"Mr. Meng Hao."
"According to radar ranging, we are less than three hundred kilometers from the nearest coastline."
"If we increase speed, we should reach the shore by noon tomorrow."
Meng Hao was stunned.
He was no longer even interested in the canned peas.
His homeland, which he had dreamed of day and night.
Was it finally within reach?
"I wonder what Mom and Dad are doing now, if they are still well?"
"I wonder if Luna and Zhang Xijin have already arrived in our Great Xia?"
"I wonder if that girl Qin Muyan is still waiting for me?"
"And my Huarong Technology, there shouldn't be any major problems, right!"
Accompanied by countless question marks.
Meng Hao adjusted his mindset.
He was getting closer and closer to home.
There should be no more safety issues.
However.
Out of caution.
Meng Hao still did not contact the country, but authorized Wenqu to go full throttle, heading straight for the coast of Great Xia.
Even.
On the distance map displayed on the central control console, Meng Hao began to imagine how he would expose the ugly face of the United States after returning home.
Damn it.
He had been inexplicably confined for half a year, and things couldn't just be let go.
...
The next day.
On the beach.
Although it was just after early spring.
For Guang Province, which is by the sea, it was already warm enough.
On the beach.
There were quite a few people playing in the water.
A few big men.
Were lying under a sunshade that was not very useful... The sun was not strong at all.
The reason they were using sunshades was entirely to shield their wandering eyes.
On the beach.
There were so many girls.
"I say, look at that girl, she's so pretty and lively!"
"It's still good in our Guang Province, the weather is warm quickly, and we can see girls running around in bikinis so early."
"Wow wow, quick, look at that girl, her clothes are not on properly, it seems like they might fall off."
"What are you looking at, buddy?"
One of the lecherous men's gaze seemed to have shifted.
"I say, brothers."
"I suddenly feel that these girls are not attractive to me at all."
"Look at that spot, there seems to be a monster rising from the sea."
What?
A monster in the sea?
Impossible.
This area is not known to have any man-eating great white sharks.
Could it be a stranded whale?
That's not right either.
From the appearance of this thing, it's much smaller than a whale.
They no longer cared about looking at pretty girls.
These brothers all stood up and walked towards the edge of the beach.
At the same time.
They were joined by more onlookers who had also spotted a strange object surfacing in the sea.
"Wow?"
"What is that?"
"Is it a submarine?"
"That's not right either, our Great Xia submarines usually don't appear in the sight of ordinary people easily unless they are on a mission."
"Could it be a warship from a joint military exercise that took the wrong route?"
As everyone curiously ran over.
That black thing completely emerged from the seabed.
It was indeed a submarine.
More and more people gathered.
People began to take photos and post this behemoth online.
...
Meanwhile, at the Guang Province Military Region.
Personnel responsible for coastal detection suddenly discovered a strange red dot on the radar.
"Huh?"
"What the hell is this?"
"How did a strange signal suddenly appear?"
"Before, neither on radar nor sonar did we detect any corresponding trajectory signals!"
Regardless of how this signal appeared.
The personnel monitoring radar and sonar quickly uploaded the information.
After all.
These were extraordinary times.
A joint military exercise was underway in the waters of Australia, thousands of kilometers away.
If this suspected submarine-like object was coming from Australian waters, it would be a big problem.
Something that had never appeared on radar or sonar, and had suddenly appeared off the coast of Great Xia?
This indicated that this military equipment had stealth capabilities.
A strange submarine that could fool the sonar and radar of a dual-carrier fleet, only to be discovered upon reaching the coast of Great Xia?
What a terrifying existence this was.
It proved that the Western Alliance countries already possessed stealth technology far surpassing Great Xia's stealth technology, radar, and sonar detection technology.
...
As the news was continuously reported.
It soon alerted the Guang Province Military Region.
Immediately.
Troops stationed in the Guang Province Military Region were dispatched.
Seven or eight military helicopters were the first to arrive at the beach.
Then, a large number of military police dispersed the curious onlookers and sightseers on the beach.
After all.
No one knew.
Whether this submarine-like object carried any lethal weapons.
If ordinary people were accidentally harmed, the problem would be huge.
...
The first military personnel to arrive.
Had already cordoned off the entire beach.
The submarine-like object began to slow down.
There was no way.
There was no suitable military port here, so it could only proceed slowly, trying to get as close to the coast as possible without running aground.
"Say, have they figured out the origin of the other party?"
"Contact them immediately via radio."
"Is the other party friend or foe?"
As superiors continued to ask questions.
Some experienced soldiers began to cautiously approach in combat assault boats.
"It's likely a submarine, and judging by its size, it shouldn't be a nuclear submarine, but a conventional submarine."
"Strangely, if it were a conventional submarine, it should have started its diesel engine upon surfacing, but we haven't smelled any pungent odor... Most importantly, if it's a conventionally powered submarine, how could this submarine have disappeared from our detection equipment?"
"All information has been reported to the command center!"
...
Guang Province Military Region.
A temporarily established special situation processing center.
Several high-ranking provincial officials with general stars on their shoulders looked at the information sent back with astonishment.
Whether judged by appearance or by any other data parameters.
The submarine in front of them did not belong to any submarine of any country they knew.
In fact.
According to the detectors at the front line, this submarine did not even have a diesel generator for conventional submarines.
No diesel generator.
And not a nuclear-powered submarine.
Then what was the main power source of this submarine?
It couldn't be charged, could it?
That would be too ridiculous.
There were no reports yet of any country having charging submarines that could navigate the entire ocean.
What made them even more confused was.
This submarine of unknown origin had not transmitted any information since it began to surface.
There was no effective communication, and the submarine's hatch did not open.
So.
What the hell was this submarine?!