"What are the big aquatic animals?" Wu Zhongyuan wondered.

"It's not certain yet," Wang Xinran urged, "hurry up, the car is waiting outside." ”

Wu Zhongyuan tied his belt, flushed the toilet, opened the door of the toilet, and suddenly thought that he hadn't washed his hands, and wanted to go back to wash his hands, Wang Xinran dragged him out and stuffed his backpack to him, "Let's go, what are you rubbing." ”

When Wu Zhongyuan walked out of the door, Wang Xinran had already walked a long way, and when he came to the gate, Wang Xinran had already waved at him from the car, "Come up." ”

Wu Zhongyuan got into the car, and as soon as he closed the door, the car started.

"What the hell is it?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

Wang Xinran was clicking on his mobile phone and didn't answer.

Wu Zhongyuan asked again, "Are you okay?"

Wang Xinran glanced at the driver in the front row and did not answer.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't ask again.

He didn't speak, but Wang Xinran took the initiative to speak, "Why are you worried about her accident?"

"My brother is on the boat. Wu Zhongyuan sighed, he was indeed more worried about Lin Qingming's safety, but deep down he didn't want anything to happen to Zhao Ying.

"Don't worry, people are fine," Wang said happily, "and large ships have lifeboats." ”

There is no airport in Zibo, you have to go to the provincial capital or Linyi by plane, at ten o'clock in the evening, the car turned on the highway to the provincial capital, and the two got on the plane at one o'clock in the morning.

It's still a special plane, it's just a civil one, the plane is very small, and before taking off, I heard two pilots talking about the cruising range of this type of small plane that can just reach a thousand kilometers.

Wu Zhongyuan had been inconvenient to ask before, and after taking off, he couldn't wait to ask, "Now you can say it, what is it?"

Wang Xinran put down his mobile phone, picked up the mineral water on the table and drank a few sips, "It is not yet possible to determine that there have always been large creatures in the waters of Poyang Lake, which is no secret, and the 18th Branch Bureau has also dealt with similar incidents in the early years, at that time I had not yet participated in the work, and after looking at the file, the results of the investigation at that time were that there was a leper turtle in the water, the leper turtle is a kind of soft-shelled turtle, the individual is much larger than the soft-shelled turtle, and the leper turtle that caused the boat to capsize may have survived for many years, with a body length of more than ten meters and a width of about six meters. ”

"Ten meters, six meters, isn't that about the size of a house?" Wu Zhongyuan was surprised, now ordinary houses are eleven meters long, five meters wide, about fifty-five square meters.

"Yes," Wang nodded happily, "the colleagues who handled the case failed to capture the giant turtle, but they saw it up close, and according to their estimates, the leper turtle weighed at least two to three tons." ”

"Didn't you say that Zhao Ying and they rented a big steamer?" Wu Zhongyuan also unscrewed the mineral water.

Wang Xinran took a few more sips of water and put down the mineral water bottle, "Yes, that steamer has a displacement of more than 3,000 tons, which is not small among freshwater shipping ships." ”

"A big king can knock over such a ......"

Without waiting for Wu Zhongyuan to finish speaking, Wang Xinran waved his hand to interrupt him, "I didn't say that it was the leper turtle that caused them to capsize on the ship, and according to the existing clues, the possibility that it was it has been ruled out." ”

"What do you say?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

Smoking is not allowed on the plane, nor is it allowed on the special plane, but the special plane that the two took and the special plane where the leader sat were not the same thing at all, and there was no flight attendant service, Wang Xinran took a cigarette and smoked it, and lit one, "The ship they leased is called Poyang No. 1, and according to satellite monitoring, Poyang No. 1 has been sailing at a speed of 28 knots in the waters of the Lao Ye Temple of Poyang Lake for more than two hours before it capsized......

Wang Xinran said this, and when he saw that Wu Zhongyuan wanted to interject, he took the initiative to explain, "One section is one nautical mile, about 1.8 kilometers, for such an inland river transport vessel, 28 knots is already the limit of its speed, and its route is also very strange, it has been adjusting its route from left to right, and there have been three U-turns along the way, which shows that they are probably chasing something." ”

"Can a leper turtle swim that fast?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

Wang happily shook his head, "No, that's why we excluded it, and what caused the overturning of Poyang No. 1 should be a large creature that we don't even know." ”

Wang happily flicked the cigarette ash and continued, "The waters of Lao Ye Miao are known as China's Bermuda, where there are often accidents of ship capsizing, scientists and geographers have also studied it, according to research, there is an underwater undercurrent in that water, and if the ship sails there, if it encounters an undercurrent, it may cause capsizing, but the displacement of the capsized ships is less than 1,000 tons, and the displacement of Poyang No. 1 is 3,000 tons, which is enough to withstand the impact of the undercurrent." ”

"So what?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"So the undercurrent is not the main reason for the capsizing of Poyang No. 1," Wang happily snuffed out his cigarette, picked up his phone, and called up a picture, "See for yourself." ”

Wu Zhongyuan took the mobile phone, only to see that this is a two-minute or so intermittent picture, which was taken from a high altitude, and the satellite shooting is to take pictures, take a few seconds, not a coherent video, through the picture, you can see that a steamer is spinning in the water on the huge water, and the person controlling the steamer has repeatedly changed the rudder, trying to stabilize the hull, but in the end it is crooked and capsizes, and then a few small white dots appeared on the water, it should be a lifeboat, the satellite is indeed very advanced, but it is not advanced enough to see who is sitting on the lifeboat from outside the atmosphere。

Wu Zhongyuan didn't notice anything abnormal, frowned and returned the phone to Wang Xinran.

Wang Xinran stretched out his hand to take it and explained, "There must be an undercurrent there, but the current in the Yangtze River basin is not enough to produce the whirlpool that caused Poyang No. 1 to spin, and the ship failed to adjust its course several times when the rudder turned, so we guess that the unknown creature pushed the waves from underwater after Poyang No. 1 encountered an undercurrent, which caused Poyang No. 1 to capsize." ”

"If that's the case, it's not only big, it's smart. Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wang nodded happily, "We also think so, this creature has probably survived for many years and is very familiar with the waters of the Yangtze River, and we even suspect that it deliberately led Poyang No. 1 to the undercurrent." ”

Wu Zhongyuan didn't answer.

Wang Xinran said, "Poyang No. 1 failed to sail out of the undercurrent several times when the rudder turned, but turned faster and faster, if you want to do this, you must exert force on the bow or stern, it is useless to hit the hull, the creature also knows this, so it chose the bow to collide, which also shows that it is very smart, knowing that the propeller at the stern may cause damage to it." ”

"What do you think this thing will be?" Wu Zhongyuan became more and more puzzled.

Wang Xinran shook his head, "I don't know, but they definitely know, and the person who controls the ship may also know that after they were rescued, we have notified the relevant local authorities to control the captain and crew, and we can interrogate them after we go over." ”

"I didn't let you know for sure, I just let you guess first. Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wang Xinran thought about it, shook his head and said, "It's definitely not a fish." ”

"Why are you sure?" Wu Zhongyuan asked, Wang Xinran's 18th sub-bureau was dedicated to dealing with this kind of incident, and her judgment would not be unfounded.

"Because freshwater fish can't be so huge, they can't grow indefinitely due to their own lifespan and external living environment. ”

"Is it possible that it has been exposed to radiation and has produced mutations?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

Wang Xinran knew why Wu Zhongyuan asked this question, "I consulted experts in the afternoon about this question, the energy contained in the spirit stone is indeed terrifying, but that energy is sealed in the spirit stone, unless it is stimulated by a special method, it is only a simple natural consumption, which is not enough to make animals and plants mutate." ”

Wu Zhongyuan nodded, Wang Xinran must have consulted an expert rather than a brick family, this explanation is also reasonable, otherwise those warriors have been carrying the spirit stone with them, and they would have been killed by radiation.

"If fish are excluded, what else could be?" Wu Zhongyuan asked again.

Wang Xinran lowered the backrest and leaned back half-lying, "There is a great possibility of Jiaolong." ”

"I suspect it's a dragon too. Wu Zhongyuan nodded, before Wang Xinran had personally confirmed the existence of the dragon, this is a mysterious creature, huge in shape, can survive from fresh water, can move quickly from the water, all say that things are old and become fine, and now that the country has been built, it must not dare to become a fine, but it has survived for a long time, and it is always possible to become smart.

Seeing that Wang Xinran was a little sleepy, Wu Zhongyuan didn't ask again, two hours later, the plane landed, and the landing of the small plane was not as stable as that of the passenger plane, and it was a bit exaggerated to describe it as a stumble, in short, it was a violent bump.

After landing, the two rushed to Jiujiang City by car, Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China, the area is the size of four Hong Kong, such a large area has to be managed by a special agency, Poyang Lake Authority is such an institution, under the water police and other departments.

As a result of prior communication with the Authority, the Authority sent a section chief surnamed Cui to receive the "chief." ”

After the greetings, Section Chief Cui took the two to have breakfast first, and during the meal, Wu Zhongyuan asked Section Chief Cui about what happened yesterday, but Section Chief Cui knew very little, only knew that this was an ordinary shipwreck, in fact, such a large ship had not been sunk in the waters of Poyang Lake, and the reason why it was characterized as an ordinary shipwreck accident was because there were no dead people, as long as there were no dead people, it could not constitute a serious accident.

After the meal, Section Chief Cui took the two to the office building of the water police, which is larger than the ordinary county public security bureau due to the large area under its jurisdiction, with various departments and a special detention center for criminal suspects of illegal fishing and hunting.

From March to July, Poyang Lake is closed to fishing, which is also the busiest time for the Marine Police, and the detention center is also overcrowded, and the captain and crew of Poyang No. 1 are also held here.

In fact, they are all survivors of the shipwreck, not criminal suspects, but they are not criminal suspects, they don't count it themselves, they have to have the final say from their superiors, saying that you are you, and they don't follow the route, endangering the safety of shipping.

According to the case-handling procedures, the arrest of the person was to be interrogated, but this matter was rather special and involved confidential content, and the higher authorities did not allow the marine police to interfere and specially waited for the "chief" to interrogate.

There were a total of seven people who were arrested, the captain, the first mate, the captain and four crew members, it stands to reason that there should not be only these few people on such a large ship, but the people who hired them didn't want too many people to know about it, so only the seven of them were kept.

The people who hired them all ran away, they were monks with temples, they couldn't run, they were all arrested.

Wu Zhongyuan had never interrogated a prisoner, and it was a little awkward to sit in the interrogation room, Wang Xinran was on the phone, and two police officers who assisted in the interrogation had been waiting at the door.

"Chief, shall we begin?" the Marine Police asked.

"Oh, okay, bring them up......"