The four people were sucked into the whirlpool without even having time to say a word.
When Alvia swam out of the water, he found that he was not on a lake at all, but an endless sea.
The sky in the distance seemed to be connected to the sea. No land or floating objects could be seen. He was in the vast ocean and seemed to be the only one between heaven and earth.
Where is Zhou Zhou?
Elvia was searching on the sea with a frown on her face. Suddenly, a small wave rose on the calm sea not far away. A man emerged from under the sea, paddling with his hands and feet in a panic, splashing countless water.
Knowing at a glance that the man was Zhou Zhou, Elvia immediately swam towards him. However, before he reached him, Zhou Zhou, who was struggling continuously, suddenly sank, leaving only circles of water rippling at the place where Zhou Zhou had just been.
Just when Elvia thought Zhou Zhou was drowning and was about to dive under the sea, Zhou Zhou suddenly emerged from the center of the waves.
“Ahem…”
He was holding a piece of wood and coughing hard. That piece of wood was the small boat they were riding on just now. The simple wooden boat was broken by the whirlpool and entered the center of the whirlpool with them. However, the only thing on the sea surface nearby seemed to be the broken piece of driftwood in Zhou Zhou's hand.
The rest of the boat was missing too.
Elvia swam to Zhou Zhou. Zhou Zhou's slightly curly hair was wet by the sea water and stuck to the sides of his face. His fair face was also covered with water. Even his long eyelashes had water droplets constantly sliding down. He looked extremely pitiful.
"Are you okay?" Elvia brushed back the dripping hair on her forehead, revealing her smooth forehead, and looked up and down at Zhou Zhou with slightly sharp eyebrows.
Zhou Zhou coughed for a long time and finally recovered.
He couldn't swim, so when the whirlpool appeared, he could only hold on to the edge of the boat tightly. However, he didn't expect the boat to capsize. When he was struggling in the water, the wooden board in his hand unconsciously loosened.
Fortunately, when he sank, he found the wooden board not far away, and he grabbed it immediately and floated up again.
"It's okay." Zhou Zhou shook his head and held the board tightly with both hands.
He looked at Alvia, his eyes moving from his slightly sharp eyebrows to above his head.
"What is that?" Zhou Zhou asked curiously, looking at the thing floating above Elvia's head. If he were a normal person, unable to swim in the sea and even drowning at one point, it would be impossible for him to be as calm as he is now, but Zhou Zhou has regained his composure and is even in the mood to ask other things.
Alvia knew what Zhou Zhou was asking without even looking, after all, he also saw what was above Zhou Zhou's head.
"Countdown and life bar."
A countdown appeared above their heads, starting from the moment they surfaced and gradually decreasing from 60 minutes.
There is also a life bar on it, which gradually decreases as time goes by.
"If we can't get out of the water within an hour, we'll be eliminated."
According to the mission panel, the sea water contains radiation. If they do not find land or ships within an hour, their copy will be considered a failure.
Zhou Zhou looked around and saw the endless sea without a ripple, and he could not see anyone in the distance.
"Where are Shirley and Keli? Are they okay?" He was still worried about the other two. Clearly, they all fell into the water together, but there were only two of them nearby.
"It should have fallen somewhere else. Don't worry, they can swim." Elvia was very sure.
Zhou Zhou was in a difficult situation now. He couldn't swim and didn't know where to find them. Hearing Elvia's comfort, he could only nod and think about how to find the two people next.
"What should we do now?" The water on his hair kept flowing down his cheeks. He also imitated Elvia and brushed his hair back. Without the cover of hair, his big eyes looked even brighter and clearer.
Elvia glanced at Zhou Zhou's eyes and then looked away. He looked at the calm sea and released his mental power. Countless invisible filaments spread out from where he was.
Continuously extending and expanding, flowing towards farther places.
Zhou Zhou seemed to have sensed something. He held the driftwood and looked around, but the sea was still calm and he could not see anything. In the end, he had to give up.
A minute later, Elvia withdrew his mental power. There was only one boat in this direction nearby. If he went alone, he could swim there in about an hour. But if he brought Zhou Zhou, who couldn't swim, with him, he would definitely not be able to swim there within the specified time.
Looking at Zhou Zhou hanging on the wooden board, moving away from him as the sea surface rises and falls slightly. Zhou Zhou frowned and tried hard to swim back to him, but he didn't know how to swim at all. He struggled with one hand for a long time but was still spinning in the same place.
It seems that there is only one other way.
The flying talisman I bought in the store came in handy at this time. I had already found the direction of the ship. It would only take me ten minutes to get there using the flying talisman, and I didn’t have to stay in the sea any longer.
Although it is unclear what the health bars above their heads are for, it is best to keep as many as possible.
He told Zhou Zhou his idea, and Zhou Zhou immediately agreed. After all, he had long wanted to try the flying talisman.
When Elvia and Zhou Zhou bought props in the store, they also bought a few flying talismans. The two used the props at the same time, took off from the sea, and then flew in the direction indicated by Elvia.
Alvia looked at Zhou Zhou, who was still holding the wooden board while flying in the air, and asked, "Why are you still holding the wooden board?"
Zhou Zhou subconsciously tightened the wooden board in his hand: "What if the flying talisman fails and falls into the sea again?"
Without this plank, he would have sunk to the bottom of the sea.
Alvia opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it and turned to look ahead.
As the flight distance increased, he noticed that the humidity of the air suddenly increased, and the originally cloudless sky was gradually covered with thick clouds from the direction they were flying. The light grey clouds became thicker and thicker, and the sky seemed to be about to have a storm.
The sky turned from sunny to cloudy, and with it came a light mist with water vapor. The mist spread in front of him. As he shuttled through the air, the chill mixed with the cold wind rushed towards him. Zhou Zhou squinted his eyes and asked, "Al, how long will it take to get there?"
In fact, they were already very close to the ship. Elvia said nothing, looking at the ship's shadow looming in the mist ahead.
The black ship silhouette is extremely tall. It should be a large two-masted sailing ship. Compared with the ships of the interstellar era, the style is completely different. It should be modeled after the ship style of thousands of years ago. However, its appearance in such an environment inevitably makes people feel puzzled.
Zhou Zhou also saw it. It was the first time he saw such a big ship. His eyes widened and he looked straight at the ship.
Elvia used her mental power to search the surroundings again. Apart from this ship that appeared with the strange weather, there were no other ships nearby.
They rushed through the clouds and landed on the deck of the ship.
The countdown above their heads stopped after they used the flying talisman.
After landing, Elvia immediately discovered that the ship was very dilapidated. The wooden hull had almost turned black, and the deck made of wooden boards was full of cracks and breaks.
Even the floor beneath their feet would make a creaking sound when they stepped on it.
The ship was unusually quiet. One mast had been broken, leaving only the other standing, but the cross sail on it was also tattered.
This ship has gone through countless years and was probably abandoned in the sea and drifted freely because it was in disrepair.
After Zhou Zhou got on the boat, he put the wooden board on the deck and looked around the dilapidated ship.
He also noticed that the ship was very quiet, so he turned to Alvia and asked, "Is there anyone on board?"
"Anyone? Anybody? Anybody?"
As Zhou Zhou spoke, waves of ethereal echoes came from the surroundings, as if there were other people on the boat imitating Zhou Zhou's tone of voice.
Elvia looked around. He had just used his mental power to investigate and found that there was only one ship nearby, and it was drifting in the middle of the sea. There were no land cliffs within a hundred miles. They were now standing on an empty deck, so where did the echo come from?
After Zhou Zhou finished speaking, he also felt something was wrong. Although he had no mental power, his intuition and insight were very outstanding. He always felt that the echo just now was a bit strange. Was his voice like that?
"Hello~" Zhou Zhou actually shouted again.
All around was the sound of the waves rolling in as the weather turned bad, and the echo disappeared.
If it were an ordinary person, they would have been frightened by what just happened, but Zhou Zhou and Alvia were very calm. After Zhou Zhou was sure that there was something wrong with the ship, he even said to Alvia very seriously: "Don't leave my side, I will protect you."
Elvia, who was still on guard, was amused by Zhou Zhou's words. He chuckled twice and replied seriously: "Okay, I won't leave."
Elvia stood on the deck, the damp cold wind kept blowing on the two people who were already soaked from falling into the water.
He himself didn't feel anything. After all, he had been to several extremely cold planets during training, and this was just a virtual world. No matter how cold it was, it would have no effect on his real body.
But looking at the shivering Zhou Zhou, Elvia discovered that Zhou Zhou's health points were slowly decreasing. Could it be that the cold weather would also cause his health points to decrease? Or clothes soaked in sea water?
This is a ghost ship.
Elvia knew it when she saw the shadow of the ship in the fog, but they had no choice but to land here. After all, there was nowhere else to go around, and their mission this time might be on this ghost ship.
He had originally planned not to enter the cabin before the next main mission was released, but now it seemed he had no choice but to enter. Zhou Zhou's health was slowly decreasing. Although he couldn't see the top of his head, his health would definitely decrease.
"Let's go to the captain's cabin first." Elvia put one hand on Zhou Zhou's shoulder and took him to the first cabin on the right.
Zhou Zhou obediently followed the force on the other person's shoulder and walked forward.
Walking to the cabin door, Elvia stood in front of Zhou Zhou and opened the door.
The breath that came towards me was slightly warm, and the interior was clean and tidy, without a trace of decay or oldness, as if someone had lived here not long ago.
After Alvia walked in, Zhou Zhou behind him also stuck his head out and looked inside curiously.
The environment here is completely different from the outside. The blackened hull, the old deck, and the tattered sails all show that this ship is very old, but the captain's cabin looks brand new, and there is not even much dust on the table.
Inside and outside are like two different worlds. If they couldn't see the scenery outside through the window, they would really think they had entered another space.
Alvia had a lot of questions in his mind, but now was not the time to explore them. He turned to Zhou Zhou, who was standing at the table and looking at something, and asked, "Did you bring clean clothes?"
Zhou Zhou was stunned for a moment, then nodded. He went to the store last night and bought a lot of clothes. These clothes, like props, can be exchanged at will in the copy.
"Change your clothes first, otherwise your health points will continue to decrease." Alvia found that his health points were still slowly decreasing inside the cabin, but it was a little slower than when he was outside just now.
In fact, if it were an ordinary person, he would not be able to detect the speed at which his health points were decreasing. Unfortunately, these two people have very good observation skills and can see even the slightest changes.
It seems that climate and clothing have an impact.
The low temperature caused hypothermia, and the sea water has radiation. They wore clothes soaked in sea water, which was equivalent to being corroded by the sea water, and their health would naturally decrease.
In this copy, the player's life seems to be very fragile, and the slightest abnormality may lead to elimination.
Zhou Zhou said "oh" and started to take off his clothes.
He was only wearing a black sweatshirt on his upper body, which was very loose, so it was very easy to take off. Just when Alvia wanted him to go to the other side to change, he had already taken off all his clothes, leaving only his head.
Alvia turned around immediately, staring at the whiteness outside the window with a frown, and said coldly: "Don't change clothes in front of others."
Zhou Zhou took out a white shirt and was buttoning it up. When he heard what Alvia said, he asked stupidly why.
Alvia: "...Not very polite."
While buttoning his clothes, Zhou Zhou thought, I'm not changing clothes in front of girls, so what's impolite about that? However, he didn't understand the customs and habits of the outside world. When he heard Elvia say this, he thought it was like this outside, so he responded obediently.
When it was time to change pants, I went to the bed behind the partition.
The clothes Zhou Zhou bought this time were of various styles. When he came out from the back, he was wearing a black tuxedo and a bow tie on his white shirt. He looked like a medieval nobleman, reserved and delicate.
Hearing the movement behind him, Alvia turned around and looked at Zhou Zhou's clothes. A trace of surprise flashed across her eyes, but then she felt strange: "Why are you wearing this?"
If you fall into water while wearing this suit, your mobility will be greatly hampered.
"It looks good, and I think it suits the atmosphere of this ship very well." Zhou Zhou is an NPC in a dating game. In addition to dating, he also has a good aesthetic sense in clothing. In the past, some players prepared a lot of clothes for him, but later, no one was left in the Love Academy, and the clothes gradually disappeared. He only has the original set of clothes.
He didn't even think of buying clothes for himself in the Nightmare City. It was only when someone posted a video on the forum last night that he thought of changing clothes to prevent others from discovering him.
Alvia was speechless and could only go to the back to change her clothes.
Zhou Zhou looked at his back and suddenly asked, "Do you need help?"
Al's clothes didn't look easy to change, especially his inner clothes, which were stuck to his body after being soaked in sea water. It would be very troublesome to take them off.
Alvia paused and said indifferently, "No need."
Zhou Zhou was rejected but did not force it. He walked to the table and looked at the navigation log on the table, hesitating.
He just wanted to take a look at this, but it would not be a good idea to just flip through it without other people's permission.
However, it seemed that there was no one else on the ship except the two of them.
"Al, can I see the log?" Zhou Zhou shouted.
"Let's take a look. It's a good opportunity to see if there are any clues inside." Alvia said as she changed her clothes. The logbook is very important for every ship. You may be able to find out what happened to the ship or why there is such a huge difference between the inside and the outside.
Although the logbook on the table is half filled, it is well preserved and looks like it was still in use not long ago.
Zhou Zhou picked it up from the table and started reading from the first page. He couldn't understand anything about the course, weather, and tides, but at the bottom of each page there was a paragraph of text written by the recorder like a diary.
For example, what you had for dinner today, dolphins you saw on the sea, you miss home, etc. These are all very brief sentences. Sometimes there is even nothing to write, just a sentence that the sunset today is very beautiful.
The blue handwriting was smooth and clear, and every sentence recorded every little bit of beautiful things in life. Zhou Zhou read things very carefully. He turned the pages one by one without skipping any content. Even those data that he could not understand, he would read them all.
Alvia also changed into a new set of clothes, but when he walked out, Zhou Zhou heard the footsteps and looked up, and saw that Alvia had changed into the same set of clothes as before.
Did he buy multiple pieces of the same style? Zhou Zhou looked at him in surprise, as if wondering why he had to change into the same set.
Alvia was stared at by his curious eyes for a long time, and walked over calmly to change the subject: "Did you find anything?"
Zhou Zhou shook his head: "I didn't find anything."
"When was this ship built?"
Zhou Zhou was stunned for a moment: "I don't know."
Alvia frowned and looked at him: "Every page of the logbook should have a date."
Zhou Zhou thought for a moment, then lowered his head to flip through the previous content, from the top to the bottom without missing a single one, and then flipped a few pages left and right.
"No date."
How can a logbook be without a date? Elvia took it from Zhou Zhou and searched page by page, and sure enough, there was no date marked on any page.
Elvia looked down at the logbook in her hand and pondered. This ghost ship was already very strange, but now even the time could not be determined. She didn't know whether someone erased it deliberately, or there was something wrong with the logbook itself.
"Dong~Dong~Dong~"
Several noises echoed in the ears of the two men. Zhou Zhou immediately looked up. The low impact sound seemed to echo in the entire cabin, and the source could not be found at all.
Elvia put down the logbook in her hand and said to Zhou Zhou, "Let's go out and take a look."
When the door was opened, the cold wind from outside rushed into the cabin. Zhou Zhou shrank his head and followed Elvia out.
The banging continued, and Alvia, standing outside, quickly identified its source.
He walked slowly to the side of the boat, leaned over and looked down.
Zhou Zhou also leaned on the side of the boat and looked down.
It turned out to be Shirley and Keli below.
The two men were soaked in the sea water, looking miserable, and Keli was hitting the hull below hard. Because Zhou Zhou and Elvia used flying talismans to get directly to the ship, and the two of them had no props, and swam beside the ship for a long time without finding a way to get on, they could only try to get the attention of the people on the ship in this way.
Shirley looked up and saw Zhou Zhou and Elvia, and immediately waved to them happily.
Elvia had an indifferent expression, looking at the two people below with indifference.
Zhou Zhou grabbed the edge of the boat with one hand and waved towards the two people below with the other hand.
"Zhou Zhou, let down the rope and let us go up." Shirley shouted from below.
Keli stopped knocking and looked up at them expectantly.
Zhou Zhou stood there without moving, his delicate face showing confusion and bewilderment. He suddenly turned to Alvia and asked, "Why don't they have health points and countdowns?"
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