Chapter Seventy-Nine: Extreme Cold

I don't know how long it took, the two of them kept falling into the dark, and I don't know how many meters they dived, it seemed that there was no bottom below, Zi Yang became more and more frightened, the helmet light could only illuminate a little distance in front of him, and the rest of the place had become dark, although the diving suit would automatically adjust the structure to adapt to the pressure, Zi Yang still felt a strong sense of oppression, his breathing began to be a little rapid, and his heartbeat accelerated sharply, Zi Yang knew that this was subconsciously doing trouble, but he couldn't control himself not to panic. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Su Rui sensed his abnormality, squeezed Zi Yang's hand vigorously with his right hand, and wrapped his left hand around Zi Yang's waist from behind to maintain his diving movements.

Zi Yang turned his head and saw Su Rui smiling at him in the helmet, this smile made Zi Yang quickly calm down, although the diving suit was very insulating, theoretically he couldn't feel the temperature of Su Rui's body, but he felt that there seemed to be a burst of warmth from the place where the two of them came into contact, and this strange feeling made him no longer feel lonely in his heart.

Suddenly, I felt that I wanted to be two people together, the sky was dark, and they would never be separated.

Zi Yang was thinking nonsense over there, but Su Rui was staring intently at the sensor on his right hand, and the rows of numbers of different sizes on it were glowing and constantly changing.

"Let's talk about it, I'm a little scared, I feel much better with beautiful women by my side." Zi Yang suddenly laughed. This endless silence made him more and more nervous, and if he continued like this, he was afraid that he would have a nervous breakdown.

Su Rui also smiled, "I thought you were different from Lao Wang, you were a serious person, but I didn't expect you to be just as smooth-tongued." ”

Su Rui couldn't help admiring Zi Yang in his heart, he was still nervous on the verge of collapse just now, and he adjusted so quickly. The psychological quality is amazing. This kind of deep diving is a little nervous for me who has been rigorously trained, and this man who has never dived has been able to hold on until now.

Suri knows that the biggest obstacle to deep diving is not the physical aspect, but the psychological aspect. Deep water is like a dark and confined space, which can easily cause psychological claustrophobia, and extreme darkness will make people feel extremely depressed. With this level of deep diving, even professional divers can suffer from deep-sea phobia, let alone ordinary people.

Su Rui frowned and looked at the numbers on the sensor, the depth of this pool of water had far exceeded her expectations, no matter what, she couldn't imagine that there would be such a structure under the water of the pool more than ten squares, which was even beyond her cognition...... If only Alexander were there, he might be able to explain this phenomenon.

Zi Yang's voice came from the helmet again: "I'm sorry, I haven't supported your work along the way - don't you think I'm annoying?" ”

Su Rui said seriously, "No, I think you and Lao Wang are both very good people......

Zi Yang explained, "Although Lao Wang has a straight mouth, he has a good heart, and he ...... you."

Zi Yang was about to continue, when Su Rui suddenly said, "It's the end!" ”

Ziyang felt a shock under his feet, and his feet had already touched the bottom of the water.

Zi Yang looked at the detector, and the strings of numbers, squares, and graphics were all marked in English, and he couldn't tell anything at all. Only vaguely recognizable that a module should record its own heartbeat, there is a heart-shaped symbol at the top left of the module, and the number on it shows 81.

Su Rui read softly: "The depth of the dive is 978 meters, and the pressure is 10∧7pa. Water quality components: sodium chloride, potassium sulfate...... Outside temperature, 0.5 degrees Celsius. ”

Zi Yang was stunned, "Is there a mistake with the sensor?" There's something wrong with that number, right? Although it was true that I had been diving for a long time just now, 978 meters? ”

Su Rui looked at Ziyang's sensor and compared the data, "I don't believe in this result either, but the numbers of the two sensors match, even if it fails, it won't be exactly the same." ”

Ziyang still can't believe it: "The limit of human diving is only more than 330 meters. At this depth, our bodies have long been crushed by water pressure. "Ziyang moved her lower limbs, and there was no obvious abnormality, but she felt that the joints of the wetsuit were a little difficult to move, and it seemed to be rusty.

Su Rui explained, "Alexander introduced to me the physical characteristics of this wetsuit, which involves very high-end technology and materials, I don't know very well, only that the nanostructure in this suit can support extremely high pressure, and there is no need to do internal and external pressure balancing, so even if you don't use decompression and buffering, you won't get diving syndrome." ”

"We felt jerky, probably due to the deformation of the nanostructures under extreme pressure – but it was already breathtaking, and it was the first time I had seen such results. You see, the structural joints are still flexible and can be rotated freely. He waved at him.

Zi Yang looked at Su Rui in disbelief, carefully looked at his hands and feet, to see if they were crushed or something, it was normal, the diving suit was slightly raised, like armor on his body, and the originally smooth and soft surface was actually shining like metal.

"It doesn't look like there's anything unusual about the wetsuit, but its internal structure has changed, don't believe you touch here," Su Rui took Ziyang's hand and touched his abdomen, and sure enough, the tentacles were as hard as iron.

Ziyang asked, "No matter how hard nanomaterials are, there is a pressure limit, right?" Didn't Alexander tell you? ”

Su Rui shook his head and said, "Alexander told me about the theoretical limits measured in the laboratory. However, due to the lack of adequate environmental conditions, it has not been tested in the field, but for now, we are safe. ”

"What is the theoretical limit?"

Su Rui: "800 meters. The density of water in the deep pools is even greater, and the theoretical limit may be only 5 or 6 hundred meters. ”

Ziyang: "I'll ......"

Su Rui comforted him and said: "Don't worry, I have been observing the data when I dived, and I will terminate the operation if there is a slight danger." ”

These words were said to reassure Ziyang, but they did not have the desired appeasing effect. Ziyang turned in place anxiously: "What are we waiting for?" If you don't find anything, you go back. ”

Although the pressure in the wetsuit remained normal, Ziyang felt an unprecedented depression in this claustrophobic space - unlike what he had felt before, his mood began to become restless. After returning from this trip, I am afraid that I will suffer from deep-sea phobia.

Su Rui said slowly, "Wait a little longer, the detector is still analyzing the surrounding environment." ”

Zi Yang was a little dazed, he couldn't walk there, he couldn't sit, so he had to hold Su Rui's hand tightly. It seemed that Su Rui was also a little nervous, and his voice was trembling slightly.

Zi Yang complained about himself in his heart, only considering his own feelings, not realizing that Su Rui was also experiencing this situation for the first time, and she was still a girl, younger than herself, but she was mature and stable far beyond herself.

Zi Yang suppressed the fear in her heart while trying to communicate with Su Rui to relieve her nervousness.

Zi Yang gently patted the back of Su Rui's hand, although he knew that under this kind of external pressure, his strength was like an ant scratching an elephant, and the other party couldn't feel it at all. comforted Su Rui and said, "I'm sorry, I was a little out of shape just now." ”

Su Rui's body eased a lot, and the voice coming through the helmet was much calmer than just now. "You've surprised me, I'm highly trained, but it's your first time diving so deep, and you're not even a beginner diver, and you're still able to adjust your mindset...... The average person has already had a psychological breakdown. ”

Ziyang: "Aren't you afraid that I will collapse and go crazy halfway?" ”

Su Rui grinned: "I've been monitoring your physical data, even if there is any accident, I can still control it remotely......"

When Zi Yang heard Su Rui say this, he was a little puzzled in his heart, and was about to ask Su Rui what "remote control" meant.

Su Rui suddenly said, "The detection results have come out, it's too strange." ”

Ziyang asked, "What?" ”

Su Rui said, "If it's not the instrument failure, it's the cave structure here that has undergone a strange change. As he spoke, he took Ziyang's hand and swam to the side.

The surface of the pool is only a dozen meters in diameter, and after descending to the bottom of the cave, the margin expands slightly, and the diameter is already more than thirty meters, which is already a very straight passage at this depth.

Through the light on the wetsuit, Ziyang was surprised to find that the cave wall was not the stone he imagined, but the thick ice - Xuanxi.

Su Rui said, "It's very strange, part is water, part is ice, and the composition of the two water qualities must be very different. ”

Ziyang touched the wall of the cave, it was smooth and hard, and the light could not penetrate it, and the ice wall in front of him was afraid that it was dozens of meters thick. Ziyang asked, "Is it caused by too high pressure?" ”

Su Rui was noncommittal: "Water is different from other substances, and the liquid will not become solid when pressurized at the same temperature. Generally speaking, when the water reaches a certain depth, the temperature will stabilize at about 4 degrees Celsius, and the water density here is greater, so it is understandable that the temperature is lower, but why are there two forms at the same time? ”

Ziyang didn't think this was a big problem - the existence of this abyss was inherently contrary to the common sense of physics.

Zi Yang suddenly thought of something, "Did your detector detect - cough cough - organisms and microorganisms just now?" ”

Su Rui called up another set of data from the curved screen, and sighed: "The water here is very pure - absolutely pure, not only is there no living organisms, but according to the results of the instrument, the number of microorganisms - is equal to zero. ”

Ziyang understands what this means by being equal to zero, and that under normal circumstances, even in the worst water quality environment, there will be living organisms - in Hawaii's submarine volcanic caverns, even if the water temperature reaches several hundred degrees, there will still be a shrimp alive.

But at the bottom of this ice cave, there are zero microbes!

Zi Yang had seen the accuracy of Alexander's equipment, and the current situation showed that the chance of failure was very small.

Su Rui was stunned on the spot and didn't know what to do, Zi Yang crawled down, groping all the way along the junction between the bottom of the cave and the cave wall with his hands, Su Rui looked at him a little strangely, "What are you doing?" ”

Ziyang said, "Find the exit." ”

Su Rui said with some regret, "The detector shows that the bottom of the cave is also closed, and we have encountered a dead end." ”

Zi Yang kept busy with his hands and feet, and comforted Su Rui, "There is no endless road." ”

Su Rui sobbed softly.

Ziyang: "You foreigners, you believe too much in machinery and instruments, sometimes the instruments are not accurate, computers are brainless and will not turn, at critical times, or human instinct is more reliable." ”

Zi Yang actually didn't have a bottom in his heart, but he faintly felt that it shouldn't be like this, since he entered the desert, he had encountered this boundless darkness several times in his dreams, and he had a premonition that in the abyss, there seemed to be an ancient ghost, calling him.

Suddenly, Zi Yang's hand loosened, and he felt a gap, Zi Yang reached out and probed in, there was space!