The sky at dusk is a quiet halo yellow, and the floating clouds on the sky in the distance are inlaid with a faint golden edge. The sea breeze in the evening blows slightly, and the Fengcheng wheel is driving smoothly. The weather in the Qiongzhou Strait is very good, and the wave height is less than 1.5 meters. Even though
I don’t have much experience of taking a boat, so I don’t feel seasick.
The huge bow split the waves, riding the wind and waves. Travelers who took the boat in the name of backpackers sat or stood on the deck in twos and threes, looking at the scenery on both sides of the strait. The Qiongzhou Strait is a very narrow waterway, and it can be reached from the boat
You can see the coastline of Leizhou Peninsula to the north and Hainan Island to the south.
Less than 20 yards away from the side of the ship, a squat flat-deck barge was following closely behind. The deck was full of containers and various vehicles and machinery. Both ships were moving at a speed of 10 knots, and they expected
At 6 o'clock Beijing time, we met up with four fishing boats departing from another port.
After half a month of running around in Mondstadt, the complicated loading process was finally completed. Coastal freighters are supposed to be loaded with everything, so it did not cause any surprise to the port authorities. The only thing that seemed incredible was the oil company - two ships.
Surprisingly, they all use diesel instead of cheap marine heavy oil.
The hired crew are Filipinos. No one can understand the weird English except Mond, a man who often hangs out in the port. The advantage is that they don't care what is on board, those backpackers wearing green uniforms.
Why are so many coming? Two-thirds of the travelers are concentrated on this ship. Only a few professionals are arranged on other ships.
In fact, there was not much space left for the travelers on the entire freighter. All five cargo holds were filled with cargo, and even several containers were tied up on the deck. Several animal containers continued to emit a stench. Except for women and children, they could be allocated
Outside the crew's room, most people could only sit on the deck, waiting for the fateful moment to come.
Fortunately, everyone was still in the excitement of ushering in a new era and did not feel too much inconvenience. Some people did not sleep well yesterday, so they simply spread out sleeping bags on the deck to catch up on their sleep. Some people also stood in the wind.
, looking at the looming coastline of Hainan Island. They were born and grew up in this time and space, and they would have died here. Condensing countless love and hate, disappointment and satisfaction, and countless firsts in life - they are about to leave here forever.
It will never come back again, just like the farewell of death.
The members of the executive committee standing on the poop did not have the leisure to lament this historic moment. According to the plan, fishing boats and landing craft departing from the fishing port, as well as the legendary North American steering yacht, should arrive at
We met them at 17:00. At this time, they kept searching the sea surface with telescopes, and all they saw were coastal fishing boats returning home in twos and threes.
The North American helmsman yacht was the first to arrive ten minutes in advance. The blue and white hull was covered with snow-white jibs, and it gracefully slid across the sea, causing a burst of cheers and whistles from the sailors. The Executive Committee
Through the telescope, Shi Niao Ren could be seen waving his hands on the deck, and a foreign woman with wide eyes and a confused look crawled out of the hatch under the sail - obviously she didn't understand what was going on.
"This girl has a nice figure." Wang Luobin muttered to himself while holding the binoculars.
"Long chestnut hair, not a pony."
"What do you know? This is Latino, and you don't have to be blond and blue-eyed to be called a Yangma."
More than a dozen telescopes were watching the newly-appeared beauty, completely ignoring all the male prostitutes in North America who were waving on the deck.
The fishing boats and landing craft still didn't show up. Fortunately, they kept in contact with each other by radio. The four fishing boats were responsible for towing multiple large floating rafts - no one had done this job before, and they wasted several hours just adjusting the length of the towing cables. Finally, they were in contact.
Twenty minutes after 17:00, we met up with the ship that had been waiting for a long time.
This strange fleet of ships was proceeding at a low speed along the coastline of Hainan Island. Bobu Port was close at hand. As night fell, the lights in the harbor were already visible. The ships on the route also turned on their navigation lights.
"GPS shows that we are now 3 nautical miles north-east of Bobu Port."
"Slow down and turn on all the lights!"
"Take over the ship!"
"Every ship moves closer to the flagship!"
"Prepare the wormhole!"
Following the orders, Mond first gathered all the crew on the deck as the ship owner, and then the members of the military team showed off their five-shot shotguns. Without any words, more than 20 crew members cooperated very well.
Get on a lifeboat specially prepared for him and row towards the shore.
At this time, all the lights on the ships were turned on, and the searchlights on the ships illuminated the decks. The travelers realized that the historic moment was coming, and stood up one after another, looking at the poop with wide eyes.
A sound check sounded from the tweeter, and then a high-pitched male voice came out:
"Attention, prepare for the crossing in five minutes! All personnel wear life jackets and enter the cabin!"
It was estimated that the wormhole would oscillate due to the violent fluctuations in energy when passing through it. In order to prevent someone from falling into the water, except for the necessary deck personnel who fastened safety ropes and stayed at their posts, everyone squeezed into the cabin. Then, the watertight door was opened.
All closed.
"Mr. Wen, let's start!" Mond stood nervously at the steering position.
"Okay, let's start."
As the wormhole hanging on the bow of the ship was slowly squeezed out by the bow, this huge mirror shone with unprecedented light, illuminating a large area of the surrounding sea. The edges of the wormhole scattered light of energy like fireworks.
"Hold on." Wen Desi muttered, secretly thinking that this thing should not explode suddenly. It is a small matter that it cannot go to another time and space. If there is a big energy explosion, it is estimated that the power will not be much less than an atomic bomb.
Bar.
"Attention, all ships!" Mond roared, "Shorten the distance and pass through the wormhole at full speed! Everyone is ready to accept the impact!"
The time-travelers in the cabin didn’t know that there was such a thing outside. They all held on to the fixed objects around them with serious expressions, waiting for the legendary time-travel shock wave. Suddenly, the lights flashed crazily, and everyone’s faces and hands seemed to have passed.
There was a layer of static electricity, a slight numbness, and a strange feeling of dizziness.
"Wear it!" someone shouted.
No one responded to him, and many people closed their eyes at the moment when the lights flickered.
Not long after the rear fishing boat passed through the wormhole, the wormhole channel that originally reflected the lights on the cargo ship like a mirror suddenly began to glow. In just a few seconds, it expanded from a flat surface to a sphere that emitted a dazzling light, and then...disappeared.
It’s over! Seawater quickly poured back into the 50-meter-diameter seawater cavity left by the wormhole. The rushing seawater collided together and rushed into the air more than 10 meters high, making a huge drum-like sound. It was more than 100 meters away from the wormhole.
The fishing boat at the rear of the fleet was mercilessly washed by waves of 4-5 high. Fortunately, the preparations were sufficient and there was no loss.
"Every ship reports status!" Mond shouted on the radio.
“Barge OK!”
"The landing craft is normal!"
"Fishing 1 is normal!"
"Fishing 2 is normal!"
"Yu 3 is normal!"
"Fishing 4 is normal!"
"North America, normal...ah, there is a motorboat approaching our boat rapidly!"
Everyone on the executive committee was stunned. Motorboats. Where did the steamboats come from in the 17th century?
Before Wen Desi could speak, Xi Yazhou had already called Zhao De, the leader of the fishing fleet, on the intercom.
"Old Zhao, please quickly take people to the North American ship to provide support."
"clear!"
Then the Fengcheng ship turned on two large searchlights, and the bright light suddenly illuminated the sea where night had fallen. Two ships in the fishing fleet led by Zhao De left the formation, their bows split the waves, and headed south and north at full speed.
The two wings of the sailing ship surrounded it.
The light illuminated the entire water area. Through the telescope, Wen Desi saw the motorboat approaching the North American sailing ship. It was just a small marine motorboat carrying 8 passengers. Did they also pass through it, or did he not pass through it at all?
He glanced at the people around him and found that everyone on the executive committee had a sullen face. Apparently they had the same idea.
Almost all the people on the executive committee are over 30 years old. They all boast that they have been honed in society for many years and that calmness and calmness are the basic qualities. But they are gradually losing their composure. The wormhole is gone. If you don’t go through,
Needless to say, it was a disaster.
Mond desperately looked around with his telescope. There was no moon visible on the water, and everything was pitch black. Only the sea area centered on the Fengcheng Ship was brightly lit, which made the surrounding darkness even more bottomless.
"They must be here." He muttered to himself, suddenly remembered something, and quickly checked the equipment.
"GPS has no signal!" he shouted.
This action also reminded others, and several people took out their mobile phones - "Searching for signal" - the mobile phone signal in the Qiongzhou Strait should be normal.
Each frequency in the radio station is also a blank, only the hissing sound of the echo of the current.
"Success!" The members of the executive committee threw aside their calmness and cheered.
Since this is the 17th century, it doesn't matter who comes on the steamboat.
Zhao De's voice came from the radio: "We have taken control of the entire ship and captured 4 people. They seem to be tourists."
"Send them all to the flagship."
The night was still long, and it was obviously a risky move to approach the coast in the dark. The Executive Committee decided that all ships would anchor on the spot and wait until daybreak before embarking on landing operations. This is the 17th century, and no ships would be able to collide and damage them. For safety reasons
, the headlights of each ship were turned on, illuminating the surroundings. The military team members had opened a batch of guns from the North American sailing ship and distributed them to each ship. Now they had both weapons and people, and they were not afraid of anything.
"Brother Ge, what are you doing! Bandits! Pirates! Second-rate scoundrels! Bang bang!" As soon as Xiao Zishan opened the door, he heard the roar of an angry old man.
"Dad, please stop shouting, you have something to say..." Another male voice tried to dissuade him.
"This is the Qiongzhou Strait, not the Red Sea, Somalia! The People's Navy is not a vegetarian!"
"You gentlemen have something to say. We are ordinary people, not rich people. Our family came to Hainan to travel..." This was the voice of a middle-aged and elderly woman.
Xiao Zishan subconsciously pulled the front of his clothes and straightened his hat - he was not used to wearing uniforms, so he opened the hatch and walked in.
It soon became clear. It turned out that the four people on the motorboat were a family: an old couple and their son and daughter-in-law. The family was traveling to Hainan. The old man had served in the navy for many years and was familiar with the troops in Hainan.
I didn't buy a ticket when I was crossing the strait, so I borrowed an old motorboat from an old acquaintance in the army, hoping to catch up on my old dream of sailing. Unexpectedly, I suddenly encountered a strange storm when I was approaching Bobu Port. I waited until it subsided.
When we came down, everything was pitch dark, and we saw a few boats not far away. We approached the sailboat just to ask for a message - there was no navigational equipment on the motorboat except a compass. As a result, it was inexplicably blocked by two fishing boats.
The person who went up was arrested.
"You guys, please take a rest first." Xiao Zishan was still smiling, "It's dark outside now, we'll talk about it when it gets light." I thought to myself how to explain this clearly - people must think that I escaped from Anding Hospital.
"Will you let us go ashore at dawn?" asked the son who looked like a civil servant. Xiao Zishan noticed that he kept looking at his beautiful wife throughout the conversation.
"Sir, we are really just ordinary people. What's the use of holding us captive?" The old lady explained again. Although the thing was very unexpected, there were several fierce-looking men at the scene holding 5-round shotguns. She
He still explained calmly and calmly, his words were not messy at all, and he looked like the character on the scene.
"Look, I'm not afraid of your jokes. Our old man used to work in the navy here, and his daughter-in-law also worked in the police field. There is a constant flow of maritime affairs, maritime surveillance, customs, coast guard, fishery administration and navy ships in this strait.
Yes, does it make sense for you to do this? We are all still young people, so we should not do this. Our family is just ordinary people, and we don’t want to be heroes. After getting off the ship, we all went to our own places, and our luggage was just lost..."
The old lady's words were soft yet hard, not bad. They were much better than this son and daughter-in-law. Xiao Zishan still nodded politely and said:
"Let's wait until tomorrow to discuss everything." He stood up, "You will see that this is a new world!"