Chapter 1377 The news must be revealed
Xiao Peng has never been an honest person.
He told the people on the ship that Natri's secret base was on the island of George, but in fact he lied.
According to the information provided by Albrecht, the Natui secret base was not marked on any island, only a string of mysterious and meaningless Roman numerals.
Albrecht had someone try to crack this string of numbers before. He thought it was an error in the coordinates or something, but the closest way to crack it was to arrange them in reverse order to get a meaningless string of Latin letters reading "Villavosi Slata Tao". In the end, he had no choice but to give up on cracking it.
But Xiao Peng saw the clue in this string of Latin characters: if pronounced according to Wade-Giles romanization, it should mean "Vener Neustadt Island." And among the 191 islands in Franz Josef Land, there was one that happened to be called this.
In fact, Xiao Peng was skeptical about the fact that Na Cui built a secret base on that island: after all, Wiener Neustadt Island is located in the center of the Franz Josef Land Archipelago, and the nearby sea is covered with ice and snow all year round. Even with the world's most advanced icebreaker, it may not be possible to reach there.
To be bold, it's not necessarily possible, it's definitely not possible! How did the Germans get in there at that time? Did they rely on dog sleds to transport the supplies needed to build a secret base across the ice?
Moreover, most of the island of Wiener Neustadt is covered with snow and ice all year round! How could the Nazis have built a secret base there?
But Xiao Peng later figured it out: How many actions did the Nazis at that time do that seem "crazy" now?
Especially in the later period of World War II, they were at a disadvantage. In order to turn the tide of the war, German scientists made a desperate attempt and designed countless new weapons that were obviously out of touch with the technology of the time, such as the "Giant Rat" super-heavy tank, the "Silver Bird" aerospace plane, etc. Nowadays, people still admire the "black technology" of German scientists when they mention it.
Many military technologies that are taken for granted in the world today were invented or first put into actual combat by the Germans during World War II. The list is too long, for example: radar, air-to-air missiles, guided missiles, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, wake-guided torpedoes, surface-to-air missiles, anti-tank missiles, super cipher machines, jet aircraft, drones, submarine-launched rockets, ultra-long-range artillery, stealth fighters, flying saucers (these are aircraft like UFOs in science fiction films, and they also made two), nuclear bombs (the theoretical technology has been completed but they have not been manufactured yet), remote-controlled suicide vehicles, remote-controlled mine-sweeping vehicles, engineering plastics, delta-wing design of high-speed aircraft, assault rifles, infrared night vision goggles, etc., etc. Oh, and we can't fail to mention the submarine's "anechoic tiles".
It is no exaggeration to say that the forefathers of today's military development in the world are basically developed from Nazi military technology during World War II.
As for civilian technologies, many of them were developed by Nacui in the past. For example, all the social security systems in the world today are extensions of Nacui's welfare system. There are also engineering plastics, environmental protection laws, highways, large forging machine technology, etc.
In fact, they also came up with many strange inventions, such as birth control pills, inflatable dolls and Fanta...
Their craziest plan at that time was probably their "Sun Cannon" plan.
This was a plan proposed by their famous rocket expert Hermann Obote. According to their idea, they would launch a super-giant concave mirror with a diameter of more than 5,000 miles into space. Once the mirror gathered enough sunlight, it would generate an extremely high temperature that no defense equipment could withstand, and then reflect it to the ground to burn the enemy's weapons and even destroy the enemy's city!
This plan cannot be done today, but in that era, some people studied this project seriously. The madness of German scientists is unbelievable!
Compared to that, digging a base on an ice-covered island is nothing.
They entered and exited Alexander Land by submarine, and of course also went to the ice-covered Wiener Neustadt Island by submarine.
However, this requires a long period of sailing under the ice. The submarine sonar technology at that time was very backward, and the waterways between islands were still unfamiliar. Even today, an accident with the boat being destroyed and people being killed can easily happen, let alone back then?
This is just playing with your life!
Although Xiao Peng had lied to them about the island where the treasure was, he hadn't lied about two things: First, he truly wouldn't go looking for a secret Nazi base. Going to such a hostile environment to search for a treasure trove of unknown contents wasn't a good idea! There were so many treasures in the world, why waste manpower and resources here? Wouldn't it be better to just salvage the shipwreck?
Another point is: it's incredibly dangerous there! The harsh natural environment, perennially low temperatures, terrifying polar storms... In short, going there is basically seeking death.
Xiao Peng had no doubt that the news that 'there is the Nacui treasure on George Island' would spread quickly.
From Dr. Sun's story, we can see that his ship is not a monolithic entity.
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Even though he paid his crew such high salaries, people are greedy and want more. Maybe by the time the network signal is restored on their ship, someone with ulterior motives may have already known that Xiao Peng had salvaged a submarine.
But Xiao Peng was not really worried that they would make this matter public - if they knew that Xiao Peng found a submarine here, they would definitely know the news that "there is a treasure on George Island", and if those people wanted to keep the treasure of George Island for themselves, they would not announce the fact that Xiao Peng found a submarine.
If news of Xiao Peng's discovery of the Nacui submarine were to leak out, people would undoubtedly be curious about why it was there. And the news of the German secret base would surely become known to everyone. Although searching for treasure here was fraught with danger and essentially a matter of life and death, there was no shortage of people in this world who would rather live than be rich!
And what if Russia simply closed its borders and banned anyone from visiting George Island? So Xiao Peng wasn't worried at all about anyone finding out about the submarine. Even if they did, they'd probably keep quiet and try to find it themselves.
So Xiao Peng can be said to be in an invincible position now, and he can also play games here with confidence and let Ma Xiao work hard on himself to exercise their own work ability.
Although he didn't quite believe that Ma Xiao could complete the task within 150 working hours, he also hoped that Ma Xiao could give him a surprise. However, who knew that what Ma Xiao gave him was not a 'surprise', but a 'shock'!
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