Dream No. 6
"Abort?"
Howard's expression showed a hint of ferocity, then he tilted his head in confusion, and suddenly laughed out loud: "It can't be stopped! It can't be stopped! The God of Ships will surely come to the world again!"
"Reforge my Lord with flesh and blood! Howard will live forever!"
*
When Xu Wei brought Dajiu and Xiaojiu back, it was already dawn. With her face covered in blood, she pushed open the door wetly, holding the two children on her left and right. Her eyes widened before she had time to catch her breath.
"What?"
The living room was empty, the sofa, table and chairs were smashed and piled in the corner, and other large furniture was stuffed into the next room. The randomness of the pile showed the chaotic situation at that time. There was a person tied to each side of the wall. Li Xia was forced to hang in the air and cling to the wall, with her hair hanging down and staring at the opposite side with a gloomy expression. Karina was tied up in a cross-legged position at a height far above the ground, with blood stains at the corners of her mouth.
The others also split into two groups. Corey stood next to Li Xia, Fu Fenglou and Lu Fanye stood in front of Karina, and Shaya yawned tiredly and shook the cradle across the crowd.
After being busy for most of the night, Xu Wei originally wanted to leave Dajiu and Xiaojiu to his teammates to take a nap, but when he came back, he was faced with this inexplicable situation, and he suddenly became angry.
Before he could finish his accusation, Lu Fanye looked over with an expressionless face: "Calm down, don't be affected by the curse."
There was no warmth in his eyes. Xu Weiru was poured with a basin of cold water over her head and calmed down.
If you look more closely, you will find that Fu Fenglou, who is leaning on the table, has one hand tied to the corner of the table, staring at the ground without looking out; Shaya seems to be locked in some kind of transparent prop, rocking the cradle without knowing what is happening outside; Lu Fanye and Corey are more stable in their emotions, but their expressions are unusually cold.
A delicate balance was being maintained in the room, as if the bomb was about to explode.
Xu Wei immediately stuffed a bunch of ropes into the mouths of the shouting Jiu and Dajiu, picked up the remaining ropes of his teammates, tied them up into a ball and threw them into the next room.
No wonder the noise got louder and louder on the way back. She almost lost control and threw them away several times.
The living room became quiet.
Lu Fanye kicked a folder over and said, "Read it first."
Xu Wei bent down and picked it up: "You can't leave there?"
He was helpless: "The curse has escalated. When we came back, Shaya and Karina were stealing food from the dinner plates. Li Xia woke up, picked up the wine on the table, was silent for a while and said he wanted to kill Karina, but we stopped him. After that, the wine bottle exploded, the liquid inside evaporated, and everyone lost their minds."
Xu Wei: "You and Corey?"
Lu Fanye: "Li Xia had a backup plan. She locked Shayashali in the tool at the moment of the explosion, and then started to chase Karina. Corey and I were able to remain rational, probably because of our respective skills."
"Is the room drafty?" Xu Wei opened the folder and glanced at Li Xia casually.
We can roughly infer the situation at that time. Lu Fanye's own ability is purification, and Corey's skill is a group aura that stabilizes the emotions of teammates for a long time. The threshold of their pollution is relatively strong, so they should have subdued Li Xia and Fu Fenglou respectively and cleaned up the mess.
"It passed, but there's still residual gas. Corey and I can't move, or it will exacerbate their emotions."
Lu Fanye stretched his stiff limbs slightly and continued, "When we were away, Karina must have used some means to gain Shaya's trust. I don't know where they stole this folder."
Xu Wei frowned: "Dream's sailing data, Neil's?"
"No, in fact, there are other people in control of the navigation, or rather, there are two forces - Howard's people and... the officials."
Xu Wei captured the key information from the densely packed text in the folder.
Officially...it is the country to which the Dream and the Howard family belong, this foreign country on the coastal frontier - in their past history, there was a custom of sacrificing humans and animals in exchange for good weather for the next twenty years.
Now, they are maneuvering the Dream off its planned route and heading towards the waters where the shipwreck occurred.
"What does that mean?" she wondered. "Isn't the Dream's scheduled route to revisit that sea area? The authorities even issued a news release saying they wanted to dispel the sea monster rumor, which was a hot topic before the Dream's voyage."
Lu Fanye: "Howard changed the route on the first day. The Dream would have headed to an even more unknown deep sea according to his route, but it was changed back tonight by the official staff."
Xu Wei was getting more and more confused: "Who sent this information to us? The authorities? They want us to fight Howard together? But shouldn't Karina be Howard's person?"
She read it again carefully.
"The Dream's original route was to sail along the coastal difficult area. After Howard modified it, the official changed it to sail directly into the area?"
Lu Fanye nodded: "Perhaps this is what Howard wants to hint to us."
It implies that the legend of the sea monster is true and that the authorities want to fish in troubled waters and sacrifice a shipload of people.
If Howard's secret had not been discovered tonight, Xu Wei really couldn't say whether he would change the direction of the investigation and confront the official personnel. After all, now in the vast ocean, even if he suspected the problem of the Dream, he couldn't abandon the ship and leave.
Xu Wei closed the folder and sighed, "It should be said that he is quite steady in this step."
Regardless of whether the information Howard revealed was credible, as a player, she had to investigate any threats outside of the mission. Moreover, the bracelet had not yet issued a mission, so she still had to investigate the suspicious points. Once she distracted herself from investigating the official issues, Howard would face less pressure.
Lu Fanye raised his hand and pointed to the bar counter which was relatively tidy in the chaotic environment: "The escape route has been drawn, and I have also prepared a map of the key locations of the entire ship. If Li Xia and Sha Ya cannot wake up, I will stay in Fu Fenglou to guard it, and Corey and I will meet you."
Xu Wei thought for a moment, opened her backpack and threw the contact button that Fang Yi handed over to her: "You can contact the transfer station, the player night market."
The button drew an arc in the air and was taken by Lu Fanye. He clenched his palm and said, "Be careful."
"knew."
*
Xu Wei felt that he had quite good physical strength at the age of eighty. Not to mention the physical exertion from climbing up and down the stairs, facing Howard's high tension and mental exhaustion was also quite intense, but he was still able to come out and continue searching.
My teammates won’t be able to help me for the time being, so the most urgent thing is to check the official lines that suddenly appeared.
She tidied her appearance a little and went straight to the cab on the map.
The wheelhouse must be manned 24 hours a day, and the engine room is usually led by the first and second mates, who take turns on duty. It is now approximately five in the morning, and the person on duty is the first mate, a middle-aged man with black hair and blue eyes, who looks very serious.
"Ma'am, what happened?" He opened the door with concern and asked the old lady who had been staying outside for a long time.
Xu Wei coughed a few times while leaning on crutches, looking haggard. He glanced suspiciously at the interior of the cab through the open cabin door.
The first mate did not look back into the cabin. Instead, he looked at her with a scrutinizing look: "Ma'am?"
Xu Wei had seen the job titles of the ship's staff in the VIP room, and especially remembered the staff in the wheelhouse. Captain Neil was obviously Howard's man, and the second mate had also appeared beside Howard. Only the first and third mates seemed to have never entered the sight of ordinary tourists.
She crossed her cane and stood between the two of them, saying naggingly, "Listen, I don't trust you or the people behind you. But now I have no choice but to believe you. Apart from you, no one on this ship can be easily trusted. Poor..."
The first mate frowned and raised his hand to push her away. The old lady suddenly stepped back, looked around nervously, and muttered in a hoarse voice: "Murder, they are killing people..."
"Everyone is going to die, everyone is going to die..."
If what is happening on the Dream is a horror movie, then Xu Wei is doing his best to play the stereotypical role in every horror movie - a crazy, confused passerby who predicts everything.
Sure enough, the first mate looked her over, confirmed that she posed no threat, and invited her into the cockpit.
The third mate was also there, discussing something with several other crew members around the dashboard. When they saw a stranger come in, they all fell silent.
"Tell me what happened to you." The first mate held a cigarette in his mouth, leaned back in his chair, and looked around at Xu Wei.
He seemed very confident, so Xu Wei didn't waste any words and exaggerated the magical experience she had just encountered on the lower floors, portraying herself as a poor rich woman who indulged her grandchildren in playfulness and accidentally entered a henpecked place.
The first mate remained calm throughout, as if he had anticipated the situation. After she finished speaking, he just blew smoke rings silently without saying anything.
They know.
At this point, Xu Wei was not sure whether he was an official or a silent bystander who witnessed Howard's atrocities.
Both sides remained silent for a while. The first mate finished smoking a cigarette and raised his hand to signal the crew to send her out.
The crew member half-forced her to walk out: "Ma'am, we have received your suggestion. Tianming will arrange for the security department to strengthen management, but for other unnatural factors, we still have to believe in science..."
Xu Wei did not struggle, but secretly made him support her with difficulty, and she kept yelling incoherently. When she was almost at the door, she suddenly shuddered and yelled, "You are not officials! You are not officials! I want to find someone, I want to find someone official!"
The crew member immediately pinched her hand and said, "Who told you this?"
He turned Xu Wei around and faced the first mate's scrutinizing gaze. The first mate still didn't say anything, but lit another cigarette in his hand, frowning, revealing a subtle sadness between the puffs of smoke.
Xu Wei ignored him, distrust written all over his face: "I want to see someone from the official side!"
The first mate watched her making a fuss, his expression blurred in the smoke. When the old lady got tired of making a fuss, he lit his cigarette in the ashtray beside him and put it out: "I am the official."
Xu Wei pretended to be intimidated by his posture and asked suspiciously, "Really?"
A crew member behind him couldn't stand it anymore, so he took out his personal identification card and unfolded it in front of his eyes: "Look carefully, this is directly under the Special Forces Agency. The one you suspect is our minister."
Xu Wei was still hesitant. He looked at the first mate several times. Seeing that he was unmoved, he finally believed it and approached him in a mysterious tone: "Howard said he would kill you all first. He said that you were going to stop his plan..."
The young man who had taken out his ID earlier immediately turned grim: "I knew they were not good people. Who knows where they are going to change their route? I think they were playing tricks on me in the shipwreck 20 years ago."
The first mate raised his hand to stop him and asked, "Where did you get the news?"
Xu Weicai stopped discussing with him where and how he learned the information. Instead, he started to go crazy, shaking his head and ignoring everyone.
Unexpectedly, the first mate didn't say anything in the end, just wrote down the cabin number and let her go back.
Xu Wei achieved his goal.
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