They worked in the mine for more than two hours until it was almost dark.
Alderton and his entourage finally saw the hundreds of crew members he missed so much.
The "staff living area" was built on the edge of the mine's isolation wall. When the fleet arrived, it was time for the hundreds of crew members to get off work.
Alderton and his entourage almost cried out.
The hundreds of crew members were all wearing dark green work clothes, carrying shovels and chisels. Their bodies were covered in dust, and their faces were full of fatigue.
The fleet stopped at the entrance of the living area. Under the light, the crew members saw Alderton and his entourage standing at the entrance. They immediately shed tears of excitement as if they had finally seen their family after working in a foreign country for many years.
Tears flowed down his cheeks, leaving behind streaks of dust and mud.
How long has it been?
In more than half a month, these strong crew members who could carry hundreds of pounds of cannonballs as if they were flying became miners who were so weak that they couldn't even stand up straight.
How could ordinary people imagine the suffering and suffering in here?
Before this meeting, the American representative had already contacted a few of the crew members.
But that time, he only contacted one captain and two captains. They relayed the name list of the crew members detained in the mine, as well as the name list of the seven Americans detained here.
He didn't have the chance to see the pitiful appearance of all the crew members.
Through that meeting, the crew members already knew that they were about to be replaced.
Now that they saw the American representative at the entrance, the crew members cried and didn't want to leave.
They stood there and looked at the representatives with eager eyes.
Alderton and his entourage trotted over, hugging and comforting them. The scene was like visiting relatives.
After almost half an hour, Alderton returned to the fleet.
He took a deep breath and said to Maups, "In the next few days, I don't want you to arrange any work for them."
During the visit, the most complaints Alderton heard was that they were too tired.
They had to carry tools before sunrise. Not only did they have to endure the loud noise of the nearby mining equipment, but they also had to endure the scorching sun above their heads.
They worked from morning to noon. Although there was enough water, there was limited food.
In the morning, it was coarse buns and vegetable soup. For lunch, it was rice and vegetable soup. For dinner, it was buns and vegetable soup.
After only working for half a month, each of them had lost more than ten kilograms.
Maups shrugged. "You don't have to work, but you only have three days."
"Alright …" Alderton gritted his teeth and agreed.
"Three days later, a cruise ship under the Royal Caribbean Company will dock at the port. At that time, you will need to provide vehicles to send everyone to the port."
"No problem." Maups agreed.
"There is more." Alderton gritted his teeth and made the second request of the crew. "In these three days, I want you to ensure that they have unlimited food and that there must be meat in every meal."
Maups didn't want to care about these details. "You guys go and buy it yourselves. Give them whatever you buy."
…
Three days later.
A Royal Caribbean cruise ship that could accommodate thousands of people docked at the port in the evening.
Hundreds of crew members in the mining area had been pulled to the port two hours in advance. When the cruise ship docked, the passage was set up and the whistle sounded.
These hundreds of crew members in shabby overalls stood up and hugged each other and cheered when they heard the whistle. It was like hearing the sounds of nature.
The cruise ship had been requisitioned by the Fifth Fleet. Except for the necessary ship maintenance personnel, the rest were replaced with the logistics and technical personnel of the Fifth Fleet. The ship maintenance personnel were not allowed to move around the passenger area.
The crew members' identities were checked and they boarded the ship one by one.
After boarding, six people were assigned rooms and changed into clean sailor uniforms.
However, before they could shower and eat, two serious-looking staff members walked into each room.
One was responsible for questioning and the other was responsible for recording.
More than half a month ago, they followed orders to implement radio silence in the sea off Guinea. From the moment they sailed along the scheduled combat route, they reported and recorded one by one.
No details were missed. Even every operation of the crew had to be recalled and recorded.
The guided missile cruiser and two submarines had sunk into the deep sea. The relevant duty records and operation records had sunk with them.
Now, the Fifth Fleet had to review all the details of the attack they encountered during the operation to determine what kind of attack method the opponent used.
The crew members on the cruiser were separated from the crew members on the submarines for separate questioning. The combat commanders were separated from the ordinary crew members for separate questioning.
These combat commanders and the heads of the cabin departments were questioned one-on-one by special personnel.
The next day.
When the cruise ship sailed into the Atlantic Ocean and was about to cross the equator.
The personnel of the Fifth Fleet finally sorted out the complete details of the attack from hundreds of crew members that could be corroborated with each other and were consistent with their previous investigation results.
Even though the results of this investigation could be 100% authentic, the results of the previous investigation gave them enough mental preparation.
But when Putista, who temporarily served as the commander of the cruise ship, received the report, he still felt like he was reading a "science fiction book" …
On the day of the mission, around 4: 30 in the afternoon.
In the joint combat fleet, the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, which served as the command ship, was the first to come into contact with the enemy.
The voice recorder, who was performing passive monitoring at the time, first heard a strange sound source track.
Because the ship had sunk, they could not obtain the electronic characteristics of the sound source.
But according to the voice recorder's report, the strange sound source did not match the characteristics of the navigational sound source of man-made equipment.
It was more like some kind of animal, such as a dolphin, a sailfish, or a tuna. These fish had the ability to swim at high speed.
Because the duration was very short, he habitually treated it as a false alarm.
Only two minutes passed.
The ship's central control room inside the cruiser detected the enemy's movements for the second time.
According to the report of the personnel on duty in the central control room at that time, the first to emit an abnormality was the watertight compartment No. 063 at the bottom.
After they discovered the change in pressure in the compartment, they immediately sent people to check it out.
But the speed at which the situation deteriorated far exceeded everyone's expectations.
Before the people in the central control room could walk to the compartment, the meters and control equipment in the central control room kept sounding alarms as if they were collectively infected with a virus.
A loud sound also came from the main pump room of the fire and damage control department.
It was also after that loud sound that the number of crew members who came into direct contact with the enemy increased.
The records at the back were also slightly messy, and it was not easy to sort out the precise timeline.
But all the crew members who witnessed the enemy were very sure and did not hesitate to express it.
They saw a terrifying monster wrapped in silver-white metal and dragging a scimitar that emitted an extremely hot temperature at its tail …
That monster could not have been created by modern technology as they understood it. The monster that looked like a cheetah and a tiger had liquid flowing metal on its body.
It could transform.
In the battle command center of the cruiser, from the captain to the many personnel in charge of security work inside, they insisted that the monster could change its form at will.
The hot scimitar at its tail could cut through any metal.
The metal on the surface of its body seemed to flow, but it was indestructible. No matter how many bullets the crew fired at it, they did not cause any damage to it.
It could transform at will. Its originally animal-like feet would turn into hands. On the equipment in the control center, it would operate crazily at a speed that was difficult to be seen with the naked eye.
It must have a life of its own.
Otherwise, it would not be able to come and go freely in the heavily guarded warship and treat hundreds of crew members as ants.
"…"
How could he report this?
Putista, the commander of the evacuation mission, held this summary report as if it was a hot potato holding an HIV positive report.
Saying that the enemy was an alien?
Or was it that the cruiser and submarine that sank them, which were invincible in the sea, were just two mechanical monsters about the size of tigers?
That's right, the monster's tail was dragging a hot scimitar that could cut through metal.
This was too magical and too difficult to accept.
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