Chapter 115 Ambush

A fleet was sailing on the water, with several helicopters circling in the sky above.

The fleet was arranged in a protective circle, with a large freighter in the center. The freighter was traveling slowly, and at this speed, it would take them at least five days to reach the North Wind Eye from Mofila.

Five days, 120 hours, in this environment, everyone was on high alert.

Now that sea beasts were very active, the best way to transport goods was by air, but a large freighter plane could only carry less than three hundred tons. To transport all the thousands of tons of uranium ore from Mofila, at least twenty freighters would have to operate at the same time, and as a guard, Sonan would have to deploy more troops to protect the transport team.

This kind of large-scale operation was unrealistic for Mofila, which had already been impoverished by religious wars!

The carrying capacity of ordinary freighters is tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of tons, which can easily hold all the ore, so after weighing the options, Sonan chose to use sea transport.

Although sea beasts are now relatively rampant, most of them are active in the vast sea areas. The transportation route chosen by Karabog passes through a tributary of a large river that runs through the center of a neighboring country. Compared with the sea area, it is much more stable and safer.

…

After sailing nearly five thousand kilometers on the vast sea, four full days had passed, and the North Wind Mouth rendezvous point was getting closer and closer.

Buzz!

"Reconnaissance aircraft No. 3 reports that there are no abnormalities within 20 kilometers ahead. Please maintain normal navigation!"

"Reconnaissance aircraft No. 4 reports that there are no abnormalities within 15 kilometers to the left front..."

In the main ship's command room, the captain heard the helicopter's reconnaissance report and issued an order to the escort ship behind to continue sailing normally. At the same time, his eyes were also fixed on the detection screen representing the sonar equipment.

Underwater reconnaissance is much more difficult than land reconnaissance. The accuracy of sonar is not very high. Although in theory it can detect situations within tens of thousands of meters, in reality, the sonar equipment on these old-fashioned Mofila warships has a detection range of only about half of that, and the accuracy is very low. Especially during this period when beast kings are rampant, powerful beast kings can even create large underwater whirlpools that completely mislead sonar equipment, so underwater crises require more attention than land.

"Sonar No. 2 detected an active target from underwater, identified as an unknown creature, approximately five kilometers away from our position. It cannot be determined whether it is approaching!"

At this time, the soldier in charge of the sonar equipment, wearing headphones, suddenly said.

Under the sonar equipment, the echo of a steel submarine is different from the echo of a biological body, so the soldier is very sure that the object detected by the sonar is a creature, not a product of a steel body.

The captain said in a deep voice: "Fire torpedoes to drive away the target!"

There are no normal creatures in the sea now. Apart from monster-like mutated beasts, there are even more terrifying beast kings. Neither of these two types of creatures will have any goodwill towards humans.

Whoosh!

The underwater gun ports opened, and several straight lines of water quickly spread out, as several torpedoes shot out and bombarded the location indicated by the sonar.

Boom boom boom!

The torpedoes exploded, and a large number of cavities appeared under the water surface due to the explosion, and the sea surged.

"Report! The target creature has been eliminated!" The soldier could no longer hear the echo representing the unknown creature in the sonar and said in a deep voice.

The captain nodded.

This kind of situation has often happened since sailing for four days. Although the number of mutated beasts in this tributary is less than in the sea, they are not completely absent. There are often scattered groups of beasts swimming near the fleet.

But fortunately, they have not encountered a beast king for so long.

Those violent but foolish mutated beast groups were easily defeated by the fleet, eliminating the crisis.

"We are very lucky." The captain smiled and looked at the distant horizon. "I hope our luck can continue."

…

300 meters underwater, Li Tianran sat in the submarine, watching the images transmitted back by the system's cruise radar, and stood up and said, "It's time to take action!"

Yes, as early as the afternoon of the day the fleet left Mofila, Li Tianran had tracked it! But he was very cautious and did not drive the submarine into the sonar detection range of the fleet in front. He was just using small cruise radars and modified beast kings to scout and harass the fleet from a distance.

And it was not that there were no beast kings in this sea area, but that Li Tianran had already used the swordfish beast king to clear and drive them away.

Li Tianran did not want some strange beast kings to run out and cause trouble when he took action.

Although the swordfish beast king had failed in its fight with the overlord of a sea area, its own power far exceeded that of ordinary beast kings. Under its powerful deterrence, all the original, and not very numerous, beast kings in the entire tributary were expelled.

In other words, the fleet thought it was very lucky, but it was actually an illusion deliberately created by Li Tianran.

The purpose was to make the fleet relax its vigilance!

At this time, the area within tens of kilometers of this tributary where the fleet was located was all under Li Tianran's control.

Li Tianran had been waiting for three days. If the fleet continued to move forward, it would be too close to the North Wind Mouth. After receiving the news, the Russian escort team could arrive in a very short time!

Li Tianran didn't want to take risks with such a powerful country's escort team.

With Li Tianran's order, the cruise radar on the back of the swordfish beast king, which was originally hidden tens of kilometers away, sent out a signal. The swordfish beast king rose from the bottom of the sea and rushed towards the fleet on the sea with an extremely crazy posture.

On Li Tianran's side, the nuclear-powered submarine rose to the surface. As the hatch opened, Li Tianran waved his hand, and eleven modified "full attack" warships appeared on the sea!

Buzz!

Helicopters soared into the sky.

In just a few seconds, a powerful joint sea and air force appeared within 20 kilometers of the fleet ahead.

"Didi di!"

At this time, the Mofila fleet's radar went crazy.

"Captain! A fleet has appeared behind us! They are approaching our fleet!"

"Warning! The fleet behind has taken an attacking stance!"

The captain was stunned. In his fleet command career, he had never encountered such a bizarre event. The fleet behind appeared on the sea as abruptly as a ghost army, without any warning. Not only did the radar not have any warnings before, but even the helicopters responsible for reconnaissance did not find anything unusual!

Where was this fleet hiding before?

But there was no time for him to think about this question, because the soldier in charge of the sonar equipment exclaimed at the same time.

"An unknown object has been found approaching the ship's hull underwater! According to estimates, the probability of it being a creature is 97 percent! The probability of it being an alloy product is 2 percent! The probability of it being an unknown object is 1 percent!"

"It is currently ten kilometers away from us!"

The captain was covered in cold sweat and asked sternly: "How long is the estimated time before it can make contact with our fleet?"

"Three..." the soldier in charge of sonar stammered.

"Three minutes? Thirty seconds?" the captain asked anxiously.

"Two..." the soldier trembled and his expression was horrified.

The captain's mind went blank, and he roared a curse in Mofila's native language.

If it were translated into Yanhuang language, the meaning of this curse would be...

Holy shit!