Chapter 30 Devil's Jungle
"Good afternoon, viewers. Well, it's still morning, haha... This is Time Travel TV, and I'm the host Han Dazui. Just now, another game in the Guadalcanal Series ended, and the result was that the United States team won a disparity of 24:0.
We defeated the Japanese team. Now let’s ask our special guest: Mr. Song Zhaoqiao, Director of the Control Bureau, to comment on this battle.”
"Good afternoon everyone... I fainted and got caught by Han Dazui +_+..."
"A viewer with the last number 8175 sent a text message saying: 'Is the score so disparate, beyond the expectations of the guests?'"
"I personally think it is a very reasonable result. The US military has a home field advantage, a larger number of people, and has an intelligence advantage in advance. It is reasonable to win. On the other hand, Japan has made a series of mistakes, the biggest of which
The mistake is - not loving Taiwan."
“Excuse me, does this have anything to do with ‘Love Taiwan’?”
"It doesn't matter. If we 'love Taiwan' and use flight teams stationed in Taiwan to participate in the war, our performance will definitely be better."
"Do you think changing team members can change the situation of the battle?"
"It's not enough to just change the players. The key is to change the head coach. Well, Mr. Masao Iwasato will do the trick. If you don't believe it, when the Taiwan series starts, I predict that we can sink 13 US aircraft carriers in one breath."
It sank and damaged dozens of other ships. In short, everything is under control."
"..."
Takeda Hidenobu is the navigator of a Type 1 Land Attack aircraft. In the attack just now, the engine on one side of the aircraft he was on was hit. Originally, for a twin-engine aircraft, stopping one engine is not a fatal problem, because there are still
The remaining one. But the fatal thing is that the engine caught fire. From the window, you can see that the engine nacelle is spitting out blazing flames and small explosions continue to occur. Everyone in the cabin understands that the aircraft will not be able to support it for much longer.
.
"Get ready to parachute!" Captain Kato Yuuo shouted. Everyone who was still alive began to hurriedly pick up parachute bags and put on life jackets.
When the people on board jumped out of the plane one by one, the plane was already very close to the sea. As soon as Takeda jumped out of the cabin, he saw the plane plunge into the sea.
"The captain hasn't come out yet!" Takeda thought.
The height of the skydiving was not very high. Almost as soon as the parachute opened, several people fell into the sea. In addition, there was no wind on this day, so the places where the several people fell into the water were not too far away. After falling into the water, you could hear the voices shouting to each other.
arrive.
"Kobayashi-kun? Are you okay?" Takeda saw the machine gunner Sadao Kobayashi closest to him, so he shouted to him.
"I'm fine! Takeda-kun, are you okay?"
"It's okay. Where is Komatsu-kun?"
"I saw him fall a little ahead, but he must be fine." Kobayashi Sadao replied, "Komatsu-kun is from Fukushima, he used to be a fisherman, and he has good swimming skills."
"Are they Kobayashi and Takeda?" A voice came from far away.
"Ah, it's Komatsu-kun." The two people who had just swam together shouted together, "Omatsu-kun, it's us."
The three people quickly swam to a place, and then worked hard to swim toward the island.
They were lucky. The parachute landing point was not far from Guadalcanal, less than a kilometer away. If they were shot down in the vast ocean and there were no friendly forces to rescue them, they would probably have to die of thirst.
However, the machine gunner Kobayashi among the three was slightly injured. A 7.62mm bullet broke a little finger on his right hand. Takeda helped him bandage the injured finger firmly with a triangle towel. But he is paddling now.
In the process, seawater gradually seeped in, making the wound more and more painful. Moreover, a trace of blood slowly penetrated through the gauze of the triangle towel and seeped into the seawater.
"We're finally here," Komatsu, who was swimming in front, sighed as he looked at the beach only a hundred meters away. In normal times, swimming more than a thousand meters would be nothing to him. But now he has experienced an attack and a plane crash.
After the skydiving, he was very tired.
When he turned around, he saw that Takeda was still less than a few meters behind him. Xiaolin was a little behind, already about ten meters away from him. Moreover, both of them were breathing heavily like him.
"Takeda-kun, Kobayashi-kun, work harder and we'll be ashore soon." Komatsu loudly encouraged his teammates.
"Okay, work harder." Takeda replied with a smile, "Although today is quite unlucky, it is undoubtedly a good thing that the land is not far away." He turned his head again and shouted to Xiaolin: "Xiaolin-kun, you can still swim.
Do you have to move?"
Xiao Lin waved his injured right hand to him, and you could see that blood had seeped out from the area where the triangle bandage was wrapped, dyeing the piece of gauze red. Xiao Lin also showed a smile and replied: "I'm very...
"
Before he finished speaking, Xiao Lin suddenly submerged into the sea water.
Takeda didn't react at all at the time. He even thought: "What the hell is Xiaolin doing? He suddenly started diving."
But behind him, Xiao Song's face changed drastically, "Shark!" he exclaimed loudly. Knowing more about the sea, he knew that Xiao Lin, who was wearing a life jacket, would never be able to dive even if he wanted to dive. He sank.
There is only one reason, and that is sharks!
As if to confirm his cry, Xiaolin suddenly emerged from the water again, setting off red and white waves. Now Takeda could clearly see that Xiaolin's entire lower body was bitten by a huge shark.
Xiao Lin hit the shark's head hard, and the shark also swung its body wildly, throwing Xiao Lin away from his mouth, splashing huge, bright red waves. Just that shark
When Xiao Lin's upper body was hit hard on the sea, another big mouth suddenly appeared. In just one bite, the newly appeared shark bit Xiao Lin's upper body, including his head and most of his shoulders and chest.
Then two huge sharks tore violently, and Xiao Lin was pulled back in half. Blood and internal organs flowed out from the crack, and the sea water in that area was dyed red.
"Ah!" Takeda let out a shrill scream, turned around and swam crazily towards the coast. A little ahead of him, Komatsu was also swimming crazily towards the coast.
The sea behind them has boiled, and more black dorsal fins have appeared on the sea. If there is a marine biologist here now, he will definitely recognize that there are smaller star sharks here, which are slightly smaller.
The larger bull shark, as well as the largest and most ferocious great white shark. They were all attracted by the smell of blood oozing from Xiaolin's finger wound and participated in this feast at sea.
Xiaosong, who was a fisherman, swam the fastest. In the blink of an eye, he was on the shore. Later, Xiaosong recalled that this was the fastest swim in his life.
Takeda, who was following him, also burst out with super speed, and almost stepped onto the beach in front of Komatsu.
After stumbling and crawling on the beach for a while, the two people who were out of danger almost fell down on the beach at the same time, motionless. If their bodies were not still rising and falling with rapid breathing, they would have looked dead.
No difference.
After a while, Komatsu and Takeda slowly turned over and stared blankly at the sea not far away. It was already calm there. The dinner party was over and the sharks had left. Only some seabirds were still there.
hovering there.
I don’t know how long they sat on the beach, maybe a few minutes, maybe centuries passed. Only then did the two of them remember that being exposed on the beach was dangerous. So they stood up unsteadily and walked into the jungle.
go.
Both Komatsu and Takeda knew that in addition to the beautiful animals on the island, there were also troops of the Japanese Imperial Army. After the battle at the mouth of the Tenaru River on August 21, the Ichiki detachment was almost wiped out, leaving only dozens of remnants.
Retreating into the dense jungle of Guadalcanal. After that, the Japanese Navy used destroyers to send some troops to the island one after another. However, these troops did not have any heavy weapons and there was no possibility of seizing the airport. But for Komatsu and
For Takeda, whether they can find this imperial army now is the key to their survival.
Takeda originally had a map of Guadalcanal, which marked the location of the area controlled by the Japanese army. However, the map was thrown on the plane during the parachute jump. Now the two of them can only rely on luck to wander around in the dense forest.
For a whole afternoon, the two people wandered around in the jungle. They completely lost their way and could only walk and walk numbly. As time passed, the forest became darker and darker. The exhausted two people stood in an old tree.
He stopped and looked up at its huge dark tree crown. The tree crown stretched out and was connected with other tree crowns, as if forming an endless fine network. These giant-like trees,
They hugged each other tightly with their thick branches and inserted their intertwined roots deeply into the slimy mud of the swamp. During the day, these stone-like trees stood silently and motionlessly.
They stood in the dark mist, but when dusk came, they pressed closely around people, as if they were going to overwhelm them. A gust of wind blew by, and the whole forest made a gloomy noise, like
Sing a funeral song for them again. This is the common thunderstorm coming in the late tropical twilight. The rumbling thunder resounded over the forest, and the trees were gloomy and majestic. The jungle became
It was very dark, as if all the nights since the birth of the world had gathered inside it at once. In order to avoid the heavy rain, the two people huddled tightly under the giant trees. But those giant trees kept creaking.
There were creaking sounds and angry songs roared. A flash of lightning illuminated the entire jungle with its green light. Under the light of this lightning, all the trees seemed to come alive. They stretched out to all sides.
Countless long curved hands came out and formed a dense net, surrounding them. And in the darkness, there seemed to be something terrible, dark and cold, secretly monitoring them.
After a thrilling night, Komatsu developed a high fever, and Takeda helped him make a difficult and aimless advance through the jungle full of dense vines.
Good signs finally appeared. The trees in front began to become sparse and sparse, and a small river appeared in front of them. The clear water of the river glowed golden in the sun.
"Water, water..." Xiaosong murmured weakly.
"Hold on, Komatsu-kun, we'll be there soon." Takeda helped Komatsu to the river, then picked up a handful of water in the river and drank it. "It's so sweet!" Takeda sighed. He held it up with both hands again.
A handful of cool river water was brought to Xiaosong's mouth.
Komatsu looked towards Takeda, and he saw Wutian smiling at him. He said to him in a weak voice: "He is really troubling you."
At this moment, without warning, Takeda's head exploded like a watermelon, and blood and brains sprayed all over Komatsu. Then, a gunshot was heard. Komatsu looked towards the place where the gunshot was heard, and saw several people.
An American soldier was running towards this side. Xiaosong knew that he would not be spared, so he pulled out the Southern pistol, pointed it at his chest, and pulled the trigger. There was a "click" and the gun misfired.
Chapter completed!