A soldier in naval uniform came in, holding a gas lamp in one hand and a flashlight in the other, filling the dark captain's room with a warm glow of fire.

He moved the gas lamp and scanned the captain's room. Finding nothing unusual, he retreated.

The warm light gradually faded away along with the sound of footsteps. Zhang Yuanqing ended his night walk and looked at the desk drawer again. There were two drawers in the desk, one of which was locked with a copper lock, and the other was not locked.

Zhang Yuanqing thought about it and opened the unlocked drawer, which contained telegrams between the Haiyan and the United Nations Naval Headquarters in Ireland.

But what was a headache was that the telegram exchanges used codes, which Zhang Yuanqing could not understand.

Although Lingjing has an automatic translation function, the language and text will automatically translate into your native language, but the encoding is part of the copy decryption and is not within the scope of automatic translation.

Zhang Yuanqing thought for a long time, then used the Star Escape Technique and turned into starlight and disappeared.

A few minutes later, the starlight rose again in the dark cabin, and he returned with a coding manual in his hand.

He found it in the telegraph room.

In this era, telegraph communications used codes, which were divided into "universal code" and "special code". The former used the well-known Morse code, while the latter was mostly used in wars and was temporary and original. It was difficult to crack without a code book.

Although the Haire was carrying out a secret mission, it was not a war period and no one would specifically intercept telegrams. Therefore, Zhang Yuanqing guessed that the code on the telegram should be a conventional Morse code. If the code was a "special code", the difficulty of decryption would increase dramatically.

He sat at the desk in the dark cabin, flipping through the manual and deciphering the contents of the telegram. Half an hour later, Zhang Yuanqing completed the deciphering work and understood the contents of the telegram.

The first telegram was dated August 12, 1900. "The Petrel has set sail. All is well. Over!"

August 14th, "Everything is going well with the Haiyan, over!"

On August 16, "The Haiyan was attacked by a mermaid, and two crew members died!"

August 18th, "The Haiyan is going smoothly, it's over!"

August 25th, "Successfully salvaged the extraterrestrial object, the cardinal sealed it, and the Petrel is ready to return. Over!"

August 26: "The Haiyan is on its way back home. Everything is going well. Over!"

The telegrams were sent every two days and the content was very brief. The replies from the Admiralty Headquarters were also brief, usually words of consolation such as "received", "understood", and "God bless".

On the day when the source of pollution was successfully salvaged on the 15th, the Haiyan sent another telegram.

The last telegram was sent on August 30, which was the fourth day after the extraterrestrial object was salvaged. The telegram was interrupted on August 30... Zhang Yuanqing frowned: "Were the subsequent telegrams hidden, or did James not send any more telegrams to the headquarters after the 30th?"

Before the task was completed, telegrams were sent so frequently, but after the task was completed, telegrams were stopped?

It was mentioned in the introduction to the spiritual realm that the Haiyan lost contact and disappeared mysteriously on its way back, and James unilaterally stopped contacting the naval headquarters.

The mysterious disappearance revealed some clues.

But why did James do this? Zhang Yuanqing didn't understand. In addition, the more he read the telegrams, the more strange they seemed to him. He always felt that something was wrong.

After thinking for a moment, he understood where the problem lay.

The Haiyan set sail on August 12 and successfully salvaged the extraterrestrial object on August 26. The whole process took 14 days. However, during the day, when Zhang Yuanqing asked James about the ship's loading and when it would arrive at the port, James always replied: 15 days.

Today is September 4th. If we calculate the one-way journey takes 14 days, we still have five days to reach the port. So the main task is to survive for five days.

The details match.

Back to the point, Captain James terminated the telegraph contact and lied to him about the return time. There must be something wrong with this person.

Zhang Yuanqing sorted out the telegram, put it back in the drawer, and looked at another drawer with a copper lock.

There must be something more important here, no doubt.

Now that we have figured out the background of the copy and know the problem of Captain James, the next step is very clear: find out the reasons for the strange changes in Captain James.

And this information is probably hidden in the drawer of the desk. Zhang Yuanqing stared at the copper lock but hesitated. It was very easy to destroy the copper lock, just a light pull, but he was worried that such behavior would trigger a bad chain reaction.

It can now be confirmed that the Thriller Cruise is an exploration-type S-level copy, and all information needs to be explored by the Spiritual Realm Walker on his own. This kind of fancy copy often means that danger is hidden in the exploration process.

If the exploration goes wrong, crisis will come instantly.

Zhang Yuanqing opened the inventory and took a look. The purple gold suit was covered with a layer of black curtain, indicating that it could not be used.

It’s better to be cautious..., he muttered to himself and chose to follow the will of his heart.

In a level 6 peak S-class copy, if he cannot use the Domination item, even if he is a level 6 dual-class professional, his life may be in danger.

At present, this is a copy of Breaking Bad in the first zone, and Zhang Yuanqing's props and skills cannot restrain the distortion power.

There is a saying in Spiritual Traveler: "When you start to drift, you are not far from death."

"If the copper lock is destroyed, James will definitely find out tomorrow that someone sneaked into the ship's main room at night. This may stimulate him and bring the crisis early. I haven't figured out what happened after the extraterrestrial object was salvaged. Now we should focus on investigating secretly instead of doing something that would expose traces."

Anyway, the main task is to survive for five days, so there is plenty of time. As his thoughts turned, Zhang Yuanqing snapped his fingers and used the Star Escape Technique to return to the bedroom at the bottom of the cabin. There was a small round window in the bedroom, and outside the window was a dark sea with vague waves. Thinking of the alien objects sealed in the bottom of the cabin that had the ability to distort creatures, Zhang Yuanqing always felt that there was a terrible crisis and gaze hidden under the dark sea outside the window.

There is something wrong with James's ship, but what is his purpose? We need to find out...

"There are two forces on the ship, the navy and the Vatican's spiritual realm walker team. Are the Vatican's people and James in the same group? If not, as long as the two parties are not companions, I have a lot of room for maneuver. I can win one of them over as a teammate."

Zhang Yuanqing thought about it, and used the Night Walk technique again. He quietly left the bedroom, walked through the narrow dormitory corridor, and reached the stairs at the end.

Go along the platform to Level -II.

He's going to the deck.

During the day, the place was blocked by the cavalry of the Holy See. At that time, the background of the copy was not clear yet, so I didn't choose to fight hard.

Now, based on the known information, Zhang Yuanqing can roughly infer what is under the cabin.

The extraterrestrial object salvaged from the deep sea was sealed in the bottom of the cabin by the cardinal of the Holy See. Zhang Yuanqing decided to secretly observe the spiritual realm walkers of the Holy See and take a look at what the strange thing was.

He strode down the steps, the night covering up the sound of his footsteps, and soon he came to the entrance to the bottom of the cabin, where two knights in silver armor, leaning on cross swords, were still guarding.

Zhang Yuanqing walked between two knights, and the meticulous knight ignored the intruder.

The bottom of the hold was not a dormitory, but a place for storing cargo. Dim gas lamps were hung on the wall, illuminating the items in the bottom of the hold. There were piled up food, fishing tools, broken lifeboats waiting to be repaired, and spare parts of the ship. It was like a messy storage room.

As soon as he stepped into the cabin, Zhang Yuanqing felt an inexplicable throbbing, as if he was being stared at by something. This breath, this feeling, this evil force... Zhang Yuanqing frowned. Was it the breath emitted by the alien object?

He explored forward carefully, taking advantage of the pile of debris. After walking for more than ten seconds, he suddenly heard a "thump thump" sound like a heartbeat coming from a distance.

At the same time, about ten meters ahead, behind a small hill of flour bags, flickering candlelight could be heard.

The beating of the heart came from behind the candlelight. What kind of heartbeat sounded so exaggerated...

Zhang Yuanqing moved forward cautiously and approached the small hill of flour.

Just then, he heard a whistling sound of the wind, followed by a sharp scream from the left.

Without thinking, Zhang Yuanqing lunged forward and narrowly avoided the wind blade coming from the left.

"Who's there?" a clear female voice shouted.

Master Feng discovered me? Zhang Yuanqing turned and ran, while turning his head to look to the right. Ten meters away, stood a young woman in white nun's clothes.

The chest, collar and cuffs are embroidered with golden patterns.

She has beautiful blonde hair, green eyes, an oval face, a high nose bridge, and is delicate and beautiful.

The wind mage in white nun's uniform waved her hands continuously to create wind blades, chasing the fleeing enemies.

Although she couldn't see the invader, she could sense the enemy's position and speed through the feedback of airflow, and each wind blade's strike was extremely precise.

Seeing this, Zhang Yuanqing made a prompt decision, avoided the second wave of wind blades, hid behind a damaged and cracked lifeboat, and without hesitation, used the Star Escape Technique to leave the bottom of the cabin.

In the current situation, if we continue to stay here we will only be besieged. To be safe, we should leave first and talk about it tomorrow.

He immediately performed the Star Escape Technique, and bright starlight lit up and then dissipated.

The wind mage in white nun's uniform frowned, looked around, and sensed carefully, and found that the intruder disappeared out of thin air.

"Isabella, what happened?" an old voice came from behind the flour hill.

"There's an intruder!" responded a nun named Isabella, her voice as sweet as an oriole.

"But it suddenly disappeared." She frowned.

"Undead?" asked the old voice.

“But I didn’t sense the breath of the undead, but if it was the undead, you wouldn’t be able to sense it.

The only ones who could hide from the knight and break in here silently are the undead.

"They're not undead, they're humans. They can become invisible and know some kind of teleportation technique. They teleported away when the stars came on." Isabella explained.

"Starlight? Invisibility?" The experienced and experienced cardinal thought for a long time, I have never heard of this skill... Tell Captain James about this and let him solve it."