Seeing Miller leave, Flori turned around and prepared to continue holding his precious briefcase in a daze, saying that he didn't know what he had to do now. Just as Dr. Flory's depressive symptoms were about to return, a young man with black hair hurried into the chamber.

Norman. Hittley is only twenty-nine years old today, a rising star in the scientific community, a young chemist who specializes in chemical analysis, but he has done fungal cultivation in Flori's laboratory, but genius can show his effect wherever he is placed, and finally he really found a new cultivation plan, so that the production of penicillin's raw materials increased exponentially.

From a commercial point of view, his role and value are indeed stronger than that of Chan, because Chan has only developed a purification method, as long as the procedure is strictly followed, it can be completed by any trained worker. But Hitley's job requires a long period of experience and knowledge, as well as a keen intuition and a lot of talent, and cultivating and breeding high-yielding strains is not something that can be done by just one person.

Miller and Florey have the same values and vision, and in the case of limited places, they decisively abandoned Chin and chose to take Heatley away, because compared to Money, who has completed his research mission, Heatley, who has a lot of experience in cultivating fungi, is a treasure trove that has not yet been fully developed, and as long as he is carried, he is not afraid that there will be no source of raw materials for production in the future.

With long black hair and a slight beard on his long lanky face, Heatley looked a little older than his actual age. The young biochemist was only twenty-nine years old, and his achievements were artificially erased at one point in history, and not even a few photographs were left.

The reason is to maintain the image of Fleming, the great discoverer of penicillin, who saw the paper on the lancet in the original history, and hurriedly ran to pick peaches, completely ignoring that he had already given up on this research. even brazenly counted the research and development results of penicillin on his own head.

Immediately after the war, when the Nobel Prize was awarded, because there could only be a maximum of three winners of the same prize, Fleming dropped the name of Hittley, who had made actual contributions, and became the main contributor to the discovery of penicillin. For commercial reasons, and to preserve the reputation of the Dynamite Prize, Hitley's exploits were deliberately obscured. became a victim of the black box of the scientific community.

In the original history, Flori parted ways with Chann half a year later because of differences in the direction of development, and resolutely boarded a passenger ship to the United States with Heatley and a bunch of materials. And in this time and space, the young man was still taken by Flori on the journey to the United States, but this time he took a submarine instead.

"Doctor, I just saw the nameplate of this submarine in the back." Heatley looked panicked at this point.

"This submarine is the Citis."

"What Citis?" Flori looked blankly at his pale assistant.

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"What Sidis? This submarine is clearly the Thunderbolt. Miller smiled and handed a cigar to Lieutenant Matthew.

"But this is Citis, I saw her original nameplate in the cabin." The lieutenant argued.

"It was a mistake on the part of the shipyard workers, and some of the workers just liked to be lazy." Miller pulled out his lighter and lit a cigar for Captain Bernard.

"Now this ship is the Royal Navy's Thunderbolt. Citis has already been crossed out from the Royal Navy's roster of ships. You don't need to know any more, Lieutenant, I didn't pay you to complain here, since you've already taken our money, you should do your job well, and if you do well, you can get an extra reward when you get to your destination. Miller lit himself a cigar and shoved the lighter into Matthew's hand.

"If I were you. Lieutenant, I will cherish this rare job. Knowing that your comrades-in-arms are still struggling to make a living after retirement, and you have the opportunity to earn a commission that they can't even dream of, what else are you not satisfied with? So Lieutenant, you don't care what the ship used to be called, now it's called Thunderbolt. And it will soon become the property of the US government. Miller spoke earnestly about educating timid lieutenants.

"Captain, how much time is left for us to be able to enter the Atlantic." Miller asked, turning his head to look at Bernard.

"At the current pace, if we don't get in the way, we can get into the open before five o'clock, but you know. If there are no obstacles, what we need now is luck, and pray God willing, oh we can go well. ”

"Luck? Captain, we're never short of luck. I'm glad you were able to answer my questions, and you, Lieutenant, I hope you will do your duty, and remember what I said earlier, you British people are just too superstitious. That's it for now, I'm out of company, and there is still a group of scientists who need me to placate. Miller bowed slightly to the British officers and soldiers in the conning tower, and then went into the shaft of the conning tower.

"Pretentious Yankees, that copper smell is disgusting." Lieutenant Matthew pursed his lips, then lit a cigar with Miller's silver lighter and slipped it into his pocket.

"Matthew, the best thing you should do now is to control your foul mouth, I said I didn't want to hear the name Citis again, and you even complained to that Yankee, you think he doesn't know the history of this submarine?" Bernard gave his first mate a cold look, and made up his mind that he would never work with this fool again.

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"O Sitis, Sitis, Doctor, haven't you read the newspaper?" Heatley whispered to Dr. Flory.

"Isn't this submarine called the Thunderbolt? Before I got on the boat, I saw the ship's name plate on the control tower. ”

"They must have changed the name of the ship, which is the usual practice of the Royal Navy, to change the name of the salvaged ship and reuse it, as if then the ship would become a new ship."

"Isn't this self-deception?" Flori said that he had never been exposed to this knowledge, which he found a little incredible.

"No, no, it's just a traditional ritual. It can make the new crew not feel bad. ”

"Wait a minute, you mean, this submarine has been sunk before?" Flory only reacted at this time.

"Citis, you don't even know about such a famous incident? Doctor, it is said that in that accident, this submarine killed a lot of people last time. Heatley couldn't help but say loudly.

"Exactly. Ninety-nine people died that time. Miller stepped into the cubicle and interjected with a smile.

The Royal Navy submarine accident of the USS Citis involved a dark history that was covered up long after the war, but it was very famous at the time. It's so bizarre that it's happening, and it's tragic enough to make a Hollywood-style disaster movie.

At that time, the brand-new T-class submarine had just been launched and was undergoing its first diving trial, so there were not only 53 crew members attached to this submarine, but also the Admiralty supervisors, instructors and a large number of shipyard technicians, and no one would have imagined that this ordinary diving trial would turn into the most tragic submarine accident in the history of the British Royal Navy.

When the captain gave the order to dive, the submarine did not obey the crew's instructions and dived to the surface. At that time, the technicians judged that the weight of the forward ballast was insufficient, so the captain ordered a certain amount of seawater to be put in to increase the load of the bow of the submarine.

This is a common emergency treatment method in the submarine force of the British Royal Navy at that time, the operation is actually very simple, first open the front cover of the torpedo tube and put it into the seawater, and then close the front cover and open the back cover, so that the sea water full of a torpedo tube volume can enter the torpedo compartment, so as to increase the weight of the bow of the submarine, so that the bow of the submarine can sink to speed up the diving speed of the submarine. Generally on German submarines. The Germans would have all the men who were not on duty at their posts run to the bow torpedo compartment, which was the same as the British army. However, the Germans were more flexible in their approach and could adjust their stance and balance at any time, and of course the training requirements for the crew were correspondingly higher.

Captain Woods followed the usual practice and gave the order to turn on the torpedo tubes. The commanding officer of the bow torpedo compartment opened the test of the torpedo tube and found that no water was coming out, indicating that the torpedo tube was dry. But when they pulled the opening wrench, the back cover of the torpedo tube was violently pushed open by the water pressure on the outside, and cold sea water gushed out of the torpedo tube, and soon filled the bow torpedo compartment. The submarine suddenly lost its balance, and the bow was inserted diagonally into the sea.

At the moment, the rear propeller is still pushing at full speed. The submarine began to charge frantically to the bottom of the sea, the heavy water pressure accelerated the speed of the submarine's water intake, and soon the two front compartments were flooded one after another.

But this was only the beginning of the disaster, as the submarine turned off the power and sank to the bottom of the sea, unable to resurface by emptying the pressurized water tanks with compressed air from the reserves. Moreover, the lid of the front torpedo tube was still open, and it was not possible to use the pump to empty the seawater entering the compartment. To make matters worse, the submarine that originally carried 53 people now carried a full 103 people, and the already turbid air in the cabin became more stuffy as people breathed, the concentration of carbon dioxide rose sharply, and some of the older technicians were already showing signs of hypoxia.

The crew and technicians tried everything they could to save themselves, but instead of working, their efforts made the situation worse and worse. They emptied the ballast tanks, fresh water tanks and fuel tanks to increase the buoyancy of the submarine, but they forgot that the front of the submarine had been filled with water, and the submarine had lost its center of gravity.

Only a small section of the tail of the submarine was exposed to the water, and there was no exit from that position. Moreover, the submarine hull is already almost vertical, and the personnel in the forward compartment cannot be transferred to the rear compartment at all. In the end, the captain decided to take the risk to save himself, he and three sailors, with an underwater breathing apparatus, got into the submarine's escape cabin, in fact, it is a two-way opening escape pipe, open the inner end of the personnel drill, and then open the outer cover after filling with water, the personnel can swim out of the boat by themselves, and then close the hatch cover, let the next group of personnel repeat this work.

At this moment, the hatch was six meters underwater, and the captain and his three men managed to surface, but they waited for a long time, but no one else followed them. It was later discovered that due to the change in water pressure and air pressure, the outer cover of the escape hatch was jammed, so that the second group of escapees were all drowned alive in the trap.

The rest of the matter involves the black history of the Royal Navy, at this time the rescue ship has docked the stern of the submarine, and also tied her to the tow cable, the Royal Navy's disposal plan is to tow her to the shallow water to level the hull, and then open the hatch to enter the submarine to save people.

At this time, it was suggested that there was not enough oxygen in the submarine, and the personnel inside might not last that long. In this case, there is a very simple solution, which is to make a cut in the hull of the boat and inject oxygen and necessary supplies into the interior.

So the problem arose, the navy's top brass refused to adopt this plan, and they still insisted on using the original method to tow the submarine back to the port intact for disposal. Because in the eyes of the top brass of the Navy at that time, the loss of these personnel was bearable relative to a valuable submarine.

If the pressure-resistant shell of the submarine is cut, it will inevitably cause structural damage to the submarine, and even if it is repaired in the future, it will seriously affect the safety of the submarine. At the risk of scrapping a brand new submarine for the sake of some sailors and officers, in the eyes of the Admiralty at the time, the choice of such a problem was very simple, and there was no need to think about it at all, of course, to ensure the safety of the Royal Navy's equipment first.

So the crew of the submarine was abandoned, and the Royal Navy's rescue made several mistakes in succession, and when the submarine was finally towed into the harbor, it was a full fifty hours after the accident. By the time the hatch of the submarine was opened, all the personnel in the submarine had been killed, and the cause of death was drowning and carbon dioxide poisoning.

Of the one hundred and three people on board, only four escaped, and ninety-nine lives became sacrifices to the goddess of the sea, and Sitis was the name of this goddess.

Afterwards, the Royal Navy investigation found that the cause of the accident was on the torpedo tube test, due to the tight construction period, the final painting work was completed in a hurry, and there was no special inspection afterwards, no one found that the through hole of the test had been filled with paint, so that when the officer of the torpedo compartment opened the test hole, not even a drop of seawater flowed out of it, and what the crew did not know at this moment was that in fact, the outer cover of the torpedo tube was still open, so when the opening handle was pulled down, disaster also came.

"You know what? Mr. Hitley, the total number of people on the submarine this time is exactly ninety-nine. Miller's mysterious expression frightened the young chemist.

"Really?" Heatley's face turned white and his eyes widened.

"Just kidding, we're only seventy-three people this time, we're already strained, we're going to cross the Atlantic, and if we don't encounter obstacles, it will take at least two weeks to sail at full speed, after all, this is an ocean-going submarine, not a luxury passenger ship." Miller cleverly shifted the subject.

"When you say obstacles, you mean ......"

At that moment, a shrill siren sounded in the boat.

"Dive, dive, everyone go back to their posts, everyone else stays in their places and doesn't move!" The boatswain shouted from the hallway and ran towards the power compartment.

"Mr. Peter! What happened? Miller poked his head out and shouted to the boatswain.

"Urgently dive, a German reconnaissance plane appeared in the sky just now, we have been spotted, and the captain ordered to dive immediately. Mr. Miller. The boatswain nodded at Miller, and finally continued to shout and run towards the power compartment.

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