Great Power Technology.

Chapter 238 The Land of Eternal Summer
The next day, at 0500 in the morning, before the sun rose, Ye Zhou boarded the H-20 as planned and entered the main cockpit.

His position was arranged behind the crew, and he was not subject to any confidentiality restrictions during the whole process. However, he did not listen to any operating commands, because his attention was completely attracted by the strange scenery outside the porthole.

The plane slid slowly on the runway, and then suddenly increased its strength and rose from the ground. The altitude gradually increased, and the light entering the cabin became brighter and brighter.

Their flight path was from west to east, facing the direction of the sun, so from Ye Zhou's perspective, it seemed that they were flying towards the sun.

The altitude continued to rise, and when Ye Zhou was wondering how to fly the plane under such light conditions, all the portholes in the cockpit were suddenly closed, and then the display screen rose, and a full-angle image outside the plane was projected on the display screen instead of the pilot's eyes.

Ye Zhou looked at this scene in surprise, and wanted to ask a question, but finally shut up.

After completely ascending into the stratosphere, Ye Zhou felt that the plane was slowly accelerating, and at a certain moment, after the noise reached its peak, the voice in his ears suddenly became quieter.

It broke the speed of sound.

Now the noise transmitted to the cabin is only the structural noise of the aircraft itself and the noise of the engine running.

Although it is still huge, compared with the huge wind noise before breaking through the sound barrier, the noise environment in the cabin is comfortable enough at this time.

The two pilots took off their sound-proof earphones, turned around and gestured to Ye Zhou, and then said:
"Leader, the flight time will take about five and a half hours, and you can take a rest on the plane."

Ye Zhou nodded reservedly, then closed his eyes.

But after a while, he found that the pilot was not looking at him, and opened his eyes again.

This is an extremely rare experience in life, how could it be possible to spend it in sleep?

Flying is indeed tedious, especially after entering the supersonic cruise state, but the supersonic cruise of a strategic bomber?
No matter how boring you are, you won't be bored anywhere!
After five and a half hours of flying, Ye Zhou didn't feel sleepy at all.

When the plane finally started to descend and prepare to land on Yongxia Island, he even had a feeling that he couldn't finish it.

"Would you like to fly around again?"

he asked.

The two pilots looked at each other, smiled slightly, opened the porthole of the plane, and started a new round of flight around the island.

Through the porthole, Ye Zhou saw the turquoise sea water below him, as well as the island in that sea water, which was growing in size day by day.

It seems to be a bright pearl in the sea, and it also seems to be a huge ship, carrying the hope of this country to go deep blue.

And in a corner of the island, Ye Zhou suddenly saw a real giant ship frantically swallowing sand.

Compared with not long after, the number of H-20s that can be accommodated on this island is no longer as small as four.

After the last lap was completed, the plane began to land slowly.

Accompanied by a slight tremor, a puff of blue smoke rose from the runway, and this Chongming bird, whose name entrusted the expectation of "expelling all wild beasts", finally landed in the southernmost nest.

Ye Zhou climbed off the plane, and there were already some soldiers standing on the runway who came to greet him, and Chen Hao, who had set off early, was among them.

After seeing Ye Zhou, he walked up with a smile on his face and asked:
"How is it? Feeling okay?"

"Well, generally speaking, it would be great if it could fly a little faster."

"...Just pretend, your mouth is almost reaching the back of your head. Let's go, go have breakfast first."

"Have a hammer for breakfast, I'll go and see my lovely J-20H first"

".J-20H is not going to the island, it is on the aircraft carrier. Why are you in a hurry, have breakfast first, and then I will take you around the island."

"Okay. Then you ask the cafeteria to give me two whole coconuts, and I can eat some bread."

Ye Zhou replied helplessly.

In fact, he really didn't want to waste time on such trivial things as having breakfast after arriving on this island, but since Chen Hao insisted, he couldn't refuse too much.

"Are you sure you don't want to try the seafood sand tea noodles here? This is a must in Yongxia Island."

"This place also has sand tea noodles!?"

Ye Zhou opened his mouth wide and asked in surprise.

".Don't talk about sand tea noodles, supermarkets have them. Can you take your eyes off the H-20 for a few seconds and look around you. Do you think it's surprising that this place has sand tea noodles? "

Hearing Chen Hao's words, Ye Zhou was taken aback for a moment, then raised his head and began to look at his surroundings. However, after taking a look, he suddenly realized that his impression of this island was completely wrong.

That's right, he does know that the country has invested a lot of power in this island, and even in recent years it has been said that tourism will start to be liberalized, and it has also received the first batch of tourists experimentally, but in his mind Li always believed that this was just a remote island in the vast sea.

No matter how big an island is, no matter how beautiful its natural conditions are, how good can its living conditions be?
However, the scene presented in front of his eyes slapped him hard in the face.

This is not as simple as a small island at all, this is a city.

There are many buildings and the streets are orderly. Looking out through the fence of the airport, you can even notice that there are traffic lights at some intersections!

Ye Zhou looked back at Chen Hao in astonishment, Chen Hao smiled, took him into the special car, and then explained:

"This island is no longer what it used to be. Your impression of it may still be several years ago."

"Now, this is not only an island, or even a military base, but the official office of Sansha City. There are not only troops stationed here, but also official personnel and civilians."

"A little further in, we can enter the urban area. Although the area is really small, it has all internal organs."

"Supermarkets, movie theaters, KTV, restaurants...everything."

"Yongxia Island, it's not that Yongxia Island anymore."

Speaking of this, Chen Hao sighed deeply, looked out of the car window, and then continued with some emotion:

"In 88, we took back Yongxia Island. At that time, it was not an island, but a reef."

"The area of ​​the reef out of the water is less than one square meter. After the boundary marker is placed, the soldiers guarding the reef must stand in the water."

"They change shifts every day, soaking in seawater for a long time, all of their legs are bloody, and it is not an exaggeration to say that sometimes when they are standing, they find that the water under their feet turns red. gone."

"They don't feel pain, but when they encounter this situation, they must come out of the sea immediately-because there are actually sharks in this sea."

"After a while, we built a stilt house here—actually, a simple iron house. This kind of house is better than the original thatched house, but the conditions are also limited."

"Think about it, at this latitude and under this sunshine condition, the daytime temperature will soar to nearly 40 degrees every day, and the iron house is like a steamer. If there is a typhoon, you can only resign yourself to fate."

"At that time, the soldiers standing guard had to leave the iron house to ventilate outside every once in a while, because under the high temperature, if they stayed in the house for too long, they might face the danger of heat stroke or even suffocation."

"In contrast, the lack of fresh water and the lack of entertainment methods are not difficult."

"It's nothing to drink a glass of fresh water a day, it's nothing to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis because it's too humid, and it's so boring that talking to fish that occasionally jumps up in the sea becomes fun. At that time, they wanted to It’s really just one thing to do.”

"That is to fill the sea with their bodies."

"It went on like this for a long time until we started building the Yongxia Reef Marine Observatory."

"Yongxia Reef is inaccessible, isolated from the world, with inconvenient transportation, and transportation is facing great difficulties. At first, we blew up a corner of the atoll to facilitate the entry and exit of freighters, and then used the sand and gravel that were blown up as construction materials. , secondary use."

"The materials transported from outside the reef weighed thousands of tons, and we carried them to Yongxia Reef bit by bit by manpower."

"At that time, we endured the harsh natural environment every day, worked for 16 hours, stepped on the seawater more than one meter deep, and almost forgot to sleep and eat. In the end, we created an engineering miracle that was impossible to complete."

"From which day everything started to look better."

"All kinds of equipment began to be transported to the island, freshwater wells were discovered, and communication facilities were erected. People on the island can finally call their families to report their safety."

"However, it was just an island at that time, until 10 years ago."

"In 10 years, the Sky Whale was built and dispatched here in the first place."

"In 14, the island reef growth plan was launched, and within a year, the area of ​​Yongxia Island expanded by 350 times."

"The airport runway has been built, and the deep-water port has been built. Ships with a capacity of less than [-] tons will berth on the island without any pressure."

"Not long ago, Yun-20 landed on Yongxia Island."

"We will finally have no shortage of daily necessities - everything that is on land, we will have here."

"The supermarket moved in at that time, and some family members moved in with the supermarket. Up to now, some licensed businessmen have also started to land on the island."

"As I told you, this place is no longer an island, but a city."

"This is a city that belongs to all of us."

"Or maybe we can put it more bluntly?"

"She is an unsinkable aircraft carrier that will always stand at the forefront and always guard the first line of defense."

"The enemy is in front of her, and the motherland is behind her."

"So, I want to take a good look at her, and see this place where we have been working hard for decades."

"She not only has the J-20, Yun-20, and H-[-] that you've been thinking about."

"She also has the coconut wind and waves, the blue lagoon, the unparalleled seafood in the country, and the green trees and red walls."

"She has seagulls as white as snow flying from the sea, fishes that don't fear our ships at all but often cross the pier barricades in the sunset, and a gentle sea breeze that you can't feel anywhere else, There is a sandy beach without any impurities."

"She still has our soldiers, and our people."

(End of this chapter)