Lin Fan was alone in the cabin, he was writing his diary in front of his desk, and on the side of the table was a mask carved out of wood that resembled a monkey's face, which was the "Io mask" he bought in a craft shop in Wellington a few days ago. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

July 7, 2010 - South Pacific - Rainy

It's been four days since they came to the sea area where the accident last happened, and they have already started to search this area, and I heard Mr. Kojima say that Urashima Maru uses the most advanced sonar detector today, with higher accuracy than the military, and can detect objects within a range of 10 kilometers, even if it is the size of a football, they can also detect it.

That way, they might be able to find our shipwrecked last time while searching for Ningn.

If that boat is found by them......

I didn't dare to think about it, last night I dreamed that they found our ship, there were a lot of decomposing corpses on that boat, I went in and looked at it, and found that the corpses that were soaked in the sea and decomposed were my classmates......

They must all be alive!!

Li Jia, Xu Jin, and the teacher, they will all be fine...... Won't I just survive?

But why is there no news of them?

Why was I the only one who floated to shore that night? ……

I still can't figure out what the weird guy I woke up with that day, and why it resembles the Maori Io mask.

Did it save me? ……

Lin Fan closed the diary and looked up blankly at the round window in front of him.

On the cloudy sea, there was an assault boat speeding through the waves, and at this time, a white diving probe suddenly appeared on the sea not far away, and the assault boat speeding on the sea was rushing towards the submersible.

This is not the first time Lin Fan has seen such a scene, in the past two days, the ship has sent submarines to dive into the water many times to confirm the suspicious creature, it seems that they have now captured another suspicious creature, I don't know if it is Ning En this time.

The submersible dragged a creature out of the water, Lin Fan looked through the round window and found that the creature was gray-white and huge, and he was suddenly shocked: "They found Ning En?!" ”

He immediately rushed out of his room and ran towards the upper deck, and after a while, he came to the upper deck, where many people wearing orange raincoats were gathered on the side of the ship, and Lin Fan saw that the tall man in the lead was the wise leopard horse, the minister of science and technology of the Sanyo Group.

Lin Fan braved the rain to get to the wise leopard and horse, looked at the sea below, and found that the creature caught by the submersible was already pulling towards the boat.

The gray-white creature was about 7 or 8 meters long, with two narrow flippers, a fusiform body, and a little bulge on its head, although it looked quite strange, but Lin Fan recognized at a glance that this was not Ning En, but more like some kind of whale.

The wise leopard horse carefully observed the creature dragged up by the net below, then shook his head and said to the people around him, "This is not Ningen, it's just a strange-looking humpback whale, throw it away." ”

"Yes!" The researcher next to him hurriedly used the walkie-talkie to communicate with the people below.

The crew of the submersible and assault boat below were instructed to release the humpback whale, which had a strange appearance floating on its white belly, apparently anesthetized.

The submersibles and assault boats were recovered to the ship, and the crowd on the side of the ship was also preparing to leave, and the wise leopard horse saw that Lin Fan was also on the deck, so he came over and said to Lin Fan: "Classmate Lin, we have been looking for this sea area for four days, and we have basically explored it within a radius of more than 500 nautical miles, but there is no trace of Ning En, are you sure that the last time you saw Ning En's body was here?" ”

Lin Fan wiped the rain from his forehead and replied, "Mr. Wise, our ship was in the waters of eastern New Zealand before it lost its signal that night, and soon after that, it encountered a tsunami and Ning'en's body......

The wise leopard horse held his chin in one hand and was silent, as if thinking about something.

“…… By the way, have you found any trace of our wrecked yacht? Lin Fan asked.

"- No, that's weird, if your ship is really wrecked in this generation, it stands to reason that our sonar should find the wreckage of your ship...... Is it ......?"

"Could it be what?" Lin Fan hurriedly asked.

"- Your ship didn't sink here at all." Wise Leopard Horse Road.

"What?" Lin Fan exclaimed, and then he immediately remembered that on the night of the crash, he seemed to have heard Professor Li Dong say that the submarine earthquake caused radio disorder, and the GPRS on the ship was inaccurate, so the inference of the wise leopard horse was not unreasonable.

"Mr. Wise...... Why don't you try to look south? Lin Fan came up with such a sentence.

"To the south? Where? ”

"To the high-latitude seas of the South Pacific, I want to ...... Ningn may be found in the higher latitudes. Lin Fan said not very confidently, when he recalled the last incident just now, he remembered that Professor Li Dong seemed to say that the ship was heading for high-latitude waters, and he also remembered another thing, that is, when discussing the source of Ning'en with Ji Yutong, she said that the earliest Ning'en sightings were found in high-latitude waters near Antarctica.

"Are you sure?" Wise Leopard looked at him with suspicion.

Lin Fan nodded hesitantly.

"Alright, then I'll go and ask the captain to adjust the course." With that, the wise leopard horse walked towards the command tower at the bow of the ship.

On the same day, Urashima Maru began to turn south, leaving the sea area he had been searching for, heading for the high latitudes of the South Pacific Ocean.

The ship took a circuitous route south, searching for traces of Ningn on the way, and since it was winter in the southern hemisphere, the temperature dropped more visibly with each day the ship sailed south.

By July 12, Lin Fan had to wear a thick down jacket, and the temperature outside was close to freezing.

They are now at 170 degrees west longitude and 55 degrees south latitude, in the westerly drifting belt of the South Pacific, a cold current that flows from west to east, and is connected to the Antarctic circulation, with a sea temperature of only about 5 degrees.

Judging from the reaction of the wise leopard horse, after sailing south for nearly a week, there was still no trace of Ning En, but I heard from the people on the ship that there was a trace of a submarine in this area.

At noon that day, the bodyguard Tian Oka came over and called Lin Fan to the command room, saying that they wanted to discuss the route with him.

Lin Fan came out of the cabin and walked to the command room at the front of the ship, the cold wind was blowing in his face, and he couldn't help but sigh on his frozen hands, some small ice floes could already be seen on the sea surface here, and these floes were all drifted from the South Arctic Ocean at higher latitudes.

Lin Fan came to the command room, and he found that Yusuke Kojima, Akechi Leopard Ma, Nishimura Antelo, Captain Hidehiko Mori, and the first mate Masao Yokozo were all here.

"Mr. Lin, please take a seat~" Kojima pointed to the sofa next to him, next to Kojima sat Nishimura Antago and Akechi Leopard Horse, Captain Mori Hidehiko sat on a sofa opposite Lin Fan, and the first mate Yokozo Masao stood aside.

Kojima took the lead in speaking: "Classmate Lin, we came to you today to discuss the next route, I heard that it was you who suggested changing the route to the south to search, but it seems that there has been no new discovery in the past five days~!" ”

"Mr. Kojima, please look for it again~ Although I don't remember the specific coordinates when our ship was wrecked, I clearly remember that the teacher said that they were going to the high-latitude sea." Lin Fan replied.

"Vice President, our location is 170 degrees west longitude, near 55 degrees south latitude, it is winter in the southern hemisphere, and if we go further south, we will enter the polar night circle, and then the line of sight will be very unfavorable, and the ice floes at sea will increase, and there will be potential safety hazards." The first mate Masao Yokomizo, who was standing on the side, said, and the captain Hidehiko Mori also nodded in agreement.

The Nishimura antelope and the wise leopard horse on the side were silent.

Kojima said: "So! Mr. Lin, think about it again, do you remember any other clues that can roughly determine the direction at that time? ”

“…… No more......" Lin Fan shook his head.

At this time, the captain of the ship, Mori Hidehiko, asked, "Didn't you wreck at that time, young man?" Where were you rescued? ”

"Well, it's an island outside Tahiti......"

"Tahiti? Where are the French Polynesian islands? ”

"Yes." Lin Fan nodded again.

"What nonsense! It's 4,000 kilometers from here! If you were wrecked at a high latitude, how could you drift there overnight! Captain Hidehiko Mori said angrily.

Lin Fan only thought of this question when he heard him say this, and said, "Can ...... However, I remember at that time...... How so?! ”

"I drifted so far that night!?" Lin Fan was shocked in his heart, and everyone looked at him with suspicion.

"Vice President, it seems that we should turn back!" Captain Hidehiko Mori said to Kojima.

First mate Masao Yokozo added: "Yes, vice president, if this Lin was really washed ashore at that time, then the place where their ship was wrecked must be in the waters near the Polynesian Islands. ”

Kojima looked at Wise Leopard Horse and tried to ask for his opinion, but Wise Leopard Horse still didn't say anything, but leaned back on the sofa in contemplation.

"Alas—or else, Maori, we'll take a look today, and if we still don't find anything, we'll turn back!" Kojima said.

"Hmm~ Oh well!" Captain Hidehiko Mori nodded.

At this moment, the communicator in the command room rang, and the first mate went over and picked up the microphone and said, "Moses and Moses...... Oh, yes......" he turned back and said, "Minister Wise, the people of your department are looking for you. ”

Wise Leopard Horse got up from the couch and went over to take the microphone.

Xiao Dao smiled at Lin Fan and said, "Hehe, classmate Lin, don't take it to heart, we don't blame you, we just hope you can think about it again and see if there are any clues, okay, you can go back first when it's okay." ”

"Hmmm......"

Lin Fan got up and was about to leave, but he heard the wise leopard horse not be as calm as usual, but said in a slightly excited tone: "Our people have found a creature that is suspected of being Ning'en, and it is - there are two!" ”

"Nani!?" Everyone was amazed.

"I'm going to go to the signal room now to confirm, and please wait here for my news, vice president!" With that, the wise leopard horse strode out of the command room.

Yusuke Kojima clenched his fists and said to himself excitedly and nervously, "Amaterasu bless, I must find it this time!" ”

Hearing this sudden message, Lin Fan suddenly had no intention of leaving, and said to Xiao Dao, "Mr. Xiao Dao, can I stay here?" I would also like to know the latest situation in Ningen! ”

"Oh! - Yes, of course Mr. Lin, let's wait for wise news together. ”