50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 510 The Mystery of the Scientific Advisor

Submarine passive sonar is equipped with recording capabilities. Even if you don't recognize it at the time, you can easily identify it as the sound of a Black Hawk helicopter by analyzing the audio track later.

Since everything has been exposed, what else is there to say? Let's just shut up.

Immediately, the small submarine disappeared into the seabed, creating a whirlpool that lingered for a long time.

Black Hawk continued flying at cruising speed, and he could finally see the submarine in the space.

It was a German-made Type 209 submarine, hull number 401, 54 meters long, 6.2 meters wide, with a displacement of 1290 tons and a crew of 31.

This is the only submarine currently in Java, the INS Kakra, which only entered service last March.

Although the Type 209 conventional submarine is small, it is equipped with torpedoes and missiles, and is a type of submarine sold as an export by the Dzungars.

More than 70 of these submarines have been purchased by 14 countries worldwide, making them the best-selling conventional submarines among Western countries.

This doesn't mean it's particularly advanced; after all, it's 1960s technology. It only became popular because the United States stopped developing conventional submarines.

The problem now is that the Javanese navy has lost two ships in this area and is probably going crazy.

After thinking for a while, he decided to give them a reason for the ship's disappearance.

Black Hawk turned around and quickly returned to the waters where it had just retrieved the ship, then used spatial cutting to begin cutting through the seabed.

As he flew, he cut through the seabed and collected some of the crushed rocks and mud, scattering them across large areas of the seabed nearby.

Finally, a trench nearly one kilometer long and 500 meters deep was cut out, turning the surrounding waters murky.

He then quickly left the area and arrived at a deserted island off the coast of Jakarta more than two hours after setting off.

Going any further would be impossible. Jakarta is, after all, the capital of Java, with busy shipping lanes and many ships coming and going. The coastal area is full of villages and towns, and there are no suitable landing sites.

He could only find a small island in the open sea to disembark the plane, and then take out a speedboat from his spatial storage to head to Jakarta.

Java's economy has developed rapidly in recent years, and it is known as one of the Four Asian Tigers, second only to the Four Asian Dragons.

By the 1980s, Jakarta, as the capital of the country, was already quite prosperous.

This place retains both the original charm of Dutch colonial-era buildings with their high-pitched roofs and gables, and modern high-rise buildings.

The streets were bustling with traffic, and the people's clothing was completely different from that of Pontianak in Borneo, as if they were from two different worlds.

But he knew that this was all a facade; in reality, it was a country ruled by a corrupt group headed by Harto, who used his relatives as a network to amass wealth.

Hattina, Hattina's wife, founded the "Our Hope Foundation" in 72 and was known as "Lady Ten".

Because any large-scale project in Java must first pay her a 10% kickback if it wants to proceed smoothly. She even takes a 10% cut of the donations raised by the foundation.

Hatto and Hatina have three sons and three daughters after their marriage.

His eldest daughter, Siti, served as Minister of Social Affairs in the Cabinet. His four children and one daughter-in-law are members of parliament, and his second son-in-law, Prabovo Subiyando, is the commander of the special forces.

The Harto family has members in almost every economic sector, and doing business is like picking up money under the collusion between officials and businessmen.

His eldest daughter, Siti, monopolizes transportation and thermal power generation, and also owns shares in Central Asia Bank; his eldest son, Xue Di, is the largest shareholder of the country's largest automobile group.
The second son, Bamban, controls the nation's television stations, real estate, and telecommunications companies;
The second daughter, Caditi, monopolized the construction and banking industries;

The youngest son, Hudomo, monopolized Java's oil industry;
The youngest daughter, Hutami, was in charge of the land reclamation project on the Jakarta coast.

In addition, the "professional group party" with military personnel as its backbone controls all state-owned enterprises.

The Hatto family monopolizes three-quarters of Java's economy, and its total assets have ballooned to $400 billion.

Furthermore, they are constantly transferring assets abroad, especially to Swiss banks.

In this suffocating environment, it was difficult for Sun Zhiwei to do anything he wanted, because Harto's tentacles had penetrated into every village through the military.

Around noon, Sun Zhiwei's speedboat docked at a secluded field beach. After confirming that no one was paying attention, he stored the speedboat in his spatial storage and then walked ashore.

This is the outskirts of Jakarta, the area most tightly controlled by Hato. He didn't dare linger nearby, so he quickly switched to a bicycle and left the beach.

Once he reached the city center, he switched to a local bicycle in the parking lot of a shopping mall and continued deeper into the city.

He needed to find a place to stay as soon as possible. He dared not stay in a big hotel, as those were mostly owned by the Harto family and were teeming with military spies.

Even if he's wearing makeup now and looks no different from a local, his tone of voice, accent, and other details will definitely reveal his abnormality.

Finally, he found a place to stay near the Kota train station in the old town.

This is a slum in Jakarta. The train station is flanked by low, self-built shacks. You will never see any soldiers here, and it is also a blind spot for Hato.

Sun Zhiwei found an empty shack nearby to stay in, changed into a set of tattered clothes, and dressed himself up to look more like a poor man.

After that, he would stay in the shack to rest during the day and go to the city to gather information at night.

In the past few days, the Java Sea has been in chaos because of the disappearance of two ships, and the entire Java Navy has been mobilized to search the entire Java Sea.

They soon discovered the huge deep trench on the seabed.

The trench that Sun Zhiwei cut out is several hundred meters deep, and the Javanese Navy has no submarines that can dive to such depths to explore.

Finally, they had to report the situation to Hatto, who then brought in Hatto's scientific advisor, Baharuddin Yusuf Habibi.

Habibi is an engineering PhD, not a geography expert, so how could he possibly explain something like this?

But now that he's serving as a scientific advisor, he can't say he doesn't know. In the end, he could only offer a forced explanation using his limited geological knowledge.

This situation could be described as an accidental movement of tectonic plates, with the two missing ships possibly being sucked to the bottom of the trench by a sudden geological fissure.

The scientific environment and education level in Java are just so-so, so Habibi is the most educated person in the whole country, so naturally whatever he says goes, and no one has any reason to refute him.

Ultimately, the case of the two missing ships was closed as an accident.

Meanwhile, after two weeks of investigation, Sun Zhiwei finally figured out Hato's movements.

(End of this chapter)