After departing from Tokyo Bay, the Urashima Maru sailed south along the western Pacific Ocean, and after nearly a week at sea, Urashima Maru arrived near the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean on the seventh day. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After sailing on the vast sea for so many days, Lin Fan couldn't help but feel a little excited when he suddenly saw the outline of land on the sea, as if he had seen something familiar, and he actually felt a sense of intimacy, but their ship did not plan to dock at the nearby port of Saipan, but continued to sail south.

Seeing that the island was gradually disappearing to the other side of the sea, Lin Fan sighed and turned to leave.

Going to sea is a lonely thing, and Lin Fan has no friends around him on this trip, so he can't help but be even more lonely, but fortunately, there are many entertainment facilities on the ship, including a gym, a chess and card room, a library and a video hall. These days, he has been soaking in the video hall, watching a lot of Japanese dramas and movies with only Japanese subtitles.

At this time, Lin Fan planned to walk towards the video hall again, but as soon as he reached the halfway point, he found that the sailors on the deck were different from usual, and many of them looked a little excited, shouting and running towards the bow of the ship.

Lin Fan became curious, so he followed these sailors to the bow of the ship. As soon as he rounded the conning tower at the front of the ship, he noticed a crowd gathered at the bow of the ship, pointing at the sea in front of the ship, as if they had found something.

At this time, a moving voice came from the command tower: "Lin Fan~"

Lin Fan looked up and found that it was Nishimura Antelope calling him, she was wearing a black suspender top and a bohemian dress, leaning on the railing and smoking, looking sexy and elegant, and there were Yusuke Kojima and others beside her, who were also looking at him.

"Oh! Miss Nishimura, Mr. Kojima, the ...... What are you doing? Lin Fan asked.

Nishimura Antelope smiled, and just as he was about to speak, Yusuke Kojima next to him shouted to Lin Fan first: "Classmate Lin, come quickly, come up to us!" Wait for you to enjoy a wonderful show! ”

"Oh......" Lin Fan followed the instructions of the crew, climbed the control tower, and came to the platform where Yusuke Kojima and the others were, and he found it

In addition to Nishimura Anteloko, Sanyo Science and Technology Minister Akechi Leopard Ma, Hidehiko Mori Funa, and First Officer Masao Yokozo are all there, and it seems that today's "performance" is a very important event.

Yusuke Kojima stepped forward and said to Lin Fan, "Classmate Lin, have you ever seen whale hunting?" ”

"Whale hunting?" Lin Fan shook his head.

"Then you can open your eyes today~!" Yusuke Kojima smiled and grabbed him by the shoulder, led him to the railing, pointed to the deep sea in front of the boat, and said, "What do you think is that?" ”

Lin Fan looked in the direction he pointed, and he found that there were pieces of blue-gray dorsal fins emerging from the water on the surface of the sea, and these dorsal fins that were exposed to the surface of the water were very huge, judging from the size of the whales.

Lin Fan had never seen such a large group of whales, and exclaimed, "What kind of whale is this?!" That's a lot! ”

The wise leopard horse on the side said lightly: "These are fin whales, this place is located near the Mariana Trench, and the water depth is rich in nutrients, so it attracts baleen whales here." ”

"Are you going to hunt them now? But the baleen whale is so big, how can it fit on the boat? Lin Fan asked.

Yusuke Kojima smiled: "Haha, Mr. Lin, don't worry, Urashima Maru is very big, and we only plan to hunt a small one." Do you know, whales are a good thing, you can't help but eat meat, the skin is still a good leather material, and even whale oil can be used as a high-grade lubricant for cars, but you can't let it go easily~"

Hearing him say this, Lin Fan remembered that the "tradition" of whaling by the Japanese is well-known all over the world, and it seems that today's "hunt" is unavoidable.

Many sailors and crew members gathered around the bow railing, watching the whaling action. A helicopter flew over the whale school and lit up a red laser light on the belly of the plane, which shot straight at the whales below, forming a red spot of light on the surface of the sea.

A turret-like device in the bow of the ship began to turn, and four or five crew members operated the turret, aiming the muzzle of the turret at the red dot on the sea.

After the adjustment was completed, the sailors in command gave the order, and the battery "snapped" and fired a huge speargun, which shot like an arrow with a long rope to the red dot on the sea.

The speargun penetrated into the sea, but the whales at sea did not react abnormally, Lin Fan just wondered if he missed the shot, and a blood-red mist suddenly erupted from the sea, and a shrill hiss came from the center of the whale group.

I saw that the whales began to scatter in a panic, and the place where the spear gun shot gradually soaked into a piece of bright red seawater, a whale that was not very large floated up, and a piece of its gray-black back was blown open, and the blood gushed incessantly, and the head of the spear was deeply inserted into it, and only the tail of the gun could be seen connected to the cable of the whaling cannon.

"Yo Xi!" Yusuke Kojima and the others shouted, and the crew members below also cheered and looked extremely excited, this shot can be said to be on target, and the whale looked badly injured.

The crew at the whaling cannon did not rush to reel in the rope, and let the whale that had been shot swim in the sea for a long time, and only when its physical strength was almost exhausted did the crew begin to use the winch to put away the cable attached to the gun head.

The whale finally had no strength to struggle, and was pulled closer and closer to the hull, and the blood it left behind formed a sinuous bloodband on the surface of the sea as it moved.

The sailors on the ship used a crane to lift the whole whale from the sea and put it on the deck in the middle of the ship, and Lin Fan walked from the front side of the conning tower to the side facing the middle deck, and watched the crew below handle the whales according to the railing.

This is a minke whale with a blue-gray back, a white belly, and a length of less than 10 meters, which may not be a juvenile, Lin Fan saw that the breath hole on its head kept spurting blood, and made a knowing sound, I don't know if it was **, or panting.

After immobilizing the minke whale, several crew members went up and cut its back with a saw, ready to take out the spear head inserted into its body, the spear head was inserted very deeply, and the two crew members took great effort to pull it out of the whale's back, and the moment the spear head was pulled out, blood gushed out of the baleen whale's wound like a spring, and instantly stained the deck blood red.

A smell of blood came from below, and as soon as Lin Fan smelled this smell, he immediately felt like vomiting, and he stroked his chest vigorously before suppressing the disgusting feeling.

After the head of the gun was pulled out, several crew members brought chainsaws and strip saws, ready to cut the body of the baleen whale, Lin Fan saw that it was still panting, obviously not completely dead, but the people who cut it didn't care so much, and directly sawed its body with a saw, the bloody picture and the "whoosh" saw sound made Lin Fan goosebumps.

The minke whale was quickly cut into several pieces, the blood flowed on the deck, and the air was filled with a smell of blood, Lin Fan really felt sick to his stomach, and turned around to leave the platform of the control tower, when suddenly he found a girl in a sailor suit by the window of another tower opposite, she was watching the whale slaughter activities on the deck through the window.

The thin figure, shoulder-length short black hair, and a delicate face...... Lin Fan suddenly came up with the girl who came by helicopter with Nishimura Antelope when she got on the boat!

After so many days on the ship, he saw her for the second time!

This girl aroused Lin Fan's strong curiosity, and he couldn't help but ask the West Village Antelope next to him, "Miss Antelope, may I ask...... Who's that girl on the other side of the tower? ”

Nishimura Antelope looked at the girl in the tower opposite, then looked at Lin Fan again, and said in a flat voice: "Oh~ She is an intern in our company, and she was brought over by the wise minister to help." ”

“…… It seems like...... She rarely walks around the boat on weekdays. ”

"Hehe~ Maybe it's just that you just didn't meet it~" Nishimura Antelo said with a smile.

Lin Fan was embarrassed by the meaningful smile of the Nishimura antelope, and he didn't want to ask any more, so he glanced at the girl's appearance again and left the windowsill of the command tower.

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In the evening, Urashima Maru's crew restaurant held a grand whale feast, and the ingredients were the minke whale caught today.

Whales are a common ingredient in Japanese cuisine, so a variety of whale sashimi, fish soups, and fish steaks prepared in different ways are displayed at the banquet, and the crew enjoys this whale feast.

However, Lin Fan was not interested in this sumptuous whale feast, because as long as he thought of the bloody scene when the minke whale was hunted today, he suddenly lost his appetite.

In order to escape the uncomfortable banquet, he took a bread and drink and went out on deck, and ate alone in the night.

The moon rises above the horizon and illuminates the night sky in the east, calming the sea.

Lin Fan looked at the silky undulating sea below, the white waves continued to spread out beside the ship, more than two months ago, it was also such a picture, and the memory of that South Pacific scientific expedition came to his heart again.

When they first went to sea, everyone was so excited, extremely curious about everything on the sea, their scientific expedition was like a trip full of novelties.

Until that night......

Huge tsunamis, a sea like an Asura field, monsters, dragons......

In the end, he was the only one who survived, and his classmates and teachers were all buried in the sea......

These incomprehensible and inexplicable things have been haunting him like a nightmare.

He thought of the girl who had been silently in his heart, the orange-like fragrance, the warm breath, and the gentle, sweet kiss......

But this beautiful memory has been swallowed up by this merciless sea!

In front of him, Li Jia stretched out her hand to ask him for help.

"If I had grabbed her hand at the time, would it have ended differently?"

He asked himself this question repeatedly.

But how can there be a plot in this world that can be repeated "if"?

Lin Fan looked at the sea and sighed deeply.

The cool sea breeze blew in his face at night, but it could not blow away the sorrow in his heart.

As if arranged by fate, a thousand paper cranes fell from the wind and fell on his not very broad shoulders.

Lin Fan picked up the thousand paper crane from his shoulder and looked at it carefully on the topcoat.

It was a paper crane folded from letter paper, and in the hazy moonlight, he saw a faint line of handwriting on the wings of the paper crane, which was a sentence written in Japanese, but he could vaguely recognize the two kanji "Nishimura".

"Nishimura? Is it addressed to Miss Antagoshi Nishimura? ”

Lin Fan wondered in his heart, he turned around and scanned the deck, wondering who had folded the thousand paper cranes.

An unexpected figure appeared in his sight.

By the window of the tower at the back, he was greeted by a delicate and beautiful girl, looking out at the sea, her hands clasped to her chest, as if praying for someone, her little goose-egg face a little pale in the hazy moonlight.

Lin Fan looked at her, forgetting what he was still worrying about just now.

The girl noticed the gaze staring at her on the deck, and looked at Lin Fan, the two looked at each other, but they didn't know each other's identities.

Lin Fan suddenly remembered the thousand paper cranes in his hand, so he picked up the thousand paper cranes in his hand and asked with a Chinese, "Excuse me...... Did you fold these thousand paper cranes? ”

The girl's autumn-like eyes moved, looking a little surprised, but soon she nodded and replied in Japanese something that Lin Fan couldn't understand.

Lin Fan suddenly realized that he didn't have a translator headset, so he said in English: "Hello, is this yours?" ”

"Yes~" The girl nodded and replied in English, and she added, "Can you please help me put it in the sea?" ”

"Oh, okay." Lin Fan gently threw the thousand paper cranes into the sea below the hull.

The thousand paper cranes were also gradually swallowed by the white broken waves, and the girl on the tower prayed again, Lin Fan couldn't help asking, "May I ask who you are praying for?" ”

"I'm praying for the calf that was killed today...... the girl in the tower pointed to the place on the deck where the baleen whale was slaughtered today, and then she added, "...... And my brother. She turned her gaze to the sea, a sad look on her face.

Lin Fan looked at her, and couldn't help but feel a little moved, so he also followed the girl's example and folded his hands and prayed for the minke whale that was hunted today.

The moonlight is shining, and tonight, the sea breeze is blowing.