"In the afternoon, the director has approved it. The official document should be issued tomorrow. You two can start preparing a budget and plan and submit it."
Hui Jian's answer made Yerui jump out of his seat with excitement. This was the first plan he proposed since joining TPC. It was a big plan and it must be fun.
Although excited, Ye Rui did not forget his responsibilities. He typed on the keyboard with both hands and completed the rendering of the entire photo, making the extremely low-pixel photo clearer and able to see more details, such as other people's photos. identity, and what these people are doing.
However, the change brought about by the advancement of technology is automatic recognition. The photo has just become clearer. The program edited by Ye Rui has already completed the identification based on the TPC database and listed the identity information of the people present.
"The submersible in this photo is the Ryugu deep-sea submersible that the Marine Survey Class is preparing to decommission. The third person on the left is Director Iwama Qiao of the Marine Survey Class, and..."
The photo originally had extremely low pixels, and it took ten years to restore it. It was a surprise that it could be restored. Even after processing, it is not as good as the original photo. So even though there are so many people in the photo, only half of them can be identified. That’s all.
But what is puzzling is that among the people standing around the box in the photo, the five people in the first row are either dead or missing. In short, none of them can be found.
If it's anything else, that's it. There are so many people who disappear and die every year. It doesn't matter if they happen to be in one photo. But the key is that there is a guy in this photo who is not a human - Mitsuo Itabashi.
This requires us to figure out why he appears in the photo, what is in the box that was watched by everyone, and why all the obviously important people standing in the first row are missing.
"I'm going to see Director Iwama Qiao." Megumi said and walked quickly out the door. Although there was no evidence, she had a vague feeling in her heart that Mitsuo Itabashi was in the photo ten years ago. He is already a Kyriarodite, and the contents of the box are important to him.
"I'll go too." Zongfang immediately followed, and turned around and asked the three of them to be on standby in the command room and contact them immediately if anything happens.
In the warehouse of the TPC Ocean Survey Class, a solemn and solemn decommissioning ceremony is being held for the deep-sea submersible 'Ryuugong' that has been in service for more than ten years. All tests and trials of the deep-sea submersible Dolphin have been completed and it has officially entered the The sequence of TPC, coupled with the gradual transition to unmanned submersibles in deep-sea surveys, means that old submersibles will be retired from active service.
Although they were anxious, Munakata and Megumi did not interrupt the ceremony. They stood aside and quietly looked at the deep-sea submersible, which was exactly the same as in the photo.
At the end of the ceremony, Director Iwama Qiao of the Marine Survey Class walked over quickly, with a little sadness and nostalgia on his face. He had not yet come out of the ceremony and said, "I'm really sorry for keeping you waiting for so long."
"It's us who should be sorry. We took the liberty of visiting. I hope I didn't disturb you." Zongfang bowed slightly and expressed his apology.
After a few simple greetings, Director Iwama Qiao invited the captain and deputy captain of the victory team to sit in the reception room. As soon as the door closed, Hui Jian took out the PDI, showed the photo above to Director Iwama Qiao, and asked: "Director Iwama, do you still have an impression of this?"
Qiao Iwama just glanced at it, recognized it, nodded, and said: "This photo should be of me not long after I joined the company. At that time, I followed my seniors on the company's newly developed deep-sea submersible to a place in the South Pacific that was destroyed. Local fishermen called the group of undersea ruins Dragon Palace, performed a salvage mission, and set a new deep diving record for the company, so the submersible was named 'Dragon Palace' according to convention."
Deep sea salvage mission!
Zongfang and Hui Jian looked at each other and asked, "Is it convenient to tell you who the client is, and is there any entrusted task?"
"It's nothing inconvenient. It's been such a long time and the company has been dissolved long ago. Is there anything else that can't be said?" Although Iwama Qiao didn't know why the victory team suddenly inquired about the private commercial deal ten years ago. Salvage, but it must be an important matter, otherwise the two captains would not have arrived together and found a photo that he had almost forgotten.
After a few words, Iwama Joe began his recollection:
At that time, he had just retired from the submarine force, and was introduced to an internationally renowned deep-sea salvage company. Not long after passing the training, the company received a very challenging task, to go to the South Pacific and work in Croatia. Satellite fragments are retrieved from the seafloor between the Lemos Islands and New Caledonia to a depth of one thousand meters.
The information provided by the employer is very detailed, not only the coordinates and depth, but also a sketch of the salvage target. So you only need to go there, follow the diagram to find the 'satellite fragments', then put them in a protective box, and then bring them back to the sea to complete this lucrative job. task.
Iwama Joe's words confirmed Megumi's unfounded feeling when he was in the command room. The contents of the box were indeed very important to the Kirialodians. He quickly asked: "So, do you remember what the salvaged items are?" Does it look like that?”
"Well..." Joe Iwama tried his best to remember, holding a pencil to describe the appearance of the object he remembered on the paper: "It is a disk, about seventy centimeters in diameter, less than ten centimeters thick, and there are I’m sorry, I only remember a few of the patterns and incomprehensible characters, but I really can’t remember what the others look like.”
It took Qiao Iwama more than ten minutes and several sheets of paper to finally draw a disk that was similar to what he remembered. He picked it up and looked at it again, nodded, and said, "That's right. , it doesn’t look like satellite debris at all, it doesn’t even look like something modern, but..."
Hui Jianjian took the paper and looked at the disc carefully, while Zongfang quickly asked: "What's wrong?"
A puzzled look appeared on Qiao Iwama's face, and he said: "The person driving the submersible at that time was Mr. Katsumi, and he also took over the salvage task. After he came back, he didn't let us talk nonsense. All the salvage records were recorded by him. He was handed over to the company, but he disappeared not long after the salvage mission, and the police didn’t find any clues, so he just disappeared.”
Although Hui Jian and Zongfang tried their best to restrain themselves, they still had strange looks on their faces when they heard this, because it was not just one person who was missing, but four other people.
Their expressions caught Joe Iwama's eye, and he asked: "That's all I know, so...if it doesn't violate the confidentiality regulations, can you tell me why the victory team is investigating this matter? "
