The night is dark and the sea is rough.

Muda, who was standing on the bow of the speedboat, was looking intently at the red and green light spots rising and falling with the waves in the distance, and his eyes could not help but be filled with memories.

About two months ago, it was a quiet and peaceful scene. The orange-yellow rollers rose and fell with the fluctuations of the ocean currents, exuding a shimmering light in the sun, just like wheat fields growing on the sea.

The rising and falling waves are its swaying golden color.

But now, that magnificent golden color has become history, just like the disappeared city of Shilong.

Scattered metal parts and burst pipelines sank into the sea together. The generator sets were like wild horses that were runaway, washed to pieces by the turbulent waves, and disappeared into the endless sea.

Sometimes, Mu Da couldn't help but think.

Perhaps human beings are such unrepentant animals, they will continue to repeat the mistakes they have made more than once, and repeat the cycle of destruction and rebirth again and again, and finally miss the good times in the past when everything is irreversible.

Maybe one-

The claims of the Torch Church are not entirely wrong.

If you want to eradicate the bad roots in human nature, you can only delete those despicable traits from your genes, and then ascend into another higher-level creature.

As his thoughts gradually drifted away with the sea breeze, Mu Da estimated that the time was almost up, so he took out the walkie-talkie and pressed the button.

"This is the maritime patrol. We are about to pass through the blockade area...requesting permission."

A burst of noisy electrical sound came from the walkie-talkie, followed by a rude voice followed by a long yawn.

"Patrol team? What are you doing here?" Mu Dayan said concisely.

"We tracked an abnormal sonar signal, so just in case, we came over here to take a look."

"Okay, do you need reinforcements?"

"It's not necessary at the moment."

"Okay, then keep in touch. If you need reinforcements, we will be there soon."

The voice in the communication channel was relaxed and pleasant, and he was even chewing potato chips, leaving no doubt about what he said.

It seems that after more than two months, the brothers patrolling this area have become lax after all.

But it's no wonder.

This ocean current power station has been destroyed. There is no need for the submarine in Shelter 70 to launch another attack on the facility that has been destroyed once.

After the brief exchange ended, Muda hung up the communication with a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, then switched the communication channel of the walkie-talkie and lowered his voice.

.The target is just below the buoy in front. That's all I can help you. You'd better not stay too long. I can only wait for you for fifteen minutes at most."

After a while, an echo came from the intercom. "Roger, thank you."

"You're welcome, and wish you good luck.

After speaking, Mu Da waved his hand and motioned to the pilot in the cabin to continue moving in the northwest direction and cruise around the buoy not far away.

The sailor standing behind Mu Da, carrying a rifle, hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help but speak.

"...Why should we help them?" This kind of thing is not without risk.

If they were discovered by the Federation Navy and they were covering a Shelter 70 submarine into the wreckage of the Ocean Current Power Station, no matter how they explained it, they might not be able to explain it.

Staring at the dark rising tide, Mu Da actually didn't understand why he agreed to do this favor.

The Federation has already characterized the attack, and the conflict between the survivors on the islands and Vault 70 goes far beyond just a power station.

Even if those guys from the alliance found any new clues, he didn't think those clues could change anything.

That was just a trigger. But one-

He still wants to know what the truth is.

Perhaps there is one ten thousandth of this

Another possibility.

After being silent for a long time in the noisy sea breeze, he slowly spoke.

"It's not just about helping them."

"We are also helping ourselves.

The sailor looked at the officer's back blankly, not knowing what to say for a long time...

At the same time, directly below the speedboat, a drum-shaped submarine was turning its propeller and slowly moving towards the facility sunk on the seabed.

This submarine is exactly the one Huang Guangwei stranded on the beach before.

The researchers of the scientific expedition team not only helped repair the damaged power system and simplified the operating module, but also installed harpoon launchers, underwater grenade launchers, etc. at Sisi's request and flew them from Dawn City to French fries.

Hong Kong’s underwater weapons system.

Since they have not been tested in actual combat, even the researchers who installed these weapons on the submarines do not know whether these things can actually work.

However, considering that this mission might be attacked by aquatic mutants lurking under the sea, Sisi chose to take them with him.

At the same time, she also prayed silently in her heart—

Hopefully these guys won't be needed on this mission.

"Speaking of which, this place is really spectacular..."

Sitting in the cockpit, Sisi turned on the submarine's searchlight, followed the camera with his eyes, and carefully inspected the metal wreckage so close to him.

I saw a ring with a diameter of more than ten meters deeply embedded in the seabed. In the middle of the ring was a huge metal impeller. At this moment, these impellers, like the metal brackets outside, were all wrapped around runaway cables.

Like a sunken ship caught in seaweed.

This should be the submarine turbine generator of the ocean current power station, and the floating generator floating on the sea, which has been washed away to an unknown place, should belong to different power systems.

There are dozens of similar turbine generators nearby, and this is just the part she can see right now.

Countless metal remains are scattered on the rocky seabed, and colorful fish pass through the dark shadows from time to time.

This place does not look like the remains of a power station, but like an underwater city that has sunk to the bottom of the sea.

Looking at the area illuminated by the searchlight, Tail, who was sitting in the passenger seat, opened his mouth in surprise, and from time to time he let out an incredible exclamation.

"My giao...such realistic light and shadow effects!

This flowing texture detail!

There’s also this CG-level scene modeling! It’s simply amazing, isn’t it?

It's a pity that VM didn't have a signal, otherwise she really wanted to share the scenery here immediately with Sesame Paste and Rourou who stayed on the shore, as well as everyone on the forum.

"A weak current has been detected outside the submersible. It seems that a few generators are still working... No wonder no alien species are seen here."

After taking a look at the alarm that pulsed on the central control screen, Sisi operated the searchlight and camera to move to the left side of the submersible, and quickly locked onto an area with no fish activity.

That's probably the source of the leakage.

Marking the area on the map, Sisi looked at the instructions on the aircraft and tapped the screen with his index finger, reset a safe route, controlled the submersible to carefully circumvent the area, and continued towards

Goal forward.

Based on the information provided by the resident of Vault 70, the NPC of the scientific expedition team not only helped draw a three-dimensional model of the wreckage of the ocean current power station, but also prepared an exploration path and data collection plan in advance, greatly reducing the amount of manual operations.

After arriving at the target area, she only needs to make some adaptable fine-tuning of the route based on the situation on site.

This task is actually very easy.

So much so that she was thinking that before she finished exploring this ruins, she could stop by and check out the coordinates of the sunken research ship "Golden Coast".

Different from Sisi who was always busy with something to do, Tail, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was looking out the window of the cockpit with excitement on his face, wishing he could weld his face and nose to the window together.

His unstressed look did not look like an investigator on an infiltration mission, but more like a tourist here for sightseeing.

It wasn't until the submarine drove under a turbine generator that she suddenly remembered the mission in progress and looked at Sisdao excitedly.

"That's right Si! How should we investigate next?"

Staring intently at the three-dimensional map model on the central control screen and the green dot indicating the current position of the submarine, Sisi took a deep breath and said.

"It's very simple. Arrive at the designated area on the map, release the detector, wait for data collection, and then recover the detector."

"Eh?!" Tails looked at Sisi in surprise, "Is it that simple?"

"It's not that simple, there are a lot of dangers here... Wouldn't it be a good thing to be simple? Why are you so disappointed?

Sisi glanced at Awei hastily, looking at this regretful guy, he couldn't help but make a helpless expression.

Meeting those helpless eyes, Tai Tai reached out and scratched the back of his head, smiling sheepishly.

"No way! It's certainly a good thing to be simpler, but if this happens... wouldn't it be unnecessary to even leave the cabin?"

Sisi thought for a moment and said.

"Probably not necessary."

"Well!"

Tails had a deeply shocked expression on his face, looked at Sisi pitifully, and repeatedly confirmed, "But...is it really okay if I don't check it carefully? What if there is something missing?"

The clues are hidden in the belly of the fish or behind the rocks—"

"How could there be such a thing?" Looking at this whimsical guy, Sisi couldn't help but complain, "Do you think this is some kind of detective's crime scene?"

For nearly two and a half months, the Federation of the Southern Islands must have conducted a careful investigation and search of this sea area.
To be continued...