The door opened and Finn fell into the cabin, hugging Emily with the joy of surviving the disaster.
His soaked clothes were stained with a piece of gravel from the beach.
Old Hand hurriedly closed the door and hung the latch. Lu Li asked Xiang Fenn: "Where did you come back from?"
"Mr. Exorcist agreed to let you in." Emily whispered to her husband.
Finn didn't hear it. His mind was completely trapped by the place Lu Li's words led him to. He murmured like a whisper: "The port... is the port... the port..."
"What happened to the port?"
Finn's murmurs concealing fear made Lu Li realize that there might be something wrong with Rodster Port.
"Mr. Exorcist...Finn."
The landlord said in a low voice and pointed at the wooden door: "Let's go to the room to talk..."
He was worried that something in the fog would break through the wooden door and rush in.
…
Detective agency living room.
Finn and Emily were sitting on the couch cuddling each other.
The other residents were kicked back by the landlord, but for some reason he chose to stay and leaned against the door farthest from the window.
Fenn was much calmer than he was at first, only his body was shaking slightly, whether because of cold or fear.
Shivering, he slowly recounted what happened at the port.
Finn is the sailor of the "Conch Cape", which is an ordinary small three-masted sailing ship.
She was lucky because the "Conch Cape", which sailed in the early morning, avoided the ports that were blocked due to the epidemic. Unfortunately for her, she was unable to dock at the ports that were blocked due to the epidemic.
According to the arrangement of the Exorcists United Organization, the "Conch Cape" can dock the ship in the port, or anchor on the sea for the night.
Both options are a bit bad - the former may come into contact with a terrible epidemic, and the latter who knows what they will encounter after the strange fog hits.
So the captain of the "Conch Cape" chose an ambiguous decision: approach the port, but not dock at the port.
After Finn prayed that he would be able to return home safely tomorrow morning, he gathered with other crew members in the cargo hold filled with oil lamps and torches. Although the strong smell of fish almost made them lose their sense of smell, it was better than staying on the dark deck.
Be good.
Afterwards, a strange fog came, covering Rodster Port and Belfast.
No one could have imagined that disaster would strike so quickly.
Simon, who was hiding by the porthole to spy on the port, ran to everyone and said nervously that he saw a light dimmed in the port.
"We are at least three hundred yards away from the port. It's still foggy. Can you see that far?"
Some crew members said that neither the captain nor the sailors believed it, or they said they didn't want to believe it because the thick fog had just arrived.
Everything happened too fast.
Simon was very sure that he couldn't be wrong. He pulled the doubtful first mate to point to the port and told him: "I definitely saw it right! You know... you know there is a workers' dormitory there, and we even fought with Paul and the others there.
The lights went out just now!"
The first mate stared out the window with a look of fear that made everyone uneasy.
They understood that something had really happened at the port.
The captain kept saying that we should be fine as we were some distance from the port, but this was more like convincing himself.
More sailors came to the portholes. In the fog-shrouded port, they could barely make out the outlines of docked ships and the port, as well as the hazy light.
The scene that frightened them happened again. In less than a minute, like an infectious disease spreading, another spot of light suddenly disappeared next to the workers' wooden house that had been plunged into darkness.
At this time, the port shimmering like stars shrouded in a strange fog seemed to be missing a corner.
The cabin was surrounded by panic.
"We can't stay here any longer...we have to find a way to get to the shore."
The first mate murmured and left the porthole, walked to the captain and whispered something.
The sailors looked up at them. Ten seconds later, the captain picked up the torch inserted in the gap between the planks and shouted to them: "Everyone on deck, weigh anchor and leave port!"
Although they know that the deck is also full of dangers, if the danger in the port spreads, all of them will be buried in darkness.
Sailors swarmed onto the deck with torches and oil lamps.
Finn followed and rushed out of the cabin. The scattered light spots on the deck gave him a sense of security that he was not alone. He ran to the mast to raise the sail.
He grabbed the rope and raised the sail, looking at the distant harbor from time to time. The darkness became faster than before. Fenn vaguely heard the screams coming from the harbor, but it was just his own illusion. Because of the noise
It was impossible to hear the subtle sounds coming from such a distance with people running back and forth on the deck.
But it is an indisputable fact that the darkness in the port is spreading.
When the sail was halfway up, a sailor running on the deck passed Finn and shouted to him: "It's too late! We have to find a way to get off the ship."
What?
Unable to react, Finn looked blankly and saw that the small wooden boat on the fishing boat was being lifted up by the sailors and hoisted into the sea - they wanted to leave in the small boat.
He turned back to look at the bow of the ship, where the heavy anchor was still slowly being pulled up section by section.
It may take at least a few minutes or even longer to fully raise the anchor!
At that time, we didn’t know what kind of horror the port would become.
The captain did not want to abandon the "Conch Cape", but the "Conch Cape" did not belong to the sailors. They were just workers, and there was no need to die for a fishing boat.
More and more sailors dropped what they were doing and ran towards the middle section of Conch Point to get on the boat. The captain naturally discovered this scene, but he was weighing anchor with the first mate, second mate and some loyal sailors and had no time to leave.
After a brief hesitation, Finn gritted his teeth and dropped the rope, running towards the boat regardless of the fallen sail.
There were two wooden boats, and more than a dozen sailors were crowding on them. Then an accident happened. The sailors fell into the sea along with the wooden boats. A poor sailor's waist hit the edge of the wooden boat, and Fenn saw that he was bent at the waist like a shrimp.
Generally, they sank motionless to the bottom of the water. There were also several sailors holding torches who fell into the sea water, and then never surfaced again, as if they melted into the dark water that swallowed everything.
Finn didn't want to describe what happened next, so he talked about it vaguely.
Finally, Finn, carrying an oil lamp, rowed to the shore with two sailors. When he stepped on the beach and couldn't help but look back, there was no difference between the Conch Point and the harbor.
It was dark and silent.
Finn was exhausted and frightened. After saying that he needed to rest, he was supported by his wife Emily and left the detective agency.
The landlord said a flattering good night, told Lu Li to go to him if he needed help, and then retreated to the corridor and closed the door.
The detective agency returned to silence.
Anna emerged and looked at Lu Li who was thinking.
The bad news isn't just for Rodster itself.
The accident at Rodster Port may very well allow the controlled epidemic to spread to Belfast.
And what happened as a result of the destruction of the port——
"How do we get to the Lennon Islands?" Anna asked.
