I took a deep breath and felt the biting sea breeze from the Arctic Circle entering my mouth.
This feeling refreshed me, and a sense of joy could not help but surge into my heart.
Because before this, I never expected that one day I would be able to leave the land where I have lived for a long time and step into the overseas world. Moreover, my step was a bit big, and I actually stepped into the desolate and bone-chilling ice in one step.
Arctic!
It was my first time to go abroad and my first time to go to sea. I was very excited. Therefore, although it has been almost half a month since I arrived at sea, I still enjoyed the activity of overlooking the distance from the bow of the ship.
Standing on the bow of the ship and watching some ice floes gradually appear around me, I knew that we were getting closer and closer to the Arctic Ocean, the destination of our trip.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but recall the conversation I had with Wang Jun half a month ago.
That was about what happened shortly after the meeting in Wang Jun's office was over, and it was learned that Dad might have found the "Book of Interpretations."
One day, Wang Jun called me into the office and handed me a satellite photo.
"Sijiu, I asked you to come here this time because I want you to see something. This thing is in this photo. You take a look first, and then tell me what you think."
Want me to see something?
After I heard what Wang Jun said, my first thought was, could it be that Wang Jun and the others have the latest clue about my father?
In fact, after that meeting, Wang Jun quickly handed over the incident and his preliminary judgment to the top leadership, and the conclusion that followed allowed Bureau 749 to restart the search that had been interrupted in the past.
Lin Aiguo's actions.
In order to find the whereabouts of Dad, the bureau specially formed a special task force, headed by Wang Jun, Director of the Investigation Division. In addition, other departments in the bureau were transferred, together with four elite members from the Investigation Division as team members. They
The first task is to re-investigate all the cases handled by Bureau 749 since Lin Aiguo disappeared.
The senior officials in the bureau suspected that since Lin Aiguo had been to Tibet and left traces in the "Tang Tsai" case, he might also have appeared in other similar cases. The task of this special task force is
The files of almost all the cases handled in the past were reorganized and investigated, trying to find cases that might interest Lin Aiguo, and see where else Lin Aiguo might have gone besides "Tibet"?
But when I saw the photo in my hand, I immediately rejected the idea. Because the satellite photo Wang Jun gave me turned out to be a satellite photo of a place outside China, and it was taken over an ocean.
, obviously, this photo does not seem to have anything to do with Dad. In that case, what exactly does Wang Jun want me to see?
I first looked at the entire photo carefully. The photo showed a blue ocean. Some huge ice floes could be vaguely recognized on the ocean. In the lower right corner of the photo, there was a row of numbers that seemed to be longitude and latitude.
.Other than that, I can’t see anything strange anymore.
But when I checked the photo for the second time, I suddenly found a strange figure somewhere in the photo...
It was something that looked a bit like a whale, with a white body and a spindle-shaped body. But strangely, on the head of this "whale", I actually saw two limbs like arms.
!
I took a closer look at this strange "whale" and made sure that I was not dazzled by it. After mistaking the ice floe for an animal, I pointed at the thing I didn't know what it was, raised my head and asked: "
Director Wang, this thing..."
Wang Jun took a look and nodded: "Sijiu, your eyes are really powerful. You can spot what I want you to see at a glance. That's right, I came to you this time because of the monster in the photo."
I said "Ah" and quickly asked Wang Jun what kind of monster this was? Why did it look so weird?
Wang Jun said with a smile: "Is it just weird in appearance? Sijiu, you don't know. Although the monster in the photo doesn't look big, if calculated according to actual proportions, it is a behemoth that is at least thirty meters long."
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"How big is it?" My curiosity became more intense, and I handed the photo back to Wang Jun, and then asked him: "Director Wang, please tell me how the monster in this photo was captured.
?And is it really a monster? It can’t be a mutated whale, right?”
"Can whales grow hands?" Wang Jun asked me, "Besides, if it is really just a mutated whale, then why did Lin Patriotic Association ask us to investigate it?"
"Wait...!" I was a little confused and asked quickly, "Director Wang, you just said that dad asked us to investigate this monster? What do you mean?!"
"Do you still remember the message you found from Lao Lin?" Wang Jun took out another thing. I took a look and found that it was the one I accidentally found last time. It was hidden behind Dad's photo and had Dad's message written on it.
piece of photo paper.
"Look carefully at what is written on the last line."
The last time I saw this message, I hadn't finished reading it because Wang Jun snatched it away halfway. Now after hearing what he said, I jumped directly to the end of Dad's message and found that it said this
: If you don’t want to believe what I say, then please use a military satellite to take a picture of this coordinate at noon on the fifth day of the first month of each month. As long as you see that thing, you should believe that I have indeed found the correspondence.
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At the end of this line, there was a latitude and longitude coordinate similar to what my father had written on the back of the photo. I took a look and realized that this was not the number written in the corner of the photo just now.
Could it be that...
"Director Wang, does what Dad mean by this is to ask us to take pictures of these coordinates?"
Wang Jun nodded, and then explained that when he reported Lin Aiguo's message to his superiors, the superiors did have doubts about what he said, because the evidence that could prove that Lin Aiguo had indeed obtained the "Book of Communications" was just
It was just a photo and a message he left in Tibet. In the view of some leaders, there may be coincidental factors in this and it does not really prove everything he said.
Therefore, after seeing that Lin Aiguo left a special coordinate that proved that he had indeed found the "Book of Communications", the superiors did not spend much time and agreed to send out a military satellite to take a photo within the designated time.
The coordinates mentioned by Lin Aiguo.
And the picture captured by that satellite is the photo I have in my hand.
Before I saw the photo, Wang Jun had already asked some marine biologists to study the photo. However, all experts who have seen this photo can confirm that the things in the photo are definitely not mutated.
Whales are probably a new creature that humans have never seen before!
But in addition, an expert with a very developed mind has come up with an astonishing idea, that is, this mysterious creature is probably an artificial creature with unnatural power!
Because according to the appearance captured in the photo, this mysterious creature can hardly be classified into any known biological classification category, and from an evolutionary perspective, a creature of this shape is completely unreasonable. Underwater
It is almost impossible for mammals that have evolved over a long period of time to retain such forelimbs that don’t even have webs!
All this can only show that this white monster is probably created by an unnatural force.
However, no matter who is right or wrong in the judgment of these experts, in short, if you look at the photos alone, the creatures in the photos do fall within the scope of investigation by Bureau 749.
At the same time, this photo also proved to everyone what Lin Aiguo said, that he indeed possessed the "Book of Communications". Otherwise, how could he know about a mysterious incident that happened thousands of miles away in the Arctic Ocean?
?Because even if the entire 749th Bureau is used, it is impossible so far to fully understand all the mysterious phenomena that occur outside the national borders, let alone the mysterious events that occur in the Arctic Ocean. And Lin Aiguo, in September
Years ago, he actually knew that this mysterious creature would appear in the Arctic Ocean. Not only did he point out the location of the creature's appearance, but the time of its appearance was also extremely accurate. This could only be done by relying on the Sutra.
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Thinking of this, I almost understood the purpose of Wang Jun's visit to me this time. He would definitely not just want me to see a photo of this monster, but he should want to send me to investigate this time.
events.
I just stated my thoughts, and Wang Jun admitted it directly.
"That's right, I came to you because I want to send you to investigate this monster. Although this incident happened overseas, since our 749 Bureau knows about it, there is no reason to ignore it. And this matter is still
Let a chief in charge of the army know about it. He thinks that if this monster is real, then we may be able to use it for military purposes, such as intercepting submarines... Although it sounds a bit ridiculous, no matter what
Well, the military side agreed to provide us with support because of the leader’s idea.”
While talking, Wang Jun took out another photo and put it in front of me. It was a photo of a giant ship with a red tone. On the red side of the ship, two big characters could be clearly seen, "Snow Dragon."
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"This is the scientific research ship Xue Long you are going to take. It just returned from Antarctica in March this year. It was originally planned to enter the dock for modification, but because of the monster in the Arctic Ocean, the Navy decided to delay the modification work of Xue Long.
, let it secretly go to the Arctic Ocean before it is refitted."
Having said this, Wang Jun paused, and then said seriously to me: "Lin Sijiu, your mission is to take the Snow Dragon and uncover the truth about that monster!"