The explosion occurred in the ballast tanks on the ground floor, though only for a few seconds. However, the confined environment of the submarine caused the sound of explosions to echo wildly in the passage.

After countless refractions, the huge explosion sound was transmitted to the ears of Meng Lei and the others, who were closest to each other, and it was like a grenade exploding in their ears.

The rumbling sound was transmitted from the eardrum to the nerves, and several people were dizzy and their heads were buzzing. At that moment, it was as if the whole world was gone.

There was only strong tinnitus and trance left in his consciousness, and the white light in front of his eyes was rising, and even his body coordination was seriously affected.

I don't know how long it took, maybe it was a moment, or maybe more than ten seconds passed. Consciousness gradually recovered, and the cold touch of the metal bulkhead transmitted the stimulation to the nerve center through the close-fitting plain clothes, awakening Meng Lei's touch.

He subconsciously stabilized his body and shook his head vigorously. A slight tingling pain came, and the brain was still a little dazed.

After a while, the senses of the body gradually returned, and all kinds of noisy shouts, as if coming from the distant sky, gradually expanded, and echoed in the ears.

"Quick, this way!"

"Report, ballast tank A hazard cleared, thalamus ...... Eliminated ......"

"Come on, ballast tank B is leaking, bring welding tools!"

"Captain, there's a white blood cell in front, be careful......"

"Kill!" …… In the headset, there was a mess in the fleet's public communication channel. In addition to the reports of the personnel of various departments on several other frigates, the shouts of Simon and several people also sounded one after another.

Everyone said their own words, and the chaos was like a vegetable market. Such a situation was something that no one, including Meng Lei and several other captains, had ever expected.

At first, in order to facilitate command and communication, Meng Lei did not divide the communication channel into each individual in detail on a submarine-by-submarine basis.

Because no one could have expected such a sudden change in the fleet. In addition, the thalamic parasitic incident became hasty, and he didn't care about making adjustments at that time, so the situation in front of him appeared.

A strong sense of trance came along with the noisy noise, and after Meng Lei regained his sensory consciousness, he immediately felt dizzy and nauseous.

He hurriedly removed the headphones, crouched in place and took a few breaths. After the state has improved slightly, I put the headphones back on.

At this time, I heard Huo Ye's shouts in the headphones and at the end of the passage.

"Commander, we've got it done here, what's going on on your side?" The effect of the random explosion of the grenade was unknown, and he didn't know what was going on inside the ballast tank.

Responding in a low voice, Meng Lei got up from the ground. Holding back the nausea in his chest, he stumbled to the entrance of the ballast tank not far away.

At this moment, the hatch of the ballast tank has closed automatically. However, since the hatch was still open at the time of the explosion just now, a large amount of seawater inevitably stirred out of it, and the deck was wet and full of water traces.

Walked all the way to the ballast tank door in the cold seawater, raised his hand and pressed the button to open the hatch. In the darkness below, damp and icy water vapor rushed in.

The seawater, which filled almost the entire ballast tank, swayed as the hull undulated. Meng Lei took out a bright flashlight from the toolbox embedded in the bulkhead of the corridor on the side, and hurriedly looked at the inside of the ballast tank.

Snow-white pillars of light tore through the darkness, and the deep cabin was cloudy at the moment. Everywhere the flashlight swept by, a large number of fragments of flesh could be seen, mixed with the sediment sucked in by the water pump in the ocean current, and the red and white flower stumps, which were boiling wildly with the turbulence of the current.

The entire No. 1 ballast tank is like a slaughterhouse wrapped in a blood-colored ocean, which makes people's scalp tingle.

Faintly, Meng Lei could even smell a stench of blood and decay mixed with blood and decay made up by the thinking brain, wantonly permeating the air.

The explosion of these three grenades seems to have had a good effect. Even if the core organ of the thalamus parasitic on the water pump was not directly destroyed, at least most of the flower buds that were waiting to be released were destroyed by the damage caused by the explosion.

"If one wave doesn't succeed, another wave will come, anyway, the biggest threat has been eliminated, these flower bones are all submerged in the seawater, and they can no longer spread fungal spores through the air......" Meng Lei took a deep breath, and finally let go of his hanging heart.

From memory, he shone the light of his flashlight toward the location of the main water pump to check the state of his core organs.

In the midst of the surging flesh and blood, the sea is a mold lake. However, the sea locust's ballast tank was not very large, at least half the size of the cabin of the E-class transport ship.

Bright light shines through and is easily reflected. Even if the vision was not particularly clear, Meng Lei could vaguely see that the huge overlord flower parasitic on the main water pump had shrunk by at least two-thirds.

More than half of the body was destroyed, and a trace of mucus flowed out of the fracture like plasma, very viscous, and scattered with the current.

Apparently it has been hit hard! Seeing this, Meng Lei suddenly breathed a long sigh of relief.

"It seems that this time the luck is not bad, there is no need to repeat the previous operation." A long-lost smile appeared on his face, Meng Lei retracted his gaze, and said into the earphones: "It's done, the first cabin has also been solved, and the crisis is over!" Hearing this, Huo Ye's excited shout sounded again: "Great! I said that we can't be so much back, the second voyage will be folded on the halfway, God bless, God bless! "Luck avoided becoming

The fate of the "vegetative man", Huo Ye was extremely emotional. After experiencing the nine deaths of the Molten Rock Outpost, this middle-aged man, who is nearly half a hundred years old, does not seem to have much growth in his mentality, and he still babbles at every turn, and his emotions are prone to large fluctuations.

In comparison, Meng Lei was much calmer. Until this moment, he did not relax his vigilance, and said cautiously: "Don't be in a hurry to be happy, these thalamic organs are not so easy to eradicate, put on a diving suit and go down to check it, and completely clean up all the parasites, so as not to leave hidden dangers!" "Meng Lei has always been cautious, although sometimes he will be paralyzed by inexperience, which leads to the unexpected arrival of a crisis.

But relatively speaking, he is generally more thoughtful. Especially when it comes to life-critical matters, he doesn't dare to take it lightly, and usually confirms it repeatedly until the hidden danger is completely cleared.

The voice fell, and the response voices of Huo Ye and Huo Ke came from the earphones. The two of them immediately ran to the wetsuit cabinet, put on the wetsuit with great difficulty, put on the plasma cutter, and plunged headlong into the ballast tank full of thalamic fragments.

After a brief explanation, the crisis of the Sea Locust was resolved, and Meng Lei did not participate in the follow-up finishing work.

Turn around and go back to the bridge command room. After learning about the current situation of several other ships through the public communication channel, Meng Lei found that the situation had basically stabilized.

At the end of the day, the fleet's routes are the same, and the time to infect thalamic spores is about the same.

The thalamic core of the Sea Locust had not yet fully developed and had not yet released spores into the air, as did the other ships.

With the concerted efforts of everyone, this thalamic crisis was quickly strangled in the cradle and failed to really erupt.

Listening to the constant sound of reports ringing in his ears, Meng Lei sat on the leather seat in the command room of the bridge, lit a cigarette, and took a deep puff.

The long-lost spicy feeling wandered between his viscera, and until this moment, he still felt afraid. This time, thanks to Gina's reminder, he discovered the hidden safety hazards around him.

Otherwise, once the thalamic core is allowed to complete its evolution, spewing deadly fungal spores into the air, the consequences are unimaginable!

If he had waited for him to discover the anomaly of the submarine and then proceeded to deal with it, the matter would have been too late, and there would have been no turning point at all.

At that time, I am afraid that the entire fleet will be directly wiped out, except for Simon and a few of them who went out to fight.

And Simon, once they board the ship without being reminded, I'm afraid it will be the same fate. I have to say that Gina, a beautiful ship doctor with a gorgeous appearance, has made a lot of credit this time.

It's just that, thinking of Gina's lazy and laid-back attitude at that time, Meng Lei always felt that something was not right.

This woman is acting really weird. From her words, it is not difficult to see that this woman seems to have noticed that the submarine has been parasitized by thalamic fungi, but she has never revealed any news.

Until the last moment when the disaster was about to come, she was still in the mood to sell off with Meng Lei and guide him to discover the truth.

She was quite casual about the possibility of a thalamic infection, without any nervousness.

It's always a laid-back posture that doesn't seem to be in a hurry.,It's not like he's worried about being infected at all.。

But any normal person would never be like her.

"Although this girl is not normal, her reaction is still a little strange, and she always feels that something is wrong...... Meng Lei frowned slightly, and sat on the chair and muttered secretly.

With so much going on, his mind was a little cluttered and not particularly clear. Even if he found out that Gina had a problem, he couldn't sort it out and couldn't grasp the core of the problem.

At this time, just as he lowered his head and was sad, trying to recall more clues and dig out the secret of Gina's body.

In the headphones, the shouts of Simon and others interrupted his thoughts.

"Damn, it's still a step too late!"

"Withdraw, withdraw! That ship smashed down, don't be buried in the beacon station, get out first! ”

"Oh God, this is terrible, run!" …… Anxious cries were accompanied by violent gasps, and Simon's side seemed to have something bad going on, and everyone began to panic.

Meng Lei immediately didn't care about thinking about Gina, and hurriedly asked in a deep voice, "Simon, what's the situation over there?!" Is the mission complete? Intermittent cursing came, Simon's voice was mixed in the middle, and he said in a heavy tone: "Captain, the thalamic core in the beacon station has been destroyed, but we are still a step too late, and we failed to stop the second launch of the flesh gun in time, but we were still beaten out by it and dragged the ghost ship down......" Hearing this, Meng Lei's heart suddenly chuckled.

He hurriedly turned his head to look at the sonar display on the side, and saw that the ghost ship in the distance, which had stopped sinking, was now falling down again at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Like a small hill, the huge hull of the ship hung low directly above the beacon station, slowly sinking. The distance between the two is gradually narrowing, and an intimate contact is about to take place.

Such a situation was unexpected by Meng Lei. After all, what should have happened happened, the shackles of fate could not be broken by hard work, the trajectory of fate did not change, and everything seemed to be predestined.

If it was just now, Meng Lei, who heard the news, might feel discouraged. But after retrieving another small life from the hands of death, his mentality has faintly changed.

At least for now, alive and not infected by thalamic parasitism, this is already the best outcome. It is no longer important whether the collision between the ghost ship and the beacon station will cause irreparable damage that will cause them to be lost in the dark depths of the sea.

As long as you live, there is hope. Even if that hope is very slim, it is better than waiting for death helplessly in despair and pain after knowing the final outcome.

At that moment, Meng Lei took a deep breath and did not blame Simon, but comforted: "It's okay, as long as you don't have casualties, just hit it, come back first, anyway, the thalamic core has been destroyed, and it will not continue to evolve and grow, we have time to figure out a way." Meng Lei's tolerance moved Huo Ye very much.

He was already feeling a little self-blaming, but he suddenly became even more ashamed, feeling that he had betrayed Meng Lei's trust.

However, he also knows that now is not the time for hypocrisy, and if he has anything to say, he must wait until he is out of danger.

Answering in a deep voice, Simon didn't say more, and immediately led several fighters to quickly evacuate from the beacon station.

As soon as a few people walked on their front feet, the behemoth hovering above the beacon station crashed into the darkness.

The massive hull was dragged down before the second Flesh Lance could be inactivated, slamming into the beacon station.

The process was very quiet and did not make any noise. The few people who escaped from the beacon station didn't even know exactly when the impact occurred.

That is, Meng Lei, who was located in the command room of the bridge, could clearly see through the sonar display that the icons representing the E-class transport ship and the beacon station were closely connected at a certain moment.

In the next moment, the structure and shape of the beacon station immediately changed significantly. It seems that there has been a collapse, and it is inevitable that it will be crushed in the end......