Chapter 446 Volcano
"Are we the torpedo?" Lin Xian was puzzled.
Ding Junyi raised her glasses. "For a professional organization like the Foundation, their action plan certainly won't be based on experience or improvisation. If it's an evacuation plan, it must have precise operational parameters. If we launch a torpedo, it won't be entirely based on improvisation, right?"
When Lin Xian heard Ding Junyi's words, he was stunned for a moment. He subconsciously wanted to ask, but he saw Ding Junyi standing in front of him looking at him calmly. Then he frowned and reacted to what he said.
"clever."
Lin Xian's brows relaxed, and he immediately activated his mechanical heart to open the watertight door in front of him, then quickly rushed towards the torpedo compartment.
He had a strange idea at this moment, and couldn't wait to verify it.
Soon, Lin Xian came to the torpedo compartment and looked at the dozens of large torpedo tubes. He directly used his mechanical ability to open the information access panel of all the torpedo tubes, then came to the nearest one, took out the mobile terminal and tried to export the data.
Didi.
After waiting for a while, Lin Xian completed the data analysis. At this time, he saw a strange data on the screen and his glasses lit up immediately.
"really!"
These strange data are nothing but the preset launch parameters of these decoy torpedoes. The coordinates for launching each torpedo are set. This shows that the submarine's route of action should be a fixed or established route, and it is definitely not a matter of taking chances on the seabed.
This discovery made Lin Xian suddenly enlightened. He had been wondering before, when people from the Holy City went in and out of Haiyan Island, were they all suicide squads? Wouldn't it be a one-way ticket for them to dare to go deep into the center of the monster hunting tide to carry out their mission?
But it seems that is not the case. The people in the Holy City not only know how to get here, but also know how to leave the island. All of this is based on the experimental data obtained by the Foundation from monitoring Unijah 1 at the offshore base.
"All the decoy torpedoes have preset launch data, which means they are very familiar with the various energy outlets and the territorial waters of large, strange entities. At the very least, they have a grasp of the hydrological information of this area, so they know how to leave. This may be an opportunity for us!"
Ding Junyi stood behind Lin Xian and said quietly: "Even if this is confirmed, there are still two questions."
"First, how do we determine this path? If we simply deduce it based on these fixed coordinates, the results will be significantly off. The biomass density in the waters around Haiyan Island is so high right now that the survival rate of those who venture out to sea rashly is practically zero."
"Secondly, this is the path of a submarine. We are a train regiment, and the Falcon Sea Regiment is composed of surface ships. Obviously, our vehicles cannot achieve this."
Lin Xian summoned a group of PX05 robots to help him begin exporting the preset data for each torpedo. At the same time, he turned to Ding Junyi and said, "It's absurd to have an evacuation route in this area. The situation is strange and difficult to find in deep water. This Foundation and the Holy City must have some special reason for using a fixed route. Let's find it first and compare it with some conventional hydrological information from the nearby waters. Perhaps we can find something. At the very least, we have a former Foundation security director here."
"Besides." Lin Xian turned around and looked at Ding Junyi and said in a deep voice, "Who said we can't go underwater?"
Ding Junyi was slightly surprised when she heard this. She looked at Lin Xian with a look that was three parts suspicious and seven parts eager. She was silent for a moment, then said directly, "It's very exciting."
"deep sea?"
"you."
Lin Xian was ashamed.
Ding Junyi said bluntly: "I can help."
Lin Xian looked at Ding Junyi's expression and immediately cleared his throat: "What aspect?"
"Silver Dragon is a hundred thousand times wrong." Ding Junyi's glasses flickered under the light of the torpedo compartment. "Give me a little time, I should be able to make it bloom into a bud."
Lin Xian's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Okay, then..."
Rumble!
Just as Lin Xian hadn't finished speaking, a violent vibration sounded, and the black water in the underground deep-water port was violently stirred. The nuclear-powered submarine docked on the shore was constantly sinking and floating, and the interior was shaking violently.
Inside the torpedo compartment, Lin Xian hugged Ding Junyi, who was standing unsteadily, and then extended four spider stabilizers from his back to buckle in the passage to stabilize his body. Feeling the unprecedented vibration outside, Lin Xian's face darkened and he immediately said
"So soon?"
Lin Xian cried out in his heart that something was wrong. It was still several hours before dark, but the situation seemed to have reached a point where it was out of control. He originally wanted to monitor the changes in the energy discharge port, and then try to stabilize the geothermal device through his mechanical abilities, including dealing with the impending darkness.
But the current vibration made Lin Xian suddenly have an ominous premonition, that is, the underwater volcano may have reached a critical point.
19:32:45
Looking at the countdown in front of him, Lin Xian's mind was working rapidly. What exactly does this mean? Could it be that the current disaster has nothing to do with this countdown?
"If an eruption occurs, crustal movement will release energy at all release points." Ding Junyi hurriedly said to Lin Xian.
“Including our geothermal wells here!”
Rumble!
At 3:06 PM, lava gushed out along the cracks in the ocean ridge below the southeastern sea shelf of Haiyan Island, tearing spider-web-like dark red cracks in the seabed. A large amount of boiling water rich in sulfide collided with the magma, steaming out brown-yellow smoke columns that blocked out the sky. Bubbles rolled up like boiling liquid glass, and countless strange sea monsters and water insects were instantly carbonized into black mist wherever they passed.
The entire sea area on the east coast of Haiyan Island seemed to be cooked by a giant god. A large number of steam domes with a diameter of hundreds of meters broke through the waves. The high-temperature water vapor clashed with the cold air to form a thunderstorm cloud wall. In the sky, purple-red lightning meandered and exploded in the dirty clouds, and the storm rain curtain wrapped in volcanic ash began to cover the sky.
The sea was turbulent, like the end of the world. Various terrifying underwater shadows appeared from time to time in the huge waves. The air on the sea surface was solidified by the salty smell. At this moment, the submarine base was shaking violently, the lights flickered, the condenser tubes burst in the vibration, and the salty sea water mixed with rusty residue poured into the corridor.
The Infinity members and the Falcon Sea Group who were gathered in the hall all looked terrified at this moment, as if they were facing a great enemy.
"How could this happen? Mount Garan has already started erupting?!"
"Isn't there still more than ten hours left?"
"You're kidding! That's just the stability threshold of the device. It has nothing to do with the volcanic eruption!"
"Quick!" Chen Sixuan, now fully armed, led everyone in the car into the hall and shouted to the Falcon Sea Group, "We must seal off all the upper passages to prevent any strange entities from infiltrating the flood discharge channel!"
"How are we supposed to get out if everything is sealed off?" Azir, from the Falcon Sea Group, looked puzzled. He said solemnly, "Our fleet is all outside at the port!"
"Azir!"
Ryan immediately interrupted him: "Do as you are told. We are on the same boat with the Infinity now. Let's focus on how to survive tonight first, and ignore everything else."
Azir opened his mouth, then immediately gritted his teeth, turned around and took his men and Chen Sixuan to the upper level.
"Let's go and help too." Qian Dele looked at the flashing lights above his head with a gloomy face. He also called Shu Qin, Lu Chang and Luo Yang to go out.
"no!!"
There were fragments of smoke and dust falling from the ceiling. At this time, the red alarm light in the monitoring hall kept flashing. KIKI looked at the value on the monitoring screen and his face changed drastically.
"The geothermal well has flooded past the safety line. We need to find a way to stop it."
"Where is Lin Xian?" Monica asked.
"Let's go first!" KIKI stood up immediately: "Ryunosuke, let's go together."
At the moment, there is no better way, Kiki can only ask Ryunosuke to try to use physical means to prevent the upper device from being burned by magma.
boom!
At this moment, a huge explosion sounded from the ground. Kiki looked up and frowned, then said
"Oh no, Viola must have been attacked."
With a hiss, a wave of scorching steam gushed out from the channel of the geothermal well in the distance. For a moment, everyone in the hall immediately activated the protection system of their power armor.
"careful!"
“Get out of the way!!”
Seeing this, KIKI took a step forward and raised his hand to create a mental barrier to block the entire monitoring hall. The white steam directly filled in and soon blocked everyone's vision.
Ding ding ding.
At this time, many people's power armor began to sound high temperature warnings. The surging heat wave suddenly covered the floor and walls of the hall with a layer of hot water droplets. Rumbling, huge seismic waves surged up from underground, almost tearing and deforming the entire submarine base. For a time, a large number of corridors began to collapse and tear, the metal walls whimpered and screamed, and the lights exploded layer by layer.
Just when the members of the Falcon Sea Regiment hiding in the lower base were in a panic, the huge earthquake suddenly stopped again. The entire base was now in ruins.
Just when Kiki, Ryan, Monica and others in the monitoring hall thought they were relieved, a violent explosion was heard above.
"It should be the first eruption, but it's not at its most intense yet. Judging by the situation, we don't have much time." Monica raised her hand to clear the dust from her eyes. She looked at the remaining monitoring screen of the geothermal device and saw that the magma layer there had almost spread to the entrance of the base. The Infinity was not far from docking at the platform. So she said, "Next time, the magma in the geothermal well may overflow into the base."
"Ah? What should I do?"
As soon as these words were spoken, people from the Falcon Sea Group immediately started to panic.
"Then if we hide here, won't we just wait to die?"
"Yeah, it's better to be on the boat. Maybe we can get away."
At this moment, some male and female team members began to talk in panic.
Vanessa's face under the power armor was also furrowed. Although this submarine base was under the outlying island and seemed to be a relatively safe shelter, the geothermal well was right next to it. They originally thought that after completing the energy discharge plan, they could stabilize the guidance device, so perhaps they would not have to worry about the volcanic eruption for the time being.
But now it seems that this is a very bad idea. Now everyone is trapped here. If the geothermal well explodes, everyone will be killed.
"What are we going to do?" Vanessa looked at Ryan.
Ryan shook his head and asked everyone to calm down first. Then he said to Vanessa, "The prison up there has been fighting. There may be a strange invasion. We all need to work together to support them. We must first stabilize the most urgent problem before we can discuss other things."
Vanessa nodded and immediately took action with Ryan.
At this moment, everyone felt that the air became extremely oppressive. On the Infinity side, Chen Sixuan, Qian Dele and Monica's team rushed to the upper level, while Kiki led people into the geothermal well passage.
As you come out of the passage, the heat waves and the pungent smell of sulfur rise into the sky, making your head dizzy.
Looking at the geothermal device that was one-third submerged, Kiki's face was heavy. At this moment, he had no other choice but to use his mental power to temporarily block the channel for the escaping steam.
"Lin Xian, the guidance device can no longer hold on, where are you?" Kiki asked in his ear.
"wait for me!"
Boom, boom!
There seemed to be a fierce battle taking place on the upper level at this time. Kiki saw on the monitoring screen that the external soul-devastating value detector detected a large number of creatures approaching!
"There must be a leak here. None of us have a mark, but a lot of monsters are attracted here!"
"Forget about that device for now."
At this moment, Lin Xian and Ding Junyi arrived quickly and said to Kiki, "Seal off the passage together and move all of us to the bottom level!"
After Lin Xian finished speaking, he saw Kiki standing there, looking at the monitoring terminal in her hand with a shocked expression.
"Lin...Lin Xian."
"What's wrong?"
"Look."
Kiki widened her eyes and gestured for him to look at the screen with a complicated expression.
When Lin Xianke raised his eyes, his steps came to an abrupt stop.
On the screen, I saw the direction of the previously arranged energy discharge vent. The magma gushing from the vent overwhelmed the sea water, and the red slurry covered the seabed. Violent air waves swept and surged, and in the splashing of hot currents, the red light illuminated the seabed, making it bright.
Therefore, Lin Xian saw something unusual at a glance.
In front of the energy discharge vent with a height difference, magma poured down like a floodgate of the Milky Way. If nothing unexpected happened, it should be a long red river.
But this lava river was separated not far ahead.
The magma split into two streams, like a reef blocking the river flow. In the center, the sea water was washed away, leaving only boiling and surging hot air. In the vacuum distorted by the heat wave, a black dot remained motionless.
The black spot is very small and can be easily overlooked at first glance.
But on the enlarged screen on the other side, it is extremely clear.
That looks like a person!
A humanoid creature with a triangular head.
Floating in the sea, his body was wrapped in a stream of silver bubbles, like a sculpture.
"That's not that..."
"It's this monster again!" Lin Xian frowned and recognized it at a glance. This was the monster that mysteriously appeared in the Taku Deepwater Port. It was also the monster that flashed past Lin Xian and Kiki after the Giant Ocean God appeared!
“Look!”
Kiki pointed to the back of the creature. Under the abyss, a red pupil like a giant wheel was slowly opening.
(End of this chapter)
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