Chapter 17: The Dive
On the night of February 13, 2010, the Three Gorges Reservoir.
The annual Spring Festival makes people choose to go home for family reunions, and only one Moniach floats alone on the water on the huge lake. The nearest living person was on duty at the dam several kilometers away, staring boredly at the rumbling turbines.
Contrary to the calm surface of the lake is the deck of the Moniach. The men in black uniforms are busy and silent, just quietly adjusting the equipment they are responsible for and hoping that they can be kept in the best condition.
The only sound came from Manstein in the cabin, a lonely male voice echoing across the water.
"It's the park late at night on February 13, 2010, during the Chinese Lunar New Year, the Moniach is anchored in the Three Gorges Reservoir, the river is quiet, and the equipment is normal. We're going to do Project Bronze tonight, and I'm Captain Manstein, and this is my thirteenth captain's diary on this voyage. Manstein was staring at his phone on the table, his expression serious.
"Get moving, and good luck to you. You've all heard it, and the headmaster has confirmed. ”
Everyone nodded.
"It's been rehearsed many times, but only tonight will you know the full details. Listen and remember, and the groups work together to ensure success. ”
Manstein glanced around the students in front of him, their hands behind their backs, their expressions solemn. "Congratulations, this is a real dragon slay, and you are no longer a student here, but a commissioner. You are only standing here because you are the most elite. ”
When he said the last sentence, Manstein saw Lu Mingfei in the last row. Although this S-class student has always been like a waste wood, he is now standing up straight like everyone else, and he also has a bit of a tough feeling, which makes his hanging heart relax a little.
Turning back to the picture, Manstein introduced their core weapon, the storm torpedo.
At the same time, Li Su did not stay in the cabin, he was crawling to the top floor of the Moniach in the dark of night under the cover of his combat uniform, and then turned around and sat on it. Bow your head slightly and take in the busy deck and the silent lake.
"It's a beautiful view." He sighed, looked around carefully, and saw the sonar that was being fixed to the side of the ship, so he embedded the black ball in his hand into the wall beside him. He remembered that Norton had come to wreak havoc before the fusion.
The set of photographic equipment that Researcher Matur had promised had already been delivered, including a lot of miscellaneous things. This time, Li Su brought three things, a camera ball that accompanied him to see Constance Dante's death, an "action camera" with a suction cup on the side of the palm that was about a centimeter thick, as Li Su called it, and a hemispherical camera disguised as a commercial monitor. I didn't have a contact lens display, and the signal couldn't travel that far.
Crawling back the way he came, Manstein's voice came as Li Su approached the hatch, and with each name he shouted, a hand raised and lowered.
"List of duplicate operations, Captain Manstein; First mate Grayson, who is at the helm; second officer, Gunayar, responsible for sonar and torpedoes; the third officer, Pacino, who is in charge of the bottom warehouse; Chief Engineer Kumagai Kinao is in charge of the engine and fuel supply. Underwater operations, task group A, Caesar and Zero; Task Group B, Chen Motong and Lu Mingfei; Escort group, Li Su. Li Su? Li Su! What about people? ”
"Here, here, here!" Li Su hurriedly walked in and waved his hand. "I'm sorry for being in a daze!"
"Concentrate!" Manstein said coldly. "If you are in a daze during the mission, maybe the task force will die! Are you trying to kill your teammates? He turned to everyone. Do you understand? ”
"Understood." Everyone said in unison.
"Don't worry, even if that thing escapes, as long as it's in my domain, I can kill him." Li Su whispered, and while everyone was watching, Manstein reached out and pressed the monitor to the corner of the ceiling.
"I have a problem." Zero hand raised. "I can't go into the water today." Li Su felt that Lu Mingfei on the other side of the crowd suddenly became nervous.
"Inconvenient?" Manstein looked Zero up and down, "You look good!" ”
"That's right!" Lu Mingfei immediately agreed, "You seem to be in pretty good shape. ”
"My eldest aunt is here, so I can't go into the water." Zero uttered this sentence with a calm of minus two hundred degrees.
Although I had foreseen this scene, it was still very strange to see a 14-year-old girl calmly say that she was her aunt. There was nothing to look at next, Li Su raised his hand and signaled: "I'm fine, I'll go and prepare first, I have a bit of equipment." ”
"Okay, you go first." Manstein agreed.
Walking into the locker room and changing into a wetsuit, Li Su went to the deck and opened his equipment box.
First, he took out the equipment strap and wrapped it around his waist, and then looked at the biggest thing in the equipment box, the Winchester M1887. The wooden butt of this gun was replaced with a black polymer by the armament department, and the black surface appeared cold and hard and reliable under the light of the searchlight. Li Su picked up a No. 00 deer bullet from the magazine box next to him and put it on the table, and stuffed it into Winchester's chamber one by one. The primer of each bullet is painted black, indicating that the pellet is filled with solid mercury made under high pressure.
After filling, Li Su took out a vacuum bag to cover the shotgun, used an air pump to pump out the air inside, fixed it on the strap behind his back, and took out three drum-like polymer boxes, which were No. 00 deer bullets, No. 000 deer bullets and single-headed bullets, the same box. No matter how small the caliber is, it is estimated that even the dragon scales cannot be penetrated, and the equipment department simply does not configure it.
After securing the bullet box, Li Su took out the last piece of equipment: the Desert Eagle. This pistol was very heavy to the hand, and it weighed five pounds after being reloaded. To be honest, it was hard for Li Su to imagine this scene after seeing Caesar shoot with both hands. In fact, Li Su didn't think it was strange until he noticed that the Glock 18, which was adopted by countless special forces, was only 0.6 kg compared to the 2.5 kg Desert Eagle, and he realized the horror of this gun.
The Desert Eagle magazine is filled with Mercury-core blunt gold armor-piercing bullets with three spare magazines. Li Su fixed them on the equipment belt in turn, and heard the footsteps behind him. Looking back, it was Nuo Nuo and Lu Mingfei who had changed into diving suits.
"Or did you decide to go into the water? It's courageous! Li Su teased, but Lu Mingfei just glared at him and didn't say anything, it seemed that he was still haunted by his original foolishness.
The next task for the three of them is similar, carry the oxygen cylinder, connect the communication cable, and put on the helmet. Li Su attached the camera to the side of the helmet, while Nono carried a black box on his back. The three of them gave each other a thumbs up and said there was no problem.
They stood hand in hand on the side of the boat, leaning back with their backs to the lake, sinking into the icy water.