Monster Factory

Fleet Commander Rashid stood next to the audience and shouted with some uncertainty: "Is it... sunk? ”

He also wears a listening earpiece.

But a few minutes ago, the headphones were filled with powerful explosion soundwaves, like waves washing Rashid's eardrums and brain.

Now Rashid has the feeling of being stunned with a string of firecrackers in his head, and his eardrums jump so suddenly that he has to yell at his voice to feel his volume.

Instead of answering questions, the sonar monitor made a boo-boo gesture.

He's listening to what's going on in that water.

A series of violent explosion soundwaves a few minutes ago may have been just a series of irregular clutter soundwaves in someone else's ears.

But in his ears, these sound waves can slowly become a three-dimensional “picture."

First, missiles of all types whistle over sonar buoys, air oscillations close to sound velocities transmit sound into the sea water, and then the impact of missiles entering the end-accelerated state.

Using the sonar analysis system, he can also identify the abnormal impact sound that was made by the target ship before the missile exploded.

He did not understand what had caused the impact of the target vessel, but he could analyze that the target vessel had been attacked by three to five missiles.

Rationally, even a 10,000-ton warship would be completely scrapped if it were not sunk when it was directly hit in the belly by two anti-ship missiles. If we add another cruise missile to the roof, it will surely be sent completely into the sea.

When the sound wave of the missile explosion ended slowly, the sonar listener did not hear the unique engine roar of the target vessel.

But……

Nor did he hear the target ship sinking.

The sinking of a giant ship of 10,000 tons or more is bound to produce a very noticeable sunken sound wave on the surface of the sea.

When sinking, for example, the ship's metal is affected by its own gravity, making regular distorted sounds, and bubbling on dense bubbles produced when sinking.

Waiting for two minutes, the Voice Monitor still didn't hear it.

By that time, the tremendous wave surge generated by the missile explosion and the sound waves reflected back and forth from the shockwave at the bottom of the ocean had completely disappeared.

Restoring silence to the surface of the sea will allow the Voice Monitor to more clearly capture the movement of the target vessel.

“Sir, the target sinking is not being monitored at this time. ”

The sonar's attentive expression finally relaxed, "So I guess the target ship should be in obsolescence, and our missile destroyed its main power system, and now it's a piece of scrap iron floating on the sea. ”

Fleet Commander Rashid rubbed his ears and told him to repeat loudly.

After listening to the voice-over report, Rashid withstood the buzzing in his ears and picked up the listening headphones again.

A moment later, Rashid dropped his headset and shouted to everyone in the command room: "Well, our goal for this operation is to capture that mysterious‘ whale ’. ”

“While there have been many accidents in the course of the mission, there have been unacceptable human losses. ”

“But we finally accomplished our goal. ”

“We paralyzed the target ship in that area, it didn't sink, and it still has the technology on it. ”

“Now moving at full speed towards the target location, all non-core personnel wear lifejackets, board lifeboats and salvage all the parts and components of the target vessel that can be salvaged in that area. ”

“Yes, sir! ”

……

Seventy nautical miles, full speed forward for destroyers and frigates, takes two hours and eleven minutes.

In the meantime, Rashid returned all data from the operation to the Fifth Fleet headquarters. Two integrated supply vessels, one salvage rescue vessel, are heading this way in an emergency pull.

This is a speed race, and this operation cannot be exposed in any way. They want to sweep away all traces when the outside world hasn't reacted.

However, just over twenty nautical miles ahead of the destroyer and another frigate, just over forty minutes later.

The listener suddenly stood up, listening to the sound of the target sea area.

At the next moment, the sonar system starts to alarm, prompting abnormal sound source signals in the target sea area.

“Sir... sir.” At this moment, the sonar listener's face was filled with a ghostly expression, and he had some unspeakable words: “The target is alive, it's alive. ”

The humpback whale is moving again.

When it was severely attacked by shockwaves, it was located in the middle of the cabin and heavily protected nuclear reactors followed into emergency protection mode.

A circuit of cooling water that circulates through the pipeline promptly initiates a forced cooling procedure.

Ultra-supercritical unit emergency shutdown, entering pressure relief protection mode, complete loss of power throughout the ship.

These operations cannot be forcibly terminated by the cockpit control system, as there can be no sloppiness in the safety of nuclear reactors.

Even the monsters cannot be assured that the reactor will remain unaffected when the humpback whale has been subjected to an impact intensity exceeding the preset safety threshold.

Especially one circuit of coolant for heating.

One circuit of coolant is in direct contact with the reactor core, which is highly radioactive and highly corrosive.

So in order to keep the radioactive elements firmly within safe range, one loop of coolant does not make any contact with the two loops of working water used to power the generator set.

They circulate only in sealed ultra-high pressure pipelines, and if the working water of the second circuit is heated, the heat exchanger valve is opened, allowing one circuit of water to circulate through multiple fine hollow alloy pipes to transfer heat through the alloy pipeline.

Then, in the event of severe impact or vibration, the reactor quickly cuts off the heat exchanger valve and forcibly cools a circuit of water to ensure that the internal temperature of the reactor never exceeds the safety threshold.

To restart the reactor, it is necessary for maintenance personnel to enter the reactor chamber to check that there is no leakage and that all pipe structures are normal before the protection mode can be manually deactivated.

Metallists spent half an hour reactivating the reactor, and after several decades, the two-circuit working water was reheated to a supercritical state and the generator unit was driven back to work.

When two 200,000-kilowatt-hour electromagnetic engines started, the nearby sonar buoy immediately captured this abnormal sound print signal.

This change has taken them by surprise, as Fleet Commander Rashid did not know whether to proceed or whether to turn back three warships on the other side of Madagascar carrying out a fortification mission to see if there was an opportunity to re-launch missiles on the western side of Madagascar against the target vessels.

Commander Rashid believed that since the target ship could be restarted, it would certainly have to flee in the first place.

At each other's speed, even the onboard helicopter can't catch up, so catching up at this time is doomed to futility.

Then Sonar found that the target ship took a few minutes to increase its speed to 130 knots.

They didn't turn around and flee.

They rushed towards the fleet.

Are they crazy?

“Damn. ”

Looking at the target of the high-speed moving sound source on the sound screen, Commander Rashid yelled at the crowd: "Notify the cab to turn 180 degrees immediately and evacuate at full speed. ”

“There's another frigate, signaling their full 90-degree evacuation. ”

“Damn, execute radio silence, can't let him find us. ”