Legend of the Elven Investigator

As the self-exploding magnetite slowly approached, the appearance of the big black ship in front of him became more and more clear.

On the front half of the hull, a terrible dent was exposed, and a large number of steel and wooden structures were torn apart. The turbulent sea water poured into the cabin, and the imbalance of the center of gravity caused the bow to sink gradually, leaving only the stern raised high.

Accompanied by the sinking of the black ship, a large number of vortices appeared in the waters around the ship's hull, silently swallowing the debris that fell off from the ship's hull.

Shinpei and the others observed for a while on the back of the self-exploding magnetite, and made sure that the half-disabled black ship would not sink immediately. Lead by Zhenping, he jumped directly from the midair and landed deftly on the raised stern of the black ship.

As soon as he landed, Shinpei felt an unusual stickiness. The deck of this black ship seemed to be made of some kind of wood, so dark that no lines could be seen, but it could be judged from the feeling from the soles of his feet that it seemed to be covered with some slime.

Shinpei carefully scraped up a little bit of mucus on the deck with his fingernails, sniffed it lightly, and suddenly a strong stench hit his face, he immediately showed embarrassment, and rubbed it off vigorously.

Accompanied by a few muffled sounds of "thump, thump", Zhulan and Klanze also followed. The boatswain Klanze had a somewhat uncomfortable face, as if he was quite resistant to this strange black ship.

"Well, I don't know how long this ship has been floating on the sea. Look at the deck, it hasn't been cleaned for a long time." Krantzer frowned and complained immediately.

But then, he seemed to find something was wrong, came to the mast of the hull, and looked towards the hull outside.

The outside of this black ship is also similarly sticky and slippery, but the weird thing is that the part of the ship exposed to the sea water does not have any parasites such as barnacles, and even the seaweed that often entangles the ship is gone.

This boat is as clean as it came from the factory.

Krantze's long-term experience at sea told him that everything here is extremely weird.

"There is a strong resentment here, and it is likely that a large number of lives died before, so that this resentment remains." Zhulan stepped lightly on the deck, making the sound of footsteps.

"Anyway, let's search first. Don't go to the bow part of the ship. It's flooded all the time, and it's easy to encounter danger." Shinpei groped on the stern for a while, and said with a little regret, "No, there's nothing, just like an empty ship. No one, no cargo, not even some ubiquitous small things."

What he was referring to were the mice that lived on the big ship. These mice were not elves like little Lada, but the kind of animal mice that were black and big, with extremely tenacious vitality and adaptability in Zhenping's memory.

Even on a ship as big as the St. Ann's Queen, it is inevitable that some uninvited guests will be mixed in, but there is nothing on this ship.

"Well, let my fast-swimming frog take a look at the situation. It reacts quickly and is not afraid of drowning." Krantzer seemed a little unwilling. He released a 45-level fast-swimming frog. This water-type elf with lumpy muscles quickly sneaked into it from the broken hull and began to explore the internal situation.

About 10 minutes later, accompanied by a heavy sound, the fast-swimming frog returned from the cabin, dragging a very stiff man's body on its strong arms, and dragged him to the deck wheezing.

"Ah, Swimming Frog, where did you find this person? Is there anyone alive here?" Krantze asked Swimming Frog. The latter shook his head helplessly. This cold human being was already the only thing he got in the cabin.

It's cold in the cabin.

The fast-swimming frog shook its body, making its muscles tremble to generate heat. Strange to say, with the fast-swimming frog's physique, it would not feel uncomfortable due to the cold even if it dived into the deep sea, but in the dark cabin, even the fast-swimming frog felt a little uneasy.

It always feels that there is something staring at this potential underwater cabin in the dark.

But when the fast-swimming frog uses its own hearing to detect, the feedback it gets is still silence.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, fast swimming frog, please turn this person's body over." Krante comforted fast swimming frog, and then continued to let fast swimming frog move the human body to make it easier to search.

After turning him over, Shinpei can finally be sure that this person is definitely a dead person.

I saw that the exaggerated arc of his mouth was opened to the maximum, almost able to stuff the entire fist of an adult into it. Looking inside, the tongue inside suddenly disappeared.

This male corpse has shoulder-length hair, well-proportioned bones, and a three-dimensional face. It can be inferred that he must have been a rather handsome man when he was still alive.

"It's very strange. He doesn't look like he just died. Why is his body still soft? This kind of elasticity is probably only available to living people. Could it be that he died before we arrived?"

Shinpei did not touch the man's body, but took out a metal stick from his backpack and poked his muscle tissue.

Whether it's the superpower or the superpower, in Zhenping's induction, the male corpse has no trace of heartbeat or blood flow, and even the extremely obvious emotional characteristics of human beings are completely absent.

"Captain Krantzer, can you recognize the clothes on his body?"

Shinpei continued to search for clues, he turned his head and asked Krantzer.

If this person was a sailor on this black ship, then he should be wearing a standard sailor uniform.The clothes of a sailor have some characteristics of this ship. Generally speaking, the clothes of sailors on each ship are slightly different, and an old sailor like Krantzer should be able to see this.

"Let me see, tsk tsk, the clothes are almost soaked, but the person is still in good condition." Krante stared at the sailor suit on the male corpse. After looking at it for a long time, he said in confusion, "The style of this sailor suit is different from any sea ship I know, but I think this style of sailor suit should be quite old."

"Look, the collars of current sailor uniforms are generally buttoned, and the styles of these buttons are not bad." Krantze pointed out the details of his sailor suit. "Look at his sailor suit. The buttons on the collar are actually made of bronze. These buttons are bulky and not cheap, and no one uses them anymore."

Is it a long history?
When Shinpei heard the words, his eyes lit up, and he nodded in approval.

"Wait, there seems to be something in this position." Shinpei glanced at the position of the male corpse's chest, and suddenly felt something was wrong.

This male corpse is quite strong, the exposed arms and thighs, even if the muscles are dead, the outline can still be seen.

But the position on the chest was unexpectedly too flat.

Such a strong man, would his chest muscles be thin?Shinpei expressed doubts about this. The most effective part of a man's exercise is the pectoral muscles. Thinking of this, Shinpei's eyes shone with a blue light, and a super power slowly lifted the sailor suit of the male corpse.

With the detachment of the sailor suit, what was hidden underneath was finally exposed.

"Fuck, what is this?"

Krante couldn't help swearing. On the chest of the male corpse, between the ribs, something had gouged out the flesh and blood. The bloody sternum lost the fixation of muscles and skin, and opened slightly, like a big mouth dripping with blood. It was extremely bloody and terrifying.

However, both Shinpei and Zhulan looked calm and composed.

"There is something hidden in his chest, you take it out." Zhulan motioned to Zhenping.

"it is good."

Shinpei nodded, and increased the strength of his ability. Between the sternum, there is indeed something that does not belong to the human body.

Accompanied by the strange sound of tearing, a pale statue about [-] centimeters long was dug out from the chest of the male corpse.On it, there are still traces of coagulated blood and some sticky meat threads. These foreign objects cannot conceal the beauty of the statue. At the first sight, Zhenping was a little surprised at the exquisite craftsmanship of this statue.

After summoning some seawater to wash away the foreign matter on the statue, a statue of a human head wearing a laurel crown revealed its true face. Its material should be the teeth of some kind of creature, which was given a shape by uncanny craftsmanship. But similarly, its eyes are also black holes, just like the male corpse on the ground.

"Do you feel that this statue looks a bit like this man? I feel that this one is carved out of this man." Krante felt a little uneasy, but couldn't tell what was wrong.

"Let's bring this thing first. Such an extraordinary sculpture must not be carved by ordinary people." Shinpei stroked the surface of the statue. On its surface, even the extremely fine pores and fine hairs of the human face were carved out. This small statue probably has thousands of details, and it is absolutely impossible to be a game.

"What about this man? We can't take him back!" Krantze resisted quite a bit. He didn't want to let this weird male corpse aboard his beloved cruise ship Queen St. Ann.

To a sailing boy it was an insult to his ship to have a dead man on board.

"Let him stay here, he died on this ship for unknown reasons, then rest in peace with a mystery." Shinpei said with the statue of the human head in one hand.

Krantzer nodded sharply. He didn't want to look at the man's body again. The bloody hole almost cast a psychological shadow on him.

"Ok?"

Krante was in a trance for a while, and shook his head violently. In the blink of an eye just now, he seemed to see the corner of the mouth of the male corpse, which seemed to move.

How could a dead person move?
Krante hissed in his self-deprecating heart, and turned to look at the statue of the human head. For some reason, a faint desire rose in his heart, and he really wanted to observe the statue carefully.

"Mr. Shinpei, can you lend me that statue to take a good look at? This thing is simply a rare treasure, beautiful, so beautiful."

The boatswain was a little embarrassed, and he wasn't the type of person who liked art, but when he saw this statue, it felt like a cat's paw was scratching his heart, which made him uncomfortable.

Shinpei didn't take it seriously, and handed the statue of the human head to Krantzer casually.