Dream Guide

Church's Diary 12

Who has ever experienced two consecutive daylight hours? We just went through it. That's right, two consecutive days, 24 hours a day. The sun just set on one side of the sea and then rose on the other side.

In the early morning, the GPS navigation system and communication equipment all failed, and we were unable to make any contact with the ground or space. This means that we are lost at sea. We have no navigation, no positioning, no idea of ​​the future weather, and no idea of ​​where the nearest island is. In such a foggy day, it is simply difficult to move.

We are like a piece of duckweed floating in the boundless Pacific Ocean.

After daybreak, Anderson told me that the fog outside was lifting. I went out and took a look. The sea was still white, but the fog did look a little lighter than yesterday.

During the day, the wind picked up on the sea, the fog became lighter and more obvious, and the flag on the flagpole was fluttering in the wind. Everyone came to the deck, breathing the slightly salty air, watching the thick fog dissipate little by little, and the sea gradually opened up. Now, whether there are underwater ruins and whether the scientific research mission can be completed has become relatively unimportant. People only look forward to the moment when they will see the light of day again.

As long as the fog dissipates and there is no other bad weather at sea, even without GPS, we can use the compass and charts to drive the Discovery to the Tubuai Islands hundreds of nautical miles to the north. When we get ashore, we will study carefully what went wrong, or ask for help from the New Zealand and U.S. Navy. With Mr. Robbins's energy, we should be able to request naval warships to assist in the escort. If he had known that such strange conditions would occur at sea, I think Robbins would have done so.

At about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the first ray of sunlight that penetrated the fog hit the deck, and we all cheered. Then, the sunlight was like an arrow, shooting away the demon-like fog without a trace. At that time, the sun was like a huge red fireball, setting towards the sea level in the west, and the gorgeous sunset burned the sea and the sky red.

Maybe it’s because I haven’t seen the sun for a long time, but this sunset looks particularly spectacular. Even when I recall the countless sunrises and sunsets I have seen on the sea in my life, I have never been as shocked as today.

I saw solemn and fascinated expressions on other people's faces, probably feeling the same as me. Only Anderson took advantage of the fog to dissipate and had already taken his fishing rod and fished leisurely, paying no attention to the beautiful scenery in the distance.

I originally thought that it would be dark after sunset. I didn't even need to think about this common sense. I was already thinking about the next sailing direction, or I should discuss with Mr. Robbins whether to wait for the communication to be restored in place or go north. Tubuai Islands, or simply head west back to New Zealand.

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted, "Sunrise!"

I followed his voice and looked over, and another shocking scene appeared. I will never forget what I saw today in my life. Not only me, but everyone on the ship cannot forget this scene. Some people were even kneeling on the ground. He kept crossing himself on his chest and praying to God. Even Anderson dropped his fishing rod and stood up straight, facing east, stunned.

At this time, in the east, the small half-circle of the red sun was rising from the horizon, and the bright rays of light began to dye the sky and the sea red. However, when I looked back, most of the red sun in the west was still over the sea.

Sunrise in the east and sunset in the west happen almost at the same time. I kept looking both ways, and when I looked carefully, I was even more shocked, because I found that the sun in the east rose as much as the sun set in the west. My intuition tells me that the two suns are actually the same. There must be something wrong with the earth, or there must be something wrong with my eyes.

When the sunset in the west has completely set, the rising sun in the east has also completely emerged from the sea. Its red cheeks began to become dazzling, and then emitted golden light, illuminating everything in the world, and a new day began again.

We all stood quietly on the deck like the stone statues on Easter Island, staring blankly at the sky, unable to move for a long time. At some point, it became hot on the deck, sweat broke out on my forehead, and I felt a slight dampness on my back. I calmed down and then took off my thick coat.

My movements and the noise I made probably alerted the others, who all came to their senses and began to take off their clothes. We then went back to the cabin and started discussing what had happened. During the discussion, the scientists and sailors naturally divided into two groups, each talking about their own issues. Sailors mostly talked about miracles, God and Poseidon, while scientists were seeking more scientific explanations for this phenomenon. At this time, everyone discovered that such a miracle happened, but no one thought to use a camera or mobile phone to take pictures of the scene.

Anderson and I were invited to the team of scientists as usual, but we couldn't express any opinions. Even Anderson, who has always been open-mouthed, honestly kept his mouth shut at this moment.

Scientists have made various guesses, but they are difficult to convince everyone.

Mrs. Larry said, could it be the effect of the mirror pyramid? The sun sets in the west and rises in the east at the same time, much like a mirror image phenomenon. Or we can think about it this way, when we see the sunset at 150° west longitude and 30° south latitude, can we just see the sunrise in the Sahara Desert on the other side of the earth? In other words, there was some connection between the two mirror images of each other just now, or earlier. The strange fog may have been caused by this, so we saw that the two pyramids can be seen at the same time. Arrived scene. Stephen, what do you think?

Stephen Robbins said, I don’t study space physics, so I’d better listen to Partick’s opinion in this regard.

Pardick is a space physicist who is famous for his research on parallel universes, but he is not good at talking and stutters when he speaks. So he only said one thing, Mrs. Larry is right, this is probably a kind of space folding phenomenon.

At this time, Anderson suddenly said loudly, ladies and gentlemen, don't you feel hot?

He always had a loud voice and was not at all gentlemanly. But this is understandable. Most sailors at sea have developed a loud voice.

Only then did I realize that the weather was a bit too hot. Even though I had taken off my coat just now, I was still sweating. I was alert to something, but I couldn't put it into words.

Robbins frowned and said that the temperature exceeded 25 degrees Celsius and the sun was too strong, not like the winter sun at all. If we are still at the original location and time, there must be something wrong with the earth's rotation or magnetic field...

I heard something behind him, but he didn't say any more. Perhaps as Mrs. Larry said, scientists never make baseless speculations.

I'm not a scientist, so I can make a wild guess. In that heavy fog, we probably traveled through some space and came to the Pacific Ocean in the northern hemisphere, maybe near Hawaii, or traveled through a certain period of time and came to the South Pacific in the future. Or a past summer. The time of travel is probably the moment of sunset and sunrise.

Is there no one around lately, or does everyone just stop talking if Aoki doesn’t show up?