Huo Shaoheng's dark eyes stared unblinkingly at the surveillance video, but his thoughts had flown far away.
Time seemed to turn back to that day seven years ago.
He remembered it very clearly.
That morning, the director of the Imperial Institute of High Energy Physics, Bai Jinyi, suddenly said that there was a magnetic anomaly in C City. She wanted to go there to measure the magnetic anomaly's data, but she was worried that something would happen and needed powerful people to protect her, so she specifically asked Huo Shaoheng to be there.
The Bai family had a high status in the Huaxia Empire's political scene. In addition, she was Huo Shaoheng's father, Huo Guanchen's girlfriend, so Huo Guanchen gave her face. He asked General Ji and Speaker Long for permission and ordered Huo Shaoheng to bring the elite forces of the Special Operations Forces to C City to provide special security for Bai Jinyi.
Because Huo Shaoheng's Special Operations Forces did not have authorization, they could not interfere in domestic affairs.
That time, because it was only a scientific expedition and not a political mission, General Ji and Speaker Long did not object and gave them special permission.
In the beginning, everything was normal.
Bai Jinyi brought her team and began to measure in the downtown area.
It was almost noon, and the abnormal magnetic field gradually weakened. Bai Jinyi felt that it was about time, so she called for her team to retreat.
Noon was the busiest time for that place, so they planned to give way.
At that moment, a car suddenly barged in from somewhere. With a loud squeak, it suddenly caused a huge spark, and the entire car immediately fell into a sea of fire.
At that time, Bai Jinyi was terrified and immediately asked everyone to evacuate. She did not care at all whether there was anyone in the car that had suddenly barged in.
At that critical moment, Huo Shaoheng, in accordance with his duty as a soldier, refused to stand by and watch.
Ignoring the fire, he risked his life and rushed in to open the car door. He found a little girl wailing inside.
He immediately reached out to the little girl who was so frightened that she was about to collapse. "Come, I'll get you out."
The little girl's gaze shifted to him. Her small nose twitched and she shook her head desperately, refusing to let him carry her out.
The fire outside the car was getting bigger and bigger, but the inside of the car was not affected. Huo Shaoheng did not have time to think. He quickly went over to unfasten her seatbelt and forced her to turn around and escape from the car.
He remembered the 12-year-old girl desperately struggling in the direction of the car, as if she did not want to be rescued by him.
He had only run a few steps when he heard an earth-shattering explosion behind him.
A huge wave of air hit them, throwing them both to the ground.
He only had enough time to protect the little girl under his body, not letting the aftershock of the explosion hurt her at all.
She cried herself hoarse and grabbed his collar tightly. The little girl was so scared that her whole body was twitching.
In the end, she seemed to be unable to withstand such a huge impact, her head tilted to one side and she fainted.
After the explosion stopped, Huo Shaoheng stood up.
He still remembered how he had held her in his arms and looked down at her.
She closed her eyes and lay motionlessly in his arms. Her dark bangs covered her forehead. Her skin was fair and clean, and her round face was puffy. She looked very ordinary.
Just like a montage in a movie, seven years passed by in a flash. The fainted little girl he had once saved miraculously overlapped with the little girl lying motionless in the submarine.
If the little girl in the submarine was also carrying a small backpack and holding a small doll, it would be a reenactment of the past.
Huo Shaoheng looked at the surveillance footage on the screen, and his consciousness blurred for a moment. It was as if what he had experienced all those years ago was just a dream.
But how could it be a dream?
That unprepossessing chubby little girl had grown up by his side. She had grown up from 12 years old to 19 years old now.
He knew her so well. Seven years was enough for an ignorant little girl to grow into an adult. She was even his wife.
However, the fair and chubby little girl in the submarine was also a reality, and it matched Gu Yanran's confession perfectly.
Huo Shaoheng's mind was spinning. He felt that the rationality he had held onto for so many years was about to leave him.
He clenched one hand into a fist and covered his face with it. He coughed twice in a low voice and used his last bit of restraint to calmly order, "… Salvage."
..
The salvage ship's mechanical arm began to work. Huo Shaoheng walked to the deck with one hand in his trouser pocket and the other holding a cigarette. He silently smoked in the blue hole in front of him.
It had been a few days and nights since he had slept. Huo Shaoheng urgently needed to clear his head, so he had been smoking more than before.
Yin Shixiong understood Huo Shaoheng's feelings. He walked over and smoked with Huo Shaoheng.
The two of them stood quietly at the bow of the ship and listened to the sound of the staff operating the mechanical arm on the opposite deck, as well as the sound of the waves. It was magnified in the night sky and spread far and wide.
Yin Shixiong whispered, "… Major General Huo, don't worry too much. Think broadly, Professor He … at least won't harm Nianzhi. "
"I think Professor He definitely knows Nianzhi's whereabouts. Otherwise, he wouldn't have disposed of all his assets, right? It must be to hide his whereabouts so that he can escape with Nianzhi … "
Huo Shaoheng glanced at him indifferently. There was no pressure, but Yin Shixiong's neck felt cold for no reason.
It was like being targeted by a bloodthirsty werewolf.
Yin Shixiong was stunned after he finished speaking. He touched his neck and slapped himself hard in the face. He muttered, "If you don't know how to persuade others, then don't! Who told you to spout nonsense! "
His words just now were indeed asking for a beating.
Huo Shaoheng flicked the ash off his cigarette and looked away from Yin Shixiong's neck. He looked in the direction of the blue hole and said, "Let's salvage Cereus II first.
We'll talk about it later. "
…
Waiting for the little submarine.
When II set sail, everyone on the ship was very nervous and in a bad mood.
Zhao Liangze became even more agitated and didn't want to watch the surveillance anymore.
He went to the deck and operated his little hummingbird robot to take pictures everywhere. He actually captured quite a few pictures of the Caribbean Sea scenery that could be used directly as a desktop.
Back in the cabin, he showed everyone the photos he had taken today and said to Yin Shixiong, "Big Xiong, look at this. Can we go to the photography exhibition directly?"
Yin Shixiong glanced at it and saw that it was a photo taken in the evening.
It was the time when the sun was about to set, and it was so round that it made one's hair stand on end. The evening glow in the blue sky was full, and the color was rich and rich. It was like a young girl wearing a grass skirt hanging in a tropical rainforest, and her posture was enchanting and bright.
"Eh? Not bad! Aren't your hands shaking out of habit? "Yin Shixiong snorted.
"Who's habitually shaking their hands?!" Zhao Liangze glared at him. "You have no artistic talent! You have no appreciation standards! "
He got up and pushed Yin Shixiong away while cursing. Song Jinning happened to turn around from her screen and saw the picture of the sunset on Zhao Liangze's computer screen. She exclaimed, "It's so beautiful."
"Hahahaha, Director Song knows what's good for you!" Zhao Liangze quickly said, "I have a higher definition one here. Do you want to see it?"
Song Jinning rubbed her eyes and walked over. "Okay, it's just nice to let my eyes rest."
Zhao Liangze: "…"
Yin Shixiong: "Pfft –!"
Song Jinning ignored them and sat down in Zhao Liangze's seat. She held the mouse in her hand and right-clicked on the Properties of the pictures to look through.
In fact, Song Jinning didn't have any artistic talent. She didn't look at the composition or color of these pictures, but at the pixel resolution and frequency coefficient.
She could feel relaxed and happy just by looking at the data.
Zhao Liangze was also a computer expert, so he knew what Song Jinning was looking at at a glance. He couldn't help but feel even more depressed.
Although Yin Shixiong had been in a bad mood for the past few days, he still felt much better when he saw Zhao Liangze suffer.
Song Jinning looked at a group of photos and habitually began to combine all kinds of data in her mind. Gradually, she noticed some differences.
She went back and looked at all the photos taken by Zhao Liangze again.
This time, she didn't look at the parameters of the photos, but at the photos themselves.
Zhao Liangze finally felt a little better.
At that moment, Song Jinning let out a soft "eh" and said, "Little Ze, look at these two photos. Don't you think they're a little blurry?"
Zhao Liangze: "…"
Yin Shixiong: "… Hehe, Director Song, Little Ze's hands are shaking out of habit. It's normal for them to be blurry. It's abnormal if they aren't blurry … "
"Go! Get lost! " Zhao Liangze completely pushed Yin Shixiong away and sat next to Song Jinning. "Director Song, which one are you talking about?"
Song Jinning placed the mouse on the two photos she was talking about and right-clicked on them. "Look, the parameters of this one and this one are exactly the same as the previous data, but these two are a little blurry than the previous and subsequent photos."
Zhao Liangze narrowed his eyes and looked at it for a long time. "I can't tell? It's clearly the same resolution, so how can it be blurry than the other photos? "
His smart small camera's automatic focus function was internationally leading.
Although Yin Shixiong always joked that his hands were "habitually shaking", in fact, with the automatic shock absorption and focus function of his camera, shaking a little was not a problem at all. It did not affect the final imaging function at all.
Song Jinning nodded. "Oh, your eyesight might not be as good as mine. Do you want to print it out and look at it with a magnifying glass?"
Zhao Liangze: "…"
Yin Shixiong: "…"
Being told that their eyesight was not as good as hers by a woman who was old enough to be their mother, this feeling … Tsk, they really knew how it felt.
However, their eyes were about to pop out of their sockets, but they couldn't see the difference. In the end, they obediently printed it out on the highest-resolution image paper.
As soon as they printed it out, they immediately saw the difference.
There were two photos that were indeed a little more blurry than the other photos, and this blurry wasn't the kind of blurry that could not be focused due to shaking hands, but the kind that seemed to have double images.
However, each image was equally clear.
"What's going on?" Zhao Liangze and Yin Shixiong were both astonished, not understanding what was going on.
Song Jinning held the two photos for a while and said, "This kind of phenomenon can only occur under one situation."
"… When your hands are shaking?" Yin Shixiong was still unwilling to give up on the theory of "habitually shaking hands".
Song Jinning smiled and shook her head. "No, when your hands are shaking, the edges of the image are blurry. The edges of the image in these two photos are clear, but there is still a blurred vision. This is a phenomenon that only occurs when there is a strong magnetic field. "
"Because a strong magnetic field will cause uncertainty in matter."
"According to the theory of quantum mechanics, the same particle can appear in two different places at the same time."
"The state shown in these two photos is very close to this theory."
"And when the magnetic field energy is strong enough, it can make larger objects appear in two different places at the same time."
"Therefore, the two images that are slightly overlapping may look blurry, but it's actually because of the super strong magnetic field that they appear in two different places at the same time."
"There was a strong magnetic field here today!" Song Jinning concluded. She stood up and said, "I'm going to check my instrument!"
Zhao Liangze and Yin Shixiong were dumbfounded the whole time, blindfolded.
Huo Shaoheng walked in and frowned. "They've already started fishing. Aren't you going to help?"
Zhao Liangze and Yin Shixiong snapped out of their daze and secretly admired Song Jinning's ability. She had actually managed to use her academic skills to almost fool two experienced Special Operations Forces personnel like them …
"Yes, Chief!" The two of them hurriedly ran to the deck and participated in the final fishing process.
Song Jinning was also called out by Huo Shaoheng to help monitor the construction of a sealed room filled with nitrogen gas below the deck.
…
After the last salvage operation, Cereus.
I "experience, and now this" Cereus.
II "was much smaller, so it would have been easier to salvage.
However, the terrain of the blue hole here was more complicated than the sea at the Cape of Good Hope. There were more reefs, and the salvage ship could not get close. It could only rely on the mechanical arm to dive diagonally. This would take a lot of time.
After the five fingers of the mechanical arm grabbed the small submarine, it lifted it from the bottom of the sea.
Zhao Liangze watched the staff controlling the mechanical arm carry out microprocessing through the monitor.
They were really experienced. They could monitor the situation at the bottom of the sea through the camera on the mechanical arm and find a suitable route in time to avoid the complicated reefs.
It was also because of this reason that the time they took was only one night less than the time they took to salvage Gu Xiangwen's large submarine.
It took two days and one night to salvage Gu Xiangwen's large submarine. They took two days this time.
Therefore, in the end, the small submarine "Cereus.
II "was also in the dark when it came out of the water.
Two whole days, 48 hours, from night to day, and from day to night.
48 hours later, the night sky was still dark. The sea was covered with thick clouds, and it was drizzling.
It rarely rained on the Caribbean Sea. It was either a clear sky or a torrential rain carried by a hurricane. It was rare to see such a poetic drizzle.
A huge tent was set up on the medium-sized salvage ship, extending to about 20 meters from the surface of the sea.
This kind of tent could block the surveillance of satellites in the sky.
Similarly, Huo Shaoheng did not want other countries' satellites to monitor what they were doing.
After the tent was set up, they dragged the small submarine "Cereus.
II "out from the bottom of the sea and placed it on the deck of the salvage ship.
Just like last time, a small enclosed room filled with nitrogen was temporarily set up below the deck.
The small submarine that had just been salvaged, which looked like a banana boat ice cream, was placed in the middle of the room.
Huo Shaoheng and Chen Lie put on full-body protective suits, carried oxygen tanks and walkie-talkies, and entered the enclosed room.
Song Jinning helped them replace the air outside. After ensuring that there was only nitrogen in the room, they tried to open the door of the small submarine.
Huo Shaoheng only used a wire to open the door of the small submarine.
He was very surprised. He leaned over to take a closer look and found that the lock was indeed not as complicated as the large submarine.
Perhaps this small submarine was really a toy that Gu Xiangwen had given to Little Nianzhi..
Huo Shaoheng and Chen Lie pushed open the door of the small submarine and walked in.
For two big men like them, the small submarine was really too small.
After walking for about five meters, they arrived at the game room where the little girl was lying.
The floor of the game room was covered with log-colored floors, but there were colorful graffiti on the floor. They were probably all drawn by children, right?
Chen Lie's attention was completely attracted by the little girl on the pink princess bed.
He pushed Huo Shaoheng's arm and wanted to walk over to take a look.
Huo Shaoheng nodded and let him do as he pleased. He continued to stare at the graffiti on the ground and carefully examine it.
Chen Lie walked to the bed, reached out, and lifted the little girl's eyelids to take a look. He found that she was indeed dead.
However, the submarine was filled with nitrogen, so her body was preserved. It was as if she had just fallen asleep and would wake up at any moment.
Chen Lie shook his head and sighed. He thought to himself that he had to prepare the coffin again..
He turned around and saw that Huo Shaoheng was still staring at the graffiti on the ground.
"What's wrong? Why are you looking at this child's drawing so carefully? "Chen Lie asked curiously.
Huo Shaoheng said lightly, "… This isn't an ordinary drawing."
He raised his head and looked at the motionless little girl lying on the small bed with a complicated expression. He said, "… This is a clue she left behind before she died. She used the drawing to tell us who killed her. "
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This was today's chapter of 4,800 words: Chapter 1453, "The Secret Buried by Time (11)".
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