Chapter 548: Greenland's Ice Sea
While the Herrens Line was in full swing, Greenland, which was eleven time zones away from China, was in near-eternal silence.
The real world, Greenland.
This and the Antarctic are the only pure lands in the entire human world that have not been caught up in the flames of war, and on this land covered with ice and snow all year round, there is the only large group of shelters on the ground on the earth.
Many of the refugees from Europe and the Americas who did not have time to enter the underground shelters ended up in this cold land and built a new home here.
At the beginning of the nuclear winter, the total number of refugees in Greenland reached 600 million, and later due to factors such as cold, hunger and infectious diseases, at the end of the nuclear winter, this number dropped to about 400 million, and one-third of them died in the freezing cold of tens of degrees below zero, but compared with other places, the survival rate of refugees in Greenland is obviously very high.
The consortium of European consortiums also chose Greenland as the location of its headquarters, establishing a new "European Union" here.
Of course, the EU is no longer the economic and political community of the old days between countries, but a super-coalition of dozens of cross-consortiums headquartered on the continent.
There are three alliances of this level in the world, one in Europe, one in China, and one in North America.
Twenty-seven-year-old Stulk was a bank clerk before the war, but now he is a second-level evolutionary, a member of an unnamed mysterious unit of the European Union.
Stulk was now floating in an inflatable boat with twenty-nine other soldiers, three kilometres off the coast of Greenland.
Although it is not the freezing season, there is still a layer of thin ice several centimeters thick on the sea level, and the soldiers must use ice axes to smash this layer of thin ice before the inflatable boat can pass smoothly.
"Plan U" - a top-secret SS-class plan that Sturk and his other twenty-nine teammates learned of only five hours earlier.
But they've been training for a year now, and it's only now that Sturk understands why he's been trained for a whole year in diving operations.
"A team has arrived at the designated location."
"The second team has arrived at the designated place."
"The three teams have arrived at the designated location."
Three inflatable boats hovered above the sea in a zigzag shape, and several inconspicuous reagent bottles were thrown into the sea by the soldiers, and soon, with these three inflatable boats as the center, the temperature of this sea area dropped rapidly, and a huge ice cap condensed on the surface of the sea.
The ice sheet is four or five meters thick and more than three kilometers in diameter, like a makeshift floating island.
Stulk: They jumped off the inflatable boat and gathered in the center of the ice sheet.
They are all wearing heavy cold-proof suits, but inside the cold-proof suits, it is a new set of diving combat suits that adopt various advanced technologies and condense many scientific and technological crystallizations.
The captain took out a device similar to a GPS locator, and after a few minutes of debugging, he raised his head and said to everyone, "That's right, the target should be directly under the ice sheet." ”
Another group of soldiers immediately brought in a cutter, cut a round hole with a diameter of two meters in the ice sheet, and then nailed several metal rods along the edge of the hole.
"According to the plan previously formulated, the first and second teams will go into the water, and the third team will stay on it to respond, and if there is an accident, then the third team will be used as a reserve team and will directly replace the first and second teams to complete the task."
After the captain finished speaking, the soldiers of the first and second teams immediately took off their winter suits, docked the scuba with the snorkel on the outside of the diving suit, carried the two catapult harpoons behind them, and finally fastened an underwater rifle to the ring on their chest, and after a brief preparation, they dived through the round hole one after another.
As a junior newcomer, Sturk was assigned to three teams, and their task was to stay on top of the ice sheet, to support the two teams launching at all times, or to ...... as a substitute for them.
The figures of the twenty soldiers quickly disappeared into the pitch-black water, and even the light of the diving lamps on their bodies quickly became dim and blurred, and finally merged with the darkness.
Their mission was at a depth of 642 meters, compared to 332 meters.
Thanks to this high-tech diving suit, this record has been broken by Sturk and them three years ago, but as training, they have only dived to a depth of 450 meters in reality, and the only time they have dive more than 500 meters is achieved in the virtual game world, but that time they encountered a mutated monster lurking in the deep sea, and in the end no one came back alive.
Folding work tables were spread out over the ice cover, a complete sonar set was in operation, and two soldiers sat at the work desks, staring intently at the screen.
In addition to sonar, all kinds of high-tech detection equipment have also been moved to the ice sheet - if it weren't for the fear of startling the grass and snakes, the original plan was to tow a research ship directly here.
"Aside from the fact that there is serious electromagnetic interference in the vicinity of the target, which cannot be detected, no anomalies have been found so far." Steulk glanced at the instrument he was in charge of and spoke into the intercom.
"Understood."
The captain's voice was very dull, mixed with a large amount of electrical noise - due to the "mission goal", there has always been a huge electromagnetic interference field in this sea area, and only this kind of high-quality intercom can play a role, like the general military walkie-talkie is completely a waste here, let alone a civilian one.
The first and second teams continued to dive to a depth of 400 meters, which was close to the highest dive they had ever recorded in the Greenland ice.
There are a large number of mutated creatures living on land, and in the ocean, there are many more terrifying beings than mutated creatures.
Before the outbreak of nuclear war, there were many strange species left over from the flood period in the depths of the sea, and after the outbreak of the war, a large amount of pollution entered the ocean along the rivers and rainfall, and most of these species died, and those who survived became more deadly.