Deep Sea Embers Chapter 314: Dagger Island
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From Frost City to the east, at the end of the sea cliff as far as the eye can see, you can see a rocky island-it is long and narrow, curved, shaped like a thin machete or a strangely shaped dagger. The island is covered with jagged rocks and barren sand, so the Frost people directly named it "Dagger Island" based on this shape.
On the vast and boundless sea, land is the most precious foothold resource. No matter how barren and narrow an isolated island is, people will try their best to make it useful, and Dagger Island is no exception.
The island has a source of fresh water, but no arable land and enough flat land to serve as a stable settlement or food area, and there are no usable plants and animals, but the island once had With a small amount of boiling gold deposits, the Frost people established mining sites and refineries on the island, and after the little boiling gold was mined, it assumed the role of a transit port for a period of time. After the Frost Rebellion, The shipping routes around the city-state were adjusted, and the ports on the island were transformed into special storage facilities for storing dangerous things that must be kept away from the civilized world.
As time goes by and the world is ups and downs, this barren island full of strange rocks has changed one set of management agencies after another. Now it is controlled by the Frost Army and has become a secret "temporary research base" , used to study the weird thing salvaged from the deep sea.
Those sealed devices used to preserve dangerous things and the tight security measures on the island are a strong guarantee for this kind of research.
A mechanical speedboat sailed from Frost at noon and approached the military port on the sunken side of Dagger Island. The flag flying high on the mechanical speedboat indicated that it belonged to the Frost Navy.
After going through a series of complicated and strict verification, testing, and registration procedures, the clipper ship named "Haiyan" was allowed to dock at the port. With the gradually low roar of the steam core, it stopped beside the trestle bridge and Lower the gangway from the side of the boat.
Several soldiers in blue and black navy uniforms stepped down from the diving board first, followed by a tall and burly officer with short gray hair.
There are already several military personnel stationed on the island waiting on the shore.
The burly officer with short gray hair looked at the situation near the trestle bridge, and then walked ashore along the springboard. Several responders who were waiting here immediately stepped forward to give a military salute, and one of them said: "General, you are more than scheduled The time is twenty-five minutes late, which requires registration and instructions - you must go to the registration room in person."
"Well," the burly officer known as the general nodded. He didn't think it was offensive for an ordinary non-commissioned officer to say these words to his general—this is a special research facility, and all strict approval regulations are in place. It is a normal and reasonable security request, "Let's go now...how is the professor's situation?"
"Professor Myerson is in the 'secret room'. When he was analyzing and testing a new batch of samples, he discovered that the substances scraped from the surface of the thing seemed to exhibit miraculous properties under special test conditions," the responder said. Said, "But the specific situation will have to wait until we enter the 'secret room, and we will discuss it in detail later."
"Okay, take me to the registration room."
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On the inner side of the bay not far from the military port of Dagger Island, in a solid building made of reinforced concrete and huge rocks, the research work is still going on intensely and busily.
This inconspicuous building with a dusty appearance is the so-called "secret room", and it is also one of the laboratories with the most stringent protection measures and the highest structural strength on the island.
The hall inside the building is brightly lit.
This is a huge hexagonal prism-shaped room. Each wall is made of the strongest cement. Belts hang from the ceiling, interlaced in the light and shadow gaps of the gas lamps, steam pipes intersect through the roof of the hall, some valves are making a slight hissing sound, and the incense device is burning quietly in the corner of the hall, the sacred smoke slows down. slowly into the air.
Researchers in short robes were busy all over the hall. A metal device with a diameter of about five or six meters and a bulging shape like a big bell was suspended in the center of the room by a thick chain. The surface of the metal device was mottled and old. As if it has been immersed in seawater for a long time, the complex valves and connections on the top
The indirect structure is enough to show its role.
This is a "diving bell".
And directly below the suspended diving bell, there is a huge circular grill plate inlaid in the center of the hall floor. The diameter of the grill plate is much larger than the long axis of the diving bell. Through the grille, you can vaguely see the striking red light deep underground.
A tall, thin, meticulous old scholar with silver hair was standing in front of the diving bell suspended in mid-air, supervising several assistants carefully scraping samples from the surface of the thing.
A clergyman wearing a priest's robe walked slowly behind the assistants. The priest held a brass incense burner in his hand, and the faint incense smoke was accompanied by soft, whispering prayers from the burner. Soaring, floating slowly in the air.
"Professor, General Berazov has arrived at the port," an assistant walked over and said behind the tall and thin old scholar, "After completing the necessary registration handover, he will come here directly See you."
"Oh...Berazov, I received news that he is going to visit in person. It seems that the city hall is finally getting a little nervous," said the meticulous Professor Myerson with short silver hair. Feeling a little helpless in the middle of the day, "Come here...how is the sample sent to the laboratory this morning?"
"The last round of tests was carried out, and it is now confirmed that although the thing looks like rust, it is by no means any kind of substance we know, and as time goes by, its properties have remained consistent. It's changing," the assistant replied, "it feels...as if the thing is still in a process of evolution, so that it can't stably express its own attributes."
"Yeah."
Professor Myerson nodded slightly, but his eyes still stayed on the suspended diving bell.
The appearance of the diving bell is heavily corroded, but you can still clearly see the circular hatch structure on its side. The hatch is now tightly closed, and it has not been opened since it was sent into this "secret chamber". .
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On the other side of the diving bell, you can see a round window, which is inlaid with a very, very thick special glass, but for some reason, the inside of the round window is covered with dirt, and black things almost cover the entire surface Glass, so that it is impossible to see the situation in the diving bell.
I can only vaguely see a messy cavity inside, and something that looks like liquid.
What's inside a diving bell?
Professor Myerson himself had this kind of curiosity more than once, but no matter how curious he was, he never had the slightest thought of opening the hatch.
He was sixteen years old when the Abyss Project started.
He knew there was something to be curious about and something to be cautious about.
While thinking, the assistant's voice came from behind again: "Professor, do you think the higher-ups will order us to open that hatch?"
"...To be fair, I don't want to receive such an order at all," Professor Myerson shook his head, and turned to look at his assistant, "Courage and the spirit of exploration have allowed human beings to survive in the boundless sea , but once these two traits cross the line, they become reckless and dead.”
The assistant blinked, then the third and fourth eyes.
"But our current progress is too slow - what if another submersible comes up as you predicted?"
Myerson pondered for a moment ~IndoMTL.com~ shook his head lightly: "When the time comes, I'm afraid we have to do more than just open the hatch—we have to be prepared to face the deep sea."
The assistant seems to understand.
This assistant is still too young—but then again, after half a century, how many people can still understand the horror of the Abyss Project?
Professor Myerson raised his head and looked at the figures who were busy around the diving bell.
Some of the figures seem to be different from when they first came to the island.
Other figures occasionally made the old professor feel a little strange.
It seems that there are many unknown figures in this research facility.
But it's nothing
Strangely, it is normal for a research team to have personnel transfers, especially for such complex special projects that require the participation of multiple experts
Everything makes perfect sense.
The clergyman with a brass incense burner came over and nodded slightly in front of Professor Myerson.
With the incense burner in his hand, he slightly opened his eyes, secretly looking at the appearance of the old scholar.
A wonderful scent of incense wafts through the air.
"Today's blessing has been completed,"
The priest said softly, "I will come here to pray for the machines again at this time tomorrow."
"Thanks for your hard work, Pastor %￥&%@*." The old professor nodded with a smile, and addressed him naturally, "If it wasn't for this afternoon, there must be a lot of trouble. I should buy you a drink."
"Let's receive the general first,"
The pastor laughed, "That's a big man representing Frost City to oversee the work."