HCB Chapter 224 Split into Two Groups!
Chapter 224 Split into Two Groups!
Zhang Yan picked up his backpack, pushed open the door, and left.
The night was thick.
Cheng Ying quietly stopped in the garage. Sensing his approach, the engine started silently and floated slightly.
Zhang Yan stepped onto it.
I made a phone call.
"Uncle Qin, I'm off."
Qin Changfeng's voice came through the phone; he didn't sound asleep either.
"Dragon Scale took off two hours ago."
"I know."
"Be careful on the road."
"Um."
hang up.
Cheng Ying rushed out of the garage and silently disappeared into the empty streets of Jinghai in the early morning.
Direction: Southeast.
Coastline.
……
When Chengying arrived at the coastline, the sky was just beginning to lighten with a gray-white tinge.
Zhang Yan put Cheng Ying into his storage space, stood on the reef, and looked at the dark sea in front of him.
The salty sea breeze rushed into my collar.
He raised his wrist and typed a series of commands into his tactical watch.
The space was slightly distorted.
A colossal object plummeted from the sky and crashed into the sea.
A huge column of water shot into the sky.
It was a six-meter-long, silver-gray mechanical giant shark.
Its streamlined body floated half-submerged on the sea surface, its dorsal fin cutting through the water and reflecting the faint light from the horizon.
The supercavitation thruster at the tail emitted a deep hum, and underwater spotlights illuminated the numerous weapon attachment points beneath the shark's belly.
High-frequency oscillating cutting teeth.
Supercavitating torpedo tube.
Deep-sea high-pressure water jet.
All on standby.
Zhang Yan stepped onto the edge of the reef and leaped, landing steadily on the broad back of the mechanical shark.
The carapace split open automatically, revealing the single-person cockpit inside.
He crawled inside.
The hatch closed.
The surroundings plunged into darkness for a brief moment, then countless points of light lit up, condensing into a holographic interface in front of us.
[Neural synchronization system connected.]
[Devouring Shark, system self-check complete.]
All weapon systems are online.
Energy reserves: 100%.
[Ultimate diving depth: 12000 meters.]
[Welcome back, master. 】
Zhang Yan placed his hands on the control panel, and a faint electric current emanated from his fingertips.
The next instant, his vision was completely synchronized with the mechanical shark.
A 360-degree underwater sonar with no blind spots, real-time depth, water temperature, ocean current data, and seabed topography maps thousands of kilometers ahead were all presented to him in the most intuitive way.
"Dive."
The mechanical shark's dorsal fin slowly sank to the surface of the water.
With a gentle flick of its massive tail fin, its silvery-gray body silently disappeared into the sea, leaving a ripple spreading across the surface.
Thirty seconds later, the sea returned to calm.
It was as if nothing had happened.
……
150 meters underwater.
Sunlight can no longer penetrate this depth.
The mechanical shark activated its night vision mode and cruised southeast at a speed of forty knots.
Zhang Yan leaned back in the cockpit, a blue arrow on the holographic screen in front of him marking the real-time location of the Dragon Scale Squad's transport plane.
They took a high-altitude flight, flying directly to a secret landing point on the northern border of Myanmar.
The mechanical shark travels by sea, entering the South China Sea from the East China Sea, and then cutting northward along the coastline of the Indochina Peninsula.
Two completely different routes.
They will eventually converge in the same place.
The Golden Triangle.
Zhang Yan calculated the flight distance.
At its top speed, the mechanical shark could reach the target area in about twelve hours.
It was two hours later than the transport plane, but that was enough.
After all, Longlin was going to leave before him.
Furthermore, Dragonscale still needs to make preparations and finalize the mission at the landing site, and the actual operation will not begin until at least tomorrow morning.
He has plenty of time.
In the upper left corner of the holographic screen, a faint energy detection signal flickers intermittently.
That was a passive scanning program he set up before setting off, specifically designed to capture the characteristic energy fluctuations of the "Ruins".
Currently, the signal is very weak.
But it does exist.
Direction—the depths of the South China Sea.
Zhang Yan's gaze lingered on the shimmering point of light for a few seconds.
He did not change course.
Complete the task first, then deal with this matter.
……
The fourth hour of underwater navigation.
The sonar suddenly emitted a series of urgent prompts.
Zhang Yan glanced down at the data.
A large group of organisms is rapidly approaching from two kilometers ahead.
He zoomed in on the sonar image.
Six points of light.
They move at extremely high speeds and are much larger than normal marine creatures.
The mechanical shark automatically switches to combat mode, and its weapon system enters a preheating state.
Thirty seconds later, those things appeared in the night vision footage.
Six deformed sharks, each over ten meters long.
Their eye sockets were empty, replaced by two dark red spots of light.
Irregular bony spurs grew from the tips of its fins, and its mouth was filled with three rows of serrated teeth, each of which was faintly glowing.
Typical signs of "ruins" pollution.
Zhang Yan's brow twitched slightly.
These things have spread to the deep sea.
The six mutated sharks noticed the presence of the mechanical shark and immediately adjusted their formation, flanking it in a fan shape.
Extremely fast.
Zhang Yan did not slow down.
He didn't even activate any weapon systems.
The mechanical shark's massive jaws slowly opened.
The three rows of high-frequency oscillating cutting teeth began to rotate.
The friction between the gears produced a very high-frequency hum that spread through the water.
The movements of the six mutated sharks simultaneously paused briefly.
High-frequency resonance.
Their internal organs are being torn apart by this frequency.
But the energy of the "Ruins" drove them to ignore the pain and continue their attack.
The first mutated shark rushed directly in front of the mechanical shark.
It opened its huge mouth, trying to bite the mechanical shark's head.
The mechanical shark's massive jaws snapped shut.
The high-frequency cutting teeth cleaved the mutated shark's head in two upon contact, and the remains slid down its streamlined body and were swept away by the water flow from its tail.
The second and third attacks came from both sides simultaneously.
The mechanical shark suddenly flicked its tail fin, causing its entire body to rotate 180 degrees at high speed.
The deep-sea high-pressure water jet was ejected from its abdomen.
An invisible, ultra-high-pressure water jet swept across the bodies of the two mutated sharks at seven times the speed of sound.
They were neatly cut into two sections, top and bottom.
The cross-section is as smooth as a mirror.
The remaining three mutated sharks simultaneously let out a strange hiss, abandoned their attack, and turned to flee.
Zhang Yan did not pursue.
He glanced at the three distant points of light on the sonic boom and silently noted the direction they had fled in his mind.
Deep in the South China Sea.
It is consistent with the direction of the energy fluctuations detected previously.
"Ruins" refers to a stronghold on the seabed.
He stored this information in the system's database and continued the process.
……
The tenth hour.
The mechanical shark crossed the South China Sea and entered the Andaman Sea west of the Indochina Peninsula.
Zhang Yan maneuvered the mechanical shark to a depth of ten meters below the water's surface and switched to low-speed cruising.
On the holographic screen, a red marker appeared seventy kilometers ahead.
That is an international shipping lane in the waters of the Indochina Peninsula.
There are many ships coming and going, so you need to be careful to avoid them.
Zhang Yan reduced the speed, allowing the mechanical shark to move slowly with only its dorsal fin protruding above the water.
From a distance, it looks like a gray triangle stretching across the sea.
Fishermen on several passing fishing boats noticed the enormous shark fin.
An old fisherman put down his net and rubbed his eyes.
"What kind of fish is that?"
The young man next to him picked up the binoculars and took a look.
"It should be a great white shark... but it's too big. That fin must be three or four meters high."
The old fisherman shivered.
"Hurry up, hurry up, don't come any closer."
The fishing boat turned around and hurriedly sailed away.