my stealth fighter

Chapter 540
Pacific Ocean, Dragon Triangle sea area.

This notorious sea area has been covered with a layer of mystery due to the frequent occurrence of mysterious disappearance or sinking of planes or ships. A considerable part of the victims of the incidents did not even send out a call for help, so it is called the Bermuda Triangle of the East.

There are countless rumors about this sea area circulating among fishermen and ocean sailors, most of which are too bizarre, even involving aliens or supernatural forces, and have never entered the eyes of mainstream scientific circles.

The weather in the Dragon Triangle area today is as bad as ever. The sea is rough and the sky has turned gray. The dizzyingly huge waves are enough to throw a super cargo ship into the air. When it falls, the keel may have broken.

However, no matter how bad the situation on the sea surface is, no matter how bad the weather is, it cannot affect the 200 meters below the sea surface. At this depth, the current plays a dominant role.

Even on a sunny day, the sun can’t reach 200 meters below the sea surface. It’s basically pitch black, only some self-illuminating fish, shrimps, and plankton are shining with weak cold light, attracting those who throw themselves into the net. prey.

A new guest came here today. It broke in silently, its body was as huge as a giant whale, and it seemed that it didn't pay attention to the horror rumors that had different opinions here.

This is an attack nuclear submarine of unknown nationality. Its two nuclear reactors provide it with enough power to cross the Pacific Ocean in one go. If necessary, it can stay on the surface for two or three months without surfacing quietly. Lurking under the sea surface, playing a game of cat and mouse with potential enemy submarines, the biggest task is to track the enemy's strategic nuclear submarines, sink the target when receiving combat instructions, and try to prevent yourself from being attacked by the enemy. The attack nuclear submarine was sunk.

However, the submarine on mission today received a telegram ordering it to abandon the target it had been tracking for weeks and switch to other missions temporarily. The mission details are top secret and only the captain can read them, not even the first officer. right to know.

Most of the crew members are very confused. You must know that it is very rare to find the enemy's strategic nuclear submarine in the vast sea. They have been tracking them for so long, so it is not a pity to give up like this?

But an order is an order, and no matter what you think in your heart, you must execute the order without compromise.

The captain had been sullen since he received the order, and instructed the navigator to steer the submarine to this sea area.

The crew dismissed the superstitious rumors, but they also did not understand the value of this sea area with an average depth of more than 2000 meters, because strategic nuclear submarines often need to "sit" on the bottom of the sea and wait for the one that is enough to push all mankind to the end. The ultimate command of the abyss, and this sea area is too deep, if you really "sit" down, you will not be able to float up, so it is impossible to have strategic nuclear submarines cruising in this sea area.

"What did you find?"

In the command room, the captain with gray temples and a neat military uniform asked the listener.

"Uh... There is a merchant ship in the direction of 2-7-6, about 1000 meters away, and it is fighting the storm." The listener wearing the headset stared at the echo map on the screen in front of him, which was too obscure for ordinary people.

"What else?" asked the captain again.

"The storm on the sea was too noisy, and no other ships were found...Sir, what is the target we are looking for?"

The captain pondered for a while, and said: "The magnetic field anomaly area, and all the abnormal existences around the magnetic field anomalous area—I mean things that move."

"..."

The listeners and sonar officers looked at each other in blank dismay, and the captain's answer seemed to be the same as no answer.

"In short, if you hear a moving object that does not match the known noise signatures in the database, whether you suspect it is a submarine or a whale, you must report it to me immediately," the captain said.

"Yes, sir!"

The captain's eyes were fixed on the chart on the screen. At present, the submarine has sailed to an area very close to the coordinates in the order, and the further it goes, the more dangerous it will be.

"One-third full speed," he ordered.

The helmsman slowed down the speed of the submarine, which they had rushed at almost full speed before.

"All enter the combat position." The captain ordered again.

The chief mate communicated the instructions to the entire submarine through the walkie-talkie. All the crew got busy, put aside all the miscellaneous affairs, and ran to their own posts to stand by. The condition of the submarine being hit by a fire.

"Turn on the bow to actively detect the sonar," said the captain.

The sonar operator was stunned, thinking that he had heard it wrong, because entering the combat position and turning on the active sonar are mutually exclusive commands. When entering the combat state, it is necessary to avoid revealing its position as much as possible, but hitting the active sonar is equivalent to facing the cone-shaped area ahead Loudly declaring their positions to all potential enemy submarines inside would be suicidal.

"Didn't hear it?" The captain glared at the sonar officer dissatisfied.

The sonar operator turned to the first officer by sight.

"Sir..." the first mate tried to remonstrate.

"Execute the order, and I will be responsible for everything! The target of this operation is not an enemy submarine. There should be no enemy submarines nearby. Even if there are, they probably won't trouble us." The captain emphasized his tone.

"Yes..." The sonar operator turned on the active sonar with a confused expression.

The others were also dumbfounded. If you don't fight enemy submarines in the sea, are you fighting the Dragon Lord?
Active detection sonar emits a powerful sound wave forward, which can travel a very long distance in sea water. When the sound wave encounters obstacles, it will reflect back and appear on the display as an echo graphic. The detection distance is farther than simply monitoring water sound. much.

"There is an abnormality ahead!" The sonar operator concentrated, "The orientation is 0-1-3, and the distance is about ten kilometers!"

"What is it?" The captain leaned over.

"I don't know...the shape is irregular, it's in a state of suspension...it might be a place with abnormal salt content." The sonar operator tried hard to identify it, but the shape of the echo map seemed to be that the chaotic existence in front of him was just a mass of irregular sea water.

The salinity content in seawater is not exactly the same. Even in the same sea area, the salinity content of seawater at different depths is not the same. Occasionally, there will be a rare stratification phenomenon. The upper layer of seawater has low salt content, and the lower layer The salt content is high, and the sonar will sometimes reflect back when it encounters such layers, thinking that it has detected the bottom of the sea, but it is actually just the interface of sea water.

If it was normal training, the captain would probably pat the sonar operator on the shoulder to show his approval, because it is indeed the place with abnormal salt content, but the reason is not what the sonar operator thought. The abnormal salt content is the result, not the cause. The seawater has been mixed with seawater from another world. The salinity of the seawater in the two worlds cannot be exactly the same. Even the salinity of the seawater in different parts of the earth is different.

"Stop advancing, suspend in place, and dispatch the underwater robot." The captain ordered.

The huge submarine stopped slowly, and a thing similar in size and shape to a torpedo was launched, with an optical fiber wire connected behind it. It was an underwater robot, equivalent to a miniature clone of the submarine, performing close-range reconnaissance or For other dangerous tasks, the operator is remotely controlled through optical fiber, so the robot will not be disturbed by the outside world and lose control.

The torpedo-shaped robot turned on its front searchlights, and the bright beams illuminated the dark sea water. The fish frightened by the light fled in all directions, but there were also some phototaxis marine creatures approaching curiously.

The images captured by the camera are transmitted back to the submarine through optical fiber and displayed on the screen.

200 meters underwater is far from deep sea, and marine life that occasionally appears in front of the camera is relatively common, and there is nothing to make a fuss about.

As the robot quietly approached the abnormal location of salt, the sonar operator suddenly exclaimed: "New target found!"

"Location?" asked the captain.

"It's right at...the abnormal salt location, but why didn't I find it before..." The sonar operator stuttered, he couldn't understand the echo graph at all. Come out, just like a pregnant woman giving birth, but how is this possible?

"New target moving...very fast, bearing 0-4-0, speed 35 knots!" the sonar operator reported.

The listener held on to the earphones suspiciously, "It's not a sperm whale... and it's not a gray whale... I can't hear the sound of the propeller... Ah!"

The listener let out a scream, took off the earphones and threw them away, because at that moment, there was a very sharp cry, which was different from all the calls of sea creatures he had ever heard, almost like... from Banshee of hell.

"Inject water into No. 1 and No. 2 torpedo tubes!" the captain ordered.

Although he did not know what the target was, the torpedo operator faithfully carried out his orders and prepared to launch the two torpedo tubes in the bow.

"The robot is moving in the direction of 0-4-0, let me see what this guy is..." The captain clenched his fists.

The robot changed direction.

"2 kilometers away from the target..."

"1 kilometers away from the target..."

"The distance from the target is 400 meters, contact is expected in 14 seconds."

"150 meters away from the target, expected to contact in 5 seconds..."

Everyone in the command room stared at the screen with wide-eyed eyes. Even though the robot turned on the searchlight, it was disturbed by the storm on the sea surface, and the sea water was relatively turbid and the visibility was not high.

Suddenly, something appeared within the range of the searchlight, but because it and the underwater robot were heading towards each other and their relative speed was very high, the camera only captured a very short period of time.

Such a picture made everyone in the command room stunned, even if the enemy's nuclear submarine suddenly turned into a platypus, they would not be shocked like this.

"That's... what kind of monster?"

The same question popped up in everyone's mind.

At that moment, they saw a long and thick animal flashing past the edge of the searchlight. It seemed to have no limbs, and the muscles of the torso were unusually strong. There are no eyes on the head, but a huge mouth that frightens everyone present. The huge square mouth is densely covered with sharp teeth, and there is a bottomless throat in the middle, biting towards the searchlight. One click, and the robot loses its signal.

"The target is accelerating! Direction 0-8-5!" The sonar operator who came back to his senses reported.

The captain cursed secretly, is this guy trying to escape?

No, it didn't run away. It probably felt that the robot was not to its liking. It sped towards a tuna that appeared in the wrong place at the wrong time. The tuna was eaten by it in a few bites, leaving only the head and tail.

“1号、2号鱼雷发射！方向0-8-5！”艇长下令，“鱼雷设为手动引爆。”

Two heavy-duty torpedoes jumped out of the launch tube, and they were also connected to fiber optic cables that were not afraid of interference. Since the sonar and noise characteristics of the target were not recorded, the torpedoes could not automatically match and track the target, and could only be manually controlled by the operator.

The monster seems to be aware of something tracking it, and the eight suspected eyes on its side can see a range of 180 degrees front and back, adding up to 360 degrees, and each eye is very large, providing it with excellent dark Optical vision, maybe it can also superimpose and synthesize the visual images seen by the four eyes on each side for noise reduction, even if you can't see your fingers at a depth of 200 meters underwater, you can see clearly.

It turns sharply, trying to get rid of the pursuer. Its body is far more flexible than the torpedo, but the torpedo is not an animal. It will always bite on it until the fuel is exhausted or it escapes the attack range. Behind, even if it is temporarily thrown away, it will still find the target under the guidance of the operator.

Seeing that it was about to be overtaken by a torpedo, it seemed to be aware of the crisis, and its body suddenly swelled up several times, as if it opened its mouth and swallowed seawater, filling itself into a football, and then squeezed the seawater out from the back of its body .

At the same time, the No. 1 torpedo exploded, and the seawater at the explosion site was first gasified under high temperature and pressure, and then a large number of bubbles were compressed centripetally under the water pressure, and the surrounding seawater was violently turbulent. The explosion in speed escaped the range of the explosion at the very moment.

However, it survived the first day of the new year but not the fifteenth day. The No. 2 torpedo passed through the aftermath of the explosion. The muffled sound was heard, and the monster finally had no bones left—it’s a bit of an exaggeration to say that, in fact, a part of its tail remained intact, and it slowly sank to the bottom of the sea. Chances of being washed up on the beach one day.

Although the monster was eliminated, the crew were still immersed in the scene just now and couldn't extricate themselves. The robot was destroyed, but at least the video was preserved.

"Delete the video just now, no backup." The captain ordered.

"Sir..."

"Execute the order!" The captain pursed his lips tightly, his face was as if dripping water, and he looked at the abnormal salt spot on the echo map, "Do you think the battle is over? No, the battle has just begun!"

(End of this chapter)