In the Indian Ocean, the USS Stennis aircraft carrier battle group, which has just passed through the Gulf of Aden, continues its journey south and is sailing mightily.
Ten nautical miles ahead of the surface fleet, a Luo Cheng-class attack nuclear submarine was sailing forward 50 meters underwater.
Its active sonar continuously fires towards the surrounding area, trying to search for any potential undersea threats ahead.
Even if he is exposed, he has no worries at all. After all, it is in the communication depth and can contact the mothership at any time and send out a large number of anti-submarine helicopters for anti-submarine operations.
But he didn't expect that 3 nautical miles in front of it, on the seabed at a depth of 4,300 meters, a huge creature was quietly crawling.
Not long after, the Luocheng-class nuclear submarine arrived on top of the behemoth, and its active sonar hit the behemoth without causing any waves.
The nuclear submarine continued to move forward in a swaggering manner.
"Power the mothership, everything is fine!" Sam, the captain of the nuclear submarine, ordered the communications officer.
This is a routine notification sent every hour according to regulations.
The communications officer quickly sent out the brief message and waited habitually for a routine reply from the mothership. However, a minute passed without any movement.
The communications officer blinked and muttered to himself, are the girls in the mothership's communications room asleep?
I waited patiently for another two minutes, but there was still no reply confirming receipt, and I suddenly felt a little panicked.
He hurriedly sent the message again, but after sending it, he still did not receive a reply.
The communications officer ignored anything else and opened the voice channel to make the call.
"Mothership, this is the Buffalo, please answer if you hear me!"
The captain and others in the command room were stunned when they heard the call from the communications officer. The captain asked: "What's going on? Have you lost contact with the mothership?"
The communications officer said depressedly: "I don't know what happened. The routine message just sent back to the mother ship did not receive a confirmation reply. I sent it again, but still no confirmation.
There is no response to the voice call now, so we may have lost radio contact with the mothership."
The captain and several others looked at each other, and they all immediately remembered the precautions issued previously, which mentioned that giant beasts in the sea might create electromagnetic shielding zones.
"It's a giant beast in the sea!" Several people said in unison.
As if to verify their words, the sonar officer shouted: "There is a huge noise under the sea, it seems to be a big thing!"
As his voice fell, there was a sound of steel breaking.
The nuclear submarine was disconnected directly from the rear half, and seawater poured in, filling the entire submarine in an instant.
Before the officers and soldiers in the boat could react, they had already entered a huge mouth with the submarine.
The same scene happened almost simultaneously 10 nautical miles behind the fleet.
At this point, all two escorting nuclear submarines of the USS Stannis aircraft carrier battle group have been lost.
At this time, the communications room of the Stannis was in a panic, and a communications officer hurriedly picked up the intercom to report to the bridge.
"Our two nuclear submarines have lost contact!"
General Rapdos, commander of the USS Stannis aircraft carrier group, frowned and said to the adjutant: "Inform the fleet to change its anti-submarine formation and send carrier-based helicopters to explore two places.
It is estimated that it is very likely to be a giant beast in the sea. Pilots should pay attention and do not panic if radio communication is interrupted. Try to use sonar to find it."
The adjutant went to deliver the order, and the captain of the Stennis, Regel, said: "General, if it was a giant beast in the sea, how could it be reported one after another?
I remember that the briefing always said that there is only one giant beast in the sea."
Laputos was startled for a moment, then said: "Since it is a giant beast, maybe there are two, a male and a female? Otherwise, it jumped out from the cracks in the rocks?"
As if to verify his words, the two outermost Burke-class destroyers on the left and right sides of the aircraft carrier formation that was adjusting its formation suddenly shook violently.
A destroyer on the left turned over directly into the sea, and the officers and soldiers scrambled to escape.
The bow of a destroyer on the right has completely sunk into the sea, the stern is raised high, and the officers and soldiers on the ship are falling into the sea like dumplings.
The other ships in the fleet were dumbfounded, and some ships threw a circle of depth charges around them!
"Damn, there are really two giant beasts!"
Lapudos raised his telescope and looked to the left. The overturned Burke-class battleship was slowly sinking, and the one on the right did not sink directly into the sea.
Obviously, the giant beast probably only knocked over the battleship, but did not devour it.
Looking to the right again, the Burke-class battleship has disappeared from the sea, and many officers and soldiers around it have also disappeared. It seems to have been swallowed.
"Give the order, each ship will drop a round of depth charges around itself to avoid being approached by the giant beasts in the sea!"
Captain Reger had also ordered anti-submarine helicopters to take off as soon as possible, preparing to drop depth bombs around the aircraft carrier.
At this moment on the sea, the entire aircraft carrier formation was in chaos.
The depth charges that continuously exploded raised high water columns, making the ships' sonar detection of the seabed even more inaccurate.
It is completely impossible to detect the location of the giant beast in the sea.
The sonar officer was also surprised and reported some suspected target directions, and the depth bombs were immediately projected according to that location.
After such operations, it seemed that the giant beast was really frightened, and no more ships were attacked.
Lapudos was on the verge of tears. His fleet had suffered unprecedented losses.
Not even the appearance of the giant beast in the sea was seen. Two nuclear submarines and two Burke-class destroyers were gone.
"Communications room, immediately report to the headquarters that our fleet has encountered two giant beasts in the sea and has lost two nuclear submarines and two Burke-class destroyers. We request to evacuate to Jibu Ti base for rest."
Just over a minute later, the communications room reported, "The fleet's radio communications were electromagnetic shielded and unable to communicate with the outside world, and the communications with each ship were also interrupted."
Laputos looked at the lively sea, and although his heart felt a little cold, he still gave the order firmly.
"Command each ship with flags, save depth bombs, release active sonar arrays, and try to find the underwater monsters.
Reger ordered all fighter planes to take off and have them circle the ships and drop bombs in the gaps.
The anti-submarine helicopter will come back and re-equip depth charges. We just need to confirm the location of the behemoth and then attack together!"
Regale immediately understood Laputos' intention, which was to save depth charges so that they could be used to attack the giant beast.
Otherwise, after throwing depth charges, how can we deal with the giant beasts in the sea?
Just as I was thinking about it, suddenly the aircraft carrier jumped upwards and made a huge noise.
Several people standing on the bridge suddenly fell to the ground, and Regel cursed loudly: "Damn it, it's hitting my aircraft carrier!"
Obviously, there is a giant beast under the aircraft carrier. How to deal with it?
Regel got up and ran to pick up the intercom, "Report immediately, is there water in the bottom cabin?"
A voice came from the engine room, "Multiple cabins have been flooded and are being damaged. Three cabins have been closed. The speed has dropped to 23 knots!"
At this time, the aircraft carrier tilted slightly, and several fighter planes on the deck fell into the sea in the impact just now.
The fighter planes that were preparing to take off had already accelerated to take off.
This shows that the US aircraft carrier is well-trained. In such turmoil and chaos, it still ejected one-third of the carrier-based aircraft within ten minutes.
After taking off, these fighter planes quickly circled in groups around the ships and began to drop bombs.
Countless bombs blasted water columns around each ship in the aircraft carrier formation. The whole scene looked like each ship was being bombed by various bombs that failed to hit the target.
Lapudos suddenly shouted another order: "Send a semaphore to each ship and ask them to set the torpedo to a depth of 30 meters and launch it in the direction of the underwater suspicious target!"
Each escort ship was equipped with torpedoes, which were originally designed to deal with surface ship targets. At this time, Laputos thought of temporarily modifying the depth setting, which should be able to deal with the giant beasts underwater.
While the fleet was in constant turmoil, the adjutant suddenly came to report.
"General, radio communications between the communications room, the headquarters and each ship have been restored!"
Laputos was stunned for a moment, looking at the water columns exploding continuously on the sea, and felt a little surprised. Has the sea beast already withdrawn?
He raised his telescope and searched everywhere, and suddenly his whole body seemed to be frozen.
At this moment, the warships and bomb-dropping aircraft on the sea that were launching torpedoes all stopped their corresponding attack operations.
All officers and soldiers were shocked by the scene in the distance!
About ten kilometers to the north of the starboard side of the fleet, a large mountain rose from the sea, and a huge silver sea beast in the shape of a pliosaur appeared on the sea.
The huge triangular head opened its huge mouth at the US aircraft carrier formation, and a heart-shaking roar came out!
Everyone felt a heartache, and then they became dizzy. Some weak people fell to their knees and kept vomiting.
There were even many fighter planes in the sky that were too low to the sea and fell into the sea.
Lapudos covered his heart and a word flashed in his mind, "Infrasound!"
Fortunately, the roar of the giant beast in the sea did not last long, nor did it roar many times. Instead, after roaring, it turned around and submerged into the water.
The sea suddenly became silent.
It took several minutes for the fighter planes in the sky to regain their composure and rush towards the direction where the sea beast had just appeared.