Dr. Gangmura was so interested in his research that he even hoped to get the Army's permission to follow up on such typical cases, and to write a groundbreaking paper for the Faculty of Medicine at Tokyo Imperial University. Of course, this request was categorically rejected by Kagesa. It was Kagesa's idea to invite the Okama military doctor, but the doctor's conclusion greatly deepened Kagesa's confusion, not the other way around. He wasn't sure if he would have preferred the doctor to tell him that the three men weren't actually mentally ill and that they were telling the truth. That's why he was in a hurry to send them to mainland Japan in search of other, more professional explanations.

Kagesa walked to the hatch and listened to Asano smashing dishes and bowls inside, and was yelling loudly, which really seemed to be in his right mind. Maybe Gangcun is right? However, as a military doctor, Gangcun's main research field is too simple, simply put, the rapid treatment of cannonballism, that is, with a set of demagogic spiritual hints, so that those cowards who are afraid of artillery and dare not die will regain their will to fight for the empire, just like soothing defeated vicious dogs, so that they can continue to pounce and bite. In general, the standard of other areas of expertise is questionable.

He stood at the door of the cabin, and his thoughts returned to Gangmura's report, which analyzed Makino's multiple personality settings in detail. He professes to be in the future, a non-reusable weapons designer, working for a high-tech company, Heavy Industries, and for a long time working for an American anti-satellite (what is a satellite?). * The design of the inertial navigation part (Makino Hara dialect), the research results were provided to the U.S. side at a low cost by the company. He was divorced once and never remarried. The death of his parents, simple social connections, and small social circle were partly the reasons he was recruited for the operation, and partly because he had never made left-wing statements. Gangmura believes that the emphasis on the absence of left-wing rhetoric, which seems to be some kind of military phobia, a refraction in a distorted personality? (Gangcun uses a question mark here).

Makino claimed to have come to this era to prevent an imminent war that would destroy Japan, ending with two powerful guns* and a treacherous Soviet attack on Manchuria. More than 200 people joined him, most of whom died at the bottom of the sea.

The most timid of the three was Hasegawa, who claimed to work for the future Mitsui Kaisha Minerals Branch, and had been conducting resource research in the Japanese Development Zone in Southeast Asia for a long time, and the main topic was to discover a special mineral deposit that could generate electricity and produce powerful powers*, but he had never entered the future of China, so he did not know the exact location of the huge oil field in Manchuria mentioned by Makino, but he affirmed the existence of this oil field, and promised that if there was enough address information, he could analyze and narrow it down. He listened to Makino and never explicitly mentioned the purpose of coming to this era.

The last one, Asano, called himself an amateur historian and an avid jihadist researcher. There doesn't seem to be a stable career. Every year on the end of the war (the three of them agree on the date of this day, August 15), they wear mountain army uniforms to the Yasukuni Shrine to comfort millions of heroic souls.

The analysis found that his personality is the most fragile, and he often cried when talking to Gangcun, and would take the initiative to talk about his grievances without hints. After being tortured in the Army Prison, he was the most traumatized of the three, so he was able to jump back into reality from time to time, and he was the only one of the three who did not resist hypnosis. He once confided the truth during a hypnotherapy session in which he said that he was born in Taisho 5, participated in the crusade in Shanghai, served as a machine gunner, and eventually attacked a Chinese tank by suicide. However, the effect of hypnosis did not last long, and in the second hypnosis, he mentioned that in the eighteenth year of Showa, he fought against the American army on an island called Guannar or Gadar (slurred in hypnosis) in the Pacific Ocean, and finally he and the captain of the Ichiki detachment burned the military flag and were killed by enemy tanks on the beach. The result of the last hypnosis is even more nonsensical, as he mentions that he used to be a middle school teacher and was expelled for pestering a female student.

Due to Hasegawa and Makino's resistance to hypnosis, the study was not carried out on these two.

All three mentioned that they were unknowingly underway by the government and were selected. The future intelligence agency, which tracked each of them for four years, monitored their speech through something called the Internet, and at the same time peeked at those letters that were transmitted through the air without going through the post office and without stamps to determine their eligibility, and each of them could receive a reward of 100 million yen through this operation. Okamura military doctors believe that this number can also be used as evidence of paranoia.

In any case, it takes a lot of thought to come up with such a complex system. Regardless of the opinion of the military doctor, according to Kagesa's own observations, among the three of them, Makino is indeed the most thoughtful, and has the personality trait of not being surprised. Hasegawa rarely speaks, and he can't see his heart for a while. Asano is more emotional, sometimes suspicious, sometimes loud.

Judging from the transcripts, they each participated in the crossing for different purposes, such as Makino, who has been emphasizing the need to extinguish the war by December 8. Asano, on the other hand, was arrogant and irritable, believing that with his knowledge of history, he could help Japan win the war. In the initial interrogation of the Army Command, Asano was the first to slap the table and provoke the interrogator first, and of course, after breaking the bridge of his nose, he became the most depressed. And Makino has always been neither humble nor arrogant, every time he repeats his opinion, but he is very measured and never excited.

Kagesa pushed open the hatch, food and dishes were thrown to the ground, and Tetsuo Asano was clamoring to get out on deck to breathe. Kensaku Makino, on the other hand, sat at a desk, thinking about something in frustration.

"Why don't you let us go up and breathe, we are not prisoners of your military headquarters, we are here to save you."

Asano shouted, apparently aware that the soldiers had been polite to him lately, and had begun to relapse into their old ways.

"I just came back from the bridge, and the captain said that the sea near Shanghai is not safe, and there will be a battle alarm, so no one can go on deck except for the combatants, including me."

"Are you a major general who can't exert some influence?"

"I can't command the Navy."

Kagezo got rid of Asano's entanglement and turned to Makino: "Makino-kun, can you come out with me?" There's something I'd like to ask you. ”

The two of them walked to the aisle, closed the heavy hatch, and could still hear Asano's curse inside: "Bastard, the Navy and the Army are all the same, treat us as thieves." ”

They walked to the end of the quarantine area, where a sailor sat in the door of the cabin to prevent the three from escaping.

"Makino-kun, do you think it's appropriate for me to arrange for you to go back to Japan like this?"

"I am very grateful to you for arranging this to bring us one step closer to our goal. Although the outlook is still not promising. ”

"What do you think?"

"Yes, I don't think anyone really trusts us yet, so a psychiatrist has been arranged to test our sanity."

"Oh, it was arranged by the military, I didn't know," Kagezo turned slightly, and lied, in fact, no one but him really had the heart to do this, "I have some questions, I want to ask?" What do you think of the group of people who hijacked the prisoner car last time? ”

"As I said, I don't know the guerrillas, and I don't know the Ma Qiang in the photo."

"So...... And what do you think about the explosion at the headquarters? I guess the hijacking of the convoy and the explosion of the headquarters are not in your history, and they seem to follow you closely. In other words, wherever you go, something will happen. ”

"Yes, I've been thinking about Mr. Sato's theory lately, and I've been thinking about it almost with you, every time we move to a place, there is danger in this place, but every time we are not swallowed by danger."

"That's right, that's what I was trying to ask."

"This is very typical of perturbation theory. An invisible force tries to calm the disturbance we bring, but the disturbance itself resembles a pendulum. ”

"Pendulum?"

"Yes, in the last moment it was still far away from you, putting you in danger; But the next moment it suddenly comes back to you and frees you from the danger, but the amplitude will become smaller and smaller, and eventually it will be calm. ”

"Will it finally be peaceful? But what I've seen, it doesn't seem to be the case, and the effect you're talking about is escalating from the time the convoy was attacked. Only 26 people died in the convoy that time, and the headquarters exploded, killing more than 200 people. I'm really worried about ......."

"You're worried that if we move to Izumo, something will happen?"

"There are such concerns."

"I can't come to a conclusion just yet, so let me think about it."

A sailor ran into the passage and whispered a few words in Kagezo's ear.

"Makino-kun, please go back to the cabin and rest, there is a call from me in the telegraph room, I have to go to the bridge."

Kagesa followed the sailors to the bridge of the Izumo battleship, where the giant ship was still heading towards the rendezvous at a low speed.

He walked into the communications room, and since he was still close to the coast, he could still have a radio call with the command of the Third Fleet, this time with whom it was Takijiro Onishi.

"Kage Sasan, I have just received a telegram from the Navy's listening station, and I have once again discovered that there is an unknown submarine communication nearby, and it is very frequent, it is likely that the submarine has communicated with the intelligence agencies in the concession, and it cannot be ruled out that some information has been reported to the Izumo fleet. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that they came with the Nagara, so it must be driving at high speed on the water in broad daylight, which is arrogant enough. ”

"Oh, so close to the shore?"

"Well, this situation has rarely been encountered in the past, and generally speaking, submarines are very slow, especially underwater, but they have to be guarded against, once a submarine occupies a favorable position in the deep waterway of the Yangtze River. There is a threat to you. ”

"I don't know much about the Navy, and I'd like to ask for your opinion."

"I think that no country's submarines can grasp the hydrological data of the East China Sea, so they dare not get too close to the coast."

"Oh."

"I just looked at the plan, your fleet will complete the formation in the offshore waters, once Nagara joins, the situation will be much safer, if you want to take the six policemen on the Yugumo, you can do it in the evening, after the formation is completed, what do you think?"

"I don't think it's a problem, it's very safe, but I always feel that if the enemy submarine is ambushed, the target will be Izumo. In this way, it is possible to create a sensational effect, a greater sensation than attacking the command. ”

"Hehe, haven't you heard of the unsinkable Izumo? Is there a safer place in Izumo? ”

"Your Excellency also believes in the notion of unsinkable battleships?" Kagezo asked rhetorically, of course he didn't know that Onishi, as an aircraft carrier faction, had always scoffed at the idea of unsinkable battleships, but he happened to poke at a place that left Onishi speechless.

"Well, there shouldn't be any unsinkable battleships."