Chapter 223: Proof of Strength (Medium)
St. Matthew's Island is an uninhabited island that covered an area of more than 350 square kilometers before the Great Tribulation. After the impact of the debris, the Pacific plate moved northward, causing the crust of the North Pacific Ocean to rise as a whole, and the area of St. Matthew's Island increased several times in a few days and now exceeds a thousand square kilometers, making it one of the largest islands in the central Bering Sea, and it is still slowly rising.
Natasha ran very fast, and from time to time she suddenly turned or suddenly changed her speed, but no matter how she tossed, Chu Tianjiang followed her inch by inch, maintaining a distance of ten meters. Finding out that she was not Chu Tianjiang's opponent, Natasha became honest.
"How far is it?" After running for half an hour, Chu Tianjiang was already a little impatient.
"It's almost there."
When she climbed over the mountain beam in front of her and came to the bottom of the mountain, Natasha suddenly stopped her steps.
Being tossed by her, Chu Tianjiang's heart was full of fire, so he didn't stop his steps immediately, but directly bumped into Natasha.
"What are you doing?" Natasha was still cold.
"I'm sorry, I didn't stop it." This girl's body is very strong, but the soft place is still very soft. "We're here?"
"See that rock?" Natasha gestured to the sea ahead, "That's the entrance and exit to the base under the sea, but we can't get in from there." ”
"So where do you get in from?"
"Underwater. How long can you hold it? ”
"It's certainly no worse than you."
"Really?" Natasha smiled coldly and said, "You killed yourself, and I can't help it." Wait, I can't hold my breath, don't ask me. ”
"Who asks whom, I can't say." Chu Tianjiang also smiled coldly.
Natasha didn't talk nonsense to Chu Tianjiang anymore and jumped into the small bay on the left. Chu Tianjiang smiled, jumped into the bay, and dived directly underwater.
Swimming out of the bay, just as she was about to see the rock, Natasha was the last to surface for a breath.
Chu Tianjiang did not breathe. After figuring out that his body was made up of energy bodies, Chu Tianjiang found that it didn't matter even if he didn't breathe.
The sea is very clear and the visibility is more than a hundred meters.
Chu Tianjiang followed Natasha, diving a little deeper than Natasha. Although Chu Tianjiang doesn't have a good impression of Natasha, this girl wears a tight leather coat, except for being a little shorter, her figure is definitely not worse than Nichol, and when diving, she twists her waist and swings her legs up and down, her body curve looks very graceful, and she has a special temperament that "flower butterfly" does not have.
From the top of the back, it looks like a black mermaid.
After more than ten minutes of diving, Natasha did not surface to breathe, indicating that she had the ability to breathe underwater. It's just that she's had changed her breath before, so her underwater breathing ability is definitely not enough to provide the oxygen consumed during diving, so she can't stay on the surface all the time to breathe.
Thinking of this, Chu Tianjiang got closer.
After a few more minutes, a huge "submarine" appeared ahead, an oil tanker sunk to the bottom of the sea, to be exact. Unlike ordinary oil tankers, this tanker does not have a bridge, and the hull is completely sealed, with a large "chimney" in the center with a diameter of five meters and sticking out of the sea. Obviously, the top of the "chimney" is the "rock", and inside the "chimney" is the elevator and ventilation duct.
If the tanker can sail, it will be a mobile submarine base.
Definitely.
Williams could not have built the tanker after the cataclysm, it must have been built before the cataclysm, and before the cataclysm, the tanker now sits on the bottom of the sea hundreds of meters above the surface of the sea, exceeding the depth of most submarines, so the tanker must have come here after the cataclysm. That is, before the cataclysm, the tanker already existed, only somewhere else.
Hiding the secret base at the bottom of the sea, and being able to move around, Williams is really well-intentioned.
If the tanker is powered by a nuclear reactor and does not even need to surface and can remain hidden in the sea all the time, it will be difficult to detect.
Swimming near a watertight door, Natasha stopped, then pointed to the watertight door.
Chu Tianjiang nodded, indicating that he understood what Natasha meant. The hatch should be for frogmen to enter and exit, and the inside should be a transition cabin.
Natasha grabbed the revolving latch and pulled it counterclockwise, but it didn't move. Pushing her feet against the hull, Natasha exerted all her strength, the latch still moving.
The latch is locked from the inside?
Natasha suddenly spat out a large string of bubbles, then released the latch and swam towards the sea.
Chu Tianjiang had already been prepared, and immediately grabbed Natasha's ankle and dragged her down. Natasha panicked and began to struggle desperately. Chu Tianjiang didn't let go, but instead used more strength, hugged her in his arms, and then bit her lip.
Natasha thumped Chu Tianjiang a few times, and when a puff of air poured into her mouth, she didn't struggle anymore.
After taking a full breath, Natasha pushed Chu Tianjiang away.
Chu Tianjiang didn't intend to take advantage of her, but he didn't want her to do stupid things, so he let her go. Floating on the surface, it will definitely be spotted by surveillance equipment placed on the "rock".
Natasha pointed to the watertight door, then shook her head.
Chu Tianjiang also shook his head, then grabbed the latch, shook it from side to side twice, turned the latch in a clockwise direction, and opened the watertight door.
This girl is stupid, the watertight door opens from the inside to turn counterclockwise, and from the outside opens to turn clockwise.
Entering the transition cabin, Chu Tianjiang closed the watertight door, and the drainage system was automatically activated, and the seawater in the transition cabin was discharged with high-pressure air.
"You already know that turning the latch in a clockwise direction is the only way to open the watertight door?"
"Do you need to talk about that?"
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Chu Tianjiang rolled his eyes and said, "Can you talk in the water?" Besides, you're so positive, I thought this door was different from the others. ”
"You ......" Natasha was anxious and angry, and it seemed that her personality was even more impatient than Rachel's.
"Where is Nicol being held?" Chu Tianjiang changed the topic, he just wanted to get Nicol out as soon as possible, so he didn't want to quarrel with Natasha.
"Stern. Follow me. ”
"Why did Williams keep her in solitary confinement?"
"I don't know what to do." Natasha paused, then added, "But Melanie told me that Williams said she was different from the others. ”
"What's different?"
"I don't know the way, Melanie doesn't know the way, maybe you know the way."
Chu Tianjiang's brows jumped a few times, could it be that Williams had noticed the changes that had occurred in Nichol?
Surely, because Williams has a strong telepathic ability, and may be able to read Nichol's thoughts. Even if he couldn't read Nicole's thoughts, he could still detect anomalies. That is, if Nichole were a normal person, Williams would surely be able to read her mind. Williams is unable to read her mind, showing that she is not an ordinary person, leading to the belief that Nichole also has superpowers.
"What are you thinking?"
Chu Tianjiang came back to his senses and said, "What kind of guys are guarding Nicole?" ”
"Are you worried?" Natasha smiled and said, "The five X-warriors with the strongest combat effectiveness. But don't worry, Williams specifically said hello, and Melanie also mentioned that Nichole was most likely a concocted supersoldier, so no one dared to spoil her. ”
"Rush?"
"None of the women who fell into the hands of Soldier X ended well."
"You're an X-Soldier too."
"I'm not like those beasts."
"What's different?"
Natasha glanced at Chu Tianjiang and said, "I was born to be an X warrior, and they were concocted, do you think it can be the same?" ”
"That's true, but that doesn't mean you're better than them."
"Are you here to save people, or are you here to quarrel with me?"
"I just think that you don't usually like to talk, and no one talks to you, so ......"
"So what? Let you be kind and chat with me? Or is there some other purpose, like kidnapping me like they kidnapped Rachel? ”
"Abduction!?" Chu Tianjiang was immediately speechless.
"Melanie has already told me."
"Say what?"
"Let me get out of here with you and go to a safe place, and mention that you will take care of me."
"Impossible."
"What can't be?"
Chu Tianjiang sighed and said, "She did make such a request, but I didn't agree, or I didn't officially agree. ”
"Whether you agree or not, I won't go with you, and I won't let Melanie stay alone."
"I don't plan to take you away, let alone get out of here before I catch Williams, so your worries are unwarranted."
"You should get out of here."
Chu Tianjiang smiled and said, "You don't plan to let me stay and help you?" ”
"I don't need your help."
"Really?"
"It doesn't count at first, because I'm helping you save Nichol."
"Well, even if it doesn't start out, and those X-Warriors are no match for you, you can take care of yourself, you really don't need my help, Melanie?"
Natasha was stunned for a moment, then fell silent.
"What the hell does Melanie want to do with Unit X?"
"I can't say."
"If you don't say it, I won't be able to help you, and I won't be able to save Melanie."
"Can you save her? No...... No way, she only has ......" Natasha was surprised at first, and then her expression darkened again.
"I know that she only has one month left in her life."
"Do you know the way?"
"She told me herself."
"Then you ......"
"I said that if I can save her, I will definitely be able to save her, but you don't believe it."
Natasha suddenly stopped, and Chu Tianjiang had no choice but to stop.
"If you don't believe me, don't say it's me, even God can't save Melanie."
"Can you really save Melanie?"
"It's not about whether I can save her, it's whether you believe it."
Natasha gritted her teeth and said, "If you are deliberately lying to me and trying me to tell you about Melanie's plan, I will break you to pieces." ”
"Why am I lying to you? Our enemy is Williams, and our purpose is to crush his plot, do you think I need to lie to you? ”
Natasha thought about it quickly, knowing that Chu Tianjiang did not lie to her, and she was indeed capable of saving Melanie.