spirit walker

Chapter 707 Information in the captain's room

A soldier in a navy uniform came in, holding a gas lamp in one hand and a flashlight in the other, and the dark captain's cabin was dyed with a layer of warm firelight.

He moved the gas lamp, followed by scanning the captain's cabin, and retreated out after noticing anything unusual.

The warm light gradually faded away with the sound of footsteps. Zhang Yuanqing dismissed the night tour and looked at the desk drawer again. The desk had two drawers, one of which had a brass lock and the other had no padlock.

Zhang Yuanqing thought for a while, and opened the drawer without a padlock. Inside was the telegram exchange between the Haiyan and the United Nations Naval Headquarters in Ireland.

But the troublesome thing is that the telegram exchanges use codes, which Zhang Yuanqing can't understand.

Although Lingjing has an automatic translation function, the language and text will be automatically translated into your familiar native language, but the encoding is part of the decryption of the copy, not in the category of automatic translation.

Zhang Yuanqing thought for a long time, and then used the star escape technique, turning into starlight and dissipating.

A few minutes later, starlight rose again in the dark captain's cabin, and he went back and forth, with an extra coding manual in his hand.

He got it from the telegraph office.

In this era, telegraph communications used codes, which were divided into "universal codes" and "special codes". The former used the familiar Morse code.

The latter is mostly used in wars, and is temporary and self-creating. Without a code book, it is difficult to crack.

Although the Haiyan was on a secret mission, it was not a time of war, and no one would specifically intercept the telegram, so Zhang Yuanqing guessed that the code on the telegram should belong to the conventional Morse code.

If the code is a "special code", the difficulty of decryption will increase dramatically.

He sat at the desk, flipped through the manual in the dark captain's cabin, and deciphered the content of the telegram.

Half an hour later, Zhang Yuanqing completed the deciphering work and understood the content of the telegram.

The first telegram is dated August 1900th, 8:
"The Haiyan set sail, everything is going well, over!"

January 8:
"Everything is going well with Haiyan, over!"

January 8:
"The Haiyan was attacked by a mermaid, and two crew members died, it's over!"

January 8:
"Everything is going well with Haiyan, over!"

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January 8:
"The extraterrestrial object was successfully salvaged, the cardinal sealed it, and the Haiyan is ready to return, over!"

January 8:
"The Haiyan is on its way back, everything is going well, over!"

Telegrams are sent every two days, and the content is very short, and the reply from the Navy Headquarters is also very short, usually with condolences such as "received", "understand", and "God bless".

On the day the pollution source was successfully salvaged on the 25th, Haiyan sent an extra telegram.

The last telegram was on August 8, the fourth day after the extraterrestrial object was salvaged.

The telegram was interrupted on August 8. Zhang Yuanqing frowned:
"Did the follow-up telegram be hidden, or did James not send another telegram to the headquarters after the 30th?"

The telegram was sent so diligently before the task was completed, and the task was completed, but no telegram was sent?

As mentioned in the introduction of the Spiritual Realm, the Haiyan lost contact on the way back and disappeared mysteriously. James unilaterally stopped contact with the Navy Headquarters.

Bizarrely disappearing, the first clues are revealed.

But why would James do this?Zhang Yuanqing didn't want to understand. In addition, the more he read the stack of telegrams, the more strange he became, and he always felt that something was wrong.

After thinking for a moment, he understood what the problem was.

Haiyan set sail on August 8, and successfully salvaged extraterrestrial objects on August 12. The whole process took 8 days, but during the day, Zhang Yuanqing asked Captain James when he would arrive at the port, and James replied: 26 days.

Today is September 9th. According to the one-way 4 days, there are still five days to arrive at the port.

So the main task is to survive for five days.

The details are right on.

Closer to home, Captain James terminated the telegram contact and lied to him about the time of return. There must be something wrong with this person.

Zhang Yuanqing tidied up the telegrams, put them back in the drawer, and looked at another drawer with a brass lock.

There is no doubt that there must be something more important here.

Now that I have figured out the background of the dungeon and the problem of Captain James, the next idea is actually very clear—to find out the reason for Captain James' strange changes.

And this information is likely to be hidden in a desk drawer.

Zhang Yuanqing stared at the copper lock, but fell into hesitation. It is very simple to destroy the copper lock, just a light tug, but he was worried that such behavior would trigger a bad chain reaction.

It can now be confirmed that the Horror Cruise is an S-level dungeon of the exploration type, and all information needs to be explored by the spirit walker. This type of dungeon often means that a crisis is hidden in the exploration process.

Once the exploration goes wrong, the crisis will come instantly.

Zhang Yuanqing opened the inventory and took a look. The Zijin suit was covered with a black curtain, indicating that it was unusable.

Let's be more steady, he muttered in his heart, choosing to follow the will of his heart.

——The S-level dungeon of the sixth-level pinnacle, without the ability to use master props, even if he is a dual-professional sixth-level dungeon, his life might be in danger.

Moreover, this is a copy of Breaking Bad in the first district. Zhang Yuanqing's props and skills do not have the power to restrain the distortion.

There is a saying in Spiritual Realm Walker: Whenever you drift away, you are not far from death.

"If you destroy the copper lock, tomorrow James will definitely find out that someone has sneaked into the captain's cabin at night, which may stimulate him and make the crisis come early. I haven't figured out what happened after the extraterrestrial objects were salvaged. Now I should investigate secretly. Instead of doing something that exposes traces."

"Anyway, the main task is to survive for five days, so there is plenty of time"

While thinking about it, Zhang Yuanqing snapped his fingers, performed the star escape technique and returned to the bedroom at the bottom of the cabin.

There is a small oval window in the bedroom, the outside of the window is pitch black, and there are faintly rippling waves of the sea.

Reminiscent of the extraterrestrial objects sealed in the bilge having the ability to deform creatures, Zhang Yuanqing always felt that there was a terrible crisis and gaze hidden under the dark sea outside the window.

"There's something wrong with Captain James, but what's his purpose? Still need to investigate"

"There are two forces on board, namely the Navy and the Vatican's team of spirit walkers. Are the people from the Vatican and James on the same side? If not, as long as the two parties are not companions, I have a lot of room for maneuver. One of them can be drawn into a team. teammate."

Zhang Yuanqing thought for a while, performed night tour again, quietly left the bedroom, walked through the cramped dormitory corridor, and reached the end steps.

Go up the steps to the second floor.

He is going to explore below the deck and give the Holy See team a definition.

During the day, it was blocked by the knights of the Holy See. At that time, I hadn't figured out the background of the dungeon, so I didn't choose to be tough.

Now, Zhang Yuanqing can roughly deduce what is under the cabin based on the known information.

The extraterrestrial object salvaged from the deep sea was in the bilge, sealed by the cardinal of the Holy See.

Zhang Yuanqing decided to secretly observe the spiritual practitioners of the Holy See, and take a look at what that strange thing is.

He strode down the steps, and the night travel covered the sound of his footsteps. Soon, he came to the entrance of the bilge, where two knights in silver armor were still stationed with crossed swords.

Zhang Yuanqing passed between the two knights, and the scrupulous knights turned a blind eye to the infiltrator.

The bilge is not a dormitory, but a place to store goods. Dim gas lamps hang on the wall, illuminating the items in the bilge. There are piles of food, fishing tools, damaged lifeboats waiting for repair, and The parts on the ship are like a messy storage room.

As soon as he stepped into the bilge, Zhang Yuanqing felt an inexplicable throbbing, as if he was being watched by something.

This breath, this feeling, the evil force Zhang Yuanqing frowned, the breath from that alien object?

He explored cautiously with the help of mountains of sundries. After walking for more than ten seconds, he suddenly heard a "thumping" sound like a heartbeat coming from a distance.

At the same time, more than ten meters ahead, flickering candlelight came from behind the hills piled up with bags of flour.

The beating sound of the heart came from behind the candlelight.

"What's the heartbeat so exaggerated." Zhang Yuanqing walked forward cautiously, moving closer to the flour hill.

At this moment, he heard the sound of "Woo", and immediately, there was a sharp scream from the left.

Without even thinking about it, Zhang Yuanqing swooped forward and passed by the wind blade cutting from the left.

"Who is there?" A clear female voice scolded.

Wind mage found me?Zhang Yuanqing turned around and ran, while turning his head to look to the right, ten meters away, stood a young woman in a white nun's costume.

The chest, neckline and cuffs are embroidered with gold patterns.

She has beautiful blond hair, green eyes, oval face, high nose bridge, delicate and beautiful.

The wind mage in the white nun uniform waved his hands continuously, creating a series of wind blades, chasing the fleeing enemies.

Although she couldn't see the intruder, she could sense the enemy's position and speed through the feedback of the airflow, and each blow of the wind blade was very precise.

Seeing this, Zhang Yuanqing made a decisive decision, avoided the second wave of wind blades, hid behind a damaged and cracked lifeboat, cast star escape without hesitation, and left the bilge.

In the current situation, if you continue to stay, you will only be besieged. To be on the safe side, let's leave first and talk about it tomorrow.

He immediately used the star escape technique, and the bright starlight lit up and then dissipated.

The wind mage wearing a white nun's clothes frowned, looked around, and sensed carefully, and found that the intruder had disappeared out of thin air.

"Isabella, what happened?"

An old voice came from behind Flour Hill.

"There are intruders!" replied the nun named Isabella, her voice as sweet as an oriole.

"But it disappeared suddenly." She frowned.

"Undead?" The old voice said: "But I didn't sense the breath of the undead, but if it is an undead, you can't sense it."

Only the undead could sneak in without the knights.

"It's not undead, it's human beings, they can be invisible, and they can teleport away when the starlight is on." Isabella explained.

"Starlight? Invisibility?" The cardinal, who has a lot of experience and experience, thought for a long time, "I have never heard of this skill. Tell Captain James about it and let him solve it."

PS: The typo is corrected first and then corrected.

(End of this chapter)