Chapter 106: History of the sinking of the E-class frigate

Red warning lights and screeching siren bells rattled wildly inside the cramped submarine.

The swirling red light, alternating with the incandescent light.

The shadows of confusion flickered, and the whole world seemed to be constantly divided, and the fragmentation revealed the illusion of suffocation.

This sudden change immediately shocked all the crew members of the Brandy.

At this time, most of the people were resting in the cabin, and their spirits were very slack.

No one would have imagined that the Brandi would be attacked by the enemy in the current environment.

It's a fantasy and it feels absolutely incredible!

For a while, everyone rushed to run, and all of them threw away the entertainment in their hands, and desperately slammed the hatch to inform the others.

"Quick! There is an enemy attack, get ready to fight! ”

"Bring your wetsuit and assemble at the airlock!"

"Quick, quick! Open the armory hatch, get the gun, get the gun! ”

……

In the narrow passage corridor, under the staggered light and shadow, there were crowds of people everywhere, and the entire submarine was in chaos.

Captain Brandi threw away the magazine in his hand as soon as the alarm sounded, and immediately rushed out of the door.

With a look of solemnity on his face, he ran to the bridge command room as fast as he could.

As the captain of the ship, he was well aware of the significance of the ship-wide alarm.

Unless it is a matter of life and death, there is no need to sound the alarm of the whole ship under normal circumstances.

He couldn't help but wonder what was going on with Mike's so-called enemy attack on the ship's announcement.

Soon, when he climbed the ladder through the shaft passage, he came to the bridge command room.

When the hatch opened, Mike was nervously lying in front of the monitor, intently observing something.

Brandi strode forward and asked urgently:

"Mike, what's going on?! Where is the enemy? ”

Hearing Brandy's voice, Mike turned his head and said worriedly:

"Captain, we have been attacked by a group of unknown people, who have destroyed our external armament, destroyed the electromagnetic coil and the ship's battery, and it is not clear what the purpose is."

"Approaching attack?

Hearing this, Brandi suddenly frowned and asked:

"What the hell is going on here, where did they come from? Are there submarines around closer? ”

Mike shook his head and said affirmatively:

"The sonar detector did not detect any submarine-like signal feedback, and at least within two kilometers, there could be no submarine."

After a pause, Mike sighed, and said with doubts on his face:

"I don't know exactly where they came from, but after destroying our external armament, they lost their tracks, and they didn't know where they went.

I'm pulling up surveillance from all angles of the submarine's exterior to pinpoint their location. ”

Something like this happened inexplicably,

At this moment, Mike also put away his previous relaxed and slack attitude, and became focused and dignified.

His eyes were glued to the surveillance screen, trying to find the group of attackers outside in red combat diving suits.

However, even for E-class frigates, it is impossible for external surveillance to shoot in all directions.

Especially in the position of the submarine's flanks, there are a large number of blind spots.

Mike searched carefully for a long time, but did not find the whereabouts of the other party at all.

After the mysterious group destroyed the external armament on top of the Brandy, they immediately shifted their positions and hid in the surveillance corner.

In all the surveillance footage, there is no shadow of anything to be seen except for the constant dimness, twisting and shaking of the sea.

"No need to look for it!"

At this time, Brandi suddenly said in a deep voice:

"Since the other party dares to take the risk of launching an invasion operation, they must know very well the location of the external monitoring of the submarine, and they must have hid in the blind corner of the monitoring and will not let us see it.

Immediately summon the ship's security officer, take the guys and prepare to go out of the cabin to fight!

No matter what the other party's intentions are, they can't be allowed to succeed no matter what! ”

Mike nodded heavily, and replied:

"I've already explained it just now, and it is estimated that they are ready for this time."

As he spoke, Mike switched the surveillance screen on the monitor to the passage corridor outside the airlock.

I saw that outside the upper and lower airlock chambers, more than a dozen heavily armed combatants had gathered at this moment.

Some of them are ready, and some of them are still desperately putting on their wetsuits.

At this moment, the hatch of the bridge command room opened again, and a security officer in full gear came to report:

"Report to the captain, all personnel are ready, please instruct!"

Brandi waved his hand, a touch of anger flashed on his face, and said in a deep voice:

"Get out of the cabin right now, grab that damn cockroach out there for me, and bring it back!"

"Yes!"

The security officer reluctantly straightened his legs, and then ran out without looking back.

After the security officer left, Brandi stepped over to the driver's seat and sat down.

looked at the sonar display on the side, and the cloudy face revealed a trace of solemnity and doubt.

The sonar monitoring system of the E-class frigate is not much improved compared with the F-class submarine, and the detection range is only about two kilometers.

Judging from the information fed back by the sonar system, there is indeed no trace of a submarine within two kilometers of the sea area near the Brandy.

In this way, the group of people outside must have gone out of the cabin and into the water, swam at least two kilometers in the dark, and swam here.

Otherwise, it is impossible to explain the existence of the other party, and they cannot appear out of thin air.

In this way, things are a little weird.

For what purpose did this group of madmen dive so far and take a huge risk to launch an attack on the Brandy?

No matter how daring a pirate is, he would not make such a crazy move under normal circumstances!

What's more, his side has never revealed his identity from beginning to end, so why did the other party suddenly attack?

Could it be that they are members of the alliance who have recognized their own identities from the beginning?

Thinking of this, Brandi turned his head to look at Mike, frowned and asked:

"Mike, you just said that there was a bounty team passing by here? Did they say anything at that time, what class of the submarine was it? ”

Mike stood there, crossed his arms and groaned slightly, and replied:

"No, they didn't say anything, they left very consciously, as for the level of the submarine......"

After a pause, Mike thought carefully and said, "Judging from the scale, it should be several F-class exploration boats. ”

"F-class exploration boat?!"

Brandy's brows furrowed even tighter, and he groaned:

"A submarine of this level can't be the fleet of the Alliance, then it's strange, where did this group of people outside come from, and what do they want to do?"

As he spoke, the security officers gathered at the door of the airlock chamber were all ready.

In the surveillance footage shown in the video, one of them walked to the hatch of the airlock chamber and raised his hand to press the door start button.

Up until this time, everyone, including Mike and Brandi, was very confused about what was happening.

However, they were not too worried.

Everyone believed that as long as the ship's security officer stepped forward, the incident would soon be over, and it would not drag on for too long.

However, the moment the security officer outside the airlock on the ground floor opened the inner hatch.

The submarine status monitoring system in the bridge command room suddenly erupted into a shrill buzzing sound.

The voice was very rapid and high-pitched, with a striking red light flashing, and it roared wildly in the command room.

Suddenly, Mike and Brandi were startled and turned their heads to look at each other.

However, the data model, which represents the airlock chamber on the lower level, is being filled with seawater at a rapid rate.

The sealed exterior hatch was broken.

The air quality that was originally 100 percent dropped to less than 50 percent almost instantly!

Brandi's face immediately turned pale, and he immediately slammed his fist on the public address button, and shouted hysterically:

"Stop! Don't open the hatch, don't! ”

Unfortunately, even if he had reacted quickly enough, the internal hatch had slowly opened by the time he said this.

In the next second, a large amount of seawater poured madly through the crack in the hatch.

Under the action of strong pressure, the sea water in the sky carried an unparalleled impact force, like a flood of a broken embankment, squeezing towards the interior of the submarine.

Several security officers gathered outside the hatch and were about to enter the water, and they were all dumbfounded.

Caught off guard, everyone was staggered by the powerful and chaotic current of water on the spot.

One by one, like small insects in the drainage pipes, they were swept in the white spray, and rushed down the corridor uncontrollably, hitting the hard metal bulkheads.

Brandi was in the command room of the bridge, through the surveillance installed in the corridor, watching this happen, but there was nothing he could do to stop it.

At the moment, he was furious, and yelled at Mike angrily:

"Quick! Immediately seal off all the hatches in the lower decks, and don't let the sea spill up! ”

"Yes!"

Mike's face was also blue at this time, but he didn't show much panic, and immediately turned and walked out.

The external hatches were damaged, and for the submarine as a whole the situation was not particularly serious.

Because when the seawater fills the entire sublayer, the pressure will reach a relatively balanced state.

At this point, as long as the internal hatch is closed to stop the influx of seawater, the drainage system will quickly empty the water in the boat and everything will be back to normal.

This situation is not a big problem and is under control.

However, before Mike could walk out of the bridge command room, a violent tremor suddenly came from the bottom area of the submarine.

With a slight buzzing sound, the lights in the command room flickered.

All the electronics flickered on and off, and it seemed as if the electrical system had been affected in some way, and it took a few moments before it returned to normal.

However, the structural diagram presented by the submarine condition detector, which represents the data model of the lower warehouse area, became dim after the explosion, and the signal connection was completely lost.

The video surveillance screen on the side also became pitch black, and the current situation in the bottom floor area could no longer be seen.

Brandi exclaimed:

"It's an EMP bomb! The other party actually brought an EMP bomb, and they destroyed the electrical system of the lower level! ”

"Damn, these hateful guys, they're so well prepared, who the hell are they?!"

Brandi was furious, and at this moment, he finally felt a strong crisis.

For submarines, the greatest threat is never weapons of destruction.

Because the metal structure is strong enough to withstand the pressure of the deep sea, it can also withstand most shipborne short-range weapons, not to mention underwater individual equipment with limited destructive power.

The biggest threat is often the EMP EMP weapon capable of destroying the submarine's electrical system.

Once such a weapon appears, it can completely disable the entire submarine in a short time.

At that time, no matter how strong the hull structure is, it will only be a sturdy iron coffin.

Thus, for the first time, after discovering that the enemy was carrying an EMP bomb, Brandi completely changed his face and realized that the situation was not good.

"Quickly notify the engineer so that they can put on their wetsuits and make emergency repairs to the circuits in the lower floor!"

After subconsciously shouting this sentence, Brandi immediately realized that something was wrong.

The outer hatch of the airlock chamber in the lower level has been damaged, and the inner hatch cannot be closed due to a faulty electrical circuit.

The entire passage corridor of the lower area is filled with seawater.

At this time, as soon as the shaft hatch leading to the lower area is opened, a powerful current of water will immediately surge up.

Not only will the maintenance personnel not be able to go down, but other areas will also be completely engulfed by the sea in a short time.

After a slight groan, Brandi immediately changed his words:

"Wait, don't notify the engineer, let the other security officers go out immediately, go out of the cabin first to deal with the enemies outside, and then let the engineer enter the lower area from the outside for maintenance! Fast! ”

The words fell, but Mike stood there without responding.

Immediately, he turned back with a miserable look on his face and yelled at Brandy:

"Captain, quickly inform the safety officer of the middle airlock room on the radio, don't open the hatch, hurry!"

Brandi didn't know why, and was immediately stunned.

In the next second, I saw that on the submarine status detector, the middle airlock room also began to glow with red warning lights.

The blue water simulated by the data filled the entire chamber.

Air quality figures, turned into a staggering 0 percent!

"Damn! The airlock door in the middle area was also destroyed?! ”

Brandi scolded in his heart, and he didn't have time to think too much at the moment, so he immediately pressed the public address button and roared filial piety:

"Stay away from the airlock, everyone away from the airlock, don't open the door, don't open the door!"

The hoarse roar of filial piety echoed wildly in the space of all layers of the submarine.

The other group of security officers, who were originally shocked by the sudden explosion and water flow at the bottom and were lucky not to open the airlock hatch at the first time, were all stunned.

They looked at each other in a daze, and no one could figure out what was going on.

However, they all heard the panic and anxiety in Brandy's tone from the loudspeaker, so they obediently exited the corridor at the door of the airlock chamber.

At this time, one of the security officers wore a diving suit and ran quickly to the bridge command room to inquire about the situation.

When he saw the alarm prompt on the submarine status monitor, he immediately reacted, and then asked anxiously:

"Captain, what shall we do now?"

The shaft hatch to the lower level could not be opened, and the airlock chamber in the middle level was vandalized.

At this moment, if you don't want the middle zone to be swallowed by the sea, everyone can only be trapped in the submarine, and there is no way out.

"Damn, what the hell is the other party going on, what do they want to do?!"

Mike jumped to his feet and scolded in a hurry, and he no longer had the stability and comfort of reading magazines.

Brandi's face was as gloomy as water, and he bowed his head and muttered for a moment, and said:

"Now is not the time to think about it, the other side is obviously prepared.

For now, we can only hope that the security officers in the lower area will go out of the cabin to solve the ...... of those guys outside after the water pressure and current are balanced."

As soon as he said this, a sudden explosion suddenly interrupted Brandy's words.

The explosion also came from the subterranean area that had been submerged by the sea.

It's just that the sound of the explosion this time is obviously different from just now, it is more violent than the last explosion, and the movement caused is even greater!

For a moment, the entire hull structure of the submarine began to tremble slightly.

Under the tremendous pressure, the sturdy metal structure seems to be overwhelmed, making a piercing squeezing and deformation sound, which makes people can't help but feel the heart.

"Oh no, it's a high-explosive grenade!"

The security officer who had just entered the door was very sensitive to the sound of various firearms. Feel.

It was immediately possible to identify the source of the weapon from which the explosion sounded.

Hearing this, the faces of several people present changed drastically.

The EMP bomb will not cause much harm to the human body, but will only release a strong electromagnetic pulse and destroy electrical equipment.

But the high-explosive grenade is not at all a flimsy diving suit can compete with.

Even if it wasn't directly affected by the explosion, the violent sonic boom effect was enough to shock the nearby people out of internal injuries.

This is especially true in a narrow environment such as a submarine deck corridor!

The enemy only needs one person to block the door of the airlock chamber, and no matter how many people in the passage there are, they can't rush out.

"Damn!"

Brandi was in a hurry, and when he encountered this situation, Rao felt extremely tricky with his rich experience in going to sea.

The point is that such a way of fighting by ship in close quarters has never been encountered by him in his many years of sailing experience.

Those alien sea monsters that you usually encounter can be easily solved directly with shipborne weapons.

Even if you look at the entire history of the alien struggle in recent years, there have not been a few cases of artificial close combat.

Now that they have been encountered, they are completely unprepared and have no way to learn from the solution.

After looking down and muttering for a moment, Brandy's eyes suddenly lit up.

Then he immediately turned back to the driver's seat, and his fingers quickly clicked continuously on the central console, and at the same time said in a cruel voice:

"Aren't those cunning cockroaches like to lie on the hull of the ship and do sneak attacks?! Lao Tzu started the submarine and moved at full speed, I don't believe that I can't get rid of them! ”

In times of crisis, Brandy's reaction can be regarded as quite fast.

Immediately came up with this most effective and the only way to break the game.

Hearing this, Mike's expression suddenly changed to surprise, and he said excitedly:

"That's right! As long as we can get out of here, get rid of those enemies outside, and wait for a safe sea area, we can rest assured that we can go out of the cabin for maintenance! ”

As he spoke, Mike gave Brandi a thumbs up without hesitation in his words of praise, and said sincerely:

"Captain, you are still smart, I really admire you!"

Brandi waved his hand disapprovingly, and concentrated on controlling the submarine, speeding forward along the tunnel at full speed.

The roar of the engines sounded, and the reactor power was running to the limit.

Although some of the electrical equipment in the lower area has failed, some key equipment, such as ballast tank pumps, is still in operation.

The overloaded seawater, which fills the entire corridor passage, can be adjusted by ballast tanks, and is not enough to affect the normal navigation of the submarine.

In the surveillance screen, the surging water is surging.

The Brandi set sail quickly, galloping forward.

However, there is still no sign of the enemy outside the submarine in the video footage.

"Boom!"

At the same time, the sound of explosions from the lower sector continued.

Obviously, the opponent is still clinging to the hull of the ship, constantly launching attacks, and was not thrown away at the first time.

Brandi is not in a hurry, the submarine has just started at the moment, and the speed is limited.

When it's fully activated, the water is strong enough to wash away all the bugs clinging to the surface!

"Hurry up! Hurry up! ”

Brandi shouted in his heart, constantly increasing the power of the engine, and soon reached the limit.

At this time, he suddenly felt as if something had hit the top of his head, and when he raised his hand to touch it, it was actually wet.

"What's the situation? Where does this water come from? ”

Brandi was full of doubts, and for a moment, did not realize what was happening, and did not raise his vigilance.

At this moment, all his thoughts were focused on the driving of the submarine, staring intently at the sonar and surveillance screens.

At one point, at the edge of the limit range of the sonar detection system, the feedback signal showed a slight anomaly.

Seemingly, a submarine appeared in front of the Brandy.

Brandi immediately called Mike over and asked:

"Mike, is this the submarine you just encountered?!"

Mike looked at it intently, then nodded, and said with great certainty:

"Yes Captain, that's it, it's exactly the same in shape! I remember very well that the short-range communication system showed that the ship's submarine name was Sea Locust! ”

After confirming the identity of the other party, Mike suddenly realized something, and gritted his teeth and said:

"Damn it, it didn't go far, it hid outside of our sonar detection, it's really fucking the hell!"

Brandi frowned, and said suspiciously:

"What is the origin of this sea locust, how come I have never heard of it before? Why would it attack us for no apparent reason? ”

Mike shook his head and said:

"I don't know, maybe it's a bounty ship, maybe it's a bounty mission issued by the Alliance, so it's the risk to do it to us, right?

But...... The beacon stations in the vicinity have been destroyed, how could the Alliance be able to detect the anomaly so quickly and issue a bounty mission against us?

Shouldn't that be?! ”

Mike was puzzled and couldn't understand.

Just as Brandi was about to speak, a drop of water suddenly fell from the sky in front of his eyes. Fall.

"Smack!"

A crisp cracking sound sounded, and a cloud of water stains suddenly appeared on the central console.

Brandi was stunned.

"Water again? How can there be water droplets falling in the command room? ”

He looked up blankly, but his face suddenly changed drastically!

I don't know when, the metal roof of the command room was actually covered with dense water droplets, hanging upside down on the roof of the cabin and constantly converging.

Eventually, it bubbled down the side of the bulkhead.

It seems that a crack has appeared in the external structure of the hull, causing strong pressure from the outside, squeezing the seawater through the gap.

"What's going on? Where is the water leaking?! ”

Mike was also stunned when he saw this scene, a little unclear.

Brandi, however, was vaguely aware of something.

Thinking of a possibility, his face turned pale in an instant, and his scalp tingled.

"Quick...... Grab your wetsuit...... Fast...... Go ahead! ”

A scream, almost out of pitch, came out of Brandy's mouth, and his whole body fell into absolute panic.

"Engineer...... By the way, call the engineer too, quick! ”

His voice trembled, staring at the growing traces of water on the top of the command room, and his heart trembled for a moment.

Mike was still at a loss for a second, but when he saw Brandi's reaction, he instinctively began to panic.

"Oh, good captain!"

Subconsciously responded, Mike just turned around on his front foot, and was about to walk out of the cockpit.

Suddenly, a shrill metal twisting sound sounded from above without warning.

In the next second, a fierce stream of water came from the sky, like a waterfall formed by a high-pressure water gun, and it tore through the metal roof of the command room, and it flowed straight down!

The icy sea water poured into the command room without warning.

The snow-white column of water, while gushing vigorously, turned into a galloping and roaring dragon, with a huge impact, and rushed Michael and Brandy out on the spot.

"I ......"

Brandi didn't have time to shout a curse, and a cold wave hit him, and the whole person fell to the ground uncontrollably.

Immediately, the surging sea began to wreak havoc in the command room.

The chaotic current mercilessly engulfed the two of them, spinning around them incessantly, inevitably bumping into various instruments.

In the blink of an eye, the two unlucky guys were hit on the head and bled out.

In the end, Brandi desperately grabbed the monitoring table and held on to the edge without letting go, and finally stabilized his body.

Then, he grabbed Mike, who was constantly heaving in the water, and after holding on for a while, he also helped Mike stabilize.

"Open the hatch and get out, hurry!"

Brandi yelled at Mike, the sound of the rushing water nearly drowning out his shouts.

Fortunately, Mike was already sober, ignoring his bleeding head, nodded desperately in response, and then grabbed the instruments and equipment around him, withstood the impact of the water with difficulty, and walked to the door of the command room.

"Smack!"

The hatch opens.

The frantically converging water in the house seemed to find an outlet at this moment, rushing out of the hatch and surging out of the upper deck passage.

Brandi didn't dare to stay here any longer at the moment, and the moment the hatch opened, he moved his body, gritted his teeth and steadied his footsteps, and walked towards the hatch step by step.

Finally, when the two of them resisted the crazy rushing water, they came to the outside of the command room with difficulty.

Mike immediately slammed his fist on the close button.

The power hatch closes quickly, and it only takes a second to hang down from the top.

However, almost at the same time that Mike pressed the close button.

Inside the command room of the bridge, there was a sudden loud explosion, as if something had exploded.

Immediately, the nearby bulkheads shook at the same time, and a flash of lightning flashed.

The next moment, the surrounding electrical equipment went out at the same time.

All the instruments, including the command room, came to a complete standstill, and the whole world was completely plunged into infinite darkness......