When I came back from Chengjialing, Shanxi, I spent almost half a year in Beijing, and although I was bedridden for two months, my life was still extremely leisurely. Cao team and they sat at home a few times before and after the Spring Festival, and they never showed up again, and occasionally came on the phone, and they couldn't say a few words, they seemed to have gone to the south to perform some mission.

I have nothing to do to read a book, I am too idle to find Jiao Er in the alley next door to tease the pigeon, find Guo Erye in the Liuli Factory to make two kites, Feng Dan's shop I have also been to a few times, but now he is a celebrity, often on TV as a guest, at the auction preview to give a lecture or something, shaking his head, there is something to do, basically not in the shop, often encountered Liao Huansheng.

Mr. Liao worked hard to compete for the position of professor in their school in the first two years, but he had no connections, no research projects, and no professional papers published, so naturally he only accompanied the prince to study. Liao Huansheng figured out this problem, so he simply retired from school and earned some scattered silver to support his family in Feng Wei's shop, and his main energy was on writing books and sayings.

Around the end of March, the locust tree sprouts, blooms in spring, and comes to my house to drink tea. The two of us were chatting all over the world, and the mobile phone suddenly rang.

There was no caller ID on this caller, I picked it up, and it seemed that the signal over there was not very good, and the sound was intermittent, but I could still distinguish what seemed to be the voice of Team Cao.

"Chang, are you still resting at home, how are you doing, your legs are fine?" Team Cao's voice sounded like he was shouting at the top of his voice, and what he was trying to cover seemed to be the roar of some kind of engine turning.

"Team Cao, don't come to these vains, let's talk about it, what's wrong? It's not a big deal, you have to call me next to the engine?" I scolded Team Cao.

"Hehe, don't you just want to care about your old age? I guess you've been squatting in the small courtyard, you must be in a panic, how about coming to Hainan to relax?"

I didn't react at once, but Huansheng, who was sitting opposite, put down the book in his hand and gestured at me, as if he was about to say a few words to Team Cao.

I handed him the phone, Huansheng grinned, pressed the speakerphone, and yelled at the phone, "Team Cao, I'm Huansheng, I never worry about me when I have good things, and I haven't avoided troublesome things once." I often said that he is not neat yet, and it is estimated that he is going to fall into the root of the disease, it is all your fault, and it is okay to go to Hainan, so I have to help push the wheelchair and book my ticket together, right?"

On the other side of the phone, Team Cao laughed dryly, and the roar of the engine became louder and louder, as if he was in the airport.

"Huansheng, you don't know that we are here, you are a big professor, go out to make a station, the ticket money will come out, and you are embarrassed to take a bite in my Qingshui Yamen? Wait a while, Huansheng, I remember that you seem to teach physics at the university?"

"Yes, but I was sick from school three months ago, what's the matter, can you reimburse the plane ticket? Although Huansheng was joking on his lips, he obviously began to beat the drum in his heart.

"Huansheng, it's just you, I'll go to the courtyard in a while, book the ticket for you and Lao Chang, and bring the materials with him, let Lao Chang take a look first, you will be responsible for pushing the wheelchair, I won't see Lao Chang in Sanya tomorrow, take you and ask." ”

After speaking, Team Cao hung up the phone with a smile, and he could hear that he was in an extremely good mood, and it seemed that he had made a lot of money. In the busy tone of the phone, I saw that Huansheng's face changed to the color of a ripe eggplant, and I couldn't help laughing, "Huansheng, is it still calculated, right? The key is that you still don't know where Team Cao's trap is?"

"Forget it, I don't want to think about it, it's a big deal to accompany you to Hainan for two days to relax, but what does it have to do with the physics I teach?" Huan Sheng muttered and picked up the book again, but it seemed that it was difficult to concentrate on the book.

"Don't be too happy, Huansheng, when did you make a bargain with Team Cao? I always think that a vacation in Sanya is a trick, and we didn't even look at the beach, so we let Team Cao take it away. I sighed and continued fiddling with my teapot.

Soon, my prophecy came true, and in less than half an hour, Xiao Duan entered the courtyard gate, and along with the dossier more than a foot high.

Huan Sheng sighed helplessly, began to look through the information, and Xiao Duan wrote down our ID numbers, and was busy arranging for us to book tickets to Hainan.

I poured a cup of tea, and when I saw that Xiao Duan was done, I handed it over. "Xiao Duan, what's the situation, what's going on at sea? Team Cao hurriedly called us over, let's talk about it. ”

Xiao Duan sat next to Huansheng, holding the teacup, blowing slowly, taking a sip, and his expression already had the charm of Team Cao. But as soon as the situation was introduced, the speed of speech unconsciously became faster. And his narration soon made me and Huansheng realize that things were unusual.

About half a year ago, the 10,000-ton container ship Asterisk, a state-owned ocean shipping group, disappeared in the South China Sea route. At the time of the disappearance, a violent tropical air mass was passing over the area, and the captain had contacted the company to inform them that he was ready to change course and avoid the tropical storm, but soon the contact was cut off and the signal from the Eastern Star disappeared from the radar.

After that, the ocean-going shipping group and the South China Sea Fleet dispatched more than 20 ships to carry out a dragnet search and rescue in the waters around the area, but strangely, no trace was found.

The displacement of the Dongxing cargo ship is as high as more than 40,000 tons, the age of the ship is less than ten years, it is a very advanced ocean-going transport ship, the communication equipment on board is complete, even if it sinks, the satellite can still receive wireless signals, and confirm the location of the wreck, but this time, for no reason, the satellite lost signal.

It would be even more unreasonable to say that the Eastern Star sank because of that tropical storm. The tropical storm was not very strong, and it continued to decay when it entered the South China Sea, and it was estimated that the wind strength at sea at that time was only 10, and it would not pose any threat to a tonnage container ship like the Dongxing, except for causing some turbulence. At the time of the accident, the captain changed course, and the Eastern Star did not enter the center of the storm at all, but disappeared on the edge of the storm.

Radar and satellites show that there are no other ships within a 50-nautical-mile radius of the East Star's disappearance, and even if small ships occasionally appear on the high seas, there is no possibility that the East Star will be hit and sunk.

After the signal of the Dongxing disappeared, another cargo ship of the Ocean Group, the Bund, was also in that water, and it only took about five hours for the Bund to arrive at the place of disappearance, but the strange thing is that the Bund was not found in a piece of debris or oil at sea, and the Dongxing seemed to have evaporated from the air without a trace.

A month later, the search and rescue work ended amid numerous mysteries, and the ship of more than 40,000 tons and more than 30 crew members became cold numbers in the investigation report.

"Xiao Duan, is Team Cao going to take us to find the missing Dongxing, I'm afraid these are not what we are good at?" I listened to Xiao Duan's story and couldn't help but ask.

"There's no need to look for it, the Eastern Star has already been discovered. A small casual sentence is nothing short of earth-shattering for me and Huansheng.

Two months after the search and rescue ended, a small fishing boat fishing in the South China Sea accidentally spotted the Dongxing floating in the sea. The East Star was covered in rust, the hull was covered with shell coral, those things didn't grow as long as ten or eight years, and no one on the deck of the East Star could see it, and there was no response to the radio signal, and no one spoke to it when it shouted through a loudspeaker, and it looked like a ghost ship. The fishing boat contacted the Maritime Safety Bureau, and since the word Dongxing was still clearly visible, the Maritime Safety Bureau agreed that the sailors of the fishing vessel would come over and go on board to inspect it.

Compared with the more than 40,000-ton container ship, the fishing boat is the gap between rats and elephants, and the captain of the fishing boat only tied a cable to the stern of the Dongxing and arranged for two sailors to go aboard.

"Xiao Duan, these photos were taken by the sailors who boarded the ship at the time?" Huan Sheng interrupted Xiao Duan's narration and took out a stack of photos from the file.

"No, there was a painter from the Academy of Fine Arts sketching at sea on that fishing boat, and he took this fishing boat, and he carried his camera with him, and he boarded the Eastern Star with the two sailors. How can a fisherman carry a camera with him and take a picture of this level?"

I took the photos and looked at them carefully. Indeed, as Xiao Duan said, the hull in the photo looks like it has been soaked in the seabed for many years, a large area of paint has peeled off, and even the deck is covered with a bunch of shells, which does not look like a ship that has been missing for months.

The painter was obviously skeptical, focusing on some details, the completely decayed staircase, the dinner plate glued together by shells, and the dashboard covered with thick dust, these photos are placed together, and the indescribable horror makes people shudder at once.

"Huansheng, have you noticed that these photos are a bit weird, as if there is a layer of fog in front of the lens, and the focal length is not aligned, which looks hazy?" I flipped through the photos, and doubts suddenly rose in my heart.

Before Liao Huansheng answered, Xiao Duan had already spoken. "Uncle Chang, you're right, when the photographer took these photos, the sea had already begun to fog, probably when it was dark, right? Soon, the visibility was less than five meters, and the sky was almost dark, the crew only checked the deck and cockpit, and found no traces of human activity, so they returned to the fishing boat, preparing to get on board again after the fog cleared at dawn the next day. ”

Unexpectedly, early the next morning, the sky opened and the fog cleared, and the East Star disappeared again, and the cable that tied the East Star seemed to have been cut by something sharp and hung into the sea. No one knows when the Eastern Star disappeared or how. Soon, the ship of the Maritime Safety Bureau came to the sea area where the fishing boat was staying, and searched carefully again, but also found no clues. ”

(If Dacheng is missing, its use is not harmful.) If the big profit is rushing, its use is endless. If you are straight, if you are clumsy, if you are clumsy, if you are arguing. Silence is better than restlessness, cold is better than heat. Tranquility is the right thing in the world. --Tao Te Ching)