Extra 9. Wang Qiu’s Uninhabited Island Story
The morning fog has long dispersed, the blazing sunshine is falling from the sky, and the waves are rippling on the sea surface, shining with bursts of golden light.
A small white villa stands under a coconut grove on the edge of the beach. Countless unknown tropical trees are growing freely on the hillsides and valleys behind the villa. In the open space between the big trees, there is a lush grassland, covered with green grass leaves, vines and ferns.
However, sitting in the living room of the villa, watching the aerial footage sent back by the drone, Wang Qiu had no intention of admiring the beautiful tropical scenery. Instead, his face was full of entanglement and confusion: "...Am I traveling through time? Where are you? ”
For a time traveler, after arriving in a strange world, he naturally has to find a way to investigate where he has traveled.
But this investigation task is full of difficulties: First of all, Wang Qiu did not travel through time as a soul, but in body, and there was no memory of an indigenous person from another world for him to inherit. Secondly, he could not find any indigenous inhabitants of the alien world who could inquire about the situation.
Because the place where he came to another world this time was an uninhabited island...
At this moment, Wang Qiu has initially drawn a rough map of the island based on the aerial measurements taken by the drone. Overall, the island covers an area of approximately fifty square kilometers, with dense vegetation, abundant fresh water, and numerous streams and mountain springs. The terrain in the northern part of the island is rugged. A mountain with an altitude of about 400 meters stands near the sea. It is the highest peak on the island. It forms a knife-edge cliff vertically entering the sea on the north shore. The southern part of the island is relatively flat, dotted with low hills and small plains, and clear rivers flowing between the hills. Wang Qiu's small villa is located on the east coast of the island. There are no dangerous large carnivores or venomous snakes and insects on the island, nor are there any other living humans or intelligent life living there. The largest creatures on the island are a group of wild horses - something that is quite rare on small islands. The island is surrounded by endless sea, and no other land is observed within a radius of 100 kilometers. However, judging from the flora and fauna on the island, it seems that it is not an alien planet, but is still on the earth of a certain era.
Because the radio station could not receive any signal, Wang Qiu initially thought that he had traveled to ancient times or modern times before the twentieth century. But the above conjecture was overturned by a new discovery - at the other end of the island, Wang Qiu found several shabby huts, with two human skeletons inside, and a small wooden boat next to it, which seemed to have been drifted after a shipwreck. Voyager ashore. Scattered around them were rusty iron buckets, cut plastic bottles, a music box with stars and stripes painted on it, and many other sundries. They were obviously modern industrial products produced after World War II!
This makes people feel very strange. Since this is the earth after World War II, why are there no radio signals in the sky? Could it be that he has traveled to the end of the world after some nuclear war catastrophe? Or maybe this island is also traveled through?
Puzzled, Wang Qiu had to call the women at home to brainstorm ideas. But they also couldn't see any new clues and could only make random guesses based on the existing information. Minami Rika speculates that this may be the doomsday world ruled by monkeys after the instantaneous destruction of modern human civilization in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"; Marikawa Shizuka thinks this is more like a science fiction world after humans enter the space age and the earth becomes a pristine ecological reserve; the whole The silver-haired twins, who play games all day long, believe that this should be the world of ship girls after the defeat of the human camp. They disagree with each other and no one has a valid reason.
In fact, if you just want to investigate the situation in another world, the most direct way is to use a small rocket to launch the Doraemon prop [mini reconnaissance satellite] into orbit, and then the entire planet can be seen at a glance. But Wang Qiu was previously worried that he had traveled to some fairy fantasy world. If he launched a reconnaissance satellite rashly, it might alarm the gods, immortals and other big bosses, so he did not dare to make too much noise.
In short, in confusion, Wang Qiu and others ushered in the first night after traveling to this strange world. Because he was worried that this was really a remote corner of the shipgirl world, and that there might be a sneak attack by the deep-sea fleet at night, so before going to sleep, Wang Qiu specially installed a high-voltage power grid around the villa, and installed anti-aircraft guns and air defense radars on the roof. As a result, the island really soon received uninvited guests...
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Early the next morning, Wang Qiu was still sleeping soundly on the bed with Marikawa Shizuka in his arms, but suddenly he jumped up from the sound of "dong dong dong"!
He quickly put on his pajamas, took three steps at a time with his bare feet, and ran to the top of the building to take a look. I saw Gretel and Hansel, the silver-haired twins, operating anti-aircraft guns and firing violently into the air. When they saw Wang Qiu coming up, they shouted in unison: "...Monsters! There are monsters in the sky!"
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Amidst the deafening sound of artillery, Wang Qiu raised his head and looked intently, and suddenly saw that behind the diffuse morning fog, there was indeed a group of strange-shaped things floating in the wind thousands of meters in the air, and it was hit all over by high-explosive bombs and tracer bullets from anti-aircraft guns. It was on fire. At first glance, it looked like some monster was attacking from the sky. But taking a closer look, Wang Qiu finally recognized it: What kind of monster is this? It's clearly a weird-looking *********!
Unfortunately, it was too late at this moment. Although the anti-aircraft guns on the ground stopped firing, the gun in the sky that seemed to be filled with hydrogen still disintegrated with a "bang" in the air and turned into countless burning wreckage, flying to the ground. Dropped all over the island. Seeing that the catastrophe had already occurred, Wang Qiu had no choice but to wake up all four girls, then rushed to the crash site with weapons. Next, he truly saw the indigenous humans of this world for the first time:
——A total of five unfortunate passengers, including old and young, male and female, fell from the hydrogen balloon that was exploded in the air. But regardless of gender and age, they were all wearing rags that were sloppier than beggars, and their bodies were filled with a nose-shaking stench... And at this moment, they were all dead - from a thousand meters above the sky, they were all dead. If the umbrella falls, is there any possibility of survival?
The strange thing is that although he is sure that he has never seen these people, Wang Qiu always feels that this scene seems a bit familiar...until he finds a circular tattoo on the back of the little girl's body, which is written in Japanese. When looking at the latitude and longitude coordinates, it suddenly dawned on me.
So, under the surprised gazes of Nan Lixiang and the other four girls, Wang Qiu suddenly took out the [Bamboo Dragonfly] from his arms and flew to the top of the highest peak on the island. Then he raked through the weeds and shrubs on the top of the mountain, and finally finally The target was found: a metal plaque with the Union Jack painted on it.
The inscription on it is to commemorate the British mountaineer Edmund Hillary, who climbed Mount Everest for the first time in 1953... Looking at the plaque under his feet commemorating Hillary's summit of Mount Everest, Wang Qiu suddenly felt complicated. He fell down and sat down, sighing melancholy, "...Hey, I understand, everything is understood! This island turns out to be Mount Everest! This is "Future Water World"!"