Dragon Clan: Thought So Far

Chapter 349 340. Long Yuan (6) Shock

The Trieste gradually sank in the deep sea water, and the heart-wrenching sound of the safety rope twisting through the thick diving metal layer was clearly transmitted into the cockpit.

The safety hook is connected to the metal cable to lower the deep submersible section by section to prevent the Trieste's power system or balance system from losing control and uncontrollably falling into the seabed and being smashed to pieces.

So far, the operation is proceeding as planned.

No matter how much the Yanliu Research Institute denies it, the equipment of Cassel Academy is still far more reliable than the Japanese group led by Shio Miyamoto. At least until now, Caesar has not detected the leakage of the air chamber. A fatal omission that was completely eliminated at the beginning of the operation.

Chu Zihang expressionlessly adjusted the Diryste to autopilot and hovered at the depth predetermined by the execution department.

Everything was normal in the cabin. The depth gauge stopped at about two thousand meters. The display screen in the center of the operation panel flashed characters composed of 0 and 1. These fluorescent blue characters were like red water pouring out from the edge, gradually replacing the ones just now. The operation page that Chu Zihang opened was flooded.

Then the girl with a stern face appeared in front of Caesar and Chu Zihang.

"Hello, EVA." Chu Zihang said.

"Hello, Captain." EVA smiled, but her tone was cold.

Lu Mingfei rarely saw EVA with her current expression, cold and distant, but this was the norm for most people in the world who had seen her.

"You are now hovering two thousand meters below the sea surface, and the final operating depth is expected to be four thousand five hundred meters." EVA said, holding up her skirt and turning around lightly, like a girl spinning in the middle of the dance floor after a dance. , with an exquisite figure, Caesar blew a loud whistle, Chu Zihang raised his eyebrows and turned his eyes to the other side.

The Greenland ice incident is not a secret in the academy. Although the mission report has not been released and the details of the operation are unknown, anyone who is willing can find out that EVA was one of the victims of the accident.

In other words, the person dancing in front of them was a genuine senior.

By the time the two guys adjusted their status, EVA had appeared in the corner of the display screen, and then densely packed data appeared on the blank screen she had given up, surging and undulating like the tide, and then the dynamics of the Sea of ​​Japan The cross-section appears there, and the seabed is actually quite flat, filled with organic silt and loose sediments, with consolidated sediments and crustal igneous rocks underneath.

The Trieste, marked red and flashing on this profile, is still more than half way to the seabed.

"Although relevant experiments have been conducted in advance, the academy has always valued the safety of students more than the completion indicators of a certain task. Therefore, you need to continuously release underwater operating robots for field exploration in the next 2,500 meters to avoid Trieste breaks into the ionized insulation layer created around the embryo when it hatches," EVA said.

Chu Zihang and Caesar looked at each other, both of them understood what the academy meant.

No one knows whether the embryos in the Japanese Trench are third-generation, second-generation, or extremely noble first-generation. The academy has no precedent of fighting against the Dragon King in its embryonic state. Even the executive department is not sure whether the scope of the embryo will change over time. changes in response to perceived danger.

Although the previous underwater explorations have determined that at a depth of at least five thousand meters under the sea, the college's equipment will not be affected by embryos, but after all, it involves the personal safety of the ungraduated students, not to mention the iron skin of the Ditryeste The jar also contained the heir to the Gattuso family.

"Our deep submersible has discovered an ecosystem where dragon subspecies gather in the ocean trench, and this is directly above the ocean trench, so you need to always be on guard against attacks by giant marine creatures." EVA blinked, seeming to be in awe of Kai just now Spread the dissatisfied response to that whistle,

"Among those subspecies there is also the huge super predator Megalodon, which is larger and heavier than the Di Trieste, so... I wish you good luck."

Fluorescent blue light spots scattered from the screen, and the corners of Chu Zihang's eyes twitched.

The command module is small and compact, densely covered with monitors, and the sea area around the Trieste is exposed to their sight.

But Chu Zihang still looked a little pale.

Of course, it may not be fear but seasickness.

However, a huge megalodon with dragon blood flowing in its body still frightened the two guys in the cabin. A shark whose size and mass exceeds that of the Trieste will not be used by Hollywood to make a monster movie. It feels abrupt...

"The Equipment Department has updated the sonar system for the Dieste. Now we can monitor the surrounding movement within about ten nautical miles. If any large creature enters the warning range like this, it will definitely be discovered." Caesar said.

Anyone who has taken diving classes at Kassel Academy knows that in oceans with depths below a hundred meters, sunlight from the clouds can no longer penetrate.

Not to mention the depth of two thousand meters that the Trieste is at at this moment and the depth of eight thousand meters that it may reach later. It will always be surrounded by pure darkness, like falling into hell. When you look up, Only the chaos at the beginning of the world can be seen.

Traditional short-wave radar and advanced lidar have no use in such ghost places. Underwater sonar is the most effective detection equipment.

It's not just the Trieste, all submarines in the world rely entirely on hearing to move underwater bats.

So usually submarines don't vibrate at high speed like fighter jets. The Trieste has achieved an even more extreme level of silence. When it is silent, it is like a stone floating in the sea. Even if there are really megalodons soaked in dragon blood who want to taste what cholesterol and high-fat terrestrial creatures taste like, they will not chew a piece of iron stone that may break their teeth.

The only regret is that the Trieste is not equipped with many weapon systems. Even as a research ship, it didn't even have a torpedo compartment.

But the equipment department is the equipment department after all. Deputy Director Karl argued that we can't let students have no guns to use as an excuse and finally persuaded Angers to let the college carry out armed transformation in this deep-sea submersible. Several air compartments were reduced a little, and a new weapon compartment was added, which was equipped with deep-water torpedoes and alchemical sulfur bombs.

In addition, the nuclear power compartment of the Trieste itself is a small nuclear bomb. Throwing it into the kingdom of God may open the eyes of those arrogant emperors in ancient times.

Of course, Caesar and Chu Zihang knew that the Trieste was originally powered by the most common hydrochloric acid battery, but the lunatics in the equipment department unanimously believed that the power was too small to complete a large-scale survey, so a nuclear power cabin was installed.

So this submersible has two power sources, the weak power source is driven by lithium batteries, and the strong power source is the nuclear power cabin that can be used as a nuclear bomb.

At the same time, they also tacitly know a fact that no one wants to say.

If the underwater unmanned operation robot cannot break through the layer of field formed around the embryo, the Trieste will eventually have no way to throw the sulfur alchemical bomb at the hatching embryo, and even the storm torpedoes and miniaturized nuclear bombs launched from the sea surface will not achieve the expected effect. The embryo of the ancient dragon is still alive and kicking after experiencing all this, then the Trieste is the last weapon.

Before the dive, the last page of the operation manual given to Chu Zihang by the executive department clearly stated that all the efforts made by the academy had failed under the influence of uncontrollable factors. In this case, how should the team responsible for executing the Jiyuan plan kill the ancient king?

Any nuclear power cabin in the world will not explode under normal conditions. There is only one way to detonate such a dangerous but stable power source, that is, to make the neutron density exceed the threshold.

That is to say, when necessary, Chu Zihang and Caesar must perform a series of operations to make the nuclear power cabin of the Trieste enter an overheated state.

Fortunately, the equipment department did not think of letting Chu Zihang directly ignite himself with Junyan and hold the nuclear power cabin to let Caesar throw him out. Instead, it was written that the control circuit of the cabin can act as a detonation circuit. They only need to activate the nuclear power cabin and throw it above the embryo to detonate itself.

Of course, it may also be that Director Akadula forgot that Chu Zihang's words were Junyan. After all, the otaku gang of the equipment department is usually not interested in anything in the academy except explosions.

"Command center, please respond. The Trieste has dived to the scheduled depth. Request to start the next step." Chu Zihang quickly adjusted his state. He left a suicide note to his father and said goodbye to Susie. It didn't matter if he died here.

Those who care about him will always have all their sorrows washed away by time. Dad and Mom will have another child. They are still very young; Susie will also have another relationship. Maybe the boy will not be as silent as him and will be very interesting.

The voice of the Chinese man came from the loudspeaker, "Command center received, please wait, we are calculating the best diving angle." He said.

Taking advantage of the gap just now, Caesar has searched for the information of Cheng Shuangfan through EVA. Unexpectedly, his identity was not encrypted at all. All options including date of birth, childhood experience, growth process, parents, etc. are hyperlinks that can be clicked.

This is an A-level hybrid. He graduated from the Alchemy Machinery Department of Kassel College in 2003. When he was studying, he was a Lancelot-like character. He was calm and unhurried, revealing the elegance and confidence that come from the bones of the Chinese.

But they couldn't find his words, they only knew that this guy had completed an A-level mission alone in 2008, killing a fifth-generation species that escaped from the ancient emperor's tomb.

"Allow the Trieste to proceed to the next step and release the first batch of underwater operation drones." Cheng Shuangfan issued an order.

Of course, the elites of the executive department are not responsible for calculating the best diving angle. EVA will give suggestions within a few seconds, and the remote operating system of the submersible will also input relevant instructions synchronously.

Caesar, who tied himself to the deputy position with a fixed rope, immediately opened the transparent cover above a button on the operating table for protection and pressed it.

"The current depth is two thousand, the Yin flow is stable, the submersible is operating normally, and the first batch of underwater operation drones... are released." Caesar's voice was accompanied by a terrifying whistle like an airtight cabin leaking, which was the independent cabin carrying the drones exhausting all the gas.

Chu Zihang had a stern face. As the leader of the original team, the executive department of this dive operation still let him take the position of leader. Although Caesar expressed his dissatisfaction to Mr. Frost, and the Gattuso family also symbolically expressed to the school that Frost hoped to make Caesar the leader of the dive team, it seemed that Principal Angers and Professor Schneider were completely unmoved.

The ears of both of them were filled with the sound of mechanical operation and whistling airflow, but although the noise in the cabin was as loud as a vibrating plate full of goods buzzing in their ears, Chu Zihang and Caesar could still hear each other's drum-like heartbeat and wind-like breathing.

Obviously, no one was as calm as they appeared.

The sound of mechanical operation stopped abruptly, Chu Zihang and Caesar looked at each other, and then looked at the display screen on the console at the same time.

It automatically jumped to the control background of the twelve underwater operation drones, and then entered the No. 1 machine. The endless darkness fell on this screen a second later.

The gas-ray lighting was turned on, and a yellow drone passed silently outside the porthole. The size of the thing was no larger than a mountain bike, and its appearance was actually like a flat manta ray.

"This shape can help it withstand the high pressure of the deep sea. Otherwise, our drone would be crushed by a thousand atmospheres of pressure as soon as it left the Trieste at a depth of 8,000 meters." Chu Zihang said.

"The submersible will continue to dive after this drone dives a thousand meters, and we will recover it when we reach the same depth." Caesar poked at the operation panel, flipped through the operation manual, and said with a frown.

The video shot by the front camera and the bottom camera of the drone appeared on the display at the same time, and all the lights gathered into a light column, surrounded by dark sea water.

"It really looks like hell..." Chu Zihang said.

"Under the sea is the loneliest place, even in hell there will be evil spirits to accompany you." Caesar said.

They looked out through the narrow porthole. The gas was illuminating the surrounding area very close to the horizon. There were also tiny, glittering debris floating down. That was sea snow.

Sea snow is mainly composed of tiny dead organic matter and living organisms, including some crustaceans visible to the naked eye.

Small or large snowflakes were fluttering and falling, like a lonely winter night, when you stood under the street lamp and looked up at a blizzard falling in the windless night sky.

There was only a rustling sound around, and the hydraulic oil was flowing slowly in the pipes on all sides. Chu Zihang exhaled a little. The tranquility outside the porthole made him even forget for a moment that he was in the dangerous deep sea. There was a dragon waking up from its slumber in the trench six kilometers below them.

"What is that!" Caesar suddenly roared in horror. Chu Zihang only had time to look back and was immediately stunned.

The display screen, which was still peaceful and quiet a second ago, was completely frozen. A shocking bloody mouth with its jaws and sharp teeth was exposed and frozen in front of them!