"Five nights ago, some villagers saw a young man in sportswear leaving here on a small passenger ship."
"According to the villagers' feedback, it was a double-decker passenger ship with a length of about thirty meters. The lights were dim and I couldn't see the name on the ship clearly."
On the fishing village pier.
There are some shrimp boats docked.
Four people wearing special forces uniforms surrounded a female commander wearing sunglasses.
What makes people different is that these people have a variety of weapons, and they mainly use cold weapons.
Especially the leading female commander actually held a three-pointed knife as tall as a person.
"Although Chen Ting is not outstanding among city leaders, he can still be said to be mature and prudent."
"Under his watch, Huangqindao City has been relatively stable in recent years."
"Since he chose to board the ship, it shows that he is familiar with the passenger ship. If he disappeared inexplicably, there should be some problem or an unplanned incident."
Zhang Xiaohu held a tablet in his hand and said tentatively: "If you don't wait and see, Chen Ting disappeared not long ago. He might come back on his own in a few days. But we are not sure about the situation of that strange passenger ship."
I don’t know much about it, so boarding the ship rashly may be risky.”
Hear this.
Zhang Yanran shook her head slightly: "Chen Ting is a veteran person in charge. He can come out on his own and will not stay on the ship for five days."
"The fact that he didn't come out means that he has fallen. Time is still short. There may be hope of rescue. If we wait any longer, even if we get on the ship, we will only be able to bring back his body."
It was different from being in front of Zhang Heng.
Zhang Yanran, who is leading the team outside, is decisive and capable, with full captain style: "No wait, immediately apply to the headquarters for information on the mysterious cruise ship in the Bohai Sea."
"Yes, Captain."
Zhang Xiaohu controlled the tablet computer and quickly contacted the headquarters.
Since it was a captain-level transfer, the headquarters also attached great importance to it and immediately transferred the information.
It's just different from what everyone thinks.
The information about the strange passenger ship is very simple, and the uploader is none other than Chen Ting, who disappeared on the passenger ship.
"Captain, the information says that the strange liner is a regular liner that appears irregularly at various ports in the Bohai Sea."
"After the passenger ship starts, it will take the passengers to the land of laws."
"Sometimes, some distortion laws will be brought to the world, and sometimes, some distortion laws will be sent back to the land of laws."
“Chen Ting’s assessment of the danger of the strange passenger ship is ordinary.”
"Of course, it's unclear whether Chen Ting concealed the danger. Besides, it didn't explain how to board the ship."
Zhang Xiaohu handed over the tablet: "The headquarters hopes that we will act according to the situation. If we can rescue Chen Ting, we will rescue her. If we can't, we will give up."
Zhang Yanran nodded slightly.
Chen Ting, the water corpse, joined the headquarters seven years ago. After being dispatched by the headquarters, he initially served in Dashun City.
Three years ago, he was promoted to the person in charge of Qindao City due to merit and established his own driver team.
As for how Chen Ting became a driver.
It's still a mystery.
Looking at it now, it is estimated that the way he became the driver may have something to do with this strange passenger ship.
The strange cruise ship is his chance to become the pilot.
That's why he kept much concealment when reporting the matter, but he didn't want to involve himself one day.
"Give it a try."
"No matter what you say, Chen Ting is still a controller at the level of a city manager. He has worked for the headquarters over the years, and he has worked hard without any credit."
"Now that he is missing, there is a defense vacuum in Huangqindao City."
"If we ignore his words and let people know, who will still be willing to serve the headquarters."
Zhang Yanran looked at the endless sea and said: "Apply to the headquarters to use the magic mirror and find out how to board the strange passenger ship."
"Yes, Captain."
Zhang Xiaohu took control again.
After a while.
The headquarters responded: "3:12 p.m., Changfeng Island Pier."
“Changfeng Island!”
It is different from the civilian driver organizations that are trapped in one place.
The captains who have the headquarters at their backs have a lot of conveniences, especially the magic mirror that can give the correct answers, which is the best choice to deal with the disaster of the law.
The only pity is.
There is a price to pay for using the magic mirror, and the headquarters is not sure what will happen in the end if the price of the magic mirror is always met.
So it is only allowed to be used when encountering difficult problems.
To avoid using it too much, the magic mirror may change.
Chug tug tug...
Helicopters fly across the sky.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, everyone was waiting on the pier on time.
Time passes minute by minute.
When the hands on the watch pointed to 3:12, the space on the sea suddenly became distorted.
The next second.
A decaying, dilapidated, and rusty passenger ship appeared in front of everyone.
Everyone looked up.
Because the glass was covered with moss, it was difficult to see what was inside the passenger ship.
However, as the passenger ship appeared, the faint smell of corpses and decay came oncoming, telling that this passenger ship was not a kind place.
"no signal."
As the passenger ship appeared, Zhang Xiaohu looked at the tablet and said, "I'm not sure about Chen Ting's specific location. His positioning phone didn't respond."
"Get on board first."
Zhang Yanran took the lead and walked in front.
The other four people also followed suit.
But just after walking a few steps along the boat ladder, before boarding the boat, I saw an old woman with white eyes and holding a dead baby about to get off the boat.
drop!!
The passenger ship made a dull whistle, which was a sign that it was about to depart.
Zhang Yanran raised her head and glanced at the old woman, the three-pointed knife in her hand tightened again and again.
By this time, it was too late to get off the boat and avoid the old hag.
If you don't give way, the old woman is obviously not a living person, and everyone might be in danger the moment you pass her by.
Whoosh!
Was hesitating.
The old woman took a step forward and appeared directly behind everyone.
Zhang Yanran narrowed her eyes.
I saw the old woman holding the dead baby and walking staggeringly down, as if she was behind everyone but not in front of them.
"This incarnation of the Law of Distortion actually masters the Law of Space!"
Zhang Yanran breathed heavily.
I'm somewhat glad that I didn't take action just now. Otherwise, if there was a fight, their team might not be able to fight this old woman.
after all.
It involves distorted laws of life and death, time and space, fate, and cause and effect.
Most of them are unsolvable disasters.
Just a change in space can make them tired to deal with it.
It's hard to say what it will be like.
"This ship is not simple."
"I actually brought such a terrifying incarnation of the law from the land of the law."
"Chen Ting just marked it as a normal level of danger. I think he was playing with fire."
Looking at the strange passenger ship in front of me.
Zhang Yanran's eyes were full of alertness.
Although the intelligence says that the weird passenger ship will not only bring weirdness into reality, but also send weirdness back.
I really saw this scene.
She still couldn't help but feel numb, and she had a vague urge to destroy the ship.
It's just that this impulse comes and goes quickly.
A strange passenger ship that can help people with unsolved weirdness and carry out regional ferry services.
So what is its hazard level?
It can never be an ordinary level. Just a place that travels between reality and laws can make it no longer ordinary.
"Be careful."
"After getting on the boat, look for Chen Ting. Once you find him, leave at the next stop. Don't be too greedy."
Zhang Yanran was very careful.
drop!!
Accompanied by five people on the boat.
The passenger ship blew its whistle again and slowly left the port.
Zhang Yanran and others entered the house.
Enter the eyes.
This is the first cabin.
There are hundreds of seats in the cabin, arranged in groups of four, with a one-meter corridor in the middle.
There were not many people on the boat.
There are about a dozen.
Several of them were clearly not human beings, but rather strange beings.
There were still some people who couldn't tell whether they were human or weird, because everyone sat motionless on the boat, as if they had not heard of the arrival of the five people.
"Captain, the location phone of the headquarters."
I found a mobile phone taped to the window of the second row.
"Wait a minute."
Zhang Yanran did not act rashly.
Because even though the phone is right in front of you, there may be clues left by Chen Ting on it.
But the seat next to the window next to the mobile phone was already occupied by a girl with long hair covering her face.
Zhang Yanran observed for a moment.
I didn't know whether this girl was a human being or a weird incarnation.
The former is fine.
If it's the latter, who knows what level of weirdness this thing is and what the attack pattern is.
"Zhang Mu, go and try."
Zhang Yanran looked at a teammate behind her who was wearing a mask and covering herself tightly.
Hear this sentence.
The team member named Zhang Mu nodded slightly and took off his mask, revealing a wooden face.
No.
Not only his face, but also his hands and arms under his gloves are made of wood.
He seems to be a wooden person.
"whee..."
Zhang Mu took out a small puppet from his pocket.
The little puppet is laughing, and its face is decorated with scary makeup.
"Go, go..."
Zhang Mu pointed one finger in front of him, and the other hand seemed to be controlling something.
Following his gesture.
The little puppet took action, running quickly on the ship's board, heading towards the location phone taped to the window.
"ah!"
The little puppet was about to touch the mobile phone.
The next second, the long-haired woman sitting next to her reacted.
She grabbed the puppet and held it towards her face.
Enter the eyes.
The dark hair that covered her face spread out.
The long-haired woman has no face at all, and underneath her hair is a big mouth made of gears.
Bang...
Just one bite.
The little puppet was thrown into the mouth, and as the gears rotated, it was devoured completely.
A moment.
Zhang Mu's face showed a look of pain.
Originally he was supposed to be 1.62 meters tall, but he was devoured as a little puppet.
The body shook for a while, and it was visible to the naked eye that it was two centimeters shorter.
"It should be some weird law of devouring, starving, or strangulation."
"The attack condition is probably to attack the moving objects around you."
The little puppet's death was not useless.
Zhang Yanran looked at it for a while and felt somewhat confident: "Vice captain, it's up to you."
Finished.
Everyone dispersed.
Zhang Xiaohu nodded, lit a cigarette, took two puffs, and stood on the empty seat next to him.
Done all this.
He met everyone, his eyes fixed on the long-haired girl's back.
The next second.
The cigarette and the long-haired woman were twisted for a while.
When recovering.
Where the long-haired girl was sitting, there was a cigarette standing on end.
The long-haired woman herself has been replaced by the position where she was smoking just now.
"hiss!"
Walk forward.
Picking up the cigarette, taking a deep breath, Zhang Xiaohu said with a smile on his face: "It's easy to do, the danger level of this thing is not very high, it just looks scary."
Zhang Yanran nodded slightly.
The substitution rule is easy to use, but it is not invincible.
Once when they were on a mission, they encountered a powerful and strange pursuer.
Zhang Xiaohu forced him to change the opponent's position, and as a result, there was a strange killing pattern called the Mark of Killing.
The other party followed the marks left by Zhang Xiaohu and stabbed him directly.
If Zhang Mu hadn't blocked it with a puppet, the grass on Zhang Xiaohu's grave would have been one meter high.
Just saying that.
As a team, Zhang Yanran and the others can complement each other's strengths.
Among them, Zhang Mu’s little puppet can help everyone find their way and take the place of death.
Zhang Xiaohu is a fire-fighting teammate. He can replace teammates in danger with a cigarette or a stone at any time.
Zhang Yanran is a firepower, with a flash of red light in her divine eye, she can even penetrate the realm of laws.
In addition, Zhang Yu, a mysterious doctor with healing ability, and Zhang Wu, a ghostly doctor with large-scale killing ability.
Unless they are faced with unsolvable horrors and weirdness, their team can survive normal weird events.
"Captain, something is wrong."
Zhang Xiaohu took out the cell phone that was wrapped with tape on the window.
Look down.
The phone was not turned off, it just lost signal.
Turn on the screen and watch again.
What caught my eye was a text message being edited.
It says: "Don't look for me..."
"Don't look for me?"
Zhang Yanran's heart skipped a beat.
Chen Ting has been in the job for seven years and has been the city manager for three years. His strength is not weak.
He should have guessed it.
If he goes missing, there will be rescue from the headquarters, and the rescue force must be higher than the person in charge of the city, and there is a high probability that the one who will come will be a captain.
in this case.
He left his location phone in the most conspicuous place.
There is only one sentence on it: 'Don't look for me.'
Doesn't it mean that Chen Ting believes that even if the captain of the headquarters comes in person, it is impossible to save him, and he may even be trapped in it like him.
"Captain, do you want to go to the second floor and take a look?"
Zhang Xiaohu asked tentatively.
Zhang Yanran glanced at her positioning phone, then at the stairs shrouded in darkness, and shook her head slightly: "Abandon the mission and leave directly at the next stop."
She believes in her own strength.
I also believe the final warning from a veteran responsible person.
If Chen Ting could be successfully rescued, she would not hesitate at all.
She couldn't save her, or she might lose the lives of several team members during the rescue process.
She won't take the risk.
"Are you from the headquarters?"
In silence.
A mummy-like creature with bandages all over his body suddenly spoke.
A moment.
The five people looked at him one after another.
The mummy said in a deep voice: "Don't be nervous, I'm a human being too and I come from the Fuxing Society."
"Yanhuang Renaissance Society?"
Zhang Yanran raised her eyebrows.
If she remembered correctly, although the name of the Fuxing Society sounded lofty, it was not a very serious evil organization.
The leader of the organization even possesses the law of hypnosis, and once brought a city into chaos.
No matter how bad Fang Jianzhou is, he is just an ambitious man who wants autonomy.
In itself, it has made outstanding contributions to the stability of Magic City.
As for Fuxing Society.
They have a noble name, but behind the scenes they are full of filth. They are a group of lawless gangsters who act recklessly and have no moral ideas. They are officially recognized as an anti-human organization.
"Don't be so nervous. Although Fuxing Society has a bad name, it has nothing to do with me."
"I'm a good person, but I joined because I was afraid of being bullied and couldn't stand the restrictions from the headquarters."
The mummy's tone was full of disgust.
certainly.
Whether he dislikes the Yanhuang Club or the headquarters is another question.
"You said you are a good person, why didn't you remind us just now?"
Zhang Xiaohu asked while looking at the remaining existence.
Because he was not sure how many of the dozen beings on the first floor were human and how many were weird.
And among them, are there any accomplices of the mummy?
"I am a good person, but I am not a savior."
"I can't save everyone. If you are just trash with little strength, why should I talk nonsense to you? Anyway, as trash, you will all die sooner or later."
The mummy's tone was numb.
Finished.
Then he said to everyone: "Are you here to see Chen Ting?"
Zhang Yanran nodded slightly: "Do you know where he is?"
"Know."
The mummy answered firmly: "He and I are barely half-friends. We met a long time ago on this passenger ship, but I'm afraid you can't find him. Two days ago, he got off the ship and went to the land of laws. I
I think he should be dead."
Zhang Yanran and the others looked at each other.
I gave up on Chen Ting and decided to leave as soon as the next stop was when the ferry docked.
The mummy seemed to see what everyone was thinking and said, "You want to leave?"
After saying that, he added: "Don't think about it, you can't leave for the time being."
"Why?"
Zhang Yanran asked.
The mummy replied: "There is something wrong with the passenger ship. The driver can get on, but cannot get off."
"I have been trapped here for a long time, and so has Chen Ting, but his condition is very bad. After enduring it for three days, he can only go to the land of law to fight for his life. Unlike me, he can survive for a while and wait for the passenger ship to recover.
."
Hear this.
Everyone is doubtful.
However, unlike the mummy, everyone did not believe that they would be trapped on the ship forever.
Because everyone has the backing of the headquarters.
Inside the headquarters, there are many strange laws and items.
Unless they die in direct combat, or if they are just trapped, there is a high chance of rescuing them according to those strange laws.
Not to mention.
They are still descendants of the Zhang family.
If we are trapped here, the old patriarch will definitely come forward.
The old patriarch is the god in the hearts of the Zhang family's children.
People can be resurrected after death, but they don't believe that a strange passenger ship can make the old patriarch helpless.
"You seem very confident."
"But I want to remind you that the strange liner is not as simple as you think. It can be seen as an extension of the land of laws."
"You'd better find a place to sit down first."
"There are few people on board now, but I have experienced passenger ships being full, and it was very scary."
The mummy looks very talkative.
He is a warm-hearted person.
Zhang Yanran looked at it again and again, but she saw something fishy.
The mummy's mental condition is not right.
He seemed scared and eager to blend in with them.
just like...
A little lamb was left alone in the wild, surrounded by howling wolves, like a frightened little lamb.
"How long have you been on the boat?"
Zhang Yanran asked tentatively.
"Half a month, maybe a month."
The mummy seemed to be comforting everyone, and also seemed to be comforting herself: "It will get better. There is something wrong with the passenger ship. It has the ability to correct itself. When it is repaired, it will let us go."
Hear this.
aside.
Zhang Xiaohu asked uncertainly: "What if not allowing us to disembark normally is itself a correction of the passenger ship?"
"Um?"
The mummy was stunned for a moment: "I haven't even won another bottle!!"