After entering the cabin, Zhu Tian looked around in surprise. It was unimaginable that when looking from the inside to the outside, it looked like it was transparent.
Wide angle imaging?
Through multiple full-angle cameras hidden on the outside of the submersible, external images are presented on the screen material in the cabin. Standing in this submersible is like being in a huge transparent bubble.
After sighing at this spectacular sight, Zhu Tian passed through a narrow cabin door, entered the cockpit directly, and sat in the captain's seat at the front.
It is said that most of the parts of this submersible are made by 3D printers, and the cost is as high as 500,000 energy crystals. However, when seeing everything inside, Zhu Tian did not feel that it was expensive at all.
"Captain, please name the submersible." A polite electronic voice sounded, prompting Zhu Tian how to operate.
After Zhu Tian thought for a moment, he spoke.
"Jiaolong No. 1."
Because it faces the sea, let's call it Jiaolong.
"Okay, Jiaolong 1 is at your service. Captain, please follow the 'operation' instructions..."
There are no complicated buttons. With the help of basic artificial intelligence, even one person can be competent in driving equipment that requires multiple people to complete. There are two 'operating' joysticks on the captain's position, one controls the xy-axis movement, and the other controls
Z-axis lifting. Next to it is the water flow gate and a series of status instruments.
In addition to manual operation, automatic operation can also be used. According to the map in the memory of the deep-sea submersible, the captain can issue navigation instructions through the command tablet or voice.
After getting familiar with the operation, Zhu Tian immediately used his tablet to issue instructions to go to sea.
Just hearing a slight sound of water flowing from behind, the entire submersible sped towards the vast sea outside the dock. I have to say, this is much more interesting than a speedboat or something. Waves hit them one after another, even though they are hitting
On the outer shell of the "Jiaolong", because the bulkhead is "transparent", the waves look like they are hitting people.
This feeling is like surfing a wave.
Looking at the 'waves' and 'flowers' flying around, Zhu Tian ordered again.
"Dive down, 100 meters."
"receive."
As soon as the electronic sound sounded, the dragon suddenly sank downwards. As if its head was immersed in water, the sound of the surrounding waves disappeared instantly.
Zhu Tian paid attention to the instrument at hand. The symbol marking the depth kept jumping and finally stopped at 100 meters.
Taking a deep breath and suppressing the excitement in his heart, Zhu Tian set the coordinates of Daming Mining's offshore mining platform on the tablet and entered the parameters of depth: 7000 meters.
Then, he took a deep breath, with a touch of excitement in his tone.
"Jiaolong 1, set sail!"
"As you command, Captain."
Heading towards the deep blue seabed, the dragon galloped away.
Because of the dragon's shape, it shuttled through the water with almost no resistance and could drive dozens of meters away in the blink of an eye. Zhu Tian looked at the speed meter on the speedometer, which read 75 knots per hour.
"Good guy, judging from the speed alone, this damn thing can already defeat the fastest submarine in the world." Zhu Tian couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the speeding seabed beneath his feet.
He remembers the current world
The fastest submarine in the world is the Russian P-class cruise missile nuclear submarine, with a maximum speed of 44.7 knots. The speed of the Jiaolong actually reached a terrifying 75 knots.
This is almost twice the opponent's speed!
He just doesn't know how the legendary superconducting magnetic fluid submarine that is still under development compares with this "mount" under his crotch.
The reefs on the seabed are rugged, and the dark green seaweed is dancing like a forest sea. Schools of colorful fish are swimming freely in the sea, and jellyfish and squid are dancing with the accompaniment of bubbles, all of which are transformed into glimpses on the wall of water droplets.
In addition, Zhu Tian also saw the legendary shark.
When the "flood dragon" passed by it, the big guy ignored the "dragon" as if he hadn't seen it, turned around and disappeared from Zhu Tian's sight.
As the depth gradually increases, the light from the sea surface becomes darker and darker, and the dark blue claustrophobic feeling becomes more and more obvious. Zhu Tian is not sure whether he has deep sea phobia, but he still turns off the wide-angle camera.
The screen directly in front retains four windows: front, left, right, and back.
"Jiaolong 1, where have we been?"
"There are still 100 nautical miles to the target location."
100 nautical miles, which means there is about an hour left?
Seeing that there was still a while left, Zhu Tian got up and walked towards the living cabin.
The layout of the living cabin is very compact. There are two beds with nylon buckles on the left and right sides. If the bed is lifted up, the table and wardrobe under the bed can be pulled out. Zhu looked at the internal structure of the submersible with interest.
Tian ordered the submersible to wake him up after it arrived at the location, then got into the sleeping bag-like bed and took a nap.
An hour later, under the soft ringing of the bell, Zhu Tian opened his eyes.
After getting out of bed and returning to the cockpit, he turned his attention to the control panel and his eyes widened in surprise.
Is this 7,500 meters under the sea?
This bottomless darkness, this legendary restricted area of life.
In the entire area, the only thing that can be seen is the beam of light shooting from the front of the dragon into the seabed. The black shiny rocks reflect the shimmering light under the light of the searchlight, and the disturbed benthic creatures swim with cilia.
, slowly fleeing towards the surrounding darkness.
In addition to those strange-looking undersea creatures, fissures in the seafloor rock shell spewed out scorching bubbles from time to time. The dark red fire was like a volcano, brewing terrifying energy.
At this time, a ten-meter-long, flat sea fish slowly approached the dragon's side. There were no eyes on the saucer-shaped head, and the spike-shaped teeth looked very scary. It looked at it curiously.
The dragon even touched it with his mouth. But soon it was electrocuted and it swam two meters away and escaped without looking back.
The static electricity repellent device on the surface of the dragon can make most deep-sea creatures lose interest in it. On the one hand, this is to protect the safety of the submersible, and on the other hand, it is also to protect the safety of these seabed creatures.
No longer playing, Zhu Tian quickly manually controlled Jiaolong No. 1 according to the distribution of mineral resources marked on the map and moved to the top of the molybdenum-manganese nodule mine.
"Throw the mining module." After confirming the target location, Zhu Tian ordered in a deep voice.
"Yes, Mr. Captain." the artificial intelligence replied politely.
Soon, the cylinder hanging at the bottom of the dragon was separated from the water droplets. A series of long and narrow bubble strings were discharged from the rear of the cylinder,
Pushing the fish-like cylinder slowly floats towards the target rock.
100 metres.
50 meters.
10 m.
The searchlight locked tightly on the cylinder, and Zhu Tian watched this scene intently.
Dark black rock blocks were embedded in the gray-black argillaceous rocks, scattered across the landscape like a cobblestone road. The cylinder slowly stopped on top of the black rock formations, and the engine behind it slowly turned off.
Zhu Tian glanced at the map on the screen and saw that the green dot marking the direction of the submersible had coincided with the red dot in the center of the mine point.
After a pause, Zhu Tian ordered in a deep voice: "Mining module, unfold!"
"As commanded."
A series of bubbles burst out from the bottom of the cylinder, and suddenly a graphene cable nail was dragged towards the bottom of the sea. The cable stretched straight and slowly pulled the cylinder to the ground, stopping about ten meters near the bottom of the sea.
Location.
The cylinder slowly unfolded, and the hatches on both sides slowly expanded outwards, releasing two missile-like objects. The missile was about 5 meters long and about 1 meter in diameter, and its tail was connected to the inner cabin of the cylinder by a graphene pipe.
I saw that after these two missiles separated from the cylinder, the warheads immediately sank, and a stream of water mist was sprayed out from the tail, pushing the missiles into the seabed.
The warhead penetrated deeply into the rock mass.
Then something like a miracle happened!
The tail of the warhead suddenly exploded, exploding a string of bubbles and opening an arc-shaped top cover with a radius of about ten meters like an umbrella. The top cover slowly descended and buckled on the flat seafloor rock mass.
superior.
From a distance, it looks like a large cylinder connected by graphene tubes to two bowls upside down on the seabed.
"The mining module has been deployed, please deploy the transportation module."
The polite electronic sound sounded again, pulling Zhu Tian back from the shock of technology.
The so-called transport module is actually four graphene guide rails and an ellipsoid lifter. Because these things are large in size, Zhu Tian did not carry them in the submersible. After all, there is such a thing as a storage space to bring objects to
The bottom of the sea really couldn't be more relaxing.
After anchoring Jiaolong 1, Zhu Tian immediately returned to the apocalypse and came to the backyard of the villa. At this moment, his Dolphin-10 and a large number of graphene guide rails from the Tianyuan base factory were stored here.
In a deep sea environment of more than 7,000 meters, it is difficult for ordinary materials to withstand such water pressure, so high-strength graphene materials come in handy.
After throwing these materials into the storage space, Zhu Tian returned to Jiaolong No. 1 again.
Putting his hand on the hatch, his consciousness sank into the storage space. Soon, the dozens of bundled graphene rails were placed outside the cabin.
Then Zhu Tian followed the same pattern and went back and forth between the present world and the end of the world several times, throwing all the building materials outside the dragon.
After ordering Jiaolong 1 to weigh anchor, Zhu Tian ordered the intelligent system to start construction, splicing the graphene guide rails and fixed buoys on top of the mining module according to the drawings in the memory.
The rest of the work no longer required his own hands. Looking at the five hours of construction time, Zhu Tian yawned and continued back to the living cabin.
All operations can be left to artificial intelligence.
As the captain, he only needs to go back to the living cabin to take a nap and wait for the construction to be completed before returning to the ship.