Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 248: For Your Majesty (63)

Dragon Raja 5

“That’s right! The receiver and transmitter are complete.” He looked around, “But we’re still missing the most important thing: the antenna array.”

“How could something as big as an antenna array be hidden in a room? Maybe the Soviets built the antenna array nearby. Let’s take the receiver and transmitter and run away first!” said Finger.

“No, according to the lady, the message she received was sent during the Snakes’ attack, and that battle took place right here,” Caesar said. “And in a place like this where ice storms are common, they definitely wouldn’t use conventional antenna arrays; they wouldn’t be able to withstand the storms. The Soviets must have used a special method to design the antenna array!”

The battle between the snakes and whales gradually became clearer. Surprisingly, the snakes were gaining the upper hand. The whales’ heartbeats had already faded by half. It wasn’t that the injured whales had withdrawn from the battlefield, but rather that the snakes had injected venom into their hearts. Leviathan seemed exhausted, its swimming speed slowing. It was unclear whether it still had the strength to unleash its icy Word Spirit.

If it really was the Dragon King, but was bitten to death by a group of snakes, then it would be the most aggrieved Dragon King in history.

The research station shook again, and the polyester fiber walls began to collapse, revealing a hard aluminum alloy skeleton. A mixture of blood and sea water poured in like a rainstorm.

Caesar suddenly pointed upwards in ecstasy, “I get it! I get it! This research station is the antenna array!”

Mai Jude and Finger were stunned, then understood. This research station was actually built on an aluminum load-bearing frame embedded in the ice shelf, itself constructed of a rigid aluminum keel. This massive, integrated aluminum frame was its longwave antenna array; the building itself was a massive transmitter.

The three of them set out together. There should be a port in the research station that could connect to the antenna array, but they hadn’t found one yet. The simplest solution was to connect the transmitter directly to the exposed aluminum frame with metal wire. The diesel generator in the basement was still running. This was their last chance. Connect the transmitter to the antenna array, crank the generator to maximum power, and send a distress signal to the world. The long, one-kilometer-wide wave would propagate along the surface of the land and sea, breaking through the communication fog God had set for them and reaching every corner of the Earth in an instant.

“Leave the wiring work to me.” Jiude Mai looked up at the exposed keel.

“There’s no other way. I’ll go and deal with that diesel generator. Isn’t it at maximum power?” Finger sighed.

Caesar was a little surprised. Everyone knew that it was the most dangerous to go to the basement at this time. The sea water was rising along the ice cracks and could flood the basement at any time. It turned out that the guy who was most afraid of death among them took on this job.

But the only one left to call was Caesar. At this moment, only the call of the heir of the Gattuso family had enough weight.

“The antenna array is connected!” Jude Mai shouted.

“Generator set at maximum power!” Finger yelled in the basement.

The generator set was running at high speed, and all the electricity was input into the long-wave transmitter.

Caesar switched on the long-wave transmitter, and the LEDs on the circuit board lit up, flickering. This old device had long since outlived its useful life, and the fragile diode circuit could burn out at any moment.

Time was running out, and the station continued to sink. Seawater surged up through cracks in the ice, flooding the station, reaching Caesar’s waist. The entire ice shelf was on the verge of collapse, and the structure would be forever submerged in the icy sea.

Caesar gripped the pager tightly, adjusted the frequency with trembling hands, and called repeatedly, “This is a call from Caesar Gattuso and the Cassel Academy Executive Department near the North Pole. Anyone receiving this signal, please forward it. This is a call from Caesar Gattuso and the Cassel Academy Executive Department near the North Pole. Our ship is in distress, our communications have been blocked, and our coordinates are…”

The long waves carried his voice across mountains and oceans, constantly consuming and reaching every corner of the world.

He tried to keep his tone calm so that his voice could still be heard clearly despite the attenuation, but his voice was trembling and hoarse.

The cold sea water was rapidly consuming his energy, the generator was rapidly consuming their limited diesel reserves, and every call he made was consuming the lives of three people.

Finger never returned to the hall. This time, the loser was not trying to escape. Instead, he took on the most difficult task and entered the most dangerous basement. The flooding in the basement should be more serious than in the hall. He was very likely trapped by the water.

Mai Jude was clinging to the exposed aluminum frame, ensuring the high-voltage wires wouldn’t fall off. She didn’t have time to securely connect the wires, so she had to use her hands to hold them in place. Bright purple sparks streamed across the frame.

They are in a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field, which affects the charge distribution throughout their body, causing tinnitus, dizziness, and palpitations.

It was a huge gamble. Caesar wasn’t sure the longwave transmitter’s frequency would penetrate the Arctic’s icy storms, nor was he sure anyone would be able to hear it. Worst of all, the device was essentially an antique longwave radio, little different from an old-fashioned radio except for its power. Caesar had to manually adjust each band, calling every one. And he was running out of time.

A piercing noise emanated from his headphones, and occasionally Caesar would catch distorted music and snippets of a broadcaster’s voice. It must have been from a long-wave radio station somewhere in the world. The North Pole wasn’t in their range, but some lucky fragments of electromagnetic waves managed to pass through tall buildings and towering mountains, miraculously drifting to distant lands. The broadcaster, in a language Caesar couldn’t understand, cracked up and crackled with laughter.

Suddenly, He felt a loneliness he had never felt before, as if you were shouting at the end of the world, but the world ignored you and continued to enjoy its own joys and sorrows.

He was so lonely that he even wanted to hear Pompeii’s voice, hoping that when he tuned to the next band, the man’s lazy voice would suddenly jump out and say, “Hey! Son! Tell me your coordinates! Daddy will come to save you!”     

A massive cracking sound echoed throughout the ice shelf, and the rush of seawater engulfed Caesar and the transmitter. The ice shelf had finally collapsed. If they had stood outside the research station, they would have seen a massive rift-like crack in the ice, extending for kilometers in an instant. The research station was located right next to the crack, and the load-bearing structure it was built on was like a sharp blade piercing the ice shelf, creating a perfect stress point if the ice shelf began to collapse.

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