This Game is Too Real

  Chapter 685 The truth about sinking into the bottom of the sea

   The night was dark and the sea was rough.

  Mu Da, standing on the bow of the speedboat, was staring intently at the red and green light spots that fluctuated with the waves in the distance, and the color of memory could not help but flash in his eyes.

About two months ago, there was still a peaceful and peaceful scene. The orange tumblers fluctuated with the fluctuations of the ocean currents, shimmering in the sun, just like the wheat fields growing on the sea. The successive waves are its swaying golden color.

  Now, the magnificent golden color has become history, just like the disappearing city of Shilong.

  Scattered metal parts and burst pipelines sank into the sea together, and the generator sets were like wild horses that had run away, washed up by the raging waves and disappeared in this endless sea.

  Sometimes, Mu Da could not help thinking.

  Perhaps human beings are such an unrepentant animal, who will keep repeating the mistakes they have made more than once, and repeat the cycle of destruction and rebirth again and again, and finally miss the good old days after everything is irretrievable.

Maybe-

  The claim of the Torch Church is not entirely wrong.

  If you want to eradicate the bad roots in human nature, you can only delete those despicable traits from your genes, so that you can ascend to another higher creature.

  Thoughts gradually drifted away with the sea breeze, Mu Da reckoned that the time was almost up, took out the walkie-talkie and pressed the button.

   "This is the maritime patrol team, we are about to pass through the blockade area... request for release."

  A loud electric tone came from the walkie-talkie, followed by a rude voice followed by a drawn-out yawn.

   "Patrol? What are you doing here?"

  Mu Da said concisely.

   "We have tracked an abnormal sonar signal, just in case, come here and have a look."

   "Okay, need reinforcements?"

   "Not necessary for now."

   "Okay, then keep in touch, if you need reinforcements, we will be there soon."

  Echo's tone in the communication channel was relaxed and comfortable, he was even chewing potato chips, and he didn't have any doubts about what he said.

  It seems that more than two months have passed, and the brothers patrolling this area have finally become lax.

   But no wonder.

  This ocean current power station has been destroyed, and there is no need for the submarines in Vault 70 to launch another attack on the facility that has been destroyed once.

  The brief communication ended, and Mu Da, who was relieved, hung up the communication, wiped the sweat hanging from his forehead, then switched the communication channel of the walkie-talkie, and said in a low voice.

   "...The target is just below the buoy in front. That's all I can help you with. You'd better not stay too long. I can only wait for you for fifteen minutes at most."

   A moment later, there was an echo from the intercom.

"received, thank you."

   "You're welcome, and good luck."

   After finishing speaking, Mu Da waved his hand and signaled the driver in the cabin to continue heading northwest, cruising around the buoy not far away.

  Standing behind Mu Da, the sailor with the rifle on his back hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help but speak.

   “…why should we help them?”

   This kind of thing is not without risk.

   If they are discovered by the Federal Navy, they cover a No. 70 shelter-type submersible into the wreckage of the ocean current power station, no matter how they explain it, I am afraid they will not be able to explain it clearly.

   Staring at the dark tide, Mu Da actually didn't understand why he agreed to help.

  The Federation had already identified the attack, and the conflict between the survivors of the islands and Vault 70 was far more than just a power station.

  Even if those guys from the league found some new clues, he didn't think those clues would change anything.

  That was just a trigger.

but-

   He still wants to know what the truth really is.

  Perhaps there is another one in ten thousand possibility.

   After being silent for a long time in the noisy sea breeze, he spoke slowly.

   “It’s not just about helping them.”

   "It's also helping ourselves."

  The sailor stared blankly at the back of the officer, not knowing what to say for a long time...

  …

  At the same time, directly below the speedboat, a drum-shaped submersible was turning its propeller, slowly moving towards the sunken facility.

   This submersible is exactly the one that Huang Guangwei ran aground on the beach before.

The researchers of the scientific research team not only helped to repair the damaged power system, simplified the operation module, but also equipped it with harpoon launchers, underwater grenade launchers, etc. at the request of Sisi, and airlifted it from Dawn City to French fries Harbor's underwater weapon system.

  Because they haven't been tested in actual combat, even the researchers who put these weapons on the submarine don't know whether these things can work.

  However, considering that this mission might be attacked by aquatic mutants lurking under the sea, Sis still chose to bring them.

  At the same time, she was also praying silently in her heart—

  Hopefully these guys won't be needed for this mission.

   "Speaking of which, this place is really spectacular..."

  Sitting in the cockpit, Sis turned on the searchlight of the submersible, followed the movement of the camera with his eyes, and carefully inspected the metal wreckage that was close at hand.

I saw a ring with a diameter of more than ten meters deeply embedded in the seabed. In the middle of the ring is a huge metal impeller. At this moment, these impellers, like the metal bracket outside, are entangled by cables that are out of control. Like a shipwreck caught in the seaweed.

  Here should be the submarine turbine generator of the ocean current power station, and the floating generator floating on the sea surface, which has been washed away to nowhere, should belong to different power systems.

   There are more than a dozen similar turbine generators nearby, and this is only the part she can see so far.

  Countless metal wreckage is scattered on the rocky seabed, and colorful fish pass through from time to time under the dark shadows.

  It doesn't look like a wreck of a power station here, but like an underwater city that sank to the bottom of the sea.

  Looking at the area lit up by the searchlights, the tail sitting in the co-pilot's seat opened his mouth wide in surprise, and let out an inconceivable exclamation from time to time.

   "I giao..."

   This realistic light and shadow effect!

  This flowing texture detail!

   There is also this CG-level scene modeling!

   It's just a blast, okay?

  It's a pity that the VM doesn't have a signal, otherwise she really wanted to share the scenery here with Sesame Paste and Rourou who stayed on the shore, as well as everyone on the forum.

   "Weak currents were detected outside the submersible. It seems that there are still a few generators still working... No wonder there are no aliens here."

   Glancing at the beating alarm on the central control screen, Sis operated the searchlight and camera to move to the left side of the submersible, and quickly locked on to an area where there were no fish activities.

  There is probably the source of the leakage.

Marking that area on the map, Sisi pointed at the screen with his index finger while referring to the instruction manual of the machine, reset a safe route, controlled the submersible to carefully bypass that area, and continued toward Goal forward.

  According to the information provided by the resident of No. 70 shelter, the NPC of the scientific expedition team not only helped to draw the 3D model of the wreckage of the ocean current power station, but also prepared the exploration path and data collection plan in advance, which greatly reduced the amount of manual operations.

  After arriving at the target area, she only needs to make some fine-tuning of the route according to the situation on the spot.

   This task is actually very easy.

   So much so that she was thinking, if she hadn't finished exploring the ruins, she should stop by the coordinates of the sinking of the "Golden Coast" research ship.

  Different from Sisi, who always has something to do, Tail, who is sitting in the co-pilot seat, is looking out of the cockpit window with excitement, wishing to weld his face and nose to the window together.

  The calm look doesn't look like an investigator on an infiltration mission, but rather a tourist here for sightseeing.

  It wasn't until the submersible drove under a turbine generator set that she suddenly remembered the task in progress, and looked at Si Sidao excitedly.

   "That's right! How do we investigate next?"

   Staring intently at the 3D map model on the central control screen and the green dot indicating the current location of the submersible, Sisi took a deep breath and said.

   "It's very simple, reach the designated area on the map, release the detector, wait for data collection, and then recover the detector."

   "Eh?!" Tail looked at Sisi in surprise, "Is it that simple?"

  "It's not that simple, there are many dangers here... Wouldn't it be a good thing to be simpler? Why are you so disappointed?"

  Sisi glanced at Awei hastily, looking at this regretful guy, he couldn't help but make a helpless expression.

  Following those helpless gazes, he stretched out his tail and scratched the back of his head, smiling embarrassedly

   "No way! It's a good thing to be simpler, but if this is the case... don't you even need to go out of the cabin."

  Sisi thought for a moment and said.

   "Probably not necessary."

"Well!"

With a deeply shocked expression on Tail's face, he looked at Sisi pitifully, and repeatedly confirmed, "But...is it really okay if you don't check it carefully? What if there are any clues hidden in the fish? In the belly or behind the rocks—”

   "How could there be such a thing?" Seeing this whimsical guy, Sis couldn't help complaining, "Do you think this is a crime scene from a detective novel?"

  For nearly two and a half months, the Southern Islands Federation must have conducted a careful survey and search of this sea area.

  In this case, it is unrealistic to expect to find new clues that have been missed by the Federal Navy. The most promising clues are those seemingly ordinary clues.

  For example, the operating data of power stations and so on.

  The alliance's scientific expedition team is best at mining clues from massive amounts of data. If there are suspicious clues, they can spot them at a glance.

  After learning that there was no need to go out of the cabin to investigate, Awei suddenly sat down on the co-pilot seat listlessly like a deflated ball.

  Sisi glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, and couldn't help asking.

   "...By the way, this is a seabed more than 100 meters deep, aren't you afraid at all?"

  Tail gave her a strange look and tilted his head.

"Fear?"

   "For example... deep-sea phobia or something."

  Looking at Sisi, who was staring intently at the central control screen, his tail seemed to guess something vaguely, and a narrow smile gradually curled up at the corner of his mouth.

   "Oh! Tail understands! Sis's weakness is the bottom of the sea!"

   "What kind of weakness is this? And how is it possible... There is nothing to be afraid of."

  Sisi was stunned for a moment, and almost blurted out his rebuttal, but the motionless gaze glued to the central control screen seemed unconvincing.

   It's rare to see a good friend showing such embarrassment, the teasing smirk on Tail's face is becoming more and more obvious, and the corners of the mouth are more and more undisguised.

   "Then take a look out of the window!"

  Sisi immediately refused without even thinking about it.

   "I don't want it, the screen is the same."

   "Just take a look!"

   "Okay, okay...don't make a fuss, Ao, we've arrived, it's time to get down to business!"

   While speaking, Sisi glanced at the parameters in the upper left corner of the central control screen, and hastily tapped the button to launch the detector.

  I saw a metal ball the size of a basketball ejected from the belly of Stealth Qi, leading a lead wire and flying towards the metal wreckage more than ten meters away.

  The metal ball is getting closer and closer to the interface, and it seems to be leaning on it.

  But at this moment, something embarrassing happened.

  I saw the metal ball floating forward suddenly stopped, and was pulled by the stretched lead wire.

  Sisi's expression froze, he hurriedly looked at the parameters on the central control screen, and thought inwardly.

  The distance is still a little short...

Just when she was about to operate the submersible to get closer to the past, a sudden surge of ocean currents blew the detector holding the data cable upwards, and hung on a propeller that was crooked on the metal wreckage. on the blade.

  The detector dragging the lead wire was like a pendulum. It made several circles on the propeller blade, and the lead wire attached was completely wrapped around the blade.

   This time the difference is more than a little bit.

  Noticing the gradually solemn expression on Sisi's face, the tail also put away the joking expression, and asked cautiously.

   "Stan, what happened?"

   "It's nothing, a small problem. I accidentally made a mistake just now, and the detector got stuck on the blade. Someone needs to go and pick it off the blade...Awei, you wait here for me to download."

  I still have to wipe my **** by myself.

   Glancing at the deep darkness outside the cockpit, Sisi swallowed, and stretched his hands towards the seat belt.

   It's actually not that scary...

  She murmured in her heart, trying to convince herself that everything around her was just game modeling, and there was nothing to be afraid of.

   Just when she finally made up her mind to unbuckle her seat belt, Tail had already stood up from her seat, opened the metal cabinet in the cockpit, and found the fully enclosed deep-sea diving suit inside.

   It took less than a minute to put on the diving suit, and the tail vigorously gave Sisi a thumbs up.

   "Is it OK to remove the detector from the blade? Leave it to the tail!"

  That guy seemed to be rushing to swim, and it didn't feel out of place to replace the decompression diving suit on his body with a life buoy.

  Sisi stared at her blankly, and then whispered after a while.

   "...Are you okay?"

  Tail grinned.

"a piece of cake!"

   After finishing speaking, she stepped backwards into the buffer tank, saluted playfully, and closed the buffer gate cleanly.

  The seawater pouring into the cabin filled the buffer compartment, and then the outer door slowly opened outward.

Spit out a long string of air bubbles, Tail in the thick diving suit stood on the edge of the cabin door and kicked his legs, slowly floated out of the cabin, approaching the detector wrapped around the blade of the turbine generator past.

  This work is indeed not difficult.

   It can even be said to have hands.

  But Sisi, who was sitting in the cockpit, couldn't help sweating for Awei.

  The deep darkness is like the monster's mouth wide open, and I don't know why this nervous guy is not afraid at all.

   Just as she was thinking so, a voice full of enthusiasm came from the communication channel.

   "Oh! It's untied... S! What's next?"

   After recovering from his daze, Sisi quickly pointed his index finger on the central control screen.

   "Ah, just move that detector to the interface, I'll send you the location."

"receive!"

   Confirmed the position of the interface through the visualization window of the helmet eyepiece, the tail clamped the detector under the elbow, and then started the small propeller mounted on the back of the diving suit with a whoosh sound, and swam towards the marked position.

  It was a terminal machine welded on a metal bracket.

  The screen has failed, but the wiring is still intact.

  The tail brought the detector closer, and soon two mechanical arms stretched out from the side of the metal ball, grabbed the terminal, and fixed itself firmly on it like a spider.

   Next, just let it do it by itself.

  Tail let go of his hand, and floated back a short distance, watching the little guy connected to the terminal operate for a while, and connected the thread that was originally connected to the terminal screen to his round body.

  Sisi, who was sitting in the cockpit, breathed a sigh of relief, and said while looking at the progress bar on the central control screen.

   "The data transmission is in progress... It will take about 5 minutes, Aowei, how is the situation on your side?"

   The tail floating next to the detector waved its arms vigorously towards the bright searchlight, and then a dull voice came from the communication channel.

   "Oh! Everything is normal, and it's so quiet here!"

  I always feel that there is something bad hidden in the dark water, Sis said worriedly.

   "The detector has been connected...Aowei, why don't you come back first."

   "Don't worry, I'll wait until the data transmission is over, what if something unexpected happens?"

   "It shouldn't be..." While speaking, Sisi swallowed unconsciously.

  However, that imperceptible pause was heard by someone on the other end of the communication channel.

  A narrow smile appeared on his face, and the tail said with a tricky smile.

   "Eh? Could it be that Sisi is scared?"

  Sisi froze for a moment, and blushed instantly when he realized it.

   "What are you talking about, me, I have nothing to be afraid of!"

  The right hand touched under the heavy decompression helmet, leaned against the tail next to the metal bracket, and made the movement of rubbing the index finger against the chin.

   "It's a bit weird, Sisi, who works in the mortuary, has something to be afraid of!"

   "What mortuary! I'm from the pathology department!"

  Listening to the voice coming from the communication channel, Sisi explained dumbfoundingly, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a sudden alarm call.

   "Sh! There's something under you!"

  Sisi was taken aback for a moment, and quickly sat up straight from the chair.

   "Are you kidding? Don't be kidding this time!"

   "No, I'm serious, there seems to be something there... Also, look around with your searchlight, don't keep pointing at me!"

  Almost at the moment when Awei's words fell, a slight tremor passed through the bilge of the submersible and climbed up to her ankle from far to near.

  Sisi was taken aback suddenly, as if realizing this should not have made a mistake, he quickly pressed down the searchlight and directed it directly below the submersible.

  That ray of light was like a sharp sword piercing the darkness, piercing into a dark abyss.

  The moment she illuminated the abyss, she found an amber pupil hiding in the huge rock basin, staring at her intently.

   That eye was the size of a truck.

   Gray-black tentacles as thick as buckets floated behind it, like vines wrapped around the wall, covering the rocky seabed.

   When did this guy move here? !

Or…

   It's always there!

  A bone-deep cold crawled up Sisi's back.

  The fear of the deep sea and the tentacles superimposed together, which made her even stop her heartbeat for a while.

   The tremors transmitted through the cabin became more and more intense, and the sea water around the submersible seemed to be boiled.

she knows-

   That was the silent roar of this deep-sea monster!

   "My giao! Tentacle monster?!"

  The sound of the tail woke up Sisi suddenly, and she roared almost reflexively.

   "Ao! Protect the detector!"

   At the same time as she finished speaking, regardless of the halfway progress bar, she decisively cut off the traction rope between the submersible and the probe.

   Facts have proved that her judgment is correct.

  Almost at the moment she cut off the traction rope, a roaring black shadow slapped the side of the submersible.

   The submersible hovering next to the wreckage instantly rolled and flew out like a golf ball that was knocked into the air, and did not stop until it hit a metal bracket heavily.

  The metal bracket was bent by the impact, and the overwhelmed creaking sound came through the bulkhead of the submersible, along with the muffled sound falling on the top of the submersible.

Shaking his drowsy head, Sisi barely woke up from the coma, and with the remaining consciousness, he adjusted the output power of the power system to the maximum, and drove the submersible away before the alloy structure above fell. dangerous area.

   Almost when she drove less than ten meters away, the billowing mud swayed not far behind the submersible, and the collapsed metal fragments slowly and firmly buried the reef below.

  If she hadn't reacted quickly enough, I'm afraid it would have been fatal.

   "Hoo..."

  Sisi, who was leaning on the seat, was panting heavily, his chest heaving violently.

Without time to hesitate, she stared intently at the central control screen where the signal lights were jumping wildly, and the searchlights and cameras in operation quickly scanned the seabed below. trace.

  The guy seemed to have disappeared, disappeared without a trace.

   But Sis is very clear, that guy is definitely still around here, and he is hiding somewhere near the ruins of this power station!

   "...Tail! Are you okay?"

   No reply in the comm channel.

  Scattered metal debris is everywhere, as well as cables floating around the turbine generators, forming a natural shielding field.

"cut…"

  Gritting his teeth, Sisi punched the armrest of the chair, then stretched out his index finger and tapped on the screen, resetting the route back to the center of the ruins.

  The data transmission is not yet completed, and the original data is still stored in the detector.

  If it is transported bit by bit through small water pipes for wireless transmission, the huge data may have to be transmitted for a long time.

   Not to mention possible packet loss!

  The only way now is to bring the detector back.

   It seemed that she had sensed the movement of the seabed, and at the same time she was heading to the center of the ruins again, the NPC named Mu Da sent a communication request.

  While staring vigilantly at the dark seabed, Sis reached out and pressed the on button.

  Almost as soon as the communication was connected, the roar of fried wheat came into her ears.

   "What are you doing?! Testing nuclear weapons?!"

   Having no time to talk nonsense with this guy, Sisi took a deep breath and said emphatically.

   "Monster! Here's a... sea monster with many tentacles! It's somewhere under the ruins of the ocean current power station!"

  The other end of the communication channel was stunned for half a second.

   "Sea monsters?! How is that possible! Large alien species will never approach that area, and there are still power generators working there—"

Siss: "That's the problem! Because of the electric current, the general fish would not enter the ruins at all, but something forced the big guy to stay inside. I suspect it is starving to death...I think it's mental interference, you What do you think?"

   Mu Da exclaimed.

   "Psychic interference?! How is it possible!"

  Siss: "No time to explain... The thing controlling that thing should be around here. Do you have a way to locate other mind interference devices? If you can, it will be of great help!"

  Mu Da growled and roared: "Don't worry about the psychic interference device, why don't you hurry up!"

  Listening to the anxious voice of the NPC, Sisi said calmly.

   "My teammate is still down there, and there's no way I'll leave her behind. And the detector... I have to get that thing back, and I have to get it back if I die!"

   "Are you crazy?! That's our war! It's ours! You don't have to die for it!"

   Standing on the speedboat, Mu Da stared wide-eyed, holding the walkie-talkie firmly in his right hand, and roaring with all his strength.

  However, there was no echo at the other end of the communication channel, leaving only deathly silence.

  The noisy waves are like a rapid drum beat, drowning the white foam that is constantly gushing out of the sea.

   He couldn't understand.

  What are these guys working so hard for?

  The time they have known each other is less than half a month!

   And this short half month is not so pleasant.

   I don’t know how many people are waiting to see the jokes of those people, and I don’t know how many people hope that they can get out of here immediately and go back to their wasteland.

  Mu Da gritted his teeth, and tightly clenched the walkie-talkie in his hand that did not echo.

   What to say to end the wasteland...

  Who the **** cares about that kind of thing!

   At least here, no one cares at all!

  Taking a deep breath, suddenly Mu Da seemed to have made up his mind, turned his head and roared in the direction of the cockpit.

   "Turn off the mind interference device!"

  The sailor standing in the cockpit was stunned.

  Psychic interference devices are their tools to drive away alien species.

  If you turn off that thing, they risk being overturned at any time.

"But-"

  The sailor tried to dissuade him, but just as he opened his mouth, he was turned back by the officer's roar.

   "I said it! Turn it off! Immediately!"

   "Yes!" Facing the murderous gaze of the superior officer, the sailor didn't dare to hesitate, so he could only hastily turn off the mind interference device, and prayed silently in his heart that no alien species would stare at them.

  Mu Da walked into the cabin quickly, pushed him away, and stared at the screen of the terminal.

  After the psychic interference device was turned off, there was silence on the screen, as if it was broken.

   Muda held his breath and waited anxiously.

   At this moment, an undetectable ripple suddenly appeared on the calm water screen, like a dragonfly pointing across the water.

  The moment he saw the ripple, his heart jumped into his throat.

  That's the signal from the Psychic Interference Device—

It really is? !

   It wasn't just Mu Da who was shocked, but also the sailor standing next to him, his face was full of incredible shock.

  The only psychic interference device in a radius of more than ten miles is on their speedboat.

  Where does the signal come from? !

   "Lock it in place!"

   Throwing down these words, Mu Da pushed open the door and walked out of the cockpit, shouting loudly at another sailor on the speedboat.

   "Depth charge ready!"

   Realizing the seriousness of the problem, the sailor swallowed and nodded quickly.

"yes!"

  (end of this chapter)