I stood on the side of the road stupidly like a homeless man with a body of stinky mud and scars, secretly cursing this little man who dragged me into the water, and recalled the nightmare experience just now, and suddenly I didn't know whether it was true or not, but the chill hit again, and I just wanted to leave the place as soon as possible, so I desperately waved to the passing vehicles, but how many people were willing to take care of a homeless man covered in mud and unkempt in the middle of nowhere? Until a small four-wheeled car with "garbage sweeper" crookedly written on it stopped, I just kept exclaiming that "righteousness is mostly dog slaughter", and the ancients did not deceive me.

After gradually recovering from the shock and complaints, I was still hesitant to call the police, but it didn't matter if the owner was small, why should I bother if the emperor was not in a hurry and the eunuch was in a hurry? I secretly sighed that no matter how serious things are, they will become a laughing conversation after the past, and I don't know if this is a human self-protection mechanism, so as not to make people too painful. But I immediately realized that now is not the time to sigh, there is an important date today, the customer introduced by Huo Xin met on the 17th floor of Qihang Building at ten o'clock, I am really glad that my memory is good, otherwise I am really a lonely ghost in this sea of people who can't be contacted.

Avoiding the crowd, covering my face, I ran home, cleaned up, and then gave myself a simple treatment of the wounds up and down my body, fortunately they were all scratches, except for some pain, but it did not affect the action, and then took a taxi to the Qihang Building, the hour hand in the reception hall was already close to ten o'clock, this is good, there is no time to hesitate, I want to see Yu Nuo regret it in front of me in the future, even if it is just imagination.

The entire floor of the seventeenth floor is an office called "Flying Ship Transportation Company", as soon as I came in, I felt a little sad, the very low ceiling of the decoration was almost pressed overhead, indescribably depressing, a whole floor of the office area, but I couldn't see anyone, and I couldn't see the sunlight that came in, only the dim ceiling lamp emitted a dim light. Even the person who stood at the front desk was not an ordinary good-looking, gentle and lovely little girl, but a security guard with a big face and three thick faces. After I hesitated to give my name, he acted quickly, and immediately led me outside a conference room, and told me to enter by myself in a hoarse voice.

The door was open, and there was no sound inside, I thought there was no one inside, so I gently pushed it open and walked in, only to see a gray-haired man inside staring at a whiteboard with his back to me, his emaciated figure was slightly arched, and he looked very weak and thin in front of the big whiteboard, so the whole body could only cover a small part of the whiteboard, and a simple stick figure on it was clearly displayed in front of my eyes, and the content was relatively simple, like a thin crescent moon sandwiched between two steep mountains, The bowed crescent moon and light of varying lengths refracted against the steep mountain walls. I'm secretly a little funny, this person is really a child, and he is making children's paintings here.

He seemed to hear a voice behind him, so he turned his head suddenly, and at that moment, the eyes on the old face looked very sharp, and I also felt that I was too reckless, so I couldn't help coughing a few times to hide the embarrassment, and then introduced myself to him as formally as possible: "I am Situ Ran, the head of the appointment, meet here at ten o'clock." ”

He smiled, his eyes completed the shape of the crescent moon on the whiteboard, and beckoned, "Oh, Mr. Situ Ran, please sit down." He turned around and hurriedly erased the stick figure of the whiteboard. My little grandson taught me to draw, haha, see you and laugh. ”

Then he pressed a call button in front of him, and asked the assistant to invite everyone else to the conference room, and after a while, four men and one woman rushed in, dressed differently and with different looks, sitting at the conference table, not speaking to each other, all looking straight at the gray-haired man, all looking deaf. At this time, I was able to take a closer look at the man who gathered everyone, under the gray hair, the eye sockets are deeper than the average person, and the bridge of the nose is also more erect, although he is already old, and layers of wrinkles and age spots have begun to appear on his face, but it can be vaguely seen that the edges and corners of his facial features have been distinct, and he must have been very handsome when he was young, and now although there are quite vicissitudes of life, the specific age is really not accurate.

"Okay, everyone's here, I'll get straight to the point and don't delay everyone's time." The emaciated man got straight to the point. "My surname is Feng, everyone can call me Lao Feng."

He paused, glanced at the location of the door of the conference room, then quickly looked around at the few people present, greeted everyone, and then lowered his voice, as if to say a secret: "This time I invited everyone to come, just to ask everyone to help do something, something very important to me, and also an unusual thing." ”

He turned on the projector himself, and with the playback of the slides, he held the laser pointer tightly and began to tell, Huo Xin once told me that this commission was rather bizarre, and the other party's performance was so mysterious, I couldn't help but concentrate and listen carefully.

"Our business is very simple, that is, to undertake some goods consignment business, and over the years, it has been smooth sailing." He smiled slightly, as if he was still happy with himself. But such an opening is usually followed by a twist, and sure enough, he is heard saying, "But in the last few months, we had an accident. ”

He pointed to the projection screen with a laser pointer, and the slide stayed on a photo, which was a rather brand-new looking freighter, with a striking "Hunan Freight-078" freighter marked on the side of the bow near the bow, and several sets of numbers next to it indicating the tonnage and other technical parameters of the freighter, two of which were very conspicuous - the cost of the ship was 3.42 million yuan, and the cost of installing a liquid filling tank was 4.5 million yuan.

"A few months ago, we took on the goods of a company, and when we passed through the waters of the Lao Ye Temple in Poyang Lake, we encountered bad weather." Lao Feng turned down another page of slides, and a small area of reef surrounded by lake water appeared in front of him, with several Chinese-style palaces and pavilions and a tall pagoda, which was antique.

"And our 078 freighter, right here, sank." His last few words were very emphasis, but he couldn't hear any change in feelings, just released another map of Poyang Lake, and kept drawing circles with laser pointers at the location marked with the Lao Ye Temple.

"You just said bad weather? Can a shipwreck be caused by weather inland? A crisp voice sounded, she was the only girl in the room, with short ear-length hair and a little powder, quite beautiful. Seeing everyone looking at her together, she stood up generously, slightly adjusted her white narrow-waisted suit, bowed slightly to everyone, and then introduced herself to everyone loudly: "My name is Du Xin, I hope you can advise." Just when everyone nodded to her, a strange whistle came out, it was a young man in exaggerated sportswear, leaning on the back of the chair with a big grin, in the wide costume composed of various color blocks, like a squirrel peeping out of the pile of fallen leaves, he shook from side to side, and said with a smile: "The beauty was originally called Du Xin, my surname is Ai, can I change my name to Ai Du Xin now?" ”

Du Xin frowned, ignored him, sat down and only looked at the slide, wanting to study why there was still a big storm in the inland lake, which could overturn a modern mechanized freighter.

Lao Feng's face sank, but he didn't say anything to his frivolous youth, but just introduced to everyone: "This lady is our team doctor, we are working in the field this time, and she is your umbrella." ”

After a man in his thirties with round-framed eyes came in, his eyes glanced at Du Xin from time to time, and the charm of my fair lady was naturally different, at this time he frowned and glanced at Ai Qingying, and then pointed to the map and explained to Du Xin: "You see, the old man's temple in Poyang Lake is a relatively special water area, the hydrological characteristics are more complex, it is located in the narrow pipe area between the north and south lakes, and it is easy to form eddies; You see that there is Lushan Mountain in the northwest of it, when the north wind blows, the wind from the side of Lushan is lifted to the air by Lushan, forming a high-pressure air mass, and the high-speed swooping towards this low-pressure area is easy to form a gale or even a tornado. In fact, there are often accidents in this place, and it is even rumored that this is the Bermuda Triangle of our country, and there are all kinds of legends about the disappearance of mysterious ships, such as the warships of devils who disappeared here silently during the Anti-Japanese War. He was very encouraged to see that these words attracted everyone's attention, and then said a secret story that he didn't know whether it was true or false: "It is rumored that after the end of World War II, Lao Mei sent people to salvage it, but it couldn't be salvaged." Of course, this is just historical rumor and may not be taken seriously. ”