Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Thousands of people saw the red moon

Have you heard of the agency called "Alien Intelligence Processing Bureau"? The background of this agency is not small, it was established by joint personnel from the navy, land and air forces, but when I came to the door of this "Alien Intelligence Processing Bureau", I almost burst out laughing! The "Yamen", which is so large, turned out to be just a very old stone house with moss growing on the walls. It seems that this house is not inhabited at all, but just piled up with sundries, so it can be said that there is nothing there. There are only two small circular holes in the window.

And the only brass signboard that looks very proud is engraved on it: The direct-administered agency of the headquarters of the armed forces of the sea, land and air, and the Alien Intelligence Processing Bureau.But the signboard is covered with verdigris. I have known for a long time that this so-called "Alien Intelligence Processing Bureau" is not a hot "yamen", but a very unpopular institution, but I never imagined that it has been so neglected! The reason why I know of such an institution with a strange name is after I met Batu in Hawaii. Batu is a very interesting person, and I must introduce him in the simplest way.

He is about forty-four years old, and he is said to be "about" because he himself does not know how old he is. He himself is an orphan and was discovered by a Belgian missionary on the grassland of Horqin Right-wing Middle Banner, Hulunbeier League, Northeast China. , brought back to Peiping. At that time, there was a terrible fight on the grassland, with corpses strewn across the field, but Batu was not injured at all. He was only two years old at that time, and he was riding on a pony without crying.The Belgian missionary only learned one sentence in Mongolian, which is "Batu". Batu is a hero, so he was named Batu.

Later, the Belgian missionaries returned home and took Batu with them.Since then, Batu's experience has been wonderful: he studied in a seminary in Belgium, went to the Belgian Congo, participated in several black rebels, and lived in the Black Forest of Congo, which even the natives feared. a year long. Later, when the Second World War broke out, he worked in the underground army in Belgium and the Netherlands, and became a very important person in charge of the French anti-Nazi underground army. He also served in the regular army, led a mass escape in a concentration camp after being captured, and in the latter part of World War II, although he was still young, he was already one of the best intelligence officers of the Allied forces.

After the war, he retired and started a private detective agency.In terms of his knowledge and talent, his private detective business should be very prosperous, surpassing all detective agencies, but luck is not as good as his private detective agency, but there is no business at all, and he is so poor He almost wanted to rob a bank (with his ability, he would definitely be able to successfully rob), and only then did he have a small turning point. That is, the "Alien Intelligence Processing Bureau" was established, and the concurrent director was an old boss of his during the war, who thought of him and sent him to serve as the deputy director of the bureau.

Although he is the deputy director of a bureau, under his command, there is only a female secretary (also an archivist) and an adjutant with the rank of lieutenant. This adjutant also does everything that should be done. Fortunately, the funds of this bureau are quite sufficient, so he can travel around the world with nothing to do, staying in the east for a month and in the west for three weeks, and he is quite at ease. When Batu came to Hawaii, he planned to live there for only one week, but he met me and stayed with me in Hawaii for nearly three months.I'm not bragging, I have the power to attract people. The reason why Batu and I get along so well is because we both have a common characteristic.

This feature is: all weird things, in our view, are not "impossible". We all agree that human science is in an extremely poor embryonic age, and all impossible and ridiculous things are based on the current level of science. This is equivalent to a three-year-old child who does not know how Ray is It is the same as being discovered: that is to say, human beings are too unqualified to comment on all incredible things. Speaking of which, what the "Alien Intelligence Processing Bureau" does is exactly this kind of thing. The so-called "alien intelligence" does not refer to intelligence such as enemy attack, espionage, cold war, or hot war. This type of intelligence is popular, while "alien intelligence" is unpopular.

The so-called "alien intelligence" refers to some things that do not know what it is, and after all kinds of research, there is still no conclusion, and they are handed over to the "Alien Intelligence Processing Bureau" for processing. For example, an unknown luminous object suddenly flew in the sky above a certain place, and someone witnessed it.Naturally, witnesses went to the police first.Since the luminous object was spotted in the air, the police naturally reported everything to the Air Force authorities. The Air Force authorities conducted a study on the matter. If the research by the Air Force authorities fails to make a name for themselves, then this matter will be handed over to the "Alien Intelligence Processing Bureau".

According to this, the work of the "Alien Intelligence Processing Bureau" should be very busy. However, when I asked Batu this question, Batu sighed and shook his head. It turns out that things are completely different from what I imagined, because, in any aspect, they obviously received questions that they didn't understand, but they refused to admit that they didn't understand. With the conclusion, it is naturally not Batu's turn to work. Therefore, the "business" of this bureau is very light.It’s so light that the only actual person in charge of this bureau can accompany me at the sea stalls in Hawaii, picking up all kinds of shells and chatting all over the world, and the company lasts for three months!

Batu is very frank by nature. Not long after we met, he told me everything about himself. Naturally, I am not a person who "talks only when I meet people", so we quickly became confidants. It is agreed that if there is any strange thing, we must communicate with each other, and everyone will study it. He left Hawaii before me. One month after he left, just before I was about to leave, I received a telegram from him: "Want to see the red moon? Please come to me quickly, Batu." I did not understand what this telegram meant, so I sent a reply: Please explain further. His call back came: "Come to me quickly, don't hesitate!"

When I received his second telegram, it was night, and I looked out the window, and there was a bright moon in the sky, I blinked a few times, but the moon was still silvery white. The moon has been silvery-white since ancient times, and the scarlet letter and the moon are connected together, probably for the first time in that telegram from Batu! I don't know what's going on with Batu.But to be honest, even without this telegram, I would still like to visit Batu, because he is so interesting and has so much experience. I miss him and I very much, on the beach, talking about our own experiences, going to camp all night, without getting tired, so I stopped pushing him and just called back: "Coming soon." So, after several hours, I came to the stone house. If it wasn't for the copper signboard at the door, I must have thought I was looking for the wrong place. Originally, I thought that no matter how unpopular Batu's "yamen" was, at least it would occupy two extremely luxurious offices in the Ministry of National Defense Building, but it turned out to be like this! I came to the door, coughed twice, and raised my voice, "Is anyone there?" Batu's voice came from inside: "Come in quickly! You are finally here, come in quickly." I pushed the door and went in. When the door was pushed open, there was a "squeak" sound. I couldn't help but sighed, feeling aggrieved for my outstanding friend Batu in my heart. After the door was opened, there was a corridor about twenty feet long. At the end of the corridor was the back door. The back door was open, and a young man in a lieutenant's uniform was using a shower to spray flowers. I know that this young lieutenant must be one of the three staff members of the "Alien Intelligence Processing Bureau". I raised my hand to him, and he saw me too. He looked at me with a very strange look, as if wondering why someone would come to such an institution that was not noticed by others. I came to the corridor. There are two doors on both sides of the corridor. In other words, there are four rooms in the stone house. I don't know which room Batu is in, so I asked loudly: "Batu ,where are you?" Immediately, I heard the sound of a door opening. A young girl with red hair who was full of fire opened the door and poked her head out. She held a pencil in her mouth. The expression on her face was equally strange. . I nodded to her as a salute: "I'm looking for Batu." She cried out dramatically: "Oh, I understand, you must be the Chinese man he kept mentioning these days." Before I had a conversation with her again, with a "bang", another door opened, and Batu's voice came out, and he shouted loudly: "Wesley, come in!" I smiled apologetically at the beautiful red-haired female secretary, turned around and walked into Batu's room. I just walked in, and couldn't help sighing again, this is not an office! To be honest, even the messiest utility room is much neater than his office. That room was about 200 square feet, but the room to move about was only about 30 feet.All other places are filled with inexplicable old newspapers, cardboard boxes and wooden boxes, and an unknown number of packages of all kinds. And the desk in the middle of the room was also extremely messy, with many shells picked up from the beach in Hawaii piled up in one corner, exuding an extremely pungent fishy smell. And in the other corner, there are some potted plants, which are such an ugly plant that even I can't name what it is. In the middle of the desk, there are many opened and unopened folders. As for Batu himself, he is wearing a white shirt that has not been washed for at least four days, his hair is messy, and his beard is about half an inch long. It is hard to believe that he It's the middle-aged gentleman Batu who is gorgeously dressed and handsome in the first-class hotel in Hawaii! I reluctantly took a few steps, shrugged: "I don't understand, where am I?" "You mean I don't feel like an office here?" "It's not an office, Batu!" Ba Xiang was very aggrieved and said: "Why do you think that an office must be orderly? You have to know that the things I deal with are heterogeneous intelligence, which is different!" Seeing that I didn't respond, he took a step away and picked up a package wrapped in a newspaper, which contained a stone. He tossed the stone: "Look, it's an ordinary stone, isn't it? But there were two twelve-year-old boys who swore they heard a strange groan from the stone, so This stone came into the hands of the Ministry of War, but after a month, it was considered to be my disposal, and it was transferred to me, what should I do? Put it in a small crystal box?" "Okay!" I interrupted him, "I didn't come here for the stone. What is your so-called red moon?" "Don't worry, friend, sit down and talk!" It was hard for him to say "sit down and talk" because there were no other chairs in the room except the one in front of his desk.As for the only chair, after taking a look at it, I also think it is more suitable as a dwelling for the psyllid! My complexion must not be very good-looking, Ebatus smiled and pushed the only chair towards me, and he himself sat on a pile of newspapers. We finally sat down, and Batu asked again: "What would you like to drink? Whiskey?" I shook my head quickly: "No need! No need!" I was afraid that under such circumstances, there would be no wine at all, and it was more likely that the wine glass he brought out was covered with dust, so I quickly refused Ye's kindness. Unexpectedly, Batu smiled at me, and opened a drawer. There were several bottles of wine in that drawer. Batu took out a bottle. It was a dark green porcelain bottle, and the porcelain bottle was placed in a same color. In the velvet bag, I couldn't help whistling "shh". Because it was a very good bottle of whiskey, as all wine lovers knew: in the whole room, only this bottle of wine was suitable for Batu's status. He took out two more glasses, and after I drank half a glass of whiskey with him, the mood was much better: "Okay, now we can talk about the red moon." "If you're interested," he pointed to the many papers on the desk, "I think you should look at these first." I shook my head and said, "It's better as you said." It's not that I don't want to know more about it, but because I saw the documents, most of them were in Spanish.My Spanish is not fluent, so it is quite difficult to read so many documents, so it is better to listen to Batu's narration. Batu said: "Okay, the incident happened in the south of Spain, in a small town called Ticaron." I didn't wait for him to continue, and said, "Batu, your first sentence doesn't make any sense!" Batu stared fixedly at me, and I said, "What you want to tell me is the red moon, the red moon. There is only one moon, and if one day the moon turns red, it will be a matter for the entire earth. Let's say it happened in a small town in Spain." Batu smiled at me: "Don't be impatient, you just can't wait, just listen to me, okay?" Instead, I had nothing to say when he refuted it, so I had no choice but to say angrily: "Okay, tell me, what is Tikalong Town like?" "There are about 3,000 residents in this town. This is a place with a long cultural history. Don't underestimate that it only has 3,000 residents, but there are many scholars in it. That day...to be precise, August 24th Today, at 10:27 p.m., everyone in the town was stunned by a phenomenon." When Batu spoke here, he paused. Since I hit him a nail just now, he also stopped at this moment, wanting me to ask a question, but I just rolled my eyes and didn't make a sound. Batu smiled to himself: "If you and I met this phenomenon, you would be stupefied. It turned out that we also saw that the moon above their heads turned bright red!" I sat up straight and showed that I was listening attentively. Batu continued: "How red is it? There are many people's descriptions recorded in the report, but I think it is the most vivid description by a writer. The writer who saw the red moon said: "The moon suddenly became red, There is a glow in the red, it is so red that we think it is not the moon that hangs in the sky, but the heart that just jumped out of the human body!' Look, there is no doubt that it is red!" I sat up straighter, because this is indeed a very bizarre thing. For thousands of years, the light reflected by the moon is soft and silvery white. How could it become red? Moreover, if it is true that some minerals on the moon have changed, causing the reflection of the sun to glow red, then people all over the world should see a red light on their heads. Why is it that only a town on the coast of Spain can see the full moon? I asked, "How many people have seen a red moon? How long has the moon been bright red?" Batu flipped through the report and said: "There are 3,446 people, which is 92% of the population in the town, and there are 8% of the people. They also saw Hongyuewan, and they couldn't accept interviews either." Batu looked at me to see if I had any questions. "What organization is conducting the investigation?" I asked. "The first investigation was conducted by the police in the local province, followed by an investigation by the Spanish National Scientific and Health Organization, and finally by the European, American and Asian Tricontinental Defense Organization, which is a very large intercontinental military organization. Transfer to the Alien Information Processing Bureau. For the last time, more than two hundred people were dispatched to investigate!" I asked again: "How long has the red moon appeared, and has it appeared again in the future?" "The correct time is seven minutes and twenty-one seconds. Because there are too many witnesses, and many of them are reputable scholars, it is really an undoubted thing, so it has attracted the attention of many organizations. Since that incident After the incident, the population of this town has increased by more than 400, and they all live in the town, hoping to see a red moon, but until now, these people have been disappointed." Batu said. I slowly nodded my head: "Accordingly, this matter has attracted so much attention, there must have been many conclusions?" "There are many theories. Some people think that the people in this town have a collective illusion, some people think that some kind of factor has caused the people in the town to be hypnotized collectively, and some people say that there must be a bright red The cloud covered the moon at that time, but the person who made this statement couldn't explain how the cloud could be bright red!" I shook my hand impatiently: "I can also come up with several explanations like this without thinking: it may be a whirlwind that blows up the red soil on the red soil plateau, and just came to the sky above the town, forming a cloud. The red barrier; it can also be said that the Northern Lights came over the small town through the wonderful reflection of the clouds—this is all a 'possibility', not a certainty!" "That's right! That's right!" Batu nodded his head, "Please don't forget that if there is a conclusion, the matter will not be pushed to me!" I laughed: "Okay, what are you going to do?" As I spoke, I leaned back and tilted my chair up.Unexpectedly, that chair was too old. I tilted back, and with a "slap", the leg of the chair broke. I flickered and nearly fell. flipped. The table was full of reports, and when the blue ink was overturned, the reports were all stained. I couldn't help being a little embarrassed: "Batu, come and rescue these documents!" Batu's rescue method is also really special. He gathered the documents on the table into a ball and stuffed them into the wastebasket. Then he raised his head: "You asked me just now what I am going to do? I will Prepare for this." I was very surprised: "Ready to ignore it?" "Of course not, what I mean is, we have to investigate this matter in person, and we must not be affected by all previous investigation reports!" I said "hmm": "Us?" Batu spread his hands dramatically: "You won't refuse my invitation, will you? At the same time I sent you a telegram, I have already sent a report to my superiors, asking for a temporary helper, and I have paid for it The budget is extremely sufficient, my friend, don’t you want to go on vacation in a beautiful Spanish coastal town?” Batu immediately convinced me, and I didn't protest again. After a few days, I thought of Batu's words "going on vacation as if it were a vacation", and I really had a wry smile, but that was in the future thing. Batu laughed triumphantly, patted me on the shoulder vigorously, and said, "Okay, then we will leave immediately!" I hurriedly shook my head and said, "No, you go first, I came immediately after receiving your telegram, I have to go home first, and then meet you in Spain." Batu knew the situation of my family, so he naturally knew the relationship between me and Bai Su, so he didn't stop me, but said: "Okay, let's meet directly in that small town, and I will live in that town In the only hotel, you come to me." He also gave me a map of Spain showing the town of Ticaron.Then, we put aside the "Red Moon" incident, and hurriedly introduced a few unsolved cases, hoping that after the investigation of the "Red Moon" matter is clear, we can assist him in dealing with those strange cases that cannot be explained. Naturally agreed. That night, after interrupting his extravagant dinner, I boarded the plane again. I sent a telegram and asked Bai Su to pick me up at the airport. When I finally got off the plane, I saw Bai Su running towards me. We held hands tightly and looked at each other. That night, I sat on the balcony with her, the moonlight was very bright, Bai Su suddenly said: "Can you believe that the moon turns red?" I was taken aback for a moment: "What? Have you ever seen the moon turn red?" "Of course not me. You must have not read a newspaper for months. In a small town in Spain, on one night, the whole town saw the moon turn red!" Because I was afraid that Bai Su would blame me for not rushing back to meet her immediately after leaving Hawaii, I kept hiding the matter of my meeting with Batu and never told her. At this time, Bai Su mentioned this matter again, and I thought for a while: "Of course I know about this matter, and I have accepted the invitation of the Alien Information Processing Bureau, and I am going to investigate this matter!" Bai Su lowered his head, and after a while, he said: "Then, are we going to separate again?" I held her hand: "You can go together." Bai Su smiled: "Unless that intelligence agency also invites me to work, otherwise, what am I? When are you leaving?" "Oh!" I sighed, "Accordingly, I should go early tomorrow morning, but I think it doesn't matter if it's a few days later." Bai Su pointed at the tip of my nose: "You speak bluntly. In fact, as long as there is a red dot on the moon, you don't even want your wife, and you rush to find out what happened. What's more, the whole moon has turned into a red dot now." Red, do you still have the mood to accompany me?" I opened my hands: "That's really wronged!" Bai Su smiled and said, "Wrong? Let me ask you, where did you go after you left Hawaii?" "I...I went to see a friend, he is the deputy director of the intelligence bureau, how do you know?" "Where did you send that telegram from? But a place you passed by on the way home from Hawaii? I have made a big mistake and I don't know yet." Bai Su smiled triumphantly, "You , If you want to hide something from me, it's not enough!" Under such circumstances, I really have nothing else to do but giggle. In order not to give Bai Su the material, I deliberately delayed by seven days. By the time Bai Su pushed me to the airport, I was already seven days behind Batu. Batu knows my address, so he has already arrived in that small town, and must be investigating. I wonder why he didn't come to urge me! The plane landed in Madrid, I rented a car, followed the directions on the map, and drove straight to Ticaron.The scenery of Spain is extremely charming, and it is indeed a very pleasant trip. I was in a very happy mood until I arrived in Tikalong Town, but it was a pity that Bai Su did not come with me. However, after finding the only hotel in Darna, I was a little unhappy. I asked at the cabinet, Batu arrived eight days ago, and five days ago, he left the hotel, and when he left the hotel, he left a letter for me. The business of the hotel is very good, the rooms are full, I share the same room with Batu, Batu told the manager of the hotel, I will come anytime, the room must be reserved.