In the command room of the TPC Far East Base, a map of the Western Pacific is displayed on the big screen, along with detailed information such as seafloor topographic maps and ocean current maps. Ye Rui is introducing to everyone the current information on the R sea area.
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This area is a newly developed sea area. Due to the advancement of materials and technology, new drilling platforms can be built in the deep sea to exploit oil and gas resources on the seabed. There are also a large number of deep-sea fishing fleets and the mining of deep-sea gold, silver, copper, etc.
Resources.
In short, the development of every sea area can bring countless resources to mankind. Many large mining companies around the world have established branches dedicated to ocean development. Therefore, deep-sea development has become the focus of mankind in the next era.
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The screen then showed the process of human development of the ocean, from fishing for fish and shells offshore, to offshore fishing boats sailing into the deep sea; from people diving to fish for various seafood, to driving steel pillars into the seabed to build buildings.
Platform for oil and gas mining, mineral mining...
After humans occupied the land, they began to move toward the sky and the ocean to obtain more living space and various resources needed for life and development.
But these are not what the victory team is concerned about. They just want to know where those strange fish come from and find out the cause of these strange fish, because an hour ago, the man who touched many monsters carrying a variety of toxic substances
The sailor of the fish has been declared dead, and others are still under observation.
Because the death of a human being made everyone nervous, the hundreds of tons of various fish on the fishing boat were immediately sealed and destroyed immediately after the sampling was completed to prevent toxic or radioactive substances from flowing into the market. They were also asked one by one to go out to sea.
Whether the fishing boat has ever entered R waters to fish.
The victory team is more concerned about what kind of radioactive source those strange fish that have detected radioactivity have been exposed to before they mutate into that state. Such a strong radioactive source on the seabed will cause great harm, so it must be eliminated immediately
Just find it out.
The newly established TPC Marine Survey Class accepted this task. The team headed by Director Qiao Iwama of the TPC Marine Survey Class drove a 7500m-class deep-sea submarine named 'Ryuugu' that had been in service for nearly eight years to the R waters for the investigation.
Investigate.
At a water depth of two hundred meters, human eyes cannot see sunlight. When the water depth exceeds one thousand meters, even earth creatures with sharpest vision cannot see sunlight. The water depth that the TPC ocean survey team is going to reach this time
More than three thousand meters.
At this depth, no light can be seen at all, only endless darkness, no sound can be heard, only boundless silence.
But at this moment, a slight roar spread very far through the sea water, and a few light beams that could shine very far on land barely illuminated a bright place on the dark sea floor, slowly heading towards the bottom of the sea.<
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For other people, entering the deep sea is an extremely scary and irresistible thing, but for Director Iwama Qiao and others, it is already a familiar path. In the past few years, they have taken the ship named 'Ryuugong'
''s deep-sea submarine has carried out deep-sea missions again and again.
Years of getting along have made them familiar with every screw on the Dragon Palace, and they have great trust in this deep-sea submarine to take them safely to the deep sea and back to land safely.
Director Iwama Qiao looked at the data on the dashboard and said seriously: "We are about to reach the bottom of the sea, everyone, please pay attention."
A young man in his twenties sitting next to him said nonchalantly: "Director, this is only three thousand meters. I have already been to four thousand meters."
"No matter how shallow it is, you must give it all your attention," Director Iwama Qiao said seriously: "There must be no carelessness, this is a deep sea."
The crew collectively responded: "Yes!"
After Director Iwama Qiao finished speaking, he slowed down his voice and said: "The ocean is not friendly to humans, and the depth we are at does not allow for any mistakes. One thousand meters is shallow enough. I am just because of this depth.
I almost didn’t come back, so never underestimate the ocean.”
A middle-aged man named Kimura on the left looked at the screen in front of him, tapped the buttons with both hands, and said: "Director, why have I never heard of you?"
"What's there to say about such an unlucky thing?" Director Iwama Qiao waved his hand, but then he felt that the long-term success seemed to make everyone a little elated, so he started talking again: "That was eight years ago.
I have just started to get involved in deep-sea exploration, and I followed my seniors to a group of undersea ruins called Dragon Palace in the South Pacific to carry out a salvage commission."
"Salvage? Such a deep place?" Kimura was very surprised. The deep-sea submarine is completely sealed and cannot be opened during the whole process. It can't hold much with plug-ins alone. In such a deep place, even if it is to salvage gold, it will not be cost-effective.
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"A disc, about...well, this big," Director Iwama Qiao raised his hand to indicate the size. It was almost the same as a disc. He recalled: "It looks like a stone, with many carvings on it..." Before he finished speaking, a sonar soldier with Yamashita's pronunciation written on the back of his TPC uniform shouted: "Director, the passive sonar has captured an abnormal noise, prepare to turn on the active sonar."
Everyone immediately closed their mouths, and even their breathing was much quieter. The sonar soldier named Yamashita slowly amplified the sound, frowned slowly, and said with great confusion: "It sounds...like.
..Crying?”
Director Iwama Qiao couldn't help being stunned when he heard this: "You...what did you say? Crying?"
"I have never heard such a sound before." Yamashita has been working in the field of sonar for a long time and has heard all kinds of sounds, but this is the first time he heard such a sound. He clicked a few times on the console in front of him.
Next, the sound he heard was played to the public channel, so that everyone could hear the sound that was indeed very close to the cry.
Before they could identify what the sound was, the submarine suddenly shook. The shaking was very slight, but it shocked everyone. The pilot hurriedly pulled the joystick to stabilize the ship, but it just moved in the opposite direction.
When I moved the joystick, the shaking suddenly increased, throwing everyone to the side. The situation was like the situation of everyone in the car after a sudden brake.
Director Iwama Qiao was about to ask why. The camera outside the submarine transmitted the captured external images to the display screen inside the submarine. In the turbid seawater illuminated by the light beam, plastic bags, glass bottles, drink cans, etc. were tumbling.
Countless garbage.
"Is this... marine garbage?" Director Iwama Qiao looked at the image on the screen in shock. He often wanders in the sea and is no stranger to marine garbage, but this is the first time he has seen so much on the seabed at such a deep depth.