"Hello Dr. Jonathan, I'm a friend of Professor Li Dong." Deng Jinbo took off his hat and stepped forward, and stretched out his hand to the old man with crane hair and childish face, "My name is Deng Jinbo and I am from China. ”

"Oh! Hello~" Dr. Jonathan put down the fishing gear in his hand and shook hands with Deng Jinbo.

"Wow!" The big black and white dog that was stopped by Chen Ming and Ye Wei suddenly turned around and barked at Deng Jinbo.

"Poppy don't scream, sit down!" Dr. Jonathan shouted, and the big dog immediately stopped barking and fell to the ground, Jonathan bent down and touched its head, then got up and smiled, "I'm sorry, my dog is more recognizable, didn't scare you, right?" ”

"No, your dog is interesting." Deng Jinbo said with a smile.

Dr. Jonathan looked at Deng Jinbo and asked, "Could it be that you are the one who left Li Dong's business card for my nephew?" ”

"That's right, it's me." Deng Jinbo nodded.

"Haha, why did you keep his business card?" Jonathan smiled with relief.

"Because I heard that Professor Li Dong is your student, and I have something about Professor Li Dong that I would like to ask you about, I came to visit in his name."

"Oh, does he have any problems for me? Where is he? Jonathan said with a smile as he searched for Li Dong's figure among the crowd.

"Professor Li Dong is not here, I brought his students over." Deng Jinbo turned around and pointed to Lin Fan behind him, "These young people are Professor Li Dong's students. ”

"Oh? Li Dong's students? Jonathan shifted his gaze to Lin Fan and the others, looking at them one by one, looking very happy.

"How are your teachers doing? Why didn't he come with you? Jonathan asked.

Lin Fan didn't know how to answer this question, Deng Jinbo took his words and replied: "Professor Li Dong was shipwrecked four months ago, and his whereabouts are still unknown. ”

"What!?" Dr. Jonathan's expression changed drastically, "Woohoo! The big dog on the ground seemed to feel the change in its owner and began to bark wildly, Jonathan hurriedly restrained his dog, and then asked in a trembling voice: "Shipwreck?!" …… Where did he get into trouble? Linda – I mean Linda Dennis, was she with him? ”

Deng Jinbo replied: "In April this year, Professor Li Dong, Professor Linda Dennis and a Japanese professor named Yu Nishimura took students to the South Pacific to go to sea to investigate, and unfortunately encountered a tsunami on the night of April 14, and the boat lost contact. He pointed at Lin Fan and them.

Dr. Jonathan's feet softened, and his face turned a little pale.

Deng Jinbo looked at Jonathan's expression and asked, "Don't you know about Professor Li Dong and Professor Linda Dennis?" ”

"I don't know, I haven't been in touch with them for a long time." Jonathan said weakly.

"I see." Deng Jinbo paused, and then continued: "I want to ask you some questions, I don't know if you are convenient to answer." ”

"What's the problem?" Dr. Jonathan looked a little tired at the moment.

"It's about a research project, and as I understand it, the project is led by you and Dr. Thomas Alva Sid."

Jonathan shook his head violently and said, "I'm sorry, but I've never worked on any projects with Dr. Thomas Alva Sid, and I don't know what research you're referring to. ”

"Do you remember the Constantine Laboratory?" Deng Jinbo asked.

"Sorry, I don't remember." Jonathan said categorically, and he added, "If you don't mind, I'll go home first."

"Oh, of course, please." Deng Jinbo turned sideways and stepped out of the way.

Dr. Jonathan led his dog through the crowd into the house, and when he entered the door, he suddenly turned around and said, "By the way, Mr. Deng, how did you find me?" My nephew probably didn't tell you I was on vacation here, did he? ”

Deng Jinbo took off his hat and bowed slightly, "We peeked at your email with Dr. Nils Jonathan, so we found this place, and I apologize to you for that." ”

"I see." Dr. Jonathan smiled wryly and slammed the door shut.

Everyone has been running around for so long, but they didn't expect to see Jonathan as a result, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

"Jinbo, what should we do next?" Intelligence Chief Gu Yuliang asked Deng Jinbo.

"He is unwilling to cooperate now, so let's find a place to live nearby for a while, and think about it in the long run." Deng Jinbo replied.

So that night, the group found a small hotel in Cape May County and stayed there. In the next three days, Deng Jinbo visited Jonathan to no avail, Jonathan either closed the door or deliberately avoided it, unwilling to talk about anything at all, and the investigation of the "Poseidon Project" reached an impasse for a while.

In order to be able to move Jonathan, Deng Jinbo and Gu Yuliang began to frequently travel back and forth between Philadelphia and Cape May to investigate his details, while Lin Fan and they could only stay in Cape May County and wait for Deng Jinbo's next arrangement, but fortunately, Cape May is also a vacation mecca, where the seaside has white sand beaches and blue waters, Lin Fan and his classmates just took this opportunity to appreciate the summer in the United States.

In the past few days, when Lin Fan and they went to the beach to swim, they could always see Jonathan's figure, and he seemed to have a habit of going out to sea to fish every day and not coming back until the evening.

On the seventh day of Cape May, Lin Fan, Xue Panru, Chen Bo, and Wu Lingling took the West Village Antelope to the east beach to swim as usual, and those who stayed on the shore were the first mate and Ji Yutong, who didn't like to swim very much, as well as agents Chen Ming and Ye Wei from the National Security Bureau.

Lin Fan and they swam in the sea until nearly evening, the antelope felt a little uncomfortable and wanted to go ashore, so Lin Fan and Wu Lingling accompanied her to the shore where the first mate and Ji Yutong rested, Xue Panru and Chen Bo The two guys still kept in the sea and continued to play with the newly bought surfboards.

The afterglow of the setting sun reflected the sky bright red, and the number of people who went to the beach to swim in the evening gradually increased, Lin Fan and they walked on the beach for a while before finding the umbrella chair where the first mate and Ji Yutong were resting. When the first mate, Chen Ming and Ye Wei saw Lin Fan and Wu Lingling helping the antelope over, they immediately took them to the umbrella chair to let the antelope sit down, and brought her medicine, towels and water. Chen Ming looked at the condition of the antelope and said that she might have been in the sea for a long time and had a little cold, and it should be fine to take a rest.

"Brother Lin, go and call Xiao Xue and Xiao Chen back, we'll go back early today." The first mate came over and said to Lin Fan.

"Oh, okay." Lin Fan was about to leave, but Ji Yutong on the side stopped him: "Lin Fan, you wait." ”

"Ah, what's wrong?"

"Can you go down there with me?" Ji Yutong pointed to the causeway on the side of the beach with the book in his hand, and Lin Fan saw that there was an old man with fishing gear who was slowly walking back to the shore from the causeway, and the old man looked like Dr. Jonathan.

"You're looking for Dr. Jonathan?" Lin Fan asked.

Ji Yutong nodded.

"Sister Yutong, what are you going to do with Jonathan?" The first mate heard Ji Yutong's words and asked.

"I'd like to go over and talk to him about Professor Li Dong." Ji Yutong replied.

"Are you sure you can move him?" The first mate and Wu Lingling were very curious.

"I don't know, but I'd like to try." Ji Yutong looked at Jonathan's figure, his eyes were very determined.

"Classmate Ji, shall we go with you?" Chen Ming and Ye Wei came over and said.

"No need, I think Lin Fan and I are enough, too many people are not good." Ji Yutong declined.

Lin Fan didn't know what medicine Ji Yutong was selling in the gourd, but since she should have her reason for doing so, she followed Ji Yutong all the way from the beach to Changti. They planned to climb directly from a pile of stone wave piers on the side of the lift, and Lin Fan was ready to help her when she climbed, but seeing that Ji Yutong's movements were agile and did not pull it down at all, this idea was abandoned, and the two of them finally climbed up the long lift with their hands and feet, and at this time Jonathan had reached the end of the causeway.

"Dr. Jonathan, please wait!" Ji Yutong shouted.

Jonathan in front slowly turned his head, he recognized the two and said, "Oh! Hello kids. ”。

Ji Yutong and Lin Fan ran to Jonathan, Jonathan looked at the boulder pier that climbed behind the two, and said with a smile: "Ah~! You're amazing enough to climb up here. ”

"We'd like to talk to you about Professor Li Dong." Ji Yutong said.

Jonathan's expression was slightly grim, and he said, "I regret your teacher's affairs, as for his affairs, I really don't know much about him, because we rarely contact him since he returned to China." He waved his hand apologically and turned away.

"The missing Poseidon core area laboratory has been found, and the magnetos inside have also reappeared, but they have been taken away by a red dragon, don't you care?!" Ji Yutong said to Jonathan's departing back.

Jonathan paused a few steps, but didn't turn around, and said, "Sorry, kid, I don't know what you're talking about." He continued to walk on.

"Don't you want to know what happened on the night of Professor Li Dong and Professor Linda's accident? Don't you care about them at all? Ji Yutong didn't give up.

"I care, but what can I do?" Jonathan paused, still not looking back.

"Then you should figure out what Professor Li Dong and Professor Linda are chasing after after their lives."

Jonathan was silent for a moment and asked, "What's that?" Do you know, child? ”

Ji Yutong cleared his throat and said sonorously: "Professor Li Dong and Professor Linda have been looking for the disappeared core area laboratory and magnetostone, four months ago they took us out to sea to find out the whereabouts of the core laboratory, the high-energy reaction of the entire sea on the night of the ship's accident was caused by the explosion of magnetoite energy in the core laboratory, in order to find the laboratory and magnetostone, they did not hesitate to be caught in the whirlpool and did not want to leave by lifeboat." ”

Ji Yutong's words made Jonathan's body shake slightly, and even Lin Fan was shocked, and he whispered: "Yutong, how do you know this?!" Did Sid tell you?! ”

Ji Yutong didn't pay attention to Lin Fan, but stared at Jonathan.

After half a ring, Jonathan finally turned his head slowly, he looked very tired, and he said, "Son, how do you know this?" Sid and Li Dong probably haven't told you about these things. ”

"That's my speculation." Ji Yutong replied.

"Speculation?" Jonathan was a little surprised, and smiled slightly: "Kid, you are very smart, just like when they were young."

Then Jonathan was speechless for a long time, his eyes passed through the two and looked behind them, Lin Fan turned around and saw that there was a red sun hanging into the sea at the end of the sea and sky, and the afterglow of the red sun reflected the stratus clouds in the sky extremely red, and the two seagulls swept over them at the moment, and the whirring sea breeze made people feel refreshed.

Jonathan finally spoke slowly, "Legend has it that there was a great Greek artist named Daedalus, who once gave a pair of beautiful wings made of wax as a birthday present to his son Icarus, and told him: 'You must fly in mid-air, because if you fly too low, your wings will become heavy and wet by the sea, and you will be dragged into the sea by the great waves; If you fly too high, the feathers on your wings will catch fire and fall into a cliff due to your proximity to the sun. But Icarus did not heed Daedalus's advice, and flew so high that the wax on his wings melted by the sun and fell into the water. ”

He looked back at Lin Fan and Ji Yutong and said, "Do you know why I chose to live here after retirement?" ”

"I don't know." Lin Fan and Ji Yutong shook their heads.

"Because I can face the Atlantic Ocean all the time, so that I can merge my mind with it."

"Why do you want to merge your mind with it?" Ji Yutong asked.

"Because beneath this ocean lies the last secret of mankind." Jonathan turned to leave, and as he left, he threw down a sentence, "Children, come to my house at 8 o'clock tonight, I will make a pot of tea and entertain you, and at the same time talk to you about the lost civilization in this world." ”