Chapter 27 The moving island
Chen Rui was shocked. It turned out that the two dragons chasing the moon walls were pointing at unknown radars. As for why the moon walls pointed their direction to Penglai this time, Chen Rui and Ye Wuhen blurted out almost in unison.
"Mirage!"
Ye Wuhen said in a deep voice: "Penglai is the most famous mirage. I am afraid that no place in the world has a higher probability of a mirage than Penglai. I think that since the moon-chasing wall points its direction to Penglai, it should be related to the legendary Penglai Fairy Mountain."
Chen Rui frowned and said, "With that being said, science has long proved that the so-called mirages and fairyland are just refractions of light and shadows through the atmosphere, and are illusory."
Ye Wuhen smiled slightly and tapped his fingers quickly on his military computer.
"The ancients had a bad habit, which focused on people but ignored incidents. Even the emperor had to write a daily note on food, drink, defecation and slaughter. The disasters and geographical changes in various places were often just a few words. So if we want to know what happened on the ground of Penglai in the past, we should start with unofficial history and those lonely historical materials that few people know."
"If I guessed correctly, the Penglai Fairyland should have some connection with the legendary sea fairy mountain." Ye Wuhen muttered to himself while starting a program that Chen Rui couldn't understand.
"This is a historical keyword search and filtering tool that I wrote myself. Now this unique search engine has been launched. It will not only connect large databases like the National Library, but also link many unknown private databases. In addition, English search will also read all the information in foreign libraries. I believe that we will get the answers we want to know soon."
Chen Rui really admired Ye Wuhen. According to his introduction, many databases are not open to the public at all. He needs to hack into it with his own technology, and it is impossible for others to do it.
As for the so-called fairy mountain on the sea, Chen Rui has a half-believing and half-doubted attitude. As a veteran fan of mysterious events, Chen Rui certainly knows that China has been rumored to have three moving mountains in the distant East China Sea. There are gods living on the mountain. Anyone who is fortunate to ascend to the Immortal Island can live forever.
The three major fairy mountains are Penglai, Fangzhang, Yingzhou, and the modern Penglai City are named after legend, meaning that Penglai City is the closest sea outlet to Penglai Fairy Mountain.
The children's songs written by the ancients also sang like this, "There are fairy mountains on the sea. The prince goes to seek immortality. The elixir is nineteen days old. The mountain is seven days old. It has been a thousand years in the world..."
Others such as fishermen rescued a big fish near the fairy mountain. The big fish was so grateful that they often brought treasures from the sea to help fishermen become rich in the world. There are countless legends like this.
In any case, there is no harm in studying these legends. Chen Rui and Ye Wuhen exchanged their phone numbers and agreed to meet again after Ye Wuhen's search results were found.
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Ye Wuhen processed information much faster than Chen Rui imagined. Just two days later, he called and asked Chen Rui to meet, and the location was bright moon on the sea.
When he saw Ye Wuhen in the private room of Chenrui Hotel, he was wearing a suit and tie as usual, carrying the small box filled with various advanced equipment and white chocolate.
Although Ye Wuhen's eyes were covered with blood, he was very energetic. When he saw Chen Rui, he took out the information that had been sorted out and printed out the bound book.
"Look, these are the information I collected and sorted out about the fairy mountain on the sea." Ye Wuhen said excitedly: "In the late Qing Dynasty, Stone, a French missionary, once heard the legend of the fairy mountain on the sea from local fishermen. As a Christian, he did not believe that there were other gods besides God, so he hired people to sail out to sea and searched for the fairy mountain on the sea."
"At the last moment, the priest Stone was ready to give up. Suddenly, a mirage appeared on the sea. The boatmen rowed desperately. Finally, they saw a mountain that penetrated into the sky near the mirage. The mountains were surrounded by clouds and mists, green vines and pine, and the roar of wild beasts. "
"Master Stone recalled that at that time he was only a few hundred meters away from this magical mountain. He seemed to feel the eyes in the mountain staring at him, and he wanted to pounce immediately, but finally, because the ship was not fast enough, he missed the opportunity. He watched this magical fairy mountain disappear with the disappearance of the mirage, and had to regret it for the rest of his life."
"These information comes from the Vatican Holy See Archives, and was written by a missionary with a devout faith. It is very credible!"
Ye Wuhen continued: "Also, I found such a volume of information from the Russian Far East Maritime Archives. It was also in the late Qing Dynasty that a fisherman from China suddenly appeared in the Okhotsk waters by driving a sampan. The Russian fleet was surprised and rescued the Chinese fisherman."
"After asking, I found out that the fisherman had no idea that he had left his hometown for thousands of miles. According to him, he encountered a mirage on the sea and climbed a huge island. He originally wanted to explore the island, but he heard the roar of wild beasts from the mountains. He was scared and did not dare to climb the mountain. He only rested on the island for a night, then pushed the sampan and left the island, but ran here."
"Of course the Russian fleet does not believe in this bizarre legend, but they cannot explain how a fisherman drove a small sampan into the storm of the Okhotsk waters."
"Later, the people from the Russian fleet saw that the fisherman was very pitiful, so they took him in to work as a chef on the boat. The Chinese are good at cooking delicious food. The Russians like this Chinese chef with magical experience. He not only got a job, but also married and had children. His descendants still live in the Russian Far East."
"To prove this, I called the Mensa Club member there. He went to the fisherman's descendants to verify it, and even saw a pair of oars, which were left on the sampan. Look, this is a photo."
Shen Rui took the photo and looked at it, and his eyebrows frowned.
The ancients were far more honest than modern people. Although the wood pulp was mottled, they could still clearly see the handwriting left by the carpenter shop that created the pair of oars, which stated that the pair of jujube wood oars were carefully crafted by themselves and kept for thirty years.
As for the date on the photo, yesterday.
Ye Wuhen started eating sweets again, chewing white chocolate while explaining his discoveries one by one.
The information he collected is very distinctive. If it is just a legend, it will not be entered. All those who can be entered are witnesses and have a very credible data. The source of the information, the writers, and the witnesses are clearly listed.
There were pieces of evidence in front of him, and Shen Rui could not believe it.
"So, are there really moving mountains on the sea?" Chen Rui pointed a Yuxi River and said to himself.
Ye Wuhen said: "It's very simple to verify this problem. You and I will go to Penglai in person."
"According to my summary of these witness reports, there are two characteristics of moving islands. First, its appearance will definitely be accompanied by a mirage. Second, the only way to reach it is to advance quickly and rush straight to it while the mirage has not disappeared."
"In this way we may see the legendary islands that will move, and may even land on the island!"
As soon as the topic changed, Ye Wuhen said in a deep voice: "The only problem is that I have come back to the information about Penglai mirages for hundreds of years and found that more than 50% of the mirage phenomena occurred between the first and second day of the lunar calendar."
Chen Rui was stunned, "The day after tomorrow is the first day of the New Year!"
Ye Wuhen nodded and said eagerly: "Yes, if we want to see the legendary island that will move, we must act quickly."
For people like Chen Rui who are keen on various mysterious events, this temptation is irresistible.
That night, an iron-shelled fishing boat set sail from Yashan Pier and headed for Penglai at the northern end of the peninsula.
Three people on the boat, Chen Rui, Pan Yong and Ye Wuhen.
Chapter completed!