Chapter 22: Searching for Traces
["Human, I promised you to witness the most splendid moment of destruction of this era. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoBut if you try to save Kii now, you will quit early. ”
"Don't get me wrong, I just returned her favor and offered applause and flowers to the heroine in the audience. I'm not going to leave early, at least before the appointment. ”
"It's really irrational, no matter how nice you say, the truth is that you will face the deep sea inhabitants with the weak strength of human beings, and you will die."
"I believe in the miracle that Kii said, even if everyone on the stage is expecting her to become a perch, I will give her a shout of support - because she is also waiting for me to make a choice for her in a difficult situation." 】
Sato Gonjun opened his eyes and woke up from his sleep, and the voice of the will of the deep sea was no longer in his ears. The will of the deep sea was very merciful, and she allowed the destroyer Shimakaze, which Sato Gonjun was aboard, to reach the nameless island smoothly.
"Sato Shaosa, we are approaching our destination, and we are lucky that we didn't meet the cruising team of the Deep Sea Fleet." Shimakaze knocked on the door and happily announced her self-declared victory to the special passenger on board.
"It took two days to get here from the Marshall Islands temporary berth, and I'm causing you trouble."
Normal people would think that a single ship crossing the control area of the deep-sea fleet is an act of death, but only Daofeng heroically accepted this mission.
"It doesn't matter, if it's really as Lord 'Black' said, it's about the outcome of the battle, even if I escort you to the American continent on the other side of the ocean."
Sato Gonjun didn't believe the other party's words, and before leaving, he saw with his own eyes that Shimakaze asked one of his subordinates to keep the suicide note he had prepared. "You just don't want to see others grieve over the loss of their teammates, do you?"
"Huh? What are you talking about, the island wind never cares about the formation of a single ship. Special Attribute: Acting alone. Sounds super cool, doesn't it? ”
Island Feng smiled and walked away, her weak back looking very lonely, and she found various reasons before setting off to make some of her ship's crew unable to participate in this mission. Originally, there were 267 people on board the Shimakaze, but now there are less than 200 people including Sato Gonjun.
"It's upsetting people again...... It seems like I'll never get rid of it. Sato Gonjun sorted out his belongings, and what awaited him was a difficult one-man operation.
Before landing on the island, Shimakaze found fragments of the wreckage of a deep-sea ship on the surface of the sea, which alerted her, but she turned up the power of the electric detector and found no other ships around.
"Don't be careful, if there are really ships from the Deep Sea Fleet here, you can evacuate as soon as possible." Gonjun Sato boarded the landing boat alone with his backpack, because at his request, the Shimakaze was only responsible for escorting him to his destination, and could not take on the task of picking him up, and he was the only one to land on the nameless island.
Shimakaze still doesn't understand why Gonjun Sato came to this small island that doesn't exist on the map, and the fragments of deep-sea ships scattered around him show that there was a big battle not long ago, and everything is confusing to her. "Five days at most, and if you don't see you or the smoke signal after five days, I'll assume you've died."
"Five days...... No, who knows how I'll go back this time. ”
Sato started his dinghy and sailed towards the flat beach, and he was lucky enough to find traces of human presence as soon as he set foot on the island - the ashes of a campfire that had not been cleaned after burning.
After making sure that there was no danger such as wild beasts around, he walked to the campfire, and from the traces it was about half a month, and the leftover fish bones could still be found in the ashes.
But the sudden appearance of a fragment in the ashes made him excited—a small piece of plastic wrapper of chocolate, the text on which it looked German. It is obviously inconceivable to find such a thing on an unnamed island far from the civilized world, and more importantly, the candy club that has a "commercial partnership" relationship with Sentai Ninth does exist, and it is even more coincidental that it is also a club that imports German candy brands.
Gonjun Sato had maintained an idea before deciding to come here that Kii had come to the island after his disappearance, so he was sure that the piece of wrapping paper must have come from Kii. Kii's penchant for putting candy in his pocket was a familiar habit among the officers of Sentai Nine.
"She's been here...... Ate chocolate? "Ten meters away from the campfire, there is a neat sandy beach, and the waves wash every day, and there is no more trace left.
Assuming this is the mark of a campfire she left a few days before she came to the island, she would definitely consider building a humble shack to protect her from the wind and rain. Since it doesn't mean it......" Gonjun Sato kept thinking about the choice Kii would make if he was on an unknown island, Kii was in the bow of the ship before he disappeared, and he only had a few pockets on his body at that time. So Sato Gonjun believes that she will definitely find a way to find a place to sleep peacefully.
At the outskirts of the jungle, Sato found several broken tree stumps, as if a prehistoric beast had visited, and a large tree with a waist-thick circumference was broken. But Sato Gonjun is not surprised, Kii is a ship girl, although she usually stretches out her hand to open her mouth, and she can't easily break the big tree in terms of strength.
"Use existing trees to light a campfire, Kii, your wilderness survival course will definitely not get a high score."
The jungle of Nameless Island is lush with vegetation and abundant food, and after only one morning's walk, Sato found three edible wild fruits in the jungle. He didn't find anything like a pit in the ashes of the campfire, indicating that Kii survived his first few meals by catching fish.
"I also want to subtract points, if I were your professor, I would never allow such a student to become an officer directly in the future."
Taking a bite of the juicy eggplant-like tropical fruit, Gonjun Sato took a short break in the jungle. It was also at this time that he found another trace of human activity around him, like a path path, and the surrounding vines had obvious traces of treatment, but it seemed that the traces were not obvious after a few rains.
Combined with the fragments of the wreckage of the deep-sea ship found before the landing, Sato felt that there might be other humans on the island, although they were not necessarily alive at the moment.
Following the obvious traces of human walking, Sato finally found the scene he was looking forward to before dark—the remains of a human village that had been erased by artillery fire. With the way of thinking of the Deep Sea Fleet, it was the most reasonable result to easily destroy the human civilization here, and he was not surprised to see the miserable scene.
Human beings do not have ships, and neither primitive civilization nor hot weapon civilization is qualified to fight with the deep-sea fleet, it is just a difference in how long it can resist.
Sato took out the shovel in his backpack and found the bone fragments of the corpse in the black dust, undoubtedly human, the color of the bones was still very new, and many of them were still sticking to the human tissue that had been burned into black charcoal.
The battle will not take place for long. Kii lived on the nameless island for a while, and then the deep-sea fleet arrived, and a fierce naval battle broke out outside the island. The remaining ships of the Deep Sea Fleet then wiped the primitive tribe off the island with artillery fire, and Kii may have been taken away.
"Strange...... Deep-sea ships can't attack the Girl of the Deep, and since this place was flattened by saturation shelling, it only means that Kii wasn't here at the time. There is no trace of battle from the beach here, which means that the battle between the two sides is limited to the outside of the island - between ships, "Sato Gonjun can't reconstruct the scene at that time with this clue alone, it is enough for him to verify that Kii has been here, and then he must rationally analyze and think layer by layer, and find any favorable clues that can be used."
"Kii can't go to sea alone to engage the enemy, and she won't be stupid enough to swim to the enemy ship and sink them with her fists." Sato thought of a possibility, there are many deep-sea ships in this area, and since the deep-sea fleet can send a search team in time, it is also possible that there are deep-sea forces to help Kii. There was a fierce battle between the two forces, but it was only a battlefield for mass-produced consumables. The battlefield that is closely related to Kii is not here, nor is it at sea.
Sato Gonjun changed his thinking angle at this time, before he was assuming that he was Kii, how would he choose in an unfamiliar environment, obviously all the results that could be obtained with the help of clues had appeared, and then he had to switch to the other side.
-- Deep-sea fleet.
If you want to capture the Daughter of the Deep Sea, you will definitely not use the method of defeating it in a head-to-head battle, after all, the authority of the Daughter of the Deep Sea has blocked this possibility, and it must be the Deep Sea Fleet that captured Kii with a strategy. Although Gonjun Sato believes that Kii can create miracles, he also believes that with her IQ and emotional intelligence, the probability of being deceived by a strategy is very high.
Sato Gonjun couldn't think of a specific solution, but after he came to the remnants of this primitive tribe, as soon as he switched to the perspective of the Deep Sea Fleet, he immediately realized that this was also a very valuable bargaining chip. With Kii's character, he will definitely not sit idly by and watch innocent people be slaughtered, and humans can attack the Daughter of the Deep. Whatever the method, whatever the means, borrowing the indigenous people here is a high priority option.
"The rest of the breach is only in the ruins? Where the hell will Kii be caught? ”
After wandering around the ruins for quite a while, Gonjun Sato decided to give it a try, and he didn't plan to spend the night in the lifeless ruins anyway. Primitive tribes generally have beliefs, and according to statistics, closed or semi-closed primitive tribes on islands often use the sun, the sea, stars, and birds as the carriers of faith. Perhaps there were also natives who had escaped the massacre scattered outside the colony, although it would not be difficult for the advanced radar systems of the Deep Sea Fleet to lock on to a single person here.
On the other side, through the paratechnological equipment in the "tomb", the diving suhime is also observing the Japanese officer who mysteriously came to the island. "さとう (Sato)? It is admirable that only human beings can solve this step in one day. ”
Yumi, who was dozing off on the side of the diving squirrel, heard the former's voice, woke up from her sleep, and also leaned in front of the light screen to observe the outsiders inside.
"The ornaments on his clothes are very similar to Sister Kii's."
"He's also a Japanese soldier, so of course there will be some similarities." Diving Suhime was slightly unhappy with Yumi's waking up and intervening in herself, and was about to turn off the monitoring equipment.
"Lord Poseidon, you just said 'SATO', Sister Kii mentioned to me, there is a very reliable all-round secretary by her side, which is called 'SATO or something'. Do you think it will ......?"
Diving Qihime waved his hand and instructed Yumi to shut up, "You're too noisy, shut up." It's not a question of whether it will be, but it will definitely be. Get ready to meet this wonderful human with me. ”