Ami sharply interrupts the doctor’s slander:
AMI
Then we will arrive in about four and a half days, but we will decide on our own how we are going to sail.
More important thing is what we are going to expect on the waterway during our voyage… We are aware that the moment we catch the sight of the island of the Three Trunks, we are going to endure the anomalous zones with whirlpools in different places, as well as with new types of sea creatures. Can my assumption be somehow justified?
Out of the sudden, there is a knock on the conference room door and Dr. Otto’s phone starts to ring simultaneously. The doctor hangs up the phone call, gets up from his chair and walks to the door, asking the following:
DR. OTTO
Your code word?
???????(Unknown person)
A sharp needle of Lunniva’s figurehead.
Hearing a familiar female voice and the correct answer, the doctor dials the door code: 737688556. The door opens and the doctor let’s the woman in. The woman is in her thirties. She wears a formal black-orange suit (the colors of which refer to her being the CEO of an engineering department). She has beautiful long brown hair pinned up with a large and chic silver barrette.
DR. OTTO
I want to introduce you this woman. Her name is Narva.
She is a doctor of technical sciences, the head of the engineering department, which, together with her team, were responsible for the development and the creation of the Lunniva submarine. She will accompany you and answer all of your questions. Please, accept my apologies, but I have to take my leave on some urgent business.
Before the doctor leaves, he tells to Narva the door code.
Chapter 2 – The pearl of the ocean submarine Lunniva
DR. NARVA
Greetings to the six professional divers. Since Dr. Otto has already introduced you, then I propose to proceed to the next stage of our meeting. After that I will ask everyone to leave the conference room and follow me.
Dr. Narva and six divers leave the conference room, descend from the 5th floor and go outside. Next, they head to an alley between two attached offices near the headquarters, where there is a huge metal door with a retinal authentication security system. Doctor, having brought her eye closer to the protection system, opens the door and leads everyone to the Lunniva hangar.
DR. NARVA
Now we are next to a closed-type hangar facility specially created by (JPU) Japan Marine United Corporation, where the finished version of the Lunniva submarine is located.
After passing through three stages of the security system (retina authentication, fingerprint and voice control), Dr. Narva opens the main door of the Lunniva hangar.
DR. NARVA
We are now in the only hangar that currently has direct access to the Pacific Ocean via submersible diving. As you can see, the design of the Lunniva submarine is similar to it’s aerial counterpart, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft, namely in it’s matte black color, perfectly engineered construction from high quality materials, where the main feature is it’s sharp bow and rear parts of the submarine, which in their own way they look like a silver sickle or a crescent of the moon. The main material of the strong hull of the submarine in connection with the latest technology is made special alloyed cyber-steel with the highest yield strength.
Kize asks a counter question about the submarine.
KIZE
Look! On the sides of the submarine, in addition to the windows, you can see several huge bubbles covered with glass and cyber steel, and machine guns stick out of them!?
DR. NARVA
Yes, inside each bubble, you can control a special machine gun with a 180-degree field of view, and instead of a machine gun, you can attach other types of weapons, such as harpoons, hydro rifles and crossbows. Bubbles, as you already understood, are designed for self-defense in case of unforeseen dangers on the way to the island, of course, in order to use them effectively, you will have to get good at managing to protect yourself and the submarine from unforeseen situations during your mission…
However, I think that you will succeed, and there should not be any special problems in this. Several prototype APS weapons with a decent amount of ammo, as well as 3 weeks of fuel supplies are in a separate submarine mini-storage.
The submarine consists of several compartments where each of them has it’s own number, name and a small description in front of the entrance. I don’t think I will talk in more detail about each compartment, I’ll keep it a secret, you’ll see everything for yourself, I wouldn’t want to break the whole intrigue for you…
As you already know, or maybe some of you still don’t know… In fact, on your way you may meet little-known creatures of the underwater world, which arose as a result of the birth of the island of the Three Trunks.
It is possible that you will have to protect yourself from these creatures, for this reason, a model of this type of submarine was created. The phenomenon of the rapidly developing and breeding creatures is not exactly known, the Three Trunks appeared quite recently, about a month ago after a water earthquake in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
Judging by the calculations of the latest data sent by a group of scientists, it becomes known that the situation can develop to the stage of an imminent threat from the water part of our planet. No matter how strange it sounds to you, but the worst possible outcome may be an increase in the water level above the normal, and the advance of multiple tsunamis that can flood an entire part of the continent. The situation is extremely critical and requires immediate intervention. You will need to destroy the island Shunevo.
Namely, his Three Trunks that have grown deep into the ocean, it is assumed that they are supposed to keep the island afloat, help it flourish and mutate so fast, it’s the only way that should help to destroy the island itself. In the submarine, you will need to go down to a depth of several thousand meters, and there will also be the smallest thickness of the Three Trunks, they will need to be burned out by the main energy laser of the Lunniva submarine.
More detailed information about the depth of the descent, as well as the final location of the point of the minimum thickness of the Three Trunks will be given to you by Dr. Otto at the time of your departure to the island. Survive, and do everything right at any cost, based on the remaining time, only your team will be able to do it.
Everything I had to tell you, I told you. It is up to you to agree to the mission or not, the government asked you not to be late with the answer, you have three whole days to think about it.
It is forbidden to disclose all the information anywhere and to anyone at this time, otherwise, as I was informed, serious problems may arise not only for you, but also for your families, take this seriously. I suggest you go down into the submarine itself and explore it, because it was made just for your group! For my part, I can only wish you good luck and choosing the right solution!
After exploring the submarine Lunniva by six divers, time gradually approached night. No one else had any significant questions. Dr. Narva escorted everyone back to the headquarters, from where the six friend’s went to their personal cottage in which they have been living together for about 10 years. In these very three days of reflection, they will have to make a common decision – to agree to this mission or not…
Chapter 3 – Reflections on the way home
AMI
Guy’s, if we hurry now, then in 10 minutes we will have time to arrive at the Takashimacho station, and the train itself will arrive in 20 minutes.
NAYU
Sounds good to take the metro today, we will get to the Kishinekoen station in 10 minutes. It was a very stormy emotional day, today I was so worn out and tired…
Nayu in her mind (exciting surge of emotions): Ahhhhh, how I want to quickly take off all my clothes and go to my perfect, chic and elegant bathroom, lie down on my bed and forget about everything else…
KIZE
Nayu, you have the same emotion every day – exhausted and tired. Surprisingly, for such a long time together, I heard nothing new from you.
Nayu in an angry state and holding a herring fish plush toy.
NAYU
I’m sorry, but I just didn’t understand one important thing, my dear, now someone will get a slap in the face.
A funny scene on the way to the subway – taking out a plush herring fish from her purse, Nayu chases the fleeing Kize down the street to hit him with bream.
MIYA
HEEEH, why are you both in such a hurry? Does anybody remember that it’s today’s Ryux’s birthday? And who will go shopping with me on this occasion, HAAAH!?
Ryux, not hearing Miya’s words and, as usual, sitting on the phone with headphones, looks at some messages on the Japanese gaming community site, walking behind everyone. Full of excitement, Miya ran up to Ryux and abruptly grabbed his arm, knocking him out of business and running forward after Nayu and Kize, Yuto and Ami stay behind.
AMI
Well, everyone ran away, Yuto, let’s go, we should hurry up and catch up with them now, otherwise we will miss the train.
YUTO
Sure, let’s catch up with these clowns.
Yuto and Ami ran after the four to the subway station. With grief in half, all six ran to the metro station on time and boarded the train. Out of breath, all six sat down on a free row of the train.
MIYA
As we leave the station, so who will go shopping with me… Nayuuu!?
NAYU
I’m not… I’m already exhausted, it will be amazing if I reach the house on my own legs…
Kize, maybe you don’t mind carrying me in your arms to our house?
KIZE
No, why should I do this? But I can help by pushing you towards the house, thereby increasing your walking speed.
NAYU
Wha… Wha… What… You don’t care about women at all…
You will remain one bachelor in this life, hm…