King Who Will Cross

What is the most important resource in the vast ocean?

Oil, natural gas, various ores, etc., are all very important to human beings, especially in an era when resources are becoming increasingly scarce.

But for Li Daniu, these resources that need to be mined bit by bit are not what he needs most at the moment.

For example, the ores on the seabed are not like pebbles at the bottom of the water, which can be picked up one by one by reaching down. Instead, they need to be excavated on the seabed, then mined, and finally smelted.

This process is very complicated. Even though Li Daniu now owns many submarine engineering robots, it still takes a lot of time to obtain basic mineral resources.

Therefore, the second phase of the Poseidon Project began naturally.

Arrived at the designated sea area, search mode has begun.

Hearing Ultron's voice, Li Daniu lay on his back on the chair in front of the console and said, Is there a communication problem?

No problem. Ultron said: The new satellite has arrived at the designated location and begun to provide communication services. Your steel armor, as well as the communication modes of the laboratory and the deep sea base, have all been converted to the frequency of the new satellite.

That's good. Li Daniu sighed and said, I no longer have to worry about others eavesdropping on my communications.

The Poseidon base's communication mode, because it lacks its own satellites, has always used satellites from other countries stolen by Ultron for communication, including Li Daniu's communication with Ultron in the steel armor.

In a short period of time, relying on Ultron's unparalleled technology in the real world, neither the United States nor Russia can stop and detect this theft. But if time goes on, even if the technology is superb, it will not be possible. Undetected.

After all, communication resources are limited. If someone is interested in collecting big data, they will inevitably find anomalies.

With his own satellite, Li Daniu can now conduct communications that cannot be found in other countries anywhere on the earth. You know, he has a new communication satellite to himself.

If you find the target, do you want to start taking action?

Li Daniu sat up from his chair, looked at the picture displayed on the screen, and said excitedly: Start!

On the seabed off the west coast of Australia,

A strategic-class nuclear submarine lurked about 300 meters below the sea level. After receiving Ultron's instructions, a hatch on the submarine opened, and five undersea engineering robots each carried different equipment and swam out of the hatch. .

After leaving the submarine, the propellers on the five engineering robots began to operate, and they sank straight to the bottom of the sea.

Five minutes later, the five engineering robots reached the seabed at a depth of about 3,500 meters.

Li Daniu, who was in his own laboratory, could clearly see with the help of the equipment on the engineering robot that a huge metal warship was lying quietly on the seabed.

Ultron said: According to relevant data analysis, this sunken ship is the German 'dkm' Cormorant auxiliary cruiser, with a no-load displacement of about 16,000 tons.

Check the corrosion degree of the metal and see how much metal can be decomposed after pulling it back. Li Daniu stared at the quiet Cormorant on the screen. For his deep-sea base and submarine engineering robot, it is more than 10,000 tons. The metal that a warship can extract is nothing. Engineering robots can mine the same amount of ore in a few days.

Even in the future, his engineering robots will be able to mine this level of metal ore in one day after going through the violent mode.

But ore is ore, and it takes time to refine it, but this battleship is a finished metal that can be used directly as long as it is brought back and re-melted.

Moreover, this Cormorant is just an insignificant ship that sank in the sea. Even in terms of displacement, it is not among the top.

On the screen, several engineering robots approached the wreckage of the battleship and began to inspect the battleship using the equipment they carried.

A few minutes later, Ultron said, We expect to be able to extract sixty-seven percent of the finished metal.

That's quite a lot. The displacement is almost equal to the weight of the hull itself. Excluding some other equipment on the hull, it is definitely possible to extract more than 10,000 tons of finished metal. After Li Daniu did the math in his mind, he said: Start Change the target!”

On the screen, engineering robots were scattered in all directions. Compared to a battleship that was about 150 meters long and 20 meters wide, five engineering robots that seemed huge to ordinary people also seemed a bit small.

The tiny engineering robot brought the propulsion equipment and installed them on the ship at the positions calculated by Ultron. Each also found a position and temporarily acted as a propeller.

There are no commands and no countdown. When everything was in place, there was a sudden tremor in the extremely quiet seabed. The warship that had been sunk on the seabed for more than sixty years started to stir with the help of super-powered engines and engineering robots.

Under this vibration, the dust on the seabed floated up, making the seabed become turbid. Some of the undersea creatures that lived in the battleship also fled out of the mud in panic, and then fled in an unknown direction.

The propulsion equipment is normal.

In the sound of Ultron's report, the battleship slowly rose from the bottom of the sea. When it reached a position 600 meters above the sea level, it began to move horizontally, and its destination was Li Daniu's Poseidon Base.

The power system is normal and the three engineering robots can be liberated.

On the screen, three of the engineering robots acting as thrusters broke away from the battleship and then returned to the submarine docked nearby. The remaining two engineering robots are responsible for guiding the direction and communicating with Ultron.

Those countries are such a waste. So much metal and steel are just discarded on the seabed. Li Daniu stood talking without pain. If other countries also had engineering robots like his, or could provide super propulsion on the seabed The engine, these sunken ships on the seabed, where does he have anything to do with it?

Others don't want it, naturally because the cost of salvaging it is higher than the cost of buying the same amount of metal and steel.

Detect other countries' equipment on this journey and set an alarm. Li Daniu ordered. Of course, he also knew that the chance of this warship being discovered was equivalent to the chance of an ordinary person winning the first prize in the lottery three times in a row.

The level of science and technology in the real world allows human beings' undersea military equipment, such as submarines, to float to a maximum of about 300 meters above sea level. The 600 meters under the sea where warships are located is almost a blind spot for detection. Coupled with the huge sea area, a warship of about 150 meters is not even a drop in the bucket, so there is no need to worry about being discovered by other countries.

Let the submarine search the next area.

Of course, one battleship was not enough. After Li Daniu saw that everything was normal on the Cormorant, he immediately gave orders.

Half an hour later, Ultron's voice sounded: The battleship was discovered. According to data analysis, this battleship should be the Sydney cruiser that perished with the Cormorant. The no-load displacement was about 15,000 tons.

Fifteen thousand tons? Li Daniu clicked his tongue twice and said: The two battleships sank at the same time. It is estimated that the metal corrosion degrees are about the same. So, the recovery of the two battleships is equivalent to nearly 20,000 tons of metal?

The order was given without hesitation, and five engineering robots swam out of the submarine again, three of which were the engineering robots that had just transferred the Cormorant.

When the engineering robot started working, Li Daniu asked: Do we have enough equipment?

Ultron replied: The current equipment can simultaneously transfer five submarine sunken ships of less than 20,000 tons.

That's still a big difference. Li Daniu looked at the location of the Atlantic Ocean on the shipwreck map with bright eyes, and said: Step up the production of relevant equipment and make every effort to move the relevant shipwrecks.

Ultron replied: Our current production capacity for refining related metals has almost reached a limit after the Cormorant and Sydney are in place. We can completely use the time difference of existing equipment to move the sunken ship to alleviate the refining limit. Are you sure you want to increase Move equipment?”

Of course I'm sure, and it won't waste much production capacity. Li Daniu said: There are the most World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean, so we have to drag all the shipwrecks back there. It's better to have ten birds in the forest than one in the hand. . (To be continued.)