NOVPUBChapter 596: Chapter 514: Ship from the Nautical Legend_2 Chapter 596: Chapter 514: Ship from the Nautical Legend_2 Old Zhou thought about it and felt it made sense, so he said, “Wait until we land before we talk about it, don’t discuss these things randomly right now.”
“Oh, alright then.”
The young man was somewhat disappointed. n𝚘𝚟𝚙𝚞𝚋.𝚌o𝚖
As he reminisced about the appearance of that ship, he couldn’t help but dwell on it, the dilapidated vessel haunting his mind as if something within it was beckoning him.
Aside from Old Zhou’s group, the other sailors were also discussing the thing that had woken them up.
“It must be a Ghost Ship.”
A sailor muttered mysteriously, “Legend has it that some ships, after sinking at sea, are still manned by the Wraiths of their crew, who refuse to leave and continue to drift on the ocean.”
No one wished to encounter eerie and ghostly matters, and everyone felt a chill rise in their hearts just listening to this!
Because it was a bad omen!
As a result, the sailors on night watch were extremely tense for the rest of the night, their nerves stretched thin as they scanned the surrounding sea, afraid they might encounter something strange.
But what occurred earlier than any strange event was a breakdown within their own ranks!
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A sudden scream erupted from the cabin.
Luo Kai, who had been leaning over the railing smoking out of boredom, was instantly invigorated, his eyes lighting up as he looked toward the cabin like a conditioned reflex!
“It’s happening, it’s happening?!”
“This doesn’t look like a normal death.”
Xu Shuo had been paying attention to that absent-minded sailor, his sharp senses picking up on the man’s fluctuating emotions, so he directed some of his focus onto the target.
But to his surprise—
The dead man turned out to be this sailor.
According to the usual pattern, the killer might have been this very sailor who had the notion, and then the likely victim could have been the Captain.
But now, the one he considered to be the killer had become the victim.
So by rounding up—he had not actually resonated with the killer at all; the lousy Script Space really did allocate roles randomly!
“Let’s go, let’s have a look!”
Xu Shuo was internally criticizing when Luo Kai had already pulled him towards the cabin at the stern of the ship.
The crew of Daping Hao was already on edge, and that scream directly shocked them, with the sailors patrolling the deck all hurrying toward the cabin immediately.
From the deck room above the two-story structure, the Captain also poked his head out from the doorway to look.
Luo Kai, fastest of all, dashed into the cabin, resembling those detectives who rush to the scene of a crime, and with an eagle eye, immediately fixed his gaze on the gruesomely dead sailor on the floor!
The victim’s eyes were wide open in death, the fatal injury likely being the large hole in his stomach, and apart from the area around the hanging bed, where the body lay, there were no other bloodstains or signs of struggle in the cabin.
Indeed, aside from the victim, there were four other sailors resting in that concentrated sleeping cabin for the crew.
The victim’s hammock was placed on the outermost part, close to the cabin door, clearly visible from the entrance.
Luo Kai, taking the lead, closely examined the bloody corpse before anyone else got there and discovered that the innards had been scooped out of his stomach, even the heart was gone!
This discovery made him pause.
There were no signs of struggle in the cabin, and apart from the scream earlier, there had been no other loud disturbances throughout the ship.
Had the victim been emptied of his organs without feeling any pain?
Luo Kai put himself in the act, attempting to mimic the action with his hand.
Punch through the victim, then continue to scoop out the insides of the stomach, and to complete this quickly without making any noise was indeed difficult.
“What…
what are you doing?”
A sailor huddled nearby, dumbfounded by the heart-gouging gesture Luo Kai made, suddenly asked in a terrified voice.
Upon hearing the voice, Luo Kai sheepishly lowered his hand and then turned away nonchalantly.
At this time, several sailors from the deck had also charged in, facing the dreadful sight, half screaming, half agape.
Luo Kai stepped aside to let them in, paying no mind to the chaos among the sailors; however, he turned to see Xu Shuo intently looking at something through the porthole.
“Have you found something?” he asked as he approached.
“Water stains,” Xu Shuo said softly.
Residue remained on the partially opened porthole, sticky, like the slime left behind by some crawling creature.
Luo Kai touched it and remarked, “It indeed doesn’t seem like a normal death.
Did you feel anything else just now?”
Xu Shuo shook his head: “I was keeping an eye on that sailor, but up until his death, I didn’t detect anything abnormal in this room, as if it were just an ordinary murder.”
Luo Kai sighed upon hearing this, “Sometimes being a director is quite troublesome, because when you extract a complex script, it’s very hard to interfere with the original story.
It’s like things that are meant to happen will indeed happen, we can’t change them, we can only go with the flow.”
It’s bad enough you can’t take other actions, but you also need to understand exactly what’s happening.
Xu Shuo suddenly asked, “What about that ship?”
“Ah?” Luo Kai paused, “No, it hasn’t appeared since we got away.”
To Luo Kai, who was highly attentive to the ominous vessel tainted with the Abyss’ presence, it was inevitable to keep an eye on the surrounding sea while smoking facing the ocean.
But the ship truly hadn’t reappeared.
Yet Xu Shuo looked through the porthole and said, “Look, there it is.”
Luo Kai quickly turned his head to look.
Outside the round porthole, a black and dilapidated ship had appeared at some unknown time, almost merging with the seawater under the somber night sky, silently keeping pace with the Daping Hao.
At that moment, Luo Kai felt his hairs stand on end!
He swallowed hard and said, “Don’t stare at it.”
Xu Shuo examined the ship through the porthole.
Aside from being black, broken, and decayed, for the time being, no dangerous things were spotted on the ship, nor were there any scenes of Abyss Creatures dancing.
He asked thoughtfully, “Back then, did such a ship appear at sea as well?”
Luo Kai was taken aback.
In a daze, a strong sense of déjà vu seemed to echo in his mind the question a young man had once asked —
“Back then, did the train also rush down like this?”
So similarly, did the Daping Hao encounter such a ship eroded by the Abyss back in those days?
In this world, centuries ago?
If the script being extracted is a reenactment of what indeed happened back then, it would mean that certainly, the Daping Hao had encountered such a ship and then a series of events unfolded.
So the question comes back —
Was there an Abyss centuries ago?!
Luo Kai furrowed his brow tightly and stared straight at the ship outside, his expression more serious than ever!
Xu Shuo casually said beside him, “Well! you don’t have to be so troubled about it, maybe the unsolved mysteries born in the world all happened in this way, but we’re still here, aren’t we?”
Luo Kai wasn’t comforted by this.
Because he thought of another problem, “A world that has been eroded by the Abyss for centuries is probably nearing its end, just like those Abyss Battlefields in the Script Space.”
After speaking, Luo Kai suddenly turned to look at the young man next to him, his meaning unclear.
Ever since their first meeting and time spent together, he had noticed that this person’s emotions were not intense, to put it nicely, lacking empathy, with a weak sense of belonging to society and the world.
To put it unpleasantly, a bit of an anti-social personality.
But considering what the man had been through before, he didn’t criticize.
He just sighed and said, “If our world was already being invaded by the Abyss centuries ago, then that’s really not good news.”
Xu Shuo nodded, “Mhm, mhm.”
Luo Kai: “…”, Thanks, I feel patronized.
While the two were talking, Old Zhou, who had received the message, had also arrived at the cabin.
Seeing the scene before him, he sharply inhaled a breath of cold air!
Then he cursed loudly, “Did that damn kid look back just now?
Who else here looked back, speak up quickly!”
Old Zhou’s voice boomed like thunder, startling all the sailors around him, who then looked at each other and hung their heads, stuttering.
No one wasn’t afraid, but no one admitted it either.
Perhaps no one else really looked back apart from that sailor, or perhaps they were all hiding it.
Seeing everyone’s reaction, Old Zhou felt a sinking feeling in his heart, and at that moment, his gaze suddenly caught sight of the porthole.
Outside the porthole, a black ship was moving alongside them.
At that moment, a chill went down Old Zhou’s spine as he stared blankly at the shadow of that ship, his thoughts immediately turning to Xu, who was still asleep in the cabin.
Xu was of age this year; she was still young.
Old Zhou had been adrift at sea for decades.
As a young man, he had followed the Captain and ventured across the seas.
He had seen all sorts of things throughout the years.
But he had never seen a “Ghost Ship.”
However, he also knew that no one who had seen a Ghost Ship had lived to tell the tale.
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