Our operation this time is an extremely confidential one, and on the surface it is in the name of Arctic scientific research. Therefore, the appearance of the Americans should not be specifically targeting us.
But why, by coincidence, the area they chose for the exercise happened to be an area where the white monster appeared? And in terms of time, they also happened to choose the date when the white monster predicted by their father Lin Aiguo would appear.
Could it be said that besides us, Americans also discovered traces of that monster?
No, this is impossible. You know, if it weren’t for the prophecy left by our father, we would never have known that a monster appeared in the distant Arctic Ocean. Although the Americans have the highest military intelligence capabilities in the world,
It’s fake, but it’s not so powerful that it can even detect the sudden appearance of a monster in the sea. Otherwise, if their intelligence capabilities are really that powerful, why would 911 still happen?
Thinking of this, I shook my head and threw away the unreliable guess I just made. Then I asked the Snow Dragon through the intercom, hoping that they could give us some advice on what to do next.
After a while, Wang Jingzhong's voice came from the intercom: "Commissioner Lin, we will try our best to buy you time. After all, this is the high seas of the Arctic, and the Americans have no right to ask us to leave. But the KA-32 helicopter pilot
The caller said that their airborne radar has seen the American warship, and it is heading towards us at full speed. It is estimated that they will enter this sea area in less than half an hour."
Immediately afterwards, a high-pitched voice also sounded: "Sijiu, let Dr. Mo move faster. We can give up on the monster, but the undersea submersible machine must not be discovered by the Americans!"
"I see!"
Putting down the walkie-talkie, I turned to look at Mo Xi: "Dr. Mo, did you hear what they just said?"
Mo Xi looked at the camera screen above her head intently and said, "Half an hour is enough. Give me another five minutes and I can get the submersible machine out of the sand."
It turns out that just when I was communicating with the Xuelong, Mo Xi had already controlled the Jiaolong and arrived directly above the submersible machine. Through the observation window, I could clearly see the submersible machine stuck on the seabed.
Tail out of the sand.
At the same time, Mo Xi turned on a new switch, and with a burst of mechanical sound, I saw a pair of mechanical arms originally used to collect seabed specimens stretched out from under the observation window and slowly stretched towards the submersible machine.
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The two mechanical arms clamped the two tail fins of the submersible machine respectively, then stretched back and pulled the submersible machine out of the sea sand in one fell swoop.
However, when we saw clearly what the submersible machine looked like at this moment, I knew that this salvage operation was in vain. Because from the appearance, the damage to the submersible machine was far beyond our imagination. It can be said that
It has become a pile of scrap metal.
Its shell seemed to have been hit by a 10,000-ton ship. Most of the originally streamlined black shell was damaged at this moment, exposing the circuit system and various wires that should have been tightly protected inside. Those wires
Floating in the water, it looked like the intestines of a dead fish.
After seeing this situation, I couldn't help but ask Mo Xi: "Dr. Mo, the submersible machine is already in this state, do we still need to take it back?"
Mo Xi frowned and couldn't bear to look at the miserable appearance of his beloved submersible machine, and then said: "Even if it turns into a pile of scrap metal, I will take it back. I must know from the black box of the submersible machine.
Why did it malfunction?"
While saying this, Mo Xi had already snatched the walkie-talkie from my hand. She first notified the Xuelong at sea that the salvage operation had been completed and the Jiaolong was about to start floating, and then she pressed a button on the control panel.
At the same time as she pressed the button, the Jiaolong dropped the ballast iron at the bottom, and then began to slowly rise toward the sea. The pile of wreckage of the submarine submersible machine was fixed by two mechanical arms.
Rising toward the sea.
In order to adapt to the difference in pressure between the seabed and the water surface, as well as the extra weight brought by the underwater diving machine, the Jiaolong's surface speed was not very fast. Because I was worried about the situation on the sea surface, I saw the desperate change speed of the depth gauge.
After that, I couldn't help but feel a little impatient.
At this moment, I suddenly heard Mo Xi say "eh" softly.
I asked her what was wrong, and Mo Xi pointed to the camera screen above her head. On the screen, the external camera of the Jiaolong was pointed at the wreckage of the submersible machine hanging on the robotic arm.
Mo Xi pointed to a damaged spot on the wreckage and said, "That location should be where the rescue device is installed on the submersible, but judging from the screen, it should have been damaged."
I was stunned for a moment and said somewhat confused: "Dr. Mo, what do you mean? Didn't we clearly receive the distress signal from the submersible machine just now?"
Mo Xi shook her head: "No, actually the signal disappeared when we landed on the bottom of the sea..."
This... I feel like cold sweat is starting to break out on my head, and my voice is trembling: "Please, the rescue device must have broken down at that time, right?"
"It's possible what you said..." Mo Xi stared at the submersible machine on the screen, seemingly thoughtful.
Just when the two of us were silent for a while, another communication came from the Snow Dragon.
"Jiaolong, Jiaolong. The sea is starting to get rough. We may not be able to maintain our current position. Please turn on the positioning sonar so that we can confirm your position."
"Jiaolong understands."
Although turning on the positioning sonar now would probably make the American warship notice the existence of the Jiaolong, Mo Xi did not hesitate and immediately pressed the sonar switch, and then turned it off again a second later.
Because the depth of this sea area has exceeded the length of the anchor equipped on the Xue Long, if the Xue Long wants to maintain its original position, it must always use the propellers to make fine adjustments. This kind of fine adjustment is not possible in harsh weather conditions on the sea.
This is very difficult to do. In this case, if we don’t turn on the positioning sonar and tell the Xuelong our position, then when we surface, there will likely be a difference between the Jiaolong and the Xuelong.
The situation occurred for several kilometers.
Not long after Mo Xi pressed the sonar switch, news came from the Snow Dragon. In just a short period of time, the parallel distance between the Jiaolong and the Snow Dragon had indeed increased by one kilometer.
The above deviation! Fortunately, this situation was discovered in time, and they have already begun to adjust their position, so it should not affect the subsequent recycling work.
When I heard the good news, I couldn't help but take a breath. Although I didn't stay at the bottom of the sea for a long time, I felt that my endurance was about to reach its limit. I didn't want to stay in this dark and dark bottom for a moment.
Therefore, I absolutely don’t want to see any accidents happen during this last stretch of the journey to the surface.
Because I wanted to distract myself from the nervous situation, I turned to look at Mo Xi and wanted to have a conversation with her. But I saw that Mo Xi's attention at the moment was completely focused on the camera screen, focusing on
On the wreckage of the underwater submersible machine hung on the robotic arm, he kept muttering words such as "It's really weird" in a low voice.
Seeing this, I swallowed back the words I was about to say.
With nothing to do, I could only turn my gaze to the observation window to kill some time.
Because the Jiaolong floated up, the water outside had begun to slowly transition from pitch black to deep blue, and my sight range had expanded from just a few dozen meters to a hundred meters away.
However, what makes me a little strange is that the surrounding sea water is really too calm. There are almost no fish around the Jiaolong, only an empty sea water.
Obviously when I went into the sea just now, I could still see many schools of fish around the Jiaolong from time to time. How come that in the blink of an eye, not a single fish around me disappeared?
I had some doubts in my heart, so I put my face against the observation window and opened my eyes wide, looking for traces of sea fish.
Just then, I saw a vague shadow in the distance.
What is that?
The shadow seemed to be very big, but because the visibility in the sea was not good, and Mo Xi focused all the outside light on the snorkeling machine, I could only vaguely see it, a bit like a whale.
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Wait, I squinted my eyes, and I always felt that the shadow seemed to be approaching us?
So I patted Mo Xi on the shoulder and said, "Dr. Mo, there seems to be something outside the window..."
Mo Xi seemed a little impatient with me interrupting her: "Is it a fish?"
"It looks like a whale..."
"It's normal to see whales in the Arctic Ocean."
"But the whale is approaching us?"
It was only then that Mo Xi turned around and said, "Close to us? Where is it?"
I pointed at the growing shadow outside the window and said, "Look, that's it!"
Mo Xi pushed up her glasses, and like me, she couldn't see clearly what it was, so she gently pushed the lever on the control panel: "Wait a minute, let me use the camera to see what it is?"
Following Mo Xi's movements, the lights outside the Jiaolong also began to rotate. The two of us raised our heads at the same time and looked at the camera screen.
Then, I suddenly saw a bright red color appear on the screen.
"What is this?" Mo Xi asked curiously.
I was also surprised: "Dr. Mo, is the camera broken? Why are the pictures all red?"
"No. Just wait, I'll adjust the lens."
Mo Xi lowered her head and pushed the camera's joystick a few more times. As she moved, the image on the lens continued to shrink. It seemed that Mo Xi had reduced the lens magnification of the camera.
And this time, we finally see it clearly.
It turns out that the red scene just now actually came from a ball...
"Um?"
Wait, the picture on the lens continued to shrink, and I suddenly discovered that it was not a ball at all, but a pair of huge eyes with a diameter of about three meters and shining red light!
"Ahhhh!!!"
I screamed uncontrollably and felt numb all over my body. Oh my God! The pair of red balls that appeared in front of us turned out to be the eyes of a huge monster!