Chapter 381: Chapter 381

After a long pause, he slowly uttered a few words:

"Prepare defenses, avoid direct conflict."

After saying that, he hung up the phone, and then quickly reported the matter upwards.

The higher-level person in charge fell into silence after hearing the words, and only after a long while did he speak:

"The other party is likely attracted by the helium-3. We can afford to lose the aircraft carrier, but this thing is too important to us. Now let the submarine go over and find a way to bring it out! If there’s any obstruction, destroy it if necessary!"

After receiving the orders, he dared not delay for a moment and immediately conveyed the order to the base commander.

The base commander, upon receiving the order, also understood the importance of this matter. While hastily contacting those guys underwater, he quickly contacted the attack submarine in the aircraft carrier fleet.

The submarine commander received the order without a moment’s hesitation; all radars were activated, all weapon systems turned to combat readiness level one.

Then they quickly advanced toward the base, coordinating with the various destroyers above.

However, as they advanced rapidly, no one noticed that at this moment, at the rudder position of the submarine’s tail, a mecha, whose color almost entirely matched the submarine, was leisurely sitting there.

Listening to all the intercepted information and those encrypted commands inside the mecha, Lin Yi’s mouth couldn’t help but curl up slightly.

Heaven really is helping me.

Never mind that these guys mistook me for an alien attracted by helium-3; that leader of theirs, it’s as if his brain is shot.

He’s actually having these people transfer the helium-3 that’s already been extracted.

Aren’t they just planning to give it to me for free?

I was fretting about how to sneak into the base to find the helium-3, and it turns out these guys want to deliver it, all packed up, to me.

This really saves me a lot of trouble.

This is also why even though Lin Yi is here, he hasn’t dismantled and recreated everything.

No need to rush now, wait until they load all the helium-3 into the submarine before I make my move.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi simply flipped his body, turning directly to the bottom position of the submarine.

Moreover, the mecha, which had already changed its color, was solidly fixed like a magnet to the underside of the submarine’s tail.

In this way, even if the submarine surfaces, no one will discover him.

Having done all this, Lin Yi leisurely took a nap within the mecha.

He also marveled that his mecha was truly formidable.

It can withstand the pressure of hundreds of meters of seawater and, as long as there is energy, it provides endless oxygen in the underwater environment.

Even more amazingly, the mecha’s oxygen production system can extract oxygen from the water like fish gills, providing it to the mecha’s interior.

Furthermore, the carbon dioxide exhaled by Lin Yi could be dissolved back into the water.

This way, not even a bubble would emerge from Lin Yi’s location.

This is truly remarkable.

Evading radar and avoiding detection by breathing bubbles.

While Lin Yi relaxed under the submarine, everyone at the base and aboard the various ships was on edge.

Only after an hour, when barrels of compressed helium-3 were moved into the submarine, did their tension remain unabated.

Once the goods were onboard, the submarine submerged into the sea without hesitation.

But this time, it never surfaced again.

As the location gradually sank, they soon reached a depth of 400 meters.

And this depth was the maximum underwater navigation limit for this submarine.

After all, this was just a regular attack submarine, not a nuclear one.

These submarines typically operate at depths of around 300 meters, and this time they went down to 400 because they feared the unknown being.

However, what no one realized was that the being they feared like tigers was admiring the underwater scenery beneath their submarine.

Although the light wasn’t great at this depth, it didn’t affect Lin Yi much.

Because the mecha had a very powerful light-concentration penetration capability.

Feeling the submarine stop its descent and start moving forward, Lin Yi glanced at the depth indicated by the mecha—403 meters.

"Haha, it seems my 500-meter diving depth is quite impressive."

Saying this, Lin Yi stretched, then directly patted the submarine’s hull.

But with his movement, the sonar inside the sub immediately reacted, making everyone tense up.

And at that moment, they all felt a moment of dizziness, followed by a massive pressure closing in on them.

Not just that; with the immense pressure, their surroundings became cold as ice in an instant.

As for the submarine, which had been moving forward, it had long since disappeared.

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To disappear suddenly like that left half of the dozens of people unconscious instantly.

Even the lucky few remaining passed out while surfacing rapidly.

As pressure increases, the body’s ability to dissolve air into the blood increases as well.

Returning from deep underwater to the surface too fast leads to rapid decompression.

This causes gases dissolved in the blood and body tissues to form bubbles, blocking blood flow.

Severe cases of such reactions can even be fatal.

And these people suddenly found themselves at 400 meters underwater without preparation.

Not only were their bodies unprepared, but mentally as well.

As a result, in the end, none of these dozens of people survived.

Of course, Lin Yi was unconcerned about this.

At this moment, he was heading toward the other warships on the sea’s surface, listening to the voice in his head:

"Ding~ Recovered one attack submarine, six torpedoes, ten barrels of compressed helium-3 liquid, 27 sets of diving equipment provided by the owner...:

System decomposition in progress~ System decomposition completed!

System molecular optimization in progress~ System molecular optimization completed!

System reconstruction in progress~ System reconstruction completed!

Ding! Congratulations, owner, for obtaining one seventh-generation attack submarine, twelve torpedoes! Eleven tons of compressed helium-3 liquid!

Due to the large items, they have automatically been stored in the System Space; please check them yourself."

Hearing these reconstructed items, Lin Yi couldn’t help but exclaim, "Holy shit!"

Never mind the world-leading attack submarine, which wasn’t very useful to Lin Yi.

The main thing was the helium-3, a whopping eleven tons!!

What kind of concept is this?

Know that my mecha uses helium-3 compressed liquid by the gram for refueling.

This way, these eleven tons of helium-3 could last my mecha a lifetime!

Of course, Lin Yi wasn’t aware that this helium-3 had even more crucial uses.

For instance, a few years later, when he entered space and assembled that Star Destroyer, he was shocked to discover that the Star Destroyer’s fuel was helium-3!

Moreover, each ton of helium-3 was only enough to power the Star Destroyer for a month!!

Of course, that’s a story for another time; currently, Lin Yi was quite pleased with himself.

Now that I’m rich, I can finally go all out with the laser energy cannon that I didn’t dare to use before!!

While Lin Yi was smugly enjoying himself, the base was utterly dumbfounded.

Not only there but across the ocean in a certain building, the blonde old man stared at the video screen showing the submarine personnel floating on the sea, and in a fit of rage, flipped the table over:

"Fuck!! Bastards!! I painstakingly built the base and labored for thirteen years to mine helium-3!!"

[To be continued....]