Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 252
[Chapter 252 “Dive into the Abyss”]
Listening to Tirian’s narration, Duncan fell into a short thought. After half a minute, he raised his head and said thoughtfully: “So, in order to satisfy her exploration Heart, started a ‘diving plan’, and the essence of this plan is not to explore any subspace at all, but just…literally ‘diving into deep water’?” Speaking of this, he
paused, feeling this There are a lot of strange things: “But if that’s all it is, how can this plan have anything to do with the Lost Home? The subspace that the Lost Home goes to and the deep sea that the Frost Queen wants to explore are basically two concepts. Those rebels It shouldn’t be so clear…”
Tirian didn’t answer directly, but suddenly asked a question: “Don’t you think it’s strange? If you just dive into the water and explore the sea conditions deep in the city-state, what’s the point? What can be called “taboo”? City-state port builders and offshore fishers often dive into the water because of work needs. It is very common to dive more than ten meters or even tens of meters in safe waters. Why is it so cold? The Frost Queen’s ‘Abyss Project’ has become a taboo?”
Duncan’s eyes gradually became serious: “…how deep have you dived?” “
It’s very deep, I don’t know what depth the queen dived to in the end, Because I am not a scholar myself, I only participated in some peripheral assistance as a naval commander, and I no longer directly participated in the operation in the second half of the plan, but as far as I know, when the plan began to become…’ wrong ‘Before, their manned submersible reached a depth of at least one thousand meters underwater, and they continued to refresh this record.” One thousand
meters underwater…
Duncan quickly sorted out what he knew in his mind— — On the earth, this seemingly inconspicuous number is actually the limit submerged depth of many advanced military submarines, and the submerged depth of most military submarines is only four to five hundred meters. The “extreme deep diving records” of China are basically completed in a short period of time by special deep submersibles. The requirements for equipment are extremely high, and often only unmanned equipment can be used.
And the Frost Queen’s manned submersible has already touched the threshold of “one thousand meters”, which is already an astonishing figure at the industrial level of the world half a century ago, even with the assistance of some extraordinary power .
And behind this astonishing figure… Obviously, there are some more “amazing” things.
Tirian mentioned just now that the plan gradually became “wrong” in the later stage, and Duncan did not ignore this word.
He looked at Tirian, his eyes became deep: “I want to know the specific situation of the whole exploration plan – tell me as much as you have participated in.
” This time, Tirian did not hesitate for too long. He fell into the memories, and slowly opened his mouth in the memories:
“…except for Frost’s Abyss Project, human beings have recorded regular diving depths, or’ “Safe water depth” is 150 meters, and it is limited to the offshore area – our plan was originally started at this depth, and the plan was very smooth until 300 meters. “It was very dark and very
dark , the sunlight on the sea surface cannot penetrate such a thick water body, and the high-power lamps carried by the submersible can only illuminate a small area. For some dangerous ‘creatures’, such as the sons of the deep sea, we let the submersible dive along the coast and move close to the offshore area of the island. I still remember the scene described by the explorers at that time… “He said that under the
island Like an ugly, gnarled pillar, covered with thick limestone deposits, and strange creatures inhabiting the pits of the sediment, with nothing around but the ‘pillar’, There is only darkness.”
“Is a pillar under the island?” Duncan couldn’t help interrupting Tirian, “Not a gradually expanding support structure, but a pillar?” “
Yes, at least in the case of frost. So,” Tirian nodded, “what’s the problem?”
Duncan shook his head: “…no problem, you continue.”
Tirian sorted out his thoughts and continued his previous memories: “That was the scene I saw at a depth of about 300 meters, which was also the limit depth of the first submersible. After realizing that this depth was far from enough to explore the deep sea, the Queen The scholars were ordered to build a second submersible. This submersible was very successful. It dived into the water at a depth of 800 meters in one breath, and through the half-meter-thick high-strength glass, what the explorers saw… It’s still a pillar, a straight pillar.
” Of course, compared with the radius of the city-state itself, this ‘pillar’, which is already at least 800 meters long, is actually still very short in proportion. It is better to say that it is like a regular disc-shaped base with an island on it.
“Subsequently, we built a third submersible—due to technical limitations, the improvement of this submersible was much smaller than that of the second submersible. It had to dive carefully to challenge the record of the second submersible. During the slow dive of meter after meter, we discovered one thing.
“The ‘pillar’ below the city-state is actually only 850 meters ‘long’, and there is nothing further down.
“The whole structure is floating in the sea.”
Tirian stopped and looked up into Duncan’s eyes: “Now you know why I just said that it is more like a disc base than a pillar Right?”
Duncan frowned tightly, he didn’t speak, but quickly outlined the entire structure in his mind according to Tirian’s description – people in the
deep sea age “lived” in city-states, these isolated islands on the sea were originally given to Duncan The impression is crowded and small, but in fact, as a fully functional and self-sustaining place of residence, these city-states are destined to have a certain “size basis”. Although there are some small islands, most of them are big cities that can be named The “basic radius” of the city has reached more than ten kilometers or even dozens of kilometers. As the largest city-state in Lengliehai, Frost’s scale will not be smaller than this figure.
Corresponding to this huge offshore structure is its “base” which is “only” 850 meters deep underwater – the explorers first saw the underwater part of the city-state protruding straight into it at a depth of 300 meters. In the deep sea, I intuitively imagine that this is a pillar that reaches the “bottom of the sea”, but in fact, in terms of proportion, the shape of this “pillar” is more like a thin round cake.
A huge city is placed on this “round cake”.
As Tirian described: the entire structure is floating in sea water.
But after imagining this model, Duncan had a huge doubt in his mind—
is every city-state like this?
If every city-state is like this, a “floating object” without a foundation, how can they be so stable? If the “stability” of the city-state itself is due to its large enough scale, then the relative position between the city-states is also so stable, how can this be explained?
The waves of the boundless sea are rolling, and these “floating islands” have never changed their positions. Why?
Duncan expressed the doubts in his heart, but Tirian just shook his head: “We also had doubts about this, but we couldn’t figure it out in the end, and compared with what happened later…’How did the city-state The question of ‘floating at sea’ is irrelevant.”
“What happened later?” Duncan couldn’t help being curious, “What happened later? What did you see in the deep sea?” “Later
…the No. 3 submersible Continue to challenge the limit depth. It took us nearly two years to advance this record from 850 meters to 950 meters. As you can imagine, during this dive, the submersible is gradually moving away from the The ‘base’ of the city-state – remember what I said at the beginning? In order to avoid problems in the open sea area, we let the submersible dive in the ‘offshore safe zone’ close to the coast. The whole process, the submersible is actually always Clinging to the city-state and the city-state’s underwater ‘structure’, but as the dive continued and the explorer moved away from that ‘base’, things started to go wrong.
“Aural hallucinations, visual hallucinations, feeling inexplicable lights appearing in the sea, feeling that someone is knocking on the hull outside, and even feeling that someone is turning the handle of the gate outside. The further you go down, the more serious the similar situation is. Even after special training Explorers with strong wills began to feel tremendous pressure in every dive, and the protective effect of the holy oil, sacred books and scripture cloth that they carried with them became less and less obvious. “Of course, until
here So far, this is what we expected-exploring the unknown requires facing the challenge of will, and those scholars who explore the spirit world and the deep sea often encounter this problem, so we are still continuing to work on it. , just strengthened the explorer’s mental protection according to the strictest standards.
“The problem is when we challenge 1,000 meters from 990 meters.
” The No. 3 submersible suddenly issued a signal for emergency ascent, and then emptied the pressurized water tank and rushed up like crazy. Caring about this kind of rapid ascension will kill him, and after rushing to the surface, the explorer was already crazy, the hatch opened, and he screamed in the sun, as if he was desperately trying to describe something to us Horrible thing, and after a lot of incomprehensible confusion, he uttered the only sane sentence:
“We all died there.”
(End of this chapter)
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