Cotton City on Ike Island is a tropical coastal city. It is a famous rich concentration area in Thousand Islands Country and one of the most economically developed cities.
There is a coast several kilometers long on the south side of the city. The beach is white and the water is blue, facing south and north, and crowded with tourists. Especially towards the end of the year and the climate change, more tourists choose to vacation here. The middle- and high-income earners simply ended their work for the year and came to live in beachside villas or high-end sea-view apartments to enjoy the tropical island ocean scenery.
Less than thirty kilometers away from the urban area of Mianmian City is the old Mianmian City. It is an industrial base and a large number of factories are built near the sea, especially those that require a large amount of desalinated seawater. It is said that half of the country's high-tech industries are located there.
Today is no different than usual.
A helicopter carrying wealthy tourists flying over the sea received a blind warning from J-8F No. 81103. The pilot had a hard time understanding the English with a distinct accent.
"Tsunami?" The pilot was confused and subconsciously thought it was a prank by a radio amateur, so he ignored it.
Until he saw a tall wall of water rushing towards him in the distance.
By this time it was too late.
"Emergency disaster warning notice! The Sulawesi tsunami will hit Ike Island in ten minutes! Emergency disaster warning notice! The Sulawesi tsunami will hit Ike Island in ten minutes!"
Li Hai kept making blind calls on the international communication channel, accelerating and flying towards Ike Island following the wall of water, and the camera in his hand continued to take pictures. The endless wall of water gets higher as it gets closer to the shore. At this moment, Li Hai is the man closest to the Sulawesi tsunami in the world, and the only one who can photograph this huge disaster. man!
The interval between tsunami water walls is usually between a few minutes and tens of minutes. Because of the distance, the water walls are at their most powerful when approaching Ike Island.
When a wave of several meters high generated hundreds of kilometers away reaches the shallow water area of the coastline at an extremely high speed, the wavelength is rapidly shortened and the right sides are squeezed inward. The result is that the wave height increases sharply, up to tens of meters. This is The origin of the water wall.
The water wall of the ongoing Sulawesi tsunami formed as early as a hundred kilometers away. The wave height dropped once in the middle and suddenly climbed when it entered the shallow water area of the coastline. Five kilometers away from the coast, Li Hai measured The peak wave height reached a terrifying height of 218 meters!
"Ike Island is finished."
Li Hai sighed deeply. He had done everything he could, including calling on the international general communication channel in the most urgent way.
But now it seems that even if Ike Island responds in time, it will be too late.
The wall of water was moving too fast.
Li Hai gently pulled the lever and raised the nose of the aircraft to slow down. The course pointed west, parallel to the coastline. He looked to the left, took photos, and recorded the scene of the water wall sweeping over Ike Island. The distance between the water walls is getting closer and closer. When one water wall washes ashore, the distance between subsequent water walls is less than one thousand meters.
On Ike Island, there are thousands of tourists playing on the beach, and many of them are even using their mobile phones to take pictures of the roaring wall of water!
"It's too awful."
When Li Hai saw the white line of the coastline moving rapidly inland, he shook his head and muttered to himself unbearably. The width of the white line is rapidly increasing, which means that the wall of water is rapidly rushing inland.
The first wall of water was 218 meters high, overwhelmingly destroying everything along the coasts of Mian Mian and Lao Mian, two important cities in the Thousand Island Country. Nothing can withstand the impact of millions of tons of seawater. Human beings and everything they create are as fragile and insignificant as ants in the face of such natural disasters.
One-third of the urban areas of the two important cities were instantly reduced to ruins under the attack of the first water wall, and hundreds of thousands of people disappeared in an instant.
When the second, third, fourth, and fifth walls of water rushed onto Ike Island in a very short period of time, more than 300,000 people on the island smelled the breath of death.
In the famous villa area of anti-H pioneers in Mianmian City, the chattering and laughing people inside did not even have time to leave a word before they were covered by a wall of water that blocked the sky and disappeared into the white waves...
According to analysis of images taken by satellites, one-third of the land area of Ike Island was below the water at a certain moment.
The tsunami with the highest wave height of 218 meters that occurred once in hundreds of years completely destroyed Ike Island.
Li Hai mourned for the innocent Thousand Islands people on the island. From the perspective of a community with a shared future for mankind, Li Hai should do this. He couldn't help but think that if the two F-16s had not pestered him but reported the situation quickly, some people might have escaped death.
Shaking his head slightly, Li Hai continued to climb to prepare to return. His fuel could only sustain his stay for ten minutes. To be on the safe side, he decided to immediately climb to cruising altitude and return.
When rising to an altitude of 8,000 meters, Li Hai suddenly thought of the Long March Blackfish. Can it escape this tsunami?
He turned the plane's nose and flew to the waters surrounding the trench, sending encrypted shortwave signals to the sea surface.
At this time, the sea area has slowly calmed down, the whirlpool has disappeared, and the waves that are tens of meters away have disappeared, as if nothing happened.
Li Hai did not have high hopes for being able to contact the Long March Black Fish, unless he happened to encounter the Long March Black Fish while sailing on the water.
His luck turned out to be pretty good.
The Long March Big Black Fish had been well prepared and had escaped the impact of the tsunami, and was sailing on the water at this time. After receiving the shortwave signal from J-8F No. 81103 and decrypting it, the captain took the initiative to establish voice contact with Li Hai.
This is an older model of the Long March Big Black Fish. When the main fighter aircraft of the Hainan Airlines were the J-8 series, in order to establish communication links between air and submarines, the Long March Big Black Fish installed a short-wave radio that could communicate with the J-8 fighter jets. Radio.
Because of this, Li Hai blindly sent a signal to try to get in touch with the Long March Black Fish to confirm their safety.
"Dong San, I am Big Black Fish. I have received the notification from Forgetting Reef Platform. You arrived in time." Captain Big Black Fish said in a relaxed tone.
Li Hai breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'm relieved that you guys are fine. I'm about to return home. Is there anyone who needs help?"
The captain of the Big Black Fish said with a smile, "We have been out for several months and we miss home. Dong San, can you lower the altitude? The brothers want to see you and see the military badge."
Li Hai's nose felt sore and he almost couldn't hold it back.
"Received it, Dongsan received it, I'll be there right away!"
"We're at your two o'clock, we can see you."
Without hesitation, Li Hai dived down to the flying height and flew close to the sea towards the two o'clock direction. At a glance, he saw the Long March Big Black Fish with the command shell and a small part of the hull exposed. The turtle's back was very conspicuous.
After slowing down, Li Hai passed by the Long March Blackfish at low altitude. When he turned around, he saw many officers and soldiers standing on the command shell and on the back of the turtle. They held their heads high and waved excitedly.
Li Hai maintained the same course as the Long March Big Black Fish, lowered all the flaps, and kept the fighter plane at a slow speed of 280 kilometers per hour. He carefully lowered the flight altitude to the extreme low altitude of ten meters above the sea, and slowly flew from the Long March Big Black Fish. Flying over to the right.
When passing the Long March Big Black Fish, Li Hai looked to his left, saluted the brothers in the submarine force on the back of the boat, and gently shook his wings in salute.
The August 1st military emblem on the vertical tail of J-8F No. 81103 is shining brightly!
"Big Black Fish, you line up and I'll take a photo for you."
Not long after, more and more officers and soldiers appeared on the back of the boat. They lined up excitedly and cheered. Li Hai left them precious photo memories from multiple angles...
