The Shenlong transport plane, loaded with the Poseidon submersible, arrived at a military base in the South China Sea after several hours of flight. 『』

After the Poseidon was launched into the water, Gao Yang personally drove the submersible towards the sea. The silver-white submersible slowly dives into the water like a giant shark.

Under the satellite navigation system, the submersible headed towards the Pacific Ocean.

The submersible's power system is powerful, and it can travel at speeds of up to 100 knots per hour, or 185 kilometers, in the water.

The submersible kept diving towards the deep water, and through the glass window of the submersible, Gao Yang saw the beautiful scenery in the bottom of the sea.

In the clear water, schools of fish and shrimp swim and play outside the submersible, these fish and shrimp are of different shapes and colors, and the fish are happily playing and chasing each other.

The sea is tranquil, and the coral reefs are colorful and beautiful. Gao Yang enjoyed the strange scenery in the sea, and was in a very good mood.

The submersible kept diving, and when it reached a depth of 100 meters, the glass window could no longer see everything outside, the water became dark, and Gao Yang increased the speed of the dive.

In less than two minutes, the submersible had reached a depth of 500 meters, and the entire seabed had become pitch black and there were no fingers visible. 『』

Gao Yang turned on the scanning imaging system, and under the sonar and ultrasound imaging systems, everything in the seabed clearly appeared in front of Gao Yang's eyes, and in the water at a depth of 500 meters, there were almost no fish, only some microorganisms and jellyfish-like things swimming.

In the waters of the South China Sea, the average depth reaches about 1,200 meters, and the deepest place reaches 5,500 meters. There is nothing to appreciate in the seabed except for the gray rocks, Gao Yang turned on all the power systems, and in less than three minutes, he had already dived 1,200 meters.

The picture that came back from the submersible was a gray, muddy world.

Gao Yang was bored, and after letting Yan Huang monitor everything, the Poseidon drove automatically, heading towards the Marinaya Trench, and Gao Yang hugged his head and fell asleep.

The Philippines is only 1,000 kilometers away from China, and it takes seven or eight hours for submersibles to reach it.

Gao Yang Meimei slept a lot, and was called awake by Yan Huang after seven or eight hours. The submersible has reached a depth of three thousand meters and is heading towards the Marinaya Trench.

Gao Yang rubbed his eyes and stared at the screen carefully.

A huge abyss appeared in front of him, and from a distance, a huge crack opened in the sea, which formed the world-famous Marinaya Trench. In fact, this trench was caused by the movement of the former crust of 60 million. There are still ancient landforms from 60 million years ago.

The submersible went straight into the trench, and the deep trench was like a troll's mouth, swallowing the little bit of the Poseidon.

The temperature in the sea water has dropped to minus 15 degrees, and the strong pressure generated by the sea water makes the tempered glass outside the submersible squeak.

Soon, the glass will shatter under the tremendous pressure of the seawater. Gao Yang flipped a button, a huge steel lid sealed the window, and the submersible became a completely enclosed capacity, with only a few probes outside, scanning everything around.

In less than half an hour, the submersible has descended to a depth of 7,000 meters, and the mountain peaks and canyons are towering in the sea like giant beasts. The surrounding sea is devoid of any life, not even plankton, and it is simply a forbidden area for life.

Except for the hideous rocks, the peaks that have been polished smooth like mirrors by the sea, there is nothing to be seen in Gaoyang.

The submersible continued to dive towards the bottom of the sea, and after diving to a depth of about 10,000 meters, the temperature in the water suddenly became extremely high, and the water temperature reached more than 300 degrees.

The Marinaya Trench is a volcanic and seismic zone, and these gases are lime emitted from volcanoes. 『』

Gao Yang secretly marveled at the wonder of the deep sea, this temperature alone was enough to kill any living being.

The submersible continued to dive, and finally, the instrument showed that it had reached the bottom of the sea at a depth of 11,000 meters, and Gao Yang could already see the sea clearly. Gao Yang activates the metal detector and scans the X16 metal.

Under the metal detector, different areas of red, black, green, and purple appear on the computer monitor.

The submersible kept swimming in this 2,550-square-kilometer seabed, scanning all the sea, and Gao Yang was in a state of flux, waiting for the moment when X16 metal was discovered.

Two hours later, Yan Huang issued a reminder: "Master, X16 metal has been found. ”

Gao Yang stared at the display screen, and the golden area with an area of only 1,000 square meters was very moved.

"It's x16 metal, immediately order the robot to mine."

"Yes, master."

Yan Huang released 300 robots, of which 200 drilling-type robots had already begun to work, and the robots turned their arms into spiral bits and drilled towards the sea. 『』

The spiral drill bit made of nano metal is extremely sharp, like a quick knife cutting tofu, and the hard stone layer is turned into powder under the wild drilling of the drill bit, and the sea water suddenly turns into gold.

The remaining more than 100 robots holding super electromagnetic rods began to start the electromagnetic rods, under the strong magnetic force generated by the electromagnetic rods, in the seawater, the powder foam of gold sè kept flying towards the electromagnetic metal rods, and the robot could not be sucked away by the electromagnetic rods because the outer body was wrapped in super plastic.

As the robot drilled frantically, holes appeared on the sea chuáng, and streams of golden powder were stained on the electromagnetic rods.

Gao Yang couldn't wait to get a robot that had already absorbed a few kilograms of ore powder back to the submersible.

After Gao Yang ordered the robot to turn off the electromagnetic rod, Jin Sè's iron powder fell from the metal rod.

Gao Yang shoveled a little metal powder with a shovel and drilled into the laboratory, and under the scanning and analysis of cutting-edge instruments, Gao Yang found that these ores did contain X16 metal ore. The special metal contained in these metal powders is indeed attached to the special xìng of x16 metal.

They are resistant to high temperatures, and they withstand temperatures of 30,000 degrees before melting. 『』

"I've finally found the X16 metal, it's great, Yan Huang, order the robot to keep mining."

"Yes, master."

Gao Yang finally reassured, the discovery of X16 metal means a breakthrough in material science, and he will soon have a super temperature-resistant material.

It's just that Gao Yang is a little unhappy that the area of this X16 metal mine is too small, only 1,000 square meters in size, and the depth is only about 100 meters, which is only enough for these robots to work for a day or two, and can only mine about five tons of X16 metal.

To develop a spaceship, these x16 metals are not enough.

Gao Yang immediately ordered the robot to mine in situ, and then asked Yan Huang to start the submersible and continue to probe the metal in the seabed.

The Poseidon's detection range has been affected in the deep sea, but it can still be detected at a distance of 500 kilometers.

It took two days for the robot to mine the 1,000-square-meter-large, 100-meter-deep mining area, and Gao Yang took this opportunity to start frantically probing the X16 gold mine in the entire Marinaya Trench.

It took two days for Gao Yang to survey more than 2,550 square kilometers of the Marinaya Trench, which is rich in X16 gold deposits and distributed over 1,354 points.

The area and depth of gold mines are also different, some gold mines are only 100 meters deep, some are thousands of meters deep, some gold mines are tens of square kilometers or even hundreds of square kilometers in size, and some are only a few hundred square meters or thousands of square meters.

Gao Yang estimated that the total reserves of X16 gold ore reached about 3 million tons, and 3,000 tons of paint for a spaceship were made, which was enough for humans to build 1,000 spaceships.

Of course, human beings don't need so many spaceships, and the current economic conditions only need to build ten. The super temperature resistance of X16 metal can improve the aerospace equipment, electronic communication, and computer chips by a level, and the price brought by it cannot be estimated.

The price of one gram of x16 metal is at least about 15 times more expensive than ordinary gold. In addition to being able to make the paint of spaceships, this x16 metal can also bring Gao Yang a huge amount of income.

After mapping the distribution of 1,354 gold mines, Gao Yang loaded the x16 metal that had been mined and dived to the surface.

More than ten hours later, Gao Yang had already returned to the South China Sea base, and the Poseidon was already filled with X16 metal ore powder. After a Shenlong transport plane loaded the mineral powder, Gao Yang left the Poseidon and followed the transport plane back to Aihua Company.

The large atomic furnace will take more than twenty days to be manufactured, and Gao Yang is now unable to refine the X16 metal, so Gao Yang ordered Aihua to continue manufacturing the remaining nine Poseidon submersibles.

In the Great Hall of the People, Gao Yang met with state leaders with a kilogram of x16 metal powder.

After Gao Yang briefly reported to the leader that he had discovered the X16 metal mine, the leader was very moved.

Because Gao Yang told the leaders that the price of these super metals is 15 times that of gold, and they have super energy, which can be widely used in aerospace, electronic appliances, and chip industries, and can improve the quality of these products to a new level.

"Admiral Gao, do the Americans know the value of the X16 gold mine?"

Gao Yang shook his head: "Except for me, no one knows this super metal, and it is impossible for Americans to know that there is a gold mine in their trench. Lord, I would like to discuss with the Americans the purchase of the Lower Marinaya Trench. ”

"Admiral Gao, but how can you discuss with the Americans, if the Americans know the importance of the super metal, they may not hand over the mining rights of Marinaya to you."

"We can not tell the Americans about the value of Marinaya."

"Admiral Gao, if you mine these X16 metal mines in large quantities, it is impossible for the Americans not to know that their satellites, their detection tools, can cover the whole world."

"So, what do you mean, Lord?"

"We should be honest with the Americans, and we should work together to mine these super metal minerals."

If Gao Yang mines these super metal mines alone, it will make hundreds of billions of dollars, and cooperating with the Americans is equivalent to giving them half of it. In fact, if Gao Yang did it secretly, he could completely mine the super metal in the Marinaya Trench without realizing it. However, that would cause strong dissatisfaction among Americans, and the political consequences would be serious.

For the sake of the relationship between the two countries, in order to bring the world to the federal era, Gao Yang was silent for a moment, and finally nodded...

(Tianjin)