Chapter 425 Contact
Conquering the Night On the sea, in the cabin of the cruise ship, Vanya, who had just fallen asleep not long ago, woke up to a series of noisy noises and buzzing roars. She sat up on the bed with a frown, and then yawned deeply.
"Wow...what's going on outside? Why is the noise so loud..."
Muttering to herself, Vanya rubbed her eyes, got out of bed, stood up, turned on the gas lamp fixed on the wall, and looked out the window. Then she was surprised to find that there was a thick fog outside the porthole and she could not see anything clearly.
"What's going on? Why is there such a thick fog outside? There was no fog at all before I went to bed. Did it just start?"
Vanya was looking at the fog outside the window and thinking in her heart. Then she looked at the clock on the wall and after checking the time, she confirmed that she had only slept for about half an hour.
"In half an hour... how could such a thick fog suddenly appear? And those noises outside? What happened?"
Looking at the many abnormal situations in front of her, Vanya couldn't help feeling a little uneasy in her heart, and then she decided to go outside to see what was going on. After casually putting on her nun's robe, she opened the cabin door and came to the corridor. However, not long after she walked into the corridor, she was stopped by a crew member, who said this to Vanya in Ivig.
"Miss Sister, we are currently experiencing a complex sea situation and are working together to resolve it. Please stay in your cabin and do not move around."
"Complex sea conditions, I understand..."
After hearing the words of the sailor, Vanya nodded. Because she was coming to Ivige for pilgrimage, Vanya had taken lessons before coming and learned a little Ivige. After the recent journey, she could understand some of the sailor's instructions. Then she followed the sailor's words and returned to her cabin and closed the door again.
In the cabin, Vanya did not fall asleep deeply, but sat quietly on the bed in the cabin, waiting for the so-called "complex sea conditions" to end with a hint of worry.
While waiting, Vanya heard the noise and roar outside gradually end, and the thick fog outside the window seemed to begin to dissipate. After waiting for a long time and seeing that the sea fog was almost dissipated, Vanya couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Huh... Looks like we really encountered complicated sea conditions. I think everything should be fine now."
Vanya thought so in her heart, and after feeling a little relieved, she was about to take off her coat and go to sleep. At this moment, there was another noisy noise outside the cabin, mixed with the sound of people screaming in pain, which scared Vanya.
"Is this... also dealing with complex sea conditions?"
Hearing the painful screams of someone outside, Vanya's peace of mind, which had just been put at ease, was immediately worried again. Faced with this sudden situation, she sat in the cabin and hesitated for a while, and then decided to go out and see.
Vanya stood up again, opened the door and walked out of the cabin, then walked slowly down the corridor. She found that there were other passengers in the corridor who came out to check the situation out of concern. However, when they were about to reach the deck, several sailors standing at the intersection stopped them.
"Please all passengers stay in your cabins. The ship has encountered some emergencies. We are dealing with them. It is not too dangerous. Please do not worry."
Several seamen blocked the intersection of the deck and persuaded the passengers who came out to check to return to their cabins. After receiving the seamen's instructions, these scattered passengers returned to their cabins one after another. Among them, Vanya stood there and observed for a while after the passengers around her had left. After clenching her fists slightly and then releasing them, she also chose to return to her cabin.
After entering her cabin and closing the door, Vanya sat on the chair. Her expression became extremely serious.
As a "Light" Extraordinary of the Black Earth Class, Vanya possesses superhuman vision. Even in the pitch-black night, she can see things clearly to a certain extent. With such vision, she saw things that ordinary passengers could not see.
When she was blocked by several sailors when she was going to the deck just now, she saw several naked men with serious faces and holding guns standing on the dark deck behind those sailors. At the feet of those men were sailors lying unconscious on the ground. Although those sailors were trying their best to persuade the passengers to go to their rooms, Vanya could sense the panic on their faces.
After seeing all this, Vanya knew that some major incident had occurred on the cruise ship she was on, and it was not a good one.
Vanya suppressed the urge to take action and went back to her cabin to think about countermeasures.
"A sailor was knocked down, and the strangers on the deck looked like they were threatened. Our ship may have been invaded. I can find a way to notify the escort fleet..."
Vanya thought so in her heart, and then she turned to look out the porthole, trying to confirm the specific location of the escort fleet through the lights of the ship. However, no matter how she looked, she could not find any trace of the church warships on the dark sea. After witnessing this situation, Vanya's heart sank.
"It's gone... It's gone? Where are the other ships? Where are the escorting warships now? Why can't we find them?"
Looking at the dark sea outside the porthole, Vanya thought anxiously in her heart. At this moment, she became more and more aware of the seriousness of the situation.
As Vanya had frequently encountered various dangerous accidents and experienced all kinds of storms in recent times, the current situation did not make Vanya panic or at a loss. After she took a breath and calmed down for a while, she took out her holy book and placed it on the table. After closing her eyes and praying silently for a while, she opened the holy book, turned to a page and began to write on it.
"The current situation is very strange and complicated. Anyway, I will inform Miss Dorothea first and listen to her opinion. It's so late at night, I'm really disturbing her..."
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Also on the dark sea, another passenger ship was sailing alone in the night. In a cabin of the passenger ship, Dorothy, who had been asleep for a while, suddenly opened her eyes, then quickly sat up on the boat, yawned, and stroked her forehead with a slightly frown.
"This is... Vanya's prayer, hoping to inform me to pray for the flow? This is so late... What happened?"
Sitting on the bed, Dorothy was thinking in her heart. Although her heart was full of doubts, she did not slack off in her actions. After standing up from the bed, she turned on the wall lamp and sat down next to the table in the light.
Dorothy, who was wearing pajamas, took out the "Voyage Log" from the magic box. After turning to Vanya's communication page, she saw the handwritten words printed on the book. Vanya told Dorothy about the situation on her side in as much detail as possible and asked Dorothy for any suggestions. She hoped that Dorothy could help her deal with the hijackers.
Sitting at the table by the window, Dorothy read all that Vanya had written, and then frowned even more deeply. She had never expected that such a situation would suddenly occur on Vanya's side. Someone actually dared to attack the church's ship!
"According to Vanya, their ship may have been controlled inexplicably. The invaders who came from nowhere knocked down the sailors, threatened the seamen, and forced all the passengers to stay in the cabins. This is a sign of hijacking. The church's pilgrim fleet has the courage to hijack it. Where did these people come from?"
Dorothy thought a little confusedly, but she already had some guesses in her mind.
'The fog... the shirtless man... the sudden appearance of an intruder in the sea... all these factors together make one think of the group of waterbenders of the Sea Abyss Cult... do they have the guts to hijack this pilgrim fleet? If it is them, what is their motive? Are they looking for a sacrifice for Hemohois?
"But I have the Deep Blue Heart. Without it, they can't hold the ceremony. And if they want to find a sacrifice, they don't have to go to the church specifically... In this sea, besides the Sea Abyss Church, are there other people who have mastered the Way of Waves? …"
Sitting in the chair, Dorothy wondered who had hijacked Vanya's ship. However, due to too little information, she couldn't come up with a conclusion after guessing for a long time, so she turned her attention to how to help Vanya deal with the current situation.
'I am very far away from Vanya now, and it is very difficult to help her directly, so Vanya's actions must be cautious.
'Since the hijackers were able to create such a thick fog that the passenger ship was disconnected from the escort fleet, the Beyonders among them must be of high rank, and there may be one or more White rank Beyonders. If they are truly Beyonders of the Waves, then with the advantage in the field, it is almost impossible for Vanya to win. Therefore, Vanya must not clash with them. Instead, she needs to find an opportunity to collect more information. The key to the problem now is the lack of intelligence, and she must collect more intelligence before she can make a judgment...
"It's a pity that my real body is not on those passenger ships, otherwise the intelligence gathering work would be much easier."
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