Chapter 11: The Search for Chuckle

Let the crew repair for a day and get a glimpse of the bustling city of Singapore. On the third day, Zhou You put away everyone's crew ID cards and asked Lin Wei to take them to apply for a work permit in Singapore.

This short-term work permit has a one-year statute of limitations, during which they can work in Singapore and also apply for medical and work-related injury insurance.

After completing these formalities, Zhou You gathered them all together for unified discipline training. Although the military camp where they live is in the outermost part, they can also use the training equipment of the base for training, and the military camp is on the island, so they are not afraid of running around.

Except for the two masters, all of them undergo unified physical training during the day, and at night, they study the crew manual together and learn the crew experience.

Everyone has been learning the things in the books for two years, and there are no problems, but some things that are not in the books are really important.

For example, what kind of clothes the crew wears most comfortably every day. On ships, all steel houses, humid pressure at sea, and still in the equatorial zone, the scorching heat of the sun is not something that a man on land can imagine.

If you wear short sleeves, it only takes a few days to tan off a layer of your skin. And sweat droplets can also corrode your skin, making your complexion dark forever.

So what kind of fabric clothes are the most comfortable to wear, what kind of shoes are the most non-slip and comfortable, what kind of sunscreen to use, these things are not in the book, but they are all really practical.

Then there are the customs and habits of countries around the world, especially some taboos of Southeast Asian peoples, which are also very valued by travelers, so Lin Wei bought a lot of books on this subject to teach everyone.

Instead of staying in Singapore or going to Indonesia, Zhou Yu flew to the United States to find Chakel, who had worked with him for six years.

In the beginning, he didn't attach much importance to the position of chief engineer, because his ship was new, and there would certainly not be many mechanical problems. With these experienced crew members of the Singapore Navy, the safety of the ship can also be guaranteed.

But when I turned my head and thought about it, it didn't feel right.

None of these people in the Navy manage their own ships, and they don't care about the maintenance of their ships. Moreover, if they do something on the ship, they will count on Liang Hao and Feng Haijun to find out.

So, he had to find an experienced chief engineer.

When I was working at Odyssey, I worked with him and Chuckel was always the best partner for the trip. Although the two are more than ten years apart, they are the most iron buddies and have the most intimate relationship.

With him, Zhou You not only learned the most authentic American English, but also learned Western fighting with him, and the two of them broke into many American underground boxing rings and won great fame.

This year is 2000, and Chakr should have just retired from the Navy and returned to his hometown of Peoria. But also this summer, his wife divorced him, and he left his hometown in a fit of anger and drifted at sea again.

Until 2005, he suffered a serious injury in a boxing match, and his body was not as good as before. settled down and honestly became a chief engineer in Odyssey.

However, after meeting Zhou You, Zhou You, who was just thirty years old, was the most golden age of a person, and he was ambitious and began to train Zhou You's boxing ability, replacing him in the underground boxing airport and starting to sweep.

It's not appropriate to say a sweep because they never challenge the heavyweights. Zhou You's weight has been maintained between 80 kg and 85 kg under his training, and they have also challenged fighters under 200 pounds, that is, under 90 kilograms.

Those behemoths that exceed 100 kilograms, Zhou You will not take the initiative to find abuse.

At that time, they didn't compete entirely for money, mainly to find excitement, life on the boat was too comfortable, every time after getting off the boat, they always had to find a group of girls to cool off, find a group of men to fight, and they would feel comfortable.

Zhou You has also been thinking that Chuckle has always regarded himself as his younger brother or son. Knowing that Ethan killed him, he must be the murderer, and he is afraid that he will not punish him through the law, but will kill him if he tortures Ethan to death.

It's a pity that it's a story from another time and space, and you can't see the results of your travels anymore.

In that time and space, although Zhou You's grandmother didn't love his uncle and didn't love him, and he wandered all over the world alone, he still made a lot of good brothers. Due to the lack of time he spent in the country, there were not many trustworthy people he really made.

But in Hong Kong, Naya, the Indian he helped, was still his loyal brother until he died.

And Chuckle, who has always seen himself as a younger brother or a son, and has always treated him as a half-father and half-brother.

Then there is the Illinois brothers, who have always been his most loyal men.

However, except for Chakel, the others have not yet followed the path of seamen, and they are too young.

Like Naya, who is only fifteen years old this year, and is still working as a carefree middle school student in a village under the Himalayas, even if he goes to him now, he can't help him much, and it will make him feel strange.

Or wait for him to follow his own trajectory, learn to be a seafarer, and then come to Hong Kong, go to him again, and at that time, continue the brotherhood with him.

No one knows why Zhou You wants to go to the United States, Lin Wei still complains vigorously, now is the critical period to apply for detection with the Indonesian official, and once he leaves, some procedures will not be able to go on.

But Zhou You didn't want to explain anything to her, she couldn't apply once, and she would apply again next time. But the ship has already arrived, and it is definitely not safe to rely on the maintenance of the Singapore Navy alone.

The plane arrived in Chicago, the third largest city in the United States, rented a Ford 150 pickup truck at the airport, drove the car, and drove towards Peoria in the southwest direction without entering the city.

Pioria is nearly 200 kilometers from Chicago, the most important agricultural region in the United States, and driving here is like coming to the plains of the country, unlike in China, there are fewer people here.

September is the time when the corn is ripe in Illinois, and you can see large harvesters harvesting corn everywhere, and it is a scene of a bumper harvest.

Peoria is not well developed in industry, and is best known for corn and poultry farming. But in this agricultural city, there is a world-famous Caterpillar company, which produces mining machinery and large trucks, and has long been known as the giant of the automotive industry.

Zhou You has personally been to this kind of truck to take pictures, he is 1.83 meters tall, just half the height of a tire, and looks no different from a dwarf.

Before coming, Zhou You had already thought of an excuse that he would not reveal his identity as a reborn, because in Chakle's body, he had a good contact channel.

The reason why Chuckel is good for traveling is not only because he is strong. Also because Chuckel knew a Chinese soldier when he was in the navy and received help from the other party, he was full of affection for the Chinese.

However, the Chinese who helped him died of cancer at the beginning of this year. At that time, Chakel, who had just been restored, also attended his funeral.

Therefore, Zhou You thought of using the introduction of the Chinese to find him.

Anyway, there is no proof of death now, as long as he can connect with Chuckle, he believes that he will definitely convince the other party.

For two hours, the car stopped near the Starter Forest Park, northwest of Peoria, where a fork in the road led to Chakle's home.

In his previous life, he had traveled to Chackle's house several times, twice to accompany him to his parents' funerals, twice to hunt, and once to Chicago to deal with his ex-wife and son's dogskin reversal.

Therefore, I am very familiar with the terrain, routes, and travel here. Even the homes of several other brothers can be found one by one when they travel around. However, none of them are still crew members, and it is useless to find them.

Zhou You still waited for them to graduate, and then, under the influence of Chuckle, learned to be sailors, and then took them under his command when the time came.

At the intersection, Zhou You thought about what he was going to say to Chuckel for a while, and drove the car onto the path.

This is a village beneath the small town of Brimfield, with fewer than twenty households in the village. The villages are built on forests, but they are very scattered, each with an area of more than one square meter in size, but the houses are small and very old.

This is an agricultural area, and every household is a farmer. Similar to in China, young people have gone to the cities, leaving behind some old people and children.

The traveling car deliberately went around the village and ran into an old man who couldn't do farm work, so he stopped the car and asked, "Excuse me, where is Chakel Kohler's home?" ”

Zhou You's accent made him feel a little surprised, pointed in the direction of Chakel's house, and said, "When you came in, the second house at the second intersection, the red-roofed house. Young man, what are you looking for Chuckle? ”

"A friend introduced him to him and said he used to be the chief engineer of the Essex."

The old man laughed a little proudly, and said, "Yes, Chakr is the smartest child in the village, and the first in our village to go to college for free. If it weren't for his bad luck, he wouldn't have returned to our little place. ”

"Is he home now?"

"Yes, but you won't find him when you go to his house now, and he should be helping his father harvest corn at this time. You can drive a little further, and on your left-hand side, there are two machines harvesting the land that is his. ”

"Thank you!"

Zhou You has never figured out why Chakr retired when he was less than forty years old, and his ability to become the chief engineer of the U.S. military's capital ship at the age of thirty-five shows that his strength is still sufficient.

But retiring before the age of forty means that all the learning in the first half of his life has been in vain.

In his previous life, he traveled around and asked him a few times, but he was vague, probably because he was forced to retire after hurting people on the spur of the moment. (To be continued.) )