Chapter 549: Stulk
Stulk had seen a mutant creature in the deep sea, it was a tubular worm more than fifty meters long and more than a meter thick in diameter, this worm was snow-white, its body was covered with pink flesh spines, and the huge mouthparts at the front of the worm's body could easily swallow a whole living person.
Fortunately, the worm's sensory organs were not very sensitive, or it had just eaten a full meal, and under Stucker's gaze, it slowly swam less than ten meters in front of him.
It was once said that apart from the universe, there is another place that is also full of unknowns for mankind, and that is the ocean.
The first and second teams soon broke through the depth of 450 meters, and everything went extremely smoothly, not only did they not encounter any accidents, but even some mutant fish that they usually encounter in training did not appear.
"It's so quiet...... Wrong...... Seemingly, something too quiet? ”
Sturk was startled, and he suddenly realized that the people below didn't seem to make any noise for nearly a minute.
Radar and sonar showed that they were already diving at a constant speed, but there was only silence and rustling electricity in the communication channel.
"Hey, hey? Captain? ”
Stulk tried to call them, but nothing happened.
"Damn! What's going on down below and why don't they talk back! Did you find anything? Stulk stood abruptly and asked the other soldiers.
Others apparently noticed something wrong, however, except for the unanswered calls, there was nothing unusual about the content displayed on the instrument, and even the detectors set up in the diving suit were operating normally, constantly transmitting the physical condition data of the diving team members to the ice sheet.
"Strange, could it be that the signal is being interfered with?" A soldier stood up and began to fiddle with the signal receiving equipmentSince humanity has lost the satellite network, all communication signals can only be transmitted through radio generators, which are the most susceptible to interference.
"The signal is not jammed, otherwise we would have lost all information by now, but now, not only are the radar and sonar working, but even their heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature instruments are clearly displayed!" Stulk retorted.
"Could it be that their microphone is malfunctioning?" Another soldier said.
"That's even more impossible, it's impossible for twenty people to have a problem with their microphones at the same time!" Sturk said he was a little panicked now, and he seemed to sense that things were already going in an uncontrollable direction.
"I don't think it's possible, even if all the microphones are broken, they still have manual input devices, and there are one-button signal transceiver devices, they don't need to make a sound at all, just press a few buttons, you can let us know their situation, these devices can't all fail, right?"
Of course, it is not possible for all of this equipment to fail, they themselves are their logistics, and they have all checked it several times the night before the mission, and even if it fails, they can repair it themselves.
"So what happened to keep the dive man silent??" Sturk said.
"Quick! Come on, I've got something going on here! Just then, a female soldier suddenly shouted. Her name is Jessica, and she is a medic on the team, and she is also responsible for monitoring the health of the group.
At this moment, Jessica's eyes were wide, and her fingers were pointing at a screen in front of her.
Stulk rushed over and cast his gaze on the screen.
"It's Owen, damn it, what the hell is going on down there?!"
It was a device used to detect the physical condition of the team members, and the data on the screen at this moment showed that the soldier called "Owen", his blood pressure and heart rate were soaring, and they had reached a level that was enough to "burst the blood vessels", while his body temperature was dropping rapidly, and soon dropped to below 20 degrees.
When the temperature of the human body drops below 25 degrees, consciousness will begin to blur, and when it is below 20 degrees, the brain will fall into a state of shock, below 15 degrees, the body will lose consciousness, if it is below 10 degrees, then it will only take a few minutes to enter a state of near death.
"He's hypothermic! Is it the insulation function of the wetsuit that is out of order?! ”
"No...... The suit didn't break or malfunction in any way, everything was working fine......" Jessica replied in a shaky voice.
"Normal? This is simply not normal! Owen was about to freeze to death, but his blood pressure and heart rate were like he was doing a high-intensity vigorous exercise! A soldier named Lett yelled, and he and Irving were pretty good friends, and the two often played basketball together on vacation.
Still Steulk is calmer, as, as the leader of the third team, even if his heart is also full of fear now, he must not show it on his face.
He put his hand on Jessica's shoulder and said, "Don't panic, activate the emergency life-sustaining system built into the wetsuit, and then turn on the compressed air bag, maybe we can save Owen back......"
Sturk stopped halfway through his words, because at this moment, Owen's blood pressure and heart rate on the screen had been reduced to zero, and the curve of the previous big wave had disappeared, leaving only a dead straight line.
Owen is dead.
The biggest headache is that no one knows how he died.
"We've lost him...... Jessica's fingers froze in mid-air, crying in her voice.
"Fack!" Lett punched himself hard in the thigh.
Sturk was silent for a moment before he looked up and said to the crowd, "No matter what happens to them underwater, we still have to do our part...... If they're all dead, it's our turn to get into the water. ”
"But what can we do now?" Erin asked.
Oh, yes...... What can we do now? Sturke was also stunned, the current situation is too weird, in countless trainings, they have practiced any unexpected situation, but in the current situation, they have never even thought about it.
Except for Owen, the other nineteen people were still diving at a constant speed, as if nothing had happened.
There was still a murmur in the communication channel, nothing could be heard above the ice sheet and under the water, as if separated by an invisible boundary, and turned into two completely separate worlds...... 2k reading web