The Pequod was originally a whaling ship that had been tracking humpback whales around the Bering Sea, but now the ship was no longer out of sea, and it was abandoned in a slightly leeward bay, with no one on board, except for some gulls who dared to land on board and waddled along the oak deck. The ship's cables were abandoned, and the deck was in chaos. The whaling javelin pointed diagonally at the sky, and because no one had wiped it, it had grown a layer of earthy red rust......

A month ago, the boat dragged its own booty, and a humpback whale returned to San Francisco Harbor. As soon as they entered the port, something was wrong with the people on board—the port was so deserted that there was not a single boat parked in the entire port. There was a large group of people standing on the other side of the pier, but looking at them through the binoculars, it seemed that they were all waiting to go out, and none of them looked like dock workers.

"What's going on? Damn it! I've been at this port for 10 years, and I've never seen anything like this weird. Captain Ahab sighed as he looked at the harbor.

At this time, it was clear that the people on the pier had also noticed the ship, and Captain Ahab used his binoculars, which were a new product of the MacDonald Infantry Weapons Company, with a caliber of fifty millimeters and a magnification of seven times, which performed much better than the monoculars commonly used in the past, so that the captains and lookouts of today's whaling ships basically used them instead of the old-fashioned telescopes, and looked to the shore, and he saw that the men were waving feverishly at their boats. As if they were Lord Nelson, who had just defeated the French fleet at Trafalgar, triumphant.

The boat gradually approached the dock, and even without binoculars, it was now possible to see the condition of the men. This is a large group of men, all carrying a very special green canvas backpack with the same shape. A long dark green canvas bag was also tied to the top of the backpack. From this point of view, they should be together, but judging from the fact that they pushed each other and wanted to get a little ahead, these people are definitely not all the way.

"What's going on? What happened? Captain Ahab thought.

At this time, Harry, the sailor, had already walked to the side of the ship with the cable, and wanted to throw the cable to the dock workers on the shore, but at this time, the dock workers did not know where to go, so Harry was stunned for a while.

"Throw the rope to me, I'll tie it for you, I've done this job." A man shouted, and Harry threw the rope to the fellow, who tied it in two strokes, and was quite skillful, and it seemed that he had done it himself.

The boat approached the pier, and before the sailors could disembark, the people waiting on the pier came in droves, but Captain Ahab had already seen that something was wrong, so he prepared the sailors in advance. Captain Ahab drew his revolver and fired a shot into the sky, stopping the crowd that was rushing by.

"What do you want to do!" Captain Ahab yelled at the fellows,

"Captain, is your ship going to Alaska?" Someone shouted.

"Captain, we'll pay for it, and you can send us to Alaska!" More people shouted, and some pulled out dollars and waved them at Captain Ahab.

"Don't shout! Tell me what the hell is going on! Captain Ahab roared.

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After a long time of talking, Captain Ahab and the rest of the ship understood what was going on.

About two months ago, the new American radio broadcaster made a shocking news that the McDonald consortium had a large gold mine in Alaska. According to the news, the McDonald consortium bought one of them and secretly recruited workers to open it, while there are many smaller mines near the mine that have not yet been fully discovered.

After another month,66 successive workers came back from there, and almost every one of them confirmed that there was indeed gold in that place. Some people have been panning for gold in their neighborhoods after their contracts have ended, and there are indeed people who have found gold, and there are even rumors that someone has found a piece of gold weighing fifteen pounds. Of course, no one has ever seen that fifteen-pound piece of gold, but people are like that, some people pass it on, and some people believe it. And over time, the weight of that piece of gold has also increased, and by now, according to legend, it has become fifty pounds.

So almost the whole of America was in a stir, and everyone was thinking about how to get to Alaska to find gold. But Alaska is so far away, so inhospitable, where to go and what to prepare? What can I do to find gold? This is really something that everyone has to think about.

Fortunately, the American radio broadcasting company is really a good person, and they specially found relevant experts and conducted all kinds of interviews. To teach everyone all kinds of knowledge that they must master. For example, in the "Wilderness Survival" program, Mr. Bell, who had been a soldier in Blackwater and had spent several years in Alaska, appeared to explain and gave everyone a variety of wilderness survival skills, such as the preparation of everyone's body now: a rainproof jacket, a backpack with waist support, a MacDonald 1864 rifle or a MacDonald 1862 shotgun on the backpack, a tent in the backpack, a degassing eiderdown sleeping bag, a multi-functional sapper shovel and kerosene blowtorch hanging on the outside of the backpack, and a multi-purpose dagger in a calf pocket. These are the things that Mr. Bell recommends when he explains how to survive in the Alaskan wilderness. Although almost all of his recommendations are McDonald's Infantry Weapons Company stuff, if you think about his experience, well, we can understand it, because after all, it's the stuff he uses most in Alaska. And those who came back from Alaska, whether they had found gold or not, admitted that the things that Mr. Bell had recommended to them were a good conscience. Without this, I'm afraid I'm really going to die in Alaska. Driven by these people, many of MacDonald's military products have also become sought after by the common people

In addition to hiring Mr. Bell to talk about how to survive, American Radio also invited many geologists to teach everyone how to prospect for minerals, how to look at ore veins, and how to choose a location. Later, those gold diggers who succeeded in making money also admitted that the "Open Sesame" program gave them great help.

It's just that the fly in the ointment is that they talk too fast, each content is only told once in the morning and evening, many things are not remembered clearly, and sometimes, between friends, there is no contradiction because of different memories of a problem. And although there will be a lot of relevant content in various newspapers, but their stuff is full of loopholes, and sometimes on the radio program, Mr. Bell will even directly point out what is in some newspapers, and if you really do what they do, well, then you will definitely end up in some kind of extremely terrible situation, in Mr. Bell's words, "The Alaskan grizzly bear can pull your head off with just a paw, and then it will slowly taste you, and your body is rich in fat and protein, It can provide more energy for it to survive the winter. Besides, you are not unpleasant, after removing the head, it tastes about the same as chicken, and the bones are crunchy, which is delicious. ”

But later, the American Radio Broadcasting Company began to cooperate with the New York Daily Times, and the Times would sort out the relevant content every day, so that everyone could read and understand it in the next day's Times. Well, a lot of people go to Alaska with them with the New York Daily Times, which they've sorted out and stapled together.

More and more people went to Alaska by boat, and then at a high price, borrowed MacDonald's shortwave radio to reply with the good news of gold. A month earlier, some of the first gold prospectors had returned to San Francisco with gold. So many more abandoned their jobs, spent all their savings, and prepared to go to Alaska. However, to their surprise, they could not find the boat. Almost all the ships that sent the gold prospectors to Alaska never returned. Because when the ships docked in Alaska, not only the gold diggers ran to pan for gold, but even the sailors. So none of these ships can sail back!

It was a terrible thing for those who waited for a boat to go to riches, who waited day and night in the harbor for the ship, and now they had waited for a ship, though it was not a passenger ship, but what was it? As long as you can get to Alaska.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are willing to help you, but we must first dispose of our prey, and then prepare the equipment for the voyage before we can go to sea. So it's useless for you to be in such a hurry now, the ship must be ready to sail. Captain Ahab said.

"So when will you be able to get out?" Someone asked.

"Sell the goods, and then modify them appropriately." Captain Ahab said, "It will take at least a week." But if you can trust me, I need to make a deposit in advance, so that I can afford to do my best to get rid of unnecessary things from the ship, and to add more slots to accommodate more people. What do you think? ”

"Okay, no problem, Captain!" People replied.

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After returning to San Francisco, Captain Ahab and the crew of the "Pequod" quickly disposed of the humpback whale they had hunted, and then began to prepare according to the "Survival in the Wilderness" bound book they bought from others, the "Open Sesame" bound book - who is not tempted by the gold to be mined? In addition, sailors should also seize the time to relax themselves, generally speaking, after the ship docks, the sailors will have a month to relax, but now, there is definitely no such time, so sailors should also seize the time to have fun.

If you want to say that San Francisco has changed a lot this time, even the places for fun have changed, and now there are a lot of Japanese brothels in San Francisco, well, it is a completely different flavor to occasionally go to play with Japanese women. Men, they all like to have something fresh. Of course, most of those Japanese women don't speak English, but can this be considered a problem? rg

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