Chapter 449 Going into the Water
"Prepare to launch the Infinity!"
At this moment, all the members of the Infinity were standing on the supply platform of the submarine base, looking at this fully modified armed train with different expressions. The train was now covered with a layer of high-energy structural metal pressure-resistant shell and was forged together as a whole, like a segmented slender submarine. There were even specially designed multi-layer composite pressure-resistant portholes on both sides of the windows - stardust crystal glass, which could withstand the extreme environment of 300 atmospheres of pressure.
The purpose of Lin Xian and Mochizuki Shinji designing this porthole is not for any evil sightseeing purpose, but to cope with deep-sea conditions and facilitate the use of their supernatural powers.
Buzz buzz buzz!
The members of the Falcon Sea Corps who were transporting supplies to the submarine on the deep-water port platform suddenly stopped what they were doing, turned around and looked up at the surprising scene. They saw a very special giant train floating in the air and slowly coming over the deep-water port.
The next moment, with the cooperation of KIKI and Ryunosuke, the searchlight on the front of the Infinity split the turbid black sea water and plunged into the boiling black abyss like a steel giant.
"alright."
"Lin Xian." Chen Sixuan stood at the port, preparing to board the car. She looked at Lin Xian and said, "If we detonate that geothermal well, this island might sink. We have to leave a certain area."
"I know." Lin Xian checked the time and glanced at everyone: "Everyone get in the car first. I'll take Viola to set up. It should be dark in less than an hour. We only have one chance."
"I'll go with you!" Hearing Lin Xian's words, KIKI immediately flew over: "I can help you save a lot of time."
"good."
"Lin." At this time, Ryan stood at the hatch of the Abyss-class nuclear submarine and shouted to Lin Xian, "I think the pre-set decoy torpedo is unnecessary. My idea is to cancel the path launch and adapt to the situation. What do you think?"
"Okay." Lin Xian nodded, his eyes flickering: "If these things still work."
The Garan volcano erupted and sea monsters gathered. In this situation, the sporadic fires of the torpedoes that were used to lure the enemy might not be able to lure the enemy at all. This was why Lin Xian wanted to make a bet on the geothermal wells of the submarine base. However, Ryan's suggestion was also acceptable. At least if they successfully escaped from this sea area, they might be able to use it in the dark.
Afterwards, everyone on the Infinity boarded the Infinity in deep-diving mode. Each compartment was now transformed into a deep-water cabin. There were not many major changes inside, mainly the special pressure-resistant shell on the outside, the deep-diving propulsion device, and the co-pressure and supply modules in the inner cabin.
Lin Xian took Viola and Kiki towards the upper geothermal well.
Crash~
Mo Xiaotian stood by the porthole of carriage number five, looking out through the double windows of the train and the pressure-resistant porthole. At this time, the carriage was half submerged in the sea, and the turbulent waves kept hitting the window. Looking out the window, which was half above the water and half deep in the water, Mo Xiaotian's face turned pale and he turned back to Lu Xingchen and said,
"Master, are we...really going to dive?"
"Are you scared?" Lu Xingchen sat cross-legged in front of the tea table, brewing himself a pot of tea. With his eyes slightly narrowed, he admonished Mo Xiaotian with a leisurely look of waiting, "Don't panic. Whether it's the boiling abyss or the furnace of heaven and earth, we are tempering our character in the fire of catastrophe."
A ball of fire danced at his fingertips: "Xiaotian, listen carefully! Only mortals fear drowning! What you hold in your hands is the thunderbolt that will tear through the eternal night!"
Mo Xiaotian watched as Brother Huo brought the teacup to his lips with one trembling hand, took a sip as if nothing had happened, then put the teacup down tremblingly, with a look of astonishment on his face.
"Do you understand?!"
"I understand. I understand."
A building not far away was curiously checking the changes in the deep-diving module device in the car. When they heard Brother Huo's words, they couldn't help but point to the porthole and said to him, "Brother Huo, look at this sea water, it's as black as ink. There must be a lot of strange creatures underwater."
Lu Xingchen waved his hand without turning his head. "It's okay. The underwater strange body will take action on its own. There's nothing interesting about the water. I won't look at it anymore."
Seeing that Lu Xingchen didn't even dare to look at the window, the building smiled at Mo Xiaotian, and the tense atmosphere was relieved a lot. Ryunosuke in the corner crossed his arms and remained silent, looking more indifferent.
Everyone knows that Lu Xingchen is most afraid of the enclosed abyss environment. Although he looks calm on the surface, his back may be soaked.
In carriage No. 3, Chen Sixuan, Shu Qin, Lu Chang, Luo Yang, Xiao Yuan, Qian Dele, Ning Jing and others were gathered here. The blood crystals obtained from Ryan's team were now concentrated in a container. Ding Junyi stood in front of the experimental table. The small flower on her head was fully bloomed, and her whole body was shining with a surge of green light.
She stretched out one hand forward, and countless dark green vines radiated out, climbing onto the blood crystals in the container like living things. No matter whether they were level one blood crystals, level two blood crystals, or level three or four blood crystals, they were all entangled one by one. Then, the concentrated dark energy in those blood crystals seemed to be drained of energy, and it quickly gathered towards the center along the vines!
At this time, in the center, there was a special disaster plant growing.
Silver Dragon is 100,000 wrong!
"This is the first time I see our scientists using their superpowers. They seem to be quite powerful." Qian Dele said with shining eyes.
Ning Jing stared at the Silver Dragon Hundred Thousand Cuos with a serious expression. She knew that it was this disaster plant that allowed them to successfully escape from Star Abyss No. 5. A plant that can produce dimensional bubbles must be extremely magical.
Shuqin looked at Chen Sixuan at this time and whispered, "Is there anything we can do now?"
Chen Sixuan frowned and shook her head, "I don't know. As for deep diving... I don't have any experience."
"We have no experience." Qian Dele pointed to the various operation and maintenance robots operating in the air and said helplessly: "We have to rely on these robots and Viola. We can't run or fly in the sea. Beyond 3,000 meters, even our power armor can't withstand it."
"KIKI and Ryunosuke's telekinetic shields should be fine, but I think this is the problem we least need to worry about." Luo Yang said at this time: "With Brother Lin's mechanical abilities and the technology of Silent City, I have complete confidence in Infinity."
Madoka nodded nervously and said, "Me too."
"I think we need a contingency plan, too," Ning Jing said. "Our train is fine on land, but it would be too long underwater, and the carriages would be dispersed." She looked at Chen Sixuan. "We still have the Falcon Sea Regiment, so just in case, we'd better split up into teams and prepare for a water escape. In other words, each of us should have someone to look after us."
"Okay." Chen Sixuan said.
In the rear carriage, Sasha confirmed that the "Flying Peach" was firmly locked on the bracket, and the hydraulic lock made a dull "click" sound.
"Okay, I can't use you underwater, but sooner or later I will transform you into an interstellar spacecraft, or combine it with Brother Lin's big mecha. Then it will be much more handsome~"
Sasha looked at her companion with satisfaction and immediately prepared to return to the front car. As soon as her fingertips left the cold metal bracket and she turned around, a faint, disturbing sound penetrated the heavy car body and the stardust crystal glass of the porthole, seeping in from the unfathomable darkness below.
“Chuckle~Chuckle…”
It wasn't the sound of seawater hitting the train's body, nor was it the hum of the propellers. It was a kind of... rustling, scraping feeling, as if countless tiny, hard objects were moving against the indestructible, high-energy structural metal pressure shell at the bottom of the train.
The sound was very soft, mixed with the mechanical noise of the deep diving mode and the sound of the surging sea water, making it almost difficult to distinguish, but Sasha's nerves tensed instantly, a chill ran up her spine, and she instinctively bent down, her ears almost touching the cold alloy floor. Now they were in the water, and everyone knew that the underwater world was strange and unpredictable. Hearing such a sound at this time made her instinctively alert.
"You heard that, too?"
Just when Sasha was concentrating, a voice suddenly broke the quiet space in the carriage, startling her. When she looked up, she found that it was Monica who appeared at the cabin door.
She was not wearing heavy power armor, only an inner suit, but at this moment Monica's eyes were emitting a faint light, and it was obvious that she had activated her sonic ability.
"It's right down there."
Monica's voice was very low, without her usual laziness or teasing. At this moment, her gaze was as sharp as a knife, piercing through the porthole and casting her gaze at the dark abyss outside the window that swallowed everything.
"They probably haven't noticed us yet. Judging from the size of the sound, it could swallow our train in one gulp."
"hiss!"
Hearing Monica's words, Sasha immediately took a breath of cold air, and a chill rose from the soles of her feet.
"Oh no, Brother Lin hasn't come back yet."
In the living carriage No. 8, Miao Lu, Sun Yuzhen and others were helping the people of the Falcon Sea Group to take temporary shelter. These people were arranged in carriages No. 8 to 9. Vanessa still looked a little at a loss at this time. After all, it was her first time standing in a train floating on the water. If she hadn't looked at this group of powerful Infinity members, she would even think she was dreaming.
Inside the carriage, a crowd surged. Under the warm yellow emergency lights, Shizhi was using her special powers to help Abai, trying to calm him down. Xiaoqing, who was standing nearby, came over and said to Abai, "Coward, cheer up! We'll all need your perception abilities in the sea. Don't let Captain Lin down."
"Okay... okay." Abai nodded vigorously. From his tone, it could be heard that he was still very afraid to go into the sea. However, after all, he had experienced many big situations with Lin Xian, so he was not completely panicked.
"It's normal to be afraid. The more you see, the more you should be in awe." Shiori comforted him. As a person with the ability to perceive, she understood Abai's reaction very well.
Unexpectedly, as she picked up a glass of water, her movements suddenly froze and her brows furrowed deeply. Abai also raised his head almost at the same time, and their eyes met.
“…something’s wrong!”
Abai's pupils contracted slightly, and his fingers gripping the cup were so tight that his knuckles turned white.
"What's wrong?" Xiaoqing saw the expressions of the two people and immediately smelled a dangerous smell. Her whole body tensed up and the fluctuations of supernatural power began to surge.
"There's something..."
"Under the car!"
Abai and Shiori spoke in unison at this moment, their gazes seemed to be able to penetrate the wall of the carriage and directly reach the deep sea.
"It's very large and is passing through the underwater submarine passage!" Shiori's face became visibly nervous at this time.
Xiaoqing's eyes became fierce and she was about to speak.
“Everyone—!”
Monica's voice suddenly rang out over the communicator: "Everyone be careful, unidentified creatures have been spotted underwater. Those monsters may have entered the submarine harbor."
Carriage number three instantly fell into silence. Even Ding Junyi's movement of controlling the vines to extract the dark energy from the blood crystal paused. She looked up and around, then looked at the silver dragon Shiwancuo in front of her, wondering if it was because of her actions that it was attracted?
Qian Dele, Luo Yang, Ning Jing, Chen Sixuan... everyone's eyes met in an instant, and Chen Sixuan immediately nodded to them. In an instant, they immediately dispersed and began to disperse to various carriages to prepare for defense.
Chen Sixuan asked Xiaoyuan and Luo Yang to stay in carriage No. 3 to help, while she walked towards the cockpit and immediately contacted Lin Xian.
Haiyan Island geothermal nuclear device hot well (core layer channel)
Lin Xian, with a drone cluster consisting of KIKI and Viola, struggled to travel through the huge steel corridor leading to the core of the geothermal well. The air was filled with a pungent stench of sulfur and ozone. The temperature was so high that it was suffocating. The air was distorted and refracted under the extremely high heat energy, and the vision became blurred.
Beneath his feet, the entire island was groaning in pain from the continuous and violent earthquakes. Each vibration was accompanied by the teeth-grinding sound of metal twisting and the roar of rock breaking. The reinforced support structure at the top of the passage dropped dust and fine gravel, which hit Lin Xian's power armor helmet with a dense "crackling" sound.
Ahead, the vast geothermal well chamber resembled the entrance to purgatory. Dark-red magma, like a living python, frantically climbed and spread along the fractured well walls, greedily devouring any metal structure in its path. Thick cooling pipes softened, twisted, and fractured under the intense heat, spewing forth scorching steam. The massive turbines wailed under the strain, their blades rapidly softening and deforming under the crimson magma, melting into bright golden liquid metal that merged with the magma torrent.
The complex control consoles were engulfed by the magma, emitting blinding sparks before vanishing beneath the swirling dark red, viscous fluid. Above the shaft, the massive, ancient, pressure-resistant dome had been scorched like flowing wax, dripping with molten metal raindrops that fell into the roiling "lake of fire" below, exploding into a shower of sparks.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Lin Xian couldn't help but frown. The induction device was almost half swallowed up. The reactor had already stopped reacting, and all the energy vents had naturally stopped releasing. He could already imagine the scene where the strange bodies in those areas began to riot in chaos.
"Viola! Drone array, maximum power cooling! Prioritize protecting the main pipeline bridge at 12 o'clock! Kiki, telekinesis field covering the installation area. This thing can't be detonated with a bomb. Since it's a detonation device, it's better to release the reactor power to maximum and use the earth's core energy to trigger a chain reaction."
"Ah?" Kiki was surprised when she heard that: "You want to make a hydrogen bomb?"
"Isn't this device used for this purpose?" Lin Xian said sternly, "It's not that powerful, but if all these geothermal wells were to explode, who knows what would happen."
[Overloading the induction reactor will cause a great instability. In this case, the program cannot be controlled automatically.] Viola reminded Lin Xian at this time.
"That is to say, we have no way to conduct accurate countdown control."
"So we have to hurry." Lin Xian said coldly, looking at the boiling lava: "Dive into the super vortex as quickly as possible!"
However, at this moment, the dark mark instruments on Lin Xian and KIKI suddenly flashed and beeped. Lin Xian's expression changed, and he immediately said, "Level 4 mark? Special level?!"
"Where is it?" KIKI immediately realized the crisis, but when she looked around, the entire geothermal well was filled with red lava.
Lin Xian also activated his power armor and searched carefully, but he did not find any biological signals even from Viola.
Rumble!
At this time, the entire island began to experience violent earthquakes, as if mountains and seas were roaring and roaring towards this direction.
Mark the target.
Lin Xian realized that trouble was coming, his heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly reacted and shouted to Kiki
"KIKI, use shockwaves to scan, there's something weird next to us."
"It's invisible!"
(End of this chapter)
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