He Rui said: "It's good, I understand. So he gave the order: "Turn on the light searchlight!" A minute later, the image screen appeared illuminated by the lights of the deep sea, still a dead silence, without a trace of life, as the position of the deep submersible was lowered, gradually the sediment on the bottom of the sea appeared on the screen, and some gray-white seaweed grew in the mud and sand, which brought some changes to the underwater.

The deep submersible slowly approached the abnormal position of the magnetic field, and everyone held their breath, waiting for the figure of the Wanli Storm to appear on the screen, but there was still only mud and sand and the bulging seabed in the picture, He Rui asked his subordinates to issue control instructions, so that the deep submersible circled in the abnormal magnetic field area for a week, and no shadow of the sunken ship was found at all, only mud and sand underwater.

Lin Yuan shook his head lightly and said, "Forget it, it seems that there are no shipwrecks, this sea area must have an abnormal magnetic field for other reasons." ”

He Rui said: "Perhaps, there is a large number of metal mines under the ground in this sea area, so the magnetic detector found the anomaly." ”

Lin Yuan said, "Let's continue to explore." He Rui nodded, in order to save the battery power of the lamp, he asked his technical staff to issue a command to turn off the lamp, and the image display screen turned into pitch black again, in the next two hours, the deep submersible found a magnetic anomaly three times, and conducted visible light reconnaissance on suspicious targets three times, but all the results were seen was a monotonous and boring seabed.

After another hour, the sky gradually covered with a layer of darkness, and Lin Yuan asked, "How long can our deep submersible work?" ”

"The fuel and batteries are enough for it to work for more than 100 hours in a row," He said. ”

Lin Yuan's eyebrows tightened, nodded silently, and said, "That means: it can search the entire sea area before changing the fuel?" ”

He Rui said: "That's right, that's right, in another twelve hours, we can finish searching this sea area." ”

Lin Yuan nodded, at this moment, the magnetic detector sounded again, this time the magnetic signal that appeared on the screen was stronger than the previous times, despite this, but there was no trace of excitement on everyone's faces, and then an operator reported: "Lin Shuai, Captain He, we are very likely to have discovered a submarine metal mining area." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Submarine metal mining area?" What do you mean? ”

"The magnetic signature here is very strong, it is no longer possible to emit from a single target, and in my experience, only a metal mining area on the seabed has such a strong magnetic signature, and this metal mining area is not buried deep underground, but is laid flat on the seabed, and it is very likely that it is a metal mining area of manganese nodules," said the operator. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Manganese tuberculosis?" ”

"Manganese nodules are metal aggregates that contain a lot of iron, manganese and other metals......

Lin Yuan shook his head and said: "I know what manganese nodules are in Ludao, what I want to ask is: How do you know that there is a manganese nodule metal mining area below us?" ”

The operator replied: "We have detected manganese nodules on the seabed in the area around Sakhalin, and the magnetic signal this time is similar to this one, and manganese nodules are more common in the seabed metal mining areas, so I think the following is the manganese nodule mining area." ”

Lin Yuan's heart was cold, and he thought, "If this is really a metal mining area, won't the magnetic signal of the Ten Thousand Miles Storm be blocked by the signal of the metal mining area?" ”

At this time, He Rui came over and said: "Lin Shuai, if this is really a metal mining area, then we can only turn on the lights to find it, the sonar accuracy on the deep submersible is not enough, and it is impossible to distinguish whether the echo is reflected back from the ups and downs of the seabed or the reflection from the wreck, so we can only use the light, our light is illuminated at a distance of fifteen meters underwater, and it takes a lot of time to detect this sea area." ”

Lin Yuan said: "Is there no other way? ”

He Rui shook his head and said, "There's no way, Lin Shuai, you and Political Commissar Xu should go back first, we will search here, and we will tell you if we have news." ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "I really can't stay on the ship anymore, there are still many things waiting for me." So Lin Yuan said, "Okay, let's get off the boat and go back." So he took Xu Siyuan and Shen Wanqing and others on a small boat, came to a battleship, and returned to Vladivostok, no one spoke on the way, everyone looked solemn, the warship sped up and returned to Vladivostok at about seven o'clock in the evening.

Xu Siyuan asked, "Lin Shuai, is there any other way now?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "The reconnaissance fleet should have found some wreckage of the ship's hull, right?" ”

Xu Siyuan said: "That's right, they did salvage a batch of things. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Where are these things placed?" ”

Xu Siyuan replied: "Put it in the open space at Pier 16." ”

Lin Yuan said: "I'll go and see those things, maybe I'll find some clues on those things." ”

Xu Siyuan said: "Do you want me to accompany you?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "No need, you stay in the command headquarters and keep guard, if the Patrol Sea sends a message, notify me immediately." After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he came out of the command room, accompanied by Shen Wanqing, and walked to the open space next to the 16th pier.

Lin Yuan came over and asked, "What have you found?" ”

Liu Bin said: "Miscellaneous things, it's hard to say, you can see for yourself." ”

Lin Yuan walked closer, and suddenly saw a few boxes, the outside of the boxes had been blistered dark, Lin Yuan pointed to the boxes and asked, "What are these boxes in?" ”

Liu Bin said: "The eight-magnification telescope is specially distributed to commanders at all levels. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Open the box and I'll take a look." ”

Liu Bin walked to the front of the box, reached out and lifted the lid, Lin Yuan saw that there were more than a dozen black boxes neatly stacked inside, reached out to pick one up, opened it, and saw that there was an intact telescope inside, Lin Yuan stared at the telescope, Liu Bin said on the side: "Lin Shuai, what are you looking at?" Isn't it just a telescope? What's there to see? ”

Lin Yuan said thoughtfully: "It's very intact, there is no crack in the objective lens and eyepiece." ”

Liu Bin smiled: "Yes, that's right, it's very intact, and you can continue to use it when the water dries." ”

Lin Yuan nodded, put the telescope aside, and then pointed to the boxes below and said, "Are these boxes full of telescopes?" ”

Liu Bin said: "The top ones are, and the bottom ones are artillery mirrors. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Open it, and then open the boxes inside one by one!" ”

Liu Bin asked, "Lin Shuai, what are you doing when you open them?" What's there to see? Lin Yuan didn't speak, but nodded, and motioned to Liu Bin to open the box according to his instructions, Liu Bin didn't ask much, and led people to open the box and box according to Lin Yuan's instructions, Lin Yuan continued: "See if the gun mirror and telescope in the box are damaged?" ”

Liu Bin then took people to look at them one by one, then shook his head and said, "Lin Shuai, there is no damage." ”

Lin Yuan frowned and said, "That's strange, why hasn't it been damaged?" ”