Wasteland Survival Code

Chapter 542 Sturk
Sturk once saw a mutant creature in the deep sea. It was a tube-shaped worm more than 50 meters long and more than one meter thick in diameter. The huge mouthparts can easily swallow a whole living person whole.

Fortunately, the sensory organs of that worm were not very sharp, or it had just eaten a full meal, and under Sturk's gaze, it just slowly moved away from a place less than ten meters in front of him. Swimmed slowly.

Someone once said that besides the universe, there is another place that is also full of unknowns for human beings, and that is the ocean.

The diving depth of the first team and the second team soon exceeded 450 meters, and everything went smoothly. Not only did they not encounter any accidents, even some mutated fish that are often encountered in normal training did not appear.

"It's so quiet... No... It seems, a little too quiet?"

Sturk was startled, he suddenly found that the people below seemed to have not made any sound for nearly a minute.

Radar and sonar showed that they were already diving at a constant speed, but there was only silence and the rustling sound of electricity in the communication channel.

"Hello, hello? Captain?"

Sturk tried to call them, but there was still no response.

"Damn! What happened below, why didn't they answer! Did you find anything?" Sturk stood up abruptly, and asked several other soldiers.

Others obviously noticed something was wrong. However, apart from the lack of response to the call, there was nothing abnormal about the content displayed on the instrument. Even the various detectors installed in the diving suit were in normal operation, constantly The physical condition data of the diving team members are transmitted to the ice sheet.

"Strange, could it be that the signal has been interfered?" A soldier stood up and began to fiddle with the signal receiving equipment - since humans have lost the satellite network, all communication signals can only be transmitted through radio generators, and This signal is the most susceptible to interference.

"The signal has not been disturbed, otherwise, we should have lost all the information now, but now, not only the radar and sonar are working normally, but even their heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature instruments are clearly displayed!" Stewart K retorted.

"Could that be their microphone malfunctioning?" another soldier said.

"That's even more impossible. It's impossible for twenty people to have problems with their microphones at the same time!" Sturk said, he was a little panicked now, and he seemed to feel that things were already developing in an uncontrollable direction up.

"I also think it's impossible. Even if all the microphones are broken, they still have manual input devices and one-button signal transceiver devices. They don't need to make any sound at all. Just press a few buttons to let us know their situation-these It’s impossible for all the equipment to fail, right?”

Of course, it is impossible for all these devices to fail. They themselves are their logistics. On the night before the mission, all these devices have been checked several times, and even if they fail, they can repair them by themselves.

"Then what happened to keep the divers silent?" Sturk said.

"Quick! Come here, something is wrong with me!" Right at this moment, a female soldier suddenly shouted.Her name is Jessica, she is the medical soldier in the team, and she is also responsible for monitoring everyone's physical condition.

At this moment, Jessica was staring wide-eyed, pointing her finger at a screen in front of her.

Sturk rushed over quickly and cast his gaze on the screen.

"It's Owen, damn it, what happened next?!"

It was a device used to detect the physical condition of the team members, and the data on the screen at this moment showed that the soldier named "Owen" was shooting rapidly, his blood pressure and heart rate had reached a level sufficient to "burst blood vessels" , but his body temperature dropped rapidly, and soon dropped below [-] degrees.

When the temperature of the human body drops below 25 degrees, the consciousness will start to blur, and when it is lower than [-] degrees, the brain will fall into a state of shock, if it is lower than [-] degrees, the body will lose consciousness, if it is lower than [-] degrees , then it only takes a few minutes to enter a state of near-death.

"He's hypothermic! Is the insulation function of the diving suit malfunctioning?!"

"No...the diving suit hasn't suffered any damage or failure, and everything is functioning normally..." Jessica replied with a trembling voice.

"Normal? This is not normal at all! Owen is about to freeze to death, but his blood pressure and heart rate seem to be undergoing high-intensity strenuous exercise!" A soldier named Liete shouted, he and Owen They are very good friends, and they often play basketball together during their vacations.

Still, Sturk is calmer. As the leader of the third team, even if he is also full of fear in his heart now, he must not show it on his face.

He put his hand on Jessica's shoulder and said: "Don't panic, activate the emergency life support system built into the diving suit, and then open the compressed air bag, maybe we can rescue Owen back..."

Stuerk stopped in the middle of his words, because at this moment, Owen's blood pressure and heart rate on the screen had returned to zero, and the curve of the previous big wave disappeared, leaving only a dead straight line.

Owen is dead.

The most troublesome thing is that no one knows how he died.

"We lost him..." Jessica's fingers froze in the air, and there was a cry in her voice.

"Fack!" Lett punched his thigh hard.

After being silent for a while, Sturk raised his head and said to everyone: "No matter what happened to them underwater, we still have to do our own work... If they all die, then It's our turn to get in the water."

"But, but what can we do now?" Irene asked.

Yeah... what can we do now?Stuerk was also stunned. The current situation was really weird. During countless training sessions, they had rehearsed any emergencies, but they had never even thought about the current situation.

Except for Owen, the other nineteen people were still diving at a constant speed, as if nothing had happened.

There is still a lot of noise in the communication channel, and nothing can be heard - the ice cap and the underwater seem to be separated by an invisible boundary, becoming two completely independent worlds...

(End of this chapter)