Clone Octopus

Chapter 26 The Moving Island
Shen Rui was taken aback. It turned out that the two dragons chasing the moon wall were pointing at an unknown radar. As for why the moon chasing wall pointed to Penglai this time, Shen Rui and Ye Wuhen almost blurted out in unison.

"Mirage!"

Ye Wuhen said in a deep voice: "Penglai is most famous for its mirages. I am afraid that there is no place in the world that has a higher probability of mirages than Penglai. I think that since the moon chasing wall points to Penglai, it should be the same as the legendary Penglai Fairy Mountain." related."

Shen Rui frowned and said, "That being said, science has already proven that the so-called mirages and fairylands are just the refraction of light and shadow through the atmosphere, which are illusory."

Ye Wuhen smiled slightly, and quickly tapped his fingers on his military computer.

"The ancients had a bad habit of emphasizing people and despising events. Even the emperor's food, drink, and Lazard had to make a daily life note. About the disasters and geographical changes in various places, they were often just a few words, so we want to know the past on the ground of Penglai. For everything that has happened, we still have to start with unofficial histories and those unique historical materials that not many people understand.”

"If my guess is correct, Penglai Fairyland should be related to the legendary Sea Fairy Mountain." Ye Wuhen started a program that Shen Rui couldn't understand while talking to himself.

"This is a keyword search and filtering tool for historical materials written by myself. Now my unique search engine has been launched. It will not only connect to large databases like the National Library, but also link to many unknown private materials. library, plus English search, and read all the materials in foreign libraries, I believe we will get the answer we want to know soon.”

Shen Rui really admires Ye Wuhen. According to his introduction, many databases are not open to the public at all, and he needs to hack into them with his own technology, which cannot be done by others.

As for the so-called fairy mountains on the sea, Shen Rui is skeptical. As a senior fan of mysterious events, Shen Rui certainly knows that Huaxia has been rumored since ancient times that there are three moving mountains in the distant East China Sea. According to the gods, those who are lucky enough to land on the fairy island can live forever.

The three major immortal mountains are Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou. The name of modern Penglai City comes from the legend, which means that Penglai City is the closest outlet to the sea from Penglai Immortal Mountain.

The nursery rhymes written by the ancients once sang like this, "There is a fairy mountain on the sea. The prince went to ask for a fairy. The alchemy will take nineteen days, and the mountain will be seven days old. The world has been thousands of years..."

Others, such as, the fishermen rescued a big fish near the fairy mountain, the big fish was very grateful, and every time it brought treasures from the sea, helping the fishermen become rich in the world, there are countless such legends.

In any case, there is no harm in studying these legends. Shen Rui and Ye Wuhen exchanged phone numbers and agreed to meet again after Ye Wuhen's search results were obtained.

……

Ye Wuhen processed the information much faster than Shen Rui imagined. Only two days later, he called and asked Shen Rui to have a gathering at the bright moon on the sea.

When Shen Rui saw Ye Wuhen in the hotel box, he was wearing a suit and tie as usual, carrying the small box full of various advanced equipment and white chocolate.

Even though Ye Wuhen's eyes were bloodshot, he was in exceptionally good spirits. As soon as he saw Shen Rui, he took out the materials that had already been sorted out and printed and bound into a book.

"You see, these are the materials I collected about the fairy mountains on the sea." Ye Wuhen said excitedly: "Stone, a French missionary in the late Qing Dynasty, once heard the legend about the fairy mountains on the sea from local fishermen. As a Christian, he didn't believe it. There are other gods besides God, so I hired people to sail out to sea and search for fairy mountains on the sea.”

"At the last moment, Priest Stone was ready to give up. Suddenly, a mirage appeared on the sea. The boatmen rowed desperately. Finally, close to the mirage, they saw a large mountain thrust into the sky. The mountain was surrounded by clouds and mist, with vines, dwarf pines, and faint wild beasts. Roaring noise."

"Priest Stone recalled that at that time he was only a few hundred meters away from this magical mountain, and he felt as if pairs of eyes in the mountain were watching him. I missed the opportunity and watched this magical sea fairy mountain disappear with the disappearance of the mirage, and I have to regret it for the rest of my life."

"These materials come from the Holy See Archives in the Vatican, and were written by a missionary with a pious belief. They are very reliable!"

Ye Wuhen continued: "Also, also, I found such a volume of information from the Russian Far East Maritime Archives. It was also in the late Qing Dynasty that a Chinese fisherman suddenly appeared in Okhotsk driving a sampan. In the sea area, the Russian fleet was surprised and rescued the Chinese fisherman."

"After asking, I found out that this fisherman didn't know that he had left his hometown thousands of miles away. According to him, he encountered a mirage in the sea and landed on a huge island. He originally wanted to explore the island. , but I heard the faint roar of beasts in the mountains, and I was so scared that I didn’t dare to climb the mountain. I only rested on the island for one night, then pushed the sampan away from the island, but ended up running here.”

"Of course the people in the Russian fleet don't believe in such bizarre legends, but they can't explain how a fisherman drove his small sampan into the rough seas of Okhotsk."

"Later, the people of the Russian fleet saw the fisherman as pitiful, so they took him in as a cook on board. The Chinese are good at cooking food. The Russians like this Chinese cook who has a miraculous experience. Not only does he have a job , married a wife and had children, and his descendants are still living in the Russian Far East.”

"In order to verify this, I called a member of the Mensa Club there. He personally went to the descendants of the fisherman to verify it, and even saw a pair of oars, which were left on the sampan. You Look, here's the photo."

Shen Rui took the photo and looked at it, and immediately frowned.

The ancients were far more honest than modern people. Although the wood pulp has been mottled, you can still clearly see the handwriting left by the carpenter who made the pair of oars, stating that the pair of jujube wood oars were carefully crafted by themselves and are guaranteed for 30 years.

As for the date on the photo, it was yesterday.

Ye Wuhen started to eat sweets again, and while chewing white chocolate, he explained his findings one by one.

The information he collected is very characteristic. If it is just a legend, it will not be included. All the information that can be included are eyewitnesses, with a certain degree of credibility. The source of the information, the writer, the witnesses, and the list clearly.

A piece of evidence was right in front of him, and Shen Rui couldn't help but not believe it.

"So, there are really moving mountains on the sea?" Shen Rui pointed a Yuxi and said to himself.

Ye Wuhen said: "It's very simple to verify this problem, you and I will go to Penglai in person."

"According to my summary of these eyewitness reports, there are two characteristics of a moving island. First, its appearance must be accompanied by a mirage. Second, the only way to reach it is to advance quickly, before the mirage disappears. , go straight over."

"This way we may see the legendary moving island, and maybe even land on the island!"

Turning the subject, Ye Wuhen said in a deep voice: "The only problem is that I collected the information about Penglai mirages over the past hundred years and found that more than 50.00% of the mirage phenomena occurred between the first and second days of the lunar calendar. "

Shen Rui was startled, "The day after tomorrow is the first day of junior high school!"

Ye Wuhen nodded, and said eagerly: "Yes, if we want to see the legendary moving island, we must act quickly."

For someone like Shen Rui who is keen on various mysterious events, this temptation is irresistible.

That night, an iron-hulled fishing boat set sail from Yashan Wharf and headed for Penglai at the northern tip of the peninsula at full speed.

There were three people on the boat, Shen Rui, Pan Yong, and Ye Wuhen.

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