After Lu Binglin finished telling his tortuous encounter, the people in the restaurant had already dispersed, and only our table was left. Captain Jiang was still lying on the table, and he didn't raise his sleepy eyes for a long time, and let out bursts of snoring. Director Wei played with the wine glass, as if he was thinking about something, his expression was grim, and he didn't say a word. And I suddenly found that there was suddenly an extra person at our table, sitting behind Captain Jiang, with a burly figure, a dark complexion, and a beard like Lu Binglin, but the dress was a standard fisherman's dress.

I suddenly realized that this person should be Wang Huzi, the sailor on the fishing boat, one of the three people who had boarded the Dongxing mentioned by Ding Jian earlier. Obviously, Wang Huzi's cultural level is limited, and what Lu Binglin said, he sounded very difficult, but he still frowned, lowered his head, and digested it hard, which made people look a little funny. But what makes me curious is that fishermen like Wang Huzi are so concerned about the scientific research behind the incident, except for the direct relationship with their own safety, I really can't think of any other reason.

"Binglin, what happened in the Taklamakan Desert, do you think it has something to do with the disappearance of the Eastern Star? In other words, the disappearance of the Eastern Star has a causal relationship with the mirage, and if you find the Eastern Star again, you must also start with the appearance of the next mirage. Huansheng wanted to raise his glass and take another sip, but it was estimated that the wine glass had become too heavy, and he reluctantly put it down.

"The problem with the reading of the timer in the desert, which I later ruled out as a technical failure, is solid evidence, with exhaustive analysis and conclusions. I handed over the video materials and the report to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. ”

"A while ago, a friend of mine at the Chinese Academy of Sciences told me that my data was not sealed. A research institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Zhejiang has set up a miniature version of the desert laboratory, which is doing relevant demonstrations, but the object of research is placed on the sea. ”

"I really can't think of how I would be on this boat today if it weren't for that. It's not for that reason why you need to keep an eye on it. Lu Binglin glanced at us with a smile.

"Binglin, let's have a meeting early tomorrow morning, we have to make a good total, the people from the Zhejiang Academy of Sciences you just mentioned, I know they are on the supply ship. Director Wei, who had been silent on the side, seemed to say something meaningfully, and then got up and said goodbye.

"It's an honor, it's just Lao Wei, tomorrow, you have to hand over to me the research data of waterspouts and deep water whirlpools in the South China Sea, and also, the South China Sea shipwreck investigation, there are too many data missing on my side, you can help me get some." Lu Binglin stood up and stretched out his hand to support Director Wei.

"Don't worry, Professor Lu, we are all people in the same boat, and I don't want us to go to sea and end up with no boats. Director Wei patted Lu Binglin's arm.

The banquet dispersed, and Team Cao and I walked to the bilge. Because Huansheng was seasick and dizzy two days ago, Team Cao let me live in his cabin and changed Xiaolei to my cabin to take care of Huansheng. Team Cao, as before, the more he drank, the more energetic he became, and when he returned to the cabin, he took out the teapot and teacup, and prepared to brew the teapot to relieve my hangover.

"Chang, I see people's hearts at the wine table, this is not false at all. Today's wine, Lu Binglin can see that he is a person in temperament, but he has suffered some blows, and he is a little precautionary, and it is normal for people. Director Wei is very thoughtful, and his words are half-truths and half-truths. There is also that Captain Jiang, who looks straightforward, and does not refuse to come by cup, but he can drink the most at our table, and he pretends to be asleep there in the second half, and he doesn't know what An's thoughts are. ”

"Hey, Team Cao, you organized people, just think too much, manage too widely, maybe Captain Jiang just wants to express his attitude of staying out of the matter, nothing else. ”

I was holding my teacup and talking, when suddenly the door of the cabin rang three times, and the knock on the door was particularly abrupt in the quiet sea. Team Cao looked at me suspiciously, muttered a word of whom, got up and opened the hatch.

The moment the metal hatch opened, I saw Wang Huzi's eye-catching face, but his face was full of hesitation and hesitation, and he was like a different person from when I saw him at the dinner table just now.

"Team Cao, Teacher Chang, it's late, I'm sorry to disturb you, I have something to talk to you about. Wang Huzi said very politely.

"Lao Wang, this is your mistake, just at the dinner table, our four-person leading group has just been established, you come so late, something must be a big deal, tomorrow morning, and the leading group directly report is the right way, why did you come in the middle of the night, organizational discipline still has to be there." Although Team Cao said this, he still dragged Wang Huzi in and closed the hatch with his hand.

Wang Huzi is obviously a Mu Na person, who has been fishing for half his life, where did he understand the twists and turns in Cao Team's heart, but he was stunned in place at a loss.

I handed him the teacup in my hand, patted him on the shoulder, and motioned for him to sit down and speak slowly. But Wang Huzi did not dare to sit down, scratching his head stiffly.

"Teacher Chang, Team Cao, I'm a rough person, uneducated, and don't know so many rules, don't blame me. It's just that I've been thinking about this for a long time, especially when I got on the research ship in the past two days, and I couldn't sleep well. I didn't understand what you were talking about at the dinner table today, but I knew that what I was worried about was all the way, and I didn't know the others, and I couldn't believe them, so I had to look for you two. ”

Team Cao pulled him down, sat down on the edge of the bed, and handed him a cigarette. Wang Huzi took two sharp breaths, his brows furrowed, and the tension in his heart slowly calmed down a little.

"Two leaders, my ancestors are Hakka, and they have been moving to Hainan for hundreds of years, and there are many Hakka people in Tanmen Town. Our Hakka people go to sea to pay homage to Mazu, and outsiders can see the three sacrifices and nine sacrifices, but the most important thing to respect Mazu is to ask for a sign and ask for an altar sign to go to sea. Our sign was very strange, fierce and evil, the old generation had never seen such a sign, anyway, this trip to sea was destined to sink the ship and become a sea eater. ”

"The boss of our ship is surnamed Pang, he is not a Hakka, and he doesn't believe in Mazu very much, because the crew believes in it, and they usually worship it. But his fishing boat is rented, and whether he goes out to sea or not, whether he catches fish or not, he has to pay the rent. The days when the sea came every year were those days, and he had to venture out to sea no matter what. ”

"Our Hakka fishmen didn't go with him, I was forced by him to have no way because I owed the boat boss some gambling debts before, and he promised me to go with him this time, and the debts were written off. I was a single person, and I got on the boat because I was lucky. ”

The more Cao Team listened, the more frowning his brows became, interrupted Wang Huzi's words, and interjected, "Wang Huzi, what do you mean by going around in such a big circle? It's so late, you won't be looking for us to talk about idle days, right?"

Wang Huzi listened to Team Cao's words, and suddenly became nervous again, his face was red and white for a while, and his words didn't match the words, and he said urgently, "Team Cao, it's not like this, that Ding Jian has a problem, that person is the scourge in the Mazu altar lot, he really has a problem." As he spoke, he couldn't help but bounce up from the bed.

I know that Team Cao's questioning is a test of the reality of Wang's beard, and the tricks he is used to in the team. Glancing at Team Cao with understanding, Team Cao pulled Wang Huzi down to the side of the bed and sat down again, handed over a cigarette, and said with a pleasant face, "Speak slowly, say it slowly, it is related to the safety of our trip, we must pay attention to it, what happened to that Ding Jian?"

Wang Huzi seemed to be extremely heavy in his heart, as if there was some magic spell in that memory, pressing on his heart, his breath was no longer coherent, and his face became very pale.

After listening to his intermittent narration, we realized that on that day, before Wang Huzi and Fan Lengzi passed through the dense fog on the ship, the situation was basically the same as what Ding Jian told us, but at that time, Wang Huzi saw a tall figure in the dense fog, and there was more than one, and the terrifying, approaching footsteps made him even more distracted. He estimated that if he groped his way through the thick fog like this, he would not be able to reach the soft ladder to get on the ship, and he would be chased by those black shadows. He didn't care much, shouted and jumped into the sea, ran directly to the side of the ship, climbed over the railing and jumped down.

The moment he climbed over the railing, Wang Huzi glanced behind him, and Fan was two steps behind him, ready to climb the railing and climb up. But Ding Jian was at least ten paces away from him, as if he was frightened, he didn't move, and the black shadow in the mist had already reached in front of him.

After Wang Huzi and Fan Suzi fell into the water, they began to swim desperately in the direction of the fishing boat. The fishing boats were about fifty or sixty meters away from them, but the water was unusually cold, and Wang Huzi felt that it was not at all the temperature that should be in this season. Soon, their limbs began to go numb and it became more difficult to breathe, so they had to do their best to call for help in the direction of the fishing boat.

Just when the two of them felt that they could not continue, someone on the fishing boat seemed to hear their shouts, and a pillar of light crossed the mist on the water and hit them.

Hearing Wang Huzi say this, I couldn't help but have doubts in my heart, and asked him, "You mean, the boat boss rowed a small boat and rushed over to rescue you?"

Wang Huzi seemed to have expected us to ask this question, and smiled bitterly, "It must be that Ding Jian has already told you that he was rescued by the ship's boss, the Shangdong Star." Don't believe what he said, most of what happened when we went up to the East Star was right, but then he said outside about what happened when we got off the ship, and none of them were right. No one even knew how Ding Jian got back to the fishing boat, let alone what he encountered on the East Star. ”

(Small knowledge is not as good as big knowledge, small year is not as good as big year.) The morning fungus does not know the obscurity, the cockroach does not know the spring and autumn, and this small year is also. In the south of Chu, there are spirits, who are 500 years old for spring and 500 years old for autumn, and in ancient times, there are people with big chun, who are 8,000 years old for spring and 8,000 years old for autumn. This big year also. And Peng Zu has heard about it for a long time, and everyone is saddened ?——"Zhuangzi")