Pride and Predilection [Entertainment]

After winning Best Actor last year, Liang Xiao's film sources exploded all of a sudden, and the schedule was actually too full.

Here, Fu Hanyu was busy filming "Extreme Almighty", while Liang Xiao started an American popcorn sci-fi film non-stop after finishing filming, starring a very black-bellied artificial intelligence.

Flash forward for a few months.

Pacific Ocean, F Islands, near the equator.

Except for a few islands that have been developed by tourist businessmen in recent years, most of them maintain their original ecology, and many indigenous people still live on the sea.There are also several marine research centers near the main island, as well as a film and television diving base with a good reputation.

According to the itinerary sent by Hua Mingfei, Fu Hanyu will come to this base in a few days to film the last episode of "Extreme Almighty" - "Dancing with Sharks".Coincidentally, some scenes of Liang Xiao just finished filming in New Zealand, which is only a few hours' flight away from the F Islands.

So, Liang Xiao resolutely turned down his other jobs and stayed in a resort next to the diving base.Sea view room, food and lodging included, it is right to give yourself a few days off.

At night, Liang Xiao was lying in the hotel with nothing to do, so he dragged Richard to watch Fu Hanyu's variety show together, while watching and praising him, like a crazy fan of Amway's own idol.

To be honest, Richard was a bit overwhelmed, and it was very difficult to answer the boss's two questions, "Is my Hanyu cute or not" and "Do you like my Hanyu?"

The big man was roaring in his heart—Boss, these are two propositions!When did the assistant business include being a fanboy by accompanying me!I want to resign even more now!And I really want to sue your mother quietly!

Say cute, like it, Richard is a straight man of steel, a little hard to say.Moreover, how can the assistant like the boy the boss likes? !

Say it's not cute, don't like it, one sentence offended two people.Eh.It's hard being an assistant.

So, Richard replied cautiously and tremblingly: "It's cute, I like it, but I will never compete with the boss."

Boss Liang is very satisfied.

In fact, Liang Xiao never watched variety shows before, but now he has followed every episode of "Extreme Almighty", and even bought a quarterly membership to the exclusive video network for this show.

In this show where artists are tossed around the world, the treatment given to the contestants is actually a bit hard to describe.Since the broadcast of the program, there have been constant revelations of disputes between the artists and the program group, and there were still some small traffic in the middle of the show who got angry and quit directly, and the Internet was full of blood and blood.

Only Fu Hanyu, there is no negative news at all.Courageous, good tempered, able to endure hardships, very popular with passers-by.A show attracts countless fans.

With "Extreme Almighty", Fu Hanyu's traffic finally began to rank among the top artists of his generation, and he continued to endorse in advertisements.

On the surface, it looks like a beautiful place, but it is actually very hard work.According to Hua Mingfei's complaints, the state of daily life is to go to the world and fight against the sea, but still pretend to smile happily in front of fans.

Thinking about it, Liang Xiao felt quite distressed.

This dive is the final episode of the season of "Extreme Almighty."Both Fu Hanyu and Liang Xiao were actually relieved from the bottom of their hearts.

The frustration of Valentine's Day gradually faded away within a few months, and Liang Xiao's enthusiasm for chasing someone became lively again.Thinking that he would soon see the cutie on TV, Liang Xiao felt better again.

......

Vacation life by the sea is actually very interesting.

While lying dead, Liang Xiao soaked alone in the private swimming pool on the hotel terrace.The sea breeze blew through his hair, and the sunshine of the F Islands was so hot that it was dazzling, but it didn't make people feel hot at all.Liang Xiao's room is on the top floor of the hotel, overlooking the entire sea view of the resort. It is basically the room with the best view in this area.

The supporting terraces on the first floor form a semicircle in a stepped shape, and the infinity swimming pool of a hotel is in the middle.Going further down, there is a platinum-gold beach, with thatched huts tied into sun umbrellas, and deck chairs placed underneath.

Liang Xiao was thinking about how to lure people to this place to relax after Fu Hanyu finished filming.Hua Mingfei asked him if he wanted to arrange a meeting in his spare time, but Liang Xiao refused, saying that he wanted to surprise someone.

For example, waiting for someone to surface from the water and suddenly appear on his diving boat.Or, simply diving to find him, popping up in the coral reef, seems pretty romantic, too.

A few months later, Liang Xiao really wanted Fu Hanyu a little bit.

Not only thinking of him, but also wanting to push him into the swimming pool to do such and such things, Liang Xiao licked his lips eagerly.

Ah, it's nice to dream.

......

Of course, it is impossible for Liang Xiao to watch movies and lie down in the sun all the time, after all, he cannot carry out photosynthesis.But there are only a few types of entertainment at the seaside. He is not very interested in surfing, speedboat fishing, etc. Liang Xiao only loves diving.

When Liang Xiao was a child, he passed the AOW (Advanced Open Water diver) test.But soon, like all members of the League of Death, he can no longer be satisfied with the bulky scuba gear.

People like them always love to pursue the so-called "freedom" in the process of dying.

It just so happened that Liang Xiao learned to freedive because of photography needs when filming.This learning was out of control, like an addiction to the "suffocation".

The so-called free diving is without a gas cylinder, one person, one breath, and breath-holding deep dive. It is the second most dangerous extreme sport in the world.After all, people only take one breath at a time, and if they don't get up, they will never get up.

However, before Liang Zhu's hooves were in the sea for a few days, the conscientious eyeliner over there sent a text message - Fu Hanyu and the others arrived at the diving base, and the filming will start tomorrow.

According to Hua Mingfei's program arrangement, the group of "Extreme Almighty" first participated in diving training in China, and then filmed a diving challenge in the Philippines. After all the contestants are basically diving skilled workers, this time they came to F Islands to shoot "Dancing with Sharks".There is a small assignment for the contestants to go to the bottom of the sea to shoot a shark video.

There are several dive sites in the F Islands, and there are sharks swimming all year round.Sometimes if you are lucky, you can also see rare whale sharks, the largest of which can be more than ten meters long.

Humans living on land always have inexplicable fear of the ocean. Coupled with various film and television works, "sharks are vicious and cannibal" seems to have become a wrong perception of many people.

In fact, encountering sharks while diving is not dangerous in most cases.They are overlords in the water well, and when they suddenly see a strange creature with four legs masked and a gas cylinder on its back, whoever scares them may not be sure.

Although sharks are extremely sensitive to the smell of blood, there have been diving guides who cut themselves and let blood on the seabed in order to attract sharks to please tourists.As a result, the "human" smell came out, which actually scared all the sharks away.

——I have traveled across the sea for so many years, and I have never smelled such a disgusting smell.

So, at the end of the day, the show borrowed a shark gimmick, and the recording wasn't actually dangerous.

It turned out that something went wrong.

Fu Hanyu was not in a good condition when he went into the water that day. Although he didn't have a cold, he was too tired to be jet-lagged all over the world during this time.

When a person catches a cold, the gas in the cavity is prone to blockage, causing danger when the pressure changes.Therefore, if he really had a cold, the dive guide would never allow him to go into the water, so this nonsense would have disappeared.

But Fu Hanyu didn't have a cold, and he was thin-skinned, so he was embarrassed to delay everyone's progress, so he dived to shoot sharks as planned.

In the previous training and the diving challenge, everyone has many times of 30-meter deep diving experience, so the program team is very relieved to let everyone move freely in the dive site.

At first, it was business as usual.

The diving spots in the F Islands lived up to their reputation. Fu Hanyu took pictures of many marine animals that he had never seen before. When he was excited, his interest immediately followed, and his previous fatigue was swept away.

When more than 20 meters below the sea, Fu Hanyu saw a relatively rare hammerhead shark in a deeper and farther place.

The head of this kind of shark seems to be clamped by a machine from top to bottom, and it is very uncoordinated with the body.When looking up at it, its head looks like a wide and flat rectangle, and two small eyes grow on both sides of this rectangle, which is very cute.

Fu Hanyu's eyes lit up, he turned to his diving buddy, and gestured for a long time to express that he wanted to take a picture of that shark. His diving buddy made an "OK" gesture, and he turned around and chased after it.

In that direction, there were many schools of small fish swimming around, which made the sea water slightly turbid. Coupled with the depth, the visibility in the water was not too high.Fu Hanyu fetched water with flippers, and went out several meters after a few strokes. When he looked back, his diving buddy had disappeared at some point.

However, the hammerhead shark that Fu Hanyu was chasing before had already run out of sight, and above his head, a group of ordinary sharks were oncoming.They are small in size, but there are a lot of them.Although sharks have little interest in stupid humans, they occasionally open their mouths to suck small fish, and the rows of white teeth are still scary.

Fu Hanyu raised his head slightly, the background was the bright skylight on the sea, and fusiform black shadows were burned into his retinas.

Why are there so many sharks all of a sudden?

Where did his buddy go?

Should he float now?

No sense of security at all.He didn't want to go through the school of fish.

Fu Hanyu exhaled more and more gas.Oddly enough, he felt dizzy for a while, his heart beat faster, his sympathetic nervous system was overactivated, and the black and white dots in front of his eyes kept jumping, like an old-fashioned TV set that had been in disrepair for a long time.

It seems that no matter how much you inhale, there is not enough oxygen for the brain.

Without warning.

Acute anxiety.

......

At that time, Liang Xiao and his friends drove a small kayak to follow the submersible boat of the program group all the way, and played free diving near the waters they filmed.In fact, he was just thinking about how to have a "chance encounter" with Fu Hanyu in the deep sea.

But at this moment, on the sea not far from him, a scuba diver suddenly popped his head.A long strip of orange-yellow inflatable water surface signal device also floated up.He first looked around for a week, then waved the signal stick and swam towards Liang Xiao's free diving kayak.

Everyone wore diving masks, and Liang Xiao couldn't recognize anyone from afar, but he saw the program team hang tag on the buoyancy control device (BCD device) of that person, so he waved to him: "Do you need help?" ?”

When the divers heard Chinese, they mistakenly thought that this was also the boat of the program group, and quickly shouted: "Have you seen Fu Hanyu? Fu, Han, Yu!"

The person on the same boat as Liang Xiao couldn't understand Chinese, so he looked at his partner with some doubts.

As a result, his partner went into the water without warning and swam all the way over, grabbing the two shoulder straps on the diver's BCD device with both hands: "What did you say?"

Only then did the diver realize that this was not the boat of the program group, and immediately began to look around anxiously: "My diving buddy is lost."

There are naturally some lone rangers who go out to sea with two cylinders on their backs, but for safety reasons, most recreational diving requires two people to go together.However, sometimes the visibility on the bottom of the sea is poor, and the diving buddies rely on gestures and cannot speak. It is quite normal for people around you to suddenly disappear while swimming normally.

However, once the diver finds that the diving partner is missing, he must immediately float up on the spot, turn on the signal device, and then meet again on the sea surface.This is like driving to obey the traffic rules, this is the buddy system that divers must abide by.

But obviously the two of them have separated, why is he the only one on the sea? !

The diver couldn't wait for Fu Hanyu for a long time, and immediately became anxious.

Liang Xiao was also very anxious, shaking the other party's shoulder strap: "Are you Fu Hanyu's diving buddy? What happened just now? When did you get separated?"

"Just now, I couldn't find anyone when I turned around," the diver was probably too nervous, and said incoherently, "I just got fogged up in my diving goggles, so I couldn't see anything clearly. I put some water in, Drain the water again. Then, the fog disappeared, and the people disappeared! At that time, the water was too dark, and a large school of fish came again, and I thought it would meet on the surface of the water... This is the location, but I don’t know .I don't know which direction he went, I guess it's just this sea area, and he hasn't been separated for a long time..."

He asked Fu Hanyu underwater just now, his mirror is foggy, let him wait, okay?

Who knew that Fu Hanyu didn't see the first half, thought the other party's "OK" gesture was an affirmation of his suggestion of chasing sharks, turned around and left.It took more than 20 seconds for the mirror to drain water, and a big living person disappeared.

Being unable to speak is prone to communication lapses.

This time there was a big misunderstanding.

After listening for a long time, Liang Xiao didn't hear any important information points, so he was very irritable.If it weren't for more important things now, he really wanted to beat up this mentally handicapped Fu Hanyu.

Liang Xiao directly took out the man's diving computer - it automatically recorded the air pressure of the cylinder and the diver's itinerary data. The data between diving partners may not be exactly the same, but there is a high probability that they will be similar.

Judging from the diving watch, the two of them had only been in the water for 1 minutes, most of the time they were active at about 20 meters underwater, but once they dived deep to 30 meters, they came up quickly.The gas cylinder still has 70.00% gas, and at least it can stay underwater for about half an hour.

Looking at this data alone, it is relatively healthy.

Liang Xiao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.However, Liang Xiao knew Fu Hanyu too well.Although Fu Xiaoxianrou always likes to pretend to be "a landslide in front of him without changing his face", but in fact he is not very courageous, he is a big cat who likes to pretend to be a lion.

Fu Hanyu has always been cautious and disciplined in doing things, it is impossible for him not to surface after being separated from his diving buddy.

So, there are only two possibilities.First, Fu Hanyu didn't find out that his diving buddy was missing.But he is not blind, there is a big living person missing by his side, how could he not notice it?Then there is only the second situation, Fu Hanyu's situation does not allow him to float up in time.

...and what would it be like?

"I'll go and have a look." Liang Xiao turned his head and gestured to his diving buddy that he wanted to go into the water.

The diver was frightened all of a sudden: "You, you don't even have scuba, you'd better wait for me to call someone, we have a professional on the diving boat—"

Liang Xiao gave him a cold look: "I have a certificate."

AOW, instructor certificate, diving rescue certificate, he has passed all the exams that can be taken.

Then Liang Xiao's body was perpendicular to the water surface, and he plunged into it with a fierce force, patrolling around.If there is no sign of anyone, he returns to the surface again, changes direction, takes a deep breath and dives again.

Compared with scuba diving, freediving does not require bulky equipment, and the whole body is much more flexible. Liang Xiao also wears extended fins, so he can move very fast.Not long after, Liang Xiao encountered the large school of fish that the divers had mentioned.

Countless colorful little fish are swimming back and forth.There are many but small in size, densely packed, but orderly in chaos.

Liang Xiao looked down at his diving watch, it was only less than 20 meters away.The scene in front of you is generally seen on coral reefs on the seabed, and rarely appears at this depth.But Liang Xiao didn't have time to study the reason, and continued to dive deep into the fish school.

Soon, he understood the reason why the little fishes fled in groups in panic.Behind the little fishes, dozens of sharks flicked their tails leisurely, forming a dense mass of darkness on the already dark seabed.

Just now the diver probably saw so many sharks, so he turned around and surfaced.But Liang Xiao, who has rich diving experience, doesn't take this school of fish seriously at all.Without the burden of equipment, he passed through the school of fish with a few sideways movements.

The sharks also ignored him very Buddhaly.

Liang Xiao thought, this time he must have found the right place.However, the visibility at the bottom of the water is really low.

But at this moment, Liang Xiao saw white light in a place deeper than himself, accompanied by a string of bubbles.The flashing white light is obviously not a human flashlight, but a signal light.

Liang Xiao's pupils constricted suddenly - he didn't see anyone, but there must be someone there, and most likely it was Fu Hanyu.

——Since there are a lot of air bubbles, it means that there is no problem with Fu Hanyu's scuba equipment.This is a good sign.But why doesn't he come up?Why did you turn on the distress signal again?Is it entangled in aquatic plants?

The most terrible thing is, that flickering light spot seems to be sinking slowly? !

A huge shark swung its tail and swam leisurely past him.A huge black shadow blocked the light, and then, the light appeared again.

In the ocean, everything is magnified due to the refraction of light.So, the signal source was not as close as he thought, and the shark was not as big as he thought.

The human record for dynamic finned freediving is 8 minutes underwater at a depth of 170 meters.As an amateur player, Liang Xiao knew that his limit depth was 40 meters and he could hold his breath underwater for 5 minutes under the supervision of his coach.

When he saw the light source, Liang Xiao already knew that he was close to the range of breath-holding limited by his ability.The main reason is that he is in a hurry now, and his oxygen consumption will be greater than usual.If you dive further, it is very likely that there will be insufficient oxygen and you will not be able to return.

The first rule of extreme sports is to always know where your limit is.

Liang Xiao now has enough oxygen left to allow him to return to the surface of the sea from his current position.

But it was enough for him to dive down from this position to grab the exhaling light source.

Liang Xiao thought again, Fu Hanyu's scuba has a backup air source, allowing two people to share the same air cylinder.The program team must have checked the equipment before going into the water. According to his diving buddy's electronic watch, there should be enough air in Fu Hanyu's tank, definitely enough for the two of them to return to the surface together.

The theory works.

—but if something goes wrong, he may never come back.

Every second represents the loss of more oxygen, and every second is precious as hell.Liang Xiao himself didn't think too much about it, his body instinctively made a decision for him - his slender legs were as graceful as a mermaid, and he continued to dive deeper.

Many free diving enthusiasts like to ask a pretentious question - why do humans give up land and air?

Some people say it is to see the scenery that does not exist on land, and some say it is to embrace the origin of life again, but the belief in Liang Xiao's mind is unprecedentedly clear-he just wants to hold on to that little light in the dark .

With the certainty of religious belief.