Great Power Reclamation

Chapter 2731 Three Trips to the Trench

The return journey was much faster, as the diving chamber was directly lifted up by ropes.

Inside the submarine, Ye Mei finally got her wish and sat in the driver's seat.

She is very smart, otherwise she wouldn't have been admitted to a prestigious school, so this is a piece of cake for her.

I kept practicing various driving skills along the way and soon became proficient.

She turned around and asked Xuezi: "How much is this boat? I'll buy it."

Xue Zi smiled bitterly and shook her head: "I don't know either. This is Professor Kobayashi's team, but he has been killed. We don't know what to say when we go back."

Ye Mei's eyes lit up: "You are all college students, right? You can stay in my country. Let me tell you, the men in my country are much more powerful than those in your island country!"

Xue Zi blushed and didn't know how to respond.

Indira asked, "If we stay, what will be our treatment?"

Ye Mei was originally somewhat hostile towards Indira, but there was nothing she could do about it. Who asked her to date her father?

Now hearing her ask this, he rolled his eyes and answered.

"A student from Huaqing University in Huaxia is now my Minister of Construction. This also depends on your ability, but we are currently short of people, so it is certain that you will become an official."

Indira said nothing more, she needed to think about it carefully and then discuss it with her sisters.

She herself doesn't care because she has shares in Tata Motors Group, but the fate of her sisters who came with her is not very good.

Staying here might be a way out.

There is really nothing worth reminiscing about in that feudal, autocratic country where men are favored over women.

Of course, this matter depends on their own wishes, and she will not make the decision for anyone.

Back on the boat, Ye Yuze did not touch the ores. He still understood some necessary knowledge, that is, the word radioactivity can be fatal.

Several people studied the lock on the box for a long time and found out that it was a combination.

I don't know what it's made of. It must be metal, but it's not like the iron or copper we use today.

Yang Geyong lost his patience, so he found a hammer and smashed it open. When they opened it, everyone was shocked.

It’s not about the things inside that shocked me, but the fact that such a jade box had not been soaked in water.

There were a few books and notebooks in it, the words on them were not recognizable, and a fountain pen, but it was a little too big.

There are also some banknotes that are identified as banknotes because of the numbers on them, which are Arabic numerals.

Yang Geyong was very disappointed. He didn't even get his mother's treasure. It was just a waste of time.

But he soon found his balance. He was not short of money, so even if he salvaged a box of jewels, it would not matter to him.

Moreover, this trip was very rewarding. At least I got to see a new world. What else could I not be satisfied with?

After watching for a long time, Ye Yuze made another call, but this time he made the call without telling anyone.

About half an hour later, a helicopter came over. After two people came down the rope ladder, they saw Ye Yuze and saluted.

Ye Yuze pointed at the box and the pieces of ore. They quickly opened their bags and put the things in, then said goodbye and left.

No word was spoken during the whole process, and Ye Yuze didn't say anything either, just a few gestures.

Ye Mei looked at all this curiously and shouted at others:

"Who are you? You're just taking things away like that?"

Yang Geyong pulled her arm and she stopped talking. Indira and Xuezi lowered their heads and pretended not to see anything.

Ye Rou stared at her father and said to Yang Yi beside her:

"My dad still has feelings!"

Yang nodded: "My father and Uncle Wei are the same, they seem to be unrestrained, but in fact, there are things in their bones that cannot be changed."

At this point, they should have left, but a few people were still reluctant to leave. They had only descended to more than 1,000 meters in the 10,000-meter trench. How could they give up?

So after resting for a while, they prepared to dive again.

This time the personnel was streamlined, with only Ye Mei and Xue Zi left in the submarine, and only Yang Geyong and Ye Yuze in the diving cabin.

Yang Yi and Yang San have returned to their country. They need to stay here for a few more days as they are too busy.

However, before leaving, I formally communicated with the girls and took them all away.

Both Somalia and Marseille need talents. They will go there to take a look. If the conditions and treatment are suitable, some people should stay.

Ye Yuze is optimistic about those Indian girls because they really have no future in the country.

But this is not the case for girls from island countries. After all, their environment is much better and their job salaries in the country are not low.

As for how they will report this matter after returning to China, Ye Yuze is not worried, and Yang Geyong is even less worried. There is nothing to be afraid of. If the enemy comes, we will fight him; if the water comes, we will block it with earth.

Xue Zi, on the other hand, had no intention of leaving. She was fascinated by Yang Geyong.

Maybe she had never met such a strong man in her first twenty years of life? She was not very rational at her age.

Despite her higher education, her rationality was still easily conquered by desire. She found herself falling in love with this man, a mad love, so she wanted to give up everything and stay with this man.

Adequate preparations were made for this dive, with enough power, oxygen and biological substances to last until the end of the expedition.

Moreover, Ye Yuze and Yang Geyong did not use many of the equipment except the robotic arm. In fact, they did not know how to use them.

After the preparations were completed, the ship was officially launched into the water. At this time, the dawn of the Indian Ocean was glowing with light golden waves. On the deck, Ye Yuze and Yang Geyong checked the pressure hull of the "Abyss" diving cabin for the last time.

This spherical manned cabin is cast from titanium alloy and covered with a bionic drag-reducing coating. It can only accommodate four people, and the oxygen circulation system and pressure stabilization device are emitting a low hum.

The two long robotic arms were now folded and curled up on both sides.

Not far away, the miniature submarine driven by Ye Mei and Xue Zi slowly entered the water. The streamlined hull was equipped with a laser mapper and a biological sampling robotic arm. Their mission was to escort the submarine throughout the journey and record data.

"At a depth of 5800 meters, the temperature drops from 30 degrees Celsius to freezing point, and the pressure exceeds 500 atmospheres - if the shell breaks, we will be crushed to the size of a walnut."

Yang Geyong adjusted the sonar half-jokingly. Ye Yuze put on the neural sensor helmet, and the holographic projection screen in the cabin lit up:

"Let's go and see the 'scars' of the Earth."

The first two times, they did not wear these devices, mainly because they did not know how to use them and they thought they were in the way.

This time, after Xue Zi explained to Ye Mei in detail the uses and effects of these tools, Ye Mei forced both fathers to bring them along.

Although these things are troublesome, they are life-saving. After all, the deepest of the previous two dives was only about 1000 meters, but this time it was a -meter abyss.

Of course, Xuezi said that the diving chamber could not withstand such pressure at all, so they could only act according to circumstances. If the situation was not good, they had to run away quickly.

Submarines are much better in this regard. At least their power systems and pressure resistance cannot be compared with those of a submersible.

It’s just that in terms of observation, submarines are naturally no match for submersibles, otherwise who would use this thing.

The moment the diving cabin fell into the sea, the sunlight danced outside the porthole like pieces of gold.

Ye Yuze switched the searchlight to blue light mode. Schools of flying fish flew past the sides of the cabin, their silver scales reflecting rainbow colors. Yang Geyong pointed at the dashboard:

"The water temperature is 29 degrees Celsius and the salinity is 35 PSU, which is about the same as a swimming pool."

The surface is covered with "sea grassland" formed by blue algae, which looks like light green gauze.

A school of bonito was chasing a school of krill. Suddenly, a tiger shark rushed out from the vortex of the school of fish, shattering a cloud of diatoms.

Ye Mei's voice came from the communicator: "An abnormal ocean current has been detected. There is an upwelling in the southwest. It is recommended to speed up the dive."

The diving chamber vibrated slightly and the pressure gauge jumped to 10 atm.

Ye Yuze felt his eardrums swell and hurt. He bit a piece of pressure-balancing candy and the sweet and sour liquid slid into his throat. He didn't know what this thing was made of.

I felt much better after eating it. I was able to bear it for the first two times.

The light gradually thinned, and the world outside the porthole turned dark blue.

Yang Geyong activated the bioluminescence detector, and in an instant, countless spots of light exploded in the darkness.

The light organs of lantern fish flicker like stars, and salps migrate vertically in glowing chains.

A two-meter-long oarfish slid past the detection light, its silver-white body covered with red spots, like a cursed ribbon.

Yang Geyong licked his lips and muttered:

“I wonder if this thing is good?”

Ye Yuze glared at him: "You only know how to eat. Don't waste your energy this time, otherwise it will be troublesome when you come back."

Outside the porthole, a siphonophore spreads its fluorescent tentacles to ensnare copepods attracted to the light.

At this time, the temperature dropped sharply to 8°C, and a warning sound indicating that the heating system was started was heard in the cabin.

The pressure rose to 100 atm, and the titanium alloy shell made a slight "creaking" sound.

Ye Yuze's breathing became heavy, and the neural sensor helmet detected that his heart rate rose to 110 beats per minute.

"Start pressure compensated injection."

Yang Geyong injected a tube of transparent liquid into his companion's arm vein. Ye Yuze's pupils shrank slightly and he cursed:

"It feels like being put into a pressure cooker... but it's bearable."

At this time, the outside world had fallen into absolute darkness, with only the LED light from the diving cabin piercing the void.

The cabin suddenly shook violently and they entered a deep current, with fine sand-like sediments hitting the portholes.

Ye Mei issued a hasty warning: "A low-temperature hydrothermal vent was detected 3 kilometers to the southeast. Sulfide chimneys may cause turbulence!"

The diving chamber passed over a jagged rock wall, and Yang Geyong enlarged the image.

It shows that this is evidence of the reactivation of an ancient fault zone, with the basalt covered in "rust marks" formed by deep-sea iron oxide.

In the hydrothermal vent area that Ye Mei reminded me of, chimney-shaped sediments spewed out milky white fluid, and thermophilic archaea formed a blood-red bacterial carpet around it.

“It’s fucking amazing!”

Ye Yuze couldn't help but swear. If we go by numbers, there are definitely more marine life than on land.

A forest of giant tube worms appeared under the searchlight, their two-meter-high white sheaths swaying with the water, like alien plants. They also looked like upright chimneys.

Clusters of blind shrimps covered the surface of the chimney. Yang Geyong couldn't help picking two. The claws of one of the shrimps actually made a "clicking" sound outside the cabin.

The abyss lionfish swims close to the seabed, with its wriggling internal organs visible under its translucent skin.

Yang Geyong caught two more. The main thing was that it was so magical that this thing was actually transparent.

At this time, the temperature dropped to 1.5℃, and even though he was wearing electric heating clothes, Yang Geyong was shaking a little.

The pressure exceeded 500 atm, the oxygen concentration in the cabin was forced to increase to 30%, and his fingertips began to feel numb.

This is a precursor to high-pressure neurological syndrome. Yang Geyong stared at a new crack on the bulkhead.

"If the cracks are more than 3 millimetres ... we're done for."

Because water is already seeping in, dripping, this is all thanks to the fact that the diving chamber is made of multi-layer materials. If it were a single layer, such a crack would have been torn apart under the strong pressure long ago.

At this time, the diving chamber had reached the bottom of the water at a depth of 5800 meters. This was certainly not the deepest part of the Amirante Trench, but cracks had appeared in the diving chamber again.

The moment they hit the bottom, sediment rose like smoke. Sonar showed that they were in the middle of a turbidity plain.

And Yukiko's exclamation suddenly exploded: "Nine o'clock! It's a whale fall!"

A whale fall is a sperm whale skeleton half-buried in sediment, its ribs crammed with bone-eating worms whose feathery tentacles are breaking down the blubber.

Countless amphipods drilled in and out of the sperm whale's eye cavity. A swallowing eel suddenly opened its huge mouth and swallowed a half-meter-long worm into its gelatinous stomach.

Ye Yuze started the laser cutter to collect whale bone samples, but the robotic arm outside the cabin suddenly got stuck.

A never-before-seen crimson siphonophore had entangled the joints of the robotic arm!

Yang Geyong switched to emergency hydraulic mode. The cabin tilted 30 degrees due to the reaction force, and Ye Yuze's head hit the cabin wall heavily.

"Warning! The crack in the shell has expanded to 2.7 mm!" The alarm sounded at the same time as Ye Mei's command.

Inside the diving chamber, sea water had formed a small stream and began to pour in. Ye Yuze took various things and tried to block the crack.

Because at this time the crack was expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye. If this continued, he and Yang Geyong would have no chance of survival.

But how could such pressure be resisted? The things stuffed into the cracks only exacerbated the expansion of the cracks.

Ye Yuze smiled bitterly: "Brother, we may be buried in the sea."

Yang Geyong laughed, "Yuze, what are you afraid of? Our lives are worth living, and we can die together. I don't regret it."

Before Ye Yuze could say anything, the mini-submarine released an unmanned helicopter, which came to the crack of the diving cabin.

At this time, sea water was rushing into the crack under tremendous pressure.

The rescue drone used nanogel to temporarily seal the cracks. Although this glue is effective, it will not last long.

So the diving tank must rise to the surface immediately, but the rapid ascent will cause a surge in the risk of decompression sickness, which may also endanger the lives of both people.

Xue Zi looked at Ye Mei with some concern, but Ye Mei gave the order boldly:

"Ascend immediately, at the fastest speed!"

Blood was oozing from Yang Geyong's nasal cavity. When Ye Yuze injected him with an anticoagulant, the last wonderful scene flashed outside the porthole.

The methane ice in the cold spring area glows blue under the light, and the symbiotic mussels open their golden-red gills to filter out methane-oxidizing bacteria.

Ye Yuze sat cross-legged and adjusted his breathing. His body was also feeling uncomfortable, but he used the abdominal breathing method of Bajiquan to fight against the increasing pressure...

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