After the maintenance workers on the ship worked hard to repair the Kraken, some hidden damage was found and repaired. Although this cannot be compared with entering the dock for repairs, it at least allows the Kraken to dive dozens of meters deeper without being damaged due to water pressure.

Resulting in secondary damage to the hull.

The auxiliary staff officer on the ship calculated that the Kraken continued to dive for tens of meters. According to the limit calculation, it could only reach the opening of the large rift and could not enter the interior of the large rift.

However, the good news is that if supplemented by diving suits and submersibles, the ultimate depth that the expedition team can reach is exactly at the bottom of the Great Fissure. However, in this way, the dangers that the members of the expedition team will encounter will increase exponentially.

In addition, the Sea Monster had been attacked by an unknown underwater monster before, which made the risk factor rise straight up. The staff officer decided to abandon this operation and wait for the Sea Monster to be repaired and find more and better equipment to explore here again.

But this proposal was quickly rejected by Longenus. He insisted on completing the exploration of this place as soon as possible. He felt that if he gave up this opportunity, it would be impossible to discover the hidden ruins of this place in the future.

secret.

Although Longenus is not the commander of the Sea Monster, his identity is destined to have the highest authority on the Sea Monster besides military command. If necessary, he can even order the Sea Monster to attack any target.

A ship and any dock.

Seeing Longenus' insistence, Major General Rice did not persuade him. Perhaps he did not want to do any persuasion at all, because he also wanted to know what was at the bottom of the great rift and what secrets the scene they saw contained.

As orders were given one after another, the Kraken began to dive at a constant speed, and soon arrived at the opening of the large rift. At this time,

A crack appeared in a previously repaired damage, and the entire cabin related to it had to be sealed. The hull also tilted slightly. Rear Admiral Rice knew that he could no longer dive, so he ordered the dive to stop, and the entire Sea Monster was

So still in the water.

The people who participated in the expedition began to put on deep-diving suits under the guidance of Navy deep-diving soldiers, got on small trailers, and came to the deep-diving cabin located at the tail end of the Sea Monster.

This deep-diving chamber is very large, occupying almost the entire area at the tail of the Sea Monster. Even the engine room occupies less space than it does.

In the middle of the deep diving chamber, there is a circular pool. Below the pool is a closed pipe, and the semicircular object hanging above the pool, which is almost as big as the pool and makes noise, is the submersible.

Later, the people participating in this expedition will enter the submersible and enter the water bottom with the submersible. After reaching a certain depth, the members of the expedition team will leave the submersible and enter the water bottom to explore alone, and their breathing will

It will be connected to the submersible through pipes.

This kind of inverted semicircular submersible is not a new technology. It has appeared hundreds of years ago. The people who invented this thing are not scholars or craftsmen, but pirates who roam the waters between the old and new continents.

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When they rob merchant ships, they often sink the ships due to excessive attacks, and the goods will naturally sink to the bottom of the water. Although most of the goods are worthless when soaked in water, there are still some goods such as precious metals.

Still extremely valuable.

So in order to salvage the cargo that sank to the bottom of the sea, the pirates racked their brains to come up with this kind of deep submersible. It is no longer clear who invented this kind of deep submersible. Most legends will describe the deep submersible as

The invention was attributed to several famous pirates at the time, but there has never been any evidence to prove this.

Although after hundreds of years of development, deep submersibles have become more advanced, and the number of people they can support has increased to dozens of people, their basic principles have not changed at all, and they are still the original set of air systems from hundreds of years ago.

Supply theory, so the shortcomings of the deep submersible have been perfectly inherited.

The biggest flaw of a submersible is the pipe that transmits air. Once the pipe is damaged, it is basically difficult for those underwater to survive. Therefore, the air pipes of current submersibles will use multiple protections to avoid damage. The effect is just

Always average.

The deep submersible on the Kraken naturally uses the best protection measures. For example, it has layers of metal mesh outside the gas pipeline, and a layer of special rubber is applied between the technical mesh to strengthen it.

It strengthens the pipe wall and strengthens its toughness. Even if it encounters cutting or impact, it will not break immediately, allowing enough time to pull the deep submersible back.

The staff of the deep submersible cabin quickly debugged all the equipment. Under their command, Langenus, Leo and others also penetrated into the deep submersible one after another.

Although the deep submersible does not seem very big from the outside, after entering and sitting in their respective positions in order, after everyone gets in, there is still a lot of space inside the deep submersible.

Subsequently, under the instructions of the deep-diving soldiers accompanying the team, everyone connected their own air tubes to the air interface of the submersible, and then fixed the safety rope to the safety lock of the submersible.

After repeatedly checking the equipment on both sides and finding no problems, Major General Rice, who was in charge of commanding outside the submersible, ordered the submersible to be lowered.

With a burst of shaking, the deep submersible entered the pool. Some water spread up from the opening below, and stopped rising when it reached everyone's feet. Then the deep submersible gradually sank along the pipe, and the opening of the pipe also

As it approached, it was slowly opened, followed by another shaking, the submersible drilled out of the pipe and entered the bottom of Lake Beiluk.

"Put down the lighting." Following the order from the deep-diving soldiers accompanying the team, they each took out a spherical object from their bodies and threw it into the water below.

The spherical body did not float, but sank rapidly, and the surface began to crack. The lake water also squeezed into its interior, causing some chemical reactions with the substances inside, and instantly burst out with a strong light, like a torch in the dark night.

The situation under the water was completely illuminated, and the large crack appeared in everyone's eyes.

This large fissure did not originally exist. More than a hundred years ago, after a major earthquake that affected the entire Beiluq Lake area, the large fissure appeared. This fissure is very wide and long, and can easily connect three people.

The city of Beiruk is included in it, but the fissure is not deep, with a depth of less than thirty meters from the surrounding water bottom.

In the early years, many explorers had entered the Great Rift through various methods to conduct various explorations, so the terrain inside the Great Rift had already been clearly explored.

As for the ancient ruins fragments found in the fissure, it was also an accident. At that time, the federal government's mine exploration team was exploring a rare metal mine inside the large fissure. During sampling, they accidentally discovered a bunch of man-made objects buried in the mud.

, and then discovered this ruins.

According to inference, this ruins should have encountered a mudslide caused by a nearby landslide a long time ago, and was buried underground. Later, after the great destruction that created Beiluq Lake, a layer of covering soil was peeled off, and it was hit by an earthquake.

The soil loosened again and the undercurrent of the lake continued to wash away the ruins, allowing the ruins to be seen again.

According to the established plan, the soldiers accompanying the team dived first to explore the situation. After confirming that it was safe, the others dived in turn. When everyone reached the bottom of the water, they immediately walked towards the location of the ruins.

Although Leo had countless ways to weaken the surrounding water pressure to the point where it was gone, he did not do that. Instead, he moved forward slowly like the others, but his mental network also expanded outward at this time.

Come, check your surroundings and disperse some dangerous fish if necessary.

It didn't take long for the group to arrive near the ruins. Soldiers dispersed around with water guns to take charge of security. The rest of the group also began to clean up the ruins and look for valuable things under the instructions of Longenus.

Because of the initial impact of the debris flow and the subsequent damage from the earthquake, the ruins had long been completely fragmented. Unless all the fragments were collected, it would be difficult to restore the original shape of the ruins.

As for those valuable things, they are scattered everywhere and buried deep in the mud. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to find them in a short time.

However, Longenus had a special way of finding things he considered valuable. He stood at the foundation of a relatively intact building, and then took out a metal ball-shaped object from the pocket of his diving suit.

, placed it on the ground, and then stood there blankly.

Just when everyone was puzzled by Longanus' behavior, Longanus suddenly raised his hand, pointed at several places, asked people to dig, and then put the metal ball on the ground back into his pocket.

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No one understood what Longanus meant by doing this, nor did they understand what was special about the places Longanus pointed out. They just followed Longanus's instructions and started cleaning up those places.

silt.

Compared to the ignorance of these people, Leo knew very well what Longanus was doing just now, and he also knew what the metal ball that Longanus took out was.

That metal ball should be a geographical scanner. This kind of thing is found on almost every exploration spacecraft. It is nothing. And Longanus can control the scanner to geographically scan the large rift through remote sensing. Obviously, Langanus can

Genus should have a master control device implanted in his brain. This is what Leo is curious about.

It is not difficult to implant control chips for certain equipment into the brain in various civilizations in the universe, but in today's world, unless you have a complete set of equipment and a chip implant device that can control artificial intelligence, otherwise

It is impossible to implant any chip into the brain, which also makes Leo a little curious about how much knowledge and devices Longanus has mastered that are beyond the scope of this world's cognition.

However, Leo soon stopped paying attention to Longanus and the others, because his mental network had discovered something related to the previous mental illusion of the cosmic war.

I saw that he broke away from the crowd and walked towards the location of the found object. He soon came to a slightly arched small platform, then squatted down and swept away the mud below, revealing the things buried in the mud.

A stone block.

Leo's actions naturally attracted the attention of others. Originally, everyone was busy with what they were doing, cleaning up the mud and guarding safety according to Longanus's instructions. Even Longanus had already done it himself. Only Lei

Ou was standing there doing nothing in a very conspicuous manner, and it was difficult for him not to attract anyone's attention.

After that, Leo left the group and went outside the protective circle formed by soldiers, which made everyone couldn't help but focus their attention on him. The soldiers responsible for guarding wanted to go up and pull him back, but they just took two steps.

, I saw Leo take out a square man-made object from a piece of mud that had been swept away, and then turned around and walked back.

Before everyone came down, they made a joking bet to see who could find something valuable first, but they didn't expect that person was actually Leo, whom they had regarded as a spectator from the beginning. Of course, only those who knew Leo

Except for the real Longenus.

After using gestures to signal everyone to continue digging, Longanus put down the digging tools in his hands and walked slowly towards Leo. Then he pointed at the cube in Leo's hand and motioned for him to take a look.

Leo did not refuse and handed over the cube in his hand. He also wanted to know whether Longanus understood how to operate this thing. This could also test the extent of Longanus' knowledge of cosmic civilization.

to a certain extent.

Longenus adjusted the light on the helmet of the diving suit to the highest level, then put the block under the light and looked through it carefully, with a look of confusion on his face because he couldn't see anything special about this block.

The entire block has the texture of stone, with no corrosion, damage, or patterns on the surface. The overall look is just a beautifully polished block.

There was nothing strange about the cube, and Longanus did not continue to study it. He returned the cube to Leo, and then made a gesture to ask Leo if he knew what it was.

However, this time, Leo didn't give him the answer he wanted, or even a response. He just pointed to the excavation site on the other side, and saw that something valuable seemed to have been found there.

Seeing this, Longanus' attention was diverted and moved in that direction.

Leo did not follow. He took the block in his hand, thought about it, and put it back into the pocket on his waist without activating it.

After the test just now, Leo already roughly knows that the knowledge of cosmic civilization that Longanus has is probably fragmented, and more likely it is just how to use certain tools, because if Longonus knows the basics of cosmic civilization,

If you have some knowledge, you will definitely be able to recognize that this stone cube is a standard cube.

The meaning of this standard is a near-absolute standard, because the difference between each side of the cube is almost equal to zero, and this standard cube is usually used as a battleship recorder, that is, a black box.
Chapter completed!