After the rest of our lives, we were dragged by the Cao team to a scientific research ship a kilometer away. Director Guo and Lao Chen were also there, and it seemed that the Cao team met them when they arrived at www.biquge.info the dock. Seeing that we came back safely, everyone was overjoyed, but unfortunately this time Lao Qi lost three boatmen's sons and nephews, and the fishing boat that had accompanied him for more than ten years also sank, and everyone's mood was not high.

I didn't want to see Team Cao and Zeng Qian reuniting after a long absence, so Lao Huang and I helped the bloodless old Qi into the cabin, sat down by the electric stove, and boiled some hot water. Rummaging through again, I found a bottle of liquor in the Cao team's private collection, Xiao Lei empathetically got some peanuts and pickles, and the most suitable way to celebrate for the rest of his life after the catastrophe was to drink a few glasses.

As soon as he touched the cup, Team Cao entered the hatch and counted me down, I knew that it was because of the danger that Zeng Qian had, and he couldn't say it clearly, so he had to obediently follow him to his cabin. When I entered the door, I found that the small cabin was covered with large and small sticky notes, including our previous investigation data and records, as well as many notes from archives that I had not seen before. I was curiously leaning up to look at it, when Team Cao took out a bottle of wine from his arms and put it on the table.

"Lao Chang, you took Zeng Qian down to the lake to investigate the geothermal river, why don't you discuss it with me, I will be a few minutes late, and I will not regret it for the rest of my life. Team Cao sat down on the chair in front of the table, his face not so good-looking.

I unscrewed the lid, took two paper cups, poured the wine, handed one to Team Cao, and touched him, "Old Cao, blame me for this, I didn't expect Zeng Qian to find Poyang Lake, and I forgot to call you, and when it was time to call, I encountered electromagnetic interference and couldn't get through." But then again, did we encounter this kind of thing less in the past? Which time did you retreat? Look at you, because Zeng Qian is here, you can't rest assured, and it's hard to sleep and eat, if the two of you do something big in the future, you still can't go out, and you can't handle the case? I won't care about favoring one over the other. ”

Team Cao laughed twice, but drained the wine in the glass. "Chang, whether this marriage can be concluded or not is still two words. ”

This surprised me, and I looked up at him, and he didn't look like a joke.

"Old Chang, do you know where the ministry is going to transfer me?" Team Cao poured himself the wine and looked at me intently.

"You can't get married no matter where you go?" Team Cao's wine was very strong, and the smell of alcohol was a little choking, but when the wine went down, his whole body immediately warmed up.

"The ministry is preparing to set up a new special case department, which is a department, but it is a deputy bureau-level unit. In recent years, there has been a lot of infrastructure construction, rapid economic development, and more and more big cases, strange cases, and headless cases, and the criminal investigation brigades at the grassroots level alone, with their professional quality and professional equipment, can no longer meet the needs, especially some cases involving the state secrecy level, and it is necessary to have a special organization to preside over them. "Team Cao said unhurriedly, it doesn't seem that he is the original criminal investigation captain who dares to fight.

"Isn't that the NSA?" I still didn't understand what he meant.

"It's pretty much the same, they're more politically related cases, we prefer criminal cases, or cases that can't be filed, and this Poyang Lake incident is actually a case from the Special Cases Division. ”

This time, I probably understood the reason, and without waiting for me to ask, Team Cao continued to speak.

"In fact, the Special Cases Division has been around since the 60s, it used to be called the 631 Research Institute, and Team Jiang was still presiding over the work there for a period of time before he left. The work of this institute is good to be able to go home for a month a year, and I often soak in the high mountains and deep streams, and in the desert yellow sand no man's land. One of my former comrades-in-arms was there, and he died in Tianchi in the nineties. I know a lot of the batch that was transferred in '86, and I can be regarded as senior brothers, and there are only two or three of them who are still there. Team Cao said a little heavily, and swallowed the wine in the cup in one gulp.

I patted him on the shoulder and poured her another drink, but how could I not know what he had in mind?

"Lao Cao, who in the world doesn't want to have a successful career and a happy family? But how many can do it? But many things are not as you imagined, one or the other, you can make your own decisions about your career, but after all, feelings are a matter of two people, to balance it, of course you have to ask for Zeng Qian's opinion, don't you? Listen to what she thinks, talk about it. ”

I paused for a moment, saw that Team Cao was listening carefully, took a sip of wine, and continued: "On the other hand, I am a fatalist, many things do not happen if you run away, the police itself is a high-risk profession, and the more scruples you have, the more dangerous it is. I never believe in the nonsense that auspicious people have their own natural appearance, but if you have excellent quality, good preparation, and courage and carefulness, you will succeed. Lao Qi looked very utilitarian and selfish, but without his experience, judgment and preparation, we would have been on this trip and would not have returned. Iron also needs its own hardness, you are this piece of material, just do what you have to do. I saw the Mandate of Heaven Tablet on the Falling Star Pier, I couldn't understand the words on it, but I felt that this was what it was talking about. ”

Team Cao pondered for a long time, then suddenly laughed, clinked glasses with me, came to me and asked, "Lao Chang, I don't understand, you think about these things in the world so clearly, why didn't you get a sister-in-law to meet me?"

I smiled bitterly, "Actually, I don't have the same troubles as you, but I'm not as lucky as you, and I met an empathetic and like-minded object, so I advise you, don't think about things too seriously, give up lightly, and don't completely ignore the problem from Zeng Qian's point of view, communicate more, and have a confidant in life, but if you give up your career, you won't be Team Cao, and I'm afraid you won't be Xiao Zeng's real favorite object." ”

While we were talking, Zeng Qian suddenly pushed the door and came in. She recovered quickly from the danger just now, and asked us with a smile: "Are you talking about Uncle Chang's love history? ”

Naturally, I couldn't go on with this topic, so I brought the conversation to the luminescent organism we had just encountered.

Speaking of this, Team Cao sighed, "Lao Chang, in fact, I also blame me for this matter, I knew a lot of things that you didn't know before, but the ministry had a confidentiality requirement for this case, I hesitated for a long time, and I still didn't tell you, let you help, but you almost died at the bottom of the lake." ”

Later, the introduction of Team Cao not only verified some of the encounters between me and Zeng Qian, but more than we imagined.

The shipwreck at Poyang Lake has been used as an after-dinner conversation for thousands of years, and although there have been in-depth investigations into a large number of shipwrecks in the 80s, there has been no breakthrough.

A few years ago, relations across the Taiwan Strait eased somewhat, and more and more Taiwanese non-governmental organizations and research institutes came to the mainland, but the ministry found that many non-governmental research institutions with government backgrounds came to Poyang Lake in the name of investment and cooperation, and seemed to be secretly investigating something. After an investigation, the ministry realized that they were concerned about the Kobe Maru, which was mysteriously sunk by the Japanese troops stationed in China in Poyang Lake in 42 years, and the disappearance of the salvage ship of the American shipwreck salvage company commissioned by the Nationalist Government in 46 years.

It is said that the Kobe Maru was loaded with dozens of tons of gold, but this must not be the goal of the Taiwanese research institute, after all, it is impossible for them to come to salvage, and what they want to find out must be related to the American salvage ship.

As he spoke, Team Cao handed me a somewhat yellowed file, and after a cursory flip through it, I realized that things were much stranger than I had imagined.

There were two survivors of the sinking of the salvage ship in four or six years, one was Joseph, the captain of the salvage ship, and the other was the diver Donnie. Downey is a military veteran, and his identity is mysterious according to the profile, and the possibility that he was in the service of U.S. intelligence cannot be ruled out.

At the time of the sinking incident, Downey was diving to the bottom of the lake, searching the waters about a kilometer south of the Falling Star Pier, and he was about a hundred meters away from the salvage boat. He first found some fragments of the wreckage of a shipwreck at the bottom of the lake, and after sneaking along the debris for a short distance, he found a geothermal river underwater.

The geothermal river rolled up the silt at the bottom of the lake and washed out an underground channel about five meters wide, but due to the high water temperature, Downey could only observe from a position of ten meters outside the geothermal river. Downey discovered that the fragments of the shipwreck he had seen earlier had disappeared in the vicinity of the geothermal river, and he thought it had been washed away by the geothermal river.

But in the geothermal river, Donnie seemed to see countless small points of light coming down the river from the upstream, but there was too much silt in the geothermal river, and it was very muddy, and he couldn't see what those points of light were.

Intrigued, Donnie turned back, picked up a piece of the wreck, surfaced, and told Joseph about the following situation, and suggested that Joseph should survey the geothermal river upstream and perhaps make a greater discovery. Joseph examined the fragment that Donnie had brought with him, and it looked like a piece of iron, but the surface was pitted, apparently badly corroded by something, but he couldn't tell if it was left by the Kobe Maru.

The salvage ship followed the direction indicated by Downey underwater, and advanced about a kilometer to the northwest. But Downey found that the geothermal river was getting wider, and the river was moving more and more small spots of light and getting larger and larger. Donnie advanced a few dozen meters further, and found a huge reef in the water, swarthy, more than ten times the size of their salvage boat.

But strangely, the part of the reef that invaded the water had no common sediments and attachments, and appeared very smooth, as if it had been carefully polished, and glowed blue-black.

Downey also noticed that the lake bed in this area had obvious signs of collapse, forming a large pit with a reef as the center and a diameter of about five or six hundred meters, but it may be the result of long-term silt accumulation, the pit is not deep, and if you don't look closely, you can't see the difference from the surroundings. But the geothermal river seemed to be gushing out from the bottom of the reef, and Donnie endured the high temperature of nearly sixty or seventy degrees, leaning to a distance of dozens of meters, and saw that there was a deep black cave under the reef, about five or six meters in diameter, from which the hot geothermal river water gushed out.

(The Tao is born, the virtue is the animal, the form of the object, and the potential is formed.) It is to respect all things and honor virtue. The respect of the Tao, the nobility of virtue, the life of Fu Mo and the nature of the usual. Therefore, the Tao is born, the virtuous animal is born, the long is nurtured, the pavilion is poisoned, and the raising is overcome. To be born but not to have, to be for the sake of not being ashamed, to grow but not to slaughter, is called Xuande. --Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching) (To be continued.) )