Chapter 172: Scientific Exploration of the Mariana Trench
Mariana Trench.
In the research base of the exploration program, Zhang Changwen and his daughter Zhang Suyin, who are the main scientists and persons in charge, are directing the exploration program.
At this moment, the submarine responsible for the exploration has also entered the Mariana Trench.
Behind the father and daughter there is a white man with a secretary and bodyguard who looks like he has a very distinguished status. He is none other than the American billionaire Ex, the financier behind this exploration plan. He has invested more than one billion dollars in total for this exploration plan.
As the financial backer behind the scenes, Axel's status and position here are naturally extraordinary.
In the lobby of the base, everyone's eyes were fixed on the exploration surveillance screen.
At the beginning of the exploration plan, the entire exploration plan went very smoothly. The exploration submarine team they sent out not only successfully passed through the thermocline under the Mariana Trench, but also completely proved their previous speculations after successfully passing through the thermocline.
Under the thermocline of the Mariana Trench, there is indeed a marine ecological environment suitable for the survival of organisms, and there live many prehistoric creatures that have obviously been declared extinct.
This is definitely a major discovery and represents unparalleled huge benefits.
The entire scientific research exploration team couldn't help but get excited.
But unfortunately, the good times did not last long.
Less than half an hour after the exploration team entered the thermocline of the Mariana Trench, their submarine was attacked by unidentified creatures and soon lost contact with the base.
In order to rescue the lost exploration team members, Zhang Changwen, the person in charge of this scientific research exploration, found Guo Da Jonathan who had experience in deep-sea rescue.
"Mr. Guo Da, we need your help."
Zhang Chengwen said to Guoda Jonathan with a sincere look.
"Mr. Zhang, it's not easy to stay in the deep sea for a long time, let alone in the Mariana Trench. If you are not careful, you may lose your life."
"And according to what you said, your exploration team lost contact when they were attacked by an unknown creature while on a submarine. So we can also judge that the creature that attacked your exploration team must be large. It is even possible that it is an unknown giant beast, so."
Guoda Jonathan paused here and looked at Zhang Changwen.
"You have to pay more!"
Originally, Zhang Changwen would have refused after hearing what Guo Da Jonathan said before, but he ended up hearing that he just wanted to pay more money.
That's easy.
Zhang Changwen waved his hand directly.
"Mr. Guo Da, please name your price. As long as you can rescue our exploration team, any amount is fine."
Anyway, the money is not paid by Zhang Changwen, but by the financial sponsor Axel.
After agreeing on the price, Zhang Changwen immediately took Guo Da Jonathan back to the offshore base.
But when Zhang Changwen brought Guo Da Jonathan back to the base, he learned that his daughter Zhang Suyin had already driven a submarine into the Mariana Trench to rescue them out of anxiety.
Zhang Changwen was immediately anxious when he heard the news.
Guoda Jonathan also immediately boarded the submarine and headed for the Mariana Trench.
We passed through the thermocline smoothly all the way.
After passing through the thermocline and entering below the thermocline, Guo Da Jonathan also immediately discovered Zhang Suyin who was driving the submarine.
At this moment, Zhang Suyin was driving a submarine to rescue the exploration team that had driven the submarine down earlier. The submarine that the exploration team had driven originally looked completely deformed from the outside, with huge dents and tooth marks all over it, as if it had been bitten by some creature.
But if he was really bitten like this by some creature, then the size of that creature must be astonishing, at least thirty or forty meters long, or even larger.
Seeing this scene, Guoda Jonathan's face changed, and he quickly drove the submarine over to help, thinking that he must rescue the people and leave here quickly.
But just as Guoda Jonathan was approaching in his submarine.
In the darkness beyond the range of light in the distance, a huge monster suddenly appeared and rushed towards the submarine driven by Zhang Suyin.
The next moment.
"boom!"
With a loud crash, Guoda Jonathan saw a huge monster biting the submarine driven by Zhang Suyin fiercely, and it directly bit most of the submarine in its mouth.
At this time, Guoda Jonathan also saw the specific appearance of the creature. It was a shark-like creature, but its size was many times larger than that of a shark. Just by visual estimation, its size was more than 40 meters. It was the Megalodon.
The megalodon bit the submarine driven by Zhang Suyin and then shook its head to bite a few times. When it found that it couldn't break it, it stopped biting temporarily, spit out the submarine driven by Zhang Suyin, and swam away.
But the megalodon did not stop there. Instead, it swam away for a distance and then suddenly turned back and started to hit the submarine driven by Zhang Suyin with its body.
The submarine driven by Zhang Suyin was instantly hit and flew around and began to deform in large pieces.
Seeing this, Guoda Jonathan's face changed drastically, and he immediately tried to rescue them. However, he suddenly saw two more Megalodons in the distance, and one of them was clearly targeting him. Guoda Jonathan immediately turned off the lights of his submarine, because he thought that the waters under the thermocline were always dark, and these Megalodons also lived in darkness. Now that they drove the submarine here with the lights on, they would naturally become living targets for these Megalodons.
In this way, if we turn off the lights, we may be able to avoid the attack of the Megalodon.
And the facts also proved that Guoda Jonathan's speculation was correct.
The reason why the megalos attacked them was that they had been living in the dark waters under the thermocline and had never seen any lights. When they saw the submarines and lights driven by Guoda Jonathan and others, they thought they had encountered enemies and invaders, so they launched an attack directly.
After Guda Jonathan turned off the lights and power, the megalodon that rushed towards Guda Jonathan simply hit the submarine driven by Guda Jonathan and did not attack again.
But the remaining submarine driven by Zhang Suyin suffered and became the only target of the three megalodons.
Seeing this, Guo Da quickly turned on the power and flashed a signal to Zhang Suyin.
Fortunately, Zhang Suyin was smart enough to quickly turn off the submarine's lights after seeing Guo Da Jonathan's flashing signal.
After turning off the submarine's lights, Zhang Suyin finally escaped temporarily and was not attacked by the Megalodon again.
But at this time another fatal problem arose, that is, Zhang Suyin's submarine had been seriously damaged by the previous Megalodon attack, and the most important thing was that there was an oxygen leak.
There is also the exploration team that came in earlier. Their submarine was also severely damaged in the previous attack by the Megalodon. Their situation is more urgent than Zhang Suyin's. I'm afraid they won't be able to last even half an hour.
Zhang Suyin immediately asked Guo Da Jonathan for urgent help.
After seeing Zhang Suyin's emergency distress signal, Guo Da Jonathan waited for a while and when he saw that the Megalodon did not appear again, he immediately turned on the power and drove the submarine towards Zhang Suyin to rescue her.
But at this moment.
"boom--!"
The megalodon came back and rushed out from the side and bit the submarine driven by Godda Jonathan hard.
The speed was so fast that Guoda Jonathan couldn't react.
By the time Guoda Jonathan reacted, the submarine he was driving had been damaged by the Megalodon and had an oxygen leak. Even worse, his submarine's power system was broken.
It’s over.
When Guoda Jonathan discovered these circumstances, his heart sank.
Zhang Suyin and others who were watching this scene from a distance couldn't help but feel their hearts sink.
"Boom! Boom!"
In the deep sea, the megalodon continued to attack Guda Jonathan's submarine, and this time even Guda Jonathan couldn't turn off the lights.
After all, as a giant beast, the megalodon has a high IQ. Previously, Godda Jonathan was able to trick the megalodon once by turning off the power and lights, but he didn't succeed the second time.
At the same time, in the offshore base, seeing the communication being cut off again, Zhang Changwen and others felt their hearts sink.
But at this moment.
In the seabed below the thermocline of the Mariana Trench, the sea water suddenly surged and the mountains collapsed and the earth cracked.
The entire seabed seemed like a volcano erupting in an instant.
The megalodon that was still attacking Guoda Jonathan also fled rapidly as if it was frightened.
The rest, including Guo Da Jonathan, Zhang Suyin and others, looked at the scene in front of them with despair in their eyes.
They thought it was an undersea volcano erupting.
In this case, even if the Megalodon escapes, they will surely die, because the submarine they are driving has been damaged by the Megalodon's attack.
But just when they were already despairing and ready to die.
However, the seabed that was constantly cracking and exploding in front of him did not seem to be an underwater volcanic eruption, because there was no magma flowing out at all.
Soon, in the darkness of the seabed that was constantly cracking and exploding before their eyes, suddenly a purple-red dragon claw covered with dragon scales and flashing with lightning emerged from the constantly cracking and exploding seabed and grabbed the ground on the seabed.
Then, in the eyes of Guo Da Jonathan, Zhang Suyin and others, it felt like two purple-red moons rose from the bottom of the sea, illuminating the entire environment around the seabed.
But soon, Guo Da Jonathan, Zhang Suyin and others saw clearly that those were not two bright moons, but a pair of huge eyes. However, because they were too huge and too bright, it felt like two bright moons rising in the darkness, making it difficult for people to look directly at them.
They soon saw clearly who the owner of those eyes was; it was actually a dragon head as big as a mountain.
Everyone couldn't help but open their eyes wide in horror.
"I'm so happy!!!"
(End of this chapter)