Siheyuan: Living in the People's Community, with a Heart for the Red Star

After the Promise entered the Yellow Sea, the territorial waters of China, the Yokohama Military Base lost contact with the Promise because Lao Yang requested that the electronic signal equipment on the ship be silent. At 8 o'clock the next morning, the Yokohama Military Base, which still could not contact the Promise, immediately realized that something had happened to the Promise, so it sent two cruisers to the Yellow Sea to search for the Promise.

Lao Yang was watching the sun rising from the sea level at the stern of the Promise, feeling very calm. Recalling the description in the online article in his previous life, the greater the ability, the greater the ambition, and the infinite increase of evil thoughts in the heart. When you easily control the life and death of other people, your humanity will slowly disappear, you no longer control yourself, you become arbitrary, and you magnify the malice in your heart. Lao Yang feels that he is now lost in the pleasure brought by force. The ability to decide the life and death of others makes you more and more cold-blooded, not thinking, just wanting to tear apart all obstacles! Lao Yang turned his back to the sun, opened his arms and took a deep breath...

Lao Yang came to the ship's tower and checked the equipment, turned off the radar, turned off the engine, and let the ship drift freely on the sea. Lao Yang began to clean up personal belongings in each room from the ship's tower. Some pictures, wallets, written records, tapes in video recorders, and tapes in recorders were all collected, crushed into pieces in the space and flushed through the toilet. After packing up private personal belongings, Lao Yang lowered all the American flags on the ship and put them into the space, and all the symbols on the hull that could reflect the United States were dealt with. From the outside, it looked like a warship without any signs.

At 4:00 p.m., the Promise had already entered the middle of the Yellow Sea following the ocean current. Old Yang looked at the cruiser that he had cleaned up very well, nodded with satisfaction and said, "Perfect!"

After Lao Yang went down to the power layer, he opened the fuel valve and started the engine to give the Promise power. Lao Yang quickly went to the cabin to start the warship and began to slowly accelerate. Lao Yang used the buttons on the console to operate the Promise to start drawing circles on the sea. After an hour of sailing, Lao Yang basically mastered the cruiser's forward movement, parking, left and right turns. The requirements were not high, as long as it could be driven. Lao Yang drove the Promise to the north of the Bohai Sea according to the navigation map.

At around 10 o'clock in the evening, Lao Yang stopped the boat and let the Promise drift freely on the sea. Lao Yang went to the kitchen to make some simple meals for himself, and put the rare ingredients stored in the kitchen into a part of the space, so that he could take them out whenever he wanted to eat.

If they continue to sail, they should be able to reach the port tomorrow morning, but the most important problem is that Lao Yang does not know the safe channel, and if they hit a reef or bottom, they will be finished. So Lao Yang decided that the cruiser should drift nearby and not continue to move forward. He believed that the Chinese Navy would soon find the Promise.

While Lao Yang was eating, a fishing boat passed by on the sea not far away. It saw a large dark mass in the distance and discovered the warship floating freely on the sea through the searchlight. At first, it was thought to be a Chinese warship, but soon it was discovered that the words on the warship were foreign. This frightened the people on the fishing boat, and they hurriedly called the coastal defense through the radio, reporting the location of the warship, the letters on the warship and the general situation. It was a huge warship floating on the sea without any lights.

The Chinese Coast Guard, which received the message, replied that the fishing boats should leave immediately, saying that the warship might be an enemy warship and should not try to get close to avoid danger. The Coast Guard immediately reported to their superiors, one level at a time until the Supreme Committee.

After finishing his meal, Lao Yang came to the captain's cabin and turned on the TV. He could actually receive CCTV, which was broadcasting the evening news. Lao Yang had only watched for less than 10 minutes when the TV program ended and the TV station was turned off. So Lao Yang stopped watching, turned off the TV, got into bed and went to sleep, because he couldn't do anything else anyway.

While Lao Yang was resting, the Chinese Coast Guard determined through careful comparison and the English on the hull that it was the USS Promise that entered the territorial waters. The Navy Headquarters received the news and immediately notified all the committee members to hold an emergency meeting. A US Promise cruiser entered the Yellow Sea of ​​China and was heading towards the Bohai Sea. In front of each committee member were the basic parameters of the Promise and the collected weapons and equipment.

The Navy Headquarters immediately decided that this was a naked invasion and should be stopped in time. They ordered the Qingdao Naval Base of the North Sea Fleet to send two submarines and two destroyers to intercept and drive away the enemy. Upon receiving the order, the Qingdao Naval Base immediately organized naval soldiers to board the ships and set off.

At about 3:00 the next morning, the destroyer's onboard radar finally found the location of the Promise, so the fleet quickly approached the Promise and sent a radio call to the other side, asking it to stop invading China's territorial waters and immediately leave for the high seas. After more than an hour of pursuit, the submarine and destroyer surrounded the Promise, but strangely, the Promise did not respond, did not issue a warning, and did not intend to leave.

When the two destroyers approached the Promise by 2 nautical miles, they observed through telescopes that the Promise was very quiet, without a single light, and the ship had no power and was drifting with the ocean. The Chinese military was very puzzled, not knowing what mission the Promise was carrying out or what state it was in. It was impossible that all the ships were asleep and no one was on duty. A careful observation revealed that there was no flag of any country hanging on the hull, which was an abnormal state.

So the fleet commander sent a telegram to Qingdao Base to report the abnormality of the Promis. After consulting with Qingdao Base, the order was immediately issued to board the Promis to check its specific situation. After receiving the order, a destroyer named "Peony" quickly approached the Promis, and shouted in English through the ship's loudspeaker while approaching: "Please note, Promis, your warship has entered our territorial waters without our permission. Please stop the ship immediately or leave our waters, and explain the invasion of our territorial waters. Promis, please note that we are approaching, please do not overreact, and accept the investigation."

The Peony approached while shouting, but strangely, the Promith did not respond at all and no lights were turned on. The soldiers were all puzzled, could it be a ghost ship?

Lao Yang woke up when the shouting came, so he put the bedding on the bed into the space, changed his clothes, and quietly came to the dark corner of the ship building to observe the situation.

After the Peony approached the Promise, the soldiers threw ropes to connect the fence and quickly climbed onto the Promise. When the soldiers boarded the ship one after another, they found that there was no movement on the ship and no one was there. So the soldiers quickly organized and began to search. One team searched from the deck to the top of the ship, but no one was found, and the equipment was also turned off. Another team entered the cabin to search, and every cabin that was opened was neat and clean, as if everyone had taken their supplies and abandoned the ship. So they accelerated the search, and opened each room and found no one before going to the next one.

Soon the soldiers on the tower finished searching the tower and did not see anyone, so they quickly came to the deck and waited for orders.