Chapter 169: Deep Sea Minefield

20, November 5.

The calm Pacific Northwest.

A submarine sails silently through this stretch of water.

And the submarine is only 137 kilometers from the Guam base in America.

This is a medium-sized submarine with a displacement of about 2,000 tons, and it belongs to the Shark Group of the Luzon Navy, although its sequence does not exist in official documents.

Even within the Luzon Navy, many officers were unaware of the existence of this submarine force.

This is mainly to avoid leaks, and the soldiers who join the Shark Brigade do not need to be transformed into soldiers, but they must be implanted with biochips and become new humans.

The new humans are the employees of Homo sapiens who have been implanted with biochips, and these people are not all included in the sequence of spider web managers.

Therefore, Li Qingye gave these people a common name - New Human.

The new humans include ordinary employees implanted with biochips, spider web managers, and soldiers.

The number of new humans in the Luzon army is rising rapidly, and the same is true for Honsavady.

Obviously, Homo sapiens has very limited trust in ordinary natural persons.

Particularly within the military, the risk of leaks is increasing as more and more Homo sapiens is added to the ranks of secret weapons.

There are too many uncontrollable factors of natural persons, and they must not be used.

For example, the sailors in this submarine are all new humans, and there is no natural person, and the possibility of leakage is minimized.

This submarine is an upgraded version of the mackerel-class - the tuna-class submarine, this type of submarine, continuing the design concept of the mackerel-class, except for concealment, other performance is ordinary.

At this time, the task of this submarine is to come over here and bury mines.

I saw the submarine moored at a seabed with an average water depth of about 240 meters, opened the compartment at the bottom, and dropped a small No. 1 submersible.

The submersible slowly sank until it touched the surface of the seabed sediment, and a slight piece of sediment was raised, and the surrounding marine animals were also startled by the sudden uninvited guest and fled from the vicinity of the submersible.

A pheromone transmitter on the surface of the submarine emits a pheromone command.

Soon on the surface of that submersible, a large number of genetically modified parasites emerged, these genetically modified parasites resembled worms and earthworms, devouring the surrounding sediment with their mouthparts, and then spitting out the sediment to the surroundings.

In this way, the submarine is sinking into the mud and sand.

In about three days, the submarine will be completely buried in the sediment.

Inside this submersible, it is equipped with 4 heavy oxygen torpedoes and 10 mines, carrying pheromone and sonar detection systems, which can effectively monitor the sea area with a radius of 50~80 kilometers.

This is the equivalent of building a secret submarine silo here.

Within its monitoring range, it just covers part of the waterway of the American Navy.

As long as necessary, this submersible can be activated and turn this area of sea into a minefield.

Moreover, these submarines can communicate with each other through pheromones, although the amount of information exchanged is limited, but it can still be used to transmit instructions.

In addition, Homo sapiens' submarine fiber optic surveillance network is also spreading along the surrounding waters.

For example, near the Palau Islands at this time, another tuna-class 003 of the Shark Brigade was carrying out secret missions in this area.

Anyone who has seen a topographic map of the Pacific Ocean will find that on the eastern side of the Luzon Islands is the famous Luzon Trench and Luzon Basin.

In particular, the Luzon Trench, with a depth of five or six thousand meters, has a very huge impact on the laying of submarine fiber optic cables.

Therefore, when laying out submarine fiber optic cables, if you can bypass the trench, you should try to bypass it, although the trench can also be arranged with fiber optic cables, but in case of breakage, it is very troublesome to repair.

In order to bypass the Luzon Trench, Homo sapiens chose to set up two main submarine fiber optic cables from the northern waters of Luzon Island and the northern waters of the Maluku Islands.

At this time, Tuna 003, the submarine fiber optic cable being arranged, is the southern route that goes around from the vicinity of the Maluku Islands.

Tuna 003 opens the hatch from the bottom and drops a submersible, which is about the same size as a submersible equipped with torpedo mines, and is actually developed from the same base module.

The entire submersible is about 50 tons, and in order to avoid the pressure of water pressure, the interior adopts a near-solid design, and the body structure of deep-sea fish is added.

The ultimate water depth that this type of submersible can withstand is about 3,753 meters.

The old way of laying submarine fiber optic cables has been eliminated by Homo sapiens.

The old-fashioned laying method requires the cooperation of boats, and requires ships to stay nearby for a period of time, and the construction in their own waters is okay, and the high seas are barely usable, but once it is close to the waters of other countries, or hot hot high seas, it is not suitable and unsafe.

Therefore, Homo sapiens has updated the new technology.

This technique is called seafloor directed growth.

The specific operation is very simple, first explore a suitable route for the layout of submarine fiber optic cables on the seabed, and then set up a node every 100 kilometers or so.

The submersible is the core component placed in the node.

However, after the submersible buries itself deep in the sediment layer, the internal directional growth system activates and begins to grow coral cables in a fixed direction.

As for how to ensure that the coral fiber optic cable does not grow crooked, it is actually very simple, that is, pheromone induction.

Because in the early process of seabed topography exploration, a growth anchor weighing 150 kg will be placed on the determined route.

The growth anchor is a miniature version of the submersible, which can penetrate into the sediment layer of the seabed at 10~15 meters, and then continuously release pheromones to induce the growth of coral fiber optic cables in a fixed direction.

Usually this kind of growth anchor will be arranged every 1000 meters.

Coral fiber optic cables will grow at a rate of 300~500 meters per day in a sediment layer at a depth of 10~15 meters.

This growth rate is actually due to the rapid drilling ability of transgenic polyps, especially in the soft sediment layer, its chitin mouthparts can quickly devour the surrounding soil, obtain a part of the raw materials needed, and construct a honeycomb coral tube with a diameter of 10~12 cm.

Another genetically modified polyp will begin to produce fiber-optic crystals in these coral tubes.

This kind of submarine fiber optic cable composed of biological optical fibers can not only carry a very high information flux, but also has the ability to self-heal.

In each growth anchor and growth node, there are a lot of nutrients stored, which is also an important factor to promote the rapid reproduction of polyps and the construction of fiber optic crystals and protective shells.

Normally, the nutrient reserves at the growth nodes are sufficient to construct a 400-kilometer-long submarine fiber optic cable.

At present, the submarine fiber optic cable is only a connection between two nodes, and has not yet changed from a line to a network, so the remaining nutrients are a kind of reserve, which can be used for subsequent line expansion and line maintenance.

In order to keep secrets, each growth node is set up with an automatic destruction system, and in case of any accidents, the node can be completely destroyed as soon as possible.

In fact, the safety of the seabed is okay now.

In particular, submarines rarely descend to the bottom of the sea below 1,000 meters except for oil drilling platforms with water depths of more than 2,000 meters, and similarly anchorages where ships anchor are rarely carried out at depths of more than 500 meters.

In this way, it is only necessary to avoid the rig and generally go undetected or damaged.

On the contrary, submarine fiber optic cables in shallow water areas are much worse in terms of safety.

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