fictionpage Chapter 709 Lost Contact (asking for monthly ticket)
Chapter 709 Lost Contact (asking for monthly ticket)
Chapter 709 Lost Contact (asking for monthly ticket)
"Oh my god! Can someone tell me what happened? Why did the alarm go off?"
"I felt like I hit something!"
"Mr. Thompson, didn't you say that submarines have sonar detection? How could a collision happen?"
"This……"
The flashing red alarm undoubtedly continued to expand the atmosphere of tension and panic.
The tourists looked at each other, their eyes filled with fear and anxiety.
"Honey, I'm so scared..."
"Open the door! Damn it! Do you know how to drive?"
After the submarine stabilized, Rustam rushed to the door of the control room again and pounded it hard to vent his emotions, and even used Arabic later.
The bald middle-aged man next to Gu Ji also stood up at this moment, with a hint of horror in his eyes.
really.
Just as he expected, this guy only cared about the control room.
However, the focus at this time was no longer on the captain and other staff members, but on the damage to the hull.
Well known.
The greater the water depth, the greater the pressure.
At a depth of 3800 meters, the water pressure is 380 standard atmospheres, which is equivalent to 380 times the atmospheric pressure on the surface, which is approximately equivalent to a weight of 400 kilograms per square centimeter.
Intuitively speaking.
Its water pressure is equivalent to the weight of the Eiffel Tower, or tens of thousands of tons.
Under such terrifying pressure, once the submarine structure is damaged, the external water pressure will increase and compress the interior of the submarine more, causing an implosion.
Rustam hit it several times.
The red alarm suddenly stopped, the dim lights in the submarine flashed a few times, and finally began to return to normal.
"Zizi, I'm the captain of the 'Flying Leap'. Please don't panic. The bottom of the boat just accidentally scraped against a dark rock. Our engineers have checked and the boat is not damaged..."
"What? It hit a rock. It won't leak, right?"
"It shouldn't be. This is a professional submarine customized by a military company. It has two layers of hull, inner and outer. Even if the outer carbon fiber hull is damaged, there is still the high-strength steel liner inside to support it..."
When everyone heard that the submarine had hit a reef, their faces changed immediately.
Even the knowledgeable Thompson lacked confidence when he started to explain to everyone.
after all.
This is 3800 meters underwater! !
Gu Ji came to the observation window on the wall and observed for a long time.
Perhaps it's just as the captain said.
The collision just now has not caused any damage to the hull. Otherwise, with his current hearing, he would definitely be able to hear the sound of seawater pouring into the mezzanine and flowing at the bottom.
But even if the hull is intact, the situation is not optimistic.
Because from the time the alarm was lifted until now, the submarine has remained hovering without moving a single step.
"Could it be..."
Gu Ji's pupils shrank suddenly as he thought of another worse outcome.
The bald middle-aged man next to him seemed to have noticed this as well, his brows filled with intense uneasiness.
As for other tourists.
Some of them were temporarily frightened by the captain's words.
Another group, such as the young men like Rustam, kept clamoring for the captain to find the sunken ship as soon as possible.
"Father, will we be okay?"
"Don't worry kid, as long as the shell is okay, we're safe!"
Faced with the child's panic, Thompson quickly hugged Bruce in his arms and comforted him softly, but his tone was no longer as calm as before.
Waited nearly ten minutes more.
Seeing that the submarine still didn't move, Rustam and the other young men completely lost their patience.
This time.
They all stood up and rushed to the control room, knocking on the door frantically.
"Why isn't the submarine leaving yet? Come out and explain yourself to me right now!"
"Damn it! If you keep wasting my time like this, I will definitely file a complaint against you. No, I will directly have a lawyer sue your company for fraud!"
"Come out! Get out of here!"
……
Perhaps it was the series of accidents that pushed everyone's emotions to the limit.
Instead of stopping these young people, the old antiques joined in and put pressure on the captain and others, demanding that they come forward to explain.
Just when the scene was about to get out of control.
"Click."
The door to the control room finally opened.
A middle-aged white man with a brown mustache and wearing a blue work suit slowly walked out of the control room.
Take this opportunity.
Gu Ji quickly glanced through the crack in the door at the situation in the control room.
Similar to the structure of most midget submarines, the control room is surrounded by various screen instruments, and a cylindrical periscope is hung upside down in the middle to observe the situation outside the submarine.
He noticed it sensitively.
At this time, there was a young staff member next to the periscope, operating it!
【Impact Factor: 0.02! 】
Moving again?
The moment the control room door closed, Gu Ji noticed again.
The impact factor value in the upper right corner jumps.
But he clearly did nothing, just glanced at her.
He quickly looked at the bald middle-aged man, but found that this guy's attention was all on the uncle with a mustache, and it was impossible for him to notice his gaze just now.
What went wrong?
"Dear tourists, I am the captain of this 'Leap' sightseeing submarine, Dedallo Buller. You can call me Old Buller..."
"I don't want to know your name, I just want to know when we can see the wreck!"
"Yes, at least 20 minutes have passed since we arrived at the bottom of the sea. You have been walking around in circles. What on earth do you want to do?!"
"You are cheating! This is fraud!"
……
Before the captain could finish his words.
The tourists expressed their dissatisfaction one after another.
"Everyone, please be quiet and listen to me slowly..."
Old Buller opened his arms and tried to calm everyone down, but no one listened to him.
Finally, it was Thompson who spoke up, "Everyone stay calm, maybe the captain will bring us some good news..."
"Thank you."
Old Buller thanked him first, then took a deep breath, lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "But I'm sorry, our submarine just had an accident, and the sonar communication equipment suddenly failed. But don't worry, our engineers are working hard to repair it..."
"What is a sonar communication device?"
"It seems to be the ear Mr. Thompson mentioned before!"
"I was wondering why the submarine didn't move for a long time. It turns out that some equipment was broken. Damn it! How dare you conceal such important information? This is blatant fraud!"
"How long will it take for this equipment to be repaired? When will we be able to see the wreck... Eh? Mr. Thompson, sir! Be careful!!"
Just when everyone was still chattering about how long it would take to return to normal.
Unexpectedly, Thompson seemed to have hypoglycemia. He staggered and almost fell to the ground.
A French tourist hurriedly supported him, "Mr. Thompson, are you okay? You look very bad now..."
But at this moment, Thompson had no intention of paying attention to him at all.
Instead, he used all his strength to question the captain: "Tell me, do we have no sonar now and no way to communicate with the mother ship?"
"Our engineers are currently working on..."
"answer me!!"
Thompson suddenly roared.
Finally all the tourists woke up.
Although many people do not have much knowledge about submarines, from his hysterical appearance, they know that something very bad seems to be happening on the submarine!
Old Buller gritted his teeth.
Finally, he nodded, "Yes."
As soon as these words came out.
Thompson fell into complete despair, as if his soul had been taken away from him. He stared blankly at the dim light on the ceiling of the cabin.
Gu Ji's heart skipped a beat.
Unexpectedly, the thing he was most worried about still happened.
In fact, whether it is the slowing down of the submarine, the collision with the dark rock, or the staff just seen operating the submarine periscope, they all prove the same problem: the submarine's sonar is no longer working!
"Mr. Thompson, please tell us, is it serious if a submarine loses its sonar?"
"Without sonar, the submarine is blind in the sea and dares not move at all. But the most terrifying thing now is not this, but that we have lost communication with the mother ship at sea!!"
Thompson was already out of strength by this time.
The person who said this was naturally Gu Ji.
A black tourist looked at him in confusion, "Mr. Gould, what do you mean when you say that losing contact is more terrible than having the sonar broken?"
"If my guess is correct, the Feiyue is a mini-submarine with simple equipment and no autonomous navigation capability. All of its route movements rely on precise navigation support provided by the mother ship at sea.
Without sonar, we just can’t move in this seabed mountain range, but without navigation, we can’t get out of the deep sea at all. If we’re not careful, we may encounter a sea jump layer or a cliff, causing the submarine to sink rapidly. At that time…”
"Sir! We are far from being so dangerous!"
Perhaps because he was afraid that Gu Ji's words would cause panic among the tourists, the boat captain, Old Buller, quickly interrupted him.
Available in the next second.
Rustam rushed over, suddenly grabbed him by the collar and cursed loudly.
"You damned old devil, you are still deceiving us. The communication is down, which means we can't even send out a distress signal now. How dare you say there is no danger!"
"Sir! Please calm down!"
Old Buller held his hands and spoke as softly as possible.
"Our submarine is military grade, so there is absolutely no problem with safety. Even if the sonar and communication are out of order now, we can still launch a distress buoy to the sea surface, and then the outside world will receive our positioning and distress signals!"
"Why should we trust you! You've already deceived us once!"
"Yes! And no one knows how long it will take for the authorities to receive the distress signal and send people down to rescue us. What if it takes more than ten hours, or even a day or two? By then, if the oxygen is gone, we will all suffocate to death here!"
"Oh my God, are we going to die at the bottom of the sea?"
"Damn it! I shouldn't have believed your company's propaganda in the first place. Even if I die, I will take you with me first!!"
……
Due to the previous performance of the captain.
The tourists had long since stopped believing anything he said.
The panic of losing contact, coupled with the fear of death, multiple negative emotions finally erupted completely. A young man next to Rustam even punched old Buller directly in the face!
"Stop! Stop right now!"
Seeing that the situation was completely out of control, the middle-aged bald man rushed forward and began to stop it.
"Damn it! You don't need to mind your own business here! Ah... you dare to attack me? Do you know who my father is?"
"Damn it! This guy must be in cahoots with the captain and his gang! Hit him!"
"Go to hell!"
"I'm warning you again! Stop it right now!!"
Unexpectedly, the help of the middle-aged bald man failed to stabilize the situation.
Instead, it ignited the tourists' anger even more intensely.
As the saying goes, "two fists are no match for four hands." No matter how skilled the middle-aged bald man is, the submarine cabin is narrow and there are people everywhere, so he can't dodge at all.
In just a few seconds, he was hit by several punches.
"Crack!"
Amid the roars, the crisp sound of a metal spring seemed so insignificant, but it caused the fists of Rustam and others to suddenly stop in mid-air.
Even Gu Ji, a spectator from the outside, couldn't help but have his pupils shrink suddenly.
That is……
gun!
The middle-aged bald man was holding a Glock 19 that he had taken out from somewhere, pointing it at Rustam's forehead, staring at him coldly, "Everyone, stop! Now!"
"Gun, how did he get a pistol?"
"Oh my God, could it be that he is the one who did all this? Is this kidnapping?"
"Don't kill us! Just ask for whatever conditions you want!"
As soon as you see hot weapons.
The young people who had been making the most noise immediately changed their expressions and began to beg for mercy.
For these rich young men, the thing they have the most is money.
"That's enough, Evan, put the gun down and stop scaring the tourists."
At this time, the captain, Old Buller, who had climbed up from the ground, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and shouted to the middle-aged bald man, "I'm sorry, tourists, this is Evan, a professional security officer hired by our company, who is responsible for the safety of the submarine."
"It turned out to be a security guard. I was scared to death..."
"But even though he's a security guard, he can't just bring a gun in. This is a huge threat to our safety!"
"Yes, this is not mentioned in the contract terms at all!"
I heard that it was security arranged by the company.
The tourists finally breathed a sigh of relief and then began to interrogate the captain again.
Just forced by the gun in Evan's hand.
This time, they did not pounce on him, but kept a distance.
Gu Ji had already guessed that this guy was not an ordinary person, so he was not surprised when Evan suddenly pulled out a pistol.
What he didn't expect was.
The impact factor actually rose again at this time, jumping to 0.06, and was even rising at a rate of "0.01" per second.
"Dear tourists, please believe us. Evan's gun is only used to deal with emergencies. Although we have already verified your identities, we cannot rule out the possibility that someone is impersonating you. I hope you can understand."
Old Buller tried his best to calm everyone down.
Perhaps there is no solution at the moment, perhaps the tourists have already vented their emotions, or perhaps the gun is in someone else's hands and they are powerless to resist.
In this way, everyone could only accept the fact that the submarine had lost contact.
Seeing that the situation began to stabilize, Old Buller finally breathed a sigh of relief and immediately set his eyes on Gu Ji.
"Mr. Gould, can we chat for a minute?"
(End of this chapter)