Chapter 13: Uninhabited Islands

Several of the people who fled to the surface heard what the operator said and sat down again, thinking that it should be easy to be rescued, and they just needed to wait patiently. Yang Yanyu got up and walked to the door of the cabin to look out, only to see a blue sea, as far as the eye can see, and the oncoming sea breeze also lifted her spirits. She had been nested in a small submersible for a few hours now, and was buried at the bottom of the sea at a depth of 10,000 meters, which made her nerves tense all the time. The key thing is that she has not yet figured out what the significance of her participation in this matter is, and why He Changshan let herself participate in this operation. But fortunately, thanks to fate, now that I finally see the light of day, my mood is still much better. She leaned half of her body out of the cabin and looked around, trying to get some fresh air. But at this moment, she suddenly realized that something was wrong, she saw a red dark cloud floating in the sky in the distance, and thunder and lightning were drifting here in the dark cloud. She hurriedly retracted her body and prepared to go down to inform everyone, but she suddenly felt weak, the world was spinning, and her body involuntarily collapsed in the escape pod. As soon as everyone saw it, they hurriedly stepped forward to pick her up, and Lu Lingfeng kept shouting Yang Yanyu. Yang Yanyu tried hard to say one word "cloud". Steve hurriedly poked his head out of the hatch to take a look, and immediately slipped in, shutting the hatch with one hand. "There is a poisonous cloud outside, everyone put on their oxygen masks."

Lu Lingfeng put it on Yang Yanyu's first, and then hurriedly put it on himself. Everyone sat motionless, waiting for the cloud to clear. And Lu Lingfeng has been observing Yang Yanyu, afraid that she will pass like this. But fortunately, her signs are normal, and she should not be deeply poisoned, and she may recover soon. After a long time, everyone didn't seem to hear any movement outside, so Kevi

It is advisable to open the hatch again. The operator looked at Steve and Lu Lingfeng, and they also nodded, so the operator opened the hatch again. This time was different from the last time, as soon as the hatch opened, a cold air rushed into the cabin, making people suddenly feel like they had fallen into an ice cave. This time Kevi

First of all, I stuck my head out and looked out, the weather was a little gloomy, and I couldn't see the clouds, and the waves on the sea were bigger than just now. The operator tried several more times to connect to the satellite, but was never successful. Finally Kevi

said: "Our mothership is gone, and the satellite can't be connected, we can't wait for death here!" Hey, boy, think about whether there are any other contingency plans. ”

The operator rubbed his head and said, "There's another one, but it probably won't work." ”

"What a way, say it quickly."

"We have a drone in this escape pod that can be activated if all the signals or electronics are broken."

"Then if you don't take it out quickly, what time is it? Do you want us to die here? ”

"This drone flies at a very low altitude, almost flying close to the surface of the water, it has its own fixed navigation system, we only need to enter our approximate location, it doesn't need satellites to find its destination on its own."

"Well, aren't we saved?"

"It has only one destination, the Chinese Coast Guard's base in Xiamen, and when the drones approach, they will be captured by their radar, and then locate our location by making a return trip. It's just..."

"Just what? Say it. ”

"It's just that the range of the drone is only 500 kilometers, and our current position is probably above the Mariana Trench, and the error will not exceed 100 kilometers. And the distance we have to Xiamen is more than 1,000 kilometers, and the drone can't get there at all. ”

There was silence again.

"Is there a camera on the drone?" Lu Lingfeng asked.

"Nope." The operator replied.

"No, yes, that's easy." I saw Lu Lingfeng smoothly drag down a camera from the control position of the escape cabin, which was a miniature camera, the size of a dash cam. "Alright, you can take the drone out."

I saw the operator remove a piece from the bottom plate, and then a drone with a length of about 1 meter appeared in front of everyone. When Lu Lingfeng saw it, he reached out to get it, but the operator stopped and said, "Don't move yet, I'll enter our approximate coordinates into it first." ”

"Well, but you'd better change its flight program to our remote control." Lu Lingfeng said.

"I won't modify this, its programs are all encapsulated, and there is no input interface at all."

Lu Lingfeng smiled and said, "That's for you, there is no unbreakable procedure for me. Since you can modify the coordinates, of course you can also modify other things. ”

After speaking, Lu Lingfeng walked to the computer in front of the console, and after more than ten minutes of operation, he turned around, looked at the operator, raised his eyebrows and said, "Okay, you go and get the drone." The operator glanced at Lu Lingfeng and was suspicious, but he still went over and took out the drone and handed it to Lu Lingfeng. And then he said: "If you take power from an airplane to record video, and add the weight of the camera, it will reduce its range by at least 100 kilometers." ”

"Anyway, it can't fly to the base, so let's survey if there are any small islands around before making a decision."

"It's a viable solution." Kevi

First of all. Steve nodded.

Lu Lingfeng modified the camera again and connected the transceiver of the wireless signal. Then threw the drone directly from the hatch, the drone took off, and Lu Lingfeng sat in front of the screen to operate the drone forward. Then everyone gathered around to look at the screen. At first, the screen shows the endless sea, and behind you you can see some small birds flying in the sky, but these birds are very strange, a bit like small rockets. Although everyone thought it was a little strange, they just thought that it might be something they had never seen on land, and there were some faint clouds in the sky.

"If there are small birds, it means that there is land nearby, or at least islands." Kevi

Said.

The drone continued to fly forward, and after about ten minutes, I suddenly saw a small island appear in the upper left corner of the screen. Lu Lingfeng hurriedly let the drone fly in this direction, but suddenly at this time, the screen began to flicker violently, as if it had received some electromagnetic interference, and Lu Lingfeng hurriedly wanted to change directions. But it didn't work, the screen was still flickering, and just when everyone was in a hurry, a picture suddenly appeared on the screen to make everyone frightened. A half-human, half-animal creature dangles around the screen. It was tall, with a strangely long head, two rabbit-like ears stuck up at the back of its head, and on these ears there were actually two eyes. Add one eye on its forehead and two eyes on either side of its head, and there are 5 eyes on its head alone. Hair and nose are not visible on the head, and a large mouth is under the eyes in the middle. Fortunately, the neck is similar to that of a human, and its body is fat and cannot distinguish its shoulders, because its upper body actually has 4 arms, and further down are the legs, which are the same as humans, two and can walk upright.

"There are monsters!" The operator exclaimed.

"Don't shout, let's see." Kevi

Said.

Lu Lingfeng operated the drone to fly upward, wanting to enlarge his field of vision. But no matter how he operates here, the perspective captured by the drone has not changed, as if it is fixed there. Lu Lingfeng said anxiously: "It's over, the drone is out of control." At that moment, there was no longer anything on the screen. After a moment of silence, Steve said, "The drone ahead has already photographed a small island for us, and we will land on the island first before making a decision." ”

"No, don't you see any monsters on the island? This may not be an ordinary monster, our drones can be easily controlled by him, didn't we send them to death in the past? ”Kevi

Said.

"You're still a professional researcher, you don't have any adventurous spirit at all, and you're a monster, I'd rather believe that it's an alien, how did this scientist be. I'm in favor of landing on the island first. Hey, kid, what's your opinion? After Lu Lingfeng finished speaking, he looked at the operator. The operator shook his head and said helplessly, "There is no better way now, you can't wait to die in the escape pod." ”

Kevi

He wanted to be angry again, but he didn't speak again. Because after this operation, he knew that the other party knew that he would not be able to win.

"I also agree to go to the island." Everyone looked down, it turned out that Yang Yanyu had woken up, and she expressed her opinion softly. Lu Lingfeng hurriedly went over and helped her up. Kevi

Seeing that everyone agreed to the past, they didn't say anything more. So the operator drove the escape pod in the direction of the drone's flight.

After about two hours, they actually found the island that the drone had photographed. From a distance, there was no vegetation on the island, and it was not very large, and the operator knew that there was danger in the direction of the drone, so he took a detour to a relatively hidden small harbor. After the escape pod was parked, everyone climbed out of it, and the air outside was still a little cold, but it was much better than just now, at least it wouldn't make people's teeth chatter, maybe about 10 degrees.

Steve led the team to the front, and Lu Lingfeng let Yang Yanyu walk in front of him, Kevi

And the operator walked the last head. They climbed up to the island with one foot deep and one foot shallow. There is really no vegetation on the island except for rocks and some saxon grass, and there is not a single tree, so the view is very open. At this time, Yang Yanyu was suddenly startled, and she seemed to think of something when she saw this scene. Seeing this, Lu Lingfeng asked her with concern, "What's wrong?" Are you okay? Isn't the toxin just now gone?"

"No, I'm just a little familiar with this scene."

"Familiar? You're not going to be here, are you? ”

"No, maybe I've had a friend here."

"Your friend has been here, so do you know where this is, and what are our coordinates?"

"I don't know, he doesn't know, he just came to a similar place in a dream, maybe it's not here, it's just similar."

Lu Lingfeng shook his head and didn't ask any further. Instead, he raised his head and took a closer look.

This small island is flat and has a great view, and it is full of large and small stones. There are no obvious landmarks, and there is no distinction between east, south, west, and north, and there is no sun in the sky as a reference. The island is not big, and it took less than an hour for everyone to walk around it, and they didn't find anything out of the ordinary, nor did they find the monster, let alone see the drone again.

Just when everyone was at a loss, something even more terrible happened. The ground began to shake violently and cracks appeared, and the sea water poured in, and the island began to sink, and the area was shrinking dramatically, and everyone hurried closer. In a short time, the island shrank to a size of only about 100 square meters. Thankfully, the ground was calm and no longer shaking. But now it's really an island.

Everyone is trying to see if they can send a distress signal through the wireless device on their body, but no matter how much they try, they can't succeed. Yang Yanyu sat helplessly on the ground, her heart in a mess. This time Kevi

quarreled with Lu Lingfeng in the back again, and it turned out that Lu Lingfeng was complaining about Kevi again

, and Kevi

Not at all weak. Steve quickly pulled the two of them apart next to him, "At this time, we need to unite and stay calm, the more anxious we are, the more mistakes will be made." Hey, who's that, young man, we still have to rely on you, do we have anything to eat in our survival pod? ”

"Yes, there is enough food for two people to eat and drink for a week. But the five of us might only have enough to eat for 4 days at most. ”

"It's okay for 4 days, you can go and help take out the contents inside."

"Okay, ah, our survival pod is gone."

Everyone was just in a hurry by the earthquake, and no one paid attention to the whereabouts of the escape pod, now look where there is still an escape pod. Now everyone is even more dumbfounded, without the escape pod, the chance of survival is much smaller.

"We obviously stopped at that position just now, and then the earthquake, it couldn't have been damaged and sunk by the earthquake, right?" Steve said.

"This is unlikely, our escape pod itself is in the water, and the earthquake will basically not affect it, and the escape pod has the function of actively avoiding danger, if there is a stone rolling over, it will quickly dodge."

"Did someone steal it for us? It's the monster we just saw. Yes, it must be him. , what the hell is this place? ”Kevi

Growled.

"Don't move, I'll go into the water and see." Saying that, Lu Lingfeng jumped into the water with a "flutter", everyone knew that he was very good at water, so he didn't say anything. Yang Yanyu stared nervously at the place where Lu Lingfeng jumped down. Who knew that less than a minute later, Lu Lingfeng came out, and he said: "This is not a sea at all, the depth is only more than ten meters. ”

"More than ten meters?" Everyone repeated in disbelief.

Hearing only a "plop", the operator also jumped into the water, and it came out in less than a minute, he nodded: "It's really only more than ten meters, and there is almost no sand on the stone slab ground below." ”

"It's weird, we can't have jumped into someone's pool." Lu Lingfeng took over and said.

"Swimming pool? Whose swimming pool is so big? Could it be the monster's? ”

"Impossible, we obviously came out of the seabed, even if there is a deviation in the floating process, it is impossible to deviate by hundreds of kilometers."

Everyone was arguing again.

"We're not on Earth right now."

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately turned their heads to look, only to see Yang Yanyu sitting very calmly on a stone on the ground and saying silently. At this time, everyone was quiet.

"When we first came up, there were red poisonous clouds, then strange birds, then scary-looking monsters and the seabed that was only more than ten meters long. These phenomena are not normal phenomena on Earth at all, and it is possible that we entered this strange planet with the currents of the water at that time. ”

"Hehe, I almost believed it, it's normal for the seabed near the island to be shallow, after all, a large part of it is in the water. In addition, the air composition, temperature and humidity, gravity here are almost the same as the earth, if it is an alien planet, can it be so close to each other, so that we are so comfortably exposed to the outside? So I think this should still be somewhere on Earth. ”Kevi

Said.

"I think Miss Yang is right. We may not really be on Earth. ”

"So what to do? The escape pod is gone, and I don't know where the crossing is, so how can we go back! The operator muttered to himself.

"When you wake up, it's still sunny and breezy. When you wake up, it's still the moon. When you wake up, the sky is full of red clouds. When you wake up, the moon flies in the sand. 》