50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 864 "K-123" is in grave danger.
Time was of the essence, and Sun Zhiwei really wanted to move it directly from the slipway.

But reason told him that this wouldn't work; he didn't want to cause any supernatural incidents in front of everyone.

What he needs to do now is to rush to the front of the channel and wait for its arrival. Once he leaves the shipyard, any further problems will cause a lot of trouble.

After thinking it through, Sun Zhiwei immediately returned to the tunnel and exited. He then went to the hotel to pick up his luggage, checked out of the room, and took a taxi to the northern Finnish border.

Every hotel where a foreign tourist stays is monitored by the KGB. Only by leaving Leningrad can they disappear from the KGB's sight and avoid suspicion.

Although he came using a fake identity, a fake is still a fake.

There's no problem when no one is checking, but once you become a suspect, given the KGB's capabilities, they can definitely trace you back to the source using a false identity.

He did not hide James' identity in Stockholm, which exposed him to the KGB and put him in danger.

The KGB doesn't care if you're an American billionaire or not; in fact, they might prefer billionaires. Getting money from billionaires is much easier than getting money from ordinary people.

Two hours later, Sun Zhiwei successfully passed through the highway customs and entered Finland.

Upon entering the country, Sun Zhiwei avoided public attention and quickly disappeared into the crowd.

In fact, he had gone into the water from the sea and was piloting a yacht in the space, heading towards the Øresund Strait, which is between Sweden and Denmark, next to Copenhagen.

The Øresund Strait, also known as the Sund Strait, is 110 kilometers long, 4-28 kilometers wide, and 12-28 meters deep, making it the deepest waterway in the Baltic Sea.

It also forms the border between Sweden and Denmark. To its west lies Zealand, the island of Denmark, and to its east lies southern Sweden. Along its coast are the two major ports of Copenhagen and Malmö.

The Øresund Strait is the only passage from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea, making its strategic location extremely significant.

Its narrowest point is between two ancient fortified cities: Helsingborg, Sweden, on one side, and Helsingør, Denmark, on the other, with only 3.8 kilometers between them.

It can be said that whether it is Sweden or Denmark, as long as one of them does not want ships to pass, the coastal defense guns stationed on both sides of the strait can prevent any ship from passing.

Sun Zhiwei planned to stake out the Øresund Strait, believing that the Alfa-class titanium alloy nuclear submarine "K-123" would pass through there soon.

Because "K-123" was the fifth ship of the Alfa-class, it was assigned to the Northern Fleet, whose base was in Murmansk, on the northern coast of the Barents Sea.

If the "K-123" wanted to get there, it could only follow the route of the Gulf of Finland - Baltic Sea - North Sea - Norwegian Sea - Barents Sea.

The Øresund Strait is a necessary passage on this route, and it is very narrow. As long as Sun Zhiwei is in the channel, he will definitely be able to find the "K-123".

He set off from the Finnish coast to the Øresund, a 1000-kilometer sea voyage that took him eight or nine hours to reach, even at speedboat speed.

Because it took a lot of time to cross the border and reach the seaside, Sun Zhiwei didn't dare to leave after arriving at the strait, for fear of missing the passing submarine.

After waiting on the yacht for three days, on the morning of the fourth day, Sun Zhiwei finally saw the long-awaited "K-123".

The round and plump "K-123" slowly sailed northward from the deepest part of the waterway south of the strait.

Sun Zhiwei followed them in his yacht and then began his own operation.

He retrieved some silane from his spatial storage and released it into the middle compartment of the submarine "K-123," placing an extra amount near the oxygen hoses. The colorless and transparent silane, upon contact with the air inside the submarine after leaving the spatial storage, immediately ignited violently and quickly burned through the oxygen pipes.

Pure oxygen sprayed out from the broken pipe, intensifying the combustion of silane and creating a large patch of deep yellow flame.

Several crew members inside the cabin were burned by the flames, and a significant amount of silane gas began to spread throughout the cabin.

The sailors inside the cabin discovered the fire immediately, and the ship's alarm went off right away.

The sailors quickly shut off the oxygen valves, but at that moment, the air was still filled with toxic silane gas that had not yet burned completely.

Meanwhile, the brief but intense burning caused the oxygen content in the cabin to drop rapidly.

The sailors in the cabin had to evacuate to the adjacent cabins. After receiving the news, the captain ordered the doors of the burning cabin to be closed.

Although the cause of the fire is unknown, a submarine is a very sophisticated system, and no problem should be underestimated.

The captain followed the operating procedures and sent a message about the fire to the base, while also requesting that the ship be returned to the shipyard for repairs.

Subsequently, the "K-123" turned around and began its return voyage.

After watching them finish sending out the information about the accident and receiving confirmation from the base a few minutes later that they could return to port, Sun Zhiwei stored the entire "K-123" submarine back into his spatial storage.

On the seabed, the missing large space was filled by the surrounding seawater, causing considerable turbulence and splashing a large amount of water on the surface.

Sun Zhiwei, driving his yacht, saw it from a distance but didn't pay it any mind. Instead, he turned the yacht around and headed towards Copenhagen.

Upon reaching the vicinity of Copenhagen, he did not linger but continued south into the Baltic Sea.

During the journey, he quickly emptied everything off the submarine, and also preserved some of the burned items and corpses separately.

After entering the vast waters of the Baltic Sea, the evidence of the accident they had just preserved was scattered on the nearby seabed before they turned around and came ashore on an uninhabited mudflat near Copenhagen.

A few hours later, Sun Zhiwei boarded a flight to Moscow using a new identity.

Almost simultaneously, the Baltic Fleet dispatched a large number of aircraft and ships to search for the missing submarine in the western Baltic Sea and the Øresund Strait.

At first, they found nothing, until a few days later, the bodies of the crew members on the seabed surfaced, and shortly thereafter, the search ships found many burnt items.

Although the submarine itself has never been found, the presence of items with burn marks and the bodies of several sailors who were burned and suffocated all suggest that the "K-123" is likely to meet a grim fate.

At this point, the most tense countries were actually the coastal countries, because they already knew that the ship that had crashed was a nuclear submarine.

That thing is radioactive. If the reactor inside were to explode in someone's waters, they would be in big trouble.

Nearby countries such as Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and Poland dispatched search teams to help the Baltic Fleet search for the missing submarine.

Unfortunately, after several weeks of searching, nothing was found, and the whereabouts of the nuclear submarine "K-123" remained a mystery.

(End of this chapter)