Liao Huansheng has completely freed himself from seasickness, his face is still a little pale, sitting next to me, he will never leave behind good wine. Wei Chu was originally an amateur lover of literary toys, and the Cao team did what he liked, dragged Huansheng over and introduced it to Wei Chu, and the two quickly chatted about the sea fishing porcelain on the shipwreck of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the South China Sea, and then ignored others.

Lu Binglin obviously had no old grudges against Huansheng, and when he ate at one table, he didn't say a word except for a bland greeting when he met. Team Cao glanced at me, and sat down next to Professor Lu with wine, Lu Binglin had already drunk his cheeks red at this time, and his forehead was full of sweat, it seemed that although he liked wine and was good at evaluating wine, he didn't drink much.

Team Cao and I toasted him separately, and Team Cao began to persistently talk from Professor Lu's mouth again, perhaps for the sake of Team Cao's contribution of good wine, this time Professor Lu did not hesitate, and briefly said his next plan.

After listening to Professor Luk's words, I realized that their preparation was far more thorough and their plans were bigger than we imagined. Because there was no detailed meteorological and hydrological data when the Sanya mirage occurred, according to Professor Lu's mathematical model, there were as many as 16 locations where the Dongxing might appear, but it was obviously unrealistic to go through all 16 locations, and it was too late in time.

So what Professor Lu is really preparing to implement is actually a plan to wait and see. He divided the Mirage chasers into two groups, one small group and him on the research ship, while more remained on shore. The mirage chasers on shore contacted seven or eight academies and oceanographic research institutes, and about several hundred people were distributed along the coasts of Hainan, Guangdong, and Fujian, closely monitoring the appearance of the next Dongxing mirage phantom. Once the phantom appears, the coordinates of the phantom and the surrounding climate and hydrological data will be immediately uploaded to Professor Lu's hands, so that Professor Lu can calculate the relatively accurate physical position of the Eastern Star.

After listening to Professor Lu's introduction, I couldn't help but have new questions, picked up my wine glass and touched it with him, and asked, "Professor Lu, I have two questions that I haven't figured out, so I would like to ask you for advice." The other is that the South China Sea is vast, and even if we calculate the location of the Eaststar, it will take a long time for the research ship to rush over, so our ship must not be too far away from that place, so how should the route of the research ship be formulated? We can't really go to the haystack to find a needle, right?"

Professor Lu nodded to me, swallowed the wine in the wine glass, and said slowly, "Lao Chang, the case you and Team Cao handled before, Team Cao was a legend, and told me some of them in a scattered manner.

I didn't expect Professor Lu to suddenly ask such a question, and Huansheng and Wei Chu next to me also stopped discussing Hailao porcelain, pricked up their ears, and turned their heads to look at me curiously.

"Haiyan Well and Xuanmen are both objective, from the perspective of family studies, they are part of ancient Chinese Feng Shui, Haiyan Well is naturally formed, and there are also man-made dug later. The ancients relied on its existence to determine the pulse and build the soil for the city. From the original intention, Haiyan Well was an early warning and diversion facility for floods in ancient times, in order to achieve the control of underground rivers. When combined with Feng Shui, it becomes an earth vein, a water vein, and a fortune that can influence the change of dynasties. ”

"Everyone just hears these things, and there is no need to dispute whether you believe it or not. It's just that later, many people began to manually dig the sea eye well, some to consolidate the imperial feng shui open digging, and some to destroy the imperial feng shui secret digging, of course, what the result is, we can't draw conclusions, but it is undeniable that because of the sea eye well, there was a Xuanmen. ”

"No one can give an accurate explanation of what Xuanmen is, and most people even deny its existence. But I and Team Cao have both entered the Xuanmen, and many of my close relatives, some have disappeared forever in the Xuanmen, and some have left me forever because of the Xuanmen. I have talked to many experts about Xuanmen, including those who have visited the field back then, and the experts said that Xuanmen is a geomagnetic anomaly underground, where electronic devices and compasses will fail, and we found that time will be affected in Xuanmen, and it will speed up or slow down, which is a time warp, of course, this has not been proven. ”

"But I think that the disappearance or death of the people who entered the Xuanmen should be related to the distortion of time, but the Xuanmen is too secretive, we can't calculate the time of its appearance and disappearance, and it is extremely dangerous to artificially change or try to control the Xuanmen, which is likely to cause huge natural disasters, such as the explosion of the Jingshi in the year of the Ming Dynasty, the earthquake and subsidence in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, and the dry season flood in the early years of the Republic of China are all related to this. ”

"According to the records of ancient books, when the Xuanmen is opened, a hundred ghosts come, and many warlocks think that the Xuanmen is the gate to the underworld. It is true that there was a hundred ghosts walking nocturnal when the Xuanmen appeared, but I don't think there is a direct connection between the two, and if it must be explained by scientific theories, I would rather believe that the night walking of a hundred ghosts is also some special manifestation of geomagnetic anomalies. However, when the Xuanmen appeared, the accompanying abnormal weather phenomena, such as tornadoes, lightning strikes, and poisonous fog, all existed objectively. ”

After I finished speaking, I noticed that everyone stopped their chopsticks and looked at me in a daze. Wei Chu was the first to break the silence, picked up his wine glass and touched it with me, "Lao Chang, I salute you, and I also respect those seniors who sacrificed their lives for exploring the Xuanmen." ”

"Since ancient times, our natural science has been in the hands of warlocks, which is no different from the priests and alchemists of the Western Middle Ages, and the lives they gave in experiments again and again were mistaken for flying immortals, we forgot their contributions, only remembered that they were in alchemy, in the pursuit of ethereal immortality, come to this cup and pay tribute to them. ”

After speaking, Wei Chu raised his glass again, but this time he gave everyone at the table a salute, and then drank it all.

We all know that this paragraph is the prelude to his narration, so we all stop the dishes and chopsticks and wait for his next step.

"Team Cao, Lao Chang, Professor Lu, Captain Jiang, comrades-in-arms here, we may have different research philosophies and research methods, but our goal is the same, which is to find the Dongxing. Of course, I, Professor Lu, and Lao Chang, may have more ideas, and we also hope to solve the mystery of the Eastern Star. Team Cao's opening remarks are good, ten years of repairing the same boat, maybe we will have such and such disputes on the shore, and even do some things that are happy for relatives and enemies, but today when we got on the boat, we just had such a big fart and so many resources, what should we do if we don't cooperate? How can we do it without unity? So I suggest that we have a drink together, and I wish us can share weal and woe and complete the task. After drinking this glass of wine, I will take the lead and introduce the plan of our group to you, the first step of cooperation is resource sharing. ”

After drinking this glass of wine, the dinner soon turned into a new round of work meetings, and under the influence of alcohol, a temporary leading group led by Director Wei, Professor Lu, Team Cao, and Captain Jiang was announced. Ding Jian, who had drunk early and had a flushed face, was obviously also in a mood, and kept pressing the camera shutter to record this important historical moment. It's just Captain Jiang, I don't know if it's because of happiness or something else, he who comes to toast will never shirk, one full cup at a time, and soon he will be top-heavy and lie on the table.

Director Wei did not break his promise, and at the dinner table, he explained his group's inspection plan in detail.

Director Wei's group had a total of 27 people on board, only a small number of them were from the Maritime Safety Administration, and most of them were seconded from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, mainly experts in marine geology, marine climate, and marine circulation. Based on the photos taken by Ding Jian, they believe that the Dongxing should have encountered special bad weather in the Lantau Reef area of the South China Sea and sank. Because of the extremely special underwater current, he was temporarily pushed to the surface of the sea and encountered a fishing boat. Therefore, Ding Jian saw a large amount of seabed sediment on the Dongxing, and because the hull of the Dongxing had been seriously damaged, it sank to the bottom of the sea again after one night.

Experts who hold this view firmly believe that the Dongxing was underwater at the fishing boat's location point at that time, but the water depth in the area was more than 600 meters, so a small deep-sea submarine was brought in, and their task was to search the bottom of the seabed at that location.

Of course, there are also different voices within Director Wei's team, and some experts believe that the Dongxing suffered a rare and extreme weather phenomenon - a waterspout. This is a very destructive sea tornado, and it appears without warning, if the Eastern Star enters the eye of the waterspout, its size determines that the hull will not be sucked by the waterspout, but the crew of the ship should not be so lucky. The coral reefs in Ding Jian's photo were all absorbed from nearby islands and reefs by waterspouts, and fell on the Dongxing after the wind weakened.

If this theory is true, then the Eastern Star did not sink, but after the crew was killed, the ship lost power and drifted with the ocean current in the South China Sea. If a hydrographic survey is carried out at the anchor point of the fishing vessel and the exact direction of the current can be determined, then it is very likely that the Eastern Star will be found along the current.

In Director Wei's plan, the seabed search is Plan A, and the ocean current survey is Plan B, but obviously, Lu Binglin's idea of locating the East Star through mirage imaging is not in the plan at all.

(In everything, if you don't wait, you will stand, and if you don't plan, you will be wasted.) If you say it beforehand, you don't stumble. If you decide in advance, you will not be sleepy. If you decide before you go, you will not be guilty. If the road is predetermined, it will not be poor. --"The Mean")