Homo sapiens

November 5, 2020.

The calm Pacific Northwest.

A submarine sailed silently in this sea area.

The submarine is only 137 kilometers away from America's Guam base.

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

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

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

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

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

New humans include ordinary employees implanted with biochips, web managers and soldiers.

Now the number of new humans within the Luzon army is rising rapidly, and the same is true for Hongsawady.

Obviously, Homo sapiens companies have very limited trust in ordinary natural people.

Especially when it comes to arming such a key force, as more and more secret weapons of the Homo sapiens company are included in the equipment, the risk of leaks is also increasing.

There are too many factors beyond the control of natural people, so it must not be used.

For example, the sailors in this submarine are all new humans. There is no natural person, so the possibility of leaking secrets is minimized.

This submarine is an upgraded version of the Mackerel class - the Tuna class submarine. This type of submarine continues the design concept of the Mackerel class. In addition to concealment, its other performance is ordinary.

At this time, the mission of this submarine is to come here and lay mines.

The submarine was parked on the seabed with an average water depth of about 240 meters. The cabin at the bottom was opened and a small submarine was dropped.

The submersible sank slowly until it touched the surface of the sand on the seabed, stirring up a slight layer of sand. The surrounding marine animals were also startled by this sudden uninvited guest and fled from the vicinity of the submersible.

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

Soon, a large number of genetically modified parasites appeared on the surface of the submersible. These genetically modified parasites were similar to worms and earthworms. They used their mouthparts to devour the surrounding sediment and then spit the sediment out to the surroundings.

In this way, the submarine sinks into the mud little by little.

It only takes about 3 days for the submersible to be completely buried by mud and sand.

The submarine is equipped with 4 heavy-duty oxygen torpedoes and 10 mines. It carries a pheromone and sonar detection system that can effectively monitor sea areas with a radius of 50 to 80 kilometers.

This is equivalent to building a secret submarine silo here.

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

As long as necessary, this submarine can be activated to turn this sea area into a minefield.

Moreover, these submarines can communicate with each other through pheromones. Although the amount of information exchanged is limited, it is still sufficient for transmitting instructions.

In addition, the submarine optical fiber monitoring network of Homo sapiens is also spreading along the surrounding waters.

For example, near the Caroline Islands at this time, another Tuna-class ship No. 003 of the Shark Brigade was performing a secret mission in the waters.

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

Especially the Luzon Trench, with a depth of five to six kilometers, has a huge impact on the laying of submarine optical cables.

Therefore, when arranging submarine optical cables, if you can bypass the trench, you should try to avoid it. Although optical cables can also be arranged in trenches, if they break, it will be very troublesome to repair.

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

At this time, Tuna 003 is laying out the submarine optical cable, which is the southern line that bypasses the Maluku Islands.

Tuna 003 opens the hatch from the bottom and drops a submersible. This submersible is about the same size as a submersible equipped with torpedoes and mines. In fact, it is developed from the same basic module.

The entire submersible weighs about 50 tons. In order to avoid the pressure of water pressure, the interior adopts a nearly solid design, coupled with the body structure design of a deep-sea fish.

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

The previous old-fashioned method of laying submarine optical cables has been eliminated by the Homo sapiens company.

The old-fashioned laying method requires the cooperation of ships and requires ships to stay nearby for a period of time. It is okay for construction in your own sea area and can barely be used on the high seas. However, once it is close to the sea areas of other countries or hotspot high seas areas, it becomes inappropriate. It's not safe anymore.

So Homo sapiens updated the technology.

This technology is called submarine directional growth technology.

The specific operation is very simple. First, explore a route suitable for laying out submarine optical cables on the seabed, and then set up a node every 100 kilometers or so.

The submarine is the core component placed on the node.

But after the submersible buries itself deep into the sediment layer, the internal directional growth system will be activated and begin to grow coral optical cables in a fixed direction.

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

Because in the early stage of seabed topography exploration, a growing anchor weighing 150 kilograms will be placed on the determined route.

The growth anchor is a scaled-down version of the submersible that can penetrate into the 10- to 15-meter seabed sediment layer and then continuously release pheromones to induce the coral optical cable to grow in a fixed direction.

Usually, such growing anchors are placed every 1,000 meters.

Coral optical cables will grow at a rate of 300 to 500 meters per day in the sediment layer with a depth of 10 to 15 meters.

This growth rate is actually due to the ability of genetically modified coral polyps to quickly drill into the soil, especially in soft sediment layers. Their chitinous mouthparts can quickly swallow the surrounding soil and obtain part of the required raw materials. Honeycomb-shaped coral tubes with a diameter of 10 to 12 cm are constructed.

Another type of genetically modified coral will begin to generate fiber optic crystals in these coral tubes.

This submarine optical cable composed of biological optical fibers can not only carry very high information throughput, but also has the ability to self-repair.

Each growth anchor and growth node stores a large number of nutrients, which is also an important factor in promoting the rapid reproduction of coral polyps and the construction of optical fiber crystals and protective shells.

Normally, the nutrient reserves of the growing nodes are enough to build a submarine optical cable with a length of 400 kilometers.

Nowadays, the submarine optical cable is only a connection between two nodes, and has not yet changed from a linear shape to a mesh shape, so the remaining nutrients are a kind of reserve that can be used for subsequent line expansion and line maintenance.

In order to maintain confidentiality, each growth node is equipped with an automatic destruction system. If any accident occurs, the node can be completely destroyed as soon as possible.

In fact, the safety of the seabed is pretty good now.

Especially on the seabed with a water depth of more than 2,000 meters, except for seabed drilling platforms that exploit oil, submarines rarely dive to the seabed below 1,000 meters. Similarly, anchorages where ships anchor are rarely operated on the seabed with a depth of more than 500 meters. .

In this way, you only need to avoid the drilling platform, and generally it will not be discovered or destroyed.

On the contrary, submarine optical cables in shallow water areas are much less safe.

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