Time goes back a few minutes.
[Xiao Jiang, Lao Xiao. The instructions have been issued. Don't act rashly. Do as I say. Is the external viewfinder turned on? Turn on any that can. The control panel has a dictation-to-text recording function. Open the floating window. I've sent you a form. Open it in an editor and set the mutant you'll encounter. Leave the name blank for now and set the number to 0.]
Lao Ning suddenly behaved very professionally. He directed Jiang Ling and the other man who were about a hundred meters away in an orderly manner - in the way he was best at.
We will handle this uncontrolled contact in accordance with biochemical contamination response measures and the white paper on anti-mutagenic biosafety guidelines issued by the Countermeasures Bureau. The Countermeasures Bureau specialist participating in this mission is "Unicorn." ... Feel free to fill in any codename you choose. If you can't think of one, feel free to add one when you return.
Jiang Ling thought about it and gave himself a new code name, while the other one was not to be outdone in the communication.
"The Smurfs" and "Shrek"? You guys... forget it.
Ning Weihe, who was peeking at the screen, couldn't help but complain, but in a sense, their mentality at this moment was obviously helpful to the progress of the mission.
Safety Rule #1: Do not use body parts or objects directly attached to the body to contact mutants. Listen up! If you want to come back, don't use your exoskeleton to grab that thing.
"Then what should I do? Use tools? Hey, where's my harpoon? Damn, it fell down there! Ughhhhhhh!" Jiang Ling let out a foul roar.
"Why do you always want to use cold weapons? Was it the same as last time?" Lao Ning couldn't help but connect the call.
"Nonsense, every mage dreams of close combat!"
"Mage? What kind of profession is that?" Lao Xiao didn't quite understand their conversation, but he also had a deeper understanding of the Awakened's hobbies. "I still have a harpoon here, but how do you want to get it out? I think it's retracted now!"
"Shrinking? Did you see clearly how it shrank? Was it muscle contraction, or was it a reduction in size? We have different strategies to deal with it." Lao Ning asked hurriedly.
"It moved quite fast, I couldn't see it clearly, but I can send you the video. Pay attention to the reception..."
Before Xiao Changsheng could finish his words, a sharp electric sound suddenly came from his headphones, and then the signal between him and 509 was interrupted.
Two seconds later, the two people outside the boat saw a dissipating bubble belt, starting from the location of the unknown mutant, diagonally passing through the sea water illuminated by the searchlight, and entering the deep ocean.
"Lao Ning! Lao Ning, it launched some kind of high-speed object, hello?" The experienced Jiang Ling saw the clue at a glance and hurriedly tried to report to the commander, but all the news fell into oblivion.
Safety Rule 4: Don't panic when encountering an emergency. Consider everything. What did you see? What did you lose? Are there any injuries? Act quickly!
"I saw the supercavitation wake caused by the high-speed object. Lao Xiao's towed signal amplifier was destroyed, and no remnants were intercepted. We are unharmed." Two minutes later, Jiang Ling sent a message to Ning Weihe.
After receiving the information, Lao Ning immediately called the command cabin and asked, "Where was their signal amplifier on the submarine just now?"
"Automatic record from 5 minutes ago, azimuth 002, depth 220, distance about 40 meters." Political Commissar Wang took on the duties of the sonar team.
[Keep your distance and suspend long-wave radio communication.] Lao Ning thought for a moment and suggested to the two.
"We've already done so. It's resurfaced, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything further. I think we can try using a decoy." Jiang Ling reported to Ning Weihe.
"What kind of bait do you have? That device was originally designed to counter torpedoes. While its decoy mode can be reprogrammed, it only has propulsion and heat generation functions." Ning Weihe explained the device's purpose to her.
After a while, Jiang Ling said, "We have some shrimp we picked up from the seabed. Lao Xiao said we could smear them on the surface of the bait device. He thinks it's a filter-feeding mollusk."
"It's worth a try, but be careful." Lao Ning said affirmatively.
After receiving an accurate answer, Jiang Ling used her right hand to tap the back of Lao Xiao's exoskeleton three times as a reminder. She then instructed the robotic arm to move the equipment box to her right and rotate it 90 degrees vertically, placing it horizontally within reach of her right hand.
With her right hand, she opened the drawer containing the sample jars and pulled one out. With one hand, she pinched the lid open and used her psychic powers to crush the shrimp inside into a paste for later use. Then, she focused most of her attention on her left hand, which was clutching the Abyssal Fish No. 3 equipment box.
She turned her left wrist 30 degrees counterclockwise with great power. The reaction force caused Jiang Ling's body position to change, forming an angle of about 45 degrees with Lao Xiao. This allowed her right hand to touch the bait device with half a head sticking out of equipment box No. 3.
The bait devices were about an arm's length long, their buoyancy adjusted, and they looked like miniature torpedoes. Jiang Ling smeared shrimp paste on their front ends and then tossed them very slowly to Lao Xiao in front.
Political Commissar Xiao further set the route of the bait device.
The entire operation process is quite complicated. If I were to write it all down, it would probably take tens of thousands of words.
In short, when all preparations were completed, four black bullets were placed around Political Commissar Xiao.
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