Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 849 The Disappearing Submersible
At this time, Yaguna Ketor is above.

The flashing light spot on the virtual screen that symbolized the deep submersible stopped moving after it descended to the seabed, and stayed there for a full minute.

"What's going on?" Layton, who was always paying attention to the movement of the submersible, couldn't help frowning, "Is the submersible malfunctioning, or is Lao Chi and the others doing some debugging? Why didn't they move for so long?"

Just when Layton was about to contact them to inquire about the situation, the normally flashing light spot suddenly went out!

"The signal of the deep submersible has disappeared! Repeat! The signal of the deep submersible has disappeared!" Not far from the console, a logistics member of the Hunting God Hunting Group who was in charge of coordinating the communication equipment raised his head from the equipment and shouted to Layton. shouted.

"What's going on? Is the equipment malfunctioning?" Layton turned around and asked anxiously.

"It's not clear yet, investigation is underway!" The logistician replied.

It takes 3 minutes to conduct a global troubleshooting on the entire set of communication equipment, but for Layton, these 3 minutes are like 30 years...

"Deputy...deputy head..." The logistics staff stared at the screen blankly, the light reflected from the screen hit his pale face, combined with the dark surroundings, he looked a little creepy People, "The whole set of communication equipment... including hardware and software, we have checked and there is no fault."

"There is no fault? Then why did the old dog's signal disappear?!" After waiting for a long time for such a result, Layton obviously couldn't accept it.

Compared to other "accidents", he would rather the logistics staff tell himself that something went wrong with them.

"Generally speaking, there are two possibilities for this to happen." The logistician replied, "The first is that there is strong interference between the deep submersible and us, and the second is that the deep submersible has actively turned off the signal. transceiver."

"No..." Zofia's voice sounded from the side, "They are no longer in this sea area."

Layton froze for a moment, and then turned his head to look in Zofia Soma's direction. The latter was standing in front of the screen showing the environment scan image. Under the investigation, the details of the entire seabed and the entire undersea city are displayed on this three-dimensional image composed of monochromatic lines.

"At the moment when the submersible's signal disappeared, the scanned image appeared similar to a 'frame drop'. After the image returned to normal, I could no longer find the position of the submersible." Zuo Fei Ya said.

Although Yagunaktor's environmental scanning is said to be real-time, its operating mechanism is actually very similar to that of sonar. Every time it is scanned, the image will be updated once. The original update frequency is about fifteen times per second, but just now Just now, the screen was not updated for a full two seconds. When it was updated again, Zofia found that the submersible that the Hound and the others were riding had disappeared from the screen.

"How could this be?" Layton moved his head close to the screen, staring at the screen and searching carefully... let alone the deep submersible, he couldn't even find the outline of the suspected deep submersible wreckage.

"Deputy head, Miss Soma, the detector has found an abnormal undercurrent!" Another logistics staff suddenly stood up and said.

Layton rushed to his side in two steps in three steps, and looked at the screen in front of the support staff.

On the screen is a grotesque [-]D modeling, and the circles of closed ripples are like the contour lines in the topographic map—except that as the screen is refreshed, these ripples are always changing, and there is a direction The ripples on the body seemed to be pulled by some kind of force, protruding out more than half a circle.

"What is the abnormal undercurrent?" Layton asked anxiously. As a layman, he couldn't understand this kind of image, or could it only be interpreted by professionals.

"Here, here, and here." The logistics staff with professional qualifications in this field tapped several "bulging" places on the screen, "There are abnormal undercurrents in these places without warning. After the source of the undercurrent is restored through [-]D modeling, and then compared and analyzed with the data in the database, it can be basically confirmed that a violent explosion occurred at this location, and these undercurrents are actually the shock waves generated by the explosion.”

Although the location of the explosion cannot be accurate to a single point, the circled "source area" is not far from the location where the signal of the deep submersible disappears... As for the violent explosion, Layton immediately thought of the deep submersible. Equipped with a torpedo using "Concentrated Crystal"!

He and Chi Hanfeng equipped these torpedoes with their own hands.

"It's a torpedo! They used torpedoes underwater!" Layton clenched his left fist and slammed it hard into the palm of his right hand, making a crisp "snap". Caused the signal to disappear! No, I have to support them!"

As he said that, Layton strode towards the equipment warehouse with strides, but Zofia stopped him before he had gone a few steps.

"Layton, there is no equipment on Yagunaktor that can withstand the water pressure at this depth, you can't get out at all!"

"Without equipment, can't I make it myself?" Layton said without turning his head. "There are materials, parts and processing equipment here...I don't believe that a living person can be suffocated to death by shit!"

"Are you planning to... temporarily build a deep submersible?"

"Otherwise?" Layton switched the communicator in his hand to the full-channel mode, and said loudly, "All the people in the engineering department, immediately put down the work at hand, bring your tools, and gather at Hangar No. [-]! Now, Immediately, immediately... I repeat, it is all the people from the engineering department, gather at Hangar No. [-], this is the highest priority order!"

Layton's sonorous voice echoed throughout the core power room through the loudspeaker, and those people wearing yellow or blue overalls poured out from various buildings and ran towards the same direction.

The Engineering Department of the Hunting God Hunting Group is an independent department established at the strong request of Layton from the Logistics Department, and even on the same level as the former. The main task of the Engineering Department is to be responsible for developing and transforming the equipment of the front-line members of the Hunting Group. From aircraft missiles to belt buckles, all the equipment on Ke Lan and the others was made by the engineering department.Since the budget is quite sufficient, the engineering department never takes "cost performance" into consideration. All products are basically pursuing the ultimate performance and quality, even those few top equipment brands that have been famous for a long time Its private custom series are not qualified to compete with the products of the engineering department of the Hunting God Hunting Group.

After all, those big brands have to consider revenue and loss when doing business, and the engineering department of the Hunting God Hunting Group does not need... a professional team of hundreds of people, plus a budget that is hundreds of times that of mass-produced equipment , just for the service of a few people, the things made are naturally not comparable to ordinary customized equipment.

In addition to the two department chiefs, Layton and Chi Hanfeng, they also "borrowed" many top experts and skilled workers from the Ye Family and Soma Consortia... The engineering department of the Hunting God Hunting Group, In just a few months, it has evolved from a little-known small workshop to an industry standard surpasser... Except for aircraft carriers and battleships, there is almost nothing that this engineering department cannot produce.

"Listen up, everyone in the engineering department, we are in big trouble." Layton explained to others through the walkie-talkie as he walked, "Just now, the deep submersible 'King Squid' lost contact with us. , judging from the direction of the water flow, at least one 'Tusk IV' torpedo was detonated underwater before the signal from the deep submersible.

"You should all be aware that Yagunaktor is now at a depth of 3000 meters below the sea level in the Central Sea. The water pressure at this depth is enough to crush us into a thin sheet of paper...I need you to use your hand to All the materials and tools I found were used to build a deep submersible that could withstand the water pressure at this depth... No, just a deep submersible is not enough. What I need is a highly mobile weapon that can fight underwater!

"Six hours, I can only give you six hours. Whether it is design, assembly or debugging, it must be completed within these six hours! Do you understand?"

Upon hearing that the time limit was only six hours, those members of the engineering department who were rushing to the No. [-] hangar suddenly started talking in a low voice——

"Is the deputy head crazy? Six hours... It's not enough to draw a complete design drawing. How can you build a deep submersible that can be put into use? Unless you copy the blueprint of the existing deep submersible... But the problem is that the inner shell of that thing is formed in one go with special forging equipment, and there is no such equipment on Yagunaktor!" A man was wearing yellow work clothes stained with oil, with a head buckled on his head. The middle-aged man in the helmet of the same color said.

"You're a bit wrong. What the deputy head wants is not a deep submersible that can be put into use, but an underwater mech that can be put into battle... This thing, in normal times, I don't want to discuss the feasibility of the plan." I think it will take a few months, six hours... tsk..." Another man tied his work jacket around his waist, wore only a vest on his upper body, exposed two shirtless arms, and carried a heavy box in his hand. The strong man with mechanical tools replied.

"No matter what I build at that time, I won't drive it anyway, even if it kills me." The middle-aged man shook his head with a pale face, "Just thinking about being pressed into a fleshy membrane by water pressure Looking at the scene, I feel that the things I ate not long ago are churning in my stomach, as if they will come up at any time."

"Then you'd better hold back and don't vomit... I heard from the people in the logistics department that there doesn't seem to be much food left... I guess it's for this reason that the deputy head is so anxious." The strong man lowered his voice Said.

Although the food shortage is no longer a secret, he still has some scruples in his heart about discussing such a disturbing topic in public.

"Then can't Yaguna Ketor be driven away from this place?" The middle-aged man pushed the glasses that slipped to the middle of the bridge of his nose, "Even... even if we are being hunted down by the Ark's fleet, there is no need for us to escape Come to the bottom of Zhong Hai?"

"You ask me, who do I ask... Forget it, let's not talk about it, let's think about what to do later... Build a highly maneuverable deep submersible capable of fighting in six hours... If it can be successful If so, it is estimated that your and my names can be recorded in the annals of history."

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Members of the engineering department wearing blue and yellow uniforms quickly assembled in Hangar No. 170. There were 35 four people in total, 130 of whom belonged to the R&D team, and the other [-] nine were skilled workers in various workshops.

It is said that they are "skilled workers", but those who can be selected into the engineering department, even if it is just a "small worker" responsible for screwing screws, can take out an engineer qualification certificate in their pockets.

"I've already told you about the mission goal on the way, so I won't waste any time here. If you have no objections, let's start!" After saying this, Layton threw himself onto the computer beside him and opened the drawing software. , and loaded the blueprint of the deep submersible that the Hound and the others drove away.

more than No. 100 people looked at each other in a circle, and no one stood up——If you want to talk about objections, they must have some, not only there, but also a lot, but they also know in their hearts that even if they really put these The objection was brought up, and deputy head Layton would definitely not listen.

Instead of wasting this time and energy, why not seize every minute and every second to complete this "impossible task"...

Layton looked at the blueprint of the deep submersible on the screen, and frowned—of course he also knew that designing an underwater vehicle out of thin air was by no means something that could be accomplished overnight. Based on that deep submersible, it was imitated, and further modified and strengthened.

But after he had roughly read the design drawings, he realized that his idea was really naive.

At least one-third of the parts of this deep submersible cannot be processed on Yagunaktor, and the deep submersible can withstand water pressure at a depth of 3000 meters. Parts play a vital role.

For example, the one-piece forged inner shell cannot be replaced by other processing methods at all-if it is processed by a split method, no matter if it is riveted or welded, under heavy pressure, the seams will inevitably crack. cracked...

[PS Explanation on Layton's deputy head position - in the Hunting God Hunting Group, except for Ke Lan who is the head, all the initial core members are the deputy head positions, so the entire hunting group has a total of The five deputy heads (Hound, Layton, Ivan, Asano Showa, and Zoligetu, as for Zofia Soma, are regarded as the "senior shareholders" of the hunting group, and have exactly the same status and authority as the deputy head. However, because Zofia Soma has no official position in the hunting group, ordinary members of the hunting group usually call her "Miss Soma". 】

[PPS Thanks to book friend 20210307203332725 for the 100 starting coins. 】

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