With such a layer of cause and effect, and thinking of a friendship, all of Li Guoliang's actions have a reasonable explanation. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info But respect for respect does not mean that we agree with his plan. Thinking about it, Li Guoliang also realized this, he shook his head and continued.

"Professor Lu's inspection last year, I was also one of the members, but before leaving, the unit arranged a temporary task for me, I and a few comrades from 631 went to Lop Nur, the military order is like a mountain, I also learned later, I was transferred to Lop Nur was proposed by Professor Lu to the ministry, but I came back from Lop Nur, Professor Lu They have disappeared. This really made me both annoyed and a little unwilling. ”

"Professor Xiao Zeng, you said, we are facing an unknown creature that may have the ability to live forever, but for human beings, what if they know the secret of eternal life, human beings have already found the way to live forever, that is, the eternal life of thought, the eternal life of knowledge, and the way to obtain eternal life by passing on the torch from generation to generation. So, the efforts we make in each generation are worthwhile. Now, we are standing outside the door of making history, maybe after I step in, our thermonuclear theory, genetics theory, electromagnetic theory will be rewritten, aerospace technology, stealth technology, magnetic transmission technology, there will be breakthroughs, there will always be someone to walk into this door, I have been preparing for this for 30 years, my father, my mentor has paid for this, I am ready to take on all this, everyone bless me, okay?"

Li Guoliang's words were firm and unmistakable, and I knew that no matter how much we tried to persuade them, there was no point in them. We spent another sleepless night, repeatedly revising the plan, refining the details, preparing materials, and filling in the gaps, hoping that our efforts could make Li Guoliang start an adventure that would not go back and never return.

But Li Guoliang was surprisingly calm, sitting quietly on the bow of the boat alone, looking at the dark night and the calm lake, in a daze.

I walked up to him, handed him a cigarette, and sat silently with him. Maybe he just wants someone to talk to at this moment.

"Uncle Chang, did you see the Mandate of Heaven Monument on the Falling Star Pier last time? I went to the island a few days ago to take a look, what do you mean by the word Mandate of Heaven?" Li Guoliang turned his head and asked me.

"I think, everyone in each stage, each different environment, have different understanding and feelings, for me, the mandate of heaven is the ancients' understanding and obedience to the way of heaven, talking about a kind of accident and the relationship between necessity, I always feel that there is no absolute accident in this world, but we still can't understand the inevitability behind it, including the unknown life form, its existence must have some close connection with our future. ”

Li Guoliang nodded at me, "Yes, after I saw that stele, I felt that everything I had done for so many years was to prepare for this moment, who wants to risk their own lives? But there is indeed something guiding me in the dark, maybe it is the destiny of heaven, this is what I must accomplish." ”

We looked at the dark night for a while, Li Guoliang sighed, turned to me and said: "Uncle Chang, in fact, Team Cao is a very good policeman, I had a little conflict with him before, it was entirely because I thought he was a little forward-looking and backward at that time, and dragged his feet a little, but I later met Professor Xiao Zeng, and it suddenly dawned on me that it is normal to have such a bond." I heard that Team Cao is about to be transferred to 631, I don't know if Uncle Chang is familiar with it?"

I shook my head, for 631, I still listened to Team Cao talk more, but I had never been in contact with this institution.

"Uncle Chang, before I came to Poyang Lake, I was cooperating with the work of 631, and I only went to Lop Nur, where there is also a geomagnetic interference area that is very similar to here. I estimate that the Cao team was transferred above, it is likely that it is for this case, you should be more careful, if I can't come back this time, this book will be left to you, which contains the details and notes of my trip to Lop Nur this time. As he spoke, he handed me a brown leather notebook. The leather surface is very worn, and there are many broken pages inside, so I don't know what kind of story I have experienced.

This was the last conversation I had with Li Guoliang, and even many years later, his voice and smile were a little blurred in my memory, but those words still echoed in my ears. The next day, according to our revised plan, the research ship set off for the morning light.

In this plan, Lao Chen transferred an old iron-hulled fishing boat from Xingzi County, loaded some live cattle and sheep, and came to join us in the morning. We connected the rescue boat with a rope, and Xiao Lei, Lao Huang and Lao Chen were in charge of driving the boat to a place about a mile away from Donggua Reef, walking another kilometer south along the geothermal river, and then parked the fishing boat in the lake as bait and waited for the emergence of unknown life. The lifeboat carried everyone, away from the geothermal river, to observe nearby.

As soon as there was any movement of the fishing boat, we approached the research boat from the east side of Donggua Reef, and Cao Team, Xiao Gu and Li Guoliang took a speedboat over, Li Guoliang brought a set of anti-radiation diving suits to go down to investigate, and Cao Team and Xiao Gu also put on anti-radiation suits and were responsible for responding. Twenty minutes after the start of the underwater mission, evacuate.

It was almost noon, and the fishing boats, which had been quietly parked in the lake, moved, and the sky above the fishing boats became gloomy, and the wind suddenly rose, and the fishing boats rose and fell in the waves, and after a while, a thick fog appeared on the surface of the water, and small points of light began to flicker faintly underwater.

Xiao Lei's boat was about a kilometer away from the fishing boat, and it was also affected by the big waves, so he hurriedly lifted anchor and drove in the opposite direction, while talking to us on the phone to report what happened there, but without saying a few words, the phone was full of rustling sound of electromagnetic interference.

From our boat, we could also see the thick clouds and waves in the lake from a distance, but it was at least two kilometers away from us and it didn't make much difference. Cao Team and Li Guoliang no longer hesitated, and drove the speedboat towards the Winter Melon Reef one kilometer away.

It was a long wait, and it was only half an hour, but it seemed like a century to us. The phone didn't work, so we had to look at the speedboat a kilometer away with high-powered binoculars and look at the clouds and fog in the other direction. The most worried was Zeng Qian, like a statue, motionless, and later, she didn't dare to look at the telescope.

After about twenty minutes, we saw that the rescue boat of Little Ray and his lifeboat had made an arc and began to move in our direction, and we realized that the fishing boat should have sunk, and in the telescope, we could faintly see the lightning-like glare that kept flashing in the dense fog.

As we had agreed, we began to warn the Cao team, but their speedboat remained motionless.

At this time, we could already feel that the research ship was shaking more and more, and the dense fog and clouds in the distance began to dissipate, and when our hearts were in our throats, Cao and their speedboat finally started, and we did not dare to delay, took anchor, and slowly drove south.

By the time Cao's speedboat joined us, Li Guoliang was already in a deep coma, and he could see from his helmet that his face had turned purple red and was covered with large and small blisters. We lifted Li Guoliang onto the research ship and drove in the direction of the Xingzi County wharf. When we took off Li Guoliang's diving suit, his mouth kept shaking slightly, as if he was saying something.

Zeng Qian half-knelt next to Li Guoliang, stared at his lips, and said intermittently, "Guoliang is saying that there may be many brains of luminescent creatures, all of them in the cave, and those tissue cells may be shared... The radiation source is a form of nuclear fission unknown to humanity, like a small reactor... In the deep starry sky, God's eye looks at the reciprocal passage of time with pity, and the cycle of life verifies the greatness of loneliness and loneliness... It seems that Guoliang is reciting a poem by Yeats..."

After the research ship docked, the ambulance pulled Li Guoliang down to Nanchang, and after making an emergency rescue, I heard that he was sent to Beijing by special plane that night.

Our group arranged a comprehensive physical examination in Nanchang, but fortunately, everyone was fine. We waited for a whole week in Nanchang, during which the comrades of the Provincial Ministry of Public Security and the State Security Bureau came to see us and announced to us the secrecy discipline of this search and rescue.

Before we were ready to leave Nanchang, a team of reinforcements from Beijing and Shanghai arrived, along with Vice Minister Tian, the leader of Cao's team. He affirmed the results of our search and rescue activities, but he also brought us bad news: Li Guoliang had died three days ago because of severe radiation, which caused most of the organs in his body to fail. However, in the underwater cave, he used a miniature camera to bring back very important information to the ministry, which made an important contribution to the relevant state departments to understand the strong radiation source at the bottom of Poyang Lake and the next step to protect it.

Back in Beijing, we specially attended Li Guoliang's memorial service, which was attended by leaders of the army, the Ministry of Public Security, the Academy of Sciences, and even the General Office of the ******, which was of a very high standard, but I also found that there were very few relatives of Li Guoliang who came to attend, to be precise, there was no immediate family member. After the memorial service, Team Cao briefly told me about what he didn't know much.

Under the winter melon reef, there is a cave about four meters in diameter and more than 30 meters deep, and the geothermal river water gushes out of this hole. Descending to the end of the cave, he found that there was a space of about two hundred square meters and more than three meters high, and at the bottom of this space, there was a huge meteorite, estimated to be seven meters square and weighing dozens of tons. The meteorite was half-embedded in a boulder, and there was a hole with a diameter of one meter underneath, but the entrance was too small for Li Guoliang to enter.

But according to Li Guoliang's observation, this hole is not deep, but there is a strong white light shooting out of it, and there seems to be a floating, constantly rotating ball of light, where the lake water should be heated and flowed back out, forming a geothermal river. At this time, Li Guoliang found that the readings of the radiation data meter he carried with him could no longer be displayed, and this should be an extremely radioactive nuclear reaction device. The water temperature inside the cave is over 80 degrees Celsius, and the water temperature is rising.

Li Guoliang couldn't hold on, his body began to react strongly, so he used his last strength to return from the cave, and when he left the cave, he found that there were dozens of large and small turtleshell-like spheres at the bottom of the geothermal river under him, faintly glowing white. After that, Li Guoliang swam about ten meters before he fell unconscious, and basically Cao Team and Xiao Gu dragged him back with ropes.

The Cao team's understanding of the situation was very limited, and no one saw the video materials taken by Li Guoliang at that time.

About a year later, I slowly learned that after our investigation, the water around Luoxingdun was in a state of blockade, and the government had built a lighthouse there, which seemed to be used to illustrate that the previous shipwreck was caused by the lack of guidance in bad weather, which caused the ship to run into the reef and sink.

But the base of this lighthouse is very huge, with a circumference of nearly 100 meters and a height of six meters. According to local fishermen, there seems to be a small power plant under the base of the tower, and every day the motor is constantly turning, and a large amount of cooling water gushes out of here, so that the water temperature in this area is much lower than before, and the fish are not moving in this area, and there are fewer natural fishing boats here.

In the south of Xingzi County, another government project is in full swing. This is the largest scrap metal processing plant in Jiangxi, and a large amount of scrap metal is transported here from all over the country, processed and then transferred out. But soon after the plant opened, some environmentalists reported to the EPB that the plant had loaded a lot of treated ballast waste onto a ship in the middle of the night, drove it to the lake around Luoxingdun, and secretly dumped it.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and everyone soon discovered that not only the metal treatment plant, but also the nearby cement factory, wood products factory, and even the slaughterhouse were collecting production waste in an organized and planned way and dumping it into the lake.

In response to growing calls for environmental protection, the local government did a lot of research, and two years later, the Poyang Lake Nature and Ecological Reserve was established, which set new routes for transport and passenger ships on the lake, deliberately avoiding the water surface of the reserve. But those ships with passes will still secretly pass through the water surface of the Falling Star Pier in the second half of the night.

However, it is undeniable that the establishment of the ecological reserve has significantly improved the ecology and water quality of Poyang Lake. The reserve attracts tourists from all over the country, and the local tourism economy is booming. Everything is moving in a benign direction.

But not many people noticed that after the lighthouse was built, there were few shipwrecks in Poyang Lake, and the sudden bad weather slowly disappeared.

On May Day of the second year after we returned from Poyang Lake, Cao and Zeng Qian finally tied the knot and had a lively wedding, but to my surprise, they spent a month of their wedding leave in Inner Mongolia, Hubei and Jiangxi, maybe they were looking for places that carried too many memories for us.

The Cao team was transferred to the Special Case Investigation Department with 631 as the team, but it was not as Li Guoliang expected that night, the Cao team did not immediately take over the Lop Nur case, and we did not see each other for more than half a year. I took a cursory look at the notebook that Li Guoliang gave me, and for some reason, I had a faint expectation in my heart for the Gobi Desert, thousands of kilometers away, which Li Guoliang called the closest place to the starry sky.

(Then do not worship the fame of dust, and do not go - for this is also the truth - and pursue the truth with hunger, lest your toil produce only new dreams, new dreams, and there is no truth except in your own heart.) Then don't look to astronomers who use telescopes to track the arcing trajectories of passing stars – Yeats's "Crossroads" (to be continued. )