Alien Relic Hunter

Pioneer, starboard deck.

The sky over the Central Sea seems to always maintain its gloomy color. Thick lead-gray clouds block a large amount of light and heat from the stars. As dusk falls, the sea surface temperature drops rapidly, and a small amount of thin ice floes begin to appear around it. .

"The weather is cloudy, the sea surface temperature is minus 3 degrees Celsius, the water temperature five meters below the water is 4.5 degrees, the northerly wind is level 3 to level 4, the gust level is level 5 to level 6, and the visibility in the water is about eight meters... To be honest, this kind of weather conditions is really... Not suitable for diving." A crew member assigned to assist them frowned and said, "The wind is not too strong, but the light is too dark. The further down you go, the lower the visibility will be, let alone a hundred meters. It's already there, I guess you can't even see it at a depth of fifty meters."

"I want to ask, when was the last time you saw a sunny day?" Ke Lan put his feet into the boots of the deep-diving suit with some difficulty. The materials of the military-grade deep-diving suit are very solid, and the weight is naturally also Quite exaggerated, these boots alone weigh over thirty kilograms.

"Uh... That seemed to be four months ago... No, it should have been five months."

"How many months are you going to let us wait on the ship?"

"No...that's not what I meant. I just wonder why you don't use a diving cabin. Although the defense of this equipment is very high, it is still incomparable to a three-inch thick composite steel shell...Also, this Are you also planning to go into the water? You...are you planning to go in wearing this?"

Compared to Ke Lan's deep-sea diving suit, which was as thick as power armor, Liao Zilang only wore a diving suit made of reinforced composite fiber. This diving suit was so thin that it even showed off his muscle lines. Not only In this way, his ankles, wrists and neck were not protected at all, and were directly exposed to the outside - compared with the fully armed Ke Lan, his behavior was no different from swimming naked.

"What, is there a problem?" Liao Zilang glanced at him in confusion.

"...Of course! Don't you know that the seawater on Alpha Planet is highly toxic? Seawater will not only corrode the skin and muscles, but also invade human tissue after entering the blood, causing various organ failures. We usually work on the deck. You have to wear a full set of protective clothing, just to avoid being stained by the sea water..."

In his eyes, Liao Zilang's outfit completely mistook Zhonghai for the man-made lake inside the Ark, and mistook the seawater, which was comparable to chemical weapons and contained high doses of radiation, for domestic water that had been filtered and purified many times in the human base... …What’s the difference between going into the water wearing something like this and committing suicide? !

"That's you, I'm different from you." Liao Zilang said.

"What's the difference! Even a biochemically modified person can't-" The crew member choked in the middle of his words, because Liao Zilang climbed over the guardrail and jumped into the sea!

"Quick! Get him out quickly!" He was stunned at first, and then wanted to press the alarm device not far away. "Rescue him within two minutes, maybe his life can be saved!"

"Wait a minute, brother, don't worry." Layton suppressed a smile and used his mechanical arm to stop the crew, "Can't you take a look first?"

"..." After Leighton said this, the crew member discovered that Liao Zilang was wearing a thin diving suit and had already swam around an ice floe. He didn't look like he was poisoned at all.

"He...he...how is that possible?" He rubbed his eyes vigorously, with a look of astonishment on his face.

"As I said, he is very talented." Ke Lan couldn't help but laugh, "Okay, it's time to put me down. I can't jump like him while wearing this thing."

The complete set of deep-diving suit and supporting equipment weighs more than 200 kilograms. This thing does not have a full-body driven frame like power armor. Underwater maneuvers completely rely on twenty-eight sets of paddles installed throughout the body for propulsion. weapons, but these things are useless on land.

It was very difficult for Ke Lan to complete even the simple action of raising his arm, let alone running and jumping.

Two steel cables were fixed on the shoulders of the deep diving suit. With the rotation of the pulleys, Ke Lan and his equipment were hoisted into the air - this device was originally used to launch and recover the diving cabin. However, with slight modifications, it can also be used in heavy armored deep-diving suits.

The cantilever fixed to the pulley rotated ninety degrees horizontally, "carrying" Ke Lan out of the side of the ship. He looked down and saw that the water under his feet was deep and dark, like an endless abyss, with no end in sight.

"Get ready to fall!" Leighton gestured to Ke Lan. After receiving the confirmation signal, the pulley began to rotate in the opposite direction, and the retracted steel cable was released again until Ke Lan was completely submerged in the sea water. Until.

"The air tightness check is completed, the propeller check is completed, and the oxygen supply pipe is unobstructed." Ke Lan followed the inspection steps in the deep diving suit manual one by one, and Liao Zilang also swam to his side and helped him unfasten his shoulders. Lock catch.

"The heart rate is 78 beats per minute, the blood pressure is 74 to 110 millimeters of mercury, and the body temperature is 36.9 degrees Celsius. There is no physical discomfort." Ke Lan glanced at the physical sign monitoring device installed on the inside of the helmet and said.

"The heart rate is a little fast, are you nervous?" The hound's voice came from the earphones. They can still communicate at this distance. After Ke Lan dives to a certain depth, the seawater containing a large amount of radiation and heavy metal ions will It became an insurmountable barrier, completely cutting him off from the world above the water.

If you want to maintain communication, you must use wired communication methods such as cables. However, in the complex underwater environment, it is not only difficult to ensure the normal operation of cables, but it can also easily become a burden for divers.

"A little bit." Ke Lan replied. He took a few deep breaths to calm himself down as much as possible.

"Although this test dive only went down to one hundred meters, for safety reasons, the deep diving suit was still equipped with an injectable pressurizer... But I hope you won't use this thing." Hound said.

Injectable pressurizer is the standard feature of this type of deep diving suit. It is generally used when the diving depth exceeds 400 meters. At that depth, the gas pressurization inside the deep diving suit alone cannot guarantee the life of the diver. Safe, this injectable booster must be used to regulate pressure in the body and can be used with muscle builders if necessary.

But after all, humans are not deep-sea creatures. They do not have that kind of tyrannical body. Excessive internal pressure can easily cause damage to organs and internal bleeding. Even with various protective measures, the use time of injectable boosters cannot exceed one hour.

Of course, high-level biochemical modified people can ignore this problem to a certain extent. Guys like Layton can last at least four or five hours.

"The low-light camera and infrared camera are operating normally, and the micro-sonar has been activated. Everything is ready to start diving."

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