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Usually when we describe a city's good geographical location, we use words such as back to the mountains and facing the sea, near the mountains and by the water.

Rabaul is an absolute city surrounded by mountains and rivers, backed by mountains and facing the sea. If you don’t know it, you will definitely think how beautiful and beautiful this city is. In fact, if you don't consider what kind of mountain Rabaul depends on, the city is definitely a very beautiful city.

But it's a pity that I don't know what the Germans thought at the beginning, how did they build the city on a huge irregular bomb?

It is absolutely correct to say that this city is located on top of an irregular bomb, because within a radius of ten kilometers from this city, there are a total of six volcanoes, four of which have not erupted for a long time But among these six volcanoes, there are two active volcanoes!

The two active volcanoes are very close to each other, only 2.5 kilometers, Vulcan volcano to the north and Tauru volcano to the south. Among the two volcanoes, Tauru Volcano, which is the farthest from Rabaul, is only six kilometers away in a straight line.

It is difficult for people who have not seen the power of a volcanic eruption to imagine how dangerous a volcano is when it erupts. Among other things, the supersonic debris flow alone is enough to kill all the people within the area covered by the debris flow. biology. If you count the volcanic ash, it will be even more serious.

In 1937, the two volcanoes erupted at the same time, resulting in the death of nearly 600 people in Rabaul. At that time, Rabaul, the capital of Guinea, was also forced to move its capital to Lae.

In 1994, the eruption of Mount Tauru caused a devastating blow to the city. Although the city was not as unlucky as Pompeii back then and was completely destroyed, the volcanic ash alone destroyed more than 80% of the buildings in the city during the eruption.

That eruption also caused Rabaul to completely lose its status as the capital of East Britain.

After 24 years now, although Tauru Volcano has not erupted again, and the city has regained its vitality, if you don’t want to see with your own eyes this military The base city, and he also has the limited-level space-time travel skill, which can avoid most logarithmic disasters, so Yang Jing is not willing to stop here.

Who knows when Tauru will cough again. This kind of large volcano, even a slight cough, is enough to bring a catastrophic disaster to this small city.

Yang Jing understands that a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.

Rabaul, which is not harassed by volcanoes, is still very beautiful. Although the city was destroyed by volcanoes 24 years ago, it has stood up again tenaciously.

The small town is not very big. To the north is Korere Volcano, but this volcano is an extinct volcano, and to the south is the small bay Simpsons Bay.

The city was not small at first. In the north and east of Simpsons Bay, there are large buildings, especially in the east of the bay. It was the main urban area before Rabaul. Along the bay, it extends southward to the very end of the peninsula, and the eastern urban area alone is more than twice as large as the northern urban area.

It's a pity that now the eastern half of the city has been completely buried by volcanic ash, and the many military forts built by the little devils here were also completely buried under the thick volcanic ash.

More than 20 years are not enough for the city to fully recover. Now Rabaul is only the northern part of the city that has recovered, and the city that originally had a population of about 15,000 people now has less than 5,000 people.

There are no tall buildings in the small town, and the tallest buildings are just a few five or six-story buildings, and most of the other buildings are one or two-story residential houses.

The small town is very quiet, full of a distinctive calmness. After all, the city has experienced two near-destructive volcanic eruptions, but it still persisted firmly. This kind of strength endows the city with a special style.

Needless to say, just stand on the streets of this city and feel quietly, you can feel the tenacity in the blood of this city.

Guo Dabao was exhausted from taking the boat. After getting off the boat, he went directly to the pre-booked hotel accompanied by bodyguards. No matter how luxurious a super yacht is, it is not as safe as land!

However, Yang Jing and Guo Xiaoxiang were in high spirits. They checked the time and it was at least two hours before dinner. Accompanied by Chris and Adrian, the two planned to take a look at the urban area buried by volcanic ash.

There are no taxis on the street, but there is a kind of public bicycle similar to the domestic Mobike, but this kind of bicycle is not used for swiping mobile phones, but has special management personnel to take care of it. You only need to pay a deposit of fifty kina to the management staff, and you can ride a bicycle.

Of course, there is a fee for renting this kind of bicycle, one kina per hour.

Kina is the official currency of Papua New Guinea, and 1 Kina is about 2.5 yuan. According to this conversion, the cost of public bicycles in Papua New Guinea is much more expensive than in China.

However, both Yang Jing and Guo Xiaoxiang haven’t ridden a bicycle for a long time, and it’s not the time when they were in London, so after seeing this kind of public bicycles for rent, the two rented four bicycles directly with a tacit understanding . One for the two of them, one for the two bodyguards.

Four people, one is a big boss with a net worth of billions of dollars, the other is a serious rich second generation, and two powerful bodyguards wearing guns, just pedaling bicycles towards the east city buried by volcanic ash.

Before the four of them rode out of the city, they heard someone calling them from behind. When they turned their heads, they found that Captain Howard was wearing a black summer suit, and he was chasing up from behind on his bicycle.

When I disembarked just now, I didn't see Mr. Captain. It turned out that he went to change clothes.

The four stopped the car and waited for a while, the captain pedaled a little out of breath and chased after him. Huhu. It's been a long time since I pedaled a bicycle, and I'm really out of breath after this hard pedaling.

Guo Xiaoxiang looked at the captain with a smile and asked, Mr. Captain, why are you going with such a change?

Go, talk while walking. The captain didn't pause, but slowed down a little, and he continued after Yang Jing and the four of them had caught up, I was born and raised in Dongcheng when I was young. My grandfather was also buried there after his death. It’s a pity that the volcanic eruption more than 20 years ago buried my home and my grandfather’s cemetery, so since then, every time I come here, I want to pay homage to my grandfather and my former home there.”

This reason made Guo Xiaoxiang unable to ask any more questions.

Not far east along a coastal road, the road disappears into the ground. That's right, the asphalt-paved road disappeared miraculously, and was replaced by a dirt road that was stepped on. From here, it turned a corner and extended directly to the south.

On both sides of this dirt road, you can vaguely see the ruins of some buildings, but they are all buried by thick gray-black soil.

Needless to say, the ruins of these buried buildings are the buildings that were crushed by the huge amount of volcanic ash produced when the Tauru volcano erupted that year.

However, during the ride, you can occasionally see some complete buildings, and there are still people living in them, but these houses don't look very good.

The volcanic eruption 24 years ago almost destroyed the entire east city, and many houses in the north city were also crushed. However, after the volcano returned to calm, many local residents dug their houses from the rubble. If it doesn't get crushed, as long as the house can last, then people will continue to live in it. See these residents? That's what they do.

See? This place used to be the largest hospital in Rabaul. Next to it, it used to be a museum. The place farther away used to be a middle school. That's where I finished my middle school.

Yang Jing looked in the direction Captain Howard pointed, but he couldn't see anything except the hardened volcanic ash.

However, from Howard's narration, Yang Jing could clearly feel the prosperity of the city before it was destroyed by the volcano. But it is a pity that manpower is limited. In the face of ruthless nature, human beings are still too small after all.

From a distance, Yang Jing pointed to a mountain about 600 meters high in the southeast of the ruins and asked, Captain, is that mountain the same Tauru volcano that erupted that year?

Howard shook his head with a smile and said, No, that's an extinct volcano. Have you seen that short mountain at the foot of the mountain to the west? That's what caused Rabaul to move its capital to Lae eighty years ago. One of the culprits, the name of this mountain is Volcano. Because of the eruption, the volcano has become very low.

Then, Howard pointed to the incomplete mountain that was only more than 100 meters away and said: That mountain is the Tauru volcano, and it is also the most violent volcano on the entire New Britain island. This volcano was responsible for the destruction of Rabaul fourteen years ago.

Several people looked in the direction Howard pointed, but saw a very inconspicuous hill. Compared with it, the mountain with a height of more than 500 meters to the east was more like a mighty mountain. Infinite volcanoes.

As if sensing Yang Jing's guess, Howard shrugged his shoulders and said while riding: There are only two active volcanoes on the entire Gazelle Peninsula, and the two you see now are less than 200 meters high. The other volcanoes are extinct volcanoes and have not erupted for an unknown period of time. Come on, we can take a closer look at the two volcanoes that once caused the destruction of Rabaul.

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