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"The beach?" Tomoyo and Sakura had strange expressions on their faces. The last time they filmed was at the beach, and then the Ultra Beast Baraba attacked. Doesn't the director have any psychological trauma?
"Ah, this time it's not Tokyo Bay. This time the shooting location is Suruga Bay. The scenery there is nice and it's a resort. Taking photos won't take too much time and can be considered a day trip."
The cost of a company event like shooting a poster is of course fully covered by Sanmu Company. Usually, posters are shot in a studio, but they go directly to a resort. This Sanmu Company is also very sincere. It is a bit of a flattery. Of course, the flattery is not for the director Asaka.
I have to say that Sakura was really lucky to meet two friends, Tomoyo and Reiya, when she debuted.
"Suruga Bay? Is that the Izu Peninsula?"
"Yes, Chise is good at geography."
"Because my family has a villa in Izu. We went there for vacation last summer."
Asaka suddenly stopped talking. Sakura was a little envious. As for Lingye, she didn't know how many places her family had villas in. Anyway, it was fine as long as she had a place to stay wherever she went.
Suruga Bay is a bay surrounding Shizuoka and Izu Peninsula. It was formed by the impact of continental plates. The volcanic island of the Philippine plate hit Honshu Island, leaving a "car accident scene". As a result, this bay is very deep, with the deepest point being 2500 meters.
At that time, this "car accident" between continents may have caused the extinction of a large number of species, but humans can no longer feel the cruelty because it happened 60 years ago. At that time, the ancestors of humans had not even been born yet, and were still in the late ape stage.
Modern people can only marvel at the wonders of nature, which created this wide bay and a large number of hot springs.
Izu's hot springs have been famous since ancient times and have become a popular holiday resort.
Mount Fuji can be seen from both Tokyo and Izu, but one is on the east side of Mount Fuji and the other is on the south side of Mount Fuji. The two cities are more than 2 kilometers apart, about a -hour drive.
It was nine in the morning on Saturday when the film crew's bus arrived at the location in Izu.
A group of people got off the car one after another. It was nearly November and the moist sea breeze was cool, not freezing, but just particularly refreshing.
This is Izu, the place where the famous movie "The Dancing Girl of Izu" took place. Ling had not read the original novel or watched the movie, but she had some impression of the music of the same name in the movie.
After all, it is an old song that has been sung for decades and the memory of an era.
However, this song was not released until two years later, and in another world, there would probably be no singer like Yamaguchi Momoe.
[The raindrops drifted past the small teahouse on the top of the mountain, and floated in the sky on the sunny day. The lovely dancers carried the drums, and white flowers bloomed on the roadside. 】
"After we finish taking the photos, let's go take a hot spring bath?" Chise suggested.
Ling was also surprised, because she was humming a song in her heart, and Chiyo said the next line of the lyrics. But she immediately realized that it was just a coincidence. That's right, when I arrived in Izu, the first thing I thought of was of course the hot springs.
"Agree!" X2
Although Lingye's family has its own natural hot spring, and even the land veins are from the same system as Mount Fuji, soaking in hot springs in different scenery is a different experience.
"Hey, hey, taking a hot spring bath is really difficult. I am responsible for sending you home." Director Asaka said. He couldn't bring himself to say such a thing as leaving a car full of people waiting for three girls to take a hot spring bath.
"It's okay, everyone can come together. Since Sanmu Company is paying for the travel expenses, let me pay for the hot spring hotel." Ling said. Her Oshima family is also the investor of the crew. "Just treat it as a relaxation. Thank you for your hard work."
"It's not hard, it's not hard." Before Asaka could say anything, the staff next to her started shouting one after another.
Just kidding, hot spring hotel, where can you get this opportunity normally? In this late autumn and early winter season, soaking in the hot spring, with a wooden tray floating on the water, a pot of hot wine, and a dish of small dishes, it is a heavenly day.
The little princess of the Oshima family is open-minded.
Asaka smiled bitterly and shook his head. He also knew that for Lingye, inviting a dozen people to a hot spring bath was no different from buying popsicles from a street vendor. If he refused, he would become a bad guy who would not please both sides.
"Okay, but everyone should work harder today and try to finish it as soon as possible with guaranteed quality and quantity."
"No problem, Director."
It was obvious to the naked eye that the entire team was fully buffed. The temptation of Izu Hot Springs was more real than any words of encouragement.
"Today I have an interview scheduled with Mr. Takeda from Star Monthly magazine yesterday. Takeda will arrive at 10am and we will start filming after the interview." Asaka glanced at her watch. "It's 9am now. I still have an hour. I can move around freely for a while. I just need to be back before 10am."
"it is good."
There is still an hour left. Although it is too late to go playing in the sea and the weather is not suitable for swimming, at least I can relax at the beach.
There were a few ships far away on the sea, but it was not very busy. Although there was a port called Shimizu Port in the waters surrounding the peninsula, the traffic was far less than that of the neighboring Tokyo Port and Yokohama Port.
So when the three saw a passenger ship anchored at the seaside, they were all attracted by it.
"Why is this ship locked with so many chains?"
It was a snow-white ship, but perhaps because it had been anchored for too long, the outer layer of the hull near the water surface was rusted a bit. The bottom of the ship was green, and it was unclear whether it was copper rust or green paint that was specially painted.
"This is the Polaris."
A young man's voice said.
"Polaris?"
Ling had already noticed the other person, but because this was a busy seaside place, she didn't pay much attention to it. She only paid attention when the other person spoke.
He was a young man of about 20 years old. Even though the weather had turned cooler in the past few days, he was still wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt.
The T-shirt he was wearing was very dirty, and you couldn't see its original color. But it wasn't the kind of dirty that was caused by not taking a shower for a long time, but the kind of stains that a car mechanic got while working, and it couldn't be washed out.
There are patches and patches of oil stains all over the place, and it's probably useless to wash such a T-shirt.
"Hey, you, don't be so casual..." Director Asaka said loudly as she walked over.
He was worried about the three girls going too far, so he followed them not far away. When he saw a stranger talking to him, he immediately walked over. However, when he saw the young man clearly, he couldn't help but feel a little confused. He walked closer and took a closer look. Director Qianxiang looked happy.
"Kotaro? You, aren't you Higashi Kotaro? Two years ago, you said you were going to sea, and you left right away. When did you come back?"
"What, what?" The young man showed a puzzled expression, "Who is Kotaro you are talking about?"
"You're not Kotaro?"
"Of course not, I'm Shinoda, Saburo Shinoda."
"Ah? Really not?" Director Asaka came closer and took a closer look. It seemed that it was indeed not the case. Kotaro should be a more energetic young man with endless energy all day long.
This one in front of me, how should I put it, is quite decadent.
"Come to think of it, you two look really alike, are you twins?"
Chapter 139 Polaris
The Higashi Kotaro mentioned by Director Asaka is an actor who once worked with Asaka. It is a bit too formal to say that he is an actor. In fact, he was just a minor role for a while. He played some passerby roles and even had no lines from beginning to end.
But then one day, Kotaro suddenly said he wanted to go out to sea and travel around the world on a ship.
So he went out to sea, without any hesitation, without even considering whether he had enough money to travel around the world. He just ran to a coastal ship alone, saying that he was going to help the captain with odd jobs and be a crew member who didn't need wages but only food and lodging.
Asaka then watched the ship leave the port, and that was the last time he saw Kotaro.
At this time, Asaka looked at the man who called himself Saburo Shinoda. Although the other party repeatedly stated that he was not Kotaro, he still had some doubts because they looked too similar.
"I heard that you can find three people in the world who look like you." Lingye said.
"Yes, I've heard of it too, but I heard there were seven. But if you accidentally meet them, you will die soon. Because your soul will be sucked away." Tomoyo said these scary words with a smile.
Sakura was so frightened by the sudden ghost story that she really jumped.
"Ah, Chise is evil-minded!"
"Well, that's a superstitious saying." Ling said bluntly.
"Isn't what Lingye said superstition?"
"Of course, what I said has scientific basis. Because human DNA is very similar, even if two random people on Earth have a similarity of more than 99.5%, if they are of the same race, the similarity will be even higher. In addition to heredity, appearance is also the randomness of gene shuffling. This is just a matter of probability."
Tomoyo and Sakura had never heard of many of the words in Ling's words, and they didn't understand what they meant when put together. Not to mention Sakura and Tomoyo, even Director Asaka might not understand them, after all, in this era, most people have never come into contact with genes and DNA.
But the truth of the universe is that whoever has more words has the final say, so everyone simply accepted it.
"So, you're really not Kotaro?"
"I already said it's not true. But the Kotaro you mentioned is really enviable."
Want to go to sea, just go. This is exactly what Shinoda has dreamed of for the past two years. The Polaris has been docked in this sea area for several years. Two years ago, Shinoda came here and fell in love with the ship at first sight. It was exactly what he dreamed of.
He wanted to sail the boat, and he realized that this was what he had always wanted to do, so he found the owner of the boat and rented it.
But this is just the first step, which was completed two years ago.
After that, he realized that he needed to learn about sailing, find like-minded sailors to go to sea with him, and he needed plans, funds, and...
He gradually realized that he needed too many things. So for two years, the ship remained anchored here, tightly chained. In order to earn rent, he turned it into a restaurant on the sea.
The only thing he still insisted on was to raise the flag of the Polaris on the bow every day to tell himself not to forget his dream and that one day he would set sail.
But at this moment, when he heard Director Asaka talking about the Tokotaro Higashi, the other him who had the same appearance as him but now was nowhere to be found, Shinoda was filled with envy and longing.
Kotaro, he did what he wanted to do but couldn't do.
Shinoda glanced at his ship inadvertently. It was just a casual glance, but suddenly he found a man standing on the deck of the ship, taking off the flag on the bow of his ship.
"That guy, what is he doing!?"
Shinoda didn't care about anything else, even forgot to say goodbye to Asaka, Reiya and others, and hurriedly rushed onto his Polaris.
"what?"
Because they were too far away, all they could see on the deck was a small figure in a white suit, and Chise and the others couldn't see it clearly. But Ling could see it clearly, that person was clearly Hokuto Seiji!
"Brother Beidou?" Could it be that I met someone here who looks exactly like Beidou?
That was of course Hokuto Seiji himself.
When Shinoda rushed onto the deck, Beidou was carefully looking at the flag he had lowered. The flag was a little tangled when it was hanging in the air before, and it was not very clear. After taking it down and unfolding it, Beidou confirmed that it was the flag he saw when he was patrolling the Gaara last night.
Yoshimura, Konno and the others didn't believe what Beidou experienced during his patrol last night.
Yamanaka directly scolded him and asked him: "Beidou, are you awake?"
Minami Yuko also thought that she saw a mirage. Even the captain and Dr. Kiji, who were always willing to believe in their teammates, did not believe it and thought that he had hysteria. The captain even thought that it was because he was too busy at work and approved him to take several days off.
Not to mention them, Beidou himself didn't quite believe it.
Because he saw a ship flying in the sky last night, not a spaceship, but just an ordinary ship, just flying in the night sky.
After Beidou reported to the base headquarters, there was nothing on the radar at the headquarters. But the ship was clearly in front of Beidou. He drove the Airo around the ship several times, but even so, the radar at the base still showed only the Airo in the air.
Then suddenly, the ship disappeared again. What Beidou could remember clearly was the flag hanging on the bow of the ship. It was the flag in his hand at the moment, there was no mistake, he remembered the pattern on the flag very clearly.
"What are you doing here, you bastard!"
Because he was distracted, Beidou didn't even notice that someone ran up to him, pushed him away, and took the flag away.
"Do you know what you are doing? This is my flag. Who allowed you to tear it down? It is as important as my life!"
Beidou was still a little confused as he looked at the young man who suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Your life?"