(381) Island base
However, due to the effective development of the "new territory" in Eastern Siberia, the tension on the resources of the company was relieved and a strong blood was injected into the industry, so that Yamamoto 56's plan for the development of naval aviation was finally realized.
It's just that at that time, Yamamoto 56 did not expect that his "theory of winning in aviation" would encounter unimaginable challenges in China.
While China is actively developing "new territories", it has not neglected these territories, which are crucial for the future.
October 12, 1928, off Sakhalin Island, Dolphin Island.
"Look! Another big ship is coming! ”
The Ainu boy Gamo pointed to the huge shadow of the ship that appeared on the surface of the sea and said to his sister Gana.
Garna looked in the direction of her brother's finger, nodded, opened her notebook, wrote down a few lines, and began to draw the huge warship on another piece of paper.
“…… I still remember the day those men sailed to our island. At first the boat floated on the surface of the sea like a small shell, but then it grew larger and bigger like a seagull with folded wings. Finally, it revealed its true face in the rising sun - it turned out to be a large ship with colorful flags and black smoke. ”
"My brother and I came to the mouth of the canyon, which meandered down to a small bay called Dolphin Bay. There are many delicious wild plants that grow there in the spring, and we go to collect them. ”
"My brother Gamo was still a child, half my age, and I was only twelve years old. To the people in the village who have lived many years, he is really small. He was quick with his hands and feet, like a cricket, and he was as stupid as a cricket when he got excited. That's why I kept silent about the shells I saw or the seagulls with their wings folded so that he would help me gather more wild vegetables and not run around. ”
"I dug through the bushes with sharpened sticks as if nothing had happened at sea. Even when I was sure that the seagull was a big ship with a bunted flag, I didn't say a word. But there are very few things in the world that can be hidden from Gamo's eyes. He had eyes as black as lizards, very large, and identical to those of a lizard, and sometimes looked sleepy-eyed, but this was when he saw things most clearly......"
“…… Gamo poked the dirt with his stick. But the ship got closer and closer, and the hull glowed red through the morning mist. Rameau's eyes were fixed on the ship, but he pretended not to look at it. ”
"'Have you ever seen a big red whale?' He asked me. ”
"'Of course I did.' I said, even though I never saw it. ”
"'The whales I've seen are gray.'" He said. ”
"'You're still young, how can you see everything swimming in the sea?' ”
Gamo picked up a handful of wild vegetables and prepared to throw them into the basket. Suddenly he opened his mouth wide and closed it again after a while. ”
"'That's a canoe!' He shouted, 'What a big, big canoe!' And smoke! Bigger than all our canoes combined! It's still black! ’”
"Whether it's a canoe or a boat, Gamo doesn't really care. In an instant, he had thrown the wild vegetables in the air, and ran through the bushes, screaming all the way. ”
"I'm still collecting wild vegetables, but when I'm digging, my hands are shaking, and I'm actually even more excited than my brother. I knew it was a boat, not a big canoe, and I knew that there was a lot more going on behind such a boat. I wanted to throw away the stick and run over to have a look, but I restrained myself because I needed wild vegetables. ”
"By the time I filled the basket, the Chinese boat had already rounded the wide seagrass area around our island and came between the two large reefs guarding Dolphin Bay. The news of the arrival of the Chinese has reached the village. The men of the village were already running quickly along the winding path with their weapons on the coast. The women of the village gathered on the edge of the mountain. ”
"I ran through the dense bush and quickly down the canyon to the cliff by the sea. I crouched down and lay there. Below me is the bay. By that time the tide was already low and the sun was shining on the white sand on the beach. Half of the men in our village are standing by the sea. The rest of the men hid behind the rocks at the end of the trail, ready to attack them if they had bad intentions. ”
"I crouched in the bushes, trying not to fall off the cliff, to hide myself and to see and hear what was happening below. At this moment, small boats were lowered on the ship. There were several men rowing long oars in the boat. Their faces were broad, their black hair was shiny, and they came closer, and I could see the shining golden stars on their hats. ”
Behind these people, there was a beautiful woman standing in a small boat. I had never seen such beautiful Chinese before, but my father told me about the Chinese. The woman stood there with her legs spread out, her hands behind her waist, her eyes fixed on the small harbor, and when the boat slid ashore, the man jumped out of the boat and spoke that nice, soft language, and I was convinced that she was also a Chinese, and not the one who had come here to enslave us before. ”
Their voices echoed over the stone walls of the bay. These words are very peculiar, and they are different from the languages I have heard before. But then a man started speaking in our words, and my father and the men were amazed that we were so fluent. ”
"'I have come for peace, and I want to have a good conversation with you,' said the man to the people on the shore. No one answered. My father, too, hid in the middle of the rocks, when he walked down the sloping beach and stuck his dart gun in the sand. ”
"'I am the chief here,' said the father, 'what do you want to do?' Don't you want us to fish for you? ’”
"Father said this for a reason, the Russians and himself came here and asked us to hunt for them endlessly, and then we all rose up against them and drove them away, but they later sent very large ships with terrible weapons that could breathe fire and thunder - we later learned that they were cannons - and many of the people were killed, and the rest were forced to hide in the mountains, and after a long time, until the Chinese came and drove them away. And this time, the big ship driven by the Chinese had a cannon larger and much larger than the Russian ship and the ship himself. ”
The Chinese only smiled slightly at his father's words and raised a hand, claiming to be the captain of the ship. My father also raised a hand. I couldn't see his face, and I couldn't tell if he would smile at him. ”
"'We're here to investigate. We hope to have your help. He said. ”
My father didn't say anything. He was a tall man, though not as tall as the Chinese captain. He stood there with his chest straight, considering what the Chinese were saying. He was not in a hurry to answer, but was looking at the Chinese captain and observing his attitude. ”
"'We promise it won't affect your lives.'" The captain said, 'And we will bring you what you need and like.' In return for helping us. ’”
"'Okay then.' My father said. ”
"The captain looked out to sea, 'Wait a minute, help us get our supplies safely ashore,' he said, 'and there's what we've given you.'" ”
He said something, but I didn't hear it, because I was so excited that I knocked over a small rock and rolled down the cliff with a clatter, and landed right at his feet. Everyone on the beach was looking up, and I quietly left the bushes and ran up the square mountain in one go. ”
"Since that day, the Chinese have lived here."
"These Chinese were very friendly to us, they brought us food, agricultural tools and medicines, taught us to grow crops and herbs, and brought us muskets to make hunting easy for hunters. The Chinese built schools for us, they demanded that the children had to go to school and learn our language and their language, the Chinese are very smart, our language has no text, they use their words to phonetize our language, and the old people are very happy. Our life has become much better than before, and the population of the village has prospered. ”
"The Chinese built a lot of stone houses here, and brought a lot of strange instruments by boat, as well as animals that we had not seen before, many of them terrible beasts, and they were all enclosed in high walls. We all wondered why they had to bring in the beasts when there were already a lot of beasts here. ”
"Since the Chinese came, there have been more dolphins around Dolphin Island, and the most frequented place for Chinese is Dolphin Bay."
"The Chinese do not enslave us like the Russians and themselves, they always pay us very well when they ask us to help, and when the Chinese build the airport on the island, almost all the men on the island participate, and after the airport is repaired, I can often see planes with big stomachs flying over and carrying a lot of strange goods."
"I have rarely seen that beautiful woman since the stone house and the airport were built, and I have heard from the old people that she is a very remarkable learned person, and that she is the chief of this place. The Chinese let a woman be the leader, and we all find it strange. Later I learned that she was not the chief, because every once in a while, a big ship would come, and a man would come here to meet her, and every time he came, she would be very happy. ”
Gana raised her head and looked at the Zhong[***] ship that had been moored to the shore, and somehow, she had a premonition that the man "chosen" by the female leader of the Chinese should be on it.
Sure enough, not long after, the "female leader" and her party appeared at the dock, and soon, the dinghy was lowered from the warship, and the dinghy quickly sailed to the dock, and Garna recognized the man's figure at a glance.
"I heard they're going to treat Sunyana today." Gamo looked at the crowd on the dock and said, "In the future, everyone can stop calling her 'wolf girl', haha!" ”
"Really?" Garna screamed, and the pen in her hand fell to the ground.
"It's true." Gamo pointed to the dock and said, "That man, with the 'female leader', is." ”
Garna's eyes widened in surprise when she looked up and saw the man standing side by side with the "female leader".
"You're always so elusive, you didn't tell me before you came."
Entering the white laboratory building, Liu Xiangyun said while helping Yang Shuoming take off his coat.
"I'm from the United States, and no one knows." Yang Shuoming said, looked out the window, and just saw the figure of the large cruiser "Chenlong" moored in the sea.
"Oh? How did you come up with the idea of going to the United States? Liu Xiangyun heard the unusual tone of Yang Shuoming's tone, and immediately asked, "What happened?" ”
"It's not a big deal." Yang Shuoming smiled slightly, "It's just to discuss with those people in the United States how to 'shear sheep'." ”
"Sheep shearing? Do you also shear sheep? How come I haven't heard of it before? Liu Xiangyun looked at him with some amusement, "It looks like you know a lot of things!" ”
Yang Shuoming knew that she would be wrong, and couldn't help laughing. Of course, he couldn't tell her what this "shearing" meant.
"How's it going here? I haven't been here to trouble you, have I? Yang Shuoming asked.
"My boat has been here a few times, and some people have come up, but they are all polite, and sometimes they give us gifts or something." Liu Xiangyun said, "Our fleet is on Sakhalin Island, and they don't dare to mess around." ”
"That's good." Yang Shuoming seemed to be a little tired, he lay on the bed as he spoke, Liu Xiangyun got up and mixed her a cup of orange drink, came to the side of the bed and sat down, and handed him the drink.
"What is this? You've got a new drink? Yang Shuoming took the cup and asked with a smile.
"Of course it's a good thing for you to drink." Liu Xiangyun laughed happily, "Drink it." ”
"There's no ...... in this What's that? Yang Shuoming pretended to hesitate and looked at the cup and asked.
"It's really a gentleman's belly with the heart of a villain." Liu Xiangyun blushed and said lightly, "Drink it!" Inside are vitamins and some nutrients, I specially got them for you. Tomorrow you have to have surgery, today you have to have a good rest, you just want it, I won't give it. ”
Yang Shuoming laughed, raised his glass and drank the juice inside, he smacked his lips comfortably after drinking, with an unfinished expression.
"Surgery scheduled for tomorrow morning?" Yang Shuoming asked,
"Hmm." Liu Xiangyun said, lying down beside him.
"Everybody's going to be there, aren't they?"
"Of course, they can't wait for this day."
"I had those brand new microscopes delivered last time, are they all installed?"
"It's all done, don't worry."
"That's right, I'll show you a hand tomorrow, let's take a good look."
"If you succeed, you'll have one more good fighter."
"Excellent warriors? That Ainu 'wolf girl'? ”
"Yes, she's the best hunter I've ever seen, and although she looks scary now, I can tell that she should be very good-looking. You'll find out when you see her tomorrow. ”
The next day, when Yang Shuoming changed into white overalls and appeared in the laboratory building as a surgeon, the young woman in traditional Ainu costume sitting on a bench in the corridor immediately caught his attention.
And the giant bow she carried.
This is a tall and slender woman, carrying a huge horned bow with great visual impact, and her wide clothes cannot hide her undulating body, she does not look like a normal Ainu woman from any angle. There is a wild atmosphere of nature on her body, and a little masculine beauty that does not affect femininity, and the ridiculously large giant bow really makes Yang Shuoming feel that the compound bow and recurve bow he equipped the special forces with are a bit like a subtle frustration of toys.
Probably not wanting to scare others, she wrapped her face tightly in a white cloth, revealing only a pair of bright eyes, looking at everyone uneasily.
As Liu Xiangyun said, in fact, her eyebrows, eyes and nose are normal, and she can even be called very beautiful, but below the nose, it is a completely different scene.
Although she wrapped a cloth around it, Yang Shuoming's "supercomputer eyes" still clearly showed her true colors.
Her upper lip and chin were all cracked below her nose, and what was even more terrifying was that the corners of one side of her mouth extended all the way to her cheeks, and they couldn't be closed at all, Bai Sensen's teeth were clearly exposed, and the saliva couldn't stop flowing out, looking very terrible, indeed like a wolf.
"How old are you?" Yang Shuoming asked.
"She's just eighteen years old." An old Ainu man who accompanied her turned his head with a smile and said to her in Chinese, "Suniana, don't be afraid, this is Dr. Yang who is going to operate on you." ”
"I've never been afraid of anyone." The huntress named Sunyana replied in a muffled voice. At this time, she was staring at Yang Shuoming intently, and a trace of curiosity flashed in her eyes.
"Have you eaten?" Yang Shuoming asked, "If you haven't eaten, I suggest you go and eat it first, because you may not be able to chew anything for a few days." ”
"I've eaten it." The huntress nodded and whispered. Yang Shuoming knew that she spoke in a low voice because she didn't want people to hear the leaky sound.
"Come with me." Yang Shuoming turned around as he said and walked to the operating room, the "wolf girl" looked at his back, untied the bow and arrow on his body, and strode up without hesitation.
"It's a pity that such a good girl is ......" Liu Xiangyun looked at Sunayana's back and couldn't help but sigh softly.
"But she is also lucky, because now there is a scientific means to change her tragic fate." Wang Yuanshi said on the side, "This is the power of high technology. ”
(To be continued)