Huo Shaoheng's face gradually turned ashen as he recalled Gu Xiangwen's every movement and expression in his dream.
He rushed out of his cabin and ran all the way to the monitoring room.
The dark blue sea outside the cabin rippled with the wind. The bright moon and stars reflected in the sea were shattered by the waves and scattered in the depths of the sea like pearls.
Huo Shaoheng finally stopped when he pushed open the door of the monitoring room.
He calmed his breathing and stood at the door.
The people in the monitoring room were shocked and turned to look in the direction of the door.
It was Song Jinning's turn to operate the mechanical arm with the experts. Zhao Liangze was still here with them.
Seeing Huo Shaoheng suddenly barge in, Zhao Liangze quickly walked over and said, "Major General Huo, you've only slept for three hours. Aren't you going to sleep more?"
Huo Shaoheng shook his head and said as calmly as possible, "I'm not sleeping. You go to sleep. I'll watch this side."
Zhao Liangze quickly said, "I'm not sleepy either. Major General Huo, you came at the right time. We were just about to grab the submarine! "
Huo Shaoheng looked at his watch. Eleven hours had passed since they started fishing.
"You've already started fishing?" Huo Shaoheng walked over and stood behind the expert to look at the display screen controlling the mechanical arm. "Have you detected the situation around the submarine?"
Song Jinning stood beside him and nodded. "We've tested it all. No abnormal metal objects have appeared. Moreover, the trench here is so deep. No country has the technical means to bury explosives on the seabed here. "
Huo Shaoheng slowly exhaled and looked at the mechanical arm on the display screen. It was like a large steel hand opening and closing in the seawater, stirring up the seawater until it gradually turned turbid.
The coral was cut off at the waist and scattered on the seabed. The red starfish didn't move at all and floated into the distance with the overturned reef.
The blue-purple electric eel hid far away. Only a few ugly anglerfish remained motionless in the water. A fin extended from their heads, and the top of the fin shone like an electric bulb.
The box-shaped jellyfish was faintly discernible in the flickering lights of the anglerfish, and its long tentacles swayed in the seawater.
This scene was like a dream or an illusion.
Huo Shaoheng stared closely at the mechanical arm. Seeing that it had finally completed its positioning, the five large mechanical fingers at the bottom opened up with a whoosh, bringing with it waves.
Amidst the rolling waves, the five mechanical fingers suddenly closed and firmly grasped the upper half of the submarine on the seabed.
Then, five shiny steel thorns suddenly extended from the tips of the five mechanical fingers!
This was a steel spike made of the strongest hard alloy. It could instantly penetrate the cement shell of the submarine and pierce into the interior of the submarine to fix it, making it easy to salvage.
Furthermore, the five steel spikes were hollow in the middle. They could also sample the air inside the submarine and analyze it.
Under everyone's nervous gaze, the five steel spikes pierced into the submarine's shell from different angles.
Psst!
A series of ear-piercing noises came from the monitor.
This kind of ear-piercing sound was a hundred times worse than the sound of a steel file grinding a hacksaw.
Those with weaker hearts had their faces drained of blood and were as pale as paper.
Fortunately, it didn't take long.
Not long after, the ear-piercing sound of the drill disappeared. The five steel thorns slowly pierced through the submarine's outer shell and firmly held the submarine in place.
"Prepare the lift."
"Prepare the power unit."
"Rope team, get ready."
…
As a series of instructions were issued, the submarine was ready to be lifted up.
At the same time, the steel thorns that had drilled into the submarine had already sent up the air sample inside the submarine.
Song Jinning quickly took over the analysis.
She entered the air sample sent up from the steel thorns into the instrument. Before she could start the full analysis, she heard a beep from her instrument. The analysis was completed.
In less than a second.
Song Jinning's expression immediately became even worse than when she heard the sound of the steel spike drill.
The analysis results were produced in such a short time not because her instrument was particularly good, but because the air composition in the submarine was very simple. It was so simple that the analyzer could perform the theoretical fastest analysis speed.
In other words, the air in the submarine only had one active ingredient.
No matter what the conditions were, if the air in a sealed space only had one component, it meant that the space was a "dead space".
Her hand trembled as she pressed on the air analyzer. She saw a large chemical formula appear on it — N2.
N2, nitrogen.
This submarine was filled with nitrogen!
It was so dense that the other components were almost negligible.
Song Jinning rubbed her eyes and took a deep breath. She removed the air sample from the first steel thorn, emptied the analyzer, and began to measure the air sample from the second steel thorn.
It was almost exactly the same as before. The air analyzer also showed N2!
Then the third, the fourth, and the fifth!
It was all N2 — nitrogen.
At this point, Song Jinning could no longer convince herself.
She turned her head to look at the equipment experts who were still monitoring and said in a deep voice, "… the submarine is filled with nitrogen. There are no other components."
"Nitrogen?! Are you sure? It's all nitrogen?! "
The equipment experts were stunned.
What kind of operation was this?
Where did the nitrogen come from?
How did it get into the submarine?
If the oxygen in the submarine was thin, they could completely understand.
However, not only was there no oxygen or carbon dioxide, but it was filled with pure nitrogen. That was a little strange.
They could conclude that the pure nitrogen in the submarine definitely did not exist naturally. It must have been man-made.
Although he was mentally prepared, Huo Shaoheng's heart still felt empty when he heard Song Jinning confirm his guess. It was like the strong sense of weightlessness when parachuting from a height of 10,000 meters.
"… then … there's definitely no one alive inside," an expert came back to his senses and sighed.
They had originally held onto a sliver of hope that there might be someone alive inside. That way, they could have a good chat with them.
Unfortunately, their last hope was shattered.
Huo Shaoheng's eyes were sore and dry, and his eyes instantly turned red.
Zhao Liangze looked at him worriedly and patted his back comfortingly. He said in a low voice, "… my condolences."
Huo Shaoheng raised his head with difficulty and swallowed the tears that were about to fall. His voice was especially deep and thick. "It's okay. Continue."
The experts looked at each other, but none of them were gossipy people. They quickly looked away and focused on their intense work.
Song Jinning shook her head regretfully and turned to look at Huo Shaoheng. She whispered, "… What do you plan to tell Nianzhi?"
Huo Shaoheng's face was as dark as water. He walked to the window of the monitoring room with his hands behind his back and stood still. He looked out the window at the vast night sky. After a while, he said, "We'll talk about it after the submarine is salvaged."
Maybe there was no one inside?
Or maybe Gu Xiangwen wasn't inside?
He wouldn't give up hope until the last moment.
Song Jinning knew that Huo Shaoheng was just being cautious out of habit.
However, the outcome had already been decided. Whether he admitted it or not, it was there.
She turned around to look at the analyzer and suddenly said, "Since the steel spikes on the mechanical arm's fingers are hollow, can you put down the pinhole camera and take a picture of the situation inside the submarine?"
"No way, right? Although the pinhole camera is called a 'pinhole', that refers to the aperture. Its real size is still too big compared to the steel spikes on the mechanical arm's fingers. "An equipment expert rejected Song Jinning's suggestion.
Otherwise, they would have installed cameras on the five steel spikes on the mechanical arm.
Zhao Liangze's heart skipped a beat. He quickly said, "I have a custom-made pinhole camera. It's different from other pinhole cameras. It's especially small. Maybe we can give it a try."
This was the special equipment that the Special Operations Forces had equipped for field personnel. It was many times stronger than the "pinhole cameras" that were the size of a dollar coin on the market.
Zhao Liangze's "pinhole camera" was not only a literal pinhole camera, but he had also installed an AI system with a simple self-recognition function.
In other words, this was an "intelligent pinhole camera". In other words, it was a little robot that liked to peep everywhere.
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This was the second update of the day: Chapter 1391, "N2".
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