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The huge amount of sediment carried by the Yangtze River has created a vast area of dusky turbidity, which is indistinguishable from the Yellow Sea, and has completely changed the color of the entire East China Sea. To the south, you can't see the blue water until the area around Xiamen, Wenzhou, with the only exception being Xiangshan Bay in Ningbo, which is narrow and enclosed, surrounded by a stony coast with slightly clear water and a color between yellow and blue.

The wind and waves in Xiangshan Bay are calm, and a simple fishing boat floats on the dark yellow sea, drawing an arc towards the mouth of the bay, and the sound of inferior diesel engines is deafening. This is a small fishing boat that has been forced to enter the tourism market due to the depletion of offshore fishery resources. Taking city dwellers who have never seen a fishing operation to drag fishing nets around the sea and catch some seafood to cook on the spot is a new tourism project that has become quite fashionable recently.

There was a family of four on board. The male host, Liu Yao, was standing next to the engine at the stern of the boat, and his voice was close to the boss of the ship. The boss of the boat coped with him, and hurriedly ran to the stern to manipulate the winch to collect the net. Liu Yao returned to his wife and 13-year-old daughter with satisfaction, put one in his arms, and said, "Yao Ying, Liu Man, do you see, we are turning, and the captain has agreed to drive outside the mouth of the bay." There is the sea on all sides, and no matter where you look, you can't see the land. The daughter cheered and ran to the boat boss to see the net. The wife followed her daughter's gaze as she moved, for fear of some accident, and while holding her 2-year-old son Liu Ze higher on her knees, let him see the huge container ship passing by far away outside the bay. The hull is tall, like a moving wall, and the containers are like bricks on the wall. Liu Ze glanced at it, as if he was not interested, lowered his head and continued to play with the plastic fish toy in his hand.

"He doesn't have that far vision yet. I've read the relevant popular science materials, and now he can only see things within a dozen meters in front of him. Liu Yao slowly put an empty beer bottle on the table back into the cardboard box under the table, exchanged for a bottle of beer, took out a camouflage version of the Swiss Army knife from his pocket, opened the bottle, and then put the saber away, before picking up the bottle and drinking it to the bottle. Yao Ying picked up her cup and asked her husband to add some wine, raised her head to face the wind, and took a sip gently.

Liu Yao looked at his wife and son, and then at his daughter in the distance, raised his head and drank a big sip of wine, obviously in a good mood.

The fishing net was pulled to the end, and there was a lot of catch. The fish and shrimp fell on the deck and jumped around, and soon covered the narrow stern. One or two lucky fish and shrimp jumped back into the sea, and the wife of the boat boss hurriedly picked up all the catch into the big basin, and her hands and feet were nimble. Liu Man didn't go to help pick up the fish and shrimp, but he was busy throwing the ones that were too small into the sea.

"Our children's values have been shaped. Kind, assertive, not utilitarian, atmospheric - like me. Liu Yao said proudly to his wife, and teased his daughter: "Xiaoman, do you want to thank me." Take you to play such a fun fishing. ”

The daughter replied unequivocally: "If it weren't for you and your mother insisting on having another child in middle age, according to our family's original plan, I would have been to three more countries by now." ”

"If not! If we don't have another one, when we get old, where will you have a brother to accompany you? If it weren't for your father and I marrying such a good-looking mother, where would you be so good-looking now? Liu Yao smiled and argued with his daughter.

The daughter shot back in a big way: "Sir, my mother must be this lady, so my condition is guaranteed." You should be glad to be able to be related to both of us. Thank you. ”

Looking at her husband, who was a little embarrassed and proud at the same time when he was counterattacked to the point that he had nothing to say, Yao Ying smiled faintly. Noticing his wife's expression, Liu Yao smiled, picked up the wine bottle and touched the cup his wife put on the table, and said, "It's hard to come out and let off steam, drink more." You're not breastfeeding anymore anyway. ”

"Yes, I've had enough of giving birth to this guy, and I haven't been out to play for three years."

"This is an experiment, to see if we can take two children out......" Liu Yao looked at the pile of things piled up at his feet, including two backpacks loaded with unknown contents, two thermos flasks containing hot boiling water and warm water at just the right temperature to drink, a bag for a milk bottle, a bamboo basket full of cooked food, etc., shook his head, told himself not to care about these details, and then said: "This trip went well, and then we ran far away to implement the half-month self-driving trip in Taiwan that we planned three years ago!" As he spoke, he felt that he was essentially an overly optimistic person.

After putting all the small fish and shrimp back into the sea, Liu Man began to pay attention to those marine creatures he didn't know, and kept taking them to ask the boat boss. The boat boss was busy cooking food with his wife, and he didn't care about talking to her. The preparation of fresh seafood is very simple, boiled in plain water, and when cooked, it is ready to serve. After a while, the boat boss placed a large stainless steel basin of boiled shrimp, crab and climbing shrimp on the table, which was very tempting. Liu Yao said to his daughter while burying his head in eating: "Xiaoman, don't bother people anymore about what this is and what it is." People want to cook. Again, can you afford to delay our dinner later? Come and eat. ”

After coaxing his daughter to sit down, Liu Yao said again: "And even if you ask for a name, it is not a standard name that conforms to animal taxonomy, it is a common name, and it has no meaning." Liu Man snorted, grabbed a shrimp, turned his head and ate it.

"Dad, what is this?"

"Boss, what is this?"

Liu Man and the boat boss asked Liu Yao questions at the same time. Liu Yao looked up at the two of them strangely, and found that both of them were looking at the sea in the direction of the stern of the boat in amazement.

Following the gaze of the two of them, it was an object that had never been seen before. Judging from the appearance, it looks like a cube of seawater placed on the sea level, and the size is very huge, an order of magnitude like the mountain on the shore; The visual distance is estimated to be several kilometers; The vertical façade is as straight and smooth as a mirror, and as stable as a reef, without the slightest movement to be seen; Subtle fluctuations are faintly visible on the top surface, like the natural undulations of the sea. The square is located at the narrowest point of the mouth of Xiangshan Bay, almost as far from the shores on either side. Liu Yao has good eyesight and can see the splash of water when the bottom façade of the square is slapped by the seawater.

"What is this?" Liu Yao muttered and repeated, and then said to himself: "This is a big lump of sea water standing up."

Blankly watching, the fear of the unknown and the great doubts shocked the people on the fishing boat, making them unable to react, silently leaning closer to each other and gathering together. No one knew what to do at this point, including changing the course of the fishing boat or stopping it. The fishing boat is slowly moving away from the block along its original course.

Liu Yao tried to sort out some logic, he asked the boat boss: "Lao Wang, how far is this?" ”

"It won't be more than 5 nautical miles." The boat boss replied confidently.

"How big is that?"

"It should be more than half a nautical mile, about 1 kilometer square. It looks square. ”

"This thing...... I've never seen or heard of this phenomenon, have you? ”

"Never."

"It's not going to be a mirage or something, is it?"

"It's not. We'll definitely be able to touch it when we drive over. ”

"We're not going over! Let's get out of here, the farther away the better! When Yao Ying heard this, she thought of what to do.

"Don't rush, don't panic." Liu Yao comforted his wife: "I think this thing is beyond today's science, and the current knowledge of human beings cannot explain it." This means that something is wrong with our world: either the rules of physics have changed, or a powerful intelligent creature has emerged. In either case, if there is danger, we can't escape anywhere. If there is no danger now, then basically nothing will happen. ”

"Did anyone see how this thing came about?" Liu Yao looked around at everyone and asked, wanting to continue to sort out his thoughts.

"I've been going in that direction. It seems that one second there was no such thing, and the next second, all of a sudden, it appeared there. Liu Man replied.

"Something so big came at once, we didn't hear a sound, we didn't see movement, we didn't feel the wind or the shock wave. This is really something outside of human science. Liu Yao affirmed his thoughts even more.

"I don't care about anything outside of science, I knew there was our 13-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son on this ship! The farther away we are, the better! Yao Ying hurriedly said: "If this thing kills us in our family, it is our life, if we are allowed to die here, it is our irresponsibility to ourselves!" ”

Liu Yao pondered for a moment, nodded and said to the boat boss, "Yes, let's go back." We can't do anything else anyway. Either go over and touch it, or just stay away from it. It doesn't make much sense to touch it, so let's go back, go home, and wait for this matter to get bigger or over. ”

The captain of the boat narrowed his eyes and estimated the distance. He judged that the distance from the block was about 7 kilometers at this time, and felt that it was a safe distance. The block seemed to be located at the center of the mouth of Xiangshan Bay, which meant that if the fishing boat was to return to the port of departure, the route must pass next to the block, which actually shortened the distance to the block, which made him suspicious. So he asked, "Do you want to go back the way you came?" That's past it. ”

"How far can you get away from it if you pass by it?"

"Up and down 1 km. The mouth of Xiangshan Bay is so big, and it is in the middle. ”

"Let's go back the way you came. If it tries to get us, 100 kilometers will not be safe; Even if it's a little radioactive or something, 1 km is safe enough. You've got to go home, and our car is still on the docks. Liu Yao turned back to his daughter and said: "If it is really a situation like "2012", you have to rely on the car to run to the airport." ”

The fishing boat turns around and sails, and the block appears slightly to the right in front of the fishing boat. As the distance got closer, everyone started to get nervous. By the time the distance is about 1 km, the block has taken up most of the field of vision, and you have to raise your head high to see the top of it. At this time, the details of the square are clearer, and it does look like a neatly cut piece of 1 kilometer square of sea water has been lifted from the sea and suspended 1 km above the sea level, and the connection between the waves on the sea surface has not been broken, and the slightly undulating top surface is like the sea surface under its feet. Liu Yao kept staring at the erected plane in front of him, and he wanted to find a cross-section of a fish appearing on the plane. He imagined that there might be a 1-kilometer-square hole beneath the erected seawater, and that fish would swim into the hole from the surrounding seawater and appear in the standing water, similar to a kind of spatial dislocation or teleportation. But to his regret, he saw nothing, and there was no evidence to help him form a judgment.

The boat boss turned off the engine. The sudden silence made the sound of the sea lapping against the boats and the square façade all the clearer.

"Shall we go?" The captain of the ship asked hesitantly, and then added: "Our route passes through this thing, and it is not easy to get less than 1 kilometer recently." The channel should not be too close to the shore, otherwise it will hit the reef. ”

Yao Ying was extremely nervous, hugged her son tightly, and turned her head to look at her husband.

Liu Yao also had no idea, pursed his lips and looked at the square, his mind was spinning thousands of times, but he couldn't grasp the idea of forming. Fishing boats float on the water. At first, it was abstractly judged that 1 kilometer was a sufficient distance, but when they got to the front, the coercion formed by the height of 1 kilometer of the square made people have no courage at all, and they did not dare to approach rashly.

A long time has passed, and Liu Yao still can't make up his mind in the end: "Let's wait." Insecure in the past; If you turn around and walk away, you can't go home. Then let's just wait, the government will always take care of this matter, and let's take a look at the excitement by the way. Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered: "We should take photos and send them to WeChat Moments immediately." The first discoverer of the square, which is a matter of flaunting the annals of history, should leave evidence. ”

"Dad, it's too late for you. I discovered that thing at about the same time as the ship boss, we were the de facto first discoverers, and now I'm the first person in the world to post the news. Liu Man said happily.

"Okay then, I'll tweet. I strive to be the first to post on Weibo. The more nervous the father and daughter became, the more heartless they frolicked.

"Should we call the police...... Or rather, report to the government? Yao Ying can always think of the right thing to do, and hurriedly discussed it with the two people in the circle of friends who buried their hair.

Liu Man thought about it and said, "It should be...... Report it to the Coast Guard, right? Or is it the National Space Administration? ”

"That's all American institutions. Here, we have to report to the fishery administration, right? Liu Yao smiled helplessly and said.

"I think I should report it to the town government. It's always escalated at the first level. The town government only knew where to report. "The captain of the boat also provided his professional advice.

"I don't need to report anywhere, they already know." Liu Yao pointed to the phone and pointed to the sky. Two small mosquito-like planes were flying at high speed. Although the details are too far away to be seen, the tight formation flight and contours clearly reveal that this is not a civil aircraft.