"It's been hit 1,200 meters, and from now on, oil will come out at any time."

Hasegawa kept comforting himself with this sentence, he was under increasing pressure from the academic authorities in the academic world, and of course, from the employees of Imperial Oil who were working on the specific construction, and the workers began to circulate that he was just an uneducated and unskilled person, because the mediocre upper echelons sympathized with Hasegawa Seiji, so he was appointed exceptionally.

He avoided Gutian like a thief every day, and the last time he was ugly was a week ago, and he knew that the next time Gutian appeared, he would inevitably exert more powerful pressure, and perhaps let his efforts fall short. Nobusuke Kishi's departure has caused him to lose his backbone, and he is gradually losing control.

At dawn, it was reported that Drill No. 1 had once again fallen into an unexplained deceleration, and due to the lack of experience drilling at such depths, it was impossible to determine whether it was a cooling, lubrication, or lack of torque.

He quickly put on his clothes and followed the people to the well, where the derrick could no longer add pressure to such a deep formation, and the drill bit only continued to drill down about 20 meters throughout the night, and now it was almost stagnant.

"Director, what can I do? It was as if the rock below would never be able to penetrate. ”

Kobayashi, the foreman on duty, said.

"No, no, you can continue, increase the pressure, add lubricating fluid."

"But ......"

"There's nothing to doubt, if someone else can play it, we will definitely be able to ...... too"

"But no one has ever made oil here."

"Don't ask about this, I said yes."

He had no way to explain it, so he could only suppress his men by order.

"Why can't you ask? You say there is? ”

A voice sounded behind Hasegawa, it was the arrival of Furuta, who he feared the most.

"I always thought that you were at least as good as your father, and you knew some theories, but I didn't expect you to be even more unbearable, and you were completely a liar."

Furuta tore off the last trace of reserve and directly defined Hasegawa in the most unpleasant words.

"You...... No nonsense. ”

"Seiji Hasegawa had no scientific mind and blindly worked hard, causing heavy losses to the navy, and as a result, he was ruined and committed suicide in fear of crime; Unexpectedly, you will fall in the same place twice? ”

"That's right, we've endured it for too long, and we're letting you do whatever it takes." Professor Nakano didn't know where to get out of him, and then the others appeared one after another, and apparently, today they came prepared, not for a simple humiliation, but for a final showdown.

"Listen, I'm going to get oil."

Hasegawa Tetsu blushed, but he could only resist with such pale language, of course, he really had nothing else convincing except this sentence, and his worker's credit had long ago been bankrupt in the hearts of everyone in the camp.

"You bastard, do you want to punch through the earth and hit that side?" Nakano asked sharply. "Originally, my exploration in Hokkaido had reached harvest time, but all the equipment was transported here by you, and it was in vain. It's simply intolerable. ”

"Trust me, there are no oil fields in Hokkaido."

"Hehehe," Furuta on the side laughed, and Hasegawa was chilled when he laughed, "Okay, since you're still stubborn, I think it's time to announce the bet we made." ”

"What bet?" Hasegawa subconsciously wanted to deny it.

"Look, don't you want to regret it? You are not as responsible as your father. Ladies and gentlemen, please listen to me, last month, I had an agreement with this so-called scholar whose academic qualifications are unknown, and whose resume is unknown, is the reason why I have not come forward to stop him from doing nonsense these days. But I can't let him do anything wrong. ”

After Furuta finished speaking, he stood in place and waited, he waited for the workers on the morning shift on the construction site and the other people who were awake to gather all around, and hundreds of people gathered at once.

Xiao Lin, the operator who was standing on the derrick and was in charge of staring at the pressure instrument, also walked to the guardrail with great interest and condescendingly looked at the good show that was about to be staged below. But he felt the derrick flutter steadily, and he was forced to go back to check the lubricant pressure. At 1,200 meters under his feet, the drill bit was spinning half-dead, and it was basically no longer going down.

Seeing that there were a lot of people coming, Furuta coughed and began to speak, he was here to carry out a coup d'état today. He thought very clearly, only if he collected enough support, he would dismantle the equipment today, and he didn't dare to do anything with him, of course, this Fumihiko Hasegawa must be full and walk around, according to Furuta's temperament, all academic opponents are dead, and they must shoot at the most appropriate time, and they can't turn over with one blow, which is the reason why he deliberately forbears these days.

"I have to tell you that I once stopped this Hasegawa from digging a well in this area. But he ignored my professional advice and wanted to try his luck in this mosquito-infested swamp, so I made an agreement with him. ”

"What agreement?" The do-gooders in the crowd shouted.

"Hehe, you know that I am a descendant of the samurai of the Choshu Domain, and I am absolutely unambiguous about the agreement, but here, I still want to give Hasegawa a chance, if he is willing to stop such a stupid act of wasting time, I can no longer pursue it, and I will not announce the agreement that is related to life and death."

Furuta is extremely insidious, pretending to be tolerant, but in fact, he has already named the gambling contract as a matter of life and death, as long as Hasegawa still wants a little face, there is almost no way back.

"What pact did I make with you? Don't talk nonsense. Compared with his ancestors, Hasegawa is of course a coward, he knows that heroes don't suffer immediate losses, so he quickly denies them.

"Bastard, I was outside the tent when you made your bet that day, and I heard it clearly. Do you dare to deny it? Nakano immediately jumped out to endorse, and sure enough, Furuta prevented Hasegawa from playing this hand, "I heard it clearly, you bet that it is 1000 meters as the boundary, and there is no oil beyond this depth, Hasegawa seppuku." ”

"Actually, it's not exactly, if I get oil, I'll cut my stomach." Furuta pretended to be loyal and added, making the bet sound fair and reasonable.

"How deep it is now." He shouted at the man on duty on the derrick.

"A total of 106 casings, 1,272 meters."

Kobayashi excitedly replied loudly to Professor Furuta below, he didn't expect that he would have a small role in this good show. Now it's up to the Hasegawa to continue to play tricks. But he suddenly felt a faint vibration under his feet. The rudimentary equipment on the derrick could not detect the ground shaking, but when he turned around, he found that the pressure in the casing had increased suddenly, and it seemed that gas was gushing up, maybe natural gas?

The public trial under the derrick continues.

Hasegawa stood in the middle of everyone, eager to find a crack in the ground to drill into, he had never been so ashamed in his life. But there is obviously oil here, are the Chinese textbooks lying? His mind was in shambles.

"Hey, you have to be like a man and take responsibility." A rude voice shouted.

"yes, isn't it just death to apologize? Be brave like your father. ”

Hasegawa looked around blankly, watching the accusations of the crowd, Furuta was leisurely pulling out his pipe, which had not been lit for a long time, enjoying the speed of his opponent being put to death.

"You look at the way he looks, he doesn't look like a Showa boy at all. It's a piece of waste. ”

"That's right, a piece of waste."

The creaking sound of metal twisting interrupted everyone's argument, and everyone turned around. It was found that the black metal derrick was shaking violently. The officer on duty above was running around, as if he was dealing with something important.

"Professor, no, the pressure in the pipe has increased by 60 times." Kobayashi shouted. Furuta stood stunned, he didn't know what was going on.

"Great, it's the associated gas, I found it, I made it." Hasegawa muttered to himself frantically.

The crowd began to retreat in confusion to avoid falling down and hitting themselves.

The sound of metal twisting had turned into a rumbling vibration. Just as the people above were about to get closer to observe, a black liquid gushed out from the mouth of the well and spilled into the sky, and then a black rain fell from the sky and touched everyone.

"It's mud?"

"No, like, it's oil?"

"It's oil!" Hasegawa rushed to Furuta, snatched the unlit cigarette butt from his mouth, and threw it to the ground, "Camp, ban all open fires, we found oil." ”

Sticky, black raindrops continue to fall from the sky, carrying with them the aromatic smell that characterizes naphthenic oil.

Hasegawa grabbed the collar of Furuta's elaborate suit; "I found it, fool, and remember your promise."

At this moment, he is as fierce as a villain, he has been tormented in humility and humility and grievances all his life, but that is just an illusion, in terms of despicable personality, he is not fundamentally different from Professor Furuta.

Outside of Saeki Bay, 419 collects information from the Nagato through an electronic mast that surfaces, and its sonar can collect the movements of nearby enemy warships at any time, so it is always out of the destroyers whose antennas may be visible to the naked eye. Of course, such a depth is not without risks, and if a low-altitude reconnaissance aircraft flies by, and the pilot's eyes are sharp, it is likely to see the outline of the submarine under the surface. The sea water near the Japanese archipelago is far less than the murky water near the estuaries of several large rivers on the mainland, which can hide such a big fish as 419.

The officer on duty overheard a voice call, and someone in the attendant room asked Onishi Takijiro, who was waiting for the commander in the Navy Province, to call in 5 minutes, and Onishi was the key person on the Lin list, so the listening room hurriedly called him.

After Hayashi arrived, he heard the voice of Yamamoto fifty-six for the first time. Yamamoto spoke calmly and briefly.

"Ohnishi, I still want to ask about that."

"Is it Nobusuke Kishi's business?"

"Not bad. That Asano mentioned that another friend of his had gone over there. ”

After the key name of Nobusuke Kishi appeared, Lin Xiuxuan immediately heard Asano, he knew that his action of installing eavesdropping equipment on Nagato was opportune, but this one-on-one conversation also made him feel a faint sense of crisis, obviously this group of people is still doing something outside the range of radio monitoring, and at least penetrated into the United Fleet commander level.

"That Hasegawa is still in Manchuria, and the best personnel of the Imperial Oil Company have been sent to him, but it still has no result."

"So, these friends of yours can't predict anything accurately?"

"At the moment, I think I'll have to give them some time."

"Well, that's what I thought too."

Yamamoto immediately stopped talking.

Lin realized that the enemy was still stubbornly resisting.