Lin Fan and Nishimura Antelope followed the two American soldiers towards the command room in the middle of the "Sea Wolf", and the first mate Li Gang followed behind them, and he was asked to assist Lin Fan and Antelope in this operation. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the center of the command room, a middle-aged man wearing a black coat inlaid with gold tassels, with a tough and noble temperament, was sitting on a single-seat sofa quietly reading a book, and a tall young officer was guarding him next to the seat.

The officer was Colonel Gosling, and when he saw Lin Fan and the others, he reported to Sid, who was concentrating on reading, Sid put down the book and got up from his seat, turned to Lin Fan and said, "Mr. Lin, Miss Nishimura, and Mr. First Mate, I've been waiting for a long time." ”

"I've kept you waiting, Dr. Sid." Lin Fan and the others stepped forward and said, and the Xicun Antelope bowed deeply.

"You're welcome." Sid said as he took off his black coat trimmed with gold tassels, Lin Fan found that he was wearing a dark officer uniform similar to Gosling, and he said, "We have now arrived near Ning'en's stronghold, and the next task is to trouble a few of you." ”

First mate Li Gang asked, "Dr. Sid, what do you want these two children to do?" ”

"I want them to take a probe into Ning's lair, find 'Theeldone' among the Ningn people, and communicate with it......"

"Into Ning's lair?!" First mate Li Gang interrupted.

Sid showed a look of dissatisfaction on his face, and said lightly: "Mr. First Officer, you don't have to worry, the risk of this mission is completely controllable, and it is precisely because of your concerns that I will let you go with them." ”

First mate Li Gang was a little speechless, and Lin Fan asked, "Eh, Dr. Sid, what do you mean by 'theeldone' just now?" ”

"'Theeldone' - that's the old Ningn, it's the leader of the Ningen group, and it's also the Ningen that we first discovered, we brought it back to the base in Antarctica, and then used its genes to breed other Ningen, and it can be said that the Ningen in the Ningen group are all its descendants. And this old Ning En has a highly developed intelligence and can communicate with humans to some extent. Sid explained.

"Communication? By what? ”

"By talking to it."

"Conversation?!" Lin Fan was stunned and said, "Could it be that Old Ning En knows the language of humans?" ”

Sid shook his head and said, "No, it won't, but we have a sound system that can translate Ning'en's voice into a language that we can understand, and at the same time, we can also convert human language into a voice that Ning'en can understand, which is the result of our research for many years." ”

Lin Fan was dumbfounded, and the Xicun Antelope on the side was curious: "Since this is the case, then why do you want us to communicate with Lao Ningen?" ”

Sid stared at her and said lightly, "Because they don't trust us and refuse to talk to me, that's why I need you, someone who has been in close contact with Ning'en and has managed to gain their trust, to do this for me." ”

"What are we supposed to do?"

"Find Old Ningen, and find a way to find out the whereabouts of the vanished core lab from it." Sid Road.

"Ask from Old Ningen about the whereabouts of the core area? Is this possible? Lin Fan had a lot of doubts in her heart, but the Xicun antelope on the side did not hesitate at all, she looked yearning and said, "May I ask what Old Ning En looks like, how can we recognize it?" ”

"Miss Nishimura, Old Ning'en looks very special, I believe you will recognize it at a glance as long as it appears." Sid replied.

Lin Fan couldn't help but secretly tell what kind of strange appearance this old Ning En looked like, he could see it at a glance.

Sid then explained some precautions to them, and when they had no doubts, he finally said, "Okay, time is pressing, please go to the launch module, we will keep in touch after we get on the ship." ”

After Sid finished speaking, Colonel Gosling, who was beside him, called the soldiers who had brought Lin Fan and them over before, and ordered the two to take them to the launch module.

The group traveled halfway through the hull and arrived at the launch bay at the bow end of the "Seawolf", which contained a spherical detector with a transparent shell on the upper part and a black metal spherical detector on the bottom.

The soldier who brought them over said, "Wait a minute, you'll be on this Bubble detector mission, if there are no problems, please board the ship now." ”

The transparent hatch of the upper part of the spherical detector was opened, and Lin Fan, Nishimura Antelope and the first mate Li Gang logged in from the stairs next to the detector according to the instructions of the soldiers. Lin Fan and the others sat in the back row of the driver's seat, and looked at it, the entire detector was about less than ten square meters, except for two rows of seats in the center and a console in the front row, the space inside was unconventional.

After everyone took their seats and confirmed that they were wearing their seat belts, the driver began to start the machine, and the upper transparent hatch of the probe slowly closed and closed, finally closing into the original spherical shape with the lower metal hull.

There is a display screen on the console in front of the driver's seat, which is the image of the command room, the driver is communicating with the command room, Sid switched into the image, he explained to the two drivers, and then said to Lin Fan: "Mr. Lin, Miss Nishimura, Socrates once said: 'Fate is the shadow of opportunity', which means that people's fate is determined by their performance in front of opportunities, and today is an important moment for you and me, so please don't let me down." ”

"Yes, we understand ......"

"Good, I'll see." After Sid finished speaking, the image of the monitor switched back to the command room, and the countdown began to be displayed inside, at which point the "foam" probe began to move towards the end of the launch module.

The end gate opened, and the probe entered a corridor, which was an ejection track, and there were two gates in it, and after they passed through the first gate, the end gate and the first gate at the rear were closed one after another, and then the whole track began to be filled with seawater, and after the seawater filled the entire corridor, the black driver shouted in English: "Attention!" ”

The voice may not be, the last ejection port opened, Lin Fan suddenly felt a strong feeling of pushing back on the back of the seat, and the "foam" probe they were riding instantly popped out of the orbit and plunged into the vast darkness.

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The foam outside the hull dissipated, and Lin Fan gradually saw the scene outside, outside was the vast and dark sea, and on the side behind them, there was a spindle-shaped behemoth suspended, the surface of this giant flashed red-green indicator lights, reflecting the foggy seawater, and its long black hull was hidden in the dark seawater.

This is the "Seawolf" submarine, Lin Fan didn't expect it to look so magnificent and intimidating in the sea, suspended in the deep sea, it is like a man-made deep-sea monster.

There was another submarine suspended not far from the "Seawolf", it was the "Hague" that came together, Lin Fan saw that the bow of the "Hague" also ejected a probe and headed towards them.

The probe soon came to the side of the Foam, a fusiform probe that was slightly larger than the Foam, and it came to the back of the Foam probe, docked with it, and after all this was done, the two probes started at the same time, and they joined together to move towards the dark deep sea.

Lin Fan looked at the fusiform detector behind the shell and said curiously: "First mate, what is this detector used for?" ”

"It looks like a propeller, or it could be a frigate, but the Yankees are so advanced that I can't see why for a while." First mate Li Gang replied with his hands spread.

"Oh......"

The bright water outside the transparent shell is flowing backwards rapidly, and the detector is traveling through the water at high speed, Lin Fan's eyes bypassed the shuttle detector, and saw that the "Seawolf" and "Hague" behind him were getting farther and farther away, gradually disappearing in the dim and misty seawater, and he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in his heart.

At this time, he saw Nishimura Antagogue on the side quietly looking ahead, there was no trace of uneasiness on her fair side face, and her eyes under her eyelashes were as calm and steady as a starry night.

Lin Fan looked at her, and his heart slowly calmed down, although he and this girl had not known each other for a long time, Lin Fan always felt that as long as she was by his side, no matter what kind of situation he was facing, he could inexplicably calm down.

Maybe it's because she has a unique temperament?

The probe was moving rapidly in the deep sea, the penetrating power of the ship's bow spotlight was very strong, and it could illuminate the range of 500 meters ahead, Lin Fan saw that there were seabed sedimentary layers and undulating mountains from time to time in the light path, and some deep-sea creatures were also swimming around due to the disturbance of the strong light. The two drivers in the front row stared at the monitor on the console and operated the detector, which showed a three-dimensional simulation of the sub-seabed topography, showing the undulating mountains as they walked through the foothills of the seabed.

"The seabed landform is as rich as the land, there are canyons, plains, hills, rifts and basins, etc., the earth's plate movement and geological structure will not stop in the deep sea, and because the seabed surface will be affected by the ocean at the same time, sometimes the seabed landform will be more complex than the land......" Lin Fan couldn't help but think of the knowledge about the seabed landform that the teacher talked about when he was in the marine geology class before, and at this moment he deeply felt the meaning of the sentence "It is better to read ten thousand books than to travel ten thousand miles".

After advancing for more than an hour, the probe climbed over a towering submarine mountain, and on the back side of the mountain appeared a vast deep col, which was extremely black, I don't know how deep and big, like a black hole that can swallow everything in the world.

The detector was suspended above the deep col, and the two pilots were communicating with the "Seawolf", and after Sid in the display screen explained the matter to the driver, he said to Lin Fan in the back row: "Mr. Lin, Miss Nishimura, the submarine pit where you are now is Ning En's lair, and Ning Enqun is in it, and then we will turn on the sound system, please be ready to talk to Ning En at any time." ”

"Okay, understood." Lin Fan and Nishimura Antelope replied.

The white co-pilot handed them two sets of tablets with headsets, and after demonstrating and debugging, he said, "Everyone, let's start diving now, please don't panic when we meet Ningen." ”

"Hmm." Lin Fan and Nishimura Antelope nodded, and the first mate on the side also reluctantly closed his eyes in response.

The detector began to sink steadily, and there was a thick black curtain as far as the light could see, and Lin Fan's headphones came with the gurgling sound of the deep sea current, mixed with some strange sounds in this gurgling sound, at first the sound was not loud, it sounded like the babbling of a sleeping baby, but as the depth increased, the sound became clearer and denser, and the screaming sound of "squeak, babble" continued to echo in Lin Fan's ears.

"What's wrong? What do you hear? The first mate asked.

"It's like a whale's call, it's messy." Lin Fan saw that the meaning of these chaotic sounds was not translated on the tablet, so he wanted to ask the driver in the front seat, but as soon as he got up from his seat, he saw a group of behemoths appear in the dark sea outside.

These creatures are milky white or gray-white all over the body, small are a few meters long, large are tens of meters, their bodies are smooth and scaleless in the shape of a fish, with slender fins spread on both sides, some of the heads are bulging in the shape of hideous human faces, and some are no different from the front faces of baleen whales and blue whales, looking like whales and non-whales, I don't know what kind of creatures they are.

Lin Fan and the others looked at these creatures in astonishment, and the first mate Li Gang said worriedly, "Are these Ning En?" ”

“…… It looks like it, but it's not quite what I've seen before. Lin Fan was also puzzled, "What do you think, Antelope?" ”

"That's not the case with Ningen." Nishimura's tone was quite affirmative.

"And what are they?"

"I—I can't tell." Nishimura Anteloko replied.

Outside, these creatures seemed to be very afraid of light, and when they were exposed to the strong light, they turned over and swam away, and they were all around for a while.

"Hey bro! You know what's out there, don't you? The first officer asked the driver in the front row.

The black pilot replied, "They are 'whales,' the product of a cross between Ningn and whales." ”

"A hybrid of Ningn and whales? …… Are these guys dangerous? The first mate asked again.

"Most of them are docile, and a few are aggressive and not particularly dangerous." The black driver replied.

Before he finished speaking, a "whale" with a raised head in the shape of a human face appeared under the probe, it was about 30 meters long, and it was motionless in the direction of the probe's dive.

The two drivers discussed: "It's really troublesome, do you want to get around it?" "No, use sonar to get rid of it." ”

They pressed a button on the console, and Lin Fan heard a "buzzing" sound coming from the earphones, which should be the sonar wave that the probe had just emitted.

Suddenly, the whale statue below was strongly stimulated, and suddenly twisted its huge body and disappeared into the dark sea, and at the same time, the whale grace group swimming around it also dispersed, and a burst of foam churned in the surrounding sea for a while.

When the foam dissipated, there was no longer a whale group around, and the "babbling" shrill noise in Lin Fan's headphones gradually became smaller, and the sea returned to calm for a while, but this calm did not last long, and a "mum, mur" sound began to come from the sea, which came and went, and became clearer and clearer, Lin Fan found that the tablet in his hand began to show some English, which read: "Block...... Invade...... Block...... invasion".

Lin Fan was still thinking about the meaning of this sentence, when Li Gang, the first mate on the side, suddenly shouted, Lin Fan looked up, and he suddenly found that in the dark sea water outside the detector, there were a few more milky white huge Ning En.