American Detective: Starting as a Rookie Cop in an American TV Show

Chapter 1346 Landing on the Island
Although they also dived underwater, the risk for Jack and Clay this time was much higher than their previous trip to Devil's Island.

The commando team led by General Hammer on Devil's Island must be more professional than the armed security of the current island, and they have been prepared in advance.

This unnamed island is not only more than twice as large as Devil's Island, but its vegetation coverage is also much higher than that of "that stone". Moreover, there are a group of wealthy and powerful people living on the island, so the difficulty of operations after landing on the island is not too high.

But the problem is that in the battle of Alcatraz, Jack and the SEALs were supported by a complete special operations system.

Not to mention that the SEALs have professional auxiliary equipment such as the Mark-8 underwater vehicle, the statistical data on the hydrological conditions in the San Francisco Bay alone is extremely professional and detailed.

The ocean currents, tides, seabed topography and even the distribution of reefs are all clearly known. Combined with the planning of professionals, the seals only need to follow the guidance of the small unmanned submarine to reach the drainage outlet safely.

The risk faced by Jack and Clay at this moment is more than twice as high as that of Devil's Island. Although they have conducted a rough survey with an unmanned submarine in advance, it is only enough for them to simply plan their route.

The underwater environment will change after high tide, and the reefs that were originally exposed above the sea will disappear below the sea surface and become more difficult to detect.

Although the two did not need to dive underwater to find the drainage exit like they did on Devil's Island, and the nameless island did not have tall and steep cliffs, after avoiding the beach and the pier, they did not have many landing points to choose from.

The shape of this island is somewhat similar to an irregular trident. The overall terrain is roughly high in the west and low in the east. The beach and pier are located at the lower end on the east side, occupying the longest tip in the middle of the trident and an arc that winds southward respectively.

There is no lighthouse on the island. Only a radar station on the top of a mountain in the southwest has a strobe light that keeps flashing. It is set up to prevent helicopters from crashing into the mountain.

There were several searchlights set up around the radar station, but they were all pointing toward the sea. If it weren't for these searchlights, Jack and Clay wouldn't have to use the more dangerous snorkeling method to reach the island. They could have just gotten a buoyant surfboard or something and swam over slowly.

At the foot of the mountain north of the radar station, there is a small reservoir for collecting fresh water. It is the lowest point on the island except for the beach and the pier. The cliff near the reservoir is less than 5 meters away from the sea surface at high tide.

This small reservoir would be doomed if a typhoon came, as the hurricane would bring waves to the island and fill it with seawater. However, the rainwater collected here is usually enough for daily use by hundreds of people.

This was the landing site chosen by Jack and Clay. Firstly, it was relatively easy to climb. Secondly, after climbing up, they only needed to continue walking south for a few dozen meters up the mountain to reach the radar station located at the commanding heights of the entire island.

How big can an island of more than 30 square meters be? Although its shape is irregular, you can still easily overlook the entire island from the top of a hill with an altitude of less than meters.

As long as they occupied this commanding height, Jack could ensure that even if they moored their fishing boats directly at the island pier, the armed security on the island would not be able to pose any substantial threat to them.

"puff!"

Pushed by the waves, Jack involuntarily crashed into the reef beside him. Although he barely stepped on the water and turned his body sideways to avoid the sharpest part of the reef at the critical moment, the huge force from the sea water was unmatched.

His back hit the smoother side of the reef hard, and a sweet and fishy taste rushed up his throat. Jack quickly cast a healing spell on himself.

Although Clay said the sea conditions were good, they were only good. They were far from calm, and high tide would form extremely dangerous surges in the reef area near the shore. Jack was unlucky just now. When he was floating up, he was hit by a wave and hit the reef. If he hadn't reacted quickly, he might have hit his head and died, without even a chance to "recover".

"Are you okay?" Clay, who reached the reef first, realized something was wrong, and quickly tightened the safety rope in his hand and dragged him onto the slippery rocks.

Jack took off his diving mask with a snorkel, looked at the dark sea behind him with lingering fear, and said stubbornly, "It's not a big problem."

As they talked, the two of them pulled the rope together, first pulling up the underwater thruster that had been turned off, and then the two equipment boxes hanging on the thruster.

With a soft "bang" sound, the grappling hook flew high up for the third time under the action of carbon dioxide compressed air, and sank into the darkness with the rope.

Clay pulled it twice and found it was firm. He turned and smiled at Jack, "Good luck. It should have hooked onto the coconut tree."

Both of them had waterproof paint on their faces, and their smiles looked a little funny under the full moon, but Clay was right, they were indeed lucky.

But Jack raised his hand to stop Clay from doing anything else. "You came up first. Now it's my turn."

After saying that, he picked up the safety rope, hung it around his waist, and began to climb up with extremely flexible movements.

The two are now on a slippery reef, located under a depression in the rock wall eroded by sea water. Although the overall height is less than 5 meters, the distance to the reef below is more than 3 meters.

If the rope fell halfway through climbing, Jack was confident that he could still survive after hitting the reef and falling into the sea, but Clay was not sure.

Fortunately, the thing he worried about did not happen. After successfully touching the cliff wall, Jack immediately hammered a rock nail into the crevice of the stone, and then hung the safety rope hook. Then he breathed a sigh of relief, gestured to Clay under him, and continued to climb up.

As expected, the cliff less than 5 meters high did not cause too much trouble for the two. After pulling Clay and the two equipment boxes up, Jack breathed a sigh of relief. The first and most difficult stage was finally completed.

At this time, next to the fishing boat, which was still brightly lit, two inflated rubber boats were rising and falling slightly with the waves, but there was no one on them at this time.

Everyone was waiting outside the captain's room with serious expressions, and there was an unconcealable anxiety in each other's eyes.

Three hours had passed since Jack and Clay set out. Although they would have just reached their destination at the planned speed of two knots, everyone was still worried.

Finally, there was a click from the intercom that Frank had been holding in the captain's room, followed by Jack's deliberately lowered voice, "The 'red phase' has passed, and it is expected to enter the 'yellow phase' in ten minutes. Over!"

"Well done!" Cassel and old rookie John, who were waiting at the cabin door with two almost identical faces, heard it very clearly and couldn't help but clap their hands excitedly and cheered.

(End of this chapter)