Chapter five hundred and fifty-eight under the sea
"Dr. Mo Xi, what are you doing?" I looked at Mo Xi with some surprise, who interrupted my examination.
"What?" Mo Xi rolled her eyes: "Are you a fool? These people obviously have bad intentions towards your examination, didn't you see it? It's just a physical examination, it's just for you to ask for a CT scan.
Do it?”
Seeing that I still didn't understand, Mo Xi explained: "You guys, these people are deliberately giving you more tests because you are an ability user, so they want to take this opportunity to collect your body data.
So that we can study your abilities."
After hearing Mo Xi's words, I immediately turned my head and looked at the doctors around me. It turned out that the other doctors actually looked up at the ceiling in embarrassment, as if their thoughts had been revealed.
Mo Xi ignored them and after saying something to them, she pulled me out of the physical examination room.
Regarding the unexpected episode during the physical examination, White and the others had no intention of mentioning it in front of us, and Mo Xi and I did not pursue it to the end. However, after experiencing this incident, I suddenly realized,
I'm afraid this mission will not be smooth sailing, because unlike before, this time Mo Xi and I are surrounded by people who have ulterior motives for us. In addition to facing the dangers in the mission, we also need to be careful
The ill will that comes from around you.
After the physical examination has been concluded, the next thing we have to deal with is a diving instruction.
Because this mission will be conducted at a depth of more than 300 meters underwater, and except for White and the Pandora agent Harris, everyone else in the investigation team has no diving experience at all, so before the mission begins, White
Each of us is required to take this diving instruction seriously to avoid unnecessary accidents at the beginning of the mission.
The person who explained to us was a senior diver from the U.S. Navy. While he was explaining, Mo Xi was translating for me throughout the process.
Because we need to conduct underwater operations at a water depth of more than 100 meters, the diving method we used this time is a special diving method called saturation diving.
According to this diver, every time the diving depth exceeds one meter, the pressure in the seawater will increase by one atmosphere. After the diver completes the dive, he must perform decompression operations. If the pressure is not decompressed, it will dissolve into the diver's body under high pressure.
The inert gas inside will remain in body tissues, causing severe decompression sickness and even life-threatening conditions.
In the usual diving method, the diver must come out of the water to decompress the chamber every half hour of diving, and this method is obviously not suitable for this task.
So we have to do saturation diving.
Saturation diving is a brand-new diving method developed by Americans in 1957. Its essence is to create an environmental condition that makes the inert gas dissolved in the body fluids of various tissues in the diver's body reach a level of complete saturation. To achieve this
After reaching this level, divers can stay and live under high pressure for dozens of days. After the operation is completed, they only need to decompress once before returning to normal life. Under normal circumstances, this requires building a living chamber and pressurizing the chamber to form a
In a high-pressure environment, the gas divers breathe in the chamber is a mixture of helium and oxygen.
For this mission, the U.S. Navy built a huge undersea base a thousand feet underwater, not far from the unknown spacecraft, on the seabed. This base will serve as the base station and living cabin for our diving operations.
After the mission begins, we will first take a U.S. Navy submarine to dive to a depth of a thousand feet, and then transfer to that submarine base for pressurization. After that, we can go in and out normally between the base and the seabed without having to dive every time.
All are pressurized.
In addition, because the seabed is quite cold, the diving suit we used this time is completely different from ordinary diving suits. This kind of diving suit is more similar to the spacesuit used by astronauts, and is a fully enclosed style of clothing with a helmet attached.
In addition to the complicated process at the time of launching, the process at the end of the mission is also equally cumbersome. After we surface from the bottom of the sea, we must live in the decompression chamber on the ship for several days to decompress. If we do not do this
, then our bodies are likely to explode shortly after getting out of the water.
After briefly explaining the knowledge of saturation diving to us in the conference room, the other party took all of us, except Harris, who didn't need to wear a diving suit at all, to a diving cabin on the ship. What happened next?
For eight hours, we have been receiving training in deep-sea saturation diving techniques and emergency procedures in this diving chamber. Although this is a bit temporary, no one dares to slack off in the face of dangerous tasks.
In this way, after almost a whole day of assault training, early the next morning, we finally started the first step of this mission.
Under the guidance of professionals, everyone took their luggage and equipment and boarded a small submarine headed for the undersea base.
The appearance of the submarine we boarded reminded me of the Sea Dragon that I used to ride with Mo Xi in the Arctic. However, compared with the Sea Dragon, this submarine is larger, even if it includes a pilot
With eight people including crew members, the interior space of the submarine will still not appear too crowded.
"Everyone, we are ready to dive."
Inside the submarine, Colonel White, who also serves as the co-pilot, said to us: "This dive will take about thirteen minutes. We will dive to a depth of eighty feet every minute. As you dive, you will feel more and more
The colder it gets, try to relax and enjoy this unusual experience.”
As soon as White's voice fell, we heard a violent sound of water filling around the submarine. At the same time, the submarine suddenly sank down and plunged into the seabed.
Because the initial sinking was so deep, the three professors at the foundation were a little panicked, but Mo Xi and I seemed to be fine.
Elizabeth felt strange about our behavior, so she asked us a question.
Because I didn't understand it at all, I could only turn my head and look at Mo Xi, who said to me: "She is asking us if we have ever been on a submarine before. Why doesn't she look scared at all?"
"Oh. Of course we have. That time we dived deeper than this time!" I just finished speaking, but I saw Professor Elizabeth's face was confused, and then I remembered that the other person had no idea at all.
I didn't understand Chinese, so I had to turn to Mo Xi and ask the latter to translate for me.
After understanding what we said, Professor Elizabeth also looked at us with admiration. After this episode, the relationship between the other party and us became much closer, and in the subsequent process, he also chatted with us from time to time.
Among the team members in the same group this time, except for the somewhat cunning Colonel White, Elizabeth was the team member who was closest to the two of us. As for the other three people, they were obviously interested in me and Mo Xi.
With hostility.
Thirteen minutes of submersible time is not long, but it is not short at all. As time goes by, several people in the submarine begin to become a little nervous, especially the water pressure that rings in their ears from time to time.
The sound of the submarine's shell made the two grown men, Mike and Jamie, tremble in their nervous thighs.
Fortunately, just when the atmosphere in the submarine was extremely depressing, Colonel White, who was sitting in the driver's seat, suddenly asked us to take a look outside the submarine.
Several people immediately stuck to the side of the submarine, which was only less than 30 centimeters wide and half a meter long. Through the transparent glass cover and the searchlight shining from the submarine, we actually saw a sea of
In the hazy sea water, there was a huge object standing there.
Everyone immediately looked surprised, including Agent Harris.
"Oh my God~! What is that?" Mike, who was closest to the glass cover, sighed.
White turned back and said: "Everyone, that is our target this time! Flying objects of unknown origin, UFOs!"