(Two in one)
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Qi Feng frowned, wondering why Lu Liran suddenly doubled the search speed regardless of his body’s pressure limit.
But she said nothing and silently cooperated with Lu Liran’s decision.
She believed that Deputy Captain Lu must have his reasons.
At the same time, an indescribable sense of urgency pressed on Qi Feng’s chest, and it always felt as if time had entered a countdown.
Dive nine thousand meters!
This number is already infinitely close to the official record of the deepest seabed exploration given by Desolate Star.
The official record of nine thousand meters under the sea is a deserted land, and no life detectors can detect any signs.
No submarines passed further down.
——At least not publicly.
But in fact there is.
Just after they decided to set off, Qi Feng and Qi Bai told Lu Liran an internal encrypted message from the military that Qi Bai had inadvertently intercepted——
Two submarines carrying out extreme exploration of the seabed terrain suddenly lost contact with the main team after going 10,000 meters deep into the seabed. The last signal they sent before losing contact was: “There is life here.”
However, because that underwater terrain extreme exploration mission completely violated humanitarian practices and directly led to the disappearance and death of eight elite team members, the news was blocked by the military and was not announced to the public.
“Small White Ship to Big Monster, Small White Ship to Big Monster.” Qi Bai’s voice carried a ridiculous code name, breaking the somewhat too quiet and solemn atmosphere in the submarine cockpit.
Qi Feng herself didn’t realize how much she was looking forward to Qi Bai’s voice. After hearing this, she immediately picked up the communicator: “Big Monster, please speak.”
“The Small White Ship has received the signal from the Turtle group, which is one thousand three hundred meters directly below you.” Qi Bai said quickly.
He paused and hesitated: “Also, your dive speed of just three thousand meters was too fast. Did you encounter something?”
Hearing this, Qi Feng looked at Lu Liran but did not answer.
After two seconds of silence, Lu Liran picked up the communicator and replied: “Dead Turtles and traces of the target were found.”
Qi Bai took a breath.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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“Once a similar situation occurs, we must return to the surface in time!”
Lu Liran nodded slightly: “Received.”
All the viewers in the live broadcast room were confused. Why did they always feel that the anchor’s purpose for this live broadcast was not pure?
[We’ve reached 9,000 meters, do we still want to go down? So hard?]
[Ah, what trace of the target?]
[Treasure hunting? Looking for treasure?]
[What dead Turtles, why didn’t I see anything]
[I’m afraid I’m blind]
[I am blind in the deep sea]
[Well, even in broad daylight on land, Brother Lu can always see the details that we ignore…just get used to it]
[So it is]
[No!! Wake up!! Whose platform anchor would drive a submarine directly to the bottom of the sea nearly 10,000 meters deep in order to live broadcast treasure hunting?! Something that even the Desolate Star military can’t do! This is life-threatening!!]
[Fuck, I just said something was not right, and I almost went astray by following the barrage]
[Yes, the anchor is too persistent, isn’t it? Going down further…is there any deeper place further down? Isn’t it the bottom of the ocean?]
Lu Liran glanced at the live broadcast room and quietly answered the doubts in the live broadcast room: “Further down, there is the truly unknown mysterious place of the Blue Hole, which is also our final destination this time.”
“And, indeed, my purpose of entering the Blue Hole this time is to find the treasure that was thrown deep into the Blue Hole.”
Qi Feng’s heart beat a little faster when she heard this.
Aren’t they here to see His Excellency the Commander? Although this purpose cannot be stated explicitly…
Why does he have to say this so ambiguously…
[Wow, the treasure that the anchor is trying his best to find must be very valuable, right?!]
[Must find it! Sit back and wait for the eye-opening experience hehehe]
[Blind guess that that thing is worth tens of millions of star coins]
[Then let me guess… 100 million!]
Seeing this, Lu Liran slightly raised the corners of his mouth without leaving any trace, he scanned the endless abyss in front of him with persistence and without missing any details. At the same time, he said: “He…is quite valuable. He is as rich as the country.”
He is the Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief of the Federation, can he not be rich?
When the war was at its most stalemate and intense, the savings of the entire federation were emptied, and it was the commander-in-chief who used all his savings to support the entire federal army.
Not only did he not use up all his savings, but he even used war to support war, filling up the Federation’s depleted savings again.
When Lu Liran was still in the army, he heard his father mention the commander-in-chief, saying that if the commander-in-chief had not become a soldier, he would have been a respectable and terrifying business rival.
It was completely beyond Lu Liran’s expectation to hear such comments from his father.
In his impression, Ke Ji was the invincible commander-in-chief and the patron saint of the federation. Suddenly his father added such a completely irrelevant comment. It made him feel somewhat disharmonious, as if he was separated into two people.
But no matter what, Lu Liran knew that whatever the commander wanted to do, he would definitely be able to do it—— whether it was the economic strength to support the war through war, or the combat power to defeat the invaders.
Lu Liran withdrew his mind and sighed.
His body has gradually adapted to discomfort caused by the rapid dive just now, and the symptoms of ear and nostril bleeding no longer appear.
The two maintained their previous diving speed, and when they were still three hundred meters above the seabed, they suddenly discovered something.
“Mr. Lu, look, that’s…a piece of metal?” Qi Feng leaned forward slightly and spoke hesitantly.
He saw that the rectangular piece of metal, which was ten meters long and two meters wide, was covered with thick sea mud. It looked like it had been lying here for at least several years.
The failed operation of the Desolate Star military only happened a few months ago. How could there be such long traces of human beings here?
Qi Feng suspected that she had seen it wrong.
Lu Liran narrowed his eyes slightly and vaguely saw something in the turbid water.
He made a prompt decision and whispered to Qi Feng: “Get ready, automatically hover, we are about to leave the cabin.”
Qi Feng was slightly surprised, then nodded immediately: “Copy that.”
Lu Liran used 200,000 popularity points to redeem two sets of diving combat suits at a depth of 10,000 meters from the system. The diving suits they had prepared earlier might be a bit useless at this depth.
Pretending to take it out of the terminal, Lu Liran handed one of the sets to Qi Feng, indicating to the other party to wear this set.
The system is produced with quality assurance.
The weight and volume of the Desolate Star military combat suit are very heavy. When worn, it is like wearing a mascot on the body. It’s very inconvenient to move. The underwater depth limit of ordinary military diving suits is 9,000 meters. If it exceeds 9,000 meters, the time you can stay underwater will be limited. .
The one produced by the system is as thick as an ordinary bullet-proof vest, and the outer layer is covered with a thin light-colored coating, which not only functions to disperse underwater pressure, but also has fluorescent reflections. With certain contact lenses, it can easily distinguish them in the deep sea without light, and they were extremely lightweight.
The two changed into diving combat suits and arrived at the transit space of the detached ship. The two looked at each other. Lu Liran put his palm on the pressure-releasing handle and counted down in a low voice: “Five, four, three…”
Qi Feng took a deep breath.
As the final countdown sounded, the cabin door opened, and the two felt a huge force pulling themselves, pulling them out of the space of the cabin ship.
Qi Feng’s heart beat faster. This is the deep sea ten thousand meters below!
She has never performed an extravehicular mission at such deep depth.
Surrounded by dark sea water, visibility was less than two meters, as if there were pairs of unknown eyes hidden in the darkness, silently watching her every move.
Qi Feng unconsciously breathed much faster.
A hand pressed Qi Feng’s shoulder. Qi Feng was startled. She subconsciously grabbed the hand and pulled it forward. She wanted to throw it out with her backhand, but she didn’t expect that the force behind her didn’t change at all. Instead, her wrist was grabbed and was buckled slightly, causing Qi Feng to remove all the strength from her hand.
Qi Feng woke up with a cold sweat. She turned around and saw Lu Liran shaking his head slightly at her, then letting go of his hand and gesturing to indicate whether she could continue.
Qi Feng squeezed her palms hard. It was she who insisted on coming. She must show her ability and professionalism as the captain of the sixth diving team, and she must never be a burden.
She warned herself secretly and stabilized her mind. She nodded and made a gesture to indicate that she could continue.
Seeing this, Lu Liran said nothing. He patted Qi Feng’s shoulder lightly, and gestured silently in front of him, signaling Qi Feng to follow.
Two completely black figures with a hint of light color, like two mysterious phantoms in the deep sea, are vaguely visible.
The audience in the live broadcast room held their breath in unison. This was the first time for them and the entire Desolate Star to publicly see humans, wearing diving combat suits walking into the 10,000-meter deep sea!
Approaching the place where the rectangular metal was found earlier, Lu Liran stroked the plaster on it and saw that under the plaster there was a row of words that had been corroded to the point of losing color and corners. He could vaguely make out the name——Ellisir.
Sunnyshies: For reference, Titanic wrecked is in 3,8000m underwater. BTW, anyway still remember Ellisir, or did I used different spelling in this chapter….anyway, Lu Liran mentioned it in Deserted Island ending arc. I forgot which chapter, but it was before they left the cruise ship.
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ah! so exciting we’re travelling underwater now! Indeed the sea is one of the most mysterious and dangerous place on earth, we have only explored 5% of the sea so god knows if those sea monsters in stories actually exist!
Hoping for system’s highest quality at this depth… wonder if anything is lurking in the dark?! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️😵💫