The wind and waves were strong, and I tried to distinguish every word Lu Binglin said, but there must have been an extremely shocked look on my face. Lu Binglin must have seen it too, revealing a wry smile. He froze and continued to say loudly: "Lao Chang, you now understand why I gave up the search and rescue back then, and why I also gave up the research base in the desert, because I know very well that there is another variable in the mathematical model of mirage imaging, a variable that humans cannot control at present. This variable is hidden near the body of the mirage, and it will bring geomagnetic anomalies, climatic anomalies, and even inexplicable high-energy radiation, and maybe there will be space-time displacements, right? In other words, the mirage itself is an external manifestation of this variable, except for part of the atmospheric refraction. “

"People are so small in it, even if they see what happens in it, what can they do? It's an uncontrollable variable, it's destructive, but it's very accidental, we just need to be in awe. The sea breeze whipped his already thinning hair, making him look extremely lonely and depressed.

"Lao Lu, you already understood this reason when you were in Taklamakan, why did you later hand over your research results and data to the Zhejiang Institute?

"Wei Zhihua is a madman, a complete madman. Why did I get into an argument with him when I got on the ship? It wasn't because of any research site at all, the research ship had been refitted, and there was a strange machine in the rear of the hull, full of huge coils and launchers, and a battery array several meters high, and I asked him what it was for, and he would only use secrecy to perfunctory me. When Lu Binglin said this, I unconsciously remembered the Philadelphia experiment, and the huge coil pulse device installed on the battleship in the Philadelphia experiment. Paranoia and perseverance are of course the basic qualities of a researcher, but perhaps it is precisely because of unrepentance that a person becomes a madman?

"Later, I knew that those people from the Zhejiang Institute were on that supply ship, and they were also involved in this project, why didn't they tell me in advance? If I was a person with a gateway view, why did I give them all the research materials back then? I later figured it out, Wei Zhihua didn't want me to know too much, especially the plan he was going to start. “

"I found him again this morning before the meeting, and this time he didn't deny it, maybe he was about to arrive at the intended place, right? I was in the desert, and I created a mirage by simulating the meteorological environment, and then I discovered that variable. Wei Zhihua was ready to simulate that variable, these devices were all for this, he had never chased the body of the mirage at all, he had never entered the desert, he had never entered the Devil's City, he didn't know what that variable was, what was hidden in it, why did he make such a decision? Crazy maniac, outright madman, gambling with the lives of the whole ship, this is by no means a scientific research. “

The more Lu Binglin spoke, the more excited he became, and he kept banging on the railing with his fists. "Lao Lu, there is one thing I haven't figured out yet, even if Director Wei used these devices to simulate the variables you said, it still can't find the missing Dongxing, if they can predict the time and place of the appearance of the Dongxing mirage, doesn't it mean that his experiment has been successful, why take us all on the ship?"

"Maybe it's because the two variables of meteorology and magnetic field are calculated at the same time, the amount of data is too large, and when the coordinates of the East Star are reversed, at least in the analysis and calculation of meteorological data, he uses me and my team, and I don't know why you are on the ship. Of course, there is also the possibility, the possibility of not having to search aimlessly for images of mirages. Lu Binglin's eyes were even more confused at the moment, staring at the surging waves and not knowing what he was thinking, but I seemed to read something in his eyes, and I couldn't help blurting out.

"You mean, the appearance of the mirage in Sanya was not a natural occurrence at all? It is the same as the climate simulation device you installed in the desert? But your flagpole is the body, and the Dongxing is a variable, how can the Zhejiang Institute determine the coordinates of the appearance of the mirage?"

"There is only one possibility, Zhejiang has mastered this variable, there must be some kind of internal connection between the mirage and the ontology, and the equipment on the ship is used to simulate this connection, in other words, if we reach the vicinity of the place where the mirage occurred, we can attract the trajectory of the ontology by recreating a magnetic field, so that the Dongxing can appear without searching, at least theoretically this is true, but no one knows what the result is. ”

If this method is valid, then Wei must have used a research ship as a bait to attract the trajectory of the Dongxing, but which one is it? If Wei is the person in charge of the whole plan, then obviously the supply ship should be the bait, but the scientific researchers of the Zhejiang Institute are all on the supply ship, and the Wei department needs them to calculate the data, and they are indispensable, so obviously the bait is our ship.

I was thinking about it, when a huge wave crashed on the side of the ship, thousands of splashes of water, and the hull of the research ship also tilted to one side, and the huge inertia made us unsteady on our feet, but fortunately we grabbed the railing, staggered two steps, and our bodies fell over, and our arms were still hanging on the railing.

The waves were pouring down, and in a blink of an eye we were soaked. Although I was in the tropics at this time, the temperature was around 30 degrees Celsius all year round, but for some reason, the sea was so cold that I couldn't help but shiver.

At this time, I noticed that more than 100 meters on the side of the ship, white lines rolled up from the sky, and when they reached the hull of the ship, it was already three or four meters high. And our ship seems to be turning as well, trying to meet the waves with its bow. Lu Binglin wiped the seawater on his face and shouted something to me, the distance between the two of us was four or five meters away, his voice was completely muffled by the sound of the waves hitting the hull of the boat, and his voice could not be heard at all.

Lu Binglin dragged the railing with one hand, freed up with the other, pointed down vigorously, drew two circles, and pointed to the top of his head. I was even more surprised by his movements, but the downward pointing movement must have something to do with the hull of the boat. I struggled to stand on my feet, straightened up and looked down at the slipway.

The scientific research ship we took on this mission should be one of the most advanced scientific research ships in China at that time, not only with large displacement and large carrying capacity, but also with a wide hull design in order to resist typhoon waves. The cockpit we were in was located at the front of the hull, which was a five-story bridge in itself, and from here we had a panoramic view of everything on board.

Behind the bridge, there are two huge tower cranes, waving left and right like the arms of two giants in the crest and valley of the waves. On the one hand, it can lift materials from the supply ship and complete the supply without having to dock at the port, which greatly improves the endurance of the ship, especially in inaccessible places, which is the only way to persevere.

On the other hand, the boom is indispensable for sea rescue, lifting small submarines, and even hoisting large detection equipment on ships, but in the current big waves, even a behemoth like a boom is as small as a dead branch and a broken vine.

In front of the boom is a huge openable roof, the roof is open, is a lifting platform, used to load and unload containers or large cargo, behind the roof is the central bridge of the research ship, although there are only four floors, but the area is much larger than the cockpit bridge, where are the laboratories and research centers of the various expedition teams, at this time all the lights have been turned on, flashing on the inky sea.

Behind the bridge is a small tarmac, on which a small helicopter was supposed to take off once or twice a day to do some search work, presumably because of the high wind and waves, and now it has been fixed and covered with a thick rainproof cloth.

I was wondering where Lu Binglin's gesture was going to make me look, when suddenly, I felt the deck beneath my feet begin to vibrate slightly. This vibration is not caused by the undulating impact of the waves, but more like a vibration caused by the rotation of a motor.

I followed the sound again and finally realized that the sound was coming from the roof under the boom slowly opening. The canopy opens so slowly that it's almost impossible to tell if you don't look closely. I pointed in the direction of the ceiling, and Lu Binglin nodded at me, which was a response to me, and at the same time, he moved hard along the railing in my direction.

After the big waves, there will always be a few small waves, and the wide hull of the scientific research ship will be relatively stable for dozens of seconds, but Lu Binglin moved to my side, and it took more than a minute, at this time, the roof in the ship has been almost half opened, although it is dark inside, but with the light on the boom, the general outline can still be vaguely distinguished. The lifting platform also seemed to begin to rise slowly, and instead of a container or anything like that, a metal base more than one person high and ten meters square, on top of the base were two radar-like machines, surrounded by layers of coils of various thicknesses on the surface.

"Lao Chang, this is this thing, I guess it's an electromagnetic transmitter, and there are many battery packs in the bilge, all connected to this elevator, Wei Zhihua, this madman is about to start, let's go back quickly." Lu Binglin had already moved to my side and said anxiously.

(Heaven and earth are infinite, and people are infinite, each according to its own kind; when you see its scheme, you will know the end of its success or failure.) Those who turn around are either auspicious or vicious, and the saints use the Tao to ensure the survival of the prophets, but they know the circle and follow the square. The round one, so the conjunctive, the square one, so the wrong thing. Those who transform are therefore looking at the scheme, and those who are receiving things are therefore looking at the meaning of advance and retreat. They all see their meetings, so that they may conclude their arguments. --"Guiguzi")