Late at night, everything is silent.

The watch on the table made a faint sound of gears, and the sea seemed to be windless, without the slightest sound of waves.

Nari sat up in a daze, he looked out the window, it was dark, he touched his watch again, and through the sparse starlight he saw that the hour hand stopped between four and five, he sat back for a while, and then put on his cotton clothes.

The stars in the sky were still shining, and the aurora had long since disappeared, leaving a blank space between the sea and the sky. There was not a trace of wind, only the layers of white waves swinging at the stern of the boat, and the night was very quiet, quiet like a sleeping old man, stable and serene.

Nari took a deep breath, the air was very fresh, not the salty taste, maybe too close to the iceberg, the air seemed to have a kind of cold and clean meaning, cool, making people drowsy fade.

Nari couldn't remember how much he had drunk yesterday, it was the first time he'd been drunk since he'd grown up. When Master Cooler proposed to Miss Claire, all the crew were delighted and excited, and with his excitement he invited the girl he liked to dance for the first time, and the girl unexpectedly answered him. He put his arms around the girl's waist, and the girl looked at him, and the girl's face flushed, and he thought that the girl must be drunk.

The boy who doesn't know how to love tastes the sweetness for the first time, spring blooms in his heart, and he is happy like a child who has been rewarded. He gulped glass after glass, as if to express his pleasure to others.

The incandescent lights on the watchtower flickered and were empty. Yesterday was so much fun that almost everyone had drunk it, and the Bismarck was also known as the "unsinkable steel fortress on the sea", even if there was no lookout.

Nari climbed up and picked up the binoculars. It was dark in the distance, and there was a white fog everywhere, and the yellow light of the ship in the fog was faintly visible, and since the ship was visible, it meant that they had sailed out of the ice road.

Nari dropped his binoculars and stepped out of the lookout, he wanted to go in and find something to eat to fill his stomach, but before he could take two steps, the giant magnetic needle on the highest deck suddenly spun rapidly, and the huge meshing sound of brass gears sounded suddenly, and it was this sound that attracted his attention.

The giant magnetic needle was specially installed on the ship by Professor Carrivan, saying that it was to detect the surrounding magnetic field. Nari remembered that it was spinning like this when the aurora appeared yesterday, could it be that the aurora was going to appear again?, he turned his head to look at the sky, and froze.

The sky was still dark and dark with deep blue, with stars shining, no clouds or moons, and no dazzling auroras. A huge shadow slowly covered the deck, white mist spread in all directions, the temperature around it dropped instantly, and a fine layer of frost formed on the entire Bismarck, as if it had strayed into some deep cave of ice and snow.

About 100 meters away in the sea, a huge iceberg floated slowly towards the Bismarck, which sailed silently, as if to compete with the iceberg.

Nari's brain exploded with a bang, he had just looked around with a telescope on the lookout, and he didn't find any icebergs at all, but the iceberg in front of him actually appeared on the surface of the sea less than a hundred meters from the Bismarck, was he dazzled and didn't see clearly?

The sound of sirens pierced the night sky, piercing the silence. Blinding red police lights swirled and shimmered, and the entire ship was shrouded in a blood-red color.

Almost at the same time as the magnetic needle rotated, a huge heat source appeared on the satellite heat source display in the control room, and the entire control room was staring at the screen with sleepy eyes, and the heat source appeared abruptly, and it was slowly approaching the Bismarck. The crew immediately fell asleep, and he pressed the first level of alert, his heart pounding violently, a bit like an impatient drum.

……

When Nari came to the control room, it was already full of people, people woke up from their warm sleep and threw themselves into their posts as quickly as possible, understood what happened in tens of seconds, and then calmly did what they had to do to solve the problem. Calm, efficient, and the pursuit of perfection, this is the ability of the executive department.

"Turn off the engine and slow down as much as you can!"

"The left propeller is damaged!

"How could the propeller break? What about the right side at this time?" Young Master Kueller leaned over the display, and the red heat source was approaching little by little.

"The right side is also damaged, the nuclear power room in Zone 3 has failed, it cannot be closed, the hull cannot be retreated, and it is currently heading for the iceberg at a speed of ten knots, and it is expected to collide head-on with the iceberg in twenty seconds. ”

"With a turbine steamer, isn't the Bismarck a cross-prime mover?" said Nary.

Kuhler shook his head, "The turbo steam wheel can only be quoted in one direction, it will only speed up the impact. ”

"Don't be nervous" Carryvan walked into the control room, he was wrapped in an army green coat, and he was buttoning one button after another without hurrying.

"Do you think Bismarck is an ordinary icebreaker? Even if an iceberg of this magnitude hits, it will be his death and not mine, and what we should be worried about is how the propeller will go wrong, and this is the key. ”

"This iceberg is about one hundred and thirty meters high, in terms of size, it should be an iceberg α, the Bismarck is indeed invincible on the ice road, but the force of the collision in both directions is close to 20,000 pounds, which is equivalent to the bombardment of dozens of shells, and judging by the speed of the ship, it will undoubtedly destroy the hull structure, are you sure there is no problem?"

"Knock down tens of seconds!"

"Nine seconds!"

"Eight seconds!"

……

"If you hit it, you won't know. Carriven grabbed the console next to him and shouted, "Everyone, hurry up!"

With a loud bang, the Bismarck slammed into the iceberg, and the hull shook violently. The hull indicator clearly saw the entire Bismarck swinging in an arc like a car rear-end, and then continued to move forward against the iceberg. The only running Wagner boiler emitted huge white smoke, and a red fire flashed on the generator before it went out.

The impact lasted about ten seconds, and Bismarck slowly stopped from the tremors, the tip of the iceberg sinking deep into the bow of the ship's hull, and the deck was littered with broken ice.

Carriven straightened his eyes, "How's it going? ”

Kuhler nodded, and then said to the people around him, "Go and see if anyone is hurt." ”

"Hurry up and cut off the iceberg that has fallen in, the broken bow can't withstand it for too long, I'll check the propeller problem, it's better to repair it quickly and leave this sea." Kareven crouched down and pressed his right hand on the boat.

"Nari, Bender, you two go cut the iceberg off, Natalia, you're in charge of assisting Professor Kareven. The rest of the personnel are on standby, and no one can relax until they leave this sea area. ”

Kuhler looked at the heat source indicator, he had been glued to the screen during the impact, the huge heat source had suddenly grown sharply and disappeared a second before the iceberg collided with Bismarck, and now it had suddenly reappeared a kilometer away, like a dormant beast, motionless.