Chapter 1397 - 453: The Pitch-Black Sea Region (Part 2)

Chapter 1397: Chapter 453: The Pitch-Black Sea Region (Part 2)

That is to say, the undersea light cables have been operating as usual for decades, and it’s obvious who has been maintaining them.

While humanity is busy with internal power struggles and conflicts, some things haven’t stopped even for a day.

Having found a suitable candidate, the player immediately contacted the relevant personnel to start making underwater operational equipment and modifying robots for auxiliary operations.

Family Joy also reached out to people from Huang Ban and Military Science to inquire about the sonar detection situation.

If the Europeans have prepared undersea sonar, then the possibility of approaching enemy ships for a surprise attack using this method is significantly diminished.

But as it turns out, capital will cut out any meaningless expenditure to improve efficiency.

We don’t even go into the sea anymore, so what’s the use of sonar?

It’s only Kujira from Huang Ban that is still equipped with military-grade anti-submarine sonar, used during anti-submarine operations.

Other warships from Military Science had long removed their sonar to install radars.

When asked about anti-submarine aircraft, the other party was even more baffled, saying, what are you talking about?

Equipment that was phased out fifty years ago, how could we possibly have it?

Even Military Science, a giant in the defense industry, doesn’t have it, so theoretically, Europeans shouldn’t either.

After all, the world no longer needs submarines as military equipment; when the birds are gone, the bow is put away. Perhaps only the Germans at this time might find anti-submarine sonar wrapped in oil paper from the sewers.

And the launch site was chosen in a mysterious sea area.

[Bermuda]

Kids from Tokyo University basically grew up on tales of the human unsolved mysteries of the Devil’s Triangle, and many novels seriously claim there are alien spaceships, pyramids, or time travel there.

But in reality, it’s just a part of the U.S. East Coast ocean with nothing in it; all supernatural phenomena are just invented by fantasy writers, akin to most early internet legends and street literature that are all about hearsay.

This matter is mundane, but sociology +3.JPG

Located next to Florida, Bermuda, according to Military Science, had a lot of smart mine factories dropped into this sea area by the U.S. back in the day to prevent the starved and crazy Europeans from coming across the Atlantic.

This isn’t some military secret; to Military Science, it’s essentially no different from when as kids they used firecrackers to blow up several dry toilet pits; it’s a piece of strategic wasteland with no value.

Riding a workboat from the Polar, players arrived at this sea area.

Sanro Wanxiang dived along with custom-made diving equipment, plus another player with diving experience, Phoenix, two modified diving doorframe robots, and a transport platform equipped with sonar.

Apart from them, there was also a crew of mechanics responsible for assisting in controlling the robots and logistics.

As for the diving equipment, it was entirely different from what Sanro Wanxiang used in reality, not only lacking professional auxiliary equipment like decompression chambers but even the oxygen bottles were not using saturated liquid oxygen, and the ascent and descent relied entirely on airbags. The location was much deeper than his work area, fully taking advantage of the resilience of cyber-enhanced humans.

Without the meticulous support work of reality, Sanro Wanxiang looked at the rolling waves below, his heart couldn’t help but thump as he cursed aloud.

"Damn, are we really going down?"

His accent surprised Phoenix.

"Are you from Sichuan-Chongqing?"

Finding an inland person engaged in marine employment was quite unexpected for him.

"More or less, Fengdu people."

Sanro Wanxiang sighed at the heap of unreliable-looking equipment on the ground, thinking that it’s only in-game that he dared to risk life and limb, otherwise, even under threat of death, he wouldn’t have agreed to this mission.

Phoenix continued to ask.

"Why would someone from Fengdu run off to maintain undersea light cables?"

"Three Gorges, you know."

Sanro Wanxiang said while putting on his equipment.

"Back when the Three Gorges was being constructed, it was going to submerge quite a few places upstream from Chongqing, including where my family lived."

"The government compensated us to relocate and buy new houses, but I still remember that village fondly and wanted to go back, so when choosing my major, I thought about getting into something related to that..."

As he spoke, Sanro Wanxiang had already put on his diving helmet, beginning to check if the seal was intact.

He never thought during his university days that he would work in this field, but through a twist of fate, he ended up maintaining light cables in the Pacific Ocean.

"Are you ready?"

"Yeah."

No matter how much he wanted to complain about the gear, into the sea he must go.

Besides, he genuinely wanted to see how the cyber world’s seafloor was crafted, to what extent it was realistic, and what exactly the intelligent mines were.

As for the beach in Night City...

Just seeing the floating trash and the occasional bloated corpses on the sea surface was enough to deter anyone.

Sanro Wanxiang shouted at the logistics team.

"We’re heading down!"

After both sides confirmed, Sanro Wanxiang and Phoenix, with a cable attached, were gradually lowered into the sea.

Splash!

After the sound of waves, the two disappeared beneath the surface, leaving only two ropes dangling from the workboat.

"Cybercles, get your robots down there!"

Thud, Thud!

The two doorframe robots equipped with light cables stepped off the boat one after another, with the transport platform following closely.

Once submerged, it felt as if the whole world inverted—the glinting silver surface and even the sun was fragmented into countless flecks of light.