Dragon Clan: Retired Death, goes to work to slay dragons

A white storm roared.

Like a white dragon roaring and roaring.

But dozens of engineering staff still stood there, all busy around a tall black shadow.

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

"The Nautilus, a nuclear submarine independently developed by the Equipment Department, can dive to a maximum depth of 5,000 meters and covers 87% of the world's oceans."

"It has made more than 1,300 dives, completing surveys of excessive metal bonding areas, deep seabed ecology, and search missions for shipwrecks and hazardous waste."

"The 'Nautilus' has salvaged more than 1,500 cultural relics in total. Its robotic arm is very flexible and can bring back fragile items like crystal vases intact."

Schneider's indifferent voice came from the earphones, explaining: "For your safety, you will use the Nautilus, which has been modified by the Equipment Department, to conduct dive missions."

Fingel looked at the submarine, still admiring it.

"This 'Nautilus' was independently developed by those crazy people in the Equipment Department?" Caesar raised his eyebrows, "I thought it was the 'Nautilus' nuclear submarine under the US Navy."

"It's very different from that nuclear submarine in size." Chu Zihang suddenly said, "It's more like the submarine that appeared in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"."

In the science fiction novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", Ned Land, Professor Aronnax and his servant Conseil followed Captain Nemo on the "Nautilus" on a fantasy journey of twenty thousand miles under the sea. .

In the novel, it is 70 meters long and 8 meters wide. It has a slender spindle shape in appearance and can reach a maximum speed of 50 knots. The interior of the ship is very spacious and comfortable, and there is even a museum and library.

But as Captain Nemo's car in science fiction novels, the "Nautilus" was a product that completely surpassed the technological level at the time. It had many impossible black technological functions and could be said to be an ideal submarine.

Chu Zihang felt that his concept of the equipment department had been refreshed again.

Fingel always said that the people in the equipment department like to study "Gundam" and "Kamen Rider" and so on. Unexpectedly, those chuuni psychopaths who like to fantasize actually built a fantasy submarine.

"Oh? So it sounds more like the submarine in the novel."

Caesar raised his eyebrows and looked at the very strong-looking steel attack angle on the bow of the boat, with a look of worry in his eyes: "I just don't know if the attack angle power of this submarine is as powerful as what is said in the novel. Strong."

At the end of the novel, the "Nautilus" relied on its steel angle to successfully counterattack the enemy warship that attacked it. It rammed the side of the battleship at high speed, and the angle directly penetrated the hull of the battleship.

"The Equipment Department has undergone renovations, and Director Akadulla has repeatedly said, 'Quality is guaranteed.'"

Schneider comforted him in the headset: "Judging from the instructions for use, they have worked very hard this time and installed several new systems. It is already a weakened version in the novel."

"Those are a group of lunatics who are making bombs. You can't trust their guarantees." Fingel's eyes twitched and he looked at Jiang Shouyun with pleading eyes, hoping that he could say something fair.

Go on a mission in a submarine whose equipment was reproduced, developed and modified based on science fiction novels?

Fingel said he is not tired of living yet!

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

When the storm passed by, they couldn't hear each other yelling at each other. They could only look at the shape of their mouths or communicate through devices.

"The inspection work has been completed. The Nautilus is in good condition and the sea water conditions are stable. You can enter the water after you are in place." A commissioner came to Jiang Shouyun and said.

Jiang Shouyun stood on the deck and looked at the glacier below, his long windbreaker whistling in the wind.

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

Chu Zihang instantly thought of the unpopular knowledge and said: "Haenyeo are girls who fished for pearls in ancient times. They can dive hundreds of meters deep without equipment and use knives to pry open large clams to collect pearls."

Jiang Shouyun nodded and added: "When the haenyeo dive, they tie a rope around their waists and give the other end of the rope to their relatives on the boat."

"If they encounter danger at the bottom of the sea, they will pull hard on the rope. If their relatives pull the rope back, they may be able to save them. If they cannot be saved, their bodies can also be recovered."

"The rope can only be held in the hands of relatives, because haenyeo only believe in relatives, but haenyeo husbands say that if you are tired of your wife, take her to a distant sea to fish for pearls, and then throw the rope into the water. alright."

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

"Before diving, I want to say one last thing. I don't want you to do your own thing. You must obey my orders, okay?"

Chu Zihang and Caesar nodded without hesitation.

"Teacher Jiang, what are you talking about!" Fingel patted his chest and said boldly: "I am your lackey in front of the horse. When you point the whip, I will rush forward."

Jiang Shouyun gave him a thoughtful look, turned around and left, and the three of them followed him off the giant ship.

They came to the ice crevice again. On both sides of the crevice were rugged ice cliffs, and below was the dark and bottomless sea.

The cold air that changed the surrounding climate came from under this ice crack.

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I couldn't have imagined that a human could do this." Caesar smacked his lips.

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

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

In the short time they were gone.

The cracks that were originally more than ten meters long that Jiang Shouyun created with his own hands have now expanded to be a thousand meters long and dozens of meters wide.

The thick glacier, which was originally blue and white, seemed to have been lightly cut 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 "initial solution" shot with great visual impact actually used the accumulated stress on the ice to a certain extent to allow the power to explode in advance when it was needed.

In the final analysis, he is just like the big guy below, wielding the power and rules of the world itself.

"It seems there must be a big guy down here." Fingel stood by the ice crack, looking down at the bottomless dark sea, slightly absent-minded.

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

The force of the tug was so strong that one of Fingel's buttons flew off.

Click, click, click!

The glacier suddenly began to shake violently, making a heart-stopping cracking sound, and the huge cracking sound filled my ears.

Fingel's foot slipped on the smooth ice, and he was pulled by Chu Zihang to prevent him from falling onto the ice cliff.

He looked at the bottom of the ice cliff in confusion. The dark seawater was blue-black, slowly undulating, with many broken ice floating on it, and the black button floating and spinning on it.

In the polar environment, it is said that hot urine will turn into ice lumps before landing.

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

"What are you so confused about?" Chu Zihang frowned.

He was keenly aware of Fingel's anomaly, and felt that something was brewing in this careless loser's heart.

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

At the same time, the diving dock at the bottom of the YAMAL was opened, and the Nautilus fell into the black ice crevice.

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

The frogman team dived into the sea and hung the safety line on the safety hook on the top of the Nautilus. The other end of the safety line was connected to the wheel on the top of the YAMAL.

This huge wheel is wrapped with a twelve-kilometer-long safety line. This metal safety line is durable and wear-resistant. The equipment department’s specially designed recovery system can recover the submarine from the bottom within twenty minutes.

"The time is five fifteen. I am the on-site commander Schneider. Dive team, are you ready?"

Jiang Shouyun pressed the earphones and said, "Hurry up. I don't like wasting time in this ghost place. I'm done with this mission. If it's early, we can still have a midnight snack."

"...Okay." Schneider paused and said, "I wish you good luck."

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

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

"The depth is 30 meters, the flow rate is stable, and the operation is normal." The versatile Caesar manipulated this deep-diving equipment very skillfully, switching between different valves and knobs rhythmically with his hands.

More compressed air was released, and the bathyscaphe sank deeper into the water.

It was clear that no one knew about diving in a submarine before this, and there was no training before. They just threw an operation manual over.

But Caesar became familiar with the submarine's control panel after just a few glances, just like an experienced captain stroking the familiar old wooden helm.

According to him, he has many submarines at home.

They were all antiques bought by his stallion father to seduce his girls. In comparison, this submarine modified by the equipment department could be said to be operated by a fool.

When Caesar said this, there was a lazy aristocratic air in his eyebrows that didn't care much about anything.

In Fingel's words, aristocrats are awesome. Real aristocrats never emphasize hard work. Those who become awesome through hard work are nouveau riche.

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

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

The moment he was completely submerged in darkness, Fingel shuddered slightly.

Caesar's expression also condensed slightly.

He suddenly understood what Jiang Shouyun had just said.

Only by following the sinking of the submarine and feeling the light above getting darker and darker, and finally the darkness swallowing everything, can we truly feel the loneliness far away from the world.

Their ears were filled with the sounds of mechanical operation and whistling air, and they could even hear each other's breathing and heartbeats.

In daily life, even in an absolutely quiet room, there will be background noise of more than ten decibels, such as the sound of heavy trucks driving across the ground vibrating in the distance and the sound of running water in the air conditioner pipes.

It's just that it's difficult for ordinary people to notice these sounds.

At this moment, the background noise was reduced to zero. Although the noise of the machine was loud, the heartbeat and breathing were exceptionally clear.

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

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

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

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

Fingel was surprised to see a long line of small silver fish that he couldn't name and swam past while wiping their shells. He rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't dreaming.

This ice sea is actually full of life, with large schools of thousands of fish floating in the twilight-like water.

This place that seemed as silent as death was actually full of life. The gas thunder illuminated their bodies, and they were as bright as a Milky Way.

Some go out of the spiral ascending arc, and some plunge into the seabed like whirlpools. Some of these fish are as white as silver, some have almost transparent bodies, and some emit a faint blue fluorescence.

Occasionally, huge manta rays flap their fleshy, feathery fins to penetrate these fish schools. The fish schools open a gap and then return to their original shape. Huge sea turtles swim with the fish schools, waving their wing-like fins awkwardly.

"Suddenly I feel like my vocabulary is a little lacking!" Fingel said sincerely, "I can only use the word "fuck" to describe my feelings.

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

The dreamy beauty exceeds the limit of imagination, making people mistakenly think that the sea water outside the porthole is the late night sky, and schools of fish are swimming in the sky.

"The ecological environment is abnormal. There shouldn't be so many types of marine animals here." Chu Zihang leaned on the observation window and said, "It means there is something unusual nearby that has rebuilt the ecological environment."

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

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

The turtle's carapace 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 when humans think they have become the masters of the earth, some guys have established a new population ecosphere in places where no light can be seen.