[1] The beginning of everything
April 14, 2010
South Pacific Ocean, 168 west longitude and 32 south latitude, sea east of New Zealand
A white yacht was floating on the blue sea, and in the bow of the yacht a teenager in a white T-shirt was lying there, his legs between the railings, his two bare feet sticking out of the boat, and the sea breeze was blowing wantonly. www.biquge.info The boy is Lin Fan, a junior at Ocean University of China, and he is now working with his classmates on an international marine ecology research project, and the yacht is their research vessel.
Lin Fan looked at the blue sea that met the sky, his mood was indescribably comfortable, he didn't want to do anything at the moment, he just wanted to blow the warm sea breeze of late summer in the southern hemisphere, and take a lazy nap in the bow of the boat.
In addition to him, there are several students on the ship, they are recording the sea temperature and current information, this is their main work on this sea, many people's graduation theses are ready to take this ocean scientific expedition as the proposition direction, although Lin Fan now seems to be taking a nap with nothing to do, but in fact, he is also thinking about what proposition to choose for his graduation thesis, such as [the impact of sea temperature on global warming phenomena], [the effect of ocean currents on the world meteorology] This kind of big and general proposition has been used by his classmates, and he doesn't want to do these anymore, but he didn't think clearly about what to do.
At this time, there was a whistle in the sea, and several young men and girls wearing diving equipment appeared from the sea, these were Lin Fan's classmates, and the teenager with an avant-garde hairstyle was called Mao Fei, who was a rich second generation, and he brought a set of diving equipment for this ocean expedition, in order to play diving on the way. Mao Fei often went to Sanya for vacation when he was in high school, so now he is a senior diver, and several other boys and girls who follow him in the water are all "new players" he has recently trained.
Lin Fan saw Mao Fei and a hot girl in a black bikini swimsuit swimming towards the boat, and he intentionally or unintentionally put his hand on the girl's thin waist, which made Lin Fan very uncomfortable. This girl is the flower of their marine environment department, named Li Jia, she is 1.7 meters tall, and her body is unevenly irritating, but her appearance is extremely pure, just like the narcissus is gorgeous and elegant. Lin Fan secretly looked at Li Jia who was swimming close to the boat, her plump melon seed face was slightly red by the sun, her long black hair hung down like a waterfall on her bare shoulders, her slender waist and slender jade legs loomed in the water, which made his heart beat a little faster, but he didn't blame him, because almost all boys regarded Li Jia as their dream lover, Lin Fan was no exception, and he had a silent crush on her in his heart for three years.
Li Jia in the sea suddenly glanced at Lin Fan when he swam over, and Lin Fan immediately turned his head and pretended to look elsewhere.
Originally, Lin Fan could also go to the sea, but because he had just learned to swim, Mao Fei said that he couldn't take him, so he was excluded from the diving interest group. But Lin Fan is still a man after all, seeing Li Jia's angry figure, thinking that Mao Fei can get close to her because of diving, he is quite envious, jealous and hateful, and scolded Mao Fei in his heart I don't know how many times.
Dozens of meters away from the scientific research ship, there is also an inflatable boat, which is Lin Fan and his team leader and several scientists are collecting biological specimens from the ocean. This ocean expedition was led by their professional counselor, known as the "youngest professor in history" and "30-year-old male god" of Ocean University, and looked like Wu Yanzu, all 10 people in their class participated in the scientific expedition, and all the accommodation expenses were covered by Li Dong.
Although Lin Fan said that they were going on an ocean expedition this time, it was actually a rare sailing trip, and the students of other majors in their school knew that they could go abroad by boat, and they were all very red at them, and many people secretly cursed them to be kidnapped by UFOs on the sea, attacked by sea monsters, and robbed by pirates, in order to express their grievances in their hearts.
But judging from the month at sea, Lin Fan's trip couldn't have gone any further, and they didn't even encounter a shark that could bite people.
The sun gradually set over the sea to the west, and everyone returned to the boat.
Lin Fan is now having dinner in the cabin with his classmates, this ocean expedition, there are a total of 15 people on board, including Lin Fan and his class of ten people, the team leader Li Dong, an American scientist named Linda, a Japanese scientist named Nishimura Xiong, in addition, there are captain McCoster and a first mate Li Gang from China.
The dinner on the boat is personally cooked by the leading teacher Li Dong, they eat a lot of seafood caught from the sea every day, there are all kinds of unnamed sea fish, Li Dong cooking or raw fried, or steamed, or cut sashimi, made into a variety of seafood dishes, the taste is incomparably fresh and fragrant, even Linda and McCoster, who are not used to eating Chinese food, praised "delicious", and Nishimura Xiong even said "good food, good food" in awkward Chinese, which made all the students can't help but praise: Teacher Li Dong is really a super male god! Not only is Wen Taowu a talented man, but his cooking skills are far better than his wife.
After dinner, the moon had risen over the sea, and the sea was calm.
At night, the deck on the ship was closed for safety reasons, and everyone could only move in the cabin, and Lin Fan and his class were now gathered in the guest room to play games.
They lived in the kind of bunk four-person room, 10 students had a total of three rooms, three girls lived in one, and the other seven boys lived in two, and now the whole class gathered in Lin Fan's room where only three boys lived to play a killing game.
Because the room was small, they were all next to each other, everyone had just taken a shower, and everyone was wearing shorts and pajamas, sitting or half-lying on the bed, talking and laughing.
Lin Fan has seven boys and three girls in his class, the seven boys are: Lin Fan, the soaring and domineering rich second-generation Mao Fei, the kind-hearted and perfectionist ** boy - Xu Jin, the squad leader who always speaks and does things in an official tone - Feng Hao, the obscene fat man who loves to play games and loves Japanese action movies - Xue Panru, a muscular man with six-pack abs who likes to wear a vest to show off his figure, and an otaku who grew up in Japanese anime and usually doesn't go out - Jia Jun;
The other three girls are: Li Jia, a flower with an angel face and a devil figure, Ji Yutong, a super scholar with a mushroom head and black-framed glasses, and Wu Lingling, a big-eyed girl who loves gossip.
The killing game is judged by the squad leader Feng Hao, two killers and two policemen, and the remaining five are civilians.
"Okay, please close your eyes when it's dark," the squad leader Feng Hao shouted in a straight voice, and everyone closed their eyes one after another.
"Killer, please open your eyes~!"
Lin Fan opened his eyes, he got the killer card, and when he opened his eyes, he found that Ji Yutong, who was sitting opposite, was looking at him, "It's actually partnering with her?" Then you can play a little harder. Lin Fan couldn't help but think to himself, because Ji Yutong, who was partnered with him in this game, was the smartest girl in their class, and her professional performance was the first in the academy every year, and she had long been regarded by the Department of Oceanography as the first choice for a straight doctorate, and she was an out-and-out scholar.
However, Ji Yutong is far less popular than Li Jia among boys, after all, in the eyes of men, it is far more important for girls to be beautiful than to study.
In fact, in terms of facial features alone, Ji Yutong is also very standard, she is 168 tall, well-proportioned and has slender legs, but maybe because she has always been a masculine dress, and her personality is as rational as a pedant, so many boys ignore her.
Lin Fan saw that Ji Yutong in gray trousers didn't say anything, and then he glanced at the people with their eyes closed, and found the target to start, he saw Mao Fei next to Li Jia, and immediately remembered that he hugged Li Jia's waist in the water today, so he immediately determined his first target to kill, he pointed to Mao Fei diagonally opposite, and signaled to Ji Yutong, Ji Yutong was noncommittal, and closed his eyes directly without any indication......
Captain McCoster and first mate Li Gang are in the cabin wheelhouse at the moment, and the first mate Li Gang is correcting the course according to the radar, and after the night they will reduce the speed and let the ship follow the established trajectory on autopilot.
At this time, a message from an international channel came from the radio in the wheelhouse: a deep-sea earthquake epicenter has just been detected in the waters east of New Zealand in the South Pacific, please pay attention to the safety of ships sailing in this area, and the earthquake intensity and epicenter location are currently being calibrated.
First mate Li Gang said to McCoster in English: "Captain, the sea area of the earthquake is very close to us, do you want to inform everyone to pay attention?" ”
McCoster replied, "Let's take a look at the situation, Lee, maybe it's just a small earthquake, you go and turn on the searchlights outside." ”
First mate Li Gang then walked out of the wheelhouse and turned on the searchlights on the deck.
In the cabin room, Lin Fan and they have changed from killing games to telling ghost stories, when they played the killing game just now, Lin Fan can be said to be angry, because whether he is a killer or a policeman, he kills Mao Fei first and throws Mao Fei first, which makes Mao Fei extremely depressed, but there is no way to take Lin Fan, because everyone has been guided by Ji Yutong, who is analyzing against the sky, and she happened to be with Lin Fan all night with accomplice cards, which is really refreshing Lin Fan, Ji Yutong has simply become his goddess of victory.
Lin Fan couldn't help but snicker when he heard the story and thought of the scene just now, which made Xue Fatzi, who was now telling the story, very dissatisfied, and said: "Lin Fan, what are you laughing at, I'm telling a ghost story, not a joke~!" ”
Lin Fan hurriedly waved his hand and apologized: "Ah, I'm sorry, you continue, hehehe~" For the first time, he felt that it was so difficult to control his laughter.
Xue Fatzi glanced at him with disdain, and continued to tell the legend he had heard from the Maori, "It is said that a long, long time ago, every time on the night of the full moon, a red sea snake would swim up from the deep sea to wreak havoc on the Maori village.
But then, the serpent was not satisfied with the cattle and sheep, and told the people of the village that every summer night when the moon was full, and that if they did not do so, they would overturn their fishing boats and summon storms and tsunamis to strike them.
So every year in the summer, the Maori would hold a beauty pageant in the village, select the most beautiful maidens who had not been touched by a man, and tie them to a boat on a full moon night and send them out to sea as a sacrifice to the big red serpent, all these beauties have never returned, but the Maori have not been bothered by the big snake anymore, and this rule has continued for decades.
Later, there was another beautiful girl in the village who was chosen as a sacrifice, but this girl had a good look, and he was very reluctant to let this girl be eaten by the sea snake, so he secretly hid under the boat when the girl was tied to the boat and sent out to sea, trying to secretly rescue his good friend......"
Xue Fatzi spoke with taste, everyone was fascinated for a while, and as soon as he paused, everyone urged: "Keep talking!" Don't be a eunuch. ”
Xue Fatzi took out a cola and took a sip, and said, "Rong Ye, I'll drink saliva first, hehe~" He grunted and drank the small half bottle of Coke before continuing: "This girl's good looks, I secretly followed that girl that night, and then saved the girl before the sea snake appeared." You think, how can the big lewd snake endure the breath of being snatched away from love, and immediately the next day he swam up from the sea to ask the teacher, and the villagers panicked, and found this pair of hard-working mandarin ducks, and wanted to sacrifice them to the big lewd snake, but when the villagers tied the man and woman over, the girl's good friend got a mask like a monkey's face and put it on his face out of nowhere, but he didn't expect the lewd snake to panic when he saw this monkey face mask, and quickly swam back to the sea. When the Maori saw that the girl's good looks scared away the lewd snake, they made him the head of the village, and the boy carved many pieces of the monkey-faced mask and gave them to the villagers, saying that as long as he wore this mask, he would not be afraid of the big lewd snake when he went to sea...... Hee-hee"
"Finished?" Big-eyed sister Wu Lingling asked.
"It's over~" Xue Fatzi said.
"Fatty, you can really pull it, I express my admiration and admiration~" Chen Bo, who was wearing a vest and had two biceps exposed on his arms, said.
Lin Fan deeply agreed, he had already seen Fat Xue's ability to talk nonsense, when he played DOTA with Fat Xue before, he theorized one by one, and he was about to blow himself into a god, but he really hit him and found that he was a guy who couldn't take it.
"Who says I'm?" Xue Fatzi said: "I bought this mask at the Maori store, do you want to show it to you?" ”
Hearing him say this, everyone became interested and scolded: "What kind of thing is it selling, quickly take it out for everyone to see." ”
Xue Fatzi climbed to the top bunk and took out a wooden mask from his schoolbag and displayed, "This is that monkey face mask." ”
Everyone took this mask and took a look, and found that there was really such a thing, so Xu Jin asked: "Fatty, then the story you just told was really heard from the Maori?" ”
"That's, where did I make it up, the old Maori man who sold masks heard that I was going to sea for scientific research, and knew that there were women among us, so he desperately sold me to buy this mask, saying that it was for our safety."
Xue Fatzi glanced at Li Jia and the others, and said with a smile: "Female compatriots, if the big lewd snake comes to harass you tonight, come to Xue Ye and me." ”
"you fat man! It's scary!" The big-eyed girl Wu Lingling immediately scolded, Ji Yutong stroked the frame of her glasses and couldn't see what the state was, but Li Jia's wide-eyed appearance seemed to be a little frightened.
The muscular man Chen Bo loved the house and Wu, and said: "Don't be afraid, beauties, if that sea snake really comes, I'll throw Xue Fat out of the window, and make sure to kill it." ”
Chen Bo made a gesture to throw Xue Fatzi out of the window, and at this moment, Jia Jun on the side suddenly looked at the round window of the guest room and shouted, "What is this?!" ”
When they looked through the round window, they were shocked to find a strange white creature floating on the surface of the sea outside the window.