A few thin pieces of paper, at this time in my hands seem to weigh a thousand pounds, more than ten years of two generations of moth-like exploration, all the answers may be in it. But I can also feel that the helplessness and sadness expressed by Lu Binglin in the text are not the kind of anxiety about gains and losses, but a kind of Hongchen is so sad, and my heart can't help but tighten.

Lu Binglin didn't know how long he had been on the East Star and how long he would continue to stay. The strangest thing is that his body seems to have no need for food and water, no hunger, no chapped feeling, and many times he even feels that the body itself no longer belongs to him. Just mechanically walking around every corner of the ship, patrolling, and recording.

Later, he slowly discovered a regular phenomenon, every fixed time, all the equipment of the Eastern Star would suddenly restart, the lights would be turned on instantly, the engine would emit a low roar, and the hull would also vibrate violently, not because of any wind and waves, but like an instant fall from a height, making people unstable.

But after staying in the dark for a long time, Lu Binglin's eyes were extremely unsuitable for the light, and he lost his sight instantly, so there was no way to investigate the real reason for this situation. But the vision lasted for a short time, only a few seconds, and then a long darkness, as if nothing had ever happened.

Lu Binglin later sat on the deck, waiting for this situation to appear, hoping to figure out where the East Star was. But the time was too short, the light was too strong, and there was no warning before it appeared, and several times it was in vain.

But Lu Binglin waited for more times, and he still made a new discovery, that is, whenever the bright light flashed, some items on the ship would be instantly displaced, and even some things that were not there before would emerge. In particular, there will be a backpack on the side of the boat, the same backpack I left behind when the bow of the boat broke up. The bright light faded away, and the backpack disappeared without a trace.

At first, Lu Binglin also thought that he was hallucinating, but after repeating it a few times, he began to think about the reason, and even stayed by the side of the boat, ready to wait for the backpack to appear again, take it off and hold it in his hand, and see if it can disappear in his hand.

But reason triumphs over impulse, and Lu Binglin realizes that the backpack may be his last channel of contact with the real world, although he doesn't know how to make that connection. If this is done, it is likely to have tragic consequences, and the backpack will disappear completely.

And Lu Binglin slowly thought about the reason for the emergence of this strange situation, that is, his time cross-sectional theory. Lu Binglin believes that there is an electromagnetic anomaly similar to Devil's City in a certain area of the South China Sea, and its appearance seems to be random, and the specific location is not static, perhaps related to climatic conditions, geomagnetism or ocean currents.

This geomagnetic anomaly can cause instantaneous meteorological anomalies on the sea surface, often accompanied by fog, waterspouts, and whirlpools. The Ningbo and Changchun were missing because of the geomagnetic anomaly.

Wei Zhihua received the task of searching and rescuing the wrecked ship, and at first he must have carried out his work according to the idea of a shipwreck, but it was doomed to be in vain. But after several years of hard work at sea, Wei Zhihua made a new discovery, that is, a mirage. Wei Zhihua must have seen the mirage that reflected the images of the Ningbo and Changchun.

According to the conventional explanation of the cause of the mirage, the phantom in the mirage must have an ontological existence in the real world, that is, the Ningbo and Changchun did not sink, but drifted somewhere in the sea. But no matter how Wei Zhihua tried to increase the scope of the search and increase the number of search and rescue vessels, there was still no progress. In desperation, Wei Zhihua noticed a series of experiments carried out by Lu Binglin in the desert to locate the mirage itself, and the mathematical model that determined the mirage body undoubtedly gave him new ideas.

It's a pity that the Taklamakan Desert experiment was forced to be suspended due to the strange incident in Devil's City, but Wei Zhihua asked for all the data from Lu Binglin, including the abnormal data monitored in Devil's City, and the further analysis of these data gave Wei Zhihua a new understanding of the South China Sea incident.

On the surface, the disappearance of the Ningbo and Changchun seems to be an accident caused by abnormal weather, but in fact, there is an objective law inside, that is, the radioactive ores transported by ships, which have induced geomagnetic anomalies already existing in the South China Sea and induced local climate abrupt changes.

But through the Devil's City incident, Wei Zhihua also realized that the sudden bad weather did not sink the Ningbo and Changchun, but instead entered a mysterious area similar to the enchantment, which is a time and space disorder, or a different time and space intersecting area, once entering this area, the real time and space order is broken, and the spatial position may be at a point, but the time and location do not coincide, so it causes a situation that is close at hand but can never be seen.

Similarly, the only way to find the missing ship is to artificially create a new magnetic field in the geomagnetic anomaly region, and if the anomalous geomagnetic field is further disturbed, the ship may reappear in the real world. Of course, at this time, it was no longer Wei Zhihua's interest to find the Ningbo and Changchun, and he either hoped to find a way to control the geomagnetic anomaly, or he expected to achieve a certain goal by entering the time cross-section and intervening in certain events. Of course, Wei Zhihua's true purpose is always hidden in the depths of his heart, and Lu Binglin is not clear.

So, Wei Zhihua borrowed from the famous Philadelphia experiment, he modified the East Star, installed an electromagnetic transmitter on it, and started the first experiment, that is, the experiment of freely opening the mirage. Due to the immaturity of technology or the imperfection of experimental procedures, although the mirage appeared, the Ningbo and Changchun did not appear, and the Dongxing was also engulfed by the mirage. Perhaps aware of the risks of the experiment, Wei Zhihua did not board the ship that time and escaped, but he understood that there was not only one cross-section of time, but many at the same time.

It is clear that the cross section in which the Eastern Star entered was different from that of the other two ships. But how to control which time cross-section to enter, Wei Zhihua was at a loss, and the experiment had to be stopped.

Later, there was an incident in which the fishing boat encountered the Dongxing, in which Wei Zhihua keenly discovered that Ding Jian was a person who had traveled through different time cross-sections and was intact, but after the crossing, he had serious amnesia, and the memory of the previous time cross-section completely disappeared, or a selective disappearance. This situation also appeared in the Philadelphia experiment in the United States that year, but many crew members who lost their memories tried to recall those memories in various ways, such as revisiting, hypnosis, primitive witchcraft, dream interpretation, etc., maybe they recalled something, but that experience must be unbearable, so that they completely could not accept it and committed suicide due to depression.

Although he couldn't ask anything of value from Ding Jian's mouth, Wei Zhihua believed that Ding Jian's ability to travel between reality and time was that he had inadvertently established a link between the two worlds. And this bond is undoubtedly the drifting bottle that was discovered later.

Like me, Wei Zhihua also realized for the first time that the painting on the cigarette shell paper was undoubtedly created by Ding Jian, and also thought that Ding Jian must have traveled back and forth with the time cross-section more than once, and even subconsciously realized that the information in the time cross-section could not be transmitted back to the real world, and he could not recall that experience in the real world. Ding Jian chose a seemingly tedious and stupid method, but it was what he was best at, and it was only his own: using pictures to record the world in the cross-section of time, and using pictures to awaken his dusty memories.

As for what the message Ding Jian wanted to convey, Wei Zhihua didn't want to think about it, boarded the East Star, and conveyed valuable information in his own way, an obsession had already arisen in Wei Zhihua's heart, and nothing could stop it. Especially the captain of the ship, who returned with Ding Jian, was terminally ill and his life was dying, which made Wei Zhihua make up his mind and start his plan as soon as possible.

Wei Zhihua organized a new scientific expedition team, and he used two boats to carry two sets of electromagnetic launch equipment, which had the purpose of stabilizing the mirage and drawing out the Dongxing, but more often than not, he still hoped that there would be a ship to bring out all the technical data. And inviting Lu Binglin out is an indispensable step for Wei Zhihua. For the calculation of the location of the center of the mirage, if Lu Binglin's mathematical formula is correct, not only can the search time be effectively shortened, but the key is that the success probability of a ship escaping from the core area of the mirage will be greatly increased.

The only thing that surprised Wei Zhihua was the addition of the Cao team. Obviously, the search for the Ningbo Changchun failed, and now it has taken the East Star, and the above has been extremely dissatisfied with the work of the search and rescue team, and the Cao team is nominally cooperating with the scientific expedition team to coordinate the emergency rescue of the navy, but in fact it is not a surveillance of Wei Zhihua, but this has not caused any trouble to Wei Zhihua.

All the plans were perfectly realized, the mirage appeared, the fog appeared, the black hole appeared, the Dongxing appeared, Wei Zhihua also resolutely boarded the Dongxing, at that time he no longer cared about the fate of everyone on the scientific research ship, let alone Lu Binglin and us followed the Dongxing. It's just that Lu Binglin can no longer deduce his plan after boarding the Dongxing, and according to Lu Binglin's theory, Wei Zhihua must have entered a different time cross-section, although they are in the same boat, they will never see each other again.

Lu Binglin didn't expect that the dinner we had on the scientific research ship would be compared to "crossing in the same boat". It's a pity that "crossing in the same boat" is not only not a cause, but has become a fatal consequence.

(Everything has a way, like a dream bubble.) If dew is like electricity, it should be viewed as such. --Diamond Sutra)