"Mariana Trench!"
Hearing this news, the surrounding experts were slightly stunned. This is the deepest trench in the world, with the deepest point exceeding 10,000 meters, and it is also very famous in the world.
The joy on Viola's face has not faded. When she heard about this area, her face could not help but become a little more solemn, and she asked repeatedly: "Can our Challenger submarine be able to penetrate deep into the Mariana Trench?"
"Yes, Professor Viola, the Challenger submarine we prepared is the most advanced submarine in the United States. This model is capable of penetrating into the ocean to a depth of 10,000 meters."
Eller answered from the side. In order to find out the cause of the emergence of mutated sea monsters in this scientific research, the beautiful country has invested a lot of money.
Not only top scholars and experts from all over the world are invited, but all kinds of equipment are also of the highest quality.
For example, the Challenger submersible equipped on a scientific research ship costs hundreds of millions of dollars to build, and the beautiful country also allocated it to the scientific research ship without hesitation.
"That's good!"
Viola breathed a sigh of relief, because at this time, the tracked sea monster had dived into the deep sea area of seven thousand meters, and was continuing to dive.
This depth has exceeded the limit of most conventional deep submersibles. If the tracking fails due to the equipment, Viola will regret it for the rest of her life.
8000!
9000!
10,000 meters!
"The baitfish dived to the bottom of the Mariana Trench and stopped in this area."
When the sea monster being tracked stopped at a depth of 10,000 meters, as expected, the sea monster's ultimate destination was the Mariana Trench.
"Act quickly and prepare the Challenger submersible. Let's find the location of this sea monster."
Olvera ordered excitedly, and everyone took action.
The 10,000-meter-deep sea has exceeded the detection range of sonar. Only by putting down the deep submersible in this place and taking real-time photography can we find out what is on the bottom of the sea that attracted this sea monster to come here after traveling thousands of miles away.
Amidst the intense busyness, a crane placed a ten-meter-long deep submersible on the side of the scientific research ship. The name of the Challenger was engraved on the surface of the deep submersible.
This is a manned deep submersible. It was originally developed and built by the international director Cuarón in order to shoot a science fiction movie. In the end, the director personally drove this deep submersible down to a depth of 10,000 meters. The purpose is to shoot material and collect inspiration for the film.
Later, this deep submersible technology was favored by the military of the United States. After iterative development in the hands of the United States, the technology became more mature and used to record seafloor currents and geology in global waters.
Next to the Challenger submersible, a black man and a blond woman were warming up and putting on special carrier suits. They were the pilots of the Challenger submersible.
"Barnes, Keilana, the task is left to you. This operation is related to the future development of our beautiful country. As long as effective information is successfully captured, the country will not treat you badly."
Elle walked forward with serious words and hugged the two of them.
"Colonel Ayler, there is absolutely no problem. We are the best deep-diving pilots and we will definitely find traces of that sea monster for you."
Barnes, a black man, bent his arms to show off his majestic biceps, smiled brightly, his big white teeth shining in the sun, and his face was full of confidence.
"I have the same idea as my partner. We are not rookies who have dived into the deep sea for the first time. After working with Barnes, the two of us have carried out deep sea diving missions more than 32 times without any problems."
Keilana hugged Barnes with one arm and Eller with the other, making a scissor hand gesture: "Come on, everyone smile."
In front of me, someone was holding a camera, taking pictures and recording this scene. In the future, this might be a new chapter in the rise of the beautiful country, which is of profound significance.
"Haha, it seems that our great guys and beauties are very popular. I believe you can do it."
Viola laughed heartily and walked over happily.
With a clicking sound, the camera shutter was pressed. With the blue sky, sea and Challenger submersible as the background, the four people stood together and were perfectly recorded by the camera.
Immediately afterwards, Barnes and Keilana neatly climbed onto the Challenger submersible. In the eyes of everyone on the scientific research ship, they waved and got into the cabin.
"Challenger deep submersible self-inspection!"
"The casing is intact and has no leaks, and the engine and propeller are in trial operation."
"Each instrument panel is turned on normally, the oxygen reserve is 100%, and the communication channel has no interference."
After a series of inspections, it was confirmed that everything on the Challenger was normal. The crane slowly released the fixed hook and allowed the Challenger submersible to sink into the sea.
Gulu!
Waves hit the Challenger, and as the air inside the boat was exhausted, the Challenger began to sink into the sea.
100 meters!
500 meters!
2000 meters!
On the scientific research ship, Olvera, Eller and others have returned to the command room. Through the screen here, they can connect to the camera on the Challenger and observe the situation outside and inside the Challenger.
As the depth of the dive increases, Challenger's speed gradually decreases.
At first, various fish can be seen in the sea water, but as the depth drops, the fish gradually become sparse, and even the visibility drops greatly, because the sun's rays cannot penetrate into such deep sea areas.
After entering five thousand meters, the sea water has become pitch black, and the sun's rays cannot reach it.
The Challenger turned on the searchlight on the boat, like a sea beast with its eyes open, and continued to dive into deeper waters.
6000 meters!
8000 meters!
10,000 meters!
When the Challenger arrived at the 10,000-meter-deep sea, everyone's hearts were raised and they stared at the screen without blinking, for fear of missing any key information.
"Report, we have reached the 10,000-meter deep sea and everything is going well."
Barnes faced the camera and gave a thumbs up. He knew that dozens of people on the research ship were staring at him at this time.
"The life detector is turned on, the seawater sounder is turned on, the topographic map is simulated, and the three speeds are sailing. The current position is 10,500 meters deep in the sea. Please give instructions."
Keilana held the joystick in her hand, reporting data indicators one by one, and drove the Challenger slowly through the quiet and dark deep sea.
"The position of the baitfish is about twelve kilometers at 3 o'clock. You should maintain the current speed and drive at the lowest speed. Don't make any noise, so as not to cause the sea monster to attack."
Olvera issued an order. At this time, the more mistakes cannot be made.
"Understood."
Keilana nodded and drove the Challenger forward slowly at the lowest speed. The Challenger had enough power and oxygen to stay in the 10,000-meter-deep sea for three hours.
As Challenger moves forward, the view of the Mariana Trench is also transmitted to the scientific research ship.
The cold and dead seabed, without traces of life, is filled with rugged and weird rock walls and ravines, just like an old man's face full of wrinkles, forming this restricted area of life.
It takes great courage to operate in this place.
Fortunately, the two crew members on the Challenger were both experienced and could steadily drive and control the Challenger while sailing under 10,000 meters of water.
"The baitfish is still eighteen kilometers away from you!"
"There are still sixteen kilometers, keep the speed."
"Ten kilometers, reduce the brightness of the searchlight and don't stimulate the bait fish."
The instructions from the scientific research ship were continuously conveyed, and the Challenger was getting closer and closer to the bait fish. In order to avoid disturbing the tracked sea monster, the Challenger kept running at a low speed and silently, and even the searchlight light was adjusted to the minimum.
After all, as a scientific research deep submersible, the Challenger does not carry any weapons. Once it attracts the attention of sea monsters and is attacked, under the 10,000-meter-deep sea, there is only death waiting for them.
When the Challenger was still ten kilometers away from the tracking sea monster, suddenly, a ray of light faintly came from the front.
The light was bright, vaguely mixed with some lavender, like a thin layer of purple mist.
"Where did the light come from? Did a submarine volcano erupt?"
Both Barnes and Keilana were shocked at the same time. The 10,000-meter-deep sea was pitch black, except for the magma erupted by submarine volcanoes that would bring light here.
"No, it's not an undersea volcano, it's something else."
On the scientific research ship, Olvera ejected and stood up, his eyes shining. As a top marine expert, he knew that the brightness of submarine volcanic eruptions was not this color. "Could it be some kind of glowing fish?"
"Impossible, the range is too big."
"It may also be some kind of luminous plant."
"This is a 10,000-meter-deep sea, a restricted area for life. No plants can survive."
All the experts and scholars also stared wide-eyed and gathered around to discuss intensely.
"Keep moving and stay safe."
Olvera gave the order and stared at the screen without blinking, his curiosity reaching its peak.
The Challenger sailed at a low speed. As the distance got closer and closer, the light became more and more intense, illuminating the seabed clearly, as if there was a small sun sinking into the sea in front of it.
Gradually, when the Challenger advanced another two kilometers, the light changed again, and the colorful halo penetrated the sea water, making the cold and dark water beautiful.
And the scene ahead is completely within the Challenger's field of vision.
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"Oh God! What the hell is this, an undersea garden?"
His body was shaking like an electric shock, and Barnes opened his mouth wide enough to stuff an apple into it, with an expression of disbelief on his face.
"I shouldn't be hallucinating, Barnes, please hit me."
Keilana's pupils were shaking until she was pinched hard by Barnes on her arm. The clear pain told her that she was not dreaming or falling into a deep sea fantasy. What she saw in front of her was real.
Because in their sight, an island appeared that shouldn't be here, a majestic island suspended above the seabed.
The first thing that catches the eye is a stone tablet erected in the center of the island.
The stone tablet is hundreds of meters high, like a divine sword stuck on the island. It appears in black and white, and is engraved with dense ancient runes. These runes are still flowing slowly like running water.
It is also the colorful cold light emitted by this stone tablet that forms the source of the light on the seabed.
In the island area directly in front of the Challenger, there are all kinds of strange spiritual roots growing on the islands. There are golden jade grasses exuding their fragrance, sweet springs flowing, and ancient trees standing in the sky. The smallest of these trees can be hundreds of years old. meters high.
In addition, you can also see splendid palaces with glazed tile roofs located around the island, making it clear that this is not a natural wonder, but a man-made creation.
Barnes and Keilana were completely stunned. They expected to encounter many situations in the deep sea, but they did not expect to see such an island and such a wonder here.
It was not just the two of them who were shocked. The experts and scholars who saw this scene on the scientific research ship were also shocked as if they were under a restraining spell. All kinds of words such as Omaika, Fake, God, etc. kept coming from their mouths. Biao Chu's usual elegant and easy-going personality was completely gone.
"What the hell is this?"
Elle patted his face, trying to wake up, but everything in front of him told him that he had really seen a miracle, a miracle that happened before his eyes.
In the 10,000-meter-deep sea, there is actually such an island, an island with all kinds of exotic vegetation, full of life, and densely populated with buildings.
If everything here is exposed, it will definitely shock the world's attention.
Olvera was the first to react. He waved his arms enthusiastically and said ecstatically: "Haha, it seems that we have arrived at the lair of sea monsters. I am sure that the reason why those sea monsters mutated has nothing to do with this island. If it doesn’t matter, what we discover today will definitely shock the whole world.”
Olvera's body was trembling slightly because he was so excited. What he was thinking about was not only world-famous, but what excited him even more was the fact that such an island, with all kinds of life that could survive in the 10,000-meter-deep sea, simply overturned his previous experience. All research is more deadly to a scholar than gold and diamonds.
"That stone tablet is full of runes, and the runes can still glow and flow. It's unbelievable, it's really unbelievable. Who built this?"
"Is there really an alien civilization visiting Blue Star? Otherwise, I can't think of what kind of technology can create such an island in the deep sea."
"Get closer, get closer, we can't see clearly yet!"
The experts were shouting excitedly and forgot about everything. The current discovery alone made everyone feel that their trip was worthwhile.
"Barnes, Keilana, you control the Challenger to enter that island."
Olvera can't wait to go to the sea to see that miraculous island in person, but now she can only satisfy her curiosity through the screen and command the Challenger.
"Copy that, move on."
"God bless us."
Barnes and Keilana looked at each other, pushed the joystick, and the Challenger's propellers turned, slowly driving to the island ahead.
When they arrived here, the two of them discovered that the island was larger than it looked from a distance, with a diameter of at least fifteen kilometers. They couldn't see the whole thing clearly.
Because the distance was shortened, the Challenger was able to view everything on the island more carefully.
In addition to all kinds of rare and rare plants on the island, palaces and towers are hidden among them, and there are thousands of precious lights permeating the island.
"Hou Li Crab, is that a sword? Isn't it some kind of magical weapon?"
Barnes pointed to the left, where there was a long sword stuck upside down on the tree trunk. The sword body showed dragon scale patterns. The surrounding seawater was stirred into a cavity. From time to time, a sword energy was activated, penetrating through the seawater. Hundreds of meters away.
The sea water that the sword energy passed through spread out, and it took several seconds for it to close together, just like the legendary magic weapon that cut off the river with one sword.
"It's even more powerful over there, look at it, Barnes?"
Keilana tugged on Barnes's ear and pointed in her direction.
There, there is a large ancient bell hanging in the sea.
The big bell is one foot high, exuding an ancient atmosphere. The vast sound of Taoism echoes every inch, and the earth is shaken with spider web-like cracks. Purple-black lightning is constantly swept out from the bell body, making the sea water boiling in a radius of tens of meters. state.
On this island, as far as the two men can see, there are dozens of magical weapons lying here. Spears are like forests, halberds are like sea, swords are like waterfalls, and axes are like mountains. Every weapon is clanking. It reveals a powerful power invisibly, which is impossible to ignore.
Neither of them dared to get close and drove the Challenger far away. Otherwise, if their Challenger was hit by these magic soldiers and leaked, they would have no hope of escaping in the 10,000-meter-deep sea. , die without a burial place.
Such a scene was also seen by the scientific research ship, and an even more intense debate immediately broke out.
"Atlantis, this is the legendary Atlantis civilization that sank into the sea. This ancient super civilization has mastered technology far beyond modern times. Only then can they create such a miraculous island, those buildings and weapons, It must have been the residence and weapons of the Atlanteans."
A blond European and American scholar roared. He is a Western historian. When he saw this deep-sea island with exquisite palace buildings, magical plants, and powerful magic weapons, the name Atlantis immediately came to mind. A legendary super-ancient civilization that sank to the bottom of the sea.
"Shit, open your eyes wide. How can this be Atlantis? This is clearly the legendary Penglai Island. Those jade towers and weapons are all the decorations and characteristics of our East Asian side. , as long as you have a little bit of common sense, you can see that the island in front of you completely matches the description of Penglai Island.”
Another Sakura Kingdom history scholar couldn't help but refute and even cursed.
Countries in Asia are all influenced by Chinese culture. As a top historical scholar, he is not only familiar with the history of Sakura Country, but also deeply involved in Chinese culture and history.
After all, when studying the history of Sakura Kingdom, you can never avoid China. This can be seen from the inheritance of Sakura Kingdom characters. Many Sakura Kingdom characters are exactly the same as Chinese characters.
That's why this Cherry Blossom Country historian is so excited. This is the Penglai Immortal Island, a legendary existence that can't be compared to Atlantis.
"Penglai Island? Is this an ancient city in East Asia?"
Elle looked at the Sakura Kingdom history scholar. He really didn't know what it was.
"Penglai Immortal Island is one of the three immortal mountains on the sea. It is said that this is the immortal's residence, with auspicious clouds floating in the sea, and the elixir of life is planted on it. The most famous unified emperor of China in history once sent people to look for Penglai Immortal. Island, hoping to find the elixir of immortality and rule China forever.”
When the Sakura Kingdom scholar mentioned the elixir of life, the eyes of all the scholars and experts on the scene widened, and they subconsciously looked at the various rare and exotic herbs on the deep-sea islands.
Elle was breathing heavily, and there was only one thought left in his mind.
That is, this island, whether it is the legendary Atlantis or the Penglai Immortal Island, their beautiful country must master it. This will be the sacred and indivisible territory of their beautiful country. (End of chapter)