Chen Badai returned to his cabin, turned his head and fell asleep again, he seemed to have slept well in the past few days, in fact, he was dreaming one after another, some dreams were fragmented and could not be pieced together, and some dreams were very clear and within reach, Chen Badai firmly believed that the Poseidon was washed into the Devil's Channel by a storm that year, and it sank in a corner here, but the ocean currents and complex hydrological conditions here could not calculate the location of the Poseidon at all.

When people can't explain some problems through science, they will turn to luck, Chen Badai is like this now, he just took the risk that Captain Stanley didn't dare to take, and commanded the Holy Maiden to drive here - after all, the draft of the Holy Maiden is shallow, and it should be no problem to pass through many places, Chen Badai won the bet, but then Chen Badai still had to calculate to find the sinking site of the Poseidon.

Chen Badai was just a little tired, but in the eyes of the crew, Chen Badai's trickery had an effect, and the crew of the Holy Maiden privately spread that Chen Badai was the darling of the sea god, otherwise how could the Holy Maiden survive in such a storm.

The Virgen dropped anchor, but the anchor chain had just been lowered less than 5 meters before the anchor touched the reef at the bottom of the sea, and the anchor could not fix the hull of the Virgen on such a shallow seabed, and Captain Stanley had to let the waves slowly shake the Virgen and float on the sea.

The sun sets, the sky over the sea becomes a different scene, the stars begin to climb the stage of the night, the spotter pairs his watch, and according to the stargazing prediction, the constellation Lyra will appear in the canopy around 8 o'clock, when the summer queen will be easily distinguishable. Now that night had just fallen, the observer felt that he could still squint for a moment.

The observer felt that he had just fallen asleep, and he heard a burst of exclamations on the deck, and he woke up and saw that almost all the crew members on the deck had come out, looking up at the night sky, and he also looked up, and a bright star in the sky occupied the zenith, like a giant with a bright eye, overlooking the earth, but it did not belong to any constellation!

Captain Stanley stood on the bow deck, raised his binoculars and looked at the sky, muttering, "This is not a good sign!" ”

This uninvited "cyclops" is an for astronomy lovers, but for the crew at sea it is not a good thing.

Although modern technology has made the dream of conquering the seas a reality, the people who make a living at sea are sometimes more superstitious about legends, even if they are something that science can explain, and sometimes the crew prefers to believe superstitious claims.

This comet appeared without warning, Captain Stanley remembered all the difficulties in this voyage, the comet from ancient times to the present, for the seafarers, is not an auspicious sign!

But Dick is very happy, everything in the world is relative, some people think he is a calamity, some people think he is a good omen, in ancient times, those people in the north who live in poor conditions will like the comet, because it means that they will be able to go south to raid - Dick has always believed that he belongs to the nomadic culture of the north, and there is no doubt that the comet is a sign that he will succeed!

"Min, I heard there's a comet." Dick felt compelled to share his joy with Mr. Min.

"That's a good thing!" Mr. Min has studied Loulan culture, and in Loulan culture, comets are also a good omen.

"Looks like God is helping us." Dick was a little excited, Comet couldn't let himself find the Poseidon, but at least he would give himself psychological comfort.

"Tchaikov also went to sea!" Mr. Min was calm.

The three words "Tchaikov" pierced Dick's fragile heart, as long as there is a place for him, nothing good happens!

"You must be careful of Tchaikov, this damn hyena, disgusting maggot!" Dick said viciously.

"Dick, don't worry, we've got the upper hand!" Mr. Min is determined to win.

Dick put down the phone, still feeling a little uneasy, Tchaikov came, things became complicated, Dick actually knows the strength of both sides very well, Tchaikov is a savage polar bear, if he robs it with violence, Dick knows very well that he has no strength to resist.

The appearance of Tchaikov made Dick's restless mood permeate the bottom of his heart, and he fell to the sofa in despair: "Is this really a dead knot that cannot be untied for hundreds of years?" Damn Tchaikov! ”

Tchaikov was also excited when the uncommon bright star climbed into the sky, and the star seemed to step silently on the wide stage of the night sky, but as soon as it appeared in the center of the stage, all the stars in the night sky were eclipsed by it.

Tchaikov looked at it with the ship's high-powered single-hole mirror and said excitedly: "Great, great, this is our auspicious star!" I didn't expect it to appear at the moment when we needed luck the most. ”

"A comet that can excite Tchaikov like this." Xia Ruobing said half-jokingly.

"No, my dear, this is not a comet, he is our lucky star!" Tchaikov said seriously, "Of course, many peoples don't see it that way, but I don't care. ”

Human records of comets have been written for a long time, and countless ancient people have tried to explain comets. But I don't dare to say how much comet is known so far.

In the legends of various peoples in the world, the vast majority of comets are regarded as disaster stars, and in the era when people use the stars in the sky and celestial movements to divination, when an uninvited star occupies the sky, it will naturally be regarded as a bad omen, so most of the legends about comets are linked to wars, plagues, diseases, natural disasters, etc.

Of course, under the ancient knowledge and the rough science and technology, the comet was much more than people knew about the stars - it was brighter than all the stars, some could even be seen in the daytime, and the long tail behind it, streaking across the sky, destroyed people's imagination of the calm, perfect and serene sky, and could not help but remind people of evil dragons, cyclops and other bad things.

But the legends of the rugged peoples of the north, unlike most of them, regard comets as lucky stars. The comet of 1066 heralded the victory of Wilhelm the Great, and the Normans of the north also conquered England after the comet appeared, but for the conquered Saxons, it was a true disaster.

So when Tchaikov sees the comet, he will be so happy.

The comet appeared without warning, and at this time it hung quietly in the night sky, almost in the center, almost in a motionless state, much brighter than a first-magnitude star, about the size of Sirius, the largest star in the northern night sky, its tail blown by the solar wind was hidden in the night, and it was not really visible to the naked eye, and could only be seen clearly through a high-powered telescope.

The comet is still very far from Earth, and the fear of a repeat of the mistakes of the dinosaurs is nothing more than a concern.

Although science is developing rapidly, human beings are still in the early stages of deep space exploration, and the only few deep space telescopes only cover less than 2% of the sky, and most of them are still observing the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and the comet comes from the Oort cloud, which is very far away from the solar system, and most of the hundreds of billions of comets estimated here are comets without periodic tracks, which makes it more difficult to observe comets.

In fact, comets visit the solar system every 10 years or so, and only a small number of comets are observed from Earth, and the most famous periodic comet, Halley's Comet, is one of the few known comets whose trajectory has been mapped.

"My dear, this is the legendary Cyclops, which, in the legends of the Vikings, represents victory!" Tchaikov said to Xia Ruobing with great interest.

The bright comet in the night sky occupies the center of the sky, and with a little imagination, it is not difficult to imagine it as the one eye of a giant, silently overlooking the sea.

The comet is undoubtedly one of the most superstitious celestial bodies known to mankind, Wang Xingguo felt a little funny, and said: "For the plundered people, this cyclops is not a good sign. ”

"Ha, there are good and bad sides to everything, but I think I'm a Viking." Tchaikov said happily, and he was amused at the thought of Dick's face that was about to be twisted with anger.

"It's just a comet, and it carries so much meaning." Wang Xingguo said.

"Wang, I know it's a comet, but you have to admit it, and you can't explain why it appeared at this critical moment." Tchaikov laughed, "God is hinting at us that we will succeed!" ”

There is no need to argue, Wang Xingguo feels that at this time, astronomy enthusiasts everywhere may have already had countless telescopes aimed at this uninvited deep space tourist, in their eyes, this is just a rare opportunity to observe celestial objects, and in the eyes of scientists, this is a good time to measure the trajectory of a new comet.

But between science and superstition, human beings prefer self-favorable explanations, so to this day, why are many people still superstitious?

As long as Tchaikov is happy, Wang Xingguo feels that it doesn't matter how to explain the appearance of this comet, maybe in the sense of psychological suggestion, it will also be of some useful help to this expedition.

The crew of the Virgen were observing the comet, and they forgot to inform Chen Badai, who slept in the cabin until almost dawn, and when he woke up, he ran to the deck, the deck was empty, most of the crew went to sleep, only the cockpit and the power cabin had a small number of officers on duty.

Chen Badai looked up on the deck and saw the bright comet, which had deviated from the center of the night and was moving slowly towards the eastern skyline, and the Vega Star in the night was about to sink below the horizon.