N-M Chapter 128 Who exactly is the prey!
Chapter 128 Who exactly is the prey!
800 meters underwater.
The Deepdiver 1's searchlight illuminated less than twenty meters ahead; beyond that, it was pitch black.
"Boss, this place is terrifying."
Zhou Dazhuang said, "I feel like I'm going to lose a second if I stay here any longer."
Lin Chen ignored him and just stared at the 3D terrain map on the main control screen.
This is the outer sea of Qingshui Island, near the edge of Devil's Reef.
The seabed has a very complex topography, with rocks and trenches everywhere.
"Hold on tight."
After Lin Chen finished speaking, he started operating the control panel to adjust the attitude of the submarine.
……
Just then, eighty nautical miles away.
A dark, miniature armed submarine hovered in the shadow of a trench.
The atmosphere in the command center was frighteningly cold.
A white man with a scar on his face held a glass of red wine and looked at the green dot on the sonar screen.
He is the Asia-Pacific head of "Eye of the Deep," codenamed "Black Shark."
A blonde female operator bent down and reported, "Sir, the target has entered the C3 ambush zone. 'Deep Diver I' is approaching at 15 knots and is estimated to reach the optimal attack position in 30 minutes."
Black Shark swirled the red wine in his glass.
"Foolish Chinese people, do they really think they can just float around in the deep sea like that by opening a tin can?"
He finished his red wine in one gulp and slammed the glass onto the control panel.
"Those old guys at headquarters still insist on capturing me alive? They're getting more and more cowardly."
A glint of disdain and savagery flashed in his eyes. "A fisherman who can raise 'ultra-highly active' seafood? Wouldn't it be simpler to just take that technology from his corpse?"
Black Shark completely disregarded headquarters' order to "capture him alive if possible" and directly issued the order: "Pass down the word, activate electromagnetic interference, and cut off all of his external communications."
"Wait until he gets a little closer, then deal with him with the harpoon."
"Harpoon" was their code name for the miniature sonar torpedoes they equipped on their submarines.
"But sir, the power of the 'harpoon' might blow up the target directly, and what about headquarters..." The blonde female operator hesitated.
"I'll take responsibility if anything goes wrong!"
Black Shark roared, "I only care about results! I want everything that moves inside that submarine to become minced meat on the seabed! Execute the order!"
"Yes, sir!"
The operator dared not say anything more and started banging on the launch panel.
An instruction locked onto Deepdiver One.
An alarm sounded in the cockpit of Deepdiver One.
The screen, which was originally displaying normal parameters, was suddenly covered by a red warning, with a red triangle icon flashing continuously in the middle of the screen.
[WARNING! High-energy underwater weapon detected and locked on! Approaching at high speed!]
Upon seeing the words on the screen, Zhou Dazhuang slumped into his chair, his face turning pale.
"Lin...Linzi! It's...it's a torpedo!"
"We're doomed! We're finished! We're going to be blown to bits!"
"I'm not even married yet! I don't want to die!"
He closed his eyes and mumbled incoherently.
Lin Chen stood in front of the control panel, his expression unchanged.
When the alarm went off, he had already figured out how to hide.
Lin Chen's hands flew across the control panel.
All eight thrusters of Deepdiver One were overloaded, and the submersible suddenly sank to the lower right, performing a zigzag evasive maneuver.
The submersible grazed the side of an underwater rock and cut into a cluster of rocks.
The cabin shook violently.
Just as Deepdiver One entered the stone forest, a miniature torpedo grazed its outer shell as it flew past.
The torpedo struck a distant mountain and exploded.
The shockwave, mixed with mud and sand, swept over, throwing Deepsea One into the air. It tumbled several times in the pile of rocks before regaining its footing.
The cockpit was a mess, and Zhou Dazhuang was dizzy from the impact.
He found himself still alive, and the submersible was still intact, except for a few scratches on its outer shell.
She looked at Lin Chen in disbelief.
Lin Chen was still standing there, his face a little paler than before, and the knuckles of his fingers gripping the joystick were a bit white.
Inside the command cabin of the Orca.
Black Shark's smile froze as he watched the light spots disappear and reappear on the sonic screen.
His eyes widened.
"Miss? How could that be!"
"How could a civilian underwater vehicle possibly evade a harpoon's lock-on?!"
That kind of evasive maneuver was completely military-grade.
Who exactly is this Chinese fisherman?
After the shock came fury.
"Useless! A bunch of useless trash!"
Black Shark kicked the operator's chair. "Second shot! Two shots! Cross lock! Let's see where he hides this time!"
Lin Chen had no intention of giving him a second chance.
He had already completed his maneuver while dodging.
[Consuming 10000 points]
[Redeem Successful: Deep-Sea Electromagnetic Jammer (Disposable)]
"Want to play?"
Without hesitation, Lin Chen pressed a red button with his right hand.
At the bottom of Deepsea 1, a small launch tube opened, and a metal ball was launched.
The metal ball came to a stop in the waters between the two submarines.
An invisible energy storm, centered on the metal sphere, swept across a two-kilometer radius area of the sea.
In the command center of the Orca, all the screens were filled with static, and then went black.
The overhead lights flickered a few times and then went out.
The entire submarine was plunged into darkness and silence.
"What's going on!?"
"Sir! All systems are down! We've lost control!"
"Power system malfunction! Servo malfunction! Sonar is out of order!"
In the darkness, the crew's screams and reports filled the air.
Black Shark roared in the darkness, pounding on the unresponsive control panel.
"Reboot! Reboot the system right now!"
The submarine was completely silent at that moment.
It was blind and paralyzed.
At that moment, a powerful deep-sea current was surging in from the direction of Devil's Reef.
Having lost power and directional control, the Orca was pushed by the ocean currents and drifted in one direction.
That direction leads to the precipice of death.
Black Shark seemed to realize something and lunged towards the porthole.
By the light of the emergency lights, he saw the towering reef that filled his entire field of vision.
"No...no!!!"
He screamed in agony inside the flooded command cabin.
A deafening roar echoed through the deep sea.
The hull of the Orca was torn, twisted, and broken in two when it came into contact with the Death Cliff.
Seawater rushed into the broken cabin.
Black Shark and his minions were swallowed by the abyss.
Amidst the turbulent currents, Deepdiver 1 approached the wreckage of the submarine.
A halo of light enveloped its outer shell, keeping the turbulence out.
Zhou Dazhuang and the escort team members who came from the rear compartment looked through the observation window at the sinking submarine wreckage and the bodies floating out of it.
They all looked at Lin Chen, their eyes filled with admiration and awe.
He survived being locked on by torpedoes and even fought back against the enemy.
Lin Chen didn't react to them much, his expression remained calm.
He took control of the console again.
[Precision control of the deep-sea robotic arm, activated.]
A 15-meter-long titanium alloy robotic arm extended from under the Deepdiver 1's belly and into the wreckage of the sunken submarine's cockpit.
The robotic arm's claws groped through twisted steel plates and broken instrument panels in the murky water.
It stopped.
The five alloy claws tightened.
A black, waterproof safe was pulled from the arms of a corpse trapped in a seat.
That corpse was Black Shark, who was clutching the box until his death.