Chapter 6 Sound Zone Part II

"...that must have been the high frequency sound from before. The sensor picked up something - right under the ship... there was something. Don't know what it was. It's just that guy was yelling something with high frequency sound. I'm fidgeting , When I came back to my senses, I had already jumped into the sea. Because I forgot to wear the water glasses, my eyesight was not very good, but I couldn't find that thing anywhere. However, the surrounding feeling has become very strange.There are black shadows everywhere in the blue sea water, they are dotted, and they seem to appear out of thin air.This black thing kept appearing, and when I focused my attention to see what it was, the black thing covered all around in a short while.They moved violently, swimming back and forth.

...is a wide-pharynx. As then, myriads of squid wriggled around me.This thing made people feel uncomfortable. I hurried back to the surface of the sea, and my breathing reached the limit. ...However, no matter how I swim, I can't move forward.There are wide-pharynx fish in sight.I have swam forward desperately.But think about it, why did I come here?That's right...to meet that guy.See that guy and want to grab him? ...No, it's not like that.I just want to see him, just to see him.What?Is it just that?Yes, that's all, just want to see him.But I'm still wary.Humans are like us, but not like us.Now I'm drowning.This guy is not us.Hey?What's up.Swimmed over here.Is that guy me?or me? ...no...that's Jessie...it's Jessie. "

Having said this in one breath, Billy suddenly stared at the sky and fell silent. "Billy, can you clear up your words a little bit?" Ryan said. "Who the hell is 'that guy'?" "Uh?" "Didn't you say you wanted to meet 'that guy'?" Billy was lost in thought. "it's me." "...Who do you want to see?" "So it's 'me'!" Ryan sighed. Let Billy lie on the bed, Ryan and the others left the room.Jessie said she still had something to talk about and stayed there. Back in the living room, Ryan and the others looked ugly.

"Great disorder," Ryan said. "It must have been a stimulus from the drowning," said Jack. "It'll be all right by tomorrow." The phone rang, and Gordon answered it.It was Fire Chief Sib Quentin from El Fate.Siber is also their acquaintance. "There's an accident with a fishing boat. Can you do me a favor by sending our agents over to the lighthouse at Kelina?" Whenever there is a shipwreck in this area, people from the fire department will definitely use the lighthouse on the promontory as a base to carry out rescue operations.At this time, they must come to the institute to stay.Sieber said "help" and was referring to this.

"Have you hit the rocks?" Gordon put down the phone, and Jack asked him right away. "No, it's drifting at sea. It may be that the engine system is broken, and that boat has had accidents before." "The fishing boats here are old and falling apart. Then I'll go back to work." After speaking, Jack went back to the studio. Jessie stayed in Billy's room, looking out for a long time alone.She didn't tell anyone about her experience.Can't say it.For some reason, she was convinced it should be done. "Hey, Billy..." Jessie greeted Billy on the bed.

Billy was wrapped in a blanket so Jessie couldn't see his face.From just now, Billy also seemed to be thinking about something. "Billy, what did you see in the ocean?" "..." Billy didn't answer. A fishing boat sailing from Afati was suddenly lost in the waters of St. Lawrence Island.The local rescue team was dispatched immediately, and at sunset, the helicopter in charge of the search found the fishing boat drifting.There was no answer to the radio contact from the helicopter. When I got closer, I saw several crew members lying on the deck. After reporting the situation to the emergency center of the Fisheries Association in Afati Port, there was no news from the helicopter.

At night, the firefighters came to the institute, and Ryan opened the living room to them.One team member said to Ryan: "Things are a bit troublesome, and maybe your assistance is needed." "No problem. If there's anything we can do, feel free to bring it up." "Thank you. Unfortunately, almost all the fishermen in Efati have gone to sea, and we don't have enough manpower." The five team members take a round every four hours, and send two people to the lampstand to watch.Those who stayed in the institute frequently contacted the emergency center, and the tense state continued.

The fishing boat was discovered in the morning of the next day.The salvage ship is about to be dispatched, and Ryan, Gordon, and Haruku are all on board. The Al Fate emergency center was in chaos like a hornet's nest.Families of the fishermen were everywhere, crying loudly. Director Xibo hurried over when he saw Ryan and the others. "I'm sorry to bother you." "You're welcome, it's important to save people." "I called your research institute just now, but I made a mistake." "What's up?" "Well, I want to borrow your boat."

"Aren't there enough boats?" "The drifting boat is fine, but we still have to find the missing plane. I would like to ask you for this. On this island, only your ship has the most advanced sensor equipment." Siber suddenly choked up. "On the helicopter, there are five of my subordinates. ... They are all at the bottom of the sea now." Trying to suppress the trembling voice, Siber let himself return to his working expression. "I want four players to take your boat." "Understood. I will call the boat quickly." "No, I asked you on the phone just now. Jack said that he will drive the boat directly to the drifting boat first."

After the salvage ship was ready, it set sail at 2:00 pm. There were about ten of Xibo's subordinates on board, as well as local fishermen who had heard the news. Haruku was caught in the middle, and after talking with the fishermen for a while, he returned to Ryan. "Those guys said it was because of the mermaid." "Mermaid?" "It is said that the fishermen heard the mermaid singing and their brains were broken, so the boat drifted out of control. It is interesting that this superstition is still so deep-rooted." Forty minutes later, the target of the operation - the drifting boat was captured.On the deck of the ship, the helicopter that made an emergency landing was parked crookedly.Looking only through the telescope, the crew members were still alive and dead, but the team members who thought they had already died at the bottom of the sea suddenly cheered.

The tour boat driven by Jack has arrived, following the drifting boat far away.On the deck of the tour boat stood Billy. "Is it all right? That guy," Gordon said. Billy waved to the approaching salvage boat.He holds the flag in both hands, which is the signal of the flag. "He was saying 'stop.'" Said one crew member.At the same time Jack's radio came in. "Hello, Ryan! Are you there?" Ryan picked up the radio. "What's wrong?" "Tell you boats, don't shorten the distance from the drifting boats." "Understood....Why?" "It's the high-frequency sound wave from last time." Ryan looked at the drifting boat in surprise. "What's the matter? Jack?" "What's going on! That drifting boat is surrounded by abnormal high-frequency sound waves." Hearing the conversation, Sieber asked Ryan in surprise: "What is a high-frequency sound wave?" "Oh..." Ryan didn't know how to explain it, so he could only instruct the salvage boat not to approach the drifting boat, and then came to the tour boat with Gordon and the others.Xibo and several subordinates also followed.Looking closer, Billy's face on the deck was almost bloodless. "You're all right, Billy," Ryan said. "Ah. Hold on." Billy wobbled on his feet. "Don't force yourself." Ryan patted Billy on the shoulder and walked into the wheelhouse.Inside, Jack was concentrating on the screen of the sonar locator. "The radius around the ship is about 300 meters, surrounded by sharp high-frequency sound waves. It weakens sharply further outside, and disappears completely after 500 meters. The degree around the ship is the most serious, and the highest wave even reaches 223 decibels. This figure is incredible. .It will be even more powerful if you go inside." "That is, is there anything in that boat?" Ryan said. "Bottom, strictly speaking. They grabbed something and stuffed it in the hold..." Ryan cast his excited eyes on the drifting boat. "We broke in without knowing. Not too bad, not to the point of listening to Pink Floyd and SexPistols at the same time." Jack scoffed. "Jack's hypothesis may be correct." Ryan said, "If that thing is calling in the sea, we are in the sea, and the high-frequency sound waves cannot reach our ears." The dividing line between water and air is like a wall, which can strongly block the transmission of sound.The sound in the sea is reflected by the water surface and cannot be heard from the ship.On the contrary, the cries of seagulls soaring in the sky cannot be heard in the sea.From Ryan and the others, this is common sense knowledge.The fact that the drifting boat is surrounded by high-frequency sound waves means that the source of the sound is landed. "The question is, what is that?" Jack said. Siber could no longer bear these inexplicable conversations. "Lian, what's going on?" "Ah... um..." Ryan had no choice but to explain the high-frequency sound waves to Sieber.But after listening to Xibo, he was still puzzled. "What will happen if you get close to it? Ringing in your ears?" "No...it's different from tinnitus." "If you haven't experienced it, you won't understand it." Hariku said. "But we can't just watch here, there are still survivors inside. I don't know what high-frequency sound waves are. Plug your ears and go in the head office?" Xibo said. "You'd better give up this idea, even if you plug your ears, you can still hear it." Jack said, showing Siber the sonar locator—the big circle surrounding the drifting boat. "How should I put it, the so-called 'sound area'." "Even the rescue helicopter can't do anything, we can't rush in stupidly, can we?" Ryan said. "so what should I do now?" "Wait until night." "Can the sound stop at night?" "We don't yet know what the other is, and if it's an animal, it won't last forever." "We can only watch here, until then?" Sieber looked at the drifting boat. "Is it a maddening sound? ... Is that a mermaid?" "It's a big discovery if it's a mermaid!" Jack laughed. The salvage boat and Ryan's tour boat followed the drifting boat as they waited for nightfall.Watching through the binoculars, Gordon spotted seagulls perched on the mast of the drifting boat.Although in the high-frequency sound waves, seagulls preen their feathers as if nothing had happened. "Lian, don't seagulls care?" "Spotted dolphins don't care either. This is evidence that that thing can recognize humans." As evening approaches, the number of seagulls gradually increases. "I wish we were seagulls," said Jack. Billy had been sitting on deck for a long time, staring blankly at the drifting boat.Ryan came and sat next to him. Billy says: "I thought about what happened yesterday." "yes." "The memory is very vague, not very clear." "Yesterday you said something very strange." "...What did you say?" "It's all 'me.' You say: 'Is that guy me? Or is it me?' Don't you remember anything?" "No... I remember." "Is it because the stimulation is too strong?" "No. From the middle, the guy becomes me." "……Uh?" "How to put it... It feels like the brain has been changed. That guy's high-frequency sound waves can do that. It's like telepathy, but it feels a little different. It's the feeling of that guy and my brain mixed together, I See what that guy was thinking. No...that was a bit different. Back then I was kind of cornered and lent my head to that guy. I know it wasn't me, but the feeling in memory is how I felt. Jessie Come save me, I know this. But in my memory, there is an 'I' who doesn't know Jessie. I don't regard Jessie as Jessie, but I am very vigilant, and regard me and Jessie as creatures different from myself. These are all the thoughts of that guy, but all the thoughts flowed into my mind. It seems that my consciousness and the consciousness of others are mixed because of the electric wave barrier. The guy put his hand into my brain, probing: who am I? Is it a partner or an enemy?..." "Billy, what does 'that guy' mean?" "...I don't know. I've been trying to recall it, but there's a big hole in the key part, and I can't remember anything." Suddenly, I remembered the sound of an explosion.I saw a steel cable with an arrow flying from the salvage ship next to it, biting the drifting ship. The seagulls escaped from the drifting boat together. "Are you going to tether that boat with a cable?" The crew threw steel cables one after another, with balloons attached to them.The balloon is equipped with lighting equipment, and the balloons emitting white light are lifted into the sky one after another. "It's getting dark soon. Good idea." Under the dim light of the balloon, the drifting boat drifted eerily on the sea. "...scared. It's a cry of fear," Billy murmured. Hajiri and Gordon also watched the scene from the cabin. The drifting boat tethered with white balloons is like a pirate ship in an amusement park. "Looks like the show is about to start," Hariku said. "Let's set off some fireworks," Gordon said. The crew fills the white balloon with gas.I didn't feel it when I was floating in the air, but compared with the crew, the balloon seemed quite large.Haluku stared blankly at the scene, and suddenly cried out. "Ah! There is a way!" "what?" Gordon looked at Haluri in surprise, and Halulu's eyes sparkled. "Able to enter the drifting boat!" Halulu immediately went to the deck, found Ryan and the others, and explained his plan. "Seagulls are also exposed to high-frequency sound waves, but seagulls don't care. Why? I'm afraid it's because the frequency of the high-frequency sound waves has been tuned and is only effective for humans. If so, then once the frequency of the high-frequency sound waves changes, it will not It's a threat to us." "That's true. But how do you change the frequency?" Ryan said. "I have a good idea, that balloon." Hanuri pointed to the balloon floating in the air. "Helium. Inhale it with the thing that makes high frequency sound waves. Have you tried it? Breathing helium makes weird noises that turn into high-pitched, cartoon-like weird noises. Helium changes the frequency of the sound .” "Not bad," Billy praised. "But how?" Ryan said. "It's hard for us to get close to that thing." "Attack from the sea. Because the high-frequency sound waves are not in the sea now. Cut a hole in the bottom of the ship, and inject helium into the ship from there." "Leave this to the young people in our department." Sieber said. "What should I do specifically?" Ryan's face turned pale. "If you spread helium into the atmosphere, it will disperse in a blink of an eye. The target must be surrounded by helium at a very high concentration... Siber, let me see the blueprint of the ship." Sib brought the internal design drawing of the drifting boat, and Ryan looked at it, lost in thought. "Suppose the ship is sunk first?" "what?" Siber blinked in fright. "In order to ensure the high purity of helium, the air is in the way. Fill the bottom of the ship with water, and then inject helium..." "However, that would just cause the helium to burrow into the water and disappear." "I know. So there's nothing better to do?" "I have a good idea." Billy chimed in. "any solution?" "It's the balloon." Billy pointed to the balloon floating in the air. "Put the deflated balloon into the boat, and then inflate the balloon. When the bottom of the boat is full of balloons, the same volume of air is driven out. Finally, the balloon is punctured. Is the composition of the air different?" "That's right, it's quite different. Although I don't know how many minutes I can last, it's better than standing by. How is it? Siber." "Well, I don't quite get it, but like your opinion, it's better than doing nothing. Go ahead." Sieber immediately sent rescue team members to dive into the sea.It took them twenty minutes to open a hole in the bottom of the boat and start filling the balloon with helium. During this period, Ryan and the others had to prepare for the assault boarding. Sieber's subordinates Neddy, Haluku, and Billy were selected for the assault force.Gordon objected to letting Billy, who had just been released from the hospital, go, but Billy followed Ryan's instructions. "Only you, the owner who has been close to the high-frequency sound waves." Ryan said, "That guy is very scared, and you are responsible for alleviating its fear." "what should I do?" "...I don't know." Ryan smiled wryly. Hanuriku is preparing the tranquilizer gun. "If you don't know what's going on with that guy, use a tranquilizer gun, a little bit of that. However, this is the only thing that can make it fall asleep." Hajiri said while selecting bullets.If the anesthetic is too strong, it may kill it.Therefore, use weaker bullets, depending on the situation of the opponent, and shoot in several rounds.It is said to be a weak bullet, but it is also very powerful. If a human being is shot, they will not be able to stand up for five seconds. ready.Ryan and the others stayed on the salvage boat, and Hajiri drove the tour boat, carrying the three of them to the drifting boat.At the front of the high-frequency sound wave zone, the boat stopped, because it was waiting for the moment when the helium filled the drifting boat to break in. Naidi is a ten-year-old boy, not quite sure what to do, sitting nervously in a corner. There was a crackling sound from the drifting boat.The balloon in the boat burst. "The fireworks really went off." Hajiri muttered happily alone. Jack's voice came from the salvage boat. "Haneri, look at the monitor screen. How's the pitch?" Glancing at the monitor, Hariku cheered. "Changed tune! Immediate effect!" Hajiri drove the pleasure boat to the drifting boat. "There are still 50 meters to the high-frequency sound wave zone... 20 meters..." Haluku calculated the distance, gradually slowed down, and prepared to rush in. "There are 10 meters left." Neddy looked at Billy nervously. "...What will happen to the high-frequency sound waves? Will it hurt?" Billy smiled and patted it on the shoulder. "It's okay, don't worry." On the salvage boat, Ryan and the others held their breath.Excursion boats break through the invisible dividing line. Billy peeked around and heard his own breathing the same as before. "... ah... ah ah." Billy tried to speak.No annoying echoes were heard. "...Haruku..." "...Did it go well? No problem?" "Ah...it's me." "...it seems to be going well." Hearing Hajiri's words, Jack and Gordon on the salvage boat cheered.Hajiri reported the situation solemnly: "We entered the high-frequency sound zone safely. No echoes, strangely very quiet. The frequency level of the high-frequency sound waves is now 2300 decibels. It seems that the helium has worked." "Well done." Hearing Ryan's voice, Haruku suddenly felt relieved. "...Actually, I don't have any confidence in whether it can go smoothly." Naidi was a little taken aback.Judging by his appearance, it seems that he still doesn't understand what high-frequency sound waves are.