Rebel Demon King
Chapter 1015 Monster and Moonlight
Chapter 1015 Monster and Moonlight (18)
Cheng Mo returned to the room anxiously, turned on the ceiling lamp, and walked to the sofa chair that Athena usually sat on. Just now in the dark, he had vaguely seen many messy lines on the brown leather cushion. Mind you, when Captain Homero mentioned Napoleon VII, he remembered a great conjecture in mathematics called "Monstrous moonshine conjecture".
After studying "Elementary Algebra", you will know that "Elementary Algebra" is established from a group or a collection of objects that need to satisfy a certain relationship.
And one of the greatest achievements of mathematics in the twentieth century was the classification of all finite simple groups.
Of course, Cheng Mo also bought a guide for mathematicians that is like the periodic table of elements - "ATLAS of Finite Groups" ("Atlas of Finite Groups").
The last discovered and largest finite simple group in the finite group is called the "monster group".
The "monster swarm" is definitely one of the greatest achievements in mathematics. It must be known that the number of elements in the monster swarm is greater than the number of atoms in 1000 earths, and it is a huge and abstract thing that is difficult to describe. (The exact number of elements in the "monster group" is 808017424794512875886459904961710757005754368000000000, which is about 8*10^53. In comparison, the number of atoms in the solar system is about 10^57, which is only two orders of magnitude higher. If we If the monster group is represented by linear space and matrix transformation, at least a 196883-dimensional linear space is required to faithfully express the overall structure of the monster group. This expression is also called the linear representation of the group.)
So what is the "monster moonshine conjecture"?
Imagine having a 24-dimensional torus, and then imagine physical particle scaling through this space, with one particle sometimes bumping into another.
What happens when they collide depends on a lot of different factors, like the angle at which they meet.
There is a monster in it that makes this 24-dimensional system precise, and that monster is perhaps a certain way of making it symmetric.
Perhaps, the monster itself is incredibly symmetrical.
In short, "monster" is so important to human beings that it may well connect mathematics and physics through string theory.
According to the current speculation, mathematicians believe that such a symmetrical collision is definitely not a coincidence. After hard work by mathematicians, the evidence that each element in the "monster group" has a special modular function is constantly accumulating.
In other words, if it is a little easier to understand, the main characteristics of the monster group can be read from the modular function.
As we come to understand these monsters, it opens the door for theories to capture and manipulate them.
Like capturing a girl's heart.
Yet the idea that modular functions can tame wayward monster-like things doesn't sound at all possible — as unrealistic as someone telling you that humans can manipulate their own destiny through a wayward creator.
Although, it sounds like mathematicians are trying to challenge the Creator.
Yes, mathematicians themselves think so.
In theoretical mathematics, the term "moonshine" refers to seemingly crazy and impossible ideas.
The "monster group" is regarded by mathematicians as "a shocking snowflake that exists in the 196884-dimensional space and contains 10∧53 symmetrical forms".
For mathematicians, it is the "monster moonlight conjecture" to prove whether the "monster group" represents the ultimate symmetry of the universe.
Ordinary people will probably be confused when they see these things, but for Cheng Mo, such an idea is so romantic that it is unbelievable, just like writing "Since childhood, I have been alone, taking care of, the stars of all dynasties". Like a poem, how lonely and magnificent it is.
There was an emotion in Cheng Mo's chest that was more surging than Haitao. He turned the sofa chair around and half-kneeled on the floor to carefully observe the lines. They were sparsely drawn on the brown leather with an oil-based pen. There is no pattern, and it is even more impossible to have any connection with the "Monster Moonlight Conjecture".
But Athena can't do something meaningless, so Cheng Mo stared at the messy lines on the cushion and thought: Yes, I'm not tall, I'm not handsome, and I don't have much money. so special?Is it a similar experience?Is it the same loneliness?And maybe parents who are more or less responsible in their own way?Maybe there are other factors in it that he can't imagine, but he believes that there must be mathematics in it.
But he didn't know why he had a flash of inspiration just now. The reason why he thought of this conjecture was probably an intuition of someone who likes mathematics. In short, if it was him, the message he wanted to leave to Athena secretly must be through mathematics. The way.
If he had to choose, he would definitely use the "Monster Moonlight Conjecture".
The name alone is more romantic than the Fermat conjecture, the four-color conjecture and the Goldbach conjecture. Of course he is not a literary youth, but he likes the name "Monster Moonlight" very much.
"Let me see if we are symmetrical to each other." Cheng Mo whispered to himself, he got up and hurriedly opened the drawer to find a pen and paper, naturally there will be no shortage of these things in the chief engineer's room.He took a piece of white paper, covered it on the cushion, traced those lines precisely, then sat back on the chair, and carefully studied these lines under the light.
"Athena, look at me using mathematics to open you." Cheng Mo closed his eyes, "If I want to apply the 'monster moonlight conjecture', I must connect these lines into a 24-dimensional ring structure."
He pondered for a long time, as if he had fallen into an embarrassing long exam. The raindrops made the windows crackle, like the urging sound of time passing by.
Cheng Mo is like a monk in meditation, and he doesn't know how long it took. He suddenly opened his eyes, first measured the length of each line, and then found out the correlation between their distances, and then he began to list the formulas on another piece of paper, Start finding edges and vertices.What he has to do is to connect these seemingly chaotic lines into a complex plane.
This process requires a lot of calculations. It is necessary to know that if different vertices are used as the right coset of the subgroup, different coset graphs will be constructed.
He kept writing and drawing on paper, and wrote more than ten pages. This inexplicable clue made him completely forget everything and completely immerse himself in the world of mathematics.In the cold night, he broke out in a hot sweat, and finally, through a lot of calculations, he supplemented and connected these chaotic lines into a three-dimensional figure composed of hexagons.
Cheng Mo lifted the picture up to look at it, and suddenly found that this three-dimensional figure composed of hexagons, if you only look at the plane figure, it is clearly two completely overlapping snowflakes.
"Sure enough, it's "Monster Moonlight"!" Cheng Mo couldn't help but smile knowingly as he expected it to come true.
He took a closer look, only to find that, not only that, Athena had hidden other riddles.Looking at one of the snowflakes alone, this graph should be called the Koch curve (snowflake function).Its circumference is infinite, but its area cannot exceed the circumcircle of the hexagonal star. It is an infinitely complex closed curve, but it is always connected no matter whether it is composed of straight segments or curved segments.
"Is this the way mathematicians convey information? It's complex yet simple, abstract and beautiful." Cheng Mo is full of new trends. He feels that the whole process of solving the problem is the process of touching Athena's soul. He picks up the pen and writes on the white paper. Calculation, as if touching her skin with your hands, that feeling has a subtle sweetness, like you are reading a love letter written to you, "maybe this is another way Athena is testing whether they are symmetrical Way."
Such an accurate guess of Athena's thoughts made Cheng Mo 100% believe that he had some wonderful sympathy with Athena in his heart.Just like he thinks that the reason why Athena drew these lines on the seat instead of the table or something else is not aimless.
Because on a moon night, the moonlight can just shine on this position through the window, and the table is within the shadow of the wall.
"You are saying that I am a monster, you are the moonlight!" Cheng Mo smiled again, and he continued to draw the upper grid on the three-dimensional snowflake map, marking the vertical rows with integers (1, 2, 3, ...), and the horizontal rows with Imaginary numbers (1i, 2i, 3i, ...).
Such complicated work did not make him feel tired at all, only refreshed after finishing the work.After marking, Cheng Mo rolled the paper into a tube shape, found scotch tape to stick the two ends together, cut off the blank space, and made a donut with different sizes and shapes, although it is still It's very abstract, but in Cheng Mo's brain, it has completely changed from some messy lines to a 24-dimensional ring.
"Bingo!" Everything turned out as Cheng Mo imagined, and he snapped his fingers excitedly. At this time, he had seen the dawn of solving the puzzle. He hadn't experienced the joy of being about to make a proof for a long time. .
For a mathematician, given such a torus shape, he can use the j function to transform the shape into a special complex number. (J function: also called J invariant, the second Fourier coefficient is 196884, which happens to be the dimension of the Griess algebra, that is, the dimension of the least faithful linear representation of the monster group plus 1. The other Fourier coefficients of the j invariant are also related to the monster The dimensions of the so-called irreducible representations of groups are closely related: these Fourier coefficients can just be expressed as some simple linear combinations of the dimensions of the irreducible representations)
Not only the joy of solving problems, but also the joy of touching the moonlight, which is definitely double the joy.
As a result, the complicated and exhausting calculations became brisk. Cheng Mo moved his pen like flying, the fountain pen in his hand rustled, and the calculations line after line flowed like water on the white paper, clean and tidy.Cheng Mo calmly did the calculations, and quickly used another seven or eight pages with full devotion, and finally came up with two key numbers 3417022 and 3163935.
Cheng Mo put down his pen, his heart beating like thunder. He remembered that the approximate range of the Mediterranean Sea was from 5° West Longitude to 35° East Longitude, and from 44° North Latitude to 32° North Latitude.Assuming that the decimal point is placed after the first two digits, it is possible to find an accurate coordinate on the Mediterranean Sea.
"Could this be a coordinate on the sea?" Cheng Mo couldn't believe it. Before he had time to sigh how important mathematics was to him, he pushed the door and rushed out of the room, running to Captain Homero's bedroom.
Soon the earth-shattering knock on the door rang again, followed by Captain Homero's scolding: "Who is it again!"
"Me!" Cheng Mo said, this time his tone was not as cold as last time, it contained some expectation, some nervousness and some urgency.
Captain Homero opened the door and was shivered by the cold wind. He looked at Cheng Mo and asked in surprise, "What's wrong?"
It may be the departure of Athena, the misplaced knowledge of Cheng Mo and the immaturity of Cheng Mo's appearance, which made Captain Homero lose a lot of awe of Cheng Mo, and he didn't even call him "Mr. Reketska".
Cheng Mo didn't bother to care about the change of Captain Homero's attitude, and said in a deep voice, "Now change the course quickly and go to the location of 34.17022 east longitude and 31.63935 north latitude."
"what happened?"
Cheng Mo said coldly: "Don't worry about it so much!"
Captain Homero looked at Cheng Mo's indifferent face under the dim light, shivered again, and said helplessly, "Okay! I'll go change my clothes first!"
Cheng Mo grabbed Captain Homero's arm and said expressionlessly: "Go up first and ask someone to change the course!" Before Captain Homero could answer, he pulled Captain Homero out of the room.
"What is it that makes you so impatient? I can't even change my clothes?" Captain Homero complained loudly in the corridor.
Cheng Mo ignored it, just grabbed Captain Homero and walked upstairs. The pilot's cab was upstairs.
"It can't be that your princess lover is waiting for you at this coordinate?" Captain Homero sneered, "Could it be that your princess lover can escape from the aircraft carrier?"
Cheng Mo looked back at Captain Homero, and said lightly: "Anything is possible."
"Okay! Okay! Anyway, this location should be on the way, we will pass by soon." Captain Homero shrugged and pushed open the door of the pilot's cab, shouting, "Tahir, change the course, coordinates "
Captain Homero turned his head to look at Cheng Mo, Cheng Mo stared at the endless darkness outside the window and said: "East longitude 34.17022, North latitude 31.63935".
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After five and a half hours, at four o'clock in the middle of the night, "Mediterranean Prelude" finally reached the vicinity of "East Longitude 34.17022, North Latitude 31.63935".
Cheng Mo also waited outside for almost half an hour, the time seemed extremely slow in the gust of wind and rain, the outside of the corridor was still dark, only a faint light under the eaves followed the ship and swayed slightly in the darkness.The sea wind was stronger than he had imagined. The sea wind engulfed the raindrops and blew him cold and stiff. After a long gust of wind, he had difficulty breathing and couldn't even open his eyes.Not to mention that the whole body was soaked, and the shoes were filled with water, which made it extremely uncomfortable.
However, he was still holding on to the railings, holding up the searchlight and strafing the sea over and over again. However, in such bad weather, even if the energy is poured into the eyes, the range of vision is really limited. Even with the help of lights, it is not good enough. where to go.
A bolt of lightning split the sea and the sky, illuminating his somewhat pale cheeks, and the scene looked like a scene from a horror movie.
At this moment, it seemed that he was the only one left in the whole world, but Cheng Mo didn't feel much, and was still tirelessly looking for the slightest possibility in the sea.
Captain Homero opened the door, handed out a heavy plastic raincoat, and shouted against the wind and rain: "Put it on! Don't catch a cold!"
The voice was a little erratic by the sea breeze.
Cheng Mo turned around to pick it up, put down the searchlight, and quickly put the raincoat on his body. Although it was a little warmer, the wet clothes and body stuck together, but it became more and more uncomfortable.
Captain Homero lit a cigarette, stood by the door, and said leisurely: "I don't know how you got that coordinate, but even if you are the chosen one, it is impossible to escape from the aircraft carrier in such terrible weather. , and then swim one or two hundred nautical miles?"
Cheng Mo actually felt that he was just waiting for a miracle. If Athena still had Ouroboros, this possibility still existed.But Athena's Ouroboros has long been buried at the bottom of the sea. Even if she can intercept energy with her own body, it is impossible to snatch a battleship, let alone fly to such a long distance in a violent storm.
Even if there is a carrier, it is not realistic.
To be honest, Cheng Mo wondered if he wished to make some messy lines into two snowflakes according to his own imagination.
Such speculation made Cheng Mo a little frustrated. He shook the searchlight and let his eyes go blank for a while.But he immediately strengthened his conviction, telling himself that there could not be so many coincidences.
If this coordinate is really left behind by Athena through mathematics, then she must be confident that there is a way to get here.
Cheng Mo raised his hand to wipe the rainwater on his brows, and recalled the whole process in his brain. He still felt that he was not alone in his thinking, and there must be an indescribable tacit understanding between him and Athena.
"Otherwise, how would she know my plan?" Cheng Mo thought, and he continued to search among the churning waves with his searchlight.
"Can you gossip about how you and the princess met? And your love history!" Captain Homero said excitedly, "How on earth did you cheat Princess Athena away from Nahuang! To tell the truth I'm so curious!"
"Don't waste time here. Do whatever you want!" Cheng Mo said coldly.
"You're so stingy." Captain Homero angrily threw the cigarette butt on the floor, raised his foot and rolled it twice, and was about to close the door.
Before Captain Homero closed the door tightly, Cheng Mo said in a deep voice, "When you get to the coordinates, start circling, don't go any further!"
"Will warships and aircraft carriers catch up?" Captain Homero asked vigilantly.
"No!" Cheng Mo shook his head, "This is already the Iserel sea area, Napoleon VII will definitely not do this."
"All right!"
"Don't play tricks, or I will sink your ship directly!" Cheng Mo warned in a dark tone.
Captain Homero retorted angrily: "Go around! Go around! I will go around until you don't want to go around!" After finishing speaking, he slammed the door shut, leaving Cheng Mo alone in the cold and violent wind and rain. Waiting for a miracle to come.
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The huge "Mediterranean Prelude" has turned countless times in the vast sea, and even the skyline has turned white, turning the dark clouds into gray. Cheng Mo is still stubbornly persisting in the corridor outside the cockpit , However, within his field of vision, there was nothing but raindrops falling endlessly on the rolling sea.
Then one morning, and then another afternoon, "Mediterranean Overture" was like a headless chicken, wandering around for nearly ten hours.
In the evening, Captain Homero found Cheng Mo, who hadn't rested all day, and said in a serious tone: "This is not going to work, we don't have time to play with you like this!"
Cheng Mo looked back at Captain Homero. There were several crew members standing behind him. He didn't know whether they were here to watch the excitement or to be a helper to threaten him. We all know.He didn't bother to talk too much, and without hesitation, he directly revealed the "Seven Sins", pointed to Captain Homero and said, "I have to accompany you, and I have to accompany you if I don't!"
Captain Homero stared blankly at the bright lightsaber. After observing for a while, he still chose to soften his tone, "Even if we are willing to accompany you, there is not enough oil!"
"I know, keep the oil going to the nearest port."
"The nearest port is Tel Aviv, and we don't have permission!" Captain Homero said earnestly.
"You can figure it out."
"Do you know how many people are waiting for our weapons support? Do you know how important our cause is?" Captain Homero said angrily, "How many people's lives are you going to ruin for an unrealistic woman? !"
"I don't care." Cheng Mo said coldly.
Captain Homero said angrily: "People like you will go to Hell!"
Cheng Mo sneered and said, "You should save your boat first and avoid going to hell!"
"Wait for one night at most! I have to leave tomorrow morning no matter what!" Captain Homero spat viciously, turned and returned to the cab.
A group of crew members surrounding Captain Homero also dispersed amidst the discussion, and from time to time cast various strange glances at Cheng Mo.
Cheng Mo didn't care about it, he put away the "Seven Sins", looked at the rainy sea, and thought in his heart what should he do if he didn't wait for a miracle tomorrow morning?He doesn't think his conjecture about "Monster Moonlight" is wrong, but there are too many chances in this world that can change the result, and fate can't be as accurate as mathematics this time.
"Actually, it doesn't matter even if you leave first. It's not that she doesn't know the destination of 'Mediterranean Overture'. Maybe I can wait for her there." Chang Mo thought again, "But I really don't want her to be disappointed."
This kind of thought is like lightning, which makes Cheng Mo's heart tremble, and the emotion of "don't want to disappoint" is no stranger to Cheng Mo.Xie Minyun, Bai Xiuxiu, and Teacher Shen are all people he doesn't want to let them down, and he knows what it means to him to have such an idea.Cheng Mo is not a gentleman, he has always felt that there is no need to fight against human nature, "a fair lady, a gentleman is a good man", instinctive desires are often not an enemy, the more you fight against it, the stronger the desire will be, The backlash will also become more ferocious.
Assuming that he only had desire for Athena, Cheng Mo would not be vigilant and feel guilty. It was precisely because he realized that he had such an irresistible liking for Athena that Cheng Mo felt sorry for Xie Minyun.
Anyway, Xie Minyun is his wife, and Shen Youyi and Bai Xiuxiu are people who appeared before he got married, and those are not sorry to him.Besides, Shen Youyi and Bai Xiuxiu can't take Xie Minyun's place in his heart, it should be said that they can't replace each other, but Athena makes Cheng Mo feel the danger.
He knew that Athena would definitely not be able to replace Xie Minyun in a short time, but after a long time, everything could happen.
This thought makes Cheng Mo a little sad. He knows the power of time, and he also knows that human nature must be like this. Otherwise, Kawabata Yasunari would not be able to say the golden sentence that is regarded as the standard by young literary and artistic youth: No matter how complicated human requirements are, they still have to be returned. flesh.
Friendship is hard to beat, and [-] voices are no warmer than the warmth of a hug.
Open "Zhihu", and it will tell you the experience of countless long-distance relationships. The best reply to a text message when a girlfriend has a cold is neither "drink more water" nor "I love you", but "open the door" .
The long distance is definitely not a problem that can be solved by a single ticket, not to mention that he and Xie Minyun are not in different places, but separated by yin and yang.
Regarding the ultimate question of whether love can escape the shackles of the body and exist forever, even the wisest philosophers may not be able to answer it, and Cheng Mo does not know the answer.
"No matter what, I won't give up resurrecting Xie Minyun." He stood in the corridor, it was already dawn, and the dark clouds above the skyline revealed a sliver of the setting sun, and the orange color made people feel hot in the eye sockets.
This reminded him of Xie Minyun's gentle hug, and the smile on the corner of his mouth when he was called Mr. Cheng.It was she who convinced him that love might be more than a chemical substance, but some kind of ineffable devotional yearning, like a human being's obsession with the universe.He knew that Xie Minyun was a steadfast and stubborn woman, and she would manage their marriage with all her heart until the end of the world, but he divided his heart into several shares, which betrayed her trust in him.
Although Xie Minyun is gone now, it is not a big deal for him to fall in love with a woman again, and it can be said to be justified, but Cheng Mo recalls the beautiful past with Xie Minyun, and he always feels sad.
Perhaps it was because of this little bit of heartbeat that it was really sudden, and Cheng Mo hadn't been able to do a good job of psychological construction because of the suddenness.Maybe it's because Athena and Xie Minyun have a lot of similarities, and being able to reduce Xie Minyun's sense of existence is called Cheng Mo's disgust and rejection.
All in all, Cheng Mo felt a little scared, he didn't want Xie Minyun to completely become a memory.
"Maybe it's a good thing not to wait for her to appear here, so that the goodwill between the two will not continue to accumulate." Cheng Mo took off the hood of his raincoat and let the raindrops hit his face indiscriminately, " If I really wait for her and the two of us continue to get along day and night, even if there is no love, there will be other feelings that will settle into my heart with time, a feeling that only needs a small flame to ignite."
Cheng Mo thought so, so he decided to follow Homero's advice and leave here tomorrow morning.
"Maybe. I am not the particle destined to meet her in the 24-dimensional space."
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Cheng Mo held on to the corridor with the searchlight for another night. The wind and rain were much less in the early morning, but it didn't matter to him who was already numb. He was a little exhausted sitting on the chair and felt that his whole body They are as heavy as lead.
Captain Homero opened the door, "It's almost eight o'clock, there's really no need to hold on, she won't come."
Cheng Mo didn't answer, turned off the searchlight in his hand, and put the heavy searchlight under his feet.
Captain Homero walked to the corridor and glanced at Cheng Mo, who was full of sleepiness and exhaustion, shook his head and sighed, "You should go back and have a rest. You haven't slept for more than 40 hours. Even if you are the Chosen One I can't hold it! Are you really going to die from overwork?"
Cheng Mo also knows that he is extremely weak, but he has a little bit of reluctance and doesn't want to give up. In fact, according to Cheng Mo's personality, he should continue to wait, but now he feels that giving up is not necessarily a bad thing.Not only because of Xie Minyun, but also because he no longer wants to use Athena to kill Napoleon VII.
This kind of entangled mood is too complicated, so complicated that Cheng Mo can't figure it out. He said upsetly: "Have you found anything on the radar? Or have you received any signal?"
"No, there is nothing. This sea area is far away from the waterway, and no ships will pass by here." Captain Homero said firmly.
"Still turning." After hesitating for a while, Cheng Mo sighed, "Forget it, let's go!"
Captain Homero patted Cheng Mo on the shoulder, as if to say "Sorrow and change", then he turned around and shouted to the people in the cab: "Turn around and head towards Latakia!"
"Received! Captain!"
The people in the cab responded loudly, and the huge "Mediterranean Overture" slowly drew a long arc in the slanting wind and drizzle, heading north.
Sitting silently on the chair, Cheng Mo looked up at the line where the sea meets the sky. Through the intermittent rain lines, he could see the bright morning sun, and the thin dark clouds were almost transparent.
Suddenly, wisps of misty mist rose into the sky in the midst of the salted egg yolk-like morning sun, and then a light and gorgeous rainbow jumped out of the thin drizzle.
"Whales!" cried Captain Homero. "It is incredible that I have seen whales in the Mediterranean!"
"Whale?" Cheng Mo stood up from the seat, and he stared at the end of the sea. Sure enough, there were waves rolling under the thin rainbow that was about to dissipate. There was a faint gray-black back in the waves, a huge The tail flapped, and the water splashed on the surface of the sea, but soon it disappeared on the surface of the sea.
"It dived down! It just came up to take a breath!" After a pause, Captain Homero said puzzledly, "How can there be whales in the Mediterranean Sea?"
"Occasionally there will be lost whales coming here!" Cheng Mo didn't think it was particularly strange, he grabbed the railing and watched the faint waterline and said in a low voice.
"That's really good luck."
"how?"
"For us seafarers, the whale symbolizes rebirth."
Cheng Mo estimated that the whale symbolized rebirth because the "Bible Old Testament" recorded that the prophet Jonah was swallowed by a whale in a shipwreck, stayed for three days and three nights, and finally escaped unharmed.Some scholars believe that the story of the prophet Jonah and the whale is a metaphor for the fall of Babylon and the rescue of the Jews.
Therefore, the whale also means rebirth.
It's just that right now he's not interested in talking about it with Captain Homero, and he doesn't believe that whales can bring him any good luck.He feels terrible now, not only tired, but also dizzy.He raised his hand and touched his forehead, it seemed to be a little hot and scary, probably because he had a fever after waiting in the cold wind and rain for dozens of hours.
Instead of waiting for a miracle, waiting for a disease.
Cheng defaulted that he had to go back to his room quickly, he didn't want Captain Homero to know that he was sick.On this ship, he was alone, his resistance was greatly reduced in the case of illness, and he was not sure what to expect.
"I'm going back to sleep!" He turned and walked towards the door in a dispirited manner. The appearance of the whale did not bring him any surprise.It’s just that his body was so weak that he couldn’t control it. After walking a few steps, he had to grab the door frame. Just as he was about to enter the cab, many crew members squeezed out when they heard the cry of the “whale”. There is no way to get in.
"Where's the whale?"
"Where!?"
"Over there, over there, do you see it, it's getting closer!"
The loud voice made Cheng Mo feel dizzy, he raised his hand to support the door frame, the smell of the black crew made him feel uncomfortable and wanted to suffocate, he lowered his head and held his breath, and closed his eyes in pain.
In a trance, he seemed to hear the dull and long cry of a whale. The sound was so vast and ethereal, melodious and resonant, like an elegant song from the depths of the sea.
Cheng Mo shook his head vigorously. He felt that it was impossible for him to hear the sound of the whale. You must know that the sound of the whale was not within the range of the human ear.
He raised his head, and by this time the crew had climbed onto the railing, yelling at the whale, and the door was empty.He reached out to grab the doorknob, hesitated for a moment, after all, he had never seen a whale before, and the whale song that appeared in his mind just now was really shocking.
As a lover of animals and plants, he is of course very curious about whales, an ancient creature that has reproduced for 5000 million years, but his drowsy brain stops him.
At the moment when he was struggling in his heart, he subconsciously poured energy into the cochlea, so those low-frequency sounds swarmed in, and the same shocking singing voice as before filled his brain again.
"How could the frequency and syllables be exactly the same? It feels like talking." Cheng Mo was extremely surprised. He resisted the drowsiness that was about to swallow him like a quagmire, turned around and returned to the railing, and forced his eyelids to look at everyone. place to look.
"Look it's coming out!" someone yelled.
On the surface of the sea less than a few hundred meters away from the ship's side, a huge water bubble was moving towards the ship at an alarming speed. In just a few tens of seconds, the water bubble divided into two huge waves, and a huge black ridge appeared on the huge wave central.
"My God! Why do I feel like he's about to hit me!"
"It's so fast! It's really about to hit me!"
"How to do!"
"Steer?"
"It's too late!"
The crew members exclaimed in horror, and Cheng Mo was also a little dazed, but at least he knew that no matter how the whale could overturn a [-]-ton giant ship, it would suffer considerable injuries if it didn't stop or dodge in time.
In such a situation, Cheng Mo felt sorry for it.However, when the sound of the whale hitting the sea became louder and louder, it jumped out of the water. At this moment, even Cheng Mo, who does not believe in ghosts and gods, is full of awe of the sea, which is life. , the awe of nature and the universe.
It is as if devout believers have witnessed the true God.
He saw that the whale's huge head looked like a mountain in the shimmering sun and drizzle, and the rough skin like a reef was covered with potholes, which were the traces of barnacle growth. All the barnacles that should have been firmly attached to the whale's skin were gone.
No one paid attention to this, and everyone exclaimed in shock at the whale's leap so close.
Cheng Mo was thinking about the strangeness of it, when he saw the whale open its mouth of tens of square meters, and a figure flew out from it. The figure shone with golden light in the red clouds, and the bright light was so bright that Dazzling, the originally gloomy sea surface and those gray raindrops are stained with brilliance, and even the sun in the distance has become a foil.
For a moment, it was hard to tell if this was a dream or reality.
All the crew members in the corridor couldn't help but knelt down and began to pray devoutly.
Only Cheng Mo raised his hand to cover the sun, squinted his eyes and stared blankly at the man who was too bright to open his eyes and landed on the deck.
He watched in disbelief as Athena took off a transparent jellyfish on her head and threw it into the sea. She gracefully stroked her long golden hair and waved at the gray whale, and the gray whale He stretched out his head in the water and nodded to her, like an obedient pet.
Cheng Mo felt that he was not clearly ill, and the fever must have caused hallucinations. He closed his eyes, tried hard to control the rapid heartbeat, and calmed himself down.He clenched his fists and looked at the deck again. There was no one there anymore. He looked nervously at the sea surface, but the sea surface was also calm, as if everything was just a dream.
He turned his head and saw those crew members still kneeling on the floor. He thought of the "Sea King Dragon" kept by Athena again. His exhaustion and pain were swept away, and his body instantly became lighter. He took off the raincoat that was in the way , turned around and rushed into the driver's cab, and ran towards the direction of the stairs, and suddenly the whole staircase was filled with his hurried steps.
His head was still as heavy as an anchor, as if he would sink into the bottom of the sea at any moment; every time he took a breath, his throat was as hot as if it had been scalded by a branding iron; and the heart that had not fully recovered was also Almost over load.It had been a long time since he felt that his body was about to reach its limit, but he just couldn't help himself and wanted to prove that he wasn't dreaming, that miracles really happened, that he wanted to prove the conjecture of "monsters and moonlight".
Finally, at the corner of the stairs on the third floor, he saw Athena who was going up. Both of them stopped suddenly and looked at each other half a flight of stairs away.
Athena wore a black diving suit and a pair of large swimming goggles around her neck. Her hair was wet, dripping like water weeds.Her face was also pale, so pale that it was almost transparent, and her light red lips were not as bright as before.
But all of this did not damage her beauty. To be honest, her slightly sick appearance made Cheng Mo find it hard to hold herself.Obviously he should say something happy, but he was stuck in his throat, unable to say anything, as if he had gone through a long cycle of life and death.
I don't know how long it has passed, maybe it was just a moment, but Cheng Mo feels that it has passed for a long time.
Athena lowered her eyes and said calmly, "It's not easy to find a whale in the Mediterranean, so I'm late."
Cheng Mo tried his best to calm down his excited mood, smiled and said, "I didn't expect to see a scene in the Bible story. Someone can really hide in the belly of a whale." After a pause, he joked again, " Probably the sage is also a Celestial Dragon."
Athena still couldn't get into the cold joke of Mo, and explained seriously: "I'm just in its mouth. I can do this when I was a child. I can control the behavior of some animals through brain waves. As long as I establish contact with the whale, Then I'm just a baby whale in its mouth, and it will not swallow me except when it comes out when it is eating, just like people don't swallow chewing gum."
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Cheng Mo really felt that science fiction stories would not dare to make it up like this, and Athena's skills seemed to have nothing to do with the skills of the Chosen One. He immediately woke up and asked, "You also noticed my thoughts like this of?"
Athena nodded slightly without hesitation.
Cheng Mo was silent for a moment, then rolled his dry throat and said, "Thank you."
He didn't know whether he was thanking Athena for coming here through all kinds of difficulties, or thanking Athena for helping him in the mezzanine of the engine room, or thanking her for forgiving his shameful behavior of wanting to use her.
Athena didn't care what Cheng Mo was thanking at all, she shook her head lightly and said, "It's nothing, it's just that the process was a bit cold."
Cheng Mo knew that he should give Athena a hug at this time, dry her hair, and the crystal water droplets on his face, and at the same time tell her affectionately "I am willing to warm you", he can see through Athena's It can also further deepen the somewhat ambiguous relationship between two people by reacting to judge what kind of state the relationship between them is in.
But he thought of the psychological entanglements he had struggled with for the past two days, and felt that he could not do this, let alone deserve it.So he quickly abandoned this idea, and before Athena could spy on his thoughts, he turned around and gave Athena a back view, "Then let's go back to the room."
Athena followed Cheng Mo back to the room, she sat on the sofa without any abnormalities, and Cheng Mo's draft was still on the table.
Cheng Mo hurried over to put away the draft, put it in a drawer, and asked in a low voice, "Are you hungry?"
"Hungry." Athena said directly.
"Take a hot bath first, change your clothes, and I'll eat for you later." Cheng Mo walked to the refrigerator and opened it. Exhaustion and drowsiness began to erode his consciousness again. He took out the bottle of Laoganma from his pocket, forced a smile and said, "I'll serve you Laoganma Braised Beef Noodles."
Athena responded with a soft "OK", then got up and walked into the bathroom, and soon there was the sound of dripping water.Immediately, Cheng Mo's mind reappeared the scene of that day in the mezzanine of the engine room.
The supreme scenery of climbing the dangerous peak is wonderful.
Cheng Mo warned himself not to sink further, walked out of the room unsteadily, dragged his exhausted body straight to the kitchen.At this moment, he was at the end of his battle and felt that he was about to go into shock, but he still tried his best to serve Athena with braised beef noodles and fried an egg.
When the noodles were served, Athena had already taken off her diving suit, changed into dry clothes, and was wiping her hair with a towel. She was sitting by the bed, and just a simple movement could make Cheng Mo's mouth dry.
Cheng Mo put the noodles on the table, "Eat the noodles first, it won't taste good if it gets cold."
Athena obediently put down the towel immediately, sat on the sofa chair, picked up the fork on the tray, and began to eat the noodles a little clumsily.
Cheng Mo showed a fatherly smile, and then began to pack some of his things in the room, and when Athena had almost eaten, he said, "I think it's better for the two of us not to live in the same room. "
The fork in Athena's hand stopped for a while, and she asked without raising her head, "Why?"
Cheng Mo smiled wryly in his heart, and picked a statement that Athena would definitely dislike the most, "I dare not, and I don't want you to see my thoughts."
Athena put down her fork and said coldly, "I won't just spy on what other people are thinking."
Cheng Mo picked up his clothes and said in a low voice: "To be honest, it's not convenient for us to live in the same room as a single man and a widow."
Athena didn't say anything, just wiped her mouth, got up from the sofa chair, picked up her laptop and went straight to bed, ignoring silence.
Cheng Mo's heart was gloomy, and he felt a little pain, but he felt that he had to distance himself from Athena, otherwise it would be unfair to Athena.He bowed his head and hugged his clothes and walked to the door. When he opened the door, a gust of cold wind hit him, making him tremble. At this time, the adrenaline that had been pumped because of Athena's return had completely subsided, and his whole body was empty, like It's like being completely hollowed out by something.
He felt dizzy for a while, and lost control of his body. In the panic, he grabbed the doorknob to stand still, but his teeth kept fighting, and his whole body was trembling. It seemed that some powerful force was trapping him, preventing him from Get out of this room.
Cheng Mo didn't want Athena to know that he was sick, so he forcibly stepped out of the room and closed the door stiffly, but couldn't hold on any longer, and fainted at the door of the room.
(End of this chapter)
Cheng Mo returned to the room anxiously, turned on the ceiling lamp, and walked to the sofa chair that Athena usually sat on. Just now in the dark, he had vaguely seen many messy lines on the brown leather cushion. Mind you, when Captain Homero mentioned Napoleon VII, he remembered a great conjecture in mathematics called "Monstrous moonshine conjecture".
After studying "Elementary Algebra", you will know that "Elementary Algebra" is established from a group or a collection of objects that need to satisfy a certain relationship.
And one of the greatest achievements of mathematics in the twentieth century was the classification of all finite simple groups.
Of course, Cheng Mo also bought a guide for mathematicians that is like the periodic table of elements - "ATLAS of Finite Groups" ("Atlas of Finite Groups").
The last discovered and largest finite simple group in the finite group is called the "monster group".
The "monster swarm" is definitely one of the greatest achievements in mathematics. It must be known that the number of elements in the monster swarm is greater than the number of atoms in 1000 earths, and it is a huge and abstract thing that is difficult to describe. (The exact number of elements in the "monster group" is 808017424794512875886459904961710757005754368000000000, which is about 8*10^53. In comparison, the number of atoms in the solar system is about 10^57, which is only two orders of magnitude higher. If we If the monster group is represented by linear space and matrix transformation, at least a 196883-dimensional linear space is required to faithfully express the overall structure of the monster group. This expression is also called the linear representation of the group.)
So what is the "monster moonshine conjecture"?
Imagine having a 24-dimensional torus, and then imagine physical particle scaling through this space, with one particle sometimes bumping into another.
What happens when they collide depends on a lot of different factors, like the angle at which they meet.
There is a monster in it that makes this 24-dimensional system precise, and that monster is perhaps a certain way of making it symmetric.
Perhaps, the monster itself is incredibly symmetrical.
In short, "monster" is so important to human beings that it may well connect mathematics and physics through string theory.
According to the current speculation, mathematicians believe that such a symmetrical collision is definitely not a coincidence. After hard work by mathematicians, the evidence that each element in the "monster group" has a special modular function is constantly accumulating.
In other words, if it is a little easier to understand, the main characteristics of the monster group can be read from the modular function.
As we come to understand these monsters, it opens the door for theories to capture and manipulate them.
Like capturing a girl's heart.
Yet the idea that modular functions can tame wayward monster-like things doesn't sound at all possible — as unrealistic as someone telling you that humans can manipulate their own destiny through a wayward creator.
Although, it sounds like mathematicians are trying to challenge the Creator.
Yes, mathematicians themselves think so.
In theoretical mathematics, the term "moonshine" refers to seemingly crazy and impossible ideas.
The "monster group" is regarded by mathematicians as "a shocking snowflake that exists in the 196884-dimensional space and contains 10∧53 symmetrical forms".
For mathematicians, it is the "monster moonlight conjecture" to prove whether the "monster group" represents the ultimate symmetry of the universe.
Ordinary people will probably be confused when they see these things, but for Cheng Mo, such an idea is so romantic that it is unbelievable, just like writing "Since childhood, I have been alone, taking care of, the stars of all dynasties". Like a poem, how lonely and magnificent it is.
There was an emotion in Cheng Mo's chest that was more surging than Haitao. He turned the sofa chair around and half-kneeled on the floor to carefully observe the lines. They were sparsely drawn on the brown leather with an oil-based pen. There is no pattern, and it is even more impossible to have any connection with the "Monster Moonlight Conjecture".
But Athena can't do something meaningless, so Cheng Mo stared at the messy lines on the cushion and thought: Yes, I'm not tall, I'm not handsome, and I don't have much money. so special?Is it a similar experience?Is it the same loneliness?And maybe parents who are more or less responsible in their own way?Maybe there are other factors in it that he can't imagine, but he believes that there must be mathematics in it.
But he didn't know why he had a flash of inspiration just now. The reason why he thought of this conjecture was probably an intuition of someone who likes mathematics. In short, if it was him, the message he wanted to leave to Athena secretly must be through mathematics. The way.
If he had to choose, he would definitely use the "Monster Moonlight Conjecture".
The name alone is more romantic than the Fermat conjecture, the four-color conjecture and the Goldbach conjecture. Of course he is not a literary youth, but he likes the name "Monster Moonlight" very much.
"Let me see if we are symmetrical to each other." Cheng Mo whispered to himself, he got up and hurriedly opened the drawer to find a pen and paper, naturally there will be no shortage of these things in the chief engineer's room.He took a piece of white paper, covered it on the cushion, traced those lines precisely, then sat back on the chair, and carefully studied these lines under the light.
"Athena, look at me using mathematics to open you." Cheng Mo closed his eyes, "If I want to apply the 'monster moonlight conjecture', I must connect these lines into a 24-dimensional ring structure."
He pondered for a long time, as if he had fallen into an embarrassing long exam. The raindrops made the windows crackle, like the urging sound of time passing by.
Cheng Mo is like a monk in meditation, and he doesn't know how long it took. He suddenly opened his eyes, first measured the length of each line, and then found out the correlation between their distances, and then he began to list the formulas on another piece of paper, Start finding edges and vertices.What he has to do is to connect these seemingly chaotic lines into a complex plane.
This process requires a lot of calculations. It is necessary to know that if different vertices are used as the right coset of the subgroup, different coset graphs will be constructed.
He kept writing and drawing on paper, and wrote more than ten pages. This inexplicable clue made him completely forget everything and completely immerse himself in the world of mathematics.In the cold night, he broke out in a hot sweat, and finally, through a lot of calculations, he supplemented and connected these chaotic lines into a three-dimensional figure composed of hexagons.
Cheng Mo lifted the picture up to look at it, and suddenly found that this three-dimensional figure composed of hexagons, if you only look at the plane figure, it is clearly two completely overlapping snowflakes.
"Sure enough, it's "Monster Moonlight"!" Cheng Mo couldn't help but smile knowingly as he expected it to come true.
He took a closer look, only to find that, not only that, Athena had hidden other riddles.Looking at one of the snowflakes alone, this graph should be called the Koch curve (snowflake function).Its circumference is infinite, but its area cannot exceed the circumcircle of the hexagonal star. It is an infinitely complex closed curve, but it is always connected no matter whether it is composed of straight segments or curved segments.
"Is this the way mathematicians convey information? It's complex yet simple, abstract and beautiful." Cheng Mo is full of new trends. He feels that the whole process of solving the problem is the process of touching Athena's soul. He picks up the pen and writes on the white paper. Calculation, as if touching her skin with your hands, that feeling has a subtle sweetness, like you are reading a love letter written to you, "maybe this is another way Athena is testing whether they are symmetrical Way."
Such an accurate guess of Athena's thoughts made Cheng Mo 100% believe that he had some wonderful sympathy with Athena in his heart.Just like he thinks that the reason why Athena drew these lines on the seat instead of the table or something else is not aimless.
Because on a moon night, the moonlight can just shine on this position through the window, and the table is within the shadow of the wall.
"You are saying that I am a monster, you are the moonlight!" Cheng Mo smiled again, and he continued to draw the upper grid on the three-dimensional snowflake map, marking the vertical rows with integers (1, 2, 3, ...), and the horizontal rows with Imaginary numbers (1i, 2i, 3i, ...).
Such complicated work did not make him feel tired at all, only refreshed after finishing the work.After marking, Cheng Mo rolled the paper into a tube shape, found scotch tape to stick the two ends together, cut off the blank space, and made a donut with different sizes and shapes, although it is still It's very abstract, but in Cheng Mo's brain, it has completely changed from some messy lines to a 24-dimensional ring.
"Bingo!" Everything turned out as Cheng Mo imagined, and he snapped his fingers excitedly. At this time, he had seen the dawn of solving the puzzle. He hadn't experienced the joy of being about to make a proof for a long time. .
For a mathematician, given such a torus shape, he can use the j function to transform the shape into a special complex number. (J function: also called J invariant, the second Fourier coefficient is 196884, which happens to be the dimension of the Griess algebra, that is, the dimension of the least faithful linear representation of the monster group plus 1. The other Fourier coefficients of the j invariant are also related to the monster The dimensions of the so-called irreducible representations of groups are closely related: these Fourier coefficients can just be expressed as some simple linear combinations of the dimensions of the irreducible representations)
Not only the joy of solving problems, but also the joy of touching the moonlight, which is definitely double the joy.
As a result, the complicated and exhausting calculations became brisk. Cheng Mo moved his pen like flying, the fountain pen in his hand rustled, and the calculations line after line flowed like water on the white paper, clean and tidy.Cheng Mo calmly did the calculations, and quickly used another seven or eight pages with full devotion, and finally came up with two key numbers 3417022 and 3163935.
Cheng Mo put down his pen, his heart beating like thunder. He remembered that the approximate range of the Mediterranean Sea was from 5° West Longitude to 35° East Longitude, and from 44° North Latitude to 32° North Latitude.Assuming that the decimal point is placed after the first two digits, it is possible to find an accurate coordinate on the Mediterranean Sea.
"Could this be a coordinate on the sea?" Cheng Mo couldn't believe it. Before he had time to sigh how important mathematics was to him, he pushed the door and rushed out of the room, running to Captain Homero's bedroom.
Soon the earth-shattering knock on the door rang again, followed by Captain Homero's scolding: "Who is it again!"
"Me!" Cheng Mo said, this time his tone was not as cold as last time, it contained some expectation, some nervousness and some urgency.
Captain Homero opened the door and was shivered by the cold wind. He looked at Cheng Mo and asked in surprise, "What's wrong?"
It may be the departure of Athena, the misplaced knowledge of Cheng Mo and the immaturity of Cheng Mo's appearance, which made Captain Homero lose a lot of awe of Cheng Mo, and he didn't even call him "Mr. Reketska".
Cheng Mo didn't bother to care about the change of Captain Homero's attitude, and said in a deep voice, "Now change the course quickly and go to the location of 34.17022 east longitude and 31.63935 north latitude."
"what happened?"
Cheng Mo said coldly: "Don't worry about it so much!"
Captain Homero looked at Cheng Mo's indifferent face under the dim light, shivered again, and said helplessly, "Okay! I'll go change my clothes first!"
Cheng Mo grabbed Captain Homero's arm and said expressionlessly: "Go up first and ask someone to change the course!" Before Captain Homero could answer, he pulled Captain Homero out of the room.
"What is it that makes you so impatient? I can't even change my clothes?" Captain Homero complained loudly in the corridor.
Cheng Mo ignored it, just grabbed Captain Homero and walked upstairs. The pilot's cab was upstairs.
"It can't be that your princess lover is waiting for you at this coordinate?" Captain Homero sneered, "Could it be that your princess lover can escape from the aircraft carrier?"
Cheng Mo looked back at Captain Homero, and said lightly: "Anything is possible."
"Okay! Okay! Anyway, this location should be on the way, we will pass by soon." Captain Homero shrugged and pushed open the door of the pilot's cab, shouting, "Tahir, change the course, coordinates "
Captain Homero turned his head to look at Cheng Mo, Cheng Mo stared at the endless darkness outside the window and said: "East longitude 34.17022, North latitude 31.63935".
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After five and a half hours, at four o'clock in the middle of the night, "Mediterranean Prelude" finally reached the vicinity of "East Longitude 34.17022, North Latitude 31.63935".
Cheng Mo also waited outside for almost half an hour, the time seemed extremely slow in the gust of wind and rain, the outside of the corridor was still dark, only a faint light under the eaves followed the ship and swayed slightly in the darkness.The sea wind was stronger than he had imagined. The sea wind engulfed the raindrops and blew him cold and stiff. After a long gust of wind, he had difficulty breathing and couldn't even open his eyes.Not to mention that the whole body was soaked, and the shoes were filled with water, which made it extremely uncomfortable.
However, he was still holding on to the railings, holding up the searchlight and strafing the sea over and over again. However, in such bad weather, even if the energy is poured into the eyes, the range of vision is really limited. Even with the help of lights, it is not good enough. where to go.
A bolt of lightning split the sea and the sky, illuminating his somewhat pale cheeks, and the scene looked like a scene from a horror movie.
At this moment, it seemed that he was the only one left in the whole world, but Cheng Mo didn't feel much, and was still tirelessly looking for the slightest possibility in the sea.
Captain Homero opened the door, handed out a heavy plastic raincoat, and shouted against the wind and rain: "Put it on! Don't catch a cold!"
The voice was a little erratic by the sea breeze.
Cheng Mo turned around to pick it up, put down the searchlight, and quickly put the raincoat on his body. Although it was a little warmer, the wet clothes and body stuck together, but it became more and more uncomfortable.
Captain Homero lit a cigarette, stood by the door, and said leisurely: "I don't know how you got that coordinate, but even if you are the chosen one, it is impossible to escape from the aircraft carrier in such terrible weather. , and then swim one or two hundred nautical miles?"
Cheng Mo actually felt that he was just waiting for a miracle. If Athena still had Ouroboros, this possibility still existed.But Athena's Ouroboros has long been buried at the bottom of the sea. Even if she can intercept energy with her own body, it is impossible to snatch a battleship, let alone fly to such a long distance in a violent storm.
Even if there is a carrier, it is not realistic.
To be honest, Cheng Mo wondered if he wished to make some messy lines into two snowflakes according to his own imagination.
Such speculation made Cheng Mo a little frustrated. He shook the searchlight and let his eyes go blank for a while.But he immediately strengthened his conviction, telling himself that there could not be so many coincidences.
If this coordinate is really left behind by Athena through mathematics, then she must be confident that there is a way to get here.
Cheng Mo raised his hand to wipe the rainwater on his brows, and recalled the whole process in his brain. He still felt that he was not alone in his thinking, and there must be an indescribable tacit understanding between him and Athena.
"Otherwise, how would she know my plan?" Cheng Mo thought, and he continued to search among the churning waves with his searchlight.
"Can you gossip about how you and the princess met? And your love history!" Captain Homero said excitedly, "How on earth did you cheat Princess Athena away from Nahuang! To tell the truth I'm so curious!"
"Don't waste time here. Do whatever you want!" Cheng Mo said coldly.
"You're so stingy." Captain Homero angrily threw the cigarette butt on the floor, raised his foot and rolled it twice, and was about to close the door.
Before Captain Homero closed the door tightly, Cheng Mo said in a deep voice, "When you get to the coordinates, start circling, don't go any further!"
"Will warships and aircraft carriers catch up?" Captain Homero asked vigilantly.
"No!" Cheng Mo shook his head, "This is already the Iserel sea area, Napoleon VII will definitely not do this."
"All right!"
"Don't play tricks, or I will sink your ship directly!" Cheng Mo warned in a dark tone.
Captain Homero retorted angrily: "Go around! Go around! I will go around until you don't want to go around!" After finishing speaking, he slammed the door shut, leaving Cheng Mo alone in the cold and violent wind and rain. Waiting for a miracle to come.
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The huge "Mediterranean Prelude" has turned countless times in the vast sea, and even the skyline has turned white, turning the dark clouds into gray. Cheng Mo is still stubbornly persisting in the corridor outside the cockpit , However, within his field of vision, there was nothing but raindrops falling endlessly on the rolling sea.
Then one morning, and then another afternoon, "Mediterranean Overture" was like a headless chicken, wandering around for nearly ten hours.
In the evening, Captain Homero found Cheng Mo, who hadn't rested all day, and said in a serious tone: "This is not going to work, we don't have time to play with you like this!"
Cheng Mo looked back at Captain Homero. There were several crew members standing behind him. He didn't know whether they were here to watch the excitement or to be a helper to threaten him. We all know.He didn't bother to talk too much, and without hesitation, he directly revealed the "Seven Sins", pointed to Captain Homero and said, "I have to accompany you, and I have to accompany you if I don't!"
Captain Homero stared blankly at the bright lightsaber. After observing for a while, he still chose to soften his tone, "Even if we are willing to accompany you, there is not enough oil!"
"I know, keep the oil going to the nearest port."
"The nearest port is Tel Aviv, and we don't have permission!" Captain Homero said earnestly.
"You can figure it out."
"Do you know how many people are waiting for our weapons support? Do you know how important our cause is?" Captain Homero said angrily, "How many people's lives are you going to ruin for an unrealistic woman? !"
"I don't care." Cheng Mo said coldly.
Captain Homero said angrily: "People like you will go to Hell!"
Cheng Mo sneered and said, "You should save your boat first and avoid going to hell!"
"Wait for one night at most! I have to leave tomorrow morning no matter what!" Captain Homero spat viciously, turned and returned to the cab.
A group of crew members surrounding Captain Homero also dispersed amidst the discussion, and from time to time cast various strange glances at Cheng Mo.
Cheng Mo didn't care about it, he put away the "Seven Sins", looked at the rainy sea, and thought in his heart what should he do if he didn't wait for a miracle tomorrow morning?He doesn't think his conjecture about "Monster Moonlight" is wrong, but there are too many chances in this world that can change the result, and fate can't be as accurate as mathematics this time.
"Actually, it doesn't matter even if you leave first. It's not that she doesn't know the destination of 'Mediterranean Overture'. Maybe I can wait for her there." Chang Mo thought again, "But I really don't want her to be disappointed."
This kind of thought is like lightning, which makes Cheng Mo's heart tremble, and the emotion of "don't want to disappoint" is no stranger to Cheng Mo.Xie Minyun, Bai Xiuxiu, and Teacher Shen are all people he doesn't want to let them down, and he knows what it means to him to have such an idea.Cheng Mo is not a gentleman, he has always felt that there is no need to fight against human nature, "a fair lady, a gentleman is a good man", instinctive desires are often not an enemy, the more you fight against it, the stronger the desire will be, The backlash will also become more ferocious.
Assuming that he only had desire for Athena, Cheng Mo would not be vigilant and feel guilty. It was precisely because he realized that he had such an irresistible liking for Athena that Cheng Mo felt sorry for Xie Minyun.
Anyway, Xie Minyun is his wife, and Shen Youyi and Bai Xiuxiu are people who appeared before he got married, and those are not sorry to him.Besides, Shen Youyi and Bai Xiuxiu can't take Xie Minyun's place in his heart, it should be said that they can't replace each other, but Athena makes Cheng Mo feel the danger.
He knew that Athena would definitely not be able to replace Xie Minyun in a short time, but after a long time, everything could happen.
This thought makes Cheng Mo a little sad. He knows the power of time, and he also knows that human nature must be like this. Otherwise, Kawabata Yasunari would not be able to say the golden sentence that is regarded as the standard by young literary and artistic youth: No matter how complicated human requirements are, they still have to be returned. flesh.
Friendship is hard to beat, and [-] voices are no warmer than the warmth of a hug.
Open "Zhihu", and it will tell you the experience of countless long-distance relationships. The best reply to a text message when a girlfriend has a cold is neither "drink more water" nor "I love you", but "open the door" .
The long distance is definitely not a problem that can be solved by a single ticket, not to mention that he and Xie Minyun are not in different places, but separated by yin and yang.
Regarding the ultimate question of whether love can escape the shackles of the body and exist forever, even the wisest philosophers may not be able to answer it, and Cheng Mo does not know the answer.
"No matter what, I won't give up resurrecting Xie Minyun." He stood in the corridor, it was already dawn, and the dark clouds above the skyline revealed a sliver of the setting sun, and the orange color made people feel hot in the eye sockets.
This reminded him of Xie Minyun's gentle hug, and the smile on the corner of his mouth when he was called Mr. Cheng.It was she who convinced him that love might be more than a chemical substance, but some kind of ineffable devotional yearning, like a human being's obsession with the universe.He knew that Xie Minyun was a steadfast and stubborn woman, and she would manage their marriage with all her heart until the end of the world, but he divided his heart into several shares, which betrayed her trust in him.
Although Xie Minyun is gone now, it is not a big deal for him to fall in love with a woman again, and it can be said to be justified, but Cheng Mo recalls the beautiful past with Xie Minyun, and he always feels sad.
Perhaps it was because of this little bit of heartbeat that it was really sudden, and Cheng Mo hadn't been able to do a good job of psychological construction because of the suddenness.Maybe it's because Athena and Xie Minyun have a lot of similarities, and being able to reduce Xie Minyun's sense of existence is called Cheng Mo's disgust and rejection.
All in all, Cheng Mo felt a little scared, he didn't want Xie Minyun to completely become a memory.
"Maybe it's a good thing not to wait for her to appear here, so that the goodwill between the two will not continue to accumulate." Cheng Mo took off the hood of his raincoat and let the raindrops hit his face indiscriminately, " If I really wait for her and the two of us continue to get along day and night, even if there is no love, there will be other feelings that will settle into my heart with time, a feeling that only needs a small flame to ignite."
Cheng Mo thought so, so he decided to follow Homero's advice and leave here tomorrow morning.
"Maybe. I am not the particle destined to meet her in the 24-dimensional space."
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Cheng Mo held on to the corridor with the searchlight for another night. The wind and rain were much less in the early morning, but it didn't matter to him who was already numb. He was a little exhausted sitting on the chair and felt that his whole body They are as heavy as lead.
Captain Homero opened the door, "It's almost eight o'clock, there's really no need to hold on, she won't come."
Cheng Mo didn't answer, turned off the searchlight in his hand, and put the heavy searchlight under his feet.
Captain Homero walked to the corridor and glanced at Cheng Mo, who was full of sleepiness and exhaustion, shook his head and sighed, "You should go back and have a rest. You haven't slept for more than 40 hours. Even if you are the Chosen One I can't hold it! Are you really going to die from overwork?"
Cheng Mo also knows that he is extremely weak, but he has a little bit of reluctance and doesn't want to give up. In fact, according to Cheng Mo's personality, he should continue to wait, but now he feels that giving up is not necessarily a bad thing.Not only because of Xie Minyun, but also because he no longer wants to use Athena to kill Napoleon VII.
This kind of entangled mood is too complicated, so complicated that Cheng Mo can't figure it out. He said upsetly: "Have you found anything on the radar? Or have you received any signal?"
"No, there is nothing. This sea area is far away from the waterway, and no ships will pass by here." Captain Homero said firmly.
"Still turning." After hesitating for a while, Cheng Mo sighed, "Forget it, let's go!"
Captain Homero patted Cheng Mo on the shoulder, as if to say "Sorrow and change", then he turned around and shouted to the people in the cab: "Turn around and head towards Latakia!"
"Received! Captain!"
The people in the cab responded loudly, and the huge "Mediterranean Overture" slowly drew a long arc in the slanting wind and drizzle, heading north.
Sitting silently on the chair, Cheng Mo looked up at the line where the sea meets the sky. Through the intermittent rain lines, he could see the bright morning sun, and the thin dark clouds were almost transparent.
Suddenly, wisps of misty mist rose into the sky in the midst of the salted egg yolk-like morning sun, and then a light and gorgeous rainbow jumped out of the thin drizzle.
"Whales!" cried Captain Homero. "It is incredible that I have seen whales in the Mediterranean!"
"Whale?" Cheng Mo stood up from the seat, and he stared at the end of the sea. Sure enough, there were waves rolling under the thin rainbow that was about to dissipate. There was a faint gray-black back in the waves, a huge The tail flapped, and the water splashed on the surface of the sea, but soon it disappeared on the surface of the sea.
"It dived down! It just came up to take a breath!" After a pause, Captain Homero said puzzledly, "How can there be whales in the Mediterranean Sea?"
"Occasionally there will be lost whales coming here!" Cheng Mo didn't think it was particularly strange, he grabbed the railing and watched the faint waterline and said in a low voice.
"That's really good luck."
"how?"
"For us seafarers, the whale symbolizes rebirth."
Cheng Mo estimated that the whale symbolized rebirth because the "Bible Old Testament" recorded that the prophet Jonah was swallowed by a whale in a shipwreck, stayed for three days and three nights, and finally escaped unharmed.Some scholars believe that the story of the prophet Jonah and the whale is a metaphor for the fall of Babylon and the rescue of the Jews.
Therefore, the whale also means rebirth.
It's just that right now he's not interested in talking about it with Captain Homero, and he doesn't believe that whales can bring him any good luck.He feels terrible now, not only tired, but also dizzy.He raised his hand and touched his forehead, it seemed to be a little hot and scary, probably because he had a fever after waiting in the cold wind and rain for dozens of hours.
Instead of waiting for a miracle, waiting for a disease.
Cheng defaulted that he had to go back to his room quickly, he didn't want Captain Homero to know that he was sick.On this ship, he was alone, his resistance was greatly reduced in the case of illness, and he was not sure what to expect.
"I'm going back to sleep!" He turned and walked towards the door in a dispirited manner. The appearance of the whale did not bring him any surprise.It’s just that his body was so weak that he couldn’t control it. After walking a few steps, he had to grab the door frame. Just as he was about to enter the cab, many crew members squeezed out when they heard the cry of the “whale”. There is no way to get in.
"Where's the whale?"
"Where!?"
"Over there, over there, do you see it, it's getting closer!"
The loud voice made Cheng Mo feel dizzy, he raised his hand to support the door frame, the smell of the black crew made him feel uncomfortable and wanted to suffocate, he lowered his head and held his breath, and closed his eyes in pain.
In a trance, he seemed to hear the dull and long cry of a whale. The sound was so vast and ethereal, melodious and resonant, like an elegant song from the depths of the sea.
Cheng Mo shook his head vigorously. He felt that it was impossible for him to hear the sound of the whale. You must know that the sound of the whale was not within the range of the human ear.
He raised his head, and by this time the crew had climbed onto the railing, yelling at the whale, and the door was empty.He reached out to grab the doorknob, hesitated for a moment, after all, he had never seen a whale before, and the whale song that appeared in his mind just now was really shocking.
As a lover of animals and plants, he is of course very curious about whales, an ancient creature that has reproduced for 5000 million years, but his drowsy brain stops him.
At the moment when he was struggling in his heart, he subconsciously poured energy into the cochlea, so those low-frequency sounds swarmed in, and the same shocking singing voice as before filled his brain again.
"How could the frequency and syllables be exactly the same? It feels like talking." Cheng Mo was extremely surprised. He resisted the drowsiness that was about to swallow him like a quagmire, turned around and returned to the railing, and forced his eyelids to look at everyone. place to look.
"Look it's coming out!" someone yelled.
On the surface of the sea less than a few hundred meters away from the ship's side, a huge water bubble was moving towards the ship at an alarming speed. In just a few tens of seconds, the water bubble divided into two huge waves, and a huge black ridge appeared on the huge wave central.
"My God! Why do I feel like he's about to hit me!"
"It's so fast! It's really about to hit me!"
"How to do!"
"Steer?"
"It's too late!"
The crew members exclaimed in horror, and Cheng Mo was also a little dazed, but at least he knew that no matter how the whale could overturn a [-]-ton giant ship, it would suffer considerable injuries if it didn't stop or dodge in time.
In such a situation, Cheng Mo felt sorry for it.However, when the sound of the whale hitting the sea became louder and louder, it jumped out of the water. At this moment, even Cheng Mo, who does not believe in ghosts and gods, is full of awe of the sea, which is life. , the awe of nature and the universe.
It is as if devout believers have witnessed the true God.
He saw that the whale's huge head looked like a mountain in the shimmering sun and drizzle, and the rough skin like a reef was covered with potholes, which were the traces of barnacle growth. All the barnacles that should have been firmly attached to the whale's skin were gone.
No one paid attention to this, and everyone exclaimed in shock at the whale's leap so close.
Cheng Mo was thinking about the strangeness of it, when he saw the whale open its mouth of tens of square meters, and a figure flew out from it. The figure shone with golden light in the red clouds, and the bright light was so bright that Dazzling, the originally gloomy sea surface and those gray raindrops are stained with brilliance, and even the sun in the distance has become a foil.
For a moment, it was hard to tell if this was a dream or reality.
All the crew members in the corridor couldn't help but knelt down and began to pray devoutly.
Only Cheng Mo raised his hand to cover the sun, squinted his eyes and stared blankly at the man who was too bright to open his eyes and landed on the deck.
He watched in disbelief as Athena took off a transparent jellyfish on her head and threw it into the sea. She gracefully stroked her long golden hair and waved at the gray whale, and the gray whale He stretched out his head in the water and nodded to her, like an obedient pet.
Cheng Mo felt that he was not clearly ill, and the fever must have caused hallucinations. He closed his eyes, tried hard to control the rapid heartbeat, and calmed himself down.He clenched his fists and looked at the deck again. There was no one there anymore. He looked nervously at the sea surface, but the sea surface was also calm, as if everything was just a dream.
He turned his head and saw those crew members still kneeling on the floor. He thought of the "Sea King Dragon" kept by Athena again. His exhaustion and pain were swept away, and his body instantly became lighter. He took off the raincoat that was in the way , turned around and rushed into the driver's cab, and ran towards the direction of the stairs, and suddenly the whole staircase was filled with his hurried steps.
His head was still as heavy as an anchor, as if he would sink into the bottom of the sea at any moment; every time he took a breath, his throat was as hot as if it had been scalded by a branding iron; and the heart that had not fully recovered was also Almost over load.It had been a long time since he felt that his body was about to reach its limit, but he just couldn't help himself and wanted to prove that he wasn't dreaming, that miracles really happened, that he wanted to prove the conjecture of "monsters and moonlight".
Finally, at the corner of the stairs on the third floor, he saw Athena who was going up. Both of them stopped suddenly and looked at each other half a flight of stairs away.
Athena wore a black diving suit and a pair of large swimming goggles around her neck. Her hair was wet, dripping like water weeds.Her face was also pale, so pale that it was almost transparent, and her light red lips were not as bright as before.
But all of this did not damage her beauty. To be honest, her slightly sick appearance made Cheng Mo find it hard to hold herself.Obviously he should say something happy, but he was stuck in his throat, unable to say anything, as if he had gone through a long cycle of life and death.
I don't know how long it has passed, maybe it was just a moment, but Cheng Mo feels that it has passed for a long time.
Athena lowered her eyes and said calmly, "It's not easy to find a whale in the Mediterranean, so I'm late."
Cheng Mo tried his best to calm down his excited mood, smiled and said, "I didn't expect to see a scene in the Bible story. Someone can really hide in the belly of a whale." After a pause, he joked again, " Probably the sage is also a Celestial Dragon."
Athena still couldn't get into the cold joke of Mo, and explained seriously: "I'm just in its mouth. I can do this when I was a child. I can control the behavior of some animals through brain waves. As long as I establish contact with the whale, Then I'm just a baby whale in its mouth, and it will not swallow me except when it comes out when it is eating, just like people don't swallow chewing gum."
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Cheng Mo really felt that science fiction stories would not dare to make it up like this, and Athena's skills seemed to have nothing to do with the skills of the Chosen One. He immediately woke up and asked, "You also noticed my thoughts like this of?"
Athena nodded slightly without hesitation.
Cheng Mo was silent for a moment, then rolled his dry throat and said, "Thank you."
He didn't know whether he was thanking Athena for coming here through all kinds of difficulties, or thanking Athena for helping him in the mezzanine of the engine room, or thanking her for forgiving his shameful behavior of wanting to use her.
Athena didn't care what Cheng Mo was thanking at all, she shook her head lightly and said, "It's nothing, it's just that the process was a bit cold."
Cheng Mo knew that he should give Athena a hug at this time, dry her hair, and the crystal water droplets on his face, and at the same time tell her affectionately "I am willing to warm you", he can see through Athena's It can also further deepen the somewhat ambiguous relationship between two people by reacting to judge what kind of state the relationship between them is in.
But he thought of the psychological entanglements he had struggled with for the past two days, and felt that he could not do this, let alone deserve it.So he quickly abandoned this idea, and before Athena could spy on his thoughts, he turned around and gave Athena a back view, "Then let's go back to the room."
Athena followed Cheng Mo back to the room, she sat on the sofa without any abnormalities, and Cheng Mo's draft was still on the table.
Cheng Mo hurried over to put away the draft, put it in a drawer, and asked in a low voice, "Are you hungry?"
"Hungry." Athena said directly.
"Take a hot bath first, change your clothes, and I'll eat for you later." Cheng Mo walked to the refrigerator and opened it. Exhaustion and drowsiness began to erode his consciousness again. He took out the bottle of Laoganma from his pocket, forced a smile and said, "I'll serve you Laoganma Braised Beef Noodles."
Athena responded with a soft "OK", then got up and walked into the bathroom, and soon there was the sound of dripping water.Immediately, Cheng Mo's mind reappeared the scene of that day in the mezzanine of the engine room.
The supreme scenery of climbing the dangerous peak is wonderful.
Cheng Mo warned himself not to sink further, walked out of the room unsteadily, dragged his exhausted body straight to the kitchen.At this moment, he was at the end of his battle and felt that he was about to go into shock, but he still tried his best to serve Athena with braised beef noodles and fried an egg.
When the noodles were served, Athena had already taken off her diving suit, changed into dry clothes, and was wiping her hair with a towel. She was sitting by the bed, and just a simple movement could make Cheng Mo's mouth dry.
Cheng Mo put the noodles on the table, "Eat the noodles first, it won't taste good if it gets cold."
Athena obediently put down the towel immediately, sat on the sofa chair, picked up the fork on the tray, and began to eat the noodles a little clumsily.
Cheng Mo showed a fatherly smile, and then began to pack some of his things in the room, and when Athena had almost eaten, he said, "I think it's better for the two of us not to live in the same room. "
The fork in Athena's hand stopped for a while, and she asked without raising her head, "Why?"
Cheng Mo smiled wryly in his heart, and picked a statement that Athena would definitely dislike the most, "I dare not, and I don't want you to see my thoughts."
Athena put down her fork and said coldly, "I won't just spy on what other people are thinking."
Cheng Mo picked up his clothes and said in a low voice: "To be honest, it's not convenient for us to live in the same room as a single man and a widow."
Athena didn't say anything, just wiped her mouth, got up from the sofa chair, picked up her laptop and went straight to bed, ignoring silence.
Cheng Mo's heart was gloomy, and he felt a little pain, but he felt that he had to distance himself from Athena, otherwise it would be unfair to Athena.He bowed his head and hugged his clothes and walked to the door. When he opened the door, a gust of cold wind hit him, making him tremble. At this time, the adrenaline that had been pumped because of Athena's return had completely subsided, and his whole body was empty, like It's like being completely hollowed out by something.
He felt dizzy for a while, and lost control of his body. In the panic, he grabbed the doorknob to stand still, but his teeth kept fighting, and his whole body was trembling. It seemed that some powerful force was trapping him, preventing him from Get out of this room.
Cheng Mo didn't want Athena to know that he was sick, so he forcibly stepped out of the room and closed the door stiffly, but couldn't hold on any longer, and fainted at the door of the room.
(End of this chapter)
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