Chapter 8 Chapter 8 The Seabed

Cao Cang silently followed the crowd back the way they came.The tunnel formed by the sea water is still there--it will always be there under the influence of the pocket watch.When everyone left the sea and walked to the shore, the sea immediately returned to its normal physical state. There were still sporadic gunshots on the island, but judging from Remus' expression, the Soviets on the island had already gained the upper hand. When everyone walked to the pier of the island, Remus' subordinates fired a flare gun, and the Soviet soldiers on the island retreated to the pier after seeing the signal.

Cao Cang saw several Soviet soldiers walking over with Dr. Jian and Ximei supported by their arms. "What about the others?" Joshua asked. "There's no time to look," said Remus. "Maybe they died in battle." The first batch and the second batch of experimenters have held on to this small island for such a long time, and their final fate is still a meaningless sacrifice.They were eventually abandoned anyway! Seeing the large number of Soviet soldiers, the fourth group of personnel on the island did not dare to approach easily, and hid in every corner of the island, waiting for an opportunity to launch an attack.They didn't know that in twenty hours at most, they would be turned into soot by the nuclear bomb along with this small island.

The warship on the sea has been destroyed, and half of it is stranded on the sea. This must be Remus' masterpiece. There are still twenty hours until the nuke is launched. Cao Cang and others boarded the Typhoon-class submarine in batches. "Cao, I warn you again." When the cover of the submarine was closed and everyone entered the submarine, Remus said, "Don't do anything on my submarine, or I won't tolerate it anymore!" Now Cao Cang has no secrets to hide from everyone. The submarine sailed towards the limit on the bottom of the sea.Remus issued an order to his subordinates: "Enter a combat state."

Cao Cang remembered that Remus said that there was still a warship waiting for them, but the torpedoes on the submarine had been exhausted.Although the typhoon-class submarine is a strategic submarine, in small-scale naval battles, due to its large size, its maneuverability does not take much advantage, but the cruiser's attack power on the seabed is weak, so there is no fatal threat to the typhoon-class submarine . The submarine quickly drove to the edge of the limit. "Use the concealed power." Remus gave the order. All the conventional driving machinery of the submarine stopped, and the hull no longer had the hum of mechanical operation.

"The current driving method of submarines is electromagnetic eddy current power without sound." Remus said proudly, "Only typhoon-class submarines in the world have it. Cruisers on the sea can't detect us with sonar at all. They are blind in front of us." ’.” The submarine passed the line. "The other party didn't respond." The observer used the observation mirror to observe the movement on the sea. "They are on a routine cruise." Remus said calmly to others: "We will leave quietly, and they will continue to stay here and wait for us."

"They were thirty meters above our heads," continued the observer. "In twenty hours, they'll be..." At this moment, Remus looked very relaxed, but none of the others responded to him, as if the cruiser that hadn't gone far would detect him if he opened his mouth.Now that submarines have no conventional weapons, if they confront cruisers, they have no advantage at all. Even if cruisers do not carry torpedoes, depth charges are enough to overwhelm submarines. "They have passed," said the observer. "We are seventy meters away from them." Everyone was still quiet, even breathing slowed down.

"200 meters, 220 meters, 240 meters... 300 meters." As the observer reported the data, everyone's tense nerves began to gradually relax. "They're back again!" said the observer. "This is their normal driving." Remus said reassuringly, "Slow down." The submarine moves slowly across the ocean floor. "Four hundred and fifty meters," said the observer. Everyone let out a long sigh of relief, which meant that the cruiser did not find the submarine. At this time, Remus suddenly realized something, and immediately ordered: "Turn off all power systems. Immediately!"

The interior of the submarine was dark, and several emergency lights were lit in the submarine, and the light was extremely weak. Everyone didn't know what happened, but from Remus' tone, he could feel that there was a huge threat, so that Remus became nervous. The submarine rests quietly on the bottom of the sea.No one spoke, and Remus also remained silent. Two hours passed quickly. There are still eighteen hours before the launch of the nuclear bomb, and the time is ticking by. "Keep driving." Remus finally gave the order. Seeing that Remus' tone was no longer so relaxed, Cao Cang knew that Remus must have noticed something unusual.Any subtle feeling in the war cannot be ignored, otherwise it will face a catastrophe.

Cao Cang looked at Miller. Judging from Miller's expression, he also realized this. He is also a soldier. Remus' hands clenched into fists, which was not a good sign. "Increase the speed to the highest." Remus hesitated for a while and gave the order again. "What did you find?" Miller asked. "Intuition." Remus said dejectedly, "I have spent my entire military career at the bottom of the sea, and my intuition is very sensitive. You should be able to understand that." Cao Cang understood Remus very well. "Maybe I'm too nervous." Remus smiled relaxedly.

However, Cao Cang knew that Remus' idea was reasonable. The fourth batch of experimenters went all out to enter the different sea, just to ensure that the device on the small island could smoothly collect all the large numbers of people and supplies waiting somewhere on the earth. Ship it.But Remus' plan has gone so smoothly so far, so smooth that one has to wonder if there is a huge threat hidden.This is the instinctive reaction of every soldier on the battlefield. Remus' intuition was quickly confirmed. The soldiers standing in front of the radar equipment shouted: "The torpedo is approaching, 800 meters!"

"The cruiser found us!" Cao Cang shouted. "Not a cruiser." Remus said calmly. A torpedo attack wasn't what Remus was most worried about.Typhoon-class submarines are equipped with a torpedo countermeasure system.As the torpedo approached, the submarine activated its countermeasures and then sped away.The torpedo exploded more than ten meters away from the submarine, and the huge vibration caused the inside of the submarine to shake violently. Some parts of the submarine began to leak water, and several soldiers took tools to repair it. "I should have thought that they would not only send conventional weapons troops into the alien sea, they have more powerful weapons." Remus said.Now instead of losing his composure as before, he returned to the role of a calm commander. "Could it be the Eldridge?" Cao Cang said, "Philadelphia Experiment!" "What kind of weapon is it?" Miller asked strangely. "A destroyer that can be completely hidden." Remus replied, "Not only can't be seen with the naked eye, but also a warship that can't be detected by radar and sonar." "A warship that is completely invisible." Miller also understood. "It's against us now, we can't see them," said Remus. "We are the blind." All you can do now is stay still.The completely invisible destroyer also launched a tentative attack just now.They didn't dare to continue, they were afraid of exposing their position. "The cruiser is approaching us," said the observer. The cruiser must have just noticed the tremors on the bottom of the sea.Now they are heading towards the submarine.And hidden in the dark is a destroyer that will launch the next attack at any time, quietly waiting for the Typhoon-class submarine to be exposed.One light and one dark, both warships wanted to put the submarine to death.Everyone knows that the current situation is not optimistic. The atmosphere seemed to freeze in an instant, and there was a deathly silence. The Typhoon-class submarine remained stationary, and the cruiser temporarily failed to detect the submarine's position.But they divided the area according to the location of the submarine explosion just now, and roughly determined the scope of the submarine.Now the cruiser is patrolling back and forth on the sea, and its range of activities is not far above the submarine. The bottom of the sea began to become unsettled again, and shock waves came from the submarine up, down, left, and right one after another.Oops!The cruiser is dropping depth charges. But the submarine couldn't move rashly. If it moved, the completely invisible destroyer would immediately launch an attack—a deadly attack. Cao Cang didn't know whether Remus could command a submarine that had completely lost its conventional offensive weapons to escape from the current danger. At this time, there are still sixteen hours before the launch of the nuclear bomb. The submarine spent another two long hours below the surface.Everyone wondered why the two warships on the sea did not launch torpedoes again except for throwing depth charges. "There is no connection between the two warships!" Cao Cang suddenly thought of this, and quickly said to Remus. "If there is a connection between them," Miller said, "the destroyer's equipment must be able to detect our position." "If the destroyer can detect our position," Remus continued, "we would have been torpedoed by now!" Things seem to be turning around. Two warships and one submarine, only the cruiser is exposed. "As long as we can find the location of the destroyer," Cao Cang said, "we may have a chance of winning." Everyone knows that submarines can't stay on the bottom of the sea for a long time, otherwise they have to wait for death. Cao Cang continued to analyze the situation: "The cruiser must not know the existence of the destroyer. The destroyer must have used the magnetic field to hide before entering the alien sea. They are the fourth batch of invisible forces entering the alien sea. According to the consistent style of the peripheral forces of the experiment , They must have concealed the information about this destroyer." "What do you mean?" Remus asked. Cao Cang replied: "If we can get close to the stealth destroyer and stick to the outside of the destroyer..." "The destroyer will be our shield." Remus understood. "We can also get in touch with the cruiser." Cao Cang said, "confuse them with false information, because the destroyer cannot communicate with any other ship by radio." "Are you sure?" Remus asked. "Not sure." Cao Cang said, "But we have no other way out, we can only rely on this speculation to plan our actions." "I'm sure." A person approached and said, "In the state of strong magnetic force, it is absolutely impossible for a stealth destroyer to communicate with the outside world in any way. Once you do this, the consequence will be to expose yourself." This person is Lao Song. "I've seen something similar." Lao Song said, "In Lop Nur, it was said that it was an advanced instrument imported from the United States, but that instrument was installed on a jeep." At this juncture, no one is going to lie.In order to survive, Lao Song certainly wouldn't. "The story of the mouse who tied the bell to the cat," said Joshua. A group of mice thought of a good way to deal with the cat. They put a bell on the cat. When the cat approached, they could hear the sound of the bell. In this way, the mice were all safe.It's an old story. Joshua was right.The biggest threat to a submarine is the invisible destroyer, and its scariest thing is that no one knows where it is.Since you can't find it, how can you get close to it. Miller thought for a while and said to the crowd, "We have pocket watches." Destroyers are invisible in normal dimensions.If there is a two-dimensional world, the beings on one side of a straight line can never see the things on the other side of the straight line.But if the two-dimensional space is elevated to three-dimensional, objects on the other side of the line can be easily seen from the high-dimensional end. In the same way, objects that are invisible in the three-dimensional world can be easily found in the fourth-dimensional space. A pocket watch is a mechanism that can increase the dimension of space. Everyone looked at Miller. "I've been afraid to turn that feature on," Miller said. "I know how to turn it on, but I've never turned it on. I don't know what happens when I turn it on?" "It's okay." Joshua said, "Nothing will happen except the elevation of the dimension of space, let alone take us to some unknown place." There are two people in the submarine who are very familiar with pocket watches, one is Miller and the other is Joshua. "Then..." Remus said, "Let's begin." Miller fiddled with the back of his pocket watch: "Who has gold jewelry?" Lao Song took off the ring on his finger and handed it to Miller. Miller held the ring over the pocket watch, and an invisible force held the ring in the air. The shape of the ring changed, becoming ubiquitous and singular like the device in Kojima.Everything has changed.In Cao Cang's eyes, the objects have become superimposed, but now it is different from what happened with the device in Xiaodao.Cao Cang now knows that the device can control the scope of the lifting space. Cao Cang can see all objects in all directions, not only up, down, left, right, front, and back, but also clearly see the inside of objects.The same is true for submarines in Cao Cang's eyes. He can not only see the interior space of the submarine, but also the outside of the submarine.Cao Cang seems to be standing in any direction in space now, and can see every detail of all objects. Cao Cang opened his eyes, and the direction of everything in the ocean—submarines, cruisers, and destroyers—was clearly displayed in front of Cao Cang. Everyone in the submarine, like Cao Cang, saw the environment from a high dimension. With a sound of "ding", the ring fell on the steel plate floor of the submarine. Cao Cang's sight returned to normal, and he could only see the internal conditions of the submarine.The spatial dimension returns to normal three-dimensional state. Miller lifted the ring from the floor and squinted to examine it carefully.The ring was no longer bright yellow, but a dull gray on the surface. "Lead," Miller said. The gold ring had just decayed.The energy produced by the decay can only support the space dimension improvement in just a short moment. But enough. The radar soldiers on the submarine have accurately locked the position of the cruiser and destroyer. "The submarine started to float up." Remus said a long list of technical terms, Cao Cang could barely hear clearly, the content of the order was to quickly approach the destroyer. "Contact the cruiser." Remus took the communicator. After a burst of magnetic noise from the communicator, English came from the cruiser: "Typhoon-class submarine, keep the current position, don't move." Cao Cang translated English to Remus, and Remus said, "Please don't attack, we are going up, and we will float on the sea surface 70 meters away from you in the northeast direction." The cruiser must have an interpreter who understands Russian. After a few seconds, the voice came: "Don't move. Warning again, don't move." Cao Cang continued to translate for Remus. "Please don't attack," Remus said. "If you attack, our warships will fight back. Please don't attack!" "Arrived at the designated location." The observer said, "We are approaching the sea surface." Everyone felt the impact, and then, the loud crack of shells was heard inside the submarine. Then there is calm. "I saw it!" The observation soldier shouted excitedly, "I saw it, it's right next to us. It's very close to us, and it just hit them." "All personnel leave the submarine." Remus ordered. The submarine was balanced on the surface, and everyone climbed from the tunnel to the observation platform, and then climbed to the surface of the submarine. A ship is on the surface of the sea a few meters away from the submarine.The ship is now surrounded by a cloud of blue electric light, and the light of electric ions is shining everywhere.This is the hidden destroyer.They were hit by friendly ships.The concealed magnetic force system was destroyed. It seemed that they were very fragile, and they would not be able to maintain their own energy balance if they were slightly attacked.Destroyers are now translucent.Through the translucent destroyer, Cao Cang saw the sea area close to 100 meters. The cruiser was sinking. Obviously, they were attacked by the destroyer's torpedo. Now the submarine is temporarily safe, because it is too close to the destroyer, the destroyer's torpedoes and naval guns cannot attack the submarine, and now the destroyer is about to sink. Cao Cang's plan was completely successful under the command of Remus. The situation of the destroyer was far beyond the imagination of everyone on the submarine. Cao Cang saw the soldiers on the destroyer running around on the deck.Some soldiers wanted to jump into the sea from the deck, but when their bodies left the warship and landed in the air, they suddenly disappeared, and they didn't know where they were pulled into by the torn time and space. Blue flames were everywhere on the destroyer.Their powertrains start to explode. The destroyers began to disperse, bit by bit swallowed by the broken space-time.After a few minutes, the destroyer was no longer visible, a chaotic mass of electromagnetic energy. The Rainbow Project of the Philadelphia Experiment, an offshoot of the Doomsday Dawn Project, was not entirely successful.Warships concealed under the strong magnetic force lost most of their attack power and became very vulnerable. When they realized that they were being attacked by their own friendly ships, they reluctantly fired a torpedo to protect themselves.But it was already too late, they relied too much on their concealment function, and were not prepared for a sudden attack. All this was expected by Cao Cang.After the destroyer completely disappeared, Cao Cang even felt that he really had the ability to turn the situation around. All that needs to be done now is to cancel the nuclear bomb launch order on the submarine.Cao Cang even thought that he could do it easily. Miller must be on his side. Cao Cang has finally determined his mission goal since he entered the different sea, and it is entirely Lao Pang and Miller who awakened him.Cao Cang now recalls the scene before he was selected and entered the different sea. The relevant leaders of the country are not clear about the purpose of the experiment.Because their information about Yihai only comes from very little information feedback.The reason why they did not explain any purpose of action to Cao Cang was because they were also ignorant of what happened in Yihai, and they were not sure about the direction of the plan at all.They can only let Cao Cang understand and maintain their position.The whole operation depends on Cao Cang adapting himself to changes, because Cao Cang has this ability. Now Cao Cang is very clear about what he wants to do, which is to return to Earth with all the secrets he learned in Yihai, and let the country make the right choice. The submarine was floating on the sea surface, and the threat of the fourth group of personnel had been completely eliminated.The sea surface returned to calm, and the waves beat against the hull of the submarine. There was no sign of the thrilling naval battle just now. Some of the soldiers returned to the inside of the submarine, and the submarine was fully powered and left the area where the island was located. Now Remus and Miller are still standing on the observation tower.Everyone looked at the sea level ahead.Remus was full of confidence, and seemed to be looking forward to his future world—the world he wanted to create. Miller started to cough, and Cao Cang said, "Have you caught a cold? It's very dangerous to catch a cold in Yihai." Miller smiled: "It's not a cold." There is a reason for Cao Cang's question. If humans catch a cold in a different sea, the virus that causes the cold is by no means the same type as the cold virus on Earth.The humans on the submarine have adapted to the viruses on the earth, but they are not immune to unfamiliar viruses. "Isn't it a cold?" Cao Cang said, suddenly realizing something. "Yes." Miller nodded. The curse of the Cao family was actually caused by the radioactivity of the pocket watch.Just now Miller operated a small decay, of course he will receive radiation. Miller raised his hand, and Cao Cang saw that the skin of Miller's palm was severely burned. Miller started coughing again, but Cao Cang couldn't say anything. Cao Cang suddenly realized that Miller's mission had been completely transferred to him, just like Lao Pang. The submarine floated on the sea surface and moved forward. Now there is no weapon in the entire different sea that can threaten the submarine. The submarine does not need to sink to the bottom of the sea to hide its whereabouts. There are still ten hours until the nuke is launched. "Do you have any plans?" Cao Cang said to Remus, "Cancel the setting of the nuclear bomb." "Impossible." Remus said, "I must block this passage. Also, Ivan is not here, and I cannot unlock the combination lock of the nuclear bomb alone." "But you alone turned on the device for launching the nuclear bomb." "Use the password once and it will change. After I got Ivan's password, we had a disagreement." Remus said, "The combination lock must require Ivan and I to enter the password at the same time. If it is to be reopened, unless Ivan Wan is there." Cao Cang was desperate, and Ivan should have died on the island. Cao Cang supported Miller, went back inside the submarine, and found a cabin for Miller to rest. Both Cao Cang and Miller were soldiers, and he knew that Miller's time was running out, so there was no need for his mother-in-law to say words of comfort. Inside the submarine, all the soldiers were busy. Cao Cang walked to a corner and sat down slowly. Lao Song walked up to Cao Cang and sat down side by side with Cao Cang. "Is sister okay?" Cao Cang had nothing to say. "She is resting." Old Song said, "She gave the Soviets a picture of the sea." "Remus will make us real marine animals." Cao Cang said, "There will be no more land in the different seas." "What's wrong with that?" Lao Song said, "As long as they can survive. Just like the civilization that has traveled through different dimensions for hundreds of millions of years, they have only one goal, which is to survive, no matter what changes they accept." "Have you ever been to that underwater complex?" Cao Cang asked, "You must have seen those murals as well." "Of course." Lao Song said, "We are going to that place now. It is possible to arrive before the nuclear bomb is launched." "Yeah, there are still a lot of advanced technologies out there, Remus can't refuse." "Let's think about the future." Lao Song sighed. "How did you meet Miller after we left?" Cao Cang asked. "On the ice sheet." Lao Song said, "We didn't expect that in just two or three days, the entire seawater would freeze. Fortunately, Remus decided to let the submarine float on the sea surface so that it was not squeezed in the ice layer." Lower part. We were looking for food on the ice sheet, looking for a way, and we met Miller—the German." "Miller must have helped you learn how to survive in the alien sea, and told you how to live on the ice sheet." "Yes." Lao Song said, "He told us a lot, including everything about the island. He also pointed out the ruins of Daxizhou. We agreed to attack the island together after meeting there." "Do you know what Miller really thinks?" "I know, he wants to go back." Old Song said, "Remus promised him to let him go back. This is the exchange condition." "After destroying the island, what will Remus do?" Cao Cang asked this very practical question. "He will be like Miller, looking for all the ships in the different seas. We will be the first generation of humans in the different seas, remember those ghost ships, he wants to gather these ships together and build a floating ship on the sea cities, and then all human beings gradually adapt to the marine environment." Cao Cang stopped talking, because a soldier got off the submarine and was telling others in Russian that a ship had been found.Cao Cang climbed to the upper part of the submarine. Sure enough, Remus was instructing the soldiers to pull a wooden boat on the submarine with cables.The wooden boat, which originally belonged to the Indians, did not drift far near the island. Six hours before the launch of the nuclear bomb, the submarine came to the waters of Daxizhou. Remus ordered the soldiers to untie the ropes towing the wooden boat, and the submarine began to dive.The orientation is the huge canyon. "Is there more civilization information kept in the depths of the canyon?" Cao Cang couldn't help asking Remus. "At the bottom of the canyon, there are more complete buildings." Remus said, "I didn't have time to visit last time, but now we have plenty of time." The submarine sank toward the submarine canyon.There was silence in the sub, save for the beeping of the sonar system. Thinking of the huge lobsters and ferocious sea turtles he met last time when he came here, Cao Cang couldn't help feeling a little worried for no reason.In this sea area, the characteristics of creatures are different from other places. Cao Cang thought of one thing, the different sea is not the earth, and there is no satellite in the synchronous orbit of the planet to guide long-range ballistic missiles to guide the target. Cao Cang walked to the cabin where Miller was resting, and was about to ask this question, when he entered, he saw Miller vomiting blood.It seemed that the intensity of the radiation far exceeded his imagination, and Miller's body had been completely destroyed. "How can a typhoon-class submarine hit the target without satellite guidance?" Cao Cang asked directly without talking nonsense. "Remus is so sure." Miller reluctantly replied between coughing, "It should be that some kind of instrument that continuously emits signals is placed on the small island. When the nuclear bomb lifts off, it will look for this target." Cao Cang remembered the small instrument that Lao Yang had shown him before his death. It was by this device that Lao Yang was able to connect with the inside of the submarine.This small instrument should be relatively mature. The submarine continued to sink. Cao Cang was thinking about how to destroy Remus' plan.But after thinking about several plans, it was impossible to implement them. It is impossible for Miller to provide Cao Cang with any method to reverse the current situation.Cao Cang could only take one step at a time.If Remus really successfully launched the nuclear bomb, perhaps the only thing to do in the future is to follow Remus' idea and build a new world in the different sea.Of course, Earth's Doomsday Dawn plan is completely bankrupt. Suddenly the submarine shook, as if it had hit something.Then the sub suddenly flipped over and tilted up. The alarm sounded in the submarine, and no one knew what happened. Remus asked his subordinates in the command cabin: "Did you hit something?" "Yes." The soldier replied, "I hit a huge object just now." "Why didn't you avoid it in advance?" "It was an object that moved suddenly. Before that, we thought it was a rock." The submarine regained its balance. "Check the submarine for damage." "No," replied the soldier, "everything is fine." What was it that moved so fast that it collided with the submarine without causing damage?Cao Cang thought of those terrifying sea turtles, but although those sea turtles were huge, the Typhoon-class submarine was still a giant in front of them. "Where is that object at now?" Remus continued to ask the observer who was monitoring the sonar. "Forty meters away from us." The soldier replied. "What object?" Remus asked. "It's a creature," replied the soldier. "It moves regularly." "Can you guess what type of creature it is?" "No." The soldier said in panic, "It's too big, how can there be such a big creature in the world!" "Is it a whale?" "Perhaps," said the soldier, "but there are no such big whales." Remus was very dissatisfied with the soldier's answer, so he went to the monitoring system to check it himself.Cao Cang also went up. After Cao Cang and Reimus saw the screen, they both stood blankly. An object on the screen, after being scanned by the sound wave, flashes intermittently on the screen as the detection band scans.That object occupies the entire range of the scanning fan!And that object was alive and larger than the size of a submarine. If it was an animal, it was the biggest animal anyone had ever seen. Objects suddenly flashed everywhere on the screen, and they were already approaching the submarine. The submarine didn't have time to react, the shock just now happened again, and then the submarine quickly approached the huge object.The submarine itself did not use power to move, nor did the massive object. The submarine was completely pulled near that huge object by some kind of force.Cold sweat broke out on Cao Cang's back. The object was using its tentacles to pull the submarine to its side like a plaything. Remus is too confident, the typhoon-class submarine is by no means the overlord of the different seas. Remus continued to issue orders to the soldiers, using the greatest power to get out of the current dangerous situation. But this is all in vain. The reactor in the nuclear submarine is already close to the critical value, and it is no longer possible to get the submarine out of the current situation. The sub started to tilt back and forth, then stopped moving. The submarine made a huge noise, which was only caused by the huge pressure on the outer wall, but according to the current water depth, the pressure of the seawater should not be so high. "What exactly is it?" Remus and Cao Cang looked at each other. "It's very likely to be a sea snake." Cao Cang said, "We saw a huge sea snake when we first entered the different sea, and it almost capsized the scientific research ship." "If a sea snake entangles our submarine, the length of the sea snake should be at least twice that of the submarine," Remus said. No one has ever seen a snake over 400 meters in length.If it was really a sea snake, then the sea snake Cao Cang met when he first entered the Different Sea was at best an immature larva. "I think another creature is more likely." Lao Song also came to Cao Cang and Remus, "Sea snakes are vertebrates, and it is impossible for them to have such strong bones to support such a large body." "Mollusks!" Remus said with wide eyes. "God knows how big molluscs can grow. If the environment is right, their growth is endless." Now everyone trembles. Thinking of an extremely huge octopus or squid wrapping the submarine tightly with its tentacles and pulling it to the side, this kind of fear makes people collapse. This is the speculation that everyone is least willing to face, but it is the speculation closest to the truth. Animals such as squid and octopus like to hunt shellfish in the sea.They often entangle shellfish with hard shells, slowly pry them open, and eat the soft meat inside. There must be a lot of huge shellfish in Yihai, not only shellfish, that kind of huge sea turtle may also be the food of this terrifying unknown animal.This sea area is a bit unusual. The animals that grow there are not only larger than similar animals on Earth, but also larger than those in other sea areas of Yihai. Those turtles, too, were under enormous pressure to survive, Miller said.Now Cao Cang understands where their pressure comes from. Now the typhoon-class submarine was captured by this huge mollusk as a shellfish, the next step... All were pale. "We're sinking!" cried the soldier, "and we're sinking very fast." The shell of the submarine continued to make a "click" sound.The metal on the outer wall was deforming, making a chilling sound. The submarine began to seep again in several places, and the pressure of the seawater jetting in was so great that the soldiers who went to repair it were rushed to the ground. There is also a gradual process for the metal outer wall of the submarine to receive pressure. If the design sinking speed is exceeded, even at the same sea depth, the damage to the submarine will not be the same.Cao Cang knew that the submarine would be crushed earlier than usual and then disintegrated. "The rate of descent has slowed down," said the soldier. Remus breathed a sigh of relief. "How deep is this submarine canyon?" Cao Cang asked. "We can withstand the seawater pressure at the bottom of the canyon." Remus said, "But it is not ruled out that there are cracks at the bottom of the canyon that we don't know about. You know, this kind of animal likes to drill into cracks." Cao Cang thought of Karin now. If he was on the submarine, he should be able to come up with countermeasures based on his understanding of creatures.Remus was now leaning against the bulkhead, with his ear on the steel panel, listening carefully to the movement outside. The submarine began to shake again, and a sharp and piercing sound filled everyone's ears.This sound is very uncomfortable, it is the sound of metal rubbing against each other, and there are hard objects rubbing against the outer wall of the submarine. Cao Cang stared at Remus with his eyes: "What's that sound?" "Kraken." Remus said an unfamiliar word, which Cao Cang couldn't understand. It shouldn't be English or Russian. "What did you say?" Cao Cang asked after him. Remus realized that he had lost his composure, but in this situation, no one could remain calm. Remus said: "I should have known that some animals are not myths. We can't find them on earth, but it doesn't mean they don't exist." "What animal?" Cao Cang said loudly, "Is there any animal that can't appear in the strange sea? Sea snakes tens of meters long, jellyfish jumping on a boat to eat people, huge sea turtles, Neptune... Seeing it, is there any animal that is beyond our expectations?" "Compared to Kraken, those animals you mentioned can only be regarded as docile little pets." Remus' face was full of despair, "Do you know what Kraken's other name is?" Of course Cao Cang didn't know. But some soldiers on the ship have already exclaimed: "The giant monster of the North Sea!" Remus is a Lithuanian, and Lithuania is not far from Scandinavia.He must have been deeply impressed by the myth of the giant monster of the North Sea. Remus said: "My ancestors were fishermen, and there has always been a legend among them that if Kraken floats on the sea, it will be an island, and when a fishing boat approaches it, it will transform into the shape of a giant squid .” Cao Cang was shocked in his head, how huge a creature that uses islands to describe its size must be. "He is a very huge king squid." Remus said, "Maybe this kind of creature is extinct on the earth, but now it seems that their homeland is here." Cao Cang said, "What should we do?" “祈祷。”雷缪斯的语气让人心寒，完全不是信奉共产主义的唯物主义者的口气，“大王乌贼习惯的活动范围在海底两公里之下。” 曹沧听到这句话，就明白雷缪斯为什么这么绝望。无论台风级潜艇的外壳多么坚固，也经受不住海底两千米巨大压强的挤压的，当克拉肯把潜艇带到这个深度的海水里，潜艇就会变成一团乱糟糟的铁柱。并且等不到这个深度，只要超过四百米，潜艇就会开始破裂漏水，然后开始崩溃。 很明显，海底一定有非常深的裂缝，那道裂缝就是大王乌贼——克拉肯的栖身之地，看来也是台风级潜艇和众人的坟墓。 现在曹沧知道潜艇外壁巨大的摩擦声是什么发出的了，一定是大王乌贼触角上的吸盘，在用力撕扯潜艇的外壳。 “克拉肯没有把我们当作贝类动物。”雷缪斯说道，“它不是为了觅食，它把我们当作大型的鲨鱼，或者是鲸鱼。它们之间是死敌，碰上了就拼死搏斗。它不会轻易放弃。” 此时，潜艇所在的深度，已经到了承受海水压力的临界点。潜艇里到处都在漏水。不仅外壳有摩擦声，潜艇内部的钢铁也开始扭曲断裂。 “如果有鱼雷，也许还能试一试。”曹沧说道。 “没有用的。”雷缪斯说道，“鱼雷的威力，不足以对它造成致命的伤害，并且……” 雷缪斯没有说下去，但曹沧都知道，鱼雷在近距离爆炸，对潜艇的冲击也同样巨大。潜艇承受不起。 看来这个方法也不可行。 潜艇上所有的士兵都放弃了努力，他们都认命了，在克拉肯面前，人类的力量实在是太渺小。有台风级潜艇又能怎样，仍旧只能束手待毙。 即便是人类移民异海成功，要经受的考验，还有很多。也许那些古老神话中所记载的巨型怪物都生活在异海，无论哪一种，都是人类暂时无法战胜的敌人。 雷缪斯打起精神，对下属说道：“同志们，我们就算是死，也要死得像个军人。不到最后一刻，绝不能放弃！” 士兵都迟疑地看着雷缪斯，不知道他还能有什么办法。 “把反应炉提升到阈值！”雷缪斯冷静地说道，“把常规动力也发动到最大。” 雷缪斯明知这么做是徒劳的，但还是要试一试。 苏联士兵接到命令，各自返回到自己的战斗岗位。 潜艇突然剧烈地抖动，这是核反应炉提供的动力产生的效果，同时柴油机发出巨大的轰鸣声。 潜艇突然斜着向上行驶了一段距离。大王乌贼对潜艇的突然发力没有准备，因为刚才，潜艇已经保持一段时间的安静。 可是潜艇又被巨大的拉力拖了回去。看来缠绕在潜艇表面的触手，力量很大。 潜艇里的轰鸣声更加响了，士兵们都已经精神亢奋，不顾一切地在抵抗大王乌贼。 这时，潜艇里发出了爆炸的声音。 曹沧心若死灰，反应炉的某个部分开始泄露了。 “没关系。”雷缪斯冷静地说道，“我们有应急措施，这个泄露还在我们控制范围之内。核反应舱现在已经封闭了，我们暂时不会受到辐射。” “有什么区别吗？”曹沧说道，“你现在也不能关闭这个小型的核反应堆，下一次爆炸，还能控制吗？” “那也好过死在两公里的海下。”雷缪斯说道。 时间在流逝，每过去一秒，都意味着众人距离死亡又近了一秒。 曹沧不怕死，但是自己在异海所接受到的信息，将全部随着潜艇的灭亡而湮灭，曹沧非常不甘心。 潜艇忽然又倾斜着向上行进，这次完全是正常的速度。 难道大王乌贼又放松了警惕吗？ 士兵用兴奋的语气向雷缪斯汇报：“四十度倾斜，向上浮升三十米、六十米、九十米……” 所有人都愣愣地站着，等着大王乌贼把潜艇再一次拖回去。 没人对潜艇能逃出去报以希望。 可是观测兵嘴里报出：“一百五十米……两百一十米，距离海面一百四十米……” 潜艇没有被乌贼的触手再次缠住。大王乌贼没有攻击潜艇的意图了。 what happened? “温度。”雷缪斯发狂地喊道，“一定是温度，还有略微的辐射。” “这和大王乌贼有什么关系？”曹沧也喊着问道。 “大型的乌贼，对温度非常敏感，他们的身体构造对细微的温度变化都很在意，它们不喜欢太热的环境，我只能这么推测，反应炉的泄露，让核反应舱附近区域的温度急剧上升，并且还有一些辐射照射在乌贼的肌体上，它很不适应。”雷缪斯惊喜地说道。 “距离海面二十米。”观测兵说道。 距离海面已经很近了，潜艇马上就要浮上海面。 可是潜艇内部又发出了一声巨大的爆炸声。 潜艇不再上浮，动力消失了。 大家都面面相觑。到了这个紧要关头，潜艇竟然丧失了动力。 “压缩气舱泄漏。”一个士兵说道，“我们不能再上升了，并且我们马上就会下沉。” “还有多长时间？”雷缪斯问道。 士兵说道：“只能支撑十五分钟，之后潜艇就无法保持现在的深度。” 另一个士兵说道：“核反应炉的泄露还在继续扩大，隔离舱的壁板在四十分钟后会开始融化。” 一个维修士兵接着说道：“常规动力舱外壁裂缝已经无法修补，现在已经在积水，五分钟后，海水会蔓延到指挥舱。” 台风级潜艇完了。 雷缪斯从狂喜中飞快地陷入沮丧。他静静地站立，半分钟之后，雷缪斯慢慢说道：“我下令，弃艇！” 士兵们都和雷缪斯一样，沉默片刻，然后开始有条不紊地安排撤离。 第一批撤离的人员有三个，两个士兵带着简博士进入过渡密闭舱。舱门关闭灌水，过渡舱的外部舱门开启，然后他们进入海里。 第二批人员仍旧是两个士兵，带着细妹，如法炮制。 每隔四分钟，就送出去一批。 第三批是两个士兵带着约书亚。 撤离行动进行得非常有秩序，没有慌乱的逃离现象。这是平时训练演习的成果。而且，每个士兵离开的时候都是一种难以割舍的表情。 两个士兵要来护送雷缪斯。 “我是舰长。”雷缪斯说道，“怎么可能先走。” 于是那两个士兵看向曹沧，曹沧说道：“我陪雷缪斯同志一起撤离。” 这一批就只走了两个士兵。 下一批，两个士兵带着米勒过来了。 米勒说道：“我走不了了，我的身体无法承受减压病，就算是有体力游上海面，也会马上死于血栓梗死，还是让我待在这里吧。再说，最后一批撤离的人，还需要我操作过渡舱排水。” 潜艇里只剩下曹沧、雷缪斯和米勒三个人。雷缪斯操作，将过渡舱里的海水排干，舱门打开。 雷缪斯对曹沧说道：“你走吧。” “你不走？”曹沧问道。 “当然不走。”雷缪斯说道，“这就是艇长的命运，自古都是如此。” 曹沧心里明白，雷缪斯是个理想主义者，他当然不会放弃自己的潜艇。 “曹。”雷缪斯说道，“我知道你不会放弃你的使命，你会坚持回到地球，但是请答应我一件事情。” 曹沧把身体站直，敬礼说道：“我答应。” “如果人类移民异海，你一定是举足轻重的人物。”雷缪斯说道，“用你的能力，建立一个公平的秩序……” 曹沧简直不能相信这是一个苏联的高级官员说出来的话。 过渡舱的内舱门在曹沧背后打开，曹沧看向米勒。 米勒面无表情地对曹沧说道：“再见。” “再见。”曹沧向他敬礼。 曹沧走进过渡舱，海水漫上来。 海水把过渡舱充满，曹沧静静地站在水里，等着外舱壁打开。 曹沧没有任何不适，甚至比在空气中活动更加自如。身体的肌肉根本不需要曹沧用大脑思考着做出动作，曹沧已经迅速游动在海水里，就跟鱼一样。 曹沧没有立即漂浮上海面的打算，而是停留在海水里，看着身下的台风级潜艇——这个海洋的巨无霸，现在已经变得破落而沉寂。核潜艇外壁的钢铁表面有几条宽阔的划痕，好几个地方的钢板已经被掀开，还有几个部分的钢板深深凹陷。 一连串巨大的气泡从潜艇里冒出来，而且越来越多。压缩气舱泄露得比预想的更快。海水在震动，沉闷的声响在海水里传递。核反应炉又小小地崩裂了一次。 潜艇无法在海水里保持平衡，尾部向下倾斜，头部翘了起来。不多时，整艘潜艇基本垂直悬浮在海水里。 已经没人控制潜艇，并且潜艇已经无法操纵。潜艇保持着垂直的状态，不久后，潜艇所有的部位都挤出无数的气泡，那些巨大连续的气泡把潜艇包围。钢铁折断的声音，即便是在海水里，听着也非常刺耳。 潜艇这个巨大的钢铁物体，正朝着海底这个巨大的、黑暗的深渊，一点一点地沉下去。 曹沧目送着潜艇消失在无尽的黑暗中。 潜艇在海底的巨大压力下会变成一团废铁，核弹的发射装置也无法幸免，核弹肯定是无法执行发射指令，飞到海面之上去袭击小岛了。核弹没有发射的动力，就只能停留在海底，但是核弹自身的开启系统在核弹内部，即便是导弹损坏，核弹头仍旧会爆炸。 距离核弹发射启动还有四个小时，加上导弹飞行的几十分钟，曹沧等人现在还有不到五个小时的时间逃离这片海域。 曹沧飞快地向海面冲去。他头顶的海面，闪耀着破碎的光亮。 曹沧游到海面，看到海面上的幸存者都冷静地在海面上漂浮。那艘印第安人的木船就在大家附近，已经有人爬上了木船，正在寻找绳索，把海里的人拉上甲板。 曹沧仔细看了看，计算了一下，没有人失踪，大家都顺利脱险。被拉上甲板的人，又回过头，继续帮助海面上的人爬上木船。 十几分钟后，所有人都站在了甲板上。苏联士兵还在海面上搜寻，曹沧对士兵说道：“不用找了，你们的艇长没有离开潜艇。” “雷缪斯和米勒没上来吗？”老宋问道。曹沧点了点头，没有说话。 曹沧指挥士兵，所有人齐心协力滑动木船上的桨叶。 “还有四个小时。”曹沧说道，“我们得快，要快速逃离这片海域。” 没有时间过多解释了，大家都明白，潜艇上的核弹会在这片海域下引爆。现在要做的，就是离开，以最快的速度离开。 士兵们都训练有素的，一个年纪稍长的士兵嘴里叫着号子，木船前行的速度越来越快。这是一艘非常轻巧的木船，在海面上快速移动。 运气不错，一个小时之后，海面上刮起了顺风，船上的布帆升起来，木船的速度更快了。 所有人都没有说话，都极力让木船前行得更快，与时间赛跑。 曹沧在计算着木船的速度。现在顺风行驶，加上士兵们奋力划桨，船能达到时速二十五公里以上，如果风更大，也许会更快一点。 四个小时后，木船距离核弹引爆的海域，差不多有一百公里了。 这个距离，是安全的距离了。 木船距离潜艇沉没的大西洲海域越来越远。 “停！”曹沧在木船上大声喊道，“时间到了。” 所有人都停下手中的动作，站起身，回头看去。远处的海面没有任何异样。 时间还在流逝，大家都默不作声地看着，静静地等着，等待着那个巨大的爆炸。 等了很久，时间仿佛凝固了。所有人都以为爆炸不会发生了。就在众人猜测着核弹是不是不会引爆的时候，远方的海面抖动了一下。 接着，远处的海面变得模糊起来，刺眼的光芒从模糊的海平面上穿射出来。即便是隔了这么远，也能看得很清楚。 “我们还得继续向前划。”曹沧说道，“我们还有危险。” 大家都知道曹沧的意思，只是没想到危险来得这么快。四十分钟之后，巨大的海啸在木船后方出现了。开始只是一条细细的水线，当这条水线渐渐靠近的时候，就变成一道水墙，露出狰狞的面目。 这是海底核爆炸引起的海水波动，高速向海域四周扩散。 这种境地，除了苏联士兵，其他的人都已经经历过多次，而没有了最开始那种惊悸。所有人都紧紧趴在甲板上，抓着能固定身体的一切物体。 海浪铺天盖地涌过来，把木船覆盖。几秒钟之后，木船勉强探出海面，接着又一个海浪狠狠地把木船抛起来，船头向下栽入海水里。 能保持冷静的人，只有曹沧和简博士。他们两人不怕水。 曹沧看见有人落水了，是三四个苏联士兵，可是没有机会去营救。木船破损，但是主体仍旧顽强地漂浮起来。 第三波海浪力量减弱很多，对木船没有什么太大的威胁。 木船终于安全了，核弹的威力，没有曹沧想象的那么厉害，对一百公里之外的影响，无法和自然引起的飓风相比，并且时间短暂。 木船损坏得很严重，只能靠人力划着在海面上慢慢前行。 海面上到处是鱼类的尸体，还有一些残缺不全的肢体——这些生物都是被核弹爆产生的巨大冲击波杀死的。 曹沧看着核弹爆破的方向，海平面一片黑色和深红，仍旧有轰隆隆的声音传来。 天上下雨了，黑色的雨水淋在身上，让人非常难受。 曹沧建议所有人都跳入海水中，暂时躲避这带有辐射的雨水。 雨连续下了几个小时。这段时间，所有人都攀附在木船下部，安静地待着。人类在异海也引爆了这个终极武器，大家内心都很沮丧。 人类大规模进入异海之后，这种情况，还会不会再次或者是多次发生？ 曹沧认为，这是肯定的。