luo jia shan ju
Chapter 59 Setting Sail
At two in the morning, Dick drove a heavy truck to the civilian dock. The submarine on the truck was completely covered. Dick knew the dock's administrator and gave him some money. With the help of the dock's crane, the submarine was lowered into the water.
Seeing that we were eager to get into the submarine, Dick jokingly said to Jennifer with a grin, "Jenny, are you crazy? So eager to get into the water, are you going to salvage a sunken ship?"
Jennifer ignored him. After we had all boarded the submarine, Jennifer responded to Dick's teasing with a raised middle finger.
After drifting on the sea for a while, the submarine disappeared from the surface.
The Bermuda Triangle lies to the north-northeast of Puerto Rico, and the starting point we chose was right on the central axis of the Bermuda Triangle.
Jennifer drew a triangle on the nautical chart according to the boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle and asked me where the target point was.
I stared blankly at the triangle on the chart, thinking that I had no idea either. Why not try following the route that the Brazilian fishing boat had mistakenly taken into the Bermuda Triangle?
So, starting from Recife in Brazil, I drew a line towards the Bermuda Triangle. The target point should be in the sea area near the intersection of this line and the Bermuda Triangle.
Among us, except for Jennifer, no one had any experience at sea, so everyone felt very novel about the mysterious ocean. Curious as they were, everyone couldn't find a "window" to observe the seawater in the submarine.
Jennifer laughed so hard that she bent over when she heard our request to "observe the ocean": "Where would there be windows in a submarine? Submarines navigate by nautical charts and sonar, like blind people walking."
"Although you can observe through the periscope, it's pitch black in the sea, and you can't see anything clearly... But don't worry, when we sail out of this sea area, I can surface the submarine so you can see your fill," Jennifer said.
The next morning, thanks to a series of operations by Jennifer, we finally saw groups of fish chasing each other happily in the sea, whales surfacing and spouting water columns dozens of meters high, and dolphins leaping and dancing on the sea... The sunlight turned the sea into a water park.
We sailed in the sea like this, alternating between darkness and light. Soon, we all got tired of it, the novelty disappeared, and we became weary of everything about the sea.
Fatty originally wanted to continue teaching Jennifer his self-created set of "language," but remembering the previous misunderstanding and considering Han Yu, he restrained himself a lot.
With Fatty's cooperation, Jennifer drove the submarine to the vicinity of the target point I had drawn, but nothing strange happened here, nor were there any abnormal phenomena.
Everyone wondered if I had remembered the location incorrectly. Although I had aged about ten years in the past month, my mind was still clear. I told them confidently that the incident site was near this sea area.
When we arrived at the scene of the incident, my body would react. I couldn't say what the feeling was, but I could feel some kind of change. Currently, I don't have that feeling.
"Continue to sail deeper into the Bermuda Triangle along the extension of the line I drew," I said to Jennifer.
The submarine traveled dozens of nautical miles further in the direction I said.
Suddenly, some strange things happened to the submarine. First, the radar system was interfered with, and second, the sonar system was unable to detect the situation in the sea normally. Many electronic devices also malfunctioned.
When everyone saw this abnormality, their hearts skipped a beat. We were getting closer and closer to the location where the fishing boat had the accident.
I felt a slight fever in my body, as if I was affected by some kind of radiation.
Jennifer was afraid that if the submarine continued to submerge in the sea under such circumstances, there would be danger, so she surfaced the submarine.
The submarine continued to move forward on the sea. Eventually, all the electronic systems on the submarine failed. All the lights in our submarine went out suddenly. Only a few emergency lights were still on, and the light suddenly dimmed. The atmosphere inside the submarine became gloomy and oppressive.
I saw beads of sweat dripping down Jennifer's cheeks, because unlike fishing boats, if all the electronic equipment failed on a submarine, it could easily lead to the destruction of the submarine and the death of the crew.
Before long, the weather outside changed. In an instant, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, dark clouds gathered, and a strong wind howled, sweeping seawater and rain. The submarine was like a piece of wood lying on the sea, swept by the wind and waves, and could break at any time.
At this time, not only Jennifer was nervous, but the other five of us also began to feel nervous.
"No, we have to get out of this sea area quickly!"
Jennifer made a decisive decision, then pulled Fatty to manually operate the engine, opened it to maximum power, and rushed forward.
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The submarine sped through the churning waves, traveling at high speed on the sea like a bullet.
In the instant we were about to leave the storm waters, something miraculous happened - the submarine became inverted.
We did not actually perceive the inversion, it felt like the sky was still the sky and the ground was still the ground. Later, we discovered through the periscope that the environment above and below the submarine was completely reversed.
Everything outside the submarine had changed. The sky was under our feet, and the ocean was above our heads.
The storm stopped.
The blood-red sky had neither sun nor clouds, like a red curtain, and there was no way to tell where the red was coming from. The seawater was a dark soy color, but we could actually see fish swimming deep in the ocean through the dark soy-colored water.
--Yes, this is the scene I saw when the Brazilian fishing boat was in distress.
The submarine itself had no propulsion, but with the push of the undercurrent, the submarine seemed to be drifting around a huge loop.
Zoe, Fatty, Han Yu, and Li De were all stunned. Even Jennifer, who had extensive marine experience, was shocked.
"Is this the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle?" Jennifer asked.
I shook my head to indicate that I didn't know, but from reality, this phenomenon would not occur in the real world. It felt like we had entered another space or another dimension.
Fatty exclaimed, "Damn, Young Master, are we still on Earth?"
I said I wasn't sure. Han Yu didn't seem to understand what had just happened either, and muttered to herself, "Gravity... density..."
"Can our submarine still dive?" I asked Jennifer, while pointing to the ocean above our heads, "I mean, going this way..."
After the electronic equipment failed, many of the submarine's start-up operations needed to be done manually.
Jennifer said she could try.
After some effort, the submarine finally started smoothly. Under Jennifer's operation, the submarine began to advance into the depths of the ocean, except that the operation was completely reversed. What used to be surfacing in the ocean was now diving in this sea area, and diving became surfacing.