Dream Guide

Church's Diary 10

The fog has lasted for two days and one night and shows no sign of dissipating.

Mr. Robbins ordered the underwater robot to be put down, trying to let it find the location of the ruins first. It was a crab-like thing, as big as a dining table, with six mechanical arms that could easily crawl and retrieve things. The "eye" at the front of its body, which can extend like a snail's antennae, holds two cameras.

They all call it "General".

The general dragged a long tail line to the bottom of the Discovery to transmit signals to the ship. The ruins target is located at an underwater depth of more than 300 meters. The seawater blocks radio waves, and even long waves cannot be transmitted. The signal can only be received through optical cables.

As a result, the bottom of Discovery's ship seemed to extend a long tentacle, and at the end of the tentacle was a steel crab. The crab leads Discovery forward slowly.

However, the general swam in the water for a day but could not find the remains.

Although Mr. Robbins remained a very gentlemanly man, I could see that he was worried. At noon, he and Mrs. Larry came to see Anderson and me to discuss whether to expand the scope of the search, such as sending out a small manned submarine.

Mrs. Larry insisted on going to the sea, saying that sea fog would not affect underwater work, and the conference in Copenhagen was about to be held. The results of the Discovery expedition were still waiting over there, but we couldn't even find the place. It was really unreasonable.

Mr. Robbins had reservations. He is a marine expert and is very worried about the cause of this fog. He said that sea fog in the South Pacific is concentrated on the westerly drifting ocean surface south of 40° south latitude, which usually occurs in spring and summer, and we are now in winter in the Pacific at 30° south latitude.

To be honest, I also think this fog is too strange. Although I can't explain it scientifically like Mr. Robbins, my experience tells me that there shouldn't be such a heavy fog at this time, let alone such a persistent fog.

Robbins wonders if this strange fog will be followed by severe weather changes or other unpredictable things. We have found no buoys, which means our location may be a mile or more away from the underwater ruins. At this time, people go into the sea with equipment. If an accident occurs or there is a storm at sea, it will be very difficult to rescue them.

Mrs. Larry said that just waiting here won't solve the problem. If the fog doesn't clear for a week, do we have to wait for a week? Fog is an atmospheric phenomenon that has nothing to do with seawater and will not affect underwater operations.

They all looked at me, which made me a little embarrassed. Although I am the captain, Robbins is the captain of the scientific expedition. They are in charge of the scientific expedition. I am only responsible for driving the ship to the designated location and returning safely.

But since they wanted to hear my opinion, of course I had to say something. Just when I was weighing the gains and losses, Anderson, who had been silent, suddenly said, "This is the most advanced scientific research ship in the world, with the most advanced equipment, connected to the most advanced satellites in the sky, and with the world's top scientists." , but can’t find an undersea ruin that has been discovered, whose coordinates have been clarified, and whose coordinates have been marked? Accept the reality! You know it doesn't exist, right?

His words cut like nails on a blackboard, but neither Robbins nor Mrs. Larry retorted.

Seeing that they remained silent, Anderson continued, "You said you saw Ghost Island. Where is Ghost Island?" You said there are underwater ruins, where are the ruins? You know they don't exist, you just don't want to admit it! Okay, I'd better go fishing. You can decide for yourself what to do. Oh, by the way, Church, let me know the results.

After Anderson left, the cabin fell into a long silence. Finally, Robbins looked at Mrs. Larry and said, Professor Silva will not lie to us. Mrs. Larry also said, I also believe Professor Silva, we must have made some mistake.

I said, so what did we go wrong?

This question bothers me, and to this day, I still can't sleep. God bless, I hope the problem is not my fault, after all, I drove the boat.

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Church's Diary 11

Today is really a day of great joy and great sadness. We have experienced the real Song of Ice and Fire.

In the early morning, "General" finally made a discovery. The person on duty responsible for monitoring screamed, waking everyone up like an air raid siren. I rushed into the monitoring room with the crowd and saw that the monitoring screen showed the outline of a reef covered with corals, with some sharp-edged rocks scattered among them.

Someone started shouting excitedly, "That's it!" That's it!

At this time, the sonar detector and magnetic detector also responded. Relevant personnel immediately took action and all instruments and electronic equipment were turned on. Through some advanced technology, the things detected by sonar and magnetism were combined with the things captured by cameras. I saw the outline of a three-dimensional linear submarine island on the computer screen. On the surface of this island, there are some rocks that resemble buildings and some caves.

Miraculously, there is a huge triangular funnel in the center of the island. As computers continue to calculate and simulate, the details of this funnel become increasingly clear. People who had seen it before pointed at it and said excitedly, "Yes, that's it, it's the pyramid."

Robbins, who had always been calm, seemed a little agitated at this time, but he tried to control himself. I heard him thinking to himself, why didn't our detectors pick it up before?

I have the same question. Logically speaking, such a large place should have been detected long ago. But our device seemed to be asleep and woke up at almost the same time. I feel like this thing in front of me is not always there, but appears suddenly.

Robbins ordered, report to the ground command center, arrive at the destination, prepare to anchor, and request satellite angle calibration.

Just when people were excitedly preparing to have a big fight, the lights on the ship flashed a few times, and then the power went out.

It was still dark, and the cabin seemed extremely dark.

I immediately arranged for someone to go down for inspection. About twenty minutes later, the circuit on the ship was repaired and the light returned to the cabin. However, after those advanced instruments and computers were restarted, we found that everything was back to the state it was yesterday, the ruins were gone, and there was nothing in the dark deep sea except sea water, only an endless abyss.

Oh my gosh! In the end what happened? Could it be that in this early morning, all seventy-three people on board the Discovery had a collective dream! ?

People kept slapping the machines, and some even shouted hysterically. However, everything is in vain, those instruments rigidly maintain their scientific creed - nothing means nothing, and will not deceive you, even if it is just a white lie to the owner, it will never be willing.

This is not the worst thing. The worst thing is that after daybreak, I found that we were lost.

Although power and equipment were restored to normal, Discovery was unable to connect to GPS and could not receive any radio signals. The maritime phone also lost signal and could not contact any ground organizations, as if the satellites in the sky had disappeared.

Now Discovery is like a blind man who has lost his blind stick. I didn't know what to do but pray for a miracle. Oh, if only I could be as carefree as Anderson. You see, he went fishing again.