Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 25 Deep Sea Interception
In the dim moonlight late at night, shadows swayed on the coastline, and low-level security personnel from the rapid response force patrolled back and forth.

There were containment units on several large ships on the sea, which could resist some electromagnetic interference and pulses, allowing the ships and salvage equipment to operate normally. However, the low-level security personnel could only abandon electromagnetic firearms and replace them with old-fashioned gunpowder rifles. Even communicators and walkie-talkies could not be used, and they carried out the blockade by standing guard and patrolling.

This labor-intensive blockade lasted for a few days. After the salvage ship successfully captured the main body of the forbidden object, the alert level of the coastline began to drop sharply, mainly to prevent the untouchables in the safe zone from accidentally entering.

"What are you doing!"

The flashlight flickered and the sound of a gun being pulled was heard.

A figure slowly walked out from the darkness of the dense forest on the shore, holding up his hands to indicate that he meant no harm. Li Nanke pointed to the ID card hanging on his chest and said in fear, "Sir, I'm from the Foundation rescue team."

The flashlight focused on Li Nanke's face, and then moved to the ID card on his chest.

"Sir, I lost my flashlight and I'm walking the wrong way in the dark. Can you lend me a flashlight?"

After confirming their identities, the three security guards relaxed their guard, and one of them waved his hand impatiently: "Get away, this is not a place for your rescue team to come."

Li Nanke had no choice but to turn around and leave. The security guard spat at his figure as he disappeared into the dense forest, saying, "Bah, what humanitarian aid? It's just hypocrisy."

Patrol posts have requirements for the number of patrols at fixed times and locations. Li Nanke only delayed this small group of patrol posts for just one minute, but he had just used a similar operation on another group of patrol teams. The mutual influence between the two caused the original patrol loophole to be temporarily magnified.

He ran quickly through the dense forest, and took advantage of the patrol gap between the two waves of teams to sneak into the turbulent and deep sea.

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The Camellia super-large salvage ship, bridge command center.

Through the observation window, beams of bright searchlights swayed back and forth, but they could not dispel the darkness and depth of the sea. One could only see auxiliary vessels such as semi-submersible ships, diving support ships, tugboats, barges, etc. floating around.

"Those researchers haven't figured out the side effects of the forbidden substances yet?"

"Yes, so we can't take it away from the scene yet. We can only maintain the preliminary containment measures for now. After we have a general understanding of this taboo object, we can formulate a further containment plan."

The containment officer Matthew was somewhat helpless; the main body of the forbidden object and the larger fragments had been salvaged through the ship's sonar positioning, and the first priority mission had been successfully accomplished.

As for the remaining small fragments...the amount of pheromone in those remaining small fragments is too small and they do not have any priority.

It is already difficult for the shelterers to keep the electronic equipment on the ship running normally, and they cannot worry about the situation underwater, so they just let the divers explore slowly. After they take away the main body of the forbidden object, the underwater robots and other equipment will be able to operate normally, and it will be easy to salvage small fragments.

Compared with previous containment operations, this mission is quite simple. It does not require bloody battles against those biological taboos, nor does it involve encountering terrible taboos like rule-based conceptual bodies that make it difficult to deal with.

The forbidden object this time is just an enlarged version of an electromagnetic jammer plus EMP. As for the side effects... you can't use electronic devices. Anyone with eyes can see that. It takes so many days to study, and this is not the way to embezzle more funds.

Of course, Matthew could only complain about these words in his heart.

"Matthew, I know what you're thinking. Stop complaining. You might as well make everyone a cup of coffee instead of complaining."

Facing the captain Bastian's joke, Matthew could only sigh and get up to make coffee. Suddenly, the alarm sounded loudly and the bright red light of the warning light flashed rapidly.

"Monster! Monster...ah!" A wailing scream with severe electric interference came from the walkie-talkie. It was the voice of the researcher!

The inmates' faces suddenly changed, they looked at each other, and rushed out the door...

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The seabed of the offshore continental shelf is dark and deep, and only faint artificial light sources can be seen.

The average water depth of the continental shelf does not exceed two hundred meters, which is a bearable operating depth for divers equipped with professional diving equipment and bioprosthetics.

Because the electromagnetic pulses here are too strong, even the simple circuits of flashlights cannot work properly, so divers can only rely on tools such as fluorescent sticks, underwater burning sticks and radioactive tritium lamps for lighting.

Night vision prosthetic eyes allow divers to barely make out objects on the seafloor with the help of extremely weak light, but the seafloor is full of silt and small metal fragments are often deeply trapped in it, making them almost impossible to find.

These tasks were originally supposed to be handed over to underwater robots and a series of electronic salvage equipment, but in extraordinary times, extraordinary measures can only be used. If the big guy on the sea is not pulled away, the salvage work on the seabed can only be carried out in such an inefficient way.

Suddenly, a diver seemed to have discovered something. He held up a green tritium lamp that was like a wooden stick and pulled out a palm-sized piece of metal debris from the mud on the seabed.

He was very excited and gave a thumbs up to several companions in the distance to indicate that he was going to float up. After receiving the thumbs up, his companions made an OK gesture.

The diver did not dare to stay with the metal piece for too long, so he took out a special storage box, put the metal piece in it, and then began to float up.

Since he had been injected with deep water medicine before diving, he did not have to worry about acute decompression sickness caused by nitrogen dissolved in the blood, so his ascent speed was quite fast.

When the diver surfaced to a depth of 50 meters, he suddenly felt a surging current behind him, as if a big fish was approaching, and he subconsciously turned his head...

But before he turned around, his vision went dark and he lost consciousness instantly.

Li Nanke took the tritium lamp, took the box from the diver's waist and opened it. It turned out to be an irregular metal fragment.

Recalling the 'visualization' method bestowed by the Great Other Shore, he began to carefully identify whether there were any so-called pheromone residues on the metal fragments.

He has been waiting here for a while. Although the main substance 'deep sea' has not been upgraded yet, this depth is nothing for extraordinary power.

The reason why we didn't continue diving was simply because it was too dark to see clearly. At a depth of 50 meters, we could occasionally vaguely see the light of searchlights on the water, but if we dived deeper, it would be completely dark and even the direction would be difficult to discern.

After a careful inspection, he confirmed that there were pheromone residues on the metal sheet, and he immediately floated away from the ground.

Coming out of the sea, I could see the red warning light flashing rapidly on the large salvage ship from afar, and could vaguely hear screams and cries...

Li Nanke frowned and looked at the metal fragments in the box again, and had a bad feeling in his heart.

(End of this chapter)