Chapter 460 Falling into the Deep Sea (3)

Chapter 460 Falling into the Deep Sea (3)

Through the porthole, Han Zu could see the nearby seabed, which seemed to be covered with a lot of strange plants similar to seaweed, but other than that, it was very empty.

No energy response could be detected from those aquatic plants. They were just simple aquatic plants. Their structure looked a bit complicated, but according to the scan of the equipment, these strange aquatic plants, which looked like densely grown vertical seaweed, seemed to be purely natural.

"Scanning for botanicals..."

"completed."

After scanning with the contractor's equipment, it was confirmed that these aquatic plants are actually edible. On one batch of aquatic plants, the equipment scanned some huge residual marks that looked like some kind of gnawing marks, indicating that there are still living things in this ocean.

"No bio-signals detected."

It's just that they are not within the scanning range of the device.

These aquatic plants are very large. By observing the nearest clump of plants, it can be roughly determined that each of these aquatic plants is as tall as four or five stories high, but their width is relatively narrow, about half the thickness of Han Zu's forearm. As for the thickness, according to Han Zu's observation, it is most likely no different from edible kelp.

Due to the current depth of the warship and the obstruction of a large number of aquatic plants, the visibility at the current seabed is very low. Fortunately, Han Zu's strong eyesight can ignore this influence. During the observation process, Han Zu discovered that the seabed where the warship was located seemed to be some kind of solid rock. The contractor's equipment identified some unknown mineral deposits in it. The material of these mineral deposits can block Han Zu's perspective to a certain extent, so Han Zu cannot confirm what the mineral deposits below look like.

"Scanning area structure."

The equipment scanned the structure of the nearby seafloor area. The seafloor beneath the warship was a large solid structure, so there was no need to worry about secondary collapse. However, at the edge of the scanning range, the structure began to tilt downward, which seemed to indicate that the location where the warship was sleeping was not the deepest part of the seafloor.

"Trying to connect to the matrix..."

"Error, unable to connect to the matrix, no available nodes found."

However, the most important problem now is not the ocean outside, but the location of this liquid planet, which is beyond the influence of the contractor or the Tig people. It is impossible to locate the contractor's node, which means that Han Zu is now trapped on this liquid planet. Although Han Zu likes living in this iron coffin-like environment, it is not time for him to "retire", so he must find a way to leave here. And now it seems that the first step he has to take is to leave this iron coffin and try his luck in the ocean outside.

Xin's condition is very bad. Although she is still alive, she is in a strange state where she cannot communicate. No one knows what will happen in the ocean outside, so bringing a person who cannot communicate and move to explore the ocean together, not to mention Xin's current physical condition, whether she can adapt to the outside environment, even if she can, bringing her now will only increase Han Zu's burden.

So after a brief consideration, Han Zu decided to leave Xin on the battleship and leave to explore on his own. But before that, he needed to make sure that Xin would not have any problems before he completed his evolution and woke up.

First, Han Zu used the contractor's equipment to leave a striking message on the information panel of Xin's helmet, roughly explaining what he was going to do and telling her to stay on the battleship to avoid Xin leaving the battleship to look for him after he left, causing the two to lose contact.

Secondly, Han Zu found a safe location in the warship and placed Xin inside. Han Zu chose the main compartment of the life support system. Some auxiliary system plants inside were still able to produce usable air. Then, using the auxiliary weapons that Γ4 had made for Han Zu before, he deployed some traps near the placement location.

"That should be enough."

Next, after sealing the safe position, Han Zu needed to choose to leave the battleship. In order to avoid the battleship from leaking again, he could not use the hatches in other closed positions, because the battleship's overall energy system had inexplicably stopped, and he could not use the underwater vehicles on the battleship. After some thinking and evaluating the equipment, Han Zu finally decided to leave from a previously closed leaking hatch.

After a while, Han Zu arrived at the selected location. It was a small hatch. In fact, it was not for the crew to pass through, but a special maintenance passage for some maintenance robots. Although this location was less than half a meter in size, Han Zu's body size was impossible to pass through, but he could tear his body into pieces of suitable size and then leave "in batches".

However, in order to ensure that there would be no secondary leakage after the closed hatch was opened, Han Zu first grew a large number of tentacles from his body, then disconnected them from his body and fixed them in front of the hatch like a fiber net. The dense arrangement allowed them to prevent liquid from passing through, forming a structure similar to a waterproof hatch.

After confirming that the arrangement was complete, Han Zu opened the maintenance hatch, and the liquid from the ocean poured in, quickly filling the small space between the structure formed by the tentacles and the hatch. However, the tentacles were very effective, and the liquid did not penetrate into the "waterproof hatch". After confirming that there was no penetration, Han Zu tore his body into small pieces that could pass through the hatch and left the battleship through the damaged maintenance pipe.

When all the fragments of Han Zu's body passed through the hatch, he quickly re-condensed into a complete form in the ocean. The surrounding seawater was icy cold and the temperature was very low. The surroundings were very quiet, with only those huge aquatic plants swaying gently in the water, as if issuing a silent warning to him.

Han Zu carefully observed his surroundings. His strong visual ability allowed him to capture any subtle movement. However, there was nothing around except those huge aquatic plants.

After swimming for a few times, Han Zu came to an aquatic plant. He opened his mouth, bit off a piece of the aquatic plant, and chewed it for a few times. The taste of these aquatic plants was somewhat like dragon fruit with very low sugar content, and compared to them, this aquatic plant was harder, but other than that, the taste was pretty good.

The sea water that Han Zu swallowed together with the pieces of aquatic plants did not seem so special. Unlike normal sea water, it had no taste at all. Han Zu thought that it tasted like less viscous plant juice, such as diluted aloe vera juice.

"No anomalies detected."

According to the equipment's detection, eating the two things together will not produce any toxicity at all, and they seem to be rich in nutrients, although the equipment cannot currently determine what these rich nutrients are.

"Energy bar, but the taste isn't that bad." This is Han Zu's current thought.

The result of not being unpalatable soon made Han Zu lose interest in those giant aquatic plants. After using the equipment to confirm the coordinates of the warship wreckage, Han Zu used the equipment to map the seabed topography while moving towards the downward edge position that he had detected before. Although the equipment was offline, the range it scanned was actually much larger than Han Zu expected. It took an hour for the huge warship wreckage to completely disappear from Han Zu's sight before he reached the downward edge position.

"..interference..cannot..."

Looking down, it seemed to be a huge natural rock slope, which looked very deep and beyond Han Zu's sphere of influence. Just as he crossed the edge and dived deep, the contractor's equipment seemed to be disturbed and could not operate normally, but the degree of interference was acceptable. Although the detection module had a fault, the scanning module was still running and still mapping the terrain structure.

Han Zu slowed down his diving speed to observe the degree of interference to the equipment. After confirming that the interference would not increase with his diving depth, he resumed his normal diving speed.

The surrounding environment was still dim. Han Zu saw nothing except the giant aquatic plants everywhere. According to the seabed structure map drawn by the equipment, he was now at least a mountain away from the wreckage of the warship, but he still had not reached the bottom of the slope.

Han Zu temporarily stopped diving and looked around again, but found nothing except those giant aquatic plants. But strangely, the interference with the equipment seemed to be gradually weakening.

"At the height we passed before, there must be something interfering with the operation of the equipment. If I still don't find anything after reaching the bottom, maybe I should go back and look for the thing causing the interference." Han Zu thought to himself.

In the dim deep sea, there was silence, giving people an inexplicable and weird feeling, but Han Zu did not take it too seriously. Firstly, it was due to his confidence in his own strength, and secondly, he did not care much about many things. So he quickly continued to dive. After all, he did not want to go back without any gains.

A few hours later, inside the wreckage of the battleship.

“Ho~~~!”

Xin, who was in an abnormal state before, suddenly took a big breath of air as if she had just surfaced from underwater. After a few quick breaths, she returned to normal. She found the tentacles that fixed her armor to the bulkhead. They should be left by Han Zu. After confirming the status of those tentacles, their activity was only at the basic value and they hardly moved. Xin could roughly judge that Han Zu should not be nearby.

Xin observed the surrounding environment and confirmed her position. Just as she moved away the tentacles that were fixing her armor, she noticed an exaggerated message on the information panel on her helmet. It was left for her by Han Zu. However, it was more like a detailed information file than a message.

Han Zu's description of the incident was extremely detailed, and he didn't beat around the bush, so after Xin carefully read the "information file", he immediately understood the current situation and his own situation.

"Before I return to the battleship, you must not leave the range of the battleship. I don't know what is in the ocean outside. It is very likely to be the plot of the real-life "51 Days on Poseidon."

It's true, Xin's first thought was to leave the warship and look for Han Zu, but after she saw this sentence, she immediately gave up this idea. She shuddered uncomfortably and felt a little nauseous.

"51 Days on Poseidon" is a horror movie about the Tig people that Han Zu learned from Xin when he was chatting with his team members when the team disappeared and arrived in that world. The plot is very old-fashioned. It tells the story of a submarine that was damaged in a battle, lost its direction, and lost in the deep sea. Some wounded soldiers on the submarine died on the submarine because they did not receive adequate medical treatment, while other soldiers who were not injured began to gradually become crazy because of the extreme environment and their dead comrades. The protagonist of the movie is a wounded soldier who has been in a coma during this period of the story. When he woke up, he found that he was the only living person left on the submarine. While he was dragging his injured body and trying to repair the escape pod that was missing parts so that he could use it to leave, he found a terrifying monster in the submarine. While avoiding the monster and looking for the missing escape pod parts, after 51 days of hell, he finally successfully repaired the escape pod and escaped.

Although the story is old-fashioned, it is well-made, with a tight plot and few boring parts. In addition, when Xin saw this horror movie, she was still a child and had never seen anything so exciting, so this movie became a psychological shadow for her, causing her to hate anything related to the deep sea and submarines.

Now, the warship, which was lying quietly on the seabed with only Xin left alive and the bodies of the crew members everywhere, was like a large iron coffin. After seeing the words left by Han Zu, Xin immediately connected the iron coffins in the two movies together. Except for not encountering monsters, Xin's current situation was almost the same as the protagonist in the movie. And one more thing, due to the damage to the energy sequence of the warship, the escape pod on it could not be repaired.

"Huh... Fortunately, he has searched this battleship and there are no monsters..."

Xin took a look at the power sword and plasma pistol that she subconsciously clenched, and laughed. She began to laugh at her childhood trauma. After all, she was fully armed now, so even if there was really a monster, she would not be at risk.

"Hey..."

However, just as Xin was laughing at her own cowardice, a strange sound that she had never heard before came into her ears. The expression on her face immediately froze, her hair stood on end, and like a robot, she turned her head towards the direction where the sound came from.

The weapon in her hand was clenched again, Xin looked around nervously, and for some reason, she quickly gathered all the tentacles and made them into something like a camouflage net, draped over the armor, and then immediately hid behind the obstacle, keeping quiet and listening carefully to the sounds around her. But after several minutes, the surroundings were very quiet, without any sound.

"Am I hallucinating? Maybe I'm too nervous..."

"Hey..."

The creepy and strange sound appeared in Xin's ears again, and this time she was sure that she did not hear it wrong.

"Damn..."