Chapter 417: Behemoth!
Su Xia pondered, it seemed that his luck was changing recently.
Although my own strength has not increased, somehow I feel like I can do many things with ease.
After being hunted by the mechanical clan for such a long time these days, they didn't even encounter a mechanical creature. Instead, they harvested a lot of treasures at the bottom of the sea.
"Maybe it's because I do more good things." Su Xia thought.
There is some truth to the legend that good people are rewarded.
Now, what lies before Su Xia is another possible treasure.
The seabed is cold. Below the large submarine is a dark fissure that is unknown how many meters long. It is deep and strange, with no bottom, as if it is a strange door leading to another world.
In order to achieve effective invisibility, Sarah has not yet used active sonar to detect the interior of the rift.
Under her control, the deep-sea exploration robot on the lower deck of the submarine was dispatched.
More than a dozen robots dived into the water, providing Su Xia with underwater vision, allowing him to observe the metal fragments among the corals at close range.
The light turned on by the robot looked a little pale on the seabed, with some fine sand and debris floating in the light.
Everything was gray and gloomy.
There are some cold corals on both sides of the crack, which have been dead for many years.
Among the messy corals, some small metal fragments can occasionally be seen, the surface of which is covered with a layer of flocs, making it difficult to see clearly.
“There are quite a few fragments.”
In the submarine, Su Xia stood in front of the control console, on which many button symbols were flashing.
His eyes were deep and in front of him was a clear screen.
There were more than ten images on the screen, transmitted by different robots, and metal fragments appeared on six of them.
At this moment, Su Xia's eyes were focused on the picture in the lower right corner.
In the picture, under the illumination of the small robot's light, there is an irregular inverted triangle-shaped metal fragment at the bottom of the water, lying quietly in the dead coral reef.
"Wipe that piece of debris." Su Xia said.
"OK."
Sarah smiled and gave instructions.
The small robot immediately extended its mechanical arm, gently pressed on the piece of metal debris, and wiped it a few times to wipe off the grayish-white flocculent sediment on the surface.
As the small robot moved, the sea water surged, and many suspended debris particles suddenly appeared in the water, all of which were wiped off the surface of the metal fragments, making the picture much more turbid.
However, through the screen, a black mark can be vaguely seen.
"Black and gold rose."
Su Xia's eyes focused and she recognized the symbol on the fragment.
The rose was in full bloom, with a deep black background and bright gold patterns on the edges, giving it a calm and elegant feel.
There was such a mark on Su Xia’s former skeleton sword.
The same symbol can be found in the wreckage of the spaceship at the Oasis Camp.
Su Xia was quite familiar with this symbol; it was the symbol of a family called "Hastings".
This family has a huge influence and a wide distribution in the starry sky, involving many fields such as star field exploration, future technology, energy development, and spacecraft trade.
"Hal told me that the survey ship that crashed on this planet originally belonged to a star region ruled by mechanical creatures. It was later traded to the Seventh Empire and bought by a private research institute funded by the Hastings family. It became a member of the institute's huge exploration fleet..."
It was also during an interstellar exploration that the fleet encountered an enemy attack. The entire fleet was hit by a huge beam of particle flow, and nine-tenths of the spacecraft were destroyed on the spot.
Fortunately, this survey ship was not destroyed because it was on the edge of the fleet.
But it also encountered problems during its subsequent escape, and finally barely reached the planet. Before it had time to resupply, it disintegrated and crashed in mid-air.
After the breakup, pieces of the ship fell all over the world, and many parts have yet to be found.
What is certain now is that the human race found two pieces of wreckage with the help of Su Xia, the mechanical race also has several pieces of wreckage, and the Zero Point Tavern also has at least one piece of wreckage.
The mercenary king, Wang Teng, also discovered a piece of wreckage, and in that wreckage there was a complete battlefield simulation training.
Sooner or later, Su Xia will take the debris from Wang Teng's hand.
That man had been arrogant in the wilderness for too long, causing many people to think that Su Xia was afraid of him, but Su Xia just didn't have time.
"Some of the wreckage fell into this sea?"
Looking at the black and gold rose logo on the screen, Su Xia fell into deep thought.
"Could it be the wreckage of the central area of the exploration ship?"
According to Hal, there are twelve small planetary survey ships in the central cabin of this exploration ship.
As long as there is one ship that is intact, Su Xia can use it to travel through the starry sky and break out of this low-level civilization planet.
After a while, he looked up and asked, "Sarah, besides these wreckage fragments, have you found anything else? Are there any complete wreckage areas?"
“Not yet.” Sarah replied, “Captain, what you are looking for may be at the bottom of the rift.”
"Yes, I know."
Su Xia frowned slightly, staring at the central picture on the screen, thinking silently.
The picture in the middle is the long crack.
The crack was bottomless, and there was a dark blue color below, which was deep and terrifying, like a monster's open mouth, quietly waiting for its prey to enter.
Such an underwater abyss is unknown and full of uncertainties.
If the wreckage of the spacecraft really fell into the abyss, then... how to salvage it would be a headache.
Deep-sea salvage work seems to have a technical bottleneck on this planet. It is almost impossible to salvage at the bottom of the sea below 10,000 meters, unless the mechanical race dispatches a large number of special mechanical creatures that can withstand the sea pressure in the deep sea.
You know, Su Xia’s submarine has dived to about 13,500 meters.
And no one knows how deep the abyss below is. Could it be several thousand meters or even deeper?
Large submarines can no longer reach such a depth. Even for the mechanical clan’s underwater forces, more than 99% of the creatures cannot go down and will be crushed if they do.
After a moment, Su Xia said, "Look around first. If you can't find it, then focus on this abyss rift."
There was no way Su Xia could share this news with the Mechanical Clan, so for now he could only hope that the wreckage didn't fall into the abyss.
If he really fell in, Su Xia would have no other choice but to take the small lifeboat that could dive to 18,000 meters and try to enter the unknown world inside the abyss to search.
The large submarine moved slowly along the seabed, searching for possible alien spacecraft wreckage in the undercurrents.
However, after searching around for more than two hours, there was still no significant discovery.
Seventy-six pieces of the spacecraft's alloy hull have been discovered so far.
The small robots carry the fragments back and forth to the submarine. After putting the fragments back into the submarine, they continue searching, drawing maps of the nearby seabed and marking every location where a fragment is found.
It can be seen that most of these marked locations are distributed on both sides of the fissure.
"We still have to go into the abyss and take a look." Su Xia stared at the marked map on the screen and sighed slowly.
The crack is very wide. The width of the crack in this area alone is more than 30 meters.
Below was a deep blue, with gloom and deathly silence floating in the darkness.
For safety reasons, Su Xia did not rashly let the large submarine enter the crevice. Instead, she and Sarah went to the cabin on the lower level where the small submarines were stored and selected the small escape submarine that looked like a humpback whale.
This small submarine can dive to about 18,000 meters below the sea, which is 3,000 meters deeper than a large submarine.
"Captain, you don't have to take the risk yourself. I can control the submarine and go down." Sarah said.
"Okay."
Su Xia thought about it and felt that for someone like him with mild thalassophobia, going down would indeed not be of any help.
In this way, Sarah allocated part of the computing power and connected it to the operating system of the small submarine, turning the lifeboat into an unmanned submarine.
Su Xia and Sarah returned to the command cabin, stood in front of the control console, and observed everything in the abyss through the small submarine.
Soon, the small submarine sailed out of the channel and successfully entered the underwater world.
The view of the small submarine appeared in the center of the command cabin's screen.
Sarah controlled the small submarine to sink gradually, and in the undercurrent, it slowly sank into the bottomless dark crevice.
The small submarine's built-in lights have been turned on, but they can only illuminate a few dozen meters around it. The deeper and farther areas are blocked by the dark sea and are full of unknowns.
"We have already dived thirty meters into the abyss." Sarah spoke, keeping an eye on the situation around the submarine.
Su Xia remained silent, just looking at the images sent back by the small submarine with a serious expression.
If nothing unexpected happens, there are only two possible outcomes: either the small submarine descends to the bottom of the abyss, or it reaches the designed diving limit and cannot go any further.
Unless the depth of this rift exceeds 4,500 meters, the small submarine should be able to dive to the deepest point.
However, accidents always happen unexpectedly.
"boom……"
Suddenly, a loud noise was heard from the abyss.
The seabed shook violently, as if an underwater volcano had erupted. Even Su Xia, who was in the large submarine, felt the vibration and his whole body shook twice.
The sudden change was beyond Su Xia's expectations.
"What's going on?"
Su Xia's eyes narrowed and she stared at the picture on the screen, trying to see something.
The next moment, his face suddenly changed and his body trembled, as if he had seen something incredible and terrifying.
"That is..."
Su Xia's eyes widened, and she felt her scalp tingling. She immediately ordered Sarah: "Control the submarine to surface, surface immediately, and stay away from this rift!"
Previously on the sightseeing submarine, he wore life-sensing glasses, and after returning to the large submarine, he did not take off the glasses.
At this moment, through the layers of structure and alloy shell of the large submarine, a huge organism actually appeared in the world of life perception glasses in front of Su Xia!
The organism was extremely blurry and was located in the abyss below. It was so huge that its specific appearance could not be seen clearly. It looked like an ancient giant beast that was slowly awakening.
Boom!
Another loud noise was heard, and the submarine shook violently.
The small submarine that had entered the abyss was also impacted by the sea water, and the images sent back suddenly flickered a few times.
“Sizzle…”
After flashing, the screen went dark for a moment, then lit up again and returned to normal.
However, the reappearing scene made Su Xia gasp.
In the picture, in the deep and cold seabed fissure, a huge and terrifying tentacle is looming, extremely weird, twisted and hateful, like the tentacle of an evil god, or a deformed giant snake, waving in the deep and dark sea water.
Combined with the images displayed by the life perception glasses, that devilish tentacle was at least hundreds of meters long!
As it swung, countless sea water surged, as if it was about to stir up a terrifying undercurrent on the seabed.
A large amount of messy seabed sand, particles, biological residues and even gravel, as the tentacle waved, also entered the rolling cold undercurrent, causing the entire seabed to become blurred and even more chaotic.
“Woo——”
A strange sound came over them, vague and suppressed, like the low hum of an ancient god awakening.
Su Xia felt his head sink and he was in a trance for a moment. He almost fell down and took several steps back. He stopped only when his back hit the metal wall of the cabin.
He was shocked. That strange and huge creature was not something he could fight against at his current level!
What's even more terrifying is that in the world displayed by the life perception glasses, the hundreds of meters long deformed and weird tentacle is actually only a tiny part of the huge organism.
“Woo——”
The strange sound rang out for the second time, and layers of violent ripples appeared in the sea.
At the same time, in the chaotic and blurry turbulence of the seabed, a second huge tentacle slowly emerged, twisted and hateful, indescribable, and simply beyond human imagination!
Silent repression and fear followed, as if it were fear and evil itself.
Just these two tentacles are enough to suffocate.
Its main body was still in the deep and dark crack . It was extremely huge and its shape could not be seen clearly. It looked like an ancient monster in some mysterious religion. Just one look at it was enough to scare many people to the point of mental collapse.
This deep-sea monster couldn't even be seen by the life-sensing glasses at first.
It didn't appear in Su Xia's sight until it started to move.
But by this time, it was too late.
The submarine was too close to the abyss and it seemed too late to escape.
Once the huge and twisted tentacles get close, they will wrap around the submarine tightly and pull it into the abyss, leaving it to sleep forever in the cold and silent seabed!
“Buzz——”
The Nautilus vibrated violently, shaking all over.
Sarah's face turned pale. She controlled the large submarine to surface quickly and didn't even care about the small submarine.
The abyss of the seabed below was dark and boundless, and the sea water was surging violently. One strange and huge tentacle after another stretched out from it, each of which was hundreds of meters long and extremely terrifying. They were getting closer and closer to the submarine, as if they were hunting .
At the current speed, the submarine will be entangled by those deformed tentacles in less than two minutes.
Sarah gritted her teeth and hurriedly said to Su Xia: "Captain, quickly enter the escape pod. The power of the escape pod will allow you to leave this area at a very fast speed!"
"good!"
Su Xia nodded immediately, very decisively, without hesitation, and rushed out of the command cabin and ran towards the escape cabin at the tail of the submarine.
The situation suddenly changed and it was impossible to save the submarine. The only chance of survival was to enter the rear escape cabin.
In the command cabin, a cold light flashed in Sarah's beautiful eyes, and she directly turned on the submarine's weapon system.
There was a slight sound coming from the torpedo compartment, indicating that it had entered the activation state.
There are a total of eighteen torpedoes, which are carried by this submarine.
"Deep-sea monster, you want to kill us, but you won't have an easy time either!" Sarah snorted coldly, her face was ice-cold, and her illusory body slammed heavily on the console.
Once eighteen torpedoes are fired or the monster explodes, the probability of it surviving is very low.
As long as one is a living creature of flesh and blood, there is no one who is not afraid of this kind of explosion.
As if sensing the danger from the torpedoes, the tentacles approaching the submarine suddenly stopped and stopped in the sea below.
