Three days have passed since the July 29 accident.

The Seventh Fleet, which suffered such heavy losses, had no choice but to postpone its exercise in Jianghua Bay on 5 August.

Some of the auxiliary ships stayed in the area of the accident, and the remaining warships turned to the base of Higashiei Sasebo.

And Lieutenant General Willard, as the commander, did not go to Sasebo with the flagship Blue Ridge, but stayed in the accident area.

In the past few days, the more he thinks about it, the more wrong it becomes.

If there is a problem with one ship, it is understandable, but if two ships have problems together, it is still this critical moment, which has to make him wonder if there is something greasy in it.

In fact, Willard is still a little cautious, if the investigation finds that the accident was caused by other reasons, he can still throw the blame, otherwise the responsibility for this accident can only be borne by him.

So no matter what, he had to stay, and if he didn't figure it out, Willard wouldn't be blind.

A C-5 transport plane that flew from California quickly landed at Naha Airport in the Okinawa Islands, and immediately four specially built scientific research submarines were unloaded from the C-5 transport plane.

These special scientific research submarines, showing a round shape, are specially prepared for deep-sea scientific research, with an unladen weight of 2.16 tons, can carry 400 kilograms of goods, and have a maximum diving depth of about 8,000 meters.

The person in charge of the Mi Army in Naha hurriedly transported these special scientific research submarines and a large number of supplies to the accident area through a transport ship.

The transport ship was followed by a Pentagon commissioner and five experts in related fields.

As soon as the transport ship arrived at the accident area, one of the auxiliary vessels approached.

Two serious commissioners, a man and a woman.

"Your Excellency, I'm Simon Manhattan." The male correspondent smiled and shook Willard's hand.

The female correspondent on the side looked cold, and just said, "I'm Karina K. Eddy." ”

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, let's fish up the black boxes of the two ships first." Simon Manhattan said.

“OK。” Willard was equally impatient.

Not all of the four research submarines were commissioned, but two of them were put into the Pacific Trench that afternoon after the robotic arm was modified.

This Pacific Trench is actually the Okinawa Trench, but fortunately, the location where they sank is in the northern section of the Okinawa Trench, where the average water depth is about 2000~4000 meters.

If it is the southern section of the Okinawa Trench, it may be even more troublesome, because the water depth there is about 4000~6000 meters.

As the depth of the sea increases, the difficulty of the submarine's work also increases exponentially.

Six scientific research submarine remote control personnel operate the submarine to dive quickly, and this kind of small scientific research submarine can only use unmanned remote control.

There was also a designer from the Washington and a designer from the Los Angeles, who were also on the sidelines, ready to provide technical guidance.

Half an hour later, the research submarine found the USS Washington on the seabed at a depth of about 3,470 meters, at this time the USS Washington was lying on its side on the bottom of the sea, and the propellers had stopped working.

"Director Simon, the situation is not good, the reactor has burned through the protective layer, and now the concentration of nuclear radiation in the seawater is very high." The operator reported with a bad face.

Simon Manhattan thought for a moment, then turned to Anthony, the carrier's designer, and asked, "Dr. Anthony, we need your technical guidance." ”

“OK。” The old man nodded.

He looked at the radiation dose level, the monitoring footage, and the sonar detection results, then took out a piece of scratch paper and wrote and drew for more than ten minutes.

"There are three black boxes on the USS Washington, which are in the bow, island, and stern, and the stern one doesn't need to be considered for the time being, and the one on the island is currently the easiest to obtain, you ...... like this."

Under the guidance of Anthony, the operator hurriedly maneuvered the small submarine to approach the ship island.

As soon as they approached the ship island, a lot of debris or skeletons and mutilated corpses appeared in the surveillance screen.

Coupled with the cold and dark environment, it is even more infiltrating, and many underwater creatures have begun to entrench on the ship's island, and it is obviously the corpses inside that attract these underwater creatures.

Despite the guidance of designer Anthony, the position of the black box was very secure, and the fact that the island had been hit by the propeller of the auxiliary ship before made it more difficult to remove the black box. あ七^八Chinese ヤ~(8)~1~ωωω.7\8z*òм

They were busy for more than a week, and it took a lot of effort to successfully remove one of the black boxes on the Washington.

As for the black box of the Los Angeles, although they have determined the location of the sinking, it is a pity that the Los Angeles fell into a crack in the seabed.

The specific depth reaches about 4,590 meters, and what is even more troublesome is that the head of the Los Angeles is directly inserted into the crack in Haiti, and the tail is also a reactor leak.

After discussions with Vice Admiral Simon Manhattan and Vice Admiral Willard, they decided to analyze the USS Washington's black box while waiting for the LA to be removed.

Because the Washington's black box contains very important information, overseas bases do not have access to its contents.

Commissioner Karina K. Eddy personally escorted the black box back to her homeland.

And the hard-pressed Lieutenant General Willard can only continue to fish for the black box of the Los Angeles in the accident area.

However, these days, there have been a series of bad things, first he was suspended, and then Lucia, Huaguo's humanitarian rescue fleet, and other younger brothers' rescue fleets came here to play soy sauce.

Especially after the detection of signs of nuclear leakage, he continued to greet the United States deeply.

Previously promised that there would be no leakage, now the radiation dose level in the surrounding sea has risen more than ten times.

Lucia and Huaguo, who were engaged in the matter, hurriedly publicized to the world through the Internet, such as the nuclear radiation concentration seriously exceeding the standard, and the Pacific circulation will bring radioactive materials to Dongying, California, Hawaii, and so on.

For a time, there were large-scale anti-nuclear protests and demonstrations in Dongying and California, which caused the whole world to pay attention to this matter.

……

California.

In a heavily guarded base, a small transport plane quickly landed on the runway of the base.

Karina K. Eddie came here with a black box, along with the designer Anthony.

They went to the inside of the base, handed over the black box to the relevant personnel, and after obtaining authorization, the data of the black box of the Washington was finally read.

Technicians, including Anthony, and Karina K. Eddy's intelligence agents conducted a comprehensive analysis of the black box data.

"Strange ......" Levi Ford, the engineer in charge of the reactor, frowned.

Karina K. Eddy asked, "Dr. Ford, is there a problem with the data?"

Levi Ford nodded: "The reactor was shut down suddenly, but there was no failure data from the control system and the detection system, as if all of a sudden the neutron dose dropped rapidly to zero." ”

"Doctor, under what circumstances will neutron radiation go to zero," Karina K. Eddie hurriedly asked.

However, Levi Ford shook his head directly: "No, the neutron radiation of the reactor will never return to zero, and the large-scale chain reaction of nuclear fuel can only be stopped through graphite barrier rods." ”

"Is there anything that can be done to stop the production of neutrons from nuclear fuel?" asked Karina K. Eddy.

Levi Ford shrugged his shoulders in disbelief: "Ms. Eddie, it is impossible to stop radioactive material from releasing neutrons, maybe God can do it." ”