Chapter 105 – Storm
【"Return" crew member survives a great disaster and arrives at the port in the early morning】
"The missing cargo ship 'Return' set sail from Changhebin Town and returned to the dock in the early morning of recent days. The interior of the ship was in a mess, with bloodstains in many places, and only one crew member was missing.
It is said that the 'Return' encountered extreme weather three days after leaving the port, and the abnormal storm and waves almost swallowed the cargo ship. The strong magnetic interference interrupted the communication of the ship. The ship deviated from its course and could not escape the disturbance of the storm and waves.
Several days later, a ship departing from Fireworks Island found the 'Return' at sea. By then, the 'Return' had lost power. The boarding personnel found the surviving sailors on the ship, but the survivors were in poor mental condition. According to the description of the boarding personnel, they were speaking incoherently at that time.
Some mentioned seeing extremely terrifying things, and others vaguely mentioned words like 'octopus' and 'giant turtle'. But when asked for details, they were vague and unclear. One of the sailors suddenly burst into laughter when faced with questioning, behaving abnormally and causing a chilling feeling.
According to further investigation, the only missing crew member should have been standing on the deck of the 'Return' and staring into space when encountering the storm, and was swept into the sea by the storm.
However, it is strange that none of the sailors on the ship can clearly say when it happened. They showed abnormal indifference and seemed unconcerned about the deaths of their companions. Some didn't even notice the reduction in the number of crew members on the ship.
In addition, the boarding personnel also found a disturbing stone carving on the ship, which seemed to resemble a large octopus. When someone picked up the stone carving, the survivors had intense reactions. However, their words were incoherent, and no one could understand what they were saying.
Currently, experts are conducting mental assessments on the survivors, but the results are not optimistic."
The content described in the media reports is limited, but the information gathered from different platforms is enough to understand what kind of event this is.
After being brought back, the group of surviving sailors underwent comprehensive examinations and mental evaluations. Physically, they seemed to have no problems, but mentally, it's hard to say.
After the captain regained about fifty to sixty percent of his clarity, he described the course of events to the investigating personnel. It was roughly about their ship encountering waves, deviating from the course, and being sent to an unknown sea area by the storm.
But he couldn't explain what happened after that. The media's description here is very vague, but it is said that the official testimony was also like this. All the survivors couldn't say when they encountered the storm, and what happened after encountering extreme weather.
Their testimonies even conflicted with each other regarding the specific date of the abnormal occurrence and the conditions during the storm.
This is only the public version. In addition to this, a newly appointed Transcendent commissioner from the Alliance also went to investigate the situation.
The Alliance's first batch of talkative guys contacted the survivor, but unfortunately, when they met, the unlucky captain who had spoken coherently during the previous questioning had already become mentally weak. He lay in bed and could hardly speak complete sentences, occasionally muttering words that even he himself couldn't understand, or shouting and groaning, making his wife who took care of him guess what he wanted.
But this time, the talkative guy performed quite well and displayed his innate expertise. With his eloquent tongue, he convinced the captain's wife that he was a caring journalist and that no one cared more about her husband's experience and demanded an explanation.
The wife was convinced by his skillful persuasion and secretly revealed that her husband had a hidden diary. He had insisted on not letting anyone see the record when he was conscious, possibly because he was afraid that the truth in it was too horrifying, or maybe he was worried that seeing it would cause unnecessary chaos.
But now the sailor's consciousness is unclear, and his wife is obviously not as persistent about keeping it a secret as he was. So the Alliance obtained the only record.
It mentioned an island, an island that was never marked on the map. The 'Return' was blown onto that island by a huge storm, and the crew members who landed there witnessed an indescribable fear.
Several of them went crazy on the spot, and the rest tried to escape but failed. This sailor was the only one who successfully escaped and wrote a brief record during the following days of aimless drifting of the ship.
And coincidentally, earlier today, another ship was reported missing in the same sea area. The passenger ferry 'Sunflower' lost contact two hours ago and there is still no news.
However, through the diary, the approximate coordinates of the incident were known, which is not mysterious to Jiang Bei's side.
He chose to ask Xiao Qi directly, "Can you see the lost ship?"
Xiao Qi briefly paused her game, looked around, and a hint of blue flashed in her eyes.
Then she withdrew her gaze, "I can see it. The ship is leaking and is in the center of the storm. It should be sinking soon. Hmm, it doesn't seem like an ordinary storm, there seems to be something transcendent about it. If you want to know, you can go and take a look. If you hurry, you should still make it in time."
The crew members of the Sunflower are desperate now.
This shouldn't have happened at all. The weather forecast clearly stated that this area would have clear skies for thousands of miles, and there wasn't a single cloud in sight.
Just a while ago, the sea was calm, without even a ripple. The sparkling water surface was as calm as the cannon sister who couldn't provoke A.
In that fleeting moment, the surroundings suddenly turned tumultuous. The calm sea surface rose high, as if it had transformed into a powerful girl with surging waves in an instant.
The sailors began to exclaim, hastily bustling around. Passengers screamed in the cabins, and the giant waves in the storm seemed like a curtain wall crashing down.
Water began to leak into the ship. The captain tried to steady the helm, but the wind was too strong. Wave after wave hammered the ship like countless meteors, creating a terrifying roar.
Everyone realized what was about to happen next.
The ship was sinking.
The bow was the first to submerge, followed by the rest of the ship. The raging sea water, like a horde of wild beasts, rushed into all the cabins. The massive ship stood upright, like a sword thrust into a stone.
People struggled to keep their bodies above the rising waterline in the cabins. Countless hands slapped against the sealed windows in desperate pleas, until even the sky outside the window was swallowed by the icy sea water. The salty and ruthless water in the cabin relentlessly rose, until all the cabins were completely submerged.
Cold, despair, nothing could be done, only sinking.
The bottomless ocean was like an eternally hungry beast, cruelly opening its gaping mouth. An irresistible gravitational pull dragged them all towards the black hole-like mouth.
Until a certain moment, like a hallucination on the brink of death.
The sinking stopped.
A pair of hands gripped the outside of the cabin. Someone in the swallowed cabin looked out the window in despair, seeing a solid and powerful deep blue body, and a red cape fluttering in the water.
Miraculously, the massive ship began to rise again.
At an extremely fast speed, as if the hand of God was pulling them away from the endless gravity. The ship broke the surface again, tons of sea water crashed down on the surface along the steel shell, and the depths of the sea seemed to echo with the furious screams of the Grim Reaper.
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The sea water was quickly drained from the cabins, and the nearly drowned people began to cough violently. A sailor looked out through the water-beaded window at the small figure in the storm pulling the ship, his lips trembling uncontrollably.
A man, a body of flesh and blood, his cape fluttering in the storm, pulled this massive ship from the palm of the Grim Reaper, as if pulling out a two-hundred-meter-long sword.
"My God." The passengers who had escaped death had expressions like devout pilgrims.
Jiang Bei, dragging the giant ship, his recently enhanced bio-field due to increased control also enveloped it entirely, ensuring that the ship would not collapse under the weight in his hands.
A man and a ship pierced through the rain curtain, heading straight for the other side of the storm.