Lao Huang was worried that he would also be swallowed up by the light, so he used all his strength to swim out. Fortunately for him, under the huge centrifugal force www.biquge.info of the whirlpool and waterspout, a hollow steel pipe more than three meters long was thrown out of the barge, Lao Huang stared at the trajectory of the steel pipe, adjusted his body as much as possible, stretched out his right hand, and grabbed the steel pipe. With this force, he was taken to the edge of the whirlpool where the current was slower, and with the last of his strength, he shook off the steel pipe and continued to swim outward.

Lao Huang didn't know how long he had been fighting with the whirlpool, he was exhausted, and he had been diving in a boat since he was a child, and when he saw that there were many winds and waves, and the water was excellent, he gradually began to surface. But the lack of oxygen for a long time still made him limp in the limbs, his chest was like a boulder, all the blood vessels were swollen and about to burst, and his consciousness gradually blurred.

The last scene that Lao Huang can remember is when he was about to surface, he saw that the points of light under the water had completely gathered together, wrapping the wreck inside, the volume was three or four times the size of the barge, like a giant beast under the sea, stretching out a huge tentacle that shone brightly, rolling the wreckage of the surrounding shipwreckage into the ball of light one by one, moving slowly at the bottom of the lake in the opposite direction to him.

Lao Huang didn't know how long he had been in a coma, but when he woke up, he had been rescued by a fishing boat, and the owner of the fishing boat told him that the place where he was found was Dalianzi Lake, more than ten miles away from Poyang Lake, and Lao Huang couldn't figure out why he could float out so far.

After the shipwreck, Lao Huang did not get on the ship again for about a year, because every time he got on the ship, he had a feeling of chest tightness and lack of oxygen and weakness in his limbs. Later, he slowly overcame this psychological phobia, but everything he experienced that night still often appeared in his dreams, and for so many years, Lao Huang often woke up in the middle of the night and did not sleep a few peaceful sleeps.

Listening to Lao Huang tell this thrilling story in a quiet and relaxing riverside teahouse, this contrast makes people feel strangely unreal. Lao Huang obviously read something from our expressions, smiled at us, poured tea for each of us, and said, "Time has passed, and I am getting older, and I can't remember many details, so you can listen to it as a story." ”

I took out a cigarette and lit it for Lao Huang, thinking to myself that judging from Lao Huang's experience, it is very similar to the situation described by Professor Lu on the last phone call on the scientific research ship, and it seems that for thousands of years, the encounter with the shipwreck in Poyang Lake should be the same thing. I settled down and asked, "That time, Lao Huang, you were the only one who escaped?"

Lao Huang nodded, "Yes, there are a total of twenty-three people on the ship, except for me, not even a single corpse has been found." ”

"Then Lao Huang, can you determine the location of the shipwreck at that time?"

Lao Huang shook his head, "After being rescued, I spent several years trying to find the wreckage of the barge, but I didn't find anything. Sometimes, I even wonder if what happened that day was my hallucination. ”

"Lao Huang, I heard Lao Chen say that you have been studying the shipwreck in Poyang Lake in the past few years, and have done a lot of visits and investigations. "I took a sip of tea, it was fresh and fragrant, it should have been a new tea just ordered, but unknowingly, the tea was already cold.

"Mr. Chang, I'm making you laugh, I'm a rough person, primary school culture, where can I talk about any research results. It's just that I can't let go of this matter in my heart, and I always want to figure it out. I did have an accident on the ship over the years, so I went to find out about the situation, and probably found something regular, I hope it will help you. Lao Huang poured the herbal tea from our cups, refilled the hot water, and continued.

Through years of visits, Lao Huang found that the wreckage of boats is mostly concentrated in spring and summer, and when the water temperature of Poyang Lake is low, it has never happened. Moreover, the tonnage of the missing ships was basically more than 1,000 tons, and the small ships had never encountered such strange weather conditions. In addition, ship wrecks are related to the number of people loaded, such as sand dredging ships and ro-ro ships, although the tonnage is large, but the crew on board is small, and there have never been cases of disappearance. In addition, most shipwrecks are concentrated about a kilometre offshore.

Listening to Lao Huang's analysis, I couldn't help but interject, "I see that the local boatmen should do some sacrificial activities before driving the boat, and throw some sacrifices into the lake, is it useful?"

Lao Huang nodded, "This sacrificial matter, said to be feudal superstition, but may be directly related to ship wrecks, you see, in the seventies and eighties there were a lot of ship wrecks, at that time there were basically more than ten cases every year, the most were eighty-three and eighty-five years, more than thirty cases a Chinese New Year's Eve, but after the nineties, there were more privately contracted ships, and everyone had the mentality of preferring to believe what they had, not believing what they didn't, most of them had to worship, but the number of accidents was significantly less." ”

"Do you think it's the lake god who is doing it?" I asked.

Lao Huang shook his head, "The people who hold boats on the lake will believe in the things of ghosts and gods, but I am a person who has experienced it once, but I don't believe it very much." At least what I saw was nothing like the legendary god of the lake. I always felt that those points of light didn't look like natural phenomena, they weren't ghosts, they looked like living creatures. Of course, that's just how I feel. It is not accidental that everyone worships the god of the lake in Poyang Lake, unlike many places, the sacrifices must be placed in the center of the lake, and the incident of the missing boat will not happen close to the shore of the lake. ”

Lao Huang paused for a moment, and then continued: "If Mr. Chang is free tomorrow, you can come to my house, I have drawn a map of the place where the wrecked ship sank that I have found over the years, if you think it is useful, you can take a look." ”

When Lao Huang spoke, I realized that before I knew it, it was completely dark. I hurriedly asked for Lao Huang's address, shook hands with him and thanked him, and watched him disappear at the end of the dark alley.

When I returned to the guest house in the evening, I called the Cao team, who had already driven the boat to the waters where the research ship had disappeared, and took advantage of the good weather today to arrange for divers to go down to search. Unfortunately, the visibility in the lake is very poor, and now it is the season of high water, and the Poyang Lake, where the five rivers converge, is calm on the surface, but the undercurrent is rushing underwater, which is very unsafe, and the divers have to give up. As for the electromagnetic interference signals, they monitored them for a day today, again with nothing.

I asked the Cao team how long the rope to tow the boat behind it was, and it must be increased to more than 500 meters, and in addition, if there is fog and visibility is poor, move to the boat in time.

Team Cao hurriedly asked me, did I have a harvest from today's trip to Xingzi County? I briefly told him about the conversation with Lao Huang. As for whether these can be clues to solve the mystery, I will have to stay in Xingzi County for two more days to find out. I also told him to choose a few places tomorrow to measure the water temperature and make some records, and my feeling was that these strange weather might have something to do with the geothermal river underwater.

Team Cao didn't squeak for a long time, I thought he didn't hear clearly, and repeated it again. He said slowly, told me to take care, and hung up the phone. I pondered for a long time, but I didn't think clearly about how Team Cao suddenly became troubled by gains and losses.

The next morning, Xiao Lei and I rushed to Lao Huang's house. Lao Huang's house is in a small courtyard at the foot of the south of Lushan Mountain, although the house is a little old, but it is very clean, and there are a lot of flowers and plants in the courtyard that I can't name, a little leisurely Nanshan. We sat at the stone table in the courtyard, a pot of tea and a cigarette, which was really rare and leisurely.

Lao Huang took out a large folio drawing, which was a map of the entire Poyang Lake area, marked with pens and symbols of various colors, large and small, thousands of marks. Lao Huang explained to me that the circle represents the 80s, the triangle represents the 70s, and the five stars represent the 60s...... The different colors represent different years.

We stopped talking, Lao Huang was leisurely drinking tea, Xiao Lei and I looked at the map carefully, and Xiao Lei was making notes in his notebook while reading. We didn't know how long it took until Xiao Lei touched me lightly, and I didn't react, and hurriedly said to Lao Huang, "Lao Huang, this map is very valuable, can you lend it to us for reference." ”

Lao Huang laughed: "You are useful, I am not busy in vain, take it, it can be used for as long as you want, I can only do this, I just hope you can solve the secret of the shipwreck in Poyang Lake as soon as possible." ”

Xiao Lei said to me excitedly on the side, "Uncle Chang, I want to take a picture of all the maps and send them to the technical department of the team, the team has just been equipped with a few state-of-the-art computers, let them enter them into the computer, and then do analysis, which is much more efficient than thinking with our heads." ”

I smiled and patted Xiao Lei on the shoulder, "Yes, Xiao Lei, the future criminal investigation must rely on high-tech means to handle the case, and your Cao team still has foresight." What do you think of the map records of Lao Huang's investigation?"

Listening to Xiao Lei in my school examination, Lao Huang was also interested, holding a teacup and looking at Xiao Lei happily.

Xiao Lei was very calm, without a trace of panic, glanced at the map again, and said word by word, "Uncle Chang, Uncle Huang, I have carefully read this record, and it is basically the same as the summary made by Uncle Huang yesterday, but I have a few additions." One is that the shipwrecks that occur every year seem to be distributed in various parts of the lake, with no regularity, but they are connected together like a ring structure around Poyang Lake, which is a bit like the current map in high school textbooks. Look at it this way, Uncle Chang, your geothermal river theory is likely to exist, and it is directly related to the shipwreck. ”

(Death and life, life also; it has the night and the day.) People have something to do, and everything is also emotional. Peter regards heaven as his father, and his body still loves him, and he is outstanding--! )