After hearing Wrench's words, everyone's eyes turned to him.
Looking at the disdainful and mocking expression on Wrench's face, Captain Kraus suddenly pulled out his large-caliber flintlock and blew his brain apart.
At this moment, he must not let the situation get out of control.
"Pa pa pa~!!" The sound of his slapping attracted everyone's attention.
"Are you still my crew? Are you completely frightened by this little difficulty? Show me the spirit you showed when you followed me to fight against that thing in the sea!"
"No matter what this thing is, no one can be defeated by us!! We are not afraid of death, so why should we be afraid of this thing?"
Feeling the crew's emotions being aroused, Krass continued to comfort them: "So what if we stay for another 10 years? This ship is our home. Being here is like going home! Don't you usually go home?"
"We won't be hungry, sleepy, or die! We won't even age. Compared to the people outside, we have gained ten years of life for free. Isn't this a good thing?"
Then he began to call out the names of his crew members one by one.
"Huck, didn't you always say you wanted to learn to read, but you said you didn't have the time? Now I give you 10 more years, you can learn it!"
"Cook, haven't you always said that you wanted to be a painter like Governor Charles? Now you have time to practice!"
The crew members looked at each other, and their angry expressions gradually calmed down. After listening to the captain's explanation, it seemed that there was no need for them to react so strongly.
Kras's words worked, and the crew members began to do as he said. Everyone began to face these forty minutes over and over again calmly.
They put these cycles together to form a day, one day to gather together to find a way to escape, and the other day to do their own things.
During this period, most of the illiterate crew members had learned to read and write under the guidance of their companions, and the crew members learned how to cook from the chef and how to treat illnesses from the ship's doctor.
Now they do anything that can relieve boredom.
They even accepted the advanced knowledge that Lily had learned from the academy.
Time passed day by day, and the first two years ended in such a harmonious atmosphere, but after two years of searching, still no discoveries were made.
The crew members subconsciously rejected this question.
Starting in the third year, the crew began to feel bored and they looked for other things to entertain themselves.
Everyone was told the location of every book on the ship, including Lily's romance novels.
By the fourth year, after they had read all the written items on the ship countless times, they began to try to make up their own stories.
At the beginning, Lily tried hard to join them, but gradually she became more and more silent as she became more cheerful. The long time was washing away everything in her heart.
No matter what Lily thinks, time goes on, and when the story has completely run out, the crew begins to show dangerous ideas that they had thought of but never tried.
For example, stripping naked and jumping directly into the dark sea, or setting fire to the fuel and ammunition depots.
Lily could feel the hidden gazes directed at her, but no one dared to do anything for the time being.
Captain Krass, as the only leader on the ship, maintained basic stability no matter how ridiculous the crew members did.
In the sixth year, no one mentioned the idea of finding a way to escape anymore.
In the seventh year, the crew began to self-harm, using the severe pain to relieve the boredom that was almost real on the ship.
As a leader, Karas did not stop it because he knew that what he had said before was just self-deception.
In the eighth year, the self-harm began to escalate, and they began to look for more unique methods, such as swallowing an entire block of red fuel.
But in the ninth year, the crew's bad mood began to improve. The ten-year deadline mentioned by Wrench was finally coming to an end.
It’s very interesting to say, at the beginning, the crew members were always worried that they would remember the time wrong, but later they found that everyone was remembering it silently in their hearts.
It’s just like those prisoners in prison who always know how many days they have left before they will be released.
A new cycle began, and everyone was teleported to the deck again, but everyone's face was filled with extreme excitement.
Everyone remembered clearly that they had at most three more times before they would be out.
"Three!!" All the crew members shouted heartbreakingly, as if they wanted to completely roar out all the stress they had experienced in the past ten years.
"Two!" Many crew members have already knelt on the ground.
"One!!" Lily, her face flushed with excitement, shouted out this sentence along with everyone else.
When they returned to the deck again, Lily instantly used light to illuminate the snow in the air.
Everyone rushed to the cockpit excitedly. Everyone was laughing, laughing wildly, even Lily.
There is no difference between them now and the wrenches before.
Only someone who has been trapped in that cycle for a full decade can understand how depressing that kind of life is.
How uncomfortable it is to feel like you can't die, and you can't go crazy either.
"Chief Engineer! The turbine is overloaded! Let's turn around and get out of this damn place!" Klas immediately issued a new order.
"Wait! We can't leave yet, we haven't reached our destination yet!" Lily rushed to him, feeling anxious.
"No!" Klaus rejected the request immediately.
"I have to be responsible for my crew!! No one knows what lies ahead. Do you still want to live the tormenting days you've been through before?!"
Lily opened her mouth slightly, but no words came out.
After weighing the torturous ten years and Charles in her mind for a second, she made the choice instantly.
"Actually, all we have to do is avoid the snow!"
Krass didn't bother to pay attention to his employer. "Chief Engineer! Turbine overload! Do you hear me?!"
But apart from his voice, there was no response from the communication channel.
Everyone's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and extreme fear hung over everyone's face.
Soon the person who was trying to find out the news came back from the turbine cabin, his voice filled with grief and indignation.
"Boss! Those guys in the turbine nacelle are still frozen in place!! We are still in the loop!!"
Everyone present could hardly stand steadily.
Tears streamed down Lily's cheeks, but they couldn't take away even the slightest bit of despair in her heart.
Everyone turned their heads mechanically and looked at a small snow pile on the deck outside the glass.
It was a wrench that was completely buried by the heavy snow.
(End of this chapter)