Chapter 106: Collective Evacuation
Yuan Muye, who had returned to normal, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead at this time, and then carefully looked at this small island called Kapok......
It's not much like he imagined, almost from the pier, and the street is full of shops selling some local specialties, which looks like a place with a particularly tourist atmosphere.
According to the latest topographic map given by the military of country J, this area is full of shops and snack streets within a two-kilometer radius, and there are almost no homes. If it's in normal times...... There must be a lot of traffic here, but now there is really no ghost.
Although the people from the military of Country J said that they had searched all of them, Yuan Muye and the others still decided to search carefully again, because there are many times when what others see and what they see are not the same concept.
The mercenaries, on the other hand, didn't seem to have the slightest interest in the place, but when they saw that the people of No. 54 were going to look for it again, they sat in the shade of the trees with gloomy faces and waited.
In fact, this is just as the people on the island said before, there are no people in the large and small stores, and although the doors of some stores are open, they are obviously violently knocked open later.
Yuan Muye came to the window of a small souvenir shop at this time, he looked inside through a broken window, and found that the store was full of messes, and some bits and pieces of trinkets were thrown everywhere.
When I walked in, I saw the smell of rotting food...... Yuan Muye didn't stop, and went straight to the innermost counter, he glanced at the drawers below, and found that there was no other large amount of cash in it except for some change.
After that, they went through several small shops, including some restaurants selling local snacks, all of which were in different conditions, almost all of them had their doors violently slammed open, and there were no other valuables in them except for some of the things they sold.
After searching all the nearby stores, the group gathered together to summarize what they saw......
"Although these people left in a hurry, they all locked the doors and windows and took away the belongings of the store, they should have gone somewhere in an organized way......," Yuan Muye said first.
Everyone agreed with him that it was likely that these people had received an early warning before the typhoon came, so they went somewhere to take refuge. Thinking of this, he took out a topographic map to see if there was any place on the island for people to take refuge after the typhoon came.
But he searched for a long time but didn't get anything, Yuan Muye glanced at the topographic map at this time and said, "Since it's a typhoon to avoid danger...... Is it possible that it is not on the ground? ”
"You mean the basement? How big a basement does that have to be, enough to accommodate more than a thousand people at once? The army said in disbelief.
After hearing this, Forging Feng thought for a while and said, "I can't see where there is a basement from this topographic map, but there are definitely no commercial streets near us, because these houses have only been built in the past ten years, and it should not be a secret if there is a basement." ”
When Yuan Muye heard this, he looked at the mountainous area in the northeast and said, "Then it can only be in those garden houses on the mountain...... By the way, how old is this island? ”
Yuan Muye's question can stop everyone, all the people present are not locals, and none of them can really tell the history of this small island...... When Huo Ran heard him ask, he turned around and ran back to a shop where he bought travel souvenirs. After a while, I saw him running back with an excited face, and he had an extra tourist brochure for Kapok Island in his hand.
According to the memorial book, Kapok Island was indeed a private island in the twenties of the last century, when it was bought by a British merchant to build the first English-style house on the island, and then resold to a Nanyang industrialist surnamed Huang.
The island's ordinary residents are some nearby fishermen, who first only came to Kapok Island to rest when they passed through the island, and then after the place was bought by the Chinese surnamed Huang, these fishermen were allowed to build houses and land on the island, and became the island's future aborigines.
Later, because of the beautiful scenery here, many Nanyang bosses sold land and built houses here one after another, and it became a very popular resort in the Chinese circle at that time.
At that time, vacations and now tourism were completely different concepts, and these owners did not live in the bungalows all year round, they would only bring their families and friends to play here during the best season of the year, and usually leave some workers to take care of them.
This is a real vacation, not like the current tourist ...... Almost all of them are routines, although a lot of money is spent, but every time I come back from traveling, I always feel physically and mentally exhausted.
And the boss surnamed Huang is probably the original real estate developer, he is very smart and knows how to turn an uninhabited island into a resort for the rich to buy and sell...... After he bought the island, he allowed some fishermen to live on the island, which was nothing more than to make the island more fireworks.
"Do you think it was a wealthy Chinese boss who built a basement under his bungalow?" Huo Ran looked at the tourist brochure and said.
Yuan Muye nodded after hearing this and said, "It's not impossible, pirates were rampant here a hundred years ago, and an underground secret room was built to hide from pirates when they came, and to avoid typhoons when they came, which is indeed very practical." ”
When Forging Feng heard this, he shook his head and said, "It's normal to build a basement, but you don't need to build a basement that can accommodate thousands of people, right?!" Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration......"
Yuan Muye thought for a while and said, "It's hard to say what the specific situation is, but one thing is certain, these people were definitely not blown away by the typhoon, they were evacuated in an organized and purposeful manner." ”
"No matter how they left, if these people are still on the island...... I'm afraid I've already turned into a corpse. Zeng Nannan on the side said coldly at this time.
After hearing this, everyone's faces became extremely solemn, because they knew that what Zeng Nannan said was very likely! It's been more than half a month since the start of the campaign, and even if these people are all hiding in a secret place on the island, what are they eating during this time? What to drink?
That's not a dozen or twenty people, but more than a thousand! Imagine how much food you would need to feed more than 1,000 people at the same time! In addition, although Kapok Island is beautiful, it does not produce anything, and all the ingredients have to be transported from outside the island by ferry.
Since the typhoon at the end of last month, there have been no more ferries to carry food to the island......