"The water recedes and the cold rises on the continent, and the swamp becomes a wave and freezes quietly. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info green felt in the glow, holding a few colored mirrors. Walking lightly on the sandy ground of quinoa, cranes and geese splashed without a trace. The breeze is close to the sound of selling fish, fulfilling my old dream of delicious food. The chanting of this old word is the director of the Jiangxi Xiushui County Cultural Center, Guo, who is in his sixties, his body is extraordinarily tough, with a slight Jiangxi accent, and he has a bit of the charm of the local opera Raohe tune. It is very in tune with the open Poyang Lake in front of you, the dotted boats, and the magnificent scenery of the distant mountains like a mist.

I sat on the bow of the boat with him, although the roar of the diesel engine destroyed the artistic conception of the lake a little, and occasionally there was choking fuel smoke wafting by, but talking about the legends and stories of Poyang Lake for 2,000 years, and commenting on a few words about the eternal romantic characters on the same boating lake, it was not boring.

But the Cao team in the cabin obviously didn't have the leisure and elegance of ours, and was looking at a large stack of thick files alone, fiddling with stainless steel thermos cups in their hands. Xiao Lei and several comrades from the local water affairs bureau and public security bureau chatted at the stern of the boat, and from time to time picked up binoculars to search on the lake, but thousands of miles of blue waves are like washing, and occasionally egrets are flying in shock, what difference can they see?

I was just after the Spring Festival in '96, and the firecrackers in Beijing were still ringing sporadically, and they were dragged out of their homes by the Cao team. On the plane to Nanchang, he told me the reason for going to Poyang Lake.

In the autumn of '95, the Jiangxi Provincial Bureau of Culture invited several experts from the Chinese Institute of Archaeology to inspect the Maritime Silk Road at Poyang Lake. Since the Tang Dynasty, the prosperity of Jingdezhen ceramics has made Poyang Lake the most important waterway transportation channel for the export of ceramics in China. Therefore, experts listed Poyang Lake as the source of the Maritime Silk Road, and prepared for in-depth cultural and archaeological research.

This group of experts also included staff from the local archaeological institute, local hydrological and geological experts, and several divers, about 30 people, who entered Poyang Lake on a 1,000-ton research ship. At first, everything went smoothly on the lake, the weather on the lake was clear and the visibility was very high, and the expedition team took advantage of the dry season and the low water level of Poyang Lake to first inspect the ruins of the ancient Xiaoyang City. I went into the middle of the lake to conduct an underwater investigation, and fortunately found the wreckage of an ancient shipwreck in the silt at the bottom of the lake, and salvaged a few pieces of broken porcelain that seemed to be from the Ming Dynasty, and everyone was very excited about it.

Poyang Lake is a strange place, and since the Tang Dynasty, there have been frequent shipwreck accidents. The reason for the shipwreck is even more evil, often the lake is calm a moment ago, suddenly, the sky is cloudy, the wind is strong, there will be a huge whirlpool on the lake, the big waves swell more than a foot high, the boat will disappear without a trace. Sometimes, in such eerie weather, there have been cases where more than a dozen ships have sunk at the same time.

In ancient times, most of the boats were made of wood, and it was possible to explain the high waves, but in modern times, they have become steel giants and still sink to the bottom of the lake. The most famous Anti-Japanese War, there is a Japanese troop transport ship called Kobe, with a displacement of 2,000 tons, full of looted treasures in 42 years, starting from Poyang, going to Shanghai through Jiujiang, also encountered the sky dark, strong winds and waves and whirlpools, and sank at the bottom of the lake without warning.

The Japanese troops in China sent more than a dozen ships to search, but even the shadow of the Kobe Maru was not seen, but two more were missing. After Japan's surrender, the Kuomintang government learned about the Kobe Maru, so it entrusted a professional company in the United States to salvage the sunken ship, but it did not expect that the American salvage ship also sank in Poyang Lake, and several staff members survived, but they never mentioned what happened at that time, and some people were still mentally disturbed shortly after being rescued. No one knew the mystery, and for some reason, the government of the Republic of China blocked the news, but still stopped the salvage work.

After the liberation, the number of missing ships and sinking in Poyang Lake did not decrease, and Director Guo told me that in the seventies and eighties alone, more than 1,000 ships sank, and more than 10,000 ships sank in all historical well-documented shipwrecks. But curiously, there are very few reports of finding wrecks. You must know that the average water depth of Poyang Lake is more than 7 meters, and the deepest place is only more than 30 meters, and more than 10,000 shipwrecks are enough to cover the entire bottom of the lake. Over the years, the water surface of Poyang Lake has gradually shrunk, and during the dry season, most of the bottom of the lake will be exposed, but there is no wreck of the shipwreck. It makes sense to say that the ancient wooden ships have been completely decayed for a long time, but where have those steel ships that sank in modern times gone?

So the expedition team found a shipwreck in the Ming Dynasty, which was enough to make everyone happy. The expedition team simply parked the ship in the lake, marked the location of the wreck, and prepared to carry out a comprehensive salvage of the wreck the next morning. But no one knows what happened that night. According to nearby fishermen, in the early hours of the morning, there was a strong wind on the lake, and there was a brief thunderstorm, and a large bright white light rose on the surface of the lake, but it did not take long for the lake to return to calm.

However, the 1,000-ton research ship of the scientific expedition team, along with more than 30 people on board, disappeared silently in the morning when the sky was bright. The Jiangxi provincial government dispatched dozens of boats to carry out a dragnet investigation, which lasted more than a month and found nothing.

As with all previous disappearances, the expedition ship seemed to evaporate into the air, and there were no clues in the search and rescue. About a month later, in Jundu Lake, the southernmost part of Poyang Lake, a fisherman found a diver's broken diving suit and oxygen tank, which were identified as the equipment of the missing personnel of the scientific expedition team, and a new question followed.

Jundu Lake and Poyang Lake are not connected, and only for a short time during the high water season do the two lakes be connected by a narrow waterway. When the research ship disappeared, it was already past the season of rising water, and everyone couldn't figure out how these diving suits and equipment came from Poyang Lake to Jundu Lake. And there is no scientific research ship found in Jundu Lake, where did this ship go?

Some speculate that there may be a passage at the bottom of Poyang Lake that connects to Jundu Lake, and that it was the divers who were killed who were swept into the whirlpool and followed the passage to Jundu Lake. Some people also speculate that a waterspout occurred on the lake that night, and the research ship capsized, and some of the equipment on board was swept away by the wind and fell to Jundu Lake. Some local fishermen believe that the underwater excavation of the scientific research ship angered the lake god, who swallowed the boat, and the victims were thrown into the Jundu Lake by the lake god.

The lake god's claim is obviously absurd, and the first two speculations sound plausible, but they are really not supported by evidence. At the moment before the disappearance of the research ship, in the temporary base camp of the Xiushui County scientific expedition team, there was a maritime satellite call from the scientific expedition team, and the caller was Professor Lu Zhixiang, the deputy commander-in-chief of the ship, who just told the base camp that a lot of light spots emitting silver light suddenly floated on the surface of the lake, like some kind of plankton that glows by itself, and there are many of them. At this time, the satellite phone was interfered with by a strong electromagnetic signal, and Professor Lu's voice could not be heard clearly.

It is precisely because of the electromagnetic interference that the disappearance of the scientific research ship has aroused great concern among the departments concerned; what is the source of interference? How was the interference formed? Who controlled the jamming device? The mystery behind the incident has gone beyond the significance of searching for the missing persons, and the small detachment led by the Cao team is only the first batch of advance teams, and there will be a steady stream of equipment and personnel to supplement it later.

The Cao team's squad is composed of six people, except for me and Xiao Lei, Jiang Min and Xiao Gu of the Technical Department of the Criminal Investigation Brigade, we are also old acquaintances, but there is also a police officer named Li Guoliang I don't know, and the Cao team doesn't seem to be familiar with it, and only told me that it is a comrade from the Beijing radar unit who came to support me. When we arrived in Nanchang, we met up with four police officers from the local public security bureau, and when we drove to Xiushui, comrades from the Water Affairs Bureau and Lao Guo from the Cultural Bureau joined in, and when we entered Poyang Lake by boat, there were more than 20 members on board.

Obviously, such a large action team is not what the Cao team wants, he has to spend a lot of time coordinating and arranging the work of the personnel, fortunately, Lao Chen, the leader of the water affairs bureau, is a cadre with a lot of rules and strong coordination skills, and he took care of the logistics work of the action team and shared the most headache of the Cao team's daily affairs.

Before we got on the ship, we held a working meeting to formulate a work plan for this stage. In the analysis of the Cao team, in addition to finding the missing research ship, we still have two important tasks to complete. One is to find out the source of interference, and the other is to find out what the glowing floating debris on the water was before the disappearance of the research ship, and whether it has anything to do with the disappearance of the research ship. And these tasks need to be completed in the lake, so Cao's plan is to directly set up the headquarters on the boat, leaving only a few personnel to establish a response and supply point on the shore, so as not to enter the tiger's den to get the tiger's son, but this plan is simply a copy of the last scientific expedition.

The plan of the Cao team was based entirely on the existing situation we had, and on the surface it seemed very targeted, but the biggest problem was that we were completely unable to respond to the unknown unexpected situation. Although the equipment and weapons we carried were far more complete than the previous research ship, we were ignorant of the dangers encountered by the missing ship, and I found it difficult for this kind of blind man's elephant search to be effective. But seeing that Team Cao seemed to have been thinking about it for a long time, and he didn't have a more secure way, he didn't speak.

Unexpectedly, Team Cao had just finished talking about the work plan, and in the entire team, Li Guoliang, who usually spoke the least, took the words.

(Heaven and earth, where is the earth, where is the sun and the moon, what is the contention, which proposition is, which is the Weigang, who lives in nothing and pushes and acts, who is the will, is the only choice, it is the only way to operate, and cannot stop the evil, the cloud is the rain, the rain is the cloud, the one is the cloud, the one is the longshi, the one who lives has nothing to do, the pleasure is the persuasion, the wind rises in the north, one west and one east, and there is imitation. Who is sucking? Who is living without doing and wearing a brush? Dare to ask why?--Zhuangzi "Heavenly Fortune")

(To be continued.) )