A shadow passed by Lu Li silently. It seemed to be holding something, and silently came to the side of the ship and threw it into the sea.
A shadow passed by Lu Li silently. It walked towards the cabin, passed through the captain's cabin door, and disappeared behind the door.
A shadow passed by Lu Li silently. It leaned on the wooden board next to the cabin and was lazy for a while before being called away by another shadow.
Two shadows gathered on the deck a few meters away from Lu Li. They stood numbly for a while and then left one after another.
They repeat their actions step by step, on a sailboat covered in black matter in the dark deep sea. They move around strangely and remain strangely silent.
Lu Li blended in, maintaining his identity as a "sailor" and his work of "cleaning the deck" without any disturbance.
This situation lasted for an hour, and Lu Li just stood in front of the cabin, repeating the motion of dragging the mop. Occasionally he would stop and rest for a while against the wooden planks beside the cabin. Although he did not need to rest, the sailor maintained
Identity is important.
There are still two hours before dawn.
After another ten minutes or so, Lu Li observed the deck with his peripheral vision and noticed another shadow walking towards this side...or rather walking towards him.
Unlike other shadows approaching, this shadow's target seemed to be Lu Li. He was sure of this after Lu Li walked back and forth several times pretending to be unintentional.
This shadow is approaching me.
Lu Li was not ready to deal with them yet.
After a moment of hesitation, Lu Li continued to bend down and drag the deck, facing the shadow, and retreated towards the cabin behind him.
The sound of the waves around him came from in front of him, and the sea breeze with a fishy smell filled the cabin. Lu Li retreated into the cabin.
The shadow walking toward it stopped in front of the cabin without stepping in. It stood there quietly for a while, then turned and left.
Its goal is indeed itself.
After watching the shadow leave, Lu Li stood up and pretended to mop the floor, frowning and looking around.
Looking directly at and touching them will not reduce your sanity, and looking directly at and touching them will not distort your thinking. Apart from looking like shadows, they do not seem to be harmful at all - but it is this that makes the situation weird.
disturbed.
Enemies are most dangerous when they don't know what they don't know.
Lu Li was able to face the strange shadows calmly because he found their logic.
The shadows also have this logic, but now this logic has changed.
Hope it's just an accident.
Lu Li thought to himself, walking towards the deck again, and when he got close, he bent down again, pretending to be mopping the floor.
He could no longer find the shadow that had just walked toward Lu Li. Except for the captain wearing an easily distinguishable captain's hat and a crew member who was missing an arm, they all looked the same.
Even if he memorized their special features, Lu Li could only distinguish a few of them.
Calmness returned, but only ten minutes later, another shadow walked towards Lu Li - and it was not the one that came last time.
Lu Li retreated to the cabin just like last time. From the corner of his eye, he watched the shadow circle in front of the cabin and then walk away.
Is there something wrong...?
Once can be understood as a coincidence, but twice is very forced, especially on a sailing boat that is inherently weird.
After thinking about it, I returned to the deck. As expected, the shadow was nowhere to be found.
A few minutes later...the third shadow walked towards Lu Li.
Lu Li had to hide in the cabin again and wait for the shadow stagnant outside the cabin to leave.
The time it took for them to arrive was shortening, but Lu Li couldn't find the source of the problem.
Maybe it’s because you stay in one place for a long time?
So after going out, Lu Li expanded the "cleaning" area and approached the side of the ship.
It was useless. Less than five minutes had passed before another shadow walked towards Lu Li.
The intervals between the four shadows becoming shorter and shorter each time, as if they had noticed something.
But it's obvious that they have been maintaining the scene of the ship as it once was.
The only good thing is that they did not set foot in the cabin. After Lu Li returned to the cabin, the shadow no longer followed Lu Li.
But Lu Li is no longer able to go to the deck for the time being. It is foreseeable that the time will continue to shorten next time until it reaches a certain point, and then horrific changes will occur.
Lu Li would not sit back and watch that scene happen.
He temporarily stayed in the cabin, and the focus of his thinking shifted from "why the shadow came to me" to "what is the purpose of the shadow walking towards me".
Realizing that he was an outsider and rushing into the cabin were two possibilities Lu Li thought of. But unfortunately, Lu Li was unable to analyze any useful clues from these two possibilities.
The vine eyes on the wall looked around the corridor, and some fell on Lu Li, showing no ill intentions.
Compared to the weird deck, this place really made Lu Li relax unconsciously.
Lu Li silently looked at the deck outside the cabin. Occasionally, the shadows of crew members would walk across the deck.
This scene lasted for a while. At a certain moment, the shadows on the deck outside the cabin suddenly came from all directions and gathered in one place.
Lu Li frowned and approached the edge of the cabin.
On the deck not far away, the shadows were rearranged into three rows. The second position in the first row was vacant. The captain's shadow stood alone in front of all the shadows.
Everything was just as Lu Li saw it at first.
Lu Li thought of something. He walked out of the cabin, turned around the deck and reached the captain's cabin on the top floor.
Lu Li pushed open the door that had been pried open, and wiped off the black substance that had been covered by the last black wave on the clock glass, revealing that the current time was: 3:55.
It has been two hours since the last black tide.
According to the shadows’ weird behaviors and time intervals...
The next black tide is coming.
Lu Li faced a choice. He had to choose between hiding in the cabin or standing in the queue.
No matter how you look at it, hiding in the cabin is the safest option. No one inside will hurt Lu Li. He has even gained the favor of many strange figures - but Lu Li is a little uneasy.
He felt that if he returned to the cabin and escaped from the dark tide in the cabin... something not so wonderful would happen.
Lu Li has no premonitions and never relies on them. This type of emotion usually does not appear, and even if it does, it will be quickly suppressed by powerful emotional control.
But that was before, and things have changed now.
Science is no longer the only possibility, logic becomes dispensable.
In this case, trusting the hunch becomes a very reasonable behavior.
Approach the queue first. If there is any problem, escape to the cabin as quickly as possible.
Lu Li thought to himself as he left the captain's cabin and returned to the deck.
The queue maintained an eerie silence. Lu Li approached them from behind, silently thinking about the approximate time when the black tide would arrive.
Turning from the rear to the side, the shadows did not react to Lu Li's arrival.
But at this moment, Lu Li's steps suddenly stopped.
His position was occupied by a figure.
In other words, the position that was originally vacant now has an additional figure.
