Chapter 1453: Secrets Buried by Time (11)
Huo Shaoheng’s deep, dark eyes stared unblinkingly at the surveillance footage, but his thoughts drifted far away.
It was as if time had traveled back to that day seven years ago.
He remembered it very clearly.
That morning, the director of the Inst.i.tute of High Energy Physics in the imperial capital, Bai Jinyi, suddenly said that there was a magnetic anomaly in C city. She wanted to go there to measure the data of the magnetic anomaly, but she was worried that something might happen. She needed someone powerful to protect her, so she specifically requested that Huo Shaoheng be present.
The Bai family’s position in the Huaxia Empire’s political arena was not low. In addition, she was Huo Shaoheng’s father, Huo Guanchen’s girlfriend at the time. Therefore, Huo Guanchen gave her face and specifically asked General Ji and speaker long for permission, huo Shaoheng was ordered to bring the Elite Forces of the special operations forces to C City to provide special security for Bai Jinyi.
The special operations forces led by Huo Shaoheng were not authorized to interfere in domestic affairs.
General Ji and speaker long did not object because it was only a scientific expedition and not a political mission. They gave them a special permit.
Everything was normal at the beginning.
Bai Jinyi led her team and began surveying the area around the downtown area.
It was almost noon, and the abnormal magnetic field gradually weakened. Bai Jinyi felt that it was about time, so she called her team to retreat.
Noon was the busiest time in that area, so they planned to make way.
At that moment, a car suddenly barged in from an unknown direction. With a loud squeak, a huge spark was suddenly triggered, and the entire car immediately fell into a sea of fire.
At that time, Bai Jinyi was terrified and immediately asked everyone to evacuate. She did not care at all whether there was still anyone in the car that had suddenly barged in.
At that critical moment, Huo Shaoheng refused to let them die because of his duty as a soldier.
He ignored the fire and risked his life to rush into the car to open the door. He found a crying little girl inside.
He immediately stretched out his hands towards the little girl who was almost frightened to the point of breaking down. “Come, I’ll save you.”
The little girl’s gaze s.h.i.+fted to him. Her delicate nose twitched and she shook her head desperately, refusing to let him carry her out.
The fire outside the car was getting bigger and bigger, but it did not affect the interior of the car. Huo Shaoheng did not have time to think too much at the time. He quickly went over to untie her seatbelt and forcefully carried her out of the car.
He remembered that the 12-year-old girl was struggling desperately in the direction of the car as if she did not want to be rescued by him.
He had just run a few steps when he heard an earth-shattering boom coming from behind him.
A huge wave of air came and knocked him and her to the ground.
He only had time to tightly protect the little girl under his body, so that the aftershock of the explosion did not hurt her at all.
She cried until she was hoa.r.s.e and clutched his collar hard. The little girl was so scared that her whole body was convulsing.
In the end, she seemed to be unable to withstand such a strong impact and fainted.
After the explosion stopped, Huo Shaoheng stood up.
He still remembered the way he had held her in his arms and looked down at her.
He closed his eyes and lay motionlessly in his arms. His dark bangs covered her forehead. Her skin was fair and clean, and her chubby little face looked very ordinary.
Just like the montage in the movies, seven years pa.s.sed like a flash in the pan. The unconscious little girl that he had once saved magically overlapped with the motionless little girl in the submarine.
If the little girl in the submarine also carried a small backpack and a small doll, then it would be like the scene from the past.
Huo Shaoheng looked at the monitor screen and his consciousness blurred for a moment. It was as if what he had encountered in the past was just a dream.
But how could it be a dream?
The fat little girl with an ordinary appearance had grown up by his side. From the age of 12, she had grown to the age of 19.
He knew her so well. Seven years was enough for a little girl who did not know much about the world to grow into an adult. She was even his wife.
However, the chubby little girl in the submarine was also a reality, and it was perfectly matched with Gu Yanran’s confession.
Huo Shaoheng’s mind was whirling. He felt that the rationality that he had held onto for so many years was about to leave him.
He clenched one hand into a fist and held it in front of his face. He coughed twice in a low voice. He used his last ounce of restraint and calmly gave the order,”… Salvage.”
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The mechanical arm of the salvage s.h.i.+p began working. Huo Shaoheng walked to the deck, one hand in his trouser pocket and the other holding a cigarette. He silently smoked towards the blue hole in front of him.
After not sleeping for a few more days and nights, Huo Shaoheng urgently needed to clear his head. He had been smoking even more than before.
Yin s.h.i.+xiong understood how Huo Shaoheng felt. He walked over and smoked with Huo Shaoheng.
The two of them stood quietly at the bow of the s.h.i.+p, listening to the sounds of the workers operating the mechanical arms on the opposite deck. The sound of the waves was amplified in the night sky and spread far and wide.
Yin s.h.i.+xiong whispered,”… Huo Shao, don’t worry too much. Think about it from a broader perspective. Professor he… at least will not harm Nianzhi.”
“I think professor he must know where Nianzhi is. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have disposed of all the a.s.sets, right? He must have hidden his tracks so that he could escape with Nianzhi…”
Huo Shaoheng glanced at him indifferently. There was no pressure, but Yin s.h.i.+xiong’s neck felt cold for no reason.
It felt like he was being targeted by a bloodthirsty wolf.
Yin s.h.i.+xiong was stunned after he finished speaking. He touched his neck and slapped himself hard. He mumbled, “If you don’t know how to persuade people, then don’t persuade them! I’ll let you spout nonsense!”
His words just now were really asking for a beating.
Huo Shaoheng dusted his cigarette and looked away from Yin s.h.i.+xiong’s neck. He looked in the direction of the blue hole and said, “Let’s salvage the Cereus II first.”
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When the small submarine “Cereus II” went out to sea, everyone on the s.h.i.+p was very nervous and in a bad mood.
Zhao liangze was even more frustrated and didn’t want to stare at the surveillance cameras anymore.
He went to the deck and controlled his hummingbird robot to take pictures everywhere. He actually took a lot of Caribbean scenery that could be directly used as a desktop.
When he returned to the cabin, he showed everyone the pictures he took today and said to Yin s.h.i.+xiong, “Big Xiong, take a look at this. Can We go directly to the photography exhibition?”
Yin s.h.i.+xiong took a look and saw that it was a picture taken in the evening.
It was the time when the sun was about to set. It was so round that it made one’s hair stand on end. The blue sky was filled with the sunset glow, and the color was full and rich. It was as a young girl in a gra.s.s skirt hanging on an egg flower in a tropical rainforest. Her posture was enchanting and bright.
“Eh? Not Bad! Aren’t you used to having your hands shake?”Yin s.h.i.+xiong clicked his tongue.
“Who’s used to having their hands shake? !”Zhao Liangze glared at him. “No artistic sense! No appreciation!”
While cursing, he got up and pushed Yin s.h.i.+xiong away. Just then, song jinning turned around from her own screen and saw the sunset picture on Zhao Liangze’s computer screen. She exclaimed, “It’s so beautiful.”
“Hahahaha, director song really knows what’s good for him!”Zhao liangze quickly said, “I have even higher definition ones here. Do you want to take a look?”
Song jinning rubbed her eyes and walked over. “Okay, I can let my eyes rest for a while.”
Zhao Liangze:”…”
Yin s.h.i.+xiong: “Pfft!”
Song Jinning ignored them and sat down at Zhao Liangze’s seat. She held the mouse with her hand and clicked on the Properties of the pictures.
Actually, song jinning wasn’t very artistic. When she looked at these pictures, she didn’t look at the composition or the color, but at the resolution of the pixels and the frequency coefficient.
Just looking at the data one by one, she could feel relaxed and happy.
Zhao LIANGZE was also a computer expert. With one look, he knew what song Jinning was looking at, and he couldn’t help but feel even more depressed.
Although Yin s.h.i.+xiong hadn’t been in a good mood these past few days, seeing Zhao liangze suffer, he still felt a lot better.
Song Jinning looked at the photos one by one, and in her mind, she began to combine all kinds of data out of habit. Gradually, she noticed some differences.
She went back and looked through all the photos that Zhao liangze had taken.
This time, she didn’t look at the data of the photos, but at the photos themselves.
Zhao LIANGZE finally felt better.
At this moment, song jinning let out a soft “Eh” and said, “Little Ze, look at these two photos. Don’t you think they’re a little blurry?”
Zhao Liangze:”…”
Yin s.h.i.+xiong:”… Hehe, Inspector song, Little Ze’s hands are shaking out of habit. It’s normal for them to be blurry. It’s not normal if they’re not blurry…”
“Go! Get lost!”Zhao liangze pushed Yin s.h.i.+xiong away completely and sat down beside song jinning. “Inspector song, which one are you talking about?”
Song Jinning placed the mouse on the two photos she was talking about and clicked on the right b.u.t.ton. “Look, the parameters of this one and this one are exactly the same as the data in the previous photos, but these two are a little blurry compared to the previous and subsequent photos.”
Zhao liangze squinted his eyes and looked at them for a long time. “I can’t Tell? The resolution is exactly the same, how can it be blurry compared to the other photos?”
His smart small camera had the world-leading auto-focus function.
Although Yin s.h.i.+xiong always joked that he was “Used to shaking his hands,”in fact, with the auto-shock-absorption and focus function of his camera, shaking it was not a problem at all. It did not affect the final imaging function at all.
Song jinning nodded. “Oh, your eyesight may not be as good as mine. Do you want to print it out and use a magnifying gla.s.s to see?”
Zhao Liangze:”…”
Yin s.h.i.+xiong:”…”
To be told that their eyesight was not as good as hers by a woman who could be their mother at their age… Tsk, they knew their own ups and downs.
However, these two eyeb.a.l.l.s were about to pop out of their sockets. They did not notice the difference. In the end, they obediently used the highest resolution image paper to print it out.
As soon as they printed it out, they immediately noticed the difference.
There were two photos that were indeed a little more blurry than the other photos. However, this wasn’t a blurry photo that couldn’t be focused on because of the trembling of the hands. Instead, it was a blurry photo that seemed to have a double image.
However, each image was equally clear.
“What’s going on?”Zhao liangze and Yin s.h.i.+xiong clicked their tongues together, not understanding what was going on.
Song Jinning looked at the two photos for a while and said, “This kind of phenomenon can only occur under one condition.”
“… under the condition of Trembling Hands?” Yin s.h.i.+xiong was still unwilling to give up on promoting the theory of “Habitual trembling hands.”.
Song Jinning smiled and shook her head. “No, when the hands tremble, the edges of the images are blurred. The edges of the two photos are clear, but there is still a blurred vision. This phenomenon can only occur under the condition of a strong magnetic field.”
“Because a super-strong magnetic field will cause uncertainty in matter.”
“According to the theory of quantum mechanics, the same particle can appear in two different places at the same time.”
“The state shown in these two photos is very similar to this theory.”
“And when the magnetic field energy is strong enough, it can make a larger object appear in two different places at the same time.”
“Therefore, the two images that overlapped slightly looked like they were burnt, but in fact, it was because of the super-strong magnetic field that they appeared in two different places at the same time.”
“We had a super-strong magnetic field here today!”Song Jinning concluded. She stood up with a whoosh. “I’ll go check on my equipment!”
Zhao liangze and Yin s.h.i.+xiong were dumbfounded the whole time. Their eyes were covered with mosquito-repellent incense.
Huo Shaoheng walked in and frowned. “The salvage has already begun outside. Aren’t you going to help?”
Zhao liangze and Yin s.h.i.+xiong came back to their senses. They secretly admired song jinning for using her academic skills to almost hoodwink the experienced members of the special operations forces…
“Yes, Sir!”The two of them quickly ran to the deck and partic.i.p.ated in the final salvage process.
Song Jinning was also called out by Huo Shaoheng to help build a sealed chamber filled with nitrogen gas below the deck.
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With the experience of the previous salvage of “Cereus I,” the “Cereus II” was now much smaller and should have been easier to salvage.
However, the terrain of the blue hole was more complicated than the sea at the Cape of Good Hope. There were more reefs, so the salvage s.h.i.+p could not get close. They could only rely on the mechanical arm to bend and dive diagonally. This would take a lot of time.
After the mechanical arm grabbed the small submarine with its five fingers, it lifted it from the bottom of the sea.
Zhao liangze watched the workers operating the mechanical arm micro process it through the monitor.
They were really experienced. They could monitor the situation at the bottom of the sea through the camera on the mechanical arm and find a suitable route in time to avoid the complicated reefs.
Because of this reason, they only used one night less time than they used to salvage gu Xiangwen’s large submarine.
It took them two days and one night to salvage gu Xiangwen’s large submarine. This time, they spent two days.
Therefore, when the small submarine “Cereus II” finally came out of the water, it was also in the dark.
For two whole days and forty-eight hours, from night to day, and from day to night.
Forty-eight hours later, the night sky was still dark. The sea was covered with thick clouds, and light rain began to fall.
Light rain rarely fell on the Caribbean Sea. It was either clear skies or torrential rain brought by hurricanes. It was rare to see rain like this.
A large tent was set up on the medium-sized salvage s.h.i.+p, extending to about twenty meters above the sea.
This type of tent could block the surveillance of satellites in the sky.
At the same time, Huo Shaoheng did not want to be monitored by other countries satellites.
After the tent was set up, they dragged the small submarine “Cereus II” out from the bottom of the sea and placed it on the deck of the salvage s.h.i.+p.
Just like last time, a small sealed room filled with nitrogen gas was temporarily set up below the deck.
The small submarine that had just been salvaged and looked like ice cream from a banana boat was placed in the middle of the room.
Huo Shaoheng and Chen lie wore full-body protective suits, carried oxygen tanks, and walkie-talkies, and entered the sealed room.
Song Jinning helped them replace the air outside. After ensuring that there was only nitrogen in the room, they tried to open the door of the small submarine.
Huo shaoheng only used a piece of wire to open the door of the small submarine.
He was very surprised. He went over to take a closer look and found that the lock was indeed not as complicated as the large submarine.
Perhaps this small submarine was really a toy that Gu Xiangwen had given to Little Nianzhi..
Huo Shaoheng and Chen Lie pushed open the door of the small submarine and walked in.
To the two men, this small submarine was really too small.
After walking for about five meters, they arrived at the game room where the little girl was lying.
The floor of the game room was covered with log-colored floors, but there were colorful graffiti on the floor. They should have been drawn by children, right?
Chen Lie’s attention was completely attracted by the little girl on the Pink Princess Bed.
He pushed Huo Shaoheng’s arm, wanting to go over and take a look.
Huo Shaoheng nodded and let him do as he pleased. He continued to stare at the graffiti on the ground and carefully examine it.
Chen lie walked to the bed and reached out to lift the little girl’s eyelids to take a look. He found that she was indeed dead.
However, the submarine was filled with nitrogen gas, so her body was preserved. It was as if she had just slept and would wake up at any moment.
Chen lie shook his head and sighed. He thought, I have to prepare the coffin again…
He turned around and saw that Huo Shaoheng was still staring at the graffiti on the ground.
“What’s wrong? Did you look so carefully at this child’s drawing?”Chen lie asked curiously.
Huo Shaoheng replied indifferently,”… This is not an ordinary drawing.”
He raised his head and looked at the little girl lying motionlessly on the small bed with a complicated expression. He said,”… This is the clue she left behind when she was dying. She used the drawing to tell us who killed her.”