Chapter 44 Chapter Sixteen

The Pearl River in early winter is still beautiful.The night view of Tongsui Xingang is even more charming. The daytime noise on the river gradually disappeared, except for the muffled sound of water flowing from a few ships at night, the surroundings of the "Zheng He" were completely silent. Yang Fan stood on the upper deck of the "Zheng He", leaning on the railing and looking at the lights on several large ships in the distance.A gust of night wind blew, and she felt a little chill.Xu Zhenyu beside her took off his uniform and put it on her shoulders. She smiled gratefully, a pair of shallow dimples appeared on her beautiful face, she wrapped the blouse tightly, and brushed a bunch of black hair hanging down her shoulders out of the collar.

Xu Zhenyu's eyes moved from Yang Fan's beautiful face to the starry sky.In the vast sky, the magnificent Milky Way rushes from west to east.Along the direction of the zodiac, Gemini, Taurus, Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Sagittarius look down on the earth in turn.For him, the vast and deep starry sky is a heavenly book that nature unfolds above his head, which he can never finish reading. "What are you thinking?" Yang Fan asked softly. "Do you still remember, when we were in the first year of high school, one night you came to the astronomy team, I pointed to the sky, told you about Orion, Eridanus, and told you that there is a four-star Tianyuan in Eridanus , only 10.9 light-years away from us."

"Why don't I remember, since then I also participated in the astronomy group." "Look," he said, pointing to the southeast sky, "Orion has just risen in the east, and Eridanus is winding in the southeast. Isn't this exactly what we saw that day!" "That's right," she said after carefully looking in the direction he pointed for a while as before, "but it was already fifteen years ago." "I didn't expect that the envoys of such an unobtrusive four-star Tianyuan in Eridanus bravely flew to the earth four or five thousand years ago. Although they sacrificed, the spaceship was quite intact. It has been preserved." Xu Zhenyu said with deep feeling.He couldn't help turning his face to look at the spaceship parked on the barge in the stern direction.This spaceship is like a spherical oil storage tank in an oil refinery, lying quietly in the hazy night.

"How do you plan to open it?" Yang Fan asked thoughtfully. "The plan is being studied." "After the spaceship is opened, quarantine and disinfection should be carried out first. There may be some special bacteria in the spaceship of the four people in Tianyuan." Yang Fan said worriedly. "I haven't thought of that question yet." "There are two situations here. Some bacteria or viruses may be suppressed in the environment of Tianyuan 4, but once they reach the environment of the earth, they will spread rapidly. The other situation is that the According to the Tianyuan four, some strains are harmless in the body, but once they enter the body of our earthlings, they are fatally dangerous, and they are the enemy of earthlings."

"You are really thoughtful. When you study tomorrow, you will first propose an interstellar quarantine and disinfection plan." Yue Jing walked over from the front, smiled and said to Yang Fan: "Sister Yang, when are you going to treat us to a wedding candy?" "I'm so greedy, there's no date yet!" Yang Fan laughed. "Don't lie to me, just now I heard him praise you for being so thoughtful!" Yue Jing giggled, talking like a cannonball. "Look where you've gone, what I was talking about just now was about work." Xu Zhenyu also laughed.

"Oh, both of you are in the battle. I can't tell you that I can't handle you. Let me be a errand. I won't hinder you." After saying that, Yue Jing was about to go into the cabin. "You are so busy, what are you doing?" Yang Fan asked. "Director Ke is on our boat, and he is chatting with Professor Huang in the conference room. I want to listen." Yue Jing said. "If there is anything interesting, tell me about it later." Yang Fan paused, and added, "Don't listen to me anymore." "I don't care about conveying. If you want to hear it, go by yourself!" After finishing speaking, Yue Jing walked away.

It was quiet again on the deck, and the surroundings were still quiet.The stars are extraordinarily bright in the dark sky above the river.Xu Zhenyu looked at the most magnificent and most prominent Orion constellation in the sky, and asked enthusiastically: "Would you like to hear the story of Orion in Greek mythology?" "Okay, tell me about it!" Xu Zhenyu looked at Dongsheng's Orion, and said eloquently: "The image of this Orion is Orion, a heroic hunter. He is a burly young man with extraordinary physical strength. One day, Orion was chasing wild animals in the mountains and forests, and happened to meet Artemis, the moon god. She is a hunter. Goddess, archery expert. Artemis saw Orawin's superb hunting skills, quick movements, and mighty posture, and fell in love with him at first sight. The hunter Orawin was also attracted by her beauty and strength, and fell in love with her. Falling in love with the goddess of the moon. Since then, the two have hunted and rested together, and their relationship has grown deeper and deeper. Artemis is determined to marry the hunter regardless of her status as a goddess.

"Her brother Apollo, the sun god, found out about this, and thought that her younger sister would lose her status as a goddess by marrying a hunter, and would hurt the reputation of the sun and the moon, so she decided to stop her. One day, the two gods, the sun and the moon, were patrolling the sky, and Apollo deceived her that her eyesight was not as good as his own. , tricked her to draw her bow and arrow and accidentally killed her lover Oraiwin. Artemis burst into tears. Later, Zeus, the god of heaven, agreed to her request and promoted the hunter to the heavens, so that he would always be with him in the most prominent place among the stars. Goddess of the Moon."

When Xu Zhenyu said this, he glanced at the "goddess" beside him under the dim light, and suddenly found that Yang Fan had a suspicious and nervous expression on his face, as if he was listening intently.She stood there motionless, like a marble statue.The sweet, charming smile that was still on her face just now disappeared without a trace.He asked strangely: "What happened to you?" Yang Fan still stood there without changing his demeanor, but waved his hand lightly to stop him from speaking.After a while, she seemed to wake up from the freeze. "I...I seem to..." She said in surprise, "I seem to have heard a voice."

Seeing her speak like this, Xu Zhenyu was even more surprised: "Why, were you scared just now?" "I can't tell what's going on. The sound is very strange. After listening to it, I have a very special feeling." Yang Fan said with lingering fear. "Just when you said that Zeus, the god of heaven, sent hunters to go to heaven to accompany the goddess of the moon." "That's the end of the story." Xu Zhenyu wondered, "Why didn't I hear it at all, could it be your illusion?" "It's not an illusion." Yang Fan's expression was still a little uneasy when he spoke, "The voice is not very loud, but it feels too strong to me."

"what sound?" "It's hard for me to express it in words. Anyway, it's a movement I've never heard before." Her mood calmed down a bit. Xu Zhenyu looked at the deck, and there was no one on the front and back of the deck.He looked at the surface of the river again, only the barge carrying the spaceship was floating quietly on the water near the surface of the river.He looked at the pier again. It was pitch black all around the pier, without any lights. Suddenly, Yang Fan grabbed his hand tightly. "Listen!" Her voice trembled slightly. Xu Zhenyu listened intently.At first, he didn't hear anything.After a while, he heard it, and he was startled.The voice was weak and clear, and in this silent night, it really made people feel creepy. The voice gradually became louder.He thought it was coming from the barge, and turned away to watch the ship.The spaceship was still lying quietly in the gray night without any abnormality.He couldn't figure out what was going on, so he said to Yang Fan: "Listen here, I'll go find them." Yang Fan said anxiously: "Let me go and call them." She walked into the cabin and told everyone about the experience in the conference room in a panic.Before she could finish speaking, Ke Hua, Huang Jingzhi, Ren Sihong, Liang Weizhou, Yue Jing and Zhang Kai all came out.They were on the upper deck, and they saw Xu Zhenyu standing there in a daze, as if he was lost in thought. Everyone listened intently, but heard nothing. "After Yang Fan left, the voice disappeared." Xu Zhenyu said.There was a complex expression on his face, one of astonishment, doubt, regret, and loss. They stayed on the upper deck for more than twenty minutes and still heard nothing. Everyone talked about it in a hurry. "Xiao Xu, did you hear clearly?" Huang Jingzhi asked seriously.He seemed to be quizzing a student on the podium. "When Yang Fan heard it at first, I didn't quite believe it. Later this time it was the two of us who heard it together. There is no mistake." Xu Zhenyu replied. "If the sound really came from the spaceship, could it be the automatic mechanical action in the spaceship?" Liang Weizhou said.In everything, he must first consider the spaceship, which is probably why the three sentences are not far from his own business. "Your words reminded me." Xu Zhenyu seemed to realize something, "This is very similar to the sound you made when you hit the copper ball with an iron pin after the information rocket was unearthed, but it was stronger than that." "Then why can't we hear it when we come?" Yue Jing laughed disapprovingly, and there was a teasing meaning in this laughter. "Is it an illusion created by the two of you being too concentrated here?" After a while, there was still no movement, and everyone went back to the cabin.Xu Zhenyu stood there without leaving. He said to Yang Fan: "You go back first, I will observe here for a while." "I'm here with you, too," she said firmly. They simply went to the stern, which was closest to the spaceship. After more than ten minutes, the weird sound appeared again, and it was much louder than before.Yang Fan immediately ran to the meeting room in the cabin. Ke Hua and Huang Jingzhi were talking about something.As soon as Yang Fan entered the door, he said loudly: "It appeared again, you guys go!" Ke Hua and Huang Jingzhi stood up and were about to leave. Yue Jing sat there and said: "Go and listen, it's cold outside, I won't go." Both Liang Weizhou and Yang Fan came to persuade her to let her go too, so as not to miss the opportunity again.How did they know that when they tried to persuade each other, they had already missed the most rare opportunity. There was another loud strange sound outside, so loud that Yang Fan heard it even at the door of the meeting room.Her face changed abruptly, and she immediately ran outside.Yue Jing also came to the stern with everyone, but the voice disappeared again. Yang Fan immediately noticed that the burly Xu Zhenyu was stunned by something, and stood there in a daze.Fortunately, it was night, if it was daytime, she would definitely be startled by his ugly face.She walked to his side, ignoring that there were many people beside him, she held his big hands with her slender white hands, shook them gently, and called softly: "Zhenyu, Zhenyu!" Ke Hua also stepped forward and asked with concern: "Xiao Xu, what happened?" As if waking up from a dream, Xu Zhenyu looked at them, then slowly withdrew his hand from Yang Fan's hand, and rubbed his eyes lightly.His lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it.Only now did the people standing in the darkness gradually see his face clearly.This handsome face was almost completely filled with an unbelievable look. After a while, he said slowly: "I saw a person climbing out of the spaceship, a Tianyuan four people..." "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!" Fang Yutian said firmly.He shook his head vigorously, and the two big earlobes seemed to be shaking, "The four of Tianyuan have soaked in the seabed for four thousand years, can they still come out alive?" "At that time, I couldn't believe my eyes!" Xu Zhenyu said bluntly, "But I did see it." "Tell me in detail," Ke Hua said. Xu Zhenyu tried his best to control his emotions. In order not to let himself get too excited, he tried his best to speak slowly: "Just when Yang Fan was going to call you, following a sound, the side of the spaceship suddenly lit up, shooting out a piece of purple light. I looked up and saw a round cover opened on the top of the spaceship, and the purple light came from the gap around the round cover. Afterwards, the dome opened wide, and I thought it was an automatic device. Unexpectedly, a person crawled out from the hole under the dome. That man stood on the top of the spaceship and looked around. When he saw When I was in this direction, there was a sudden "ah" sound, and I climbed into the hole again, and quickly closed the round cover. I even heard, maybe felt, that "ah" sound was a woman's voice! At the same time as the round cover was closed, There was another loud, strange noise. And then there you are." "It's unbelievable." Liang Weizhou shivered and rubbed his hands involuntarily. "Could it be another Boshi image left by the four people in Tianyuan?" Zhang Jia reminded. "No. When we watched the image of Bronze Ball Wave, we all seemed to participate in it." Xu Zhenyu said seriously, "But this time, I didn't feel that way at all. I felt that I was a bystander in the real environment. By." "It would be great if there was another circumstantial evidence." Yue Jing said regretfully. Although Huang Jingzhi felt that this happened too suddenly, he couldn't believe it for a while.But after all, he knew Xu Zhenyu very well, and he was convinced that Xu Zhenyu, who had spotted the new star with his naked eyes, would not be wrong.The old professor said to Ke Hua: "If it's Xiao Xu's illusion, then it doesn't matter; if it's not an illusion, then we need to study a countermeasure." Ke Hua pondered. "Let's observe again, and then we'll talk." Ren Sihong said. "Let's do it this way. Ren Sihong and Zhang Yu are asked to stay and continue to observe, and report immediately if there is any situation. The rest of the people will immediately go to the conference room to study countermeasures." Ke Hua's eyes were serious, and his words were strong and powerful.He then grabbed a phone on the stern and dialed a number, "Is this Captain Li? This is Ke Hua. Please turn on all the searchlights on the stern immediately and aim at the spaceship together!" The spaceship was immediately illuminated by six searchlights as if it were daytime.