Chapter 16: Aerial Reconnaissance (I)
The plane passed smoothly at an altitude of 2,500 meters, and under the fuselage, there were white clouds of different shapes.
This is an Aoles-500 small utility aircraft. The aircraft adopts a conventional layout, with a single wing, a full-motion flat tail, a single piston engine, propeller drive, and a retractable landing gear at the first three points. The fuselage is an aluminum alloy semi-monocoque structure, the hood, tail cone and cockpit side skin are made of glass fiber composite materials, and the cockpit is equipped with two upward-opening hatches on both sides of the cockpit, and the hyperboloid cockpit front windshield has a wide field of vision. The large aspect ratio equal-thickness rectangular wings contain integral fuel tanks and are equipped with composite upturned wingtips, giving the aircraft the appearance of a nimble swallow with a small and delicate aesthetic.
With a maximum business load of 560 kg, a maximum speed of 300 kilometers per hour and a maximum flight altitude of up to 4,500 meters, the aircraft can easily take off and land at small airports and even on roads due to its short take-off and landing taxiing distances.
According to the design, the plane can seat four people, including the pilot, but now, there are only two on the plane, and Li Yongzheng, who is easily controlling the plane in the driver's seat, and the thunder that sits next to him and observes intently through a small monitoring screen.
This screen was obviously installed later. Just after the plane took off, Li Yongzheng just pressed a few buttons and entered a set of passwords, and a panel on the control panel of the plane, which was not the same at all, suddenly slowly descended, revealing this Minia-made SR-80 monitor, and the topography and buildings on the ground were clearly displayed on the screen.
In the upper right corner of the screen, there is also a sub-screen, which depicts the monitored pictures to form a continuous mapping map. Obviously, this screen is connected to a state-of-the-art automated remote sensing mapping system!
Lei Dong glanced at Li Yongzheng with admiration, he couldn't imagine that this guy had such a deep attainment in mechanics and electronics, as long as he thought of installing such a set of precision equipment on this console, which was only more than one meter long, even if he was strictly trained, he couldn't help but feel numb in his scalp.
As if feeling the thunderous gaze, Li Yongzheng smiled faintly and said, "In the past few years, this guy has really helped a lot!" ”
The Aoles-500 is a multi-purpose general aircraft, which can be used as military and civilian primary training aircraft, business aircraft, tourism aircraft, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, environmental protection monitoring aircraft, and after certain modifications, it can also be used as an aerial exploration, photography, aviation club, private and military and police aircraft.
When Li Yongzheng purchased this plane, he filled in the application materials for flight training and flight tourism, but after private modification, it had some of the functions of a reconnaissance plane, and even though it was far from a military reconnaissance plane, it was not a world away from an ordinary aircraft.
Although he was already quite familiar with the terrain and topography of Kyoto City in the previous training, after learning that Li Yongzheng had opened a flight training club, Lei Dong still decided to use the club's training aircraft to expand the reconnaissance range as much as possible, after all, no one knew what would happen once the battle started.
But Lei Dong never imagined that after taking off, Li Yongzheng would give him such a big surprise.
Obviously, this seemingly silent intelligence agent has used this plane to do a lot of intelligence gathering things.
This underworld is really mixed up, and it's really a sense of accomplishment! Lei Dong glanced at Li Yongzheng and sighed in his heart.
Now, the plane is flying near a mountain peak about 80 kilometers southwest of the city of Kyoto. At 3,776 meters above sea level, the mountain is cone-shaped, with towering peaks, snow-capped peaks, and lush greenery beneath the mountainside, dividing the whole mountain into two distinct parts. In the eyes of many people, this mountain is like a fan hanging upside down in the air, and the ancient poets of Jiepeng even praised it with poems such as "the jade fan hangs upside down in the East China Sea and the sky" and "Fuji white snow reflects the morning sun". But in Li Yongzheng's view, this mountain peak looks like a pile of poop no matter how you look at it......
Yes, this is the peak of Phuji, which is considered a national symbol by the people of Jeppen!
Suddenly, Lei Dong's eyebrows were raised, and there was an unconcealed surprise on his originally calm face: "What kind of place is this?" ”
Li Yongzheng glanced at the display screen of the navigator and laughed weirdly: "This place ...... This place is amazing, it's the famous 'Suicide Forest'......"
"This is the Suicide Forest?" Lei Dong was stunned for a moment, thoughtful.
The Suicide Forest is an extremely mysterious and strange place in Jeppen. It is said that as soon as anyone walks into this dense forest, all equipment such as a compass will fail, and the dense forest will make these people completely unable to find a way out, and dozens or hundreds of people are trapped in the forest every year, trapped alive. Legend has it that countless spirits and ghosts of the dead demanded the lives of those who entered the forest.
But this strange place has become the most attractive place in Jeppen, this strange people who are proud of suicide, and countless people come here every year to "kill themselves". After a long time, the original name of the Aoki forest was gradually forgotten, and the name of the "Suicide Forest" was "famous all over the world". The large number of deaths caused a great headache for the Jeppen officials, so much so that the Yujeppen police had to organize a large number of people to enter the forest every year to search for suicides. But in the first few years, even the police, armed with advanced equipment, never returned, as if there was some man-eating monster in the forest. The police tried to solve the problem, and finally had to use the stupid method of wearing everyone together with ropes, so they could barely enter the activity.
"This perverted national ......" Li Yongzheng just muttered, but saw Lei Dong's two thick eyebrows wrinkled tightly together, and a pair of dark and bright eyes were full of doubts: "Pull high, fly again!" ”
Li Yongzheng glanced at Lei Dong, and then looked outside the plane, and was very surprised, what is there to see in this ghost place? But he didn't say anything, just turned the rudder, and slowly circled around Fuji Peak according to the route indicated by the thunderbolt.
As the most important geological wonder in the whole of Jeppen, it is not only the most revered sacred place for many Jeppen Shinto believers, but also a must-visit tourist destination for foreign tourists. Li Yongzheng, a veteran agent who has been lurking in the country for 20 years and the owner of a flying club, is naturally very familiar with the place - he flies around the area almost several times a month.
But it is precisely because of this that Li Yongzheng knows that everything in Fujifeng is almost transparent, and there are no secrets to speak of. There are no military installations, no secret bases, and no mysterious societies.
Although legend has it that this is a mysterious place, the Asama-ji Temple at the summit is also endowed with mysteries, and the crater next to the temple is a gateway to another world in the minds of Shinto believers, it is still a legend. Legends, maybe it's true? For the staunch atheist Li Yongzheng, there is nothing more bullshitty than this.
Is there anything so special about this suicide forest?
Li Yongzheng would never have thought that at this moment, wave after wave of questions were rising in Lei Dong's heart, and the reason was exactly the one that Li Yongzheng thought was the most impossible!
Just now, when passing through a dense woodland at the foot of the mountain, Lei Dong suddenly felt an unusual wave of aura, and the plane seemed to enter a new world, and the aura suddenly became extremely rich. Underneath the aura, there seemed to be something blocking the exploration of his divine sense. But at the same time, a sense of déjà vu came over me.
And as the Aoles-500 continues to climb and hover, the east, north, west, south, the rich aura of heaven and earth has been running along some strange trajectory, changing, and the feeling of déjà vu is getting stronger and stronger. Waited until the plane climbed above 4,000 meters, saw the piece below with a diameter of more than 1,000 meters and a depth of more than 200 meters in the violent turbulence, and felt that the extremely rich aura of heaven and earth, like a huge cover enveloping the entire peak, and when the fog lingered in the mountains, a spiritual light suddenly flashed in Lei Dong's mind.
Five-party Spirit Gathering Array! Dark Guardian!
It turned out to be these two formations, no wonder there has always been a familiar feeling!
Although it was different from the formation placed by Shui Yao Immortal, no matter what, in this formation that was so huge that it almost covered the upper part of the entire Fuji Peak, its aura movement direction, method, and trajectory were not much different from that of Shui Yao Immortal. And the fog in the mountains is even more like the dark guard that Shui Yao Xian once cast.
It's just that the only time I came into contact with these two formations, I was inside the formation, and now I'm outside the formation, and this spirit gathering array is somewhat plausible, so I haven't thought of it.
However, aren't these two formations known as the secret of the Witch Gate? Why is Jeppen on the other side of the sea? What kind of manpower and material resources do it take to complete such a huge formation, and who has such a big hand? And under the formation, what secrets are hidden?
Lei Dong's brain spun rapidly, and it was not until Li Yongzheng beside him opened his mouth to speak that he came back to his senses.
"Fuel is limited, we have to consider returning home......" Although he felt extremely strange about Lei Dong's behavior in his heart, Li Yongzheng's tone was indifferent and he couldn't hear anything unusual.
Lei shook his head and smiled bitterly after a moment's pause. This is the common problem of this small aircraft - the endurance is too poor. The maximum range of the Aoles-500 is 1800 kilometers, which is already calculated among small general-purpose aircraft, but from Kyoto, after bypassing the southern part of Jeppen's main island and then around Fuji Peak, nearly half of the fuel has been consumed.
Well, the only option now is to continue with the following trip, otherwise, it will lead to the realization of the set reconnaissance plan cannot be completed.
Under the control of Li Yongzheng, the plane turned around lightly and flew towards the northeast. In which direction, there is a vital site that needs to be further explored.