Chapter 447: Quiet Abyss Vortex
In just one picture, Lin Xian and KIKI immediately felt a sense of oppression from the giant monster. Under the abyss, the giant pupil covered the entire picture.
Seeing this scene, KIKI couldn't help but hold her breath. Her huge pupils seemed to be facing the surveillance of the energy outlet, or perhaps "staring" at the figure of the triangular-headed monster.
However, this scene only lasted for half a second before the surveillance screen froze completely and lost the signal.
At this moment, on the screen of the mobile terminal in Kiki's hand, there was still a pupil like a dim sea lamp. Just one picture exuded an oppressive atmosphere that made people feel cold all over.
Lin Xian and KIKI looked at each other at this time, and the tremors around them and the sounds of fighting in the upper level of the passage also quieted down at the same time.
"Lin Xian, the passages in the upper laboratory and living area have collapsed on a large scale. We have eliminated a monster and temporarily suppressed the mark, but... we should not be able to get out of here." Chen Sixuan's voice came from the headset.
On the upper level of the base, large groups of buildings were reduced to ruins, smoke and dust filled the passages, and half-baked lights in the air were flashing with sparks. The main passage leading to the lower level of the base was blocked by the corpses of strange creatures shrouded in black smoke. Chen Sixuan, Qian Dele and other members who came to block the passage were staring intently at the blocked passage, and no one dared to breathe.
"That black bug has retreated again. Should we chase it?" Shuqin said with a worried look on her face. "I think this thing is very powerful. And it has been hiding in the flood discharge channel. It is definitely a threat to us."
"We can't catch up." Qian Dele shook his head and looked at the battlefield solemnly. "It's already difficult to avoid being discovered. We can't take the initiative to provoke those monsters. If we get marked, we will be completely unable to defend ourselves."
"Feel sorry."
At this time, Ryan of the Falcon Sea Group stepped out and kicked away the remains of a strange body in front of him. Then he turned around and said to Chen Sixuan and the others, "We can't activate the lattice power. Our combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced."
"There's no point in activating it," Monica said calmly. "Our current problem isn't our combat capability, but how to evade it."
"That's right." Chen Sixuan nodded and prepared to clean up the mess. She asked Lin Xian again on the communication channel:
"Lin Xian, how are you doing?"
"No problem for now." Lin Xian's voice came at this time: "Teacher Chen, call everyone together to seal off the upper passages, and then move everyone to the lower level."
"good."
After talking to Chen Sixuan, Lin Xian immediately contacted Viola again.
[Reconnaissance drones discovered a large number of strange creatures entering the radar range of the outlying island.]
The sea rock prison above was now filled with many indescribable strange entities searching for the island. A large number of floating drones had stopped attacking under Viola's control. Viola hid behind a ruined wall and controlled a high-altitude drone to scan the four directions of the island.
It wasn't even dark yet, but the entire island looked like it was about to end. The storm clouds overhead were heavy and murky, tightly gripping the entire island. The sunlight seemed to have been completely sucked away by a giant, leaving not a trace. The lifeless sea water was as black as a stirred pool of ink, sticky and heavy, stirring up huge waves and ripples.
Torrential rain poured down, and amidst the rain, countless black shadows emerged from the sea, tearing the surface of the sea. They were huge limbs covered with slippery mucus, and the gaps between the joints were embedded with swollen eyeballs without pupils that kept opening and closing. They were also huge groups of tentacles that were wriggling, covered with suction cups and fangs, like a collection of internal organs from a deep-sea tomb.
These strange creatures are hard for humans to imagine, but they seem to combine some biological characteristics of deep-sea creatures, and are mixed, sewn, mutated, and fissioned.
At this time, the entire island was shaking. The beach was crushed and stirred by the giant object, covered with thick, smelly mud. The forests, trees and mountains on the island were overturned and torn apart. In the drone's monitoring screen, only countless huge black shadows could be vaguely seen slowly approaching in the rain from all directions.
"Viola."
【I am here.】
"Everyone retreat underground and give up resistance."
【Viola understands.】
In the passage, Lin Xian saw the current scenes of the energy drain port and the prison, as well as the battle situation on Chen Sixuan's side, and judged that the giant ocean god had appeared in the southeast sea. At this time, the monsters in the seas on all sides were moving abnormally in the storm, which further indicated that the situation had reached an extremely critical moment.
Perhaps, the hunt is about to begin!
In this situation, all resistance is meaningless. The only thing they can do is to lurk and wait in this underground submarine shelter.
At this time, more than 600 members of the Falcon Sea Corps and the Infinity gathered in the middle level of the underground base. Of course, most of them were from the Falcon Sea Corps.
Various offices and the original rest areas were crowded with people. A large amount of supplies and various equipment were moved down by a mechanical team led by Azir of the Falcon Sea Regiment, almost filling up all the laboratories.
The basement was now filled with gasps. These sea group members were more organized than ordinary survivors. The armed forces, logistics, medical care, engineering, and even the information reconnaissance team all had clear divisions of labor. Although there were many people, the order was clear, and there was no chaos after Ryan gave the order.
In the monitoring hall, the Infinity members and the Falcon Sea Corps' core members including Ryan, Vanessa, Geddy, Erica and others are discussing countermeasures. When all the plans collapsed, the current situation seems to have left everyone with no other way out.
"The good news is, regardless of whether it was due to the release of the energy vent on Chasang Island, the evil god has reappeared."
Lin Xian stood behind Kiki, who was operating the computer, and looked at Ryan with his arms folded across his chest. "Ryan, how many 'hunts' have you experienced during your time at the foundation?"
"Three times." Ryan raised his sunglasses. "We can't control the timing or process. I only know that the interval between these times is about 20-40 days. Also, when the hunt begins, the base will be silent for 12 hours for safety reasons."
"12 hours?" Monica asked, "Don't you know what was monitored during this process?"
Ryan shook his head. "There's no way to monitor it. Just like now, all the monitoring equipment is down, and most of it is destroyed. Every time after the hunt, the engineering department is arranged to carry out additional repairs."
"So, the bad news is, we don't know what's going to happen next," Lin Xian said.
After saying that, he turned his gaze to Viola and said, "Viola, have you figured it out?"
[Calculations have been completed. Based on the existing conditions, the preliminary estimated success rate is 13.67%]
"What's the success rate?" Vanessa asked curiously.
"Escape from Sea Rock Island."
Lin Xian took a deep breath, looked at everyone, and immediately expressed his thoughts.
"My submarine in the Holy City, combined with the Phoenix Order's sea information in this area, found a passage that should have been used by the Foundation for emergency evacuation from the island. I think we might be able to use this passage to leave here."
"A passage?" Gaddy looked puzzled. "This... this is the Pacific Ocean. The passage you're talking about is... a road?"
"It's an underwater passage, right?" Ryan looked at Lin Xian. "To be more precise, is it the underwater path of the Foundation's submarine?"
"That's right."
As soon as these words came out, everyone's expression changed. Chen Sixuan frowned and said, "We are going underwater?"
"Use that submarine?" Erica from the Falcon Sea Group also asked in confusion, "How is that possible? The seas are swarming with strange entities everywhere. How can there be a safe underwater passage for us to leave?"
"Yes, logically speaking, shouldn't underwater be more dangerous than the ocean orbit and the sky?" Ning Jing looked solemn.
"That's not necessarily true."
Kiki's fingers tapped on the keyboard, and he quickly brought up a blue holographic nautical chart and projected it in front of everyone, which clearly outlined the seabed topography and underwater seascape of Haiyan Island and several affiliated islands.
Then, Kiki pointed to a stretch of ocean ridges in the southeast and said, "This is the launch depth and center path that Viola inferred based on the pre-set launch paths of those decoy torpedoes. Coincidentally, this path is right on the main fault zone of the Garan Volcano."
"What?!" Qian Dele frowned beautifully upon hearing this, and shrilled, "You mean, this evacuation route is not only underwater and full of sea monsters, but also has to pass through the erupting submarine volcano?"
Lin Xian nodded with a complicated expression upon hearing this: "That's right."
Everyone had strange expressions on their faces at this moment, and many people looked at Lin Xian, wondering why he had such an idea.
Lin Xian's eyes flickered, and he called Viola directly: "Viola, synchronize the analysis process."
【OK.】
Viola heard Lin Xian's order and stepped forward with her hands behind her back. She pointed her mechanical finger and a holographic beam shone directly on the Haven hologram. She began to speak along the path.
Combining federal hydrological data for the Pacific Ocean's rocky seas from 2035 to 2065, I found that this path closely overlaps with a 'quiescent vortex channel' discovered by the federal UNESCO Ocean Organization in 2029. This strong deep-sea current, flowing along the continental slope, can reach speeds of 30-40 cm/s, far exceeding ordinary deep-sea currents. This strong deep-sea circulation is caused by active subduction zones such as the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, where massive geothermal anomalies occur and hydrothermal vents release extremely high heat. Simultaneously, surface cooling in the North Pacific subpolar basins (such as the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk) has formed...
"Viola, just state the conclusion directly. There's no need to popularize geography and oceanography knowledge." Lin Xian coughed dryly and interrupted Viola's popular science.
[Okay] Viola continued. [Galan Volcano is located on the Pacific Ocean's western ridge fault zone. The cliffs reach a maximum depth of 6,000-8,000 meters. The nearest cliff area is only 96 nautical miles from the island. Beneath this sea area, there may be a giant vortex array driven by a dramatic difference in heat flux and water pressure. This vortex can reach a diameter of tens of kilometers. It is not an ordinary vortex, but a resonant and stable super vortex formed by the continuous injection of geothermal energy and the unique terrain.]
If the submersible can enter this giant vortex array, and if the submersible's pressure hull material can withstand high-pressure tearing, it can reach extremely high speeds of 50-100 knots through the abyssal vortex channel. At this speed, we only need two to three hours to escape the dangerous area where the strange entities are hunting on Haiyan Island.
After hearing what Viola said, the monitoring hall fell into a brief silence.
Sasha's face was grim. Seeing that no one spoke, she couldn't help but speak first, "Brother Lin, will this plan really work? Why are those underwater cliffs, super whirlpools, and quiet abyssal vortexes all more terrifying than the last..."
"Well, now in addition to the sea monster and the volcano, there is another super whirlpool." Qian Dele pinched his eyebrows, looking like he had a headache.
"The success rate Viola mentioned just now is 13.67%. Could it be this plan she was talking about?" Luo Yang swallowed nervously.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's eyes fell on Lin Xian.
"Yes." Lin Xian said sternly, "The success rate is very high, far exceeding my expectations!"
Upon hearing this, Vanessa, Geddy and others behind Ryan's eyes immediately widened. You know, their boss Ryan usually likes to come up with some crazy plans, but who knew that the swordsman in front of them was even more perverted.
It is hard to imagine that someone would associate a 13.67% success rate with adjectives such as "very high" and "beyond expectations", and what kind of mental state Lin Xian was in when he said this.
"Hey, savior, 13% is not 30%. Why do you think this success rate is so high?" Vanessa couldn't help but speak.
"Isn't that high?" KIKI turned around in her swivel chair, her telekinesis floating upwards, and she crossed her arms over her chest and said, "The survival rate is over 1/10, which is much better than a near-death experience."
Everyone in the Falcon Sea Group: ...
"Madman..." Erica widened her eyes and looked at Lin Xian as if she saw a monster.
Ryan, on the other hand, was relatively calm. He stared at Lin Xian and the underwater hologram, then looked at everyone on the Infinity, and found that except for a few people, most people seemed to... not have much reaction.
Chen Sixuan looked calm, Ding Junyi had her hands in her pockets, Lu Xingchen was leaning back in a chair and sleeping, the building stood quietly, Monica was smiling, Shuqin, Lu Chang and the others just looked a little nervous, Ryunosuke's face was covered by a mask, Shiori was a little nervous...
"That sounds like a good idea. Although I haven't come across this plan, the Foundation does have a safe evacuation plan as a backup." Ryan finally spoke at this time: "Such a high-speed circulation is like an underwater tunnel. Combined with the depth, we can leave at high speed. If my guess is correct, such a high-speed circulation will also have fewer strange bodies?"
"It's not that there are fewer, it's that there are none." Lin Xian said.
"No?"
"How is that possible?" everyone wondered.
Lin Xian said with a serious expression: "It's not that there isn't one. Strictly speaking, there is one."
He looked at Ryan and said, "Ryan, have you forgotten how Mount Garlan went from being a dormant volcano to an active state?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Ryan frowned suddenly, and the others also reacted immediately.
"Lin Xian, you mean..." Chen Sixuan asked immediately.
"That's right." Lin Xian said sternly
"This fault abyss should be the territory of the giant ocean god!"
(End of this chapter)
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