A soldier in navy uniform came in, holding a gas lamp in one hand and a flashlight in the other. The dark captain's cabin was filled with a warm firelight.
He moved the gas lamp and scanned the captain's cabin with his eyes. He found nothing unusual and retreated.
The warm light gradually faded away along with the footsteps. Zhang Yuanqing ended his night tour and looked at the desk drawer again. The desk had two drawers, one of which had a copper lock, and the other drawer had no padlock.
Zhang Yuanqing thought for a while and opened the unlocked drawer. Inside was the telegram exchange between the Haiyan and the United Nations Naval Headquarters in Ireland.
But what is troubling is that the telegrams use codes, which Zhang Yuanqing cannot understand.
Although the spirit realm has an automatic translation function, the language and text will be automatically translated into your familiar native language, but the encoding is part of the decryption of the copy and is not within the scope of automatic translation.
Zhang Yuanqing thought for a long time and used the Star Escape Technique to turn it into a starlight dissipation mask.
A few minutes later, the stars rose again in the dark cabin. He left and came back with a coding manual in his hand.
He got it from the telegraph room.
In this era, telegraph transmissions used codes, and codes were divided into "universal codes" and "special codes". The former used the familiar Morse code, while the latter was mostly used in wars and was temporary and self-created. There was no code book. It's very difficult to crack.
Although the Haire is performing a secret mission, this is not a war period, and no one will specifically intercept the telegram. Therefore, Zhang Yuanqing guessed that the code on the telegram should belong to the regular Morse code. If the code is a "special code", then the difficulty of decryption will be Increased dramatically.
He sat at his desk in the dark cabin, flipping through the manual and deciphering the contents of the telegram. Half an hour later, Zhang Yuanqing completed the deciphering work and understood the contents of the telegram.
On August 14th, "Everything goes well on the Haiyan, it's over!"
On August 16, "The Haiyan was attacked by mermaids, and two crew members died!"
On August 18th, "Everything went well on the Haiyan, it's over!"
August 25, "The extraterrestrial object was successfully salvaged, the Cardinal sealed it, and the Petrel is preparing to return. Complete!"
August 26: "The Haiyan is on its way back, everything goes well, it's over!"
The content of the telegram sent every two days was very brief, and the reply from the Navy Headquarters was also very brief, usually with words of condolences such as "Received", "Understood", and "God bless".
On the day II successfully salvaged the source of the pollution on the 15th, the Haiyan sent an additional telegram.
The last telegram was on August 30, which was the fourth day after the extraterrestrial object was salvaged. The telegram was interrupted on August 30... Zhang Yuanqing frowned: "Were the subsequent telegrams hidden, or after James 30? Didn’t you send another telegram to the headquarters?”
The telegram was sent so diligently before the task was completed, but after the task was completed, the telegram was no longer sent?
It was mentioned in the introduction to the spiritual realm that the Petrel lost contact and disappeared mysteriously on its way back home, and James unilaterally stopped communicating with the Navy headquarters.
The mysterious disappearance and the first clues emerge.
But why did James do this? Zhang Yuanqing didn't understand. In addition, the more he read the stack of telegrams, the more strange they became, and he always felt that something was wrong.
After thinking for a moment, he understood what the problem was.
The Haiyan set sail on August 12 and successfully salvaged the extraterrestrial object on August 26. The whole process took 14 days. However, during the day, Zhang Yuanqing asked James about the ship's loading and when it would arrive at the port. James answered: 15 days.
Today is September 4th. If we calculate it as 14 days one way, we will arrive at the port in five days. So the main mission is to survive for five days.
The details are right.
Closer to home, Captain James terminated the telegram communication and deceived him about the return time. There must be something wrong with this person.
Zhang Yuanqing sorted out the telegram, put it back in the drawer, and looked at another drawer with a copper lock.
There must be something more important here, no doubt.
Now that we have figured out the background of the dungeon and the problem of James, the next step is to find out the reasons for James' strange changes one by one.
This information was probably hidden in the drawer of the desk. Zhang Yuanqing stared at the copper lock, but he hesitated. It was easy to destroy the copper lock, just a gentle tug, but he was worried that such behavior would cause a bad chain reaction. .
It is now confirmed that Thriller Cruise is an exploration-type S-class dungeon, and all information needs to be explored by the Spiritual Realm Walker on their own. This type of fancy dungeon often means that crises are hidden in the exploration process.
The exploration goes wrong and crisis strikes instantly.
Zhang Yuanqing opened the inventory and took a look. The purple gold suit was covered with a black curtain, indicating that it was unavailable.
It's better to be more steady..., he muttered in his heart and chose to follow his heart's will.
If an S-level dungeon at the peak of level 6 cannot use domination items, even if he is a dual-professional level 6 person, his life may be in danger.
Kuang Mu, this is a copy of Breaking Bad in the first area. Zhang Yuanqing's props and skills cannot restrain the distortion power.
There is a saying in Spirit Walker: "Whenever you drift away, you are not far from death."
"If you destroy the copper lock, James will definitely find someone sneaking into the cabin at night tomorrow, which may irritate him and bring the crisis to an early stage. I haven't figured out what happened after the extraterrestrial object was salvaged. Now I should mainly investigate secretly. Rather than doing something that exposes the traces.”
Anyway, the main task is to survive for five days, and there is plenty of time. As his thoughts turn, Zhang Yuanqing snaps his fingers and uses the Star Escape Technique to return to the bedroom in the bilge. There is a small round window in the bedroom, and outside the window is the faint rippling darkness. The waves cut the surface of the sea. Thinking that the extraterrestrial objects sealed in the bilge have the ability to distort creatures, Zhang Yuanqing always felt that there was a terrible crisis and gaze hidden under the dark sea outside the window.
Something is wrong with James, but what is his purpose? We still need to find out...
"There are two forces on the ship, namely the Navy and the Vatican's Spiritual Realm Walker team. Are the Vatican people and James the same team? If not, as long as the two parties are not companions, I have a lot of room for maneuver. One of them can be roped in to become a teammate. .”
Zhang Yuanqing thought for a while, then used Night Tour again, quietly left the bedroom, walked through the cramped dormitory corridor, and reached the steps at the end.
Go along the platform to the minus II floor.
He was going to go below deck to inquire and give the Holy See team a definition.
During the day, the place was blocked by the cavalry of the Holy See. At that time, the background of the copy was not yet clear, so I did not choose a priest to fight.
Now Zhang Yuanqing can roughly deduce what is under the cabin based on the known information.
The extraterrestrial object salvaged from the deep sea was sealed by the cardinal of the Holy See at the bottom of the bilge. Zhang Yuanqing decided to secretly observe the spiritual practitioners of the Holy See and see what the strange thing was.
He strode down the steps, the sound of his footsteps muffled by the night, and soon he came to the entrance of the bilge. Two knights in silver armor, holding cross swords, were still stationed there.
Zhang Yuanqing passed between the two knights, and the meticulous knight turned a blind eye to the infiltrators.
The bilge is not a dormitory, but a place where goods are piled. Dim gas lamps are hung on the wall, illuminating the items in the bilge. There are piles of food, fishing tools, damaged lifeboats that need to be repaired, and Everything on the ship is like a messy storage room.
As soon as he stepped into the bilge, Zhang Yuanqing felt an inexplicable throbbing, as if he was being targeted by something. This breath, this feeling, evil power... Zhang Yuanqing frowned, the breath escaping from that alien object?
He carefully explored forward through the mountains of debris. After walking for more than ten seconds, he suddenly heard a "bang bang" sound like a heartbeat coming from a distance.
At the same time, a dozen meters ahead, behind a hill where bags of flour were piled up, flickering candlelight came from.
The beating sound of the heart came from behind the candlelight. What could have such an exaggerated heartbeat sound...
Zhang Yuanqing moved forward cautiously, approaching the flour hill.
At this moment, he heard the "Woo" sound of the wind, and then a sharp scream came from the left.
Without thinking, Zhang Yuanqing pounced forward and missed the wind blade coming from the left.
"Who is there?" a clear female voice yelled.
Master Feng noticed me? Zhang Yuanqing turned around and ran away. At the same time, he turned to look to the right. Ten meters away, there stood a young woman in a white nun uniform.
The chest, collar and cuffs are embroidered with golden patterns.
She has beautiful blond hair, green eyes, an oval face, a high nose bridge, delicate and beautiful.
The wind mage in white nun uniform waved his hands continuously to create wind blades, chasing the fleeing enemies.
Although she couldn't see the intruder, she could sense the enemy's position and speed through the feedback of the air flow, and every strike of the wind blade was extremely precise.
Seeing this, Zhang Yuanqing made a prompt decision, avoided the second wave of wind blades, hid behind a damaged and cracked lifeboat, and without hesitation used the Star Escape Technique to leave the bilge.
He immediately used the Star Escape Technique, and the bright stars lit up and then dissipated.
Mage Feng, who was wearing a white nun uniform, frowned, looked around, and sensed carefully that the intruder had disappeared out of thin air.
"Isabella, what happened?" an old voice came from behind the flour hill.
"There are intruders!" a nun named Isabella responded, with a voice as sweet as an oriole.
"But it suddenly disappeared." She frowned.
"Undead?" said the old voice.
“But I didn’t sense the breath of the undead, but if it’s the undead, you can’t sense it.
The only ones who can hide it from the knights and break into this place silently are the undead.
"It's not an undead, it's a human being. It can become invisible and knows some kind of teleportation technique. It teleports away when the starlight lights up." Isabella explained.
"Starlight? Invisibility?" The cardinal, who has extremely rich experience and experience, thought for a long time. I have never heard of this skill... Tell Captain James about this and let him solve it. "
