What is this? "
"Mr. Charles, is this a small mountain under water?"
"No, I think it looks more like a clump of coral. Since there are schools of fish around it, it shouldn't be dangerous. First mate, come closer."
Charles took two quick steps to the periscope at the back, closed one eye and looked inside.
Although you can only see with a single lens, the field of view is undoubtedly much wider when you use a periscope.
As the Narwhal slowly approached, the outline of the mass in front of it began to become clear under the illumination of the searchlight.
It was a ship, a sunken ship covered in all kinds of corals and barnacles.
"Besides me, only the kings of Sodom know about Hope Island. Could this be a pirate ship?"
Just as Charles was thinking this, a flash of red appeared in front of the periscope and rushed towards the ship. It was Feuerbach's shark.
When the Narwhal was only 40 meters away from the shipwreck, the group of red sharks appeared, holding an octopus whose color was constantly changing, and swam in circles in front of the ship.
"Captain, my little gadget tells me that apart from this octopus, it is just an ordinary shipwreck." said Second Mate Feuerbach.
Charles held his chin and thought for a while before saying, "No danger? Then let's try out the diving suit on this sunken ship."
Since it is a trial voyage, we have to try out all the new things on the Narwhal.
If an accident happens here, at least there is Hope Island next to us. If an accident really happens in the ocean, we will be completely doomed.
In the decompression chamber of the Narwhal, Charles put on a diving suit with the help of the crew.
In order to withstand the strong water pressure, this heavy diving suit is incomparable to the previous rubber jackets of the Church of Light. The weight alone reaches 220 kilograms.
It is a round helmet made entirely of metal with a layer of anti-collision net hanging in front of the thick glass. Apart from the helmet, everything else is no different from a space suit.
A diving suit of this weight would often be extremely clumsy if one was not strong enough, but fortunately Charles could fully control the suit.
"Ding Ding." Charles knocked on the glass in front of him. He estimated that it was at least 10 centimeters thick and could definitely withstand the water pressure.
After making a gesture of success to the crew members next to him, everyone except Feuerbach exited the decompression chamber.
The sea water slowly rose from under him, and Charles saw the second mate's mouth opening and closing as if he was saying something, but he couldn't hear anything because he was in a sealed state.
There was Sasha's noisy voice coming from the back, which was the sound coming from the oxygen tube.
"Ding ding ding" the bell inside the suit rang. The wire that pulled the bell extended from the oxygen tube. The sealed heavy diving suit could only communicate through this.
The water pressure inside the decompression chamber began to increase slowly. When the pressure inside was completely consistent with the water pressure outside, Charles slowly squatted down, grasped the red handle of the round gate on the ground and turned it hard.
Bubbles flew, and the dark, deep seabed appeared in front of Charles.
"Hoo~ss~Hoo~ss~" Charles listened to his own breathing and jumped into the cave.
The Narwhal was not far from the seabed, and as the sand was blown up, Charles landed steadily on the seabed.
He opened his hands, made a few flag signals to Feuerbach, and then walked towards the sunken ship.
On the ground, the heavy diving suit is very difficult to move, but in the water, the buoyancy of the water makes the diving suit easier to move, and walking feels like walking in space.
As Feuerbach's sharks prowled around the wreck, the schools of sardines and clownfish swimming among the corals were frightened and quickly disappeared.
"What is the origin of this ship?" With this thought in mind, Charles walked towards the crevice of the shipwreck.
However, just as he approached, a word covered by coral next to it immediately caught his attention.
Charles reached out and pulled the coral apart, and the name of the ship appeared in front of Charles. D134.
"The name of this ship seems to be familiar." Charles frowned as he looked at the line of words.
Suddenly his eyes lit up, and he remembered that the ghost ship he encountered when he first arrived in the British Isles had this name. He said the name of this ship was the D134 transport ship.
Charles quickly recalled the memories from three years ago. He remembered that he encountered it when he was leaking information to the Church of Light.
"That guy said he was going to ship cargo to Hope Island. So it sank here? It's really unlucky. It was almost there."
Charles felt a little curious about what cargo this ship was carrying, and he didn't know if it could still be used after so many years.
Of course, Charles also knew that the possibility was very slim, so he finally tried the diving suit this time.
He slammed his feet on the ground and continued to drift into the black gap on the sunken ship.
It was very dark inside, and all around it was covered with various aquatic plants. All traces of human beings had been almost corroded by the sea.
"Will this ship collapse?" Charles felt a little nervous, but when he thought of his diving suit which was like heavy armor, he calmed down and walked inside on the rugged corals.
Although it was severely corroded and covered with various coral barnacles, as a person who makes a living at sea, Charles could see the location of each cabin of the ship.
Slowly he came to the cargo hold. As expected, the cargo hold was also filled with colorful corals.
"Bang!" Charles' fist hit it hard, causing debris in the water to fly everywhere.
"Bang!!" Various corals began to crack and the water became increasingly turbid.
When Charles hit it for the third time, the coral fell off and the rotten hatch covered with red rust appeared in front of him.
"Compared to me before, the strength is at least four times greater." Charles thought, stretched out his hand into the crack of the door, and began to exert the muscles in his arms.
"Squeak~" With a sound like nails scratching on a blackboard, the hatch slowly opened.
The moment it was opened, something white floated out, and Charles raised his hand and punched it.
Things shattered, but more things came out. They were bones, human bones.
Charles stood there, looking at everything in front of him in shock. The words of the ghost captain three years ago rang in his ears.
"Transport ship D134, full speed ahead! We must deliver this batch of goods before the 16th!"
It turns out that the cargo that the ghost captain mentioned is all living people! !
D134 Ghost Ship Incident Chapter 148
(End of this chapter)