Chapter Eighty-Six: The Ancient Underwater City

"Underwater space?" Wu Zhongyuan was puzzled, "You mean there is a cave where dragons are dormant underwater?"

Wang Xinran shook his head, "There should be a space for dragons to lie dormant underwater, but it is not necessarily a cave. ”

"What's that?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

Wang Xinran sat down from the sofa, "In the early years when dealing with the shipwreck, the 18th Sub-Bureau had organized relevant personnel to conduct underwater surveys on the waters of Poyang Lake, according to the dossier, there are a large number of underwater buildings in the waters of Poyang Lake, most of these underwater buildings are ancient cities flooded by the lake, and there are currently known three relatively large ancient cities of Chaisang, Xunyang and Xiaoyang. ”

"There is also an ancient city under the water of Black Dragon Pond?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

Wang happily shook his head, "I'm not sure, there is no mention of this body of water in the case file." ”

"Since they have conducted underwater surveys, they should know where the three ancient cities are under the water. Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wang Xinran pointed to the cabinet in the hall, Wu Zhongyuan understood, walked over and took a bottle of mineral water and threw it to her, Wang Xinran took the mineral water, unscrewed it and drank a few sips, and then said, "The survey work was not done meticulously, or it may be affected and limited by objective factors such as science and technology at that time and the special environment here, they only roughly determined the approximate location of the two ancient cities of Xunyang and Xiaoyang, as for Chaisang, the case file did not explain its location, but only said that it was in the northwest direction of Poyang Lake." ”

"Chai Sang, why is it so familiar?" Wu Zhongyuan frowned, he seemed to have seen or heard this place name somewhere.

Wang Xinran didn't answer, picked up the water bottle and continued to drink.

"I remember," Wu Zhongyuan recalled, "When Cao's army went south, Shu sent Zhuge Liang to Eastern Wu to discuss the two countries' resistance to Cao, and Zhuge Liang was Sun Quan who came to see Chaisang." ”

Wang Xinran still didn't answer, her history was not as good as Wu Zhongyuan's, because she was not really an archaeology student.

After the two didn't speak for a long time, Wang Xinran drank water, lit a cigarette again, and when he was halfway through the smoke, Wu Zhongyuan opened his mouth, "What should we do now?"

Wang said happily, "I know what you're thinking, but I can't support you. ”

"Why?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"There are several reasons, first of all, we don't know if they're trapped underwater. Second, we don't know what's going on underwater. Third, if they are really trapped underwater, we are not sure if they are still alive. Also, we don't know what they're looking for when they go into the water, what is the reason why we organized the people to venture into the water? Save them, even if I agree, can they agree?"

Wu Zhongyuan was speechless.

Wang Xinran knew that he was worried about Lin Qingming, so he was relieved, "You don't have to worry too much, those people on Poyang No. 1 are still outside, if they are really trapped underwater in black suits, they should be more anxious than us." ”

Wu Zhongyuan sighed.

Wang happily snuffed out the cigarette and said, "Now that we have released the crew of Poyang No. 1, they may come into contact with these crew members, I have ordered people to closely monitor those crew members, at present we have two choices, one is to arrest them after they appear, surprise interrogation, if they can confirm that the black suit went into the water to find the spirit stone, I have a reason to organize people to go into the water and rescue them while looking for the spirit stone." The second option is to wait and see what happens, let them do what they want, and we don't stop them from trying to save people, and then arrest them after they get them out. Which of the two options is better?"

"The second," Wu Zhongyuan said, "those people at Poyang No. 1 probably didn't know what Zhao Ying was looking for, but were just cooperating with them to dive underwater." ”

"Okay, listen to you. Wang nodded happily.

"Have you sent someone to monitor the area around Black Dragon Pond?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"Yes, they are all two kilometers away, monitored and observed with telescopes," Wang Xinran said, "Those people are not ordinary criminals, they have strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities, and if they are too close, they may alarm them." ”

Wu Zhongyuan thought for a while, and then asked, "Can you let the satellite determine what is under the black water pool?"

Wang Xinran glanced at Wu Zhongyuan, "Satellites can only shoot things on the ground, they can't detect underwater, and if you want to know what's under the black pool, you have to use a submarine." ”

After Wang Xinran finished speaking, seeing Wu Zhongyuan's pleading face, he didn't wait for him to speak, and sealed his mouth first, "What do you want to do? You don't really want me to transfer a submarine over, do you?"

"Can you?" Wu Zhongyuan sneered.

"Do you want an aircraft carrier?" Wang Xinran looked at him again.

Wu Zhongyuan choked and could only shut up in embarrassment.

Seeing that he was frustrated, Wang Xinran felt that what he just said was a bit excessive, "You have to understand us, like this kind of thing, low-key handling is the first principle, you can't make the city full of storms, once the public knows that there is a dragon, it is difficult for them to remain objective and sober, they will not simply regard it as a rare aquatic animal, they will therefore have doubts about the materialist worldview, they will think that since there is a dragon, will there really be ghosts, will there be aliens, with false rumors, random speculation, and finally chaos." ”

Wu Zhongyuan was speechless, although he was worried about the safety of Lin Qingming and Zhao Ying, the Eighteenth Branch also had its own difficulties.

The only thing that can be done at present is to wait, Wang Xinran also knew what Wu Zhongyuan was worried about, and contacted the person in charge of monitoring near Black Dragon Pond every hour, asking if there was any abnormal situation in the nearby waters, and to put it bluntly, asking if there was a corpse floating up.

Wu Zhongyuan is grateful for Wang Xinran's approach, but at the same time he is grateful, he also has new worries, the absence of floating corpses does not mean that Lin Qingming and the others are still alive, they may have been eaten by the dragon, or killed by the dragon in the underwater space.

While waiting, the headquarters was not idle, although they didn't know why Zhao Ying and the others would sneak into the black water pool, but they could check the historical materials to determine whether there were ancients who built a city there before that water area was flooded.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the headquarters came with the news, after further search and comparison, it can be roughly determined that the waters of the Black Dragon Pond is the location of the ancient city of Chaisang, the place name of Chaisang is still used, but the current Chaisang and the ancient Chaisang are not the same place, just like the current Luoyang and the ancient Luoyang are not in the same place.

In addition, the ancient Chaisang City was established in the middle of the Han Dynasty, and was flooded by the lake long before the Jin Dynasty, and it only existed for more than two hundred years, so the headquarters inferred that if Zhao Ying and others really went into the water to find the spirit stone, then the owner of the underwater spirit stone should be the warrior who appeared in 213 AD, that is, during the Three Kingdoms period.

The warriors sent out by the tribe to find him were not all men, there were several female warriors, and the warrior who appeared in the Three Kingdoms period was a young woman, for this person, the description of the little wizard was 'beautiful and petite, less words and more scheming, good at using hidden weapons, and a mole on his left forehead. ’

This news made Wu Zhongyuan's mood slightly better, but fortunately, this warrior is a woman, if it is a man, it will be troublesome, during the Three Kingdoms period, there were thousands of famous generals in history, and it was extremely difficult to find the warrior among these people.

Even so, it is difficult for the headquarters to determine the identity of this female warrior in the Three Kingdoms period in a short period of time, it is easy to say that she is beautiful, that is, she looks good, but petite is not enough to become a condition for screening, the average height of our modern adult men is only one meter six or seven, and women are only one meter five or six, but the height of ancient people is quite different from that of modern people, according to archaeological discoveries, thousands of male bones unearthed in the tombs of the Qin and Han dynasties, the average height of their lives has reached one meter eight.

This is a very surprising number, but it is real archaeological data, such archaeological findings do not prove that people are getting shorter, but they can prove that men in the Qin and Han dynasties were much taller than they are now.

Therefore, the petite mentioned by the little wizard cannot be a condition for selection, and it is useless to talk less and scheming, because the long-tongued women are a minority after all, and most women do not talk much.

Now there are only three points that can be used as a reference for finding, good-looking, will use hidden weapons, left forehead mole, the historians of the headquarters need to rely on these three points to find this female warrior from a large number of historical materials of the Three Kingdoms period, and the premise is that there are records about her in the historical materials.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the news came from the marine police, not good news or bad news, but strange news, that all seven people on the Poyang No. 1 boat at the time of the incident had turned themselves in, admitting that they had hired a boat to illegally fish for the Yangtze River saury, and nothing else.

Hearing this news, Wang Xinran and Wu Zhongyuan looked at each other, they didn't expect the other party to make such a move, the other party just turned himself in, and did not tell the water police Zhao Ying and others any situation, nor did they ask the water police for help.

"They're forcing us to come to the rescue. Wang said happily.

"What now?" Wu Zhongyuan asked, the other party's move was clever, and there is no evidence to prove that these people have done other bad things in addition to illegal fishing, they went to surrender because they knew that he and Wang Xinran had learned about the incident, and they were indirectly telling them by turning themselves in, "Don't wait, we can't handle this matter, come on." ’

"What else can I do, what a bunch of scoundrels. Wang Xinran was both angry and helpless, the other party made it clear that they should wipe their buttocks, but she couldn't help but wipe this buttocks, because Lin Qingming was probably still underwater, and that was Wu Zhongyuan's senior brother.

"If they don't play scoundrels, there is no other way," Wu Zhongyuan was also helpless, "Such a big ship has been overturned, and they have no other way to rescue it, after all, this is on our territory, and they can't send warships over." ”

Wang Xinran blackened his face and did not answer.

Wu Zhongyuan knew that Wang Xinran was thinking about how to save people, and also knew that if Lin Qingming was not involved in this matter, Wang Xinran would definitely stand by and watch, and this account was calculated and finally calculated on his head, so he had no confidence in guilt, and asked cautiously, "Do you want to go over and interrogate them personally?"

"There's no need for that," Wang happily waved his hand, "they've already discussed it in advance, they won't say what they shouldn't say, not to mention that they don't know anything important." ”

"Yes," Wu Zhongyuan nodded, "Let's think about what to do, even if it's not to save people, in order to find the spirit stone, we will have to go down sooner or later." ”

"A group of fools who have not achieved enough and have more than enough to lose," Wang Xinran said angrily, "That Jiaolong has been provoked by them, and now it is angry, who dares to go into the water at this time......"