Chapter 848: Chapter 93: Cri Scene
The ocean floor is not a flat surface; it resembles land with its rises and falls, mountains and plains.
Here lies an underwater mountain range beneath the ocean, where a sunken submarine has ended up stranded. This location is just over a thousand ters from the ocean surface. At this depth, Xiang Shan’s vehicle can reach but cannot guarantee safety. Considering Panic, Xiang Shan decided not to bring the vehicle down.
The submarine landed in this spot.
The submarine is only tens of ters long and about ten ters wide, appearing short and stout, seemingly designed for scientific research activities.
Xiang Shan approached and found the surface of the submarine had little sedint. It was evidently only recently sunken. He took a half-turn and quickly discovered what had caused the submarine to sink.
The rear half of the submarine had a sharp breach. The breach was extrely clean, the severed edge almost mirror-like, as if sliced open by an exceedingly sharp blade and forcibly pried open with a device like a hydraulic apparatus.
—Was it a dolphin? No, that’s unlikely. The dolphin’s body may have so cyberization, but judging from the radar response, it is mostly flesh. It’s impossible for its body cavity to simultaneously equip Sonicon Blade and its power source.
Xiang Shan found it difficult to enter the breach due to the buoyancy device he carried, so he grabbed the chain on the buoyancy device and ordered it to detach from his slot.
Imdiately afterward, Xiang Shan circled half around the submarine, found a spot, and fastened the chain.
The buoyancy of water can be completely disregarded by a cybernetically enhanced person with a fission furnace inside. Xiang Shan just walked along the seabed and with a slight leap, landed on the breach.
Xiang Shan gestured: “I can go through… So it might an the perpetrator is a heavy prosthesis, possibly a First Layer Heaven Cyborg?”
Xiang Shan just dropped into the interior of the submarine. At this mont, the submarine was already flooded with seawater, with several prosthetic bodies piled on the floor.
Xiang Shan first turned around. Indeed, he saw bullet traces behind him. The bullet markings were chaotic but still showed so pattern.
It appeared so individuals trained in firearm martial studies had made a counterattack upon being ambushed.
Xiang Shan scanned all bullet holes and built a model in his mind. Countless bullet trajectories extended from the holes.
Within the network woven by countless trajectories, Xiang Shan saw a “path.”
A figure holding a large sword erged in Xiang Shan’s consciousness.
“Fervor” appeared before Xiang Shan, and even at the ocean floor, he was still half an artistic youth, holding an “invisible guitar,” strumd an impromptu chord: “Wow, wow, wow. This ambusher’s figure oddly resembles ours. Could this be an attempt at framing?”
“What?”
“What I see is what you see. We share the biological brain.” “Fervor” pointed the guitar head at the sword marks on the wall: “The specifications of the prosthetic body and weapon are quite like what you’re using now. And the swordsmanship bears so semblance to ours.”
“We three are the Ancestors of the Martial Path; is there any martial arts that haven’t captured our style?” “Cri” actually donned detective attire, even sporting a magnifying glass, pretentiously examining the wall: “Moreover… how to put it, these look sowhat like ‘Kan Sword Path,’ right? If that’s swordsmanship? Don’t joke; there’s no way we would use the rough draft level of original concepts like the Eight Great Sword Paths.”
“Simulating Xiang Shan’s personal style through imitation of the ‘Eight Great Sword Paths’? Considering when summarizing that swordsmanship, Xiang Shan hardly understood Cyber Martial Arts, his understanding of martial arts at that ti wasn’t as inclusive as today, with so immature ideas rather prominent.”
“Benchmark” Xiang Shan slightly shook his head: “Impossible, why disguise an attack on such a research vessel as Xiang Shan?”
He said, moving forward.
The figure before him also moved forward, the spreading blade light suppressing a group of scientific knights in this confined space.
Then until a certain path was traversed, no resistance remained.
Behind Xiang Shan lay nurous scrapped prosthetic bodies. Due to the impact of seawater and the displacent caused by the submarine’s sinking, those prosthetic remnants slid about. But Xiang Shan could roughly estimate where they fell.
Moreover, all these scrapped prosthetics had their chest cavities torn open, and brains extracted.
This further confird their identities. So people might choose not to place their brains in their heads, opting instead to locate them within their bodies. However, only scientific knights, due to a kind of “cultural” factor, collectively place their brains in the upper body.
On one side lies the cockpit, another seemingly leading to the research room.
Xiang Shan first entered the cockpit. It was severely damaged, with nurous items removed. Xiang Shan examined closely but found sothing strange. So parts of the cockpit seed crudely ripped out, even smashed without being taken away. Yet so parts were… well, dismantled carefully.
But stranger still, typically, heroes would take away those “crudely dismantled” parts. The parts “carefully dismantled” generally held little value.
Those capable of storing intelligence were usually in the crudely dismantled components.
While carefully dismantled components, in contrast, should hold no value.
Xiang Shan searched around then found the submarine na engraved on a copper plate on the cockpit base.
“‘Research Vessel, Elevated Cup Worm.” Xiang Shan said: “Indeed belongs to scientific knights, and with few guards too.”
Now, the question erges.
Who attacked such a scientific knight’s submarine, and for what purpose and timing?
The entire human civilization now is built on the foundation of “technology.” Given Xiang Shan’s partners changed the world years ago, anti-technology sentint is now exceedingly rare.
Thus, as long as a research project isn’t anti-human and no compelling clues of forced human experintation by heroes are found, heroes usually won’t target scientific knights first.
Contemporary unique “academic exchanges” are a separate matter.
Amid this backdrop, the attack on the submarine becos hard to comprehend.
Xiang Shan pondered, a group conducting field biological surveys, combined with geological investigations, has no necessity for human experintation, nor can it easily produce strategic weapons. Heroes generally wouldn’t target these people.
Even if a scientific knight had a criminal record for abusing or killing civilians, a hero would not likely co all this way to eliminate them.
“In the direction the dolphin departed, this submarine appears to have investigational value…”
“Does the dolphin relate to this affair?”
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