The speed of the Dragon Palace's advance slowed down sharply, because they could already hear the sound of 'Bang! Bang! Bang!' caused by the collision between the garbage floating in the sea and the shell of the Dragon Palace. Every sound made the hearts of the people in the Dragon Palace tremble, so
In the deep seabed, even the slightest damage to the outer shell will cause the submarine to disintegrate immediately and be crushed into pieces.
"Director..." Yamashita couldn't help turning his head and looked at the serious-faced Director Iwama Qiao next to him, but the other party remained silent, just listening carefully to the sounds outside. In the deep sea without light, eyes are useless, the only thing you can rely on
It is the ears that listen carefully and distinguish the sounds that belong only to the deep sea.
Ryugu moved forward at almost a turtle speed, slowly pushing away the garbage on the seabed and heading towards the destination. However, the closer he got to the seabed, the higher the density of garbage became, so much so that the lens outside the submarine was blocked by the garbage and could no longer be seen.
Any screen.
The driver didn't know what to do. He hesitated and said, "Director, do you want to continue moving forward? There are more and more garbage. I'm worried that the seabed has been occupied by garbage."
Director Iwama Qiao did not say a word, but silently closed the connection between the sonar and the earphones, saying: "The mission is over, let's start diving."
"Yes!"
Everyone in the submarine was obviously relieved. There was so much garbage outside and the water was turbid. Even though they knew they couldn't touch it, they still felt uncomfortable. The most important thing was that there was more and more garbage outside.
, which makes people feel that if they go further down, the submarine may be buried by garbage.
Ryugu began to float step by step. It had to stop for a while at intervals before it could continue to float. It was not until a few hours later that it rose to the surface of the sea. A TPC ship immediately began to perform the recovery procedure. It could wait until the crane lifted the submarine.
After being transferred to the deck, all the crew members opened their eyes in shock.
There are a large number of plastic bags and other garbage hanging on the shell of the submarine, which almost wraps up this valuable submarine. It makes people feel that this submarine is not going to the deep sea but to a garbage dump.
No one approached, but people from the biological department wearing the highest level of protective clothing came forward to take samples, then flush them. Even the wastewater had to be collected and treated non-pollutingly before it could be discharged.
After completing this series of procedures, the submarine was opened, and people from the TPC ocean survey team filed out, taking out all the data and images collected by various detectors on the Dragon Palace, and handed them over to the headquarters.
The technical department will analyze it and compile it into a report and send it to the relevant departments.
Among them, the winning team was the first to obtain it. They immediately gathered their team members to watch the report and related images. When they saw the dense garbage, everyone's eyes widened in shock. It was hard to believe that such a deep seabed could exist.
So much garbage.
It wasn't until all the shots were covered in garbage that Ye Rui ended the screening, and the lights in the room turned on. All the team members breathed a long sigh of relief. The garbage gradually increased until it filled all the fields of vision.
This gradually increasing sense of oppression makes people feel like it is difficult to breathe.
"Why is there so much garbage on the seabed?" Xincheng was puzzled. In his opinion, aren't plastic bags and other things floating on the water? How could it sink to such a deep seabed?
Dagu thought for a while and said: "It must have fallen."
"Can plastic bags also fall off?"
"Can't we just go down after filling the water?"
"What about the cans?"
"Definitely..."
Lina also joined the discussion, trying to explain how such light garbage fell into the deep sea from a scientific perspective, while Ye Rui also made a simple three-dimensional animation of garbage falling into the deep sea as quickly as possible and joined the discussion.
Among.
While the discussion was intense, the door to the command room opened, and Megumi and Munakata walked in one after another. It was as if the head teacher had entered the class. The noisy voices suddenly stopped and were replaced by "Captain, Captain."
shouts.
Megumi sat in the middle, while Munakata handed a tablet in his hand to Horii. Horii took it and looked at it, and immediately exclaimed: "Oh my God, this is so amazing." p>
"What's wrong?" Dagu and Lina immediately came over and displayed a copy of the Ryugu submarine shell and the monitoring report brought back to the garbage house. There were hundreds of toxic substances, followed by biological samples brought back by the Ryugu submarine.
Without exception, all of them have mutated to varying degrees and contain various toxic substances in their bodies.
Scroll further down and you will find the estimated area of the garbage patch, which is more than a hundred kilometers long and more than ten kilometers wide. This area is so large that Xincheng, who loves to argue, is silent. He has never even been to a garbage dump.
Imagine how much garbage would be accumulated here.
However, this is not the most shocking thing. The last page clearly states that Ryugu's detector detected a strong energy response in the center of the garbage patch. In addition, the seawater samples collected by Ryugu along the way are closer to the center, and the amount of energy contained in them is greater.
The more radioactive it is.
One can't help but guess that the strong energy reaction is the radioactive source and the reason for the mutation of these fish, but...
"Why do mutated fish produce so many toxic substances?" Horii was puzzled. All fish samples had different degrees of mutation and different parts, but without exception they all produced toxins, as if all these fish
Obtained an instruction to mutate in a poisonous direction.
"Maybe it's because you don't want to be eaten." Shinjou replied casually, and Horii immediately raised his head and said, "Yes, that's why."
"Ah?" Xincheng, who proposed this 'hypothesis', was stunned and said, "I just said it casually."
"But this is probably the case," Horii said, turning the tablet over, showing the team members the page about toxic substances, and said: "You see, these toxic substances are almost all for primates, but the mutations are random.
Yes, but the mutation of these fishes is too coincidental."
Horii's theory made both Munakata and Meguma Mamo turn around. After listening to his story, Munakata frowned and said: "Team Horii, you mean that the mutation of these fish is not an accident, but intentional.
”
"I don't know. This is just my guess. If I want to confirm it, I'm afraid I have to go here." Horii raised his hand and pointed at the red dot on the map that emitted a strong energy reaction and said: "When we get there, we should be able to unravel these things.
It’s a puzzle.”
Zongfang said in a deep voice: "But the submarine of the marine survey team cannot get close at all."
Megumi nodded and continued: "Then we can only use Dolphin 202. Team members from Shinjo and Team Horii, be prepared to drive Dolphin 202 into the deep sea tomorrow."