The Blast!!! (Part One)

The deployment of the shipborne boats had been neither secret nor something they could keep secret, so news of them soon reached the commanders of the fleets from every country.

"What?"

Sander Humphrey, who had just had his wound bandaged, looked at Macchioni, who had appeared once again, and furrowed his brows into a tight knot.

"The Chinese have deployed another vessel?"

"That's right."

Macchioni handed Humphrey a photograph and explained:

"Mr. Humphrey, take a look. This was captured by one of our helicopters, and the Intelligence Group rushed the exposure."

Humphrey said nothing as he took the photograph and studied it.

When people in later generations thought of instant photography, most would immediately think of Polaroid.

Since Polaroid only entered Huaxia through Fujifilm in 2001, many people assumed instant photography—that is, rapid photo development—had been invented relatively recently.

But in reality,

Edwin Herbert Land had invented instant photography as early as 1941. By this point, the technology had already spread throughout Across the sea's entire reconnaissance network.

Even a shipborne helicopter could easily produce images on the spot, and the resulting photographs were of very high quality.

At that moment,

although the photograph was in black and white, Humphrey could clearly see a shipborne boat in the image. It appeared to have a two-level design, similar to an ordinary speedboat, and was much more rudimentary than a standard survey vessel.

As Humphrey examined the photograph, Macchioni filled him in on some of the details:

"Based on our estimate, the boat is about 20 to 22 meters long. It was originally concealed on the deck of the Varyag-class Cruiser. They had covered it with a blackout tarp, so our reconnaissance planes didn't spot it earlier."

"We received word that the boat had been launched five minutes ago, so we immediately