Dragon 3: Tide of the Black Moon (1)

"So far everything is going well." Manstein glanced at the embryo hatch rate on the big screen, still stuck at a safe 32 percent.

"Depth has reached 2,100 meters, and the Diecast is operating normally," Schneider said.

His words were interrupted by an ear-splitting alarm as superimposed holographic projection screens appeared in front of and behind him, dense data scrolling upward. Air pods 1, 2, and 3 were marked red and flashing on the Dirigiste's profile.

Schneider's face suddenly changed: "Airlock leak?"

The dragon he had been careful to guard against did not appear, but the Diliast, which had been heavily inspected, had a mechanical failure.

The Diecast was shaking violently, and Caesar's face went pale: "Deep submersible failure! Deep submersible malfunction! Calling Sumeru! Calling Sumeru! The pressure in watertight compartments 1, 2, and 3 are dropping simultaneously and we are losing buoyancy! I repeat we are losing buoyancy!"

There was nothing unusual beforehand, then suddenly the deep submersible stuttered and the readings of all the gauges changed violently. The Trieste had four air chambers, three of which were leaking at the same time, and compressed air was escaping frantically. Weightlessness hit immediately, the depth gauge numbers jumped violently, and they were falling into the deep sea at high speed.

"2400 ......2680 ......3260 ......" Chu Zhang quickly reported the number, in just one minute They had already sunk one kilometer in just one minute.

The Trieste was still using the old-fashioned instrument panel, the depth gauge had four numeric discs: one, ten, one hundred, and one thousand, the individual and ten-digit discs were rotating so fast that Chu Zhang couldn't even read the ten-digit disc.

"Slow down! Find a way to slow down! The water pressure surge will damage your shells!" Genchiyo yelled.

"There's no way to slow down! We're slamming into the ocean floor like a rock!" Lu Mingfei's voice shook, "How can a rock slow itself down?"

Lu Mingfei felt like his soul was being thrown out of his shell. Deep submersible while sinking at high speed while tumbling, for the people in the cockpit feel like riding a roller coaster, but the world's roller coaster is at most 3 minutes to the station, they have been tumbling for several minutes. If they keep tumbling like this, the roller coaster will have to make a pit stop in hell.

"Try cutting the air valve! Keep the air in the airlock! You must find a way to increase buoyancy!" Genchiyo said.

"Tried that already, it's the air valve that's wrong, I've lost control of that valve!" Caesar twisted the knob of the air valve in vain.

A huge amount of bubbles floated up around the deep submersible, sounding like thunder, Lu Mingfei looked out from the observation port, the view was all silvery reflections of bubbles. Chu Zhang quickly opened the blueprint of the design of the Diliast, the problem should be the air valve at the top of the deep submersible, it is the pressure relief valve of the No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 air chamber, usually not open, only in extremely rare cases will use that valve, it is hidden under the thick pressure-resistant armor, detection is very troublesome. But it was a small valve hidden so deep that there was a problem, not those commonly used valves that have opened and closed thousands of times.

"This is a design flaw, if the pressure relief valve leaks, the other valves all closed can not stop the air from escaping." Chu Zhang said, "We can only reduce the rate of air escape as much as possible."

"I could block the piping to the pressure relief valve by switching the three-way piping, but that kind of operation takes time! Damn it! Didn't those guys in the equipment department say that this modification came out to be a masterpiece?" Caesar's forehead was covered with cold sweat.

"I can try to open the balanced rudder and stop tumbling first, we can't do anything by tumbling around like this," Trudy said.

"Calling the Diecast! Calling the Diecast! The Rockflow Institute has provided a contingency plan, if you can turn on the Diriast's strong power source, with the stabilizer wings and balance rudder, you can go into a water glide! You'll be able to slow down the sinking rate. But be quick, in a few moments you will fall into the trench and fall to pieces on the seabed!" The voice of a wizened boy came over the headset.

"Is the strong power source you're talking about the nuclear power module that was added to the equipment department?" Caesar grabbed the strap on the bulkhead and stood up, smashing the glass cover on the console with his elbow and clutching the yellow wrench inside.

Only then did Lu Mingfei notice the nuclear symbol on the wrench: "Holy shit no? This thing is nuclear-powered?"

"The original version is just the most common hydrochloric acid battery power, but the equipment department felt that the power is too small enough to complete a wide range of surveys, so the nuclear power module was added. So this deep submersible has two sets of power sources, the weak power source is lithium battery powered, and the strong power source is that nuclear power pod." Caesar said, "But can you trust the equipment department to assemble the nuclear power pod?"

"Aren't they ...... not ...... very good at nuclear technology?" Lumineer stammered.

"On the contrary, there are a few experts from Oak Ridge, who made the world's first atomic bomb."

"And the team of this bull can't be relied on?"

"Their expertise is atomic bombs! If the nuclear power module explodes, it's equivalent to a 10-million-ton nuclear bomb, which could potentially cause an undersea earthquake or tsunami, and in the worst case could sink Japan."

"Depth 6400 meters, we still have two kilometers to impact with the bottom of the polar abyss, the tumbling has stopped, and the deep submersible is back in the proper position!" Chu Zhang firmly grasped the rudder and stabilizer lever, "If there is the power we can do underwater gliding."