Sheraton Hotel Papeete, French Tahiti

Lin Fan sat on the bed, holding the remote control tightly in his hand, he had been staring at the TV like this all morning, and he finally cut to such a news on the CNN international channel:

According to the report on April 28, the whereabouts of the Chinese ship that disappeared in the South Pacific waters on April 14 this month are still unknown, which is the fourth joint search operation of the Tahiti Maritime Administration and the Wellington Maritime Administration of New Zealand this month, and the search area has been expanded to 250 kilometers away from the accident site, but the rescue team has not found the black box signal of the Chinese ship and the missing person. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Chinese ship lost contact in the waters near 160 degrees west longitude and 40 degrees south latitude late at night on the 14th, and the investigation showed that the ship may have been killed by a tsunami caused by an undersea earthquake......

After Lin Fan heard the English news, he threw away the remote control in frustration, got off the bed and walked to the balcony of the hotel, the Sheraton hotel he stayed in is located on the seaside of Papete District, Tahiti Island, the balcony can see the coastline of white sand and clear water and the port, the scenery is very beautiful.

But Lin Fan didn't want to see the sea at all, as soon as he saw the sea, he would think of the nightmare he often had at night recently, in the dream his classmates were devoured by a huge red sea dragon, in the sea dragon's open blood basin mouth, Lin Fan saw Li Jia, she stretched out her hand to him and shouted: "Lin Fan, save me~!" He tried to reach out and grab her, but found himself bound in the black sea water and unable to move, and could only watch her being torn to a blur by the sea dragon's sharp teeth.

Lin Fan shook his head violently, driving the terrifying picture away from his mind, "They will definitely be fine!" He reassured himself.

Compared with others, Lin Fan is really surprisingly lucky, the reef beach where he woke up that night turned out to be on the outer edge of Tahiti, after dawn he was quickly discovered by nearby fishermen who went out to sea, and sent to the Chinese Embassy in Tahiti, the embassy staff heard his situation, they all felt unbelievable, not to mention those strange creatures and pillars of light from the sea, just the fact that he woke up on the outer islands and reefs of Tahiti is incredible, because Lin Fan was at 160 west longitude on the night of their accident, The sea at 40 degrees south latitude is more than 1,000 kilometers away from Tahiti, and it is impossible for the ocean currents to wash him so far in one night.

Although there are many questions, the embassy immediately notified Tahiti and the New Zealand Maritime Administration on the 15th to launch a search and rescue operation in the area where the accident occurred, but since the rescue began for half a month, the maritime authorities of Tahiti and New Zealand have not found any clues about the wrecked ship, neither the signal of the ship's black box, nor any human corpse, and the search and rescue team can only characterize Lin Fan's ship as "missing".

A scientific expedition to the South Pacific that originally made Lin Fan and them cheer has now evolved into such a situation, except for Lin Fan, everyone else is missing, and life and death are uncertain, all of which is ruthlessly tormenting Lin Fan's will and making him feel very desperate.

Jingle bell~ The phone in the room rang.

Lin Fan suddenly came back to his senses, walked back to the room and picked up the phone and said, "...... Feed? ”

A middle-aged male voice came: "Classmate Lin is me, Yu Qiang, how are you doing these days?" Lin Fan heard his voice.

"Ambassador Yu, is there a new discovery in the rescue?!" Lin Fan asked.

"Ahem...... Not yet, don't worry, Mr. Lin...... Today, the National Security Bureau sent a Detective Deng to assist in this rescue operation, he wants to know from you about the situation of your scientific expedition to the sea at that time, is it inconvenient for you now? We're going to talk to you. ”

"Oh, okay, come here." Lin Fan barely cheered up.

It was only about a quarter of an hour before the doorbell rang in Lin Fan's room, and when he opened it, he found Yu Qiang, who was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, standing outside his door with a tall thin man in a beige trench coat.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Lin." Ambassador Yu Qiangdao.

"Oh, good afternoon, Ambassador Yu, please come in."

Ambassador Yu Qiang walked into the room with a tall and thin man, and when he passed by Lin Fan, Lin Fan found that the tall and thin man was staring at him from the corner of his eyes, and the man's eyes were extremely sharp, as if he could see through people's hearts.

The three of them sat down on the sofa in the room, and the ambassador Yu Qiang said: "Classmate Lin, let me introduce you, this is Inspector Deng Jinbo of the 749 Bureau, this time he is here to assist in the rescue operation, Inspector Deng has dealt with many important and difficult cases, this time he personally went out, I believe that the matter will soon come to light." ”

The tall and thin man took off the cap on his head, folded it in half and held it in his hand, stretched out his other hand and said, "Hello Lin Fan, I'm Deng Jinbo." ”

"Hello, Inspector Deng......" Lin Fan shook hands with Deng Jinbo, Deng Jinbo's hands were as hard as firewood, and it was strange to hold them.

"Mr. Lin, let's get straight to the point, can you tell us Inspector Deng about your experience of going to sea at that time?" Ambassador Yu Qiangdao.

"Okay, uh...... So where do you start? ”

"Inspector Deng, what do you think ......?" Ambassador Yu Qiang asked Deng Jinbo.

"Oh, let's start with when you go to sea." Deng Jinbo's tone sounded a little indifferent.

"Oh, okay......" Lin Fan began to talk about their expedition to the sea.

Deng Jinbo didn't say a word during the whole process, and several times he relied on Ambassador Yu Qiang to ask questions to let the conversation continue, and Ambassador Yu Qiang also wanted to hand over the right to ask questions to Deng Jinbo several times, but he was indifferent, just playing with the hat in his hand, as if he was very uninterested.

With the cooperation of Ambassador Yu Qiang, Lin Fan finished telling the story of the "whole thing". "Inspector Deng, that's pretty much it, do you think you want to know something?" Ambassador Yu Qiang asked.

"Yes, let me think about it." Deng Jinbo continued to fiddle with his hat.

After a while, Ambassador Yu Qiang's mobile phone rang, Ambassador Yu Qiang picked up the phone, looked at it, and said, "Inspector Deng, I'll answer the phone first, and you and Lin will continue to chat." ”

Deng Jinbo nodded, and Ambassador Yu Qiang picked up the phone and went to the balcony to answer the sound, leaving only Lin Fan and Deng Jinbo in the room.

They sat face to face, Lin Fan waited for Deng Jinbo to speak, but he was still very silent, just playing with the hat in his hand.

"Inspector Deng, if you want to know something, you can ask me..."Lin Fan broke the silence and said.

Deng Jinbo simply responded with a "um" and remained silent, continuing to fiddle with the hat in his hand, Lin Fan sat opposite awkwardly, not knowing what to do.

After a while, Ambassador Yu returned to the room after answering the phone, and he said angrily to Deng Jinb: "Inspector Deng, the embassy has some urgent matters, I need to go back to deal with it immediately, how do you understand the situation here?" Do you want to continue talking to Lin? ”

"Well, you go back first, I still have some questions that I haven't thought through,." Deng Jinbo said.

"Okay, Inspector Deng, then I'll go first, classmate Lin, you and our Inspector Deng have a good chat, and if you need it, find my secretary Xiao Gan."

After Yu Qiang left, only Lin Fan and Deng Jinbo were left, just as Lin Fan was thinking about how to deal with such a silent guy, Deng Jinbo took the lead in asking.

"Lin Fan, what kind of person do you think Professor Li Dong is?"

Lin Fan didn't expect Deng Jinbo to ask such a question, and he didn't know how to reply for a while, "Professor Li...... Professor Li is very knowledgeable and charismatic...... He is the youngest professor in our school, he is very good to the students, and we all like him very much. ”

"Why did he take you out for a scientific expedition this time, can you tell me about it?" Deng Jinbo continued to ask.

"Huh? We were going to do an internship in the third year of our major, and the professor used this scientific research as our internship topic, so our class came out together......"

"As far as I know, Professor Li is not the only major taught by your class, what do you think is outstanding about your classmates, so that he chose to take you on this scientific expedition?"

"Because we have the right major, and our class usually performs well, the professor will choose our class."

"Professional counterpart? Perhaps. Deng Jinbo's words were playful.

"Inspector Deng! Does this have anything to do with search and rescue operations? Lin Fan asked, Deng Jinbo's questions made him feel a little unreasonable.

DENG JINBO IGNORED LIN FAN'S QUESTIONING, BUT TOOK OUT AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE SIMILAR TO AN IPAD FROM THE POCKET OF HIS TRENCH COAT.

HE CLICKED ON THE TABLET, WHICH WAS SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN THE IPAD AND DIDN'T KNOW WHAT BRAND IT WAS, OPERATED IT, THEN PUT THE TABLET ON THE COFFEE TABLE AND SAID, "THESE PEOPLE ARE ALSO ON THE BOAT, RIGHT?" ”

Lin Fan saw four documents displayed on the tablet, which were photos of Nishimura Xiong, Linda, Captain McCoster and First Officer Li Gang, "Well, yes." Lin Fan replied.

Deng Jinbo opened the files of these four people one by one and read: "McCoster? Wayne, Captain of CTS Ocean Shipping, is a former U.S. Marine Corps Private 1st Class who retired from the Army and now works for CTS Ocean Shipping. ”

Li Gang, Chief Officer and Pilot of CTS Ocean Shipping Company, former Marine Engineer of the Port of Singapore Authority, joined CTS Ocean Shipping Company in 2004.

"Nishimura Xiong, professor of applied life sciences, biochemistry, and marine environment at the University of Tokyo, Japan, is an expert in the field of mutant organisms in Japan, and has published a number of research papers on biological mutations caused by radiation, and is a member of the scientific research group of the 'Poseidon Project'."

"Linda? Dennis is a professor of geology, archaeology and biology at the University of Pennsylvania, a member of the Constantine Laboratory, an expert in the field of marine paleohuman civilization, and a member of the scientific research group of the Poseidon Project. ”

"Lin Fan, have you found any problems?"

“……”

"What is Project Poseidon?" Lin Fan noticed that Linda and Nishimura were both members of the "Poseidon Project", and he was browsing the screen of the tablet up and down, and there was no relevant explanation in it.

Lin Fan raised his head and found that Deng Jinbo was staring at him, Deng's eyes were so sharp and profound, he replied slowly: "What you want to know is also what I have always wanted to know." ”

Then his thin fingers clicked on the tablet screen to open another file, which was full of pictures with a dark background......

Lin Fan suddenly felt a nervous heart when he saw these pictures, these pictures were very weird! They are all strange creatures, large transparent and glowing fish, which can only be seen in silhouette like a large butterfly with eight pairs of wings, a crawling creature with a turtle shell similar to a crocodile, and a strange creature with black hair covered in an aquarium...... And things like ancient dragons, creatures that only exist in horror movies or sci-fi movies.

"Inspector Deng, what are these you asking me to see?" Lin Fan asked.

"You can call them 'monsters,' but it's not a movie, they actually live somewhere in the world." Deng Jinbo said flatly, and then he clicked on one of the pictures, and the picture changed from a thumbnail to a full-screen display, "You should have seen it." ”

A photograph that appeared to have been taken in the dark of night was displayed from the tablet, the image was pitch black and blurry, and in the center of the picture was a lighted creature with a pale human face, its neck and body in one, and a pair of forelimbs spread out in front of it.

Lin Fan saw that this creature seemed to be electrocuted, and instantly remembered the floating corpse of the humanoid sea monster he encountered on the sea that night, "Is this the monster we encountered at sea?!! He shouted.

Lin Fan's reaction seemed to be expected by Deng Jinbo, he still had that expressionless appearance, and said: "This photo was taken on July 11, 2009, when the deep-water probe was diving in the Tonga Trench. ”

"Inspector Deng, what is this thing?" Lin Fan asked.

"It's a mutant creature, what the hell is it, I think the professors who were on the boat with you at the time knew better than I did." Deng Jinbo said.

Lin Fan now remembered that when the three of them saw this thing, they were indeed not as surprised as others.

"Inspector Deng, Professor Li, did they go to sea to study this?" Lin Fan asked.

Deng Jinbo said: "I don't know what purpose your Professor Li and those two foreign scientists went to sea for, but they are not ordinary people, and what they are doing or preparing to do will have a very big impact on our country and even the world, so Mr. Lin, I need you to tell me what you have seen and heard since you went to sea, as well as about your every move of Professor Li and those two scientists." ”……