Chapter 246 The place where ocean currents gather
The speed of Dragon Palace’s advance slowed down sharply, because they could already hear the ‘bang! Bang! Bang! ’ Every sound made the hearts of the people in the Dragon Palace tremble. At such a deep seabed, even the slightest damage to the outer shell would cause the submarine to immediately disintegrate and be crushed into pieces.
"Director." Yamashita couldn't help but turn his head and look at the serious-faced Director Iwama Qiao next to him, but the other party remained silent and just listened carefully to the sounds outside. Eyes are useless in the deep sea without light. What you can rely on is your ears, listen carefully and distinguish the sounds that belong only to the deep sea.
Ryuugong moved forward almost at turtle speed, slowly pushing away the seabed garbage and heading towards the destination. However, the closer to the seabed, the higher the density of garbage, so that the lens outside the submarine was covered with garbage. Block it and you can no longer see any pictures.
The pilot didn’t know what to do. He hesitated and said, “Director, do you want to keep going? There are more and more garbage. I’m worried that the seabed has been occupied by garbage.”< br>
Director Iwama Qiao did not say anything, but silently closed the connection between the sonar and the earphones, and said: "The mission is over, let's start diving."
"Yes!"
Everyone in the submarine said I was obviously relieved. There was so much rubbish outside and the sea water was so turbid. Even though I knew I couldn't touch it, I still felt uncomfortable. The most important thing was that there were more and more rubbish outside, which made people feel uncomfortable. If not, the submarine may be buried in garbage.
Ryuugong began to float step by step. It had to stop for a while at intervals before it could continue to float. It was not until a few hours later that it rose to the sea. A TPC ship immediately began to perform the recovery procedure, but After the crane moved the submarine to the deck, all the crew members opened their eyes in shock.
A large number of plastic bags and other garbage are hung on the outer shell of the submarine, almost wrapping up this valuable submarine. It makes people feel that this submarine is not going to the deep sea but to a garbage dump. One lap.
No one approached, but people from the biological department wearing the highest level of protective clothing came forward to take samples and then rinse them. Even the wastewater had to be collected and treated non-pollutingly before it could be discharged.
After completing this series of procedures, the submarine was opened, and people from the TPC ocean survey team filed out of it, bringing out all the data collected and images taken by various detectors on the Dragon Palace. , submitted to the headquarters, analyzed by the technical department, compiled into a report and sent to the relevant departments.
Among them, the winning team was the first to obtain it. They immediately gathered their team members to watch the report and related images. When they saw the dense garbage, everyone's eyes widened in shock and they couldn't believe it. There is so much garbage at such a deep seabed.
Until all the shots were covered with garbage, Ye Rui ended the screening, and the lights in the room also turned on. All the team members breathed a long sigh of relief. The garbage gradually increased until Filling all the field of vision, this gradually increasing sense of oppression makes people feel like it is difficult to breathe.
“How come there is so much garbage on the seabed?” Xincheng was puzzled. In his opinion, aren’t plastic bags and other things floating on the water? How could it possibly sink to such a deep depth?
Dagu thought for a while and said: "It must have fallen."
"Can a plastic bag also fall?"
"Wouldn't it fall if it contains water?"
“What about the cans?”
"Definitely." Lina also joined the discussion, trying to explain how such a light piece of garbage fell into the deep sea from a scientific perspective, while Ye Rui also made a simple piece of garbage fall into the deep sea as quickly as possible. Three-dimensional animation has joined the discussion.
While the discussion was being heated, the door to the command room opened, and Hui Hui and Munakata walked in one after another. As if the head teacher had entered the class, the noisy voices suddenly stopped and were replaced by was the cry of 'Captain, Captain'.
Megumi sat in the middle, and Munakata handed a tablet in his hand to Horii. Horii took it and looked at it, and immediately exclaimed: "Oh my god, this is so amazing. Okay.”
“What’s wrong?” Dagu and Lina He immediately went over to see the shell of the Ryugu submarine and the monitoring report brought back to the garbage house. There were hundreds of toxic substances, followed by biological samples brought back by the Ryugu submarine. Without exception, all of them had mutated to varying degrees. , containing various toxic substances in the body.
Further back, we can see the estimated scope of the garbage patch, which is more than 100 kilometers long and more than ten kilometers wide. This area is so large that Xincheng, who loves to argue, is silent. Even the garbage dump is He who has never been there cannot imagine how much garbage is accumulated here.
However, this is not the most shocking thing. The last page clearly states that Ryugu's detector detected a strong energy response in the center of the garbage patch. In addition, the seawater samples collected by Ryugu along the way are closer to the center and contain more energy. The more radioactive it is.
People can’t help but come to a guess that the strong energy reaction is the source of radioactivity and the reason for the mutation of these fish, but...
“Why do mutated fish produce so many "What about toxic substances?" Horii was puzzled. All the fish samples had different degrees of mutation and different parts, but without exception they all produced toxins. It was as if these fish had all received an instruction to mutate in a toxic direction. .
"Maybe it's because you don't want to be eaten." Shinjou replied casually, and Horii immediately raised his head and said, "Yes, that's why."
"Huh?" This 'hypothetical' Xincheng himself was stunned and said: "I just said it casually."
"But this is probably the case," Horii said, turning the tablet over, showing the team members the page about toxic substances, and said, "You see, these toxic substances are almost all for primates, but the mutations are random. Yes, but the mutation of these fishes is too coincidental.”< br>
Horii's theory made both Munakata and Megumi turn around. After listening to his story, Munakata frowned and said: "Team Horii, you mean that the mutation of these fish is not an accident, but On purpose.”
“I don’t know. , This is just my guess. If you want to confirm it, I'm afraid I have to go here." Horii raised his hand and pointed at the red dot on the map that emitted a strong energy reaction, and said: "When we get there, we should be able to solve these puzzles. "
Zongfang said in a deep voice: "But Hai The submarine of the foreign survey team can't get close at all."
Megumi nodded, and then said: "Then we can only use Dolphin 202. Team members from Shinjo and Team Horii, be prepared to drive Dolphin 202 into the deep sea tomorrow. Prepare.”
"Yes, Captain!"
(End of this chapter)