More and more people are coming to Lu Binglin's computer, and I don't know how many people can really understand those dense numbers, but they are all trying to find out the secrets in their own way.

Director Wei's face was red and white, and the alternating changes of joy and sorrow in this short period of time made people's psychological endurance fragile. His gaze kept wandering over Lu Binglin's face, as if trying to capture every tiny expression to firm the choice he was about to make.

Lu Binglin straightened up and looked solemnly at the sea outside the floor-to-ceiling window. Although the sea is calm, when everyone knows in their hearts, for a ship that has lost power, what will be the result of hitting the waves more than ten meters high, and the arrival of this moment seems to be only a matter of time.

Wei Zhihua was silent for a long time, finally stood up, quickly returned to his desk, picked up the walkie-talkie, and said loudly: "Lao Jiang, Lao Jiang, you must find a way to recover your power as soon as possible, even if you can make the scientific research ship go a few nautical miles, it will be a victory." ”

Then he switched to another frequency band, "Xiao Zhang, you call two people to go to the lookout immediately, take the telescope, stare at the dead sea, find the East Star, use manual instruments to determine the course speed, and notify us at any time." ”

"Liang Gong, I'm Wei Zhihua, please go to the bilge to check the radiation protection suit again, and bring it to the central deck if there is no problem, thank you." ”

"Chen Zhi, you take someone to check the rescue boat immediately, bring one more diesel engine up, and wait for my order to lower the sea at any time. Also, the equipment must be ready. ”

A series of instructions were arranged, Wei Zhihua sat next to Lu Binglin with a sense of relief, and the two didn't speak, just stared at each other with big eyes. For a long time, Lu Binglin sighed in the dark and said slowly.

"Wei, are you ready? It looks like you're gambling for my plan, but it's you who really brought us into this gamble, but do you know what the stakes are in this game?"

"Lao Lu, by now, I'm afraid we are really in the same boat. I really don't know what the gamble is, so I'm not a gambler, but you have gambled for more than ten years and the lives of more than a dozen colleagues, and you naturally know the price of betting, so I can only listen to you at this time. Director Wei no longer has the decision in his previous words, but has a sense of relaxation after detachment.

Lu Binglin laughed twice, and seemed to calm down the joy he had just had, but the final showdown between the two, anyone could feel the tension in the air, and Huansheng, who was sitting in front of the computer, also consciously got up and paced back to me and Team Cao.

"Old Wei, in fact, I have always had a strange feeling that your interest in the disappearance of the Dongxing seems to be far more than the ship itself. What I can't figure out the most is that the search and rescue work you are doing now, from staffing, to material preparation, to technical conditions, is by no means something that can be completed in a short period of time. Lu Binglin shrank Gundam's body into the seat, chose a comfortable position, lit a cigarette, and waited for Wei Zhihua's answer.

Wei Zhihua also moved a chair, sat down in front of Lu Binglin, and stretched out his hand to ask Lu Binglin for a cigarette.

Team Cao glanced at me and Huansheng, and although we couldn't see clearly in the dark, we both understood his intentions, and moved our chairs like him and leaned next to him.

Wei Zhihua didn't care about a few of us joining, he lit the cigarette, I don't know if it was because he didn't usually smoke much, he just took two puffs, and he had already coughed a few times in a hurry.

"Lao Lu, your analysis is very correct, in fact, before the disappearance of the Eastern Star, my research had already begun, and it can even be said that the disappearance of the Eastern Star was part of my entire research plan. Wei Zhihua's opening remarks made several of us breathe.

"Old Wei, I guess you are not the director of the Maritime Safety Bureau at all, and it is precisely for this reason that there is no record of the Dongxing on the departure record of the Shanghai Maritime Safety Bureau, right?"

"Lao Cao, the most troublesome thing for us to do something in China is the view of the portal, isn't it? Hurt 1,000 enemies and lose 800 ourselves, besides, are these people really enemies? When it comes to academics, it may be even more unspeakable. I believe that Lao Lu understands this more deeply. Therefore, even if my research is established, it needs to be covered by an identity, and the content of my research is highly confidential, so the Maritime Administration, to be honest, I haven't been to work for a day. ”

"I can't say much more about the study, but the cause of the study is related to the inexplicable shipwreck in the eastern part of the South China Sea. These shipwrecks date back to the Southern Song Dynasty, and according to the limited historical data we have available, about 1,000 ships of various sizes were buried in that area. “

"Of course, the navigation technology in ancient times was not developed enough, the hull was wooden, the ability to resist wind and waves was poor, there was no weather forecast, and the proportion of shipwrights who were buried in typhoons was very high because of their experience and premonition at sea. But the problem is that even in modern times, most of the ships sailing in the South China Sea are all-metal ships, and there are still constant shipwrecks. “

"I studied most of the nautical archives from 1919 to 1964, and there were eighty-seven Chinese ships and sixty-six foreign ships sunk in this area. In this case, there is a lack of information on our overseas voyages, and there are very few records that can be found, so the actual number of foreign ships killed must be far more than sixty-six. Even so, this figure is more than three times higher than the average for actual shipwrecks in normal tropical storm areas. This anomaly, in fact, is not the first time I have noticed, the Japanese merchant ships suffered the heaviest losses in this sea area, whether it is the tens of thousands of tons of Hongshima Maru oil tankers, or the Chimattsushiro troop transports armed to the teeth, they have not been able to sail out of there, so the Japanese call this sea area the Devil's Sea. “

"As for the reasons for the wreckage of a large number of ships in the Devil's Sea, it is nothing more than these speculations, one is a sudden tropical cyclone, strong convective weather often causes huge waves more than ten meters high, and ships are very easy to capsize without preparation. The second is the huge submarine whirlpool caused by ocean currents. This kind of submarine whirlpool lurks in the extreme depths of the seabed, and under certain weather conditions, it will appear on the surface of the sea in an instant, and even if the ship finds it, it is difficult to dodge it in time, and it will soon be swept to the bottom of the sea. “

"Third, it is related to the complex geological and hydrological conditions of the South China Sea. This sea area is full of reefs, many of which are half to two meters underwater, and not entirely coral, many of which are remnants of intense geological activity, and the reefs are exceptionally solid. Ships that are not familiar with the shipping lanes can easily run aground in the reef area, and the hull of the ship will be damaged or even sink. “

Of course, there is also a fourth theory, that is, this area belongs to the high seas, and it is a war-torn area in history, and the pirates on the sea are strong. Even after World War II, the powerful Allied maritime forces did not completely eliminate these pirates, on the contrary, in the fifties and sixties, piracy in the South China Sea developed rapidly and became the primary destabilizing factor in the South China Sea. And a large part of the missing ships should have been looted by pirates. “

However, no matter which kind of statement, if you carefully collect relevant information and analyze it carefully, you will still find many phenomena that go against common sense, at least those few statements cannot be reasonably explained. For example, before a ship goes missing, all communication systems will be paralyzed, whether it is radio, radar or maritime satellite telephone, which has only been around for many years. Another example is that a single survivor of a missing ship has never been found, not even the bodies and relics. In particular, large oil tankers, a behemoth, are difficult to cover up even if they are hijacked by pirates, and even if they sink due to bad weather, some traces of oil or debris will be found, but these ships are as if they have evaporated, leaving nothing behind. “

"The most important thing is that this area has been the main activity area of ghost ships since ancient times, and there are a large number of reports of ghost ship sightings every year. From the analysis of these sightings, there is no doubt that the ghost ships floating on the sea are those missing ships, but what is it that makes the crew prefer to jump into the sea rather than stay on the ship and wait for rescue? And those ghost ships themselves have no power and can only move by ocean currents, but how do they come and go without a trace? Why can't we catch the ghost ship on the radar?"

Wei Zhihua's voice echoed in the experimental center, for some reason, it seemed very ethereal, as if it had come from another world, or rather, the scene gave me a sense of surreality: the dark cabin full of equipment, only a computer still flickering, three or five flickering cigarette butts, and a powerless research ship trapped in a huge whirlpool.

At that moment, I even began to wonder if I was facing the real world, or just a world made up of images, audio, long and short waves.

"Old Wei, you are a person with solid theoretical knowledge and rich practical experience, but you are good at guarding the clumsy, I can confirm this, so the target of your research is definitely not the historical materials of those shipwrecks in the South China Sea, right?" Lu Binglin's low and hoarse voice sounded again.

(The invisible is invisible, because the self-nature is invisible, and cannot be obtained, and the name is invisible.) However, those who cannot be obtained, the body is lonely, there is nothing to come, there is no way to leave the world, the world cannot flow, and it is calm and comfortable, that is, it is to see. The one who is ignorant is the one who is inherently invisible, and there is no distinction in the original name, and the one who is ignorant has the use of constant sand in the indistinguishable body, and is able to distinguish everything, that is, he who knows nothing and knows nothing. Prajna clouds: Prajna is ignorant, nothing is unaware, if there is no seeing, nothing is not seeing. --"The Essentials of Epiphany")