Chapter 143: Captain: The Propeller Has Gone Silent

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After the aircraft carrier received Tang Rui’s message, they immediately contacted the navy to inquire about the submarine’s situation.

The navy personnel on duty reacted very quickly.

They directly used emergency channels to contact the duty rooms of various submarine bases.

Very quickly, the feedback from the various submarine bases came in.

Our own submarine is not in that area. The nearest submarine is also 110 nautical miles away.

“Fisherman calling Fish Pond.”

“Fish Pond received. Please speak.”

“That submarine doesn’t belong to our family. We’ve already sent two J-15 fighter jets to your location.”

“Fish Pond received.”

After Tang Rui received the news, a smile immediately appeared on his face.

As expected.

His instincts were correct.

If it were our own submarine, it wouldn’t be lying in the sea like a turtle, completely motionless.

After all, this is our territorial waters. Even if the submarine is on combat duty, it can’t hide here.

Even if they wanted to take cover, it would be at the border of the territorial sea or simply in the open sea.

What’s the point of lying down at the bottom of our own sea?

Since it wasn’t their submarine, there was nothing to hesitate about.

Err…

He didn’t seem to have any missiles.

The magazine was filled with luggage and robots.

This was quite uncomfortable.

He wanted to go fishing.

But he didn’t bring any equipment.

Wait a minute… Who said that without a spearhead… No, who said that without missiles, fish couldn’t be blown up?

“Red Lotus, can the maintenance robot in the magazine dive to the bottom of the sea?”

Tang Rui asked Red Lotus. He didn’t know the capabilities of that robot.

“Yes, Master. That maintenance robot was designed to work underwater. It can withstand water pressure of up to 1500 meters,” Red Lotus replied immediately.

Great.

If it could dive 1500 meters, dealing with the submarine below would be a piece of cake.

Tang Rui lowered the fighter jet’s altitude.

He opened the magazine. The missile rack rotated and adjusted the maintenance robot to the outermost position.

“Tang Rui, why did you land?” Li Shuyao said urgently as the sea got closer and closer.

“It’s okay. I’m just dropping something.”

After Tang Rui finished speaking, he pressed the launch button and ejected the maintenance robot.

Plop!

The maintenance robot fell into the water from a height of five meters.

“Fisherman to Fish Pond, please reply if you copy.”

At this moment, the aircraft carrier tower shouted anxiously.

Because the radar suddenly lost the signal of Tang Rui’s fighter jet, it startled them.

“Fish Pond copies. Please speak.”

“Did you retract the Longbo lens? The radar suddenly lost your signal.”

“1 didn’t retract it. 1 lowered the altitude myself and I’m currently floating five meters above sea level.”

“Floating? Is there an issue with the fighter jet?”

“No, I dropped something into the sea.”

“Dropping something? What is it?’

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“A maintenance robot. The submarine below seems to have malfunctioned and has been parked there without moving. I’ve dropped a maintenance robot to see if it can help it float.”

“Alright, be careful.”

On the bridge aboard the aircraft carrier, everyone’s expressions were quite strange after hearing Tang Rui’s words.

Tang Rui watched as the maintenance robot dived, then raised its altitude and circled in the sky.

“Let me show you something interesting.”

After Tang Rui finished speaking, he showed the perspective of the maintenance robot on their helmets and corrected its angle.

“What is this?” Li Shuyao asked curiously.

“This is the perspective of the maintenance robot. It’s going to catch fish down there later.”

“Catch fish?”

“Yes, a small blackfish.”

Inside the submarine, the sonar operator suddenly heard a peculiar sound, like a noisy signal in the sea, but not quite.

Before he could figure out what that sound was, a red dot suddenly appeared on the sonar.

The red dot was rushing towards their submarine at an extremely fast speed.

“Captain, there’s a torpedo,” the Sonar Operator turned to the captain and shouted in horror.

“What torpedoes?” the captain asked with his eyes wide open.

“Anti-submarine torpedoes.”

In the eyes of the sonar operator, the sound just now was the noise of an anti-submarine torpedo entering the water from the air.

And now, the torpedoes were rapidly heading towards the submarine.

The captain rushed over and saw the red dot on the sonar. He was so shocked that his scalp went numb and his hair stood on end.

“Speed up, full speed ahead,” the captain shouted. Now was not the time to worry about potential turbine damage to the submarine. They had to prioritize their safety.

Crack!

The submarine’s power was pushed to its limits, and the huge propeller began to spin faster.

The submarine that was originally parked at the bottom of the sea began to accelerate forward.

The captain stared at the torpedoes’ trajectory. Once they got closer, they would have the submarine dodge.

They couldn’t hide now. They only had one chance to evade.

On the other side… Tang Rui, who was on the plane, looked at the suddenly moving submarine and couldn’t help but laugh.

This was the effect he wanted.

“Master, the submarine’s voiceprint has been collected,” Red Lotus reported to Tang Rui.

The reason he wanted to alert the other party was to let them escape, and then collect their data.

Now that the voiceprint data had been collected, they could proceed.

“Speed up and charge forward. Repair the other party’s propeller,” Tang Rui ordered.

“Alright, Master. Let’s see Red Lotus.”

After saying that, Red Lotus controlled the maintenance robot to speed up.

That speed was similar to a missile.

Going from 80 knots, it instantly soared to 320 knots.

It was even faster than a supercavitating torpedo.

The reason the maintenance robot had this speed wasn’t due to numerous propellers on its body, but because it had none.

When Red Lotus designed the robot, she abandoned the inefficient propeller system.

The maintenance robot used superconducting magnetic fluid propulsion technology.

There was no need for propellers.

It used electromagnetic force to move the seawater directly.

No matter how fast it went, it wouldn’t have the drawback of producing bubbles like a propeller.

As long as the magnetic field was strong enough.

Its speed could skyrocket.

The acceleration of the maintenance robot terrified the people in the submarine.

What kind of torpedoes were these?

And they had a second acceleration?

Moreover, this speed was too exaggerated.

“Raise your head, raise your head,” the captain shouted as he looked at the second-stage acceleration signal.

The submarine immediately raised its head underwater.

Creak…

Creak…

This kind of movement was very harmful to the submarine. They could hear the sound of the submarine’s keels, which could easily cause metal damage.

But at this moment, no one could care less.

They just wanted to survive.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

The sonar’s torpedo signal overlapped with their submarine.

Everyone held their chests and closed their eyes in prayer.

In the next second… There was no explosion, and the submarine was fine.

“Did we succeed?”

“Did we dodge the torpedoes?”

The captain and the sonar operator looked at each other and saw the joy in each other’s eyes.

But the next moment, they realized something was wrong.

If they had dodged the torpedoes, the sonar would display the signal of the torpedoes.

However, there was no torpedo signal on the sonar.

This was not right.

While they were still in a daze, the submarine suddenly stopped and lost power.

“What’s going on?”

The captain was puzzled. What was wrong with the power?

“Captain, the propeller sensor feedback. The propeller is silent… It disappeared,” the crew member in charge of the engine said with a bewildered expression.

Disappeared?