Chapter 186 Lost Items
The other side.
Luzon.
About 1,206 kilometers northeast of Luzon Island is the endless Pacific Ocean.
This sea area located between the Luzon Islands, Tainan Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japanese Islands and Mariana Islands has a special name: Luzon Sea.
The Luzon Sea does not belong to Luzon. Most of it is high seas. Its total sea area is 5.8 million square kilometers and the average water depth is about 4,100 meters.
The reason why I turned my attention here.
That’s because some time ago, when the Sapiens company was laying an undersea optical cable network, it accidentally discovered a “lost artifact”.
At this time, the Tuna 005 submarine was in this sea area.
Captain Davis and Zhang Li, captain of the Internal Affairs Department task force assisting in the salvage operation, communicated using pheromones in the cockpit.
[Have you arrived at the designated location? ]
Davis nodded: "We've arrived. Our target is at the bottom of the ocean."
Zhang Li looked at the detailed nautical chart.
The water depth here is about 3527 meters to 3807 meters. The surrounding seabed terrain is hilly, and the target he wants to salvage is in a small basin among the seabed hills.
He gave orders to his men: [Release the scout fish.]
[yes.].
At this time, the submarine was at a depth of about 130 meters from the sea surface, while the target was at a depth of 3723 meters below.
The water is 3,723 meters deep. Ordinary submersibles cannot dive to such a depth. Only some scientific research submersibles can reach it.
Soon hundreds of genetically modified fish were released from a special hatch at the bottom of the submarine , and then they dived quickly.
As the genetically modified fish dived deeper, their bodies began to undergo special changes that were specifically designed to resist water pressure.
The maximum diving depth of this genetically modified fish is the deepest point on Earth, the Mariana Trench.
A depth of more than 3,000 meters is just a piece of cake for them.
Zhang Li, who was in the cockpit, saw various special data beginning to appear on the screens of rows of biological computers through the pheromone signal receiver at the bottom of the submarine .
For example, the radiation value there is 2.4 times higher than that in ordinary sea areas, and this number is still rising.
This is also the reason why the detectors carried by submarine optical cables can detect problems in nearby waters.
Although there are areas with relatively high radiation levels on the seabed around the world, the radiation concentration in some areas is even more than ten times that of normal sea areas.
But a large part of the high-radiation areas are actually caused by submarine volcanoes and radioactive minerals on the seabed.
When the high radiation area was discovered here, the Internal Affairs Department and the Security Department did not actually pay too much attention to it. They just followed the internal handling regulations and sent out reconnaissance genetically modified fish to conduct a rough survey of the area.
This survey is mainly to prepare for future mining of seabed minerals.
However, during this survey, the reconnaissance fish actually found the wreckage of an airplane in the central area of radiation concentration.
This incident immediately attracted the attention of the Security Department and the Internal Affairs Department.
Soon they investigated the historical records.
Specific records of the aircraft were found in a declassified document from America.
Let’s go back to December 5, 1965.
An aircraft carrier fleet was on a mission in the Luzon Sea at the time. Due to negligence, a fighter-bomber parked on the deck accidentally slipped into the sea.
The average water depth of the Luzon Sea is about 4,100 meters. Not only was it impossible to salvage at this depth then, but there is no way to do it now.
If it was just a bomber, the wealthy America wouldn't care too much.
The problem was that the bomber was already carrying a B43 thermonuclear bomb.
The Security Department and the Internal Affairs Department were immediately ecstatic when they found out the news.
Others don't have the technology to salvage it, and America's location has been blurred, so they naturally won't try to salvage this hydrogen bomb.
However, Sapiens had a way to salvage the submarine and happened to find the sinking site . However, the company encountered some details in the hydrogen bomb research and development project.
Although a batch of heavy water has been extracted through biological purification technology and lithium deuteride has been produced using heavy water, and fission bombs are also in hand.
However, a hydrogen bomb cannot be easily manufactured just by knowing the basic principles and having the raw materials.
Otherwise, why didn't India, which also had fission bombs, develop hydrogen bombs?
Obviously there is a technical threshold involved, and this is also the specialty of the great powers, and many key points must be hidden.
There are two ways to crack this technology.
One is to explore little by little on your own.
Another way is to directly obtain a hydrogen bomb and then imitate it.
The problem is that with the rapid development of information technology in the mid-to-late last century, especially after the 1990s, the nuclear bombs of major powers have basically been modernized, adding means such as self-destruction, self-locking, and positioning.
Therefore, it would be extremely difficult to obtain samples from their current nuclear arsenal.
The B43 hydrogen bomb lost on the seabed has become the best target for the Sapiens Company.
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Through this careful investigation, Zhang Li quickly saw the three-dimensional shape of the seabed automatically modeled by the system.
The bomber had been twisted and deformed by the water pressure, and more than half of its wreckage was covered in silt. Fortunately, this was deep water and there were no dense underwater corals. The surroundings were like a cold desert.
After building the 3D model, Zhang Li immediately gave the order: [Put in the fishing trap.]
[yes.].
Something similar to a fiber optic cable node submersible was quickly dropped to the bottom of the sea.
The professional operator is concentrating on operating this special submersible. Especially as the depth increases, a special pressure-resistant system must be activated to prevent the internal parts from being damaged by water pressure.
After an hour, this submersible, which looked like a small submarine, finally arrived at a position more than ten meters above the wreckage.
[Report, the fishing device has arrived at the designated location.]
At this moment, Captain Davis's eyes changed: "Captain Zhang Li, we have detected a Los Angeles-class ship about 31 kilometers southwest of us. The other party is approaching our sea area. It is expected that in 47 minutes, the distance between the other party and us will be reduced to about 8 kilometers."
Zhang Li made a prompt decision: [Immediately place the fishing device, and then start the automatic growth system. We will start evasive maneuvers in ten minutes.]
[yes.].
Soon the operator placed the trap precisely into the wreckage of the bomber and activated the automatic growth system.
The fishing device needs several days to grow, and Zhang Li, who doesn't want to cause any trouble, has no intention of confronting the US military head-on.
Although the Tuna 005 submarine can use the underwater launch silo to directly sink the Los Angeles-class ship.
However, doing so will only make America focus on the Luzon Sea. At this stage, the Homo sapiens company is still in a small development stage, so there is no need to act on impulse.
After a while, the slow-moving Tuna No. 005 chose a hidden route that avoided the opponent and slowly left the surrounding area.
Los Angeles class, dozens of kilometers away.
Not knowing that they were about to die, they were still diving leisurely under the sea. Their destination seemed to be the Guam base.
In fact, the Shark Squadron often encountered American submarines, but the US military did not know that there was a great white shark hiding under their noses.
If it weren't for the excellent monitoring system and ultra-quiet anechoic tiles, the Shark Squadron's submarine would have been discovered long ago.
