Chapter 349： Cormorant and Sydney

In the vast and boundless sea, what is the most important resource?

Oil, natural gas, various ores, etc., are very important to human beings, especially in the era of increasingly scarce resources.

But for Li Daniu, these resources that need to be mined bit by bit are not what he needs most at present.

For example, the ores on the seabed are not like pebbles on the bottom of the water, which can be picked up one by one by reaching out, but need to be excavated on the seabed, then mined, and finally smelted.

This process is very complicated. Even though Li Daniu now has many submarine engineering robots, it will take a lot of time to obtain basic mineral resources.

Therefore, the second phase of the Sea God Project started naturally.

"Arrived in the designated sea area, the search mode has started."

Hearing Ao Chuang's voice, Li Daniu lay back on the chair in front of the console and said, "Is there a communication problem?"

"No problem." Ultron said: "The new satellite has arrived at the designated location and started to provide communication services. Your steel armor and the communication mode of the laboratory and deep sea base have all been converted to the frequency of the new satellite."

"That's good." Li Daniu sighed with emotion, and said, "I don't have to worry about being eavesdropped on my communication anymore."

The communication mode of the Poseidon Base, because it lacks its own satellites, has been using satellites from other countries stolen by Ultron for communication, including the communication between Li Daniu and Ultron in the steel armor.

In a short period of time, relying on Ultron's unmatched technology in the real world, neither the United States nor Russia can stop and discover this kind of theft, but if it takes a long time, even if the technology is superb, it will be impossible Not to be found.

After all, communication resources are limited. If someone is interested in collecting big data, they will inevitably find abnormalities.

And with his own satellite, Li Daniu can now communicate anywhere on the earth that other countries cannot find. You know, he has a new type of communication satellite for himself.

"Find the target, do you start to act?"

Li Daniu sat up from the chair, looked at the picture displayed on the screen, and said excitedly: "Start!"

On a seabed off the west coast of Australia, a strategic nuclear submarine is lurking about 300 meters below the sea level. After receiving instructions from Ultron, a hatch on the submarine opens, and five submarine engineering robots each carry different equipment. , swam out from the hatch.

After leaving the submarine, the propellers on the five engineering robots started to work, and sank straight to the bottom of the sea.

Five minutes later, five engineering robots reached the seabed at a depth of about 3,500 meters.

Li Daniu, who is in his own laboratory, can clearly see, with the help of the equipment on the engineering robot, that a huge metal battleship is lying quietly on the bottom of the sea.

Ao Chuang said: "According to the analysis of relevant data, this shipwreck is the auxiliary cruiser of the German 'dkm' Cormorant, with an empty displacement of about 16,000 tons."

"Check the corrosion rate of the metal and see how much metal can be decomposed after pulling it back." Li Daniu stared at the quiet Cormorant on the screen. For his deep sea base and submarine engineering robots, it is more than 10,000 tons. The metal that can be extracted by the battleship is nothing, and the engineering robot can mine the same amount of ore in a few days.

Even in the future, his engineering robot will be able to mine this level of metal ore in one day after going through the storm mode.

But ore is ore, and it takes time to refine it. However, this warship is a finished metal, as long as it is brought back to the furnace, it can be used directly.

Moreover, this Cormorant is only an insignificant ship that sank in the sea, and even in terms of displacement, it is not considered to be in the front row.

On the screen, several engineering robots approached the wreckage of the battleship, and began to inspect the battleship using the equipment they carried.

A few minutes later, Ultron said: "It is estimated that 67% of the finished metal can be extracted."

"That's not a lot. The displacement is almost equal to the weight of the hull itself. Excluding some other equipment on the hull, it is absolutely possible to extract more than 10,000 tons of finished metal." After calculating in his mind, Li Daniu said: "Start Shift target!"

On the screen, engineering robots scattered in all directions. Compared to a warship that was about 150 meters long and 20 meters wide, the five engineering robots, which seemed huge to ordinary people, seemed a bit small.

The propulsion equipment brought by the tiny engineering robot is respectively installed on the designated position on the ship calculated by Ultron. They also found a place and temporarily acted as propellers.

There are no orders and no countdown. When everything was in place, there was a sudden tremor on the extremely quiet seabed, and the battleship that had sunk on the bottom of the sea for more than sixty years, was driven by super-powered engines and engineering robots.

Under this kind of vibration, the dust on the bottom of the sea floated up, making this bottom of the sea become turbid. Some sea creatures inhabiting the battleship also rushed out of the mud and sand in a panic, and then fled to an unknown direction.

"Propulsion equipment normal."

In the sound of Ao Chuang's report, the warship slowly rose on the seabed, and when it reached a position 600 meters above sea level, it began to move horizontally, and the destination direction was Li Daniu's Poseidon base.

"The power system is normal, and three engineering robots can be liberated."

On the screen, three of the engineering robots acting as propellers broke away from the battleship directly, and then returned to the nearby submarine. The remaining two engineering robots are responsible for guiding the direction and communicating with Ultron.

"Those countries are such a waste. So much metal and steel are just discarded on the bottom of the sea." Li Daniu didn't feel a pain in his back while standing up and talking. If other countries also have engineering robots like him, or can provide super propulsion on the bottom of the sea The engine of these seabed sunken ships, where is his business?

Others don't want it, naturally because salvaging Chen Ben is higher than buying Chen Ben of the same amount of metal and steel.

"Detect other national equipment along this journey and set an alarm." Li Daniu instructed. Of course, he also knew that the probability of this warship being discovered was equivalent to the probability of an ordinary person winning the first prize of the lottery three times in a row.

The level of science and technology in the real world allows human submarine military equipment, such as submarines, to float down to a position of about 300 meters above sea level at most, while the position of 600 meters on the seabed where warships are located is almost a detection blind spot. Coupled with the huge area of ​​the sea area, a warship of about 150 meters is not even a drop in the bucket, so there is no need to worry about being discovered by other countries.

"Let the submarine go to the next area to search."

Of course, one battleship is not enough. Li Daniu immediately gave orders after seeing that everything was normal on the Cormorant.

Half an hour later, Ao Chuang's voice sounded: "A battleship was found. According to data analysis, this battleship should be the Sydney cruiser that died together with the Cormorant. Its empty displacement is about 15,000 tons."

"15,000 tons?" Li Daniu clicked his tongue twice, and said, "The two warships sank at the same time, and the corrosion of the metals is estimated to be about the same Then, getting the two warships back is equivalent to Nearly 20,000 tons of metal?"

The order was issued without hesitation, and five engineering robots swam out of the submarine again, three of which were the engineering robots that had just transferred the Cormorant.

When the engineering robot started working, Li Daniu asked, "Are our equipment enough?"

Ao Chuang replied: "The current equipment can transfer five submarine sunken ships below 20,000 tons at the same time."

"That's still a lot worse." Li Daniu looked at the Atlantic Ocean position on the shipwreck map with his eyes bright, and said: "Step up the production of related equipment, and try our best to transfer the relevant sunken ships."

Ao Chuang replied: "At present, our production capacity of extracting relevant metals has almost reached a limit after the Cormorant and Sydney are in place. We can use the existing equipment to transfer the time difference of the sunken ship and ease the extraction limit. Are you sure you want to increase it?" Transfer equipment?"

"Of course I'm sure, and there won't be much wasted production capacity." Li Daniu said, "There are the most wrecked ships in the Atlantic Ocean in the world, and all the sunken ships there must be dragged back. Ten birds in the forest are worse than one bird in hand." .” (To be continued.)