At 7:30 p.m. on November 30, 1995, everyone on board had finished dinner, and the sailors returned to their rooms one after another, leaving only the fishing chief, Manager Wu, four engineers, Captain Vasily, Russian Chief Engineer, Captain Pan, Luo Jingye, Chen Xing and others stayed.

On behalf of the company, Manager Wu conveyed some work arrangements to everyone: Luo Jingye immediately contacted the relevant departments in Sri Lanka to cremate Engineer Lin's body and arrange the latest flight to consign the ashes back to Taiwan.

The Aristotle is temporarily moored in the sea outside Colombo Pier, so be sure to keep a safe distance. First observe the situation in Sri Lanka and the changes in Colombo, if it is controlled within three days, then re-enter the port, and continue to transfer the remaining one-third of the catch to the local freezing plant, if after three days, the local situation is still very chaotic and safety can not be guaranteed, then contact the refrigerated fishing boat from Singapore, go to Colombo, and transship at sea in the open sea.

Because the ship's freezer compartment had not been emptied, it was not possible to conduct a detailed inspection of the fishing vessel as a whole, so the four Taiwanese engineers stayed on board the Aristotle for the time being, waiting for the transshipment to be completed before conducting an inspection.

The crew's vacation will be temporarily cancelled until a safe period or location, and the company will arrange it separately.

During this period, all personnel must stay on the ship, and the supplies on board will be communicated by Luo Jingye with the local area, and the work boat or speedboat will be transported to and from the port terminal. If there are special circumstances, it is necessary to have the permission of the fishing chief or Manager Wu, and only on the premise of ensuring safety can it be disposed of.

There is no objection to this arrangement, and the best thing to do in this case is to wait and see from the safety of the sea, far from the port, and if you rush to Singapore or Seychelles, it will be an additional cost, and there will be no larger riots and wars, so it is the best choice here.

Luo Jingye then took a speedboat back to Colombo city to arrange for Engineer Lin's body to be cremated and transported back to Taiwan. Manager Wu insisted on going along to deal with it, but the fishing chief couldn't resist him, so he had to ask Chen Xing and Ivan for their consent to entrust the two of them to take care of and protect Manager Wu together. Everyone knows that Ivan has practiced boxing, and judging from his sturdy physique, the most suitable people on the ship are Chen Xing and Ivan, and it is not a secret that Chen Xing and Ivan learn boxing. But now that the shore is so dangerous, you have to agree with yourself, after all, you are taking a considerable risk. Chen Xing is young and curious, Ivan purely listens to Chen Xing's opinion, after all, with his background, he has a certain amount of experience and can take care of Chen Xing, as for Manager Wu, he just takes care of it by the way.

When he returned to the dock, it was already past 10 o'clock in the evening, and Luo Jingye drove three people to Colombo National Hospital. The chaos in the city gradually subsided, but the police and military cordons were still everywhere, many armed soldiers patrolled the road, and when they met the Tamils mentioned by Luo Jingye, they would interrogate and check, and I don't know how they could distinguish between Sinhalese and Tamils, anyway, in Chen Xing's opinion, these two races look similar, like the mixed race of Indians and Southeast Asians in TV movies.

As you pass by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, you can see the surrounding buildings crumbling and dilapidated, dilapidated and desolate in the moonlight and the reflection of street lamps in the distance.

When I arrived at the hospital, I found that it was still the busiest and noisiest place in Colombo, with wards and corridors overcrowded, doctors, nurses, patients, and family members running between floors and wards, consultation rooms, and operating rooms, with cries of pain and despair one after another. More than 1,000 people were injured, and the largest hospital in Colombo shared more than 600 people, and doctors and nurses have been busy since the morning, and some of the injuries are still not serious, but the bloodied are sitting on the floor in the hall or corridor, waiting for the doctor to deal with them.

When he entered the morgue, Chen Xing was chilled, when had he seen so many corpses gathered together, most of them were still drenched in blood and unrecognizable, and even a few corpses had broken bones and broken limbs. Smelling the heavy smell of blood, Chen Xing couldn't bear it anymore, and ran to the door of the morgue and vomited violently. Manager Wu and Luo Jingye were not much better, the two of them whose legs were trembling like chaff, under the influence of Chen Xing, also came to the door one after another, and the little bread they ate at night was all spit out by the three of them, and a sour smell diffused outside the morgue. Ivan didn't react excessively, but his expression was sad, his frowning brow, clenched teeth, and clenched fists showed his indignation at such atrocities.

The old man guarding the morgue was swarthy and thin, he had probably seen too much life and death and sorrow today, and he was expressionless and Luo Jingye was communicating something in Sinhala. I don't know what Luo Jingye thought at the beginning, why did he want to learn Sinhala and Tamil, even Chen Xing, who is proficient in 10 foreign languages, feels unpleasant to hear, and it may be the psychological hint that today's blood brought him.

Luo Jingye said to Manager Wu: "There is no way to send the body out for cremation today, the relevant departments will not be able to confirm it until half past eight tomorrow morning, there are many people who are cremated, let's make an appointment to line up early tomorrow." ”

Luo Jingye's place of residence is not far from the national hospital, but fortunately, it is not close to today's three explosion sites and has not been affected by the explosions.

It's 12 o'clock at night, and I have to get up early tomorrow, so Manager Wu didn't look for a hotel again, and everyone was going to spend the night at Luo Jingye's residence. The house he rented is not big, on the top floor of a 6-story apartment, with a bedroom, a guest room, a study, a living room, plus a kitchen and bathroom, a total of about 100 square meters. The study is at the outermost, near the door, next to the kitchen, turning a corner, through the corridor is the living room, the innermost opposite is the bedroom and guest room, and in the middle is the bathroom. Manager Wu lives in the guest room, Ivan lives in the sofa in the living room, and Chen Xing takes the initiative to ask to live in the sofa in the study.

In fact, Chen Xing's request to live in the study was purposeful.

Things in the world are sometimes so coincidental, when you have the ability beyond ordinary people, even God will increase the corresponding responsibility for you.

When he entered the apartment building rented by Luo Jingye just now, because it was too late and worried about safety, Chen Xing subconsciously activated the perception of Tianyan, and the distance of perception covered the entire apartment building, and all the residents had basically fallen asleep, but when they climbed to the 3rd floor, they actually sensed that the residents on the right side of the stairs had not yet slept, and a man and a woman inside seemed to be discussing something. This is not surprising, but there is a bundle on the table in the living room, even if Chen Xing is a person who knows nothing about arms, he can see that it is explosives, which makes Chen Xing tremble. Unfortunately, he didn't know the lingua franca of Sri Lanka, Sinhala and Tamil, so he couldn't understand what these two people were saying, he didn't know what they were going to do, and he couldn't recognize whether they were Sinhalese or Tamils.

Time was too tight, Chen Xing saw that Luo Jingye's study room had Sinhala and Tamil study books, although it was a Taiwanese version, traditional characters, he could still understand it. And there was also a radio in the study, and a plan quickly entered his mind.

Everyone slept, Chen Xing also closed the door of the study, he has always maintained the perception of the two people on the third floor, 10 minutes ago, these two people also fell asleep, he breathed a sigh of relief, there was no accident for the time being. Continuing to divide a little perception to lock the two people, he found that this would not be too wasteful of his energy, and it was a good use.

Then, in the same way as he had learned a foreign language on a ship, Chen Xing quickly flipped through all the reference books on the bookshelf and memorized all the reference books on the shelves, and turned on the radio to turn on the minimum volume and listen to the local radio station in Sri Lanka. More than two hours later, at 3 a.m., Chen Xing quickly arranged and combined the basic knowledge of the two languages in his brain memory and the radio content of the two languages, and the result was that he mastered Sinhala and Tamil in a faster time. His ability to memorize quickly has been upgraded, not only to memorize, but also to master it according to basic knowledge, combined with practical application and operation. Chen Xing felt that he could use this ability to master and use most of the human knowledge, which was the ability he needed most at the moment. Of course, this needs to be further verified, and he is extremely excited and eager to try. But today's matter is urgent, so he can suppress this excitement for the time being.

Chen Xing, who calmed down, thought about the next plan: the third floor, the bomb, the purpose, the Tamil Tigers?