The saber-toothed tiger that was attached to the propeller immediately attacked the hull of the ship.
Faced with the special steel for ships that had a melting point of only 1,400 degrees, the fission dagger was truly like a hot knife cutting through butter.
The fission knife was stuffed into the hull of the ship. Of course, there was no continuous bubbling noise from the heated seawater. Only a dark red line that looked like a blood mark was quickly forming a circle on the hull of the ship.
The steel plate made of a special alloy quickly absorbed the heat emitted by the fission knife and was evenly dispersed by the seawater. Only a small and nearly silent bubble was produced near the cut.
In less than ten seconds, the fission knife cut a half-meter-wide hole in the steel plate.
The cut was so smooth that the saber-toothed tiger needed to turn around and use its two front flippers to pull the steel plate off.
The saber-toothed tiger was like an emotionless killer. When it entered the dark hull of the ship, it even pulled back the steel plate that it had cut off.
Perhaps it felt that it was not very secure. The saber-toothed tiger swung its tail and used the fission knife to quickly tap the edge of the cut a few times to melt the steel around the cut and solidify a few solder points.
Warships were double-hulled ships. The bottom of the ship had compartments that could strengthen the overall structure and also provide a watertight space.
If the water pressure compartments on both sides of the ship and the watertight compartments throughout the ship were included, even if the hull below the waterline was damaged, the warship could rely on good damage control measures to anchor in place and wait for rescue.
The prerequisite was that the saber-toothed tiger did not attack the second structure of the warship.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
This time, the notification came from the ship's central control room.
The bottom compartments of the warship were equipped with pressure sensors. If the compartment was damaged, the pressure change inside would trigger an alarm from the sensors.
When the outer shell was cut, the pressure in the compartment had already changed. Now that the inner layer was cut open, the sensors inside began to issue warnings.
There were only four people on duty in the ship's central control room. When they saw the notification on the screen that the pressure in compartment 063 had changed, the person in charge on duty casually sent someone lower in rank than him to check the situation in compartment 063.
The pressure sensors only indicated changes in pressure. The entire warship had hundreds of compartments. It was nothing new for a single sensor to have a change in value. They just needed to send someone to check.
The compartment was located at the lowest level of the warship. To get there, one would need to climb up and down. One would also have to bend down and crawl through the greasy pipes to get into the compartment. Therefore, the inspection of the compartment was a tough job that would make anyone want to scold someone.
The man on duty who had been sent over cursed as he crawled down the escalator to the lower deck.
…
The saber-toothed tiger took less than five seconds to cut through the inner layer of the compartment.
Without the cooling of the seawater, the fission blade was now extremely red. As the saber-toothed tiger moved, the fission blade that was swinging in the air was already so hot that the surrounding air was clearly refracted and distorted, as if a crimson flame from the sun was hidden in it.
After getting out of the compartment, a narrow passage with a height of less than one meter appeared in front of the saber-toothed tiger.
The saber-toothed tiger quietly turned its head.
Microwave radar.
Thermal imaging scan.
Optical lens imaging.
Motion capture sensor.
Short-range infrared laser radar …
The sensors integrated in its head quickly transmitted the captured data to the processing system inside its body.
Under the system's control, the saber-toothed tiger's originally black optical imaging eyes revealed a dark green glow.
The "hunt" was about to begin.
At this moment, on the entire ship, other than a voice recorder who was confused by the strange sonar characteristics for a short period of time, there was only one person on duty who was heading to the watertight compartment who was the closest to the truth of the "hunt."
"Position coordinates matching …"
"Position coordinates matching successful. Located in the bottom compartment of the Ticonderoga-class cruiser, compartment number 063."
"Command: Cooperate with companions to destroy this ship."
"Commencing execution …"
0.1 seconds later, the saber-toothed tiger flicked its tail and swung the fission blade out.
With a muffled crack, an orange-red pipe with a diameter of nearly ten centimeters above the passage was instantly cut off. The fracture was like a mirror.
This was a lightweight fire-extinguishing foam pipe.
The pipe was cut off, but no fire-extinguishing foam splashed out. This was because the valve between it and the fire-extinguishing tank was closed. The valve would only open when there was a fire in the ship.
It seemed that the destructive genes buried deep in the program had been activated. The fission blade that was hovering in mid-air could not help but tremble slightly along with the saber-toothed tiger's body.
It took silent steps toward the end of the narrow passage.
As the time it was exposed to the air increased, the fission blade became hotter and hotter. The originally crimson light was already showing signs of evolving into a blazing white.
Even if the saber-toothed tiger did not destroy the other pipes, the cables that were covered with insulating layers or waterproof layers began to melt like candles under the high temperature of the fission blade, exposing the internal metal material.
A few seconds later, a watertight door appeared in front of the saber-toothed tiger.
The watertight door had already been closed. The saber-toothed tiger did not rotate the valve. Instead, it used the fission blade to completely cut off the watertight door.
A wider and longer passage appeared in front of the saber-toothed tiger.
This was a main maintenance passage that led to the various watertight compartments and the three equipment rooms. This maintenance passage had already appeared countless times in the previous simulated attacks. Therefore, the saber-toothed tiger did not hesitate to cut open the watertight door on the left and quickly ran up the metal stairs that folded upward.
At the end of the metal stairs was a large watertight door that was nearly two meters tall. There was a nameplate hanging on it that said [Fire and Damage Control Main Pump Room].
After cutting open the watertight door, a rather large but cramped equipment room appeared in front of the saber-toothed tiger.
This was the core of the ship's fire and damage control. Whether it was the light water foam used to extinguish the fire for ammunition and oil, the carbon dioxide used to extinguish the fire for electronic circuits, or the water pumps used to extinguish the fire in ordinary areas, they all had to pass through here.
In addition, this place was also connected to the gas turbine room. The gas turbine provided enough pressure to drive the fire extinguishing material stored in the large tank.
…
The saber-toothed tiger leaped up from the metal stairs.
The next second, the fission blade pierced the light water foam tank and cut through it from head to toe. The large metal tank was like a piece of paper that had been torn apart. Accompanied by a violent hissing sound, the light water foam that leaked and expanded instantly filled the entire equipment room. Then, like a giant white python, it gushed out from the watertight door that had been cut open and filled the entire passage.
Then came the carbon dioxide tank and the water pressure tank.
The internal pressure of the carbon dioxide tank was as high as ten megapascals. When the tank exploded, it was as if a bomb had been dropped into the equipment room. Not to mention that the sensors in the equipment room were constantly warning, even if there were no sensors, the loud noise was enough to wake up the sailors in the cabin.
In the equipment room on the lower deck, there were still three people left on duty. They were all shocked by the loud noise.
"What's the situation?
Could it be that those guys hit the cargo ship? " The person in charge of the central control room had a face full of bewilderment. He remembered that there had been countless incidents where warships had hit civilian ships. Because there were so many of these incidents, there were even people who made up a joke that warships made the lighthouse on the island avoid their route …
It was the person on duty sitting at the monitor that discovered the source of the loud noise. He stared at the screen and shouted, "There's an abnormality in the main pump room of the fire and damage control department."
"Abnormality?" The person in charge turned his head and at the same time, saw the pressure warning that was constantly flashing on the screen.
Because all of this happened too suddenly, the three people in the central control room were stunned for five seconds before they remembered to turn the monitor picture to the inside of the main pump room of the fire and damage control department that was usually unfrequented.
As a result, the situation in the picture was similar to that of a pressure cooker. The screen was full of snow-white liquid, and there was also white gas flowing in it. Other than that, nothing else could be seen.
This phenomenon that had never happened before made the thoughts of the three people in the central control room chaotic like a pressure cooker. The person in charge was so scared that he left one person behind to stay and rushed to the position of the main pump room of the fire and damage control department with another person.
As he ran, he used the communication device to contact the personnel in the other cabins to come and support the emergency repair. It was obvious that the loud noise just now was the explosion of the tank in the main pump room of the fire and damage control department, and there was more than one explosion.
The consequences of this kind of thing happening in the middle of a combat mission could be imagined.
The person who stayed behind in the central control room was also constantly cutting and cutting on the operation platform, looking up the previous pressure parameter record, trying to find the cause of the accident.
The saber-toothed tiger only took a few seconds to cut open the tank body. He wanted to find the reason from the record, but of course, he couldn't find anything.
It was also because of this that the confused person on duty couldn't spare the energy to find the data cabinet next to him, the meter numbers that were quietly changing one by one.
Because there were two saber-toothed tigers, the one that caused a huge commotion and attracted everyone's attention was in the open.
There was another one lurking in the dark, attacking those inconspicuous but equally important ship structures.
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