The next day, at 0500 in the morning, the sun had not yet risen, and Ye Zhou boarded the h-20 according to the booking plan and entered the main cockpit.

His position was placed behind the crew, and there was no confidentiality restriction throughout the whole process, but he did not listen to any operating command because his attention was completely attracted by the strange scenery outside the porthole.

The plane slowly glided on the way up, then suddenly increased its force and rose to the ground. The height gradually increased, and the light shot into the cabin became brighter and brighter.

Their flight route is from west to east, just facing the direction of the sun, so from Ye Zhou's perspective, it seems that they are flying towards the sun.

The altitude continued to rise. Just as Ye Zhou was wondering how to fly the plane under such light conditions, the portholes of the cockpit suddenly closed. Then, the display screen rose, and the full-angle image outside the aircraft was projected on the display screen, replacing the pilot's eyes.

Ye Zhou looked at this scene in surprise and wanted to ask questions, but finally shut up.

After completely ascending into the stratosphere, Ye Zhou felt the plane being accelerated slowly. At a certain moment, after the noise reached its peak, the sound in his ear suddenly became smaller.

Breakthrough the speed of sound.

Now the noise transmitted to the cabin is only the noise of the aircraft's own structural noise and the noise when the engine is running.

Although it is still huge, compared with the huge wind noise before breaking through the sound barrier, the noise environment in the cabin is already comfortable enough at this time.

The two pilots took off their soundproof headphones, turned around and gestured to Ye Zhou and spoke:

"Leader, the flight time takes about 5 and a half hours, you can rest on the plane for a while."

Ye Zhou nodded reservedly and then closed his eyes.

But after a moment, he found that the pilot had not looked at him and opened his eyes again.

This is an extremely rare experience in life. How can I spend it in sleep?

Flying is indeed boring, especially after entering supersonic cruise state, but, is it a strategic bomber's supersonic cruise?

No matter how bored you are, you won’t be bored anywhere, okay!

After 5 and a half hours of flight, Ye Zhou did not feel any sleepiness.

When the plane finally began to descend and prepare to land on Yongxia Island, he even felt unsatisfied.

"Why not fly another round?"

He asked.

The two pilots looked at each other, smiled slightly, and opened the plane's porthole, and then started a new circle of island flights.

Through the porthole, Ye Zhou saw the blue sea water under him, and the island with increasing area in the sea water.

It seems to be a pearl in the sea, or it seems to be a giant ship, carrying the hope of this country towards a deep blue.

And in a corner of this island, Ye Zhou suddenly saw a real giant ship, sweeping away the mud and sand frantically.

Compared to the number of H-20 take-off and landings that the island can accommodate is no longer as small as four.

After the last round was completed, the plane began to land slowly.

Accompanied by a slight tremor, a burst of blue smoke rose from the runway. The Chongming Bird, whose name holds the expectation of "expelling all wild beasts", finally landed in the southernmost nest.

Ye Zhou climbed off the plane, and some soldiers who had already stood on the runway who came to greet him, and Chen Hao, who set out in advance, was among them.

After seeing Ye Zhou, he walked up with a smile on his face and asked:

"How is it? It feels OK?"

"Well, it's normal, it would be great if I could get faster."

"...You just pretend, your mouth is almost over the back of your head. Let's go and have breakfast first."

"I'm so anxious to have breakfast. I'll go and see my cute j-20h first..."

".........J-20h won't go to the island, but on the aircraft carrier. Why are you in a hurry? Have breakfast first and then take you around the island."

"Okay... Then you can ask the cafeteria to make two coconuts and eat bread."

Ye Zhou replied helplessly.

In fact, he really didn't want to waste time eating breakfast after arriving at this island, but since Chen Hao insisted, he couldn't refuse too much.

"Are you sure you don't try the seafood sand tea noodles here? This is a unique place in Yongxia Island."

“There are also sand tea noodles in this place!?”

Ye Zhou opened his mouth wide and asked in surprise.

"...Not to mention the Shacha Noodles, there are all supermarkets. Can you move your eyes away from the h-20 for a few seconds and look around you. Do you think it is surprising to you that there is Shacha Noodles in this place?"

Hearing Chen Hao's words, Ye Zhou was stunned for a moment, then raised his head and began to look at the environment around him. However, after seeing this, he suddenly realized that his impression of this island was simply outrageously wrong.

Yes, he did know that the country has invested a lot of efforts on this island. In recent years, it was even said that it would begin to relax the tourism industry and have experimentally welcomed the first batch of tourists. However, in his mind, he always believed that this was just a remote island on the vast sea.

No matter how large an island is or how beautiful its natural conditions are, how good can its living conditions be?

However, the scene before him slapped him in the face.

This is not as simple as an island, it is a city.

There are many buildings and the streets are in a good mood. Looking out through the airport fence, you can even notice that there are traffic lights at some intersections!

Ye Zhou looked back at Chen Hao in shock. Chen Hao smiled, took him into the special car, and then explained:

"This island has long been the same. Your impression of it has probably remained several years ago."

"Now, this is not only an island, but also a military base, but also a seat of the official office of Sansha City. There are not only troops stationed here, but also official personnel and civilians."

"A little further in, we can enter the city. Although the area is really not large, it has all the internal organs."

"Supermarkets, movie theaters, ktvs, restaurants... everything."

"Yongxia Island is no longer that Yongxia Island."

Speaking of this, Chen Hao sighed deeply, looked out of the car window, and then continued with some emotion:

"In 1988, we took back Yongxia Island. At that time, it was not an island, but just a reef."

"The area of ​​this reef exposed to the water is less than one square meter. After putting the boundary marker on it, the soldiers guarding the reef must stand in the water."

"They change shifts every day, soaked in the sea for a long time, and everyone's legs were soaked in blood. It's no exaggeration to say that sometimes when they stand, they find that the water under their feet turns red."

"They don't feel the pain, but when they encounter this situation, they must come out of the sea immediately---because there are actually sharks in this sea."

"After a while, we built a high-legged house here--in fact it was a simple tin house. This kind of house is better than the thatched house at the beginning, but the conditions are also limited."

"Think about it, under this latitude and sunshine, the temperature during the day will soar to nearly 40 degrees every day, and the iron house is like a steamer. If you encounter a typhoon, you can only leave it to fate."

"At that time, the soldiers who stood guard had to leave the iron house every once in a while and go out for ventilation, because in the high temperature, if they stayed in the house for too long, they would likely face the danger of heatstroke or even suffocation."

"In contrast, freshwater is scarce and entertainment is about 0, it's not difficult."

"It's nothing to drink only one glass of fresh water every day, because it's too wet and suffering from rheumatoid arthritis is nothing to do. It's so boring that talking to fish that occasionally jumps up in the sea has become interesting talk. At that time, they actually wanted to do only one thing."

"That is to fill the sea with their bodies."

"This kind of days lasted for a long time until we started building the Yongxia Reef Ocean Observation Station."

"Yongxia Reef is rarely visited, is isolated from the world, has inconvenient transportation, and is facing great difficulties in transportation. At first, we exploded a corner of the atoll to facilitate the inlet and exit of the freighter, and then used the blown sand and gravel as building materials for secondary use."

"The materials transported from outside the islands and reefs weigh thousands of tons. We carried them little by little with manpower to Yongxia Reef."

"At that time, we endured the harsh natural environment every day. We worked for 16 hours, stepped on the sea water more than one meter deep, and almost forgot to eat and sleep. In the end, we created an impossible engineering miracle."

"From what day, everything started to get better."

"A variety of equipment was started to be transported to the island, the Tamsui well was discovered, and the communication facilities were set up, and the people on the island could finally call their families to report their safety."

"But, at that time, it was just an island, until 10 years."

"In 10 years, the Tianjing was built and was sent here as soon as possible."

"In 14 years, the island and reef growth plan was launched, and then in a year, the area of ​​Yongxia Island expanded by 350 times."

"The airport runway is completed and the deep-water port is built. There is no pressure on ships below 20,000 tons to dock on the island."

"Just not long ago, Yun20 landed on Yongxia Island."

"We will finally no longer lack daily necessities -- everything on land will have here."

"It was at that time that the supermarket moved in, and some of the family members moved in with the supermarket. Until now, some licensed businessmen have also begun to land on the island."

"Just as I told you, this is no longer an island, but a city."

“This is a city that belongs to all of us.”

"Or maybe we can say it more...brightly?"

"She is an aircraft carrier that will always stand on the front line and always guard the first line of defense."

"There is the enemy in front of her, and the motherland behind her."

"So, I hope to take a good look at her and see this place that has condensed our decades of hard work."

"She is not only the J-20, Y-20, and H-20 that you are thinking about."

"She also has coconut wind waves, blue lagoons, unrivaled seafood in the country, and green trees and red walls."

"She has the white seagulls flying from the sea, the fish that are not afraid of our ships but often cross the docks in the sunset, the gentle sea breeze that you can't feel anywhere else, and the beach without any impurities."
Chapter completed!