Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 72 Start Dive

Pioneer, starboard deck.

The sky in Zhonghai seems to always maintain its gloomy color. The thick lead-grey clouds block a lot of light and heat from the stars. With the advent of dusk, the temperature of the sea surface drops rapidly, and a small amount of thin ice floes began to appear around. .

"The weather is cloudy, the sea surface temperature is minus three degrees, the water temperature is four and a half degrees five meters below the water, the northerly wind is three to four gusts are five to six, and the visibility in the water is about eight meters... To be honest, this climate condition is really Not very suitable for diving." A crew member assigned to assist them frowned and said, "The wind is not too strong, but the light is too dark. The lower you go, the lower the visibility, let alone 100 meters , I estimate that at a depth of 50 meters, you can't see your fingers."

"I want to ask, when was the last time you saw a sunny day?" Ke Lan put his feet into the boots of the diving suit with some effort. The material of the military-grade diving suit is very solid, and the weight is naturally Very exaggerated, these boots alone are already over [-] kilograms.

"Uh... That seems to have been four months ago... No, it should have been five months."

"Then you're going to keep us on the boat for a few months?"

"No... I didn't mean it that way, I was just wondering why you didn't use a diving pod, even though this piece of equipment has a high defense, it's still incomparable to a three-inch-thick composite steel shell... Also, this guy Are you also going to go into the water? You... are you going to wear this?"

Compared to Ke Lan's deep diving suit, which was as thick as power armor, Liao Zilang only wore a diving suit made of reinforced composite fibers. This diving suit was so thin that it even showed his muscular lines. In this way, his ankles, wrists, and neck were not protected at all, so he was directly exposed to the outside—compared to Ke Lan, who was fully armed, he was no different from swimming naked.

"What, is there a problem?" Liao Zilang gave him a puzzled look.

"...Of course there is! Don't you know that the seawater of Alpha is highly toxic? Seawater will not only corrode skin and muscles, but also invade human tissues after entering the blood, causing various organs to fail. We usually work on the deck. You have to wear a full set of protective clothing, just because you are afraid of being stained by the sea..."

In his eyes, Liao Zilang's outfit completely regards Zhonghai as a man-made lake inside the ark, and regards the seawater that is comparable to chemical weapons and has high doses of radiation as domestic water that has been filtered and purified many times in the human base... ... what's the difference between going into the water wearing something like this and committing suicide? !

"That's you, I'm different from you." Liao Zilang said.

"What's the difference! Even a biochemically modified person is impossible--" The crew member choked halfway through his words, because Liao Zilang jumped over the guardrail and jumped into the sea!

"Quick! Get him up quickly!" He was stunned for a moment, and then he wanted to press the alarm device not far away, "If you rescue him within 2 minutes, maybe your life will be saved!"

"Wait a minute, buddy, don't worry." Layton smirked and stopped the crew with his robotic arm, "Can't you take a look first?"

"..." After Layton said this, the crew member realized that Liao Zilang was wearing a thin diving suit and had already swam around a piece of ice floes. It didn't look like he was poisoned at all.

"He... he... how is that possible?" He rubbed his eyes forcefully, his face full of astonishment.

"I've said it, people are very talented." Ke Lan couldn't help laughing, "Okay, it's time to put me down, wearing this stuff, I can't jump like him."

A full set of deep diving suits plus supporting equipment weighs more than 28 kilograms. This thing is not like a full-body driving skeleton like power armor. Its underwater maneuvering depends entirely on the [-] sets of paddle-type propellers installed throughout the body. But on land these things are useless.

It was very difficult for Ke Lan to even raise his arms, let alone running and jumping.

Two steel cables were fixed on the shoulders of the diving suit. With the rotation of the pulley, Ke Lan was hoisted into the air with his equipment. This device was originally used for launching and recovering the diving cabin. However, with a slight modification, it can also be used for heavy armored diving suits.

The cantilever holding the pulley rotated [-] degrees horizontally, "carrying" Ke Lan to the outside of the ship's side. He looked down and saw that the water under his feet was deep and dark, like an endless abyss, with no end in sight.

"Prepare to fall!" Layton made a gesture to Ke Lan. After receiving the confirmation signal, the pulley began to rotate in the opposite direction, and the retracted wire rope was released again until Ke Lan was completely submerged in the sea water. so far.

"The air-tightness inspection is completed, the propeller inspection is completed, and the oxygen supply pipeline is unblocked." Ke Lan followed the inspection steps in the diving suit manual one by one, and Liao Zilang also swam to his side and helped him untie the shoulder fixation. lock catch.

"The heart rate is 78 beats per minute, the blood pressure is 74 to 110 mmHg, and the body temperature is 36.9 degrees Celsius. There is no discomfort in the body." Ke Lan glanced at the physical monitoring equipment installed on the inside of the helmet and said.

"The heart rate is a little fast, is it nervous?" The hound's voice came from the earphone. Now they can communicate at this distance. After Ke Lan dives to a certain depth, the sea water with a lot of radiation and heavy metal ions will Become an insurmountable barrier, completely isolating him from the world above the water.

If you want to maintain communication, you must use wired communication means such as cables. However, in the complex underwater environment, it is not only difficult to ensure the normal operation of cables, but it is easy to become a burden for divers.

"A little bit." Ke Lan replied, he took a few deep breaths and tried to calm himself down as much as possible.

"Although this test dive only dived 100 meters, for safety's sake, the deep dive suit is equipped with an injection pressurizer...but I hope you won't use this thing," said the hound.

Injectable pressurizer is the standard configuration of this type of deep-diving suit, and it is generally used when the diving depth exceeds 400 meters. At that depth, the gas pressurization inside the deep-diving suit alone cannot guarantee the diver's life safety. , this injectable pressurizer must be used to regulate the pressure in the body, and it can also be used together with muscle strengthening agents if necessary.

But human beings are not deep-sea creatures after all, and they don’t have that kind of tyrannical body. Excessive internal pressure can easily lead to damage to organs and internal bleeding. Even with various protective measures, the use of injectable booster cannot exceed an hour.

Of course, high-level biochemically modified people can ignore this problem to a certain extent, and a guy like Layton can last at least four or five hours.

"The low-light camera, the infrared camera are working normally, the micro sonar is activated, everything is ready to dive."

　happy New Year to all

　　
　
(End of this chapter)