Ten minutes later, a crew member knocked on the captain's cabin door and brought the news that the submarine submersible machine had been salvaged.
However, at this time, none of us had the intention to care about the condition of the submersible machine, even Dr. Mo Xi.
After Wang Jingzhong hurriedly drove away the crew members who came to report the news, he also joined us. The four of us looked at the pile of photos on the table in silence.
This pile of photos was printed by Mo Xi just now, and the content on the photos is the huge handprint engraved on the steel plate of the Xuelong's bottom taken from different angles by the underwater diving machine.
After a period of silence, Wang Jingzhong took the lead and asked us: "Commissioner Gao, I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation?"
Gao Liang wondered: "What explanation?"
Wang Jingzhong pointed to the fingerprint on one of the photos and asked: "What the hell is this fingerprint caused by? I have been in the Navy for more than 20 years, and I have never seen anything that can cause such a fingerprint on the hull of a ship."
Traces! I want to know, does this have anything to do with our mission?"
"What? Do you doubt that we know?" Gao Liang raised his head and glanced at him.
"That's right. I should have thought of it a long time ago. I originally thought that this mission was just to detect the hydrological conditions of the Arctic Ocean and test the two pieces of equipment you brought. But now think about it, if we want to detect
Given the hydrological conditions, can it be enough for the scientific research vessel to arrive in an open and honest manner? Why should all the people on the ship be replaced by the navy? And if you want to test the submarine submersible machine, you can also test it directly in the coastal area. There is no need to go all the way.
Run to the North Pole!"
"So, now I have doubts..." Wang Jingzhong stared at us and said, "Is it because the superiors sent us here just to create this handprint?"
Gao Liang looked at him in amazement, as if he didn't expect that Wang Jingzhong's reasoning and observation abilities were so strong, but I was a little relieved, because in this operation, someone in the navy knew our true purpose, so
When selecting personnel for the Navy, those chiefs will definitely give priority to capable people in the military, and Wang Jingzhong can be selected by those informed chiefs. As the captain of the Snow Dragon this time, he must be outstanding.
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After a while, Gao Liang seemed to have figured this out, and he immediately said: "Comrade Wang Jingzhong, if I told you that we came here for a supernatural creature, would you believe it?"
Wang Jingzhong thought for a while, nodded and said: "I believe it! I have been at sea for so many years, and I have seen all kinds of strange things in the sea, but I have never seen anything like this. Supernatural creatures, this is indeed possible. Only
But..." At this point, he frowned and said, "According to the crew's report, what hit us just now was obviously an ice floe, not some kind of creature?"
"not necessarily."
At this time, Mo Xi, who had been silent until now, suddenly took out her laptop, opened the flip cover, and then quickly started typing on the keyboard, as if she was looking up something.
At the same time, she continued: "Before the collision, the Xuelong's fish finder should have found traces of a group of whales moving nearby. Judging from the size of the whale group, it should be a group of beluga whales."
"That's right, but the whales are still some distance away from the Snow Dragon, so it's impossible for them to collide with us? And there aren't any whales in this world that have any skills, right?"
"It is true that the white whale does not have hands, but the monster we are tracking does..."
Mo Xi suddenly stopped and turned the laptop screen towards us, which was displaying a picture that I couldn't understand.
"This is..." Wang Jingzhong glanced at it and said in surprise: "Isn't this the data record of the fish finder? How did you get it?"
"Of course it was exported directly from your equipment." Mo Xi said calmly, "This data chart is the detection chart of the fish finder ten minutes before the collision."
Mo Xi pointed to a group of red light spots above and said to us: "These light spots are the beluga whales near the Snow Dragon. They were almost two nautical miles away from us at the time."
Wang Jingzhong nodded and said, "Yes, but why do you want us to watch?"
Mo Xi did not explain, but clicked the mouse a few times and showed us the detection pictures eight minutes before the incident, five minutes before the incident, one minute before the incident, and five minutes after the incident.
After showing us five detection pictures in a row, she said: "These are the evidence that we have hit a monster."
That's all?
Gao Liang and I were a little confused. We couldn't figure out what Mo Xi just said. However, Wang Jingzhong seemed to have discovered something. He took the mouse from Mo Xi's hand and looked at the four items again.
He took a detection picture and then said to us: "That's right! We really did collide with something!"
"But we didn't see anything up here except whales?" Gao Liang asked rhetorically.
"Just because we can't see it, it proves that there is something here!" Wang Jingzhong pointed to one of the detection pictures and explained to us: "Look, these red dots are the reaction of the whale group ten minutes before the incident, and then
It's eight minutes, five minutes...Have you noticed that until one minute before the incident, the fish response of the whale group has been shrinking. But five minutes after the incident, the fish response of the whale group has returned to
Back to its original size!”
Perhaps because he was afraid that we would not be able to understand clearly, Wang Jingzhong controlled the computer and kept switching back and forth among the five detection pictures, just like a slideshow, allowing us to clearly see the changes in the whale group.
Looking at it this way, it is indeed the same as what Wang Jingzhong said. The reaction of the whale group on the fish finder really showed a process of gradually getting smaller and then returning to its original state. But how can this change prove that we have indeed collided with each other?
Where is the monster?
Wang Jingzhong said: "It is impossible for the size of the whale group to change in such a short period of time. The only possibility is that something blocks the whale group. The fish finder uses the reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave to confirm the fish group.
The position and size of the whales. If there is something that can absorb ultrasonic waves and block the ultrasonic waves directed at the whales, the phenomenon we just saw will occur."
"You mean... it was that monster that blocked the group of whales?" Gao Liang asked in surprise.
Wang Jingzhong nodded and said: "This is the only explanation, but there is one thing I don't understand. Are there really monsters in this world that can absorb ultrasonic waves?"
"It's not surprising for a monster with human arms to have the ability to absorb ultrasonic waves, right?" My words directly caused Wang Jingzhong and Gao Liang to fall into silence.
Yes, if there really is a creature in this world that lives in the ocean, is as big as a whale, and has a pair of human arms, then it doesn't look like it has some other special abilities.