Chapter 614 Ship Shadow

When Jeju Island appeared in front of the "Snow Dragon", it was already the early morning of the next day, and yesterday's lively basketball game and the ample sleep at night made Chen Bin and Dafei feel extremely refreshed after getting up. The two of them came to the bow early in the morning, and although it was windy, it was not as stuffy as in the cabin.

"What island is that?" Da Fei asked, pointing to the land in the distance.

"I don't know, my geography is very ordinary," Chen Bin also looked at the unfamiliar land on the sea with great interest, "It can't be the Kyushu Island of the Sakura Country, right?" ”

"It doesn't seem to be," Chen Bin said and shook his head, "The route Professor Xia said is to cross the Tsushima Strait, and Kyushu Island will only appear on the right side of our direction." ”

"Could it be Jeju Island?" Dafei suddenly thought of the name that often appears in some travel advertisements on TV, "Bagan is on the left side of the Tsushima Strait, and Sakura Country is on the right, and Jeju Island belongs to Bagan and is the largest island in Bagan." ”

Chen Bin had some impression of the name of the island mentioned by Da Fei, and he looked at the gray land line on the sea level, but muttered something else in his heart.

Chen Bin was worried about the Bagan people in Dongdong, he just heard Da Fei say that this island might be Jeju Island, and suddenly thought that those Bagan people had islands in their own country to escape, but they took the initiative to flee to Chongming, and he had some doubts in his heart.

If this matter is to be clarified, he will have to wait until he returns to Chongming to investigate, and he can't find anyone to ask if he wants to know about it at present.

Chen Bin and Da Fei had both had breakfast, and now they have nothing to do, so they stay on the deck of the "Snow Dragon" to watch the scenery on the sea. There are a lot of new things on the "Snow Dragon", but the two of them have already turned around a few times in yesterday's time, and most of them have learned about it.

A "Snow Eagle" helicopter is parked in the ship's hangar, and the ship is also equipped with a Yellow River boat and a Zhongshan barge to improve navigation support and transportation capacity.

Several huge booms supported in the middle of the hull are also one of the features of the "Snow Dragon", and there is also a criss-crossing large support, like many things on the ship, Chen Bin does not know their specific functions.

The speed of the ship is only 15 knots, and nearly 20 hours have passed since the departure of the "Snow Dragon" in the sea near Jeju Island. Jeju Island was the first piece of land that Chen Bin and the others had seen since their departure, and after that, the two stayed on the deck for nearly an hour without making any new discoveries.

In the afternoon, there was a sudden commotion in the cabin, and when Chen Bin and Da Fei came out of the house, they happened to hear someone shouting "There is a boat".

"Got a ship? What ship? The people who heard the shouting ran out of the bridge, trying to get to the deck to see what was going on. Chen Bin and Da Fei also followed, and the two came to the deck, and followed the direction pointed by those people on the side of the ship, and sure enough, they found a ship shadow on the sea in the distance.

In the past, it was not surprising to see ships on the sea, but now the situation is different, and the outbreak of disasters has drastically reduced the population of the land, and it is even more difficult to see a sail on the sea.

The ship appeared on the surface of the sea so suddenly that the people who had been on deck before could not tell when it came out of the sea. By the time it was discovered, the shadow of the ship was already relatively clear, and from a distance, it looked like a warship.

"Crew please evacuate from the deck, crew please evacuate from deck," a pleasant female voice came over the radio, which was the notice issued by the staff on the "Snow Dragon". There are a total of five female members of the shipping team, including a female pilot, two female meteorological support personnel and two female inland team members.

The people on deck didn't know what was happening, only heard the radio urging over and over again, and some of them began to walk into the bridge, some still grinding on the deck with great curiosity.

Chen Bin and Da Fei returned to the bridge building, and it was the first time for the two of them to encounter this situation, so they were also a little at a loss.

In the command room of the "Snow Dragon", the crew of the ship were nervously busy, and the sudden appearance of the ship's shadow was somewhat unexpected by everyone, and the communication team began to try to contact the other party through high-frequency radio to confirm their identity.

The ship's broadcast lasted about 30 seconds, and during this time, the "Snow Dragon" also sent a radio signal to the ship. After a short wait, seeing that the other party still did not respond, Wang Puhong, the captain of the "Snow Dragon", decisively issued an order for all members to be on alert, and the armed group composed of the ship's crew and the soldiers escorted by the ship began to arm one after another, preparing to deal with the next possible emergency.

The "Snow Dragon" used to carry submachine guns, machine guns, pistols and other weapons every time it traveled, which was to prevent piracy and some emergencies, and this time there were more than 30 soldiers accompanying it, and the Chongming government also armed them well in order to ensure everyone's safety on the road.

Chen Bin and Da Fei also received weapons after communicating with Wang Puhong, and they boarded the ship as Professor Zhang Dada's personal security personnel, so it was reasonable to carry guns with the soldiers at such a time.

The two men and some of the soldiers were assigned to the deck to guard the ship, and everyone watched the ship's every move in the distance.

To everyone's surprise, however, the ship didn't seem to be moving, or rather it was just drifting at sea. When the "Snow Dragon" got a little closer, someone finally discovered that the ship was a warship.

The warship had two small-caliber naval guns in the bow and, judging by the size of the hull, it appeared to be a destroyer. After Wang Puhong found out about this, he immediately arranged for the people in the communication group to contact Chongming and strive to transfer to Yanjing. The warship that appeared on the route of the "Snow Dragon" gave him great pressure, and combined with the previous espionage case that happened in Xuandong, Wang Puhong began to worry about whether the other party would be squatting on his "Snow Dragon" halfway.

The armed forces of the research ship can be easily used against pirates, but if the opponent is a warship, then the firepower on the ship is completely insufficient. Moreover, as a scientific research ship, the speed of the "Snow Dragon" is on the slow side, which cannot be compared with warships, especially destroyers.

Therefore, Wang Puhong began to contact the government behind him before he found out the identity and intentions of the other party, and in addition to informing him of the emergency situation at sea, he was also ready to apply for support.

Chongming did not have the naval strength to deal with the warships, and the nearest support had to come from the base in Bohai Bay. Wang Puhong was ready to delay in a hurry, but when the communication group tried to establish contact with the unidentified warship again, the result was still unsuccessful.

"No one answered?" Wang Puhong frowned, the other party's behavior was a little strange, neither talking to nor getting closer, just drifting in the distance.

"Captain, shall we send someone over to take a look?" The leader of the armed group asked.

"The 'Snow Dragon' is on standby, keeping a distance from the other party, and dispatching the Yellow River boat over," Wang Puhong thought about and made a decision.

The Yellow River Boat is a motorized dinghy equipped on the "Snow Dragon", and the crew uses the ship's boom to hang it down to the sea, and several members of the armed group descend to the boat, ready to take the small boat to the vicinity of the warship to find out.

The red Yellow River boat cut through the sea and headed towards the warship, which was a very dangerous thing, because although the warship was only a destroyer, the small-caliber main gun it carried could instantly shatter the Yellow River boat with just one shell.

Wang Puhong did not send the Yellow River boat to joke with the lives of the crew, because he had no choice in this situation. If the other party harbors malicious intentions, the "Snow Dragon" will basically have no power to fight back, and instead of sitting on the surface of the sea and waiting for death, it is better to send a mobile boat over to take a look and find out the situation.

"Ship number 114," the Yellow River boat approached the front, and found that there was no figure on the warship in front, and the hull was rusty, and there was a number number 114 on the front of the ship.

If Chen Bin was also on this Yellow River boat, he might mistakenly think that the warship in front of him and the "Shenyang" he had ridden in the first place were brother ships, because the "Shenyang" had a side number of 115, and this 114 was next to each other in numbers.

"This looks like a Shirane-class destroyer," the Yellow River boat circled around the warship, and someone had already guessed its identity based on the characteristics of the ship.

"It's the Shirane-class," someone nodded again, "The helicopter destroyer of the Sakura Maritime Self-Defense Force, you see, its stern is the entire apron, the hangar is in the middle of the hull, and the caliber of the two main guns is the same as the Shirane-class." ”

The class name of a warship is similar to the "generation" of an aircraft, and after confirming the class name, and then corroborating it according to the port number, then its ship name is about to come out.

"Kurama, Shirane-class subship."

Two brave men on the Yellow River boat climbed up the "Kurama" boat, and the two jumped off the deck after a while.

"There are no living people on the warship, and there are a lot of zombies in the bridge."

"Go back to the 'Snow Dragon' first" and report to Captain Wang Puhong. ”

"Kurama?" Hearing the news brought back by the crew, Wang Puhong breathed a sigh of relief, and then fed back the news to Chongming and Yanjing, and the support he had previously applied for was also cancelled.

"No wonder," Wang Puhong thought about it and finally put his mind at ease, the warship floating on the sea was the "Kurama", and its appearance here could be explained.

The home port of the Kurama is Sasebo, a military port located in the western part of the island of Kyushu in Sakura, and before the disaster, the Sasebo Military Port was home to the Sakura Maritime Self-Defense Force and part of the U.S. Navy.

This military port was built in the 19th century, when the Sakura Province government established the "Sasebo Castle Guard" on the site, making it the center of defense in the western part of the country and a base for military advances to the Asian continent. At the height of the Great Binh Duong War, about 60,000 people worked at Sasebo's shipyard and surrounding facilities, and many ships, submarines, and military aircraft were equipped there.

At this moment, the Sasebo Naval Port is about 100 kilometers east of the location of the "Snow Dragon", so it is not surprising that there are warships floating out into the sea in the harbor, or that the "Kurama" has been on a mission on the sea before, and the outbreak of the disaster has completely paralyzed the ship.