On the morning of August 15th, just after 8 o'clock, in the waters northeast of the Samoa Islands in the Southwest East Ocean, aboard the "Wasp."
Since it was in the southern hemisphere, dawn was only just breaking.
When Spur arrived at the command bridge, Tanimoto was arranging the morning's patrol mission.
Although they were still thousands of kilometers away from Transfer Island and even further from the islands controlled by the Liangxia Navy, the threat of Liangxia submarines was ever-present, and they didn't dare let their guard down.
After returning to the Southwest East Ocean, every few days they would encounter suspicious targets suspected to be Liangxia submarines.
Naturally, this usually involved spotting objects resembling periscopes, or patches of oil, and some trash dumped into the ocean from submarines.