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Dragon 3: Tide of the Black Moon (1)

Chapter 53 Subspecies (2)

By Carmen W KeithPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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Dragon 3: Tide of the Black Moon (1)
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The surroundings suddenly lit up, Chu Zhang turned on the external light source, and the Dirigiste is installed on all sides of the high-intensity spotlights. This kind of lamp called a "gas mine" can emit blinding white light, illuminating the space beside the deep submersible for about 10 meters. But more than this range of brightness will quickly decay, as thick as the ink darkness always erode the light. Lu Mingfei was surprised to see a long line of small silver fish that could not be named graze the shell of the deep submersible swims through, "gas ray" illuminate their bodies, they are as bright as a galaxy. This place looks as silent as death is alive.

"According to a certain calculation, the total amount of life on land only accounts for less than 1% of the total amount of life on Earth, the remaining 99% of the creatures are in the sea." Chu Zhang said, "This is the home of all living things on earth, in the hundreds of millions of years just after the earth solidified, the sea is warm and rich in organic matter, biologists call it the primordial soup.

"Then the dragons were also born in the sea?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"Possibly, there is a view that the dragons were originally a sea-born race, and finally set foot on land. So choosing the bottom of the sea as a hatchery is like returning to the homeland for ancient dragons, right?" Chu Zhang said.

Caesar released more compressed air, and the deep submersible sank deeper into the water. Ears filled with the sound of machinery and airflow whistling, they heard each other's breathing and heartbeat, in daily life, even an absolutely quiet house will have more than ten decibels of background noise, such as the sound of heavy trucks driving across the ground vibration in the distance and the sound of water flowing in the air conditioner pipes, just the average person is difficult to notice these sounds. At the moment the background noise is reduced to zero, although the deep submersible operation of the noise is very large, and the heartbeat and breathing sound is extraordinarily clear.

Caesar is also serious up, hands rhythmically switching between different valves and knobs. It was clear that before arriving in Japan, no one knew that they were going to dive on the Dirigiste, and there was no training beforehand, just a manual thrown in, but after one night Caesar had memorized the console of the deep submersible and was driving it like an experienced captain, stroking the old familiar wooden helm wheel. Lu Mingfei had to feel that Caesar is a strong person, looks full of carelessness is undoubtedly stay up all night to memorize the operation manual. Caesar is this kind of person, in private again hard and tired, once dressed in a good dress to walk under the gaze of the crowd will be glowing will be calm, with a lazy aristocratic frown on what does not care much.

The so-called blue-blooded aristocrats are born to be bullish, blue-blooded aristocrats never emphasize what acquired effort, through the effort to be bullish up again how to be a thug.

Caesar pulled out an aluminum tube of Gao Xi Ba cigar from his combat suit, usually, he would use a silver cigar cutter to carefully cut off the head, but now he could only make it simple, he directly bit off the cigar head and lit it.

"The cockpit is so little place, oxygen is limited ah boss you still smoke cigars." Lu Mingfei sighed.

"The air circulation filtration system was added to the Diecast, the cigar smoke smell will soon be exhausted." Caesar said, "We have to spend four hours in the sea, do you just look at me I look at you dumb? To say that space is tight, didn't someone bring down all the knives?"

Chu Zhang had a long knife hanging from his waist, the hilt of which was pressed against the back of Lu Mingfei's waist. From the outside, the Trieste was a 15-meter-long behemoth, but the cockpit was about as big as an elevator room, surrounded by watertight compartments, airtight compartments, air pumps, and various pipes. The small cockpit is also densely packed with valves and instruments, there is not much room to move around, Lu Mingfei and Chu Zhang sat back to back, and had to shrink their heads so as not to hit their heads.

"I always think I can hear the inexplicable sound, boss are you sure that your antique will not disintegrate?" Lu Mingfei said.

"After all, it is old equipment, reactivation is like letting the 70-year-old former world-famous mountaineer challenge Mount Everest again, the old bones are inevitably loose everywhere." Caesar said, "But the equipment department in the deep submersible shell inside a layer of memory metal to reinforce, as long as the shell does not have problems, other equipment out of the smallest fault is fine."

"In your Italian, 'thing' must be pronounced the same as 'life'." Lu Mingfei adjusted those "gas ray" spotlights and looked outside through the 10 cm thick Plexiglas.

A few moments later, they had reached a depth of 300 meters, no longer a dense biological layer of shallow water. At the moment there was only darkness outside as if the universe had begun, and they were suspended in the middle of an empty world.

"You all say that the pressure outside is high, how much pressure is there?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"According to say it is about 30 atmospheres of pressure, equivalent to you stand full of 200 kilograms of weight girl." Caesar did some mental math.

"Is that a girl who weighs 200 kilograms? You might as well say I have a pig farm full of pigs standing on me."

"By the time you reach the bottom of the Pole Abyss, you will have 20 pigs from a pig farm standing on you." Caesar laughed.

Gensokyo listened to the chatter of the dive team on the communication channel, imagining this group of two hundred people singing and dancing in the small cockpit. It's strange to say that the load on his heart was extremely heavy, but listening to these psychopaths talking nonsense, he relaxed slightly.

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