Chapter 7: A Feast in the Deep Sea (Part 7) 2

"See, it's attached to a protrusion. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Ye Kexin leaned over and looked at the network cable that the person in charge said.

"That's a wireless transmitter, click the biggest button on it, and the submersible will receive a wireless broadband signal." The person in charge looked at the instruction manual next to him and said, "But be aware of the traffic problem, the Admiralty satellite we connect to is subject to strict Internet traffic restrictions, and the cost of broadband connection is twenty-five dollars per hour." ”

This is one of the few ways to suppress the Admiralty, using the most common toll network to restrict the Admiralty's information, and if the Admiralty uses its own satellites, it will have to pay a high connection fee, but in this way, the Admiralty transmits information that is so secure that even the CIA cannot crack it through encrypted confidential questions. However, the Admiralty can also choose a network line operated by a cheap telecommunications provider, which will reduce a large amount of network usage fees for the Admiralty, but the use of such a network cowboy can not interfere with file encryption, it is easy to be stolen, the Admiralty Board of Directors can not trust the operator, according to their words, the operator "is like a rabbit that has been threatened by a tiger to tell where the lion is", and the CIA will even save a large amount of activity funds to easily obtain the content of the Admiralty communication. After weighing the pros and cons, the Admiralty's board of directors categorically chose to use its own satellites for the Internet connection.

"It's connected." Ye Kexin nodded, "I don't have a problem." ”

"Stay safe, sir." The person in charge put aside the instruction manual in his hand, "I will monitor the activity data of the deep submersible for you, please rest assured." ”

"Hmm." After Ye Kexin responded, she clicked on QQ.

"By the way, sir, I forgot to remind you, please don't reveal your whereabouts during the mission, it will be difficult for us." The voice of the person in charge came from the headphones.

"Don't worry, I'll take notice." Ye Kexin responded.

"Good luck." The person in charge finally said a word of blessing.

"Thank you."

The list was refreshed, Ye Kexin blocked the information reception of the high school group in the settings, but the other icons flashed non-stop, Ye Kexin opened them in turn, and finally stopped on the page of the Newcastle College public group, one by one, the call records were constantly refreshed, and everyone in the group was very active.

"I heard that today is the first day of the 'Mariana Project'." "Hurricane Prairie" said.

"But I've heard it's dangerous, and you have to dive to a depth of more than 10,000 meters." "Miss" spoke.

"yes, it's scary. I was most afraid of drowning. "Void Battleship" said in surprise.

"Maybe you'll be squeezed before you drown." "Hurricane Prairie" emitted a sweaty expression.

"Wouldn't that be even more terrifying." The Void Battleship emitted a frightened expression, indicating that it was now in a mess.

"At such a deep seabed, I'm afraid it's just a matter of moments." "Seaside wind chimes" reminded, "I don't think it hurts." ”

"The more you talk about it, the more terrifying it becomes." The "Void Battleship" begged for mercy again and again, "Senior brothers and sisters, don't scare me. ”

"But then again, who's the driver?" "Miss" asked, "The homepage just says pretty much everything, and there's no list of people. ”

"It should be confidential, after all, it is a secret operation." "Hurricane Prairie" said his conjecture, "It is also possible that this item was omitted when the editor published it." ”

"How is that possible, our newsgroup is very dedicated." The "Void Battleship" looked a little unconvinced, and sent a left and right humming expression, "The board of directors really didn't publish a list of personnel, I don't believe you can log on to the homepage of the board of directors to take a look." ”

"If we could go, we would have gone a long time ago, and you still need to say it here?" "Wind chimes by the sea," said disdainfully.

"Wow, senior sister bullied me!" The "Void Battleship" had an aggrieved expression.

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it, the personnel list doesn't matter." Ye Kexin couldn't help but speak, her ID was called "Forest Road".

"Vice Principal, help." The "Void Battleship" seemed to see a lifesaver.

"But I just saw you say you can go up to the board page. Do you have permission? Still is? Ye Kexin sent a sinister smile.

"No, Vice Principal, so ruthless!" The "Void Battleship" collapsed, "You all bullied me!" ”

"Hey, don't be absolute, as long as you send in the list of personnel, we promise to keep it shut." "Hurricane of the Prairie" threatened.

"No, the vice principal should know, why no one asked." "Void Battleship" said indignantly.

"Me? I don't know, and even if I do, I can't say. Ye Kexin cleared up the relationship in an instant, indicating that he knew but didn't say it, "If you want to know, check it yourself, I promise not to hold you accountable for finding out, but if you can't find out, I want you to look good." ”

"It can't be in the vice principal's car, right?" The "Void Battleship" is a little desperate, but despair can often bring out the potential that a person should have, "I am convinced, I will work hard." ”

"Is it that hard to ride in my car? Many people can't sit if they want to. Ye Kexin pursed her lips.

"The Vice Chancellor has mercy on those who want to sit and give those who want to sit a chance to sit." "Prairie Hurricane" was trembling as he typed, and his thoughts at this time had been pulled back to the darkness when he was sitting in the passenger seat and the driver next to him was Vice Principal Ye Kexin.

"Am I driving badly?" Ye Kexin asked slightly threateningly.

"Yes, of course." "Miss" exclaimed, "The vice principal driving a P1 is a must, a good horse with a good saddle, a good car with a good driver, this is the supreme theorem." ”

"It's not nutritious for us to talk." Ye Kexin said helplessly.

"No, no, calcium, iron, zinc, selenium, vitamins, ABCDEFG, decisively, very sufficient." "Prairie Hurricane" waved his hand again and again.

"Really?" Ye Kexin asked sinisterly.

"The Vice Principal looks like a fairy, we won't lie to you." The "seaside wind chimes" came out to play a round at this time.

"Oh, that's it, the vice principal is a god, and he should drive F1 around the campus next time." The "Void Battleship" jumped out without knowing whether to live or die, leaving a word.

"Good idea, when I go back, let the Equipment Section of the Logistics Department modify an F1, and you will be the first to try it in the back seat." Ye Kexin smiled and sent a toothy expression.

"Don't!" The "Void Battleship" screamed, and the avatar instantly turned gray.

"It's fast, but that's it." "Prairie Hurricane" sells a good teammate.

"I think the vice principal will be happy to accept it." "Miss" nodded in agreement.

"It's settled, the vice principal is fine." "Wind chimes by the sea" asked.

"No problem, no problem, this matter has been decided, and everyone must come to cheer at that time." Ye Kexin smiled all over her face.

"Definitely, definitely." "Miss" hurriedly replied, and then went offline.

"Absolutely, absolutely." "Prairie Hurricane" was also gladly accepted, and then decisively taken off the assembly line.

"No problem!" The "seaside wind chimes" naturally responded with one mouthful, and then darkened the avatar.

Seeing the originally active classmates go offline one by one at this time, Ye Kexin couldn't help but feel a trace of emptiness.

"Sir, can you hear me?" The voice of the person in charge sounded in the headset at this time, "We have reached a depth of five hundred meters, the pressure has become larger, and there is no light around us, sir, you need to manually turn on the searchlight on the submersible to provide a view of the camera." ”

"No problem." Ye Kexin put the tablet in his hand aside, got up, looked at the console, and then toggled the eight knobs on the console, the eight xenon lights on the deep submersible were lit up in turn, and the surrounding area would be transparent by the strong light of the xenon lamp, the blue fish quickly swung its tail fin to escape from the area illuminated by the light, and the transparent jellyfish was floating in the water leisurely.

"Wow, it's beautiful." Ye Kexin was lying on the porthole, looking at the picturesque deep-sea scenery of the bed, and couldn't help but be a little distracted for a while.

"Restraint, Ye Kexin, there are still three hundred meters of portholes that are about to be closed, and even if a trace amount of titanium steel alloy is added to the glass made of quartz and silicon, it will not be able to withstand the pressure of the eight hundred meters of deep sea." Feng Fengxiang coughed and reminded loudly.

"I know, I know." Ye Kexin sat back on the ground, "There is no abnormality when the light tube is turned on, can you see it clearly, team leader?" ”

"The image is clear, sir." The team leader responded, "Well done, sir. ”

"It's a small thing." Ye Kexin was a little complacent.

"Don't be proud." Feng Fengxiang reminded helplessly.

"Oh." Ye Kexin restrained her mood and sat back on the ground.

"The nitrogen has been released, the pressure resistance has reached 100 percent, and the deep submersible has fully met the requirements of 10,000 meters of deep sea diving, accelerating the release speed of the steel cable, and the deep submersible is rapidly descending." The person in charge of the working group commanded the staff on the spot, and the rotation speed of the huge winch not far away from him increased significantly, and the release speed of the steel cable increased, which also showed that the descent speed of the deep submersible increased.

"The speed is at the limit, ten meters per second." The staff reported loudly, "At the current depth of one thousand meters, it is estimated that it will take thirty minutes to reach the mission location." ”

"Low-orbit satellites have passed over the Mariana Trench and have begun to scan their orbits." Another staff member stared at the satellite photos that were refreshed on the screen little by little, "After scanning, no abnormalities have been found in the 500-nautical-mile sea area, and the United Nations fleet is operating normally." ”

"The sonar scanning information was transmitted back, and there was no abnormality on the seabed of 300 meters in the nearby sea."

"The depth of the submersible exceeded 1,100 meters, the lighting situation was normal, the pressure of the shell exceeded the first-class limit, and there was no abnormality, and the operation of the spherical shell was completed."

One by one, information was transmitted to the hangar, and every staff member in the working group was busy, and everyone kept reporting the information in front of them loudly, and the disorganized information was summarized in the statistical office of the working group, sorted out and then transmitted to the bridge.

"The porthole has been closed, and the external high-definition camera is connected, and the driver directly observes the outside situation." Ye Kexin stood in front of the console, skillfully clicking various buttons, his hands kept tapping on the keyboard, and a three-dimensional projection screen appeared in the air beside him.

"The oxygen storage is normal, the first oxygen tank has been used 59 percent, and it is expected to be used for 41 minutes." Ye Kexin monitored all kinds of data on the monitor and reported to the working group on the "Gelfes", "The field of vision is extremely poor, and the illumination of the xenon lamp is obviously insufficient. The second light level is about to be turned on. ”

"Permission to operate." The person in charge of the working group took the mark wind and said to Ye Kexin, "The eight searchlights of the second level are allowed to be turned on. ”

"The light source is on." Ye Kexin said while flipping the eight toggles in the second row, and there were eight xenon lamps slowly two, and the surrounding sea water lit up, but the effect of the searchlight was not enough to illuminate the deep sea at more than 1,000 meters, the sunlight could not penetrate the sea water to shine here, and the surroundings were just pitch black, even if the xenon lamp on the deep submersible could bring light conditions to the high-definition camera, but this condition was also extremely limited, and the xenon lamp with strong light could illuminate objects five hundred meters away at dawn when it was on land, but at this time, In the deep sea, the light provided by xenon lamps is almost negligible at a distance of less than twenty meters.

"I'd love for you to sample deep-sea creatures, but we're not here for scientific research." The person in charge of the engineering team was obviously a little disappointed in his expectations, "Let's take a few photos and keep a souvenir." ”

"No problem." Ye Kexin detached a control panel from the three-dimensional screen, selected to take a photo, and the image on the three-dimensional screen was frozen for a moment, and then fell lightly to the control panel in front of Ye Kexin.

"I'm done taking pictures, would I like to send it to you now?" Ye Kexin looked at the black photo on the screen, although there were a few spots of blue light on it, but there was really nothing else to see.

"No need, after the mission of this photo, the chief will send it directly to the homepage of the website." The person in charge responded, "Be vigilant, sir, the depth has exceeded the first stage of compression limit, and the deep submersible is currently very unstable, always pay attention to abnormal conditions." ”

"I see." Ye Kexin nodded.

Before the words fell, a white light and shadow flashed from the three-dimensional screen, like lightning.

"What's that?" Ye Kexin leaned his face over and stared at the screen tightly, "I found that an unknown object was swimming rapidly around the deep submersible, and it was turning to the camera to capture images." ”

"Something happened." Feng Fengxiang's voice appeared, slightly puzzled.

"Did you see the white shadow just now?" Ye Kexin asked.

"No, the signal here is not very good, and the video images I receive are a bit stuck." Feng Fengxiang shook his head.

"If not, forget it." Ye Kexin said a little nervously, "The sonar scanning is on, and the three-dimensional seawater covering a radius of 100 meters is covered. ”

A spherical three-dimensional projection appeared, and the cube in the middle indicated that it was the deep submersible that Ye Kexin was riding, and the surrounding refreshes were the locations of all the transmitted signals within a radius of one hundred meters, and more than hundreds of signals appeared at the same time, but one of them was the most eye-catching.

"Discover the target, capture the image." Ye Kexin immediately manipulated the high-definition camera to move in the orbit set up in the deep submersible, and pointed the camera at the abnormal object.

"The camera is pointed, but the impact is not clear." The person in charge of the engineering team responded, "What was just now, did the chief see it clearly?" ”

"Of course not." Ye Kexin wiped the sweat on her forehead, "The sonar is restricted, the system self-test is abnormal, the sonar is automatically shut down, and it is being restarted." ”

"What's going on, isn't there no abnormality in the self-test before entering the water!" Ye Kexin could hear the person in charge of the engineering team yelling at the workers around him.

"If there is an emergency, I will be notified immediately, and I will activate the emergency braking system to retract the submersible." The voice was clear again, obviously this time to Ye Kexin.

"Understood." Ye Kexin nodded, and the spherical three-dimensional projection that had just been extinguished next to him flashed and reappeared, Ye Kexin breathed a sigh of relief, there was no sonar in the deep sea, it was like being blindfolded when it was dark, "The sonar restart is complete, and the first scan will be carried out immediately." ”

The fan-shaped scanning area crossed every area of the sphere, and the signal that had disappeared before reappeared, but Ye Kexin did not see the abnormal red signal before.

"The abnormal signal is gone, and it is judged that there is no abnormality at present." Ye Kexin breathed a sigh of relief, but within five seconds, the warning in the deep submersible lit up violently.

"Warning, warning, there's an object approaching quickly, and there's five seconds left before the collision!" A sharp mechanical sound sounded, Ye Kexin was startled, bounced up from the ground suddenly, and glanced at the sonar scan first, and the red abnormal signal was quickly approaching.

"Attacked, attacked, attackers are being identified." Ye Kexin hurriedly turned the position of the camera, pointing the camera in the direction of the red signal, the camera had just arrived at the position, a big white mouth hit the camera hard, the camera was instantly short-circuited and scrapped, the deep submersible shook suddenly, and Ye Kexin, who was in the deep submersible, fell to the ground.

"Sir, sir! What's going on! Sir! The head of the engineering team shouted into the microphone.

"I don't know, the camera was destroyed." Ye Kexin climbed up and was responsible for the edge of the console, "The shell is damaged, the degree is slight, the sonar camera is all damaged, the pressure on the shell is gradually increasing, and I can't turn off the overweight warning." ”

"Am I that heavy!" Ye Kexin said indignantly.

"It's not you Shen, sir." The head of the engineering team said in a deep voice, "There is something hanging outside the deep submersible, and the last photo taken at the time of impact has begun to be analyzed. ”

"So what should I do, do you want to pull me back?" Ye Kexin was a little flustered, but she still tried her best to calm down her somewhat rapid heartbeat, and she was strong and calm.

"No, stopping the dive now will put too much pressure on the cable, and even the nano-carbon fiber cable will break." The person in charge said in an icy tone, "Stay calm." Sir, we'll figure it out. ”

(To be continued)