Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen Let God Guide You

- From August 29th to September 10th. —Thirteen days have passed, and the "Aiba" has not returned yet.Don't they go straight to American shores? ...Could it be stranded on the ocean far away from the "Cupped Cup" island and robbed? ...but, as far as I can see, Gael Karaj is concerned only with getting the missiles back.Maybe that plant in Virginia didn't finish building the missiles? ... Also, Engineer Sokol doesn't look anxious.He treated me as always, with a friendly look, but I couldn't trust him at all.He pretended to be concerned about my health and advised me that the philosophy of conformity to nature is "practical monism", which combines matter and spirit, man and nature. The cave in the seat is more attractive. My basic necessities are free and I don’t have to pay taxes. Even in a happy park like Monaco, residents can’t enjoy such a carefree life...

Sometimes I blush at his sarcastic nonsense.I really want to jump over, grab this cruel teaser by the neck, and strangle him to death. The right opportunism represented by Chen Duxiu, who expounded the theory of China's New Democracy,...they will kill me after that...I will care? ...wouldn't it be better to end it here than to live on this damned place year after year on Cup-Covered Island? ... But reason eventually prevailed, and in the end, I just shrugged my shoulders. As for Thomas Roche, I hardly saw him during the first few days after the Eba's departure.Locked in the laboratory, he kept busy preparing explosives.If he had used all the materials he had at hand, it would have been enough to blow up Cup-Cup and Bermuda.

I've always hoped that he would never agree to sell the ingredients for the deflagration, that Engineer Sokol was in vain trying to buy this last secret from him... Wouldn't my hope be in vain? ... —September 13. ——Today, I saw the power of explosives with my own eyes, and at the same time, I also watched how to use deflagration substances. In the morning, the pirates began to dig a passage to the bottom of the island at a pre-selected place on the rock face. Under the command of the engineer, the sailors worked first at the foot of the wall, where the limestone was extremely hard, comparable to granite.The strong and powerful arm swung the pickaxe and chiseled a few times first. If only relying on this tool, this would be a time-consuming and laborious project, because the rock wall at the bottom of the "covered cup" island is quite thick. From twenty to twenty-five meters.However, with the help of "Rosh Lightning", this work can be done in a relatively short period of time.

What I saw left me speechless.The rock walls that the sailors had to dig with iron picks were extremely easy to collapse. yes!A few grams of dynamite is enough to blow a block of rock apart, reducing it to crumbs, an almost impalpable dust that disperses like steam at the slightest blow!yes! ——Let me say it again—five or six grams of explosives exploded to produce a one-cubic-meter crater, and the sound of cracking was like the explosion of a shell under the violent vibration of the atmosphere. The first time this explosive was used, although the dose was small, it knocked down several pirates who were too close to the rock wall.Two of them were badly wounded, and Engineer Sokol himself was knocked back a few steps and badly contused.

The disintegrating power of this substance exceeds that of all explosives invented so far, and its use is as follows: First dig a small hole in the rock obliquely, five centimeters long and ten millimeters wide.Put a few grams of dynamite in the small hole, no need to plug the hole with a tank plug. Then it's Thomas Roche's job.He held a glass test tube containing a bluish oily liquid that solidified as soon as it came into contact with air.He poured a drop of liquid over the right hole, then backed away hastily.In fact, it takes a certain amount of time—about thirty-five seconds—for the deflagrating substance and explosive to combine.When they are combined, their disintegrating power is enormous—it can be said to be endless. —Thousands of times higher than the eight hundred types of explosives currently known.

In this case, it can be imagined that it took only eight days to excavate this solid and thick rock wall. —September 19.For some time now I have been observing the phenomenon of high tide and low tide, which is clearly manifested through the subsea tunnel.The water flows in opposite directions, twice a day.There is no doubt that after throwing a floating object on the surface of the sea lake, as long as the tunnel mouth is above it, it will be washed out by the ebbing sea water.But does this also happen at the equinoxes, when the tides are at their lowest? ...I'll find out because it's the autumnal equinox.The day after tomorrow is September 21st, today is the 19th, and I have already seen the top of the arc emerge above the ebbing waters.

So, though I can't try to go through the tunnel myself, can't a little bottle thrown on the lake pass through it with the ebb of the evening tide? ...Why couldn't chance—a pure chance of providence—couldn't the bottle be picked up by a ship off the coast of the Island of Covered Cup? ...even why couldn't the waves wash it up on the Bermuda beach? ...if there was a note in this bottle... That's what I've been thinking over and over again.Then there were objections,--in particular: a glass bottle could well be smashed through a tunnel on a rock wall or on the reef outside before reaching the high seas... yes... if a sealed Replace it with a small wooden barrel, such as the kind that supports fishing nets, then this wooden barrel will not shatter like fragile glass, and may float to the center of the sea...

——September 20th, ——Tonight, I sneaked into a warehouse full of various items from robbing ships when no one was watching, and I took a very suitable for my purpose. Small wooden barrel. After hiding the barrel below, I returned to Bihivo and went back to the house.Then, I immediately get to work. Paper, ink, quill, I have everything, and I have been able to record everything that happened here every day for three months. I wrote the following lines on a piece of paper: Thomas Roche, who lived in Building 17 of the Nursing Home in New Bern, North Carolina, and his caretaker, Guyton, to be precise, was kidnapped on June 15th by the engineer Simon Hart. Since June 19th they have been on board the "Aiba" of Count Atticus.The two are currently imprisoned in a cave which is the secret residence of Count Atticus.Earl Atticus' real name is Gail Carter Day, a pirate who used to roam the Western Pacific.The gang led by this fearsome outlaw consisted of more than a hundred people.If Gail Carter had mastered the powerful "Rosh Lightning", then he could continue to engage in robbery activities, and he could get away with it more safely.

Therefore, the relevant government must destroy his bandit den in the shortest possible time, and this matter is imminent. The cave where the pirate Gail Karaj hid was located inside the "Cupped" island, which had been mistaken for a volcano that was about to erupt.It is located at the western end of the Bermuda Islands, surrounded by reefs in the east, forming a natural barrier, and unimpeded in the south, west and north. Only one tunnel connects the inside and the outside, and it lies a few meters below the water, at the end of a narrow waterway to the west.So, to get inside Cup Covered Island, a sub would have to be available—at least until the corridor they were digging to the northwest was complete.

The pirate Gail Carage owned such a submarine--it was the very same submarine that Count Atticus had once had built and was believed to have sunk in Charleston Bay when it crashed during testing.The submarine was not only used to get in and out of the island through the tunnel, but also to tow sailboats and attack merchant ships traveling around Bermuda. The sailing ship "Aiba", which is famous on the west coast of all countries, has only a small bay as its home port. It is hidden behind the stone clumps on the west side of the island, and it cannot be seen from the sea. What needs to be done before landing on the "Cupped" Island (preferably on the west side of the land, where the fishermen of Bermuda used to live) is to use explosives to open a gap in the rock wall. After landing, you can enter through this gap. The interior of the "covered cup" island.

It should also be prepared that "Rosh Lightning" may already be available.Gail Karaj may use it to protect the Isle of the Covered Cup after a surprise attack.One more thing to understand is that although its lethality is beyond people's imagination so far, it can only cover the area from 1,700 meters to 1,800 meters.As for the distance of this danger zone, it is variable.But once the launch angle is aimed, it takes a long time to change it, and ships passing through this area will approach the island without incident. This incident was written today, September 20, at eight o'clock in the evening, under my name. engineer simon hart This is the wording of the note I just drafted.It tells all there is to know about the island, its exact location on the modern map, about Gael Karaj's best efforts to organize the defense of the "Cupped" island, and the importance of immediate action.I attached a map of the cave to the note, indicating the outline of its interior, the location of the sea lake, the layout of Bihiv, the residence of Gail Carage, my house and the layout of Thomas Roche's laboratory. Location.But this note has to be picked up, will it be picked up? ... Finally, I wrapped the note in a very strong piece of canvas.Then put it into a wooden barrel with an iron ring. It is about ten centimeters long and eight centimeters wide.Its sealing is very good, whether it is through the tunnel or hit the reef outside, it can withstand the impact. Indeed, would it not have been flung by the ebb tide over the rocks of the island, and found by the crew of the Alba as it sailed into the cove, before it could be picked up by a trustworthy man? ...if this note, signed with my name revealing his name, falls into Gail Carter's hands, I won't have to rack my brains for a way to escape from "Cupped Cup" island, and my fate will soon will decide... Night has come.With what excitement and impatience I waited for it!According to my speculation and previous observations, the sea is at a flat tide at 8:45 after the ebb tide. At this time, the upper end of the tunnel mouth is about 50 centimeters above the water surface.The height between sea level and the tunnel dome is more than sufficient for the passage of small barrels.Besides, I was going to put it in the water half an hour before low tide, so that the ebbing water running in would carry it away. About eight o'clock, in the dim light, I came out of the house.There was no one around the lake.I walked towards the rock wall where the tunnel was.By the light of the last electric lamp here, I could see the arched mouth of the tunnel appearing on the water, and the sea was flowing in this direction. I came to the rocks by the lake and threw the little barrel with the precious note and my hope in it: "Let God guide you," I murmured, "Let God guide you!" That's what we French sailors used to say. The small wooden barrel remained motionless at first, and then floated towards the shore under the impact of the vortex.I had to push hard enough to get it into the ebbing waters... It entered the ebbing water and disappeared into the tunnel in less than twenty seconds. yes! ...let God guide you! ...Let heaven guide you, my little cask! ...May God bless all those who are threatened by Gael Kala Day, and make this group of pirates unable to escape the justice of the world!