Sent away Wang Huzi, and Team Cao and I lost our sleepiness. Team Cao changed the pot of boiling water, brewed the tea, and lay on his back on the bed, posing as if he had been talking all night.

"Lao Chang, why do I think this matter is getting more and more complicated? Lu Shanlin's matter is set out of the experiment in the desert, and it is also inextricably linked with the Dongxing, and I don't understand it, this Wang Hu pulled out Ding Jian's matter again. Listening to Wang Huzi's meaning, Ding Jian not only has something to hide from us, but is also likely to be possessed by something, no wonder he has been talking about respecting Mazu and respecting the god of the sea at the beginning. ”

"Anyway, both sides insist on their own words, and one side always says panic, Lao Chang, although Wang Huzi always speaks incoherently, but in my experience, he doesn't seem to be talking nonsense, and he doesn't have any reason to pour dirty water on Ding Jian. On the contrary, Ding Jian is a simple person at first glance, but I always feel that he is chattering, and there is something incomprehensible about him. We are not afraid of criminals lying, no matter how perfect the lie is, we are afraid that there are flaws, we are afraid of the kind of crazy people who are full of evil spirits, they do not play cards according to common sense, and often make you spend a lot of effort, or useless work. ”

Cao is right, from Ding Jian's narrative with a unique perspective of observation, to his dark and metaphorical paintings, and his non-cannibalistic style, this man is full of unknowns. But I don't think he's a liar, and it's hard to have such a wild imagination and a strong logic in everything he tells without personal experience. This seems to be a contradiction, but in fact it is not a fact, a fact that is difficult to accept, but it is the ultimate one.

And Wang Huzi's narration I agree with Team Cao's opinion, whether it is this person's personality, the way he acts, and the causal relationship between all the details he tells, it does not seem like a lie, of course, the core is that he has no motive to lie. And his visceral fear, which almost suffocated him, was not something that could be made up. It is true that there are no liars in the face of fear, and the only lie is to try to deny the existence of fear.

But I don't think that the seemingly contradictory statements of the two people mean that there must be a liar, and I know that there is at least one possibility, a possibility that both people's statements can be established.

Seeing that I bowed my head and was silent, Team Cao sat up from the bed, raised his head and took a sip of tea, and asked, "Lao Chang, what do you think?

I didn't answer Team Cao's question directly, but when analyzing the story told by Wang Huzi and Ding Jian, I vaguely felt the hidden thread behind the incident, which in turn coincided with Lu Binglin's encounter in the desert, and at this time, I preferred to let my imagination fly further.

"Team Cao, before answering your question, you can answer me a question first, maybe then we can get closer to the answer. Team Cao nodded with interest, took out two cigarettes, and handed one to me.

"In this search and rescue operation of the Eastern Star, did you not want me to participate in it at first, and later, for some reason, you were under pressure from above, so you had to call me, right?"

Team Cao didn't expect me to ask such a question, the hand holding the cigarette shook slightly, forgot to light the fire, just held the cigarette, and fell into deep thought.

"Team Cao, you are a person with excellent intuition, if you take the words of Lao Jiang Ju, among his apprentices, you are almost perfect. I believe your instincts are making you shy away from something. And the matter of the East Star is confusing, it has been half a year since the incident happened, two months ago I came back from Chengjialing, Shanxi, I was lying in the hospital, you were sent out in less than two days, so urgent, it must be that you have taken over the matter of the East Star at that time. ”

"Then the Sanya Dongxing mirage appeared, and I always felt that that sighting was related to the research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences research institute in Zhejiang that Lu Binglin said. In other words, the mirage was predicted by you in the early stage, otherwise ordinary people, who would have noticed the vague shadow of the ship in the mirage, and the details of the two gantry cranes? Who would have informed the relevant authorities of this illusion?"

"Also, in the experience that Wang Huzi talked about just now, it was mentioned that the captain of the boat was seriously ill and hospitalized, according to your character, you will definitely hold on to this detail and ask clearly, on the contrary, you have diverted this topic, which can only show that you were very clear about this situation before. Therefore, these facts can only prove that you, who like to communicate with me the most, were tight-lipped before going to sea this time, and suddenly called me from Beijing because you didn't want me to get involved, and then you were forced by the pressure from above, and this pressure must be the pressure of the leaders above Jiang Ju, so you have me, Lu Binglin, and Ding Jian, a strange combination of team members, right?"

Team Cao finally lit the cigarette, stared at the smoke rising from the misty, and said slowly, "Lao Chang, most of your analysis is correct, you have only been on the ship for two days, and you have observed carefully enough." I really didn't want you to get involved at first, the captain of the ship has leukemia, and I have received accurate information when I came to Hainan. He was exposed to high levels of radiation, but by the time I arrived at the hospital, he was in a deep coma, unable to answer any questions, and his face was covered in dark age spots, which, according to his family, appeared overnight. ”

"I think you can guess by now why I don't want you to get involved, right? After saying this, Team Cao looked relieved, but his tone was extremely heavy.

On that night more than 20 years ago, my father, who was rescued from the underground Xuanmen in Beijing, died because of unknown high-intensity radiation, and Cao and I spent several nights in front of my father's hospital bed. Team Cao's concerns are no longer just a matter of seeing things and thinking about people.

I nodded, which slowly coincided with my previous guess, I patted the Cao team on the shoulder, "Lao Cao, you don't need to blame yourself so much, in the Beijing Xuanmen Incident, my father passed away and my third uncle disappeared, which really stimulated me a lot, but I think this is the fate of the Chang family, and you can't hide from it." If you know the Zhao family in Shanxi, the Liu family in Sichuan, and the Fang family in Yulin, which has long disappeared, their stories will make you feel that what happened to the Chang family is actually nothing. Therefore, the traces of the Chang family have nothing to do with you stopping me at that time, and you are still worried about it after so many years. ”

"Lao Cao, what I'm thinking now is that what really makes you incomprehensible is that both Ding Jian and Wang Huzi are in normal health and have not been exposed to radiation, and the ship boss must have a strange illness because of the East Star, so why are Ding Jian and Wang Hu all right? What happened to the ship boss on that foggy night? But to solve these questions, you must first tell me what was transported on the East Star. ”

"Lao Chang, if I said that I was at my level and still didn't know what was shipped on the Eastern Star, you would definitely think that I was talking about secrecy discipline, but in fact, it was. This is also something that I have always been unable to figure out, but I know that on another supply ship, there is a large group of nuclear physics experts. The oceanographers and meteorologists on the ship just gave them a hand, and their plan is the main line of this operation, the real Plan A, you should be able to guess a rough idea, right?"

"And I carefully checked the record of the Dongxing in the Maritime Safety Bureau, on the day of the accident, the ship should be in the port of Shanghai, which means that the filing was changed before, and the Dongxing carried out a secret mission. If this guess is correct, there must be more than just seafarers on board. But what puzzled me the most was that I couldn't find anyone else on board besides the crew. You should be able to guess the mystery, right?"

"I just chatted with Director Wei for a while, and he still gave me some inside information, the Dongxing traveled from the East China Sea to the South China Sea, and sailed at sea for a full twenty-one days, and in the missing waters, it stayed for at least five days. So I'm sure it's not an easy transport task. ”

"If we had conducted an in-depth investigation around the cargo and the people who had boarded the ship, we would have been able to dig up some wire locks, but unfortunately I didn't check for two days before I received a call from above, telling me that my mission was to find the missing Dongxing, and I didn't care about anything else, and the wording was harsh, so I had to give up. Team Cao smoked half a cigarette in one go, and these secrets were really breathtaking to hide in their hearts.

"Old Cao, do you know the Philadelphia experiment in the United States?" My question interrupted Team Cao's reasoning, and at this time, I should slowly use Team Cao to clear up the hazy speculation in my heart. He looked at me in surprise, not understanding why I was digressing. I lay on my back on the boat, put my hands behind my head, and found the most comfortable position I could pose.

"I heard Huansheng talk about it once before, it seems to be a test of instantaneous displacement? In the port of Philadelphia, the U.S. military converted a warship, didn't it? Later, it seems that because of this test, many people disappeared, what does this have to do with the East Star?"

"It's not exactly what you said, Team Cao, this experiment, in fact, there are still people who doubt its authenticity to this day, at least there is no record of this experiment from the official documents, and even the protagonist of the experiment, the American destroyer USS Eldridge, did not appear on the Philadelphia dock during the rumored experimental time. But I'd rather believe that the Philadelphia experiment is real, because there are a lot of similarities between the whole process and the Eastern Star incident. ”

Hearing me say this, Team Cao suddenly became interested, sat up straight, and asked me to tell the confusing story in detail.

(Those who subdue demons descend their hearts first, and those who subdue their hearts retreat from the demons; those who control the horizontal first control their qi, and those who are calm will not invade the outward side.) --"Caigen Tan")