Chapter 1507 Denial
The next day, Xiao Peng became completely "Spartan".
Because he was anxious to return to Paris, he contacted a business jet from the UK through the credit card VIP service center. The VIP services of these top credit cards are quite complete. Although the weather here is bad, a "Falcon" business jet arrived in the Faroe Islands early the next morning.
Financial institutions are familiar with handling troublesome matters such as applying for airway airfield takeoff and landing - these things are much easier for them to do.
But Xiao Peng was delayed for a whole day in the Faroe Islands: the door was blocked again the next day.
There were more people this time - it felt like at least half of the people in Tórshavn were here.
And the people who came this time were more troublesome. Those who came yesterday were local people. Today, officials from the Faroe Islands also came. They held a commendation ceremony directly in front of Connie's house to commend all the people who participated in the rescue yesterday. Almost all the people who were driving yachts on the sea yesterday came, including the middle-aged man who said "don't save the Danes" and the Faroe Island woman who slapped her son wildly.
Not only local Faroese officials, but also the captain of the Danish warship that was hit and Danish officials in the Faroe Islands came.
Yesterday, several Faroese rescued two helicopter pilots who fell into the water. However, those Faroese were afraid of being criticized for "preferring to save Danes instead of Faroese", so they pushed all the credit onto Xiao Peng, saying that the rescue work at sea yesterday was completed under Xiao Peng's command.
This was also confirmed by other rescuers; they had indeed been cooperating with Xiao Peng throughout much of yesterday's rescue. Because of this, Danish officials from the Faroe Islands also arrived. They presented Xiao Peng with an invitation that would be envied by ordinary people: upon learning of Xiao Peng's heroic feat of saving the Faroese and Danish officials who had fallen into the water, the Danish royal family invited Xiao Peng to Copenhagen, where Queen Margrethe II planned to meet him in person. The Danish Prime Minister and others also extended invitations to Xiao Peng, expressing their gratitude to him in person.
Well, this is an invitation letter that ordinary people envy, but is Xiao Peng an ordinary person?
He politely declined the Danish invitation. "William couldn't reach me by phone, so he came to my house and blocked me in person. And I'm going to Copenhagen to meet you? Who the hell do you think you are?"
There was a rather funny scene: Xiao Peng declined Denmark's invitation in front of everyone, but the scene erupted in thunderous cheers. The Faroese seemed to enjoy seeing the Danes lose face.
This made Xiao Peng very embarrassed. He had clearly said "politely declined", but it seemed like he was deliberately slapping the Dane in the face - although he did think so, one should be a little hypocritical...ah, shouldn't one be a little kind?
But he could not refuse the enthusiastic invitation from the Faroe Islands officials, so he stayed in the Faroe Islands for another day and left the Faroe Islands the next day.
He hadn't wasted the day: in addition to awarding each rescuer a bonus of 100,000 Faroese kroner (approximately 13,000 euros), the Faroe Islands also gave Xiao Peng a special "gift": one of the Faroe Islands' 779 islands was now named "Xiao Peng Island" and became Xiao Peng's private property. This day is also designated annually as "French-Summer Friendship Day" and "National Disaster Day" in the Faroe Islands, commemorating the lives lost and injured in the disaster.
Of course, the island Xiao Peng was given wasn't a particularly good one: located at the southern tip of the Faroe Islands, it was only a little over two square kilometers in size, two-thirds of it mountainous, with no drinkable fresh water and no suitable location for a port. For Xiao Peng, the island held more symbolic significance than practical value.
Another puzzling fact about the collision is that Sea Shepherd leader Paul Watson immediately issued a statement claiming they had nothing to do with what happened yesterday. He and the fleet's flagship, the USS Stephen Irvine, are currently battling Japanese whaling ships in Antarctica. Even with advanced technology, it's impossible for them to travel directly from Antarctica to the North Pole in such a short time!
Many people said that they did not trust Paul Watson's words.
Who doesn't know how radical your environmentalist ideals are? You've even done things like destroying a manned boat with a homemade torpedo. So what can't you do? Besides, why would those people, who aren't your people, decorate the boat to resemble your Sea Shepherd black ship? Even if it wasn't you, it must have something to do with you! And how consistent is that ship's approach to your work?
However, Xiao Peng actually believed that Paul Watson was most likely telling the truth.
They say, "It's not gangsters you fear, but educated gangsters you fear." Paul Watson fits that mold. While his environmental philanthropy remains as radical as ever, he hasn't been arrested in over 20 years. His ability to skirt the law and avoid risk has only gotten better. How could he brazenly commit such a low-level crime? Is he simply "old man reveling in his youthful madness"?
It shouldn't be!
But now Denmark has determined that they did it and has issued an arrest warrant for Paul Watson.
This is understandable: the warship was hit by someone, which caused a huge uproar. When something like this happened, someone had to be found to take the blame, and Paul Watson was the one who took the blame.
That warship was in such a terrible state. The Faroe Islands sent several tugboats to tow the ship back to the port, but it could not be repaired and had to be towed back to Denmark for repairs.
When a warship collides with a civilian vessel, the warship always suffers. For example, in 2017, two American Burke-class destroyers collided with cargo ships, resulting in dozens of fatalities and the two warships being essentially scrapped and still unrepaired. The cargo ship, however, remained largely unscathed.
The structure of modern warships is completely different from that of ordinary civilian ships.
First, the hull steel plates of warships are actually thinner: to achieve the purpose of bulletproofing, a composite armor layer is used in the hull construction model. Inside the surface hull steel plate, there is a layer of Kevlar composite armor to achieve the purpose of bulletproofing. Considering that the weight of the composite armor layer will affect the speed and load, the thickness of the hull steel plate can only be reduced. Moreover, to prevent sinking, warships no longer have a keel at the bottom of the warehouse. Instead, they have hundreds of small honeycomb-shaped watertight compartments. Such ships are very difficult to sink, just like the Danish warship, which was hit in the middle and almost broke in two without sinking.
But ordinary people don't know this. They only know that warships, which symbolize national military power, are inferior to civilian ships. Isn't this a waste of our taxpayers' money? I heard that the people in Denmark have already started a riot!
Make a fuss, the more chaotic the better!
Of course, Xiao Peng was not in the mood to care about them now. He said goodbye to the officials and people of the Faroe Islands and boarded the plane back to Paris.
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