I don’t know how long the two of them have been falling into the darkness. They don’t know how many meters they have dived. As if there is no bottom, Zi Yang is more and more frightened. The helmet light can only illuminate the distance in front of him. The place has become dark. Although the diving suit will automatically adjust the structure to adapt to the pressure, Zi Yang still feels a strong sense of oppression. His breathing begins to be a bit rapid, and his heartbeat speeds up sharply. Zi Yang knows that this is subconscious doing something wrong, but he can’t Control yourself not to panic.
Su Rui sensed his abnormality, and squeezed Zi Yang's hand with his right hand, and his left hand encircled Zi Yang's waist from behind to maintain his downward motion.
Zi Yang turned his head and saw Su Rui smiled at him in the helmet. This smile made Zi Yang calm down quickly. Although the diving suit is very isolated, theoretically he can't feel the temperature of Su Rui's body, but he does It seemed that there was warmth coming from the place where the two of them were in physical contact. This peculiar feeling made him no longer feel lonely in his heart.
Suddenly I felt that I really wanted to be so two people together, the sky is dim and the sky will never be separated.
Zi Yang was thinking wildly over there, but Su Rui stared at the sensor in his right hand attentively. Rows of numbers of different sizes flashed fluorescent, constantly changing.
"Let's talk, I'm a little scared, with beautiful women by my side, it should feel better." Zi Yang suddenly laughed. This kind of endless silence made him more and more nervous, and if this continues, he may have a nervous breakdown.
Su Rui also smiled, "I thought you were not the same as Lao Wang, you are a serious person, but I didn't expect that you would be slick as well."
Su Rui couldn't help but admire Zi Yang in his heart. He was on the verge of collapse just now, and he adjusted so quickly. The psychological quality is amazing. This kind of deep diving is a bit nervous for himself who has received strict training. This man who has never dived before can actually hold on to the present.
Su Rui knows that the biggest obstacle to deep diving is not the physical aspect, but the psychological aspect. Deep water is like a dark and confined space, it is easy to make Chéng Rén psychologically claustrophobic, and the extreme darkness can make people feel extremely depressing. At this level of deep diving, even professional divers will suffer from deep sea phobia, let alone ordinary people.
Su Rui frowned and looked at the number on the sensor. The depth of this pool has far exceeded her expectation. In any case, she could not imagine that there would be such a structure in a pool of more than ten square meters. Beyond her knowledge... It would be great if Alexander was there, he might be able to explain this phenomenon.
Zi Yang's voice came from the helmet again: "Sorry, I have not supported your work on this journey-do you think I am annoying?"
Su Rui said seriously, "No, I think you and Lao Wang are very good people..."
Zi Yang explained, "Although Lao Wang's mouth goes straight, he has a good heart, and he treats you..."
Zi Yang was waiting to continue, Su Rui suddenly said: "It's the end!"
Zi Yang felt his feet tremble, and his feet had touched the bottom of the water.
Zi Yang looked at the detector, and the series of numbers, squares, and graphics were all marked in English, and they couldn't distinguish anything at all. Only vaguely recognize that a module should record its own heartbeat. There is a heart-shaped sign on the upper left of the module, and the number on it shows 81.
Su Rui read softly: "Diving depth is 978 meters, pressure is 10∧7pa. Water quality components sodium chloride, potassium sulfate... External temperature, 0.5 degrees Celsius."
Zi Yang was stunned, "Is the sensor wrong? There is a problem with this number? Although I did dive for a long time, but 978 meters?"
Su Rui looked at Zi Yang's sensor and compared the data, "I don't believe this result too much, but the numbers of the two sensors match, even if they fail, they won't be wrong."
Zi Yang still couldn't believe it: "The human diving limit is only more than 330 meters. At this depth, our body has long been squeezed by water." Zi Yang moved his lower limbs, there was no obvious abnormality, just felt the joints of the diving suit. The activities are a bit arduous and seem to be rusty.
Su Rui explained, "Alexander told me about the physical characteristics of this diving suit, involving very high-end technology and materials. I am not particularly clear. I only know that the nanostructures in this suit can support extremely high pressures, and There is no need to balance internal and external pressure, so even if you don’t use decompression buffering, you won’t get divers."
"We feel the jerky activity, which may be caused by the deformation of the nanostructure under extremely high pressure-but this has been breathtaking, and I have seen such a result for the first time. You see, the structural joints are still flexible. Sex, you can rotate freely." He waved to him as he said.
Zi Yang looked at Su Rui in disbelief, and carefully looked at his hands and feet to see if they were crushed. It was normal. The diving suit was slightly raised and wrapped around the body like armor. The surface was smooth and soft. It has a metallic luster.
"It looks like the diving suit is nothing unusual, but its internal structure has changed. If you don't believe it, touch it here," Su Rui took Zi Yang's hand to her abdomen, and the tentacles were as hard as iron.
Zi Yang asked, "No matter how hard nanomaterials are, there are pressure limits? Alexander never told you?"
Su Rui shook his head and said, "Alexander told me about the theoretical limit measured in the laboratory. But because of the lack of sufficient environmental conditions, it has not been tested on the spot, but at present, we are safe."
"How many meters is the theoretical limit?"
Su Rui: "800 meters. The density of the water in the deep pool is even higher, maybe the theoretical limit is only 5 or 600 meters."
Zi Yang: "I'm going..."
Su Rui comforted him and said, "Don't worry, I have been observing the data when I dive, and I will stop the action if it is in danger."
This was to make Zi Yang feel at ease, but it didn't have the soothing effect it should have. Zi Yang turned anxiously on the spot: "What are we waiting for? If we find nothing, we will go back."
Although the pressure in the diving suit remained normal, Zi Yang felt an unprecedented depression in this claustrophobic space—different from the previous feeling, his mood began to become restless. After this trip, I am afraid I will suffer from deep sea phobia.
Su Rui said slowly, "Wait a second, the detector is still analyzing the surrounding environment."
Zi Yang was in a daze, neither walking nor sitting there, so he had to hold Su Rui's hand tightly. It seems that Su Rui is also a little nervous, and her voice is trembling slightly.
Zi Yang complained about herself in her heart, only considering her own feelings, and didn't realize that Su Rui was also experiencing this situation for the first time, and that she was still a girl, younger than herself, but she was more mature and stable than herself.
While suppressing the fear in his heart, Zi Yang tried to communicate with Su Rui to ease her tension.
Zi Yang gently patted the back of Su Rui's hand, although he knew that under this kind of external pressure, his strength was like an ant scratching an elephant, the other party couldn't feel it at all. Comforting Su Rui: "I'm sorry, I was a bit gaffe just now."
Su Rui's body eased a lot, and the voice coming through the helmet was much calmer than before. "You have surprised me. I have undergone rigorous professional training, but you dive so deep for the first time, and you can't even count as a beginner diving. You can still adjust your own mentality... Most people have long been mentally. collapsed."
Zi Yang: "Are you not afraid that I will collapse halfway and go crazy?"
Su Rui smiled: "I have been monitoring your physical data, even if there is any accident, I can still remotely control..."
Zi Yang heard Su Rui's words like this, and he was a little confused, and was about to ask Su Rui what "remote control" meant.
Su Rui suddenly said, "The detection results are out, which is so strange."
Zi Yang asked, "What?"
Su Rui said, "If it weren't for the instrument malfunction, it's that the cave structure here has undergone a strange change." He said that he took Zi Yang's hand and went upstream.
The surface of the pool is only a dozen meters in diameter, and when it reaches the bottom of the cave, the margin expands slightly, and the diameter has already exceeded thirty meters-at this depth, it is already a very straight passage.
Through the light on the diving suit, Zi Yang was surprised to find that the cave wall was not the stone he had imagined, but rather thick-mysterious ice.
Su Rui said, "It's weird. One part is water and one part is ice. The composition of the two water qualities must be quite different."
Zi Yang touched the cave wall. It was smooth and hard, and the light could not penetrate. The ice wall in front of him was probably dozens of meters thick. Zi Yang asked, "Is it caused by too high pressure?"
Su Rui is noncommittal: "Water is different from other substances. Under the same temperature, the pressure will not become solid. Generally speaking, when the water depth reaches a certain depth, the temperature will stabilize at about 4 degrees Celsius. The water is denser, so the temperature is lower, but it is understandable, but why are there two forms at the same time
Zi Yang didn't think this was a big problem—the existence of this abyss was originally against the common sense of physics.
Zi Yang suddenly thought of something, "Did your detector detect—cough cough—biology, microbe?"
Su Rui called up a set of data from the curved screen, and said: "The water here is very pure—absolutely pure. Not only is there no organisms, but according to the results of the instrument detection, the number of microorganisms—equal to zero."
Zi Yang understands what it means to be zero. Under normal circumstances, even in harsh water conditions, there will be organisms-in Hawaiian submarine volcanic caves, even if the water temperature reaches a few hundred degrees, there will still be a species of shrimp.
But at the bottom of this ice cave, microbes turned out to be zero!
Zi Yang has seen the accuracy of Alexander's equipment. According to the current situation, the probability of failure is very small.
Su Rui was at a loss on the spot, Zi Yang crawled down and fumbled along the junction between the bottom of the cave and the wall with his hands. Su Rui looked at him strangely, "What are you doing?"
Zi Yang said, "Look for an exit."
Su Rui said with some regret, "The sounder shows that the bottom of the hole is also closed, and we are in a dead end."
Zi Yang kept busy working on his hands and feet, while comforting Su Rui, "The sky is infinite."
Su Rui sobbed softly.
Zi Yang: "You foreigners, you believe in machinery and instruments too much. Sometimes the instruments are inaccurate. Computers are clumsy and can't turn around. At the critical moment, human instincts are more reliable."
In fact, Zi Yang had no bottom in his heart, but faintly felt that it shouldn’t be the case. Since entering the desert, he had encountered this boundless darkness several times in his dreams. He had a premonition in the abyss. There is an ancient ghost calling to him.
Suddenly, Zi Yang loosened his hand and felt a gap. Zi Yang stretched out his hand to poke in, there is space!