There was a commotion outside the office, interrupting Loran's thoughts. A police officer ran in and said, "There was a guy outside running around the police station, yelling for Officer Loran Kelly, who was in charge of Barry Robert's case, and I saw that he was emotional and didn't know what stimuli he had. ”
Loren was about to step out the door to see what was going on, when a man of about forty years old rushed in, grabbed Loran's arm and shook it vigorously, shouting incoherently: "You're Officer Kelly, right?" Mr. Robert, is he really dead? I'm going to look at him, let me see him! I killed him, I shouldn't have given him that harmful thing, I warned him, I really warned him, but he still died, I killed him..."
"Sir, calm down, you sit down first." Loren broke free of his hand and pressed him hard into the chair, and Jamie and Nick rushed over to help, and it took a lot of effort for the three of them to calm him down.
Loren poured him a glass of water and asked, "What's your name?" ”
The man took the cup and replied mechanically, "Toby Stone." ”
"Mr. Stone," Loren said softly, "I'm the one you're looking for, Loran Kelly, and you'll take a sip of water, take a break, and then tell me slowly what's going on, okay?" ”
Toby Stone nodded, put down the cup, buried his face in his hand, and said no more words.
After a while, he looked up, took a breath, and began to tell the story of the incident: "About two years ago, I was driving a boat with three friends to fish in the outer waters of California, and one day at noon, I was lying on the deck chair basking in the sun, and suddenly I saw a golden light flashing in the water, I hurriedly stood up, held the boat railing and looked into the water, the light had disappeared, I thought it might be the reflection of the sunlight on the surface of the water made me look at the eyes, and I was preparing to return to the chair, and the light reappeared, and moved back and forth in the water. I was immediately interested, put on my goggles, grabbed a canvas bag, jumped into the water, and swam after the thing. The light gradually moved to the bottom of the water in a flash, and I also sneaked into the bottom of the water, chased for a distance, the thing suddenly disappeared, I was a little disappointed, I thought I had found some unusual water creatures, but before I could get closer, it lost track. ”
"Just when I was feeling frustrated, suddenly, as if someone had drawn a match in the darkness, and all of a sudden, a butterfly with a golden glow floated past me, like the size of a palm, and the golden wings had some white spots in the shape of an umbrella, and the edge of the wings was particularly bright, like a skirt with gold edges, which looked very cute. I reached out to touch the butterfly, and suddenly I felt a smoothness on the back of my hand, as if it had been brushed by a light veil, and it turned out that the wings of another butterfly touched my hand, and I was surprised and delighted, and there was a butterfly of the same size! This butterfly is royal blue throughout, its wings are like transparent tulle, flashing blue light, the pattern on the wings is delicate and delicate, and the edges of the wings are bright purple-blue. I know that there is a fish called the flying bream, which likes to inhabit the bottom of the water, the pectoral fin is particularly large, and when it is unfolded, it is like the wings of a butterfly, so it is also called a butterfly in the water, but what I see is not a fish, it is a real butterfly... Well, it can't be said that a real butterfly can't live in water, and that's why I feel incredible. Two water butterflies are moving slowly up and down the ground next to me, flapping their glowing wings, sometimes floating in the water, sometimes falling on the water grass, the posture is light, as if dancing, I have a dreamy feeling for a while. After a while, I found..."
"Wait, Mr. Stone," Jamie interjected, "how long have you been holding your breath underwater?" It must have been a while, right? I remember you just said you just put on goggles and didn't bring an oxygen cylinder before going into the water, right? Can you still persist underwater then? ”
"Yes, I have excellent water quality, and I can hold my breath underwater for a maximum of seventeen minutes and fifteen seconds." Stone replied.
Jamie yelled, "Wow, you can be in the Guinness Book of World Records!" ”
"In fact," Pais corrected from the side, "the world record for the longest underwater hold-off time is twenty-four minutes and eight seconds." ”
Loren glanced quickly at Pais, then waved his hand and said, "Be quiet, stop interjecting, and let Mr. Stone continue." ”
Toby Stone continued: "After a while, I found that two water butterflies were not circling around me, but swimming back and forth around a large clump of aquatic weeds, and I saw that there were small half-cut frames exposed outside the clump of aquatic weeds, and two butterflies stopped on the half-cut frame from time to time, and after a while they 'flew' away, playing around, sometimes farther away, even swimming to the surface of the water, but not long after swimming back, still circling around the half-cut frame, as if there was an invisible line pulling them. ”
"I swam close to the bush of water weeds, pulled the half-cut thing out of the water weeds, and sure enough, it was a rectangular oil painting with a red frame, and then two butterflies swam over and stopped on the painting, and after a while they swam away, and I guessed that this painting was the reason for attracting butterflies, so I couldn't look closely at the contents of the painting, so I clipped the frame under the armpits and swam to the surface, and the two butterflies swam up behind, and I reached out and touched their wings, and the two butterflies did not dodge, and I easily caught them. I put the butterfly in my bag, swam back to the side of the boat, and shouted, 'Tom, Joey, Gordon, pull me up and see what I've found, this time it must have been an eye-opener for you!' Three friends hurriedly pulled me onto the boat and asked excitedly, 'What did you find?' I triumphantly opened the mouth of the bag and dangled it in front of them, and a brilliant light immediately reflected on their faces, and all three of them shouted at the same time: 'Oh my God! What is that? ’”
"I ran into the cabin, found a glass jar, filled the jar with water, and then poured the water butterflies in the bag into the glass jar, and in a flash, the whole glass jar was golden and radiant, and the two butterflies were like fish in the water, and they 'flew' freely in the tank, one blue and shining, one shining, indescribably bright and moving. I could see God and overheard Tom sighing next to me, "Toby, you know, this is the most meaningful gain of our trip to the sea." It turned out that Tom was already standing next to me at some point, and Joey and Gordon were standing behind me and looking so intently that they forgot to speak. I suddenly remembered that there was another painting, and I searched for it, but found that it was in Gordon's hands, and this stupid big man was staring intently at the butterfly in the glass jar, and actually forgot to put down the frame in his hand. ”
"I picked up the painting and looked at it carefully, the scene in the painting is vivid, above the painting is a beautiful hanging garden, there are some very strangely shaped buildings hidden in the trees of the garden, below the garden is a wide lake, the lake is sparkling, the lake... It's very special, I don't know how to describe it, the whole look of the lake is turquoise, and when you look closely, the lake is crystal clear, as if it is about to drip from the painting. In the lower right corner of the painting there is a line that I can't understand... The text, perhaps the word, I am not sure, because its words are not like words, the symbols are not like symbols, I don't know what kind of language it is, and the red picture frame, like wood, like stone rather than stone, emits a strange fragrance that is quiet and deep. ”
"Gordon saw that I had been staring at the painting and asked curiously, 'What's wrong?' I handed him the painting, pointed to the scene and said, 'You see these buildings, and the strange words below, have you seen them?' Gordon looked at it for half a day, and suddenly a sentence came out: 'Is this just called abstract painting?' I couldn't help but laugh and scold him: 'What a joke, you old boy!' Gordon was a lead factory worker, tall and tall, talking and doing things without a brain, purely simple-minded, well-developed people, but he was loyal and honest, and I didn't want to laugh at him too much. ”
"A few of us were laughing and talking while watching the butterflies, and I suddenly felt a little tired, so I said to them, 'You keep admiring, I want to go to sleep for a while.'" Tom stopped me and said, 'Don't sleep, let's play cards.' I waved my hand at him, then walked out of the cabin and lay down on the deck chair, and soon fell asleep. ”
I don't know how long I slept, I suddenly felt someone pulling on my clothes in my sleep, I opened my eyes and saw Gordon lying on the edge of the chair, his whole body convulsing, one hand desperately tugging at my clothes, the other hand holding a silver-gray box tightly in his arms, two eyes wide, and his expression looked very uncomfortable. I was startled, and suddenly drowsiness subsided, and I suddenly fell out of my chair. I held him up and asked urgently, 'What's wrong with you?' What happened? Gordon struggled in pain and said intermittently, "Butterflies... Suck it dry... The water in the tank... change...... Turned to stone... The stones glow... They kill people... radiation...... It's horrible... I found it...... Lead box... Can't put it down... Another piece... I think...... I think...... Throw it into the sea... I...... I can't...... Can't save them... You're fast... Let's go...' He spoke incoherently, I was shocked and anxious and confused, my mind was in a mess, and in a hurry, I grabbed the lead box in Gordon's arms and was about to open it, and Gordon 'snapped' and pressed his hand heavily on the lead box, gasping for breath, staring at me deadly and saying: 'Don't... Don't open it... you...... You're going to die... Don't fight...' I died before I finished speaking. ”
"A friend who had been laughing and joking with me not long ago suddenly died in front of me, and I was suddenly dazed, just staring at his face. At this time, there was a terrible scream from the cabin, I hurriedly got up and ran to the cabin, just ran to the door, suddenly felt a pair of hands tightly hugging my feet, I looked down, Tom was lying at my feet, pulling my body down desperately, I crouched down to help him up, Tom shook his head and said: 'No... No, I can't do it, Joey has... It's dead, don't you... Don't go in, leave... The ship...' he said and lowered his head, no longer moving. I put down his body, stepped into the cabin, just entered the door felt dizzy and numb limbs, a glance, saw Joey's twisted body and crooked face, I quickly withdrew, shaky back to the deck, for a moment six gods, confused, do not know what to do. ”
I closed my eyes, tried to calm myself down, and after thinking for a few seconds, I decided to abandon the ship and leave. I picked up the lead box, put it in the canvas bag, tied the canvas bag firmly around my waist, and finally took a look at Gordon's body, then turned and jumped into the sea, swimming forward desperately until I was exhausted, when a cruise ship passed by, and the people on board rescued me. As soon as I got on the boat, I told them what had happened, and because I was so excited, I fainted as I spoke, and by the time I woke up, the cruise ship had docked, and the people on board told me that the relevant departments had sent rescue teams to search the boat where the accident had occurred, and that no stones and paintings had been found, and that my three friends had no hope of survival. ”
"You know, everything happened so suddenly that I didn't have the opportunity or mood to think about what happened, and then when I got home, I kept remembering what Tom and Gordon said to me before they died, thinking about it, and finally sorting out the whole thing, but I still couldn't believe it was all true, because it was really... It's incredible. I reckoned that the thing was this: after I went to bed, the three of them might be playing cards together, and none of them noticed the changes that had taken place in the glass jar. The two butterflies sucked up the water in the jar and became... The stone, emitting a strong radiation, the three of them were irradiated by the radiation, immediately felt numbness in their limbs, and fell to the ground one after another. Gordon is relatively strong, and he can barely support himself to stand up, he found the lead box in his toolbox, wanted to put the butterfly stone into the lead box, but he suddenly found that the lead box can only contain a butterfly stone, for a moment did not know how to be good, in a hurry, picked up another butterfly stone and wanted to throw it into the sea, but the whole body was weak, and finally could not support it and fell down again. He was afraid that I would wake up and enter the cabin in a daze and suffer the same fate as them, so he took the lead box and climbed out of the cabin with difficulty, slowly crawled to my side, woke me up, warned me. ”
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