"The depth is 50 meters, the flow rate is stable, and the Di Trieste is operating normally."

Caesar reported the situation to surface commander Yuan Zhisheng while operating this antique-level deep-diving equipment.

Originally, this was the responsibility of Chen Hongjian, the team leader, but Chen Hongjian happened to be the only one who could withstand the water pressure of the eight-thousand-meter-deep seabed. In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Greenland incident, Chen Hongjian must maintain

The best state to deal with dragon embryos that may be forcibly awakened.

"The weather station warns that there may be heavy rain tonight. Do I need to return?"

Yuan's childish voice came out from the loudspeaker, and he naturally knew how much time it took to memorize the nearly thirty centimeters of the Dieste operating manual. From a certain point of view, he and Kai

Sa Zhen is very similar. They seem to be prominent in front of others and appear to be energetic and calm, but in private they have put in ten times as much effort as ordinary people for what they want to do.

"No need. When we dive to a thousand meters, unless there is a tsunami or typhoon, it will not have any impact on the Di Trieste."

"Understood, then continue diving and start to further release the compressed air. Caesar, you must follow the operating procedures and suspend for 1 minute every 100 meters of diving to allow the submersible to fully adapt to the pressure before continuing to dive. Absolutely not

It's too hasty." Yuan Zhisheng said seriously, "Report the depth to me every 50 meters, check all the instruments every 100 meters, and make a big report to me, and then continue to dive after getting my consent.

"

"What the fuck! You mean to ask me to dive 8,000 meters and report to you 160 times and make 80 reports? Are you using me as a transmitter?" Caesar muttered, opened the air valve, and kept his hands rhythmic.

Simply switch between different valves and knobs, adjust the pressure values ​​of each valve and each pipe, and make the Trieste sink into deeper water.

100 metres......

150 meters......

When Caesar operated the Trieste, he was not at all as carefree and careless as when he was co-piloting a Bugatti Veyron or a Harley motorcycle, but he was not cautious either. He was fully confident in his operating level, so

It is the result of hard work behind others.

"Lu Mingfei, help me get a cigar from the pocket of my combat uniform, thank you." Caesar stared at the instruments on the wall in front of him and said to Lu Mingfei behind him.

"Brother Caesar, you have to smoke in such a small cockpit? Not to mention the limited oxygen."

From the outside, the Trieste looks like a 15-meter-long behemoth, but in fact the cockpit is about the same size as an ordinary elevator room because it is also wrapped with watertight cabins, airtight cabins, air pumps and various pipes.

.And this small "elevator room" is also full of instrument panels and valves, and there is not much space for them to move. The four of them had to be almost back-to-back to squeeze in, and Chen Hongjian and Chu Zi

Hangdu brought his two swords, Caesar also brought his Dictado, and only Lu Mingfei was empty-handed.

However, although Lu Mingfei didn't agree with Caesar's smoking, he still bent down slightly, reached into Caesar's pocket, and took out a Cohiba cigar in an aluminum tube and a

Use the silver cigar scissors to carefully cut off the head of the cigar, then take out Caesar's acetylene lighter and light it.

After all, as the Dieste gradually dived, the environment they were in became darker and darker. As early as when they broke through 100 meters underwater, they were already in darkness. When the darkness swallowed everything

After the light, people will feel the loneliness far away from the world. And this is only 1/160 of this round-trip journey.

The Equipment Department and the Rock Flow Research Institute had already prepared for them in advance. They had prepared special lamps such as "Gaslay" that could illuminate a ten-meter radius around the Dilieste. However, even so, the light was like ink.

The sea water is also constantly eroding the white light released by "Gasley".

But in such a quiet environment, if you don't do something to kill time, no matter how good your mentality is, you may have psychological problems. For example, the unprepared Lu Mingfei, sometimes in a daze, sometimes observing through the observation window at the top

The marine life outside the window. Even Chu Zihang was taking care of Murasame and Miaobo Muramasa, applying oil, polishing them, and then wiping them again, over and over again.

In fact, both Murasame and Miaofa Muramasa are forged from recycled metal. Even if they are thrown into the sea, they will not suffer any rust or wear after thousands of years of seawater corrosion. But Chu Zihang still wiped them

The blade is meticulous and serious. You can't find anything "unprofessional" about it, especially the solemn and slightly tragic look, as if Chu Zihang is about to commit seppuku.

Caesar held the cigar in his mouth, took a shallow breath, let the cigar smoke stay in his palate, and felt the relatively mild taste. It was a warm creamy sweet quality and coffee bean flavor, mixed with a little Cohiba grass flavor, and

It combines a certain floral and herbal flavor, with a slight strong tobacco flavor, and then gently exhales the smoke that is full and not choking.

"Don't worry, the Trieste is equipped with an air circulation filtration system, and the cigar smoke smell will be eliminated soon."

Caesar turned his head and glanced at Chen Hongjian, who was sitting cross-legged like an old monk in trance. His eyes were closed, his breathing was steady, and he was not affected by the too quiet environment at all.

"You are really calm and composed. Shouldn't you say that you are worthy of being the vice-president of the Lion Heart Club?"

Chen Hongjian seemed not to have heard Caesar's comments and continued to close his eyes tightly.

Of course, he couldn't just stay in the cab like this, so he chose to use his mental power to build a mental link with Xia Mi to chat. In order to stabilize the mental link, he also blocked his five senses to avoid any interference from the outside world.

Impact. As for physical exertion, breathing and heart rate are reduced to a certain level, which is lower than the physical consumption of deep sleep.

On the shore, Xia Mi sat on the edge of the Sumeru Seat, with his two little feet hanging in the air, his head slightly raised and looking towards the sky.

The night sky that was cloudless just now suddenly became a lot darker, and black clouds put a thick veil on the moon and stars.

Looking at the weather that was gradually changing, Xia Mi closed his eyes and felt the slight turbulence of elements in the air.

This kind of elemental turbulence actually happens every day. It is precisely because of the elemental turbulence that there are various weather changes, but Xia Mi, as a first-generation species, can sense that it is unusual.

"You have to be careful. Although the perception is not very sensitive across eight thousand meters of sea water, the embryo on the seabed is at least a next-generation species. And I always feel that there are some secrets hidden under the sea, not just the dragon.

embryo."

"Well, I know. If I really encounter danger, with my physical fitness, the water pressure will not be able to do anything to me, and my probability of escaping is the highest." Chen Hongjian's voice sounded a bit frivolous.

"I'm not kidding you. There are definitely some big secrets hidden under the sea. You really have to be careful. If you really can't hold on any longer, you must call me in time. I will control the Nibelung even at the risk of being discovered.

Let me take you out of danger."

"Hmm, don't worry. We haven't carried on the family lineage for my old Chen family yet. How could I lose my life so easily?"

"Bah! Shameless!" A blush appeared on Xia Mi's face. Fortunately, under the cover of night, no one could see it. "Who wants to carry on your family line? You are not afraid that I will give you a second-generation or third-generation offspring."

If anything comes out, your parents will be scared to death."

Chen Hongjian and Xia Mi stopped communicating. It was not because Xia Mi was shy, but because they found that their spiritual connection had been strongly disturbed. It was an equally powerful spiritual force, and it was full of hostility.

.

"felt it?"

"Well, at least for a first-generation species, the spiritual power is not weaker than that of me, who is almost a complete Dragon King. Be careful."

"Well, the existence of the first generation species in the sea is indeed..."

Suddenly, the spiritual link between the two was disconnected, and it was Chen Hongjian who unilaterally terminated the spiritual link!

Deep in the trench

"The depth reaches 1,600 meters, Yuan Zhisheng, is the embryonic heartbeat signal you monitored there normal?" Caesar grabbed the walkie-talkie.

"Everything is normal, the embryo's heartbeat signal is very stable. Norma has just summarized an equation from the heartbeat data to calculate the degree of dragon hatching, and Kaguya calculated the embryo's hatching progress based on the heartbeat signal and that equation, and the results showed that the embryo hatched

It still remains the same, there is no accelerated hatching..."

boom!

Before Yuan Zhisheng could finish speaking, the Trieste suddenly trembled violently, and the readings of all the instruments fluctuated violently, especially the pointer on the pressure gauge rotating rapidly, and the four people experienced slight weight loss at the same time.

The sudden feeling of weightlessness interrupted the mental connection between Chen Hongjian and Xia Mi. Chen Hongjian opened his eyes and looked at Caesar confused but calmly.

"Caesar, are you a little too hasty?"

Chen Hongjian subconsciously thought that this was Caesar's initiative to dive quickly. After all, the Dieste had undergone strict inspections this time, and there should be no more three air tanks leaking compressed air at the same time as in the original novel, causing a rapid dive.

potential failure.

"Tmd! I also hope this is caused by my haste!" Caesar yelled, checking the data displayed on the instruments, pulling the valves one by one, trying to forcibly cut off the air ducts of the airtight cabin, "But the air

The cabin is leaking air. What can I do?"

"Gan! Zihang, you go and take over the control of the Dirieste from Caesar! Lu Mingfei goes to help keep an eye on the instrument data! Caesar, release the sickle!"

Chen Hongjian commanded in an orderly manner. When it was impossible to leave the cabin, Caesar's Weasel was the only way to know the situation outside the cabin.

In the crowded cockpit, Chu Zihang and Caesar exchanged positions while rubbing each other's bodies. Chu Zihang, who had also mastered the driving of the Dieste in advance, perfectly took over from Caesar with the help of Lu Mingfei.

Duty, and Caesar also unceremoniously carried out a bloodbath and released the word spirit Kamamaitachi.

At normal temperature (25°C), the propagation speed of sound in the air is 346m/s, but in seawater it reaches 1531m/s. Moreover, deep in the trench, the seawater is very cold, and the density of the seawater will become increasingly dense.

The larger it is, the speed of sound propagation will further increase, which means that the speed of sound propagation is now at least five times that of the shore.

After a violent outburst, Caesar released the Kotōrei Kamamitachi's domain, which can now cover a radius of about 150 meters around him. Within his domain, he can capture every subtle sound, even the sound of a heartbeat.

No exception. He can even use echoes to determine the speed and direction of objects in the field.

"There were so many tiny heartbeats, the number was terrifying! Damn it, they were chewing on the outer shell of the Trieste. They chewed through the air chamber!"

There was a look of horror on Caesar's face. It was such a violent sound, like hearing thousands of silkworms eating mulberry leaves at close range. He originally thought that the subtle sound was made by various parts of the deep submersible operating.

Noise, he was careless!

"Look, what is that!"

Lu Mingfei pointed to the porthole. They were small, slender fish covered in silver-blue scales. The light from the slender tentacles above their heads was reflected by the scales, emitting a faint blue light, just like in the deep sea.

fireflies generally.

"This is... Viperfish!"

Caesar's face became more and more ugly, and the expressions of Chen Hongjian and Chu Zihang also changed drastically.

"What...what's wrong? Isn't it just a fish with a light-emitting organ on its head? Shouldn't the deep sea be full of fish that hunt by emitting light?" Lu Mingfei didn't understand why their faces looked so different.

It would be so ugly.
To be continued...