Chapter 559: Mines

"What?!" Dr. Henry was shocked. Isn't this too contagious and explosive? It took only a few hours to get infected and have an attack? !

As mentioned earlier, the "San Francisco" cargo ship was loaded with five kilograms of nuclear waste. As the shock wave of the explosion scattered around, these people were busy around the lock all night, and they were inevitably contaminated with some radioactive dust, and even inhaled into their bodies. In this way, everyone became a human radiation soldier, a mobile radiation source; and now so many people gathered in the hospital, the whole hospital has become a terrible radiation site.

Dr. Henry naturally didn't know this, he thought it was some new type of acute yellow fever. "This is not good. The Governor must notify the country to request support." Whether it is manpower or medicine, they are far from enough here, and they must ask for support from the country.

Pick up the phone and call the Governor's office. When I learned that the Governor had returned home, I called the Governor's home again. The Governor's wife answered the phone. "Madam, where is the Governor?"

"Dr. Henry, he seems to have food poisoning, but he is much better after vomiting once and is resting. I heard that there are many patients with food poisoning in the hospital? Are they not in serious condition?"

"God! It seems that the Governor is also infected. Madam, this is not food poisoning, I suspect it is acute yellow fever. I will send an ambulance over, you and the Governor come over, this disease is very contagious, I have to suspect that you have been infected. Before that, please ask the Governor to call the country for support. There are too many patients here, and our hospital is short of staff and medicine."

"Oh my God!" The Governor's wife was startled, put down the phone and ran into the bedroom to wake up the Governor. "Dear, wake up, don't sleep!!"

The Governor, who was sleeping dazedly, opened his eyes and said weakly. "What's the matter?"

The lady said anxiously. "Just now, Dr. Henry from the hospital called and said that this is not food poisoning at all. It is suspected to be acute yellow fever. The hospital is almost full of patients, so I asked you to seek help from home."

"Yellow fever?! Damn it!" The governor also knew the horror of yellow fever. With the help of his wife, he went to the phone and called home.

This matter was reported to the President's Office all the way.

President Roosevelt, who was quite unhappy with the refugee boats in the Middle East, received such bad news again, and was even more furious. "It's really weird. There is an explosion of a cargo ship and acute yellow fever. How did yellow fever come out? Wasn't it eliminated 30 years ago?!" Complaints are complaints, but they can't be ignored. He ordered to organize a medical team to rush to the Panama Canal immediately.

At this time, outside the Brooklyn base, a fleet was slowly approaching the base. There were five cargo ships in total, each carrying 20,000 tons of special steel, which was used by the Brooklyn Shipyard to build new battleships and aircraft carriers. According to the development of the original time and space, the Brooklyn Shipyard will build several "Essex" class aircraft carriers and "Iowa" battleships.

Boom!

As soon as these freighters approached the No. 1 entrance channel of the base, there was a sudden deafening roar, and a thick water column rushed up from the bottom of the leading freighter, as if cutting the freighter in half. The water column seemed to pause in mid-air for a second, and then slammed back into the sea, and the waves it raised affected the nearby pilot boat. The pilot boat, which was not very large in tonnage, was tossed in the waves like a leaf.

The new acoustic mine laid by the Tiger Shark submarine a few days ago was finally activated and detonated by this big guy. This kind of combined fuse is expensive, so it can't be used casually to blow up destroyers, cruisers, etc. The engineers adjusted the sensitivity of the fuse, so although many ships have come in and out these days, they have not been detonated, and now this freighter has become the victim of this mine.

A piercing alarm sounded in the base, and the crew on the pilot boat watched in horror as the middle of the huge freighter's hull was deforming at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was obvious that the underwater explosion just now had destroyed the freighter's keel, and seawater was pouring into the lower cabin of the hull.

They saw that the ship might not last even ten minutes and would have to sink to the bottom of the sea. Because it was fully loaded with metal, the ship had very little extra buoyancy. Under this sudden and severe blow, the keel was actually torn into two pieces, the rear of the hull was tilted, and the propeller that had stopped turning was exposed to the water.

The sailors on the freighter obviously had the same idea, and they jumped into the cold sea water like dumplings.

The sailors on the pilot boat picked up the tires hanging on the outside of the ship's chords, and threw them out when the wheels were round.

The sailors in the water swam out more vigorously. When the big ship sank, the water around the hull would sink with the hull, forming a large vortex, sucking in the surrounding things. The larger the ship, the larger the vortex. Once they were caught in the vortex created by a ship of this tonnage, it was difficult for them to escape and they could only sink to the bottom of the sea with the ship.

Fortunately, there were pilot boats nearby, and they rushed over to salvage the sailors on the sea.

After a while, the freighter completely disappeared on the sea surface, leaving only some oil stains to indicate that it had existed. Only then did several destroyers rush out and begin searching the surrounding seas.

"Damn it!" Base commander Johnson was yelling. "We must find the German submarines and sink them all!" He thought it was a German submarine lurking nearby and fired a torpedo to sink the freighter, but he didn't expect that it was a mine that exploded. After all, just before this fleet arrived, a fleet left the base from there.

Fortunately, this freighter did not sink in the entrance channel. The four freighters behind it avoided the sinking point and continued to sail towards the entrance channel.

"Boom!" There was another loud noise, a water column, and the second freighter was also hit.

Johnson almost spit out a mouthful of blood, but this time he finally realized that something was wrong. "Let those freighters stay where they are. This is not a torpedo attack. There are mines there! Send out a minesweeper to sweep the mines! Damn, how could there be mines here? When were they laid?!" He actually asked someone to lay mines at his doorstep. If this matter spread to the higher-ups, he might not be able to keep his position as the commander of the base.

Uh, 40,000 tons of special steel sank, and this position can no longer be kept.

The minesweeper team set off and carefully swept back and forth in front of the freighter several times, but did not find any mines. However, to be on the safe side, Johnson asked the minesweeper team to continue to check for mines in the No. 2 entrance channel, and let the remaining three freighters enter the base from the No. 2 entrance.

After the minesweeper team sent a message that everything was OK, the remaining three freighters slowly approached Entrance 2.

"Boom!"

Jensen completely collapsed!