Except for Su Huilan, who had also gotten the news a long time ago, everyone else was shocked.

"Have you found out the cause of the crash?" Aoki asked.

Mei Yiqiu said: "There has been a professional team investigating, and the current feedback is that the research ship has been attacked by thermal weapons such as missiles or torpedoes, and some metal fragments that do not belong to the research ship were found during the search in the nearby waters, which have been verified to be submarines made by the former Soviet Union, so it is suspected that the Russian military is involved in this matter." Although the Russian side has denied this, this has made other countries in the world, especially the United States, China, Europe, and Australia and New Zealand belonging to the southern hemisphere, very nervous, and it is estimated that the situation in the Pacific region will not ease up in a short period of time. ”

"You're saying that Russian submarines attacked our research ship?" Mei Ziqing opened her mouth wide in surprise.

"It's not certain yet. Because of the game involving the military and other countries, the investigation has now entered a very delicate stage, and a lot of information has been blocked from the outside world. Fortunately, the Space Management Committee has some authority in this matter, and our people who participated in the investigation team sent me a message saying that there were indeed Russians involved in this matter, but it is not certain that the submarine attacked the research ship. ”

Mei Yiqiu patted her pipe as she spoke, obviously a little addicted to smoking, "Let's go out and say, you can't smoke here, hell, how could I agree to this rule in the first place!" ”

Mei Ziqing covered her mouth and snickered.

Everyone left the penthouse laboratory and came to Mei Yiqiu's office. The professor eagerly loaded the tobacco leaves and inhaled hard.

"Why did the Russians attack our research ships?" Bian Ziyuan asked.

"It's not necessarily the Russians, the submarines made in the former Soviet Union have been sold to many countries, and the terrorists may not have them." Su Huilan said, "Moreover, our scientific research ship has not yet had the ability to die with the submarine, and the submarine has also had an accident, indicating that there is a third party." ”

Mei Yiqiu took a puff of cigarette, nodded and said, "That's right, this is exactly what worries governments." I have some other conjectures, though......"

"What?"

"It's hard to tell."

The professor held his pipe in his mouth and faced the wall, as if trying to figure out how to phrase it, and the silhouette of him and the smoke was reflected on the wall.

"The area where the accident occurred is a huge basin with a depth of 5,000 meters, and it is difficult to carry out search and rescue in such a place, but fortunately we know the location of the research ship before the accident. Not just because it had a clear destination in the first place, but because we received a signal from it before the accident. ”

"Signal? Hasn't it been missing for months? ”

"That's right, so the person who received the signal at the time also thought he was mistaken. And the message they sent was strange, almost exactly the same as the last set of messages they received four months ago - 'arrive at your destination, prepare to anchor, request satellite angle calibration'. How so...... Well, it's as if the telegraph operator was repeating a phrase that was supposed to be repeated three times, four months ago they said it twice, and then it stopped for more than four months before saying it a third time. ”

Mei Yiqiu's words made everyone a little stunned, and they only felt that this thing was very strange.

"And then?"

"We then signaled the request to them and located their location. But we didn't hear from them, as if they were missing again. ”

"It sounds a bit like a paranormal event!"

"No, not at all." "The remains of the pyramids at the bottom of the sea are a phenomenon beyond scientific explanation, and the ghost islands that are common in that area also prove the wonder there." And it is precisely because of this set of inexplicable signals that we have the idea of searching for the research ship again, otherwise, we may not be able to know about the wreck of the research ship now. If no one investigates, the Maori of the Southern Isles, even if they find debris of a ship or submarine, dispose of it as scrap. ”

"Professor, you just said you have other conjectures......" Aoki looked at Mei Yiqiu, waiting for him to continue.

The professor took a few more puffs of cigarette and said slowly: "In addition to the mysterious power of nature, the disappearance of the scientific research ship before is there also a human factor?" I've always been skeptical - someone doesn't want us to know the truth about the bottom of the sea! ”

"You mean......" Su Huilan frowned and said a little heavily, "Someone can control the mysterious space power there and make our research ship lose contact?" ”

Mei Yiqiu nodded.

"It's not so easy to make a ship with all the most advanced and cutting-edge equipment suddenly disappear from the Pacific Ocean with the constant tracking and positioning of navigation satellites. But if we have mastered some techniques that we have never mastered, such as the transformation of different dimensions or multi-dimensional overlap, we can understand it. ”

"But what proof is there?"

"There's no evidence, I'm just reasoning. Of course, even reasoning is incomplete in the logical chain. Mei Yiqiu denied himself, but did not stop his reasoning, "First of all, there was indeed an accident with the research ship, and this time it was obviously man-made. Think about it, who is going to take out a research ship? ”

Everyone was silent, and they couldn't think of it for a long time.

"The expedition project does not threaten any government or chaebol, there is nothing of value on the research ship, and although the equipment is very valuable, it is just for scientific research, and if you take it out and sell it, it is a pile of scrap metal. What's more, there were no pirates at all in that area, and the nearest land was the Southern Isles, which had less than 10,000 inhabitants. Somali pirates don't waste money on oil and sail to rob so far away. ”

"So there is only one reason that can be explained, and that is that there are people who don't want the research ship to get close there, and there must be some secrets there."

Mei Ziqing asked, "However, since he can use the power of nature to make the ship disappear, why should he use weapons to destroy it now?" ”

"Maybe there is some limitation on that force of nature, such as when the time has come, or something else has caused this power to disappear, or our research ship has been freed from this bondage. If it is the last type, it means that the people on the research ship are likely to have the secrets of the seabed, then it is inevitable that they will be killed. And this is very likely, after all, there are seven top scientists on board. ”

"Who wouldn't want us to know the secrets there?" Mei Ziqing said puzzledly, "This is preventing human progress!" ”

"If it weren't for the ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids, I'm afraid there would have been only those new parasites." Judging from this incident, they not only have mastered some space principles that we don't know, but also have enough resources in the human world, otherwise even if they can silently kill research ships and submarines, they will definitely be found out. ”

"Are you saying that they may have infiltrated or even controlled the top of certain countries?"

"Not a possibility, but a certainty!"