The deck area of the Obsidian was limited and clearly visible, so the group quickly completed the search of the entire deck area and did not find anything suspicious.
Apart from the fact that the places that should have been damp and waterlogged were now abnormally dry, the deck of the Obsidian looked no different from an ordinary wreck—badly rusted, uneven, and damaged in many places, but overall not to the point of complete collapse.
After inspecting the deck area, Duncan decided to take a look inside the ship.
They soon found a door leading to the cabin.
It was a rusty iron door embedded in a white wall. The handle of the iron door was severely corroded and the door lock had long been scrapped due to being soaked in sea water. The whole door was firmly closed and obviously could not be opened by conventional means.
Morris went forward to check the state of the door, then gave up the idea of opening it normally. He turned to the others and said, "Maybe we have to use some violent means."
"Let me do it," Vanna volunteered before anyone else could speak. "Others, step aside to prevent the debris from hurting anyone."
Shirley, Alice and the others immediately and obediently retreated far away. Duncan didn't move much, but just took two steps to the side to prevent his clothes from getting dirty, and then watched Vanna curiously - he saw this female warrior come to the big iron gate that had been completely rusted, and then... knocked on the door panel casually.
Only a short buzzing sound was heard, and a big hole appeared in the middle of the iron gate. The solid and heavy steel turned into countless fragments that flew everywhere, and smoke and dust filled the hole.
Then Vanna reached out and tore a few times next to the big hole, tearing off the remaining steel plates from the door frame cleanly like tearing paper, and threw it aside.
Shirley and Agou stared at the scene in amazement. After a long silence, they said in unison: "...Fuck, is this a human?"
Of course, Vanna heard the voices of Shirley and Agou, and turned around and smiled: "I always exercise regularly."
Shirley's mouth twitched noticeably, and she muttered quietly, "This has nothing to do with physical exercise, right
Duncan was also impressed by Vanna's simple and crude solution, but he had seen this beautiful girl's heroic feat of killing her way through the city-state, so he didn't have any extra reaction. He just looked up at the smoke-filled gate and asked, "What's going on inside?"
Fanna waved her hand, and when the dust settled a little, she poked her head inside to take a look. Her expression suddenly became strange.
After a few seconds, she stepped back and turned to Duncan: "Inside... there is still a door."
"It's still a door?" Duncan was stunned for a moment. He took three or two steps over to take a look himself. Sure enough, he saw another rusty door standing in front of him, only a few meters away from the door outside.
However, the space between the two doors was neither a corridor nor a foyer, nor did it look like some specially designed security partition - it was just an empty place with no equipment or furnishings, no extra windows, only bare walls and a ceiling that looked crooked for some reason.
"… I don't know if this is the normal structure of the Obsidian." Morris also came over to take a look and shook his head. "I only knew about this ship before, but I haven't seen it in person."
Duncan frowned slightly, then quickly nodded to Vanna: "Open that door."
Fanna immediately stepped forward and smashed the second door in the same way. Then she poked her head inside and looked back in surprise: "There is another door inside."
"There's more?!" Even Shirley was surprised this time. She didn't care about keeping a safe distance and came over with Agou in hand. "Oh my god... is there really one?!"
Inside the second door is the third door, and it is an identical structure, with the same weird "compartment".
If only the second door appeared, it could be explained by "Obsidian's special design", but now there is a "third door" that has no apparent function and only has a sense of weirdness... It is difficult to explain it by "the design concept of this ship is relatively advanced".
Derived.
"There's something wrong with the structure of this ship," Duncan looked back at the two doors, his expression becoming slightly serious. "It shouldn't be designed this way... Vanna, open this door as well."
"Okay." Vanna said without hesitation.
She walked forward and punched the third door, but this time she just made a big hole and stopped. She did not continue to clean the remaining steel plate on the door frame - because through the big hole, she could already see the situation inside the door.
"Captain..." She said this title a little uncomfortably, her expression becoming even weirder than before, "There's a wall inside."
"Wall?!" Duncan's eyes twitched. He looked into the big hole and saw the "wall" that Vanna had mentioned.
There was really only a wall opposite the door, and that wall was less than half a meter away from the third door - almost right next to it. The space between the door and the wall was meaningless and couldn't hold anything.
"Why is this ship designed like this?" Nina muttered in confusion, "There is only one wall behind the three doors... What about the cabin? How do I enter the cabin?"
Duncan did not say anything. He just looked quietly at this strangely structured "overlapping area" with a thoughtful look in his eyes, as if he had thought of something.
After a moment, he nodded to Vanna: "Continue to dig the hole."
Fanna immediately stepped forward, first kicking away the remaining door panels in the lower half of the third door that were in the way, and then punched the strange wall - a hole larger than the previous one appeared in front of everyone with a huge roar.
"It's the corridor." Vanna took a look inside and turned to say to others.
"That's great," Shirley breathed a sigh of relief, "Finally, it's a little bit normal. "It's upside down," Vanna continued before Shirley finished speaking, "The ceiling is under your feet and the floor is above your head."
Shirley: “…F*ck.”
Just as Vanna said, there was only an upside-down corridor behind the wall - just like the three repeated doors before, there was no normal structure at all in the cabin of this ghost ship!
"The ship is twisted..."
Even a knowledgeable scholar like Morris was a little confused at this time. He looked at the corridor structure on the other side of the wall in disbelief, muttering to himself, "What is it that twisted the Obsidian into this state..."
"Think of it another way," Duncan interrupted the old scholar, "Is this really the Obsidian?"
Morris looked up suddenly and looked at Duncan in astonishment: "You mean..."
"This is near the Frost Sea, and some terrible things happened under the deep sea of Frost Sea," Duncan said casually, looking at Alice who was looking around curiously, "Do you remember the 'Abyss Plan' that Tirian mentioned at the beginning?"
"Yes, yes," Alice nodded immediately, "There are also a lot of submersibles and other things..."
"It's enough to remember these,"
Duncan said as he pressed Alice's head, "Stop clicking, it's already shaking."
Then he raised his hand and knocked on the wall next to him.
The metal bulkhead made a hollow thumping sound when struck.
"It looks normal on the outside, but it's actually a mess, a poor imitation and copy, with the interior space stacked incorrectly - this should not be the real Obsidian, but it's hard to say which Obsidian it is."
Alice didn't know how much she understood. She just stretched out "Oh" and nodded slowly and pretentiously. But Vanna next to her quickly reacted: "But I remember you said before, in the initial Qianyuan Project, only the crew members inside the submersibles that surfaced had distortion errors during the duplication process, and the submersibles themselves were copied correctly. You speculated at the time that this error should be limited to humans or organisms..."
"Yes, it is limited to humans or organic matter - at least that was the case when the Frost Queen was still alive half a century ago," Duncan said slowly, "So the situation is obviously worse now. The replication is no longer limited to Submersible No. 3, and the distortion has expanded to the inorganic category... Whatever is in the Frost Deep Sea, it is silent.
After 50 years, it has apparently started to move again, and its impact is far greater in scope and intensity than it was half a century ago."
Shirley blinked as she listened. Everyone on the Lost Homeland had heard about the Abyss Project from the captain, so everyone knew how weird and strange this matter was. This made her mutter subconsciously: "I... I'm starting to get nervous..."
"Think of it another way. The captain is investigating this matter. I don't think we are the ones who should be nervous," Agou also muttered in a low voice, "Don't scare yourself. My heart rate has also gone up."
Shirley was stunned: "Agou, do you have a heart?"
"I'm a devil with a heart!"
"Heart and 'heart' are not the same thing - isn't your cavity empty?"
“… What if,
Something is jumping inside.”
"Pry it open and see?"
"That won't work."
Duncan didn't pay attention to the increasingly curious murmurs around him. He simply speculated about the situation of the ghost ship and focused his attention on the corridor that led to an unknown place.
After a brief thought, he walked towards the big hole that Vanna had blasted out: "Go in and take a look at the situation."