Chapter 162: Crossing Okinawa
It took about half an hour for the ship to slowly dock.
"Unload it right away, load it directly on the truck, and we'll take it away later." As soon as the steamer dropped its anchor, the middle-aged man surnamed Wang immediately ordered.
It's better to go back quickly, so as not to have too many dreams at night.
"Lao Wang! Let the driver transport it to the temporary warehouse first, it's not safe to drive so late. The middle-aged man in the lead hurriedly advised, and they also wanted to see what equipment they had.
If there's something good, they don't mind showing their faces and asking for a share from above.
"Indeed, Wang."
"It's past ten o'clock..."
"It's not the same to go tomorrow."
The person next to him was also persuading him, explaining various pros and cons.
Lao Wang's heart was a little loose, feeling that the driver was driving so late, it was really not safe, these things were very expensive, and they couldn't be bumped a little.
"Okay, but I advise you not to make any mess of the hell, otherwise I'm not afraid of you if you get into trouble."
Lao Wang nodded slowly, and considering safety, he still decided to repair here overnight and let the driver take it away the next morning.
He is also afraid that if he encounters fatigue driving, then the problem will be great.
"That's right."
When the middle-aged man heard his decision, he immediately smiled.
Immediately after that, after more than two hours of unloading, all the wooden boxes on the ship were loaded and unloaded.
They were all trucked to a makeshift warehouse on the outskirts of Tokai City.
Lao Wang and others followed.
Accompanied by several senior experts, all of whom were scientific researchers from the Donghai Research Institute, they rushed over immediately after receiving the news.
They took a checklist and began to check the equipment on it in case someone dropped it.
Electron transmissive mirrors, ion etching machines, molecular beam epitaxy systems, micro ultra-precision combination machine tools..... A list of equipment was read out, corresponding to wooden boxes of different sizes.
The corners of many people's mouths secretly drooled, they were also born in science, and of course they knew the importance of these machines.
The list of more than a dozen equipment that the expert just read out is basically impossible to produce in China, and even if you have money, you can't buy it.
They briefly counted the large and small instruments and equipment, adding up to more than 300 pieces, and there were many others, and they couldn't name the instruments.
Most likely, homemade.
Combined, these instruments can form at least a dozen laboratories!
Lao Wang stood aside, smiling from ear to ear, and only when he saw it with his own eyes did he truly believe that this was not a dream!
At first, when Chen Weidong proposed to use a giant ship to transport goods, they still felt that they were making a big fuss, and at most they would get a dozen pieces of equipment, even if they were burning high incense.
However, who would have thought that they would really empty the research institutes of the little devils!
When an expert pronounced the name of "five-axis linkage CNC machine tool", several high-level executives in Donghai City could no longer sit still.
They glanced at each other, and immediately surrounded the middle-aged man with a national face.
"Lao Wang, it's been a busy night, let's take a walk, I'll invite you to dinner!"
"I'm not hungry, go ahead."
"How can you not be hungry? You're welcome to come to us, let's go. ”
"That's it, the hotel is booked....."
A group of people pulled and dragged him, almost carrying him away, even if he lost his temper on the spot, the other party greeted him with a smile.
The ship successfully entered port.
I have to say that luck is really good, they did not encounter random inspections by the customs of the island country during the whole process, and the ship did not encounter any wind and waves on the sea.
Everything is silent.
The other steamer, however, was not so lucky.
Because they took a different route and set off a day late, they are still floating in the waters of the island country of Okinawa.
On several occasions, they encountered a fleet of U.S. troops training in nearby waters, but fortunately they only treated them as ordinary cargo ships without further inspection.
After all, no one could have imagined that a ship loaded with so many sensitive things could deliberately approach the waters near Okinawa Island.
Who can't be stupid to that extent.
The 10,000-ton ship looks spectacular, but if you actually walk around it, you'll soon find that it's not as spacious as you might think.
Usually in order to load the ship, the main space of the ship will be set aside as a cargo hold.
The upper deck is also flat and neat, and in order to improve utilization, most of the time, the deck is also to stack goods.
This steamer is no exception.
The entire upper deck is filled with wooden crates of stapled wine.
These red wines are said to be produced in a place called Yamanashi Prefecture in the island country, and he also has a nickname called "Bordeaux" in the East.
The deck that carries cargo occupies about four-fifths of the ship's area.
On the central axis of the deck, every thirty meters, there is a cylinder about three meters thick, with a long boom pointing forward, which is the lifting equipment on the ship.
It can directly lift large containers weighing up to tens of tons.
The heavy machine tools are hidden in the cabin of the lowest floor, which acts as a ballast and allows the ship to move more smoothly when the waves come.
As for the main place for the crew to stay, it is near the stern of the freighter.
It is divided into three decks on board and two decks under the ship.
There are two floors under the ship, which are the power room and the crew living quarters.
The three floors of the ship are the crew activity room, dining room and other ancillary facilities.
In addition to this, there are living quarters for customers on board, as well as a pilot bridge on the third floor, which is equipped with radar, ECC or chart tables, and GPS.
This allows the pilot to monitor the ship's navigation status, such as the ship's position, track and speed.
This is the area at the heart of the ship.
The speed of the freighter is not very fast, and the maximum speed is only about 20 nautical miles.
Usually when sailing at sea, in order to save fuel, the freighter will reduce the speed to more than ten nautical miles.
They don't have that because they carry enough fuel.
The ship has been traveling at full speed of 28 km/h.
However, on the boundless sea, without any references, the people on board, many times have a hallucination.
That is, the mistaken belief that the ship is stuck in place and not moving.
It's easy to get frustrated.
It's getting brighter.
They had another night of adventure.
It has been three days and two nights since the freighter left the port of Shimane Prefecture.
"Damn, a group of people, they should have already returned to China, right?" In the control room above the bridge, a young man complained scoldingly.
"Look! What is that?! ”
The crew next to him pointed to the electronic chart on the screen and noticed that a small speedboat appeared on it.
It is extremely fast.
It only takes about seven or eight minutes to catch up with them.