Lao Qi slowly put down the cup held in mid-air, shook his head, and said: "The lake god is here, his life is gone, the old generation's statement always has its truth." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info old man, I still want to live two more years, I don't see the best. But listening to the old man, when the lake god appeared, the wind must have been fierce, and the waves were several feet, and the real body of the lake god was surrounded by a cloud of black mist, but it was covered with silver scales, and it seemed to be a big snake. In this lake, the incense in the old man's temple is the most prosperous and spiritual, and the tribute there is a big turtle, it should be the one that saved Zhu Yuanzhang, right?"

On the way back to the guest house, Lao Huang seemed to be still sulking, and kept apologizing to me, saying that he didn't expect that Lao Qi had already lost his money, which was simply a shame on the face of our Poyang people. I patted him on the shoulder and told him not to take it personally. To investigate the matter of geothermal sources is a job and a career for us, and it is a knot in our hearts and a long-cherished wish for Lao Huang, and we can all work hard to complete it regardless of remuneration. But it's different for Lao Qi, it's an opportunity to earn some money for retirement, and you don't have to demand that everyone has the same idea. With him, we can take less risk, have more chances of success, and spend some money worthwhile.

On the second and third days, accompanied by Director Guo, I went to the county archives and the archives of the Public Security Bureau to search for valuable information in the vast historical records. Xiao Lei took a photo of Lao Huang's map and sent it back to the team, waiting for the computer to analyze it and see what new discoveries were made. But in the past two days, I still have gained a lot.

The earliest record of Luoxingdun appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, when there was no current Poyang Lake, but only a string of lakes north of the Jiujiang River, called Pengli. What is now Poyang Lake was a river fork, a swamp, a forest, and a basin at that time. However, after the event, the ground sank severely, and with the diversion and confluence of rivers, huge lakes slowly formed. Later generations only knew that there had been an incident of falling stars here, and mistakenly regarded the isolated island of the raised cliff in the lake as the location of the falling stars, thinking that this stone mountain was an alien object, but in fact the real impact crater was at the bottom of the lake.

The legend of the lake god almost appears in the records of ancient books at the same time as the legend of the falling star, but the images of different eras are very different and inconsistent. But the description of the lake god making waves and resisting the wind and the shipwreck is consistent. It seems that it is true that few people really see the image of the lake god, or that the lake god is just an imaginary image of the strange weather in the lake.

However, in the ancient archives, there are many records about the geothermal river, for example, thousands of years ago, there was an extremely cold winter, Poyang Lake was frozen, frozen for hundreds of miles, and people on the lake could walk. But just south of the Falling Star Pier, a stretch of water never froze, and there was a winding dark river under the lake, bubbling white gas upward. Locals believed that a black dragon was hiding at the bottom of the lake, and began a large-scale sacrifice, fearing that it would flood in the summer.

There is also a record that there was a fisherman who encountered a storm and the fishing boat sank in Luoxingdun, and the fisherman was swept into the dragon palace at the bottom of the lake by the big waves, which is a place of golden brilliance and bright lights. But the fisherman didn't see the dragon king and the shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and only ran into countless Yellow Spring guiding lights, which wanted to lead him into a huge underwater cave. The fisherman was terrified and struggled to get back to the surface. The record of the Huangquan guide lamp has appeared more than a dozen times in the local chronicles of hundreds of years, and the descriptions of the people who encountered them are basically the same.

The turtle and the snake are the most mentioned images of the lake gods, perhaps because it is really impossible to distinguish whether it is a turtle or a snake, and the main god of the temple on the falling star pier has simply become a basalt god, a mythical image of a turtle and snake combined. It was not until the Yuan Dynasty that a fire caused by a lightning strike burned down the temple, and the statue was also burned. When the Ming Dynasty was rebuilt, according to the legend that Taizu saved the turtle, it became the image of the turtle.

There is also an interesting record in the local chronicles, which says that since the Tang Dynasty, Poyang Lake has been the only waterway for the export of ceramics from Jingdezhen. But the waterway was only used to transport porcelain, silk fabrics, and pen and paper, and became a common tradition.

However, during the Northern Song Dynasty, it was very unsafe because there were often mountain bandits on the land route. This waterway was used to transport livestock such as pigs and cattle, but there were many shipwrecks. A large number of livestock sank into the lake along with boats, and no amount of sacrifice could prevent the shipwreck, and in more than ten years, tens of thousands of livestock sank to the bottom of the lake, so that the government had to issue a decree that all livestock were transported by land, and no more was allowed to pass through the waterway of Poyang Lake. The waterway could not be taken, and the land route was blocked by bandits, so that the once prosperous aquaculture industry quickly withered.

After I came out of the archives, I received a call from Cao's team, who told me that the expedition team had given up the diving search in the area around Luoxingdun, and the undercurrent under the water was turbulent and dangerous. He surveyed the underwater water temperature in the area of Luoxingdun and found no geothermal rivers. But a kilometer or two south of Luoxingdun, they found the geothermal river, about ten meters underwater, about four or five meters wide, flowing southward, and they were constantly measuring the direction of the geothermal river. And signal interference has not been encountered these days.

I briefly told Cao what I had learned in the past few days, and told him that we were about to be led by Lao Qi to determine the source of the Geothermal River, which might be the key to unlocking the shipwreck. Let him drive the search and rescue boat back to the Xingzi County dock first, and wait for Lao Qi to sacrifice the lake god and set off with us. Team Cao was also very excited when they heard that I had a clue, and made an appointment to meet at the dock at noon the next day.

Back at the guest house, Lao Huang was already waiting inside, and when he saw me enter the door, he hurriedly greeted me and told me that Lao Qi's side was all ready, and he would come to pick us up and take us to the dock early tomorrow morning. In addition, he also has some things to prepare, so he won't stay long.

When I sent Lao Huang out, I suddenly found a familiar figure flashing in the corridor of the guest house, very similar to Zeng Qian, but when I thought about it, thousands of miles away, there was no news at all, and I wouldn't have arrived in Xingzi County in a blink of an eye, maybe I was dazzled, right?

But when I turned back to the door of the room, I saw a girl slamming my door hard. Dressed in a short denim suit, with a small hair tie, a tall and well-proportioned figure, and one hand crossed at the waist, I can't help but think of a female zoologist at the foot of Inner Mondagai Mountain, carrying a rifle, sharp eyes, and a cold expression. Who is this Zeng Qian?

Zeng Qian still spoke the same as before, like popping beans in a bamboo tube, crackling for a while, and Ben didn't consider other people's comprehension ability. Fortunately, I was prepared and tried to keep up with her rhythm, and I could understand the general idea.

Zeng Qian answered my phone call and began to plunge headlong into the zoological literature at home and abroad, searching for records of freshwater luminescent creatures in the vast amount of text. After two almost sleepless days and two nights, she finally found some clues. Those who can survive in Poyang Lake, and conform to my previous description of luminous bodies, seem to be that only freshwater luminescent bacteria, which are gathered together by countless luminescent bacteria, can produce the effect of dots and thousands of glows.

However, there are only two kinds of freshwater luminescent fungi found in China, one is in Qinghai Lake, which belongs to cold-water luminescent fungi, and it is obviously impossible to appear in Poyang Lake. There is also a species called Isobrevis, which may live here, but it does not seem to have the habit of gathering in groups, nor can it emit such a bright light as I have spoken.

It just so happened that Zeng Qian's former mentor's classmate was an expert in the study of luminescent fungi in China, surnamed Zhu. Zeng Qian visited him under the introduction of her mentor. Professor Zhu told Zeng Qian that the research on luminescent fungi has only been paid attention to in recent years, and it turns out that it is related to the luminescent characteristics of luminescent bacteria. Luminescent fungi will produce bright decay when they encounter toxic substances in water, and the spectral color will also change, which can become an important means of environmental water quality testing. Professor Zhu is doing research in this area.

However, Professor Zhu believes that if the luminous object in Poyang Lake is a freshwater luminescent fungus, and it emits white light, it means that the spectral color has changed, because usually the spectral color of the luminescent bacteria is very stable, pale blue or turquoise. Either the lake is heavily polluted, or the luminescent bacteria have undergone a special mutation.

However, Professor Zhu does not think that the luminescent fungi in Poyang Lake are the ones, because Professor Zhu has done detailed investigations in Poyang Lake, Taihu Lake, Chaohu Lake, and Dongting Lake, but has not found luminescent fungi, so his research base is located in such a remote place as Qinghai Lake. In Professor Zhu's view, the luminous objects in the lake are more like gaseous underwater luminescence. It is impossible to confirm that these luminous objects are living organisms based on eyewitness accounts without professional knowledge, or it is easier to get closer to the truth by geologists to analyze them, for the same reason as Zeng Qian's original thought, luminescent fungi do not have the property of large-scale aggregation.

But at this time, Zeng Qian had a new conjecture, which was also Professor Zhu's inspiration to her: microorganisms are very sensitive to environmental changes, and their ability to adapt is extremely strong, could it be that serious environmental pollution has really occurred, or even radioactive contamination caused the mutation of Isobrobacterium luminescent?

Zeng Qian understands that speculation without first-hand evidence cannot become a persuasive opinion. And what happened in Poyang Lake aroused her strong curiosity, so she simply made a report to the unit, brought some instruments and equipment and her assistant, bought a ticket and flew to Nanchang. She knew that we took Xingzi County as the base camp for search and rescue, and set off from Nanchang early this morning and came here. When I went to the county party committee guest house to inquire, I really lived here in the past two days, and I simply settled in the guest house, so we met.

After listening to Zeng Qian's narration, I thought to myself, in addition to the seemingly irrefutable reasons she said, in fact, I still can't rest assured that Team Cao, this kid of Team Cao, is becoming more and more sophisticated in his playfulness.

(To the yin and so, to the yang.) The majesty is out of the earth, and the solemnity is beyond the sky. I am above the Ming Dynasty for you, to the origin of the yang, for you to enter the gate of the underworld, and to the origin of the yin. --"The Purpose of Life") (To be continued.) )