I walked slowly to the porthole, the top floor of the bridge building of the scientific research ship, facing the bow of the ship, is surrounded by floor-to-ceiling double-layer tempered glass, and the view is very open. At this time, the staff of this floor of the laboratory almost stopped what they were doing, gathered in front of the glass wall, and silently looked out. But no one spoke, and for a moment the atmosphere became extremely heavy.

Outside the glass walls, it seems to be a completely strange world. The storm was like a note, and the research ship was still undulating in the crests and valleys, but in the black-brown rain curtain in the distance, a fist-sized point of light faintly appeared, dark purple, not very bright, like a cloud of smoke that was constantly slowly rotating, constantly expanding. About half a cigarette has swelled to the size of a basin.

Carefully distinguished, I still vaguely saw that this fog was not floating on the sea, but floating in the clouds, and every time the lightning in the clouds crossed, the fog flickered, and the brief light reflected the mottled shadows in the fog, which seemed to be the outline of a boat. I understood that the fog was actually stationary, at most changing shape as the clouds moved, but it was constantly expanding, or the light in the fog was getting stronger and stronger, giving people the feeling of getting closer, but this strange and magnificent feeling was enough to shock the hearts of everyone present.

When I walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, Wei handed me the binoculars in his hand, but the words seemed to be saying to Lu Binglin beside him: "Old Lu, it has already appeared, if we have the opportunity to go back, there will be time to quarrel when we go ashore, I will accompany you, now, do you want to help me do the calculation?"

Lu Binglin stood indifferently, motionless, stunned for a while, seemed to have made up his mind, and did not answer Wei Zhihua, but just picked up the internal phone on the table next to him and dialed a number, but his eyes never left the mist.

"Zhengyang, it's me, you saw a mirage over there, right? Ask Captain Jiang to measure the distance, and the data of the sounding balloon will be transmitted, the sooner the better. "I know that Zhengyang is Lu Binglin's assistant, and he should be on the cockpit side now. Then, Lu Binglin dialed another number, and his tone of voice did not have any emotional color, "Fengzi, all the data began to be substituted, yes, the wind speed, wind force, and air pressure data should be updated, yes, put another balloon on it, yes, bring the spectrum analyzer." ”

Lu Binglin's words were like the power switch of the whole machine, as soon as it was turned on, everyone quickly began to operate as if they had just woken up from a dream. "Lao Zhang, there are no positioning coordinates, let's see if it's a problem with the machine. "Xiao Xia, turn on the power and guide the data immediately." "Call Fengzi again, there is no signal on the fifth machine. "Who's staring at the bottom of the silo?" The experimental center instantly returned to busy and noisy, Lu Binglin stopped talking, pulled over the chair, sat in front of the computer, and began to stare at the screen, constantly tapping on the keyboard. Wei Zhihua exhaled a long breath, took the phone, and began to anxiously convey instructions one by one.

On the one hand, it seems that the power of the ship's battery pack can only last for less than an hour, and on the other hand, to achieve Wei's expected plan, we must rely on the two sets of launchers on the research ship and the supply ship to start at the same time, but at this time we have just lost contact with the supply ship.

Wei made another phone call and learned about the situation of the Canglong submarine, it seems that the endurance time of the submarine is about three hours, I understand Wei Zhi's situation a little at this time, his whole plan involves too many details, and if there is a problem in any link, there is no record option, and there is no possibility of making up for it, which can only mean failure.

What's more troublesome is that the implementation units of different links do not belong to each other, and they only understand their own part of the work content, all of which are alone, not to mention a large amount of coordination and communication work, that is, to summarize data, and derive conclusions can not be completed in a short time, and it is not easy for him to do it to the current extent.

I picked up the binoculars, focused on the focal length, and looked at the purple mist. By this time the fog had dispersed, and it was clearly distinguishable that it should be suspended in a light gray cloud in mid-air, at least a few hundred meters above sea level.

The center of the fog is slightly brighter, but it is only relative to the dense clouds, and it is almost impossible to see where the light is coming from. The key question is that I can't figure out how this kind of weather can have a mirage, and how the light can penetrate the clouds and refract in.

There is a faint shadow of a ship in the fog, the lower part of the hull is very blurry, almost dissolved in the misty fog, but the upper part is still very clear, the bridge tower, the mast, and even the fluttering flag, especially the marking effect is the gantry crane in the center of the hull, which seems to be taller than the bridge tower in the front of the hull, which is very consistent with the Dongxing described by Wei Division, Cao Team, and Ding Jian before.

But I noticed that the fog dimmed every few seconds, but it instantly returned to its original state, which seemed to be very regular. I turned my head and glanced at the huge electromagnetic emission equipment on the deck of the first floor of the research ship, perhaps because of the power supply, the pale yellow light around it was also unstable, and it flickered for a few seconds, very synchronized with the fog, it seemed that the two were indeed somehow intrinsically connected.

I saw Wei Zhihua put down the phone and looked at the fog with me, so I asked softly, "Old Wei, after putting in so much effort and taking such a big risk, what exactly was transported on the Dongxing?" ”

Wei Zhihua didn't turn his head, still motionless outside the glass wall, but a low and slightly hoarse voice still slowly floated over.

"About two years ago, energy exploration on the seabed of the South China Sea was in full swing, and a large number of oil, natural gas, and combustible ice deposits were discovered, and with it, a large number of rare minerals, but because of the difficulty and cost of technical extraction, most of them were our reserves, and only a small number of oil rigs were erected. ”

"More than a year ago, the state approved the archaeological protection excavation plan for shipwrecks in the South China Sea, and a large number of civilian and military salvage ships entered the area of 60 nautical miles to 130 nautical miles southeast of Taiping Reef. ”

"The Dongxing is actually the original template and experimental platform designed and built by our country's professional scientific research vessels, and the later first and second generation scientific research ships are all reduced and upgraded versions of the Dongxing. However, in recent years, due to some problems in the early design, the Dongxing has basically not gone to the open sea to carry out missions, and has traveled more to and from oil drilling platforms and archaeological excavation sites in the South China Sea. ”

"The crew of the East Star are by no means ordinary seafarers, but more experts in geology, oceanography, and physics, and these talents themselves deserve our greater efforts to search and rescue. Okay, Lao Chang, what I know has already been said, and what can't be said has actually been revealed, maybe after Professor Lu's calculation results come out, it will be the moment to reveal the final secret. ”

After Wei Zhihua finished speaking in one breath, he returned to his stone-like expression, and his hands behind his back were motionless. But his words still made me fall into deep thought.

The content of Wei Zhihua's words doesn't seem to have much logical relationship before and after, like a completely isolated incident, but if you think about it deeply, there is still a lot of mystery.

First of all, he juxtaposes the marine exploration of the South China Sea and the underwater archaeology of the South China Sea, and there is an interval of about a year, which seems to me to be more likely that underwater archaeology is a cover for the marine exploration event, a cover to divert public attention, of course, the marine exploration itself does not have much heat to become the focus of the event, and more should be to divert the attention of external forces from the event.

Secondly, the gathering of outstanding divers from all over the country in the South China Sea is by no means necessary for underwater archaeological events, and there must be something else they are searching for on the seabed. And Wei Zhihua's statement of the seabed exploration incident at the top is also hinting at the divers' real search target?

Similarly, Wei Zhihua's description of the original design function of the Dongxing seemed to hint at the fact that the mission carried out by the Dongxing was more than a simple transportation mission, and what he later said about the large number of scientists on the Dongxing also proved this from the side. And logically, the search and rescue work led by Wei took so long, mobilized so many resources, and the technical equipment was so beyond imagination, so the last sentence he emphasized was actually a hint to me that the Dongxing had achieved results after the survey, and even obtained some kind of important sample, which was the real goal of our action?

So what exactly did the Dongxing find? Mineral deposits, geological data, or underwater relics? Unfortunately, no clues can be found in Wei Zhihua's words.

I don't know why, I suddenly thought of what happened to Ding Jian on the East Star, especially his description of the contents of the voyage diary, if these contents were left by the ship's scientific researchers, then it should be very rational and objective, but unfortunately I and the Cao team drank a lot of wine last night, which seriously affects my memory now, but I should have recorded it in a notebook at the time, and I came out in a hurry today without it.

I was about to go back to my cabin while everyone was busy calculating, and flipped through the notes of the day, when I saw Huansheng walk in with a calm face.

(Good man, all worlds are always born and destroyed, before and after, gathering and dispersing, thoughts and thoughts, cycles, and all kinds of trade-offs, all of which are reincarnation.) If you are not out of reincarnation, but you are aware of it, it is the same circulation, and if you avoid reincarnation, it is useless. For example, if you move your eyes, you can shake the water, and if you fix your eyes, you can turn from a fire to a fire, and if you move on the moon, you can move a boat on the shore, and so it will be. Good man, all the spins have not stopped, and the other things live first, not to mention that the reincarnation of life and death has not been pure, and the Buddha is awakened without spinning ?--"Yuanjue Sutra")