Chapter 34: Sakura: Don't come here!
Academician Yan's research on dragon veins made Zhao Chen feel that the rescue plan in the Americas was urgent.
When Zhao Chen was about to inquire about Nanaki's route to the Americas, Yi Zheng took Tu Xingchuan and Linghua to the National Research Institute.
"Why are you here?"
Zhao Chen didn't want his junior brother to be involved in a series of subsequent military operations.
But Tu Xingchuan is in the National Research Institute, which represents... He was secretly asked to participate in a research or dragon vein-related mission.
"It's a long story, I didn't even have time to go home, I was called here to say hello to my dad, but the country is in need of people."
Employment... Sure enough, it has something to do with that Sheng Ming's descendant?
Zhao Chen looked at Linghua who was hiding behind Tu Xingchuan.
Linghua obviously didn't want to be noticed by the people around her, and after feeling Zhao Chen's gaze, she even tightened her grip on a silver needle hidden in her hand.
“… Stay safe. ”
Zhao Chen had a lot of doubts in his heart, but he wouldn't ask too much about things that had nothing to do with his mission.
A map of the Dragon Vein World had been found by Academician Yan and placed on the long table, and the earth spirit girl Nanaki had already eaten and drunk enough under the hospitality of Beicheng.
Now it's time for her to tell Huaguo about the route to the Americas.
"Stand up, I won't fall."
Zhao Chen took a chair and asked Nanaki, who only had his forehead to reach the long table, to stand up.
"Now tell us... How do you get from here to your hometown? ”
Tu Xingchuan handed a marker pen to Nanaqi, and the map that Academician Yan took out was not a regular nautical chart.
In addition to islands and land, the map also depicts some hideous sea monsters in the depths of the ocean.
On the nautical charts of the original world, these sea monsters were fictional creatures drawn by navigators based on legends and imaginations.
At best, it's just an adventurous addition to old nautical charts.
But this world is different, these sea monsters are not legends, they are real creatures recorded in the nightmares of navigators around the world.
Modern fleets have the means to hunt down these giant sea monsters, but it's taking too long... It will also take a long observation period to find their whereabouts.
Nanaki took the marker pen and bit her finger to look at the charts for a while, and finally she picked up the marker and drew a circle on one of the islands below Huaguo.
"Here." Nanaki said.
"What... Over here? Zhao Chen wondered if Nanaki didn't understand what he was saying.
"The way home... At... Over here. ”
Nanaki answered Zhao Chen in Chinese with some difficulty, she learned Chinese very quickly, probably Beicheng shared her knowledge with her.
The communication between the spirits is more of a conscious one.
"This is Japan! Or maybe Sakura, Sakura has a route to the Americas? ”
Zhao Chen slowed down his tone, trying his best to make his words understandable to Nanaki.
"It's the door! I... Activation! Go home! ”
Nanaki also made a gesture of raising her hands in a grabbing and intimidating posture when she said this, and she seemed to want to use this way to make Zhao Chen understand.
Zhao Chen could understand the meaning of this earth spirit, but it was difficult to believe it.
In short, somewhere in the Tokyo area of Japan, there is a door to the American continent, and this earth spirit can activate it.
This was completely beyond Zhao Chen's comprehension, so at this time, it was the turn of the almighty Great Xia National Master Yi Zheng to come forward to explain.
"If this earth spirit is a descendant of the Kayin, what she says may be true." Yi Zheng said.
"Canadians?" Zhao Chen remembered that the head maid also called these Native Americans like this.
"Thousands of years ago, there was some communication between the ancient kingdom and our people, and their footprints were all over the world, but for some reason they disappeared overnight, and now the remains of the Kaina can be found all over the world, including the cherry blossoms," Imasa explained.
The heritage of ancient civilizations...
"Team Zhao, don't we have a rescue plan for Sakura?" Academician Yan also seemed to be very interested in that 'door'.
The dragon vein can be said to be a kind of biotechnology, if that 'door' is really like the earth spirit said, it has the function of transcontinental teleportation.
The manufacturing process and principle of the 'door' must be understood and mastered by Huaguo.
"There must be, but when we organized the rescue, the Yellow Sea area was hit by a typhoon, and it is not clear whether the typhoon has stopped, so I will first confirm with my superiors, and by the way, I will report the intelligence here." Zhao Chen said.
Japan is a neighboring country, and the number of Chinese compatriots in Japan is probably the largest.
Due to a certain epidemic, the number of tourists in Japan has decreased a lot, but there are still many students in Japan who have not been able to return to their home countries.
From the very beginning, China planned to send warships to Japan for a rescue mission.
Unfortunately, a super typhoon was raging on the route to Japan, which put the rescue mission to Japan on hold for the time being.
Zhao Chen explained the current situation to his superiors, and after a brief discussion, a new rescue plan for Japan was soon released.
"The typhoon has stopped, and the fleet to rescue Japan will set sail tomorrow." Zhao Chen said.
"Then please bring your junior brother with you, this is related to another plan of your country." Yi Zheng made this request at the right time.
"Another plan?" Zhao Chen hadn't heard of it.
"It's just..."
Tu Xingchuan just wanted to explain, Linghua directly kicked Tu Xingchuan's calf, and the painful Tu Xingchuan swallowed back the words in his throat.
"I'm going with me, too." Linghua said to Yi Zheng in a cold voice.
"It's best to have a son of the dragon vein left behind." Yi Zheng shook his head and wanted to reject Reihua's offer.
"My life is tied to this guy! If something happens to him, I'll do too! ”
Linghua is actually protecting herself, maybe everyone present is in danger, and the only person who is willing to stand up to protect her is Tu Xingchuan.
The sense of crisis of living in a dangerous environment all year round makes Reika reluctant to trust anyone present.
"The rescue force will make sure that they are safe, just like in the Republic of Falot."
Zhao Chen didn't ask his junior brother what secret tasks he had.
But Tu Xingchuan's appearance here means that his identity has changed from an ordinary person to an important person who needs to be protected.
"Then I don't have an opinion." Yi Zheng said.
"Prepare for the flight, it's in the evening to board the plane to Linhai Harbor, and you'd better go home and see your dad before that."
Zhao Chen said a word to Tu Xingchuan, who was a little excited, and then called Yi Zheng to chat again.
"Can you elaborate on the current situation in Japan or Sakura?" Zhao Chen asked.
"As far as I know, Sakura respects the emperor, but the real ruler is the general after the emperor."
Yi Zheng painted a picture of the history of Japan that Zhao Chen was more familiar with, but now that the time was approaching World War I, the shogun was still in control of the country.
This may only say one thing, one thing that Yi Zheng mentioned before.
"I remember you mentioned that the Western countries have not yet made a move against the cherry blossoms."
"Yes, the 'alchemist' in the cherry blossoms knows how to control the kamikaze to protect their own land, and now the ironclad ships of the western countries must first cross the kamikaze if they want to enter the realm of the cherry blossoms."
The kamikaze that Imasa is referring to is probably the super typhoon that has previously ravaged the far sea between the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, and this typhoon has spread from the far sea to the Tsushima Strait.
But the kamikaze certainly can't wreak havoc for long.
However, for the island nation of Sakura, being sheltered by the kamikaze is also the reason why they can live in a corner of the current environment of the rise of the great powers.
"Sakura also takes... The country will send exchange envoys to communicate with Western countries, and trade posts with Western merchant ships have also been established in some seaport areas. ”
Yi Zheng said that it was a burst of sadness, and every time he mentioned the decline of Great Xia, he had an uncomfortable expression on his face that he was about to die on the spot.
But looking at Zhao Chen beside him, he quickly adjusted.
"What about the Black Ship Incident? Did it really not happen? ”
"Black Ship... Event? ”
"That's right, the colonies of the Ainland Empire in the Americas haven't become independent yet, how can there be a black ship incident."
Zhao Chen roughly understood what stage Japan or cherry blossoms in this world were still in.
According to the normal timeline, as early as ten or twenty years ago, the Western countries were directly called young Taka-chan, and directly drove the fleet and bombarded the Tokugawa shogunate with cannons.
Since then, Japan has embarked on the path of high-speed modernization, began to frantically absorb advanced knowledge from Western countries, and then... Gone astray, completely astray!
As the most familiar and unfamiliar neighboring country, Japan has learned the culture of China from the very beginning, and the Confucianism and Buddhism of the Tang Dynasty have greatly influenced the foundation of this nation.
But the weakening of the Qing Dynasty led the nation to follow in the footsteps of the Western powers.
And today... It's time for them to remember who their original teacher was.
"Is it the inevitability of history? The incident of the opening of the black ship may not happen, but it is the turn of the white ship to open the country. Zhao Chen said.
"White boat?"
Yi Zheng remembers correctly, Huaguo's warships are all painted white.
Thinking about it, he kind of wanted to see what those warships looked like when they sailed.