To the Bottom of the Ocean. Lunniva's light on the way to the unknown. Valentine Solonevich

to you. You were called here in order to sail to the Island and study the phenomenon of the origin of it, as you are the only group that can cope with this task. If you have additional questions, you can ask me now.

      All six divers negotiate. The doctor hopes that the group don’t have any additional questions and are going to sign up for the project. Ten minutes later, to Dr. Otto’s disappointment, Nayu starts talking aloud emotionally.

      NAYU

      Supposing we have accepted your proposal, we still need to know the exact location of the Island… How can we know it, since the Island itself is ten thousand kilometers away from us!?

      DR. OTTO

      Good question, in fact, I was waiting for it… There is a person in your group, who has devoted almost his entire life to studying the seas and the oceans, as well as the ways of orienting on the water surface. Am I right, Mr. Ryux? Also, your submarine has a special beacon installed, and a detailed map of the ocean, which will help you to avoid all the possible obstacles on the way of the submarine. You will be able to get to the Island without much difficulty with the help of this special equipment.

      Additional questions from Ryux.

      RYUX

      What is the speed of this fancy submarine and what does it looks like? What is it’s difference from the submarines of the previous centuries? I am asking because I want to clarify how long it is going to take us to arrive in the Island, and learn about the advantages of the Lunniva submarine.

      DR. OTTO

      The normal autonomous speed of the submarine Lunniva is 37,797 knots (70km/h). With full control in the management of the submarine, the maximum speed 70, 1944 knots (130 km/h) can be achieved. Provided you sail at the maximum speed for 10 hours and on an autonomous 14 hours, then…

      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 lets 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 5^th 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 (JMS) Japanese Marine Shipbuilding 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 the 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 cybersteel 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 cybersteel, 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, hydrorifles 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, this is 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,