A white storm howled.

Like a white dragon roaring and roaring.

But dozens of engineers were still there, all busy around a tall black shadow.

It was a spindle-shaped submarine 70 meters long and 8 meters wide, painted with the World Tree logo!

"The Nautilus, a nuclear submarine independently developed by the Equipment Department, has a maximum diving depth of 5,000 meters and an activity range of 87% of the world's waters."

"It has dived more than 1,300 times, completed surveys of areas of excessive metal bonding, deep seabed ecology, and search for shipwrecks and hazardous waste."

"The Nautilus has salvaged more than 1,500 artifacts, and its robotic arm is so agile that it can bring back fragile items like crystal vases intact."

Schneider's indifferent voice came from the headset and explained: "For your safety, you will use this modified 'Nautilus' by the Equipment Department for diving missions. ”

Fingal looked at the submarine, still amazed.

"This 'Nautilus' was actually independently developed by the group of neuropaths in the Equipment Department?" Caesar raised his eyebrows, "I thought it was the 'Nautilus nuclear submarine' under the U.S. Navy." ”

"It's a big difference in size from that nuclear submarine." Chu Zihang suddenly spoke, "It's more like the submarine that appeared in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". ”

In the sci-fi book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Ned Land, Professor Aronnas, and his servant Conseil follow Captain Nemo on a 20,000-mile journey to the bottom of the ocean aboard the Nautilus.

It is 70 meters long and 8 meters wide, with an elongated spindle-shaped appearance, a top speed of 50 knots, a spacious and comfortable interior, and even a museum and library.

But as the car of Captain Nemo in science fiction, the "Nautilus" is a product that completely surpasses the level of science and technology at that time, and there are many impossible black technology functions, which can be said to be an idealized submarine.

Chu Zihang felt that his concept of the Equipment Department had been refreshed again.

Fingal always said that the group of people in the equipment department like to study "Gundam" and "Kamen Rider" or something, but I didn't expect that group of fantasy-loving middle school two neuropaths actually built the fantasy submarine.

"Oh? In this way, it is indeed more like the submarine in it. ”

Caesar raised his eyebrows, looking at the steel angle of attack that looked very solid at the bow of the boat, and there was some worry in his eyes: "I just don't know if the power of this submarine's angle of attack is as strong as it says." ”

In the end, the "Nautilus" relied on the steel angle of attack to successfully counterattack the enemy battleship that attacked it, and collided with the side of the battleship at high speed, and the angle of attack directly penetrated the hull of the battleship.

"The armament department has been renovated, and Director Akadullah has repeatedly said, 'Ensure quality.'"

Schneider comforted in the headphones: "Judging from the instructions for use, they are still working hard this time, installing several new systems, which are already weakened versions." ”

"That's a bunch of bomb maniacs, and their promises don't come true." The corners of Fingal's eyes twitched, and he looked at Jiang Shouyun with a pleading look, hoping that he could say something fair.

Embark on a mission on a submarine that the Equipment Department reproduces, develops, and transforms according to science fiction?

Fingal says he's not tired of it yet!

"It feels pretty good." Jiang Shouyun nodded slightly, and the voice came into his ears from the radio, "I hope its interior is as spacious and comfortable as Zhongzhong, and it would be better if there was a museum and a library." ”

As the storm passed, they could not hear each other's roars, and could only look at the shape of their mouths or communicate with each other through their devices.

"The inspection has been completed, the Nautilus is in good condition, the sea conditions are stable, and you are ready to enter the water once you are in position." A commissioner came to Jiang Shouyun's side and said.

Jiang Shouyun stood on the deck and looked at the glacier below, his long trench coat whirring in the wind.

"Have you heard of the legend of the ama?" Jiang Shouyun asked coldly.

Chu Zihang instantly thought of unpopular knowledge, and said: "The sea girl is a girl who dives pearls in ancient times, they can dive to a depth of several hundred meters without equipment, and use a knife to pry open the big mussel to collect pearls. ”

Jiang Shouyun nodded and added, "When the ama dive, they will tie a rope around their waists, and the other end of the rope will be handed over to their relatives on the boat. ”

"If they are in danger at the bottom of the sea, they will pull the rope hard, and if their relatives pull the rope back, they may be able to save them, but if they can't save them, they can also recover their bodies."

"The rope can only be held in the hands of relatives, because ama only trusts relatives, but the husbands of ama say that if you are tired of your wife, take her to a distant sea to pearl diving, and then throw the rope in the water."

After that, Jiang Shouyun looked at the three of them lightly and said, "So, under that kind of closed dark sea, we can only choose to trust each other. ”

"Before you dive, one last word, I don't want you to go your own way, you must listen to my orders, okay?"

Chu Zihang and Caesar nodded without hesitation.

"Teacher Jiang, where are these words!" Fingal patted his chest and let out a bold statement: "I am your lackey in front of the horse, and when you point your whip, I will rush forward." ”

Jiang Shouyun glanced at him with a little meaning, turned to leave, and the three of them walked off the huge ship after him.

They came to the ice crevasse again, with craggy ice cliffs on either side of the crevasse and a dark and bottomless sea below.

The chill that changed the surrounding climate came from under this crevice in the ice.

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have been able to imagine that this could be done by a human being." Caesar smacked his lips.

Jiang Shouyun, who was the initiator, was indifferent, looking at the broad scars on the glacier with an indifferent expression.

If they stood at a height of several thousand meters, they would see a huge rift-like ice crevasse stretching for kilometers long.

In the short time they are gone.

The crack that Jiang Shouyun had originally created with one hand was more than ten meters long and had stretched to the extent that it was a kilometer long and tens of meters wide.

The original wide glacier with a blue and white body is like a gentle slash by God.

And their position was right next to the ice crevice, and the giant ship was like a sharp blade inserted into the ice shelf.

Because this is the perfect stress point for the ice shelf to collapse.

The previous "Beginning Solution" blow with great visual impact was, to some extent, actually using the stress accumulated on the ice to make that force explode in advance when you need it.

In the end, it's just the same as the big guy below, wielding the power and rules of the world itself.

"Looks like there's got to be a big guy down here." Fingal stood by the crack in the ice, looking down at the bottomless dark sea, slightly distracted.

At this moment, Chu Zihang suddenly stretched out his hand and pulled him back.

The force of the pull was so great that it directly pulled one of Fingal's buttons away.

Click!

The glacier suddenly began to shake violently, making a heart-pounding cracking sound, and a huge cracking sound resounded in my ears.

Fingal slipped on the soles of his feet on the slippery ice, and was dragged by Chu Zihang before he fell off the ice cliff.

He looked in disbelief at the bottom of the ice cliff, the dark waters were blue-black, slowly undulating, and many pieces of ice floated out, and the black button that floated and swirled on it.

In polar environments, it is said that soaking hot urine will turn into ice lumps before hitting the ground.

Although the actual situation is not so exaggerated, if you really fall into it like this, and then wet and exposed to the air, it will lose temperature in just a few tens of seconds, and various functions will fail one by one, and it will soon freeze into a stiff corpse.

"What kind of god are you stunned about?" Chu Zihang frowned.

He was keenly aware of Fingal's anomaly, and felt that something seemed to be brewing in his heart as if something was brewing in this waste wood that had always been a big grin.

"Ahem, sorry sorry, I'm a little afraid of heights." Fingal came back to his senses and sneered.

At the same time, the submarine dock at the bottom of the YAMAL opened, and the Nautilus crashed into the black ice crevice.

White bubbles can be seen pouring out from the bottom, which is the air released by the Nautilus.

The frogmen dived into the sea and attached the safety rope to the safety hook on the top of the Nautilus, with the other end of the safety line connected to the roulette wheel on the top of the YAMAAL.

The huge wheel is wrapped around a 12-kilometre-long safety rope that is resistant to bending and wearing, and the armament department's special recovery system can recover the submarine from the bottom in less than 20 minutes.

"It's 5:15, I'm Schneider, the on-site commander, the diving team, are you ready?"

Jiang Shouyun pressed the headphones and said, "Hurry up, I don't like to waste time in this ghost place, finish this task, if the time is early, we can still have a supper." ”

“…… Good. Schneider paused and said, "Good luck to you." ”

The Greenland Ice Sea is not as deep as other ocean trenches, and the danger of this mission is actually relatively small in his predictions.

Soon, the submarine slowly dived into the dark and bottomless sea with a white water mark.

"At a depth of 30 meters, the flow rate is stable and it is operating normally." The multi-talented Caesar maneuvers the dive equipment with great skill, rhythmically switching between different valves and knobs with both hands.

More compressed air is released, and the submersible sinks deeper into the water.

It was clear that no one knew that they were going to dive in a submarine before, and there was no training before, so they just threw an operation manual over.

But Caesar became familiar with the submarine's console after just a few glances, like an experienced captain stroking the familiar old wooden steering wheel.

According to him, he has quite a few submarines at home.

It's all old antiques that his stallion dad bought to flirt with his sister, and in comparison, this submarine transformed by the Equipment Department can be said to be operated by fools.

When he said this, Caesar's brows were filled with a languid aristocratic air that he didn't care much about anything.

In Fingal's words, aristocrats are, and the real aristocracy never emphasizes any acquired efforts, and those who are able to rise through hard work are nouveau riche.

Fingal looked up through the observation window at the top, and the last light was concentrated in the center of the field of vision.

Surrounded by blue-black water, a glimmer of light seemed to be projected from an upside-down well in the sky, and the deep submersible seemed to sink in a well.

The moment he was completely immersed in darkness, Fingal shivered slightly.

Caesar's expression also froze slightly.

He suddenly understood what Jiang Shouyun had just said.

Only by following the submarine downward, feeling the light above getting dimmer and dimmer, and finally the darkness swallowing everything, can you truly feel the loneliness of being far away from the world.

The sound of machinery and air whistling filled my ears, and I could even hear each other's breathing and heartbeats.

In everyday life, even in an absolutely quiet room, there will be more than 10 decibels of background noise, such as the sound of a heavy truck driving through the ground in the distance and the sound of running water in the water pipes of an air conditioner.

It's just that it's hard for the average person to notice these sounds.

At this moment, the background noise is reduced to zero, and although the noise of the machine is loud, the sound of heartbeat and breathing is unusually clear.

Only the four of them can rely on and trust each other.

Just when the two of them were melancholy, the surroundings suddenly lit up.

It was Chu Zihang who turned on the external high-intensity spotlight source, which instantly illuminated the space around the submarine about ten meters.

"This ...... This is the Greenland Ice Sea? ”

Fingal was surprised to see the nameless silver fish swim in a long line grazing their shells, rubbing his eyes to make sure he wasn't dreaming.

This sea of ice is actually full of life, and a large school of thousands of fish floats in the glowing water.

This place that seemed to be as silent as death was actually full of life, and the Vasley illuminated their bodies, and they were as bright as a galaxy.

Some emerge from a spiraling upward arc, others plunge into the ocean floor like whirlpools, some are as white as silver, some are almost transparent, and some glow a faint blue fluorescence.

Occasionally, giant manta rays flap their wing-like fleshy fins through the schools, cracking a gap and returning to their original shape, while giant turtles swim with the fish, awkwardly waving their winged fins.

"Suddenly I feel like I'm a little short of vocabulary!" Fingal said with heartfelt emotion, "I can only describe my feelings in a slump." ”

The scene in front of me has a vast, glorious momentum.

The dreamy beauty surpasses the limits of imagination, making people mistakenly think that the sea outside the porthole is the sky in the middle of the night, and schools of fish swim in the sky.

"The ecological environment is not normal, and there should not be so many kinds of marine animals here." Chu Zihang leaned on the observation window and said, "It shows that there is something unusual in this vicinity that has reconstructed the ecological environment." ”

Most of these fish he had never seen before, and they were similar to some but very different.

For example, the manta ray's head has a black-and-white exoskeleton, which makes it look like one of those helmeted dragons in fantasy.

The dorsal carapace of the turtle is not hard but fleshy, like cracked red basalt.

There is no doubt that these fish are all subspecies with thin dragon blood.

It seems that while humans consider themselves to be the masters of the earth, some guys have already established new population ecosystems in places where there is no light.

(End of chapter)