An hour later, the Patrol met with the two battleships that had returned and headed for the 18th sea area together, Lin Yuan asked Xu Siyuan, "Where did our reconnaissance fleet go?" ”

Xu Siyuan said: "They arrived at the area where the warship disappeared two hours ago, but they didn't find anything, and the strong wind last night was due north, so the reconnaissance fleet turned due north, hoping to find some items scattered on the sea after the warship sank."

Lin Yuan said: "Okay, let them search in the direction of due north." ”

Xu Siyuan said: "Yes, I'll go and convey Lin Shuai's instructions." ”

At half past three in the afternoon, Xu Siyuan came to the command room and said to Lin Yuan: "Lin Shuai, the chief navigator reports that we have now reached the sea area where the Wanli Storm may sink, and we can cast a deep submersible. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Okay, then let He Ruishi release the deep submersible, where is the casting location?" ”

Xu Siyuan said: "Near the stern tower crane, the ship's hoisting system will put the submersible into the water. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Okay, let's go and have a look." Lin Yuan then took Xu Siyuan out of the command cabin and came to the stern, on the stern deck, several people were busy around a flat cylindrical machine, and the leader of several people was He Rui, He Rui saw Lin Yuan and Xu Siyuan coming over and hurriedly turned around and said: "Lin Shuai, Xu Political Commissar, why are you here?" ”

Lin Yuan said, "Let's see how your preparations are doing?" ”

He Rui said: "It's all ready, we have written the exercise program before departure, entered the deep submersible, after entering the water, it can follow the predetermined route, in the process of advancing, the magnetic detector on the deep submersible will probe the seabed until the discovery of the Ten Thousand Miles Waves." ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "How can the people on the ship control it?" ”

He Rui pointed to the winch on the side, only to see the black wire of the thickness of the wrist tightly wrapped around the winch, He Rui said: "Lin Shuai, please look, this is the optical cable connected to the deep submersible, we will control the deep submersible through this optical cable, and the detector on the deep submersible will also transmit the detected signal back through the optical cable." ”

Lin Yuan nodded, and asked about the situation of the deep submersible again, and then a technician came over and said, "Lin Shuai, Captain He, the deep submersible has been prepared and can enter the water." ”

He Rui looked at Lin Yuan, and Lin Yuan said, "Let's proceed according to the plan." ”

He Rui said: "Yes! So he ordered the technician: "Start the tower crane and put the submersible into the water." The technician immediately walked to the edge of the pendant, pulled the handle of the pendant, and the sling made a "bang" sound, and lifted the submersible from the deck, and then transported it to the outside of the ship. ”

In the process of entering the deep submersible, Lin Yuan had already entered the command room with He Rui, and He Rui immediately said: "Start the deep submersible thruster." Two minutes later, the communicator replied: "The thrusters have reached 80 percent of their rated power." ”

He Rui said: "Release the deep submersible, fill the pressurized water tank, and dive at full speed. The technical personnel did it one by one, and He Rui pointed to the several screens in front of him and said to Lin Yuan: "Lin Shuai, here is the attitude display of the deep submersible, which has the attitude and depth of the deep submersible, and this screen is the image transmitted back by the camera of the deep submersible." ”

Lin Yuan nodded, first look at the attitude of the deep submersible, the shape of the deep submersible is similar to the submarine, but its size is much smaller than the submarine, in the process of diving, if you encounter underwater rapids, it is very likely to capsize, so the deep submersible is installed with attitude control equipment, and the attitude of the deep submersible can be transmitted back at any time, once there is an abnormality, the operator can adjust it immediately.

Lin Yuan saw that the attitude of the deep submersible was stable, so he went to look at the depth gauge, the numbers displayed on it were increasing a little bit, ten meters, twenty meters, forty meters, the deep submersible was sinking towards the bottom of the sea, and the image screen on one side was also showing the blue underwater world, there was no trace of life in the water, it was completely dead silence, only the bubbles brought up by the dive occasionally crossed the lens.

The depth gauge has become one hundred and twenty meters, and the image screen at this time is already pitch black, as if the deep submersible has entered a large cloud of ink, then He Rui said: "Turn on the sonar detector on the deep submersible to detect the situation on the bottom of the sea." Then he turned his head to Lin Yuan and said: "Lin Shuai, we turned on the sonar detector to prevent the deep submersible from hitting the high mountains under the sea, you also know that there are many high mountains underwater, the highest is more than 10,000 meters, higher than Mount Everest!" After we turn on the sonar detector, we will dive all the way to about 30 meters from the bottom of the sea, and then we can turn on the magnetic detector. ”

Lin Yuan nodded, watching the number on the altimeter continue to increase, and soon the number became 980, indicating that the deep submersible had dived to the bottom of the sea at a depth of nearly a thousand meters, and the water pressure on the deep submersible at this time was ten to the seventh power of Pascal, which means that the pressure per square meter on the deep submersible was as high as one million Newtons, if it were not for the pressure-resistant shell of the deep submersible, the deep submersible would have been crushed into pieces by the huge pressure.

At this time, He Rui said: "Turn on the magnetic detector!" The technician immediately agreed, and a screen lit up, which was a signal measurement display, which displayed a magnetic signal within a radius of 100 meters with the deep submersible as the center, because the earth itself has a magnetic field, the electromagnetic detector has always sensed the magnetic field signal, so a flickering light point appeared on the screen.

At this time, He Rui said: "The large transport ship is made of a large amount of steel, so its own magnetic field signal is very strong, much stronger than the geomagnetic field, so its light point will be much brighter than the light of the geomagnetic field." ”

Lin Yuan nodded, and couldn't help but think in his heart: "There are many situations that cause magnetic field anomalies, and it seems that we will definitely encounter many difficulties in our search this time." At this moment, suddenly a bright point of light appeared on the screen, and gradually the point of light became larger, He Rui immediately pointed to the point of light and said: "Lin Shuai, look, we have found an abnormal magnetic signal!" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself, "Just started the search, did we find the Ten Thousand Miles Storm?" It's just great! So Lin Yuan said to He Rui: "Immediately move the deep submersible to the area where the magnetic signal is abnormal!" ”

He Rui nodded, and immediately gave the operator a steering signal, and the deep submersible on the attitude display screen slowly turned its direction and drove towards the abnormal magnetic signal area, at this time, the bright light point was getting bigger and bigger, indicating that the magnetic signal in that position was getting stronger and stronger, and at this time the sonar operator also reported: "Lin Shuai, Captain He, the active sonar found an unknown object in front, with a size of more than 100 meters. ”

He Rui said in surprise: "Lin Shuai, it seems that there is really hope. ”

Lin Yuan also said happily: "Yes, it seems that our luck is really good, let's get closer to see if it is our ship, if so, we will send a manned submersible down to fix the hook and salvage work." ”