I loaded the ghost talk game

"Skeletal whales attacking whaling ships... sounds like revenge."

"So the skeletal whales that appear in the south of Wakayama every few years are probably formed from the souls of whales that were hunted in those years?"

Kamiyagawa fell silent, just thinking in his heart.

Internationally, whaling is strictly restricted in order to prevent overhunting of all species of whales and to protect the rich natural resource of whales for future generations.

Most countries have signed the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.

However, there are also very few countries that still carry out whaling activities in their own way.

Japan is one of them, and it has a huge amount of whaling, and even conducts commercial whaling under the guise of "scientific research".

Today, whaling ships are still active in Abashiri in Hokkaido, Ayukawa in Miyagi Prefecture in the northeast, Wada in Chiba in central China, and the southern waters of Wakayama where the Kamiya River is currently located.

After Kamiya quieted down, the other three people in the car were still talking.

Listening to their conversation, it can be known that Yoshio Tanasho and the others, as the official exorcists of the Jinan area of ​​Wakayama, have also participated in the activities of exorcising skeletal whales in the past.

However, with their combined strength, they can only deal with ghost stories at the mid-lower level of D-level at best.

In the face of the skeletal whale disaster with C-level strength gathered together, they are basically helping and helping.

In addition, Tiansuo Liangxiong and others also roughly talked about the current situation of whaling ships in the sea area——

Most of Wakayama's whaling ships have returned to the harbor in accordance with the command and dispatch these days.

However, there are still a few ships that have left the Pacific Ocean and are still on their way back.

...

That night.

In the southern waters of Wakayama, about 60 nautical miles away from the port.

A whaling ship named "Akimaru".

The Akimaru is an ocean-going trawler with a speed of about 16 knots.

With a distance of 60 nautical miles, it takes about two hours to reach the port at full speed.

The captain of the Akimaru, named Yasuyoshi Yoshitoki, is a middle-aged man in his 40s with rich sea experience.

An Yong was standing on the deck at this time, looking at the dark sea at night in a daze.

The sea is surprisingly calm tonight, but it seems to be undercurrent.

Lights were on on the deck behind Captain Ernst, and the carcass of a huge baleen whale that had just been salvaged was being put on hold.

The sailors were busy doing the initial dissection of the whale.

The Akimaru returned this time because it received a notice from the Wakayama area.

The reason is: "There is an emergency at sea, return immediately."

Generally speaking, the captains of the whaling ships in the southern waters of Wakayama will immediately change their course and go to the nearest port after receiving such a notice.

In the whaling industry, there is a rumor——

At certain points in time, there will be ghost stories of whales gathering at sea.

Moreover, it is said that this whale ghost only specifically attacks whaling ships.

Of course, this kind of sea ghost story in the industry is basically only spread in the mouths of sailors and crew members.

Most people don't have the opportunity to experience it for themselves.

There are many taboos about going to sea, and a considerable number of sailors prefer to believe such frightening legends.

However, the whaling industry is highly profitable, and the output of whale meat, whale skin, and whale oil can bring considerable economic income.

Strange stories can't scare off whaling ships, and many people are still eager to whaling.

"In more than an hour, we will arrive at the port."

Holding the railing in his hand, Captain Ernst thought so, he withdrew his gaze from the dark and calm sea, and turned his head to watch the crew dismember the harvest of this trip.

The deck below his feet was dripping with blood, reflecting the whitish lighting.

At this time, the first mate on the ship came to him with a strange expression: "Captain, something strange seems to have happened, I think you have to take a look."

...

Captain's cabin.

The cabin is accompanying the voyage, stable and slightly shaking.

Various instruments in the captain's room are operating, and the indicator lights are flickering.

"Captain Ernst, on the sonar..."

The first officer preached into the sonar system.

It can be seen through sonar that at a distance of about 20 nautical miles from the Akimaru, there seem to be many huge creatures active underwater.

Moreover, it followed the route of the Akimaru all the way.

"What is this? A group of whales?" Ernst and Young looked at the situation of the radar and frowned.

"I don't know either... I can't say it, it's just weird." The first officer shook his head, and after about three or four minutes, his expression became horrified, pointing at the radar screen, his tone trembling, "That's it, here again Yes, Captain!"

In fact, Captain Ernst and Young could see the sudden abnormality without the chief mate reminding him.

Those "things" that were clearly displayed on the sonar just now suddenly disappeared.

Disappeared without a trace.

As if it never existed at all.

First officer: "Just ten minutes ago, it was the same. The things on the sonar showed that they were about 30 nautical miles away from us. We followed them all the way. Then they disappeared suddenly. When we saw them again, the distance had been shortened to more than 20 nautical miles. Ten 10 nautical miles per minute, this..."

"Don't think about it, bastard!" Captain Ernst interrupted the first mate directly, "Maybe you encountered something like a military submarine."

Although he said this on his lips, Ernst and Young's expression became very unnatural.

"The Akimaru is moving at full speed, we will return to Hong Kong as fast as possible!"

...

About twenty minutes passed.

The originally calm sea seemed to have become more stormy.

The hull of the Akimaru shook violently.

Several sailors who were working on the deck suddenly lost their balance and fell to the ground.

When they stood up unsteadily, they looked towards the sea.

On the originally pitch-black sea, the waves were churning, especially in the distance, there were some huge white objects appearing and disappearing in the waves.

Those white objects flipping in the waves seemed to be far away from the Akimaru.

It stands to reason that at night, sailors cannot see things that far away with their naked eyes alone.

But I don't know why, those "things" that sink or float on the sea, as if they are constantly swimming, are abnormally conspicuous.

"Woo--"

"Om—"

The sailors began to hear noises from the sea all around them.

The voice was ethereal and long, lonely and sad.

Like the heavy sigh of the ocean.

The sailors looked at each other—

"Whales?"

"No... isn't it? Isn't that what you usually hear?"

"..."

Moreover, not only the abnormal whale calls, individual crew members on the Akimaru heard other sounds on the sea that had become very noisy.

The sound of the conch is mixed with the sound of the wind and the sound of whales.

Intermittent, whimpering.

"Hey, did you hear that? The sound of blowing conch shells?"

"No, don't scare yourself."

"Really, there is, you listen carefully."

"obviously……"

The pitch-black waves kept churning.

At a certain point in time, the sailors who were chatting anxiously all fell silent, and almost all of them had expressions of horror and fear on their faces.

"Woo--"

At this point in time, the sound of the conch blowing on the sea surface became extremely clear.

Moreover, in the mournful song played by the conch, everyone on board heard another even more creepy sound.

This kind of sound should not appear at sea.

At least it is absolutely impossible to appear on the Akimaru.

It was the voice of a boy speaking, obviously not too loud, mixed with the ethereal and heavy cries of whales and the sound of sea waves, but it could be clearly identified——

"Mother?"

"Are you there, Mom?"

The Akimaru was full of adults, no boys.

...

A port in southern Wakayama.

People here have been evacuated.

Only uniformed Metropolitan Police officers were active.

The Metropolitan Police Department's special search countermeasure room has the authority to mobilize some special police forces that are not healers.

Most of this special force of the Metropolitan Police Department have participated in the battle against ghost stories.

As in the previous battles against Zhifenxian and Xingyingshen, there were also activities of these personnel.

A temporary office in the port.

Tiansuo Liangxiong and others are already busy frying the pot now.

"The whaling ship called Akimaru is on its way back, right?"

"Yes. Judging from its location, it is already very close to the port, and it is still moving rapidly. It will arrive at the port in at most ten minutes."

"However, we have lost contact with that ship. What happened to them?"

"Mr. Tiansuo, that... look on the radar! What are those things?"

"Skeleton whale, these are skeletal whales, right!"

"..."

And Kamiyagawa was sitting quietly in the corner of the office, swiping his phone, out of tune with the tense atmosphere around him.

Until Tiansuo Liangxiong turned his head and called him: "Mr. Kamiya, the skeleton whale... the skeleton whale seems to be here!"

"Ah." Shen Gu put away the phone and nodded, "What should I do then?"

"You are the commander here!" Yoshio Tanasho looked anxious.

"Uh...not really. I have no experience in repelling skeletal whales, and I'm not very good at combat in sea areas. The higher-ups sent me here mainly to prevent skeletal whales from going ashore. I don't understand other things. Why don't you just watch Let’s do it, I’ll cooperate with you.”

Kamiyagawa seemed to be a little uninterested and not very active.

He really has no experience in commanding operations, and he is indeed not good at sea operations.

With limited ability, there are many things that I can't help.

It's no use rushing.

As long as the skeletal whale is prevented from landing, it is considered a loyal entrustment.

"Anyway, anyway, let's go to the harbor first!"

"good."

Kamiyagawa did not refuse.

...

Harbor side.

The sea tonight was originally calm, but at this time the wind and waves suddenly became very strong.

People in the uniform of the Metropolitan Police Department walked back and forth with large flashlights.

The searchlights on the harbor swept across, and the silhouette of a fishing boat could already be seen on the distant sea.

That should be the return voyage to the Akimaru.

The sea near the harbor was not very calm, especially on the side of the Akimaru.

The sea water behind the hull seemed to be boiling, and some huge white objects appeared and disappeared from time to time.

"Skeletal whales! Those are skeletal whales!" Yoshio Tanasho shouted, pointing at the sea.

Huge searchlights, lights shaking.

"Woo--"

"Om—"

Above the surface of the sea, there was an ethereal, distant, and extremely abnormal cry of whales.

Then all I saw was a huge white area surrounding the Akimaru floating out of the water.

Splash flips.

Some faint blue, like "blue tears" dots flickering.

Standing on the edge of the harbor pier, Kamiyagawa stared at his pupils using the technique of Qiuhao Zhan, so he could see clearly.

That white thing was a gigantic skeleton.

The bones and skeletons are compared to each other, spliced ​​together, and under the illumination of searchlights, etc., they look extremely hideous.

A complete whale skeleton!

This thing must be a skeletal whale.

"Woo--"

The abnormally huge skeletal whale leaped from the water, turned over and rammed straight towards the Akimaru.

The Akimaru swayed and capsized toward the sea.

"Woo--"

"Om—"

At the same time, several skeletal whales came out of the water, screaming sadly, and hitting the whaling ship with their miserable white skeletons.

The faint blue light spots on the water surface flickered even more intensely.

Around the hull of the Akimaru, there are several working boats heading towards the pier.

It's the crew of the ship who are abandoning the ship.

But those skeletal whales didn't seem to be interested in the working boats, they just kept jumping out of the sea and hitting the whaling boats continuously and violently.

But because the movements of the skeletal whales were too loud.

Several operating boats that were being evacuated capsized due to huge waves, and there were constant screams on the sea.

The crew members who fell into the water began to swim desperately towards the shore.

I don't know how many can swim to the shore smoothly.

On the pier, several speedboats controlled by the police officers of the Metropolitan Police Department had already sailed out, with the sound of motors roaring, trying to rescue those who fell into the water as much as possible.

"Woo--"

"Om—"

The ethereal whale cry continued.

Another huge and abnormally large skeletal whale jumped out, and the Akimaru, which was overturned and tilted, sank completely in the final impact.

The bloodied carcass of a baleen whale on deck also fell into the sea.

After the skeletal whales whirled and moaned around the dead baleen whale for a while, they finally all attacked the pier.

"The skeletal whale is about to hit the pier, prepare to fight, shoot!"

Tasho Yoshio spoke loudly.

bang bang bang!

Gunshots rang out all of a sudden along the pier.

Generally speaking, it must be a weapon with extraordinary power in order to effectively harm the monster itself.

And the special firearms worn by the police officers on the pier were, to put it bluntly, ordinary thermal weapons.

The number of extraordinary firearms and weapons is already very small.

However, the bullets they use with their guns are specially made.

Similar to the exorcism silver bullet used by Yuuki Makensuke, the spirit-breaking iron bullet that Kamiyagawa received in the special search countermeasure room of the Metropolitan Police Department before.

However, the exorcism ammunition fired by ordinary weapons has limited damage to the skeletal whale.

"The strength of a single skeletal whale is probably in the range of E-level and D-level. However, a large number of skeletal whales gathered together can almost have the threat level of C-level strange talk."

Kamiyagawa did not immediately take out the [Banshee] to join the battle, but first made a general assessment of the strength of this group of skeletal whales.

"Woo--"

A huge skeletal whale screamed and rushed towards the shore of the pier, with the waves rising high, and dots of faint blue fluorescence turbulent in the water.

At the same time, there seemed to be the sound of a choking conch on the sea.

The faint blue fluorescence seems to be controlled by the sound of the conch horn, lingering around the skeletal whale, lifting its skeleton up.

"Om—"

Driven by the blue light spot, the skeletal whale broke away from the water and flipped in mid-air.

The pier became extremely chaotic, and the people were immediately dispersed.

Noisy gunfire continued.

Uncle and nephew Tian Suo had already taken action as a spiritual master.

Tian Suozheng threw out a handful of yellow talisman paper made of cinnabar.

Yoshio Tasho shook his head and rang a Kagura bell hastily.

The Kagura bell kept ringing, urging the scattered yellow talisman papers to dance.

Many of the yellow talismans clung to the body of the skeletal whale, and then exploded suddenly, setting off a powerful wave of air!

Uncle and nephew Tiansuo's method of controlling the yellow talismans was far inferior to that of Onitsuka Little Miko, and the power of exploding a large number of yellow talismans was comparable to the power of two or three talisman papers controlled by the little witch.

However, this method can still be used to treat a single skeletal whale.

"Om—"

The skeleton of the skeletal whale that rushed to the front burst apart in the explosion.

Scattered pale bones fell on the pier and on the sea.

woo woo woo woo--

At this time, the intermittent sound of the conch coming out of the sea became a little clearer.

The blue light spots on the sea surface danced, holding up the scattered whale bones, and gathered them together.

The skeletal whale that had fallen apart seemed to be being put together again.

The serious and experienced Yoshio Tanasho couldn't help but panic when he saw this abnormal scene: "The skeletal whales are reuniting? Why? Nothing like this has ever happened before!"

The scattered skeletal whales reunited...

This kind of thing is unheard of.

Never happened before!

The young Tiansuo Masaichi turned his head and looked at Kamiyagawa who was standing not far away, with grief and indignation on his face: "Mr. Kamiya, why are you just watching!?"

Kamiyagawa did not make a move yet.

He stood facing the sea, unaffected by the commotion around him. The originally constricted pupils became deeper and shimmering, staring at a certain point on the sea without moving.

Kamiyagawa seems to have noticed something.

He could feel that there were other things on the surface of the sea where the pale skeletons of skeletal whales were constantly churning in the distance.

The thing that's blowing the trumpet.

There is another chapter later