The operations room remained frozen for several seconds afterward.
Only static filled the monitor now.
Captain Weber stared at the dead screen silently while the sonar compartment behind them suddenly erupted with activity.
"Captain!"
One of the sonar operators practically shouted.
"We just lost acoustic shadow!"
Weber immediately turned.
"What?"
"The contact accelerated!"
That instantly changed everything.
The captain moved quickly back toward the main command compartment while crew members hurried past him through the narrow submarine corridors.
The moment he entered the control room, the atmosphere had already shifted from tension into combat readiness.
Sonar operators worked rapidly across their consoles while navigation crews updated maneuvering data.
The deep rhythmic sound from earlier had become louder now.
Much louder.
THOOM.
THOOM.
THOOM.
The entire submarine almost felt like it could hear the creature moving through the ocean around them.
