Chapter 6 Section 6

At a few minutes to nine, Naruto and Sawamura left the town hall together. "Let's go have a drink together." Sawamura suggested. "OK." "I'll go as well." The two young men and women agreed in unison. "What about Kawahata and you?" Sawamura asked Chengshi. "Then, let me go and have a drink together." Cheng Shi replied. After saying goodbye to those companions who were rushing home in front of the station, Cheng Shi and the others walked towards the izakaya they frequented.That tavern closes the latest in the neighborhood. Walking to the door of the izakaya, Cheng Shi saw Setsuko standing by the opposite embankment, staring blankly at the dark sea in front of him. "Mom." Cheng Shi called out to her.

Setsuko came back to her senses, turned her head to see Chengshi, with an ambiguous smile on her face, and then walked across the road. "Good evening." After greeting Sawamura and the others, Setsuko turned to Naruto and asked, "Is the meeting over?" "Well. Mom, what are you doing here?" Setsuko raised her head and pointed to the izakaya in front of her with her chin. "I brought guests. Mr. Yu Chuan said he would like to have two more drinks." "Mom, have you been drinking too?" "I just drank a little." Setsuko compared her thumb and forefinger, meaning that she really didn't drink much.

"Drinking again. Every time you bring guests, you will drink with them." Since his illness, Shigeharu has never touched a little alcohol, but Setsuko is very fond of alcohol.Even if she doesn't come to the izakaya, she will definitely have a glass of blended whiskey before going to bed every day. "I see. You ran out to let the sea breeze blow and wake up the bar?" "Well, almost. Don't drink too much." "Mom, you don't have the right to talk about me." "Then, I'll go back first—everyone, I'm sorry." Setsuko bowed her head at Sawamura and the others.

"Wait a minute. I'll take you back." After finishing speaking, Sawamura looked at Shimizu, "I came today with a light truck from the store. I parked the car near the station before, and I didn't know what to do. That's good. I'll take my aunt back, and I'll park the car at your house along the way, shall I?" "No, no, I don't dare to take it." Setsuko felt a little flattered, and waved her hands repeatedly. "You are welcome. The light on the road is quite dark, and it is still uphill. If you drive there, it will only take two or three minutes."

"Is this okay? Then I'd rather be respectful than obedient." "Of course. Then I'll leave for a while." Sawamura said to Chengshi. "I'm sorry, I'll trouble you then." Cheng Shi thanked and said. After watching Sawamura and Setsuko leave, Naruto and the other two walked into the izakaya and looked around in the store.Yukawa sat at a table in the corner, reading a magazine and drinking soju on ice. "Isn't that the scholar during the day?" The female college student among the companions whispered in Cheng Shi's ear.It's him.Another young man also muttered.

Cheng Shi told the two that Tang Chuan is now living in the hotel opened by his family.Only then did the two understand the truth of the matter.They all know that Cheng Shi's family runs a hotel. The three of them sat down at a table a little far away from Yukawa.Tang Chuan was still looking at the magazine in his hand. Drinking beer, the three chatted for about half an hour, Cheng Shi stood up and said "Excuse me".After that, she walked to Tang Chuan's table and said, "Hello." Tang Chuan looked up at Chengshi, blinked, and said, "Ah, hello." Seeing Chengshi, Tang Chuan didn't show much surprise.It is estimated that in fact, he has already discovered Chengshi and them.

"I heard you were drinking with my mother just now?" "Well, I think she seems to like drinking, so I asked her to have a few drinks with me. Am I taking the liberty?" "It's nothing... Well, can I sit here for a while?" Cheng Shi pointed to the chair opposite. "Certainly. But it seems to me that you came with friends?" "It's okay." Cheng Shi looked at his two companions.The two were facing each other, chatting happily about something. "Anyway, I don't want to always be a light bulb." Seeing Tang Chuan's puzzled face, Cheng Shi added in a low voice, "The two of them are dating."

"Oh I got it." Cheng Shi called the clerk and ordered a glass of shochu with ice. "I heard from your mother that you also attended the briefing today?" "Didn't someone raise a question about the protection of deep-sea life? That person was actually with us." "Are you with that person?" Tang Chuan nodded, "In that case, please apologize for me. Tell him that I shouldn't have interrupted at that time. I'm really sorry." "You'd better tell him yourself. He'll be here in a moment anyway. But I think you've expressed your opinion so frankly that there's no need for apology."

"I'm too blunt. I'm the kind of guy who can't hold back when he hears that kind of baseless speech." The clerk brought out a glass full of soju.Yu Chuan picked up his wine glass, so it was considered a toast. "According to your mother, you still seem to be a radical activist?" "Nothing. I just did what I had to do." "According to this, participating in the movement against the development of seabed resources is what you should do?" "It's not development I'm against, I just want to protect nature. Especially the sea."

Yu Chuan shook the wine glass, making the ice cubes in the glass crackle.After that, he took a sip of soju slowly, as if he was trying to make something come true. "Guard the sea? How do you say that? Could it be that the sea is so fragile that it needs to be protected by humans?" "In the face of human scientific civilization, it has become very fragile." Tang Chuan put down his wine glass and said, "There is something in your words." "You should know that all life originated from the sea. After hundreds of millions of years, life has evolved into many types and evolved to today. However, in the past thirty years, marine animals have It has been reduced by more than 30%. The biggest representative example is the coral reef." The reason why Cheng Shi was able to speak so well is all thanks to her countless speech experience before.

"You think it's all science to blame?" "Aren't the people who conducted nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean scientists?" Yukawa raised his wine glass.But before drinking, he raised his head again to look at Chengshi. "Do you think that we scientists will make the same mistakes in this seabed hot water deposit development plan, don't you? In other words, we will completely mess up the seabed regardless of the damage to the environment?" "I don't deny that you have imagined for the environment. But you have no idea what will happen in the future. Didn't those scientists when they started using oil also fail to foresee the global Is the climate warming?" "Because of this, it is necessary to carry out investigation and research. DESMEC didn't say that they plan to excavate the seabed immediately and commercialize it? As you just said, no one can say what the development will do to the seabed. impact, so we're trying to figure it out as best we can." "But this kind of thing is simply impossible to cover everything. Didn't you say so yourself at today's briefing?" "I also said at the time that this is a matter of choice. If there is no need to dig the seabed for rare metals, then this plan is completely meaningless." The discussion finally touched the most essential part.That is the necessity of seabed mineral resources development.This question will be at the center of tomorrow's discussion. "After that," Cheng Shi said, "I want to save it for tomorrow's public hall." Tang Chuan pouted. "Don't you want to have a showdown? Forget it." After adding a glass of shochu, Tang Chuan looked back at Chengshi, "Let me explain first. In fact, I am not a pusher of development." "Really?" Cheng Shi felt a little surprised.She looked back at Tang Chuan's upright face: "Then, why did you sit on the stage at that time?" "It was people from DESMEC who begged me, and I went. They told me at the time that maybe I would need to explain something about electromagnetic detection." "Electromagnetic detection?" Cheng Shi had never heard of this word before. "It is to use coils to measure the electromagnetic field of the seabed and analyze it. Through such detection, we can understand the geological structure at a depth of about 100 meters below the seabed. In short, it is to use this method without actually digging. To find out the distribution of metal resources." "Do you want to say that this method is more conducive to environmental protection?" "Of course, this is the biggest advantage of this method." The waiter brought soju on the rocks.Tang Chuan looked at the menu and ordered a dried salted fish as an appetizer. "Isn't your research in this area enough to show that you are a developmentalist?" "Is there any necessary connection between these two things? Indeed, I did propose to those pushers at DESMEC that this new method of electromagnetic detection could be used. But if the development plan is finally implemented, this method is economical and environmentally friendly. .And if the development program ends up being stopped, there's no harm." "But in this case, wouldn't your research results be meaningless?" "In this world, there are no meaningless research results." The waiter brought over dried pickled fish.Tang Chuan tasted a piece and narrowed his eyes under the lens: "Well, it tastes good." At this moment, the door of the izakaya opened with a bang, and Sawamura walked into the shop and looked around.Seeing that Naruto was not with the other two companions, but ran to the same table with the scholar from the daytime, Sawamura had a puzzled expression on his face. Sawamura walked up to Naruto with a puzzled look on his face, and asked, "Uh, what's going on?" "You should know him, right? This is Mr. Yu Chuan from Imperial University. I forgot to tell you before that he is now living in the hotel run by my family." what.Sawamura opened his mouth slightly and nodded. "Speaking of which, your mother also mentioned to me just now that she brought Mr. Tang Chuan here. Hey, that's what happened. He lives in your hotel." "If you don't mind, let's sit down and have a drink together." Yukawa invited Sawamura to take a seat next to Chengshi. Then I'm more than welcome.Sawamura pulled up the chair, sat down, asked the clerk to order a bottle of draft beer. "It's really late for you to come." Cheng Shi said. "Well, I ran into a little trouble at your house." "Little trouble?" What's going on?Cheng Shi couldn't help frowning. "Well, it seems a bit exaggerated to say it's troublesome. A customer in the store disappeared and hasn't returned until now, so your father was a little worried, so I drove around your hotel." "A guest is missing? Is that Mr. Tsukahara?" "Yes, that's him." "So, have you found him?" "I didn't find it." Sawamura took a sip of the draft beer brought by the waiter, "I searched around the hotel, but there was no one there. I was going to help with the search, but your parents said no, I guess It won't be long before the guest will go back by himself, let me come and find everyone sooner." Cheng Shi understands that his parents may indeed say such things.Sending Setsuko home, and asking someone to help find the missing guest by the way, just doing this is already cheeky enough. "Probably went fishing for late fish?" Tang Chuan asked. "Probably not. I looked at the guest's luggage before, and he didn't bring any fishing gear. Besides, he didn't come here for sightseeing." Chengshi talked about what he saw in the public hall before.A puzzled look appeared on Sawamura's face. After continuing to drink for a while, everyone left the izakaya together.Cheng Shi and Tang Chuan walked back to "Green Rock Village" together. "I really drank too much today. But this store is really good. I guess I will come here every night in the future." Tang Chuan said while walking. "Teacher, how long are you going to stay here?" "Well, I don't really know. In fact, I came here to take the survey ship of DESMEC and instruct them how to carry out the electromagnetic detection method. However, the key survey ship has not arrived for a long time. It is said that it is because of some procedures. It’s not finished yet, so it’s delayed. Those bureaucrats are really a headache.” Judging from Yu Chuan’s tone, he didn’t seem to have any intention of covering up DESMEC.Perhaps, he is really not a pusher.Cheng really thought. The porch light of "Green Rock Manor" is still on.Stepping through the door, Shigeharu and Setsuko were still in the lobby.Both had grim expressions.Seeing Chengshi and the others, Setsuko said "You're back".Needless to say, Setsuko's words were directed at Yukawa. "I heard the guests haven't come back yet?" Cheng Shi said. "Yeah. I don't know what to do. I'm discussing it with your dad." "It's already so late, even if we go to the police, there probably won't be any results. Why don't we wait until tomorrow morning, if the customer still hasn't come back, then we can call 110..." Chongzhi cast his eyes on the back of Chengshi .Cheng Shi looked back and saw Tang Chuan standing behind him.He seemed to be listening to a conversation between himself and his parents. "It's really troublesome. Is there anything I can do for you?" Tang Chuan asked. "No no." Chongzhi waved his hand, "We will figure out a solution ourselves. Sorry, I made you worry too." "Really? Then I'll take my leave first. Good night." After speaking, the physicist turned and walked towards the elevator.