The current speed of the ship is twelve knots, and the sailboat will reach the target water area in about an hour and a half, when the sun sets.
If only you could see the sun behind the dark clouds.
Lu Li thought as he forked a piece of fish.
The meat of the silverback fish is delicious, and the broth is milky white. Lu Li doesn't like to eat fish, because the fish bones in the fish will make eating inefficient, and choking is a big trouble - but the silverback fish has no such worries, except
There are no fish bones near the fins and skeleton, and other parts of it.
Captain Rowe opened a bottle of wine from his collection and loudly introduced the silverback fish to Lu Li while shaking the glass. His captain's hat was thrown somewhere, revealing his brown hair with messy pigtails.
When he was almost full and his body was feeling warm, Lu Li left the captain's cabin and came to the front deck to look into the distance.
The sea breeze ruffled my hair and clothes. Nearing the evening, the mist-like drizzle unexpectedly stopped. Under the gloomy sky, the lead-gray ocean occupied the entire field of vision.
Except for the ominous and weird color of the water, the calm sea is not as dangerous as everyone says.
Some idle crew members stayed on the deck, gathering in twos and threes to talk about the topics that the men were most interested in. Lu Li glanced over them, thinking that the investigator following him might be hiding somewhere on this ship.
One place.
A gust of sea breeze blew, and Lu Li returned to the room while the sailors on the deck watched curiously, preparing for the upcoming event.
As time passed, the sky gradually became darker, and oil lamps and torches were lit everywhere on the ship. Lu Li looked out the window, and the clouds in the direction of the setting sun glowed with an ominous dark red color.
After watching quietly for a while, the setting sun behind the clouds dropped below the sea level, and the dark red clouds turned into dark purple, becoming no different from other clouds.
Lu Li sorted out his backpack one last time and asked the crew outside the door to bring him a life jacket and life preserver.
When it was completely dark outside the window, Captain Rowe appeared outside the door.
Lu Li put away the psychic gun, put on a cloak-style raincoat, put the hood on his back, put the life jacket on the outside, picked up his backpack and life preserver and walked out of the room.
"Lower the sails! Lower the anchor!"
Louis shouted from the deck.
Lu Li, who was following Captain Luo Wei across the deck, heard the shouting and frowned slightly.
Aren’t there some words that should be avoided on board ships...
The fluttering sail fell, and with a "clatter" sound, the thick iron chain at the bow slid down one by one, and the anchor sank into the sea.
"We can't go any further. This is the limit. If we go further, there will be dangerous reefs ranging from a few meters to more than ten meters above the sea."
Captain Luo Wei said as he led Lu Li to the side of the ship. Several sailors put ropes on both sides of the small wooden boat about three meters long and hoisted it out of the outside of the sailboat.
"We will wait for you here after you get down. There is a searchlight above to point you in the direction." Captain Rowe said, clapped his hands and shouted to the top: "Second officer, turn on the searchlight!"
Bang!
A thick, snow-white beam of light poked out from the top of the sailboat and shone into the dark sea in front of the sailboat.
Lu Li threw the life preserver and backpack towards the wooden boat, stepped into the wooden boat with an oil lamp and sat down.
"The sea loves adventurous people." Captain Luo Wei said a proverb to bless Lu Li and signaled the sailors to lower the wooden boat.
The ropes on both sides of the wooden boat began to fall, and the wooden boat, which was no longer flush with the sailboat, instantly fell into darkness. After a few breaths, the flickering sparks lit up, and finally turned into a stable light source.
The wooden boat was getting further and further away from the lively deck, and getting closer and closer to the dark sea. After a while, the bottom of the boat shook slightly and fell into the sea.
The ripples caused by the small wooden boat were swallowed up by the undulating waves in an instant. The hemp ropes holding the two ends of the wooden boat were no longer stretched, and the hooks automatically separated from the hull and rose upwards.
Lu Li, who was sitting on the wooden boat, raised the oil lamp and tilted his upper body outwards. The water nearby was as black as ink and could not be seen through, reflecting broken and distorted reflections.
Several heads poked out from the edge of the sailboat deck overhead. Captain Rowe, the leader, took off his hat and waved downwards.
Looking away, Lu Li placed the oil lamp on the bow of the boat to secure it, picked up the carpenters on both sides, and slowly slid it forward.
The relatively calm weather and sea surface gave Lu Li the opportunity to take action. He rowed the wooden oar and sailed out from the shadow under the sailboat. The beam of the searchlight moved to the front of the wooden boat, pointing out the direction of the wooden boat.
Under the illumination of the thick beam, the seabed showed rugged and strange shadows, and strange flocs floated under the water.
The rowing wooden boat moves away from the sailing ship little by little, and the beam becomes more diffuse. It makes the field of vision farther away from the land, but it is also more difficult to penetrate the sea.
I don’t know what is hidden under the thick, indestructible, dark sea.
Gulu - Gulu Gulu -
A large bubble suddenly appeared on the right side of the wooden boat. Lu Li stared at it with black eyes, and then looked away after a few seconds.
That's just an illusion.
The Nikola counter on your wrist is calm.
Lu Li had already turned on the flashlight, shining a weak beam around the wooden boat and the sea.
He was almost 150 meters away from the sailboat. The searchlight beam from the sailboat barely reached here, but it was already the limit.
But at this moment, the sound of the waves around him was mixed with faint panic shouts, floating from behind.
Lu Li stopped the oar and looked back at the sailboat.
The sailors on the deck were lying on the right side of the ship, pointing and shouting something in the darkness, while the searchlights shining on the surrounding waters suddenly flashed rapidly.
Lu Li couldn't understand the meaning of the flashing searchlights, but he could guess that something bad was happening there.
Without thinking, he picked up the oar, turned on the spot, and rowed towards the wooden boat.
The wood pulp hit the water and splashed into large waves. The surroundings of the small wooden boat became restless and quickly approached the sailboat.
The shouts on the deck were becoming clearer, but they were still indistinguishable. Lu Li remained calm, panting and rowing the oars.
As Lu Li was returning quickly, there was a sudden commotion on the deck. The sailors on the deck seemed to have seen something and rushed back to the cabin with panic and shouts. The unattended searchlights rotated in a circle and shined into the sky.
The moment it swayed to the right side of the sailboat, Lu Li saw something coming from the sea——
Lu Li quietly continued to row the wooden oar. When he was only fifty or sixty meters away from the sailboat, the oil lamp on the wooden boat suddenly flickered a few times and became hazy, as if covered with a veil.
It's getting foggy.
Okay---
The Nikola counter suddenly made a faint sound. Lu Li instantly let go of the wood pulp, held the flashlight in his backhand and pointed it to the left, and held the handle of the gun behind his waist with his palm.
Fog surrounded Lu Li from all directions, and the oil lamp barely illuminated a small area outside the wooden boat.
The boat was still gliding forward, and the originally noisy sea became silent for a moment when the fog appeared. The waves no longer surged, and it was as dead and strange as a mirror.
A lonely wooden boat floats on the dark sea shrouded in mist.
