Chapter 189 The return voyage full of crisis

A huge spaceship with a smooth shell was equipped with four oversized propellers, which only ensured that it could move forward and backward, dive and float. A rough rudder was also made and mounted on the back, and a crude rudder was welded on each side.

The balance wing ensures that it will not roll or turn around in the water under normal circumstances. After pressing tens of thousands of tons of metal into the bottom cabin and adding a little water, the spacecraft can submerge dozens of meters deep into the water and move forward cautiously like a giant whale.

There was no time for further sea trials. Anyway, the layers of internal compartments ensured that it would not sink to the bottom under normal circumstances. After a short period of adaptation, the spacecraft was completely submerged in the water and sneaked under the frontmost platform, letting the huge platform "ride" on it.

It is linked together by the mechanical arm and the buffer electromagnetic pillar.

On June 28, Captain Mahan returned from Germany with a mighty fleet and arrived at the platform.

The Germans, who were driven crazy by gold ore, urgently built a batch of large cargo ships with a standard displacement of 20,000 tons. The full load could reach about 28,000 tons, and they could carry nearly 20,000 tons of cargo and sail more than 10,000 nautical miles. They all used diesel engines.

Driven, it can cross the world's oceans at a speed of 18 knots

, as required, all ships are equipped with defensive guns. The main gun is a 150 mm skc/28 naval gun. The secondary guns of this "Deutschland" class armored ship are lighter in weight and have shorter barrels, but their range and power are not at all.

It's small, it's a product that's available now, and it's easy to produce.

In addition, a large number of 37mm anti-aircraft guns are installed, and the firepower is no worse than the American version. In addition, because it is flying the German flag, it is relatively safer than Zhu Bin's own.

In order to show respect, the Germans did not send a single person to the fleet. It was all Zhu Bin's people who transported a batch of ore to the port, then unloaded the ship and loaded it back. With this rotation, the cooperation has been relatively smooth.

Captain Mahan was slightly surprised when he discovered that Zhu Bin was also on the platform, but he did not make a fuss. After more than a year of cooperation, he knew that the mystery of this young man was beyond his imagination, and he only had to do his best.

Just enjoy your job and enjoy the highest salary and bonus in the industry.

The fleet was arranged to dock around the platform, and the cargo that needed to be unloaded began to be transported down with a giant tower crane. Captain Mahan climbed onto the platform, hugged Zhu Bin vigorously, and greeted: "I'm so happy to see you here.

, Mr. Zhu.”

After patting each other twice and separating, Zhu Bin looked up and down at the obviously thinner old captain, and sighed sincerely: "Thanks to your hard work in the past six months, from now on, you can enjoy a holiday with peace of mind and have a good rest.

!”

Mahan lightly waved the pipe that Zhu Bin made for him out of deep-sea coral, and said with a humorous smile: "An old guy like me is no longer used to staying on the shore to bask in the sun! While I can still move, I can earn more money.

Children's lives are more important. Having said that, dear boss, you are really busy recently!"

The old guy travels around the world with his fleet, so it's not easy to come across him.

Zhu Binzhuang spread his hands helplessly: "Actually, I would rather relax, but as you can see, many things have to be done personally."

Mahan casually glanced at the weird-looking two-seater bomber, nodded, and said: "By the way, I have some not-so-good news for you. That old guy Ma Yier is dying. I heard he is already lying in the hospital.

, maybe he will die tomorrow. I went to see him last time when I passed through New York, and he felt that he had no regrets in his life for meeting you."

"Mr. Mayer!" Zhu Bin couldn't help but sigh. That old guy was the first partner he saw after he floated up. To be honest, he helped a lot, but at the same time, his reward was also generous enough. Although this year

At first, his shares were owned by the backend of ge company.

The Morgan consortium completely acquired it - Ma Yier was very much like leaving the shares to his descendants, but he obviously could not resist the pressure of Morgan. But in the end, the old guy still got a very generous sum of money, as long as his son

If we don't waste it, it will be enough for several generations.

Shaking his head, Zhu Bin put aside the slightest emotion and said: "What a pity. He is a very nice old guy. We have always cooperated very happily. It is easier to talk to Shen Chang Yang with him here."

Captain Mahan frowned and made no comment. It would be better if the upper-level things were less involved.

He turned around and pointed at several busy ships and asked: "Mr. Zhu, will there be someone on duty here in the future? I saw a lot of diesel and supplies."

Zhu Bin nodded: "Yes. This will become our group's maritime supply point in the future, where we can stay and rest appropriately for a long time."

"Oh, that's good news." Ma Han nodded and asked no more questions.

The spaceship is about to leave, but the salvage of ores must continue. Not only the ores, but also more seabed resources Zhu Bin does not intend to let go, so a large enough sea base is needed. Without the spaceship, there will be a lot of inconveniences, and

The platform will be discovered sooner or later, so it is obviously inappropriate to leave it unmanned for a long time. Calculating the days, the large water patrol aircraft modified by Wang Zhu and others will be available in a few months, and it will be possible to fly directly to change shifts at that time.

The 12 cargo ships arriving this time really have a lot of things to unload.

First, there are two "Abyss Crawlers" with a dead weight of 150 tons. After several tower cranes jointly work together to carefully unload them onto the platform, WALL-E installs the intelligent processing core and body control unit to ensure that it can complete the design according to the procedures on the seabed.

According to the specified operation, one by one, the alloy standard boxes are hung on the hanging giant claws and lifted to the platform.

In order to ensure that it can withstand the huge pressure of 2,300 meters deep water, the outer shell and two robotic arms are all made of titanium alloy. The middle can accommodate 3 people for posture operation, but now it can only be operated by unmanned and remote control. A thick robot is tied to the buttocks.

After debugging, the cables and superconducting cables were sunk into the deep sea to continue working in place of the spacecraft's robotic arm.

Next is a bunch of modular houses. A six-story lattice building is built on a simple platform, which can accommodate a class of people to live in it. Various physical exercise, entertainment and game facilities are as complete as possible, air conditioning, lighting

There is no shortage of them all, and it is also equipped with a small submarine, which can take shelter in the water when necessary.

Two large diesel generators used to replace the energy of the spacecraft are installed in the middle platform to provide all the power required by the giant tower crane and mechanical arm. Correspondingly, in the huge vertical legs under the platform, thousands of tons of diesel

If it continues to be filled, it may increase to tens of thousands of tons of various oils in the future to ensure daily use and supply to other ships.

Finally, there is the weapon defense system.

Without the spaceship below, as the fleet changes lanes more and more frequently, the secrets here will be leaked sooner or later. Even without the help of satellite navigation, sailing veterans can find it, not to mention a very abrupt platform in the middle of the vast ocean.

, Planes have long legs, and they may be discovered one day. Therefore, they must have defensive capabilities.

A total of 20 150mm single-mounted turrets, 20 105mm/l65 twin-mounted anti-aircraft guns, more 20mm Oerlikon twin-mounted anti-aircraft guns, and 4 4-link 533mm torpedo launchers were purchased from the Germans.

Tube, four tall raised fortresses were built on all sides of the wide platform, stuffed inside, like hedgehogs, densely packed pointing toward the sky.

All turret shells are reinforced with armor equivalent to 500mm of carburized steel. The round shell processed by the robotic arm can even allow the shells to slide away or bounce away. The giant tower crane on the middle platform was removed, leaving only the main steel structure of hundreds of meters behind.

, seven or eight pot-lid-like dish antennas are installed from top to bottom. The largest rotating antenna at the top is enough to search the surrounding waters with a radius of 500 kilometers.

The Germans only made the metal main body, and the key functional modules were all dug out of the spacecraft junkyard, including several sets of long-range microwave communication modules, which maintained a single antenna pointed to the west.

All controls are centralized in an intelligent unit, which can be remotely controlled and supervised through microwave communication. People who live above don't actually have to worry about how big things are.

The entire installation and transformation would take more than ten days or even longer. Zhu Bin couldn't wait any longer. He flew back to Shanghai first. After all the equipment was unloaded, the two vacated ships were filled with ores and metals and dragged

A platform set off in a mighty manner, heading towards the Hawaiian Islands.

Serena returned to the spacecraft, controlled the spacecraft to start slowly, and the huge propeller pushed away the sea water, driving the heavy hull and platform to maintain a constant synchronous speed, and followed the fleet at 18 knots. Wall-E was busy.

They were always behind to plug the leaks. The broken spacecraft was full of cracks due to the tossing. It was already blocked, but after the dive, the pressure increased and many cracks appeared, making it very busy.

Two days later, the fleet arrived in Hawaii, took a short rest and supplies, and continued "" on the third day. According to Zhu Bin's request, this time they did not go through Japanese waters, but turned around and sailed to Guam via Wake Island. There were still two US military ships.

The destroyer opened the way and moved forward unhurriedly along the deep-sea route.

It took 12 days to reach Guam smoothly, the weather was calm, and the expected trouble did not occur.

On the 20th day, the fleet passed through the Ryukyu Islands and entered the East China Sea.

On the evening of July 30, in the eastern waters 200 kilometers away from Naha Port, a mighty fleet of ships slid across the sea with a low roar. Most of the people on the two American destroyers leading the way were lazily unable to cheer up, or had fallen asleep.

, or just talking nonsense, completely unaware that two huge guys were slowly following them on the sea not far behind them.

"Japanese submarine!" Inside the spaceship, a flash of lightning flashed in Serena's deep blue eyes. She suddenly stood up from the driver's seat, waved her hand and opened a holographic screen, which immediately showed two holographic screens less than a kilometer away behind.

Huge submarines with a parallel distance of less than 500 meters.

The database was immediately called up, and it turned out to be a Japanese "Ishiki" that had been sunk once. I don't know when, these two guys followed the fleet. It looked like they were quite evil!

Zhu Bin was woken up from his sleep. When he saw the telegram, he became furious. He yelled angrily: "His uncle is a jerk! This is endless, right?! Serena, as long as the Japanese dare to attack, it doesn't matter who he is."

, kill them all!”

After thinking for a while, he issued another order: "Try not to let the other people in front know about it, kill them quietly and pull them down."

"Understood." After Serena's short reply, the spacecraft shook slightly, fell off from under the platform, and sank about fifty meters underwater. Six huge mechanical arms stretched out silently, lying horizontally in the water.

A giant propeller rotates slowly, maintaining a speed of less than 10 knots.

On the top of the submarine bridge on the left, Major Mitsuru Nagai, captain of the Japanese submarine "I-1", looked through the telescope at the flickering lights in front of him, with a ferocious smile on his lips and muttered in a low voice:

"Hey! The Chinese people don't seem to have any defenses! Then, just stay here for me!"

He lowered his head and shouted into the sound tube: "Are torpedo tubes 1 to 4 ready?!"

The gunnery officer below responded loudly: "Torpedo tubes 1-4 are ready!"

Nagai Mitsuru stared at the freighter on the left side of the towing platform and shouted: "Torpedo No. 1, launch! Torpedo No. 2, launch!"

"Everything!" Two strings of churning foam emerged from the dark hole on the side of the submarine, and two thick torpedoes opened the water and rushed towards the freighter not far away!

A piercing alarm sounded immediately in the spacecraft, and Serena shut it down coldly. Then she saw the two mechanical arms on the left side of the spacecraft suddenly flipped upwards, and the giant hands, which were ten meters long, opened up and aimed at the speeding people.

The two torpedoes suddenly erupted with two fierce ultrasonic blasts!

"Bang bang!" The invisible energy that could easily crush hundreds of tons of rocks accurately hit two torpedoes, knocking them to pieces on the spot. The solid shell lasted less than a second before surrendering and turning into pieces.

The parts scattered directly into the seabed.

"...Five, four, three...huh?! What's going on!" Mitsuru Nagai closed his eyes and accurately grasped the countdown, waiting for the moment when the explosion would occur. He counted to the end, but there was no movement!

"Damn it! Is it another damn misfire?! Those guys who produce weapons should all deserve to die!" It's not just a matter of a day or two that the torpedoes are unreliable. I didn't expect to encounter two at once today. What a bad luck!

After slapping the submarine forcefully, Mitsuru Nagai gritted his teeth and shouted: "Torpedo No. 3 and No. 4, launch!"

"Hey!" the command was passed, and a few seconds later, the two launch tubes on the other side "all" sprayed out rich bubbles again, and two torpedoes rushed out quickly, but after waiting for a full minute, there was still no movement!

"Baga! Don't you have a reliable torpedo?! These damn guys!"

Nagai Mitsuru was simply furious. How could such a thing happen? Such a probability is simply an insult to the dignity and glory of the Imperial Navy. Using such weapons to fight is simply the same as committing suicide! How outrageous!

The deputy captain below made careful suggestions: "Major! Why not just use the naval guns!"

Nagai Mitsuru scolded: "Idiot! Do you want all the devils in the United States to discover us?! Those merchant ships across the way are all equipped with 150mm heavy guns. We cannot withstand so much artillery bombardment. Keep loading torpedoes!"

"Hi!" He was bored and went down dejectedly.

This delay lasted for almost three minutes. It was reported below that all four torpedoes had been loaded. Nagai Mitsuru was about to give the order to launch when he suddenly felt that the submarine seemed to have been hit by something. It shook violently, followed by a sharp and harsh sound.

A scream came from below, and then a frightening howl was heard inside the submarine, as if a ghost had been seen!
Chapter completed!