Chapter 9: Wandering Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor after the smoke of war was filled with the smell of blood and scorched metal. The former US Navy military base has been devastated by such a sneak attack without warning.
The vicinity of Pearl Harbor was full of wandering refugees, most of the surrounding houses were bombed and only the walls were broken, Qin Xi really couldn't stay in the cave, she had been guarding this unconscious foreigner for a day, and she was cold and hungry so that she had to go out to find something to fill her stomach.
As long as she survives for another day, she will return to the modern age, and before that she must eat something, or she will starve to death.
The U.S. military is still patrolling around, cleaning up the post-war scene, and after coming out of the air-raid shelter, the cold feeling goes down, and now it's spring, and no matter how cold it is, how cold can it be.
Qin Xi looked around for a small shop, but the war had just passed, and even if there were, it was blown up, so she used her broken English to communicate with them, and finally asked for two butter breads from a kind aunt.
She found a bowl of water, ran back to the bomb shelter, and fed the foreigner, thinking to herself that she was such a good person!
She raised her hand to look at the watch, it was already more than nine o'clock in the evening, and she still dragged this watch from Xiao An's hand, since she knew the function of this watch, she was cheeky to ask Xiao An to come, anyway, as an agent, the equipment must be very good, not worse than this one or two.
She fell asleep next to the foreigner, no matter what kind of fire and noise outside, she was not interested in knowing, such a war scene, can she hide or hide, wait for the blind to go out and wander, if you can't keep it, your life will be gone.
She slept very unsteadily this night, and in her dreams she would always go back to the place where the explosion began, watching a qiē explode in front of her eyes, turning into gray smoke, and under the sky was a huge mushroom cloud wrapped in black smoke, and above the sky was a blood orange caused by the explosion, which was dazzling.
She saw a person leaving her, including her sister, Old Man Jane, and Xiao An.
They were swept into the sky by the shock wave, and the fire instantly overwhelmed them, and they shouted to Qin Xi for help...... "Ah......"
Qin Xi screamed in fright and woke up from his dream.
As soon as he opened his eyes, a handsome enlarged face appeared in front of Qin Xi.
Under the dazzling sunlight, Qin Xi recognized this handsome face as the foreigner who was rescued by her yesterday.
He looked at her, and she looked at him.
This silence was broken after a minute.
Qin Xi asked, "Can you speak Chinese?" ”
The man nodded without thinking, "I have been in the Celestial Empire for many years..."
Qin Xi didn't know how many years he was talking about, but seeing that Cheng Dù, who said Chinese accent and was no different from Chinese, it must have been really many years...... "You can't understand American language?" ”
He asked with a bright smile, revealing his white teeth.
Foreigners always treat others like old acquaintances, especially if they are life-savers.
Qin Xi told him that his spoken language was very bad, and he could understand some occasionally, but he couldn't communicate with people.
"What's your name?"
Qin Xi asked.
"Steve Hull!"
"What about you?"
He asked.
"Qin Xi!"
In this way, in the time he came to 1941, Qin Xi met the first foreigner.
Qin Xi and Hull have a chat with each other, Qin Xi has always been a gentleman's character, easy to get along with anyone, very arrogant, she can see through other people's hearts, so she never drags her feet in making friends.
Besides, as soon as half past eight arrives, she will return to her original time, and chat with a handsome guy in this short time to make no money!
When the watch was about to point to half past eight, Qin Xi jumped up and said to Hull excitedly: "Hey! Friend... I'm leaving......"
Then open your arms to welcome the opening of the time machine tunnel.
Her strange behavior puzzled Hull and asked, "Where are you going?" There must be US and Japanese spies out there now, and God knows if they will arrest you, after all, you are dressed strangely..."
"What are you afraid of...... Japs are just ...... In our place, it's not a matter of killing tens of thousands of devils in one episode......"
Qin Xi waited while bragging, but ten minutes passed, when the hour hand pointed to 8:40, Qin Xi realized that something was wrong, her appearance was broken and the time was wrong, she looked left and right at the watch Xiàn was no problem, but the time tunnel did not open to her, and all that fell on her was brighter and brighter sunlight.
Qin Xi jumped in place a few times in disbelief, the ground was still the ground, nothing had changed!
"It's a dog? What's going on? ”
Qin Xi began to be restless, and the feeling of fear slowly came up, except for the heart-rending fear in the explosion of Tianhe, and then it was now.
Hel stood up along the wall with his injured leg, trying to pull Qin Xi, who was almost crazy in his eyes.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?"
He asked.
As if he hadn't heard, Qin Xi broke free of his hand and kept jumping...... An hour later, Qin Xi finally stopped tiredly, his eyes empty and desperate.
Hull walked up to her and asked, "OK!" Miss Qin: Do you have mania? ”
Qin Xi was still sad about the spring and autumn, but when he heard such a sentence, his heart suddenly burned with no nameless karma, and he shouted at Hull: "Why are you manic...... Your whole family has manic ......"
Hull: "......"
After they stayed in the cave for another five hours, Qin Xi finally accepted this fact.
At this time, Hull was already hungry with his chest against his back, his foot was injured, and he couldn't walk at all, so he wanted to ask Qin Xi to get something to eat, but she had been "crazy" like a high jump
"Qin, can you go out and find some bread to feed my wounded man's hungry belly?"
"You don't see I'm in a bad mood?"
Qin Xi looked at Hel with a resentful look in his eyes and asked rhetorically.
"Uh... All right...... I can see it......"
"Then why don't you think about yourself... Oneself... Go...? ”
After Qin Xi roared angrily, Hull dragged his injured leg and complained about a meter away from Qin Xi.
At this time, Hull basically regarded Qin Xi as a girl from the Celestial Empire with a nervous disorder.
He thought that when he was in the Celestial Empire, those ladies would never yell at men so disregarding their image.
By the time Qin Xi's stomach rumbled, she had been here decadently all day.
She thought, maybe there was a problem with the machine, she remembered that the time machine screen appeared that you can't change history at will, otherwise something will happen, but she just came, and she didn't even touch the edge of history, and the most likely thing is that the machine is malfunctioning.
At that time, Xiao An watched her walk into the time machine, maybe it was those scientists who broke some systems or something when they were researching!
She didn't come back at the appointed time, so they should have realized that something was wrong...... When the time comes, you may be able to go back with a swish...... Thinking like this, her heart was relieved a lot, her stomach was rumbling with hunger, she should fill her stomach at this time!
Looking at Hull again, he was injured and couldn't walk, and he probably fainted from hunger.
Qin Xi pitied himself and also pitied Hull again, pitiful for him to meet such an unreliable life-saving benefactor as her...... People always have to learn to survive in adversity and find hope in despair, Qin Xi has always been an optimist, since he is good to die and come here, it is not too late to play and go.
Therefore, on this dark and windy night, Qin Xi ran out to the street and took out a Grandpa Mao from his trouser pocket in an attempt to confuse the public...... I have to say that the United States is really an efficient country, it was attacked only before yesterday, and the post-war clean-up work has ended, and the people have already opened their doors to do business, and Pearl Harbor Street at night can be lively, and the lights are bright.
She went to a bakery, grabbed a few loaves of bread, and was ready to pay.
That boss is an authentic and honest American, and he doesn't know which country's banknote Grandpa Mao in Qin Xi's hand is.
"Hi... China,I-mfromChina… This is the yuan... OK? Face value SoBig..."
Qin Xikou's exaggerated expression was in place, and he bluffed the idiot foreigner into thinking that he had really picked up the treasure, and kept saying thank you to Qin Xi, and then happily sent Qin Xi away.
After she left with a lot of things, she successively found a few clothing stores and pharmacies opened by honest people, and returned to the air-raid shelter after a sea purchase, she had nothing to prove her identity, and there was no money, Grandpa Mao had not been invented during World War II, and the RMB at this time was a complete counterfeit currency for them, and it was easy to be exposed to the hotel, so they couldn't live in the hotel at all.
She bought herself a handsome men's outfit, and gave Hull a clean outfit, and when she returned to the bomb shelter, she gave him medicine and changed gauze.
I have to say that people rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, Hull's already outstanding appearance is set off by gorgeous clothes, and the whole person is not too handsome!
It's been a week since he came here in a blink of an eye, and the most Qin Xi has done is to swindle with RMB, and then hide in the cave and wait for the time tunnel to open.
Hull's injuries are almost healed, and sometimes he is caught by Qin Xi to go outside to cheat and cheat, he was originally a physical education teacher at an elementary school in Pearl Harbor, and he went to the street to buy breakfast in the early morning on the day of the raid, and met a group of suspected Japanese spies, but before he could say it, he was knocked unconscious by them, and when he woke up, he became the same as when he met Qin Xi.
The elementary school, just a wall away from Pearl Harbor Harbor, was blown to ashes in the raid.
"Old man, it seems that we are really a difficult brother!"
"Oh, Qin, if I need to meet you at the cost of my work, I'd better choose to miss you......"
"Oh, why are you looking for a cigarette, what's wrong with me, who saved you from the sea of fire, who took care of your tetanus leg with a handful of and urine, and who risked being caught to cheat and eat and drink to provide you with nutrition, good guy, can you have no conscience if you look handsome......"
Then there was the scream of Hull being pinched on the cheek in the hole...... This ordinary day didn't last long before it was shattered by a sudden accident.
One morning, while they were still asleep, there was a commotion and gunfire through the hole.
Qin Xi and Hull were awakened by the sound of gunshots, and when they opened their eyes, they saw a gun pointed directly at her head.
Qin Xi immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
Hull hurriedly asked the soldiers what had happened, and then Qin Xi watched them blankly and completed the following conversation in fluent speaking: "Sir, can we know what happened?" ”
The soldier who took the lead said: "We received a report that there are Chinese spies hiding here, holding paper that does not belong to any country at all, pretending to be counterfeit money to cheat and cheat and drink, we seriously suspect that you have bad intentions, and the colonel asked us to find it and bring it back for examination!" ”
"Sir, there may be some misunderstanding, we are not Chinese spies, you should be Japanese spies, I swear I have seen them, they must still be here..."
"You should now go and arrest Yamamoto Isoroku, the commander of this attack on Pearl Harbor, what are you going to do with us? We're just victims......"
Qin Xi yelled.
"I'm only ordered to catch you liars..."
Then without saying a word, he took Qin Xi and the others away.
There was still Qin Xi's roar circling in the cave, one after another.