Sitting and talking in a world full of dangers and darkness is a strange thing in itself.

As far as the eye can see, the roaring waves that were originally a few nautical miles away are slowly approaching, the churning and jumping waves are becoming clearer and clearer, and the towering wave wall is finally beginning to show a palpitating momentum. But the people sitting around Wei Zhihua seem to be deliberately avoiding this crisis that is close at hand but cannot be avoided. Of course, it may also be that the story told by Wei Zhihua is too fascinating enough to make people forget everything around them. At this time, Wei Zhihua and Lu Binglin were like old friends who had not seen each other for many years, putting aside their prejudices, sharing their minds, and talking on their knees.

"Lao Lu, I studied the historical materials of shipwrecks in the South China Sea, of course, because of the task on my shoulders. Around 1986, we had a cargo ship, the Changchun, which had returned from a small country in East Africa, carrying a special ore that was an important raw material for our nuclear industry, and of course the itinerary was highly secret. I was a member of the search and rescue team of the Changchun, but unfortunately that search and rescue was in vain. “

"At the end of '88, another cargo ship carrying ore from East Africa, the Ningbo, disappeared again in the South China Sea. But as in the previous search and rescue, for almost a year, nothing was found. After that, the task force was not disbanded, and I spent three years at sea in the hope of a plausible explanation for the disappearance of ships in the South China Sea. “

"After that, I slowly broke away from the original unit, and after the old leaders retired one after another, I became the person in charge of this secret project, and later transferred to the Maritime Safety Bureau, and the task force also had an internal code name, and this time another ten years have passed, which is funny, it was originally just a project to find the missing ship, but then it slowly became unknown to me. “

"Old Wei, what is the code name of your project?" Lu Binglin stared at Wei Zhihua with interest.

"It's similar to your codename, maybe it's the providence of the underworld, our mission is called Project Mirage. “

"At that time, you have already discovered the connection between the disappearance of the ship and the mirage?" Lu Binglin showed a look of disbelief.

Wei Zhihua shook his head, "No, the reason why we call it the Mirage Project is actually because of the ghost ship. In the process of searching and rescuing, we encountered ghost ships three times, but all of them were due to bad weather, the equipment on the ship failed, and of course, our timidity, we missed the ghost ship and did not get the opportunity to study it systematically. Although we didn't make it to the ghost ship, I believe that the ghost ship we encountered was not a missing ship that we had been tracking, but it must have been well documented, and I also believe that it was only a matter of time before we ran into the Changchun and Ningbo. “

"We encountered ghost ships three times, and there was inexplicable fog on the sea, and the ghost ships came out of the dense fog and dissipated in the thick fog, and the ancients called the fog spewed out by the giant whale mirage, so later, we made our plan a mirage. “

"By '96, the Mirage Project was still making no progress, and we were all tired of searching aimlessly at sea, and the plan was shelved for a time. I really want to thank you, Lao Lu, without your experiments in the desert, without the body of the mirage that you have been tirelessly chasing, and without the team of mirages you brought out, there would be no progress in my later years. ”

"Maybe you don't know until now, but your desert experiment team actually had people I installed in it, and I have all the experimental content and steps, and all the monitoring data. But it's ridiculous, and now I'm not sure if I put people in there, or if my people were poached by you. ”

"After the desert experiment, you gave up this research, and I didn't know the real reason for it at that time, so I dug into your corner, introduced a lot of outstanding talents, and entered the Zhejiang Institute. But it was the experimental data you handed over to Zhejiang that allowed me to find the key to solving the mystery. ”

"Lao Lu, in your data analysis report, in fact, it has been mentioned that there is a variable X, it is precisely because of the effect of X that the mirage is difficult to predict, and the ontology of the mirage rarely appears, and at the same time, this variable X often brings extreme weather conditions, which gives me a lot of inspiration. In the South China Sea, the Changchun and Ningbo are not so much missing as because of a vision, entering a very special gravitational field that we can't see. ”

In the same way, under the effect of another gravitational field, the orbit of the missing ship changes, and it will reappear in the real world, but the crew of the ship cannot withstand the switch between different gravitational fields, and either the mental breakdown or physical exhaustion are already dead, and the ship becomes a complete ghost ship. ”

"Lao Lu, your research back then was actually only the last step away from the truth, but unfortunately we didn't know each other back then, otherwise, I would definitely find you and ask you why you gave up, even today, I still believe that I can find and master that variable X. ”

Wei Zhihua finished telling his own experience in one breath, he is not a good storyteller, the process lacks ups and downs, and the plot lacks suspense, even so, I know in my heart that Wei Zhihua is no less than Lu Binglin in drilling the tip of the horns, Lu Binglin has been squatting in the desert for more than two years, and Wei Zhihua has been floating on the sea for three and a half years, half a catty and eight taels, everything he encountered is likely to be even more thrilling.

"Old Wei, do you think that there is such a special gravitational field state in the South China Sea, which comes from extremely bad weather changes, and is also the main reason for the wreck of ships in the South China Sea. It's just that this gravitational field is too special, and the missing ship is not sinking, but floating in another dimension, repeatedly. ”

"Sometimes, a new gravitational field will appear in this area, and the missing ship will deviate from its original trajectory under the action of the gravitational field, and become the ghost ship we see on the sea. ”

"If I'm not mistaken, Old Wei, the difference between the two of us is that I've been a mirage, chasing things behind visions in the natural world, while you, more direct and brutal than me, will use technical means to simulate a new gravitational field, so that you can avoid running and waiting aimlessly for a long time. ”

"I think, the battery array on this ship, the high-energy electromagnetic transmitter, itself is creating a gravitational field, Lao Wei, you firmly believe that the Dongxing will definitely appear here again, even the Changchun, Ningbo, this should be your mirage plan, right?"

"But Lao Wei, I just remind you that I gave up my research back then because of the emergence of this X factor. You can use one gravitational field to channel another gravitational field, but the difference between the two of us is that you think that the Eastern Star exists in a special gravitational field, and I think that the way the Eastern Star exists has changed, and it is not in another gravitational field, but in a channel formed by a different continuum. Speaking of this, Lu Binglin stopped, lit another cigarette, and the flames of the lighter kept jumping, reflecting his uncertain face.

What's the difference between the two? It's just a different name. Wei Zhihua stared at Lu Binglin, his eyes never left for a moment, everyone realized the importance of this issue.

"It's hard for me to explain this exactly, but I can only say that you think it's a gravitational field, so it's a ghost ship, I think it's a continuous surface channel, and it's not just a ghost ship, but also something that shuttles through this channel. ”

"Old Wei, none of us can convince each other of this, we can only verify it in reality, even if it is extremely terrifying. I've been through a time when I've been in the middle of the cyclone, and I know what's there and what it means to us, so at first I was adamantly against your plan, but now that we're stuck in the center of the cyclone, and we've lost power and power, I'm afraid we have no choice. Since you are destined to be on this stage, let's play it well. ”

Lu Binglin's words were very vague, and they sounded foggy, but after having dinner with him at the same table last night and hearing about his encounter with the devil's city in the Taklamakan Desert, he would have a deeper understanding of the passage he was talking about.

Everyone was speechless for a while, and they all looked out the window in a daze.

Obviously, Wei Zhihua's words today allow me to confirm that the two densely packed coils on the scientific research ship and the instrument that needs a battery array to drive at the same time must be very similar to the protagonist in the Philadelphia experiment that year. I also believe that Lu Binglin's negative attitude towards the mirage project has his good reasons, after all, among us, Lu Binglin is the only one who has entered a similar illusion.

Thinking of this, for some reason, I thought of Ding Jian, the painter who chattered with gods, maybe he knew more about the world in the mirage than we did, maybe the answer was in the depths of his chaotic and contradictory memory.

Anything that is unrelated on the surface is actually inextricably linked inside, and in the same way, seemingly accidental thoughts also have irreversible cause and effect. Just when I was about to think carefully about Ding Jian's body, the story was as vague as the fog in front of me, when I suddenly saw Captain Jiang and Xiao Lei, with flashlights, walking in one after the other.

(The right and wrong of the world are uncertain, and each world is what it is good for, not what it is evil.) Those who seek truth are not seeking truth and are in line with themselves, and those who are not evil and are in their hearts. Now I want to choose what is right and live, choose what is wrong and go, and I don't know the so-called right and wrong in the world. Therefore, "if you govern a big country and cook a small fresh", don't scratch it. Those who are interested in the husband are beneficial to their relatives in their words, and they are suspicious when they are sparse and scheming. --Wenzi "Tongxuan Zhenjing")