Rock of Spirits

Chapter 51 The Legend of the Ghost Ship

"So what exactly is this?" An Lan looked at Shen Zui's speechless expression with a dazed expression. Is her comprehension so poor?Why can't I see it at all?
"If I'm not mistaken, this should be a fossil!"

"Wow!"

Now An Lan was also surprised, who would have thought that there would be a super rare fossil in the box that the two of them casually fished out of the water!
After recovering from the shock of fishing out the fossils, Shen Zui and the two began to divide the spoils... no, they distributed the contents of the box.

Since An Lan happened to have a mosquito-repellent incense king, she took away the certificate of the king, and Shen Zui also got the mysterious water droplet, which was of great help to Guijiaojiao's comprehension of water skills.

"Then what should we do with this fossil?" It's no surprise that he is intoxicated with such things as fossils, and the black notebook was ignored by the two of them.

"Let's leave the fossil to you. It's useless for me to hold it!" Although the fossil is rare, it has no value in An Lan's view.

"Alright then!" Shen Zui still decided to hand over the fossil to Dr. Chen's research institute, after all, he has also received a lot of care from the research institute!

So except for the certificate of the king, An Lan handed over all the other things in the box, including the box, to Shen Zui, which made Shen Zui feel quite embarrassed.

So he owed An Lan another meal!

After that, the two sailed to several other coral reefs to clean up the garbage, but unfortunately they never fished out the treasure chest again.

What a pity! ! !
Knowing that the sun was about to set, the two returned to the aquarium.

An Lan stayed here for a while before returning to her home, while Shen Zui went back to her room and opened the notebook that looked like a sailing diary.

Fortunately, the content in the notebook is written in Chinese, otherwise, with my intoxicated English level, I can only look lonely.

Elvish Calendar 1908, May 5th

Today's weather is very good, neither cold nor dry, which is very suitable for sailing. After the cargo was loaded and unloaded, we pulled up the anchor and hoisted the sail after breakfast.The Thousand Needlefish is finally returning to Haicheng after spending a spring in Xiadao.

The first diary told Shen Zui a lot of information. First, this diary was written in 1908 in the Elven calendar, and this year is 2020, which means that the treasure chest has been around for more than 100 years; second, this notebook records a This is the voyage diary of a ship called Thousand Needle Fish, so the treasure chest they salvaged today probably belongs to this ship; the third ship returned to Haicheng from Xia Island, and they stayed in Xia Island. a spring.

Shen Zui then looked down:
Elvish Calendar 1908, May 5th

It's been a week since we left Summer Island, and we haven't had any hindrance during the day, and the wind has always been good, and the weather has been fantastic.Maybe God felt our desire to go home as soon as possible and wanted to help us. If the situation has been so smooth, we may have to return to Haicheng a few days earlier!

……

The following diary entries were nothing special. The voyage of the Thousand Needle Fish seemed to be going very smoothly, as if God wanted to help them. They entered the waters of Yan Kingdom a few days earlier than planned.

However, the situation seems to have changed since May 5.

Elvish Calendar 1908, May 5th

Finally entering the territorial waters of Yan Kingdom, we can feel that we are getting closer and closer to home, maybe the day after tomorrow we can lie in our quilt and sleep with our wife in our arms.But today's weather seems to be not very good, there is a lot of fog on the sea, but the problem is not big, our compass is still normal, it will guide us back to Haicheng.

Elvish Calendar 1908, May 5th

I have never seen such a thick fog. Even if we stand face to face on the deck, it is difficult to see the face of the opposite party. The bad thing is that our route seems to have deviated. The surrounding smell and sea breeze give me a strange feeling a feeling of.Hell, why do I feel that we are getting farther and farther away from Haicheng? Maybe this is just my illusion, after all, our pointer is still pointing in the same direction.But I still scolded the helmsman and first mate on the ship, hoping that they can be more serious in the next work, after all, we are going home soon, and I don't want to make any trouble.

Elvish Calendar 1908, May 5th

The weather is really terrible, the fog makes us unable to distinguish between day and night, what's worse is that according to our speed, we should have reached Haicheng today, but now we are still surrounded by whiteness, so damn it The pointer must be broken. This is not the sea area around Haicheng at all, neither in terms of taste nor feeling.We've all been fooled by it!My crew will go crazy if the fog doesn't lift tomorrow.

Elvish Calendar 1908, May 5th

I think my excellent sailor Wang must be crazy for claiming that they saw a ship exactly like ours in the thick fog, yes the damn fog still hasn't cleared, I'm sure Xiao Wang must be marijuana I had hallucinations after smoking too much, because my Thousand Needlefish is unique, and there must be no ship like it in the world.

Elvish Calendar 1908, May 5th

Today we stayed where we were and didn't move. We have to wait until the nasty fog clears before we can continue sailing, otherwise we will be farther and farther away from our home!I think lunatics must be contagious, and more and more people are starting to say they've seen exactly the same boat as the Thousand Needlefish, what a nasty joke.

Elvish Calendar 1908, May 5th

This is the third day we have been in the same place, today I thought my eyes were hallucinating, because just as my crew members said, I saw a boat that looked very similar to my thousand needle fish I floated past my boat, and on that boat, I could vaguely see guys who looked similar to us standing in class A. We shouted at them with all our strength, but no one responded.This must be a group of despicable imitators who dare not face the genuine version and run away in a hurry.So I decided to go after it, and maybe we could get out of this same hateful fog by following this hateful guy.

The diary ends here abruptly, so far the intoxication of reading this diary is at a loss.

Will there really be a week of dense fog in this world?What happened to the Thousand Needles Fish chasing the imitator?And was the ship they saw in the mist really a copycat of the Thousand Needlefish?

Judging from the information given in the diary, the ship must have appeared in front of the Thousand Needlefish without knowing it, and there have been sighting records since May 5.Therefore, the hasty escape conjectured by the writer of the note, the captain of the Thousand Needles Fish, is not true at all.

And judging from the location where the treasure chest was found, the Thousand Needlefish should have returned to the vicinity of Haicheng, but judging from the fact that the treasure chest was left on the bottom of the sea and the diary was suddenly interrupted, it should have happened after the Thousand Needlefish chased that ship out. No accident, of course, it does not rule out that the treasure chest containing the notebook accidentally fell into the water, and the captain had to change to a new notebook to start recording.

After reading this diary, I was so intoxicated that I scratched my head.This kind of eagerness to know the follow-up but there is no way to do it is too tormenting.

"By the way, Grandpa!" Shen Zui, who was in a tangle, suddenly shot up.

Grandpa has lived here since he was a child, so he may know something.

Glancing at the watch, it was only 08:30, grandpa should not have rested yet, so Shen Zui couldn't wait to walk out of the door and run to grandpa's room.

"Grandpa, grandpa, do you know Thousand Needle Fish?" Seeing that the light in grandpa's room was still on, Shen Zui pushed them away and shouted inside.

"What are you talking about, your skin is itchy again!...Wait what did you ask just now?" Wen Rulong was furious when he saw Shen Zui barging in, and then his eyes widened as if he had heard something shocking!

"Thousand Needle Fish?" Seeing Wen Rulong's reaction so intoxicated, he was a little startled, so he repeated it weakly.

"Who told you this?" Wen Rulong stared at Shen Zui.

"No one told me, I saw it in a notebook by myself." Under Wen Rulong's power, Shen Zui told him everything from picking up the box to reading the diary today.

"Where's that notebook?"

"It's in my room, I'll go get it right away!" After speaking, Shen Drunk ran back to his room.

"This kid is always reckless!" Wen Rulong sighed as he watched Shen Zui leave.But when he thought of the Thousand Needles Fish, he frowned again.

"Grandpa, my mother brought the notebook!"

Wen Rulong took the notebook from Shen Zui's hand, and immediately opened it to read.

After a long time, Wen Rulong finally finished reading the contents of the notebook in one go, and Wen Rulong frowned even deeper.

"Grandpa, do you know what happened to the Thousand Needles Fish?" Looking at Wen Rulong's solemn expression, Shen Zui asked cautiously.

"I've heard a story since I was a child." Wen Rulong fell into memory without directly answering the intoxicated question.

"It is said that more than 100 years ago, probably
It was in [-] that a very strange thing happened.That year, someone discovered a strange boat that had been circling around Haicheng Island without docking. People signaled to the boat but no one responded. In this way, the boat circled the sea for a full week. It even stopped for two days.But on the third day that the ship stopped there, it suddenly disappeared! "

"Grandpa, wouldn't that ship be...?"

"That's right, that ship is exactly the cargo ship that returned to Haicheng from Xiadao——Thousand Needle Fish!"

"Hiss~~" Hearing this, Shen Zui couldn't help but gasped.

"Then grandpa, the fog...?"

"In the stories my elders told me, there was no heavy fog that lasted for a whole week! There were only empty cargo ships that fishing boats often encounter inexplicably when they go out to sea in heavy fog!"

(End of this chapter)