War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1012 God wants people to perish

At the southern tip of Helen Island, on the edge of the white and fine sandy beach, between two coconut trees, there is a white umbrella cloth canopy.Under the canopy, there is also a slightly swaying canvas hammock.

At a distance of more than 20 meters, near the once deserted camp, Wei Ran dug up the remaining bonfire platform, dropped a few jasmine seeds in the center of the circle of stones, covered it with moist sand, and then twisted it again. He boiled the water bottle and poured some mineral water on it.

After patting clean the fine sand on his hands, Wei Ran put the canned jar containing jasmine seeds back into the separate compartment of the gas mask bag, then put it away, and strolled back to the side of the hammock.

Lying on the bed again, he didn't call Sui Sui according to the plan he had planned before leaving Kazan. Instead, he took out the metal book again and began to study the set of extremely low latitude coordinates recorded on it.

In fact, long before he set off, he noticed through the satellite map that this set of coordinates was not the Helen Island where he was at this time, or the larger Helen Reef, and it was even far enough away from the Pacific island country of Palau.

On the contrary, this set of coordinates is close enough to Samar Island in the monkey country of the Philippines.Or to put it more clearly, this set of coordinates is exactly where the Samar naval battle took place that year!

Could it be that this set of coordinates is really the place where the USS Johnston fought and finally sank?

Wei Ran sighed secretly. Thanks to the rapid development of science and technology today, he can easily know through public information that this set of coordinates is located above or below the Philippine Trench.

If the Johnston is actually underwater where this set of coordinates is, that's really not good news.The Philippine Trench is the third largest trench in the world after the Mariana Trench and the Tonga Trench.

The length of this trench exceeds 1300 kilometers, the widest place exceeds 30 kilometers, and the deepest place known so far exceeds 10 kilometers!

With all these things, it was almost doomed that the destroyer would never be able to surface again, and could only lie on the cold and dark seabed forever, waiting to be completely corroded and become a part of the seabed.

Putting away the metal notebook, Wei Ran dialed Suisui according to the original plan, briefly described the discovery here, and emphasized the decoration of the "Xiangtai Izakaya".

"understood!"

Sui Sui on the other end of the phone immediately patted her chest and made a reassurance, "Don't worry, I'll take the next step with Kou Kou, and we'll be there soon."

"See Koror in Palau," Wei Ran said with a smile.

"See Koror," Sui Sui replied confidently, and then hung up the phone.

Putting away the satellite phone, Wei Ran put on a diving suit and walked step by step into the calm lagoon, holding an underwater camera, taking pictures of underwater corals and other things he could or could not name with great interest. The famous marine life no longer has to think about getting some catches to fill their stomachs like when they dived in this lagoon last time, but ignores the more beautiful underwater scenery than today's future generations.

At the same time, Sui Sui in France immediately conveyed Wei Ran's discovery, together with the plan they had discussed a long time ago, to Kou Kou, who was planning to take them to parade jewelry stores through the translation of sister Katenka. , and Tantu, an Indian housekeeper who is considered a descendant of the person involved in this incident.

"So we fly to the United States immediately?" Kou Kou asked subconsciously.

"Koukou, we should immediately contact Carlos' lawyer for his legal advice, and go through the relevant procedures and legal documents." Tantu reminded, "At the same time, we must arrange people to go to Palau as soon as possible. The preparation is also to protect Mr. Victor."

"Sister Tantu is right"

Sui Sui said after listening to Sister Katenka's translation, "I think Mrs. Tantu's father, Mr. Tatanka, can take a group of media reporters and some Indian staff there first, um, they should be more able to fight, Kou Kou , you do need some bodyguards."

As soon as the last request was said, Kou Kou's eyes lit up immediately, and she asked impatiently, "What about us? When are we going?"

"You are the boss, you don't need to go to this kind of thing in person." Sui Sui said with a smile.

"Then what should I do?" Kou Kou asked blankly.

"Of course I brought Tantu back to the United States."

Sui Sui bared her small white teeth and showed a smile that is not a big deal when watching the excitement, "Then I took Lawyer Carlos and enough media reporters to the US Navy Headquarters to seek help. Note, it is to seek help, not to attack them."

After she finished speaking, An Feiya, who was in charge of the translation, also handed over a speech draft that Wei Ran helped prepare in advance to Tantu.

Immediately afterwards, Sui Sui pointed to the speech and said, "Let Tantu speak on your behalf, all you need to do is persuade the US Navy to send a warship to bring back the sailors of the USS Johnston destroyer." , and leave the rest to the media reporters.”

"What about you?" Kou Kou asked subconsciously, "Aren't you going to America with me to do this?"

"of course not"

Sister Sui Sui and Katenka smiled at each other, "We are going to Palau immediately, Victor told me that there is a Japanese restaurant there that tastes very good, we want to go there first and try it.

Kou Kou, I hope you and Tantu can go to Palau on a US warship. If you don't have this opportunity, you will stay in the US and wait for the incident to ferment. "

After listening to An Feiya's translation, Kou Kou and Tan Tu exchanged glances. Although this arrangement was a bit different from Sui Sui's suggestion when she was planning to ask Wei Ran to help investigate this matter, but At least it sounds obviously not as radical as before.

Thinking of this, Kou Kou nodded decisively towards Sui Sui, "Let's go now!"

"It's time for us to go too," Sui Sui said, looking at Anfeisa who had been busy just now.

“A ticket has been purchased”

Anfeisa responded immediately, "Koukou and Tantu will fly directly to the United States tomorrow morning. We will fly to the Philippines this afternoon and then transfer to Palau."

"It seems that we will have a chance to go to that jewelry store only after this matter is finished," Sui Sui said with a smile.

"I'm getting nervous"

Kou Kou let out a long breath after listening to the translation, and asked a little nervously, "We... can we really borrow a warship from the US Navy?"

"Do not worry"

Sui Sui patted the other party's small shoulder, and said confidently, "Unless the Americans are shameless, they will definitely send warships there, and Guam is not far from there anyway."

With Suisui's guarantee, Kou Kou felt relieved immediately.

A group of girls temporarily interrupted today's itinerary and began to prepare for the business. At the same time, Katenka also used the time before departure to contact the secret Hela organization and another Hela organization by email. The head of the organization Monica.Even, by the way, I contacted Ania, a lesbian who runs a bridal shop in Las Vegas, USA.

Just a few hours later, sisters Sui Sui and Kajianka were the first to board the flight to the Monkey Country of the Philippines.

When the three of them boarded the flight to Palau with the assistance of Qin II, Wei Ran had already left Helen Reef by helicopter. Led by the beautiful female translator Wan Qiu, he followed an absolutely A local tour guide of Japanese descent, who is considered a beautiful woman, toured the traces of war left by the Battle of Peleliu.

These traces of war include rusty tanks and armored vehicles, bombed-out bunkers and remnants of buildings, and naturally include Japanese monuments, cemeteries, and the famous Thousand Man Cave that can be seen almost everywhere.

The so-called thousand-man cave actually refers to the group of hundreds of interconnected caverns and bunkers dug on the island by the little devils who were good at digging holes during the Battle of Peleliu in 1944.

These caves, which have become scenic spots now, not only hide the stubborn little devils back then, but even according to the introduction of the beautiful tour guide, there are at least a thousand remains buried in the caves.

In her introduction, in order to deal with the devils hiding in the cave, the American soldiers used incendiary bombs to burn almost all the vegetation on the island, and used flamethrowers, dropped aerial bombs, and even released poisonous gas into the cave. It can be regarded as finally eradicating thousands of nuclear rats in the cave!And the United States has paid a particularly heavy price for this.

Later, the battle that caused a lot of casualties in the United States was finally over, and the corpses of the dead devils were naturally abandoned in those crypts and buried directly.

History is history after all, but when the same piece of history burst out of the mouth of the beautiful devil tour guide with a pretty face but a serious expression like a fart, even after the late autumn translation, But it still made Wei Ran sneer.

These caves and crypts, where only rat holes can be seen today, are paired with the guide words that need to be translated, although it sounds like they are complaining about the cruelty of war.But as a historian, he is very clear that the core of those nonsense is vaguely regretting and praising the tenacity and fighting spirit of the devils and mice who stayed here back then, and at the same time implying that the methods used by the idiot are too cruel. Committed war crimes, but never said who was the invader of the island.

In particular, the beautiful tour guide who wore a tight low-cut T-shirt and showed a pair of white northern hemisphere chest muscles also mentioned it.

Every year, Zhaohe will organize a grand mourning event in Palau. At that time, both the prime minister who recruited and the descendants of those devil soldiers in the battle will travel thousands of miles to Palau to participate in the mourning event.

Moreover, since the end of World War II, both the United Nations and the Palau government have provided special funding to help recruiters come to Palau to find relatives and mourn, so as to heal the damage caused by the war to these families.But in the same way, there is no mention of compensation and assistance to the aborigines of Palau.

Glancing at the beautiful female tour guide's face full of mixed emotions of sadness and pride, Wei Ran took the bouquet of chrysanthemums handed over by the other party, broke it in the astonished expression of the other party, threw it under his feet and crushed it with his shoes, and finally He spit thick phlegm at the memorial monument not far away, turned around and walked back.

Glancing at the angry expression on the face of the female tour guide who was at least half recruited, Wan Qiu, who was accompanying her, shook her head secretly.

Finding a Japanese-born tour guide to give an explanation was requested by Wei Ran before departure early this morning.The only thing she is good at advocating for is to help choose the most beautiful and most revealing female tour guide.

But the facts showed that this small visual benefit could not avoid the situation that she had already expected to happen.

(End of this chapter)