Rotten-Eye Barry disappeared from the city after nightfall, so they had to act quickly.
The witch's cruise ship did not sail into the lake. After the ship stopped, a small steamboat was lowered. Then Shad and Megan - she changed back again - took the boat into the lake. After seeing the cruise ship with more than half of the cabins without lights on from a distance on the lake, they changed to walking on water to move towards the ship.
If it wasn't still raining heavily, Green Lake would be very beautiful at night. But since it was raining, Shade was not in the mood to enjoy the scenery.
According to the preliminary investigation of Paradise Island Pharmaceuticals, during the period when Rotten Eye Barry was not on board, the cruise ship drifting on Green Lake had only the minimum number of sailors to maintain the normal operation of the ship. When Shad and Megan jumped on the deck, they found that the situation was exactly as they imagined.
In rainy weather, the sailors were resting in their cabins, or gathered together to chat and play cards. Since they were all in a closed room, this time Megan used "Durte's Coma Potion", a highly volatile sleeping potion.
The effect of this magic potion was excellent. After Shade threw it in through the hatch on the deck, Megan only waited for five minutes before signaling Shade that he could go in:
"Drink the antidote first. This potion takes a long time to work. Although you can resist the toxins in the fog on the central island, you should also be resistant to this potion, but it is better to be cautious after all."
For such a large ship, the only rooms worth searching are Barry's own room and the captain's room. The latter might contain the ship's sailing records. Shad and Megan both suspect that this ship has also transported supplies for "that gentleman" on the island.
The first place they arrived at was the captain's room, where four men were lying unconscious beside a card table. The table was littered with cards, wine glasses, and various expensive drinks. It seemed that Barry was quite nice to his men.
And the navigation records were indeed here, properly stored in waterproof oil paper.
Xia De took out the two most recent books, one for each of him and Megan. After flipping through a few pages, they both found a clue almost at the same time:
"It says on it - After the passage is opened, we officially enter the island. The cargo is unloaded at the dock."
A brief record illustrating an important fact:
"There's a passage on the lake? Leading to another island we can't see or hear of? Sure enough, the place where Rotten Eye Barry has been unloading for the past twenty years is not the island in the middle of Green Lake!"
Shade was very excited about this discovery, while Megan sighed softly and said to Shade:
"Let's continue with our topic about the other island in the afternoon: Do you remember the first time we landed on the island and accidentally encountered a spatial disorder, and the tentacles and other monsters we encountered in the fog? At that time, I guessed based on the few words my father said before he died that they came from another space, from another island."
"Please explain in detail."
"There is only one island in Green Lake, there is absolutely no mistake about that. But behind the normal space, on the 'back' of that island, there is another island that is like a twin brother. I am not sure how the island hidden on the 'back' appeared, maybe it is a natural phenomenon, or maybe it is the work of my thirteen-ring ancestor. But the secrets should all be on that island on the back."
Shad asked:
"Including the doors that the keys correspond to?"
Megan pursed her lips and nodded:
"Not sure, but it's highly likely. I've never been to another island, but before I met you, when I went to the island alone, I fell asleep on the island due to a physical accident, and saw the door in my dream. That's why I said that I may not be able to take you to see the door, but next time I can try to dream with you when I sleep on the island."
Doctors also know this technique of dreaming together. Xia De and doctors have even used this technique to conduct many dream adventures. Of course, dreaming together requires mutual trust, which is actually a very strict requirement.
"Could the fog on the island also have emerged from another island? The disaster that destroyed Green Lake Town many years ago was actually caused by a connection between that island and the real island?"
Xia De had a new guess, but Megan just shook her head:
"I don't know much about that island. Today, I saw the documents of Barry the Rotten-Eye and the navigation records here, and I was completely sure of this. The world is really amazing. Even if you claim to have mastered knowledge and wisdom, you may not know everything."
"A wise man may not know, but I don't believe that even this captain doesn't know how to enter another island."
Xia De looked at the man lying on the table wearing a captain's hat. Of course, his identity was not only determined by the hat, but also by the photo in the frame placed in the captain's room.
"Mr. Watson, please move him away. I want to take him back for interrogation. If we use a contract or something like that to restrict anyone from revealing any information, then our interrogation may lead to serious consequences."
Megan said very rationally, and Xia De nodded:
"No problem, but let's go to Bad Eye Barry's room first. I don't know much about cruise ships. Where are the best rooms on this kind of ship?"
"Upper level, we..."
The sorceress was suddenly stunned, and then looked outside:
"Someone is coming. The alert ceremony I set up on the deck just now has been triggered."
"Isn't it the Mirror Society again?"
"Go out and take a look."
Megan said, pulling the hood on her head, and Shad lifted the captain and followed her.
Coming out of the dry cabin onto the deck, the violent storm made one feel like the two spaces separated by a door were clearly two different worlds.
The invisible stand opened up to block the rain for Megan and Shade. Looking at the deck again, the defense measures were indeed triggered, but the person who appeared on the edge of the deck was not a human, but a water ghost who had just climbed up.
It hunched its back in the rain at night, with a ferocious expression on its face, which was close to that of a fish, and its back with fins made a posture as if it was about to attack.
At the same time, pairs of hands covered with fish scales appeared at the edge of the deck, and then more water ghosts tried to climb up from the deck.
The deck was still at a certain height from the water surface. Xia De could only imagine that hundreds of water ghosts were piled together to "push" the top water ghost to a position where it could touch the deck. This was not an accidental encounter with the invasion of water ghosts, this was definitely a deliberate attack.
"Are there so many water ghosts in Green Lake? ... I see, they are hiding in the waters of another island."
Xia De understood it all at once, and thought of more things:
"The group of water ghosts that the church regularly deals with every year, weren't they deliberately released to confuse people?"
"Oh, I hate the undead the most."
Megan and Shade stood back to back to prevent being attacked from both sides. Shade had already taken out the yellow moonlight sword, and the clear yellow light flashed a dazzling and luxurious light in the rainy night:
"Ms. Pharmacist, do you know the art of corpse explosion? Especially the art of serial corpse explosion."
He still remembered that during the group mission, when the space was disordered and they were transported to an island, Priest Augustus used the "serial corpse explosion technique" to eliminate a large number of enemies.
"First, I hate the power of the undead. Second, corpse explosion has a very poor effect on the undead who are controlled by others. Third, do you want the city to hear the noise here?"
Megan said, feeling the heat coming from her back. The feeling of having someone to rely on made her feel a little overwhelmed, but she was also a little happy in her heart.
"Someone is controlling it? Let's deal with these things first, Miss Pharmacist, try not to do anything, I'll do it."
He still remembered that although the witch's condition had partially recovered, it was not particularly good.
"But... ... "
"I'll do it. You should still have some trust in me."
"Okay then. I'll take care of the enemies that are very close."
Shade threw the captain to his feet, and while he was talking to Megan, the first group of water ghosts had already arrived on the deck. Shade did not attack immediately, but pointed at four evenly spaced positions around the two men:
"Calling Snowball!"
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Four dull crashes occurred in succession, and the deck even groaned in dissatisfaction. Then, the pitch-black chain of sin flew out from Shade's sleeves, piercing through four snowballs in succession, and then trapped the two people in a square shape:
"Thorns of the Moon!"
Red, silver, and yellow thorn bushes that glowed in the rainy night emerged from under the deck, densely wrapped with chains of sin with five runes.
Because the "Moon Thorns" are used in a non-enclosed space, the blocking ability of the thorn bushes is slightly weaker, but it is enough to block the first wave of approaching undead.
After completing the protection, Xia De officially began to fight back:
"Moonlight—Slash!"
This time he did not hold back intentionally. Brilliant silver arcs of light flew out from his hands. Because all the enemies were on the same water surface, each of the light marks flying parallel to the deck could split the water ghosts in an entire direction into two parts, upper and lower.
Green Lake was not peaceful in the rainy night, but had a creepy loneliness. On the yacht with lights on the lake, the continuous moonlight swept in three directions. No water ghost could block Shade's moonlight.
If the water ghosts were only this level, then no matter how many there were, it would only be a waste of time. But soon, the entire ship was surrounded by water ghosts of unknown origin. Megan realized something was wrong faster than Shade:
"The boat is shaking, no, it's sinking. The water ghost has made the boat leak!"
The ship was not theirs anyway, so even if it sank, it had nothing to do with them. But facing a group of water ghosts on a ship was a completely different battle from facing hundreds of water ghosts in the water. Xia De knew that they couldn't delay like this, and they had to leave here as soon as possible:
"Are your followers ready?"