When Xia Tianhuo was talking about the experience of being kidnapped and getting out, Yang Zhen'er was naturally most interested.

While listening, she took out her mobile phone in the car, used the "memo" to start recording some key words, and asked questions from time to time based on her earlier thoughts.

In addition to Yang Laosan, Tang Baona and Li Yang also listened attentively.

After all, it is a case of Chinese people being kidnapped abroad, which is rare, and the whole process is quite dramatic, with many twists, and it is Xia Tianhuo, an eyewitness and a person concerned, who is telling it, but it is not something that can be heard anywhere, that is, Li Yang, an associate professor and intellectual of a university, also turned on the gossip mode, and turned his body in the passenger seat to listen.

“...... At that time, I suddenly felt as if the boat was fixed, not parked, and the feeling was different from that after docking, I ...... I don't feel the boat moving, I don't feel the ups and downs on the water. Then I heard strange gnawing sounds, crunching scalp grinding sounds, shouting of people, and ...... Gunshot. ”

Xia Tianhuo truthfully recounted his previous experiences on the ship, except for some psychological feelings he had at that time, and some past memories that he generated, other objective sensory feelings were said.

As soon as Yang Zhen'er heard this, she immediately became excited, and hurriedly asked, "You said you heard the gnawing sound? What is it like? Is it 'Click, Click, Click', or 'Ratch, Ratch, Rat

Xia Tianhuo was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "It should be 'crunch crunch'...... No, 'click-click'...... It doesn't seem right, it's like a bunch of bugs gnawing on cookies at the same time. ”

Tang Baona, who was sitting on the other side, couldn't help but put her head against the back of the seat in front of her and laughed, laughing so much that her whole body was shaking: "Ouch, I can't do it, you brothers and sisters are too funny, obviously a very dangerous and tense kidnapping case was turned into cross talk by you, 'There are good ventriloquists in Beijing, click'......"

Yang Zhen'er frowned, and reached out to pinch Tang Baona's waist through the little apple: "Nana, be serious, I'm asking serious questions, this is very important." ”

As she spoke, she turned around and said to Xia Tianhuo in front of her, "Why do you feel that the boat has stopped?

"It's not a game...... What drives to the reef is called hitting the reef...... We didn't hit the rocks, and we probably didn't hit anything, it was just that something went wrong during that time. Xia Tianhuo recalled: "I asked the last surviving kidnapper, and he said that there was a 'sea monster' on the ship, with many hands and eyes...... But it should have been just an illusion, because there was not a trace left on the ship. ”

"A lot of hands, a lot of eyes?" Yang Zhen'er was shocked when she heard this, and everyone almost jumped up, quickly wrote down these six words on the memo on her mobile phone, and then continued to ask: "The sea monster he saw won't be the same as the one that appeared on the night of March 8, right?"

"I didn't ask him when I was on the boat, and he fainted, but I later heard from the embassy that the 'sea monster' he described with the police was indeed very similar to the eight-armed and eight-eyed giant vision that appeared in Montamira. And...... After the 'sea monster' appeared, he felt the same as those of Montamira who had seen the illusion of an eight-armed and eight-eyed giant. So we all speculated that the 'sea monster' that the kidnappers and the rest of the crew saw on the ship and the 'eight-armed and eight-eyed giant' of Montamira may be essentially the same thing. Xia Tianhuo said.

Yang Zhen'er looked at Lao Xia, who was sitting in front of Tang Baona and had been swiping her mobile phone: "Lao Xia, Lao Xia, what do you think?"

She didn't ask Xiang Kun, not only because Xiang Kun might not be able to take care of her while driving, but also because according to the repeated temptations and confrontations before, she could guess with her navel that if she asked Xiang Kun, he would definitely answer: "Oh, didn't I tell you, the matter of our secret organization must be kept secret!"

Xia Libing put down his phone and turned his head to look at Xia Tianhuo: "You were locked in the cabin at that time, were you restricted in your freedom?"

Xia Tianhuo nodded: "Yes, they tied me to a chair." ”

"Can the eye see? Is there light in the cabin?"

"I can't see it, I'm blindfolded. ”

"How long has it been since you were kidnapped, how are you doing, have you eaten?"

After Xia Tianhuo answered them one by one, Lao Xia said: "So you have been kidnapped for more than 30 hours, after a bumpy transportation, transferred from Montamira to the ship, thirsty and hungry, and realized that the kidnappers are very cruel, there is a great possibility of tearing up tickets, you are uneasy, tied to a chair, blindfolded, at this time, and you hear a riot outside, and gunshots, then you will hear some other strange sounds, have strange feelings, it is normal." ”

Before Xia Tianhuo could refute, Yang Zhen'er couldn't sit still at first, and immediately said: "He heard the sound of clacking and gnawing first, and then heard the gunshots and shouts!"

Xia Libing looked at his cousin: "Are you sure you heard the gnawing sound first?"

"This ......" Xia Tianhuo hesitated a little.

Yang Zhen'er immediately said: "Even if the 'big guy' is locked up in the cabin, didn't that kidnapper say that he saw a sea monster? A sea monster with many hands and many eyes! This is not a coincidence!"

Xia Libing turned to Tang Baona, who was sitting behind her, and asked, "When it comes to sea monsters, what is the first animal that comes out of your heart?"

Tang Baona was stunned for a second before she subconsciously said, "Octopus, squid, octopus?"

Xia Libing looked at Yang Zhen'er: "What are the characteristics of squid?"

"Uh...... Although the squid has many tentacles, it ...... But it doesn't have a lot of eyes, huh?" argued Yang Zhen'er.

"Really, how many eyes does a squid have?"

"Yes...... Two ...... Right?" Facing Lao Xia's rhetorical question, Yang Zhen'er said with some uncertainty.

"Are you sure the squid only has two eyes?"

"Ah...... Squid...... Do you have a lot of eyes, too?" Yang Zhen'er couldn't help but take her phone to check the picture of the squid.

Li Yang, who was sitting in the co-pilot and had been listening, said with a smile: "Squid has two eyes. ”

Xia Libing then said: "The squid only has two eyes, but if it gets up from the water, what will the people on the boat see first? The suckers on those tentacles don't look like eyes? He only said a lot of hands and a lot of eyes, but he didn't say that it was eight hands and eight eyes. ”

"But when the kidnapper described it to the police later, it was similar to Montamira's eight-armed and eight-eyed giant vision!" Yang Zhen'er added.

Xia Libing asked Xia Tianhuo: "Did the kidnapper take the initiative to tell the details of the illusion of the 'Eight-armed and Eight-Eyed Giant', or did the police tell him the appearance of the illusion of the 'Eight-armed and Eight-Eyed Giant', and even asked him about the imaginary picture after showing him?"

"Uh...... I don't know much about this. Xia Tianhuo said.

"So, what Lao Xia meant was that the surviving kidnapper deliberately imagined a 'sea monster' to explain what happened on the boat at that time, and later the Burmese police mentioned the 'eight-armed and eight-eyed giant' illusion of Montamira, so he pushed the boat along the river to combine the 'sea monster' he saw with the giant illusion?" Tang Baona said thoughtfully.

Yang Zhen'er still didn't want to believe this inference: "But why? What is his motive for doing this?"

"What happened on the ship at that time, why they killed each other, only the kidnapper knows, if the real situation is not in his favor, and he cannot make a completely reasonable and rigorous statement, then it may be easier to introduce an unverifiable 'sea monster illusion' to explain the phenomenon. Xia Libing said.

Tang Baona suddenly said: "It's reality that is more terrifying than 'illusion', so use 'illusion' to explain reality! Zhen'er, just like "Youth Pi", 'sea monster' is the tiger!"

Yang Zhen'er looked at Nana, Xia Tianhuo, and Lao Xia, and hesitated: "I still think something is wrong, Lao Xia, why are you so sure that there is no 'sea monster'......"

Xia Libing said: "I didn't say that there is no 'sea monster', I just proposed another possibility, which possibility is real, you can judge for yourself." ”

"What about Montamira's 'eight-armed and eight-eyed giant' vision? That's what many people have seen, and those who can't see it are all making it up and lying!" Yang Zhen'er hurriedly said again.

"I don't know. Xia Libing said, "The speculation I just put forward is only for what happened on that ship. ”

Xia Tianhuo seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurriedly said: "By the way, before I returned to China, I heard from the people in Burma that the one who instructed those domestic fugitives to kidnap them this time was a Burmese named Wu Lun from Montamira, a guy who was in the business of rubbing edges. On the night of March 8th, he was originally confronting some people from other forces, and after the illusion of the eight-armed and eight-eyed giant appeared, several of his subordinates who remained on the periphery suddenly said that they wanted to leave the organization, and then there was a conflict, and Wu Lun was killed by his men. So I have a feeling...... That 'Eight-Armed and Eight-Eyed Giant Vision' appeared in Montamira, will it ...... You're going to avenge me?"

When he said the last sentence, his tone was a little uncertain, but his eyes were glancing at Lao Xia, who picked up his mobile phone again and was swiping some pictures of large experimental equipment.

Yang Zhen'er, who had been a little confused by Lao Xia, was reinvigorated and said: "Could it be that the 'eight-armed and eight-eyed giant' and 'sea monster' are the guardian spirits of the 'big guy' or something?

Tang Baona smiled: "What you just said is still like that, why is it directly a fantasy story now?

As she spoke, she found that the "little apple" sitting between her and Yang Zhen'er had her hands twisted together, her toes rhythmically little by little, biting her lower lip, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, as if she was holding back a smile, and couldn't help laughing: "Yang Laosan, look at the fantasy story you told, I can't even listen to 'Little Apple'." ”

When "Little Apple" heard this, he hurriedly said: "No, no! Actually, I quite agree with the third sister...... Uh, Sister Zhen'er said. I heard on the news that the Chinese people who were traveling in Montamira said that the appearance of the 'giant' at that time saved them and stopped the riots. So whether that 'giant' is an illusion or something else, it must be 'good', maybe it's really like what Sister Zhen'er said, it's the 'guardian spirit' of our people!"

She naturally knew the truth about Montamira's "eight-armed and eight-eyed giant" vision, and Xiang Kun had already secretly told her.

Knowing that Xiang Kun used her "familiar" "eight-armed and eight-eyed" "eight-armed and eight-eyed" to stop the riot and save many Chinese people in Montamira, she is also "honored", so for a period of time before, she especially liked to find videos posted by Chinese tourists who had experienced the group illusion of Montamira on the Internet, listening to them thank the "eight-armed and eight-eyed giant" for appearing, listening to their description of the grandeur and enormity of the "eight-armed and eight-eyed giant", and listening to their various conjectures.

Although Xiang Kun didn't tell her about saving Xia Tianhuo, as soon as she heard Xia Tianhuo's description, she knew that it must be Xiang Kun who saved him at sea, "eight arms and eight eyes".

So when Yang Zhen'er and the others talked about that topic just now, she actually listened to it very haughtily, and even wanted to join in the conversation several times, but she was afraid that she would leak her mouth and leak secrets when she talked about it, so she had to endure it all the time.

"Alas, it's still 'Little Apple' that you are good to your sister, Nana has already solidified her mind, and there is no way to understand this supernatural phenomenon. Yang Zhen'er stretched out her hand and sighed as she grabbed the shoulder of the "little apple".

Tang Baona couldn't cry or laugh: "'Little Apple' comforted you with two words, are you really floating?

The three girls in the third row of them were talking and laughing, and Li Yang, the co-pilot, said: "Speaking of the giant illusion of Montamira, I have also talked to some colleagues in our school before, no matter which discipline or research direction, they are very interested in that matter, this is definitely not a scam, there must be some special reason for the group hallucination." This matter is not only concerned by ordinary netizens, but also caused a lot of shock in the academic and scientific research circles. ”

As he spoke, he described himself and some of his colleagues' interpretations of the Mentamyra group hallucination incident to the people in the car in a more straightforward and colloquial way according to their different professional perspectives.

On the previous topic, I chatted with Yang Zhener and Xia Tianhuo about some legends related to "sea monsters" in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.

After chatting and chatting all the way, they soon returned to Copperstone.

Xiang Kun did not directly take everyone to the place where Chongyun Village lived, but first went to the "Youlong Hotel" in Tongshi Town for dinner.

Today's "Youlong Hotel" is not only in that pedestrian street, but also in the entire Tongshi Town is a well-known hotel, and even on the Internet is already a very famous Internet celebrity restaurant, there are many tourists who travel to Wushu Mountain, will go to Tongshi Town to eat the rabbit meat of the "Youlong Hotel", which is an important "food check-in point".

Today, in addition to the "Youlong Hotel", there are also eight "rabbit restaurants" of different sizes on this pedestrian street, and several others are being renovated and ready to open.

The publicity of "copper stone rabbit meat" has begun to spread outward with the cooperation of local and many businesses.

Therefore, the "Youlong Hotel" must queue up at the meal under normal circumstances, but Xiang Kun, as half of the hosts, left a private room in advance, and sat directly after arriving.

Zicheng and his girlfriend Chu Xiaoting were already waiting in the box, and when they saw the birdcage that Yang Zhen'er carried in her hand who walked in, Chu Xiaoting got up in surprise and leaned over: "Wow! What kind of bird is this, is this a parrot? It's so beautiful!"

"It's not a parrot, it's a canary!Miss Chu, you creature is not up to par!" Yang Zhen'er said, placing the birdcage on the table in the corner.

Chu Xiaoting was even more surprised, and bent down to look at the "golden flash" in the birdcage: "Such a fat canary? I thought the canaries were all small......"

Zicheng also said strangely: "This is the 'Golden Flash' that Xiang Kun raised before? Why is it so fat? What a big one!"

Xiang Kun smiled: "It's all the credit of the 'little apple', it wasn't so fat when I followed me." ”

Chu Xiaoting leaned next to the birdcage and teased for a while, and suddenly smiled: "Why do I think it looks a little disgusted with me......?"

Zicheng hurriedly pulled his girlfriend away: "The canary is very timid, don't scare it, this can't be a stress reaction, right?"

Yang Zhen'er said with a smile: "Don't worry, 'Golden Shining' is also a bird who has taken a plane now, and he has seen the world, and he is very bold." Right, 'Little Apple'?"

"Little Apple" took out a bag of bird food from his small backpack, walked over to add food to "Golden Flash", and said with a smile: "'Golden Flash' is not very good-tempered, so he won't be scared, but he is very careful, if you upset it, be careful that it turns around and plays tricks on you." ”

"Golden Flash" ate the bird food a few times, looked up and tweeted twice, as if expressing dissatisfaction.

Chu Xiaoting exclaimed: "This bird seems to be human, it feels as if it can understand what you say, hey, is the canary so smart?" said to Zicheng: "I also want to raise one." ”

"You take care of me first. Zicheng smiled, and then was pinched on the waist.

Xia Tianhuo saw that "Little Apple" could do the whole process from taking the bird's food to getting up to feed the birds, and her heart became more and more amazed, can this really be done by hearing alone? How can she judge the position of the birdcage and the position of the trough so accurately, and she doesn't even need to stretch out her hand to test it?

He sat by the window of the box, noticed the customers sitting on the chairs outside the store and waiting in line for the table, and sighed: "Your store is too strong, there are so many people queuing up......

Li Yang said with a smile: "Mr. Xia, you go to Station B and pay attention to the video number of their 'Youlong Play Rabbit', you will know how popular they are, not to mention the locals, there are probably a lot of diners who come from all over the world every day." ”

When Xia Tianhuo heard this, he originally thought that they were doing a good job in marketing, but after serving the dishes and eating a few dishes of the classic signature rabbit meat here, he changed his cognition and realized that this restaurant became popular "by strength".

"How is it, is it delicious?" Yang Zhen'er asked her cousin with a smile.

Xia Tianhuo nodded: "It's really delicious, does it have something to do with the ingredients of rabbit meat here?" I have also eaten rabbit meat before, and I feel that the taste is not as tender as here, Lao Xia and Xiang Kun's breeding research base in Chongyun Village Lane will not be specialized in breeding this kind of meat rabbit, right?"

"What you have eaten here is already a castrated version, you have to eat the rabbit meat made by Chef Xiang, and you will know what 'delicious' is!" Yang Zhen'er said proudly, as if this rabbit meat was made by her.

"Castrated version?" Xia Tianhuo glanced at the piece of rabbit meat he clipped, frowned, and said, "Haven't you heard that meat rabbits have to be castrated? Isn't castration more troublesome?"

Yang Zhen'er was stunned for a moment and glared at him: "It's not an incomplete version! Semi-finished version! It's not a rabbit that has been castrated! Your understanding ......."

Xia Tianhuo didn't care about arguing with his cousin about the definition of "castration", and said in surprise: "Did Chef Xiang say Xiang Kun, can Xiang Kun make a lot more delicious than this?"

The rabbit meat in this "You Long Hotel" tonight can be said to be the best rabbit meat he has ever tasted, and this seasoning is a special taste that he has not tasted before, and he is very amazed, but listening to Yang Zhen'er's words, it seems that the rabbit dishes in this store are developed by Xiang Kun, and Xiang Kun himself makes them more delicious than those made by the restaurant? Doesn't that mean that he is a professional-level chef? What a chef? Isn't he a very powerful programmer?

"Of course! Tomorrow you have tasted the dishes made by Chef Xiang, and you will know what it means to be 'really delicious'!" Yang Zhen'er said with certainty.

Xiang Kun smiled: "Yang Laosan, stop bragging, don't think that everyone is as greedy as you!"

But although Xiang Kun said so, Xia Tianhuo found that in this box, in addition to Xiang Kun, other people including Lao Xia, Tang Baona, Li Yang, and even "Little Apple" had an expression of approval for what Yang Zhen'er said.

After eating, Xiang Kun and the others said hello to You Meng, and after saying goodbye to Zicheng, they drove the MPV to Chongyun Village.

The road leading to Chongyun Village has been repaired, and the roads in the village have been rebuilt and planned to a certain extent, and a lot of street lights have been added, and surveillance cameras have been added at many intersections - these are the recent donations from Xiang Kun to Chongyun Village in the name of "Qiankun Technology", and for the safety of the village, access to the "Xueliang Project".

So even if it was more than 10 o'clock in the middle of the night when I arrived at the village, the road still looked bright, and looking at the surveillance cameras on the intersection, even those who came to the village for the first time could feel a lot more secure.

Xiang Kun deliberately drove past the construction site of the research base, and now the lights are still bright, and there are several workers working, and a short, swarthy young man who was smoking at the gate of the construction site immediately turned out his cigarette as soon as he saw their car, ran over, and waited on the side of the road.

"Mr. Xiang, are you picking up someone back?" asked the young man as he leaned over the window of the car after the MPV stopped.