Chapter 61: Luck and Misfortune
"If that's the case, then we just acted earlier, and we didn't have to worry about it for so long." Spred said half-jokingly.
"Fortunately, we haven't neglected the construction of underwater attack weapons recently, otherwise we might not even be able to resist the opponent's initial attack." Atlas happily answered.
"Alright." Seeing that the other party's attack was really over, Zhou Xin hurriedly arranged the next task, "Atlas, hurry up and let all the surrounding probes clean up the combat area of the two sides." This should have been the biggest loss of the attackers to date, and there should be a lot of useful clues hidden in the wreckage they left behind. Let the probe find the wreckage as soon as possible, so that the clues carried on it will not be lost due to the long immersion in the seawater, or simply washed away by the seawater. ”
"Understood, the probe has already been asked to investigate." The little girl replied, and as she spoke, she shifted the camera from the periphery back to the battlefield after the battle.
Not long after the probes began to investigate, Atlas also counted the losses of both sides in the entire battle, "Brother Captain, in this defensive battle, we lost nearly a thousand probes, which is almost half of the number of probes participating in the battle, and nearly a quarter of the underwater attack weapons that were just created not long ago were also eliminated, and there were some robots that assisted in the defense together. As for the losses of those attackers, although they have not come up with accurate figures, but judging from the overall battle situation, it should be much less than us, I am afraid that it is not even a tenth. Moreover, a significant part of them was not directly destroyed by our hands, but actively self-destructed during our sudden counterattack not so long ago. ”
Looking at the fragments of wreckage that are slowly falling to the bottom of the sea in the surrounding sea, Spred smiled bitterly: "There are so many wreckage, most of which are still our own, and it is too difficult to find useful clues in them." ”
"You don't have to go through every piece of debris." At the first glance of the picture, Zhou Xin understood, and he opened his mouth to reply, and at the same time reminded Atlas, "There shouldn't be any clues on the small fragments, just investigate those large fragments, so that a considerable part of them can be eliminated." ”
"People know."
Then, a full day passed. While the probes were searching for clues in the large number of debris fragments, two of the probes that went deep into the bottom of the trench to investigate also dived into their own undersea hideouts. One of the hideouts had been infiltrated before, and the other had just been found. As for the remaining last way, although the entrance has been discovered, it has not yet found a chance to infiltrate, and there is no way, the detectors there have to keep investigating on the periphery.
"Brother Captain, the probe didn't find any clues in the debris about those attackers." A day later, Atlas reported to Zhou Xin with a tone of disappointment, "Not even a single large piece of the other party has been found. ”
"Impossible." Unexpectedly, Zhou Xin was also a little disappointed like Atlas, "How did they do it, didn't even a larger piece remain?" But at this time, he still had a glimmer of hope in his heart, "Forget it, let's continue to investigate, maybe a large piece of fragments belonging to the other party is hidden in those fragments that have not yet been investigated." ”
On both sides of the conversation, just as Atlas was reporting to Zhou Xin, a submersible belonging to the attacker was lying quietly at the bottom of the sea at a depth of about 300 meters near the place where the two sides had fought before, and inside was the five-person team mentioned earlier.
"Still not working? Captain. The smug voice in the original team is now long gone, and all that remains is frustration, "It's really unlucky, I don't know if there is anyone more unlucky than us." ”
As he mentioned, I have to say that their luck is really bad. Let's turn back the clock a little, in the previous battle, they fought valiantly in submersibles, and were among the first to rush to the front. During the charge, the five-person submersible eliminated many probes on Zhou Xin's side, and even destroyed two underwater attackers. However, because they were in the front, they were also the first to encounter counterattacks. Fortunately, the captain who operated the submersible reacted quite quickly, and after discovering that the situation was wrong, he reacted immediately, and then he immediately controlled the submersible to turn around, avoiding the fate of having to self-destruct because of the proximity to Zhou Xin's side at the last moment.
However, this luck is also the misfortune of the entire five-person squad. Although the captain reacted, the pilot of the other submersible who had been following them closely during the battle did not react like him. As a result, their submersible, which was urgently retreating, collided with its companion solidly. The violent impact severely damaged the power systems of both submersibles, and in this way, they were quickly left behind by other rapidly retreating submersibles around them. Seeing that the submersibles could not recover power for a while, and that the opponents behind them were still rapidly approaching, there was no other choice, and the captains of the two submersibles had to give the order to self-destruct almost at the same time.
I don't know whether to say lucky or unfortunate what happened to the entire five-person team next. Although it is almost simultaneous, there is still a gap of a few seconds. And it was this gap of just a few seconds that determined the completely different fate of the two submersibles.
The submersible that had collided with the five-man team exploded a few seconds before them, reducing it into a pile of debris before the eyes of the five. And the imminent explosion also had a serious impact on them as they prepared to self-destruct. Some of the debris that flew in all directions hit their submersible directly, destroying most of its internal systems and dramatically destroying the running self-destruct systems, terminating the second explosion that was about to occur. Not only that, but the huge shock wave created by the explosion also pushed the unpowered submersible to the bottom of the sea. But thanks to the cover of this explosion and the impetus of the shock wave generated later, the detector that accelerated to the bottom of the sea was lucky to avoid the detection of the probe from Zhou Xin's side behind. What's even more amazing is that during the whole process, the five people in the submersible actually suffered only a little minor injury. However, because of the violent tremors, they all fainted, and they only woke up not long ago......