Chapter 36 - The Narrow Gate of Mankind 07
This mission was more of a 'retirement trip' than a mission. There was no need to refuse www.biquge.info forced retirement of Dior and Sixteen Nights, who had wanted to leave, and there was no need to refuse this mission, and there was not even a combat meeting for this mission, and it was scheduled that "Carlibar" would anchor in Shanghai, and then go to Nanjing by land, which was not very far, and the journey that required Dior and Sixteen Nights to "escort" was also very short.
Before that, Dior decided to take a look at Yuru's condition.
According to convention, Yuru should be a person like Lori who has a broken family and is desperate, and then Dior and Lori will depend on each other, and then "beep-" and "beep-", avenge Lori, become a ginseng prostitute, and walk to the peak of ginseng. Such a plot, well, what a royal way! Please give me such a plot!
However, in fact, Dior and Yuru do not have this kind of branch to choose from.
Although Yuru looks like a girl who can be blown by a gust of wind, Lori, who is slightly shorter than Dior, is actually the supreme commander of this submarine. I don't know why she was put on the battlefield, I don't know why she studied weapons, her life is still inseparable from war.
It seems that because she just stayed up late, she doesn't look very good, she is wearing crumpled clothes, and the deep dark circles under her eyes betray the fact that her life is a mess, Yuru said in a slightly hoarse voice:
"Ahh It's strange how Dior came here today. ”
As she spoke, she lay on the bed and looked listlessly at the electronic screen. It showed the route of the mission, and she must have known the details of the mission and was doing a detailed investigation. But the main problem is that the girl doesn't speak Chinese, and it's hard to imagine the purpose of the British handing over Yuru to the Ming Empire, perhaps for the exchange of technology?
Dio looked at the girl in front of him stunned, then held his forehead and sat next to her. She had only heard from Craigwen that Yuru's parents had been to Penglai Island with him, so maybe Yuru would know something.
"Do you think I'm going to talk about the mission? ”
“... Now I'm glad I'm no longer a colonel, and soon I'm no longer the captain of this submarine," Yuru said, standing up and a little bitter, "that status doesn't allow me to be too close to my subordinates." That would affect my judgment as a captain, and rights often come with responsibilities, don't you think?"
“......”
Dio didn't know how to answer, so he chose to remain silent.
Her name is Yuru Čapek. This inherited from her parents' name, and perhaps full of her parents' expectations, this name still sounds more oriental, but her parents left her when she was very young. A girl who stays alone in the laboratory doing research, has no friends, no relatives, and is angry and researches the materials left by her parents.
That twisted enthusiasm made her a so-called "inventor", and she lost her left arm. That didn't stop her from moving forward, she developed a replacement prosthetic leg and continued her research, her results may have surpassed Craigwen's, but she was still a thirteen-year-old girl.
"I'm glad I can still talk to you, I should have died in England a month ago," Yuru said suddenly, "No matter what kind of person you are, I have to thank you, you seem to have something you want to ask?"
"A child who is too perceptive will not find someone to like," Dior shook his head, "Do you know Penglai Island?"
"Penglai Island, yes, that place may be able to solve my problem," Yuru's eyes lit up, and he immediately sat up and dragged his tired body to operate the computer, "The information on Penglai Island is recorded in the information left by my parents, who were invited by the "red-haired traveler" to take an old wooden boat on the coast of England, and after sailing for a while, they arrived... How incredible it was, and when they returned, they were on the Atlantic Ocean, apparently through astrological observations, and they were returning to England in the same way in a wooden boat. ”
"Do you have more details?" Dior leaned over and stared at the computer screen.
"The location of Penglai Island is changing, because the stars there and the time and place cannot be matched, so this is the only way to consider. It's unbelievable that you can get to the middle of the sea on a wooden boat and come back... It can only be thought of as some kind of space technology, just like the technology that Penglai Island gave to other scientists, there must be something similar there... Space technology... Biotechnology... Monsters..."
Saying that, Yuru's appearance was a little wrong, and when Dio was still looking intently at the information on the computer screen, Yuru had already snapped and fell on the table.
Wait, don't faint on your own! Dio wanted to shake her awake and ask for clarification, but remembering Yuru who had saved him once, Dior sighed. She touched the girl's forehead, there was no fever, but the girl didn't seem to be in good spirits, her pulse was steady, her breathing was steady, it should just be a lack of rest, Dio picked up Charlene with a princess and put her on the bed.
It's really uncomfortable, it's just a child, but it's always deliberately pretending to be mature.
Muttering like this, Dio covered Yuru with a quilt, she looked around Yuru's room, in this spacious room, from the bed to the desk, to the floor, on the dresser, under the windowsill, behind the mirror, there were countless books, the whole room was simply a world of books!
How does this child usually live?
Dior, who has only lived for more than 20 years and has memories of his previous life, unconsciously regarded Yuru as a child.
Do you still want to be a good person? Looking at the messy room, Dior laughed self-deprecatingly. She didn't bother with those places, but looked at Yuru's computer.
Penglai Island is believed to be moving around in the Atlantic Ocean, and its location is uncertain. The Ming Empire, the United States, and the Soviet Union all conducted large-scale searches, but the results were all futile, and only the extremely advanced technical theories brought back by scientists could prove the existence there. After all, before that, everyone thought that technology was nothing more than science fiction.
So, the origin of the emerging technology was pushed to the island that didn't know where. The state apparatus does not need its origin, and can use it comfortably for the sake of its own strength. But soon, the news from the Ming Empire made other countries not think so, there are rumors that the Ming Empire and Penglai Island have regular contact, in Shanghai, every year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month there will be a small wooden boat that does not know where to come from, will dock near the fishing village at night, will stay for seven days, and will leave on the night of July 15.
Although some experts believe that this is related to the traditional festival of the Ming Empire, no one will believe it, because on that day, there will definitely be "red-haired travelers" in the Ming Empire. After the scientists who knew the inside story revealed this to their own country, Shanghai was flooded with people who were actually investigating for various reasons, and there was an endless stream of flights to Shanghai from all over the world, and the waterway routes had already been opened, and over time, Shanghai became an economic region, with a mix of forces, and you never knew whether the people passing by on the street were human beings or monsters.
It is also nicknamed the Magic City by some. However, the infiltration investigation of various countries has not been completed after this, there is no evidence that Penglai has been here, and the residents of the fishing village have never seen the wooden boats that stayed there during the Midyear Festival.
That's for sure. On the night of the Midyear Festival, the people of the Ming Empire would burn the "Dead Coin" to worship the ancestors, and the night of the Ming Empire in those days was brightly lit, and there should be a ship docked, which could be seen at a glance.
However, in addition to the reports of losers, there are also cases of disappearance. Some of the members sent by other countries to investigate Penglai Island have disappeared after investigations, and the missing people have one thing in common: they are not human. Half-demons, werewolves, monsters, vampires, mythical races, these are all real existences, but these people, even the members of the "immortal body", have completely disappeared from the world, leaving no trace, if it were not for their actual records, I am afraid they would have been forgotten by the world, but they did exist.
Although the Ming Empire was also suspicious, the countries involved in this matter did not dare to express their opinions on the Ming Empire too blatantly, and only sent a search request to the Ming Empire. The search for the missing person yielded no results, no body, no news, and no knowledge other than contact with the "red-haired traveler".
So, once again, the nations locked their eyes on the red-haired traveler.