Pacific Ocean. Longitude 137 degrees east and latitude 9.5 degrees north.

The sun shines brightly and cloudless. The scientific investigation ship "Truth" of the Republic of Southern Luzon is sailing on this vast ocean.

In fact, this is not a scientific research ship in the strict sense - it was converted from a yacht. It was predecessored by the "Imperial Princess" luxury yacht, which originally belonged to a wealthy family on Hong Kong Island. When the disaster hit, it was returning from Indonesia and was then captured by a group of pirates. In two years, the luxury yacht changed hands six times and was eventually purchased by Southern Luzon. After modification, it became the most advanced scientific research ship in this brand new country.

Wang Yuanwei was lying on a bench on the white deck, holding a glass of wine in his hand.

He had been in this position for an hour and a half, and the ice in the wine glass melted into water and mixed with the amber wine.

There were three other fully armed guards around him - these three stood like this in the scorching sun for an hour and a half, never moving their positions. They followed the youngest top scientist in the republic for three years, and had known that he had fallen into a state of "stoppable" at this time.

This means that he is thinking deeply. Once someone disturbs him at this time, he will inevitably be cursed.

Almost everyone on the ship knew that this high-powered young man had an extremely strange personality - he cared almost nothing except his own affairs. He could sleeplessly and think about certain problems for four days and four nights in a row, or he could chatter and curse for three hours because the half glass of water in the room was moved to the position.

Many people think he is a genius, but they have to admit that he is a genius-type genius-because many devices on this ship that people barely understand or cannot understand at all are basically his work.

However, it is said that he was not like this before.

It is said that he was a calm and cautious young man, a little shy, before. But as time passed, his personality became more and more strange - he became more and more like his teacher.

Wang Yuanwei never shy away from mentioning his teacher's name, and never stingy in admiring that teacher - although some people who know the inside story actually complain about his teacher's character.

Some people say that he was tired of his brain because of long-term thinking - just like his teacher.

The scientific research ship was moving slowly, and a group of seagulls followed and circled at the stern of the ship. Suddenly, a big bird passed over Wang Yuanwei's head, flapping its wings and landing on the side of the ship, stood firm, tilted its head and stared at Wang Yuanwei, then turned to comb out its feathers.

But as it was just passing through the sky, a flying feather fell down floatingly - the white feather swirled and gently fell on Wang Yuanwei's forehead.

So his eyelids trembled violently.

The three guards exchanged their eyes uneasily and took a step back.

Wang Yuanwei opened his eyes. He looked directly at the blue sky with his empty eyes, and took a deep breath after three seconds, as if a drowning person had resurfaced.

Then he frowned and looked around with anger and aura. He touched the flying feather on his forehead with his left hand.

The next moment he saw the bird on the side of the boat. So he suddenly straightened his body and threw the wine glass out of his hand.

However, his accuracy was a little worse. The wine glass splashed out from the air and swept past the seagull. The big bird was frightened and spread its wings and flew into the sky.

Wang Yuanwei immediately roared angrily: "Kill it!!"

He stretched out a hand and pointed it at the bird. His fingertips trembled, and he repeated again: "Kill it!!"

The guards beside him silently and quickly pulled out the pistol at his waist and fired a random shot into the sky. A bloody light burst into the air, and the seabird fell straight to the water.

Wang Yuanwei jumped up from the recliner, kicked away the small round table beside him and strode to the side of the boat and looked into the sea.

There was a small pool of blood on the sea, almost thrown behind the scientific research ship. He stared at the blood for two seconds and began to shout again: "Catch it up - fish it up for me!"

The strange command was immediately executed. Another guard ran to the side of the boat, jumped into the sea water, and walked through the waves like a swimming fish, and soon caught the corpse of the seagull.

Wang Yuanwei looked at the corpse of the bird carefully and circled it twice. Then he waved his hand solemnly: "Send it to test-test... crush it and check it carefully..."

The order he issued on this ship was undoubtedly the highest order, and his expression was so serious and serious. Therefore, six staff members hurried over, carefully picked up the bird's corpse wearing gloves, put it in a transparent box, and transferred it to the laboratory on the lower deck.

Wang Yuanwei seemed to avoid the plague god and stayed away from the guard who was soaked because he jumped into the sea. He walked to the side of the ship and waved to him in disgust: "Just stand there - don't move!"

The guard seemed to be accustomed to his attitude, and stood in the scorching sun with his lips respectfully.

He stood for half an hour, the sea water on his body was evaporated by the sun, and a layer of white sea salt was covered with white sea salt on his face. After another half an hour, the two staff members came over with nervousness on their faces and whispered: "Minister... there seems to be no problem with that thing."

Wang Yuanwei looked at him and asked, "No problem?"

"Yes." The other party said uneasy, "There are several kinds of parasites on their bodies, but they are very common in these types of seabirds. A gunshot wound on the head is the cause of death. Besides that - everything is normal."

Wang Yuanwei twitched the corner of his mouth and let out a long sigh.

"Maybe there will be a problem next time," he whispered, as if muttering to himself, "Maybe someone wants to kill me...this is indefinite."

He raised his head and stared at the person in front of him: "Maybe you will strangle me to death at any time, right?"

The other party took a step back in panic: "Minister—"

Wang Yuanwei snorted, turned his head and waved his hand: "Get out, get out of here!"

Several people retreated like a general amnesty.

Wang Yuanwei rubbed his hands, lowered his head and walked to the guard, tidied his collar, and whispered: "Thank you for your hard work."

The other party stood up expressionlessly.

Wang Yuanwei patted him on the shoulder again: "Protect me. I can't die."

The other party replied briefly: "Yes."

Wang Yuanwei smiled and sat back on the chair.

The ship has been sailing on the ocean for a month. They are searching for a location, or something.

The abnormal situation occurred one night a month ago.

At 137 degrees east longitude and 9.5 degrees north latitude, an abnormal vibration was suddenly detected near the Pacific Ocean. At first, people thought it was a small-scale undersea earthquake, but soon realized that this "earthquake" came from strange things - the vibration was extremely regular.

The vibrations were once every three hours, and the intensity ranged from 3.1 level to 5.1 level of Richter, and then gradually weakened, and it returned to silence on the third night.

In three days and 72 hours, there were 24 vibrations in total.

On the same night, a nuclear explosion was detected near Murmansk in northern Siberia.

The distance between these two points spans half of the earth, but it is hard not to think about whether there is any subtle connection between the two things.

Wang Yuanwei conducted this ocean-going scientific investigation because of this incident.

If it were in a peaceful era, it would never be possible that such a mobilization would be caused by just one idea. However, Wang Yuanwei believed that perhaps the shock would mean that a kind of awakening would be somewhere under the sea. His proposal was approved by the Prime Minister of the Republic, and the president had no objection to it - in fact, his requests would be satisfied as much as possible, even if the request seemed incredible and unreasonable.

But now a month has passed, they still have nothing to find. This has made Wang Yuanwei increasingly irritable and his temperament becomes more and more bizarre.

At this moment, he leaned halfway on the chair, narrowing his eyes and looking at the sea in the distance. It was the intersection between the sea and the sky, and a bright line separated the two spaces.

He looked for a while and took the phone from the guard next to him: "Have you found anything?"

The response there was always as usual—nothing was abnormal.

Wang Yuanwei sighed dejectedly, stuffed the telephone back into the guard's hand, and his tone became calm: "You said - could it be that thing has escaped? Or is it really an earthquake?"

The guards didn't say anything. They had been together for a long time and realized that Wang Yuanwei was actually talking to himself at this time. He didn't want to hear any possibility that might be contrary to his thinking results.

Wang Yuanwei did not show any dissatisfaction with the guard's silence. He just narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance again, and then was stunned.

Because a small black dot appeared at the junction of the sea and the sky. The black dot seemed to be an island... a semicircular island.

He immediately grabbed the phone again and shouted, "What is that? What is that in front?"

The information was quickly fed back in the caller - the detection results showed that it might be some kind of large marine life, perhaps a giant octopus, or perhaps a blue whale that has been considered extinct.

But Wang Yuanwei stood up from the chair and shouted angrily: "Go to your octopus blue whales - they are that long?"

Because as he was speaking, he had pulled the high-power telescope frame from the guards. Through the electronic lenses, he clearly saw that what he thought was an island was actually the back of some huge marine creature - and those things that seemed to be lonely trees were actually the bone spurs growing on the back.

During this process, the thing kept moving - its long spine passed over the sea, and after nearly thirty seconds, it had not seen its tail yet. (To be continued...)
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