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The secret was revealed in just one sentence, and the Marine Police immediately knew that the "chief" was an amateur, "Chief, it's not good to interrogate them together. It's easy to collude in confessions."

Wu Zhongyuan was a little embarrassed, "Okay, let's bring the captain first."

The marine policeman agreed and went to pick up the person together with his colleagues.

Wang Xinran has been calling the headquarters, but most of the time she just listens and occasionally asks questions. The content of the call seems to be related to Zhao Ying and others, and she seems to be determining the whereabouts of Zhao Ying and others.

Before the captain was brought in, Wang Xinran ended the call with a serious expression on his face.

"What's wrong?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"She didn't seem to be on the boat when the incident happened." Wang Xinran said.

Just when Wu Zhongyuan was about to ask why, someone knocked on the door outside, and the marine police brought the captain.

The captain is a fat man in his fifties. Captains of large ships like this don't do any work. They are usually pampered and have a fat head and big ears. Those who know him are a captain, but those who don't know him think he is a high-ranking cadre.

However, this guy is not as bossy as usual now, his face is pale, he has been trembling since he entered the door, and he looks like he is still scared after escaping death.

Wu Zhongyuan couldn't do the interrogation, so Wang Xinran did it in person. At this time, Wang Xinran seemed to have changed into a different person, very casual and serious, smoking a cigarette, keeping a straight face, and staring directly into the other person's eyes.

If this captain had been born before liberation, he must have been a traitor. Wang Xinran only said, "Tell me what happened." ’ He brought a bamboo tube to pour the beans, and said everything that should be said and should not be said.

According to this guy's account, they picked up the employer from the dock yesterday afternoon. After boarding the ship, the employer gave him a red envelope of 10,000 yuan and asked him to kick all unnecessary crew members off the ship. There were seven people on the employer's side who boarded the ship. He bought more than a dozen large boxes. Since he had received benefits from others, he did not ask what was in these boxes.

These seven people are all men, aged between thirty and forty years old, tall and strong. They use less standard Mandarin when talking to him, and they speak English when communicating with each other.

The captain of an ocean-going cargo ship must understand English, but this guy is a captain of an inland waterway and does not understand English. He has no idea what those people said when they communicated with each other.

After getting on the boat, these people gave him the coordinates and asked him to drive the boat there. This captain often travels back and forth on the Yangtze River and is very familiar with the situation in the Yangtze River Basin. When he saw the coordinates, he didn’t want to go. The reason was very simple. The coordinates the other party gave him were for a place called Black Dragon Pool, which is the Poyang Lake Laoye Temple. A tributary of the water area, strange things often happen there, and it has always been regarded as a dangerous place by the locals.

People who run boats are quite superstitious, and this captain is no exception. When he learned that they were going to Black Dragon Pool, he hesitated not to go. If he didn't want to go, he had to find an excuse, and his excuse was that the water level in Black Dragon Pool was very low. , Poyang No. 1 will run aground if it sails in.

'We know how deep it is. ’ This was the response given by the other party.

After the other party threw another 10,000 yuan over, Poyang No. 1 weighed anchor and sailed towards the waters of Laoye Temple.

After setting off, the other party confirmed to him the top speed of Poyang 1. When they learned that Poyang 1 could reach a speed of thirty knots, they asked them to absorb water to ballast the cabin.

The main purpose of absorbing water ballast is to increase its own weight to withstand strong winds and waves, but there are no big waves in the waters of Poyang Lake. The captain had to ask why, but the other party did not give an explanation.

When renting a boat, the captain always asks the other party for the purpose of renting the boat.

The explanation given by the other party was to capture long-jawed bream, which is commonly known as Yangtze saury.

This explanation is very far-fetched, because the Poyang No. 1 is a cargo ship, not a fishing boat, and it is already past the Yangtze River saury's return season.

Since he couldn't ask anything, the captain stopped asking and sailed the ship to the vicinity of Black Dragon Pond according to the other party's request.

After arriving at the destination, those people began to place radar buoys from various places. By this time, the captain had confirmed that they were not here to catch Yangtze saury, because the Yangtze saury is very small, not many weighing more than half a kilogram, and it is impossible to be caught by radar. Detected, the individual that can be detected by radar must not be too small.

Soon, they discovered something, and then opened the boxes that had been carried onto the ship. The captain was shocked when he saw the contents of the boxes in the cockpit, because the boxes were filled with sunken water bodies the size of footballs.

After the first bomb was dropped and exploded under the water, something floated up from the water. The captain didn't see it clearly. He only knew that dark waves were rolling not far away from the starboard side, and then the hull shook violently.

At this time, someone on the deck took a shotgun and shot into the water. At first, the captain thought that the person was holding a gun. Later, he learned that what the person shot was not an anesthetic needle, but some kind of small positioning device.

After that, those people mastered the movement trajectory of the big guy underwater, and dropped bombs from time to time to bomb it.

At first, the captain thought that these people wanted to capture the large creature underwater, but later he discovered that those people did not want to capture it alive at all, but just wanted to blow it up.

It didn't take long for the big guy to leave the waters of Black Dragon Pool under the bombardment of bombs. Poyang No. 1 followed and chased it, dropping bombs from time to time, but never killed it.

Later, when there was not much left, those people changed their strategy and chased it downstream. However, the big guy didn't seem to want to stay away from the Black Dragon Pond. He turned around several times in the middle and was intercepted by Poyang No. 1.

In the end, the big guy stopped trying to turn back, and kept moving downstream. Poyang 1 continued to chase, and finally sailed into the undercurrent. After encountering the undercurrent, they also tried to turn the steering wheel to get out of the undercurrent. At this time, everyone underwater The crew began to collide with the bow of the ship. The continuous violent collisions made it difficult for Poyang 1 to stabilize the hull, and eventually it tilted and capsized.

After the captain finished speaking, Wang Xinran put out his cigarette butt and looked at Wu Zhongyuan.

Wu Zhongyuan glanced at Wang Xinran, and then asked the captain, "What is that big guy that you haven't seen from the beginning to the end?"

"I saw it, but I didn't see everything." The captain shook his head.

"What do you mean?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"After the boat capsized, the big guy immediately turned around and went upstream. When it turned around, its tail came out of the water." The captain said with a trembling voice, filled with fear.

"What is it?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"The black tail is exactly the same as the dragon tail on TV." The captain's teeth trembled as he spoke.

"Besides you, were there any other ships near Laoye Temple when the incident happened?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"I didn't pay attention." The captain shook his head.

"We can check this." Wang Xinran said.

Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan stopped asking questions, Wang Xinran called the water police to come in and take the captain away.

Wang Xinran stood up, walked to the window, and opened it, "They are trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain."

"I think so too," Wu Zhongyuan nodded, "Their goal is not the dragon, but to lure the dragon away and enter the place where the dragon is entrenched."

Wang Xinran looked solemn, "Yes, Poyang 1 bought them at least two hours. No matter what they want, they have probably succeeded."

"Not necessarily," Wu Zhongyuan shook his head. "If they succeeded, they would immediately notify the ship to retreat. The ship was still struggling with the dragon before it capsized, which means they didn't succeed."

"Haha, that makes sense," Wang Xinran said with a smile, "If this is really the case, they will be out of luck."

Wang Xinran could laugh, but Wu Zhongyuan couldn't.

"What do you think is the place where the dragon is entrenched?" Wang Xinran asked.

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, "It's hard to say, but it must be something it cares about very much, otherwise it would not be willing to stay away after being attacked, let alone after knocking over the ship, it would not attack those who hurt it. Rush back immediately."

Before Wang Xinran answered the call, there was a knock on the door. It was the Marine Police who came to ask who would be interrogated next.

"Do you still need to ask?" Wu Zhongyuan looked at Wang Xinran. The captain was the person who knew the situation best. He did not doubt that the captain had anything to hide. It seemed that there was no need to interrogate other people.

Wang Xinran thought for a while and said to the water police, "Come on, write a record for the chief engineer and crew members, release them earlier, and don't mention us to them."

The two nodded in agreement.

Wang Xinran grabbed the cigarette and lighter on the interrogation table, winked at Wu Zhongyuan, and the two left the interrogation room.

"They don't know that we are already here," Wang Xinran said. "After the boat capsizes, they will be eager to know whether this matter has attracted our attention. They are likely to look for these people to find out who interrogated them and the content of the interrogation, and put them Let it go and lure the snake out of its hole.”

"Okay." Wu Zhongyuan nodded.

Wang Xinran noticed that Wu Zhongyuan was in a low mood and asked, "Are you worried about your senior brother or about her?"

Wu Zhongyuan sighed and did not answer.

After leaving the management office, the two returned to the city and checked into the military guest house.

Wang Xinran has been communicating with the headquarters. At four o'clock in the afternoon, news came that on the day of the incident, a small speedboat did go to the waters where the incident occurred. According to witnesses at the port, there were at least five people on the speedboat, and the urban area A company specializing in diving equipment sold five sets of imported diving equipment the day before the incident. The buyer was a young woman and she paid in cash.

"Where is this speedboat now?" Wu Zhongyuan's heart was heavy.

Wang Xinran didn't answer.

Wu Zhongyuan turned to look at her, "Have they landed?"

Wang Xinran shook his head, "The wreckage of the speedboat drifted to the shore and was just discovered at noon today."

Wu Zhongyuan's expression changed drastically.

Seeing him like this, Wang Xinran said hurriedly, "Don't worry yet, they may still be alive."

Wu Zhongyuan raised his head.

Wang Xinran said, "The oxygen storage capacity of the diving equipment they purchased could only support them in the water for 45 minutes, but the speedboat stayed in place after it stopped and did not move until it was destroyed by the dragon and sank."

"What do you mean?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"There are various signs that there is probably an underwater space where the dragon is entrenched..."

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