On August 15, 2010, Lin Fan and his entourage boarded a flight to New York, accompanied by National Security Bureau Inspector Deng Jinbo, Intelligence Chief Gu Yuliang, and Detectives Chen Ming and Ye Wei.

The purpose of this trip to the United States was to visit Dr. Albert Jonathan, Professor Li's doctoral supervisor, and I hope to learn from him the true purpose of the Poseidon Project.

"Brother Ming, what is the relationship between Dr. Jonathan and that Dr. Sid, tell me~" After sitting down, Lin Fan heard Xue Panru in the front row talking to Chen Ming, in the past two days, because of cooperating with Deng Jinbo's investigation, Xue Panru is quite familiar with Chen Ming and Ye Wei, and sometimes when he gets the opportunity, he will get some news from their mouths.

Lin Fan saw Chen Ming smile, and casually found an excuse to prevaricate, he and Ye Wei were very tight-mouthed, Deng Jinbo didn't let them say it, they would definitely not say it, which made Lin Fan unhappy.

The plane set off quickly, Lin Fan pinched his nose and held his breath, this is Ji Yutong's way to tell everyone to reduce tinnitus when the plane takes off, and Lin Fan really feels that the eardrum is not as uncomfortable as when taking off from the plane before. Xicun Antelope sat next to Lin Fan, after getting on the plane, she looked out the window and said nothing, as if she had something on her mind, she didn't talk much to other people in the past two days, Lin Fan felt that Antelope was probably still affected by Deng Jinbo's decision to leave her two days ago, when Deng Jinbo asked her to stay and return to China with the people from the Japanese Embassy, it was Lin Fan who fought with her to persuade Deng Jinbo.

Yes, I don't know why at the time, as soon as he heard this, he fought with Deng Jinbo, Lin Fan thought to himself.

He looked at the delicate side face of the antelope, remembered all the things he met with her on the Urashima Maru and fell into the sea with her, he seemed to have a special feeling for this delicate and brave girl, that feeling was different from Li Jia, he didn't know how to describe it, but he felt that if she left, he should be sad.

Nishimura Antelope turned around and found that Lin Fan was looking at her, touched her face a little cramped and embarrassed, and said, "Lin Fanjun, is there anything on my face?" ”

"Oh! Nothing. Lin Fan hurriedly turned his head away, secretly scolding his gaffe in his heart.

After a while, he felt the antelope's fingertips touch his hand, and she seemed to reach over on purpose, placing it next to his hand, and then gently took his hand, which felt soft, warm .......

After flying for more than ten hours, the plane finally docked at Kennedy Airport in New York.

Due to the time difference, it was already one o'clock in the morning when the plane arrived in New York, and Deng Jinbo arranged a special car to pick everyone up, planning to go to the embassy hotel in Queens to rest for one night and then go to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia the next day.

Everyone was very tired all the way, Xue Panru and Chen Bo fell asleep in the car, but Lin Fan was still in good spirits, on the one hand, it was the secret and sweet relationship on the plane just now, on the other hand, it was the strange city outside the car window that aroused his interest, New York at midnight, the jungle of reinforced concrete skyscrapers was still brightly lit, the traffic on the criss-crossing streets was endless, and from time to time you could see the charming and decadent figure haunting the streets, although the city in front of him was very strange, it did not make Lin Fan uneasy, Because in the past year, he has become accustomed to such journeys and experiences, unfamiliar environments, unfamiliar people, these things that he was not confident and uncomfortable with in the past seem to be commonplace now.

After a night's rest at the embassy hotel, the next morning they drove to Philadelphia, 155 kilometers from New York. Located in the heart of Philadelphia and adjacent to the River of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania is one of the four largest comprehensive universities in the United States with many distinguished alumni who are recognized around the world. The university's campus is completely open, and cars can drive directly into the campus from the block, and Lin Fan and his car are parked under a teaching building that looks like a 19th-century castle in the center of the campus. After everyone got out of the car, Deng Jinbo led them into the teaching building, and only briefly introduced: "This is the college hall, and Dr. Jonathan's office is inside. ”

The interior of the building is completely European-style, with a lot of wood and stone decoration, and the walls are made of stone blocks, which looks very heavy. Probably because the school was in the summer vacation, there were not many people in the building, Lin Fan and the others went all the way to the third floor and stopped in front of an old office at the door. "This is Dr. Jonathan's office." Deng Jinbo looked at the door number next to him and said, he knocked on the door, and after half a ring, a young man with glasses opened the door.

"Hello, is Dr. Jonathan there?" Deng Jinbo asked in English.

"I'm Dr. Jonathan, who are you?" The young man replied, a thin man in a loose white T-shirt, with curly hair and freckles on his face, who looked to be in his twenties at best.

"You're Dr. Albert Jonathan?" Deng Jinbo's expression was a little surprised, and he couldn't help but look each other up and down.

"Ah, so you're looking for my uncle? But he no longer served in the school. The young man replied, and everyone suddenly realized that the young man was Dr. Jonathan's nephew, and Deng Jinbo asked, "Where did he go, and when did he leave Penn?" I'm a scholar in China, and I'd like to ask him some questions, and I've had a letter of visit before. ”

"Oh, my uncle didn't work at the school a year ago, and sometimes he came over occasionally as a visiting professor, but the time is very irregular, as for where he is now......" Jonathan Jr. touched his head and said, "I don't know specifically. ”

"Can you reach him, then?"

"I'm sorry, my uncle doesn't use electronic devices very much, why don't you write me the question you want to ask him?" Give it to him when I see him. ”

"Thanks, no need, we'll be in Philadelphia for a while, if he comes back, please call me and let me know." Deng Jinbo left a business card for little Jonathan, who took the business card and looked at it, and said with some doubts: "Your name is Li Dong?"

Deng Jinbo nodded, "Yes, I'm Li Dong, a professor from Ocean University of China, please tell him, I really want to meet him." ”

Little Jonathan stared at Deng Jinbo and said, "Okay, if I see him, I'll tell him, then let's do it first." With that, he closed the door.

The visit to Dr. Jonathan was a big deal, and everyone had to stay in Philadelphia first and wait for news from Dr. Jonathan. In the following week, there was no news of his uncle on Jonathan's side, Lin Fan and they had nothing to do and ran to the University of Pennsylvania in three days, this habit was brought up by Ji Yutong, she often went to the library of Pennsylvania to read books after she came here, during which she also found several academic papers published by Professor Li Dong and Professor Linda, such as "Research on DNA Restoration Technology of Extinct Species" and "Application of Life Cultivation Technology" These research papers were published in 2004-2005, and the tutors are Albert A. Jonathan, everyone agreed that Professor Li Dong should have been involved in the research of the Poseidon Project while he was a student at Penn.

After reading Li Dong's research papers, Ji Yutong put forward a point of view, that is, Professor Li Dong's professional direction seems to have changed greatly during his time at Penn, one of the evidences is that Professor Li Dong's doctoral dissertation at Penn in 2008 was not the field of life sciences that he has been studying, but the field of archaeology, a paper called "Research on the Origin of Human Civilization".

At that time, everyone said that Professor Li Dong was originally a double degree, which was not surprising, but Ji Yutong questioned that Professor Li Dong's main major during his doctoral study had always been life sciences, and it stands to reason that his doctoral dissertation should use the research results of his major major, but he used the research results of his minor major, which is a bit unreasonable, but Dr. Jonathan, as his doctoral supervisor, acquiesced and supported him to use the research results of his minor major as his doctoral dissertation, which shows that his later research direction has undergone a major change.

Lin Fan once asked Ji Yutong what Professor Li Dong's doctoral dissertation had written, but Ji Yutong shook her head, because when she found the paper in the library's e-book stack, the document was unreadable.

After a week in Philadelphia, on August 24, they finally had news of Dr. Jonathan, and Deng Jinbo and everyone immediately drove to Dr. Jonathan's location. As the car drove all the way out of Philadelphia and gradually drove onto a highway surrounded by large rural farmland, Lin Fan and the others couldn't help asking, "Where are we going?" ”

"We're going to Cape May County, New Jersey, southeast of Philadelphia, where Dr. Jonathan has a house." Gu Yuliang, the intelligence chief in the passenger seat, replied with a back.

"How do you know he's there?"

"We monitored Jonathan's email and found that he had recently been in contact with his uncle, and Dr. Jonathan's email IP address was in Cape May County." Gu Yuliang replied, he looked full of confidence, Lin Fan saw Deng Jinbo in the other row of seats with his hands crossed, it seemed that they were very sure of the source of the information.

As they drove along the highway, the scenery changed from farmland to countryside to lakes and marshes, and at last a winding bay line came into view, ending in Cape May County, a peninsula deep into the Atlantic Ocean in the southern corner of New Jersey.

Their car stopped at the eastern dock of Cape May, surrounded by a mix of Victorian-style buildings with houses, villas, hotels and restaurants, and a white sand beach on the east side of the beach, with a long white causeway extending directly into the sea, the inner side of the causeway is the marina bay, and the outer side is the vast Atlantic Ocean, and at the end of the causeway there is a tall lighthouse, which is standing alone in the middle of the sea.

Everyone came to the door of a blue-gray villa next to the causeway, Deng Jinbo pressed the doorbell, but no one came out after a long time. Xue Panru and Chen Bo couldn't help but whisper: "Won't they be released again, right?" Deng Jinbo looked at the courtyard outside the villa and said, "He lives here, and we are here waiting for him to come back." ”

"How can he be so sure? What if you wait for a day and there is no one? Xue Panru complained in a low voice.

"He's right," Ji Yutong pointed to the flowers and shrubs in the yard, "You see these plants are all freshly pruned, and there are still cut branches and leaves on the ground. ”

Everyone saw that this was indeed the case, and the previous doubts disappeared, Deng Jinbo glanced at Ji Yutong, and a bright color flashed in his eyes.

They waited in front of the villa for a long time, and when it was almost evening, a dog barked, and a large black and white dog ran from outside the courtyard to the crowd and barked loudly at them.

Xue Panru was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, Chen Ming and Ye Wei hurriedly stepped forward to stop the big dog, and at this time, someone outside the villa shouted in English: "Bobby, don't bark!" As soon as the voice fell, the big dog stopped barking, and an old man came out from behind the bush wall, he looked to be in his fifties, wearing a faded denim shirt, a medium-fat build, grayish curly hair, wide-rimmed glasses, a ruddy face, and a large goatee on his mouth.

When Deng Jinbo saw the old man, he immediately took off the cap on his head and stepped forward and said, "It's an honor to meet you, Dr. Albert Jonathan." ”