At this point, they will definitely not believe that this is just a coincidence or accident. Even if there is a slightly strange-looking big fish swimming outside, they will be regarded as some kind of unknown threat!

There was nothing they could do. They were in such a state as they were, even Captain Hamington, who claimed to be well-informed. When he heard that something was wrong with the Japanese, he did not hesitate to order the warship to enter the highest alert state.

Regardless of fatigue, all the soldiers rushed to their posts and stood ready!

The Yi-153 was forced to a stop. Thanks to the proper handling of the chief engineer, he immediately shut down the engine as soon as something was wrong. This prevented the submarine from suffering huge damage. However, they were not much better. It was obvious that the main shaft transmission system

Something went wrong. It is unknown whether it will affect subsequent voyages!

Major Irie Tatsu couldn't hold his temper any longer. The common problem among Japanese people, which is hysteria when cornered, also existed here. Regardless of exposing the target, he ordered two damage control officers to go out to check the problem, and asked the casual

The special operations personnel used machine gun grenades to suppress the formation. If they found a problem at the slightest moment, they opened fire immediately without any discussion!

The two soldiers shivering climbed out of Cambridge and carefully ran along the submarine deck to the rear. They were surprised to find that the back half of the submarine was plunged into a large area of ​​eye-catching green. After careful identification, it turned out to be a large area of ​​seaweed!

But this seaweed is really too big. It was just crushed or lifted up by the propeller, and it was spread out flat on the surface of the turbid sea water. It was at least two meters wide, and its length... I looked down for a long time, and I was stunned.

No head or tail was found! But a conservative estimate is that this thing must be at least twenty meters long. Could it be that this kind of thing entangled the propeller?

When he turned back to report, Major Irietatsu was immediately annoyed and yelled: "Baga! That's nonsense! The water here is at least a thousand meters deep. What kind of seaweed can grow in the deep sea with no light?! Can it grow that big? It's even more impossible.

Do you think the seaweed is a nylon rope that is wrapped around the propeller?!"

Nylon rope is considered the toughest thing in the eyes of ordinary people. A thick chopstick can drag a car. It is light, convenient and expensive. Ordinary troops can only use hemp rope. They cannot afford this thing. But nylon

If you tighten the propeller tightly, it may really drag it down, seaweed... A submarine with a full row of 2,300 tons and more than 6,000 horsepower, what a joke!

These days, no one believes the truth! The two soldiers had no choice but to go back and jump into the sea water with their diving suits on the boat (this must be said to be a gift from Zhu Bin. Without the high-elastic blended material he made, where would it have come from?

Advanced diving suit). He struggled to get in between the huge seaweeds. As expected, the large seaweeds completely covered the submarine's butt.

Really, some of the entangled leaf veins look like they are at least as thick as an arm! The leaves are as wide as a double bed, spreading along a thicker main vein into the deep sea. What's weird is that the seemingly turbid seawater is only very thick on the surface.

A few meters below, the water below is as clear as before. And the speed of the water on the surface can actually be felt to be different and faster!

There's a ghost in this place!

The two soldiers shuddered and hurriedly used a knife to cut a leaf vein. They found that even if they were cut with a sharp high-speed steel blade imported from China, the vein that was supposed to be soft and crisp actually felt like it was cutting beef tendons.

I felt so tired that my hands were sore and my arms were pounding. I just managed to get one down and carried it back to the surface. When someone pulled me onto the deck, I immediately collapsed and gasped for breath!

Irie Tatsu had been impatient for a long time, so he ran to the deck in person, and saw that it was exactly what they rewarded. He also personally tested the tenacity of the seaweed veins, and his expression was hard to describe.

With his hands trembling slightly, he used a rubber inflatable valve to row the seaweed toward the destroyer USS Cassin. At the same time, he asked two officers with excellent water skills to put on deep diving suits and venture down to feel along the main veins of the seaweed.

After seeing what he could find, he would never believe that it could grow more than a thousand meters. This was against the laws of nature! Not to mention, the water on the surface was still so turbid!

After Captain Hamington saw the things sent by the Japanese, he complained to the two FBIs with a sullen mouth: "Look! I just said it, nothing good will happen on this trip. As expected, it didn't surprise me."

Unexpected! Gentlemen, have you heard that there are such things in the world?

West? No! I have traveled around the world more than once, and I have never heard of a guy that can grow so big and long! Even the giant algae known as the algae king off the coast of Baja California can only be two to three hundred meters long, but that is

Grows in tens of meters of sea water!”

The largest seaweed in the world is located near the west coast of the United States, but that thing is completely different from this one! Mr. Captain was frightened from the bottom of his heart. No wonder few ships have dared to go here in the past few years. How dare such a thing happen?

Something is causing trouble!

The faces of the two agents were naturally not very good-looking. Wearing black sunglasses, they still looked serious and cool, but their bodies that were obviously unable to straighten had already betrayed the emptiness inside them!

However, when they learned that the petioles of this giant algae actually had tough properties that were not those of beef tendons, they immediately became energetic. After stabbing them with a knife to confirm that they were correct, they hurriedly borrowed the radio on the battleship to report this to their superiors.

The situation is like picking up some huge treasure!

"Hmph! Do you think you can get a treasure easily?"

Captain Hamington guessed what they were thinking, and couldn't help but sneer coldly. He also didn't want to think about whose territory this was! Since those mysterious Chinese dared to occupy the land under the nose of the United States, how could they do it without the ability to protect it?

Succeeded? If you guessed correctly, these seaweeds are very likely to have a great relationship with them!

After all, what needs to be done must be done. He immediately sent someone to bring underwater power tools to help free the submarine. At the same time, he did not forget to find out the secret of the seaweed. Now that he had caught up, it would be unreasonable not to fish a handful.

ah!

The Americans' equipment was one level more advanced than the Japanese's, and with the large number of people and their strength, it took nearly two hours to finally free the submarine. Although the seaweed was very entangled, it was a thing with a clue.

, at the same time, the two-meter-wide, thick, tough, and cowhide-like leaves are extremely elastic, which virtually ensures that they are not tightly squeezed and cannot be opened.

The seaweed that was finally removed from the propeller could be hundreds of meters long. If there were not a battleship nearby to help, it might not be able to be torn off!

After a strict inspection, the Yi-153 was tested and found that the damage was not too serious and it could still continue sailing. However, those who followed the clues could not stand it after sneaking down less than a hundred meters. As a result, they did not touch the roots of the giant algae, but only found that the

The increasingly thick leaf veins and countless branches spread out under more than ten meters of water into a crown with a diameter of at least more than a hundred meters, which is comparable to the size of a football field!

And what is entangled in the submarine is just one of the branches! You can imagine how terrifying the whole thing is! If it can be fished out, the weight will only be much heavier than the submarine!

The Americans cut off a branch handle more than 100 meters long and dragged it onto the destroyer as an important specimen they found. When they explored further, they found that this thing was still there, so they had no choice but to make a detour again. If they got in, they would be blinded.

!

Not to mention that the two agents found a treasure, in short, not long after, the commander of the Pacific Fleet personally sent a message and ordered Captain Hamington to obey resolutely. Continue to accompany the Japanese to explore forward, and will never give up until the goal is reached!

He was also unhappy that he had not been able to obtain specimens of giant squid and super discharge jellyfish before.

Captain Hamington gasped in anger. This was so unreasonable! Who could be so proactive and take risks to engage in those things when things were not expected at all? Looking for specimens? That would cost people's lives to fill the gap.

Yes! Besides, why don’t you accuse yourself of talking nonsense now?!

With a lot of dissatisfaction, I asked people to carefully mark the location and move on! This thing is not like giant squid and jellyfish. It must grow on a fixed foundation and cannot be moved casually. And it can grow so big.

The nearby sea environment must be very suitable!

Thinking of this, Mr. Captain asked people to use clean cans to take the turbid seawater as samples and pack them. It depends on whether he can make a fortune when he goes back!

After many twists and turns, when night came again, the two ships finally escaped from the sea area where giant seaweed grew. Looking at the sparkling water under the scorching sun ahead, Captain Hamington felt a chill in his heart. Tonight

, what else is going to happen?!

He couldn't help but worry! Since noon yesterday, problems had occurred one after another. If they hadn't been so unlucky and encountered all the strange things they had never seen in their lives, there would have been a great possibility.

It was a defensive measure that was originally designed by others, but in recent years few people have run here and have not encountered it. Or perhaps, there was no conflict between China and the United States before, so they did not come up with such defensive measures!

Hamington feels that this time he can write Licheng as an adventure fantasy novel. If it is made into a comic or something, it will not be much worse than the popular "The Adventures of Tintin". Maybe he can rely on this to make a fortune.

If you make a fortune, you will have no worries for the rest of your life.

Thinking of this, Mr. Captain couldn't help but feel a sense of pride in his heart. Not many people in the world have the opportunity to encounter a series of weird things like him! This is a legend! A legend that belongs to him! As long as you don't

If you lose your old life, you can resist whatever strange things happen next!

Sometimes, people's way of thinking cannot be judged by common sense. For example, Major Irie Tatsu, others would have been frightened by it, but after he reached a certain level, he broke out in different madness. When the chief engineer's face was gloomy,

Report: "Major! We are not sure whether the submarine can support longer voyages. If we encounter similar dangers again, we may be in big trouble! Should we report to the fleet? Seek guidance?"

In other words, should we turn around and go back?

However, Major Irie's eyes shone brightly, and he waved his fists enthusiastically and shouted: "No! On the contrary! We must persist no matter what! Think about it, there must be a huge number of places that can be protected by so many strange means.

secret! And uncovering this secret is our mission in this operation! I feel that through several adventures,

, proving that our mission is more valuable, and our achievements will definitely be recorded in history! At this moment when the empire is facing an unprecedented crisis, as a glorious navy and the emperor’s arm, how can we shrink back in fear?! Move forward!

! Keep moving forward! As long as the submarine can persevere, even if something unexpected happens to you and me, we must fight to the end!"

"Hi! Major's spirit is really admirable!" The chief engineer bowed vigorously with emotion, and then went back with confidence to encourage his subordinates to ensure that the submarine is in working condition.

It's easier said than done. They were forced to change course twice in a row. They had gone south from the original straight line and turned into a circle. The position was deviated by at least 300 nautical miles, and the total voyage seemed to be more than 100 nautical miles ahead. It should have been

It took three days to reach the destination, but it took two days to get halfway there!

On the second night, few of the three to four hundred people on the two ships could sleep well. They all stared carefully at the movements on the sea. And their potential opponents did not disappoint them too much. When midnight came,

, some bright lights once appeared on the sea not far from the two ships, looming in the dark night. From a distance, they looked like lighthouses pointing out the route!

Both Hamington and Irie knew that this could never be a lighthouse! In the two thousand nautical miles wide area of ​​the Eastern Pacific, there were almost no reefs above the water. The nearest large-scale islands are also located in Hawaii.

In addition to the area due south, the core of their target course, it is estimated that there is no place with a water depth of less than 500 meters within a radius of 1,000 kilometers!

Besides, this is not an area that the shipping routes pass through. Normally, only China's giant armed cargo ships come in and out all year round. In order to keep it secret, they cannot set up any floating lighthouses on the sea. So there is only one truth, those lights are weird!

The U.S. warships are equipped with infrared night vision equipment, as well as fire control and search radars. After scanning carefully and intensively for a long time, I felt a little uncertain that those bright lights were actually moving! The speed was not very fast. Also

Uneven, but definitely not as regular as a floating artificial creation! And the height is uncertain!

Relying on the fierce firepower, the two warships bravely moved forward. When they were less than five kilometers away, they heard several strange roars in the distance. It was like a cow moo rising from the deep sea, dull and long,

Comparable to a steam whistle!

Then, under the gaze of soldiers with excellent eyesight on both sides, those bright lights moved quickly and messily, and some even collided with each other. Even against the background of the noise of the ship's engine, the rumbling sound of water waves could be heard!

"Bang! Bang! Boom!" The movement was like a heavy and thick huge long stick, hitting and hitting the water surface hard!

The arms and legs of a giant squid that stretched toward the sky like a giant tree suddenly appeared in front of Captain Hamington's eyes. That thing could make such a big noise when it bombarded the water!

Comparing the height of those lights from the water, his face suddenly turned pale. It looked like it was at least twenty or thirty meters high! And according to the distance and the signal returned by the radar detection, that thing was at least as big as a North American redwood, and as big as a house.

thick!

What kind of living creature can support such a large external limb, and there are more than one! This can no longer be described as a sea monster, it is simply a terrifying thing from legend!

Captain Hamington suddenly remembered the saying that had been circulated in Southeast Asia for a generation, that some strange creatures that grew in the deep sea below 20,000 feet had grown exponentially compared to their size at a depth of several hundred meters.

For example, in the shallow sea, an octopus is only as big as a palm. When it reaches that depth, it will most likely become about the same size as a cruiser... The size and power of that thing can easily kill a destroyer. Compared with the previous giant squid, it is much stronger and terrifying.
To be continued...