All the crew members were amused by the action that Wrench just pretended to do.
Among them, only Lily noticed that something was wrong with that man. He slumped on the ground with a numb expression and extremely empty eyes. He looked like just a shell.
The girl came over and asked worriedly, "Are you okay?"
After shouting for a while, Wrench finally came to his senses. He sat up and looked blankly at the crew members and Lily around him.
Gradually, his frozen expression began to crack, and excitement and ecstasy burst out from within.
His mouth gradually opened wider, and he let out a heart-wrenching howl, with snot, tears, and saliva flowing down instantly. "Ahhh!!!"
Wrench's action sobered up most of the other crew members. Holding the bottles of wine, they quickly moved away from their compatriot who was a little mentally abnormal, and their hands were already on the weapons at their waists.
"Wrench, I'm telling you, this joke is over. Don't forget that we are still at sea. Go and notify the captain and the ship's doctor."
Kras, who was writing a log in the captain's room, followed the ship's doctor and arrived soon. The doctor was about to go up to check, but was stopped by him. "Wait a minute."
After he briefly asked Lily what happened, he asked the hysterical Wrench: "Wrench, can you hear me?"
Wrench's body shook violently, he turned his head and looked at Klaus, his eyes a little confused, as if he couldn't recognize the other person for a moment.
"Now throw over here those two relics on your waist and that gun."
For the safety of others and his employer, Krass wanted the abnormal crew to drop their weapons.
Anything can happen on the sea. Maybe when this guy touched the iceberg, he had been replaced by some unknown monster.
"Captain? Is it really the captain? Captain! That iceberg!! Don't touch that iceberg!" The extremely excited Wrench used all his strength to warn his captain.
At this time, a sailor next to him interrupted. "Nonsense, who would be stupid enough to touch that thing except you?"
Although some of them were not very appropriate, a few people couldn't help but burst out laughing, destroying the solemn atmosphere.
Amid their laughter, snowflakes began to slowly fall from the sky, landing on everyone.
It rarely rains in Earthsea, and no one has ever seen snow except Lily, who had heard about it from Charles.
Wrench seemed to be very afraid of the white snow. He cried helplessly and tried desperately to avoid it, but the snow fell too fast and he couldn't avoid it at all.
Finally, with snowflakes on his hair, he fell on the deck in despair and cried loudly.
"Everyone, get into the cabin! Take off all the white stuff on your body!"
Faced with this strange thing that he had never seen before, Klaus, as the captain, immediately issued the most stable orders.
Everyone quickly shook off the snowflakes on their bodies and hair, nervously waiting for something.
But after waiting for a long time, nothing changed. No one died and no one turned into a horrible monster.
The ship's doctor walked over and began to examine Wrench, and the results showed that everything was normal.
"Hey? Are you kidding me a little too much?"
Feeling cheated, the first mate angrily kicked the collapsed Wrench, but Wrench now had the same empty look as before.
He has been on the sea for a long time and is considered an experienced sailor.
Being startled by the other party, the first mate felt a little embarrassed in front of his employer.
Kras reached out and picked up the wrench. "Speak up, what's wrong with you? If you do this again, I'll throw you into the sea."
Wrench's eyes focused again, a ridiculous smile on his face, "We're done, we're all done. Here we go again."
"Bang!!" A fist hit Wrench's stomach hard, and the wine he had just drunk was vomited out, making the whole cabin smell like alcohol.
Kras was a little irritable at this time. On the sea, no matter what kind of enemy or monster it was, he could face it calmly.
What he feared most were those troubles that could not be explained by human thinking.
Because that kind of thing cannot be compensated by the increase in strength.
Although it seems that nothing has happened now, he always feels uneasy in his heart.
Slowly swallowing the vomit in his mouth, Wrench moved his eyes to the clock on the wall. "You will know soon. Look at the clock. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1."
When the last number was said, they were back on deck again, back to the moment when the snow fell on them.
"Go back! Everyone go back!" Klaus and the crew returned to the cockpit again.
"Turbine overload! Let's get out of this damn place!" The nervous Klas shouted into the communication pipe.
But after waiting for a long time, the exploration ship was still moving slowly at the same speed as before.
After seeing that there was no response after calling several times, Kras immediately sent someone down to check.
Soon the man's voice was heard through the communication channel.
"Captain! The chief engineer and the second engineer are standing there like statues!"
"Damn it!" Klaus looked at the icebergs under the searchlights with a gloomy face.
"First and second mates, you two go down and temporarily take charge of the turbine group. Let's get out of this damn place first."
The two people who were called did it immediately. The exploration ship, which was gradually covered with snow, began to turn quickly and rushed all the way back.
"Tick~tick~tick~" Lily looked at the clock on the wall which was still ticking slowly with a nervous mood. As time approached, she felt more and more uneasy.
When the minutes overlapped with the clock again, the surrounding environment blurred in an instant, and they were back on the deck without any snowflakes.
Everyone's posture, body language and expression are all the same as when they just touched the snow.
Spanner, who was lying on the ground, said to his captain: "Did you see that? This is what I experienced before. We are trapped here, spending the same forty minutes over and over again."
But Klaus didn't have time to pay attention to him. He threw the guy directly onto the deck and rushed into the cockpit again with the other crew members.
Looking at everything white outside and their strange situation, as the captain, Klaus must find a way to escape.
The solution is not so easy to think of. Every time the 40 minutes are up, they will return to the starting point again, over and over again.
Later, facing the snow falling from the sky, the crew simply gave up hiding and just sat in the snow and continued drinking.
It started again. Lily, who was also thinking about a solution, suddenly had an inspiration in her mind.
She asked the wrench lying on the ground, which was gradually being piled up like a snowman by the university: "Don't be discouraged, how did you get out just now?"
Hearing this, hope suddenly ignited in everyone's hearts. Since Wrench could leave, then they could too.
"Haha... Of course you can go out like me, just wait."
"But do you know how long I've been living in this 40-minute loop over and over again? Ten years!!"
(End of this chapter)