Chapter 1736 Preparations
The preparations for the mass at sea took only two or three days, which was extremely efficient. What Zhou Qingfeng wished for was accomplished by his opponent—the four aircraft carriers that should have been well protected were dragged out and parked in parallel in Elliott Bay in the center of Seattle.
Four 100,000-ton heavy fleet aircraft carriers lined up together, and the tugboat reduced the distance between them to about ten meters, and connected them with a suspended cableway. Their flat-deck hulls are tens of meters above the sea, like a city appearing out of thin air on the bay, looking as majestic as a mountain from afar.
The venue on the deck has not been fully set up yet, and the citizens of Seattle are already making a sensation about it. Countless people ran out of their homes and crowded along the road around Elliott Bay to watch this spectacle. The dense crowd blocked the Bay Area
Countless people were shouting excitedly. They were looking forward to boarding the aircraft carrier to participate in the sea mass, which is rare in the world, and they were also cheering for the Freemasonry to have these four sea giants.
A group, an organization, and a regime all need cohesion, without cohesion, it is a mess. And shared pride is the best way to evoke a sense of identity.
"It does look good." President Franklin stood on a high building near the Bay Area and commented indifferently. He looked down at the four giant steel ships through the window, and he was also proud of the Freemasonry he ruled and the superpower possessed by the organization.
Your Excellency the President was originally unwilling to move these four housekeeping ships out, especially in the past few days that there is no clue about the disappearance of the 'supply' class supply ship, and the Ministry of the Navy and the Coast Guard are still struggling. He doesn't want to be troublesome.
But Rutherford, the vice president behind the president, aroused his sensitive nerves, "We need to convince the citizens that we are strong enough, we need to give confidence to our supporters, and we need to make the enemy fear us. Without these What we can’t see, power leaves us.”
In the last days, human lives are worse than dogs, and the bumpy and homeless life makes everyone feel insecure. Every regime competes for the hearts of the people, and only by uniting the hearts of the people can it be possible to develop—of course, a guy like Zhou Qingfeng who has no shortage of supplies will feel that too many alien populations are a problem.
Right now, the vice president is sitting behind the president in a wheelchair. He looks kindly and kindly with a smile, and there is nothing unusual about him. And he himself is very respected in the Freemasonry and has a lot of power.
On the other side of President Franklin is Zhou Qingfeng. In order to handle this grand mass, Uncle Zhou specially asked people to transport a large number of celebration items by special plane.
Such as lighting and sound equipment, separate generators, wiring and power supply facilities. These things allow the mass gathering to be held normally, as for other eating and drinking, decorations and fireworks, they are all pediatrics.
Zhou Qingfeng turned his head to look at Vice President Rutherford,
His investigation of the old man lasted for two days, but he found nothing except some information through a few public channels—it was as if a random Chinese went to the United States to investigate someone else's vice president.
Check it out!
It is impossible to connect with others.
Sensing Zhou Qingfeng's gaze, Vice President Rutherford also turned his head and smiled at him, "Master Hugo, thank you very much for sponsoring this mass. Looking at the tens of thousands of citizens in the Bay Area, I believe their gratitude Part of it is dedicated to you."
Ha ha..., really good at talking.
"I'm very honored." Zhou Qingfeng also smiled, he really wanted to crack open the opponent's head to see what conspiracy was going on inside.
In the past two days, Zhou Qingfeng's men boarded four aircraft carriers on the grounds of arranging the mass venue. Apart from admiring the large deck and complicated cabins of the aircraft carrier, Wen Tianyu found nothing.
Around Zhou Qingfeng, Mar Keshi's mutants, sisters Irene and Ellie, and even "dog meat" were sent out to investigate. But no matter how they searched on the aircraft carrier, no matter how they stared at the staff on the aircraft carrier, they found nothing.
Zhou Qingfeng wanted to find a suitable opportunity to remove all the four giant ships that were close together. What he wanted was not a pile of scrap metal, so he was naturally worried that someone would sabotage the mass.
And from the previous judgment, it can be basically concluded that the hidden opponent cannot plan to steal or occupy the aircraft carrier like Zhou Qingfeng, and the biggest possibility is to destroy it.
If it is sabotage, explosives must be used. But all kinds of dangerous ammunition and fuel on the aircraft carrier have been removed, the fighter planes have been removed and transported to land, and the reactor has stopped working. So where are the explosives?
There are a lot of materials transported to the aircraft carrier, but the Freemasons are more worried than Zhou Qingfeng that someone will take advantage of this opportunity to sabotage. They implemented strict security measures, prohibiting anyone from entering the aircraft carrier after completing the cabin inspection. All the objects for the celebration of the Mass are placed on the deck and can be seen at a glance.
"Strange, what is the old man Rutherford's plan? The mass will be held tonight, and it will be too late if he doesn't arrange it." Zhou Qingfeng nodded and smiled at the vice president, but he couldn't figure out what the other party wanted to do. I misunderstood him, is everything just a coincidence?"
Without intelligence support, Zhou Qingfeng was unable to make a judgment. At present, the entire Elliott Bay has air security and sea surveillance, and coast guard ships are patrolling everywhere. It is not easy to launch some kind of attack. In this case, even his doubts were shaken a little.
"Look... how powerful our Freemasonry is!" President Franklin couldn't help sighing when a Freemasonry logo made of flowers appeared on the main meeting hall of the aircraft carrier.
"We have four aircraft carriers, and any one of them can sail across the ocean. Behind the aircraft carrier, we have a fairly complete military logistics maintenance system, such as the Puget Naval Shipyard, which is the only six large shipyards in the United States. one."
When President Franklin was in a good mood, he desperately boasted in front of Zhou Qingfeng, and he was really qualified to boast.
Because Seattle itself is an important industrial base in the United States, although it was not lightly bombed when the nuclear bombs washed the ground, there is still a strong industrial potential in the ruins of the city.
The Washington State controlled by the Freemasons and the territory of North America and Canada have quite good high-tech manufacturing industries, and there are a lot of stocks in aircraft, ships, avionics, and precision instruments.
As long as the social order can be rebuilt with various livelihood commodities provided by the Aurora Legion, it is not impossible to redevelop these industries.
The current sensation caused by the aircraft carrier made President Franklin painfully determined. He said on the spot: "Our next task is to restore the combat effectiveness of an aircraft carrier and cultivate a strong sea force. This will affect us. The next step for Freemasonry."
Clap, clap..., the sonorous and forceful words made a group of people around the leader applaud, and even Vice President Rutherford praised his boss for his foresight. Zhou Qingfeng also expressed his approval and admiration, but he was really depressed.
Throughout the scene, Rachel, who will be the host of the mass at sea, has remained silent. She was the only woman among the crowd at the scene, and she had been interestingly observing the subtle changes of the men with power in their hands.
The wife and mother noticed the joy of President Franklin, the low-keyness of Vice President Rutherford, and the calmness and gloom of Victor Hugo.
In the end Rachel regained her composure and whispered when she approached Zhou Qingfeng, "Victor, when did you start cooperating with your enemies?"
"What?" Zhou Qingfeng's neck was itchy from Rachel's breathing, and what made his heart itch even more was that Rachel had something to say.
But Rachel smiled sweetly, turned her face away and looked away, but didn't say anything.