Chapter 5 Chapter Four

The rumble seemed to grow louder. Keita Yamashita, who was squatting on the ground with his eyes closed, opened his eyes tremblingly. He held a glimmer of hope in his young heart, thinking that the situation might get better. But the view from the upper half of the starboard crew hatch dashed his hopes.There was only a piece of sky in sight. "Father, mother..." He cried again, tears streaming down his face, and snot flowing out of his nose. The snot that flowed just now has dried up. After the helicopter took off, Huitai had been sitting in the corner of the plane, holding tightly to the steel pipe of the soldier's seat folded in the corner.Fifty-five people can sit on the left and right sides of the steel pipe at most, but at this moment he is the only one on the helicopter and there is no one else.

Due to the good weather today, the helicopter only shook slightly, but Huitai still didn't dare to move.On the one hand, his legs were weak because of fear, but he was also worried that if he acted rashly, the situation would become more serious. He thought it was because he and Gao Yan got into trouble, sneaked into the helicopter without telling the adults, fumbled around, accidentally touched a switch somewhere, turned the propeller, and the helicopter suddenly moved.He regretted it extremely, felt that he was finished, and began to hate Gao Yan who made him suffer all this. Hui too felt that she might be dying.He thought that the helicopter was flying randomly in the sky, and the helicopter took off because of his own mischief. Of course, it was impossible to fly well, let alone land safely.

He could not help being afraid of death.Before this morning, he never dreamed that he would face death suddenly. Just thinking about death made him fall into confusion, tears came out of his eyes, his body trembled, and goose bumps appeared all over his body. He burst into tears and cried for a while before he began to look around and observe.He finally felt what he should do. He is in the cargo room.There is nothing here except a wooden box in the center.He guessed that this might be a helicopter for transporting soldiers, because his father did not tell him that there was a mine-sweeping helicopter, and he did not know that after the Maritime Self-Defense Force purchased this helicopter from Nishiki Heavy Industry, technicians would put the towing device of the mine-sweeping equipment on it. helicopter.

Hui Tai let go of the steel pipe of the soldier's seat and lay down on the ground.The fuselage shook as if floating on the waves, but he still didn't reach out to grab the steel pipe.He lay on the ground and crawled forward slowly, preparing to go to the cab.This act takes a lot of courage.He approached the cab step by step. He hadn't thought about what to do there yet, but crawling there was the only thing he could do in front of him. At last he reached the entrance to the cockpit, clutching the partition between the cab and the cargo room, and stood up with trembling legs.He saw the entire cockpit, a row of gauges in a black frame between the two driver's seats, several with LED lights on, and computer screens displaying numbers.Of course Keita didn't understand these things.

However, a word immediately appeared in his mind.radio. If it was possible to talk to someone with a wireless communicator──he thought about it.Because he has a classmate who is playing with a wireless communicator. Although he has never played it himself, he has seen that classmate operate it. He leaned out, trying to find out which of the complicated instruments was a wireless communicator. At this time, he saw the sea. Keita saw the sea from the view window obliquely below the driver's seat. From his position, he could see the endless sea and sky, and he couldn't see the land at all.

Came to the sea, the helicopter left Japan── At that time, he thought that the helicopter took him away from the Japanese archipelago, but he did not expect that the Tsuruga Peninsula was under the helicopter. He slumped on the ground, fear overwhelmed him again. "Dad, help me..." He closed his eyes again, tears streaming down again.