CHAPTER XXXVII

readx;?“ Captain! The operator rushed into the infirmary like a gust of wind, and the sudden opening of the door knocked the second officer into the eyes, startling everyone in the room. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The info operator waved a telegraph in his hand and said in a hurry, "The news from the naval command has found a fishing boat without a mast ten kilometers north of Longya Island!" Here are the coordinates. ”

Zhong Bin didn't care about the second mate who was sitting on the ground, snatched the telegram with his hand and rushed out. When I got on the deck, I obviously felt that the sky outside was a little dark, so I couldn't help but be stunned and looked up. Wisps of white clouds had begun to appear in the sky, and a trace of dark clouds was drifting towards him in the southern sky, and this wisp of dark clouds had also begun to permeate his heart.

Lin Bei, who took the telegram, couldn't help but be stunned, he quickly found the location of the coordinates on the nautical chart - this position is more embarrassing, especially when he marked this coordinate on the nautical chart, the officers who saw the nautical chart had a more intuitive feeling - now Chunxiao's location is about ten nautical miles southwest of the coordinate position, and Dongfang Port is in the northwest of Chunxiao. In other words, if Chunxiao wants to rescue the ship, he must first go northeast, and then turn to the northwest and return to the port after the rescue is completed, which is equivalent to making a big detour.

Although there are now two different sets of weather radars on the Dongfeng, the K-band is used to detect clouds in the sky that do not produce rain, and the S-band is used to detect heavy rain and hail, but the power of these two sets of weather radars is not enough to monitor the situation in the entire sea area of the Oriental Port, even within a 100-kilometer range, there are many places that cannot be monitored. What's more, if the typhoon accelerates and decelerates on its own, it is unpredictable, so even the weather radar station of the Dongfeng only says early warning, and cannot guarantee the continuity of the typhoon's path monitoring. Now that the typhoon wind circle mentioned in the telegram has appeared in the monitoring range of Dongfang Port, it is not known where the center of the typhoon is, and if it wants to go to the rescue, Chunxiao must face the possibility of directly encountering the typhoon.

"We now have two choices, the first is to turn around and leave, we have rescued a person, and we can assume that we are unaware of the existence of that ship; Second, we ventured there to rescue the boat. Zhong Bin said and pointed to the point marked on the map, "But I want to explain my point of view, of course we can turn around and leave, after all, we have saved one person, but I don't think it is enough, his two sons are still floating on the sea." The typhoon is just around the corner, and we don't even have to think of the ship as certain death. If we had decided not to rescue in the first place, we would not have caused this to happen, but now that we have taken care of it, we should get it done to the end. Since we have rescued this man, we should save his child as well. ”

"I don't think I can risk it!" The first mate immediately spoke, "First of all, this is not our task at all! Our mission was to patrol the vicinity of Vostochny Harbor, and now we have been ordered to return to the harbor to avoid the wind, and we have violated all orders on this cruise! This should never be! In addition, these people are Tan people, not the people of our Oriental Port! Why do we use warships to rescue these people? ”

"What's wrong with the Tan? I'm a man! You are responsible for saying this! The second mate was immediately unhappy, "Even the Tan people are forced, no one wants to be a Tan people who don't even have land, they don't have a chance to go ashore a few times in their lives, and they survive at sea all day long!" ”

"I don't mean you," the first mate said with some excuse, "I'...... I mean, they're not even naturalized people, so why should they save them? We've fished one up now, that's enough, and we're going to save his two sons, why don't we just go to his house and pick up his parents? ”

"You're racist!" The second mate pointed at him and shouted, "I can complain to the naval command!" You take those words back to me right away! ”

"It's on the bridge!" The gunner hurriedly whispered on the side, "The two of you quarrel and it depends on the place!" As he spoke, he glanced at Zhong Bin who was on the side. Zhong Bin did not participate in the debate, he stood next to the helmsman and whispered something to the helmsman.

The first mate shouted at the second mate with some annoyance, "You go and complain, if it is said that such a thing happened to the naturalized people of Dongfang Port, I will definitely support the rescue without saying a word, but these people are not even our citizens, let us disobey the order twice, is it necessary?" As he spoke, he looked at all the officers present, "Is this necessary?" Now we have to risk the destruction of the ship and the death of people under the threat of typhoons! This remark caused the officers present to whisper.

"Yes!" Zhong Bin's words immediately brought the discussion to an abrupt halt, "We're not pirates now!" He said and turned to the first mate, "You and I used to be in the same group, didn't we do much to kill people and steal goods in the South China Sea before?" The first mate bowed his head a little uncomfortably to avoid Zhong Bin's gaze, "Big brother, what else are you talking about?" ”

"I'm not your big brother! I'm now the captain of the Chunxiao! You, like me, are now servicemen in the Chinese Navy. As he spoke, the hull of the ship tilted slightly to the right, and the sunlight sprinkled on Zhong Bin's body through the gap between the sails, "If we say that as a Chinese ** person, then it is our responsibility to protect the safety of the people, even if they are not our people." In the words of the chiefs, even defending the enemy's civilians can give us an extra boost when fighting the enemy, and add a bit of trouble to the enemy! In other words, even if we don't have this identity, we should go to the rescue! ”

Hearing this, everyone looked at him a little stunned, Zhong Bin nodded firmly, "We come from different places, but I used to be a pirate leader, and I had not a thousand but eight hundred lives on my hands, I don't want me to recall the things I have done in my life before I die, they are all memories of murder and overstepping, I hope at least before I die!" I can recall that I did at least one good thing in my life! I saved my family! Let me at least be blind when I die! As he spoke, he patted the first mate on the shoulder, "Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot!" That's what I said, although we are still holding a knife for the Senate, but we must have a conscience in our hearts as a person! ”

Zhong Bin said with a hint of embarrassment as he spoke, "I know that I said this to make everyone laugh, but I think that if we don't go to the rescue, then this shadow will stay with us for the rest of our lives, even if one day in the future we are sunk in the battle and float on the sea without anyone to rescue, then we can only think back to the decision we made today not to rescue and feel that it is retribution." ”

"I'm afraid of hair!" The third mate looked back at the clouds in the sky, "It's a big deal to die, go pick them up!" ”

"Yes!" The gunner hurriedly waved his hand, "I don't want to think about retribution when I am beaten and sunk!" Go! ”

The boatswain hurriedly also made a statement, "I'll go with the captain, and I'll do whatever the captain says!" ”

"Okay!" The first mate sighed, "Go pick them up, I'll listen to the captain!" ”

"Limbe!" Seeing that he had finally passed, Zhong Bin hurriedly shouted, he had to give the order quickly, otherwise it would be troublesome if they regretted it later. "Set the route to the coordinate point!" Even during the discussion just now, he had quietly asked the navigator to turn the direction of travel to the north, so as not to deviate from the target point for too long during the discussion.

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Lu Dan felt more and more that the "phoenix" was strange, as a child who grew up on the sea, he had seen more birds, and the thing that could fly in front of him was definitely not a bird, where was the bird flying in the air and not flapping its wings? Lu Yu naturally saw the strangeness of this "phoenix", but he just sat on the board of the boat honestly and looked at this monster in the sky.

The plane circled in the air, and the navigator took great difficulty to determine the latitude and longitude and then sent it to the Air Force command via radio.

"It seems that there are only two children down there, why are there no adults?" The navigator asked curiously as he sent the report, and Lin Jinlai shrugged his shoulders, "Where do I know where to go?" Anyway, let's search, we found it. Is the report finished? ”

"It's done, it's time to return." "Now it's time to turn around." ”

"Wait, I'll lower my altitude and pass by them and let them know we've spotted them." Linkin said and nudged the joystick forward, and the hundredch delicately lowered its head and began to lower its height.

Lu Dan looked at the strange bird for a while, and felt that it was not interesting, so he couldn't help but turn around and curl up on the deck to sleep, in this hungry and tired situation, he was just sleepy. "Brother!" As his brother shouted, he had to sit up, "What? ”

"The bird has flown over," he said, gesturing to the bird in the distance. Lu Dan took a closer look, and sure enough, the height of the bird was much lower than what he had just seen, and it was now flying in their direction.

"What is this bird going to do?" Lu Yu asked curiously, Lu Dan looked depressed, "Where do I know where to go?" ”

Lu Yu broke the casserole and asked to the end, "Could it be that you want to eat us?" Lu Dan's own heart is also tight, human beings always have a trace of fear in their hearts for things they don't understand, and the strange bird in front of him flew straight over, and it really didn't feel good for him, as if there was some threat.

"There's someone on that bird!" Lu Yu suddenly screamed, and following the direction of his finger, Lu Dan also saw a transparent bulge on the bird's body, as if there was really a head facing them inside.

"What are you doing flying over them? Do you want to attack with rockets? Seeing this low-flying posture, the navigator couldn't help but ask with some curiosity, "Pull it up." ”

"Do you see if there's food and water in the back?" Lin Jinlai did not answer his question, only asked him. The navigator lowered his head and opened the storage room, which contained dry rations and an iron kettle. "Dry food and water bottles, are you going to throw them away?"

"Yes, think of a way to throw these things at them without sinking into the water?" Lin Jinlai continued to ask.

The navigator scratched his head, "No way, right?" If you throw it into the sea from this height, you will definitely sink it, and you will not be able to eat dry food soaked in seawater. The kettle is also iron, and if it is full of water, it will surely sink if it falls into the water. ”

"Then throw them a kettle and pour out half of the water." Lin Jinlai was silent for a moment, "I can't give you at least some water for dry food, so that they can last a little longer, the sun is too hot today." ”

The navigator nodded, but immediately remembered that Lin Jinlai could not see it, so he replied, "Well, okay." As he spoke, he poured half of the water out of the kettle and screwed the Bakelite lid on. The bakelite lid has a ring of animal skin on the bottom, which is a temporary solution without a rubber waterproof ring. "Okay, it's only half the water."

Lin Jinlai thought about it for a while, and handed over his own kettle, "Throw out half of mine, and you can drop it when I get close!" ”

"Okay!" The navigator agreed, and hurriedly went to pour water.

Lu Dan and Lu Yu squatted nervously in the cabin, watching the strange bird rush from a distance, but the bird seemed to only keep at a height of about ten zhang, and no longer lowered the altitude. As the bird got closer, a corner was lifted from the transparent lid on its back shell, and a hand reached out, dropping two egg-like objects, then skimmed past it at lightning speed, then climbed, and turned off into the distance.

"What's that?" Lu Yu immediately turned into a curious baby, pointing to the two "strange eggs" floating on the sea at a distance of about ten zhang. Driven by curiosity, Lu Dan stood up, "Don't go, I'll swim over and take a look." ”

Soon the two of them sat on the deck and looked at the two silvery-white, semi-circular military kettles, with a bulge at one end and a black sleeve on top of them. Lu Yu took one and shook it curiously, "There seems to be water in it." ”

"There's water?" Lu Dan curiously picked up the one in his hand and shook it, and sure enough, there was a sound of water inside. Curious, the two children twisted and pulled the black sleeve and it took a while to figure out how the spiral opened. When I opened the bottle, there was water in it, and I reached the tip of my nose and smelled it, and it turned out to be fresh water.

The two brothers put the kettle to their mouths and drank most of it, and then they had their spirits. "Brother! That's so much fun! Saying that, Lu Yu held the kettle that had been emptied, "There will be water in this iron egg, it's so fun!" ”

"Don't be stupid! It's definitely a kettle. Lu Dan said with a smile, also holding an empty kettle in his hand, "There are really people on that strange bird, they must have gone to call someone to save us!" ”

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