Mo Xi led us directly into her dormitory. She hadn't been in her dormitory for more than a month. It was already as messy as a garbage dump. If we smelled carefully, we could still smell a faint musty smell.
As soon as Gao Liang entered the room, he covered his nose and said, "Hey, let me go, Dr. Mo, how long has it been since you cleaned this place?"
Mo Xi ignored him and walked straight back to her computer. Then she opened the screen, called up a picture, and pointed at it for us to take a look.
The two of us dodged around the unidentified garbage on the ground, nudged past it step by step, and then stretched our heads in front of the screen to take a look.
Huh? Where have you seen this picture?
I thought for a while and then suddenly remembered, isn't this the 3D restoration that Mo Xi made of the handprints on the bottom of the Snow Dragon?
At that time, we were not sure what caused this handprint. But now the mystery has been solved. The only thing that can create this handprint is the white monster we saw on the seabed.
Mo Xi made a special trip out of self-isolation for nearly a month and specially called us here just to let us see this thing?
I turned to look at Mo Xi, and before I could say anything, I saw her click the mouse again, and the handprint picture just now was suddenly switched to another picture.
Judging from the picture, this picture should also be part of the previous handprint picture, but it is much enlarged compared to the previous one, and the angle is also concentrated in the center of the handprint.
There, there was a line of vague patterns. I remember that this pattern was the mark on the monster's hand that we discovered.
At this moment, Mo Xi also said: "I already understand the meaning of this brand. It is actually a line of text."
Gao Liang didn't seem to believe it and asked her: "Really? Why can't I see that it is text?"
"Because you're looking at it the wrong way." Mo Xi said coldly: "It's actually very simple to understand what this brand says. It's just that we didn't think of it because there was something wrong with our original thinking."
Mo Xi explained to us that during the return trip, she had been trying to decipher the meaning of the brand on the monster's hand. She was obviously still brooding about the failure of this mission and was unwilling to give up, so she
I want to solve the mystery of the monster's origin by deciphering the mark on the monster.
As a result of her research in the past month, she successfully identified that the mark on the monster's hand was actually a kind of writing.
However, due to a certain reason, it took her a whole month to recognize this kind of writing.
"I made a big mistake when identifying this brand. I didn't take into account the changes in the monster's size."
"Changes in body shape?" I blurted out.
Mo Xi nodded and explained: "Every creature in the world will have a physical growth process from birth to adulthood, even that monster should do the same. I didn't immediately identify the meaning of this brand at first because I didn't expect it.
This point. The brand we see now is most likely placed on the monster when it was just born. As the monster's size changes, the brand pattern on its body will naturally continue to expand as its body expands.
Change. So if we want to know the true face of this brand, we must also take into account the changes in the monster's size... Just like this!"
Mo Xi pressed the keyboard lightly, and then, the imprint pattern on the computer began to gradually change. In front of us, the line of imprints gradually shrank at first, and then began to move closer to the inside. When the changes in the imprints finally stopped
At that time, the imprinted pattern finally turned into a line of characters that looked a bit weird: にんげん.
Obviously, this is not Chinese, and I know absolutely nothing about foreign languages, so I did not immediately recognize which country the text was from, but Gao Liang suddenly revealed the truth about the text.
"Is this Japanese?"
"That's right." Mo Xi said, "This paragraph is pronounced Ning'en in Japanese, which means human being in Japanese."
"Wait a minute!" I couldn't help but be confused after hearing this, "Why does a monster that haunts the Arctic sea have a Japanese mark on its body? And the meaning of this mark, how can it be a human being? That monster
How do you look like a human being?"
As soon as I finished speaking, Gao Liang said to me: "Sijiu, Dr. Mo Xi must know the reason behind this. You should listen to her explanation first and don't rush to speak."
Mo Xi nodded and said: "Although the truth of the matter cannot be verified, it is not difficult if I just want to give you a reasonable explanation."
She looked at me and continued: "I remember you said, Sijiu, that branding is usually a sign of scalding animals in the countryside. It is used to tell others who the owner of the animal is. And by the same token, since in the
The marks left by the Japanese were found on this monster, so it is self-evident who its owner is."
"In Japan's scientific community, there has always been a whale research project. On the surface, it is a scientific research project specifically used to study the habits of whales, but in fact, according to the information from the 749 Bureau, there are people behind this so-called whale research project.
There are signs of funding from the foundation. I have verified this with the bureau’s database.”
I opened my mouth and turned to look at Gao Liang aside, wanting to ask him for confirmation. But before I could say anything, Gao Liang nodded and said with a solemn expression: "Yes, I have seen this information too.
.The foundation has long been sponsoring Japanese whale research projects, and has also blocked several protests against the Japanese government by environmental protection organizations for them."
"In the past, we never understood why the foundation sponsored an animal research project in Japan? But I think it is now clear that they are actually sponsoring the Japanese artificial life research project, and what we encountered
That monster is probably the result of Japanese research."
Mo Xi explained that judging from the brand with the meaning of "human", this monster is probably an artificial life form synthesized by the Japanese based on humans and whales. And the purpose of their research on this monster is not to be a biological creature.
The purpose of weapons is to create a tool specially used for seabed exploration.
"Tools for undersea exploration? The Foundation even has destroyers, so why not have submarines?" I couldn't help but express my doubts.
Gao Liang said to me from the side: "Of course they have submarines, but think about it, Sijiu, what would happen if we went to the North Pole to perform a mission this time and had helpers like that monster around us?"
"Then wouldn't this mission be easy and enjoyable?"
As soon as I said this, I understood that the foundation would fund the Japanese to study artificial life forms in the sea. Isn't it just for this reason?
Compared with land, when investigating mysterious events in the ocean, even an organization as large as the Foundation will be subject to various limitations in equipment. And once you have help like the white monster, what will happen to the Foundation in the future?
It will be said that the ocean will no longer be an obstacle to their recovery of contained objects.
only……
"Since the monster may be an artificial life form funded by the foundation, why did they send their own destroyer to kill it?"
"Perhaps it's because the monster is unwilling to obey them?" Mo Xi suddenly said, "There is no reason for the foundation to put such a monster in the Arctic Ocean. So I think it should have escaped from the experimental facility on its own.
came out, and then appeared here again in search of his own kind...
As for the Foundation, a monster that cannot be controlled will naturally not let it continue to survive, let alone when the monster was discovered, we were also on the scene. In order to erase the evidence of the monster's existence, they must naturally
The monster was completely killed..."
Although the explanation given by Mo Xi was just her personal guess, both I and Gao Liang believed deeply in what she said. And her explanation this time can be regarded as a good example for us during this Arctic trip.
Before the end of the line, one last mystery is solved.
On the third day after this conversation, the Snow Dragon finally returned to Donghai Port.
After the Xuelong entered the port, a large group of operators from the 749th Bureau's Recovery Department boarded the ship and performed amnestics on everyone on the ship except the three of us. All records related to this operation on the ship were also erased by them.
take away.
Following the people at the recycling center, Mo Xi also left. Before leaving, she did not say goodbye to us, but just like when she participated in this mission, she quietly left with her things. Speaking of which,
It really makes me feel a little regretful that she left like this. Although we didn't get along for a long time, in this mission, Mo Xi and I had been through life and death together once, so it was really a pity to be separated like this.
.
But later I learned that there was actually a reason why Mo Xi left in such a hurry. This time, because of the American Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, her underwater submersible machine sank into the sea, although those Americans were not aiming at us.
came, but Mo Xi still held a grudge. And Mo Xi’s way of retaliating against the Americans was to join the research and development of the Navy’s new destroyer. I heard that the Americans later severely protested, claiming that they were copycats of Arleigh Burke.
In the research and development work of the two domestically produced destroyers of the X-class destroyers, Mo Xi appeared.
At this point, my first overseas trip after joining the 749th Bureau has come to an end. Among the various incidents I have encountered since joining the 749th Bureau, this experience should be the most impressive to me.
One of several incidents. Especially the monster figure that keeps wandering in the Arctic Ocean in pursuit of its own kind. Even when I think about it today, it still makes me sigh.
What makes me even more sad is that the monster did not die in the Arctic Ocean under the Foundation's attack as I originally thought, but successfully escaped from the Foundation's missile attack.
Come out!
I say this because almost two years after the incident, rumors about the discovery of unknown creatures in Antarctica suddenly began to circulate on the international Internet. And this unknown creature was finally photographed by Google's satellite. If there is
If readers are interested, they can open Google Maps and check the coordinates of 27 degrees 36 minutes 14.48 seconds south latitude and 15 degrees 29 minutes 19.77 seconds east longitude.
I can be 100% sure that the vague figure vaguely visible on the map is the white monster I saw during that trip to the Arctic Ocean. However, I cannot be sure that the figure in the photo circulating on the Internet is
, is it the monster that escaped from the gunfire, or is it the companion that the monster has been searching for in the cold sea water...