After getting the equipment from Jiang Lin, Jiang Chen returned to the villa, quietly returned to his bedroom, and then started the time travel.
When he came out of the bathroom, he looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it was already two o'clock in the morning.
Tiptoeing to the bed, Jiang Chen looked at Liu Yao's peaceful sleeping face and evenly rising chest, lying next to her, and then closed his eyes.
Early next morning.
Although he slept very late yesterday, Jiang Chen woke up first when the first ray of sunlight in the morning entered the house.
He got out of bed quietly, without waking Liu Yao, but just left a note on the table, then put on his shirt and went out.
Taking a taxi to the eastern suburbs of Auckland, Jiang Chen walked along the coastline for a while and found the fishery on the map.
Pulling the owner of the fishery, Jiang Chen pointed to the speedboat with a rear cabin parked on the pier and asked how much it cost.
Although the New Zealander insisted not to sell at first, when he heard that Jiang Chen had raised the price to 10,000 New Zealand dollars and was about to leave, the brown-skinned old fisherman hurriedly grabbed him and said the deal was done.
Ten thousand New Zealand dollars can almost buy two boats, not to mention he has used this speedboat for more than a year.
After the transfer was completed, the guy threw all the relevant certificates and keys into Jiang Chen's hands.
As for whether Jiang Chen had a driving certificate, he also asked again, but at Jiang Chen's request, he briefly taught Jiang Chen the operating essentials for half an hour.
The speedboat was quite easy to drive. After sliding around the offshore sea under the guidance of the old fisherman, Jiang Chen almost learned how to drive this thing.
Although the old fisherman looked at him with worry when he got off the speedboat. However, Jiang Chen didn't pay much attention, and directly turned on the GS navigator, pushed the speed to the maximum, and rushed towards the sea northwest of Port Jackson.
The Hauraki Gulf is still calm today.
It was precisely because we didn't encounter any big waves and followed Jiang Chen's simple and rough driving method of stepping on the accelerator that the boat didn't turn over.
When the speedboat arrived at the sea area that the yacht passed yesterday afternoon. As expected by Jiang Chen, his E, which was equipped with a fourth-dimensional transmitter, received the mysterious signal again.
Seeing this, Jiang Chen immediately slowed down his speed. While holding the heavy steering wheel steady, he stared closely at the changes in signal strength on E.
After cruising nearby in a speedboat for a while, Jiang Chen selected three points with the same signal index and marked them on the paper map.
What happens next is much simpler.
Connect the three points and then draw the center of the circumscribed circle of the triangle. Jiang Chen quickly determined the approximate two-dimensional coordinates of the signal source.
"Done!"
Jiang Chen wiped his sweat, grinned, threw aside the pencil in his hand, and drove the boat directly above the signal source.
"H?" Staring at the screen of E, Jiang Chen faintly saw a line of blurry letters.
However, because it was too blurry, he could only make out the initial capital letters.
"Is that Hello?"
After muttering to himself, Jiang Chen turned off the accelerator.
He took out the K1-b mechanical exoskeleton from the storage space and put it on quickly.
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Oxygen: 100%
Structural damage: None
Air tightness: normal
... ...
]
After glancing at the instrument screen on his right arm and confirming that all parameters were normal, Jiang Chen walked to the side of the speedboat.
"Hopefully there won't be a strong wind."
Take a deep breath. Jiang Chen stepped into the water.
... ...
Plop.
Along with the rising bubbles, Jiang Chen gradually sank to the bottom of the sea.
This is his first time trying to dive far away from the shore. When diving near Great Barrier Island, he can usually see the coral reefs on the seabed after diving two to three meters. But now, there was only deep darkness beneath his feet.
The surrounding lights and sounds gradually faded away, and the unique depth and silence under the sea gradually spread.
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Current altitude: -20m
Distance to the bottom of the sea: 71m
]
"It's so fucked up." Looking at the instrument, Jiang Chen couldn't help but complain in a low voice.
In order to dispel the claustrophobic feeling that lingered in his mind, he stretched out his finger and clicked on the screen on his right arm, turning on the searchlights on his helmet and feet.
The sudden unfolding of the light scared the little guys swimming safely aside and ran away.
More than two minutes passed. Only then did Jiang Chen approach the bottom of the sea.
The colorful corals and fish, as well as the aquatic plants swaying neatly with the water flow, are so beautiful under the light.
However, because he had already watched these magnificent underwater scenes yesterday afternoon, Jiang Chen did not dwell on these shocking scenery for any longer. He clicked on the screen of his right arm again to start the data exchange between the mechanical exoskeleton computer and E.
The snowflakes are white, but the hidden letters are much clearer than on the sea.
"H... Help? Help? Is this a distress signal?" Jiang Chen frowned and looked around.
There were no unusual objects around, and it was obvious that there was an error in the three-point positioning. But this is inevitable. After all, Jiang Chen didn't have any measuring equipment, so he just made a rough manual calculation using a pencil.
Swinging the fins on the soles of his feet, Jiang Chen tilted his body, swam around in a circle, and then swam in the direction where the signal strength gradually increased.
The road conditions at the bottom of the sea were not smooth, and within twenty meters of swimming, a dark crack appeared in front of Jiang Chen.
When the light shines on it, you can't see the bottom.
Looking at the abyss-like trench, Jiang Chen glanced at the instrument on his right arm.
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Current altitude: -101m
Distance to seafloor: unknown
]
Is it too late to measure it? Or is it that the bottom is a fluid material such as magma, causing the ranging laser to be unable to feedback due to the scattering effect
Jiang Chen couldn't help but frown, no matter what the possibility was, it didn't seem to be a good thing.
According to Jiang Lin, this K1-b was originally designed for amphibious operations, not deep-sea diving, so the safe depth of diving is only within 150 meters.
After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Chen took a deep breath and swam down the unfathomable trench.
As expected, as he continued to dive, the signal received by E became stronger and stronger.
210m
243m
At 332m, Jiang Chen unknowingly surpassed the world record for scuba diving.
... ...
Feeling the terrifying pressure coming from all directions, Jiang Chen gritted his teeth and struggled to inhale air into his lungs that were compressed to the limit.
Fortunately, the compressed gas stored in the oxygen bottle was helium-oxygen. If it were nitrogen-oxygen, the nitrogen dissolved in the body tissue alone would have put him in a coma.
420m!
Eventually, the signal begins to decay with depth.
Jiang Chen's eyes flashed with joy, he swam back two or three meters, and then started searching along the dark rock wall.
Fortunately, he had been injected with genetic medicine. If he were an ordinary person, he would have been squeezed by the water pressure of about 40 atmospheres to the point of internal bleeding.
Finally, beside a rugged reef pillar, Jiang Chen saw a very unusual protrusion.
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Jiang Chen quickly swung his fins and swam towards the stone pillar.
He touched the cold stone pillar lightly with his fingers and exerted gentle force. Letting the inertia drive him, Jiang Chen floated behind the stone pillar.
Light shines on the black iron that has not seen the light of day for decades.
The swaying water plants disturbed the silence.
"Oh My God... ... "
Looking blankly at the scenery in front of him, Jiang Chen forgot to breathe for a moment.
Like a gust of wind, it carried Crane particles and swept through that dusty history.
When the sands of time slip away.
The buried secret is destined to be revealed again. (.)