Chapter 57: Things in the Deep Sea (13)

When everyone was still in a daze, a passenger came from behind, passed through the players' bodies, and walked straight ahead. He seemed to be going to the bow of the ship. His thin body was wearing a washed-white shirt.

And this person was the first dead person they saw in that shimmering blue area on the bottom of the sea.

Although he is thin at the moment, his eyes are full of vigor and his expression is very lively, which is in stark contrast to the wide-eyed and resentful look on the bottom of the sea.

I don't know if there are other passengers calling him from behind, the man suddenly stopped and turned around, looking behind the player, seeing or hearing something, he suddenly smiled.

The player who was frightened by the opponent's pale and empty face at the bottom of the sea saw the man's smile, which was obviously a gentle smile with a little shyness, but his scalp went numb from fright.

"What the hell is going on? Didn't they all die just now?" the player asked in disbelief.

"And the ship has returned to its original shape." Another player looked at the surrounding environment with complicated eyes.

The players present were silent. The original joy of "seeing the sun again" disappeared when they saw the intact ship and passengers. A sense of weirdness spread in their hearts, and no one knew what happened.

One player suddenly strode towards the side of the boat, stood there touching the outside of the boat with his hand, and everyone else looked at him.

He changed several places, and finally said solemnly: "I still can't get out."

Others also walked towards the side of the boat. There was still an obstacle where their palms touched. The boat was covered by an invisible barrier. Although they didn't know what was going on, everyone had the same idea—They're stuck on this ship.

There was still no task posted on the task panel, and everyone gathered together, without the looseness and leisure before, discussing the situation they are currently encountering together.

"Could it be that everything we saw before was an illusion and nothing actually happened?"

"It's possible. After all, we can't touch those passengers at all. If it's all hallucinations, it makes sense."

"There is another point of view. Zhou Zhou said before that the people on board died, but they didn't know they were dead, so they kept repeating the last journey before they were alive."

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone looked at Zhou Zhou.

Zhou Zhou was squatting there listening to everyone's talk, propping his face with both hands, and found that everyone was looking at him, so he couldn't help blinking: "What's wrong?"

"Zhou Zhou, what do you think?"

Zhou Zhou continued to hold his face, and his eyes shifted from the talking player to a passenger on the deck. It was a gorgeously dressed man with his chin raised, looking at other people with eyes full of dislike and disgust. Passing by other passengers and crew membersAt the time, he covered his nose with his hand.

Zhou Zhou watched very intently, and the others followed his gaze to look at the man.

"He will trip over the rope later, and the water in the bucket will splash on him." Zhou Zhou said suddenly.

Everyone was puzzled and wanted to ask Zhou Zhou how he knew, when they suddenly found that there was indeed a rope and a bucket not far from the man's feet.

Everything after that was as Zhou Zhou expected, and sure enough, the man tripped over the rope, and the wooden bucket was just pressing down on the rope.fell on the man.The originally clean and expensive gorgeous clothes were all wet by the sewage in the bucket that hadn't had time to pour it out.

The man stood up angrily, and he could see that his mouth had been saying something, and judging from his expression, he was probably yelling.Then the man sniffed his wrist, showed disgust, and hurried to the cabin, probably to change clothes.

The player stared wide-eyed, looking at the sewage on the deck floor, and then at Zhou Zhou with a calm expression.

"Is this a prophet? A prophecy?" the players asked in shock.

Zhou Zhou sighed, frowned and looked at the others with a headache: "This is what I saw yesterday."

Players: "..."

I saw it yesterday, and the same thing happened again today, so Zhou Zhou's previous guess was correct. The passengers didn't realize that they were dead, and they kept repeating the time of the last day before they were alive, and those of them who entered the ghost ship, also unable to leave, can only be forced to go through the same process.

"So, we will encounter pirate ships at night, sink to the bottom of the sea, and then continue to float to the surface to repeat this day?"

Zhou Zhou nodded: "It should be."

"It's better to be thrown into the sea directly, and be eliminated neatly."

"Hey? By the way, didn't a ghost come up yesterday and wanted to push us off the boat. If the ghost got on the boat today and we were pushed off without resistance, would we be able to leave the boat?" a player suddenlySaid.

The others looked at each other, and they all felt that this method was feasible, and there was nothing they could do by staying on the boat. They might as well leave here and look for other ships or islands.

In the process of waiting for the ghost, others also found that the actions of the passengers were repetitive. Although they were not as careful as Zhou Zhou observed, they stayed on the deck all the time, and they still had an impression of some of the actions of the passengers. They saw yesterday and today with their own eyes.The recurring scenes strengthened their determination to leave this weird ghost ship.

After waiting for a long time, the sea was calm and there were no ghosts at all.

The players waited anxiously, but they had nothing to do if the ghost didn't come. They could only continue to look for ways to leave everywhere on the ship.

Zhou Zhou stood under the mast, raised his head and looked up.

He is waiting for the little octopus from yesterday. If what happened on the boat today and yesterday is the same, the little octopus will reappear on the sail.

The players stood by the boat and waited for the ghost, while Zhou Zhou looked up at the first-class little octopus.

The players looked for exits everywhere on the boat, and Zhou Zhou looked up at the first-class little octopus.

The players couldn't find it and gave up. They sat on the deck and gave up on themselves. Zhou Zhou was still looking up at the first-class little octopus.

It was long past the time for the little octopus to appear, but Zhou Zhou didn't wait for anything.

If the ghosts didn't appear because they didn't belong to this ship, then the little octopus stayed on the ship for a long time, longer than other players, and wrote a thick logbook, why didn't they repeat it?Because it left yesterday?

Zhou Zhou didn't understand, but he knew that he couldn't wait for the little octopus today.

Alvia and the female player seemed very calm. They searched the ship and found no way to leave, but the dungeon cannot completely become a dead end. There must be some details that they have overlooked.Observe and search carefully during the repeated process.

A group of people sat on the deck and waited until dark. The pirate ship came again, and what happened after that was exactly the same as yesterday.

The ship slowly sank to the bottom of the sea, and the players took out various lighting tools to illuminate the entire hull, and even part of the sea outside was illuminated.

The players who are making dungeons in the Nightmare City now almost have a lighting tool. After all, many dungeons are very dark at night, and most of the time when various ghosts and monsters appear are also at night.

The boat got stuck among the rocks. When the players were looking for clues with their lights on, Zhou Zhou followed suit. Keli stuffed a flashlight in his hand. Although he could see without these things, KeliHe and Shirley didn't know about this matter, seeing Zhou Zhou standing there foolishly looking at the dark sea, his pitiful appearance made people feel distressed, and immediately touched his head and stuffed him with a flashlight.

They probably spent a lot of points to buy this flashlight. The brightness is very high, and it is many times brighter than the small flashlight they used in Love Academy.

Zhou Zhou took a flashlight and searched carefully among the rocks outside. The rocks here are so tall that you can’t even see the bottom. This shows that the height of these rocks is also extraordinary, almost comparable to several hills.

Large ships are stuck here, and they look very small from a distance.

Zhou Zhou walked around the boat and found a strange creature near the hull.

The color of the whole body was exactly the same as that of the stone, if it hadn't moved a little, Zhou Zhou would not have noticed it at all.The strange creature has no eyes, and its entire body is oval-shaped. Although it has a large area, it is very flat. The edges of the gray-black body are slightly curled, and occasionally shake a few times.

It was precisely because of this that Zhou Zhou saw it.

Holding the flashlight so that the light could better hit the strange creature, Zhou Zhou carefully identified what kind of fish it was.

Shirley looked around with a flashlight of the same model as Zhou Zhou's, and found that Zhou Zhou was staring at a certain place motionlessly, and also looked there.

"Zhou Zhou, what are you looking at the stone for?"

Zhou Zhou turned his head and explained, "There is a strange fish there."

"Really? Where?"

"Where the flashlight shines."

"...there are only rocks there."

"No, look at it." Zhou Zhou shook the flashlight a few times, and the edge of the strange oval creature undulated slightly, revealing a border slightly different in color from the stone.

"It does seem to be something." Shirley said uncertainly, she seemed to see something moving, but when she looked closely, it seemed to be water plants growing on rocks, and she was not sure.

Zhou Zhou was very interested in things he had never seen before, and his stamina was average compared to strange creatures, so he stood there and watched them all the time.

Shirley waited for a while, not interested in these moving stones, she saw that Zhou Zhou was still watching, so she went to other places to look for clues.

The boat started to go up again, this time everyone looked solemn, thinking of the blue area that the boat passed through last time, maybe it will pass there again this time.

When Zhou Zhou waited for the boat to move, he only saw the strange creature move a few centimeters. When the hull was almost invisible, Zhou Zhou seemed to see the strange creature sinking a few points suddenly.

Before he could take a closer look at where the fish had gone, the boat continued to rise, and the group of rocks completely disappeared from sight.

They were about to reach the blue area, and everyone huddled together in twos and threes, like a flock of frightened birds. Some even lowered their heads and dared not look at other places, for fear of meeting the dead again.

Sure enough, the first thin man in the blue area sank down, with the same posture as last time, and the same terrifying gaze staring at the players as last time.

Then the second, the third...

In addition to the players who lowered their heads in fear of these corpses, Doreen and Alvia, who were not afraid of these corpses, also lowered their eyes slightly.This is an ancient custom of the empire, not to look directly at the dead to show respect for the other party.

But because this custom is relatively old, many young people today do not know it.

Seeing Zhou Zhou running around on the boat, still staring closely at the deceased, some of the deceased were only one meter away from him, and they were almost close to each other, and he didn't back down. Everyone felt that he was too ambitious and courageous.Big.

When the ship was finally about to leave the blue area, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

After leaving the blue area, there is a section of normal sea area, and you can see the light when you go up.

But after rising for a while, the players stared blankly at the scene in front of them. One player was stunned for a long time, then turned to the other player and said, "Slap me, I seem to be hallucinating."

The other party also looked out of the ship dully, and said in an erratic tone: "It's not a hallucination, I saw it too."

They actually passed through another piece of blue sea area. The faint light glowed in the faint blue sea area. The range of sea water perspective is very wide, and they can see the distance at a glance.

The thin man sank from above with his eyes closed...then a second long-haired woman, a third, a fourth, and they experienced all that happened in the blue sea again.

Even the blue sea began to repeat itself. Everyone was tense, and no one spoke. The atmosphere was very tense for a while.

"This time, we shouldn't be trapped in this blue sea forever." A player said dryly.

"I don't know. If we can return to the surface of the sea smoothly, it means that the number of times the blue sea area appears is the same as the number of times we repeat it. If there are any more, it is estimated that we will stay in the sea and look at these dead people repeatedly."

Doreen replied calmly.

Fortunately, after leaving the blue sea this time, they never repeated it again, and they returned to the sea.

Looking at the smiling passengers on the ship, the players only felt physically and mentally exhausted.

When the male passenger passed through the middle of the deck again, everyone was prepared this time and hurriedly avoided him.After all, when thinking of the passengers floating in the blue area, everyone wants to stay as far away from these passengers as possible.

"It's the fourth day now, we shouldn't loop three more times, and then be sent out of the copy because of a timeout."

"Huh? Not necessarily, maybe I will stay here for the rest of my life." A player said in a trance.

"Did you find anything different from before, or any other details."

The players sat cross-legged in the corner of the deck, discussing feebly.

"I find that when I see these passengers now, I feel my legs go weak. I guess I can dream that they are staring at me in my dreams."

"Well, this one doesn't count, the next one."

The players are like eggplants beaten by frost, and it is obvious that the two cycles have already caused them to suffer mentally.

Alvia and Doreen stood at one side casually. Both of them had the same tall and straight figure, and their expressions were no different from before. They were quietly listening to the discussion of the players. They hadn't found any clues yet.It really makes people unable to make any sense of the matter, until now it is impossible to determine where the exit of the pass is.

Zhou Zhou was sitting among the players. Compared to other players with slumped heads and disheveled faces, the energetic Zhou Zhou seemed out of place. He raised his left hand like a kid in class: "I have discovered something!"

The players silently looked at Zhou Zhou.

"I found a fish among the rocks."

Players: "..."

"That fish looks very strange, big and flat, the same color as the stone."

"... Very good, very good, pay attention to the details of the surroundings, continue, next." The player said like coaxing a child.

Zhou Zhou raised his hand again: "I haven't finished talking yet, I have another discovery."

The player who was the first to ask everyone to share the problems or details they found sighed sadly. The young people are full of energy: "What other fish did you find?"

"It's not a fish. We passed through the blue water three times, and each time the passengers stared at everyone."

Isn't this an obvious fact?Everyone saw the passenger staring at the player with stiff eyes, which is not a new discovery at all.

"They're staring at different places each time."

When Zhou Zhou said these words, many people immediately realized that something was wrong.

"What do you mean by staring at different places?"

Zhou Zhou crossed his legs and explained earnestly: "The first time we stood in the same place, the dead were staring at all of us; the second time when everyone was huddled together, the passengers seemed to only stare at a few people inside;Three times our location changed, and they still only stared at some people inside. The passengers floated in the same position each time, but each time their eyes looked at different places."

"Did you see it?" A player looked at Zhou Zhou eagerly. He understood that what Zhou Zhou said just now might be the key point of the cycle. "Who are they staring at?"

Alvia and Doreen also looked at Zhou Zhou, but they didn't expect Zhou Zhou to be the first to notice the abnormality.

Zhou Zhou stretched out his hand and pointed at the four players in the crowd.

The players who were pointed out were very surprised, but all of them said that they did nothing, and they didn't know why the dead passengers were staring at them.

"Zhou Zhou, you must have read it wrong." A designated player asked anxiously.

"Impossible, every time I go around the boat, all the passengers only stare at you and never look at other people." Zhou Zhou was very sure, and expressed dissatisfaction with the other party's suspicion of him, and hummedseveral times.

The time we spent together in this dungeon is not too short. Everyone knows Zhou Zhou's character. At this time, everyone looked at the players: "Tell me, what did you do?"

"But, we really don't know."

"I really didn't do anything. I also want to get out of the cycle as soon as possible and pass the level successfully. How can I ask for trouble."

"Think about it too, you all got on the boat together."

"I've been with another player. If I do something, the other player will definitely find something abnormal."

The four players defended anxiously, seemingly completely ignorant of this matter.

Alvia looked at the four people, her ice-blue eyes stared at the four people who stood up and explained anxiously, and her eyes suddenly stopped on the finger of one of them.

"Where did the thing in your hand come from?" Alvia asked flatly.

The player who was asked was stunned and looked down at his hand. There was a big gold ring on his thumb, which was also inlaid with gems.

"This is, this is taken from the cabin room." The player seemed to realize something, and even lowered his voice.

The other three players seemed to be strangled by the neck, their excuses disappeared suddenly, their faces flushed, and then they silently took things out of their pockets.

One drew out a gun, another a dagger, and still another a piece of gold.The four of them lowered their heads, and they didn't expect these things to be the cause of the cycle.

Player: "So it's because we took these things that we got stuck in a loop?"

Doreen looked at everyone: "Because we took the treasure on board, we were cursed to stay on the ship forever and continue to circulate with the passengers.We ignored it."

The player recalled everything that happened after boarding the ship: "What is the sign?"

"When we inspected the cabin, five of the six rooms were problematic. Anyone who entered or touched the things inside would be punished. Don't ask people who secretly took those things by themselves, let aloneHe was regarded as a pirate by the passengers and cursed."

Doreen looked at the four passengers as she spoke. All four of them were ashamed and couldn't help saying, "I'm really sorry. We didn't know that this would happen. Is it too late to put it back now?"

No one knows if it's still too late, so we can only try.

The four players hurried to the cabin and put everything back in place.

Only this time, the cycle is not over yet, the passengers encountered pirates again, and their ship sank again.

In the deep-sea stone group, the players turned on the lights and analyzed the reason again.

"Maybe it was the last cycle before, and when the ship returns to the sea this time, it will never cycle again."

"It is also possible that these treasures are not the main reason, and there are other factors."

"Or we got on the wrong ship. This is a ghost ship. Isn't it normal that it will keep circulating?"

"It seems to be right, so what do you say now?"

"If it doesn't work, just beat each other up and let's eliminate it together. Instead of spending time here until the timeout loops, it's better to go home and sleep for a while."

"Hey~ It makes sense, this dungeon is too tortured."

Zhou Zhou didn't join the players' discussion, he went to watch the fish again.

The fish is still in its original position, looking lazy, and will move a little after a long time.

"What are you looking at?" Alvia walked behind Zhou Zhou and asked.

Zhou Zhou immediately pulled his sleeves and asked him to watch the strange fish together.

Alvia stared at the rock Zhou Zhou pointed at, looked at the ugly fish for a while, and said suddenly, "I found a clue to clear the level."

Zhou Zhou looked at Alvia in surprise, then at the fish, why didn't he find it?

Looking at Zhou Zhou's curious expression, Alvia explained: "This kind of fish relies on the camouflage of their bodies to avoid predators. They need to go to the sea surface to breathe regularly, so they usually live in shallow seas. This fish lives on the bottom of the sea."Survival at this depth suggests that there is air somewhere."

Not long after Alvia finished speaking, the fish suddenly began to sink. On the rock where it was originally staying, there was a seabed cave about the same size as it. The fish went into the cave and disappeared.

It's a sea cave about the size of that fish, so it happens to be completely covered by it.

"You mean the exit for customs clearance is hidden in that cave?" Zhou Zhou asked with a frown.

"Not necessarily, but our time on the bottom of the sea this time is longer than every time before, indicating that the cycle has ended. If the boat stays here, the exit is also very likely to be nearby. And the fish enteredThe burrow of the cave may have the air it needs to survive."

Where does the air in the deep sea come from?It can only be that there is something wrong with the cave.

Zhou Zhou looked around and found that other players also stood up in surprise. The previous two stays on the bottom of the sea were fixed, but now the time has passed, and they are still on the bottom of the sea.

When they learned from Alvia that a seabed cave very close to them might be the exit for this customs clearance, no one believed it.

Not to mention the water pressure at such a deep seabed, they couldn't even get out of the boat.Even if you can go out of the sea, there is radiation. Some people's health and countdown are almost reaching the critical value, and they die after going out for a few minutes.

Besides, any cave is said to be an exit, so the scale of the stone group here is so huge, maybe there are many underwater caves, and those are all exits?

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