Chapter 30: The Disappearing Fish Factory
That's right, it's her!
Because Xiaomei didn't have those two fluffy rabbit ears on her head, and she didn't dress up so glamorously, Hu Kai didn't recognize it.
In fact, his memory of beautiful women is quite reliable. Although he only took cocktails from the plate held by the bunny girl when he was in the cruise casino, and didn't even say a word to each other, Hu Kai was still impressed by her.
Xiaomei is very fluent in Chinese, and under her explanation, both parties completely let down their guard. Although there had been rumors of a Sino-Japanese war on the cruise ship before, as far as the current situation is concerned, there is no need for Han Feng and others to provoke a conflict with the other party.
According to Xiaomei, it turned out that these people were indeed Japanese who came down from the Neptune cruise ship, but they were not tourists, but the staff on the cruise ship.
As Hu Kai said, Humpty Dumpty is the chef of the restaurant, Xiaomei is the waitress of the casino, and the others are basically similar staff.
The relationship between compatriots and colleagues has made them get together since they got off the ship, and they have always been at the forefront of many tourists.
As such, they were also among the first to arrive at the whale factory.
When they passed through the territory of the long-headed natives, they did not come into direct contact with the natives, except that one of them was ambushed and slightly injured.
After dawn, they also refueled the banks of the river, and then entered the whale factory.
At this moment, they had been groping around the factory for six or seven hours, searching almost every corner of the place, but they found nothing but the tomb in front of them.
After telling their experience, Hu Kai, Han Feng and others naturally still had many doubts, so they asked Xiaomei, why did they recite the scriptures here?
After hearing this, Xiaomei hurriedly said "hi" very politely, and then answered their questions seriously.
Unexpectedly, the name of "whaling port" sounds unfamiliar to the ears of Chinese, but among them Japanese, it is somewhat famous.
It turns out that this "whaling port" does have its name, and the Japanese, especially the residents of the West Coast, are accustomed to calling it "Whale Island" or "Whale Factory".
The Japanese are known to be known to hunt whales, and their whaling boats operate in the Sea of Japan all year round.
At first, whales were caught and had to travel long distances to be hauled back to their home coastal ports for processing. Ordinary fishing boats can only tow one adult whale at a time, which is undoubtedly very energy-consuming.
Therefore, at the beginning of the last century, more than 100 years ago, people built this large whale processing plant on a small island more than 400 kilometers from the Japanese mainland, and named it "Whaling Port".
In this way, whales caught from the Sea of Japan are sent here for processing. After the processing is completed, the cargo ship transporting the materials is sent inland, and the efficiency is naturally greatly improved.
However, the good times did not last long, according to historical records, this "whaling port" only existed for less than 10 years, and was swallowed by the sea with an unprecedented tsunami! Since then, the island has never been found.
It is said that the employees who remained at the plant at the time of the tsunami, as well as some fishing boats that were loading and unloading cargo here, were all killed and have not been heard from since.
Since then, both before and after World War II, many diving experts have searched for this small island, but all of them have found nothing.
It feels like the island is not submerged by the sea at all, but more like it has disappeared out of thin air!
Because of this mystery, when the "whaling port" is mentioned on the cruise ship broadcast, it is conceivable for Japanese people to be shocked.
Therefore, when they saw the vanished factory on the island, they immediately decided to visit the factory, ignoring the dried corpses hanging at the door.
However, the whale factory is now in ruins, and they have been searching for it for so long without finding anything of value.
In the end, when everyone saw these tombs, they decided to worship those ancestors, so they spontaneously recited the scriptures.
After Xiaomei introduced the whole story, Hu Kai, Han Feng and others were amazed, no one thought that this strange island would have such a legendary past.
Hu Kai frowned even more, and his thoughts were full of thoughts. Somehow, he always felt that in addition to the confusion, there seemed to be something else hidden in this matter.
Mysterious cruise ships, murderous natives, and inexplicably disappearing whaling factories, these three seem to be somewhat incompatible, but now they are all connected together, is there any great connection in this?
Although there are many doubts, at least the relationship between the two sides has been explained. After completely letting down their guard, the Japanese knelt down in front of the tomb again and continued to recite the sutra.
Han Feng and the others naturally didn't want to be disturbed, so they hurriedly withdrew.
They didn't go far, though. Because as Xiaomei said, since someone has already searched the entire factory and has not found anything useful, is there no need for them to continue searching?
So, everyone stood on the other side of the open space and discussed it on the spot.
Their opinions are also unanimous, and most of them believe that there is no need to continue the search. But Han Feng felt that those Japanese might not have searched very carefully, in case they missed something?
In addition, he believes that not only the abandoned factory should be searched, but also the terrain and surrounding environment of the entire island, so that if those long-headed ghosts attack, they will have a response.
However, when Han Feng said this, some people disagreed even more. Because it was close to 5 p.m., and in 3 hours at most, it would be completely dark, and they simply didn't have enough time.
Just when everyone had their own opinions and couldn't be unified, Hu Kai had already left everyone and came to the side of the rabbit girl Xiaomei.
Xiaomei did not chant the Buddha, but stood next to everyone and watched silently.
"Your Chinese is very authentic!?" After Hu Kai went up, he whispered a conversation with the beauty.
Xiaomei turned around, hurriedly lowered her head and politely said "Hi", and said, "I studied in China, counting work, and stayed for a total of 7 years!" ”
"Oh......" Hu Kai nodded and immediately introduced himself. Xiaomei said politely, "Please take care of me!" ”
"Excuse me," Hu Kai immediately got to the point, pointing to the tombs and said, "Do you Japanese have the habit of burying the dead in your own factory units?" ”
"Oh......" Xiaomei pondered for a long time, and didn't seem to understand what Hu Kai meant, so she hesitated and asked, "What, do you think that these graves are problematic!?" ”