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Chapter 3 Underwater Lightning and Hydrothermal Fluids(1/2)

Admiral Hook frowned slightly and looked at me and said:

"Do you know how to operate the gravity mine release system?"

I nodded slightly and said carefully:

"Yes, there should be no problem..."

Seeing my unconfident look, General Hook couldn't help but look at me twice, but he still issued an order to give me the seat of the operator who placed the mine. I looked at the placement coordinates represented by latitude and longitude and depth on the electronic display screen, and couldn't help but feel a little dazzled. On the electronic map, all the deep-sea terrain in front were cut into countless rectangular grids. As the operating rod gently stroked, a corresponding rectangular grid would light up a yellow light on the map.

I had already made my best efforts. I was slashing the operating lever randomly, and my mentality was like a blind cat hitting a dead mouse. One grid was exploring one grid after another, and each grid would pause for about one second.

My watch never vibrates, which means that the mine is not yet released.

When the people in the command room saw my random and unfamiliar operations, they were all stunned. They looked at me like they were watching monsters. Although they didn't speak, I didn't have to think about it. They had already begun to doubt me, a layman, and they must regret letting me, a young man, join their combat plan.

What to do...What to do...

Time passed minute by minute, and the mother boat continued to move towards the Puerto Rico Trench.

And the next moment, a war correspondent on the ship suddenly said:

"The vanguard has detected a weak Ai deep-sea troops signal with a neutrino detector. The nearest Ai deep-sea troops are only 14 nautical miles away."

14 nautical miles? At the current speed, aren’t you going to meet in less than 10 minutes? No, if the other party’s speed is faster than us, the time for meeting will be shorter. What should I do?

Looking at the watch that was completely unresponsive, I couldn't help but sweat and my breathing became rapid.

The enemy is approaching quickly, and the remaining time is also disappearing rapidly. No, if this continues, the human deep-sea troops will face the AI ​​head-on!

"The time for the firefight with Ai's vanguard is estimated to be five hundred seconds left, and the countdown will begin..." The crew on the boat has already begun to count down.

And at this moment, a deep trench suddenly appeared in front of me. The trench was so wide that it could not be seen at first glance. The Puerto Rico trench displayed on the electronic display screen was about 60 kilometers deep, and the narrowest place was thirty or forty kilometers. On the dim seabed, it was as terrifying as a black hole placed under my feet, and it was bottomless.

It's too deep. It's really too deep. I remember a scientist said that humans' understanding of the seabed is not as good as in space. Now I can finally understand this feeling. Because I really feel that I am just shuttled near black holes and falling down at any time. Even on the electronic map, the Puerto Rico Trench is so deep.

I hurriedly operated the operating lever in a hurry, allowing the map tiles of the selected coordinate area to jump continuously on the screen.

"What are you doing? Have you selected the coordinates? Ai's deep-sea troops are about to arrive. Their heat rays should have detected us long ago. Maybe their mines are on the road now. Moreover, if they put the mines to a fixed depth, it will take time for the mines themselves. What are you preparing for?" A deputy asked me in confusion.

"Wait, wait a little longer..." I said in a panic. The speed of choosing the coordinate area is faster. I am really crying now. Before the prompts of the imperial method have been transmitted, I can't help but let the mines be released casually, but there is no way. I can only trust the imperial method until the end.

I couldn't help but secretly look at the people around me, but found that they all looked at me with suspicion, and my eyes seemed to ask me again: Are you really the one who sank Ai's quantum stealth fleet before? Even so, it wouldn't be just a coincidence, right? Can you really create miracles again? Judging from your uncertainty, can we believe you?

Although I didn't say it, I had imagined such a voice in my mind, because in the past, I have been said such things by so many people...

No, it really can't. My hands were trembling violently, and even the operating rod in my hand seemed to lose its sense of reality. Finally, I took a deep breath and decided to admit it honestly, tell them I was a fake...

Just as I was about to open my mouth, my watch suddenly shook! My operating lever was parked on a central right-center area on the electronic display screen!

I was delighted, and I quickly shook the operating lever twice, and the vibration of the watch stopped and continued. Whenever my coordinate position stopped in the square area on the right side of the center, the vibration of the watch would reach its maximum value. I was already sure that the imperial method was to let me attack there!

"Start!" As if to encourage myself, I cast a mine toward that area!

The watch was still vibrating, and I tried to shake the operating lever a few times. When my selected block reached another position, the watch also began to vibrate. Obviously, it was Difa telling me that it was not enough to place one place, and it was necessary to throw it in multiple places. I glanced at the watch's dial and saw that it was displayed:

Vibration time:

Short: 100 rounds

Short: 200 rounds

Short length: 300 rounds

Long and short: 500 rounds

Long: All launches

The Emperor's method reminded me of the relationship between the duration of the vibration of the watch and the number of mines fired. I hurriedly held my breath, felt the vibration of the watch, and then kept directing:

"A2 area... launches three hundred gravity mines...b18 area, launches five hundred gravity mines, lasting two rounds...low left corner, well, that...c5 area, launches 100 gravity mines..."

While selecting the launch area, I issued instructions to Admiral Hook, and Admiral Hook passed my instructions to other single-player combat submarines. They continued to fire mines as I issued instructions. It was like radiating fireworks. From the real scene map feedback from the periscope, I saw the dark Puerto Rico Trench below, like fireworks blooming, with starry light flashing. In this ocean thousands of meters deep, another brilliant starry sky seemed to appear.

The light of the mine continued for a short time and then quickly went out, and the deep sea turned back into darkness. This time lasted for about two minutes.

In two minutes, I kept slitting the words on my watch, and an alarm suddenly came from the nuclear submarine:

"The alarm, the abnormal fluctuation of the ocean current temperature was felt five thousand meters ahead, and the estimated 90% was Ai's quantum stealth deep-sea force."

Then a line of text suddenly appeared on the watch face:

Retreat 15 kilometers, and all submarines drilled under the mud in the seabed.

"Retreat...retreat fifteen kilometers..." I saw it and said, "Everyone hides in the mud under the sea!"

My command was quickly executed. The army of nuclear submarines that were originally moving forward at high speed immediately began to slow down and then accelerate and retreat. Just as we were retreating, I suddenly felt the entire nuclear submarine was shaking slightly.

"I detected a high-energy reaction below and the temperature of the ocean currents was abnormal." The intelligent alarm system in the submarine came. Then, less than a minute after our mother boat exited the Puerto Rico Trench, I suddenly saw something emitting red light slowly squirming directly below the trench. The thing looked like a winding river, but the red matter was rising rapidly, and there seemed to be a large number of bubbles and large stones floating up.

As the stone floated up, some strange signal points began to appear on the electronic display screen. These signal points represent the floating stones, but unusual empty spots appeared in the middle of the densely packed stones. Those empty spots were moving forward quickly, and the groups of stones in the areas where the empty spots passed were separated into empty lines.

The empty points are obviously not randomly distributed, and the scattered empty points are very similar to a crescent moon.

"So that's the case, has the undersea volcano been successfully activated? The pumice stone group with residual heat rushed up from the eruption of the magma undersea volcanoes to determine the specific location of the deep sea troops... Just like a ship sailing on a lake full of duckweed, will the duckweed be drawn along the road? What a clever method!" Admiral Hook couldn't help but exclaim.

However, the spread of the ocean currents exceeded Admiral Hook's expectations, because the volcanic eruption not only caused the rise of the warm current, but also caused our submarine to begin to become unstable due to the erosion of the warm current, and the hull was shaking restlessly. The bodies of the personnel in the hull were shaking and vibrating with the hull.

"What's wrong. The depth of the undersea volcano reaches several thousand meters. No matter how fast the heat transfer is, the shock wave generated by the stirring of the ocean current should not be so obvious..." Admiral Hook said in shock.

But soon, the smart alarm device heard the alarm:

"A large-scale volcanic riots were detected in the surrounding sea basins, and a large area of ​​high-temperature hydrothermal mineral springs are rising!"

"It's not a volcano, but a collective eruption of the volcanoes?!" Admiral Hook was completely shocked.

I immediately looked out the submarine's window, but found that the outside was covered with yellow mud. This was not because we had drilled into the seabed. Judging from the information displayed on the three-dimensional electronic display screen, the yellow mud around us was not soil, but the supercritical fluid in the "black chimney" ejected from the cracks of the sea basin, which seemed to be rich in a large amount of metal elements. The temperature of these ores was generally as high as more than 600 degrees.

"So that's it. The large volcanic eruption in the deepest trench stimulated the magma flow, so the magma erupted from the craters of small and medium-sized volcanic groups in the sea basin to release energy, and at the same time caused vibration on the bottom of the sea basin, causing hydrothermal ores to vibrate in the sea basin. The high-temperature supercritical fluid rises like a black chimney, just turning into a smoke bomb that covers the heat source of our hull?"

Admiral Hook murmured to himself, using his rich experience to analyze everything in front of him, and not only did I not understand, I almost fainted.

In my vision, except for the hazy firelight, there was also the light spots on the electronic map, and there was nothing else. My hands were trembling. It seemed that the Emperor's plan was really successful. He really successfully detonated the volcanic eruption.

Admiral Hook patted my shoulder and said with a chuckle:

"Did you have known the stimulation point of the ocean crust? This shouldn't be true. Even in the database of our submarine base, there is no data on the complex magma flow in the mantle. How do you know the stimulation point of the ocean crust?"

"I..." As General Hu Ke asked, I couldn't answer immediately, so I had to stammer, "I... I had a guess before..."

"Is that guess right? Then you are definitely a top undersea geologist." Admiral Hook said excitedly, "However, the explosion of the gravity mines launched by thousands of submarines should be far from enough to stimulate the hard ocean shell to cause vibrations in the entire ocean shell and even the sea basin? Young man, tell me, what magic did you use to increase the power of our mines hundreds of times?"

"General, we have detected signs of a large amount of methane hydrate surging." A female officer was busy on the operating table for a while, summarizing a lot of analytical data and collecting reports.

"Methane hydrate?" Admiral Hook frowned.

"Yes, it seems that it was coming from the warm currents that were preheated up from below the Puerto Rico Trench, and signs of methane hydrate crystal surging and explosion were detected on the cliff walls on both sides of the Puerto Rico Trench." The female officer analyzed calmly.

Admiral Hook seemed to understand something. He tapped the palm of his left hand heavily with the back of his right hand, and said happily:

"So that's it! It's using methane hydrate! The Puerto Rico Trench is located in the Bermuda Triangle. The methane hydrate reserves on the seabed are very rich. There are also methane hydrate crystals in the high-pressure and low-temperature environment of the seabed. Usually these methane hydrates do not react. However, using the heat of the mine explosion to stimulate the methane hydrate crystals stored on the seabed, an explosion will occur. The chain reaction and explosion high temperature caused by one explosion will continue to spread to detonate the surrounding methane hydrate minerals for the second and third explosions. Therefore, the entire underground ocean crust will be blown out by the explosion of the methane water river and the stirring of gas, so that the crust can be stimulated by the minerals!"

My back was hit hard by the excited Admiral Hook.

"Did you have long planned to use the methane hydrate deposits at the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench to fight?"

I forced myself to smile and said reluctantly:

"Uh-huh."

"It's simply a miracle. The probability of every such thing happening can be said to be one in ten thousand... Oh no, it's not an exaggeration to say it is one in a million, but you can actually calculate it so accurately. It's incredible." General Hook sighed with a swishing mouth.

Faced with General Hook's excited back, I could only touch my head, look ahead, and smile.

"General, the radar system detected a new small unknown object passing through the magma pumice group and quickly approached us." The female officer suddenly reported.

General Hook almost lay on the operating table. He stared at the electronic display screen with his tiger eyes pale face and said gritting his teeth:

"So many? At least one million shots, right? Hell! This must be the quantum stealth mines of those damn Ai deep sea troops! Damn it, inform the entire army to accelerate the escape, try to consume their energy, and don't be caught up by them!"

I looked at the almost sudden red dots on the electronic screen, which appeared on the electronic screen so scared that I almost stopped breathing. There were so many, just like the feeling of pouring out a large group of ants from the bucket. The entire electronic display screen, which was originally scattered with small dots, was filled with the quantum mines of the ai in an instant. Just seeing the number of red dots, I was almost going crazy.

Moreover, what made my heart jump out of my chest was that the tracking speed of those quantum invisible mines was very fast. Compared with our human submarines, the tracking speed of those mines was at least twice as fast. Although we were still a certain distance between us and those deep-sea troops, the distance between the quantum invisible mines and us was quickly getting closer.

"Are these AIs crazy? Why do we need so many mines to deal with us?" General Hook punched the operating table hard, and then, as if he suddenly saw it open, his whole body closed his eyes, "It's over, destiny. Not to mention such an amazing number of mines, even if there are only two thousand and one hundred, we can only destroy them all."

"What, what do you mean?" I asked at Admiral Hook.

"Do you have any other way?" General Hook looked at me and asked, "These quantum invisible mines are not simple mines. They are 100% accurate guided intelligent mines. What we humans fear the most is this thing. In the past fifty years, every time Ai uses this thing on us, he has never missed a single shot. Each shot can destroy at least one of our combat boats. Originally, we humans had at least fifty submarine bases, but because of this thing, there is only one A2 base left on the earth..."

"General, we..." The female officer looked at General Hook with a decisive expression, his eyes dim.

"We lost." Admiral Hook shook his head and said, "We have no means to avoid these mines unless the gods descend to earth."

"I think...that's not necessarily..." I said gritting my teeth.

"Do you have any way to get rid of this storm, boy?"

Hearing my words, General Hook suddenly opened his eyes, but at this moment, the lights in the entire nuclear submarine suddenly disappeared, and a large area of ​​snowflakes suddenly appeared on the electronic display screen. The images on it were constantly twitching and twisting, as if they were disturbed.

"General, the strong electromagnetic pollution interference was detected, and the circulation circuits in the submarine could not function properly, and the communication of other single-man combat submarines had also been interrupted." The female officer suddenly said. "Because of the loss of power, all the submarines were sinking towards the bottom of the sea basin!"

"Electromagnetic pollution interference?" Admiral Hook's voice sounded in the dark, "Did those AI do it? Switch long-wave communications immediately!"

"Not." Another operator said, "These electromagnetic interference is the natural electromagnetic pollution caused by volcanic eruptions. We have entered the frequent volcanic clusters, and the electromagnetic pollution caused by volcanic eruptions is very serious. Although communication can be maintained through long-wave communication, the power system is difficult to maintain. The interference time is expected to last for one minute and thirty seconds."

"Since electromagnetic interference will interfere with the circuit of our submarines, will all those quantum invisible mines fall..."

"It shouldn't be that AI's technology is more developed than ours. Their mines have stronger anti-electromagnetic interference capabilities and will not fall even if the circuit is interrupted. However, I think it is very likely that this wave of electromagnetic interference will affect their accuracy, and at least, it will cause those mines to deviate from the target." The officer analyzed. "This area is full of hot magma from volcanic eruptions and high-temperature black chimneys. The high temperature is very high, which affects AI's thermal energy detection of our troops. I think General, this may be the reason why AI used millions of mines to attack us. Because the hot springs emitted by the black chimneys used as smoke bombs to cover up our retreat, AI could not accurately locate us, so it adopted the numerical advantage and fired mines at us on a large scale."

"So that's it, young man, have you calculated this step? Using the electromagnetic pollution of volcanoes as a natural weapon to interfere with the Ai quantum mine..."
To be continued...
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