From "preparing to enter the port" to "the submarine docking", Lynn had no way to observe the external environment, and could only speculate on the situation from various commands from the command tower cabin: the frequent turns in the slow floating state meant that the submarine was passing through a winding fjord, and such a voyage actually lasted nearly two hours, so the length of the fjord was calculated to be more than 10 kilometers; The captain then ordered the submarine to dive to a depth of 8 meters, and while the submarine was almost completely submerged, he remained with his deputy outside the conning tower compartment, at which point Lynn imagined the submarine leaving only a small part of the upper part of the conning tower compartment on the surface, the low entrance so that the periscope almost grazed the top of the channel, and the rotating propellers raised churning white waves in the well-width channel. In this way, a German submarine regarded by the Allies as an undersea demon quietly entered the hidden cave, leaving the world with only the word "missing" in the inventory!

After a few minutes of this incomplete submersible, the helmsman Lambert was instructed to adjust the course three times in a row, after which the captain's sonorous command sounded from the microphone: "One-third of the speed is reversed, the crew is on deck, ready to land!" ”

When it arrived, it finally arrived, and it was like a long-distance bus about to stop in the garage, and Lynn's heart was excited, and the curiosity that followed made him want to rush to the deck immediately. But with the exception of Ziggenke and Motchig, the first to go to the deck were the naval crews. After the submarine's motors were finally turned off, the SS officers and men who were used for the alternate rotation were asked to return to their cabins to await instructions.

When he returned to the aft torpedo compartment, all six of Lynn's soldiers had arrived, and they all packed their equipment one by one, and their expressions were much more relaxed. Taking care of Lynn's injuries, Noah helped him carry the full set of equipment, but the wait was not over. After a full quarter of an hour, Captain Motchig walked from the forward compartment to the stern, and announced to the officers and men from cabin to cabin that he had "arrived at the refuge", and said in a loud and righteous voice: "Soldiers, from now on, you must treat every person, everything and everything you see as an absolute secret of the Third Reich, even at the cost of your life!" ”

However, the more this happened, the curiosity and excitement in the hearts of the people intensified, but Motchig left without giving the order to land. After waiting for another ten or so minutes, the sound of footsteps and objects rubbing against objects could be heard at the front of the cabin, and the order to go ashore was finally passed by the soldiers to the aft torpedo compartment. Although still a little weak, Lynn puffed up her chest and took a step, and walked generously ahead of the soldiers, walking from the stern to the command module, and then crawling out of the hatch along the vertical passage...... The dazzling light emitted by dozens of high-power incandescent lamps illuminated the outer space of the submarine as if it were daytime. When his eyes were slightly accustomed to the light, Lynn immediately looked around "greedily", the space of the flat walls and stone structure was larger than imagined, and the curved dome of more than 20 meters high made it like the hall of the temple, making people deeply feel their own small and weak, even this submarine with a length of nearly 100 meters, placed in it, was only the fine scales of a fish and the hair of a bird!

Inside this jaw-dropping cavern, most of which exudes a dark sheen, looks bottomless, surrounded by angular docks on three sides, with cranes, gantry cranes and other necessary facilities for loading and unloading heavy loads, and also laid criss-crossed rails, but unlike the dense appearance of many bunkers and gunshots seen in Königsberg and Stettinhamn, only a few sentry posts walk back and forth on the posts. There is also a row of built-in docks and hoisting equipment in the innermost dock, where some engineers in military uniforms are working, and the welding is shining, which looks quite sci-fi.

Looking back, the passage into this cave is indeed as low and hidden as Lynn guessed, and the water surface can rise a few meters to submerge it, if there is no special control equipment, it seems that it can only enter and exit submarines and small boats, and there are more than ten submarines moored in this cave at this time, they do not occupy a small corner, if you want to fill most of the water surface, it will take three or four hundred submarines.

Walking along the deck, Lynn saw that the submarine railing was still hanging with crystal clear cold, and there was also ice on the machine guns and deck guns, although there was no warmth in this huge cavern, at least there was no cold wind howling, but this submarine was like a walker entering the room from the wind and snow, with a deep chill all over his body. The captain, Captain West, took off his waterproof jacket and held a black pipe, and stood silently by the cabin of the submarine's conning tower as he watched the soldiers and crew land. As a submarine commander, he had done his duty, but as a soldier, at the end of the war, his fate was different from that of most Germans who were ready to lay down their arms, and he and his submarine had to wait for what the road would lead to.

As he approached, Lynn saluted Captain West, probably because of a long time outside, the submarine commander's face was quite pale, but he nodded slightly in response.

Ziggenke stood in front of the tracks, where a freight train with three flatbed cars was parked, the size of the carriage was the same, but the front was much smaller than that of an ordinary coal-fired locomotive, and there was no tall chimney, presumably using a more efficient internal combustion engine. Beside Siggenke stood a shorter, triangular-eyed officer, dressed in a thick Wehrmacht winter long dark gray coat, his cap and coat clean as if they were spotless, a cross with silver oak leaves on his neckline, his chest held high, and his gaze scanned back and forth in small circles among the soldiers who had landed one after another. As for Captain Motchig, he was beckoning the soldiers to stack their weapons and equipment on the last carriage of the freight train, and then lined up according to their respective units.

Seeing Lynn stepping over the pedal, the SS captain raised his right eyebrow, and then said with a glance: "Guns, ammunition, bayonets and other combat equipment and irrelevant supplies are all put into the carriage, and only personal important items are carried with you!" ”

After getting off the submarine and walking ten meters to the train car, the soldiers did not have much trouble putting their weapons and equipment into the car. Lynn, a mere six men, lined up in order of rank, and after a few moments of effort, he turned and retreated to the left after inspecting his elite battle squad.

When the SS soldiers and Navy crews who had arrived on the submarine had been assembled on the docks, Motchig and Captain West stepped forward to report: "The personnel of the 4th detachment of the 2nd echelon of the Aryan Ark Project have arrived, 32 SS combatants, 1 of whom died of wounds on the way, and the remaining 31 have arrived; All 26 members of U-396 have arrived! ”

Through the echo of the four walls of the cave, this voice is particularly strong and powerful, and it also adds to the solemnity in people's hearts.

The Wehrmacht officer standing beside Ziggenke took a step forward, scanned the entire queue of more than fifty people with a blazing gaze, and said: "Loyal Imperial soldiers, I salute you on behalf of our great Führer!" The arduous voyage has come to an end, and from today onwards, a new page will be turned in your life! ”

Lynn thought that there would be important things and discipline announcements next, but the officer just saluted the soldiers with a proper salute, then turned sideways and said to Ziggenke, Motchig, and West, "Get on board and go!" ”

Under the command of the two captains, the SS soldiers boarded the first carriage, the submariners boarded the second, while the Wehrmacht officer and Ziggenke got into the locomotive, standing on the railing passage outside the wheelhouse and looking back from time to time. Without a screeching whistle, the locomotive hummed into action, pulling the carriages slowly, not much faster at first than on foot, but Lynn and the others would soon know how easy and effortless it was to have such a little train!

After turning in the middle of the pier, the train gradually slowed down and stopped completely in front of a hole more than ten meters wide and four or five meters high. There are movable steel gates, flanked by soldiers in Wehrmacht attire, armed with MP44 assault rifles and mount-mounted MG42 machine guns, which can tear intruders to shreds in an instant.

(To be continued)