Everything went smoothly. Ye Qing walked through the long enclosed staircase and entered a huge steel space.
This was the hangar of the aircraft carrier. There were many navy sailors inside, most of them female.
Most of the tourists now were parents with their children. It was difficult for young people to wake up so early. Therefore, every time a child passed by Ye Qing, the female sailors would give him a small cap with the navy logo on it for free.
Adults had to spend money to buy one. Ye Qing also bought one to wear on his head. This way, he could be more discreet.
Ye Qing was among the tourists, listening to the sailors introduce everyone to the hangar, as well as the performance of the two Hornets parked in the hangar. Ye Qing took a picture of the Hornet. Ten minutes later, the Master Metal Expert in casual clothes followed the crowd into the hangar.
Without saying anything, Ye Qing continued to listen to the sailors tell the story of the Hornet.
Twenty minutes later, the number of tourists broke through the hundreds. The sailors led everyone to the aircraft carrier lift and took the lift to the deck of the aircraft carrier.
Only by standing on the deck of the giant steel ship could one feel its size. Just the lift alone was the size of a standard basketball court. When they reached the top deck, an even bigger deck appeared in front of Ye Qing.
It was even bigger than the hull of an aircraft carrier. A third of the edge was above the water. It was a full metal deck with all kinds of combat aircraft parked on it. At the edge, there were multiple dense defense systems and anti-aircraft missile systems.
A group of children opened their mouths and shouted, "So big! So cool!" and so on. Ye Qing took out his camera and took pictures of whatever he saw.
This behavior did not alert any of the sailors. Hundreds of thousands of pictures of the entire aircraft carrier deck could be found on the Internet. As long as there was no notice prohibiting photography, they could take pictures and record as they pleased.
The sailors led everyone along the deck. As they walked in the direction of the bridge, they explained how the aircraft carrier deck usually worked and what interesting things had happened. When they reached the bridge, which was dozens of stories high, the sailors told everyone that the bridge now had a cockpit and meeting room. Everyone could experience the joy of flying an aircraft carrier.
After wandering around the bridge for half an hour, the Navy sailors allowed everyone to move freely. If they didn't leave at noon, there was also a buffet in the cafeteria area. Children were free, and adults were 15 USD per person.
At the same time, the area of free movement was limited to the deck, hangar, and recreation areas of the marines.
Hearing that they could move freely, the children screamed and dragged the adults away. They wanted to touch the fighter jets. Ye Qing continued to follow the crowd and take photos.
By ten in the afternoon, there were more than two thousand tourists on the aircraft carrier. A few hundred children were running around the aircraft carrier. There were also quite a number of young people who looked like Ye Qing. Most of them came with their friends.
At the end of the deck, Ye Qing and the Master Metal Expert met.
"Boss, I've toured all the open areas. From the looks of it, the passages leading to the engine room were all locked and guarded by marines. But there's only one guard. If it really doesn't work, I can knock him out and force my way through. "
"That will be discovered by others, and then the entire ship will be searched for." Ye Qing whispered, "I was in the library under the bridge and saw the escape route map hanging on the wall. But the map was covered with camouflage cloth and only the tip of the iceberg was exposed. "
"I need you to cooperate. After we enter the library, I'll find a way to divert the sailors' attention. You take a quick picture of the escape route with your mobile phone."
The Master Metal Expert nodded.
Dozens of minutes later, the two men walked into the small library separately.
There weren't many people in the library now. A few older tourists were sitting on chairs chatting with each other. A few children were flipping through books. A sailor was here to explain and supervise. Seeing the Master Metal Expert with sunglasses turn to the bottom of the escape route, Ye Qing coughed, walked to the marine and asked where the bathroom was.
The sailor turned his head and didn't say the first word. The Master Metal Expert behind him lifted the camouflage cloth like lightning. When the sailor said three words, the Master Metal Expert had covered the camouflage cloth and picked up an English book to read. His hand speed was faster than the LOL world champion.
Half an hour later, the two men met in a bathroom near the aircraft maintenance room.
This bathroom was connected to the hangar passage and belonged to an open area. But the tourists liked to run to the deck at this time, so there weren't many people in the hangar and no one would come to use the bathroom.
Closing the hatch, Ye Qing took off the data glasses and rubbed his sore eyes.
In addition to the sailors standing guard in the aircraft carrier, there were many surveillance cameras in operation in the public areas. But the data glasses could instantly mark the location of these surveillance cameras. Ye Qing could judge the range of these surveillance cameras based on the accurate distance and angle provided by the data glasses.
Ye Qing tried to remember the location of these surveillance cameras, just in case.
The escape route map taken by the Master Metal Expert was continuously enlarged by Ye Qing, starting from the engine compartment below the middle section, along the escape route one by one.
The escape route didn't exist independently. It sometimes overlapped with the normal personnel passage. It marked the fastest and shortest route from each cabin to the deck and the lifeboat. These passages extended in all directions and could also reach any cabin.
Taking out a pen and paper from his pocket, Ye Qing quickly drew a winding route on it. When encountering the hatch, he drew a circle as a mark.
"Let's start."
Ye Qing deleted the photos on the phone and put on the data glasses again. When he pushed the door out of the bathroom, there was an industrial electronic endoscope in his hand.
This was a small tool purchased from the Item Store. It consisted of a deformable hose, a camera, and a monitor. In some spy movies, a flexible, snake-like wired probe was used to observe the situation inside through the crack of the door.
Next to the bathroom was a utility room. The hatch was closed, but there was no lock. Ye Qing and the Master Metal Expert pushed the door in. The Master Metal Expert guarded the door. Ye Qing looked at the partition fixed on one side of the wall.
Galvanized flat plate, U.S. Gauge 10 # hexagonal bolt. Choosing a battery-powered hand drill from the Item Store, equipped with a wrench set, Ye Qing smoothly removed the twelve bolts, removed the flat plate, and then left the hand drill to the Master Metal Expert. He drilled into the dark inner wall passage.
The Master Metal Expert replaced the partition with a blank expression. Then he put a cigarette in his mouth but didn't light it.
In the passage, Ye Qing turned on the night vision mode of the data glasses and walked dozens of meters along the route planned in his heart. He bought a new hand drill and removed a partition at his feet.
Under the partition was a warehouse that was not open to the public. Ye Qing used the electronic endoscope to look out of the gap in the partition and observe the warehouse from all directions.
There was no surveillance, no personnel.
Hundreds of square military supply boxes wrapped in yellow plastic were placed in the warehouse. Ye Qing wasn't interested to know what was inside. He opened the partition and jumped on the box and replaced the partition.
Opening the watertight door of the warehouse from the inside, he also opened a gap and observed with the electronic endoscope.
Outside the warehouse was a passage that also doubled as an escape passage. Perhaps the aircraft carrier was now docked for repairs and most of the crew had left the ship to hang out on the shore. This passage only retained a dark red emergency light, no surveillance, and no personnel activity.
Ye Qing strode out of the warehouse, closed the door, and walked along the west side of the passage.
"One."
"Two."
"Three …"
After passing through three open watertight doors, he turned two corners.
In front of Ye Qing, there was a watertight door that was completely different from the previous hatch door.
It was painted orange, and in the middle of the watertight door, there was a circle sign of nuclear radiation.
Opening this door would allow him to enter the core of the USS Bush nuclear-powered aircraft carrier's engine compartment and witness the legendary aircraft carrier reactor.
At the same time, the engine compartment must be filled with various monitoring and optical and chemical sensors.
This was not to prevent enemy infiltration. If an aircraft carrier could be sneaked in from the vast sea during a mission, it would be better to sink itself. These monitoring sensors were only used to observe the operation of the reactor. They could alert the first time the reactor malfunctioned.
However, Ye Qing didn't have to risk opening the door.
The distance was enough.
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