The young painter went up to the deck, saw Cao and me, and greeted him warmly.

After a few words, I learned that his name was Ding Jian, and he was a graduate of the Oil Painting Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. Although he has graduated for three years, he does not want to leave the school and plans to take the postgraduate examination to continue his studies, but unfortunately he has not been lucky enough to take the exam twice without success.

Ding Jian then painted while reviewing, and the main direction of his painting was the ocean, so he accidentally got on the fishing boat and went to sea to sketch, and accidentally bumped into the Dongxing floating on the sea, and by mistake made the Dongxing disappear under his nose.

Speaking of the experience of boarding the East Star that day, Ding Jian showed the extraordinary insight of a painter. But I am a little worried that his description may be mixed with too much imagination, too expressive and detailed, and it will not seem so real.

According to Ding Jian's account, the fishing boat found the Dongxing at about four o'clock in the afternoon, and it was supposed to return at this time, but because there were not many fishing goods in those days, the boat boss temporarily decided to put on a few more nets and go back at noon the next day.

In this way, the fishing boat inexplicably ran into the East Star. At that time, Ding Jian was sitting on the roof of the cockpit, painting with an easel. At that moment, the clouds became very thick, and the large clouds formed a wonderful whale-like shape, and the sunlight happened to shine through the gaps in the clouds, forming a fan-shaped pillar of light, which fell straight to the surface of the sea, which looked very solemn and sacred.

Ever since he saw this scene, Ding Jian's heart was agitated, and his brushes never stopped. But as soon as he sketched the shape of the clouds, he suddenly spotted a huge container ship in front of the fishing boat, which was only about a kilometer away from him.

To this day, Ding Jian has not figured out how this freighter appeared. It stands to reason that the freighter was a few kilometers away, and he should have been able to observe that a moment ago he was still admiring the magnificent clouds, when the sea and the sky met, there was no sign of the ship, but he drew a few strokes on the drawing board and looked up, and the freighter was already in front of him.

In Ding Jian's feelings, he lowered his head to paint for no more than three minutes, how could he not have noticed the freighter coming before? It was as if the freighter had fallen out of thin air, and it seemed to have surfaced from the bottom of the sea in an instant, in short, Ding Jian was startled, he always thought that he was hallucinating, and he was stunned in front of the easel for a few minutes.

The fishermen were all collecting their nets at the stern of the boat, and Ding Jian turned out to be the first to discover the Dongxing. When he relieved himself and informed the boat boss, the fishermen were stunned with him for a long time.

The captain rushed into the cockpit and was busy with the radio for half an hour, while the fishing boat cruised around the Eastern Star. Ding Jian found that the freighter had no power at all, and if there was no lapping of the waves, it would be completely stationary on the sea, but since the ship appeared in front of him, Ding Jian had a very bad feeling, a feeling that a catastrophe was coming.

Painting on the beach all year round, Ding Jian has seen all kinds of ships, from small sampans to large warships, and there are no less than hundreds of them in his pen, but this Ding Jian feels very unfamiliar. One was the oppression of the freighter's sheer size, and the other was that the ship was far more rusty than he had imagined. Ding Jian knew that this was not caused by the impact, but the traces left by the long-term attachment of coral shells, which were washed by the waves.

What puzzled Ding Jian was that the rust on the hull could not be formed for decades, but judging from the volume and novel design techniques of this ship, it was obviously a new ship that had not been launched for a short time, and Ding Jian couldn't understand the reason for it for a while. But at this time, Ding Jian couldn't concentrate on thinking about anything at all, because as the freighter approached, he felt a wave of cold air coming, which made people tremble.

Although it was already the winter season, the South China Sea, where the fishing boats were located, was hot all year round, and the temperature on the boat never dropped below 30 degrees, and it was only in the second half of the night when there was a sea breeze that it felt a little cooler. Ding Jian only wore a short-sleeved old man's shirt when he got on the boat, and although there was a long-sleeved jacket in the box, he never used it. But at this time, Ding Jian noticed that at the waterline of the freighter, a white mist was rolling outward, faintly, and there seemed to be a thin layer of ice crystals on the hull, reflecting a strange light in the sun.

Ding Jian remembered that he had brought an old-fashioned camera with him, which he bought at a thrift store for more than a hundred yuan, although it was worn, the lens imaging was not bad, and he quickly took it out of his bag. In order to shoot the waves on the sea, Ding Jian installed a polarizer on the camera lens, raised the camera at this time, and pointed the lens at the freighter, but Ding Jian saw a scene that shocked him from the viewfinder.

The polarizer of the lens filters out the red light in the light, making the scene blue-gray, and the freighter looks even more eerie in the shot, which is expected by Ding Jian. But the problem is that in the viewfinder, Ding Jian saw that the entire freighter was shrouded in a cloud of blue-gray smoke, and the smoke was so thick that the bridge and crane on the ship could not really be seen. But when Ding Jian put down the camera, there was no trace of smoke around the freighter, Ding Jian had never encountered such a situation, the biting cold, the strange atmosphere, and the empty sea outside the two ships made him feel uneasy.

Soon, the ship's boss shouted that all the crew members went to the deck for a meeting, and Ding Jian also went to the deck with the crew. The boss of the ship told everyone that he had contacted the fishing port and the Fishery Administration, and the Fishery Administration Bureau had also contacted the Maritime Safety Bureau, and the leaders above decided to send a few crew members to board the freighter, check the situation on board, search for whether there were still crew members on board, and then wait for the ship of the Maritime Administration to come and take over.

From the mouth of the ship's boss, Ding Jian knew that the Dongxing container ship had disappeared in the South China Sea more than three months ago, and had organized a large-scale search and rescue before, but it had never been found, and he didn't want to let the small fishing boat collide this time. But Ding Jian couldn't understand how the ship had only been floating at sea for three months? If it weren't for the fact that he had seen the three big characters on the side of the ship's broadside, he would have thought that the Maritime Safety Bureau had made a mistake.

The crew members obviously noticed the unreasonable situation on this ship, and there was a lot of discussion for a while, and one of the crew members also reminded the ship boss that this freighter was obviously a ghost ship, and the yin atmosphere was too strong, not to mention boarding the ship, even leaning on the side, I was afraid that there would be great danger, so it was better to return as soon as possible.

Ding Jian could see that the boat boss at this time was also calm on the surface and drumming in his heart, but it was estimated that there was a death order from above, otherwise he would immediately turn the bow of the boat at this moment. The captain of the ship stopped everyone's discussion, and proposed that before the sun went down, go up to a few people to have a look, only check the deck and the bridge, and withdraw before dark. Be careful, there is no big problem, and as soon as the ship from the Maritime Safety Bureau comes, everyone will return to port. Seeing that the crew was no longer silent, the captain asked the crew to sign up for boarding, but of course, no one dared to stand up.

Ding Jian is strong-blooded, and there is no professional taboo for fishermen's generations, although he is a little afraid of the gloomy Dongxing in his heart, he is very curious about what happened to this ship at sea, and he signed up without thinking about it, but unfortunately Ding Jian did not usher in the approval of the ship boss, but saw that the crew showed a look of regret.

Ding Jian's initiative did not have the slightest effect on the crew, and in the end, the crew actually decided to board the ship with Ding Jian by drawing lots. When the three of them packed up their things and were about to board the ship, the captain of the ship came to Ding Jian's side and told him that when he got on the ship, he could only walk around in a sunny place, and that he should not go to the cargo hold and crew cabin. On the ship, be sure to follow the king's beard tightly and don't get separated.

Wang Huzi is in his forties, and his long-term life at sea has created a sturdy body, although he is not tall, he is muscular, and his complexion is dark. The other one who got on the boat was Fan Xuanzi, who was two years younger than Ding Jian, and the nephew of the ship boss, although he was not a good at sea work, he didn't seem to have any fear of the ghost ship among the crew, but he seemed a little excited.

The fishing boat lowered a small sampan, and the three of them, together with two crew members who had joined them on board, rowed the sampan next to the East Star. Before disembarking the sampan, the ship's boss shouted at the empty deck of the Eastern Star with a loudspeaker, but of course there was no response. No one put the soft ladder down from the East Star, so the fishermen hooked the soft ladder to the side railing with a hook, and pulled it firmly, and then Wang Huzi climbed to the deck of the East Star with Ding Jian and Fan Suanzi.

Wang Huzi didn't want to go on the East Star in the first place, but he was unlucky to touch a red sign, but he was still two inexperienced offspring who boarded the ship together, and he looked very depressed. It took several minutes to climb up to the deck of the East Star from the sea, which was more than 30 meters high, and the three of them climbed up and down for several minutes. On the way to climb, Wang Huzi kept telling the two that the ghost boat is not a legend, and they will always meet after a long life at sea. And this ghost ship is very evil, haunting silently, but there is no living person on the ship, but those who have been on the ghost ship, even if they are lucky enough to return to the shore, will always be stained with some bad luck. Of course, almost every few years, there will be fishing boats going missing, and no one knows if it's because of ghost boats.

In the late 80s, a brave fisherman in their fishing village boarded a ghost boat and stole back a lot of goods from the ghost boat, which was later sold to a dealer in cultural relics, which is said to be something from the Ming Dynasty and made a small fortune. But within half a year, the fisherman accidentally fell into the water while fishing, and the water was very good, but he was dragged to the bottom of the sea by something, and the people on the boat could not be saved. Even the antiquities dealer had a car accident within two years and died. So, when you get on the ghost ship, don't take things casually, which is the most important one.

Ding Jian listened to Wang Huzi's flickering, and when he thought that the captain of the ship asked him to find the logbook and bring it back, his heart couldn't help but become heavy.

(You can be born and be born, and God is blessed; you can die and die, and God is blessed.) It is possible to be born without being born, and it is punished by heaven, and it is possible to die without dying, and it is punished by heaven. You can live, you can die, you have to live and you have to die, you can't live, you can't die, you can't live However, life and death, not things are not me, all are fate, and there is nothing to be done with wisdom. Therefore, it is said that the sky is boundless, the way of heaven will be self-willing, indifferent, and the way of heaven is self-transporting. Heaven and earth cannot commit crimes, sages cannot do it, and ghosts cannot deceive. Naturally, the silence is made, the peace is peaceful, and it will be welcomed. --Zhuangzi)