Chapter 125: Wheel/Plate at Sea (3)
Su Yue leaned comfortably in the chair, enjoying the sea breeze, while Cang Zhi was working hard beside him.
The puppet looks exactly like the Lord God, and also has the Lord God's temperament when working. Cang Zhi rolled up his sleeves, and his muscular forearms gleamed in the sun. The collar of his navy blue shirt outlined his well-defined collarbone and the pectoral muscles attached to the inside of the collar.
Cang Zhi could steer the boat effortlessly with one hand, and with the other hand he held a map taken from the table, gesturing vaguely and reporting the direction to the young man over there from time to time.
Gods can use their divine power to locate themselves on the sea where they don’t know the direction, but puppets cannot. However, puppets have a sense of direction at the level of artificial intelligence, so of course they won’t get lost.
It is indeed a very pleasing sight.
Moreover, he was very attentive to the beautiful scenery. After operating for a while, he came back to ask Su Yue: "Are you feeling better? Do you want some water? Do you want to eat something? Can I get you a pillow?"
Young man: “…”
Are you here for a customs clearance or a honeymoon?
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Su Yue himself didn't consider this as a honeymoon, or maybe it was just 5%...10%, a little bit of confusion.
"I don't drink water." Su Yue said with a smile, "Have you ever seen anyone drink water when they are seasick?"
"Then you should have a good rest." Cang Zhi said.
Cangzhi's tone of voice was concise, but it made people feel a little gentle, at least that's what Su Yue thought.
His current physical strength, attack power, and defense power are the lowest in recent games, so his guard has also dropped to the lowest point. He just thinks that Cangzhi's face is really handsome in the sunlight.
The sunlight climbed from one side of the sail to the center, illuminating the deck extremely brightly. The sea level appeared an intoxicating deep blue, and the sunlight flickered on the waves like bits of gold. The sea looked really beautiful, but when I thought about it being a killing game, I had no mood to appreciate it.
At noon, the captain's voice came from the ship's loudspeaker.
"Dear expeditioners, please gather at the restaurant on the first basement floor. Let's have lunch together and enjoy this lunch break."
Hearing this, the young man furled the sail, Cangzhi took up the rudder, folded up the map, and walked towards Suyue. Suyue held out his hand, and Cangzhi helped him and pulled him up. The young man glanced at them both with dissatisfaction: "Be careful of the impact."
Cang Zhi didn't say anything and just glanced at him indifferently.
The young man suddenly felt a bone-chilling chill and shivered violently under the scorching sun.
This weak pretty boy had a big leg, and he suddenly didn't dare to say anything.
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The restaurant on the basement floor was actually where we gathered just now. I don’t know when the long table was set up there.
There is a main seat at one end of the table, and on the other two sides, there are eight chairs on one side and seven chairs on the other side, which is just enough for 15 players plus the captain, a total of 16 people.
The room was filled with the aroma of food. There was a counter next to the table, on which a pot was still steaming. Next to it were sixteen bowls filled with steamed potatoes, fish pieces, and a few vegetable leaves.
The dishes look ordinary, but in such a harsh gaming environment, it is a surprise that they are edible.
When Su Yue and the others came, other players also came one after another. As soon as Su Chen entered the room, he went to talk to Su Yue.
"Boss, are you all right over there?" Su Chen lowered his voice, his face pale. "It's terrifying here."
Su Chen had grown tremendously in these instances, and Su Yue was quite surprised that she could say something like "terrifying". Su Yue asked, "What's wrong?"
So Su Chen told what she had seen and heard that morning.
Because they were responsible for the cleaning work and had the largest number of people, Su Chen's cleaning team had the best understanding of the ship's general situation. The ship was called "Sea Breeze" and had three floors: the deck, the underground floor, and the cabin above the deck.
"Those cabins are also quite strange. They are passenger cabins. The environment is much better than the cabin we came out of, but they are empty." Su Chen said.
Logically speaking, these upper cabins should be where players live, because the captain calls them "expeditioners", which obviously means they are not crew members, but they woke up in the crew cabin on the lower level.
However, this may be a game setting. After all, the crew was wiped out at the beginning of the game, which is probably not the point that Su Chen wants to say.
Su Chen said that after the division of labor, she was assigned to clean the basement because it was less bumpy there and was considered to be taking care of the girls. While cleaning, she found that the ship's facilities were very old and many parts were heavily rusted.
"Based on the thickness of the rust, the ship should have been scrapped," Su Chen said. "But strangely, removing the rust has no effect. The ship is indeed operating normally."
"That means we are sitting on a scrapped ship," said Su Yue.
Su Chen nodded.
It's a bit scary, but acceptable in a survival game.
"Then here comes the key point." Su Chen said, "I suspect this ship has another floor beneath the underground level."
After hearing this, Su Yue bent down and unobtrusively tapped the floor with his knuckles. The touch from his knuckles was solid, not like there was a hollow space underneath.
Or the floor was deliberately thickened to cover up the fact that there is another layer underneath.
So Su Yue didn't ask Su Chen why he thought so. He jumped directly to the next question: "What do you think is on the next level?"
"I can't explain it clearly." Su Chen's eyes showed fear, "but it's definitely something bad."
Su Chen was assigned to clean the stern. There was a small slope at the stern, which was the garbage bin. The garbage generated every day would be collected here and then thrown away. Therefore, this slope was slippery and full of oil.
She wasn't sure how far she should go, but since she wasn't allowed to run around, she had to clean anyway, so she cleaned very carefully.
As she cleaned all the way down the ramp, she suddenly noticed that the seams at the bottom of the ramp were wet.
Su Chen was shocked at first, because the boat was sailing on the sea, and if water took in, everyone on board would be doomed. She was afraid that the boat would leak.
But after waiting for a while, she found that there was no water seepage at the seams.
Su Chen hesitated, then squatted down and wiped the liquid from the seam with her sleeve. When she pulled her hand back, she was shocked to find a dark red mark on her sleeve.
It was clearly blood.
"I quickly rinsed the sleeve with the water I used to rinse the mop, but there was still a little trace." Su Chen stretched out his wrist and handed the sleeve to Su Yue. The trace could still be vaguely seen on the white sleeve.
"So you suspect there is another layer underneath, hiding something that will cause bleeding." Su Yue said in a deep voice.
"Yeah." Su Chen nodded. In the dim cabin, she lowered her voice, hiding it in the clinking of forks and plates, so as not to be heard by others. "Boss, I think this game is very scary. It seems that once you get on this ship, there is no way to get off. You must be careful."
The team wipe rate of this game is indeed the highest Su Yue has ever seen. You know, in high-scoring games, there may be many deaths but there will always be people who can pass the level. However, the team wipe rate of this game is close to 70%, which means that most of the time there is not a single person who can pass the level. This is too exaggerated.
The difficulty of a game is usually related to two factors: puzzle difficulty and survival difficulty. The puzzle difficulty of this game may not be very difficult, but from now on, the survival difficulty is definitely top-notch.
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The captain also came over to eat with the crew, but after the tableware was set, he did not agree to start eating immediately, but knocked on the table.
"Expeditioners, let us now pray to the Sea God and thank him for blessing us with favorable weather and sufficient food."
This prayer was full of love and peace on such a strange ship, and everyone readily agreed.
The captain took the lead and sat down solemnly at the head of the table, his elbows raised on the wooden tabletop and his hands crossed in front of his chin.
It's a very standard prayer posture.
The captain was wearing white gloves, but his sleeves slipped down a little when he did this action. At that moment, a player almost screamed, and he covered his mouth tightly to prevent any strange sound from coming out.
Because under the captain's sleeves, where his wrist should have been, there were actually two pieces of white bones.
Everyone noticed this, and in an instant their faces were filled with fear.
It is impossible for any living person to have a hand and arm connected by bones and still have the hand function normally, which means that the captain must not be human.
But these players are not newcomers after all, and they managed to remain calm in the face of such a strange situation.
They didn't even continue the discussion. They all lowered their heads and eyes, as if all they could see were their praying fists in front of them and the plates for separate meals placed beneath them.
After the prayer, the captain showed a satisfied expression. He smiled and said, "Everyone, let's start eating."
Su Yue saw the captain fishing on the deck today, so these fish were indeed edible. He was also very weak now and in urgent need of energy, so he lowered his head and ate the fish first.
The fish pieces tasted unexpectedly delicious. Fresh sea fish does not require any seasoning, and its own light salty taste is enough to perfectly match the firm texture of the fish.
When the others saw that Su Yue did not die on the spot after eating, and even ate with relish, they started eating too.
After eating, Su Yue clearly felt that his physical condition had improved a little.
There was no change in my seasickness, but the strong feeling of weakness was significantly relieved. It seemed that eating could reduce the degree of "corrupt lesions" in the body, which was good news.
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In the afternoon, everyone continued to work in their respective roles. The afternoon sun made the temperature a little higher. Cang Zhi and the young man were busy and sweating profusely. Only Su Yue sat under the parasol, leisurely drinking water and resting.
The young man worked on the sail for a while and then frowned and looked at Su Yue, obviously dissatisfied with his slacking appearance. He did not hide his dissatisfaction and kept talking, muttering from time to time, "What kind of survival game is a vase getting into?"
But Cang Zhi completed the work of two people by himself. Although the young man was dissatisfied, he could only complain a few words.
In the evening, the sun sets and the sea is shrouded in darkness. There is a large clock on the ship, in the cabin on the deck. All the lights in the cabin are off, but the dial of the large clock is made of stone that glows at night, so you can see the time.
After working until after seven o'clock, the captain called everyone together again and went downstairs to the restaurant for dinner.
After a busy day, it was nice to be able to have dinner and replenish energy, so everyone returned to the basement in a good mood.
But once we got there, we realized something was wrong.
There were sixteen "people" in the restaurant, including the captain.
But this time only fifteen sets of bowls and plates were prepared.
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