Early this morning, Lin Fan rushed to Tokyo Bay by car, and according to Taoka, who was sent to pick him up, Yusuke Kojima and the others had already prepared to go to sea, and had made an appointment to meet at the Tokyo Bay Pier this morning. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Lin Fan looked out the window, the scenery of Tokyo city flew by outside the window, this was the fifth day he came to Tokyo, these days Sanyo has been thoughtful to him, not only eat and live well, but also send people to take him to visit a lot of places, so now he can recognize some places where the car passes.

Lin Fan's black Toyota van quickly drove out of the bustling area of Shinjuku, and the edge of the city gradually showed a touch of blue seascape, and he had arrived in Tokyo's Minato Ward, not far in front of the car, there was a bridge like a white webbing that connected the center of Minato Ward with the artificial island in the sea.

The car quickly drove up the bridge, and Lin Fan could see the whole picture of Tokyo Bay from the bridge, which was a bowl-shaped bay with all kinds of ships coming and going from time to time, many of which were 10,000-ton cargo ships.

"Mr. Taoka, is this Tokyo Bay?" Lin Fan asked Taoka, who was driving, and they both wore interpreter headphones, so they could communicate in Chinese and Japanese.

"Yes, Mr. Lin Fan, this is Tokyo Bay, and we are now heading to Odaiba Pier via the Rainbow Bridge, where the company's ship is docked." Taoka replied.

Lin Fan suddenly remembered that he had taught the knowledge of Tokyo Bay in the first grade world geography class, Tokyo Bay is located in the central part of Honshu, Japan, surrounded by the Miura Peninsula in the west and the Chiba Peninsula in the east.

About 20 minutes later, Lin Fan's car came to the Odaiba Pier in Tokyo, which is located on an artificial island in the sea, and Tian Oka parked the car in the parking lot of the pier and said to Lin Fan: "Mr. Lin Fan, please take your luggage and come with me." ”

"Yes." Lin Fan nodded.

Lin Fan followed Tian Gang to get out of the car, where they are now is a long wharf, which is surrounded by the sea on three sides, there are many ships moored on the shore, there are many cranes and lifting devices on the wharf, and boxes of rectangular containers are piled up in the square in the center of the wharf.

Tian Gang led Lin Fan to the east of the wharf, walked about a kilometer, and came to a berth marked with the number "K8" on the wharf, where a huge scientific research ship was moored, and a group of people on the wharf were in full swing to transport the materials and equipment on the ground to the ship through a crane.

"Mr. Lin Fan, please go this way." Tian Oka pointed to a staircase passage leading to the lower level of the pier, and Lin Fan followed him down to the B3 floor of the pier, which was specially designed for human passage, and there were many mooring bridges on the side that connected to the boarding gates.

Tian Oka pointed to one of the boarding ports and said, "Mr. Hayashi Fan, please get on the boat, Vice President Kojima, they are waiting for you on the ship." ”

"yes, okay." Lin Fan followed Tian Oka to the boarding gate, he looked at the bridge at a glance, in front of him were the hull made of heavy steel plates, the ship looked 10 stories high, the side walls of the hull were dark blue, from the bottom up, the front and middle of the ship could also see two 4 or 5 story high white control towers.

"This ship should be Wanton-class, Sanyo Group is really rich enough......" Lin Fan couldn't help but think to himself as he looked at this behemoth.

After Lin Fan boarded the ship from the boarding gate, he followed Taoka to the deck through a helicopter elevator and stopped at what appeared to be a helipad on the deck.

Since he hadn't seen Yusuke Kojima and the others, Lin Fan couldn't help asking, "Mr. Taoka, may I ask Mr. Kojima and Miss Nishimura?" ”

"Please wait a moment, they should be there soon." Taoka replied.

After a while, a red helicopter flew over the city across the dock, approaching Lin Fan and them, the buzzing propeller sound became louder and louder, and the helicopter soon stopped on the tarmac of the research ship.

The hatch of the helicopter opened, and Yusuke Kojima was the first to get off the helicopter, followed by the wise leopard horse, the Nishimura antelope, and finally a girl in a sailor suit, Lin Fan had never seen this girl before, she looked thin and slender, with shoulder-length short straight hair, and she looked very delicate.

Nishimura Antagoko asked the person who picked up the plane to take the girl away, and then came to Lin Fan with Yusuke Kojima.

"Vice President Kojima!" Taoka bowed and saluted.

Yusuke Kojima nodded at him, and then smiled at Lin Fan: "Lin Fan, look! This is the research ship we went to sea to find Ningen, what do you think!? ”

"Uh, that's amazing!"

"Haha, come on! Let me take you on a tour of this research vessel, which embodies the painstaking efforts of our Sanyo technology. ”

Yusuke Kojima took Lin Fan from the helipad on the deck to the bow of the ship, and he said as he walked: "Our ship is called 'Urashima Maru', which was built with the investment of our Sanyo Group, and it should be the largest scientific research ship in the world at present, is the wise minister?" He confirmed to the wise leopard horse beside him.

The wise leopard horse wearing a black shirt on the side nodded and said: "'Urashima Maru' is 200 meters long and 40 meters wide, and was built by our Sanyo Co., Ltd. at a cost of 60 billion yen, and is currently the world's largest and most advanced research ship...... In addition, it is also equipped with deep-water probes, helicopters and other equipment, which can go to any corner of the earth to carry out scientific research activities. ”

Nishimura Antelope accosted at this time: "Mr. Lin, the name of this ship 'Urashima' comes from the story of Taro Urashima in our Japanese legend, have you heard this story?" ”

"Well, I don't know much." Lin Fan shook his head and said.

Nishimura Antagogue smiled slightly, and then said, "Once upon a time, there was a place where a fisherman lived and his name was Taro Urashima. This Urashima is a kind-hearted young man, and one day, he saw a group of children on the beach teasing a small turtle that was tossed and dying.

Urashima couldn't bear it, so he rescued the turtle from the children and released it back into the sea. A few years later, Urashima was fishing on the beach, and suddenly a huge turtle appeared in the sea, and he said to Urashima, "Benefactor, I am the little turtle you saved a few years ago, and I can't repay you for saving my life." I am willing to take you down to the bottom of the sea, to the beautiful Dragon Palace, which is surrounded by beautiful sea flowers, and it is the best place in the world, alas, let's go, please ride on my back. ’”

So Urashima rode this turtle and dived into the sea and came to the dragon palace under the sea, which was indeed extremely beautiful, full of crystal sea flowers and corals, like a dream. There he met the beautiful goddess of the Dragon Palace, it turned out that the little turtle he saved was actually her turtle, and the goddess gave him a warm reception in the Dragon Palace in order to thank him, and Urashima was very happy there. ”

But the good times didn't last long, Urashima gradually missed his relatives, and he couldn't be interested in the dragon palace like a dream, so he decided to leave, and at the time of parting, the goddess gave Urashima a treasure chest, and told him not to open it anyway, although Urashima felt very strange, but still accepted the gift of the goddess.

When Urashima returns to the surface, he finds that the world on earth has changed beyond recognition, and his family and friends are all gone. Urashima was very sad, and then he remembered the treasure chest that the goddess had given him, and he wondered if the goddess had cast some kind of magic on him to make it like this, so in order to find the answer, he opened the treasure chest......

A cloud of fairy energy emerged from the treasure chest, and in a blink of an eye, Pu Dao became a white-bearded old man, it turned out that in just a few days spent in the Dragon Palace, hundreds of years have been spent on the ground, the treasure chest is a time treasure box, which could have locked the time of Pu Dao to keep him young, but because of his curiosity, the kindness of the goddess came to naught. ”

Lin Fan listened to the story of the Xicun antelope and was thoughtful.

"The moral of this story is to tell people to listen to people's advice and not to be too curious, otherwise they will reap the consequences." Anteloko Nishimura explained.

"Haha, that's a good point~ Antelope, but the progress of human beings is based on strong curiosity, we just want to learn from Urashima's curiosity and explore the unknown of this world, so this scientific research ship is named after Urashima Taro." Yusuke Kojima said on the side.

The group came to the conning tower at the front of the ship, where three people who looked like chief crew officers were waiting for them, and as soon as they saw Yusuke Kojima, they bowed and saluted, "Vice President Kojima!" ”

Kojima also bowed and replied, "Everyone has worked hard~"

Nishimura Anteloko introduced to Lin Fan on the side: "These three are Captain Hidehiko Mori, First Officer Masao Yokomizo, and Inoue Daisa, the captain of the search team. ”

Lin Fan looked at the three people, the captain Mori Hidehiko was medium to short, about forty or fifty years old, with a beard and a bright look; The first mate, Masao Yokomizo, was slightly younger than Maori, taller, well-dressed, and looked more elegant; And the last Inoue Daisa, the youngest of the three, may be in his 30s, with a flat head, sharp eyes, and a great figure, a bit of a family feeling.

After Kojima finished explaining to the three of them, he entered the captain's room of the command tower with Nishimura Anteloko and Akechi Leopard Ma, and instructed Tianoka to take Lin Fan to his cabin.

Tian Oka took Lin Fan to the cabin area located in the middle of the deck, this is a single cabin, the decoration is simple but the configuration is very complete, Tian Oka said to Lin Fan: "Mr. Lin Fan, this is your room, you can move freely on the deck after you put your things away, if you need to find me, I will live opposite you." ”

"Okay." Lin Fan replied.

Lin Fan put his luggage away, and came to the deck alone, he wanted to know about the situation of the ship.

He strolled along the deck, surrounded by a large crew of people, and when he had just passed the middle of the ship with them on the island, he noticed that there was a large recessed part of the hull, as if something was there, and he was very curious, so he went there to find out.

He made his way to the middle of the hull, near the sunken sidewall, and now he had a huge tank under it, the size of a basketball court.

"This can't be to pretend to be Ning'en, right?" Lin Fan thought to himself.

At this moment, a long whistle was suddenly heard from the ship, and the crew of the ship began to shout loudly: "Set sail!" Set sail! Everyone is in place! ”

Lin Fan saw that the mooring bridge at the boarding gate began to be retracted one after another, and a crew member was untying the cable tied to the dock post, and the winch at the bow of the ship was also pulling up the anchor.

The hull of the ship gradually moved, and the containers, cranes, and moored ships piled up on the dock glided past Urashima Maru and slowly moved backwards.

Lin Fan came to the bow of the ship, Urashima Maru gradually sailed out of the long dock, and the whole picture of Tokyo Bay gradually came into his eyes, Lin Fan couldn't help but feel a little nervous in his heart, the vast sea in front of him had ruthlessly swallowed his teachers and classmates, and today he had to throw himself into its arms again to uncover the mysteries that changed his life.

Several seagulls flew in front of Lin Fan, and he followed them to look behind, the ship was already far away from the Odaiba pier, and the skyline of the city of Tokyo was gradually fading behind the horizon.

Suddenly, he saw a thin and slender figure appear on the tower in the middle of the ship, a young girl in a sailor's suit, who was also looking at the railing, but looked a little uneasy. Lin Fan recognized her as the girl who came by helicopter with Nishimura Antelope and others, he looked at her weak and restless figure, and actually had a feeling of sympathy, and couldn't help but ask in his heart: "Who is she?" ”