abnormal sea area

Xie Weiran's hairy crab, according to her introduction, is a hairy crab that has no other purpose except to make people happy.

It will turn red, spit bubbles in succession, or perform tricks of walking sideways and bumping into walls.

Qin Ge: "..."

Xie Weiran: "It's very cute!"

Qin Ge: "Okay...cute."

They have to fly from Beijing to Guangzhou, and then take the high-speed train to the destination city along the coast.Qin Ge closed his eyes to rest on the plane, and suddenly remembered Xie Weiran's cell phone: "Why didn't your cell phone get through just now?"

Xie Weiran took out two mobile phones: "This is my personal phone, and this is my work phone. Just now, Mr. Crab vomited bubbles and got his work phone wet, so he couldn't turn it on."

Qin Ge was really shocked: "Then you should contact me on a private phone."

Xie Weiran: "I don't have your number on the private phone."

At this moment, Qin Ge thought of twelve ways to obtain his mobile phone number within half an hour.But he felt very tired, and decided not to communicate with Xie Weiran about this issue.Pressing his frantically jumping eyelids, Qin Ge thought, the eyelids should be jumping up because of Xie Wei.

Xie Weiran put the hairy crabs on the small table and stroked them gently.

Neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere was a little cold for a while.Qin Ge thought to himself that Xie Weiran herself is a member of the Rare and Special Human Research Institute, that is to say, after Quan Nu arrives, she is very likely to be a contact person, and it is better to establish a good relationship first.

"Does your other colleague still have a job?" Qin Ge had nothing to say.

Xie Weiran: "He has to wait for Quan Nu."

Qin Ge remembered: "Yes, you said so."

Xie Weiran: "He didn't listen to my advice."

Qin Ge: "What?"

Xie Weiran: "My colleague. I told him that Quan Nu must have forgotten him, but he didn't believe it. He must wait for Leo to arrive in Beijing and see him in person."

Qin Ge's heart moved: "What happened between your colleague and Quan Nu?"

"Leo...I mean the last Leo, he came to China more than 20 years ago, do you remember?" Xie Weiran shrugged, "He was working at the headquarters of the Crisis Office at that time, and it was love at first sight for Leo."

Qin Ge: "...This is too sad."

"Leo told him that he would forget him, but he refused to give up. After Leo returned to China, he often wrote letters to Leo and chatted with Leo in various ways." Xie Weiran shrugged, "Later Leo and He said 'goodbye' and was never seen again."

Qin Ge fell silent.

Quan Nu's farewell is always simple.Simple can be neat.Even if they have feelings, they don't carry those feelings with them into the next life.

Therefore, with a simple farewell, the other party can escape this shackle as soon as possible.

"...He himself studies rare and special human beings, why can't he control himself?"

Xie Weiran was very surprised: "Mr. Qin, this does not mean that you can control it by controlling it. If love can be controlled, it will not cause so many tragedies."

This was the first sentence Qin Ge said since he knew Xie Weiran for four hours, which made Qin Ge feel that "you are not simple".

Xie Weiran put away the hairy crabs and put the small table away.The plane started to land.

She turned her head and asked, "Mr. Qin, have you ever been in love?"

Qin Ge: "...We talked about it."

The plane broke through the clouds, and thousands of lights began to appear under the wings.

The driver from the South China Regional Office came to pick up Qin Ge. When he contacted Qin Ge, he asked him if Xie Weiran was around.

Qin Ge: "Yes."

But when he looked back, he was shocked again: Xie Weiran was nowhere to be seen except for a hairy crab spitting bubbles lying on the suitcase.

The driver sighed at the other end: "Xiao Xie is like this, thank you for your hard work, Mr. Qin."

Qin Ge: "She...does she always do things like this?"

Driver: "Except for her own research, she forgets everything."

Qin Ge hung up the phone and saw Xie Weiran running from the other side. "Can you tell me before you go to the toilet?" Qin Ge asked angrily.

Xie Weiran: "Do you need someone to accompany you to the toilet?"

Qin Ge: "...Okay, okay, let's go. Take your crab!"

Xie Weiran seemed to know that he had offended Qin Ge, so he kept silent on the way to the hotel, even putting away the hairy crabs.

The driver in front was also silent. Qin Ge couldn't bear the terrible silence in the car at first, and took the initiative to provoke the topic: "Xie Weiran, is the research institute busy?"

"Very busy." Xie Weiran nodded, "Recently, I'm mainly working on the mermaid project, trying to make mermaids also successfully declare the special human race."

This is the first time Qin Ge has heard of this: "A mermaid? Is it a dugong?"

Xie Weiran smiled and said, "No. The mermaid we are talking about is a special creature whose gene sequence is very similar to that of human beings. It has a human body and fish tail, has a strange temper, and is particularly stubborn."

Qin Ge nodded: "Your research object is the mermaid?"

"No." Xie Weiran said briefly.

Qin Ge waited for a while before she spoke slowly: "My research subject is already dead, so I'm so free and arranged to receive you."

The driver hurriedly coughed in front: "Well, Teacher Qin, Xiao Xie speaks like this, don't be angry. You are a distinguished guest..."

"It's okay." Qin Ge looked at Xie Weiran and asked, "Dead?"

"My research object is Cha Lao." She frowned slightly, her tone was low, "but she is no longer here."

Qin Ge remembered that Cha Lao was a very rare and special human being. She was born as a white-haired old woman whose appearance would never change throughout her life. She was regarded as a monster for a long time in the past. to deal with.

"... Grandma Cha, is there only one?"

Xie Weiran shook his head: "Although the number of tea grandmas in the country is small, the census of the past few years shows that there are currently 187 tea grandparents discovered in our country. It's just that tea grandparents generally live in mountainous areas and rarely appear along the coast. area."

Qin Ge listened carefully.He found that when it came to Tea Grandma, Xie Weiran was no longer the dazed look of wandering away.

"The land salinization in coastal areas is relatively serious. This tea grandma was born on the seashore, which is already very rare. What is even more surprising is that she found tea trees that can be grown on saline-alkali land and on the beach. This is a very remarkable thing. Xie Weiran said while gesticulating, "She is actually very young, although she looks very old, she is only 36 years old this year."

Qin Ge keenly sensed the sadness and regret in her tone of voice.

"She's ill?"

Xie Weiran was silent for a long time.Street lights flowed past the car window, illuminating the girl's side face.

"She was murdered." She clenched her fist tightly and said, "The body was buried in her tea forest. She was discovered because someone saw the dense tea forest and didn't know why. It's all withered."

Tea grandma has been studying tea forests, and only she knows how to maintain them.They naturally know how to distinguish the composition of the land and the degree of humidity in the air.In order to stabilize the tea forest on the beach, this tea grandma spent more than ten years in-depth research.She only has a primary school education, but she insisted on reading a lot of professional books.Instinct, coupled with acquired learning, she finally succeeded in planting a lush tea forest on the beach.

"We study the origin of the tea grandma, as well as the ability of the tea grandma and the tea forest she guards." Xie Weiran supported her forehead, her hairy crabs popped out again at some point, lying on top of her head, waving the fiery red pincers, Spit bubbles one after another, "She won't harm anyone...but the murderer hasn't been found yet."

At this time, the driver interjected from the front: "Mr. Qin, don't take offense. We haven't had such a vicious case here for many years. Seven women have died this year, all of whom are special human beings. Everyone is very nervous. , also very angry."

He told Qin Ge that the branch here had already reported to the headquarters, asking for support. "Beijing will soon send people over to investigate together."

Qin Ge was both surprised and uncomfortable.The numbers are astounding.

"One burned to death not long ago," said the driver. "It's at the place where you're going tomorrow."

The sea was calm, and the scorching sun made Qin Ge's arms burn.He touched the back of his neck and felt that his neck seemed to be peeled off by the sun.

Yesterday's plane, today's high-speed train, accompanied by Xie Weiran and hairy crabs, Qin Ge finally arrived at the place Quan Nu wanted to investigate.

"He's researching the biodiversity in this area." Xie Weiran looked at the tablet in his hand and suddenly smiled, "Ah... I see."

Qin Ge: "What?"

Xie Weiran pointed to the calm sea: "He came to investigate mermaids. This is the only sea area in the South China Sea where mermaids live in groups."

Qin Ge climbed up the seawall.The seawall is long and narrow, and there is a shallow sandy beach below, and the tide has not yet risen.Once the tide rises, the seawall is almost submerged, leaving only a long strip made of stone, which surges with the waves, as if floating on the sea.

"That guide was burned to death here?" Qin Ge asked.

"No, it's farther away." Xie Weiran pointed it out to him, "just in the area where the mermaids live. The mermaids hate fire very much. They wanted to put it out, but the boat was doused with kerosene, and once it burned, they couldn't be rescued. .”

Qin Ge looked at the sea in the distance, but couldn't see the mermaid Xie Weiran mentioned.It is said that they have beautiful silver backs and flexible fish tails, and are the guardians of this sea area.

"The villagers along the coast thought it was Aban fire."

Qin Ge wondered, "Abanhuo?"

Xie Weiran told him that a long time ago, there was a legend that a girl named Aban lived in the fishing village.She is beautiful and industrious, and lives diligently in the village with her husband. They love and respect each other and live happily.

After Aban became pregnant, her husband planned to go out to sea with the fishing boat to find a precious pearl in the South China Sea for Aban and the child, so as to keep the mother and child safe.The two bid farewell at the beach, but that was the last time Aban saw his lover.

The members of the town had already taken a fancy to Aban, and they wanted to snatch Aban back home.Helplessly, everyone in the village loves and protects Aban, and Aban's husband has even clashed with Yuanwai many times, but Yuanwai never succeeds.So the owner of the Yuanwai joint fishing boat tied heavy objects to Aban's husband when he was out at sea, and pushed him into the sea.

Aban's belly was getting bigger and bigger, so she went to the owner's house every day to inquire, and then went to the pier to wait.After the ship owner came back, he told Aban the lie fabricated by the staff: her husband had another woman in Nanyang, and he was so happy that he didn't even go home.At this time, Yuanwai began to visit Aban frequently, with a sincere attitude, persuading her to forget that the bad guy followed her, and promised to take good care of Aban's children.

Aban didn't believe him, and decided to go to sea to find her husband by himself.But the fishing boats at that time were extremely taboo about women boarding the boat, and Aban cried and begged the old boatman for help;

It has been several months since the fishing boat was gone, and on the day when there was a big storm, Ah Ban happened to give birth.The crying of the baby alarmed the owner of the ship, who discovered that there was a woman in childbirth hidden in the ship.Everyone was terrified, thinking that Aban's unclean blood had provoked the sea god, and decided to throw Aban and the child into the sea to appease the god's anger.

The owner asked the old boatman to do this, but the old boatman pleaded hard and refused.When the captain and his thugs beat the old boatman half to death, Ah Ban walked out of the cabin with the child in his arms.

She knelt down to intercede for the old boatman, and begged the owner not to hurt the good man.Her child is innocent, and as long as the owner agrees to take care of her child, she is willing to throw herself into the ocean immediately, and pray to the sea god to calm her anger and bless the ship to return to port safely.

The captain nodded in agreement, and after A-Ban handed over the child to him, he walked to the side of the boat and jumped into the raging sea.However, just after she fell into the sea, the captain threw the newborn baby back into the sea.The old boatman sacrificed his life to save the child, and fell into the strong wind and waves with the child in his arms, never to float up again.

The ship returned to the port safely, but the rest of the boatmen never dared to go to sea again.Because a round, talking fireball began to appear on the surface of the South China Sea.

It would float up to each ship and ask in a hoarse woman's voice for a name, the name of the owner.If you can't answer, the fireball will fall into the boat and instantly catch fire.

In order to protect the fishing boats, from now on, every fishing boat leaving port will have an elderly boatman.When the fireball appeared, the old boatman lit a torch and walked to the bow, shouting at the fireball: "Aban, let's go, your enemy is not here."

The sound of a woman crying will be heard in the fireball.It fluttered and flickered, as if thanking the old boatman, and then went away with the wind, and continued to approach the next fishing boat, looking for the enemy who had already died on the shore.

"That ball of fire is Aban's fire." Xie Weiran said, "From now on, any fishing boat that burns at sea, the fishermen will say that it is Aban's return."

Qin Ge's heart was full of melancholy.This is not a happy story.

Xie Weiran carefully jumped off the seawall, took out a small bottle that he carried with him, filled it with sand and sea water, and put a date label on it.Knowing that she was taking samples, Qin Ge turned around and walked towards the other side of the seawall.

He walked a little far, and suddenly saw the sea wall collapse in front, and there it was interrupted.

The place of interruption is a sandy beach slightly higher than the sea.Qin Ge saw a boy on the beach.

The child was dark-skinned, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a very strong figure.Looking from a distance, Qin Ge found that there seemed to be a few rough tattoos on his cheeks, neck and exposed ribs, as if someone had drawn a few lines on his body with an ink pen.

Seeing Qin Ge approaching, the boy quickly turned around and jumped into the sea.His posture into the water is extremely smooth and graceful, like a flexible fish.Qin Ge walked to the break of the seawall and sat down.The round sun pressed down on the sea level, and the tide began to rise, gradually submerging the beach.Xie Weiran climbed up the sea wall and walked towards Qin Ge.

Two or three seabirds flew past Qin Ge and flew into the distance.The sound of the fishing boat's flute mixed with the sound of the navy's horn, Qin Ge thought to himself, wonder if Xie Zijing likes to hear it?

He suddenly heard a noise behind him, and when he turned around, he suddenly saw a head coming up from under the seawall.

The boy I saw just now was less than one meter away from him, drenched in water, staring at Qin Ge with a pair of round and bright eyes.Qin Ge suddenly discovered that the marks on the boy's body were not tattoos, but a few gaps that were moving!

He was taken aback, and quickly grabbed the stones beside him: "Who are you!"

The boy didn't dare to move at once, his shoulders shrank subconsciously.

"Don't hurt him!" Xie Weiran ran over from the seawall, "He has no malicious intentions! He is Haitong!"

The author has something to say: Dugong: a rare marine creature, because it has the habit of holding its young and floating on the water to breastfeed, so it has another name of "mermaid".

Chamu: This is a special human being that I borrowed from a Taoist fairy tale and set its characteristics.According to folklore, Cha Lao is a person who looks like a person in his 70s with dark hair and often sells tea in the market.

Haitong: It is also a special human being that I set up from stories in folklore.According to legend, Haitong is a child prodigy in the West Sea, riding a white horse, once he appears, the world will be flooded.