Every Day One Step Closer To the Manifestation

There was a hurried footstep in the stairwell.

At the door of the dormitory building, people rushed out one after another.

At this time, it was no longer necessary to care about whether the clothes were neat, the buttons were wrongly buttoned, the shoelaces were tied crookedly, and one of them was directly wearing pajamas and casually draped a coat and ran out.

Xiaojia, who was already asleep, opened his eyes alertly, listened carefully to the movements around him, opened the curtains, looked downstairs, and saw several familiar figures.

It is certainly not a trivial matter to make these big guys react so violently at two o'clock in the morning. Changes in the sea?

"Tsk, what exactly did the boss do?"

Feng Yi didn't tell him in detail last night. He only knew that Feng Yi went to the bottom of the sea for a walk, and what he did in the process, he didn't know yet.

But what is certain is that what Feng Yi did, no one has contacted them yet. Otherwise, the entire dormitory building would have been fenced off.

As long as it is not discovered and Feng Yi does not reveal his true form, everything else is trivial.

Thinking so, Xiaojia lay down and continued to sleep, taking the time to recover.

Now that you have chosen this profession, you must always be prepared. If Feng Yi's original form is exposed, you must have enough energy to run away.

In the next room, Feng Yi was already asleep.

The marked route is not short. It is the first time I have tried this marking method. It consumes a lot of energy. As long as there are no loud shouts and no negative emotional messages coming from outside, he will continue to maintain this state of rest.

There was no incoming call from the mobile phone, but there were a few new message reminders, and the movement was not very big, and it did not wake Feng Yi up.

That night, Feng Yi dreamed of a snake swimming in the sea...

In an office building not far away.

The people who rushed over from the dormitory couldn't take a break, panting, their eyes fixed on several computers.

"Quick! Let me see the data!"

"This is the newly received sea star biomass statistics map?!"

The data map released on one of the computers is the number of starfish-like individuals in unit space at different times.

In some areas, the number of starfish individuals in a unit space increases rapidly, while in other areas it decreases sharply.

This is unusual!

Because of this, the unmanned underwater vehicle interrupted the mission and uploaded data in advance.

And the first reaction of the staff on duty when they saw the data was - the submersible failed? Emergency report?

But as more and more data received and more detailed video files came, it proved not to be a misjudgment!

It's really unusual!

"Impossible! It shouldn't be!"

"In the area near the coast, the number is increasing rapidly... The number of starfish in the distant sea is decreasing..."

"Only starfish have this change? No, not only starfish, but also fewer fish?"

"The number of fish has indeed decreased. In addition, there are other conditions."

An expert walked in from the outside with a mobile phone in his hand and had just finished a call.

"When I came, I asked a fishing friend. He said that a few of them went fishing at night. Since last night, they have not caught a few, especially in the middle of the night, when they can't catch anything. They brought portable cables. The remote-controlled robot took pictures of the underwater situation. I just asked them for a video.”

While speaking, the man projected the screen of his mobile phone to the monitor next to him.

"It's not that there are no fish underwater, but that fish don't eat bait! They don't eat anything spilled into the water! There was no such situation at the same time period yesterday."

A researcher who was staring at the computer screen saw this, and his eyebrows were almost squeezed into knots. "However, the monitoring of the water environment shows that it is still within the normal range, and the data sent by the monitoring stations are not abnormal."

"Is it the latest seawater sampling analysis?"

"Um."

"Test again! Wait, take a sample of seawater and take it back to the laboratory on the top floor for testing! The new instruments there are more accurate!"

An older professor was slower. After coming in, he approached the computer that recorded the latest data, looked at the screen laboriously, reached out and took off the reading glasses worn by his colleague next to him, "Lend me the glasses first, I'm running too fast. Forgot to bring it."

For a time, in the small room, various voices mingled with people arguing, talking to themselves, printing documents and typing on the keyboard.

Suddenly someone shouted: "The latest submarine video of the core area of ​​the situation has been transmitted!"

The mixed voices all pressed the pause button at this moment, everything at hand was put on hold for the time being, and his eyes were glued to the screen in front of him—

On the dark bottom of the sea, under the light of the submersible, the severed arms and legs remained there quietly, very strange.

With the advancement of the camera, we continue to move forward, and all the pictures are similar.

Like a silent underwater horror movie.

Looking at the broken wrists everywhere in the picture, everyone only felt a chill on their backs.

These marine organisms are extremely sensitive to changes in their environment, and some changes that humans cannot detect can cause them to behave very differently.

Yesterday, the starfish was still aggressive, and everyone had a headache how to solve this wave of attacks. Has it become like this now?

In such a short period of time, what happened there that stimulated these starfish to cut themselves collectively?

What's the secret behind this?

People who are pessimistic like Professor Li, think of "climate anomalies" at the first moment.

Because I have experienced an abnormal climate period, I know how terrible that period was. Therefore, when encountering such a sudden and unexplainable event, the first thing that pops up in my mind is that the "climatic anomaly period" makes a comeback!

The calm-looking team leader pondered for a moment and said, "The data we have received is limited now, and the fact that the data is literally this does not prove that it is the case. After all, the submersibles we use have limited functions and insufficient intelligence. The number of launches is small, and the data measured in the sea is very limited. In any case, we can’t jump to conclusions yet. Increase the number of submersibles! If you don’t have it, borrow it! I will apply for a manned submersible and see it for myself!”

For the investigative team and experts in related fields, it was destined to be a sleepless night, or even a good night's sleep over the next few days.

In the morning, the sun peeked out of the clouds.

When Feng Yi woke up, there seemed to be a snake tail swinging in the sea in his mind.

Yawning, he got up and took the phone to look at it.

Clicking on the chat app, the eyelids jumped instantly, and the somewhat dazed consciousness suddenly woke up.

Several chat groups related to work were about to be crowded with information. Feng Yi didn't go to read several group messages immediately. He first looked at the private chat messages sent to him by others.

It's not about privacy either, it's mostly about telling what's going on and what's going on today.

This information sums up as:

Early this morning, the unmanned underwater vehicle that was put on the mission in the waters of Mocheng found an abnormal situation in the sea. The original mission arrangement of the team was temporarily changed. Feng Yi did not have a mission assigned and could move freely.

Feng Yi continued to read the group chat messages, his eyebrows raised.

Changes in the sea were discovered?

It's just that there is not much useful information in the group, and there are many guesses. People who know the latest situation will not talk about it in the chat group. Several core bosses in the team have disappeared after saying a word or two, or they may be too busy to watch the group.

Feng Yi got up quickly, he planned to go out to take a look, and he didn't know if the starfish army in the sea had dispersed now.

"Boss, do you have any plans for today?" Xiaojia asked.

"Not yet." After thinking about it, Feng Yi said again, "Don't go fishing today, pay attention to what's happening nearby."

"In the sea?"

"On land. For example, did the local residents notice any movement, and the reaction of small animals."

I don't know if the markers in the sea will affect the people of Mocheng. It stands to reason that the marked route is some distance away from Mocheng, and those markers should now disperse with the flow of the sea.

After leaving the dormitory, Feng Yi did not immediately go to the pier.

Eat first, I'm hungry.

I saw several students in the cafeteria, all of whom were led by their tutors to follow up on the starfish outbreak. Feng Yi asked them to borrow courseware notes before.

Concentrating on the meal, Feng Yi did not participate in their discussion. After eating, he went to the pier with them.

On the way to the pier, Feng Yi listened to them talking about "magic incidents under the sea".

Feng Yi's acting skills started, he was shocked, surprised, and curious, and responded with a few words from time to time:

"They fled... evacuated?"

"Really? All withdrawn?"

"Oh... so that's the case... I don't even know!"

Facing Feng Yi's deceptive face, coupled with his aura of internet celebrity expert, several students felt a sense of achievement and shared the information they knew and their own analysis.

Student: "A large group of starfish cut themselves together, and many of them cut two arms and legs. I don't know what stimulated them to cut them like this."

Feng Yi: "What do you think?"

Student: "That's the reason. First of all, there are no natural enemies in the sea, so let's rule out the natural enemies first."

Feng Yi: "... um!"

Student: "The most likely cause is the oppression of the external environment. Collective self-cutting has not happened before, but this time the situation is too strange. Now, one has not found seawater pollution, and two has not detected a sudden change in temperature. There are no abnormal reports in other items, it's just... quite sudden. It's the unknown that makes people feel uneasy and full of doubts!"

The pier is still very lively.

The people who fished for the starfish were busy pouring out the starfish in the net, and the merchants who wanted to buy the starfish also waited in a long line.

The oyster and clam farmers gathered together, not knowing if they got the latest news, the sadness on their faces was greatly reduced, and their voices were raised.

Several students saw this and whispered:

"Sure enough, I caught more starfish than yesterday."

"The offshore starfish are gathering towards the coast, and strangely, the temperature today is about the same as yesterday, but they have become less active in predation."

"The near-shore area is gathering, but further away the starfish are evacuating, and this wave cannot erupt. I heard from my instructor that there is a strange 'vacuum' in the sea. There are few fish there, and the starfish are only left to themselves. Cut the fallen arms and legs. Like a barrier. On one side of the barrier, starfish gather toward the coast, and on the other side of the barrier, the gathered starfish retreats."

"It's like the circle drawn by Sun Wukong. The monsters and monsters outside the circle can't get in. It's a bit like an enchantment... I doubt there is any special power..."

"What nonsense! My teacher and the others are sampling in that area now, and the data is still being collected. If you don't know the specific situation, don't guess, and don't say anything! Also, don't be heard by the media, you If they can say a hundred, they can't tell what it will be made up. Hey, a ship is coming!"

Feng Yi looked over and saw that a scientific research ship was docked, and he also saw several people from Professor Ding.

Seeing Feng Yi, Professor Ding came over. It was probably because he didn't sleep well at night, and he looked blue and black at the moment, looking tired, but not sleepy, and his mental state was okay.

Professor Ding stopped Feng Yi, "Isn't our sea snake mission about to start soon, but there is an emergency here, I discussed with Lao Li in the morning and continue to stay here for a few more days. It will be very busy in the future. If you are busy, you can't get involved, if you have no other arrangements, you can leave Mocheng first."

Feng Yi responded.

But I thought in my heart: Don't be in a hurry to leave, I also want to take a look here and see what they can find out.

Looking around again, Feng Yi saw the figures of the volunteers who were salvaging marine debris.

Feng Yi asked the people next to him: "Why are they here? Didn't they say they were salvaged once a week? I saw them two days ago, why are they here again today?"

A student next to him explained: "There is an abnormal situation here. My teacher said to ask them to come and assist in sampling. They have a small submersible manned. I heard that this volunteer organization has the support of a big boss and is very rich."

As he spoke, he glanced at the submersible enviously.

They also want to go to the bottom of the sea to see that mysterious "enchantment".

But Feng Yi's focus was not on this, he saw something familiar.

After marking the route last night, he was obviously tired, and he stayed in the sea for a little longer. In order to avoid the risk of exposure, he went back first.

For the "metal garbage" whose tail was cut off, the broken part was thrown away, and the remaining part was not dug out.

At this time, in the garbage storage area salvaged by the volunteers, on one of the shelves is the small piece of "metal garbage" he threw away.

Feng Yi walked over: "This thing..."

A volunteer in charge of garbage sorting was busy with the work at hand. He didn't pay attention to Feng Yi's appearance. Hearing the sound, he raised his head and quickly scanned the position of his eyes, "Ah, this is very useful, and can't be put together with other garbage."

Feng Yi looked solemn, "Could it be some kind of spy device?"

The volunteer said with a smile: "No! During the abnormal climate period, we spent a lot of money to install a batch of seabed monitors, and paid a lot of money to ask someone to install them. Later, when the abnormal climate period ended, the equipment was upgraded and replaced, and most of the old equipment was recycled. , but there are still a few, because of some reasons and the technical conditions at the time, they could not be fully recycled. This, it is!"

Feng Yi understood. It turned out to be a monitor that has been deactivated.

But I still don't understand: "Whoever installed it will dismantle it. How can it be left on the seabed?"

The other party said helplessly: "The installation company has long since been cancelled, and the employees can't be found. The company's technology was very good at that time, and the underwater installation ability exceeded the limit of the human body! It may also be rich enough and the equipment is sophisticated."

"The cutting-edge equipment twenty or thirty years ago is nothing now, and no one has the technical ability to recycle it?" Feng Yi asked.

The man spread out, "Ah, the technical ability is there, but due to some accidents, the database is partially damaged, the detailed monitor distribution map has disappeared, and after it is disabled, it can't be located, and it is not enough to know the general area. The seabed situation is complicated. , Some monitors are installed in a hidden location, and the seabed garbage also caused a certain degree of interference, so it is not so easy to find. Today, I was commissioned to go to the seabed to check, who would have found this. Unfortunately, it is only a small part. "

"What's the use of keeping this? Selling money?" Feng Yi asked.

"It's not very valuable. If you really want to sell it, it may be sold for a few thousand less."

"A few thousand yuan is a lot!" Feng Yi was surprised.

For ordinary people, a few thousand yuan is a huge sum of money. I don't see how this little thing is worth the money.

The volunteer sighed and shook his head, "If it's complete, it would cost hundreds of thousands! There are collectors who accept this. Oh, I don't know how to break it, it's a pity!"

Feng Yi: "…"

My tail goes down, and millions have turned into thousands.

When you throw it away, thousands of dollars go to someone else.

If you don't throw it away, take it back to the boat and say you caught it!

Anyway, the fishermen don't go empty, they don't use the air force, and it's not unusual to bring anything back except fish!

The volunteer continued to sort out the marine debris, and said, "I hope today's luck will be better, and the remaining parts will be fished up, and it will be more sold if you put it together."

Feng Yi silently left.

If you follow the marked route, you may be able to find the rest of the monitor.

I didn't worry too much about this matter, but this matter reminded Feng Yi.

Some objects look like trash, but that doesn't mean it's worthless!

Don't rely on speculation!

Especially those hidden under the sea.

Abandoning these, Feng Yi looked at the scientific research ship that set off again.

Overall, the current situation is roughly what he expected...

It's just a line that is temporarily marked. The chemical marker will not stay in one place. As time passes, it will spread out and deteriorate. Soon this "enchantment" will disappear and everything will return to normal.

The starfish army has withdrawn, and there is little chance of UU reading www.uukanshu.com wanting to assemble again in a short time.

In this way, the incident is over.

However, don't be in a hurry to leave Mocheng, and stay for two more days to observe. Watch the starfish move and see what the experts can conclude.

Thinking like this, Feng Yi raised his head and looked over when he heard the movement in the sky.

In the air, three cold black helicopters flew from a distance, getting closer and closer. According to the model and the logo printed on it—

A member of the UN Security Agency's Special Investigation Team.

Special prefix, specializing in the investigation of ecological-related cases and special cases of social impact.

Feng Yi: "…"

Grass.

what! to! At! this! what!

Is it time to run now?