Coming out of Xu Qing's house, a few people had a simple meal at a small restaurant on the side of the road.

On the way back, thinking back to the two messages sent by Xu Qing, Xiao Ran suddenly asked, "Sister Li, if you are far away, there is no signal on your mobile phone, right?"

"Yes, there will be a signal at sea close to land, and if it is more than ten kilometers or more, there will be no signal at all, unless there is a relay on board. ”

"But most of the fishing vessels are basically operating within the coverage of the coastal base stations, so there is basically nothing on the boats except for the mandatory installation of Arctic navigation," Li said.

As for satellite phones, they are very expensive and we use very little on our side. Moreover, He Ping'an and Xu Qing are likely to be on a black ship, most of the black ships are scrapped ships, and the previous things on board have been dismantled and will be abandoned at any time.

And they should be engaged in illegal activities, the shipowner will definitely cut off their access to the outside world, how can it be time-consuming and laborious to install base stations for them. ”

Xiao Ran leaned on the car seat, looked at the street lamps that kept passing outside the window, and muttered: "So, according to the time inference, the place they are going to is far away from the coast, and there is basically no mobile phone signal, so how did Xu Qing send the message behind him?"

"Who can say for sure? Now we can only start with the boat of 'Dongyu A618'. Luo Ying shook his head and said.

The group did not go back to the office, but followed Li Hui to the coast guard brigade.

While searching for the 'Dongyu A618' boat, the coast guard team also spread information among the fishermen, looking for eyewitnesses with knowledge.

After several hours of hard searching, finally, in the information of the scrapped ship, Xiao Ran and they found Dongyu A618.

It was a 20-metre-long two-story sampan trawler, which was allowed to carry 15 people and could carry distant-water fishing, which was scrapped a year ago.

As Li Hua judged, this was a black boat.

Looking at the information on the scrapped ship, Li Hui frowned, "According to my experience at sea over the years, if it is just one person who has an accident, some ruthless captains may still want to hide it."

But there were two corpses found this time, and there was no news of one person, normally speaking, even the black ship would not dare to hide it.

But so far, our brigade has not received any reports of crew members falling into the water and missing, so there is only one possibility, that is, the whole ship has an accident. ”

"Can you find the Maritime Search and Rescue Bureau to check the navigation trajectory of this ship?" He Nai said tentatively.

Luo Ying nodded He Nai's head angrily: "Think about it here." A scrapped black ship, the equipment installed before has been dismantled, and now he wants to do something illegal, will he come to register the navigation information on the ship?"

"Oh, too. He Nai scratched his head.

Xiao Ran said: "What about the distress signal? I remember that the Arctic ship navigation can send a distress signal, although the previous navigation of this ship has been dismantled, but they want to go to sea, the navigation must be there, if a boatload of people are in crisis, it is impossible not to send a distress signal." ”

"Yes, our Arctic navigation can send distress signals in the form of text messages. Li Hui said: "But we don't know the sea area where the incident occurred, and it will take a long time to go to the Maritime Search and Rescue Bureau to investigate." ”

"It's better to take time than no direction. Let's go!" Luo Ying said.

Out of the coast guard, the group got in the car and rushed to the Maritime Search and Rescue Bureau, fortunately this is also a team on duty all day, otherwise it is more than ten o'clock in the evening, and ordinary people have already left work.

On the way to the Search and Rescue Bureau, Li Hui's mobile phone suddenly rang.

After she answered, she suddenly became excited: "Sure enough, it still depends on the masses, some fishermen provided information that they saw Dongyu A618 more than half a month ago, and anchored side by side with another ship in a certain sea area, but the ship's side number was covered and could not see ......"

As she spoke, Li Hui's face sank, obviously, she was also aware of the problem.

According to their previous inference, if Dongyu A618 went to sea alone and suffered a marine accident that killed many people, this is still in the past.

But now Dongyu A618 is obviously going to sea with another boat, and the fishermen saw that there was no problem with the Dongyu A618 boat at that time, and there were no bad sea conditions in those two days, how could there be such a big casualty?

So, this is in line with their previous assumption, this is likely to be a major vicious criminal case!

At 11 o'clock in the evening, the group came to the Maritime Search and Rescue Bureau to find information about the ship's accident.

With the assistance of the staff on duty, the group carefully screened and screened all the distress messages in the past month, and suddenly, a very suspicious distress message appeared in Xiao Ran's eyes.

- This distress message was not sent around the 3rd, but in the early morning of the 11th, and there was no distress message in the message, and there was no ship information, but it was sent several times in a row.

"What's going on with this message?" Xiao Ran asked, turning his head.

The staff replied: "Because there is no specific content for help, and the information we replied to was not answered, we judged that the people on the boat had failed to operate and treated it as invalid information." ”

"Can you determine the location of the sea area where the distress message was sent?" asked Shan Yuerou on the table.

The staff said: "Yes, this is sent by the Arctic navigation, and the specific location of the terminal will also be uploaded synchronously at the colleague who transmits the signal." ”

Saying that, the staff checked the location of this message when it was sent, and it was the sea area where the fishermen were witnessing and seeing Dongyu A618!

"But this message was sent in the early morning of the 11th, and Xu Qing's message was sent on the morning of the 3rd, was it sent from Dongyu A618?" Shan Yuerou also frowned.

"I hope so. Luo Ying said in a deep voice.

"Or maybe not. ”

Xiao Ran was silent for a moment, and suddenly said, "Let's not forget, there is also a deceased C." The medical examiner determined that the time of death of deceased C was about a week, which was around the 11th. ”

"Under this sea, what makes them so mad and treat human life like a mustard?" Luo Ying said angrily.

"There's always something that makes people take risks. ”

Xiao Ran said softly: "If this distress signal is sent from Dongyu A618, and the deceased C is also from Dongyu A618, then it is certain that from the beginning of the month to the middle of the month, there are constantly dead people on that boat, and the number of dead may be several times the number of dead people found."

If Dongyu A618 has sunk and abandoned around the 3rd, then the distress signal on the 11th is likely to be that the same group of people found another black boat, and recruited a new batch of crew members to work in this sea area, and then there was an accident. ”

"Regardless of whether Dongyu A618 has always been there, or has been abandoned, at least what we feel now is already creepy!" Shan Yuerou said solemnly.

He Nai was dumbfounded, he had never encountered such a serious situation, and his tongue was a little knotted when he spoke: "Could it be someone who is repeating the shipwreck!"

"Whether it's or not, we have to go to sea tomorrow, go to that sea area and see for yourself, and you won't be weak at that time!"