While Long Yun and Fenrir sat on the deck of the "Sea Giant" enjoying the freshest seafood feast and drinking the world's most expensive diamond champagne, more than a dozen heavy tankers were busy around a white balloon the size of a football field at the airfield of the US military base in the British Chagos Islands.
A can protrudes from the tail of each tanker, and the motor rumbles, continuously pumping the compressed gas from the tank into a white balloon.
Standing outside the field, the falcon was very nervous at this time, this balloon was related to the success or failure of this raid on the "jellyfish" base of the Deacon Department of the Liberation Society, and the most important thing was that there was no backup for this thing, there was only one, as long as something went wrong, everything was in vain.
The huge balloon began to gradually expand, and Hayabusa looked at his watch, this time he was going to feed 4ooo cubic meters of helium into the balloon, and a space capsule made of titanium alloy would be hoisted under the balloon, which could hold ten people.
"How's your preparation, Falcon," Finch asked from the headset.
"I need at least three hours of preparation time here, the balloon needs to be inflated, the capsule has to be suspended, and the final security check is not too fast."
"Is there any new movement in the direction of Mumbai?"
"That's right, the satellite detected that Long Yun and Fenrir boarded a huge ship from the port of Mumbai, although it was disguised as a merchant ship, but according to the information sent back by our people in Mumbai, this ship was originally an oil tanker, but it was bought by a mysterious wealthy family in India, and it has been staying in the dock recently, and at least more than a thousand workers have been working day and night in the shipyard for months in a row, I am afraid that it has been modified to weaponize it."
"Where is Long Yun now?"
asked Hayabusa.
"Just past the British Chagos Islands, heading towards the Java Trench."
"Based on the calls we have intercepted, they have six hours left to reach their destination," Finch said. ” "Six hours" Hayabusa turned on the laptop computer placed on the hood of the jeep next to him, calculated and said, "No problem, we can take off on time in 3 hours" The falcon looked up in the direction of the large balloon, and the behemoth, which had been shriveled at first, had risen slightly by now.
"After takeoff, I calculated that we could pass through the stratosphere to an altitude of 40,000 meters in about 2 hours, and the error was no more than half an hour, and in any case, we had half an hour to carry out the airdrop."
"Have you calculated the landing time" Finch was still a little uneasy, Falcon was an outlier in the operations department of the Sky Dome Corporation, and no one had worked as a technician in the logistics department and a specialist in the operations department like him.
"It took about 1o minutes to land, and we had enough time to land on the jellyfish."
Hayabusa said.
"Okay, you go ahead with your work, I'll get everyone ready, see you later."
Finch cut off the call.
"Doctor, do you think we must use this way to get into the jellyfish," Lena, who was standing on the sidelines, asked as she nibbled on a large bag of potato chips, "if we land this way, if we are seen by the people on the jellyfish, we will become a live target, and we will be beaten into a sieve in the air, and there is only one way to die." ” "There's no better way."
Finch shook his head and glanced at Ducat, who was standing aside, "President Du should know more about this than I do. ” "Miss Lena, jellyfish is not as simple as you think, in fact, our Alchemy Guild also has a sketch, this sketch is actually left by Mailor back then, in fact, in the early fifteenth century, Mailer once wanted to build a jellyfish by himself, this giant submersible is actually called Noah's Ark in ancient mythology, but Meller took out a simplified version, according to the information he once provided, jellyfish is a way to build a huge shelter recorded in the jade record, The technology originated from the first alien aircraft carrier to land on Earth.
So, don't underestimate this thing, if built properly, it has strong defensive properties.
Ducatt shook his big bald head and said with a sly thought.
"What's the performance," Lena asked.
Ducatt spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know about this, maybe Mailer is the one who knows best, the sketch he drew at that time did not have a defensive weapon device, because he is a so-called pacifist enthusiast and does not like lethal weapons, so he just drew the hull, but I believe that the weapons on it will not be too backward."
After all, its technology is derived from the oldest Atlantean starships, and while it's a simplified version, it's big enough to take on any army today. ” "Haines, this old thing, where did you get the blueprints?"
said Lena.
When Ducater heard this, his old face turned red and his expression became unnatural.
Seeing Ducat's embarrassed expression, Finch took over the conversation: "That's the case, there will be traitors in any organization, and the Alchemy Guild is not surprised.
After all, dwarfs are greedy for money."
He said as he glanced at Ducat, which was clearly not a good word.
Ducat, however, paid no attention to this slightly derogatory remark, as if the word greed for money was a traditional habit for the gnomes, and was not a disadvantage.
"At the end of 1939, after Hitler launched World War II, Haines, who held a key position in the Axis powers, began to search for degenerate alchemists in large numbers, collecting technical information in their hands, and as long as they offered an offer, they would definitely meet the demand.
This is why Germany's military technology at that time advanced by leaps and bounds, but these weapons were not very satisfactory to Haines and even Hitler, after all, they were just some low-grade alchemy military technology, not high-end things. ” Finch picked up a cigar from the table, handed one to Ducat, took one and lit it himself, puffing white smoke and continuing: "But his luck seems to be good, and he finally found a person, and this person is not an ordinary character, it is an elder in the Alchemy Guild, whose name is Hysim.
At first, Hysim just wanted to sell things for a small amount of money, but Haynes had already bought enough junk military technology to look down on Hysim's perfunctory gadgets.
In the end, Hysim was anxious and revealed the news that the top secret data room of the Alchemy Guild contained the sketch of the ark that Mailer had left behind. ” Ducatt snorted, "Hysim, this guy completely broke his oath, and in the end he couldn't escape our palms" "Finally Haynes got the sketch," Lena asked.
"Of course, when Haynes heard the news, of course, he was like a treasure, and under coercion and temptation, Hysim finally relented and agreed to help them make a copy."
Finch said, "That's the prototype of the jellyfish base now. ”: