COC Running Group-Long Dream Endless

The young players were amazed.

Of course, when everyone arrived at the ruins by boat at a specific time, they could only find out after close observation that due to long-term immersion in seawater, the carvings on the stones had become so faint that they were almost invisible.

Many members of the expedition team sighed, but they kept taking photos and rubbings.

When everyone was immersed in the investigation and information collection, an unexpected situation happened.That was the prelude to the Haiti earthquake, a small subsea vibration with an amplitude of less than magnitude 4.Of course, at this time, no one expected that this would bring about even more terrifying underwater fluctuations in the earthquake.

The members of the expedition team at that time were immersed in the excitement of the upcoming discovery.

Strangely, this small earthquake with an amplitude of less than magnitude 4 caused many cracks to appear in the plant layer that had been defending the ancient underwater city for an unknown number of years. The large cracks were tens of meters long and several meters wide, and the small cracks also At least one palm wide.

Although submarines cannot pass through the cracks, small detection instruments and well-equipped divers can dive deep enough to explore.

Initially, out of safety considerations, the expedition team only controlled the unmanned miniature diving device to enter the crack, and the underwater camera on the device dutifully conveyed the underwater scene back to the surface of the sea in the form of video.

This would be a discovery that would shock the world, and everyone on the expedition confirmed so.Although there have been similar speculations in the academic circles, that is, there are the same stone buildings under the Nan Madol ruins, and the underwater part is the most important place for sacrificial ceremonies in the Nan Madol ruins.

But no one has ever really had the opportunity to photograph the underwater ruins. There is no evidence to support this speculation, nor has anyone had the opportunity to see the whole picture of the underwater city with their own eyes.

The city of Nan Madol above is like the part of an iceberg above the water, but it is just a small part of the top of an incredibly huge underwater city.Below the sea level, a huge ancient city quietly sank to the bottom of the water. It was not only separated from the city of Nan Madol on the sea by the sea layer, but also by a layer of unknown phytoplankton.

This layer of plants is like a thick blanket, but it floats strangely on a certain level in the water. Even radar and detection devices cannot penetrate the cover of this layer of plants, and divers cannot tear this thick layer of membrane. up.

This is also the main reason why the underwater ancient city has never been discovered, but fortunately, the expedition team waited until the moment when the plants were torn apart.They quickly studied the underwater ruins through various resources captured by underwater cameras, and at the same time began to explore larger cracks and look for the possibility of diving into the bottom.

In the expedition team, many members are professional divers who have obtained diving certificates. Their research once required them to dive into shallow seas for exploration work, so no one in the team is willing to let this opportunity go.

It is a pity that Professor Harrington does not have a diving certificate, and his body cannot withstand long-term underwater operations. As an old man over [-], he can only sit in the office and carefully check those underwater Recorded video below.

accident

Professor Harrington's narration made everyone seem to have followed the investigation team to the mysterious island, and they were fascinated by it.They could almost feel the excitement and excitement of the expedition team when they discovered the underwater city.

However, Professor Harrington changed the subject at this time: "Unfortunately, the next situation is not what we imagined."

"Could it be that some mysterious event happened? For example, the sudden death of Mystery!?" Lisa interrupted suddenly. The moment she heard the turning word, she began to make up her mind, and immediately connected to the mysterious incident that happened nearby. sudden death event.

Professor Harrington laughed twice and shook his head: "It's not that scary. At first, it was just that the video I checked had a strange blurry phenomenon. Many video files were indeed preserved, but they were suddenly damaged during the inspection. , can't see the recording."

"...It sounds like the beginning of a third-rate horror novel." Lisa was talking about a third-rate horror novel, but the excited expression on her face completely betrayed her, "Is it just that the video is damaged? Could it be because of some magical creatures that exist under the sea?" ?”

"I'm really not sure about that," Professor Harrington blinked and smiled like an old urchin, "But the only good news is that although many videos were damaged, some strange scenes were recorded. Sound. I can't be sure if it's the sound of underwater creatures, but it sounds like a strange rhythm and regularity. I believe it's not a meaningless sound, but some kind of language with meaning and conveys with some information."

"Talking sea creatures, oh, the top of the human food chain is not guaranteed? Or are there any humans living under the sea? Mermaids or mermaids?" Lisa interjected, and was hit on the head by Johanna beside her with a knife. superior.

"Don't disturb the professor's narration," Johanna said to Lisa in a low voice. "You can see that Eve is staring at you. She seems to be quite curious about the professor's experience. You should be quiet for a while and ask questions at the end."

Johanna's voice was extremely low, and she spoke at a frighteningly fast speed. The threatening expression on her face made Lisa shrink her neck and nod silently and frantically.

Seeing the interaction between the two, the professor smiled as if he didn't mind at all, and soon continued talking.

"Actually, your guess is also very popular in the team," the professor turned to Lisa and said, "Many people imagine that there is a beautiful mermaid in fairy tales living in an ancient underwater city. It is very romantic to think about it. Right. The young people in the team are all very excited, evaluating the underwater environment every day, looking for cracks that can accommodate divers, and everyone wants to be the first person to discover the ancient city in a real sense. Ah, let’s talk about it Going back to that strange language, it is completely different from any language we know, and even many pronunciations can hardly be produced by our vocal cords, which is why we guess that this language belongs to some unknown creature. As for the language meaning……"

The professor smiled wryly: "...Actually, none of the members of the expedition team could recognize the meaning of this strange language. But this is also normal. It is impossible for human beings to survive and communicate in such a deep sea. , so what kind of creature was born with language has become a question of great interest to us. Although our main research is the information about that period of history brought by the underwater city, if we can find new creatures that can communicate with language Quite an interesting research target."

"There are no experts in biology or animal research in our team, so the members of the team contacted experts in related fields in their universities, and these people will also arrive in Pohnpei Island after a period of time. After a short period of time Our research is progressing smoothly. Underwater cameras have captured many murals and text-like patterns on the ruins. Yes, this is really amazing. After many years on the bottom of the sea, those murals still maintain their gorgeous colors , have not been eroded at all, and there is no marine life attached to these stone walls painted with murals and texts, and we are particularly interested in this special material..."

Probably speaking of excitement, the old professor almost started to dance, his enthusiasm for research has always been so high.

"But the situation has changed?" Sanders tried to bring the professor's focus back to the accidents they encountered. For some reason, he always felt that the incidents encountered by the professor on Pohnpei Island were a series of strange things that happened around them. source.

The professor seemed to have been dragged back to reality from the academic world, or entered another more terrifying "world", frowned with a heavy heart, and continued: "Some accidents did happen after this, the reason may be It must also be from those damaged videotapes."

He stretched out his hand and rubbed the space between his brows, as if recalling some unpleasant memories, and even his face became gloomy, a little unlike the usual good-natured old man: "At first we didn't expect such a thing to happen, in fact , the source of all this was caused by the businessman who was our translator and guide. One day, for some reason, he sneaked into our research data room, found the video taken by our submarine probe, and heard the damaged video. Legacy voices."

"I have to say that this happened because we were too vigilant, thinking that no one on the island would invade our data room at will. The young researcher who managed the data room didn't even lock the door that night."

Missing case

"Is he planning to steal your professor's academic achievements?" Johanna guessed subconsciously.

The professor shook his head: "It's fine if it's just like this. He slipped into the data room that day, and after hearing the voice in the video, he became very strange. This is what we saw through the surveillance video. He was As if being hypnotized, he began to make strange sounds following the video tape, even though he could not pronounce many syllables, he still chanted following that strange sound."

"What makes us even more puzzled is that he was able to pronounce those syllables gradually. Obviously, according to the linguist with our team, it is impossible for human beings to pronounce those syllables due to their own physiological structure." There was an obvious puzzled expression on his face, "Actually, I shouldn't continue to tell you the following things."

As if hesitating, the professor's fingers tapped on the table. Lisa nervously moved closer, as if wanting to urge the professor, but she was afraid that what she said would make the professor stop talking. She looked at the professor for help. Johanna by my side.

After receiving the signal from her roommate, Johanna smiled awkwardly, and said to the professor: "Is the next thing a research secret? Or will it have a bad influence on us if you talk about it? If it's the latter , after making the request to know everything on the island, we have already made the corresponding psychological preparations.”

The professor froze for a moment, relieved the sadness on his face, and said, "It's not a research secret, but such a thing is so unbelievable that it almost overturned my belief in science. It's really... well, next I'll tell you about it."

Johanna gestured to Lisa from an invisible angle, and got a grateful smile from Lisa, and the professor over there also continued to narrate: "We found out that the reference room was invaded the next morning. Yes, we found out what the businessman did after checking the monitoring, so we checked all the materials first, and found no loss or damage, and then we started contacting the businessman."

"However, the strange thing is that no matter how hard you search, you can't find him. He seems to have completely disappeared from the island. However, according to our subsequent investigation, he did not leave the island through any means of transportation. At the same time, the residents and indigenous people on the island No one has ever seen him. He just disappeared from the island, which made us very confused, and strange things started to happen on the island."

"Strange thing, could it be a sudden death incident?" Lisa tried to connect the things on the island with the strange things happening around her at this time, and Johanna who was beside her quietly patted the back of her hand hard, making a crisp sound.

Lisa looked at the bruising on the back of her hand with tears in her eyes, and stared at Johanna in disbelief until she bowed her head in embarrassment and coughed.

"Ahem, then I will continue." The professor shrugged slightly awkwardly, and continued, "It was not a sudden death, but a disappearance. During our subsequent inspection trip, the aboriginal people on the island treated us The attitude became less and less friendly. Then they even started attacking our investigators, but we couldn't understand what was going on because of the lack of translators."

"After finding a local who was willing to help us communicate with the aborigines, we learned that after that day, the aborigines on the island continued to disappear, and there was only a sticky puddle left in their huts. Water stains, it feels like sea water, but no one can be found. You also know that Ponapei Island is not very big. After spending a lot of time searching, there are still no people. At the same time, disappearances are becoming more and more frequent. Under the circumstances, many indigenous people believed that the research activities of our expedition team angered the gods they worshiped, so the residents on the island were called by the gods.”

"Well, actually, I don't really understand their logic. If our expedition team really angered the so-called gods, why are the missing indigenous people who didn't do anything?" Seeing how it feels a little mocking, "Or is it that even if the god is his own believer, it is just some kind of consumable to him?"

"Of course, the relatively relaxed atmosphere in our team had completely disappeared at that time. We had no clue about such a weird disappearance. Our first reaction at the time was naturally to call the police. However, although the police claimed to have launched an operation afterwards, they did not There was no progress, and I even heard that there were missing persons within the police. Such an uneasy atmosphere and the malice of the indigenous people made the members of the expedition team very uneasy. Soon, after the incident, most of the expedition team chose to evacuate the wave. On Napei Island, only a few people are left to continue the investigation, and I don't know how they are doing now."

"That thing?" Sanders repeated the professor's words.

I don't know why, Sanders felt a bit of disobedience to everything the professor described, but it was more of a subtle fear of unknown events. He never liked such mysterious events. If it wasn't for helping Eve solve her troubles this time Her dream problem, he may choose to stop the investigation in time.

Even now, Saunders actually wanted to stop the professor from continuing, feeling that if he continued to listen, he would learn some horrible truths that he should not know.But he didn't stop the professor, and even started to lead the topic. He himself couldn't understand why he would answer the conversation. It seemed that what he was doing now was not just to help his friends.

The professor opened a can of Coke, the sound of the opening of the bottle and the sound of the foam in the bottle brought a strange association about the sea surface, and soon the professor said: "Before we evacuated, we finally found enough divers to dive deeper. The crack, the team finally decided to evacuate after exploring the situation under the crack. After determining the suitable time for deep diving, three experienced divers of our expedition team entered the crack with cameras."

Having said that, the professor began to rummage through his drawers and backpack, as if he was looking for something, and soon, he found a paper file bag from the drawer.

that translator

"What kind of document is this?" As the professor's students, Lisa and Michael naturally moved a few steps towards the professor's direction with more curiosity. These materials might be related to their next semester's courses.

The professor opened the file bag in his hand, spread out the information in the middle of the table, and made sure that everyone could see the content of the file before continuing his narration: "This is some image data obtained by our divers after diving into the abyss. Of course , There are also video materials, but they cannot be released for the time being, but relatively speaking, these image materials can still be made public.”

Facing everyone's curious eyes, the professor took a sip of Coke before continuing: "I remember that the weather was very good that day, the sea was calm, and the temperature was suitable. The process of the three divers going down was very smooth. I mean the early stage. When they After diving into the abyss, the conjecture of our expedition team was further confirmed that the underwater ruins not only exist, but also that the ruins of this ruin were built much earlier than the ruins of Nan Madol, that is to say, the ruins of Nan Madol The ruins are merely a poor imitation of that underwater city."

"But it's really illogical?" Michael raised his hand to interrupt the professor's narration, "I talked about it before, and the construction of Nanmadur alone is already ahead of the construction level at that time, and there will be ruins built by magicians. The reason for such absurd rumors. If the construction time of the underwater ruins is much earlier than that of Nan Madol, then its appearance is not logical."

"Is there still less illogical buildings in this world?" Lisa smiled and said, "The construction of the pyramid is also called a miracle. Do you think that the manpower and material resources of that era were enough to build such a majestic building? Is it? There must be a mysterious power behind this that humans cannot understand."

Michael shrugged: "I didn't believe in the existence of this kind of non-scientific phenomenon until I saw the so-called 'mysterious phenomenon' you mentioned with my own eyes. There must be problems, such as problems with the age detection, or civilization There has been a generational gap, and in fact, there was already relatively advanced technological power in that era, but people today have not discovered it."

"It's interesting what you both said, and in fact discussions broke out among the expedition team about this discovery afterwards. Everyone has a different opinion on this. It's a pity that the divers can't transmit the information they see directly with the naked eye in real time. Come here, as I said before, the expedition team had already decided to evacuate at that time, so the only ones staying on the island to communicate with the divers were me and another researcher." The professor threw the empty Coke can into the "We were very excited about this discovery at the time. Under the operation of divers, we collected more clear details of underwater remains. On the ancient city walls, after stripping seaweed and shellfish, they actually It is possible to find densely packed text, although we are still unable to decipher the information. At the same time, we have also found a large number of sacrificial items on the bottom of the sea.”

As he said that, the professor dug out a few photos from the pile of photos. There were complex text patterns on the underwater city wall. Unfortunately, it was eroded by sea water and covered by shellfish, so very few texts could be seen clearly.In the other photos, various sacrificial items were drawn, sealed in a huge sealed box like a sarcophagus.

Suddenly, Johanna, who saw it, pointed to the photo with the text on it and said: "Look here, the pattern with wings on the back and the mouth covered by tentacles in the corner of the photo is a bit like the one Eve bought before. statue?"

The others gathered around the photo and observed it carefully.Lisa rubbed her eyes, and said after a long time: "Excellent, my sister, how did you recognize the image? I looked at this ball of lines as if I saw a human figure, and it seemed like some unknown monster. You If it’s some kind of spell, I’ll believe it too.”

"Johanna is right." Sanders carefully outlined the photo with his fingers. "Although only a part of the pattern was photographed, there is no doubt that this is highly consistent with the sculpture that Eve bought."

Eve also came up to observe carefully, and after a while, she murmured, "Professor, do you know what this pattern represents?"

"No, I didn't find it at all," the professor shrugged. "Actually, we didn't pay much attention to this pattern. We thought it was some meaningless lines drawn wrongly. Didn't we expect it to be a painting? It's a pity that there are no complete photos. Come down. By the way, just now you said that Eve bought a sculpture, and I am really interested if you can lend me a few days to study it."

The professor looked at the pattern with great interest, and then looked at Eve expectantly.

Eve bit her lower lip calmly, and said in a hoarse voice, "Sorry, I don't want to lend this sculpture yet, but if you can wait, Professor, I will definitely lend it to you in two months. .”

"Well, what's the use? Well, I'll borrow it from you later." The professor shrugged indifferently and continued, "What really made me quit was what happened after that. The original diving The operation went smoothly, and we obtained a lot of extremely useful information. However, when we were all extremely excited, an accident happened. The three divers seemed to have seen something suddenly. I only saw them gesticulating, as if I found some strange sculpture."

"Afterwards, the three of them headed in one direction together. After pushing away the seaweed and accumulations, they stopped all their actions strangely and just stared at the direction of the sculpture blankly. However, due to the angle problem, we couldn't see the sculpture's side. appearance." The professor sighed, "Originally, another researcher and I thought they had discovered some important discovery and were stunned, but after they maintained that awkward posture for 3 minutes, we discovered that something Something is wrong. They are as motionless as if petrified, only occasionally fluttering slightly with the current. The camera is still held by them, filming the situation on the bottom of the sea."

As if recalling the terrifying scene, the professor faltered a little, his face was pale and silent for a moment before continuing to describe: "We were all shocked, so we had to urgently contact the rescue team on the island and explain the location of the three of them. , and then sat in front of the screen and waited. The oxygen cylinders on their backs can only last two hours, and they had been underwater for nearly an hour at that time. If they continue to stay there, they will soon run out of oxygen. And die from lack of oxygen. But we can't do anything, we can only sit in front of the screen and watch them. At this time... a figure appeared within the scope of the camera!"

"Rescue team? It can't be so fast, could it be other divers?" Sanders received it by the way.

"No, this is the scariest place, that man, he didn't wear a diving suit, and he didn't have an oxygen tank, just like that, just appeared underwater!" The professor almost growled, "He He didn't care that his figure was recorded by the camera, but he closed his eyes, as if he was afraid of something. He walked out from a certain direction, took the camera and walked to another direction away from the diver. Then he opened his eyes, When I got close to the camera, I suddenly roared wildly, like a vicious curse, but also like a mockery. I don’t know if it’s my illusion, I seem to hear his voice in the deep sea, through the camera lens.”

The professor hugged his head, and the horrible memory made him seem a little unbearable: "At that time, I only felt severe pain all over my body, as if I knew some blasphemous knowledge, and I didn't seem to know anything, and I passed out soon When I woke up, I was already in the hospital on the island, and the doctor told me that the researcher I was with had died of a sudden illness. I know, it is not like that, it must be because of what the person who took the camera did! But I didn’t want to explore anymore, the fact that I almost died knocked me down, and I didn’t have the courage to continue to explore the truth behind it. Later, when the rescue team on the island passed the information, the two experienced divers who launched the rescue team also Contact was lost, it never surfaced again, and the rescue team later gave up on continuing the rescue."

Saying so, the professor seemed to have aged ten years in an instant, looking haggard.A few people didn't even dare to continue asking. Only Eve frowned and thought for a while and asked, "Do you know the person under the water?"

The others looked at Eve in surprise, wondering why she would ask such a question.

What surprised them even more was that the professor nodded after a moment of silence: "Yes, I know that face, the one who stole our information..."

"Our translator."

discuss

Walking out of the professor's office, everyone was silent. The amount of information just now was obviously too much for them.

"So, to sum it up," said Sanders, the oldest member of the team, trying to sort out the situation, breaking the dreary situation, "let's go back to where we started and why we started this time." investigation?"

While speaking, Sanders led the crowd to the sofa in the discussion area where there were no people due to the holiday.The group sat down in comfortable positions, and Sanders took out a notebook and pen from his side pocket.

"Me, me, me! Let me talk first!" Lisa raised her hand to signal, "I'm just curious about the professor's inspection experience, and I saw the news about the earthquake in the Ponape Island area at that time, so I want to pay attention to the professor's recent situation. Of course , and then it was also to conduct an advance survey on what I might learn in the next semester, and senior Michael is also interested in this subject, if I can do group work with the senior, my GPA next semester will be stable."

After hearing Lisa's words, Johanna knocked on her forehead dumbfounded, and said, "This is not a holiday, and I don't worry about Lisa running around alone, and the neighborhood is not safe recently, so I joined the investigation with her." .Of course, afterwards, it was also to wonder why the horrific sudden death happened so close to us."

"I originally wanted to learn first-hand information about Pohnpei Island, and then because my roommate died suddenly, and his family was about to come over to identify the body. I wanted to avoid talking to them as much as possible." Michael shrugged.

"I'm sorry for what happened to your roommate," Lisa sighed, "So is the senior planning to find out the real culprit behind the murder of your roommate!"

"No, I don't get along that well with him, and I'm not interested in detective games at all." Michael snorted, and his relaxed attitude made Lisa turn her head awkwardly, seeking attention from her roommate.

After recording the purpose of everyone participating in the investigation, Sanders followed suit: "The reason why we first paid attention to this matter was probably because of the consecutive sudden deaths in the neighborhood, curiosity about the professor's inspection experience, and, I mean, my And Eve because of that weird dream, right?"

No one denied Sanders' conclusion, so he went on to say: "Then, after we have conducted a lot of investigations, what we need to do is to combine the intelligence and analyze it to see if it can help our current situation. According to the information we found and the narrative of the captain's family, we can guess that Eve's strange dream is related to the strange sacrificial ceremony on Ponape Island, right? And Eve, you yourself have shown a sense of familiarity with that statue , Maybe the village you were born in has similar customs to Pohnpei Island? Or you have experienced and witnessed similar things, leaving a vague impression in your heart, so when you are stimulated, those who are not good The memory mixed with fantasy elements reappeared in the dream? I think this is a more likely speculation about the current situation."

"That is to say, do you think that I have been exposed to this kind of weird ritual or heard similar stories, such as walking underwater and seeing scary shadows, etc., and then I was stimulated by something? Even I myself Forgotten memories are the only reasons for having coherent nightmares?" Eve thoughtfully followed Sanders' thoughts and recalled.

"Actually, what you said makes sense. It is said that the village I lived in when I was a child was destroyed in the flood. Maybe my experience of drowning at that time caused a serious psychological shadow on me? But it doesn't make sense why those crew members witnessed the sacrifice on the island. Afterwards, he would have continuous nightmares and eventually die unexpectedly."

"I think the general nightmares of the crew and their untimely death need to be thought of as two unrelated events," Johanna joined the pair in their discussion. It is true that they were troubled by nightmares because of the shadows produced by the weird and terrifying sacrificial ceremony, but the reasons that lead to their weakness and death can be various, such as sepsis, or some kind of infectious disease that broke out on the ship. The literature records at that time must be There are a lot of subjective assumptions and processing of the captain, and it is impossible to determine the truth now."

"You say so much to deny the existence of mysterious factors." Lisa put her arm around Johanna's shoulders, "Give up, it's not a shame to admit the existence of mysterious events. If it's just from the captain If you analyze the data, your judgment is still somewhat reasonable, but if you think about what the professor said just now, and then think about the various sudden deaths that happened in our neighborhood recently, it is simply impossible to commit a crime!"

Johanna did not refute Lisa, but looked sideways at her, waiting for Lisa to continue her analysis.

Lisa broke her fingers and continued: "If we list the strange things one by one, one of them is, of course, the continuous sudden deaths in our neighborhood. So many people died at the same time in the family downstairs of our house, but There was no sound of calling for help, not even the sound of struggling. This is hard to explain, right? Second, we knew it when we met the police before. Those who died had no trauma at all, so a group of How can a young and strong person die suddenly?"

"Maybe it's some kind of acute infectious disease?" This time it was Eve who answered.

"No," Michael replied as if remembering something, "Didn't I mention it to you before, when I went to the police station to identify the body of my roommate, a police officer told me that the deceased in the sudden death incident did not die of an infectious disease , the strange thing is that the internal organs of their bodies are all in a state of atrophy, and the color is close to gray."

"This is what I want to say. This kind of death method is not like a mere infectious disease can do anyway. And even if it is an acute infectious disease, it will take at least a short period of time from infection to death. During this period, some The sound attracts the attention of others, so asking for help or struggling wildly is a normal human reaction, right?" Lisa snapped her second finger outward again, "Then the second doubt is also valid, and the professor told me today Our words. Thirdly, how can human beings survive in the deep sea without any diving equipment? I don’t think anyone present can answer this question! At the same time, the three divers who suddenly stopped all actions are also very strange. They are What happened to suddenly stop activities in such a dangerous environment?"

"Could it be that he died suddenly?" Sanders joked.

Lisa's eyes lit up, and she slapped the coffee table in front of her, making a loud noise.Everyone was hurting, only she herself seemed unconscious, "This is it! The key to connecting the strange things on Pohnpei Island with everything that happened in our neighborhood!"

"in conclusion"

Ignoring the slightly confused expressions of others, Lisa shook her hands and continued to analyze: "First of all, it is the strange statue that the professor said. After the diving members discovered the so-called strange statue, they appeared strange, that is, they stopped all actions. , then can we boldly guess that they actually died suddenly, but they were in a diving suit, and the real state cannot be determined by naked eye observation. However, to be honest, I don't think a statue can simply take a person's life , and the professor also mentioned later, there appeared underwater who could survive without using any equipment, and who was originally missing, the 'local' translator."

The word "local" was singled out by Lisa and re-read, so everyone paid attention to the importance she attached to this piece of information.

"In other words, you suspect that the islanders who disappeared later on the island actually acquired the strange ability to survive underwater just like this translator, and at the same time they all hid in the deep sea, so they are considered missing?" Johanna As Lisa's roommate, it was easy to understand what the other party meant.

As if reminded by this hypothesis, Johanna lowered her head and thought for a moment before continuing: "In other words, do you think that there is a causal relationship between the terrible sacrificial ceremony held on Pohnpei Island that Captain John witnessed in the early years and their ability to survive underwater? ? At the same time, their underwater sculptures caused diver accidents.”

"You understand me!" Lisa pretended to have tears in her eyes, and hugged Johanna's shoulders.

Johanna suddenly took out her mobile phone, looked at the memo and mentioned: "The statue kills people, haven't we seen the relevant records before, the existence called Ghatanothoa itself can petrify people."

"That's just petrifying people, the physical activity still exists, and no one knows whether the records in the book are true, or the author may have made it up or deliberately wrote it to mislead us." Lisa retorted, " Although I believe in the existence of mystery, a sculpture that can petrify people just by looking at it is too illogical, and it is not in line with our actual situation. After that, I thought hard and felt that it should not be just a sculpture that can petrify people So easy."

"If you follow your guess, then the sudden death in our neighborhood may have something to do with the professor." Sanders pointed the pen in his hand and said.

"Are you suspicious of the professor?" Lisa almost yelled, "How could the professor kill someone? He is at most a witness to a mysterious event?"

Sanders made a gesture of raising his hands in surrender, sighing how these young people didn't listen to others, completely forgetting that he was not much older than Lisa: "That's not what I mean, I mainly suspect that the sudden death incident was man-made. Yes, under this premise, the murderer, or possibly the criminal group, might be targeting the professor."

"This can explain why similar incidents occurred here far away from Pohnpei Island," Michael nodded thoughtfully, agreeing with Sanders' thoughts, "As Lisa said, the professor is an eyewitness. In order to translate the witnesses of this unbelievable phenomenon at the bottom of the sea, if the secret group these people belong to does not want to expose their whereabouts, then it makes sense to appear here and kill witnesses to erase witnesses. In addition The translator can use English proficiently, and has stolen the professor's research materials. At the same time, as a translator, he must know the identity and origin of the professor and his party. To sum up, in the case of some invisible means of killing , it is very possible that he sneaked into Australia to commit murder."

"But the people who have died so far have nothing to do with the professor. Even if there is a murderer, he should be a lunatic who killed people randomly." Lisa became confused. It was obviously her hypothesis, but everyone else seemed to think farther than her.

Johanna rolled her eyes, and knocked on Lisa's forehead: "Aren't you stupid, didn't you say it was a sacrificial ceremony before? What is the most important thing above the sacrificial ceremony?"

"High Priest?"

"No! It's a sacrifice, a sacrifice!" Johanna was so angry that she couldn't speak.

Staring at Lisa's suddenly enlightened face, Johanna began to wonder how this guy came up with the previous assumption, and obviously felt that she was quite smart before.

"In other words, the translator wanted to kill the professor, and at the same time kill people along the way as sacrifices to their gods?... Captain John's notes mentioned that many crew members who had seen the sacrificial ceremony were haunted by nightmares, so what would Eve do? Is the nightmare because she also witnessed the sacrificial ceremony unintentionally!?" Lisa slowly described the whole process, but she exclaimed as if thinking of something, leaving another guess behind. in front of everyone.

The entire discussion area suddenly fell silent, and everyone stopped moving, staring at Lisa stupidly.

"You really are the stupidest genius I've ever seen!" Johanna punched Lisa on the back, "We should investigate next