Origin Chapter 84: Laoye Temple Waters
"A large aquatic animal? What is it?" Wu Zhongyuan wondered.
"It's not certain yet," urged Wang Xinran, "hurry up, the car is waiting outside."
Wu Zhongyuan tied his belt, flushed the toilet, opened the door of the toilet, suddenly thought that he didn't wash his hands, and wanted to go back to wash his hands, Wang Xinran dragged him out and stuffed his backpack to him, "Let's go, What else are you dawdling about?"
When Wu Zhongyuan walked out of the door, Wang Xinran had already walked a long way. When he came to the gate, Wang Xinran had already waved to him from the car, "Come up."
Wu Zhongyuan got into the car, and just after closing the door, the car started.
"What is it?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.
Wang Xinran was tapping her phone, but didn't answer.
Wu Zhongyuan asked again, "Are you all right?"
Wang Xinran glanced at the driver in the front row, but did not answer.
Wu Zhongyuan did not ask any further questions.
He didn't speak, but Wang Xinran took the initiative to speak, "Why are you so worried about her accident?"
"My brother is on the boat." Wu Zhongyuan sighed, he was indeed more worried about Lin Qingming's safety, but deep down he didn't want anything wrong with Zhao Ying.
"Don't worry, everyone is fine," Wang Xinran said. "Large ships are equipped with lifeboats."
There is no airport in Zibo, so you have to go to the provincial capital or Linyi by plane. At ten o'clock in the evening, the car turned on the expressway to the provincial capital, and the two got on the plane at one in the morning.
It's still a special plane, but it's a civil aviation. The plane is very small. Before taking off, I heard two pilots talking about the cruising range of this type of small plane just reaching 1,000 kilometers.
Wu Zhongyuan had been inconvenient to ask questions before. After taking off, he couldn't wait to ask, "Now we can say, what is it?"
Wang Xinran put down the phone, picked up the mineral water on the table and took a few sips, "It's still unclear, it's no secret that there have always been large creatures in the waters of Poyang Lake. I have dealt with similar incidents before. At that time, I had not yet participated in the work. I looked at the file afterwards. The investigation result at that time was that there were leopard turtles in the water. The leptod turtles are a kind of soft-shelled turtle. The individual is much larger than the turtle, which caused the boat to capsize. The leopard-headed leopard may have survived for many years, with a body length of more than ten meters and a width of about six meters."
"Ten meters, six meters, isn't that about the size of a house?" Wu Zhongyuan was surprised. Now ordinary houses are eleven meters long, five meters wide, and about fifty-five square meters.
"Yes," Wang Xinran nodded, "the colleague who was handling the case failed to capture the giant turtle, but only saw it up close. According to their estimation, the skinny turtle weighed at least two to three tons. ."
"Didn't you say that Zhao Ying and the others rented a large ship?" Wu Zhongyuan also unscrewed the mineral water.
Wang Xinran took a few more sips of water and put down the mineral water bottle, "Yes, that ship has a displacement of more than 3,000 tons, which is not too small for a freshwater shipping ship."
"A **** can knock over like this..."
Before Wu Zhongyuan could finish speaking, Wang Xinran waved his hand and interrupted him, "I didn't say that it was a leprechaun that caused their boat to capsize. According to the existing clues, the possibility of it has been ruled out."
"How do you say?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.
Smoking is not allowed on the plane, nor is it allowed on the special plane, but the special plane the two took and the leader's special plane were not the same thing at all, and there was no flight attendant service. Wang Xinran took a cigarette and lit one. "The ship they leased was called Poyang No. 1. According to satellite monitoring, Poyang No. 1 had been sailing at a speed of 28 knots in the Laoyemiao waters of Poyang Lake for more than two hours before it capsized..."
Wang Xinran said this and saw Wu Zhongyuan want to interject, so he took the initiative to explain, "One knot is one nautical mile, which is about 1.8 kilometers. For such a search of inland water transport vessels, twenty-eight knots is already It's at the limit of its speed, and its course is very strange, it flickers left and right, it keeps adjusting its course, and there are three U-turns in the middle, which means they are probably chasing something."
"Can the leprosy swim so fast?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.
Wang Xinran shook his head, "No, that's why we excluded it. It should be a large creature that we don't even know about that caused Poyang-1 to overturn."
Wang Xinran flicked the ashtray and continued, "The waters of Laoye Temple are called Bermuda of China, and there are often ship capsize accidents there. Scientists and geographers have also conducted special research. According to research, the waters exist in Underwater currents, ships sailing there, if they encounter undercurrents, they may capsize, but the displacement of the capsized ships is less than 1,000 tons, and the displacement of the Poyang No. 1 is 3,000 tons, which is enough to withstand the impact of the undercurrent.”
"So what?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.
"So the undercurrent is not the main reason for the overturning of Poyang No. 1." Wang Xinran put out the cigarette, picked up the phone, and called up a picture, "You can see it yourself."
Wu Zhongyuan took the mobile phone and saw that it was an intermittent picture of about two minutes. It was taken from high altitude. The satellite shooting was all photos, one shot in a few seconds, not a coherent video. Through the screen, you can see the huge On the water, a ship was spinning in the water. The man who controlled the ship changed the rudder several times to try to stabilize the ship, but in the end it tipped over and overturned, and then a few small white spots appeared on the water, which should be lifeboats, satellites Very advanced, indeed, but not so advanced that you can see who is sitting on the lifeboat from outside the atmosphere.
Wu Zhongyuan didn't find anything unusual, and frowned and returned the phone to Wang Xinran.
Wang Xinran reached out to take it and explained, "There must be an undercurrent there, but the current in the Yangtze River is not enough to create the whirlpool that makes Poyang-1 spin, and the ship failed to adjust its course after turning the rudder several times, so we guessed it was that It was only after the Poyang-1 encountered an undercurrent that unknown creatures contributed to the flames from the water, which caused the overturning of the Poyang-1.”
"If that's the case, it's not only big, but also very smart," Wu Zhongyuan said.
Wang Xinran nodded, "We also think so. This creature may have lived for many years and is very familiar with the waters of the Yangtze River. We even suspect that it deliberately led Poyang-1 into the undercurrent."
Wu Zhongyuan did not answer.
Wang Xinran said again, "Poyang No. 1 failed to get out of the undercurrent after turning the rudder several times, but turned faster and faster. To do this, it must exert force on the bow or stern of the ship. It's useless, the creature knows this, so it chooses the bow to collide, which also shows that it is very smart, knowing that the propeller at the stern may cause damage to it."
"What do you think this thing could be?" Wu Zhongyuan became more and more puzzled.
Wang Xinran shook his head, "I don't know, but they definitely know, and the person who controls the ship may also know that after they were rescued, we have notified the relevant local authorities to control the captain and crew, and we can interrogate them after we pass. "
"I didn't ask you to be sure, just let you guess." Wu Zhongyuan said.
Wang Xinran thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "It's definitely not a fish."
"Why are you sure?" Wu Zhongyuan asked. The 18th bureau to which Wang Xinran belongs is specialized in dealing with such incidents, and her judgment will not be without basis.
Wang Xinran explained, "Because the size of freshwater fish cannot be that huge, and limited by their own lifespan and external living environment, they cannot grow indefinitely."
"Is it possible that the radiation has caused a mutation?" Wu Zhongyuan asked,
Wang Xinran knew why Wu Zhongyuan asked this question, "I consulted an expert on this question this afternoon. The energy contained in the spirit stone is indeed terrifying, but that energy is sealed in the spirit stone, unless special methods are used to remove it. If it is stimulated, otherwise it is just pure natural consumption, which is not enough to make animals and plants mutate.”
Wu Zhongyuan nodded. Wang Xinran must have consulted an expert rather than a brick home. This explanation is also reasonable. Otherwise, those warriors who kept the spirit stone with him would have been killed by radiation.
"If fish are excluded, what else could it be?" Wu Zhongyuan asked again.
Wang Xinran lowered the backrest and lay back halfway, "The possibility of a dragon is high."
"I also suspect it is a dragon." Wu Zhongyuan nodded. Previously, Wang Xinran had personally confirmed the existence of the Jiaolong. This is a mysterious creature with a huge size that can survive in fresh water and move quickly in water. It must not dare to become an elite, but it is always possible to live longer and become smarter.
Seeing that Wang Xinran was a little sleepy, Wu Zhongyuan didn't ask any further questions. Two hours later, the plane landed, and the landing of the small plane was not as steady as that of a passenger plane.
After landing, the two rushed to Jiujiang City by car. Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in my country, with an area as large as four Hong Kong. Such a large area must be managed by a special organization. Organization, under the water police and other departments.
Because of prior communication with the administration, the administration sent a section chief surnamed Cui to receive the "head."
After the greeting, Chief Cui took the two to have breakfast first. During the meal, Wu Zhongyuan asked Chief Cui about what happened yesterday, but Chief Cui knew very little, only that it was an ordinary shipwreck. In fact, such a large ship has not been sunk in the waters of Poyang Lake. The reason why it is characterized as an ordinary shipwreck accident is that there are no dead people. As long as there are no dead people, it will not constitute a serious accident.
After the meal, Chief Cui took the two to the Marine Police Office Building. Due to the large jurisdiction area, the Marine Police Office Building here is larger than the general county public security bureau. There are various departments and special detention facilities. It is specially used to detain criminal suspects of illegal fishing and hunting.
Every year from March to July is the fishing moratorium on Poyang Lake. This time is also the busiest time for the marine police. The detention center is also overcrowded, and the captain and crew of Poyang No. 1 are also detained here.
In fact, they are all survivors of the sinking ship, not criminal suspects, but they are not criminal suspects.
According to the case handling procedures, arresting people is for interrogation, but this is a special case, involving confidential content.
A total of seven people were arrested, the captain, the chief mate, the chief engineer, and four crew members. It stands to reason that such a large ship should not have only these few people, but the people who hired them do not want too many people to know about it. , leaving only seven of them.
The people who hired them all ran away. They were monks with temples. They couldn't run away. They were all caught.
Wu Zhongyuan has never interrogated a prisoner before. Sitting in the interrogation room is a bit awkward. Wang Xinran is on the phone, and two police officers who assist in the interrogation have been waiting at the door.
"Leader, shall we begin?" the Marine Police asked.
"Oh, well, bring them up..."