Batman and Schiller entered the lowest level of the cabin. There was almost no light here, but there seemed to be no deep divers, so Schiller turned on the flashlight with confidence.
Under the light of the flashlight, he discovered that the ship should have been built by humans, but it seemed to have sunk to the bottom of the sea many years ago. The wooden structure was extremely corroded. It could be said that it was not falling apart. It should have some mysterious power.
Protecting it.
The bottom floor of the cabin contains cargo. Some boxes have corroded and broken, revealing their true contents. The cargo here is roughly divided into two parts, one part is spices, and the other part is ores.
Batman twisted some ore powder and said: "This should be a cargo ship from the Age of Discovery. It may come from the Spanish Royal Fleet. The specific age is difficult to determine."
Schiller's judgment was similar to his. Just from the appearance of these ships, it could be seen that they were not modern products. Judging from the corrosion and damage of the hulls, they were also old.
What really puzzled Schiller was that if the deep divers wanted to go ashore, they didn't have to sail, so these three ships seemed particularly strange.
Although the ship and the Deep Diver arrived at the same time, they may not have the same purpose. If the Deep Diver is the product of the combination of the conspiracy of Old Silturk and the setting of the Joker, will these three ships be related to each other?
What about the church?
If the church found a way to summon these three long-sinked cargo ships, why did they do this, and what secrets were on the ships?
Schiller told Batman his conjecture, and Batman said: "Old Siltek thinks he can scheme against the church, but maybe he is just a pawn of the church. We have to hurry up, or we may run out of time."
Already."
At this moment, Schiller suddenly heard a clear sound from the other end of the cabin.
He turned off the flashlight instantly and hid behind several barrels with Batman.
The sound of footsteps that followed made the two of them understand that there were other intruders on the ship, and these were not the footsteps of deep divers.
The two of them exchanged a look and immediately understood each other's thoughts. They pressed their bodies lower and reduced their breathing rate as much as possible. Schiller silently put on the night vision goggles.
Their location was the frontmost corner of the cabin. From Schiller's perspective, he could see a corner of the stairs leading upstairs. In the night vision device, a human figure flashed past and climbed up the stairs in an instant.
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After the human left, Schiller and Batman arrived at the place where he was walking as quickly as possible.
Because the floor is very corroded, the wood on the surface is loose, and there are some slippery algae attached to it, so it is easy to leave footprints.
Batman activated his investigative skill, dexterity 20>15, the test was successful, and he told what he had discovered.
"A human male, estimated to be about 1.75 meters tall, not very strong, with a well-proportioned body and good balance."
"Do you think there are outsiders coming to the village?" Schiller asked.
"It's hard to say now. Maybe someone has been hiding in the village and just showed up." A cold light flashed in Batman's eyes, and he said: "He shouldn't be a good person. No matter what he wants to do, we can't let him succeed."
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"I'll lead the way, let's go." Schiller held the pistol in his hand, put on the night vision goggles, and without saying much, he and Batman went up the stairs one after the other.
"Aren't you going to hear my judgment about him?"
Schiller glanced back at him, and then remembered that he still had his fluoroscopy turned on, but he still said: "I thought you just said he was not a good person, and that was your judgment."
"Then you underestimate yourself too much." Batman said after a brief pause.
"What do you have in mind?"
"The other party is not panicking at all." Batman said: "This not only means that he may have night vision equipment like you, indicating that he is well prepared, but also means that he has already anticipated the situation here."
"What do you mean? Deep One?"
"It's more likely to be the situation inside the ship." Batman reached out and touched the wall panel of the stairwell and said: "It can be seen from his movement track that after he came up from the door on the other side, he went straight to the stairs.
The terrain here is very familiar, maybe it’s not the first time I’ve been here.”
Schiller frowned. In fact, the three ships have been here for some time. If someone had made preparations in advance, they would have come up as soon as possible and wouldn't have waited until now.
"And if someone invades now, it means that he may come in and out multiple times." Schiller asked: "What do you think he is here to do?"
Batman was silent for a longer time this time, as if he was trying to understand what he saw in the hallucination, and then he said: "He was looking for something. He didn't find it before, and now it's here again."
"Okay, assuming what you said is true, but why can't he find it?"
Schiller isn't testing Batman, it's just that it's interesting to watch him try to find useful information in his hallucinations, like watching someone dig for gold in shit.
"The ship is very big and the terrain is very complicated. It's normal that it can't be found." Batman said: "At first glance, this place is not a place to stay for a long time. He can't stay here endlessly. If he can't find it once, he will naturally have to
Come more often."
The two of them went up the stairs, and soon saw footprints at the top of the stairs again. This time the footprints were a bit messy, and the other person seemed to linger at the top of the stairs for a while before leaving.
Schiller also found the deep diver's footprints nearby, which means that the other party may also be waiting for the deep diver to leave.
This is actually good news. It means that the other party does not actually have the ability to directly conflict with the deep diver. As long as he does not have superpowers, it is not considered dangerous.
This floor seemed to be the crew's bedroom. The other party only stayed here for a short period of time before going up again.
Batman also wanted to catch up, but Schiller stopped him and said, "Let's look here."
"What are you looking for?"
"I don't know either." Schiller took a deep breath and said, "My intuition tells me there may be clues here, so let's look for them."
Batman didn't object, so the two began to search here.
This floor is larger than the one downstairs. The crew's bedrooms are arranged in a fishbone shape. A main road is diagonally divided into many small roads on both sides. On both sides of the small road are the crew's rooms.
The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, began to investigate from both sides at a very fast speed.
Both of them searched for evidence very quickly. They could roughly judge which clues were useful at a glance. Schiller checked one room after another. Most of the rooms were corroded beyond recognition and there was nothing there.
Some bedrooms are slightly better preserved, probably because the doors are closed, and the shape of the bed can be roughly seen.
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When searching the eleventh bedroom, Schiller made a surprising discovery - under the bed plank of the upper bedroom, Schiller saw a familiar name - "Pique".
Peake's name was crookedly carved with a knife on the bed board, but there was also a line of words above it that said "It's coming."
Schiller took out Peake's diary. Although the engraving and writing were different, it could still be seen from the way some letters were written that the handwriting in these two places came from the same person, which should be Sailor Peake.
Wait a moment, Schiller turned to the last few pages of the diary as quickly as possible, and after comparing the handwriting on them, he found that there was something wrong with the ending of the story recorded in the diary.
Although the handwriting was quite different, and some superficial details were similar, after careful observation, Schiller found that the writing habits were slightly different, and the subsequent handwriting seemed to be forged.
In other words, the safe return ending recorded in the diary may be false.
Also, the three ships they are currently on have sunk, and the sailor Peake should not have escaped either.
But if the ship he was on had sunk, how did his diary get out?
Just at this time, Batman came in. Schiller handed him the diary and expressed his doubts. After thinking for a while, Batman said: "Do you know the shipwreck salvage company?"
Schiller looked at him, and Batman continued: "There is a type of company that specializes in salvaging sunken ships in various sea areas. The recovered hull fragments and cargo samples have a certain economic value and can be sold to interested private collectors and
museum."
"Judging from the size of the fleet in the Age of Discovery, there cannot be only three ships. If an entire fleet was wiped out, there should be other sunken ships in the same area."
"You mean other sunken ships have been salvaged? Then why haven't these three been salvaged?"
"The salvage company is not a charity." Batman explained: "They only salvage the more valuable goods. The better the goods are preserved, the higher the value of the goods. There are not many types of goods that can be kept intact, such as porcelain.
, gold, silverware, etc., taking a step back, they should also be things with literary and historical value."
"In order to ensure that the things they salvage are valuable, they usually conduct exploratory salvage first to determine the value of the goods in a certain area. If they find that the type of goods on the ship is suitable, they will carry out large-scale salvage. If it is not suitable, they will
, then give up.”
Schiller understood somewhat and said: "The contents of this ship were obviously not what they wanted. The spices had long been damaged and the minerals had corroded, so they did not salvage the ship."
"Yes, but that doesn't mean that a ship in the same fleet carrying more valuable cargo wasn't salvaged. The diary may have been found on that ship."
Schiller thought about it and realized that what Batman said was not unreasonable. The fleets in the Age of Discovery were very large, especially in Spain's most glorious years. A fleet might have dozens of ships, and a sailor was not a single sailor.
Worked to death on a ship.
After they docked for supplies, there would be a transfer of personnel. They might have worked on this ship the day before, and then went to another ship after setting off. Peake might have died here, but he might not have left his diary here.
If he left the diary on a ship with more valuable cargo, it might be salvaged by a shipwreck salvage company and brought to light.
Although the Age of Discovery is not particularly far from modern times, this kind of well-preserved classics still has a certain historical value.
After the shipwreck company salvaged it, it may have been sold to someone, and then it was found by British looters and put on a ship destined for the British Museum.
And Jeff happened to have been a sailor on this ship. In order to pay off his gambling debts, he stole these valuable books, and this thing fell into his hands.
Schiller was thinking, if Sailor Peake's diary fell into Jeff's hands like this, what about "Water God Ketayat"? Could it also come from this ship?
Schiller believed that this was possible, because the disaster that occurred to Peake's fleet might have been caused by someone using the spell in the book "The Water God Cthayat".