Miss Beautiful C.E.O and her system

"Elena," uttered Ling Qingyu watching their submarine on the projecting, maneuvering close to Virginia-class.

"Don't worry, I have a sense of measure of what I'm about to do," Elena comforted everyone, but her words prompted everyone to sigh and shake their heads in dismay. They were more worried after hearing what she said.

Now that Elena drove close to Virginia-class and planned to flow below, everyone patiently watched. If Elena was more playful, she would already have touched the torpedoe buttons.

"Elena, do you know any news?" Ling Qingyu was referring to any suspicious event that led to a collective tri-lateral submarine meeting.

"Let me ask, I mean search for any updates." Elena walked away and acted on some monitors as if to investigate. Actually, she was communicating with Athena through the data connected via private satellite systems.

The entry of 50 satellites belonging to Ling Qingyu facilitated her AI daughters' works. There wasn't an extra energy and concern to erase traces and be mindful of their steps. Although the energy wasted was nothing more than eating more CPU, Athena and Elena felt better.

Elena returned to the captain position with a smile. Tang Ziyi asked. "What's up?"

"It's really fun." Elena chuckled. "There are two aircraft carrier fleet group from Country A nearby. Do you think things are simple?"

"Cut it out, dear. Don't mess our mind." Ling Qingyu pressed Elena to speak instead of strumming their strings.

Azi was also anxious, particularly when the rival nation had parked two aircraft carrier fleets, not one. Although she understood the two fleets should be far away, the pressure was still on. If not for impoliteness, she would have shaken Elena up and down in annoyance.

"Alright, Mom." Elena spat out her tongue playfully. She also knew she should stop, noticing everyone's malicious expression. "This morning, Country A navy nearby crashed its F-35, fifth-generation fighter, in the ocean during the so-called exercise."

Tang Ziyi's eyes beamed and added. "This means, everyone is racing to scavenge the important asset. A race between superpowers."

"Indeed, the avionics and the secret inside are worth it to risk limited conflicts." Elena agreed. "But I presume the three nations have reached unspoken rules. Whoever owns first belongs to them."

Azi clicked her tongue and muttered her dissatisfaction. She thought things were heating up and that gunpowder would explode anytime. It turned out nothing more than a scavenging race.

"I don't think that rules will work." Xiao Yue added.

"Smart." Elena flashed a thumbs-up. "As an insurance, Country A deployed another fleet to provide deterrence. Now, only submarines can be flexible to move around, unhindered. They are also sonar mapping the underwater surface actively to search for the debris."

While the girls were in deep thought, Elena smacked her lips in disappointment. Too bad, F-35 didn't crash later when 50 satellites could capture the image. With her submarine, it was easy to pick up the crashed fighter plane.

Inside Virginia-class submarine.

The Sonar operator stared at the monitor and listened to the sound from the headset with patience. He even narrowed his eyes whenever he thought he found something.

Not for long, he read a strange signal. His experience and expertise told him despite appearing natural, something artificial just crossed below the Virginia.

"Captain, you better take a look?" He turned his head and requested.

"What do you find, gentleman?" The captain instantly arrived by his side.

The sonar operator said nothing much and handed over the headset while explaining. "I discover an unusual blip, not matching any audio signature. And it's fast moving and just cross below us."

"Has the data show anything artificial?" The captain thought and asked.

"Only for a moment but that's it. According to analysis, it seems to be like a large marine creature but we know during our sonar operation, marine life stay away from us." The operator stated his opinion.

"So, you're telling me something man-made pass underneath us." The captain's expression turned livid. The most advanced state-of-an-art technology like Virginia-class submarine didn't even detect what the sonar operator said. If not for his familiarity and trust in the latter, the captain would have thought the man was joking around.

The others stopped their work. The air went silent, eerie to say the least. They understood what the sonar operator meant.

Receiving everyone's attention, the sonar operator nodded confidently. "I would never make a low-level mistake, but it's better safe than sorry to assume."

"Agreed. Raise the detection level, I want to know what it is?"

Someone raised concern. "Sir, if we increase our sonar detection, Country R and Country C will spot our locations."

"How wouldn't I know the risk? But letting someone tail us like a shadow is a deadly threat. We must find out today what that thing is." The captain trusted his subordinate and adhered to the sonar technician's advice.

"Is it possible, that what we encounter is a secret weapon from Country C?"

"Yeah, it's not that impossible. Who knows?" Find your next read on empire

"Get moving!" The captain barked orders, seeing snail-like speed. Without hesitation, crewmen responded to their tasks. "Boys and girls, have some trust in yourself. What if you're discovered, don't you dare to face Country R and Country C as the strongest navy in the world? We have the greatest backing, two aircraft carrier fleets, and the other friendly submarines in the vicinity. Now get to work."

"Sir. Yes, sir."

Red October hunt began in pursuit of an unidentified water object. Virginia's movements were explicitly loud, attracting puzzlement from Yasen and Type 94. The captains of both nations had only one confusion—what the hell was this Virginia's captain doing, alerting enemies and giving away position? Nobody should be this stupid.

Of course, based on the audio's signature, the two already regarded the source of sonar disruption as Virginia's doing. Anyway, they steered their submarines toward the chaos.

On the other side, Elena grinned noticing Virginia's reaction. The girls gulped but also paid attention to the sound. Everyone was wearing a headset and attempted to play as auxiliary crewmen.

Even though they knew nothing, first-hand experience was precious and something, not everyone had the opportunity to touch. Suddenly, an ear-piercing beep uttered into their ear. The girls exchanged glances and turned to Elena for advice.

Elena pretended to touch several buttons and controlled the submarine. "They are increasing search capabilities because we're invisible to them. Since we cross arrogantly underneath, some traces can be left behind, provided that Virginia has talented and experienced operators. It seems like, Country A has strong reconnaissance in underwater warfare."

"What do we do?" Ling Qingyu inquired, no longer bothering about Elena's playfulness. She was more worried Virginia launch torpedoes and cracked her new submarine into pieces.

Because Typhoon submarine modified by Miss System had weakness in an underwater dogfight, Ling Qingyu lacked confidence in confrontation. Everything else was strength.

"Since Mom says not to engage, we hide." Elena shrugged. "But that doesn't mean that I won't teach a lesson."

"Alright. As long as you have control and a plan." Ling Qingyu decided to trust Elena. Her AI daughter never failed her expectations. Even though Elena joined recently, Ling Qingyu believed her judgment.

Elena's submarine had a special coating and structural design to absorb multiple layers of any waves and deflect the waves to ensure, that echoing back to the origin didn't occur. Plus, sophisticated advanced technologies like controlled sonar destructive interference canceled the adversary's sonar pulses.

Multiple layers of guarantees assured the submarine remained stealthy even under increased active sonar search by the enemy at close range.

Of course, although Elena's submarine didn't use a propeller for thrust, reducing noise produced in conventional submarines considerately, sounds were still released as the machine moved through a fluid, caused by contraction and expansion of water particles around.

Plus, using moving water as thrust generated movements, tiny enough to be detected but they still existed.

Elena drove the submarine deeper, a few meters above seabed, all of which clearly observed in the hologram projection. Suddenly, Elena warned the girls because she also fought back—an agonizing loud screech reverberated and ripped out of the submarine. Naturally, it was a short pulse.

Virginia suffered damage as operators inside experienced ringing ears and discomfort. Everyone regained energy, picked up their concentration and tried to search for Ling Qingyu.

Too bad, by the time they recovered, Elena already mapped around and buried the submarine in the ravine and navigated away gradually. Furthermore, their sonar operators also felt like they needed rest to recover little ear damage. Type 94 and Yasem sped up, realizing Virginia definitely was in trouble. Although they were rivals, they wanted intels. No one disliked knowledge.

Having taught someone a lesson and messed around, Elena smirked as she sat on the captain seat with joy. She didn't know, Virginia's Captain gritted his teeth and vowed to search the troublemaker. Five minutes passed but his team found none.

At the same time, cold sweats appeared on every crew's forehead. They understood clearly the disparity between their foes and them. If the opponent wanted to decimate them, it was easy by the manner they were being played around. The only good news was that they confirmed what they sought for was man-made.