Cheng Mo returned to the room anxiously, turned on the ceiling lamp, and walked to the sofa chair where Athena usually sits, just now in the dark he vaguely saw a lot of messy lines on the brown leather cushions, he didn't care at the time, just now when Captain Omero mentioned Napoleon VII, he remembered a great conjecture called "monster moonshine" in mathematics (Monstrousmoonshineconjecture).

If you have studied elementary algebra, you will know that elementary algebra is built from a group or a set of objects that need to satisfy a certain relationship. And one of the greatest achievements of mathematics in the twentieth century was the classification of all finite monogroups. Cheng Mo, of course, also bought a guide that is like the periodic table for mathematicians—ATLASofFiniteGroups.

The last and largest of these is a finite group called the "Monster Swarm".

The "Monster Swarm" is definitely one of the most ambitious achievements in mathematics, considering that the number of elements in the Monster Swarm is greater than the number of atoms in 1000 Earths, and it is so large and abstract that it is difficult to describe. (The exact number of elements of the "Monster Swarm" is 808017424794512875886459904961710757005754368000000000, which is about 8*10^53.) In comparison, the number of atoms in the solar system is about 10^57, which is only two orders of magnitude higher. If we use linear space and matrix transformations to represent the monster pack, we need at least a 196883-dimensional linear space to faithfully represent the overall structure of the monster pack. This expression is also known as a linear representation of a group. ）

So what is the "Monster Moonshine Conjecture"?

Imagine having a 24-dimensional ring, and then imagine the physical particles scaling through this space, one particle sometimes colliding with the other.

What happens when they collide depends on a lot of different factors, just like the angle at which they meet.

There is a monster in it that makes this 24-dimensional system accurate, and this monster may be a particular way of making it symmetrical.

Perhaps, the monster itself is incredibly symmetrical.

In conclusion, the "monster" is essential to humanity, and it is likely that it can connect mathematics and physics through string theory.

According to current speculation, mathematicians believe that such a symmetrical collision is absolutely not a coincidence, and evidence that each element in the "monster pack" has a special modular function is accumulating. In other words, the main characteristics of the monster herd can be read from the modular function.

This opens the door for theory to capture and manipulate monsters.

The idea that modular functions can tame wayward monster-like things sounds impossible------ as incredible as humans can manipulate their own destiny through the Creator.

In theoretical mathematics, the term "moonshine" refers to an impossible idea that seems as crazy as it seems.

Coupled with the incredibly large "monster pack", this is called the "monster moonshine conjecture".

He turned the sofa chair around, half-kneeling on the floor to carefully observe the lines, which were sparsely drawn on the brown leather by an oil-based pen, which at first glance seemed irregular, and it was impossible to have any connection with the "monster moonlight conjecture".

Cheng Mo stared at the messy lines on the cushion and thought: yes, I'm not tall, I'm not handsome, I don't have much money, what makes our encounter so special? It's a similar experience? It's the same loneliness? Maybe there are parents who are more or less responsible in their own way? Maybe there's something else in it that he can't imagine, but he believes there must be math in it......

But he didn't know why he had a flash of inspiration just now, thinking of this conjecture was probably an intuition of people who like mathematics, in short, if it was him, if he wanted to leave Athena any message in secret, it must be through mathematics. If he had to choose, he would definitely choose "Monster Moonlight Conjecture", a name that is much more romantic than the Fermat Conjecture, the Four Color Conjecture and the Goldbach Conjecture, although he is not a literary youth, but he likes the name "Monster Moonlight" very much.

Cheng Mo whispered to himself, "Let me see if we are symmetrical with each other." ”

He got up and hurriedly opened the drawer to find the pen and paper, which were naturally not lacking in the chief engineer's room. He took a blank piece of paper, placed it over his cushion, traced the lines with precision, and then sat back in his chair and studied them in the light.

"Let me use the math to open you up. Cheng Mo closed his eyes and began to list the formulas on another piece of paper, and then he began to look for edges and vertices, connecting these seemingly chaotic lines into a complex plane graph, this process requires a lot of calculations, knowing that taking different vertices as the right coset of subgroups will get different constructs of the coset diagram.

Cheng Mo kept writing and drawing on the paper, writing more than ten pages, this inexplicable clue, made him completely forget everything, completely immersed in the world of mathematics, I don't know how long it took, in the cold night, he sweated all over, and finally through a large number of calculations, these marginal messy lines, supplemented and connected into a three-dimensional figure composed of hexagons.

Cheng Mo lifted the picture up and looked at it, and suddenly found that this three-dimensional figure composed of hexagons, if you only look at the flat figure, it is clearly two snowflakes that are completely overlapped. This discovery made Cheng Mo can't help but smile knowingly, just looking at one of the snowflakes, this graph should be called the Cork curve (snowflake function). Its circumference is infinitely large, but its area cannot exceed the circumscribed circle of the six-pointed star, and it is an infinitely complex closed curve, but it is always connected, whether it is composed of straight or curved segments.

"Is this how mathematicians convey their messages? It's complex and simple, abstract and ......beautiful," Cheng meditated, "maybe it's just another way for Athena to test whether they are symmetrical.....

Cheng Mo was 100% convinced that he had some wonderful connection with Athena in his heart, just as he had thought of the "moonlight monster" in the first place, and he felt that the reason why Athena drew these lines on the chair instead of the table or something else was not for nothing.

Because on moonlit nights, the moonlight shines through the windows just in this position, and the tables are within the shadow of the walls.

"You're saying I'm a monster, you're moonlight!" Cheng Mo smiled again, and he continued to draw the upper grid on the three-dimensional snowflake diagram, marking the vertical lines with integers (1,2,3,... , the horizontal line is marked with an imaginary number (1i, 2i, 3i,...).

To complete this complicated work, Cheng Mo rolled the paper into a cylinder, found scotch tape to glue its two ends together, cut out the blank space, and made a doughnut with different sizes and shapes, although it was still very abstract, but in Cheng Mo's brain, it had completely changed from some messy lines to a 24-dimensional ring.

"Bingo!" As Cheng Mo imagined, he snapped his fingers excitedly, at this time he had already seen the dawn of solving the puzzle, he had not experienced the joy of being about to make a proof for a long time.

For a mathematician, if he is given such a torus shape, then he can use the j-function to convert that shape into a special complex number. (J function: also known as J invariant, the second Fourier coefficient 196884, which is exactly the dimension of the Griess algebra, that is, the dimension of the smallest faithful linear representation of the monster herd plus 1.) The other Fourier coefficients of the j-invariant quantity are also closely related to the so-called irreducible dimensionality of the monster group: these Fourier coefficients can be expressed as some simple linear combination of irreducible representation dimensions)

Not only the joy of solving the problem, but also the joy of touching the moonlight, which is definitely double the happiness.

The complicated and exhausting calculations became brisk, Cheng Mo's pen flew like a fly, the pen rustled, line after line of calculations flowed like water on the white paper, clean and tidy, Cheng Mo calmly did the calculations, and soon used seven or eight pages of paper with full dedication, and finally came up with two key numbers 3417022 and 3163935.

Cheng Mo put down his pen, his heart was beating like thunder, he remembered that the approximate range of the Mediterranean Sea was 5° west longitude to 35 ° east longitude, and 44 ° north latitude to 32 ° north latitude. Assuming that the point is followed by the first two digits, it is possible to find an accurate coordinate on the Mediterranean Sea.

"Could it be that this is a coordinate on the sea?" Cheng Mo was a little incredulous, he didn't have time to sigh how important mathematics was to him, pushed the door and rushed out of the room. He didn't choose to go around the inner porch, but braved the wind and rain to break into the closer verandah, the sea breeze was a little stronger than he could imagine, blowing his hair on end, not only could not breathe, but also could not open his eyes. He lowered his head, clutched at the railing, and ran toward Captain Omero's room through the raindrops of his head and face.

The earth-shaking hammer door rang again, followed by Captain Omero's shouting, "Who!"

"I!" Cheng Mo said, this time his tone was not as cold as the last time, containing some expectation, some nervousness and some urgency.

Captain Omelo opened the door, shivering from the cold wind, he looked at Cheng Mo, who was drenched, and asked in surprise, "What's wrong?"

It may be that Athena's departure, the misalignment of Cheng Mo's understanding, and Cheng Mo's immature appearance, made Captain Omero feel a lot less in awe of Cheng Mo, and he didn't even call him "Mr. Ryktka".

Cheng Mo didn't bother to pay attention to the change in Captain O'Melo's attitude, and said in a deep voice: "Now hurry up and change the course and go to the position of 34.17022 east longitude and 31.63935 north latitude ......."

"What's going on?"

Cheng Mo said coldly: "Don't care so much!"

Captain Omero looked at Cheng Mo's gloomy face in the dim light, shivered again, and said helplessly: "Okay! I'll go change my clothes first!"

Cheng Mo grabbed Captain Omero's arm and said expressionlessly, "Go up first and ask someone to change the course!" Without waiting for Captain Omero to answer, he pulled Captain Omero out of the room.

"What is it that makes you so impatient, not even for me to change my clothes?" Captain Omero grumbled loudly in displeasure in the hallway.

Cheng Mo ignored it, just grabbed Captain Omero and walked upstairs, the wheelhouse was upstairs from them.

"It can't be your princess lover waiting for you at this coordinate, right?" Captain Omero scoffed, "Can your princess lover escape from an aircraft carrier?"

Cheng Mo glanced back at Captain Omero and said lightly, "Everything is possible." ”

"Okay, okay! We'll be passing by the whole location soon, anyway. Captain Omero shrugged his shoulders and pushed open the wheelhouse door, shouting, "Tahir, change course, coordinates ......"

Captain Omero turned his head to look at Cheng Mo, who stared at the endless darkness outside the window and said, "East longitude 34.17022, north latitude 31.63935."

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After five and a half hours, at four o'clock in the morning, the "Mediterranean Overture" finally reached the vicinity of "34.17022 east longitude, 31.63935 north latitude".

Cheng Mo also waited outside for almost half an hour, time passed minute by minute, and the outside of the corridor was still dark, only a faint light under the eaves of the corridor followed the ship to sway slightly in the dark. The sea breeze carried the raindrops and blew him cold and stiff, Cheng Mo grabbed the railing, holding a searchlight and strafing the sea over and over again, but in such bad weather, even if the energy is poured into the eyes, the range of vision is really limited, even with the help of lights, it is not much better.

A bolt of lightning split the sea and the sky, illuminating his somewhat pale cheeks, and the scene was like a scene from a horror movie.

At this moment, it seemed that he was the only one left in the whole world, but Cheng Mo didn't feel much, and he was still tirelessly looking for a trace of possibility at sea.

Captain Omero opened the door, handed out a heavy plastic raincoat, and shouted in the wind and rain: "Put it on!

Cheng Mo took it and put the raincoat on his body, and at this time, the wet clothes stuck to his body, and he became more and more uncomfortable.

Captain Omero lit a cigarette, stood by the door, and said in a good time: "I don't know how you got that coordinate, but even if you are the chosen one, it is impossible to escape from the aircraft carrier in such terrible weather and swim one or two hundred nautical miles, right?"

Cheng Mo actually felt that he was just waiting for a miracle, if Athena still had Uroboros, this possibility still existed, but Athena's Ulopolos had already been buried at the bottom of the sea, even if she could intercept energy with her body, it would be impossible to grab a battleship, let alone fly to such a far place.

To be honest, Cheng Mo wondered if he was wishful thinking and forcibly made two snowflakes of some messy lines according to his imagination.

This speculation made Cheng Mo a little frustrated, he shook the searchlight, his eyes briefly empty, but he quickly told himself that there could not be so many coincidences, if this coordinate was really left by Athena through mathematical means, then she must be confident that there was a way to get here.

Cheng Mo raised his hand to wipe the rain attached to his eyebrows, and recalled the whole process in his brain, he still felt that he was not alone in his thoughts, and there must be an indescribable tacit understanding between him and Athena.

"How else would she know about my plan?" Cheng Mo said in his heart, and he continued to hold his searchlight and search among the churning waves.

"Can you gossip about how you and the princess met, and your love history!" said Captain Omero excitedly, "how did you get Princess Athena out of the hands of the Emperor!

"Don't waste time here. What should I do, what should I do!" Cheng Mo said coldly.

"It's stingy. Captain Omero threw the cigarette butt on the floor in frustration, and crushed it twice with his foot, ready to close the door.

Before Captain Omero closed the door, Cheng Mo said in a deep voice: "When you get to the coordinate location, start going in circles, don't continue to go forward!"

"No, warships and aircraft carriers will catch up, right?" asked Captain Omero, alert.

"No!" Cheng Mo shook his head, "This is already the sea of Ether, and Napoleon VII will definitely not do this." ”

"Okay!"

"Don't mess with the ghosts, or I'll make your ship silent!" Cheng Mo warned in a solemn tone.

"Go around, go around in circles! I'll go around until you don't want to!" Captain Omero retorted angrily, and then slammed the door shut, leaving Cheng Mo alone in the icy storm to wait for a miracle to come.

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The huge "Mediterranean Overture" no longer knows how many times it has turned in the vast sea, even the skyline has turned white, turning the dark clouds into gray, Cheng Mo is still stubbornly insisting on the corridor outside the cockpit, but in the vast area of his vision, only the raindrops fall endlessly on the rolling sea.

Then one morning, then another afternoon, the "Mediterranean Overture" went on like a fly without a head, for almost ten hours.

In the evening, Captain Omero once again found Cheng Mo, who had not rested for a day, and said in a serious tone: "It's not okay to go on like this, we don't have time to play with you like this!"

Cheng Mo looked back at Captain Omero, there were several crew members standing behind him, and he didn't know whether he was coming to see the excitement, or to be a helper to threaten him, all in all, the story of the poor boy falling in love with the princess is estimated to be known to the whole ship. He didn't bother to be long-winded, and without hesitation, he directly showed the "Seven Sins Sect", pointed at Captain Omero and said: "I have to accompany you, and I have to accompany you if I don't accompany you!"

Captain Omero was stunned for a moment when he looked at the brilliant lightsaber, and after observing for a moment, he still chose to soften his tone, "Even if we are willing to accompany you, there is not enough oil!"

"I know, leave the oil to go to the nearest port. ”

"The nearest port is Tel Aviv, and we don't have permission!" said Captain Omero, bitterly.

"You can think of a way. ”

"Do you know how many people are waiting for our weapons support, do you know how important our cause is?" said Captain Omero, with some exasperation, "for an unrealistic woman...... How many people's lives are you going to ruin!"

"I don't care. Cheng Mo said coldly.

Captain Omero was furious and said: "People like you will go to Hellfire!"

Cheng Mo sneered: "You save your boat first and don't go to prison!"

"I'll have to wait one night at most!I'll have to leave tomorrow morning anyway!" Captain Omero spat viciously, turning back to the wheelhouse.

A kind of crew member gathered behind Captain Omero also dispersed in the discussion, and from time to time they cast all kinds of strange glances at Cheng Mo.

Cheng Mo had no intention of care, he put away the "Seven Sins Sect" and looked at the rainy sea, thinking in his heart what he would do if he didn't wait for a miracle to appear tomorrow morning? He didn't think that his conjecture about the "monster moonlight" was wrong, but there were too many accidents in this world that could change the outcome, and fate could never be as accurate as mathematics.

"Actually, it doesn't matter if you leave first, it's not that she doesn't know the destination of the 'Mediterranean Overture', maybe I can wait for her there. But I really don't want her to be disappointed......"

Cheng Mo's heart sank, the emotion of not wanting to disappoint people was no stranger to Cheng Mo, Xie Minyun, Bai Xiuxiu, and Teacher Shen were all people he didn't want to disappoint them, and he knew what it meant to him to have such thoughts. Cheng Mo is not a righteous gentleman, he has always felt that there is no need to fight against human nature, "My Fair Lady, a gentleman is good", instinctive desires are often not able to be enemies with it, the more you fight with it, the stronger the desire will be.

Assuming that he only had desires for Athena, Cheng Mo would not be wary in his heart, and it was precisely when he realized that he had a little irresistible liking for Athena that Cheng Mo felt a little sorry for Xie Minyun.

Anyway, Xie Minyun is his wife, and Shen Youyi and Bai Xiuxiu are the people who appeared before he got married, and those are not sorry in his opinion. Besides, Shen Youyi and Bai Xiuxiu couldn't take the place of Min Yun in their hearts, but Athena made Cheng Mo feel dangerous.

He knew that it would definitely not be possible in a short period of time, but after a long time, anything could happen. This kind of thought makes Cheng Mo a little sad, he knows the power of time, and he also knows that human nature must be like this, otherwise Kawabata Yasunari would not be able to say the golden sentence that is regarded as a guideline by literary and artistic youth: no matter how complicated the requirements of human beings are, they will eventually return to the flesh.

Friendship is hard to beat, and no matter how warm the 30,000 voices are, they can't compare to the temperature of a hug.

Open "Zhihu", it will tell you countless experiences from the end of long-distance relationships, and the best reply to text messages when your girlfriend has a cold is neither "drink more water" nor "I love you", but "open the door".

The long distance is definitely not a problem that can be solved by a ticket, not to mention that he and Xie Minyun are not in a different place, but separated by yin and yang.

Even the wisest philosophers may not be able to answer the ultimate question of whether love can be freed from the shackles of the body, and Cheng Mo does not know the answer.

He only knew that no matter what, he would not give up resurrecting Xie Minyun. He stood in the hallway, the corner of the dark clouds above the skyline revealing a glimmer of sun, the orange color that made people's eyes feel hot.

This reminded him of Xie Minyun's gentle hug, and the appearance of a light smile on the corner of his mouth when he called him Mr. Cheng. It was she who convinced him that love might be more than just chemicals, or some kind of ineffable pious yearning, like humanity's fascination with the universe. He knew that Xie Minyun was a loyal and stubborn woman, and she would manage their marriage with her heart until the end of the world, but she divided her heart into several parts and betrayed her trust in him.

Although Xie Minyun is no longer there now, it is really not a big deal for him to like a woman again, and it can be said that it is justified, but Cheng Mo always feels sad when he recalls that the past with Xie Minyun was so beautiful.

Maybe it's a little bit of a sudden, so sudden that Cheng Mo hasn't been able to do a good job in psychological construction. Perhaps it is because Athena and Xie Minyun have a lot of similarities, which can reduce Xie Minyun's sense of existence that is called Cheng Mo's disgust and rejection.

All in all, Cheng Mo was a little scared in his heart, and he didn't want Xie Minyun to completely become a memory.

"Maybe it's also good not to wait here for her to appear, so that the goodwill between the two people doesn't continue to accumulate. Cheng Mo took off the hood of his raincoat and let the raindrops hit his face indiscriminately, "If I really wait for her and the two of them continue to get along day and night, even if there is no love, there will be other feelings that will precipitate into my heart over time, a feeling that only needs a small flame to ignite......."

Cheng Mo thought so, so he decided to follow Omero's advice and leave here tomorrow morning.

"Maybe I'm not the one in the twenty-fourth dimension who is destined to meet her. ”

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Cheng Mo held the searchlight in the corridor all night, and the wind and rain were much lighter in the early morning, but this was no longer important to him who was already numb, he sat in the chair a little exhausted, and felt that the whole person was as heavy as lead.

Captain Omero opened the door, "It's almost eight o'clock, there's really no need to hold on any longer, she won't come." ”

Cheng Mo didn't answer, turned off the searchlight in his hand, and put the heavy searchlight at his feet.

Captain Omero walked to the corridor and looked at Cheng Mo, who was sleepy and tired, shook his head and sighed, "You should also go back and rest, you haven't slept for more than forty hours, even if you are the chosen one, you can't hold on!

Cheng Mo also knew that he was extremely weak, but he was a little vaguely unwilling and didn't want to give up, in fact, according to Cheng Mo's character, he should continue to wait, but he now felt that giving up was not necessarily a bad thing. Not only because of Xie Minyun, but also because he no longer wanted to use Athena to kill Napoleon VII.

This kind of tangled mood is too complicated, so complicated that Cheng Mo can't figure it out, he said upset: "Still turn ......" hesitated for a moment, he sighed, "Forget it, let's go!"

Captain Omero turned back to the wheelhouse and shouted, "Turn around and head towards Latakia!"

"Roger!

The man in the driver responded loudly, and the huge "Mediterranean Overture" drew a long arc in the slanting wind and drizzle, heading north.

Cheng sat silently on the chair, looking up at the line between the sea and the sky, through the intermittent rain line, he could see the bright morning sun, and the light dark clouds were illuminated almost transparently.

Suddenly, a few misty wisps of mist rose in the middle of the morning sun, and then a faint brilliant rainbow was drawn in the light drizzle, and the waves below the rainbow were separated by a towering black back.

"Whales!" cried Captain Omero, "it's unbelievable that I saw a whale in the Mediterranean!"

"Whales?" Cheng Mo stood up from his seat, he stared at the end of the sea, and sure enough, there were waves churning under the thin rainbow that was about to disperse, and a huge tail flapped, and the water splashed on the surface of the sea.

"It went down! it just came up to breathe!" After a pause, Captain Omelo said puzzled, "how can there be whales in the Mediterranean?"

"Occasionally, there will be lost whales coming here!" Cheng Mo didn't find this particularly strange, he grabbed the railing and stared at the faint waterline and whispered.

"That's good luck. ”

"How?"

"For us seafarers, the whale symbolizes rebirth. ”

Cheng Mo estimated that the whale symbolizes rebirth because the Old Testament records that the prophet Jonah was swallowed by a whale in a shipwreck, stayed for three days and three nights, and finally escaped unharmed. Some scholars believe that the story of the prophet Jonah and the whale is a metaphor for the fall of Babylon and the salvation of the Jews. Therefore, whales also mean rebirth.

It's just that at the moment he is not interested in him Captain Omero talking about this, and he does not believe that whales can bring him any good luck.

He was feeling terrible now, not only exhausted, but also groggy. He raised his hand and touched his forehead, it seemed to be a little hot and scary, it was probably because he had been waiting in the cold wind and rain for dozens of hours, and he had made himself feverish.

There was no waiting for a miracle, waiting for a disease.

Cheng Mo felt that he had to hurry back to his room, he didn't want Captain Omero to know that he was sick. He was alone on the ship, and he wasn't sure what would happen when he was sick.

"I'm going back to sleep!" he turned and walked towards the door, so weak that he could barely obey the call, he grabbed the door frame and tried to enter the wheelhouse, but many of the crew heard the cry of the "whale" and squeezed out, so that he could not get in for a while.

"Where are the whales?"

"Where!?"

"Over there, over there, see it, it's getting closer!"

The noisy sound made Cheng Mo feel more and more dizzy, he raised his hand to hold the door frame, the smell of the black crew made him uncomfortable and wanted to suffocate, he lowered his head and held his breath, and closed his eyes in pain.

In a trance, he seemed to hear a dull and long whale chirping, the sound was so vast and ethereal, melodious and loud, like a song from the depths of the sea that was indisputable and elegant.

Cheng Mo shook his head vigorously, he felt that it was impossible for him to hear the sound of the whale, you must know that the voice of the whale was not within the receiving range of the human ear at all. He looked up, and by this time the crew had climbed onto the railing, shouting at the whales.

There was no one at the door, he reached out to grab the doorknob, hesitated, after all, he had never seen a whale, and the whale song that appeared in his mind just now was really shocking. As a lover of animals and plants, of course he wanted to see whales, but his groggy brain organized him.

Just when he was entangled in his heart, he subconsciously poured energy into his cochlea, so those low-frequency voices swarmed in, exactly the same as just now, and the shocking and palpitating singing filled his brain again.

"How can it be exactly the same?It feels like talking...... Cheng Mo was surprised, he resisted the sleepiness that was about to swallow him up like a swamp, turned around and returned to the railing, and forced his eyelids to look at the spotlight.

"Look, it's coming out!" someone shouted.

Just a few hundred meters away from the side of the ship, a huge water bubble was moving towards the ship at an alarming speed, but in a few tens of seconds, the water bag split into two huge waves, and a huge black ridge appeared in the center of the huge wave.

"Oh my God! I don't think he's going to bump in!"

"It's so fast!

"What to do!"

"Turning the rudder?"

"It's too late!"

Cheng Mo was also a little dazed, but he at least knew that it was impossible for the whale to knock over a 10,000-ton giant ship, but if it didn't stop or dodge in time, it would suffer a lot of injuries.

Cheng Mo felt a little sorry for it, but just when the sound of the whale hitting the sea became louder and louder, it jumped high out of the water, and at this moment, even people like Cheng Mo who did not believe in ghosts and gods and did not respect heaven and earth were full of awe of the sea, which was the awe of life, nature, and the universe.

It's as if a devout believer has seen the true God.

He saw the whale's huge head resembling a mountain in the drizzle of sunlight, and the rough skin of the reef, covered with pits, which were signs of barnacle growth, only strangely missing all of them.

No one paid any attention to this, and everyone exclaimed in horror at the whale's close proximity.

Cheng Mo was thinking about the strange part, when he saw the whale open its mouth dozens of square meters, and a figure flew out of it, the figure flashed golden light in the red clouds, this bright light was so bright that it was dazzling, the originally gloomy sea surface and those gray raindrops were dyed with brilliance, and even the sun in the distance became a foil.

For a moment, it is impossible to tell whether this is a dream or reality.

The crew in the corridor all knelt down and began to pray reverently.

Only Cheng Mo raised his hand to block the sun, squinting his eyes and staring blankly as the person who was so bright that he couldn't open his eyes fell on the deck.

He watched in disbelief as Athena brushed her long golden hair and beckoned to the gray whale, who stretched out its head and nodded to her in the water......

Cheng Mo felt that he was ill and that he must have been hallucinating due to a fever, so he closed his eyes and tried to control his rapid heartbeat to calm himself. He clenched his fists and looked at the deck again, where there was no one left, and he looked nervously at the sea, which was calm, as if everything was just a dream.

He turned his head and saw that the crew were still kneeling on the floor, the exhaustion and sickness were swept away, and his body instantly became lighter, he took off his raincoat that was in the way, turned and rushed into the wheelhouse, and ran wildly in the direction of the stairs, and suddenly the whole staircase was his hurried footsteps.

His rapid breathing made his throat burn as if it had been burned by fire, and his heart was almost overloaded, he hadn't felt that his body was about to reach its limit for a long time, but he just couldn't help but want to prove that he wasn't dreaming, that a miracle really happened, that he wanted to prove the conjecture of "monsters and moonlight".

Finally, he saw Athena at the corner of the stairs on the third floor, and both of them suddenly stopped and looked at each other across the stairs.

Athena changed into a black wetsuit, wore a pair of wide swimming goggles around her neck, and her hair was wet and dripping like a knotted aquatic weed. His complexion was pale, almost transparent, and his lips were light red, not at all as bright as before.

But all this did not detract from her beauty, to be honest, her slightly sickly appearance made Cheng Mo feel even more uncontrollable. Obviously he should have said something happy, but he was stuck in his throat and couldn't say anything, as if he had experienced a long cycle of life and death.

I don't know how long it has been, maybe it's just a moment, but Cheng Mo feels that it has been a long time.

Athena lowered her eyes and said calmly: "It's not easy to find a whale in the Mediterranean, so it's too late." ”

Cheng Mo tried his best to calm down his excitement, smiled and said, "I didn't expect that I could still see a scene in the Bible story, someone can really hide in the belly of a whale." ”

"I'm just in its mouth, I was able to do that when I was a kid, I controlled the behavior of some animals through brain waves, as long as I had a connection with the whale, then I was just a calf in its mouth, except when it was eating, it wouldn't swallow me. ”

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Cheng Mo really felt that science fiction stories would not dare to make up such stories, and Athena's natural skills were too strong, so he immediately woke up and asked, "You also perceived my thoughts like this?"

Athena nodded.

Cheng Mo was silent for a moment before rolling his dry throat and saying, "Thank you." ”

He didn't know if he was thanking Athena for going out of his way to get here, or if he was thanking Athena for helping him in the engine room, or if he was thanking her for forgiving him for his shameful behavior of trying to take advantage of her.

Athena didn't care what Cheng Mo was thanking at all, she shook her head lightly and said, "It's nothing, I just feel a little cold." ”

Cheng Mo knew that he should give Athena a hug at this time, and then tell her that I am willing to warm you, and he can judge what kind of state the relationship between them is in through Athena's reaction. But he remembered the psychological entanglement he struggled with yesterday, and felt that he couldn't do this, let alone deserve it.

So he threw the thought away with lightning speed, and before Athena could get a glimpse of his thoughts, he turned and walked up, "Then let's go back to the room." ”

Athena followed Cheng Mo back to the room, and Athena sat straight on the sofa chair, with Cheng Mo's draft still on the table.

Cheng Mo walked over and put away the draft, put it in a drawer, and asked in a low voice, "Are you hungry?"

"Hungry. ”

"You take a hot shower first, change your clothes, and I'll give you something to eat." Cheng Mo walked to the refrigerator, opened the refrigerator, exhaustion and sleepiness began to erode his consciousness again, he stiffened his tired body, took out the bottle of Lao Gan Ma from the refrigerator, smiled reluctantly and said, "Give you Lao Gan Ma beef noodles." ”

Athena nodded, and then walked into the bathroom, where the sound of gurgling water could soon be heard. Cheng Mo's mind immediately reappeared the picture of that day in the engine room mezzanine.

The supreme scenery of climbing to the dangerous peak is wonderful.

Cheng Mo warned himself that he couldn't sink, and immediately staggered out of the room and went straight to the kitchen. At this time, he was already at the end of his crossbow, and he felt that he was about to go into shock, but he still tried his best to give Athena braised beef noodles and fried an egg.

When the noodles were served, Athena had already changed her clothes and was wiping her hair with a towel, and she was sitting on the edge of the bed, just a simple gesture could make Cheng Mo's mouth dry.

Cheng Mo put the noodles on the table, "Eat the noodles first, they won't taste good if they're cold." ”

Athena obediently immediately put down the towel, sat down on the sofa chair, picked up the fork on the tray, and began to eat the noodles a little awkwardly.

Cheng Mo showed a fatherly smile, and then began to pack some of his things in the room, and when Athena had almost eaten, Cheng Mo spoke: "I think it's better for the two of us not to live in the same room." Athena paused for a moment with the fork in her hand and asked without raising her head, "Why?"

Cheng Mo smiled bitterly in his heart, and picked a statement that Athena would definitely be the most disgusted, "I don't dare, and I don't want you to see my thoughts." ”

Athena put down her fork and said coldly, "I won't casually spy on what other people are thinking. ”

Cheng Mo picked up his clothes and said in a low voice: "To be honest, it's not convenient for us to live in a room alone. ”

Athena didn't say anything, got up from the sofa chair, picked up her laptop and went straight to bed, no longer paying attention to it.

Cheng Mo's heart was gloomy, and there was a faint pain, but he felt that he had to distance himself from Athena, he walked to the door with his clothes, and when he opened the door, a cold wind hit, blowing him shivering, at this time, because Athena came back, and the adrenaline that hit the chicken blood has completely receded, Cheng Mo shook his body, grabbed the doorknob to stand firm, his teeth trembled, forced out of the room, and pulled the door stiffly, but he couldn't hold on anymore and fainted at the door of the room......