Chapter 108 Chapter 21 Metal Boxes

I hurriedly knocked around, and finally touched a piece of cold metal in the muddy water. The echo behind it was very special, as if it had not been entered by water.There was a door on that metal plate, but it was locked, and I couldn't open it anyway.It's not an exaggeration to say that it's a close call at this moment, but it's the truth.The snakeheads hit harder and harder, and the submarine was knocked out of place by them. I staggered back and forth inside the narrow submarine. At this time, the oxygen bottle was also thrown aside. Because the submarine kept shaking, I didn't bother to pick up the oxygen bottle. Just had to let it bubble up in the corner by itself.

In desperation, I pulled out the golden arrow again. Since it left my body, I always feel that this golden arrow is a bit unusual, it seems to be crying every day.I managed to fix my position in the water, put the flashlight in my waist, and then pulled up the crossbow, ready to fight desperately, wanting to see if the mysterious waterless space of the submarine could give me a chance to breathe.I have never thought about archery in the water, and I have never done it, but I have practiced the archery of hundreds of steps since I was a child, and coupled with the influence of the land of China, my psychological quality is also good, so I am not panicked, but calm down Annoyed.

Speaking of this, I think of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and want to make a digression.Our country won the gold medal in archery in the Beijing Olympics, which is really gratifying.Archery, go, chess, etc. are all our Chinese culture. There have been many masters in these areas throughout the ages, but now they have declined, which is really disappointing.I don't think it's because our country can't cultivate such masters, but the real masters are all unknown for a lifetime. Today's sports are no longer ordinary sports, and contain too many complicated factors, which are beyond our common people's comprehension .

Closer to home, I shot the arrow immediately before the snakehead hit the submarine. The golden arrow broke through the water and accurately shot into something that looked like a lock, and a lot of air bubbles burst out of the metal door immediately.I knew that the opportunity would never come again, so I immediately swam into the door behind the air bubble. At that moment, a rusty smell rushed into my lungs, as if my whole body became metal. After I picked up the golden arrow, I immediately turned around and wanted to close the door, but the water swarmed in. The pressure cannot be resisted by human beings. I was rushed to the corner by the water before I could see clearly.There is also a metal door here. It seems that there are two doors here, and the inside must not have been invaded by water, so I pierced another door with an arrow before it was completely filled with water, and then rushed in.The second arrow was done very quickly, and when I closed the door, the water only got in a little, just up to my ankles.

The submarine was still swaying, and I gasped for breath. It was only now that I started to panic. I was only concerned about running for my life just now, so I had no time to panic.After finally calming down, I raised my flashlight and looked around. This seemed to be the cockpit, but I don’t know if the Japanese devils didn’t escape, or committed suicide voluntarily. There were two corpses on the seat, and there were Each had a saber, but it was rusty. I was anxious to find a chance to escape, but it was not something I could do alone. I couldn't drive it, and it was impossible for this submarine to operate again.I saw a work notebook on the operating equipment, and at this moment curiosity overcame my fear, I went over to look, and it was all in Japanese.As for Japanese, Fan Li knows a little bit, I know a little bit, and Xu Shaode doesn't know it at all.I bit the bullet and looked at it. It seemed to say that the mission failed, the navigation system had an error, and I was chased by others, so I lost my way.

Seeing this, I thought to myself, the kamikaze team that disappeared in the Arctic Ocean is in this ghost place, it is really unimaginable.But when I looked down, I was so shocked that my whole body turned cold, and my blood seemed to be congealed.I was horrified, could it be that the strange snakehead here is related to something smuggled out by the Japanese kamikaze, could it be...in this submarine... After I looked around nervously, I almost stopped breathing, because I saw a metal box in the corner, which exuded a kind of fear, and when I took a closer look, the box had already been opened.I was so frightened that I was so frightened. If the thing that the kamikaze smuggled was that, then I am now...

"Oh my god..." Thinking of this, I immediately lost all hope. It’s true that if there is a way to heaven, I will not go, and if there is no way to hell, I will break in. Even if the snakehead let me go, I will not be able to live.As I mentioned earlier, it has been rumored in military circles that when Japan was about to lose the war, it sent a kamikaze team to leave the Japanese islands with submarines and head for the Arctic Ocean.As for what the purpose is and what the ending will be in the future, everyone has different opinions, and there is no conclusion.Here, I saw the most terrifying three words "nuclear weapons".

These three characters are Japanese, because Japanese includes many Chinese characters. Although the meaning of some characters is different from Chinese, I know that nuclear weapons in Japanese mean nuclear weapons.There is also the Japanese word ウラン in the work records. I know that ウラン means chemical radiation—uranium. Here, in order to let everyone understand the Japanese army's action and the possibility of Japan's uranium source, I have to tell you about a dirty underwater transaction in history.In the middle and late stages of World War II, the Japanese military hoped to obtain new weapons and new technologies from Germany; while Germany needed raw materials and strategic materials from the Japanese-occupied areas, but the land traffic between the two sides was blocked, and the ships sent by Germany could only go through the Atlantic Ocean. Japan exchanged supplies.By the middle of 1944, due to the fierce attack of the Allied forces, there were no large ocean-going transport ships of the "Axis Powers" on this route.Since neither Japan nor Germany had large long-range transport aircraft at that time, the only way to exchange was underwater.

In fact, as early as 1943, the Japanese secretly used a submarine numbered I-8 to complete the cargo transportation from Japan to Europe and returned smoothly.Also in 1943, the Japanese army conducted another transaction with the German army. In order to avoid being discovered, the I-52 submarine was sent out. They only dared to surface at night to take a breath, and those who were not on duty during the day lay flat to save oxygen. , It takes at least a month to sail underwater. Fearing that the two submarines would easily expose their targets when they met at the same underwater location, Japan and Germany lowered a rubber boat and sent a navigator, two radio operators and a new radio device to the Japanese submarine.At that time, because a wooden box accidentally fell into the water, it took some time for Japanese divers to salvage it. After 2 hours and 15 minutes, the German submarine hurriedly left the meeting point and headed west.

But at that time, the Atlantic Ocean seemed to be the "inner lake" of the Allied forces. A large number of electronic monitoring stations of the Allied forces were densely distributed around the Atlantic Ocean. The US military headquarters in Washington could easily mark the location of enemy submarines on the sea chart. . The U.S. military attacked it, and there are different opinions on the outcome of the battle, and there is no conclusion.Japan and Germany never waited for the return of the submarine, and the submarine became a mystery, but what were they trading for? When the Japanese and German sides knew that the submarine could not come back, before the Allied forces rushed to the port of Lorient, the German army deliberately destroyed the loading list prepared for the I-52 submarine, but part of it was still intercepted by the Allied vanguard in a hurry. These include a 500kg "oxide".Years later, as the documents were declassified one after another, people learned that the materials that were strictly kept secret were actually uranium oxides.

For decades after the war, both Japan and the United States at war were silent about the I-52 submarine incident.Until 1992 when some U.S. military documents were declassified, a Vietnam War veteran in his 50s, Tidewell, who had won a Purple Heart and two Bronze Medals, became very interested in the I-52 submarine.It took him nearly two years to understand the legal regulations on ships sunk in international waters during the war between Japan and the United States, visited the families of the victims of the I-52 submarine, and hired an experienced Russian deep-water salvage expert. These American and Russian experts searched the seabed for three full weeks, and finally on May 2, 1995, a large metal object was discovered on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean with sonar devices.The search team took pictures of the find with underwater robots and finally confirmed that it was a submarine.The search has since been put on hold for a variety of reasons. One day in November 1998, after careful preparations, Tidewell and two Russian crew members launched a search in person and reached the bottom of the sea at 14:23 local time. Three hours later, they found two metal boxes from the I-52 submarine. When they were fished out, they found that they were full of opium, which was a very expensive material in the late World War II. After dozens of efforts, the Tedwell team finally found a batch of relics from the I-52 submarine, including a letter written by an engineer on the submarine to his wife. However, the military historian has not been able to find We look forward to "uranium oxide". Although the current technical conditions are still extremely difficult to fully salvage the I-52 submarine, the declassified information is sufficient to prove that Germany and Japan had extremely close collusion during World War II. If atomic weapons are produced, perhaps the history of the world will really be rewritten. I believe that it is also written in the current textbooks that in the middle of World War II, the Japanese tried to find a way to enrich uranium, but they were still at a very early stage of research.Later, the Japanese pinned their hopes on the Germans in an attempt to obtain high-quality uranium oxide.There is also evidence that in 1944, a German submarine transported 500 kilograms of uranium-containing minerals to Japan, but the second batch of 500 kilograms of minerals was mysteriously lost on the way to Japan. The last batch of uranium oxide was loaded onto a large U-234 submarine from the port of Kiel, Germany on March 25, 1945, and was escorted by the German captain Föhler.It was loaded with the last batch of strategic materials transported from Europe to Japan during World War II: weapons, rare metals such as aluminum blocks, and a new jet fighter in bulk——Messerschmitt-262. 10 barrels of uranium oxide. Accompanying him were a Luftwaffe brigadier general who was preparing to go to Japan for technical guidance on Type 3 jet fighters, and two technical directors from Japan.By May 8, after the submarine entered the Atlantic from the Norwegian Sea, Germany surrendered and the submarine returned to Norway. On May 14, the U-234 submarine also had to surrender to the US military. Allied scientists were ordered to search the submarine, and on May 27, naval officers reported to the Navy arsenal in New York in code: "U-234 submarine contained uranium contained in a drum with a gold thread on the outside. Oxide!" Friends who are familiar with chemistry should know that gold is an inert substance, and gold threads are used to prevent radiation from leaking out, but unless there is excessive radiation in the reactor, no radiation will be emitted.Western military historians believe that neither Germany nor Japan had such reactors at that time, and their technology was far from reaching this point, but why are there gold wires on the outside of these uranium oxide barrels?Some experts believe that it was a special way for the Third Reich to transport expensive materials abroad, but so far no one has been able to solve this mystery. I waded through the water uneasily, my heartbeat almost stopped. The snakeheads around here have become so strange, is it really the result of nuclear radiation?But things had come to this, and it was useless for me to be afraid. At that time, I only vaguely knew that nuclear weapons were terrible, but I didn't know how terrible they were.The snakehead was still crazily hitting the submarine outside, I thought to myself, if I die anyway, let me see what treasures are in this box, or what kind of disaster? The metal box had already been opened, and now it was half-covered. With mixed feelings, I tremblingly opened the opened metal box.At that moment, in my consciousness, it seemed that time, space, water flow, and even the impact of the snakehead were strangely still.