My name is Lu Mingfei, not Lu Mingfei!

Chapter 234 233. Breath of the Deep Sea (6)

"So I asked Yuan Zhisheng, director of the executive bureau of the Japanese branch, to serve as the on-site commander. He has a very high status among the eight Sheqi families. If anything goes wrong, he will be blamed. Lu Mingfei also applied for a temporary withdrawal from the dive. The team switched to tracking at the dive base, and I agreed to her request, so that we have double insurance." Schneider swiped the screen and brought up a digital interface with percentages written on it. The numbers on it are now blue. 15%, and there is a series of sound wave readings going up and down next to it.

"What is this?" Manstein asked.

"A safety device," Schneider said. "There are always some rumors about me on the Night Watch forum, saying that I was involved in the Greenland ice incident, and after that incident I became like this and was on a ventilator. Fate is a ghost. This is not groundless but it is true, but few people in the academy know about that past event."

"Tell me."

"The Longyuan Project is actually a replica of the Greenland Ice Sea. That time we also monitored the strange heartbeats of creatures. Since it was the first time we faced this kind of signal in the depths of the ocean, we didn't have much experience to confirm what it was, but the Greenland Ice The sea is where the ice-sea copper pillars were discovered, and there is reason to speculate that they are related to dragons." Schneider said, "The school board quickly approved the task of sending outstanding students to dive. Everything went well at first, but later the voice channel It was extremely chaotic. I heard the students shouting that they had found a door, and then the news was interrupted. I grabbed an underwater rifle and jumped into the ice sea, thinking that I must not lose my students. They are the ones I most admire. Proud elites, if anything hurts them I will let it be buried with them.”

"The place where the students lost contact was not deep. I could reach it with my diving suit alone, but I found nothing at the target location, no blood, no missing equipment, and nothing that could be called a door. Something. At this moment, I felt the extremely cold chill from my back, and I realized that something was behind me. Without any hesitation, I directly pulled the trigger directly behind me. In just that moment, I Before I even had time to twist my neck to see what it was, the rapidly falling temperature froze the seawater around me into a solid block of ice. I saw the dragon's golden pupils flash from the reflection on the ice. But at that moment I realized that it was a dragon, and it had a premonition of danger and hatched in advance."

Schneider said, "The people on the boat discovered that I had lost contact, and immediately recovered the safety line. Fortunately, the safety line was not damaged in that instant low temperature, and I was fished back. When I came out of the water, I looked like an ice sculpture from a thousand years ago. The person was sealed in a 4-meter-high round icicle. The extreme cold destroyed half of my face and even invaded my respiratory tract. When the doctor rescued me, my respiratory tract was as crispy as a thin cookie. It will break if touched. The doctor artificially reshaped my plastic respiratory tract, and I have to wear an oxygen mask at all times to ensure that usually, if I die one day, it will either be caused by a dragon or respiratory failure."

"Having learned from past mistakes, Pompeii actually let his precious son dive with confidence." Manstein simply couldn't believe it.

"So don't say it's a conspiracy theory. My suspicion is justified." Schneider slid the screen block with percentages in front of Manstein. "I combined the heartbeat data collected from the Greenland Sea and the heartbeat data from the Japan Trench. The data was compared, and the rhythms of the two heartbeats were highly consistent. Based on this, I made this early warning system. If its reading rises, it means that the embryos in the Japan Trench are approaching the heartbeat sound before the tragedy in the Greenland Sea. Then It means the hatching possibility of dragon embryos."

"At least it's safe now." Manstein glanced at the reading that had just risen to 16%. There was still a big gap between the two sound wave frequencies.

The picture on the screen suddenly went out at the same time, and the emergency lights in the central control room were slowly turned on. A few seconds ago, there were dozens of projection screens in front of Schneider, but now even the only safety warning system that was on was still on. At 16%, the heartbeat reading from the Japan Trench becomes a straight line.

"Norma, what's going on?" Schneider shouted.

"Kaguya interrupted contact with me 10 seconds ago. I am trying to re-establish the network link, but Kaguya is temporarily unresponsive. We do not rule out the possibility of network fluctuations. Please wait a moment." Norma's voice came back to the center. rang out from the control room.

An ominous premonition arose in Schneider's heart. People are like this. They will become distraught because of something. Back then, there was also a signal interruption that led to the tragedy in the Greenland Sea. Now, the same thing will never happen because of the signal interruption. Drama, right?

Chu Zihang took a look at the depth reading on the Trieste. This legendary equipment of the last century still uses an old-fashioned instrument panel. The instruments are independent and there is no instrument panel representing five digits. Now The reading is 7566 meters.

Even if Lu Mingfei tried his best to liven up the atmosphere along the way and kept talking for so long, few people could stand it. Everyone was a little tired. Caesar lit a cigar to refresh himself. Although the space in the deep submersible was small, the air The circulation system can still exhaust the smoke.

"Do you want to drink some water?" Lu Mingfei was still working hard, and even talked about the gossip in the college. Chu Zihang could tell that she was a little tired. She talked for three hours in one breath. Crosstalk masters would not do this. Those who work hard must moisturize their throats.

"Fortunately... I have already said that I want to be your most solid and powerful support person, so of course I have to stay in sight at all times. Letting you leave my surveillance for even a second would be a dereliction of duty." Lu Mingfei answered a little weakly, but it was revealing An irrefutable determination.

Chu Zihang did not persuade her a second time. He knew that this girl could be very stubborn sometimes. What she had said to you was that she firmly hoped that you would respect her wishes. If you dared to resist, you could do anything wrong. Whether she acts coquettishly or not, she always has a way to make you obedient. This kind of creature is called a cute girlfriend. Not every girl is qualified to be called such a girl. Some are glamorous bitches seeking death, and some are Green Tea Bichi with ulterior motives. Chu Zihang is very lucky. The girl he picked up may be One of the best little girlfriends in the world.

A ray of light came in from the porthole and hit Chu Zihang's face. Caesar watched in surprise as Chu Zihang closed his eyes and avoided it. It was a beam of warm red light. How could he encounter light in the deep sea of ​​7,900 meters?

All the Trieste's camera probes were turned on to the perfect power and angle, so that it had an almost circular view of the surrounding area. Chu Zihang and Caesar each occupied a porthole, and they could clearly see what was happening here. It is full of vitality. The color of the water is like sunset. Thousands of large fish schools are floating in the water like sunset. Some are rising in a spiral arc, while others are like whirlpools plunged into the seabed. These fish have They are as bright as silver, some bodies are almost transparent, and others emit a faint blue fluorescence.

Chu Zihang looked at these fish schools in surprise that he couldn't name at all, or maybe he could, but these things could no longer be called their original species. The flat fish like a scallop has two tentacles that are almost as long as its body. The huge sea turtle that follows the fish has a beard-like fleshy thing on its head, like a tumor protruding from the body, black and white. The manta ray has an uncoordinated appearance. The needle-like tail fin can even reach an astonishing 10 meters. When it passes through the school of fish, it will cause these fish to open a gap that will not heal for a long time. The unfolded pectoral fin looks like a deep sea. of a fighter jet.

Any biological oceanographer who comes here will think that he has mistakenly entered a wonderful world in a fairy tale. Every creature is like a new species that has never been discovered. They have the same appearance as before, and some are not in line with scientific development. The distortion is astonishing.

"Did you see it?" Caesar pressed the headset and asked the support team on the Xumizuo.

"It's very clear. It seems that you are close to your destination." Yuan Zhisheng looked at the rolling clouds on the big screen. The gray-white patterns on the belly of the giant whale looked like clouds. The length of this thing may be more than 100 meters, but there are no such big whales in the world now. Judging from the appearance, it is very likely that it is the extinct Basilosaurus. It was a creature that lived tens of millions of years ago and now appears in everyone's sight in an active manner. In sight, the huge long tail stirred the sea water, and even the Trieste in the distance was affected by some shock waves.

"There shouldn't be such large marine life in such a deep place, and the surrounding ecological environment is also very strange and too rich." Chu Zihang said.

"Why do you say that? I think you are very beautiful." Lu Mingfei didn't understand this. When she saw this scene, she was like most girls. She thought you were as beautiful as an aquarium, but it's hard to see someone so big in an aquarium. A large school of fish, not to mention a whale that is so big that it even has a bit of a phobia of giants. Just looking at it here is amazing. I don’t know how to look at that thing from the perspective of Caesar and Chu Zihang. What it felt like to swim by them.

"It's a very simple reason. Such a deep sea will lack necessary food." Caesar said, "Humans have tried to explore the deep sea many times. In the extremely deep sea, there are foraminifera, radiolaria, cnidarians, annelids, and Animals, echinoderms and arthropods. We saw such a large school of fish and even such a large whale in just one place. Think about how much food they consume in total every day? Those creatures I mentioned They are all so small that they cannot meet such a large-scale nutrient demand, which shows that there is something around them that can provide them with nutrients and re-establish a biosphere that should not exist in such a deep sea."

"It's probably the pheromones released by the embryo." Yuan Zhisheng whispered, "The hatching embryo released pheromones to lure these creatures to its vicinity to use as its own food. Most of them are not actually Living here, I’m just attracted to the embryo.”

"That's not right." Chu Zihang shook his head, "Dragons like to choose hatcheries for embryos far away from humans or any other creatures. They don't need these fish as food, and they won't release pheromones easily. In history, there are only examples of evolutionary mutations caused by exposure to dragon blood. If this is a large number of dragon subspecies that were born due to the influence of embryonic secretions, it means that our textbooks need to be rewritten."

"The dragon embryo does not need food to hatch? Then how does it grow?" Lu Mingfei was surprised. She thought of Norton and Samson. She once thought that Samson might be like a pregnant mother and need to eat more food to supplement it. Nutrition, it is better for one person to feed two people. But Samson never seemed to care about whether Norton's eggs were well fed. She always kept her body in the proper state when eating, not much different from an ordinary girl. Now she was directly told that dragon embryos do not need to eat. The world view I have is a bit unacceptable.

"I don't know, the dragons don't talk about science." Caesar said, "It's like if a human is enlarged 5 times, it will look like a giant in a fantasy story, but in fact your weight will be 125 times the original weight. The bones of the body were subjected to a hundred times the pressure in an instant, and they could only kneel down without support. With a body as huge as the Dragon Clan, it is impossible to understand the body structure or energy system from a scientific perspective, let alone their embryos. Does it require energy to hatch?”

"Textbooks are written based on existing knowledge. The more we understand, the more likely it is to recompile it. We can take more photos and write down what we see. Now is not the time to dwell on this issue. There are more important things to do. . Let’s search along the surrounding seabed. If it really wants to eat, it should have food within easy reach. Otherwise, with its current state of high probability of being unable to move, it will be unavoidable to eat. Too difficult."

"Copy that." Caesar replied, and when it was time to get down to business, he put out the unfinished cigar.

Caesar activated the Trieste's stabilizer, and the tail propeller began to rotate at high speed. This legendary deep submersible immediately had forward maneuverability, just like a submarine, and could reach a speed of 12 knots per hour. .

When the searchlight shines below the Trieste, the water appears red like sunset. This is not caused by the fish, but because the deep submersible has reached the top of the Japan Trench. On the left is the gently sloping seabed, and on the right There are rugged cliffs on the side, like a partially folded L-shape. The scene that only appeared in the form of pictures in the textbooks was reproduced in front of everyone. The Eurasian plate is on the left and the Pacific plate is on the right. Unless you see it with your own eyes, it is difficult to believe that the seabed and land are composed of two continents like chocolate plates colliding together. Forming.

The bottom of the trench is an extremely long submarine canyon. This cannot be called a deep and winding canyon, but should be called a natural chasm. The width is astonishing. Wherever you look, red magma is rolling and spitting out, just like a dam made of red flames. The lake quickly vaporized not long after it rose, and then repeated the process again, making a thunderous sound.

People always say that water and fire are incompatible, but that is just a phenomenon in most daily lives. In the trenches thousands of meters deep, seawater and magma blend perfectly, reaching a delicate balance. No one can destroy the other, and both sides continue to The earth is engaged in an eternal tug-of-war, which can be called a fantasy.