Chapter 10 Chapter 8 "Death of the stickleback" occurs after the death of the stickleback

The next day, when all the divers left—a small number left voluntarily, others were dismissed by Chen Kesheng, and after Dr. Yuan Zhenxia came on board, Chen Kesheng said the same thing again. Yuan Zhenxia listened, Also issued the same issue. Chen Kesheng's answer was: "It was originally a modern snail, but suddenly it became an ancient ammonite, a modern fish became a three-thorn stickleback, and a modern man became a primitive man!" Chen Kesheng's conclusion is: "There is a strange force in the sea that turns modern creatures into ancient creatures!" Hu Huaiyu smiled wryly: "I thought I was delusional!"

Chen Kesheng's voice was very deep: "I'm not delusional, there are many facts that support my idea! That's why I deliberately dismissed all the divers to prevent them from being in danger!" Zhong Daya's imagination is not very rich, he asked: "What danger will there be?" Hu Huaiyu's face was pale, Chen Kesheng pursed his lips and remained silent.Yuan Zhenxia's voice was a little helpless: "Chen Kesheng means that we may all be affected by that ancient force and become primitive people!" Zhong Daya's complexion changed: "How could such a thing happen? Who has such great power?"

Hu Huaiyu's lips moved, but he didn't say anything, Zhong Daya asked again: "Is it... the box that I got from the impermanent ghost back then?" No one answered his words, Cao Yinxue immediately held Zhong Daya's hand, expressing his wife's comfort, such a small gesture, people were very moved.She said: "If I didn't suddenly see that big fish in the sea, I think I've found the sunken ship!" Everyone heard her mention it for the first time, Zhong Daya hurriedly asked: "What's the situation?" Although Cao Yinxue was tall, her voice was still soft and soft: "I swam close to a clump of kelp, which grew very lush. I saw a shipwreck, and I couldn't see it clearly. I was about to swim closer. The big one The fish jumped out and ran towards me!"

Cao Yinxue gestured and talked about the situation at that time. Since she was attacked by a big fish in the water, it was very dangerous. Fortunately, her water skills were excellent-her hometown had a tall woman like Qinghu Sanniang. There have also been swimmers like Baitiao Zhangshun in the waves. She rolled over to avoid the impact of the big fish, and then fired the speargun she carried with her.Spearguns were originally designed to deal with sharks that might haunt the sea. Although the big fish was injured, he was still very fierce. Seeing that he had won, Cao Yinxue refused to let the big fish escape easily, so one person and one fish started a spectacular fight in the sea.

At that time, in order to catch the fish, not long after the fish was caught, there was a conflict with the divers. Later, he was eager to contact Yuan Zhenxia, ​​so no one dived again. After listening to Cao Yinxue's story, everyone was very excited. Hu Huaiyu first said: "Both Chen Kesheng and I have qualified diving qualifications, not to mention Mrs. Zhong, Doctor Yuan—" He glanced at Doctor Yuan, both he and Chen Kesheng He is a marine biologist and has the qualifications for diving. It is very natural. When he looked at Yuan Zhenxia, ​​Yuan Zhenxia snorted: "Tomorrow morning, the four of us will go into the water together and find the sunken ship. Hope!"

After Yuan Zhenxia got in touch with Hu Huaiyu, he was sent to the sea by helicopter at Kuiye, and dropped from the helicopter cabin on the deck. It was midnight when he arrived, and after discussion, it was already two o'clock in the morning. . He proposed diving early in the morning, and no one objected. Yuan Zhenxia proposed again: "What about the three stickleback? I want to see ancient marine life, and it can be made into a specimen." Hu Huaiyu nodded: "It can be made into a very complete specimen... Do you want to see it?" Yuan Zhenxia smiled: "Yes, what are you afraid of? I don't think atavism is contagious, from fish to humans!"

Yuan Zhenxia said this just to relax the atmosphere, because the whole thing is very weird.After boarding the ship, the atmosphere on the ship and at sea became even more indescribably heavy. Everyone on board knew about the "primitives", and the crew was very scared, so Yuan Zhenxia deliberately opened a joke. But his joke was obviously very inappropriate, everyone fell silent for a while, and did not make any more noise.On the contrary, it was Cao Yinxue who broke the embarrassing silence first, she said: "Even if it is going to be contagious, it must be contagious to me, because I have fought with fish in the sea?"

Zhong Daya gave his wife a hard look, and Yuan Zhenxia took the opportunity to say, "Follow me if you are not afraid of infection, where are the fish?" Hu Huaiyu said: "In the refrigerator!" Yuan Zhenxia smiled: "I forgot, this is an aquatic research vessel! It is great news that we caught a three-thorn stickleback, so don't frown!" He tried his best to make everyone happy, so when he spoke, his own tone became excited. He went over to pour a large glass of wine, drank half of it in one gulp, and then said to Hu Huaiyu, "Please lead the way!" Hu Huaiyu and Chen Kesheng each nodded, Zhong Daya expressed no interest, Cao Yinxue naturally "married and obeyed her husband".Yuan Zhenxia and the other three entered the cold room, which was a well-equipped specimen making room. Hu Huaiyu opened the door of the cold room and pulled out a plate, which wrapped the big fish in cloth. .Yuan Zhenxia let out a "huh" without waiting for the pull to open.

Chen Kesheng and Hu Huaiyu were also stunned, and looked at each other with a look of astonishment - the characteristic of the three stickleback fish is that there are three long spines on the dorsal fin, but at this time, under the white cloth wrapping, it is obvious that , this fish does not have such characteristics. Hu Huaiyu was the first to let out a roar—he, and others, were all at that time, thinking that the precious ancient strange fish had been destroyed, either intentionally or out of ignorance. However, when Hu Huaiyu was furious, he untied the white cloth and saw the fish, everyone was stunned!

That is not a three stickleback, just an ordinary big grouper, anyone, not necessarily a marine biologist, can tell that it is a big grouper at a glance! Before anyone could figure out what happened, Hu Huaiyu roared again, turned around and rushed out, Yuan Zhenxia stretched out his hand, but didn't hold him back. Only Hu Huaiyu's roar could be heard, and after a while, two people shouted again, and those two people kept shouting: "Director...Director!" But Hu Huaiyu was still roaring, the chaos caused by the sound was thrilling, Yuan Zhenxia wanted to drive out, but Hu Huaiyu and two crew members pushed and hugged each other and walked in.

Hu Huaiyu's face was livid, and he stretched out his hand to point to the big grouper: "You still say no, you can see for yourself!" As soon as the two crew members came over, Chen Kesheng recognized that the two men had carried the three stickleback off the deck.He also knew why Hu Huaiyu wanted to drag them here—the three sticklebacks had turned into groupers, and Hu Huaiyu must have thought that they had lost their bags, so he was furious! When the two crew members saw the big grouper on the plate, they were stunned for a while, and then looked into the freezer, and saw that there was no other fish in the freezer, so they called out: "This is how the same thing?" Hu Huaiyu sternly reprimanded: "Only you have touched the big fish, and you have lost your bag!" The two crew members were startled and angry, and one of them was irritable and jumped up: "Fuck your mother, we want a dead fish, what's the use?" Another crew member sighed: "Boss, don't think about it, even if we want to drop the package, where are we going to get such a big grouper? It is said that we picked it up from the sea, and someone has to see it! Nope! Little fish, we can't catch it secretly!" Hu Huaiyu was about to say something else, but Yuan Zhenxia moved suddenly and raised his hand to stop him. He said to the two crew members: "I'm sorry, a series of things happened, the director is very nervous, I promise, when he calms down Afterwards, I will definitely apologize to you, please go back, both of you, just pretend nothing happened!" When Hu Huaiyu heard what Yuan Zhenxia said, he still didn't take it seriously, the veins on his forehead burst out, and his voice was hoarse: "These two people—" Yuan Zhenxia shouted loudly before he finished speaking: "When they leave, I will Explain to you again!" The two crew members didn't know who Yuan Zhenxia was, but seeing that he could drink even Hu Huaiyu, he didn't dare to make a sound, the grumpy one groaned, turned around and left.The other also pointed to the big grouper: "This...what is going on?" At this moment, Chen Kesheng was looking back from the big grouper—he had been observing the fish carefully, and at this moment he raised his hand and said, "Go back to the cabin, don't ask any more questions!" Although the crew member was puzzled, he had to leave. After the two crew members left, Hu Huaiyu still looked at Yuan Zhenxia angrily, and Yuan Zhenxia pointed at the big fish: "Look carefully, the head part of the big fish , was wounded by a speargun and stabbed with a knife!" Hu Huaiyu shuddered suddenly, and said in a broken voice, "What do you want to explain?" Chen Kesheng replied, "This is the three-thorn stickleback!" Hu Huaiyu screamed: "You and I both know that this is not a three-spined stickleback. The three-spined stickleback has extremely precious academic research value. This fish can only be used to fry fish balls!" Chen Kesheng suddenly asked: "In the past few days, what achievements have we made in the research on the living ammonite body?" Hu Huaiyu suddenly made a sudden move, and Chen Kesheng suddenly sighed: "I have been wanting to discuss it frankly for a long time, and I believe you are the same. The body of a living ammonite is basically the body of an ordinary nautilus! Isn't that right! That's why you have been unable to announce the results. come out!" About this point, Yuan Zhenxia only knew it at this time, and this fact further enriched his hypothesis, so his expression became extremely weird in an instant. Chen Kesheng signaled Yuan Zhenxia to explain further to Hu Huaiyu, and Hu Huaiyu had already shouted: "What does that have to do with Yujiaren changing?" Yuan Zhenxia said in a deep voice: "The fish has not been exchanged! It is this fish!" Hu Huaiyu's body shook again, and hoarsely shouted: "No!" Yuan Zhenxia raised his voice: "After the corpses of the six fishermen were sent to the hospital, anyone who touched the corpses in the hospital did not find any abnormalities in the corpses, and they did have growths on their heads and faces before they were alive. Mao, and even behaves like primitive people!" Hu Huaiyu seemed to have understood what Yuan Zhenxia meant. He looked horrified, pointed at Yuan Zhenxia, ​​and kept retreating until he reached a corner. He stopped when there was no way to retreat. Yuan Zhenxia's voice was very calm: "Therefore, it can be assumed that after death, the strange changes will stop - the fate of this fish is exactly the same as that of Ah San's family of six!" Yuan Zhenxia paused at this point: "I don't know what has affected them, making their life form change from modern to ancient, and after they die, they return to the original state." When he said this, Chen Kesheng picked it up: "It's the same with the living ammonite." Hu Huaiyu's voice was like moaning: "What kind of power is that?" Yuan Zhenxia said in a deep voice: "I don't know, but I can be sure that it came from the ocean, and it's in this area—" He waved his hand vigorously: "Should we continue to investigate, or should we retreat, and if we continue to investigate, anyone will decide." It may be subject to unpredictable changes!" Although Hu Huaiyu was very nervous, at this moment, even his lips were white, he had no blood at all, and his body was trembling, but at the same time, he also showed his extreme courage. He immediately said: "Of course we will continue to investigate. The matter is related to the mystery of life. As a biologist, how can we let go of such an opportunity?" Yuan Zhenxia shouted, "Good!" Chen Kesheng also said: "There is no turning back - since the matter is so weird, Mr. Zhong and his wife don't need to participate!" Yuan Zhenxia smiled wryly: "Is there any way you can make him quit? He firmly believes that if he finds that box, he will be able to make his family full of descendants!" Hu Huaiyu walked forward, and Yuan Zhenxia patted him hard on the shoulder twice. This kind of behavior can encourage the other party.Hu Huaiyu asked: "Everything is related to that box?" Yuan Zhenxia's brows knotted: "It can be assumed that the box was thrown into the sea by Zhong Wenliang, and a magical power was generated from the box, which can affect the life forms of creatures, from modern times to ancient times—" When he said this, he paused for a while, and Chen Kesheng lost his voice: "That is a phenomenon of anti-evolution!" Hu Huaiyu shook his head: "That's not easy to say, the opposite of evolution is the phenomenon of degeneration!" Yuan Zhenxia suddenly felt a chill, because he had a further idea: he first said: "Yes, degeneration phenomenon, using the word 'degeneration phenomenon' is better than 'reversion phenomenon'. This degeneration phenomenon , I believe it has been going on in the sea, but no one knows." Chen Kesheng supports Yuan Zhenxia's idea: "There are not many creatures that may be affected, a few fish, a few snails... If the affected creatures continue to degenerate, then after the nautilus degenerates to the ammonite, it will continue to degenerate. Regression, to the end...to the end..." Yuan Zhenxia continued: "In the end, no matter what kind of creature it is, it will degenerate to the most primitive single-celled creature!" Both Hu Huaiyu and Chen Kesheng are biologists. Of course, they know what Yuan Zhenxia said. They are not joking, because according to the theory of evolution recognized by the biological community, any living thing evolves from the simplest single-celled living thing, and degenerates through the process of evolution. Going back, the only result is naturally to change back to single-celled organisms, no, even to turn into protoplasm, some proteins with the primary form of life: that is the original form of life. The three of them were silent for a while, feeling weird and inexplicable for this assumption. After a while, Yuan Zhenxia said: "I don't know how many billions of years have passed since the first form of life was formed on the earth. Those billions of years are all the evolution process of organisms. I believe the degeneration process will be much faster. The San family , In less than a month, it has degenerated for tens of millions of years." Hu Huaiyu's voice was full of excitement: "If they don't die, if they degenerate further, they will become—" Chen Kesheng said in a deep voice: "According to the evolutionary program, the next step must be ape-man." The hypothesis is quite complete: the box has a power that can degrade life forms rapidly! The box of the ghost of white impermanence, when the ghost of impermanence gave Yao Zhengnian, was to satisfy his desire to pursue strange magic. It can affect and change the form of life, so it is naturally one of the "exceptional magic". Compared with this astonishing ability to degenerate life forms, it is too simple to make a person fertile or sterile. All three of them seemed to have a heavy lead on their hearts—the hypothesis they had reached had initially released the matter from the confusing situation, because they affirmed that the box had the magical ability to change the form of life. And this kind of ability can be developed in a very simple way, Yao Zhengnian didn't write down this method.That is naturally his "selfishness". He has mastered this ability himself, so he doesn't want others to know.This is also a social tradition in China. For some abilities such as secret skills, there are measures to pass on to the son and not to the son-in-law to keep the secret. Another point, they can be sure that the so-called "fairy sound" does not really have a sound.When Yao Zhengnian heard "Xianyin", Zhong Wenliang didn't hear it.From this we can see that the so-called "immortal sound" is just a message that stimulated Yao Zhengnian's brain activity and made him hear the sound. Yuan Zhenxia is very familiar with this way of "hearing" voices - Ma Xian, the king of witches, can hear his missing her voice even thousands of miles away! Using the same method, not only can people "hear" sound, but also can make people "see" things.All human feelings come from brain activity. As long as there is information that can cause brain activity, one can have any feeling. This is an unshakable fact. Whether it is witchcraft, sorcery, or the method of applied science, the same purpose can be achieved. The question is: what kind of power does that box belong to?Is it really an unfathomable power from the underworld, black and white? They were silent for a while, before Hu Huaiyu said: "Back then, Yao Zhong and the two met... Was it really a ghost of impermanence?" Yuan Zhenxia raised his eyebrows: "It doesn't matter whether they are impermanent ghosts or not. No matter who they meet, those two people have very special abilities, and their abilities are incredible, that's what matters!" Hu Huaiyu's body trembled a little, he nodded vigorously, obviously he agreed with Yuan Zhenxia's words.Chen Kesheng also agreed: "Yes, it doesn't matter if they are ghosts, gods, alien high-level creatures who are much more advanced than the people on earth, or the ancestors of witchcraft. In short, they are so incredible. Ability, and...and..." Hu Huaiyu took it up: "And the goal can be achieved through such a simple process... I believe that Yao Zhengnian may need to make a gesture to make a barren woman pregnant!" Chen Kesheng looked at Yuan Zhenxia: "You are a doctor, how many reasons are there for women's infertility?" Yuan Zhenxia waved his hand vigorously: "Don't discuss infertility with me. I study practical science. I don't think that what we are facing now belongs to the scope of modern practical science!" The degree of irritability with which he spoke these words was, of course, due to the fact that he was depressed by many thoughts, chiefly the thought that, outside of practical science, What a mysterious and mysterious world, human beings don't know when they can get a glimpse of its mysteries! Yuan Zhenxia took a few steps back and forth, and pushed the big grouper into the refrigerator. His voice was very tired: "If you want to dive during the day, you should rest more!" Both Hu Huaiyu and Chen Kesheng have no objection to this point. They both know that diving requires good physical strength for support. A person with weak physical strength is extremely dangerous in the water. When they returned to the cabin, Hu Huaiyu threw three sleeping pills into his mouth without thinking, and lay down on the bed. There were two very comfortable cabins on the boat, one was given to Zhong Daya and his wife, and the other was shared by three of them, Chen Kesheng and Yuan Zhenxia glanced at each other, Yuan Zhenxia shook a bottle of wine: "I use this! " Chen Kesheng smiled bitterly: "I can participate!" Yuan Zhenxia didn't say anything, just nodded. They hardly talked, because there was really nothing to talk about until there was no new discovery. Yuan Zhenxia just said a few words: "Magical witchcraft can also do such incredible things!" Chen Kesheng replied: "I don't think witchcraft can degenerate living things!" Yuan Zhenxia was already very drunk, and immediately gave Chen Kesheng a hard look. Chen Kesheng was so frightened that he didn't dare to have any criticisms about witchcraft, so the two of them simply drank. If there is too much alcohol in the human body, it will naturally fall into a drowsy sleep.