Cyber ​​psychosis is my girlfriend

Since the entire fleet was not in combat, they made the transition using an economical speed of about 17 to 20 knots.

One knot is one nautical mile per hour, more than half an hour, and it is only a little over ten nautical miles.

One nautical mile is about 1852 meters.

Such a small distance is not enough for the carrier-based anti-submarine aircraft on the aircraft carrier to fly for how long.

Soon, a large number of flying iron birds came to the skies over the warring sea area.

At this point, the battle was drawing to a close.

A large number of unmanned submarines began to flee, and mines were placed in the water to block pursuit, as well as false signal transmitters to confuse targets.

It has to be said that this mature "hit and run is really exciting" routine has won Luo Qi's appreciation.

It can be seen that the wandering AI has made great progress from being reckless at the beginning to using tactics to disgust opponents.

This made the navy of military technology, while having a headache, also began to pay attention to the threats posed by these things.

But there is not much time left for them.

After picking up the crew returning from the cargo ship, they immediately returned to the route of chasing the large army without stopping.

The Coast Guard will seal off the waters, and follow-up teams will deal with the scene, especially the wreckage on the bottom of the sea and the recovery of the battle scene, which will require some parties to assist in the investigation.

But at this time, Luo Qi had already pretended to be dead to the early stage, quietly returned to the port, and followed the cargo ship again.

This is a cover and an excuse for submarines.

Even if he is caught by the new U.S. Navy, Luo Qi can still say that he is a Mehta technician who is conducting exploration and survey work nearby.

The cargo ship is equipped with engineering submarines in order to achieve the purpose of not dispatching additional scientific research ships.

Such reasons are so confusing, Luo Qi can think of a bunch of them with his eyes closed.

It's just that maybe they left too hastily, or because they were too ignorant of the beating, they didn't notice this ultimate sixth son at all, and left after patting their buttocks.

Severely damaged ships were towed back to the shipyard for overhaul, and ships that could not guarantee long-term combat also returned to receive repairs.

This is the eve of the serious war, not the period of the war that makes people's brains like dogs.

At that time, it was really called "slight injuries can't go to the line of fire".

It's the same for people and ships.

"It's all thanks to these little attention-grabbers, isn't it?"

Juan decided not to go down, but to stay on the boat and enjoy the difference of the American sea breeze, isn't it extra sweet.

It's a pity that he was disappointed, there was no freshness in the air here.

There seems to be no difference from Cuba, especially the air quality.

"But is it possible that NUSA left after searching without evidence, we can leave very quickly."

Rocky objected.

The communication buoy is suspended at the bottom of the cargo ship and connected to the cargo ship on the top, which is equivalent to a direct wired connection.

That's how Luo Qi finally got his feet on the ground once he was confused.

After a day's rest, the cargo ship was still loading and unloading, but this time, unlike the previous cities, Victoria brought him bad news——

Portions of Florida's oceans were cordoned off.

It is not a sensitive area or a military-administered area that existed in the past, nor was it blocked because of the war.

It's because of the wandering AI.

There are many people, including non-combat ships such as cargo ships and cruise ships, who have spotted or been directly hit by, or even received hits from unmanned submarines.

Some of the lucky ones even told Victoria's subordinates and employees of Mehta's company about those encounters in person.

And some other unlucky eggs have sunk into the sea forever and become food for fish and microorganisms.

But the blockade is still not NUSA, nor is it military technology, nor is it even a name.

It's simply because there are mines dropped in that sea area.

From the deep water area all the way to the nearshore shallow water.

This also means that their cargo ship needs to go around a large circle to avoid this unknown, but certainly scary enough minefield.

Not to mention, after bypassing the sea, it is the edge of the Gulf of Mexico.

Who knows if the unmanned submarines controlled by roving AI have infiltrated these places.

If you bypassed the mine, but ran into the submarine wolves, it would be like "going out of the dragon's pool and into the tiger's den".

In the face of huge risks, Victoria also had to ask Luo Qi's opinion again.

"In that case, let's stop here."

Luo Qi personally is not very hopeful about the rest of Florida, not to mention that the risk is too great to bear compared with the gain of gambling luck.

It is impossible for him to kill a whole boat of people for this.

"Finish the rest of the way, and then we'll head back."

In the action plan, the first action is a rough scan of the offshore.

Don't forget that Luo Qi's scanning radius is only about one or two kilometers.

Every time he arrives in a city, when the cargo ship is resting, he needs to repeatedly walk back and forth several times on the coast connecting the two cities.

Even so, the effective area is only less than ten kilometers wide.

That's not even half the width of territorial waters—

The territorial sea is the standard 12 nautical miles, which is about 22 kilometers.

Not to mention the devilish undersea terrain of the Gulf of Mexico.

That's right, it's really evil.

It feels as if it is not a serious geological structure of the earth, but a trace left by something.

The Gulf of Mexico, like traditional coastal areas, can be made up of several ecological and geological regions, which are mainly divided into-

Coastal land, continental shelf, continental slope and abyssal plain.

The land has nothing to say.

As for the continental shelf, it is a very shallow area of ​​the seabed along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It can be regarded as a children's zone in the swimming pool. For the deep sea, it almost reaches the ankle and barely reaches the knee.

The widest width can reach more than 320 kilometers, and the narrowest one is at least 40 kilometers.

The abyssal plain that forms the bottom of the bay has extremely steep faults on its edges facing Florida and the Yucatan Peninsula, and relatively gentle slopes to the north and west.

These slopes connecting the continental shelf and the abyssal plain are called continental slopes.

The continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico contains many salt domes buried at different depths, and the oil and gas deposits that companies are keen to exploit are closely related to these salt domes.

This section of the slope, from west to east, terminates near the edge of the Louisiana peninsula.

That's why most of the major companies mining rigs are concentrated in the Northwest.

At the same time, it is not difficult to infer that the contradiction between the Republic of Texas and the new American Federation cannot be completely unrelated to these natural resources.

In fact, this is supported by absolute data——

Offshore oil and gas fields in North America are mainly distributed off the coast of Louisiana and Texas, with oil and natural gas production accounting for more than 1/8 and 1/2 of the country's total respectively.

This is a pure ocean treasure house, it would be strange not to fight it.

As for the abyssal plain that makes Luo Qi feel outrageous...

The ocean basin is almost unnaturally flat.

Its inclination is only about 2440 meters per 0.3 meters, almost no difference from the horizontal plane.

To encounter this strangely flat seabed, you only need to dive to about 3781 meters.

Anyway, when Luo Qi checked the information to determine the course of action, he was overwhelmed by this weird terrain.

Especially that ridiculously wide continental shelf.

This means that the course of action this time is really just sweeping the whole sea.

The most likely place to mine Rochman technology is the continental slopes where the mining platforms are clustered together.

But they are generally distributed between [-] and [-] kilometers from the coast.

This is actually nothing.

The big deal is to spend some more time.

It's all worth it if you can find one, even if it's just a component.

Because they can bring earth-shaking changes to Luo Qi.

If possible, Luo Qi hopes to get close to every offshore platform or artificial island and reef to have a look.

Military technology is not superhuman either. If you want to dig something from the sea, you need a base.

It may be easier to search for such a purpose.

But the trip wasn't completely fruitless.

At least it proves that military technology is not dug out by digging sand by the sea.

But the problem is that although the new United States is far less wealthy than the old United States due to various reasons such as the economic downturn and the war, they still have a large number of offshore drilling platforms.

The quantity is around four digits, almost a few thousand.

If he really wanted to touch them one by one, Luo Qi felt that he would probably die of exhaustion.

So, with the mood of giving it a try, they continued to drive east.

This is the last leg of the journey.

If nothing comes of it, they'll just turn around and head back to Meta Island.

It can be said that there is no failure in the first action, but it is definitely not a success.

This is what Luo Qi does not want to see.

But after being in Night City for so long, he has gotten used to putting in everything without getting any return, until the day when he quietly waits for the opportunity to come.

It's just that the mood of the investigation team will inevitably be affected a little, and some morale will be low.

The sea area in this section also has no characteristics.

Florida's continental shelf is impressively wide and not too steep.

In order to avoid hitting military technology warships or other ships again, the cargo ship chose to stay away from the coast and drive near the edge of the continental shelf.

The naming of this continental shelf is also very uncreative——

Florida cliffs.

the reason is simple.

On the edge of the shallow and wide continental shelf, it is directly connected to the submarine plain of several thousand meters, and there are almost no slopes in between. Judging from the depth map of the seabed, it is completely a dead end.

There is almost no buffer for this height difference, and it is completely an oblique angle of more than 80 degrees.

Below them, at the bottom of the ocean, the seabed is almost indistinguishable from the ground.

There are plains, valleys, cliffs, and naturally there are mountains.

The seabed salt layer accumulated about [-] million years ago was still a basin, and after being covered by sea water, these domes, ridges and faults were formed due to its less dense characteristics.

All in all, it looks amazing.

Especially this cliff.

Luo Qi looked at the offline map, as well as the geographical image of the sea floor of the whole region "borrowed" from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).

For New America, their job is to manage the exploration and development of the nation's offshore mineral and energy resources.

Thus, they are able to get all the survey data collected by the company.

That is, this new map with up to 56 billion pixels has a resolution close to 40 square meters per pixel, which can be said to be ridiculously fine.

On this map, due to the existence of a large number of oil and gas platforms and the traces of exploitation left over from the past, there are a large number of suspicious points.

They've eliminated as many targets as possible, but there's still a ton of work to do.