The other side.
At the moment when the submarine driven by Sisi was thrown out by a rod as thick as a bucket, the random flying searchlight light instantly resembled a broken fire stick, and along with the submarine that was shot out
Disappeared into the silent deep sea in the distance.
"S!"
Tai Tai couldn't help but scream out in surprise, but through the heavy diving head, no sound could be heard.
After a full minute, there was a muffled sound like rolling thunder in the distance.
The submarine seemed to have hit the support of a turbine generator unit, causing a small collapse.
Looking at the turbidity rolling in the darkness, Tai Wei felt panicked but could do nothing.
There was silence in the communication channel, and the turbid mud blocked the last tiny ray of light.
The entire body of water seemed to have returned to silence, and the silence was terrifying.
There is no light here.
There is no air.
There was no sound either.
There is only boundless silence and darkness, as well as the cold faces and echoes that occasionally drift in along with the bubbles, like the whispers of indescribable things in the abyss.
Controlling the frequency of his breathing, Tails carefully retreated to the side of the ruins and huddled under a protruding metal bracket, trying to make himself look smaller.
The round ball detector was not far to her left, still working quietly.
The cable connected between it and the submarine has drifted away with the surge of ocean currents.
Now Taitail finally figured out where the ocean current that had blown the detector askew came from.
Maybe it’s the monster’s “breath”!
Realizing that the monster was not far below him, Tai's scalp felt numb for a while, and his eyes kept wandering to the spherical detector held on the terminal next to him.
"I'm gioo! By the way, how do you think you've finished collecting this thing? - Huh? Is it loose?"
Just as she finished speaking, the round ball-shaped detector suddenly retracted its mechanical arm on the metal bracket.
Seeing that the rising Yangdu was about to wash it away, Taili quickly stretched out his arms and hugged it, holding the basketball-sized detector tightly in his arms.
"Done!"
Looking at the detector in his arms, Taili let out a sigh of relief, with a proud expression on his face.
However, before he was happy for two seconds, the proud expression froze on Di's face.
Here comes the problem.
How should she take this thing back?
This area of water is located in the middle of the southern sea, and it takes four hours to travel by speedboat.
Just relying on the diving suit she was wearing, she might not be able to swim back even if she was exhausted.
Not to mention that you may encounter alien species more terrifying than the tentacle-waving sea monster along the way.
"Oh my god...it's over now!"
Sure enough, it was too early to be happy just now.
Just when she was anxious, a rustling sound of electricity suddenly came from the communication channel, followed by intermittent sounds.
"Awei...how are you doing?"
Hearing that familiar voice, Taitail exclaimed in excitement.
"Si! That's great you're still alive!"
After confirming that Tails was still alive, Sisi, who was sitting in the cockpit, breathed a sigh of relief, and then couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips.
"What do you mean, I won't die that easily... But then again, you're still in the mood to joke, so it seems like there should be no problem."
Taitail chuckled and said enthusiastically.
"Oh! Of course, the tail is in great shape now!"
Sisi: "That's great... By the way, O'Wei, can you see where the guy who knocked me away is?"
"Uh... it's a bit difficult." Tai Tai carefully put his head out of the gap in the abandoned building and glanced outside. He felt as if his whole body was soaked in pitch black ink. "It's dark here."
Yeah, I can't see my fingers, I can't see anything."
Sisi sighed.
"That's right..." This is the deep sea.
Not to mention it's night outside now, even during the day there probably won't be much light that can shine that deep.
Listening to the silent rustling in the communication channel, Tails took a deep breath and mustered up the courage to speak.
"Do you want me to find a way to lure it out? I have a flashlight here—"
"Don't do this!" After hearing this dangerous statement, Sisi interrupted her without thinking, and continued reading in a hurried tone, "It's hard to say whether the weapons we brought are useful against that guy. If
If possible, we must try to avoid a firefight...I will launch a few flares near you in a while, and they will mark your evacuation path. If possible, try to bring the detector out, we need the data on it."
Tails: "Oh! Leave it to Tails!"
Listening to the energetic reply on the communication channel, Sisi couldn't help but reveal a reassuring smile on his face.
"Well! I leave it to you!"
Although Ah Wei usually seems not very smart, he is still very reliable at critical moments.
He stretched out his index finger and pointed on the central control screen of the cockpit, switched the ammunition of the remote weapon station to the flare, aimed at the general direction of the detector, and pressed the launch button.
Following a few short boom-boom sounds, crushed milky-white bubbles headed forward, and a coquettish orange-red light bloomed in the flying half-ship.
The faint first light was like a bright match in the darkness, drawing a crooked trajectory in the dark ruins.
The evacuation route was confirmed by the light of the signal flare. Taihu held the detector tightly in his arms, kicked off his legs and quickly left the half-collapsed metal bracket, heading towards the half-section illuminated by the signal flare more than ten meters away.
The metal blade slowly floated over.
The tentacle-waving sea monster is nearby.
She couldn't get too close to the flare, otherwise she would be discovered, and she couldn't get too far away, otherwise she wouldn't be able to see anything around her.
Maybe it was because the surroundings were so quiet, Tails felt his heart beating so hard that he could even hear the beat of his pulse.
"giao......"
This is so exciting!
The darkness shrouded in all directions is like the open mouth of a monster. Just by looking at it, it is difficult not to lose all the courage in your body.
This is true for those who are in it, and it is also true for those who are outside it.
Sitting in the cockpit of the submarine, Sisi stared at the flashing green dot on the central control screen and held his breath involuntarily.
"Well done Awei!"
Only the last fifty meters are left!
Looking at the green dot getting closer and closer, her lips moved slowly, and a trace of sweat oozed from her clenched palms.
Forty meters!
Thirty-five!
thirty--
Just as the green dot was about to escape from the wreckage of the power station, a sudden change occurred!
The flashing green dot on the screen seemed to have hit a wall, and its forward momentum suddenly stopped.
Sisi was suddenly startled as he stared at the central control screen. Without any time to hesitate, he immediately turned on the searchlight on the front of the submarine.
A dazzling light penetrated the darkness and shone directly under the struggling Awei and the detector in her hand.
A tentacle as thick as a bucket stretched out from the ruins on one side, firmly grasped the bulky deep-sea diving suit, and circled it.
After all, it is a deep-diving equipment that can withstand millions of pascals of pressure. The tentacles as thick as water did not immediately mash it into a ball with Ah Wei inside, but just listening to the voice in the communication channel, one could guess that Ah Wei was at this moment.
The situation is not optimistic.
"Jili gulu gulu——"
Seeing his tail being built up by the sea monster's tentacles, Sisi suddenly panicked and quickly operated the forced control weapon station, aiming at the eyes of the tentacles.
"Hold it vertically! Awei!"
While shouting loudly, she decisively pressed the launch button.
Two thick and long harpoons were fired from the belly of the submarine, and two cotton-white tracks were drawn in the stone-black deep sea. One of them drilled into the depths of the ruins, while the other just hit it without missing a beat.
That tentacle stretched out from the ruins.
The head of the harpoon pierced the monster's skin, and then the explosive tied to the harpoon exploded instantly. The fire flashed and a milky white bubble opened.
As the bubbles dissipated, a washbasin-sized wound was printed on the eye of the tentacle, and dark green liquid continued to seep out from the breach - that seemed to be its blood!
Even though these two harpoons are not professional underwater weapons, they are just harpoon launchers and mixed explosives.
But in the face of enough force, the alien species still suffered considerable injuries.
However, what is surprising is that it did not let go of the tentacles that built its tail because of the injury. The deep-sea diving suit under heavy pressure already let out an overwhelmed scream.
Through the light of the searchlight, Si Si was surprised to find that the dangerously large wound was crawling with tiny cilia, and was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
That’s enough power to overturn even a tank!
What kind of monster is this guy?!
Unable to wait any longer, Sisi made a prompt decision and quickly switched to the grenade launcher, firing a shuttle towards the healing wound.
The dense bubble shuttles were like arrows off the string, collecting flint and hitting the eyes of the tentacle.
As a series of bangs and bangs exploded, the basin-sized mouth was instantly buried in a sheet of fine bubbles and mud.
However, this grenade is not a professional underwater offensive weapon after all. Although it is invincible in the jungle with overland provinces, it is still a bit stretched when placed in the deep sea under a hundred meters.
The tentacles that had endured a round of indiscriminate bombardment actually remained motionless. The damage effect was far inferior to the previous two "Goblin Harpoons".
A low roar from Shen Tong came from the deep sea, and the sound was like a taunt from a sea monster.
"S--I can't hold on any longer!" At this time, the intermittent voice of the tail came from the communication band, and the voice sounded as if it might break down at any time.
"Hold on, Awei!"
Trying to calm down, Sisi stopped firing pointlessly and used the searchlight to search in all directions, trying to find the weak point of this giant sea monster.
This guy was very cunning. He hid behind the ruins of a huge turbine engine, using metal supports and the turbine shell as a cover to protect most of his body.
Sisi even had a feeling that the reason why it exposed one of its tentacles instead of taking its tail back behind the cover to eat it after being injured was because it was using her as bait to wait for him to pass by!
Following the searchlight around, Sisi quickly discovered that right under the solid ring-shaped turbine where the sea monster was hiding, there was a porous reef and rows of bent metal supports.
With a thought in his heart, he immediately adjusted the sight of the remote-controlled weapon station, aimed at the bottom of the turbine generator, and emptied the bomb bay.
One after another, the fragmentation grenades stuck into the narrow space like locusts. When they exploded rapidly, they also blew apart the rocks and metal brackets supporting the ring turbine.
Amidst a burst of overwhelmed metal screams, the ring-shaped turbine, which was already looking away, looked back like a mountain falling apart, and it heavily pressed against the sea monster hiding behind it.
With its huge size, there was no time to dodge. The giant sea monster shaped like an octopus was instantly crushed by the giant turbine more than ten meters high, and it was surrounded by the rising mud amid a dull wail.
"Ahem!"
The sound of Tails' snoring came from the communication channel. She was thrown out by the detached tentacle while she was holding the detector, rolling in the ocean current and crashing into the ruins on the side.
Aiming at the signal emitted by the detector, Sisi pushed the output power to the maximum, drove the submarine to chase her, and turned on the call button the moment he approached.
flight gate.
"come on in!"
The tail almost fell off when it hit the rubble, and a red warning light already lit up on the head of the diving suit.
Fortunately, the awakened person's physical strength allowed Ben to barely hold on. He stretched out his hand to grab the open hatch, then violently held the rolling detector in his arms and rolled sideways in.
The cabin door slammed shut.
The pressure indicator exerted on the diving suit rapidly decayed, and then the seawater in the buffer chamber began to empty out.
Looking at the darkness that disappeared into the gap in the cabin door and the green signal light that lit up in the dark cabin, Tail, who was slumped on the ground, took several long breaths to calm down, rolled his eyes and stuck out his tongue.
"Ahem - giao! Tails almost changed from Tails to Tails-chan!"
There was a loud noise in the communication channel. Sisi, who was holding back his laughter, coughed dryly. After regaining his composure, he asked with concern.
"Are you okay?" "I'm still-"
Taiyi was about to answer, but just as she opened her mouth, a huge impact hit the hatch that was just a short distance away, causing her to fly from the floor to the ceiling in an instant.
A muffled sound of "ding" passed through the Tianling Cap, and she felt that her jaw might be dislocated. She stretched out her hand to push it back, but it was blocked by the mask of the diving helmet.
Before she could recover from the previous impact, the second impact quickly followed.
The sea monster climbed out of the collapsed turbine generator as if it was suspicious, and hid around in the darkness facing the waist.
The submersible was banging and hammering.
When he was about to fall into unconsciousness, Taili finally touched the folding chair with a safety belt in the buffer building. He couldn't unfold the chair, so he used the nylon straps on it to fix himself to the chair.
Listening to the clanking sound that came through the bulkhead, the tail struggled to catch the helmet on the diving suit, and his hands fumbled on the chin. It took a while to snap the dislocated chin back.
Fortunately, the excessive pain in this game is blocked. If this were true, she would probably faint from the pain.
The tinnitus gradually dissipated, and Sisi's voice came from the communication channel.
"...That guy's not dead yet! I'm so worried!"
Tails: "giao! This BOSS's blood is too thick!"
Sisi: "It's not just a matter of thick blood. The healing speed of the wound doesn't look like a normal mutant. It might be a genetically modified synthetic species!"
Tails: "Synthetic God?!"
Sisi: "That's right...except for the Torch Church, I can't think of any other possibility!"
Tails: "Then what should we do now?!"
"There is no other way. The weapons on our submarine have almost no effect on it. Now we can only pray that its speed is not too fast. As long as we can sail away from this ruins, we will have a way to escape...
Gan!" Sisi, who was calmly analyzing a second ago, suddenly let out an exclamation.
Tails was also startled when he heard the exclamation and asked quickly.
"What's wrong?"
"The power system...that thing that was just repaired seems to be broken again!"
"giao?!"
Looking at the power failure alarm flashing on the central control screen, Sisi was sweating profusely and jabbed at the screen with his index finger.
However, the submersible did not obey the orders at all, and rolled and drifted forward with the ocean currents under the action of inertia.
At this moment, the rampaging submarine suddenly paused, and the surrounding bulkheads made creaking and friction sounds.
Through the side window of the cockpit, Sisi saw a huge tentacle, wrapping around the outside of the drum-shaped submersible that was covered with the dome, and making a solid circle.
She could even see the suction cups the size of vines stuck to the broken glass outside!
It seemed that their luck had finally run out, and the sea monster lurking in the darkness of the stone finally caught them.
"Gan..."
The pressure sensors in the four directions of the screen are instantly full.
Di's heart suddenly touched Noise Eyes, and the memory of fear resurfaced again.
There was no time to react, and a few g's of acceleration pinned her to the chair.
The tentacle was like tightening the lead ball in its hand, raising the submersible high in the air and making a throwing motion.
Seeing that the tentacle was about to smash them together with the boat on the reef, a metal sphere shaped like a sea urchin suddenly fell into the silent deep sea with a string of bubbles.
Its diameter is about half a person's height, and its conical firing pins are as long as a forearm.
The sea monster crawling on the rocks on the bottom of the sea obviously noticed this uninvited guest, but it did not take it seriously.
But soon, the guy paid a heavy price for his indiscretion.
Only at the moment when the iron ball approached his back, a dazzling light instantly lit up the silent deep sea.
The burgundy flame wrapped around the broken iron piece and exploded in an instant, instantly opening up a bubble cavity several meters deep in the deep sea under a hundred meters!
The scorching temperature caused the tentacle-waving sea monster to let out a wail of pain.
Large bubbles gush out from the rocks, as if the entire sea is trembling under its twisting.
The tightly held tentacle loosened subconsciously, and threw the submarine in his hand like a stick.
"S—we're flying!"
Listening to the excited exclamation in the communication channel, Sisi felt as if a rocket was inserted under his vagina. He stared at the darkness outside and tensed his nerves.
"The best thing is to fly!"
In this deep sea without light, she couldn't tell the difference between north, south, east and west.
At their current speed, if they hit a rock or the bottom of the sea, they would end up as scrap metal, and they would have to wait for others to come and dig them up——
If the monsters in this sea area are planning to leave their corpses intact.
Fortunately, the worst case did not happen.
After flying for a while, the submersible stopped accelerating due to the resistance of the water flow, and floated quietly in the water like a jellyfish.
"...Si! What was that thing that exploded just now?!"
Listening to the excited voices on the communication channel, Sisi leaned on his seat and panted for a moment before speaking slowly.
"It should be the bomb from the federal patrol...it seems they took action after all."
Tails: "Huh!? Doesn't Tails owe them another favor?"
Sisi: "Nothing to mention...as long as we can bring this detector back, they are the ones who owe us a favor."
She had no doubt of it.
Although the scientific expedition team has not yet analyzed the data, this sea monster lurking under the ruins is enough to explain many problems.
The terrifying recovery ability is very much like the handiwork of the Torch Church, and its desperate efforts to prevent them from taking away any clues from the remains indicate that there must be something they are looking for!
At this moment, there was another dull loud noise not far away.
The federal patrol's speedboat dropped a second depth charge on the sea monster, and this was probably the last one on the speedboat.
The depth charges filled with picric acid and high explosives were enough to capsize a submarine with a displacement of 10,000 tons.
Even though the sea monster has amazing recovery capabilities, it is still a bit useless in front of this professional underwater weapon.
After two consecutive critical hits, the sea monster waving its tentacles let out a painful cry, finally swallowed its last breath in humiliation, and fell heavily on the ruins and broken rocks of the ocean current power station.
After a while, noisy sounds came from the communication channel.
"...How are you doing?"
After adjusting his breathing, Sisi spoke.
"It's okay, except that the power system and pressure sensor are damaged...otherwise it's fine."
"That's too bad."
"What's wrong?"
"The Federation fleet is heading towards us... the noise you just made was too big!"
There was a hint of annoyance and anxiety in that voice.
obviously.
This will be very troublesome for him.
After thinking calmly for a few seconds, Si Si spoke.
"Can you think of a way to lure them away?" Mu Da: "Do you think they are idiots?!"
Sisi took a deep breath.
"Then there's nothing we can do...do us a favor."
Mu Da was stunned for a moment.
"What?"
Sisi: "Take the detector to Chipchi Port for me. I will share its coordinates with you later... Our researchers can analyze the data inside. Remember, it must be brought to Chipchi Port. If
If you still hope to find out the truth."
Mu Da: "What about you?"
Sisi: "e...Since you have helped us so much, how about I give you a first-class merit award?"
Mu Da: "What?"
Without waiting for the guy to respond, Sisi extended his index finger and pointed at the central control screen to hang up the communication, and then transferred the communication to Tails who was sitting in the buffer cabin.
"Awei, throw the detector out."
"Eh?!" Taili put his face to the small window of the buffer door in surprise, looked at Si Si sitting in the cockpit and asked, "Throw it out?! Aren't you going to take it back?"
Sisi made a helpless expression.
"I would like to, but unfortunately this broken submarine is no longer viable, and the federal navy is on its way here... We can only ask the NPC named Mu Da to help us deliver this express."
"Ah, got it!"
Tails nodded, put on the headband again, waited for the seawater to fill the buffer cabin, manually opened the outer hatch, and then threw the spherical detector out of the cabin with force.
The silver metal ball floated into the sea and soon slowly rose to the surface.
It won't take long for it to float to the surface and be recovered by a waiting speedboat.
After doing all this, Tails closed the door of the buffer cabin and floated back to the chair to sit down.
The water in the buffer tank was not drained immediately, and the tail was in the middle of the communication channel.
"What about us? What's next?"
Si Si leaned on the seat, pinching his tired brows with his index finger and thumb.
"Let me think about it..."
First, this is the submarine from Vault 70.
Although the two of them had shown their faces in the circular port, not many people had seen their faces after all. Whether they were captured as residents of Vault 70 or directly identified as residents of Vault 404, it was feasible.
Options.
Comparing the two options, she actually prefers the former.
In this way, you will have the opportunity to contact the top leaders of the Federation, and you may be able to figure out what is going on with the sea monster, and at the same time, you can avoid direct diplomatic disputes between the Federation and the Federation of the Southern Islands.
Of course, there is actually a third option.
That is to find a place to bury yourself.
You can be resurrected in Dawn City in three days, and you can take the airship back to Fries Port in up to five days. This is the easiest way to do it.
Just when Sisi was hesitant, a light blue antenna icon popped up on the radar on the central control screen, and then an unfamiliar communication request was automatically connected.
"...This is the "Dolphin". We have received your distress signal and are heading in your direction."
Not only Sisi heard the sound, but Tails sitting in the buffer cabin also heard it, and a surprised expression suddenly appeared on his face.
"what's the situation?"
Sisi looked at the central control screen in astonishment and swallowed unconsciously.
"I don't know... I guess some safety detection equipment of this submarine automatically sent a distress signal. That Dolphin is probably the No. 70 Shelter Submarine patrolling this area?"
At the same time, on the rough sea in the distance, something has emerged
A majestic ship silhouette appeared.
It was completely different from the speedboats of the federal patrol. The ship was a serious warship. Not only did it carry two thick and long gun barrels, it was also equipped with torpedo launchers and close-in defense guns with abundant firepower.
That's a Federation destroyer.
Standing on the bow of the speedboat, Mu Da held a walkie-talkie in his hand, looking at the flagship in the distance with a hint of complexity in his eyes.
He was thinking about how to explain to his superiors for a while.
Of course, what made him feel more complicated than how to explain it to his superiors was the signal he had just captured through the terminal of the mind interference device.
The psychic interference device is a gift from the Torch Church to the Federation of the Southern Islands. This technology does not exist in Vault 70.
Even if those residents of the shelter have mastered the relevant principles, they are far less proficient in application than the Federation.
There is only one explanation for why the signal that should not have appeared appeared unnoticed in the waters controlled by the Federation of the Southern Islands and evaded repeated searches.
This is definitely not something that a captain can do. At least it must be someone, or even a group of people, from the naval staff or even the top authorities!
For some reason, the mole obstructed, or even completely misled, federal authorities from investigating the ruins of the Ocean Current Power Station.
If that's the case——
Was it really Vault 70 that blew up the Ocean Current Power Station?
Looking at the approaching warship, a hint of solemnity gradually appeared in Mu Da's eyebrows.
I always feel like things are getting more and more troublesome...
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This chapter has been completed!