Chapter 445 Pickled Puffins II
Law enforcement officers quickly took control of the 'Sea Man' inside and out, and found that there were no weapons or prohibited items on board other than the necessary fuel and life-saving flare guns for navigation. The captain of the team then radioed the patrol ships waiting outside the fjord.
After a while, a dinghy flying the flag of the United States Coast Guard sailed into the fjord, quickly approaching' The law enforcement team members waiting on the side of the ship "Man of the Sea" immediately lowered the stairs, and a group of officers wearing orange jackets printed with USCG English letters boarded the ship along the stairs for a more detailed inspection, and even Erina Nagikiri and Kohei Soma, who were still recovering from seasickness, were also woken up for questioning, during which the highest-ranking officer on the scene personally asked the captain Taso's father, and Jiang Yunfeng, who was half-hung and spoke English, was still hesitating whether he should act as an interpreter, and as a result, he was stimulated by Taji's father's pure London accent and had difficulty breathing.
After some tossing and turning, the boat was towed back to the dock for dismantling and inspection, and the information of each inspection team was summarized to the officers. The officer took a picture of Tansho's father's ID number and put it back into the patrol boat, and soon received feedback that the documents and the vessel matched the vessel registered in the Department of Homeland Security database, and after completing the entry procedures and visas on the spot, all the U.S. Coast Guard personnel quickly evacuated the 'Sea Man', and the last officer who left learned from the conversation with Taso's father just now that this was the last voyage for the four men to bid farewell to the sea, so he solemnly saluted and expressed his admiration for the four men who had fought with the sea for half their lives.
Put away his passport and looked at the dinghy in the distance, Jiang Yunfeng was a little dazed, such a big battle just now, it was guns and cannons, but it ended hastily, quite a bit of thunder and rain. Angry and funny, he asked, "Uncle Taso, are they here to be funny if they ask a few questions so simply, and let us enter the country after flipping through the luggage?" ”
"Boy, don't make things so simple! Take a closer look at how your visa can only be used along the coast of Alaska, and you can't enter the interior, let alone set foot on the mainland of North America. Tian Suo's father ruthlessly poured a basin of ice water on Jiang Yunfeng, patted him dumbfounded, and urged, "Don't stand stupidly~ Hurry up and take anchor, let's set off and strive to reach the destination in one day!" ”
"Oh~"
After a day and a half of sailing along the coast of Alaska, he finally arrived at the final stop of the voyage in the evening of the eighth day of departure from Japan, the inhabited town of Barrow in the Arctic Circle, the northernmost point of Alaska. There are only a few dozen households in the town, all of which are Alaska native Inuit, and the hospitable mayor also invited Jiang Yunfeng and others to his house as guests, and wanted to provide accommodation.
Tian So's father politely declined the mayor's kindness, saying that his ship was well equipped and did not want to cause more trouble to the residents, and the mayor did not insist on it, but said that if he needed help, he should bring it up, but the mayor also revealed a special surprise to everyone, according to speculation, there will be a beautiful aurora in the past two days.
Dressed in a thick down jacket, Kohei waited on the foredeck holding a camera in the cold wind like a knife and waiting for the aurora to appear. As the minutes and seconds passed, Kohei couldn't help but look at his watch, the minute and hour hands overlapped and pointed to zero hour on the dial, but the sun's rays could still be seen on the skyline due north, and the sky was still hazy and bright as dawn.
"What's going on? Is my watch broken? But the second hand is still moving! Kohei Soma, who didn't know what to do, tinkered with his watch.
Jiang Yunfeng, who climbed the suspension ladder to the deck, asked curiously, "Chuangzhen, what are you doing?" ”
"My watch seems to be broken, and the sky is still bright when it points to zero."
"Will it be twelve o'clock at noon?"
"Impossible!" Xingping Chuangzhen firmly vetoed, took out his mobile phone and showed it to Jiang Yunfeng, "Look! The time on my phone shows that it's midnight, and I can't even tell if it's day or night!! ”
Jiang Yunfeng also took out his mobile phone for comparison, there was no difference in time, but why was it already midnight, but the sky was still hazy? Suddenly, a natural phenomenon term came to his mind, it was August and it was summer in the Northern Hemisphere, so the Arctic region had extended the light hours into the polar day.
Looking up at the sky, Jiang Yunfeng said: "It is indeed early in the morning, as for why you can still see the sun, it is because it is summer in the northern hemisphere, and the Arctic region is in the polar day, and there is only daytime." ”
"I see, Polar Day!" Realizing this, Kohei Soma immediately forgot his worries about not being able to distinguish between day and night, and instead immersed himself in this environment where the boundaries between day and night were blurred, and enjoyed the desolate scenery of the polar tundra around him.
The small town of Barrow is nestled on a hill, with towering peaks shielding the polar winds from the Arctic Ocean, dozens of houses scattered on the gentle leeward slopes, while Jiang Yunfeng and his boat anchor in the tranquil fjord at the foot of the mountain.
"Hmm~~Good morning~~~" Erina Nagikiri, who was stretching her waist, also came to the deck, seeing that her spirit should have been relieved from the discomfort of seasickness but not fully recovered, so was Kohei Sojina, but Jiang Yunfeng had made enough preparations to help them recover.
"Good morning? It should be a good evening~ Miss. Jiang Yunfeng waved his mobile phone and teased, "I didn't expect Erina Nagikiri, who has always emphasized the concept of time and is strict with herself, to sleep during the day, and stay in bed until the early hours of the morning." ”
Erina Nagi was stunned after seeing the time display on her mobile phone, and she had no words to refute the facts, so she could only stare at Jiang Yunfeng with a mocking face with resentment.
"Just kidding, let's ease the atmosphere~ After so many days of seasickness, the eldest lady should adjust her mood." Jiang Yunfeng, who only thought that he had the scale, put away his mobile phone, pointed to the two oil drums with flames burning at the bottom of the mountain not far from the shore, and said, "I took materials from the spot and boiled two buckets of hot water, soak in a bath to relieve it." ”
Japan is a country where the habit of bathing is carved into the bone marrow, and for so many days, Kohei Soma and Erina Nagikiri, who can only shower due to the limited conditions on board, can be said to have long been 'hungry and thirsty'. Without saying a word, he immediately returned to the cabin to get their respective bathing utensils, and when he came to the oil drum, he happened to see Jiang Yunfeng tear open a packaging bag and throw an emerald green ball object the size of a ping-pong ball into the oil drum of Erina Nagi Kiri, and the hot water in the bucket immediately began to bubble violently, and soon the transparent hot water was slowly dyed the same emerald green as the ball.
"Basqueline scented bath salts, and forest scented!! Anything else? Get me one too!! Seeing this, Xingping Chuangzhen, whose eyes were green, urgently urged Jiang Yunfeng to give him the bucket as well.
"No, it's just one!" Jiang Yunfeng rummaged through all the pockets on his body in front of Xingping Chuangzhen, Jiang Yunfeng didn't lie, there was really only one, and he set off to pass by the bathroom and took it casually, he didn't know what it was to use at the time, but his intuition told Jiang Yunfeng that he must bring it, and handed the eraser this pack of edible salt, "Don't say brother, I treat it differently, there are a lot of fragrant bath salts, there are many of them, and they can be used in unlimited quantities~ Don't be polite to me!" ”
Xingping Chuangzhen, who took the edible salt, glanced at the box of vegetables at Jiang Yunfeng's feet again, and couldn't help jumping out of the corners of his eyes: "Are you planning to stew me?" ”
"Just your can't chew the meat and the fishy smell that can't be removed, stew you~ How many spices do I have to waste! Okay, don't be crooked here, don't collect a lot of wood, soak it in quickly!! Jiang Yunfeng urged impatiently, and two meters away, Erina Nagikiri was already moaning in the iron bucket around the baffle. Kohei Soma took off his thick warm clothes and completely immersed his body in hot water, and the comfort that he hadn't felt for many days really washed away the fatigue and discomfort on his body.
"Hey~ That's right." Jiang Yunfeng, who added a handful of firewood to the bottom of the oil drum, threw two halved onions into it, then picked up a carrot and stirred the bath water soaked in Kohei Chuangzhen...