many of us are allergic to animal fur and we absolutely cannot come into contact with them!”

Li Du asked, “But you’re in contact with them now, right? Aren’t you fine?”

The Inuit said with his eyebrows furrowed, “It doesn’t matter what you say, you’re banned from bringing your pets along. Think about it — how can they survive the water pressure? The moment they dive in, the pressure will do them in!”

Li Du opened his mouth to respond but the Inuit was not having it. He pointed to the sun and said, “We’ve wasted enough time. I can’t say for sure how much longer Steve Tussenburg is going to wait for you.”

Li Du could not counter that.