Over the next few days, the entire navy sprang into action.
Liu Yishou personally led a team to review every roster.
The service members' records, combat achievements, and political vetting reports.
Document after document piled up on his desk.
He read through them, ticking names off the list.
"This one's good. Served on escort missions in the South Sea. Plenty of experience."
"This one too. Ranked first in antisubmarine training."
"Not this one. Leave him out for now. His background raises concerns."
Liu Yishou was meticulous, personally reviewing every noncommissioned officer.
As for the enlisted soldiers, others screened them. He only needed to select the NCOs.
Three days later, the roster of one hundred thousand service members was finalized.
Everyone signed the highest-level confidentiality agreement and began familiarizing themselves with the new ships' combat systems and logistical support.
The training grounds in Arctic waters.
A heavily modified Type 055 ten-thousand-ton destroyer broke through the floating ice, plowing a white channel behind it.
Inside the bridge's command room, the atmosphere was rather strange.
"Report! Simulated underwater target group detected ahead!"
"Prepare to discharge the high-voltage pulsed current!"
The commander stared at the screen and gave the order without expression.
Beneath the ship, the newly installed insulating layer activated instantly.
Energy was drawn furiously from the nuclear fusion reactor and channeled into the densely packed electrodes beneath the hull.
Ten seconds later.
Humm-
An invisible, terrifying force erupted from beneath the ship.
The seawater for hundreds of meters around instantly boiled, countless white bubbles churning upward as though an undersea volcano had erupted.
A second later, the sea turned silvery white.
Thousands upon thousands of Arctic cod of all sizes floated up, white bellies skyward, forming a dense and spectacular mass.
On deck, the soldiers on watch stared, dumbfounded.
A young soldier