"Hey, yo, I heard that a Japanese came, but I didn't expect him to be a handsome guy. You are...you are the explorer Zhezhu?"
This was the first sentence that Ms. Onobe said when she met Oretake.The circus is a place full of fish and dragons, and Ms. Onobe, who is witty and free-spirited, gives the first impression of a young lady with a bold personality.She left her hometown of Hiroshima at the age of ten, and now she is thirty-six, having lived in the circus for twenty-six or seven years.
When she first came to the circus, the equipment of the entire circus still relied on carriages to carry equipment.Now it has been updated, and the carriage has been replaced by a truck.The Weijie Circus has also changed from a grass-roots troupe to a real circus.And this "senior" who has been in the industry for more than 20 years has naturally become the "big sister" in the hearts of the members.
Although there are admirable and lovely features in Strong Woman, she is by no means a beauty.If she were to stand with other women, everyone would immediately know who was beautiful and who was ugly.
"Look at my physique, you can see why that monster is so obedient." Zhezhu glanced at the whale wolf, then at Ms. Onobe holding the bait bucket, and couldn't help laughing.
"How? Did you notice it?"
Ms. Onobe laughed.
"That guy saw me and thought I was their relative. In a sense, this is also fate. Both this guy and I came to this circus wandering from other places, although the language It doesn’t work, but we can still communicate with each other.”
"Hey, big sister. Don't just talk and don't practice, okay, show us your telepathy."
A clown with white powder on his face booed.
The circus, which was still asleep just now, has ushered in a busy morning.Listening carefully, the sound of water washing the horses and the sound of practicing drums and horns came from outside the tent.Looking up, I can still see that the elm tree outside the tent has sprouted green shoots.There is one last question in Zhezhu's mind, who sold this whale-wolf to the circus.The captain said to him:
"It was sold to us by a man named Crude Miuchat. He lives on East Fourteenth Street, under the viaduct. The whaling ship he was working on caught a monster and didn't know what to do with it. In the end, it can only be sold to a circus at a low price."
Zhezhu intends to find the man named Crude to find out the origin of the whale wolf, and Kempner is naturally also interested in this.When he heard that person's name, Zhezhu seemed to have figured out something.Isn't Kurt Munzer the abbreviation of K. M's signature on that letter?
All kinds of doubts about why Luciano cared about Crude and where they asked Zhezhu to go seem to have been reasonably explained at this moment.From this point of view, this whale-wolf has become the key to solve all the doubts.
What on earth is there in that place that gangsters would drool over?Is it gold mines, diamonds or oil?It's a secret, an unknown secret buried in the ice.At this time, Zhezhu has already become a prisoner of curiosity.
"Mr. Zhezhu, if you want to communicate with this sea beast, don't forget me. You must ask me when the time comes."
"That's that, that's that." Zhezhu said so, but his heart had already flown to Crude Miuxia's side.
The two left the circus and immediately went to visit Crude.
That place is home to criminals and vagabonds.Most of the people living there are in a state of extreme poverty, and the races are extremely mixed. Different people speak the dialect of their own hometown. According to rough hearing, there are about twenty-seven kinds.The Salvation Army is calling on the government and the public to save the people who live here, but as long as the East River is as muddy as it is, it's probably just empty talk.
"Here it is, No. 209."
Go up a staircase between the leather goods store and the barbershop, and you will find the dilapidated apartment where Crude lives.The paint was peeling off the walls, and the light inside the house shone like a golden thread through the cracked boards and down the hallway.The rumble of the viaduct plagued the residents all the year round, and barefoot children ran around the room like rats in a cave.Zhezhu found the room where Crude lived, raised his hand and knocked on the door.
"Come in, is that Marty?"
The homeowner was surprised to find that the visitors were actually two men.Zhezhu reported his name, and Crude seemed very happy.As expected, he was the K.M who wrote the anonymous letter.
Crude seemed to be sick, and he lay on the bed when a guest came and did not get up to greet him.He looked to be in his thirties and was very handsome.
"Ah, you are really here. I know you will definitely come. The first few times may be due to business and no time."
Crude's excitement was palpable.He began to speak about the unknown country.
"Mr. Oritake, I heard that you took a diving passenger ship to conduct an investigation in the North Pole five years ago. Do you know Dr. Muxia?"
"Know, Dr. Miucha? Does he have anything to do with you?"
"Adolphe Miuchat is my father." Crude said with emotion.
"You should know that he was a shipbuilder. He dreamed of finding new territory for his country, and the New Arctic Island was his goal. He called it 'the city on the ice field'. In 1933, he paid for it at his own expense. Made a submarine to march to the North Pole. Because I am not physically suitable for diving, I can only take an old whaling sailboat to follow the 'Nemo', which is the submarine. Unfortunately, our luck is too bad , had been ravaged by snowstorms for half a month after departure. In the end, even the radio was broken. We lost contact with the Nemo and drifted for more than a month before drifting to the bay of 'Koldewey Island' on the northeast coast of Greenland. Waiting for passing ships to come to rescue."
"Where was the Nemo for more than a month?" Kempner asked, adjusting his thick-rimmed glasses.
"We didn't know, the radio was broken, and there was no news from them at all. Later, a whaling ship passed by, and I asked the crew for parts and tools to repair the radio. Three days later, one night I happened to talk to Ni The Mo number got in touch. Please imagine the scene at that time. Although it was night, the sun hung high in the sky like an incandescent lamp. When I heard my father's voice, the joy was indescribable. but……"
"Did your father say anything?"
"It's very strange. I wonder if there is something wrong with my father's spirit. If you hear someone say that..." Crude's eyes were blurred, as if he was recalling what his father said at that time.What he said next was extremely weird, and perhaps readers would not be able to help shouting "Ah" after hearing it.
——We are approaching the "Kingdom of the Underworld", and we will soon discover a new territory in the interior of Greenland.
Perhaps there will be no more incomprehensible words in this world than this.The author said at the beginning of the novel that according to the provisions of international law, as long as the coast of the island is occupied, the inland will naturally belong to the occupying country.Greenland is now the territory of Denmark, where is there any new territory in the interior?The doctor will not fail to understand this truth, so is he joking when he says this?Or has he gone mad?
"I still don't know what he meant by this. I think people with good brains can probably understand it after thinking about it, but I am naturally dull, so I had to give up guessing. Then the communication was cut off, and only Electric noise rustled. I had no choice but to abandon my father and leave that bay."
"So Dr. Miao Xia is dead." Zhe Zhu muttered to himself with a sullen face.
At this time, Zhezhu suddenly had a question in his heart.Could it be that the doctor went mad because he was summoned by the "Kingdom of Hades"?His inexplicable madness may have been uttered by the radio while the doctor was driving a sled across the ice field after he turned into a corpse.The thought was fleeting, and he began to ask Crude other questions.
"Have you ever told anyone else what you just said?"
"I've only ever told one person. I caught that monster whale wolf the year before last when I was looking for my father in Greenland, but the monster didn't sell for much. The previous expeditions had already drained our savings, and I got a damn Tuberculosis, and ended up in this ghost place in the West End. You ask me why I don’t go back to my home country? Because I’m afraid of being implicated in the persecution of the Jews.”
"The country was in the most turbulent period at that time, and there were spies everywhere. Although I was not Jewish, I was unwilling to return to the country at that time. In my most difficult time, it was my father's old friend-the prosecutor Mr. Rogwell who helped me Only by helping me, I will not die of illness on the street. He is my great benefactor."
The prosecutor Rogwell in Crude's mouth is a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of the New York gangsters.It goes without saying that he is a clean and honest official, and he even risked his life trying to clean up those social dregs.In addition, Prosecutor Rogwell is still the candidate for the next governor, and Luciano and his gang are naturally strongly opposed to this.
Crude should have told Rogwell about the strange things that happened before his father died.But the point is how did Luciano know about this?
"Crude, do you have any relationship with Luciano's gang?"
"How did those bastards know me? What do you mean?"
He said he didn't know him!This made it more and more difficult for Zhezhu to understand, could it be that Crude was lying... If he was telling the truth, it would be really strange.Zhezhu suddenly changed a tough tone and asked: "There are some things you still keep secret. If you want money, just say the amount..."
"Oh? What do you mean?!" Crude said in a daze.
This kid doesn't seem to be lying, so how did Luciano and his gang know the secret of the "Kingdom of the Underworld"?Those guys only value gold and silver treasures, and everything that can be exchanged for wealth.If it is not for the sake of these things, what does the weird "Nation of the Underworld" have to do with them?Zhezhu racked his brains but couldn't find out the connection between the two.
"By the way, didn't you say that you would sell me the location of the unknown country? Apart from those few confusing words, did your father leave any useful information?"
"Yes." Crude settled down and began to tell the most important secret. "He told me where the whale wolf was captured."
"What?! The place where the whale wolf was captured?"
"Yes, my father gave me the exact location by radio. It was seventy-four degrees eight minutes north latitude, west longitude..."
Before the words were finished, an accident happened suddenly at the scene.The window behind Crude shattered with a bang, and a bloody hole exploded in his temple... Crude slid off the bed with his mouth open and onto the floor like an idiot.
Luciano and his gang blocked Crude's mouth at a critical moment, so that he would never be able to speak.
West... oh...
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