Chapter 1306 Diving Underwater

After the maintenance workers on the ship worked hard to repair some hidden damages of the Kraken, some hidden damages were found and repaired. Although this cannot be compared with entering the dock for repairs, it can at least allow the Kraken to dive a few tens of meters deeper without being damaged by water pressure. Cause secondary damage to the hull.

The auxiliary staff officer on the ship calculated that the Kraken continued to dive several tens of meters deep. If calculated according to the limit, it could only reach the opening of the big rift, but could not enter the inside of the big rift.

However, the good news is that if supplemented with diving suits and submersibles, the final depth that the expedition team can reach is exactly at the bottom of the large chasm, but in this way, the danger that members of the expedition team will encounter will be doubled, In addition, the Kraken was attacked by unknown underwater monsters before, which made the risk factor rise in a straight line. The staff officer gave up this operation. After the Kraken was repaired, he found more and better equipment and came here to explore again.

But this proposal was quickly rejected by Longanus. He insisted on completing the exploration of this place as soon as possible. He felt that if he gave up this opportunity, it would be impossible to discover the secrets hidden in the ruins later. secret.

Although Langenus is not the commander of the Kraken, his identity is destined to have the highest authority on the Kraken besides military command. If necessary, he can even order the Kraken to attack any A ship and any dock.

Seeing that Langnus was so persistent, Major General Rice did not persuade him. Perhaps he did not want to persuade him at all, because he also wanted to know what was at the bottom of the Great Rift, and what secrets were contained in the scene they saw.

Following an order, the Kraken began to dive at a constant speed, and soon came to the opening of the big rift. At this time,

There was a crack in a previously repaired damage, and the cabin related to it had to be completely sealed, and the hull also tilted slightly. Rear Admiral Rice knew that he could no longer dive, so he ordered to stop diving, and the entire Sea Monster was destroyed. So stay still in the water.

The people who participated in the expedition began to put on the deep diving suits and sit in the small trailer under the guidance of the deep diving soldiers of the navy, and came to the deep diving cabin at the end of the sea monster.

This deep dive cabin is so big that it almost occupies the same area as the tail of the Kraken, and even the engine room is not as big as it.

In the middle of the deep diving cabin, there is a circular pool. Below the pool is a closed pipe, and the semicircular object hanging above the pool, which is almost the size of the pool, is the submersible.

People who will participate in this expedition later will enter the submersible and enter the bottom of the water together with the submersible. After reaching a certain depth, the members of the expedition team will leave the submersible and enter the bottom of the water alone to explore, and their breathing will It will be connected to the submersible through pipes.

This kind of inverted semicircular submersible is not a new technology. It has appeared hundreds of years ago. The people who invented this thing are not scholars or craftsmen, but pirates wandering in the sea between the old and new continents. .

When they rob merchant ships passing by, they often sink the ship due to excessive attack, and the goods will naturally sink to the bottom of the water. Although most of the goods are worthless when soaked in water, there are still some goods such as precious metals. Still great value.

Therefore, in order to be able to salvage these sunken goods, the pirates racked their brains to come up with this kind of deep submersible. It is impossible to test who invented this kind of deep submersible. Most legends will use the deep submersible Its invention was attributed to a few great pirates who were well-known at the time, but there has never been any evidence to prove this.

Although after hundreds of years of development, deep submersibles have become more advanced, and the number of people they can support has increased to dozens of people, but their basic principles have not changed at all, and they are still the most primitive set of air a few hundred years ago. Supply theory, so the defects of the deep submersible are also perfectly inherited.

The biggest defect of deep submersibles is the pipes that transmit the air. Once the pipes are damaged, it is basically difficult for those people at the bottom to survive. Therefore, the air pipes of the current deep submersibles will adopt multiple protections to avoid damage. Always mediocre.

Naturally, the deep submersible on the Kraken also used the best protection measures, such as passing through layers of metal mesh outside the gas pipeline, and coating a layer of special rubber between the technical mesh, which not only reinforces The wall of the pipeline has been strengthened, and the toughness has also been strengthened. Even if it encounters a cut or impact, it will not break immediately, and there will be enough time to pull the deep submersible back.

The staff of the deep submersible quickly adjusted all the equipment, and Langnus, Leo and others also drilled into the deep submersible under their command.

Although the deep submersible does not seem very big from the outside, after entering the interior and sitting in their respective positions in order, after everyone gets in, there is still a lot of space inside the deep submersible.

Subsequently, under the instructions of the deep-diving soldiers accompanying the team, everyone connected their air ducts to the air-guiding interface of the deep submersible, and then fixed the safety rope to the safety lock of the deep submersible.

After repeatedly checking the equipment on both sides, and there was no problem, Major General Rice, who was in charge of commanding outside the deep submersible, ordered the deep submersible to be lowered.

With a burst of shaking, the deep submersible entered the pool, some water spread up from the opening below, and stopped rising when it reached the feet of everyone, and then the deep submersible gradually sank along the pipeline, and the opening of the pipeline was also in the deep submersible. It was slowly opened as it approached, followed by another shake, and the deep submersible drilled out of the pipe and entered the bottom of Lake Beruk.

"Launch the lights." Following the order of the deep-diving soldiers in the team, they each took out a sphere from their bodies, and then threw it into the water below.

The spherical body did not float up, but sank quickly, and the surface began to crack, and the lake water also squeezed into its interior, producing some chemical reactions with the substances inside, bursting out with a strong light instantly, like a torch in the dark The situation at the bottom of the water was completely illuminated, and the big crack also appeared in the eyes of everyone.

This big fissure didn't exist originally. It appeared after a major earthquake that affected the entire Beruk Lake area more than a hundred years ago. Beiruk City was included in it, but the fissure was not deep, only less than 30 meters deep from the surrounding water bottom.

In the early years, many explorers used various methods to enter the Great Rift for various explorations, so the terrain inside the Great Rift has already been explored clearly.

As for the fragments of the ancient ruins found in the fissure, it was also an accident. At that time, the mine exploration team of the federal government was investigating a rare metal mine inside the large fissure. During sampling, they accidentally discovered a pile of man-made objects buried in the mud , and found this ruin.

According to inference, this relic should have encountered a mudslide formed by a nearby landslide a long time ago, and then buried it underground. Later, after the great destruction of Lake Beruk, a layer of covering soil was stripped off, and an earthquake occurred again. The soil loosened again, coupled with the continuous erosion of the undercurrent of the lake, this site was able to see the light of day again.

According to the established plan, the soldiers with the team dived first to check the situation. After confirming the safety, the others dived one by one. When they reached the bottom of the water, they immediately walked towards the location of the ruins.

Although, Leo has countless ways to reduce the surrounding water pressure to a non-existent level, but he did not do that, but moved forward slowly like the others, but his mental network was also expanding outward at this time Come, check your surroundings and scatter some dangerous fish if necessary.

It didn't take long for a group of people to arrive near the ruins. Soldiers scattered around with water guns and were in charge of security. The rest of the people were assigned by Langenus to clean up the ruins and look for valuable things.

Because of the impact of the mudslide at the beginning and the damage caused by the earthquake later, the ruins have been completely scattered. Unless all the fragments are collected, it is difficult to restore the original shape of the ruins.

As for those valuable things, they were also scattered everywhere, buried deep in the mud, and it was generally difficult to find them out in a short period of time.

However, Longanus has a special way to find those things he thinks are valuable. I saw him standing at the beginning of a relatively intact building foundation, and then took out a metal spherical object from the pocket of the diving suit , put it on the ground, and then just stood there blankly.

Just when everyone was puzzled by Langenus' behavior, Langanus suddenly raised his hand, pointed to several places, asked people to dig, and then put the metal ball on the ground back into his pocket .

Everyone didn't understand what Longanus meant by doing this, and they didn't understand what was so special about the places that Longanus pointed out. They just started to clean up those places according to Longanus' instructions. silt.

Compared to the ignorance of these people, Leo knew exactly what Langenus was doing just now, and also knew what the metal ball Longanus took out was.

The metal ball should be a geoscanner. Almost every exploration spacecraft has this kind of thing. It’s not a big deal. Langnus can control the scanner to scan the big rift through remote sensing. Gnus's brain should be implanted with a master control device, which is what Leo is curious about.

It is not difficult to implant control chips of certain equipment into the brain in various civilizations of the universe, but in a world like this, unless there is a complete set of chip implant devices with controllable artificial intelligence, otherwise It is impossible to implant any chips into the brain, which also makes Leo a little curious about how much knowledge and devices Longnus has mastered beyond the scope of this world's cognition.

However, Leo soon stopped paying attention to Langenus and the others, because his mental network had already discovered something related to the spiritual phantom of the previous space war.

I saw that he broke away from the crowd, walked towards the location of the discovery, and soon came to a small slightly arched platform, and then squatted down to sweep away the mud below, revealing the body buried in the mud. A stone block.

Leo's actions were naturally noticed by other people. Originally, everyone was busy with the things in hand. They cleaned up the mud and guarded the safety according to Longanus's instructions. Even Longanus had already done it himself. Ou stood there alone and did nothing, it was very difficult not to attract attention.

Afterwards, Leo left the group and went outside the protective circle formed by the soldiers, which caused everyone to focus their attention on him. Some soldiers in charge of guards wanted to go up and pull him back, but they just took two steps. , I saw Leo take out a square man-made object from a piece of mud that was swept away, then turned around and walked back.

Before coming down, everyone made a joking bet to see who would be the first to find something of value, but none of them thought that that person would be Leo, whom they regarded as a spectator from the very beginning. Of course, only Leo knew Except for the real case of Longanus.

After gesturing for everyone to continue digging, Longanus put down the digging tool in his hand, walked slowly towards Leo, then pointed to the cube in Leo's hand, and motioned for him to take a look.

Leo didn't refuse either, and passed the cube in his hand. He also wanted to know if Langenus knew how to operate this thing. This could also test the extent of the knowledge of the universe civilization that Langanus had mastered. degree.

Langenus adjusted the light on the helmet of the diving suit to the highest level, and then put the cube under the light to look carefully, with a puzzled look on his face, because he couldn't see anything special about this cube.

The entire block has the texture of a stone. There is no corrosion or damage on the surface, and there are no patterns. The overall appearance is just a beautifully polished block.

He couldn't see anything strange about the cube, and Longanus didn't continue to study it. He returned the cube to Leo, and then made a gesture to ask Leo if he knew what it was.

However, this time, Leo didn't give him the answer he wanted, and he didn't even give him a response. He just pointed to the excavation site on the other side, and saw that something valuable seemed to be found there.

Seeing this situation, Longanus' attention was also diverted, and he moved over there.

Leo didn't follow, he held the cube in his hand, thought for a while, and instead of activating the cube, he put it back in his waist pocket.

After the test just now, Leo has already roughly known that the knowledge of cosmic civilization that Langanus has mastered is probably fragmented, and it is more likely that it is just the use of certain tools, because if Langanus knows the basics of cosmic civilization If you know the knowledge, you will definitely be able to recognize that this stone cube is a standard cube.

The meaning of this standard is a near-absolute standard, because the distance between each side of the cube is almost equal to zero, and this standard cube is usually used as a battleship recorder, that is, a black box.

Previously, the phantom of space war seen by everyone was actually the recorded image released by this box, but the way it released it was directly projected to the spiritual level of creatures, rather than low-level light and shadow images.