Chapter 1389: They Want To Steal Our Things
Hideda Yamaguchi was so angry that he slammed the table and cursed, “Idiot! Wise my a.s.s! They want to steal our things!”
“Mr. Yamaguchi, what should we do?” The intelligence agent who was monitoring the satellite image asked nervously. He was responsible for monitoring that sea area, so of course he knew what was in that place.
Unfortunately, even though j.a.pan had been safeguarding that secret for seven years, they were still unable to salvage that thing from the bottom of the sea.
Seven years ago, their Secret Service had once carried out an epic-level hijacking and kidnapping operation, but in the end, they had underestimated the cunning of that person, and all their efforts had been for naught..
Hideda Yamaguchi obviously thought of his achievements from seven years ago, and his face turned livid with anger. “It’s all because of those b.a.s.t.a.r.ds from Kobe Steel! Our salvage s.h.i.+ps have been in trouble several times, and we couldn’t salvage them at all because they used low quality steel to build wars.h.i.+ps!”
His face was ferocious. “Last year, they told me that they needed to make a breakthrough in technology… Like h*ll I’ll believe them!”
This year, the scandal of Kobe Steel falsifying the steel factory’s data sprouted like mushrooms after a rain. It was because the Secret Service couldn’t stand it anymore and took action to investigate that their ten-year-old fraud was exposed to the world.
In front of the powerful intelligence agency, they could no longer fake it. Even bowing was useless. The predicament they were facing now wasn’t small.
However, these matters weren’t within the consideration of the Secret Service’s elites.
If it wasn’t for the fact that the materials for the wars.h.i.+p produced by Kobe Steel weren’t up to standard, they wouldn’t have been unable to salvage that submarine for seven years.
The intelligence agent on the other side waited for Hideda Yamaguchi to finish lambasting Kobe Steel before asking softly, “Mr. Captain, what do you want to do?”
It was too late to lament over it now. The other party had already marched into the Cape of Good Hope’s waters with great fanfare.
What was even more infuriating was that it was the high seas’ territory. They couldn’t even send wars.h.i.+ps to directly confront them.
After Hideda Yamaguchi vented his anger, he felt much better. He frowned and came up with a plan.
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. He suddenly waved at his intelligence agent and said, “Call a meeting immediately! Quickly!”
Five minutes later, the most elite five-person team of the Secret Service sat in the most secret meeting room for the entire day.
“There’s a Chinese saying, ‘The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware the oriole is behind it.’ There’s also a saying, ‘If a snipe and a clam are locked in fight,it is only to the advantage of the fisherman’. This time, we want to be both the oriole and the fisherman!”
Hideda Yamaguchi set the purpose of this operation and waved his hand. “Our great j.a.panese maritime self-defense force has a base near the Cape of Good Hope. You guys can deploy it however you want. However, you can’t use the name of the great j.a.panese maritime self-defense force, understand?”
“Yes!”
The five-person team responded in unison with great motivation.
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On the tenth night, Huo Shaoheng and the fleet finally arrived at the area where the submarine sank at the Cape of Good Hope. They met up with Zhao Liangze, who had been waiting there for a long time.
Zhao Liangze brought a group of people and arrived near the “Seed” of the research s.h.i.+p in a speedboat. He switched on a signal light with Huo Shaoheng.
Only when the signals from both sides matched did they confirm their ident.i.ties.
A rope basket was lowered from the research s.h.i.+p. Zhao Liangze and the others were hoisted up.
“Major General Huo!” Zhao Liangze saluted Huo Shaoheng as soon as he reached the deck.
He was also very excited.
It had been a long time since he had seen anyone he was familiar with. He had almost been cut off from the rest of the world.
Huo Shaoheng nodded. “How’s the situation here?”
Zhao Liangze’s radar system was more sophisticated than the equipment they had on board.
He said, “We haven’t found any s.h.i.+ps or aircraft near this area for the time being, but we have recently detected some signals from the sea. I’m worried that there will be s.h.i.+ps coming soon.”
Huo Shaoheng walked into the cabin and asked Zhao Liangze to take out the detection records for the past few days. He entered them into his computer and looked through them carefully.
Huo Shaoheng quickly deployed the external security system and gathered all the military equipment experts. He said, “We’ve already reached our destination. “Time is of the essence. We can’t let everyone rest. From now on, we’ll form three teams and work three s.h.i.+fts a day. We’ll work nonstop. We must salvage that small submarine in the shortest time possible!”
Technically speaking, there were four ways to salvage a submarine. They were sealing the cabin and pumping water, floating tank fis.h.i.+ng, foam plastic fis.h.i.+ng, and inflatable drainage fis.h.i.+ng.
However, these four methods weren’t very suitable for this deep-sea submarine.
For example, sealing the cabin and pumping water was for a damaged submarine. After sealing the opening, the water would be pumped out and the submarine would float.
However, this mini-submarine was sealed very tightly and there was no sign of water entering.
Another example was inflatable drainage fis.h.i.+ng. It was pumping compressed air into the sunken submarine so that the water could be discharged so that the submarine could float to the surface.
Similarly, because the mini-submarine sank too deep, frogmen couldn’t dive to that depth. Neither of these methods was suitable.
The other method of salvaging the floating box and the foam plastic took too long and wasn’t suitable for their specific circ.u.mstances.
Therefore, taking into account the position and size of the submarine, the experts from the Huaxia Empire’s military headquarters thought of a new method. It was to add a huge robotic arm in the shape of a human hand to the research s.h.i.+p, which was fixed with steel cables. Then, the research s.h.i.+p would be directly driven above the submarine, and the robotic arm would be lowered with iron chains.
The mechanical arm had a camera and control system. They could operate and monitor the s.h.i.+p through computer equipment.
This way, they didn’t have to risk the frogmen warriors, and they didn’t have to worry about any traps down there.
But this method seemed easy on the surface, but it was very difficult to operate.
Because this operation required very high precision, and the material requirements for the mechanical arm were also very high. If the quality of the steel didn’t pa.s.s, it would break, and the salvage attempt would fail.
Moreover, they didn’t know why the submarine had sunk to the bottom.
If it had been tripped by something, then this salvage method would require strenuous effort.
They didn’t know if the engine they had brought with them had enough horsepower, but these needed to be constantly corrected during the numerous attempts.
Huo Shaoheng’s orders were pa.s.sed down, and the people on the s.h.i.+p were quickly divided into groups.
Huo Shaoheng, Song Jinning, and Zhao Liangze were the core personnel. They were in charge at three different times, so that they could a.s.sist and monitor the three s.h.i.+fts of a.s.sembly specialists.
Huo Shaoheng was in charge of the first s.h.i.+ft.
He told Song Jinning and Zhao Liangze to go to sleep and replace him after eight hours.
Song Jinning was indeed a little tired from the b.u.mpy journey on the sea.
She didn’t stand on ceremony with Huo Shaoheng and went to sleep in her cabin.
Zhao Liangze wasn’t tired, and he was more familiar with the place, so he volunteered to wait a few hours before going to sleep.
Huo Shaoheng agreed and watched the a.s.sembly experts operate the mechanical arm in the control room with him.
Dozens of computer screens of various sizes were lit up in the control room.
The largest screen was 60 inches long, and the effect was very clear.
Huo Shaoheng stood in front of the screen and watched as the robotic arm that looked like a human hand was slowly lowered into the deep sea by a thick iron chain.
This area of the sea was the open sea, and it was usually unfrequented.
Although the submarine had been there for several years, it had probably never been moved. To the marine animals there, it was basically no different from a cl.u.s.ter of coral reefs.
Colorful corals stood upright in the water. Red starfish lay quietly on the reef, and black stingrays swept past the camera like giant bats.
Violet blue electric eels wrapped around the mechanical arm, and box-shaped jellyfishes sank and floated around. They were all notoriously deadly sea creatures.
They inexplicably gave the sea a murderous aura.
Huo Shaoheng stared at the display screen and saw the mechanical arm stretch out slightly in the sea while tearing the two-meter-long violet blue electric eel into pieces.
The mechanical arm continued to sink, and after 30 minutes, they finally saw the sand at the bottom of the sea.
The small mini-submarine was even more clearly displayed in front of them.
Huo Shaoheng frowned slightly and suddenly said, “To the right, a little more to the right.”
The final a.s.sembly expert maneuvered the mechanical arm remotely and slowly moved it to the right.
At this moment, a row of fluorescent words appeared above the mini-submarine.
“Cereus I”.
An expert asked curiously, “Cereus I? Is that the name of this submarine?”
No matter how calm Huo Shaoheng tried to remain, his heart beated wildly
This submarine was indeed connected to Gu Xiangwen!
They hadn’t come in vain.
Cereus was Gu Nianzhi’s English name.