On Christmas Eve in 1999, the fog smelled of diesel. Lin Shen squatted in the sewage in the bottom of the Yuanxing, and the inspection light swept over the curled human body in the fishing net. When the eighth piece of corpse was spliced together, there was a sudden vibration from the rusty ship's planks - the ship's whistle chiming the hour frightened the blowflies away from the corpse.
"Captain Lin, there is a chimeric injury in the muscle tissue of the palm." Shen Zhao's latex gloves scratched the rotten skin, and the tweezers picked up the bronze lenses stained with seaweed. The moment the mirror was rotated, the gears of Lin Shen's watch made an abnormal sound, and the reflection of the dial projected the last four digits of the warning signal onto the water-seeping bulkhead.
His breathing suddenly became heavier behind the gas mask, and he remembered the audio tape that was sent anonymously to the police station three days ago: a male voice with a modulated tone mixed with the sound of the waves read, "When the white whale returns to port, the mirror will talk." At this moment, the freighter was shaking slightly in the coordinate area of the sunken ship, and the seawater seeping into the bottom tank overflowed his police boots.
"There are drag marks at nine o'clock." Chen Jiujin's copper whistle cut through the engine noise, and his flashlight illuminated a scratch somewhere on the bulkhead - the distance between the three parallel grooves was accurate to the millimeter, which was the standard of the lifeboat hook of the "Moby Dick" twenty years ago.
Tong Xiaoman's text message suddenly rang on the BP machine: "The weather station data is abnormal. It only takes 27 minutes for southwesterly wind level 3 to northwest wind level 5." Lin Shen pulled open his soaked police uniform shirt, and the smell of seawater collected in the sixth evidence bag was mixed with the deadly sandalwood smell in his memory.
Intention: When the tide fades away the rusty lies, only the salt grains of human obsession will never dissolve