The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Some hidden damages were found and repaired after the ship’s maintenance workers worked hard to repair the Kraken. Although this can’t be compared with entering the dock for repairs, it can at least allow the Kraken to dive more than a few tens of meters, and it will not be affected by water pressure. Caused secondary damage to the hull.

The auxiliary staff officer on the ship calculated that the Sea Monster continued to dive several tens of meters, and if calculated according to the limit, it could only reach the opening of the large rift, and could not enter the inside of the large rift.

However, the good news is that if it is supplemented by diving suits and submersibles, the ultimate depth that the expedition can reach is exactly at the bottom of the big rift, but in this way, the danger that the members of the expedition will encounter will be doubled. In addition, the sea monster was attacked by unknown monsters in the water, which made the danger factor straight up. The staff officer gave up this operation. After the sea monster was repaired, he would find more and better equipment to explore again.

But this proposal was quickly rejected by Langenus. He insisted on completing the exploration of this place as soon as possible. He felt that if he gave up this opportunity, then it might never be possible to discover the hidden ruins of this place in the future. secret.

Although Langenus is not the commander of the Kraken, his identity is destined to have the highest authority on the Kraken in addition to military command. If necessary, he can even order the Kraken to attack anything. A ship and any pier.

Seeing Langnus's insistence, Major General Les did not persuade him. Perhaps he didn't want to persuade him at all, because he also wanted to know what was at the bottom of the Great Rift, and what secrets they saw in the scene.

With the order being issued, the Kraken began to dive at a constant speed, and soon came to the opening of the big rift. At this time,

There was a crack in a previously repaired damage, the associated cabin had to be closed, and the hull also showed a slight tilt. Major General Les knew that he could not dive anymore, so he ordered to stop the dive, and the entire Kraken So still in the water.

Participants in the expedition began to put on deep diving suits under the guidance of the Navy's deep submersibles, boarded a small trailer, and came to the deep diving cabin at the end of the Sea Monster.

This deep submerged cabin is very large, occupying almost the general area of ​​the tail of the Sea Monster, and even the area of ​​the engine room is not as large as it.

In the middle of the deep diving tank, there is a circular pool. Below the pool is a closed pipe. The semi-circular object hanging above the pool that is almost the same size as the pool is the submersible.

After a while, the people participating in this expedition will enter the submersible and enter the underwater together with the submersible. After reaching a certain depth, the expedition team will leave the submersible and enter the underwater alone to explore, and their breathing will be It will be connected to the submersible through a pipeline.

This inverted semicircular submersible is not a new technology. It has appeared hundreds of years ago. The people who invented this thing were not scholars or craftsmen, but pirates wandering in the waters between the old and new continents. .

When they looted merchant ships, they often sink their ships due to excessive attacks, and the goods will naturally sink to the bottom. Although most of the goods are worthless when they are immersed in water, there are still some precious metals and other goods. Still extremely valuable.

Therefore, in order to salvage these sunken cargoes, the pirates racked their brains to come up with this kind of deep submersible. Who invented this kind of deep submersible is no longer possible. Most legends will refer to the deep submersible. The invention was attributed to several famous pirates at the time, but there has never been any evidence to prove this.

Although after hundreds of years of development, the submersible has become more advanced, and the number of people that can be supported has increased to dozens, but its basic principles have not changed, and it is still the most primitive set of air hundreds of years ago. Supply theory, so the defects of the deep submersible are also perfectly inherited.

The biggest defect of the deep submersible is the pipe that transmits the air. Once the pipe is damaged, it is basically difficult for the people at the bottom to survive. Therefore, the air pipes of the current deep submersible will use multiple protections to avoid damage, but the effect is only Always average.

The deep submersible on the Sea Monster naturally uses the best protection measures. For example, it has survived layers of metal nets outside the gas pipeline, and coated a layer of special rubber between the technical nets, which is both reinforced. The wall of the pipeline also strengthens its toughness. Even if it encounters a cut or impact, it will not break immediately, and there will be enough time to pull the submersible back.

The staff of the deep submersible module quickly adjusted all the equipment, and Langenus and Leo and others also got into the deep submersible under their command.

Although from the outside, the submersible does not seem to be very large, but after entering the interior and sitting in their respective positions in order, after everyone gets in, there is still a lot of space inside the submersible.

Subsequently, under the instructions of the team of deep-diving soldiers, everyone connected their air pipes to the air interface of the deep-submersible vehicle, and then fixed the safety rope to the safety lock of the deep-submersible vehicle.

After repeatedly inspecting the equipment on both sides and there was no problem, Major General Rice, who was in charge of the command outside the submersible, ordered the submersible to be put down.

With a sway, the submersible entered the pool, some water spread from the opening below, and stopped rising when it reached the feet of everyone, and then the submersible gradually sank along the pipeline, and the opening of the pipeline was also in the deep submersible. When it approached, it was slowly opened, followed by another shaking, the submersible drilled out of the pipeline and entered the bottom of Lake Beluk.

"Put the lights on." Following the order of the deep-diving soldiers accompanying the team, they each took out a sphere from their bodies and threw them into the water below.

The spheroid did not float up, but quickly sank, and the surface began to crack, and the lake water also squeezed into it, causing some chemical reactions with the substances inside, and instantly burst out a strong light, just like a torch in the night. The underwater situation was completely illuminated, and a large crack appeared in everyone's eyes.

This large fissure did not originally exist. It only appeared after a large earthquake that affected the entire Beluk Lake area more than a hundred years ago. This fissure is very wide and long, and it can easily connect three of them. The city of Beluk is included, but the rift is not deep, and the depth of the surrounding water bottom is less than 30 meters.

In the early years, many explorers used various methods to enter the large fissure for various explorations, so the topography inside the large fissure has long been explored.

As for the fragments of the ancient ruins found in the fissures, it was also an accident. At that time, the federal government’s mine exploration team was investigating a rare metal mine inside the fissures. When sampling, they accidentally discovered a pile of man-made objects buried in the silt. , And found this ruin.

According to inferences, this ruin should have encountered a mudslide caused by a nearby landslide a long time ago, and then was buried underground. Later, after a major destruction of Lake Beluk, a layer of soil was stripped off, and it was hit by an earthquake again. The soil loosened again, coupled with the continuous scouring of the undercurrent of the lake, made this relic to be seen again.

According to the established plan, the soldiers with the team dived first, inspected the situation and confirmed safety, and then the others dived in sequence. When everyone reached the bottom, they immediately walked towards the location of the ruins.

Although Leo has countless ways to reduce the surrounding water pressure to the point where it doesn’t, he didn’t do that. Instead, he moved forward as slowly as the others. It’s just that his spiritual web was also expanding outward at this time. Come, check the surroundings and disperse some dangerous fish if necessary.

It didn't take long for a group of people to arrive near the ruins. The soldiers scattered around with water cannons to take care of safety. The rest of them were also assigned by Langenus to clean up the ruins and search for valuables.

Because of the impact of the mudslide at the beginning and the destruction of the earthquake later, the ruins were already completely broken up. Unless all the debris is collected, it is difficult to restore the original shape of the ruins.

As for those valuable things are scattered everywhere, buried deep in the silt, under normal circumstances it is difficult to find them in a short time.

However, Langenus has a special way to find those things that he thinks are valuable. He stood on a relatively intact building foundation, and then took out a metal ball-shaped object from the pocket of the diving suit. , Put it on the ground, and then just stood there blankly.

Just when everyone was puzzled by Langanus’ behavior, Langanus suddenly raised his hand, pointed at several places, let people dig, and then took the metal ball on the ground back into his pocket. .

Everyone didn’t understand the purpose of Langenus’ doing this, nor did they understand what was special about the places that Langnus pointed out. They just started to clean up those places according to Langenus’ orders. silt.

Compared to the ignorance of these people, Leo knew exactly what Langenus was doing just now, and he also knew what the metal ball that Langenus took out was.

The metal ball should be a geographic scanner. This kind of thing is found on almost every exploration spacecraft. It’s not a big deal. Langnus can manipulate the scanner to scan the large fissure through remote sensing. Obviously, Lang Gnuth's mind should have been implanted with a master control device, this is where Leo was curious.

Implanting certain equipment control chips into the brain is not a difficult task in the various civilizations of the universe, but in this world, unless there is a complete set of chip implants with controllable artificial intelligence, otherwise It is impossible to implant any chips into the brain, which also made Leo curious about how much knowledge and devices Langenus has mastered beyond the scope of the world's cognition.

However, Leo soon stopped paying attention to Langenus and the others, because his spiritual network had discovered something related to the spiritual illusion of the previous cosmic war.

I saw that he broke away from the crowd, walked towards the location of the discovery, and soon came to a small arched platform, then squatted down and swept away the silt below, exposing what was buried by the silt. A stone cube.

Leo’s actions were naturally noticed by other people. The things that everyone was busy working on, cleaned up the silt and guarded the safety according to Langenus’ orders. Even Langenus had already done it himself. Only Lei Ou stood there alone so conspicuously that he didn't do anything. It was hard not to be noticed.

After that, Leo left the group and went outside the protective circle formed by the soldiers, which made everyone unable to help but focus their attention on him. The soldiers in charge of the guard wanted to go up and pull him back, but just walked two steps. , I saw Leo took out a block artifact from the mud that was swept away, then turned around and walked back.

Before coming down, everyone made a joking bet to see who was the first to find something valuable, but they never thought that the person was actually Leo who was regarded as a spectator from the beginning. Of course, they only knew Leo. Except for the real situation of Langenus.

After gesturing everyone to continue digging, Langenus put down the digging tool in his hand, walked slowly towards Leo, then pointed to the square in Leo's hand and motioned to take a look.

Leo did not refuse, and passed the cube in his hand. He also wanted to know if Langenus knew how to operate this thing. This could also test what Langenus’ knowledge of cosmic civilization reached. Degree.

Langenus adjusted the light on the helmet of the diving suit to the highest level, then put the cube under the light and looked carefully, his face also showed a color of doubt, because he could not see what was special about the cube.

The whole square presents the texture of a stone. There is no corrosion or damage on the surface, and there is no pattern. The whole looks like a beautifully polished square.

Seeing nothing peculiar about the cube, Langnus did not continue to study, and returned the cube to Leo, and then made a gesture to ask Leo if he knew what it was.

However, UU reading www.uukanshu.com this time Leo did not give him the answer he wanted, or even gave him a response. He just pointed to the excavation site on the other side, and saw that there seemed to be something valuable. thing.

Seeing this, Langenus' attention was also diverted, and he moved over there.

Leo didn't follow. He took the cube in his hand and thought about it. Instead of activating the cube, he put it back in his waist pocket.

After the test just now, Leo already knows that the knowledge of cosmic civilization that Langenus has mastered is probably fragmented, and it is more likely that it is just the use of certain tools, because if Langenus has the foundation of cosmic civilization If you understand the knowledge, you can definitely recognize that this stone cube is a standard cube.

The meaning of this standard is a near absolute standard, because the gap between each side of the cube is almost equal to zero, and this standard cube is usually used as a warship recorder, that is, a black box.

Before, the illusion of cosmic war that everyone saw was actually the recorded image released by this box, but the method of release was to project directly onto the spiritual level of the creature, rather than a low-level image of light and shadow.