The huge wall of waves was already a nautical mile ahead of the bow of the boat, and I could feel the mist spreading from the splash. The research ship began to swing up and down violently, and Huansheng and I could barely stand on our feet by holding on to the railing. Even in such a dangerous situation, the "horn of death" mentioned by Huansheng still lingers in my heart and lingers.

Huansheng endured the dizziness, almost half-leaning on the bulkhead of the ship, and kept wiping his face with his hands while briefly explaining the origin of the "Death Horn".

The phrase "death horn" comes from barbaric Europe, and it is closely associated with religion, in short, it is a precursor to damnation. In Christianity, it is also called the doomsday trumpet, enough to imagine its power. Before great wars, sudden earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis, there are often muffled horns in the sky. The more the calamity becomes, the longer the trumpet sounds. Even in modern times, records of the "death horn" still abound.

Whether it was the protracted Battle of Jerusalem, the Mongol expedition known as the Whip of God, the Black Death, which halved Europe's population, and the countless islands engulfed by Mount Vesuvius, there have been the cry of death horns. No one knows how it came about, no one can predict what kind of catastrophe it will bring, and in the same way, after an unprecedented tragedy, people ignore the sound of the trumpet that was sounded before.

In modern times, there have been many scholars who have studied the death horn, such as the Battle of the Somme River in World War I, which was called the death grinder by later generations. But no matter how much research is studied, there are only three explanations for the cause of the death horn.

One is geomagnetism, which is similar to the principle of seismic cloud formation. Before major geological disasters, the geomagnetic field is often abnormal, the geological movement will be more active, and the earth's crust makes a loud sound in repeated squeezing, like a horn. But this explanation is barely applicable to natural disasters such as volcanoes and earthquakes, but how much does this have to do with those man-made disasters?

Another theory is called atmospheric friction theory, which refers to the fact that the atmosphere is divided into many layers up and down because of different specific gravity, and under special meteorological conditions, the atmosphere of different layers is violently rubbed and a loud sound occurs. And this kind of strong convective weather often causes major disasters. Of course, this theory does not have a reasonable explanation for man-made disasters, and researchers can only attribute it to accidental coincidences.

Of course, there is a third type, which is the so-called apocalypse theory. For example, the Bible once recorded the trumpet of doom, believing that God sent seven angels to blow the trumpet in the seven corners of the world in order to punish the greedy world, and the earth would be destroyed by various disasters. Of course, to the researchers of the Death Horn, this claim is nonsense.

Even in China, there are many records about these strange sounds of heaven and earth, although they are also attributed to visions, but I don't know if it is because of the solidity of the idea of the unity of heaven and man, the ancients did not completely classify it as a precursor to disaster, but more as a warning from heaven, and some people even regarded this sound as the sound of the dragon's roar, thinking that it was a rare auspicious omen.

Huansheng has not done any special research on the Death Horn, which he has only seen as an anecdote from some scientific magazines, and he is at a loss when he really faces this dramatic scene. But in any case, I believe that all of us here are like the ancients who have experienced similar scenes, on the one hand, they are full of awe of nature, and on the other hand, they are anxious in their hearts, waiting for what kind of great changes will come.

The sound of the death horn rose and went, and after about five minutes, the sea suddenly fell silent, and even the rolling waves were much smaller, and Huan Sheng and I suddenly noticed that the lights in the cabin flickered a few times and lit up. Could it be that the power was restored? We hurried back to the experimental center.

When we entered the hatch of the experimental center, we found that everyone was busy, and most of the computers and instruments were restarted, making a ticking sound.

Captain Jiang stood in the middle of the experimental center and shouted to Wei Zhihua anxiously, "All the equipment that is not necessary to turn on is turned off, and the lighting and air conditioning are also turned off. ”

Listening to his words, Huansheng and I smiled bitterly, it seems that Captain Jiang still succumbed to Wei Zhihua's opinion, and we have begun to make a big gamble with the lives of the whole ship.

At this time, Team Cao stood in front of the glass of the landing cabin, holding a telescope, motionless and looking at the purple mist that was getting closer and closer, and around him, there was the noisy report of researchers.

"Captain Chiang, the power system is restored, the course is 293, and the speed of the ship is ten knots. ”

"Wei, the radar system is restored, and the supply ship is still at 293, which should be stationary. ”

"Wei, the contact with the Canglong has been restored, the equipment of the Canglong is normal, do you issue a return order?"

"Wei, the electromagnetic system has entered the standby state, please indicate whether to start it. ”

"In Wei, the wind direction is southeast, the wind force is level 5 and gradually level 6, and the wave height is three meters, but one nautical mile away, the wave height is about 12 meters, and the wind force is also increasing rapidly. ”

Wei Zhihua was still standing at his desk, and it seemed that he had been standing in place since we left the cabin to go to the deck, and he hadn't even changed his posture. He put his hands behind his back, as if he was pondering something, but soon as if he had made up his mind, he said loudly: "Contact the Canglong and return immediately." The electromagnetic system is activated, only half the power is turned on, the interval is one minute, the direction is 291.50, the center of the fog is aligned, and the system is turned off immediately after overheating. ”

Wei Zhihua walked to the clipboard, a simple nautical chart sketched with a marker pen on the clipboard, he simply drew two strokes on it, and said to Captain Jiang in a deep voice, "Old Jiang, the position of the supply ship is already outside the huge waves, and there is still a signal, which shows that the supply ship has broken through the huge waves, and the current situation is stable, and the mirage plan can continue to unfold, but I want to synchronize the frequencies of the two ships, which is just a bit of a trembling." ”

After saying this, Wei Zhihua turned around and stood still in front of Captain Jiang again, but asked in a low voice, "Old Jiang, can you think of a way for the helicopter, I have to go to a supply ship." ”

"Wei, I am eighty percent sure that the helicopter will start, but no one knows when the avionics system on the plane will fail, and the power system is difficult to guarantee, after you fly, not only may you be blind, you have to fly blindly, and you don't know when you will lose power and fall into the sea, the chance of dying may not be there, are you sure you want to do this?" Captain Jiang's answer at this time had lost its previous momentum, but it was more helpless.

Wei Zhihua pondered for a long time, and did not answer Captain Jiang, but walked to Lu Binglin, who had been sitting in front of the computer without saying a word, pressed his hand on Lu Binglin's shoulder, and said in a deep voice, "Old Lu, it is estimated that you have already guessed eighty or ninety percent of the mirage plan, although our opinions are different, but the goal is the same. I could feel the Eastern Star in the fog ahead, but I had to make contact with the supply ships to keep the electromagnetic systems of the two ships in sync, and the gravitational field, or as you say, the continuous surface channel, to stabilize. But maybe I will not be able to come back, and someone will preside over the work on this ship. ”

Wei Zhihua paused, and there was a little more gloom in his words. "Lao Lu, you are the one who led the team, Devil City in your opinion, and the mirage is the same thing, more experience than me, if I can't come back, everything on the ship will be commanded by you, Captain Jiang will cooperate with you and strive to break out, but you must take the data and video data out, as well as the data on the Canglong submarine, maybe the key to the whole plan, you must get the data, Director Tian of the Zhejiang Institute will continue to study, Lao Lu, if you are interested, you can also participate, from now on the Mirage Project will not have any secrets for you." ”

Wei Zhihua didn't wait for Lu Binglin to answer, but walked to Team Cao's side, stretched out his hand, shook hands with him very solemnly, and whispered, "Team Cao, thank you, you haven't exercised your veto power until now, after I leave, as long as you get the research data, you can stop the plan at any time, I wish you all escaped." ”

"Old Wei, maybe there is another way? Don't you want to wait?" Captain Jiang grabbed Wei Zhihua.

Wei Zhihua firmly took Captain Jiang's hand away from his wrist and shook his head, "Old Jiang, I already waited once six years ago, who would have thought that it would be six years, how many six years do we have to wait? Don't persuade it, this decision should have been made six years ago." ”

After Wei Zhihua finished speaking, a rare smile appeared on his face, nodded to everyone in the experimental center, took his coat, and hurriedly left the cabin.

Captain Jiang sighed and picked up the phone on Wei Zhihua's desk, "02, 02, open the fixed lock of the helicopter, 04, 04, send Director Wei over." ”

Putting down the phone, Captain Jiang walked up to Lu Binglin and patted him on the shoulder, "Professor Lu, I'll leave it to you here, I'm going back to the cockpit, five minutes later, the electromagnetic system will be down, I will cut off the backup power, about half an hour later, we will hit the first wave wall, I hope the power system can be restarted at that time." ”

Wei Zhihua's resolute departure made us all feel extremely sudden, but obviously Wei Zhihua risked his life and wanted to get in exchange for just keeping the electromagnetic transmitter on the scientific research ship and the supply ship in sync, but if it was just so, in the case of backup power and most of the equipment could be restarted, there were still many ways to think about it, why did Wei Zhihua insist on choosing the most risky way?

(Nothing is a famous corpse, nothing is a house, nothing is done, nothing is known.) The body is endless, and the swim is immeasurable. As much as they have received from the heavens, they do not see it, and it is only empty! The intentions of the people are like mirrors, they will not be rebellious, they should not hide, so they can win things without harming them. --Zhuangzi)