Great time travel

Chapter 61, Japan on the cruise ship
Japan, Osaka

The largest commercial port in modern Japan is now in ruins.Countless artillery shells, aerial bombs, and flames completely destroyed this place into a white ground.The streets were littered with corpses that were too late to bury, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke, corpse stench, and wood burning smoke.

There are only a few remaining citizens, like walking dead, wandering around the ruins numbly, as if trying to dig out some intact things from the ruins, or trying to find their lost relatives, and burnt In order to search for relatives who may still be alive, messages were written on the remaining walls with charcoal, but in the end, only one out of ten people was able to find someone successfully.

However, compared with the refugees whose homes were devastated by the flames of war during this world war, the Japanese refugees in the Kinki battlefield were already very lucky—after regaining the densely populated Kyoto-Osaka area, "shallow The wartime base camp of "Red Japan" immediately allocated an astronomical amount of supplies for relief of refugees and post-war reconstruction.Let them not have to survive like the Chinese before and the Germans today, by digging mice and birds, peeling bark and digging grass roots, and they don’t have to continue to suffer from the sun, rain, and wind after their homes are reduced to ruins. The pain of sleeping out.

In each newly recovered area, the wartime base camp set up food relief stations as quickly as possible, and provided a certain amount of dried vegetables, salted fish, rice, canned food, flour, wine, and sugar for free according to the ration card of each national , salt, sauce, as well as clothes, kettles, lunch boxes, and bedding—not to mention the war zone that was burned to nothing, even the Japanese civilians who have been tossed to the brink of death by so many years of war in the rear area that has not been ravaged by the war, it will take a long time. I have never seen such a sufficient supply of goods in the market, let alone these things can be bought for free.

Of course, even though it is said to be free relief, there is still a price to pay.They ate the relief food distributed by the government and wore uniforms provided by the base camp—for some reason, all refugees, regardless of gender, age or age, were arranged to wear sailor uniforms. Dispatch.However, for the Japanese who are the most disciplined and obedient in the world, this battle is really nothing.

For this relief operation, the slogan of the base camp is "never give up a compatriot", which can be called the Holy Mother to the extreme, and it is not like Japan at all.

It's just that the refugee camps where Japan's wartime headquarters housed and accommodated these compatriots seemed a little bit special...

"...Wow! Whoa whoa—"

In a certain small and dark space, on the top bunk of a double bunk bed, a baby's tender cry suddenly came.

Then, amidst the complaints from her roommates, Suzune Higurashi, a 22-year-old young woman who had just evolved from a wife to a widow, sat up on the narrow bed and hurriedly untied her clothes amidst the crying of her child. Weaned young son...

However, the young son in her arms who was breastfeeding had just sucked breastmilk and fell silent for a few seconds, and the little daughter of Mrs. Sato in the lower berth also cried, and the loud and clear crying sound echoed in the narrow steel cabin. The reverberation made everyone's ears buzzing, and they lost all sleepiness.

——That's right, as a war refugee and a single mother, the widow Higurashi Suzune, and her fleeing companions, a total of four women and two babies, are now squeezed into a cabin less than eight square meters... and This is the sea refugee camp where the wartime base camp placed them.

——Instead of carrying the refugees somewhere by boat, arrange them to live on the boat directly!

Because, for Japan's wartime base camp today, instead of spending time and effort rebuilding the city on a piece of ruined and scorched earth, it is better to start the money printing machine crazily and exchange the money from the [chronological vending machine] for a large number of cruise ships It is relatively easier and more convenient to come out... The refugee camp still needs an engineering team to plan and build, and how to ensure water, electricity and food supply is also a big problem.However, large cruise ships are available at any time, and the living facilities on board are all available. As long as a group of rookie crew members who can tinker with machinery are urgently trained, they can be put into use.

Therefore, since the recovery of the densely populated Kyoto-Osaka area, the rear ports controlled by "light red Japan" such as Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima, Kagoshima, Sasebo, and Nagasaki have quickly become overcrowded.In order to resettle millions of war refugees, the wartime base camp acquired more than 1000 [-]-ton ocean-going cruise ships in one go, and used them as refugee camps, almost filling up all the ports under its rule.

Of course, even though they were housed on an ocean liner, these refugees were in shelters instead of enjoying luxury cruise holidays, so their living conditions were not that comfortable.In order to allow these ships to accommodate more people-it is not that there are not enough ships, but that there is a serious shortage of sailors who know how to operate the ships.All kinds of luxurious entertainment facilities on board were simply and rudely disassembled.Those resplendent dance halls and casinos on the ship were converted into steerage cabins, and the floors were covered by refugees.As for the depraved gaming tables and pinball machines, they were also thrown into the sea.

Higurashi Suzune, a widowed young woman, was taken care of because she had a nursing baby and was a family member of a soldier. She did not have to sleep on the floor in the steerage cabin, but was allocated a third-class bunk.But it was as crowded as a train sleeper, and it was difficult to even turn around after stuffing the luggage...

However, Higurashi Suzune is very satisfied with this. After all, in this war era, it is already very happy to have a place that can shelter from the wind and rain, and can still eat a full stomach-recalling the most tragic time before. In the past few months, I was forced to flee the bloody Osaka with my child in my arms, hiding in the barren wilderness, unable to eat for several days, tearing off my clothes in the cold wind and trying to use my shriveled body. *Feeding the crying child, but nothing can be squeezed out, so I can only hold the thin child and cry together... Higurashi Suzune feels that the current day is like heaven.

Because of this awareness, a month ago, when the military and police responsible for taking in the refugees distributed a rice ball to each of them, and then required all the refugees, regardless of gender, to undergo sanitary quarantine and disinfection.The other young women were still a little awkward, and even almost caused a riot, but Higurashi Suzune took off the tattered clothes in public, and stood out with the child in her arms, and let a few of them wear masks The doctor in a white coat carefully examined the patient from head to toe.Under her leadership, the quarantine of refugees was carried out smoothly.

Those who were found to be sick were sent to another isolation area, while Higurashi Suzune and others had a hearty hot meal and a hot bath—according to the doctor, for the health of all Well, they had to do a thorough cleaning before boarding the boat to eliminate germs and fleas on their bodies, otherwise, once a plague broke out on a crowded boat, it would not be fun.

As a result, the old clothes on each refugee's body were burned uniformly, and they were replaced with sailor uniforms of different specifications and models, and then received towels, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, water bottles and lunch boxes.When Higure Suzune finally took a hot bath again after a lapse of several months and used soap that was very rare during the war, she couldn't help but burst into tears for a while—hot water with a pungent bleach smell, It sprayed out from the metal shower head and slapped her face, and the same warm tears also flowed slowly on her face along with the hot water...

Then, the widow Higurashi Suzune and her unweaned child began to live on the boat all day long, which was very crowded and boring.What is even more uncomfortable is that the air in the cabin is always very turbid due to the fact that the ship has been moored beside the pier and does not have the automatic air supply of the ventilation pipe. It is very safe, at least it is much better than the previous escape career.

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After being awakened by the crying of the baby, the women in the cabin also lost sleepiness and started chatting in low voices.Some people miss their missing relatives, and Rimu Lingyin can't help but think of her eldest daughter who died in the bombing and her sailor husband who died in Wugang... After a while, with "Dinglingling" The electric bell rang, and everyone got up from their beds to wash up and prepare to go to the restaurant for breakfast.

Along the long cabin, Higurashi Suzune crawled out of the third-class cabin with the dirty air in her arms, gasped desperately for the first time, breathed the fresh air greedily, and then lined up with the old elders. The team, moving slowly into the restaurant bit by bit...

——According to the original design, the restaurant of the cruise ship is enough to accommodate all passengers to eat at the same time.But now that the cruise ship is being used as a refugee camp, it has doubled the number of people, and some restaurants and bars have also been turned into Chase shops for refugees. As a result, the dining seats, tables and chairs suddenly became tense. Refugees have to queue up to eat in batches. Fortunately, the Japanese seem to be used to this kind of thing... When Suzune Higurashi carried her child to the dining room, several waves of refugees had already finished their meal, and they were on the deck Go for a walk and chat, and use the rare rest time to let the wind go.

After waiting in a long line for more than an hour, and after breastfeeding her child again during the period, Higurashi Suzune finally squeezed into the restaurant. There is a fixed metal dining table on one side and a counter for receiving meals on the other side, which is similar to that in schools and factories. The cafeterias where you line up for food are similar, but the content is much richer. Even the simplest breakfast includes white rice, fragrant bread or biscuits, canned fish as the main course, and boiled seaweed, dried shrimps and scallops. For lunch and dinner, there is usually curry and rice, canned beef and scrambled eggs made from powdered egg, and extra sweets and pastries for the little ones.Except for no cigarettes and no alcohol (just in case, no smoking and no alcohol on board), it's almost a holiday every day!

The relief food rationed by these base camps for free was considered a luxury even before the war, and ordinary Japanese who were slightly poorer could not afford it at all.Even people from the petty bourgeoisie and the middle class will feel very painful if they want to eat this way every day, let alone in wartime when supplies are scarce.

After entering the restaurant, Higurashi Suzune went to the drinking water faucet next to the wall, filled her kettle with cold boiled water, and then went to the counter to get her ration: a full box of white Rice, a small paper bag of biscuits, a can of fish, and seaweed soup in an enamel teacup, plus an extra box of Morinaga fruit candies to take care of her breastfeeding mother-we are giving her these things At the same time, the chef in the white hat behind the counter said sorry that the milk was gone, so I could only give her a little more sugar to nourish her body...

Well, before breakfast every day, you only need to bring the baby up, and in order to take care of her as a mother, the chef will always give her an extra bottle of milk.

Although she was already satisfied - when she was still at home, the food for breakfast alone was enough for her to eat for a whole day!
Since getting on this boat, eating more, sleeping more and not exercising every day, her originally thin body has become much plump, and even her stomach has become slightly fatter.Hey, I really hope that such a life of eating and drinking every day can last forever, at least until the child is weaned, right?Higurashi Suzune sighed like this, but she didn't know what would happen in the future. The government would definitely not let everyone eat and drink for free... It seems that they can only obey the arrangement.

However, although the food provided for free at breakfast is exaggeratedly rich, it is hard to find a place where one can sit down and eat with peace of mind, at least at this moment.The few metal dining tables in the ship's restaurant are already crowded with people, and many children can only sit on their parents' laps.And next to every seat that is already occupied, at least one or two people are watching with lunch boxes and tea cups... The widow, Ms. Higurashi Suzune, hugged her child and walked around the crowded restaurant, her arms sore It's almost broken, and I still can't find a vacant place.In the end, he could only choose to give up, turned around and walked out of the restaurant, planning to find a clean place on the deck, and just squat down to eat.

Obviously, there are quite a few people who have the same idea as her. Higurashi Suzune wandered around the same crowded deck for a while before finding a deserted place near the railing of the gangway, squatting down and opening the lunch box .However, just as she took a few mouthfuls of rice, she was driven away by another sailor.Because a team of guys in military uniforms arrived at the pier in a truck at some point, and they were boarding the ship from the gangway one by one. Among them were quite a few blond, blue-eyed, handsome Western Caucasians... and Higurashi Suzune happened to be blocked just now. The entrance to the living ladder is on the deck.

However, the appearance of these Westerners did not cause any commotion—the Japanese today know that although the country is fighting bloody battles with American and British ghosts and animals, it is also forming an alliance with Russian Maozi.Therefore, it is very common for a few white Western faces to appear occasionally on the territory of their own country... But the sharp-eyed Suzune Higurashi keenly noticed that the collar patch pattern of the leading foreigner was not the Russian red star, but a black one. Iron Cross!

Although as an ordinary Japanese housewife in this era, the widow Ms. Higurashi Suzune has limited knowledge.But thanks to the overwhelming propaganda of the Japanese government during the war, she still knew what the Iron Cross badge represented—it was the military emblem of the German ally!

God... Could it be that they are Germans?Wait, isn't Germany already defeated?What are they still doing in Japan?