Chapter 144: Wheel/Plate at Sea (22)
The players now know very well that they should not open the door at night no matter what, and Haike has not been able to successfully drag the person away in the past few nights, so there should not be any accidents.
But now someone has disappeared, which may indicate the emergence of new rules of death.
This is why everyone's expressions are so ugly.
If there are new rules of death, no one can be sure that they can escape.
However, after Su Yue looked around, he had an idea.
The missing players were all players he had confirmed to be ghosts. It was normal for these guys to leave the team here. If they didn't leave the team, Su Yue would be curious why they hadn't taken any action yet.
But he still has to stabilize the players' emotions.
So Su Yue told a lie as quickly as possible.
"I actually heard the door opening last night." Su Yue said.
Upon hearing this, everyone's faces were filled with surprise, especially Cang Zhi, who was the first to turn around and look at him in astonishment.
"Did you hear the door open?" Cang Zhi asked.
Su Yue nodded firmly: "I heard it, didn't you hear it too?"
Cangzhi still looked a little confused:?
Su Yue looked at him with extremely determined eyes:!
Cang Zhi: “…”
Cang Zhi understood: "Yeah, I heard it. If you hadn't reminded me, I would have forgotten it."
This is pretty good, considered sensible.
Fortunately, Cangzhi's expression was always very subtle, and no one except Suyue could see the surprise just now. Otherwise, with the shrewdness of these players, they would definitely find something wrong.
Su Yue continued, "I was wondering who would open the door in the middle of the night and what would happen. Now it seems it was them. Maybe they thought the situation would change, or there were so many tourists that they were too nervous and opened the door. There's nothing they could do about it."
"Is that so?" The young man with ponytail was skeptical.
"Yes." Su Yue nodded without changing his expression or heartbeat.
"That's right." Cangzhi agreed very politely.
After Su Yue said this, everyone believed it and the ghost ship continued to sail forward.
The situation did not change at all. Su Yue and Cang Zhi came to the deck and looked into the distance. The others were afraid of the dark crowds of seafarers surrounding the ship, so they stayed in the cabin.
Su Yue sat on the boat, looking towards the volcano, his figure like a graceful statue.
He sat there from early morning until noon. When the bell rang, Su Yue suddenly asked Cang Zhi, "Did you find anything?"
Cang Zhi nodded: "The ship has barely moved."
"Yes, it's drifting very slowly." Su Yue said, "At this speed, we won't be able to reach Moonlight Island by the end of the eighth day of the game."
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The game lasts eight days. This was what the captain told everyone the first moment after entering the game. Su Yue spent the whole morning feeling the speed of the ship. He was very sure that it would be impossible to reach Moonlight Island in eight days at this speed.
So there are two possibilities on the eighth day. Either all the surviving players have completed the game, or all the players who have not reached the island have been wiped out. There is no way to verify which one it is now.
Considering that Su Yue came to this game with the mission of clearing bugs, and now he hasn't even seen any bugs, it seems that seeking change is imperative at the moment.
"So what are your plans?" Cang Zhi asked.
"We can't keep drifting on this boat," Su Yue said. "We have to get to the island."
But going to the island means facing the dark crowd of seafarers underwater, the legendary "whirlpool", "turbulence", and the "insurmountable flame" that they have not seen yet but know clearly exists.
Not to mention, they weren't sure where Moonlight Island was.
The water here is flat, the sky is high and the sea is vast, and the view is unobstructed, but no matter where you look, there is no trace of the legendary Moonlight Island.
"Okay." Cang Zhi said, "Let's go to the island."
Su Yue was stunned. He was actually prepared for Cang Zhi to dissuade him, because the puppet had always been like this, putting his safety first.
If it is determined that an activity may be dangerous, the puppet will dissuade Su Yue from doing it. Only if Su Yue insists will the puppet obey.
But this time Su Yue didn't even need to explain.
Cangzhi seemed to know exactly what Su Yue was doing and understood Su Yue's thoughts.
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After deciding on the next course of action, it’s time to prepare to go out to sea.
There were only two days left in the game, leaving Su Yue and his team with little free time. After gathering the players and informing them of their plans, the players' attitudes split into two very different camps.
One group tried to dissuade Su Yue from going, saying it was too dangerous, while the other group was worried that staying on the boat would lead to death, and expressed their desire to go with Su Yue.
After a final discussion, three people—Su Chen, the ponytailed youth, and the man in sunglasses—wanted to join Su Yue and Cang Zhi on the island. The remaining human players, unsure of whether it would be safe to remain on the boat, decided to remain on board, unwilling to face the endless sea swarms of tourists.
Not knowing which decision was the right one, Su Yue did not persuade anyone. Those who wanted to stay could stay, and those who wanted to go with them could start preparing to go to sea from now on.
Although it is a ghost ship, the "Saint" has all the basic configurations, including a lifeboat. This lifeboat can carry a total of six people, which is just right.
The young man with ponytail was very good at working on the boat. He pulled the lifeboat up from the side of the boat, untied the fixing rope, and lowered it down again.
Everyone was watching the movement on the sea nervously. If the boat was swallowed by the sea passengers as soon as it went down, the way to abandon the boat would be completely blocked. The boat quickly landed on the sea, accompanied by a loud noise, and the calm sea surface splashed with water.
The seafarer's tail swung dangerously around the boat several times, but surprisingly did not pounce on it.
But they began to circle the boat.
When getting on the boat, Su Yue wanted to be the first one, but Cang Zhi pushed him back and said, "I'll do it."
Su Yue thought it was a good idea. In front of so many people, he didn't dare to use his divine power to protect his body blatantly. If Cang Zhi went down, even if something really happened, at least he was a puppet and could still regenerate.
He inexplicably thought that if the old guys in the Divine Realm saw this scene, they would probably be so angry that their beards would fly off, saying that Su Yue was "not upholding the great unity" and actually let the honorable Lord God clear the way for him.
Su Yue thought to himself, you guys are going to be so pissed off, bah.
Cang Zhi pulled the suspension rope and lowered it neatly. When he was still a little distance away from the boat, he let go and landed lightly on the boat.
The boat shook violently, splashing water again, and the seafarers on all sides suddenly let out a low, whispering roar!
At that moment, everyone's heart tightened, fearing that the sea guests would attack Cang Zhi the next moment. Fortunately, after they growled for a while, they did not make any further offensive moves, but continued to cruise slowly around the boat.
You can see that some of the seafarers are very large, with long black shadows passing under the boat, with their huge heads appearing at the bow of the boat, and their tails emerging from the water as they swim, and slapping the boat with a "pop" sound.
For them, capsizing the boat would only take a moment.
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Most people would have felt their legs go weak just standing here and looking at the dark shadows hovering under the water, but Cang Zhi remained very calm. Not only did his figure on the boat not shake at all, he even helped Su Yue get off the boat, and together with Su Yue, he helped Su Chen, the man in sunglasses, and the young man with a ponytail get on the boat.
The boat was equipped with two pairs of oars, one for Cang Zhi and one for the young man with ponytail.
Cang Zhi tried to row, and ripples appeared on the mirror-like water, and the boat slowly moved forward.
Everyone held their breath and watched Haike follow the boat forward.
More and more seafarers began to gather towards the boat. Because it was too crowded, the seafarers' dark backs emerged from the water, causing dense splashes on the water, just like a group of loaches kept in a diving basin.
However, they did not make any attacking moves.
"Are you guys going to get off?" Su Yue looked up and asked the players who stayed on the boat, "There's a small boat here."
The people on the boat hesitated. When they saw that Su Yue and the others were not eaten alive by the sea guest immediately, they felt a little tempted.
But at this moment, a thick and long seafarer's tail slammed into the water, extinguishing the little ambition that had just been ignited in them.
Rather than risk going out to sea, these people would rather stay on the boat and wait for the eight days to expire.
Both sides are gambles, and they choose the safer one.
"Forget it," someone on the boat said, "Let's just wait here. Life and death are determined by fate."
"Yes, if we really get into trouble, we deserve it." Another person said, and waved at Su Yue and the others, "Boss, you guys better keep going!"
At this point, the players were completely divided into two teams, one team stayed on the ghost ship, and the other team jumped on the lifeboat and headed towards the unknown Moonlight Island.
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After paddling forward for a while, you can clearly feel the changes in the water surface.
The sea water began to flow, and the current became faster and faster. After a while, the speed of the water might even make the boat uncontrollable.
The sun cannot be seen in the sky here, and Su Yue and the others have completely lost the ability to judge the weather. They only know roughly how many hours have passed in their minds.
Since time was running out, they just kept rowing forward.
As long as the sea conditions change, it means the direction is correct.
After rowing for about an hour, the water conditions ahead suddenly changed and countless small whirlpools appeared in sight.
The good news is that these vortices are not large in scale, and if we work hard to control them, we should be able to maintain our direction. The bad news is that with so many vortices, it is definitely not an easy task to support them all the way to the end.
Moreover, it was very obvious that these seafarers were becoming restless.
The water in the area around the whirlpool is darker than here, and there is no guarantee that there will not be any new dangers underwater.
Their boat stopped for a moment, and Su Yue moved from the middle of the boat to the bow, next to Cang Zhi. This was of course to protect Cang Zhi.
Then, Cang Zhi pushed him back.
Then, Su Yue moved forward again.
Cang Zhi pushed him back again.
Su Yue moved forward again.
The young man with the ponytail rowing at the stern of the boat: "...Is there anyone who can take care of me?"
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