605: Control the Earth and the Moon! Achieved!

All preparations were complete.

The water tanks at the bottom of the submarine began to draw in water, increasing the submarine's weight, and gradually, the submarine began to sink.

Academician Guo and the others all looked at the display screen in the control room.

It showed not only the internal situation of the submarine but also various current data of the submarine.

This included the pressure the submarine was currently enduring, the water flow conditions, various data changes, and the state of the submarine's outer hull.

Everything was clearly displayed on the screen.

Everyone was nervous.

Academician Guo was no exception.

If this submarine failed, he would have to wait a long time again.

Submarines, while they might not sound like high-tech, in fact, to meet the System's requirements, the technical content is extremely high, very troublesome, and very complex.

As the submarine continued to dive.

100 meters.

200 meters.

500 meters!

…………

1000 meters!

The submarine steadily reached a depth of a thousand meters.

There were no problems; from the data, the submarine's state was very stable.

This brought smiles to the faces of most people in the control room!

Very good!

Looking at its state, at least two thousand meters of deep sea would certainly not be a problem!

Academician Guo, however, had no smile on his face.

1000 meters was just the beginning!

The submarine only stayed briefly at a depth of 1000 meters, and soon, it continued to dive deeper!

1200!

1500!

…………

2000 meters!

When the submarine reached two thousand meters deep, everyone held their breath.

Such a massive submarine, diving into such a deep seabed!

It had already set a record in human history!

Looking at the submarine's condition, there were no problems at all; it seemed that continuing to dive deeper would also be fine!

“Let's continue to dive deeper! We'll find a place!”

Seeing this, Academician Guo also showed a faint smile on his face.

“And test the speed of the Dragon King at the bottom of the sea.”

“Alright, Academician Guo!”

Ye Cong smiled and nodded.

This was indeed something that should be done!

The submarine was very fast, and the modified warship could only barely keep up.

Soon, the submarine arrived at a trench in the Pacific Ocean.

Continuing to dive deeper!

Three thousand meters!

Five thousand meters!

Eight thousand meters!

Ten thousand meters!

The submarine steadily stopped at the deepest part of the ten-thousand-meter trench!

Everyone's eyes showed intense excitement.

This was an extremely great achievement!

“Begin attempting to mine!”

Academician Guo was also very excited; he seemed to see the dawn of the System mission being achieved!

Soon, the submarine began to try mining on the seabed using its manufactured mechanical arms and some engineering machinery!

The result was, without a doubt!

Success!

“Ding! User has met mission condition 1! Control the Deep Sea!”

The System's notification sounded in Academician Guo's ear.

His eyes showed excitement.

Finally!

One of the mission conditions for the large-scale mission of controlling the Moon and Earth has finally been achieved!

It wasn't easy!

It really wasn't easy!

At this time, everyone on the warship was very happy.

The submarine easily mined a large amount of rare metals from the deep sea; these polymetallic nodules deposited on the seabed were easily dug out by the submarine.

These manganese nodules are polymetallic nodules formed by many metals depositing on the seabed, with manganese as the core.

They contain a large amount of rare metals.

Extremely efficient!

Because there are specialized personnel controlling it on the seabed, they can completely avoid sediment and only mine the most useful manganese nodules.

In addition, other rare metal ore veins on the seabed were also found and successfully mined by the mechanical arms.

The resources on the seabed are extremely rich, containing many things that are less abundant on land.

It only took one or two days for the Dragon King to surface fully loaded.

It took some more time for everyone to return to the dock.

Although Academician Guo wasn't particularly interested in things like breaking even, as he wasn't short on money.

But Academician Guo was still a bit curious.

What was the composition of the whole ship's worth of material he mined from the seabed?

That was something extracted from nearly ten thousand meters deep in the sea!

Ye Cong was very happy; his smile hadn't disappeared since the Dragon King successfully completed its deep dive.

Conquering the seabed!

This goal had always been in humanity's plans, and now, they had achieved it!

This submarine allowed humanity to completely conquer the seabed!

Beneath the abyss!

The items on the submarine began to be unloaded.

This dock was built by Deep Space Technology a long time ago and has a specialized sorting System, as well as a mineral composition analysis System.

This was precisely for that purpose.

Otherwise, even if the submarine succeeded, without supporting facilities, the development of seabed resources would still be a difficult and troublesome matter.

Polymetallic nodules were continuously transported to land and began to be sorted.

Cobalt, nickel, copper, titanium, aluminum, molybdenum, zirconium, radium, thorium…………

The content of various metals varied, but they basically all contained large amounts of metal, with manganese content being relatively high, and also some inorganic deposits like calcium.

The metal content accounted for over seventy percent!

It can be said to be exceptionally rich!

And this time, the Dragon King submarine extracted a total of over four thousand tons of polymetallic nodules.

In other words, nearly three thousand tons of rare metals…

This was a lot of money!

Even if all these metals were copper, three thousand tons of copper would be worth 240 million dragon yuan!

After deducting all costs, the profit from this single voyage was worth at least 150 million!

The time taken was less than ten days!

Very profitable!

A thought arose in Academician Guo's mind.

Based on one trip every ten days, then two or three days for rest and resupply.

This submarine could make at least over 20 voyages a year.

In other words, such a submarine could create value of over 3 billion dragon yuan a year!

The cost of such a Dragon King submarine was over 10 billion.

This means that in about four or five years, all costs could be recovered, and the rest would be pure profit!

This business indeed had potential!

Moreover, most trenches are in international waters, and international waters resources do not have clear ownership, but now Dragon Country is the boss!

And it doesn't involve issues like seabed pollution, so mining these seabed minerals is completely fine!

It's profitable!

Academician Guo thought for a moment and called Zhou Ming to tell him his idea.

“Alright, Director Ye, I'll leave things here to you! I'm leaving now!”

Academician Guo smiled slightly, looking at Ye Cong as he spoke.

“Okay! Hao Ge, take care!”

Ye Cong quickly said to Hao Ge.

“Let's go!”

Academician Guo left with Shen Luoyan.

In the next year!

Fifty round trips to the Moon and drilling five thousand meters underground!

The two System requirements were successfully met one after another!

“Ding! Congratulations to the user for successfully completing the mission, Control the Moon and Earth!”

“Ding! Congratulations to the user! Gold Mission Reward Card +1, Free Experience +3,000,000, Random Draw Chances +4! Mysterious Unknown Reward +1!”