The leader of the tour group is a cool old man with white hair and sunglasses, who speaks English with a strong accent. Even Zhou Jinyan doesn't understand it very well, so he can only guess. The old man is probably asking them if they want to participate in a Project, just the last two places left.

Zhou Jinyan said to himself, but we are not with you at all, what kind of tour group is this?The kind that specializes in charity?

Jiang Xingting made a little strategy in advance, and explained to Zhou Jinyan in a low voice: "It seems that there are occasional World War II veterans who come here to explain, and this should be it."

It was only then that Zhou Jinyan noticed that the crowd around him was not red at sunset at all. There were newlyweds with children in their arms, elderly grandmas on crutches, and students carrying schoolbags who were fascinated by listening. It was just that the old man who took the lead was too eye-catching. , at first glance, it does look like an elderly tourist group.

A few minutes later, the old man pushed open an iron door and led them up the stairs.The stairs are very narrow and cramped, if not for the reminder from the old man, Zhou Jinyan almost came into close contact with the iron plate several times.

Jiang Xingting was even worse. He was a little taller than Zhou Jinyan. When he climbed the stairs, he had to curl up and use his hands and feet together, just like an orangutan who just learned to climb trees.

After climbing for a while, I finally entered a cabin.There is a long and wide table in the cabin, and a map is spread on the table, marking the detailed latitude and longitude and locations.The edges of the paper are slightly yellowed and warped, looking old.

The old man picked up the big yellow speaker and started to explain. Jiang Xingting walked up to Zhou Jinyan and said in a low voice, "What were you laughing at when you climbed the stairs just now?"

Zhou Jinyan glanced at him innocently: "Did I laugh just now?"

"I've seen it all!" Jiang Xingting had reason and evidence, "When you were climbing the stairs, you suddenly looked back at me, and then started laughing—may I have grown up with your laughing point?"

Zhou Jinyan suppressed a smile: "No, it's your posture of climbing the stairs that made me smile."

Jiang Xingting was angry: "Do you think your stair climbing posture is beautiful! You are clumsy, like a crab with teeth and claws!"

They are here and you come and I bicker with each other. The uncle has finished the introduction and started to go to the next cabin, so an orangutan and a crab started to compete on the stairs.

Panting, Jiang Xingting climbed up the last step, looked at the uncle who had already begun to explain enthusiastically, gave a thumbs up, and sighed: "Sure enough, your uncle is still your uncle."

Zhou Jinyan didn't have the energy to push him.The aisle of this aircraft carrier was designed in an extremely strange way, going up and down for a while, and had to bend over to get through a few extremely narrow places. His calf bumped into the protruding iron plate several times, and he didn't know if it was blue or not.

They should be in the captain's cabin now, surrounded by a circle of transparent glass windows, with an excellent view, and they can see far away.All the furnishings inside are made of wood, which is quite the decoration style of medieval navigators.There was a thick cowhide book on the table, probably something like a logbook.Zhou Jinyan glanced over and saw that the opened page was written in beautiful cursive English, and the edges of the words were slightly blurred.

After leaving the captain's cabin, they passed through several other cabins one after another, and finally managed to circle back to the place where they first assembled.

Jiang Xingting said: "Fortunately, you are not a soldier on this aircraft carrier, otherwise you would have lost your way."

Zhou Jinyan said: "Get lost."

Jiang Xingting was full of curiosity about everything on the ship, and every time he passed an open door, he insisted on going in to find out. After being rejected three times, they finally managed to break into the cabin.

The interior of the ship is full of criss-crossing pipes, the lights are dim, and there are no people there. Only the footsteps of the two of them echoed in the small space.They walked down the steps step by step, and entered a place similar to a factory operation room - the entire space was occupied by entangled precision instruments and pipelines, at first glance it was clearly disorganized, but there were traces .There is only a passageway just enough for one person to pass through beside the instrument. Several dials are distributed on the wall, and the pointers are deflected in different directions.

Jiang Xingting was dumbfounded: "I really don't know how this was designed."

"If you knew, you wouldn't be standing here." Zhou Jinyan always felt that the place was too dark to make people uncomfortable, so he teased Jiang Xingting, "Let's go."

They turned a corner, and the lights suddenly brightened. There were hundreds of plastic tables and chairs in the hall. Jiang Xingting speculated reasonably based on the facts: "This should be a cafeteria."

It's really a cafeteria, and there is a cartoon sculpture of a chef standing against the wall, with a white hat and white clothes, waving a spatula in his hand, and the corners of his mouth are almost grinning to the ear, perfectly blending joy and panic on his face.

Zhou Jinyan couldn't get the strange aesthetics of foreigners, so he dragged Jiang Xingting away.

Behind the canteen is the dormitory, which is divided into dormitories for officers and soldiers and dormitories for naval commanders and captains.Jiang Xingting looked sour, and Zhou Jinyan suspected that if Jiang Xingting hadn't been hindered by the railing, he might have rushed to the soft big bed and rolled.The dormitory also comes with a magnificent office, with a carpet at the door, framed photos on the wall, a few pens and the American flag in the pen holder, and a bulletin board next to it, listing the service on this aircraft carrier The names and biographical introductions of several former naval commanders.

Zhou Jinyan looked at those names.In fact, he has no interest in history. To him, history is just those abstract and empty words in history books.He was not an idealist, nor did he expect to find the truth of history from those fragments or the surviving ruins, but at this moment he suddenly felt that Jiang Xingting was right.

This is not a model, but everything that actually happened.The empty cafeteria was once overcrowded. Soldiers gathered on a table with the smell of sweat after a day of training, talking and laughing loudly; the operation room used to be guarded 24 hours a day to ensure that the equipment inside was running flawlessly; those planes used to be Roaring up to the blue sky, performing a series of legends in the hail of bullets, those figures come and go, leaving unique traces on this ship.The USS Midway, the meaning of its existence has long surpassed the name, it is history, and when you walk into it, it is like walking into the heavy years of war.

They disembarked and walked towards the statue of the kiss of victory.Jiang Xingting was taken to take pictures by passing tourists, and Zhou Jinyan stood by the sea, looking at the aircraft carrier not far away.

The sun is setting, the sea breeze is getting cooler, and there is the sound of the sea tide in the wind.The aircraft carrier still parked quietly on the shore.It has witnessed countless times of sunrise and sunset, clouds rolling and clouds relaxing, and it spans from one period of history to another period of history.

And one day, everyone standing here will become history.

After Jiang Xingting took the photo, he ran over to pull him: "Come here, I'll ask them to take a group photo for us too."

Zhou Jinyan grew up so big, the only time he took a photo with others was when he was one year old, ignorant and ignorant, he was dragged by Zhou's mother to take a parent-child art photo.

Or the one with flowers on her head.

He was dragged under the "Victory Kiss" by Jiang Xingting. He was so embarrassed that he didn't even know where to put his hands. He was frozen from head to toe.Fortunately, Jiang Xingting was there, and the man was very friendly and hooked his shoulders: "Yeah!"

A passer-by helped to take the photo, Jiang Xingting thanked him and took back his phone to look at it, almost laughing like crazy: "You look like your wife just died."

Zhou Jinyan glared at him.

Jiang Xingting immediately changed his words: "No, then what, I will send you the photo—so that you can say that you studied in San Diego."

Zhou Jinyan didn't really want this photo.

Jiang Xingting couldn't feel Zhou Jinyan's desire to scold the street, and even happily posted a circle of friends with the accompanying text: I had a good day with the handsome guy~

Zhou Jinyan also swiped into that circle of friends. In the photo, Jiang Xingting hugged him and smiled brightly at the camera.Behind them is a huge statue, and the navy soldiers are kissing the beautiful nurse with forgetfulness, and the nurse's white skirt is like a blooming flower.

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