Chapter 51: The Lonely Lamp in the Wilderness

"Anyone?" Jiang Zi frowned.

"There's a light on the lake over there." Liang Jing took a step forward, raised the flashlight and shook it, he was sure that he was not mistaken, there was indeed a light in the dense fog in the extreme distance, just like the headlamp of the Iron Floating Tu, through the hazy fog, it looked like a pale yellow halo, but it was on the surface of the half-foot lake, at least a few hundred meters or even a kilometer away from Liang Jing and Jiangzi, how could there be a third person in this kind of place?

Jiang Zi narrowed his eyes and looked at him for a long time, "Oh, that's Keir Horton." ”

"Keir Horton?"

"The unlucky Englishman who disappeared on the Titan, he is also the closest person in the world to the lost, from the departure of the spaceship, only ten meters away from the warehouse, as long as he is not a blind man, he will not get lost, but he is still gone." "Since then, we've occasionally run into him outside...... Just like today, there is a light that flickers in a far, far away, and sometimes you can see the light moving or flickering, like someone walking alone on an ice field, and we call it a wilderness lamp. ”

"Lonely Lamp in the Wilderness." Liang Jing chewed repeatedly, he had heard about what happened to this person, and when he listened to it, he regarded it as a legend and a strange story, but he didn't expect that he could really encounter it, "What is the true identity of this light?" ”

"I don't know." Jiang Zi shrugged, "The world is unsolved, no one knows what this light is, many people have come up with different explanations, but each one is not perfect...... Maybe it's really Keir Horton's lonely ghost? As soon as you run towards the light, run close enough, and you'll see a withered, dead man wearing an iron float, wandering aimlessly across the ice field. ”

Liang Jing glanced at him, "Hasn't anyone done this before?" ”

"Yes." Jiang Zi said, "There are always a few people in this world who are so bold that they don't want to die, in the last rotation mission, the stationmaster Alexei Vladimir Boris tried to drive a walking car alone to chase the lonely lights in the wilderness, he said that even if it was really Kiel Horton, there was nothing to be afraid of, compared with the Siberian brown bear, he could knock down the weak ordinary people with one punch, and the iron fist of communism was invincible...... I almost forgot to tell you that he's a fanatical elder. ”

Liang Jing was speechless.

"And then? Did he come back alive? ”

"Of course it's back." Jiang Zi replied, "He later told us that he couldn't catch up with the light at all, he chased it out for several kilometers in a walking car, but the light was still a few hundred meters away, and the strange place of the lonely light in the wilderness was here, it seemed to be only a few hundred meters away from you, but if you chased it, then you couldn't catch up with it anyway, and the other party would always keep a fixed distance from you." ”

Liang Jing was amazed, he craned his neck and tried to look, the lights on the opposite side were still swaying in the fog, like a ship sailing on the lake.

He knew that the light could never be someone's ghost, but it could be a sign of a creature or an unknown natural phenomenon.

"No one else has ever done this except Boris." Jiang Zi said, "After all, not everyone has the guts to fly snowmobiles on Titans. ”

Liang Jing suspected that the light on the opposite side was the reflection of his Tiefutu headlamp, which was possible, so the Russians who chased him out back then would feel that he couldn't catch up no matter how he chased him, because what he was chasing was his own reflection.

Liang Jing shook his flashlight, then turned off his headlamp.

But the lights on the opposite side are still there, and they are not affected in the slightest.

"Don't think about it, it's not your reflex." Jiang Zi said, "Some people first suggested that it was a reflection, but sometimes we can see it without turning on the light, and some people say that it is some kind of mineral glow, or oxygen combustion, microbial luminescence or something, but none of them are really right, I think this light may have wisdom." ”

Liang Jing was taken aback, "What do you mean?" ”

Jiang Zi hesitated for a few seconds, got up and walked over, standing side by side with Liang Jing, "I didn't tell too many people about this, because others don't believe it, I told you that this ghost thing will flicker, right?" In fact, it not only flashes, but also transmits Morse code, such as three short, three long, three short, and so on, as far as I've seen, it has passed at least two signals: SOS and death. ”

"What did you say?" Liang Jing was taken aback.

"I said it would pass Morse code."

"Stationmaster, this is Titan." Liang Jing muttered, "Out of the orbit of Mars, apart from Cassini Station, you shouldn't be able to find a second place where Morse code can be used, unless the CIA also has a scientific research station across Half Foot Lake, but this is probably the place they are least interested in, not to mention that they don't have the financial resources to open up a second route." ”

His first reaction was that Jiang Zi was joking, and at this time, it was really inappropriate to make such a creepy joke.

"No kidding, really." Jiang Zi raised his hand, pointed to the light in the fog, and said word by word, "It has a mind, and it knows our Morse code." ”

"What signal did you just say it sent? SOS & ......"

"SOS and death." Jiang Zi replied, "Three short, three long and three short, SOS, that is, the international emergency call signal, this is the first time I observed, and later I also saw this: 'one long and two short', which is D, 'one short', is E, 'one short and one long' is A, and the last long and two short, D, together is DEAD, the meaning of death." ”

"This ...... How is this possible? Liang Jing couldn't believe it, he stared at the hazy light in the distance, but the latter was very stable and didn't have the slightest intention of flickering, "Do you remember so clearly?" Couldn't be mistaken, right? ”

"I'll never forget it."

"But it's unbelievable, I can't believe it."

"I know, I told others, and everyone said that I was wrong, that the flickering of the lonely lamp in the wilderness could not be regular, and there seemed to be no second person other than me who observed this phenomenon." Jiang Zi was very depressed, "They all said that I was thinking too much and took the irregular flashing as Morse code, but that day I could be sure that what I saw was Morse code, because it flashed SOS repeatedly, three short, three long and three short." ”

Liang Jing raised the flashlight, pressed the switch repeatedly, and used the light to play the SOS signal.

The other side was indifferent and ignored him.

SOS is a distress signal for humans, what would call for help in such a place?

"I regret not recording the scene because I was stunned myself, and by the time I could react, the lights were gone." Jiang Zi said, "Liang Gong, let me tell you...... There must be something hidden in the fog in front of us. ”