Chapter 454: 454. Underwater Aircraft Carrier
This was a heap of steel wreckage half buried in the mud on the sea floor.
From its outline, it appeared to be a submarine, directly hit by a torpedo or a depth charge, cleanly broken into two pieces, so damaged that it was impossible to make out the model.
Lu Yao maneuvered his sluggish Divine Soul into it; everything inside had been turned into mush by the sea water.
It was estimated that before long, all traces of this submarine would be completely erased by nature.
He found countless dirty lumps of earth within the cabin, scattered around and seemingly worthless, but Lu Yao had already discerned their true nature through the Heavenly Eye.
With a gentle brush, the unassuming clumps revealed a hint of golden gleam. These were all gold! Roughly estimated, there were about two tons.
“Not bad, a good start,” he said.
Eager and fighting against the deep sea pressure, Lu Yao quickly opened the Space-Ti Bubble and stored the gold inside.
At the sa ti, he suddenly discovered that such activity was even better for cultivation.
So, while letting his Divine Soul continue to search with the Heavenly Eye, Lu Yao started practicing his punches against the imnse sea pressure.
This was the Liao Family Fist he had first learned in the Otherworld, taught to him by Liao Ya himself, which could be practiced up to the Blood-Exchange Realm.
He hadn’t practiced it since reaching the Innate stage, but now in the 3,000 ters depth of the deep sea, revisiting the old knowledge had a refreshing feel to it.
anwhile, the audience watching the live stream had mixed reactions.
“Is he cultivating using the deep-sea pressure? Wasn’t Yang Guo also cultivating in the sea?”
“It’s totally different; this is 3,000 ters under the sea. Haven’t you seen him also excavating a sunken ship at the sa ti?”
“That ship was soaked to the bone by the sea water, and it’s dark and dreary in the deep sea, not much interesting to see. I wonder if there will be anything exciting later on.”
Ordinary people were just there for the excitent, but many experts in the military field were shocked by another fact:
“What filming equipnt is he using?”
“Xia Country claims this is their independently developed unmanned submarine… But I prefer to call it ‘Smart Torpedo.’”
“Damn! Xia Country is already capable of applying this technology in actual combat!”
With this device, blocking a port wouldn’t require mobilizing an entire fleet. Just a dozen compact smart torpedoes could prevent the enemy from daring to set sail from their harbor.
Amidst the various comnts, Lu Yao’s Divine Soul, hovering above his head, flipped over in search and made another discovery—a very well-preserved submarine!
It was just a little far away, over a hundred kiloters to the north.
Lu Yao didn’t find it troubleso at all and took it as a rare opportunity for cultivation, striding forward against the huge sea pressure.
At this depth, the water pressure was around 35,000 kilopascals; a normal person would have been crushed long ago.
His current sensation was like an ordinary person climbing stairs with a gas canister—each step felt heavier than the last.
At the sa ti, his disincarnate Divine Soul was also very unstable, with ripples flashing across it now and then.
The twin tornt of body and soul was incredibly painful; it was a genuine test to his limits.
A half-hour journey by normal standards, he took a full four hours to arrive.
Here, a thousand ters under the sea, the pressure was much less.
The sight before him was spectacular, making Lu Yao exclaim that his trip was not in vain!
A large submarine, 122 ters long, lay fallen upon the seafloor rocks.
It was very well preserved, the hull undamaged, only the propeller at the stern was deford and broken.
The submarine had a peculiar design — there was a hangar on the main deck, which actually housed three airplanes with their wings folded.
As he drew closer, he could vaguely make out letters obscured by the mud on the vessel’s side.
Lu Yao brushed it aside with his hand, and the infamous Rising Sun Flag emblem was revealed.
“It indeed is a submarine sunk by the He Kingdom during World War II,” he mused.
With a thought, Lu Yao’s Divine Soul entered first to inspect the situation.
Seeing the scene inside, he first paused, and then his lips curled into an odd smile:
“How curious, I might as well go in and live stream this, to give everyone a chance to behold.”
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By this ti, the audience watching the live stream was already impatient, with a stream of comnts appearing:
“This is a He Kingdom’s I-400 submarine, with a displacent of 300 tons and equipped with three attack aircraft, known as the ‘underwater aircraft carrier’.”
“A submarine that carries airplanes? That’s so bizarre.”
“This was He Kingdom’s trump card back in the day, planned to be used to attack the Star Alliance Country’s holand.”
“There’s no obvious external damage; it must have sunk due to its propulsion system being destroyed by a deep-sea bomb. The interior is likely very well preserved—let Superman go in and take a look.”
Lu Yao would certainly not disappoint the viewers, and imdiately entered the submarine through the two-tiered hatch of the command tower.
As the water in the isolation layer was drained, Lu Yao opened the door of the pressure-resistant compartnt and witnessed the scene inside the submarine.
It was a ss, riddled with cracked pipes and various debris, and the passageways were still slanted.
Fortunately, it was mostly well preserved.
Taking a deep breath, the air was full of chlorine, and the temperature was only about negative seven or eight degrees Celsius.
Lu Yao wasn’t down there by himself; he was carrying the unmanned submarine that served as the cara.
Here, the submarine could only transmit static images, but it still allowed the viewers to see the submarine’s dilapidated and chaotic interior.
Continuing forward, astounding scenes gradually unraveled before the eyes of the world.
First, Lu Yao ca upon a locked chamber and tore the door open with his bare hands amid the grating noise.
The air here was particularly murky, and there were several skeletons chained to the pipes!
There were clear marks of blade cuts on their bones, with the empty eye sockets gazing in vain at the ceiling, and the surrounding tal pipes and deck were covered in struggle marks.
A viewer asked in confusion, “What is this place? Why are they chained up here? Is this a prison cell?”
The chat silenced for a while before soone replied:
“Darling~ this is no prison cell; it’s the ‘food storage room.’”
“Food storage room… My God! Cannibalism happened here!”
Realizing what had happened, the comnts section exploded:
“When the submarine sank, the internal fixtures were mostly intact, only the propulsion system was damaged.
This ans that these He Kingdom soldiers were trapped alive in a steel cage at the bottom of the sea!
Surrounded by the endless darkness and silence, how desperate they must have been!”
“The ones who were eaten were even more desperate! There are clear struggle marks in the pictures, indicating that they watched helplessly as pieces of their flesh were cut off while they were still alive… and those who did it were likely their friends…”
“Stop, I’m going to be sick!”
Many viewers expressed that they couldn’t handle it, but there was more shocking news to co.
Lu Yao quickly moved on to the submarine’s cargo hold, where there were many goods tightly wrapped in tarpaulins.
Lu Yao lifted the tarp, and a dazzling golden light radiated out—it was indeed a mountain of gold!
Pulling off the rest of the tarps revealed mountain after mountain of gold, amounting to hundreds of tons!
And it wasn’t just gold; beyond that, there were many of Xia Country’s precious cultural relics, including paintings, porcelain, and bronzeware, each of which could be considered a national treasure.
It was clear that this submarine was transporting treasures looted from Xia Country.
Many Xia Country netizens were already cursing the submarine as getting what it deserved.
However, there were also so strange tal canisters in the cargo hold, shaped like gas cylinders, and it was unclear what they were used for.
Many experts felt a chill in their hearts upon seeing these objects: “Could this be…?”
The answer was revealed swiftly.
Lu Yao pressed on, encountering many more people chained up along the way.
Without stopping, he arrived at the command cabin, where he found the submarine’s navigation log and secret telegrams.
He even found the captain!
In the command cabin, there was a skeleton slumped over on a desk, and judging from the military rank on the uniform, it was indeed the captain, who had swallowed a bullet in a final act of despair.
This was the only person on the entire submarine who wasn’t chained up.
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