Chapter 43 Chapter Fifteen

Yang Guangyao, who is living a retired life, sits at Xiakou's house and watches TV.He has white hair all over his head, and there are more wrinkles on his face than in the previous two years.But his eyes were still as piercing as before. "The live video of the salvage of the spaceship is being broadcast, come and watch it." He greeted his wife eagerly. He Yijing took out a pair of presbyopic eyes, sat beside him peacefully and said: "Jixian and Xiaofan are over there. I heard that Zhenyu has also gone, maybe we can see them!" "Almost all the main members of the previous archaeological team were on board. I haven't seen them for two or three years. I miss them." Yang Guangyao said, staring at the TV.

The fertile and vast South China Sea. A cloudless sky, a calm sea. The beautiful Paracel Islands. Close view of Xinghua Island. Palm trees and maple trees on the island. A close-up of countless seabirds perched on a maple tree. A group of seabirds flew north, and three ships appeared under the wings of the birds. The accompanying sound brought melodious Cantonese music "The Charming South China Sea". Salvage work mothership like an offshore drilling platform. In the close-up shot of the bow of the mother ship, four vigorous and powerful "Hercules" came into the audience's eyes.

in the cockpit.Ke Hua, Captain Wu and scientific workers stood solemnly in front of the console. Announcer's voiceover: "Everyone, the wreckage of an alien spaceship that will shock the world is about to leave the bottom of the sea!" Nautical clock on cockpit.The pointer shows 10 o'clock. Captain Wu's bronze-colored face looked very calm, he pulled a joystick steadily, a yellow signal light on the console flashed, and the buzzer also issued a low-pitched sound. Large fluorescent screen in the cockpit.The giant hand hanging not far above the spaceship slowly descended, and accurately grasped the wreckage of the spaceship.The surrounding seafloor sediment was muddied by the current, obscuring the view.

in the cockpit.The yellow signal light stopped blinking and glowed a steady yellow light.The buzzer stopped beeping.Captain Wu closely watched the instruments on the console. Announcer's voiceover: "Everyone, the spaceship has left the bottom of the sea, where it has been sleeping for thousands of years." Undersea scenery.A giant hand was suspended by a set of thick high-strength steel cables, and the two sets of steel claws of the giant hand gently grasped a broken spherical spaceship.The giant hand grasped the spaceship and slowly ascended. The voiceover of the announcer: "Everyone, in order to ensure the absolute safety of the spaceship, according to the salvage engineer of the 'Hercules', the current lifting speed is 0.5 meters per second. Calculated according to this speed, the spaceship of the four people in Tianyuan will be lifting Reached the surface after the first five hours"

Nautical clock on cockpit.The pointer shows 10:15. close-up.The hands of the nautical clock were spinning rapidly. The hands of the nautical clock stopped at 14:50. under the surface of the sea.The giant hand grasped the wreckage of the spaceship and rose slowly. When the beam of the giant hand approached the bottom of the ship, it stopped. The submersible barge is pulled under the giant hand by the steel wire rope under the water.The giant hand aimed at the rear deck of the barge, and gently placed the wreckage of the spaceship on a special base.The barge shifted slightly, and the giant hand was aligned with where it was stowed.Three divers wearing light submersibles swam to the giant hand and separated the high-strength steel cable from the giant hand's connecting device.

The voiceover of the announcer: "Due to the hard work of our scientists, experts, professors, workers, and naval officers and soldiers, the wreckage of this alien spaceship is about to surface!" The submersible barge moved underwater to the back of the Hercules.The compressed air drains the water in the storage tank to the outside, and the valve closes automatically.Under the sunlight, the barge carrying the wreckage of the spaceship gradually emerged from the water, and countless streams of white water flowed along the spaceship, along the deck and sides of the barge, and gurgled towards the sea.

As soon as the spaceship came out of the water, it immediately shone with golden light.Upon closer inspection, it was not seriously damaged, except for the two holes of different sizes, there were no more defects.There are not too many attached marine life.Evenly distributed on a circle of round portholes in the upper hemisphere, there is still a layer of sediment remaining. A five-story ladder was erected on the barge to the porthole of the spaceship.A navy soldier quickly climbed up and collected some sediment mud samples with plastic bags. The "Hercules", "Taishan" and "Zheng He" were full of voices and joy.

The accompaniment brought cheerful music. Liang Weizhou, a senior engineer of the Aerospace Research Institute, said excitedly when answering the TV reporter's question: "It would be too wronged to call such a spacecraft a wreck. Now, we have enough time to carefully and exhaustively study the damaged ship. The spacecraft. The research results will prove that it is of great significance to our country, to the space industry of mankind and to the development of science and technology, no matter how you estimate it, it is not too much." A close-up of Liang Weizhou's face.A pair of deep eyes stared at the ship.

A shot of Fang Yutian answering questions from TV reporters. The TV reporter asked: "I heard that you have been expecting to find some remains in the spaceship, even a complete set of remains. What do you think now?" "That's an estimate after all. It's hard to say whether we can find it now." Fang Yutian's dark and rosy face had an expression of uncertainty. The laboratory on the "Zheng He".The staff is conducting mud sample dating. The voiceover of the announcer: "The scientific research ship 'Zheng He' carried out radiocarbon dating on the mud samples in the porthole of the spacecraft. They used the liquid scintillation counting method, and the measured result was 4050 years ago, with an error of plus or minus 20 years."

A TV reporter asked Professor Huang Jingzhi: "As far as I know, the copper ball was manufactured and the copper ball star map was made 5,000 years ago. Why is it only 4,000 years since the spaceship crashed?" Huang Jingzhi smiled slightly: "I haven't had time to study it yet, so I have no comment." Ren Sihong and Yue Jing appeared on the TV camera... "Why haven't I seen Jixian and the others?" He Yijing said anxiously, "Could something happen?" "Where did you go!" Yang Guangyao laughed. A rapid electric bell startled her.She went to open the door anxiously, and the telecom bureau sent a telegram.

She switched off the TV and eagerly read the telegram with the old man through her reading glasses. This telegram was sent by Yang Fan.She told them that Jixian suffered from decompression sickness after encountering an accident during diving operations.Due to the timely rescue, after two days of intensive care, he has recovered.It is estimated that I will be able to get out of the decompression chamber in another five or six days, so please rest assured. He Yijing was anxious, she wanted to go to Xisha with the old man to visit her son.But I also thought that the new building of the Xiakou area museum had just been completed, and a large number of unearthed cultural relics had to be rearranged in the new building, making it difficult to leave for a while.They finally agreed to let Yang Guangyao leave tomorrow morning alone.His wife also told him that it was time for his daughter's marriage, and when he saw her and Zhenyu, he should talk to them. Yang Guangyao called Yang Fan back that night.In the morning of the next day, after taking a plane from Xiakou to Guangzhou via the Chu River, he took a helicopter to Xinghua Island in Xisha. A boat from the Hercules took him aboard. He saw Yang Fan and Xu Zhenyu outside the decompression chamber.Yang Fan said to him: "My brother is recovering quickly, come and see him." Yang Guangyao walked to the window and felt relieved when he saw his son's happy face.Yang Jixian called him in the decompression chamber and said: "I really want to go out and see the spaceship soon!" Yang Guangyao asked him to rest in peace, and expressed his gratitude to the diving doctor who nursed him in the cabin. Ke Hua and Captain Wu are here.Ke Hua introduced to Captain Wu: "This is Doctor Yang's father, Comrade Yang Guangyao." "Yang Guangyao?" Captain Wu said pleasantly, "You are Yang Guangyao?" "You are..." Yang Guangyao was stunned. "Why, you don't know me anymore? I'm Wu Yonggang!" "It's you!" Yang Guangyao said excitedly, "It's been more than forty years, and I've always missed you, and missed Squad Leader Wei and those comrades who died for the victory of the revolution." "Yes, without them there would be no victory for the revolution, and no socialist modernization." Yang Guangyao tightly held the hand of his old comrade-in-arms and said: "It's a pity that Squad Leader Wei couldn't see today. He would never think that the radio wave would lead to such a fruitful result." Huang Jingzhi, Ren Sihong, Liang Weizhou, Yue Jing, and Fang Yutian all came and greeted Yang Guangyao warmly.When they learned that Captain Wu was Wu Yonggang who discovered the mysterious radio waves with Yang Guangyao during the War of Liberation, they sincerely congratulated him on reuniting with his old comrades after a long absence. Xu Zhenyu was deeply moved by this exciting scene, and he said with emotion: "Those of us who come later must learn from the revolutionary spirit of our ancestors and work harder." Wu Yonggang accompanied him on a tour of this state-of-the-art salvage ship, and let him live together in the captain's cabin at night.The love of comrades-in-arms made them inseparable. In the past few days, Yang Guangyao has seen with his own eyes how people detect whether the spacecraft is contaminated with radioactive substances, and how to clean the outer shell of the spacecraft. On the fourth day after his arrival, the "Taishan" towed the spacecraft back home, and the "Hercules" and "Zheng He" followed closely behind.At this time, Yang Jixian also fully recovered and left the decompression chamber.The first thing he did after he came out was to see the spaceship with his father. Ke Hua decided to tow the spacecraft to Tongsui Xingang, where it was handed over to the South China Aerospace Research Institute for joint research by them and relevant units. The next day the fleet arrived at Tongsui Xingang.Since this research work has not been finalized, the whereabouts of the fleet were not announced to the outside world in advance.When the ships arrived in the morning mist of early winter, the port authority arranged for a secluded tanker terminal for them to anchor.On the wharf, there were no more mass scenes except for the local leaders and several representatives from the National Technology and Science Committee and the Chinese Academy of Sciences who came to greet them. The "Taishan" was about to return to Yulingang, and Yang Jixian came aboard the "Zheng He" to bid farewell to everyone.Ren Sihong, Xu Zhenyu, and Yang Fan all persuaded him to stay for a few more days, but he insisted on refusing to do so, saying that a rescue mission could happen at any time.After bidding farewell to his father on the "Hercules", he left Tongsui Xingang with the "Taishan". Yang Guangyao was also preparing to go back.Before leaving, he brought his girl and Zhenyu together.He said to Zhenyu earnestly: "Our whole family knows you very well. Of course, she has spent more time with you, and you understand each other better. You are not too young now, and in my opinion, it's time to get married." Yang Fan blushed, lowered his head shyly, and stared at the tip of his shoes. "We have discussed that we plan to get married after the completion of Tianyuan No. 4 project." Xu Zhenyu said shyly. "As long as you have your own arrangements, we can rest assured. Now, the Tianyuan Fourth Project is about to end, and you should prepare for it." He found Wu Yonggang again and said earnestly: "We are going to break up. When you have a chance in the future, please come to Xiakou to play. Take a look at my home, the majestic Three Gorges Project, and the place where we fought together." Wu Yonggang held his hand tightly, and there was a feeling of reluctance on his bronzed face.He repeatedly said: "Okay, I'll go, I'll go." After Yang Guangyao said goodbye to the scientific workers on the "Zheng He", he left Tongsui Xingang and went back to the mouth of the gorge.