Volume 2 The Eye of the Deep Chapter 39 The clues left by Huangshan
Seeing Ah Liang's expression, I immediately guessed that something must have happened, "What did you encounter?" What happened to the others? ”
Ah Liang opened his mouth, but did not speak, raised his hand and pointed to the top of the cabin.
I suddenly turned my head and looked in the direction he pointed, and at this glance, I immediately felt that I was petrified, only to see that on the second-floor cockpit platform above the first-floor cabin, Boss Ding, Second Uncle, Wen Mo, An Ye, Qi Feng, Lantern Xiao, Zhou Cheng, and a few guys, at this time these people were looking at me in disbelief, and the second uncle opened his mouth and asked, "Big nephew!" Are you hysterical? What to toss below! I squatted down with my head in my hands, thinking to myself, if I jump into the sea now, I don't know if I will have time to save some face.
At the critical moment, it was his brother who gave his strength, and Lantern Xiao shouted: "Ah, Zhuo Ran, you came just in time, you also come up to have a look." ”
I looked at Lantern Xiao gratefully, but I saw his face trying not to smile, and the corners of his mouth were still twitching and shaking. I cursed in my heart.
In order to hide my embarrassment, I could only pretend to be calm and walked up, glaring at Lantern Xiao by the way.
After I went up, I saw An Ye, Second Uncle and Boss Ding carefully studying a map, and the location marked on it was the destination they deduced.
I stood next to Lantern Festival and asked softly, "Hey, what's going on?" ”
Lantern Xiao whispered in my ear, "We have now arrived at the location marked on the map, but we haven't found any islands. ”
I nodded, it seems that this place is not so easy to find, otherwise Qin Shi Huang would not have had to go through so much trouble back then.
At this time, although the fog has not completely cleared on the sea, the visibility has been much better, and we look around and cannot see any shadow of the island. According to the brocade silk in the tomb of the escaped captain, the island should have been very large, but around us, let alone a large island, there was not even a single reef.
Lantern Xiao said to Boss Ding: "I said Boss Ding, is your map inaccurate, is there a deviation in latitude and longitude?" ”
"Impossible!" Boss Ding looked very wronged, "After I found out that there was nothing here last night, I was afraid that I was in the wrong place, so I proofread it several times. Saying that, Boss Ding took out the latitude and longitude ruler, measured it carefully on the map, and then said: "Come and see," a few of us gathered around, only to see Boss Ding measuring while recording the results on the side, and then pointed it out to us, "Everyone, you see, the point you marked on the map is about 38 degrees 23 degrees north latitude, about 121 degrees 50 east longitude, and you can look at the latitude and longitude display of the GPS in your hand to see if it is the same?" ”
I looked at the GPS in the second uncle's hand next to me, and the latitude and longitude displayed were indeed consistent with the latitude and longitude of the marked points on the map.
Several of us looked at each other, only the second uncle and An Ye stared at the map and frowned.
Qi Feng said: "Master An, the captain's brocade silk said that this island can only be seen on foggy days, do you say that the current fog is not big enough!" ”
An Ye shook his head, "The credibility of the words of the ancients cannot be generalized, maybe this island has a special connection with the foggy sky, but I don't think this is the main reason why we haven't found it now." ”
Lantern Xiao said with a smile: "An Ye, this is reasonable, we can't look here now, there is nothing around, wait until the fog is big, boom!" An island has appeared! It's a bit of a myth! ”
Qi Feng thought about it, so he had to shut his mouth stupidly.
The second uncle shook the GPS in his hand, "Could it be this thing in my hand, no!" ”
Boss Ding waved his hand, "No, besides, I also have GPS here, so we can have a look." With that, Boss Ding walked into the cockpit and said loudly: "The latitude and longitude I show here is: north latitude 3823, east longitude 12150, how about it, is it consistent with the data in your old hand?" ”
The second uncle nodded, looked at the sky, and said to himself: "It's a pity that there are no stars now, otherwise it can be confirmed according to the stars." ”
I listened to Boss Ding's words, and a thought suddenly crossed my mind, how could I feel a little familiar with the numbers that Boss Ding said just now? Where do I seem to have seen it?
I began to desperately recall, all the things I experienced during this time were sifted through my mind one by one, and suddenly a name appeared in my mind - Huangshan!
I hurriedly took out my phone in my pocket and looked through the photos in the album. Finally, a somewhat dim image appeared on the screen, showing a dusty table with a string of numbers written with a pen on it: 1225112306.
I looked at this series of numbers, this is a photo taken in the laboratory in Huangshan, and I just thought it was strange, but I didn't know what it meant.
And just now, when they were discussing latitude and longitude, I suddenly discovered the meaning of this string of numbers, just add a "-" symbol in the middle of this string of numbers, and the meaning of this string of numbers will immediately become obvious, because this string of numbers will become: 12251-12306, which is clearly a range of latitude and longitude, more precisely, a range of longitude values.
I boldly imagine that Huangshan may have been deduced to a more accurate location through some clues and means, and even marked the longitude value. If, according to what Boss Ding said just now, we are now in the east longitude position, which is not within the range of this string of numbers. So, the position we are calculating now is a bit off. It stands to reason that the result calculated by the second uncle and An Ye should not be wrong, but I think the location of this island is somewhat special, and it is not calculated according to common sense, so Huangshan will deliberately record the longitude.
Thinking of this, I decided to speak my mind in order to redeem the image I had just lost with hysteria.
I cleared my throat and said, "Boss Ding, if the latitude remains the same and the longitude moves one degree eastward, how long will it take?" ”
Boss Ding thought about it and calculated casually, "Boss Zhuo, do you mean that the longitude has been changed to about 122 degrees and 50 minutes?" I nodded.
"In that case, we will need to drive about 87 kilometers to the east, and at our current speed, it will take us three to four hours." After Boss Ding finished speaking, he looked at me and asked, "What?" You mean, let's go there and have a look? ”
I looked at the others, "I suddenly thought of a clue about this, I thought I could try it, and since there wasn't one here, I thought we should look elsewhere as well." What do you think? ”
As soon as my voice fell, Qi Feng suddenly stood up, "Hey, let me ask, little brother of the Zhuo family, although there are rules on the road, if you don't want to say it, I shouldn't ask you about the source of this clue, but I want to know, is your source reliable?" ”
In my heart, I really hate this person called Qi Feng, what is this really called the master, what kind of people are below, this Qi Feng is as annoying as An Ye!
But after all, everyone was in a boat, and it was not good to look down and look up and see it, so he said patiently: "Of course I think it is reliable, otherwise I wouldn't say it, and the source of this clue is not that I don't want to say, but the process is more complicated, and I can't say it clearly in a sentence or two, and there are other people involved in this case, so it's inconvenient for me to say." "Because this clue comes from Huangshan, if I explain the origin of Huangshan to them, it will inevitably involve Uncle Kong and Lantern Xiao's father, so I finally decided not to say it.
I continued, "Besides, if the clues are not accurate, it will only be delayed for three or four hours at most, so are we just waiting here for the island to come to us by itself?" ”
As soon as I finished speaking, Lantern Xiao sneered and laughed, which made Qi Feng a little uncomfortable. Lantern Xiao said with a smile: "I agree with Zhuo Ran's idea, if you succeed best, even if you fail, it is better than waiting here." After speaking, Lantern Xiao glanced at the others, of course the second uncle agreed, Wen Mo's indifferent attitude did not make a statement. An Ye looked at me with a smile and nodded.
"That's it!" Lantern Xiao commanded: "Boss Ding! Let's sail! ”
"Okay! Guys due east, full speed! ”
The final plan is decided, and the next thing we have to do is wait.
After everyone dispersed, Lantern Xiao found me, "Hey, Zhuo Ran, where did your clue come from?" You shouldn't be hiding it from your buddy, right? ”
"I didn't want to hide it from you," I told him, but Uncle Tang was involved here, so I didn't say it.
Lantern Xiao was a little surprised when she heard this, "My dad? Did he tell you this clue? ”
"Of course not!" I whispered to him: "You've always heard of the name Huangshan, right?" ”
"What do you mean......" Lantern Xiao was stunned for a moment, and then blurted out loudly, "You found Huangshan?" ”
I hurriedly motioned to him to be quiet, and then nodded, "Actually, it can't be said that I found it, to be exact, Wenmo found it, I just found some clues left by Huangshan." ”
Lantern Xiao nodded, "I see!" Thanks to you this time! I smiled wryly and nodded.
I was standing on the deck, and I was actually a little apprehensive, worried that I wouldn't really find anything by then. But looking at the fog around me that is getting lighter and lighter, I think if I find nothing at that time, I will push it to the fog, after all, the island and the fog are also related to the fog An Ye himself said.
However, God did not seem to want me to make excuses, and as it was near noon, I noticed through the window in the cabin that the fog had thickened again. My mood became a little uneasy, and I ate a little absent-mindedly at lunch.
After lunch, I counted the time, and it should be almost there. I asked my second uncle about my current latitude and longitude, and my second uncle told me that it was already 122 degrees 49 minutes east longitude.
I silently thought in my heart: "Huangshan, Huangshan, don't hurt me, the data on the table won't be what you write and play casually." If you ......"
Before I could finish my thoughts, all of a sudden I heard someone on deck shouting, "Look! Look! What is that! ”
I was shocked, and hurriedly ran out of the cabin, and came to the deck to take a look, in the fog in the distance, a huge black shadow lying horizontally on the sea, at this time I was both excited and nervous, and I couldn't help but say: "MD, I finally found it!" ”