Sea Area No. 37, this is a sea area named after the same name by both China and Japan.
Why is this sea area called Sea Area No. 37? Qin Yuguan has not investigated it. In his eyes, this sea area is the same as other sea areas. The sea water cannot be seen at a glance. In this kind of sea area without stars,
When there is no moon, heavy rain and no lights on, it will give people a sense of unreality and inexplicable hesitation, as if a monster will suddenly appear in the dark at the next moment.
"What time is it now?" Liu Yeming, who was wearing a thick radiation protection suit, waddled up behind Qin Yuguan like a penguin, took off the helmet on his head, opened his mouth and took a cold mouthful
Yu Yu: "We've almost arrived at our destination, right? But why haven't we found any lights ahead?"
"It's a quarter of an hour to twelve o'clock." Qin Yuguan also took off his helmet and clumsily took out his luminous watch and looked at it: "It should be coming soon, maybe it's already here. Japanese people are generally very punctual. I can't see it.
The lights, is it because of the damn weather?"
"Well," Liu Yeming said, sitting cross-legged on the deck, letting the heavy rain pour on him: "Do you think we can really avoid each other's sonar scans by wearing these radiation-proof suits?"
"Hehe, I don't know either. Anyway, I have done an experiment and used a life detector through my clothes. I can't detect any signs of life." Qin Yuguan sat down next to him, looked up at the sky and half-squinted his eyes: "Good morning
I know it’s raining so hard, so I really shouldn’t wear this thing.”
"It doesn't matter if you wear this thing, as long as the Japanese ship comes here." Liu Yeming paused: "Yuguan, is your informant's information accurate?"
"I'm not sure, but it should be close."
"I'm most disgusted with you answering me with such ambiguous words," Liu Yeming leaned on the side of the ship: "We have been drifting for more than half an hour, and Francis and the others have also been in those asbestos for so long. If those
If the Japanese don't come, I'm afraid you, the boss, will be scolded."
Qin Yuguan smiled and was about to speak when he suddenly shuddered and his pupils suddenly shrank.
"What's wrong?" Qin Yuguan's slight nervous movement did not escape Liu Yeming, who specializes in night eyes.
"It's nothing, I suddenly felt uneasy just now." Qin Yuguan patted his cheek in confusion: "But I'm fine now."
"Haha," Liu Yeming smiled and said, "You built such a ghost ship. Didn't you become possessed before it was given to the Japanese?"
"Lao Jiu, you farted a lot when you were with me." Qin Yuguan also leaned on the side of the boat. The inexplicable heart palpitations just now had been forgotten by him: "Why don't you talk so much when you are with Xue Yatou?"
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"Haha," well, Haoyue told me that you have already done that to her, so you are still making sarcastic remarks here. Isn't it too rude? Liu Yeming despised someone in his heart and said: "The strong-willed melon is
What is not sweet is lost in the east, but gained in the future. Maybe my true love is waiting not far away and I am anxious. Hey, anyway, I am so handsome, maybe I will marry a princess sooner or later? "
"Well, it's possible." Qin Yuguan nodded seriously: "I have had this dream countless times when I was seven years old."
"Fuck!" Liu Yeming cursed. He was about to retort when he heard Qin Yuguan say slowly: "I seem to see a light over there."
Liu Yeming looked to the left. Far away, there was a faint trace of something like a will-o'-the-wisp.
"Finally here!" Although he had gone through dozens of battles, large and small, but on this unfamiliar sea, facing an enemy with equipment several times better than his own, Liu Yeming still felt a little nervous: "Tonight there is no day in vain.
Busy work."
"Well, you go take care of that girl, and I'll notify Francis!" After Qin Yuguan finished speaking, he picked up the helmet placed aside and rolled it along the deck towards the cargo space...
"The Poseidon patrol ship has arrived at Sea Area No. 37. It is now requesting to stop sailing and carry out fifteen minutes of inspection equipment work as originally planned." Colonel Hakutatsu Oyama reported the situation here to the Okinawa Sea Base in plain text via radio:
"The weather in Sea Area 37 is very bad, the north wind is about level 9, there are heavy rains, and the visibility is very low..."
Although Sea Area No. 37 is a disputed area between China and Japan, Japan has always designated this area as its territorial waters. However, because there are no islands in this area for ships to dock, patrol ships usually do not stop here.
Tonight, the Mizuho class patrol ship, also known as the Poseidon, made a brief stop at the fourteenth hundred nautical mile position because it was its maiden voyage and was mainly used to test machine performance.
Mainly testing machines, the Poseidon did not have the 130 officers and soldiers it should have, only 75 including Colonel Hakutatsu Koyama.
Such horrible weather made all the officers and soldiers on the ship very dissatisfied. Although the Japanese army was highly disciplined, it did not mean that they could not complain in such bad weather, including their captain Hakutatsu Koyama.
"Hai, the Poseidon will stop sailing for fifteen minutes and will return in fifteen minutes!" After receiving a clear answer, Koyama Baida agreed, hung up the communicator, and then turned around and started giving instructions to several majors.
Commands for all detection equipment.
At this moment, the cabin door was suddenly opened, and a captain officer stepped in and waved and saluted: "Reporting to His Excellency Colonel Koyama, a ship of unknown origin was found one nautical mile ahead!"
"Oh? How did you do it, that you let the unidentified ship come within a mile of us before you discovered it? What do the radar soldiers do for food!?" Xiaoshan Baida was stunned, and then growled in a stern tone: "Get ready for battle immediately
, move closer to the other side, order the other side to stop sailing and accept our inspection!"
"Report to His Excellency Colonel Koyama," the captain raised his hand in salute again and explained: "Our radar did not detect that the ship had forward momentum. The ship was probably blown by the wind along the current."
"No forward momentum?" Koyama Baida frowned: "You mean, this ship is probably a broken ship?"
"That should be the case," the captain said: "Moreover, the undersea sonar did not detect any signs of life on the opposite ship. This ship is like a... ghost ship."
According to legend, there is such a kind of ship in the sea. There is no living person on board, and the ship itself has no power. They just follow the natural flow of the ocean and are blown by the wind and run around on the sea. In the history of ocean navigation, the most famous
There are four ghost ships in the world: the Mary Celeste, the Carol Deering, the Bail Amica, and the Great Target 6.
Among them, the Mary Celeste created the most famous mystery in the history of navigation. When the ship was discovered in 1872, all the cargo and valuables were on board, and there was enough food and drinking water, but there was no trace of a human being.
None. After all reasonable explanations have been eliminated, people can only imagine that they were abducted by aliens or attacked by sea monsters.
It is said that if anyone encounters such a ghost ship on the sea, it may indicate danger, because the ghost ship itself is a ship cursed by the sea god. Therefore, many merchant ships are usually very far away when they encounter a ghost ship.
He would avoid it. Although Koyama Baida didn't believe these legends, he still felt chills running down his back when he encountered such a 'ghost ship' without any signs of life in such a late night with very low visibility.
Major Aren of Nanzhao, who was following Xiaoshan Baida, saw that after hearing that the other party might be a ghost ship, he had a gloomy expression on his face, and the captain did not go out to carry out his order to approach the ship, so
He said in a requesting tone: "Your Excellency, Colonel, how about we ignore it for now? Notify it to the base and focus on monitoring its movements for the time being?"
"No," after a moment of silence, Xiaoshan Baida shook his head: "Get closer to the ship immediately."
"Your Excellency Colonel..." The captain wanted to explain more, but was interrupted by his superior with stern words: "Captain, we are the regular navy of Japan, are we still afraid of a ship without an owner? Immediately order
All soldiers on the ship are ready for battle and move closer to the ship!"
"Ha Yi!" The captain bent down, turned around and walked out.
"Mr. Nanzhao, let's go out and have a look." Xiaoshan Baida put his hands behind his back and looked at the deputies. He curled his lips and said, "I still don't believe it. There are some ghost ships in this world."
"Ha Yi!" Nanzhao and other majors agreed in unison, and followed the colonel out of the cabin...
"We are the Japan Coast Guard, and we now order you to stop the ship immediately for inspection!" Although sonar and radar did not detect any signs of power or life on the ship, the officers and soldiers on the Poseidon still followed the rules and used force on the ship.
A warning was issued in Japanese and English: "If the ship does not stop, we will fire a warning shot!"
As several multi-kilowatt waterproof searchlights on the patrol ship locked onto the target, the soldiers at the forefront of the deck fired several rounds of bullets with submachine guns at the top of the opposite ship.
Ta-ta-ta... In the heavy rain, the sound of the submachine gun was not very obvious, only the swaying trajectory occasionally flashed a faint blue in the darkness.
The ship on the opposite side didn't react much after the Japanese soldiers fired warning shots. They still followed the ocean current and slowly sailed towards the Poseidon patrol ship.
After hitting several more long-range shooting points, the soldiers automatically stopped shooting, and everyone looked along the searchlight to the approaching ship on the opposite side. This was a ship filled with unknown cargo, and there was no light on the ship.
, there was an eerie and strange feeling all over his body.
As it was less than a hundred meters away from the left front of the Poseidon, Koyama Baitatsu, who had rich maritime experience, could conclude that this cargo ship loaded with unknown cargo was modified from a 600-ton displacement landing ship that was eliminated by Russia in the last century.
There are no signs on the dilapidated ship's side.
"Your Excellency Colonel, it seems..." Nanzhao Major did not finish his words, but everyone knew what he meant: This is probably a legendary ghost ship. We should ignore it and let it go.