Volume 2: The Undersea City Chapter 52: Deep Sea Giant Eel
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After that, Ke Lan and his team were at peace with the Aurora Group's advance team. Both groups were studying intelligence related to the underwater city - even though there was very little useful information in that intelligence.
However, the goals of both parties are completely different. Benson and his men want to enter the ruins, while Ke Lan and his men are thinking about how to find the creature called "flesh-eating worm".
Of course, in a place like this, the words "flesh-eating worms" cannot be said directly. But this is not a difficult task. Just replace them with a few simple codes. People who don't know would think they are studying the relics excavated from around the underwater city.
"Old Dog, where did you get that 'document'? This is our only clue now, is it reliable?" The "document" that Ke Lan was referring to was naturally the video that Hound had sent out before.
"A trustworthy friend, but his authority is not high. The contents were not even taken out before the entire container was packed up and taken away... In fact, apart from the people who took the container away, no one knows what is inside." The Hound said seriously, "So you know why I opposed this operation in the beginning."
"Thing" is their nickname for the flesh-eating worms, and "container" is used to refer to the corpse in the submarine tank.
"But we can only try..." Before Ke Lan could finish his words, a piercing alarm sounded in the cabin, which made his face change immediately - are they so unlucky? The transport plane they were riding crashed, and the warship that was searching for them had an accident. Could it be that even this transport ship could not escape the disaster?
Not really?
"No, this alarm is wrong!" Layton was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously drew the pistol from his waist. "This is not a fault alarm or a distress alarm, it is a combat warning!"
Battle warning? Ke Lan was stunned for a moment. Indeed, the transport ship was flying very smoothly and there didn't seem to be any problems. But now they had arrived in the Zhonghai area. They wouldn't encounter exiles in this place, right?
Or did it encounter some kind of aggressive aerial creature? But the transport ship did not make any corresponding evasive or combat moves, and still maintained its original flight posture.
At this time, a crew member hurried into the cabin. He propped his hands on the door frame and spoke incoherently to the group of people in the cabin who had become extremely nervous because of the alarm: "It's a distress message! A distress message sent by the ' Pioneer '! It was attacked by a sea beast... The 'Pioneer' is now twenty nautical miles away from us! They are asking us for support!"
The Pioneer should be referring to the Pioneer icebreaker Batilte works on. This is a multifunctional hybrid icebreaker built by humans in the thirty-sixth year after landing on Alpha for the purpose of exploring the Zhonghai Sea. It is equipped with a small nuclear reactor and a battleship-level energy crystal converter. The ship is 225 meters long and has a full load displacement of 45,000 tons. It is also equipped with 16 deep-sea submersibles and eight fire support speedboats, two "Valkyrie IX" armed helicopters and a vertical transport aircraft, plus a detachable offshore operation platform...
In terms of firepower alone, the Pioneer is not inferior to a small battleship, but now, it is forced to send a distress signal to this transport ship that has no weapons at all?
What exactly did they encounter?
With the speed of a high-speed transport ship, twenty nautical miles was reached in the blink of an eye. Through the bottom observation window under the cabin, one could clearly see the fierce battle on the sea at the moment...
No, that can't be considered a battle at all, but a one-sided brutality!
A group of giant snake-like sea beasts were frantically besieging the Pioneer. This more than 200-meter-long icebreaker was shaking violently like a lone boat in a storm and seemed like it would capsize at any time.
The deck was littered with bloody corpses, and even the defensive turrets on the outside of the ship had been mostly smashed to pieces.
The defense system on the icebreaker is almost on the verge of collapse.
"That thing... is a giant deep-sea eel!" A logistics staff member who looked like a scholar from Benson's side exclaimed, "How did they get to the surface of the sea?! And there are so many of them!"
Deep-sea giant eel, just by hearing the name you know that it is a creature that lives in the deep ocean. In order to resist the huge water pressure of the deep sea, and to offset this huge water pressure, the external pressure inside the body of these creatures is also very terrifying. If there is no water pressure to balance it, they will die from ruptured internal organs, or even explode directly to death.
But now these deep-sea giant eels seem to completely ignore this restriction, which can only mean one thing - the physical strength of these creatures has reached a level that ordinary people can hardly imagine.
There were dozens of deep-sea giant eels surrounding the Pioneer icebreaker. The smallest one was one meter in diameter, while the largest one was almost several times thicker than the former, and was probably nearly a hundred meters long!
Some of them violently lashed the hull of the Pioneer icebreaker with their bodies, while others jumped high out of the water and spewed thick arcs of electricity like silver snakes at the crew and soldiers on the deck. The power of these arcs was extremely strong. If they were slightly affected, the whole person would be turned into a piece of charcoal, and there would be no chance of rescue at all.
The most powerful weapons on the Pioneer are the two main guns located at the bow and stern, but at this moment both main guns have been destroyed by the deep-sea giant eel. From a distance, the twisted gun barrels look like an ugly piece of steel twist, and the buildings and equipment near the gun position are in a mess.
There was a lot of metal debris floating on the sea not far away. Judging from the appearance, it should be the two Valkyrie IX armed helicopters deployed on the Pioneer icebreaker...
"What kind of monster is this..." Zhuoligetu couldn't help but exclaimed, "It's too exaggerated..."
"In terms of brutality, those indigenous creatures on land are nothing compared to the deep-sea beasts... But what puzzles me is why these guys who are supposed to live deep under the sea would come to the surface of the sea to besiege the Pioneer. Could those people have destroyed the monsters' nests with depth-sea bombs?" Ke Lan rubbed his temples with a headache. If the Pioneer icebreaker was sunk, then their operation would have failed before it officially began.
"Boss! We have to find a way to rescue them!" said a hunter from the Aurora Group. In this respect, their ideas were consistent with those of Ke Lan and others.
"Nonsense! Of course I know we have to save them, but the question is what can we use to save them?!" Benson's expression was a little gloomy. He squatted on the ground, his eyes fixed on the battle below, and the blue veins on his forehead bulged.
"Guns, we have guns—"
"Idiot! Open your eyes and look for yourself. Can guns be used against those things?" Benson was so angry that he slapped the hunter to the ground.
But I have to admit that what he said is indeed correct. There are no powerful weapons on this high-speed transport ship. The only few self-defense aircraft guns have a caliber of only 25 mm . Even the 40 mm caliber rapid-fire machine guns on the Pioneer that fire high-explosive incendiary shells cannot penetrate the tough skin of these deep-sea giant eels. For them, aircraft guns are probably not even a tickle...
