Chapter 524: Another Way
Long Sanhailong and the other five people brought their equipment and left a satellite phone for the brothers guarding the ship to facilitate mutual contact, and then jumped off the gunboat and caught up with Yang Chen to wade into the water to land on the island.
Seventy miles in circumference.
It's about the size of Beijing's Fifth Ring Road.
This island is not small, but two-thirds of the area is mountainous, dense and grassy, and the terrain is steep, giving people a depressing feeling of crisis step by step.
With clean beaches, beautiful coastlines, and turquoise waters, most people's impression of the island is limited to the Maldives, Hawaii, Sanya, Mauritius, and if the island is like this, it is full of tourist attractions.
In fact, nine times out of ten, the island environment is harsh.
The island that Yang Chen landed on was particularly prominent, with a rocky coast, overgrown with weeds, and a steep mountainous area covered with tropical vegetation beyond.
Food, fresh water.
The target Yang Chen was looking for.
It doesn't matter if this island is the Devil's Island recorded in Columbus's logbook.
The six of them walked cautiously, gradually entering the lush mountainous area of the island, where the occasional ant centipede sprang out from their feet, and was very large.
There is a centipede that is more than 20 centimeters long, the head and feet are brown, and the back plate of the thickness of the middle finger is dark and shiny, and the toxicity is not weak.
"It feels like I'm in Amazon." Long San walked to the tree to help Yang Chen pull out his saber, bent down and grabbed the falling centipede, the centipede was not dead, twisted and curled, and the poisonous palatine teeth opened and closed, trying to bite Long San's palm.
Long San looked at the gadgets in his hand and sneered, he had been practicing the iron sand palm since he was a child, his hands were not ordinary rough skin and thick flesh, and he was wearing anti-cut gloves that exposed his fingertips, so he was not afraid of centipedes' fangs at all.
"It's all near the equator, it's tropical, and there's a little bit of similarity." Yang Chen caught the saber handed by Long San, inserted it into the holster that tied his thighs, and told the people around him to be more careful.
A few meters away, a colorful giant python with the thickness of an ordinary person's forearm wrapped around the trunk of a tree, and its erected head twisted with the movement of Yang Chen's group.
Yang Chen saw the giant python, remained silent, and continued to lead people forward.
The mountains are dangerous, the vegetation is dense, and the large poisonous insects are constantly infested, all of which have become obstacles to progress, but for Yang Chen's small team of six people, it is no big deal, they have walked through death and desperate situations countless times, and have gone deep into several terrible places called hell by the world.
Whether it is a murderous person or a murderous animal, once they become the target of their hunting, there is absolutely no life, and the most powerful creatures on land are perverts like them.
The six of them climbed the first hill and stared condescendingly at the valley ahead, where there were waterfalls and streams, what Tamsui Yang Chen needed most.
I don't know how long it will take for the receivers to come, but we have to stock up on enough water, and as for the food, it is relatively easy to find, fish and seabirds are roasted and eaten, and with the little dry food left on the gunboat, it is no problem to fill it for three or five days.
"Let's go down"
Yang Chen took the lead and walked down, Long Sanhailong followed, and the three people behind him carried a large container of water on their backs, their movements were vigorous and neat, and they did not show any slowness.
The group approached the valley stream silently like a ghost, and heard the sound of rushing water, as well as the sound of their utter surprise.
English, American English.
There are others on the island!
Yang Chen stopped in surprise, and hinted with his eyes and gestures that the brothers spread out and move forward in concealment, one by one like hunters who had found their prey, holding their breath and moving intently.
More than ten meters away from the stream at the bottom of the valley, Yang Chen, who was lurking in the bushes, gently peeled off the dense branches and leaves that obstructed his vision, and saw more than 20 people sitting or standing on both sides of the stream, all wearing khaki hunting clothes, top brand hiking boots, wearing cool sunhats or sunglasses, each with a gun, and several men with grenades.
Five of them surrounded a young blonde woman squatting and spreading out a map.
The blonde woman pointed to the map and said, "We can't go any further down the valley, we've reached this point, and we have to climb over this mountain." ”
"I hope I've found the right place this time" The man who spoke was tall and muscular, with deep eyes, and was about fifty years old, when a wry smile almost discouraged appeared on his long bearded face.
"Dr. Konary, do you doubt your grandfather's words?" The blonde woman looked up at the wry-smiling old man in surprise.
She had never seen a teacher so confused.
"Twenty years of time-consuming and laborious searching, landing hundreds of desert islands, in vain, do you think I can not be disappointed? However, I firmly believe that my grandfather's deathbed words will not be false. The old man, known as Dr. Cornali, spoke of his grandfather with a solemn expression, and his eyes deepened.
Sean Kornely, the man's full name, and his grandfather, Chardal Kornely, was a former Nazi officer who commanded a mysterious submarine force during World War II.
The Anglo-American coalition and the Red Army met on the Rhine.
The invincible Nazi Germany was crumbling.
In the depths of the ocean, a submarine force went to sea for the last time, laden with gold, from the landing in Normandy to the siege of Berlin, for nearly a year, this submarine force went back and forth on the same route, according to the secret orders of the Führer, and constantly transported out the wealth of the plundered countries.
Where it went, no one knows.
After the surrender of Germany, this submarine force evaporated.
Few people take the story that has been passed down for decades seriously, but Sean Cornally is convinced that his grandfather was the commander of this submarine force, the only survivor.
After World War II, the C.I.A. held his grandfather for more than 40 years until his deathbed, when he was allowed family visits.
Gold is under the island.
He was the only one who knew his last words, so much so that the CIA investigated him for five years, and for the next twenty years, he began to do everything he could to confirm his grandfather's last words.
Some scholars roughly estimate that Germany collected 10,000 tons of gold during World War II, and the United States today has less than 9,000 tons of gold reserves, so the "10,000 tons of gold theory" has been questioned.
Skeptics ignore the wealth that the Age of Discovery brought to Europe.
Spain, a small country, mined nearly 5 million kilograms of gold and 100 million kilograms of silver from various colonies during its short period of power, and it is difficult to estimate how much wealth it has poked during the colonial period of more than 300 years in Europe.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Nazi Germany has seized 10,000 tons of gold, and the amount of gold in circulation and storage in the world, as well as in the reserves of various governments, is between 160,000 tons and 2.5 million tons.
According to the World Bank's estimate, 160,000 tons, the gold looted by Germany is only one-sixteenth of the total amount of gold in the world, you must know that Germany looted the whole of Europe, including the Soviet Union, and before World War II, most of the world's wealth was concentrated in Europe.
What is 10,000 tons of gold!
To this end, Koneli persevered in search of this treasure for twenty years.
"I trust your judgment." The blonde woman put away the map and encouraged the teacher.
"Thank you, Jessica." Konary thanked him from the bottom of his heart.
The treasure hunting team was almost rested, twenty-six people sorted out their equipment and began to climb the mountain, Yang Chen, who was hiding not far away, was sure that this was an expedition team, looking for something, what to find could not be speculated, in order to avoid extraneous branches, he planned to wait for this group of people to go away and reappear to get water.
"Ahh
Someone screamed, very suddenly, very scary.
The miserable howls echoed through the valley and startled countless birds.
Yang Chen was stunned for a moment, and immediately looked for prestige, only to see that the sturdy man who opened the way for the expedition team was pierced through his body by the spears shot out of the mountains and forests, staggering and falling, and the others were stunned for a moment, dozens of spears flew out, injuring five or six people, and then hundreds of natives who only used grass skirts to cover their private parts poured out of the mountains and forests.
They were dark-skinned, ugly-looking, with bells and whistles painted on their faces, wielding rudimentary weapons, running barefoot, and swift as apes.
The people of the expedition team were shocked and hurriedly opened fire, but the natives appeared too suddenly, moved too fast, and there were too many people, and the people who shot hastily were either knocked down and killed by the natives who rushed over, or they were shot by the silent poisonous blow arrows, convulsions in pain, and the dozen or so people who were alive gathered together, trembling and looking at the hundreds of natives who surrounded them.
"We are friendly and peaceful." At the critical moment, Koneli stood up and explained, like playing the harp to a cow, and was knocked to the ground by the natives.
The blonde woman of Koneali's student screamed, and then tried to bend down to help, but was pulled out by the natives, stripped naked, her white body was naked, and she lost her loose khaki hunting suit to cover up At this moment, the sexy and hot perfection of her body was revealed.
A large crowd of natives screamed and excited, and could not wait to pull up their skirts to further ravage the poor blonde woman.
At this time, the leader of the natives on a mountain rock standing seven or eight meters away shouted a few times, let go of the blonde woman for the restless natives who were beautiful and restless, and gradually quieted down.
The four women and seven men who survived the treasure hunt team became captives of the natives, all kinds of equipment, guns and ammunition were confiscated, and a native was curious to fiddle with grenades, so frightened that the "captives" were colorless.
The natives surrounded the leader, held the captives, and returned with a shout of joy.
The scenes that happened in just three or five minutes were like making a movie, and Yang Chen couldn't help but think of many scenes of Peter Jackson's "King Kong".
"Boss, what should I do?" Long San lowered his voice and asked Yang Chen, this tough man who was born to kill was ready to fight.
"Quietly follow" Yang Chen immediately made a decision, his curiosity was troubled, and he wanted to figure out how to deal with the captives of the natives who suddenly appeared.
The natives crossed the mountains and entered a dense forest in a flat valley, Yang Chen led people to track them down, and quietly approached a clearing that had been cut down in the middle of the forest, and there were simple thatched tree houses built on the towering ancient trees around them, and at this time, more than 300 natives gathered in the clearing.
Eleven "captives" were tied to tree trunks at the edge of the clearing.
A strong native stood in front of a captive, and after reciting a word, he pulled out the captive's eyeballs, stuffed the blood and flesh into his mouth, and chewed slowly.
Yang Chen and the others, who were not far away, looked at each other.