The sky gradually darkened, and Zhang Tuohai drove the boat forward continuously.
Gradually the sea rises with fog.
Looking at the steaming fog, Zhang Tuohai frowned. In this era without radar and satellite positioning, the detection and direction determination can only rely on lookouts and sextants. The rising sea fog interferes greatly with the lookouts. It is easy to make the boat deviate from the course or even get lost.
This is very dangerous for ships.
Zhang Tuohai photographed two singing and dancing girls climbing to the top of the mast to see if the stars could be seen there, and then used a sextant to identify the direction.
But the sea fog was so thick that even if the two singers climbed to the top of the mast, they couldn't see the sky clearly.
"Forget it, keep sailing in a straight line first, and then correct the course when it's dawn."
Zhang Tuohai turned the wheel and relied on the route memory in his mind to drive towards the predetermined position.
Anyway, this is a vast sea, surrounded by boundless sea water, and you don't have to worry about colliding with other ships, just keep driving forward and you're done.
The Shiratori drove forward in the thick fog.
When the moon was in the middle of the sky, the sea fog dissipated slightly, and the visibility ranged from less than five meters to about 20 meters.
"The fog has dissipated a lot, and if you drive forward a certain distance, you can almost get out of the fog area."
Zhang Tuohai increased his strength and was preparing to continue to speed up the sailing.
Suddenly a thud was heard.
The Shiratori seems to have hit something.
"Could it be that it hit a coral reef? But I remember there were no coral reefs on this route."
Zhang Tuohai was surprised and asked Polly the parrot to see what was going on.
Parrot Polly opened his wings and flew over. In just a few seconds, Parrot Polly flew back quickly, shouting loudly while flying: "Captain, captain, there is a boat! We hit the boat!"
"How could this collide with a boat?" Zhang Tuohai felt a little unbelievable. In the vast sea, this is not a busy business route. The two boats could collide with each other. The odds are that they can buy lottery tickets.
Zero Point Reading Network
"Everyone is ready for battle, and the Unsullied are ready to board!"
Zhang Tuo raised the demon's filial piety at his waist.
The Unsullied filed out of the cabin, each with spears and shields in their hands, and muskets behind their backs.
"superior!"
Zhang Tuohai waved his hand, and a group of Unsullied rushed to the boat, and Zhang Tuohai also jumped along the springboard to the other party's boat.
After boarding the other party's boat, Zhang Tuohai was shocked to find that there was no sound on the other party's boat, it was quiet and quiet like a grave.
Looking left and right, there was no crew.
"There are traces of people using the cable recently. Bloodstains were found, and it was fresh."
An Unsullied finds some clues.
"Where is it, take me to see it." Zhang Tuohai said.
"Here." The Unsullied led Zhang Tuohai to a mast.
There are traces of cable friction on the mast, and there is blood splattered next to it. The color is very light, and it should have been stained recently, indicating that the ship has been occupied recently.
"A group of four people, check them separately, don't let every corner be missed, and report any findings immediately."
Zhang Tuohai said.
"Yes!"
The Unsullied acted immediately, and quickly searched the deck again, and found a total of six places of blood, five on the deck and one on the slipway.
Items on the ship also have traces of recent use.
But just no one.
"What's the matter? Did you encounter a ghost ship?"
Zhang Tuohai's mind changed sharply.
"Enter the cabin and search!" Zhang Tuohai said.
"Yes!"
The Unsullied entered the cabin with a spear thrown and began to investigate room by room.
Zhang Tuohai followed the Unsullied and checked the cabin. Except for some bloodstains, half of them were not found.
"Is it looted by pirates?"
Zhang Tuohai guessed the possibility, but was quickly rejected by him.
The food and water on the ship were all there, and the artillery and shells were also complete. Even in the cabin, Zhang Tuohai found a box of dinars.
These things are very important to pirates, and if the ship is looted by pirates, there is no reason to throw them here.
Everything on the ship is full of weirdness.
"What's going on?" Zhang Tuohai was puzzled.
He led the Unsullied to search forward, and finally came to the captain's room.
The various navigational instruments in the captain's room were neatly placed on the desk, which was covered with several nautical charts and a nautical diary.
Zhang Tuohai first opened the chart, read it several times, and found that it recorded some things that were not on his chart. He quickly recorded them one by one, and then put the chart away and prepared to look back.
Then Zhang Tuohai opened the nautical diary.
The first half of the diary is normal, detailing the ship's cargo and voyages.
When I turned to the last page, the style of painting changed suddenly.
"Sea fog rises from the sea, God bless the sea, I hope that legend is not true!"
"It's over, I heard that voice, the legend is true! Sea God abandoned us!"
"Come on, here they come!"
Record so far.
"Sea fog? Sound?"
Zhang Tuohai frowned, he was certain that the people on the boat must have encountered some irresistible disaster, and it was still when the sea fog was rising.
Wait, isn't it the time for the sea fog to rise today
At this moment, Zhang Tuohai suddenly heard a murmur echoing in his ear, as if someone was whispering in his ear, and the voice was getting louder and louder. Zhang Tuohai wanted to hear but could not hear the specific content, he could only feel it. Until someone shouted and quarreled in his ear.
"How are you?" Zhang Tuohai turned his head and asked the Unsullied.
Immediately, several of the Unsullied raised their hands and said that they had heard strange noises, while others said that they had not heard anything.
"What the hell is going on?" Zhang Tuohai was also a little confused.
"Let's go up first and then talk."
Zhang Tuohai took the Unsullied people to the deck, however, the moment they boarded the deck, everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them.
At this time, the fog dissipated a lot again, and a dilapidated sailboat was docked beside their boat. The boat seemed to have just been fished out of the water. The boat was full of conch and water plants, and a boat was crawling on the boat. Thick layers of mussels.
The sails are black and somewhat rotten, and a huge skull can be seen faintly painted on the sails.
On the deck stood a large group of monsters.
These monsters have the appearance of people, but their heads and bodies are the physical characteristics of various marine creatures. They are either shark heads, or covered with scales, or covered with heavy carapaces. The head of the guy at the head is an octopus. The shape of the eight tentacles kept squirming.
These people were holding strange-shaped weapons and looked at Zhang Tuohai and the crowd.