Thirty-two emergency dispatch

  The heavy rain arrived as scheduled, fortunately the new recruits had already found a place to settle down and even setting up tents was unnecessary.

  "Hey! There's actually a folding water bucket in here."

  Huang Junzhi flipped through the backpack containing public goods and pulled out a soft folding water bucket.

  "Damn it, if I had known earlier, I wouldn't have bothered doing this useless thing."

  Although there is a so-called public goods backpack for new recruits, except for the radio and this folding water bucket, the rest are just a large folding engineer shovel that has some use. The backpack actually prepared a copy of the "Nanjiang Daily" legal weekend edition for the new recruits.

  Weekends are meant for fun, who still reads newspapers? But this law is so serious and solemn, going around in circles, with pages of plaintiffs and defendants. It seems that this newspaper isn't even for new recruits to pass the time or alleviate boredom. But if it can't even serve this purpose, what's the point? This is simply like dropping one's pants just to fart.

  Huang Junji threw the newspaper aside and prepared to sit on it later, then took out a bucket and opened it.

  The new recruits brought all the helmets from outside back in and poured water into the bucket.

  Then, what was being roasted by the fire wasn't just clothes and pants, but also more than thirty helmets.

  Helmets are easy to handle, and they dry quickly after being aired out. However, no one wants to wear a helmet that's all wet and soggy.

  "Radio! Check the radio quickly."

  Ren Liang saw Huang Jun Chen packing the public supplies backpack, only then did he remember that coming to this island was not for tourism, and bringing this radio was not for seeking help.

  The radio was set up, but due to the continuous thunderstorm, the electromagnetic interference from the thunder and lightning was particularly severe, so it was temporarily impossible to establish effective contact with the shore.

  It was just then that the radio crackled to life, calling out to the command center on shore, when the thunder above grew much louder and it felt like the entire mountain was shaking.

  So Ren Liang arranged for someone to guard the radio station, turning it on every half hour, trying to contact the shore while saving electricity.

  The whole afternoon, the heavy rain did not stop, and the new recruits who were full of snake meat huddled in the cave for an afternoon.

  Indeed, there is no way to go out and take action.

  One is that there is no action goal, and two is that nobody wants to go out and get soaked from head to toe.

  Fortunately, the heavy rain stopped in the evening and the strong wind blew away the dark clouds in the sky, and the sunlight came down.

  "What a great day again." Yang Bo stretched and got up from the ground, walking to the entrance of the cave.

  The sunlight made him squint his eyes slightly.

  Yang Bo got up, and the new recruits followed suit.

  Everyone came to the entrance of the cave and took a look, this place is really great.

  On the halfway up the Stone Mountain, there is a stone cave. The entrance of the cave is an open area, and tens of meters above are rocky mountains with no grass growing.

  Beyond that lies an unfathomably deep forest.

  The new recruits also didn't know how they had made it through this forest yesterday.

  "Hmm, this does have a bit of a 'Robinson Crusoe' feel to it." Ren Liang said, looking around at his surroundings.

  "Yes, the forest has become our natural barrier, and with this big snake's territory protecting us, it's actually quite safe here." Ye Ren said.

  "We'd better prepare for the worst, this snake looks like it can't be eaten anymore." Zhang Guanlin took a look at the situation of the snake's corpse.

  After being soaked in rainwater for so long, the snake meat had begun to rot and produce maggots, attracting a large number of flies.

  "We have to think of a way to deal with it, otherwise it will be over once the sun comes out today," said Ren Liang.

  "I'll go find a place to bury it." said Shí Nán Fēng as he walked over.

  "Go." Ren Liang said.

  Shi Nanfeng took the engineer's shovel from the public supplies backpack and left. Several people voluntarily went to help him.

  They started digging a hole at the foot of a big tree on the edge of the open space.

  "It's connected!" The warrior guarding the radio shouted.

  Ren Liang hurried over, and Ye Ren and the others also returned to the cave, standing behind Ren Liang.

  "Received orders from headquarters."

  "What did you say?"

  "It's a password."

  As he spoke, his brother took out paper and pen and recorded this long string of numbers that formed a password.

  Looking at these four-digit passwords made up of groups of telegrams, the new recruits were all confused.

  "Will you decipher it?" Ren Guang said to his brother who was guarding the radio station.

  Ren Liang also specially chose a brother who was best at wireless telegraphy to guard the radio station.

  "No, this is not the password we use now."

  This guy is so powerful that he has memorized several sets of passwords currently in use, but the password in front of him can't be deciphered even if he uses all the passwords he has memorized, and not even a complete sentence can be formed.

  It's obvious that headquarters wouldn't be so stupid as to send out such a ridiculous encrypted message. This code must be one that the new recruits don't know about.

  "It's obviously a new cipher."

  "Didn't they give us a password book?" Ren Guang said as he walked over to flip through the public supplies backpack.

  Turning it over and over again, I couldn't find any trace of the password book.

  "Wait a minute!" Ye Ren suddenly noticed the Weekend Edition of Nanjiang Daily that had been thrown to one side.

  The new recruits all looked at Ye Ren, Ye Ren picked up the newspaper and held the password paper for half a day, finally finding the problem. If this first edition of the newspaper is used, the first two digits of the password are the row number, and the last two digits are the column number.

  The password was soon deciphered by this method.

  Headquarters ordered the new recruits to draw a simple topographic map of the small island on the island.

  Ren Liang glanced at Ye Ren, and Ye Ren immediately understood.

  "Huang Junji, Zhang Guanlin, let's go." Ye Ren said.

  "I'm going too!" Li Jiaye said as he crawled up from the ground.

  "You stay, Huai Hai needs you more." Ye Ren said.

  Li Jiaye sat back down with a huff and ended up beside Huai Hai.

  Due to injury and physical weakness, Huai Hai has not woken up yet at this time.

  "Let's go." Huang Junji and Zhang Guanlin said.

  "Take care of yourself." Ye Ren said to Ren Liang.

  "Got it, we'll get lunch ready and wait for you."

  Ren Liang finished speaking and arranged for a dozen or so people to follow him out, to look for food in the nearby woods.

  "Let's go up high and take a look first."

  Ye Ren, Huang Jun-chi and Zhang Guan-lin climbed to the top of the mountain together, looking around. The top of Shi Tou Shan is the commanding height of the entire small island.

  On a small island roughly triangular in shape, the rock was probably on the side of the acute angle. The acute angle itself was just a rocky beach, and it was here that the new recruits landed.

  On the other side, it's a very gentle slope with dense forests. Near the sea is a sandy beach.

  On top of Stone Mountain, three people found that the ground was all black everywhere.

  "What the hell is this?" Huang Junji squatted down and touched it with his hand, which turned black.

  He picked it up and sniffed it, a smell of saltpeter after burning.

  "Only ghosts know." Zhang Guanlin also took a bit and sniffed it on his fingertips.

  "This was struck by lightning last night." Ye Ren said, gazing out at the endless sea.

  "Struck by lightning?"

  "We opened a radio station for half an hour last night, and it was another thunderstorm day, the lightning all came down."

  Huang Junji and Zhang Guanlin seemed to have understood, nodding their heads, but still looked a bit dazed.

  "Stop daydreaming and get back to work!"

  Ye Ren finished speaking and took out a compass, then pulled out a notebook and began preparing to draw.

  Because they were going to draw a simple topographic map, they also needed to take some simple measurements. So Huang Jun-cheng and Zhang Guan-lin also took out their compasses.

  A military compass can measure direction, distance, azimuth and elevation difference. Basically, all the basic elements for drawing a simple topographic map can be solved with this compass.

  In fact, this task can be done by one person with a compass, a pen and a piece of paper. Now, three people working together have greatly improved the work efficiency.

  Based on the coastline of Shitou Mountain and small islands, three people quickly completed the outline map of the island and the positioning and elevation division of Shitou Mountain.

  "What's that?" Zhang Guanlin pointed at the beach in the distance and said.

  Ye Ren and Huang Junqi looked up in the direction Zhang Guanlin was pointing.

  "It seems like... a boat."

  "Uh-huh, it does look like a boat." Ye Ren also nodded in agreement.

  "Are there others on this island?" Zhang Guanlin asked.

  "It shouldn't be like this, who would come to this broken island?" Huang Junji said.

  Three people had already keenly smelled a hint of something out of the ordinary.

  "Go take a look!" Ye Ren said.

  "Is it necessary to report?" Huang Junji said.

  "No, it's still unclear whether they are friends or foes. With fewer people, things can be handled more easily and it's also easier to leave." Ye Ren thought for a moment before saying.

  The three of them did not report back to Ren Guang and the others, but instead quietly went down the mountain and into the woods.

  ……

  "The situation brought back by the female reconnaissance team is not optimistic." The brigade commander said to the political commissar.

  "What should we do? Where have the rest of them gone?" The political commissar said with a frown, hugging his arms.

  "It must be a pirate retaliation, the remaining people have all become hostages, we need to rescue them." The captain said.

  "Is it necessary to make it public?"

  "Wait a minute, the situation is not clear yet. Notify the maritime department first and let them make emergency preparations."

  "Okay, the tugboat has set off and is expected to arrive before noon. We should be able to tow the cruise ship back by dinner time."

  "Report!" An aide walked over, "The early warning aircraft has discovered a capsized pirate ship."

  "Got it." The captain waved his hand.

  The folder returned to its original position.

  "It seems it was indeed done by pirates." The commissar said.

  "Weird, weird, weird." Lao San said three "weird"s in a row.

  "What's strange?" asked the political commissar.

  "The pirate ship has capsized, could there be a third party intervening?"

  "What's important now is that we first find all the passengers and crew, don't think about anything else yet."

  "Alright, dispatch two tugboats to bring the pirate ship back, request support from 'Shadow' Special Forces." The captain drew a circle on the sea chart with his hand.

  ……

  Two special assault vehicles followed a "Warrior" off-road vehicle into the wilderness training ground, and the leading "Warrior" vehicle driven by Wang Weilong braked to a stop with one foot.

  "Nightmare! Kill day! Get on the bus quickly! Emergency mission!" Wang Chaoyang stood on the co-pilot seat and shouted to the two teams who were conducting shooting training.

  Lin Xue and Lin Panpan were sitting in the back seat, sorting out their equipment.

  Two small teams rushed over and got on the bus.

  Three cars sped towards the helicopter landing pad.