Lianlong's words shocked the captain and first mate.
As veterans who have worked at sea for decades, they are well aware of the various dangers they will encounter during navigation.
Among them, the most terrifying and obvious danger is the pirates left over from the old era.
Even though they are still operating antique sailing warships, it is precisely because of the vast ocean of the Sea of Tranquility that these scum are like endless cockroaches, appearing from time to time to rob and attack civilian ships.
The most famous among them are the nine pirate groups.
These nine pirate groups are different from other pirates. Their size and equipment are among the top among pirate groups.
To the north of the Sea of Tranquility is the Ice Sea, and the "Ice Sea Storm" that has been entrenched all year round is one of the nine major pirate groups. They can be regarded as the old rivals of the Saiguo Navy.
However, the above is simple information that even ordinary people know a little bit.
As Clark, Morgan and others make a living at sea, the nine pirate groups they know have deeper secrets.
For example, there are actually only four of the nine pirate groups... No, it should be that there are only four pirate groups that are clearly led by humans and are engaged in robbery and murder.
The two and five "pirate groups" are called the "Five Sea Ghosts".
Seeing that Clark and Morgan looked very ugly, Victor also became very curious. He asked Lianlong: "What is the Ghost of the Five Seas?"
The person who explained this time was Chief Officer Clark. He said: "There are five legendary ghost ships, and the Deep One is one of them."
Li Anlong nodded: "Yes, the strange thing is that people confuse them with the four major pirate groups and call them the nine pirate groups, but the five sea ghosts are independent of each other, not fleets, and they only appear in legends
It appears and disappears, making all sailors feel fear."
Ghost ship...
Victor pinched his chin, not realizing the seriousness of the problem yet. After all, he was not a sailor.
"How are you sure you are a deep diver?" First Officer Clark looked anxious.
Lianlong shook his head: "Of course I'm not sure, but according to your description, it's very similar to the deep divers I heard about."
After he finished speaking, he pointed to the water.
"There are written records that when deep divers appear, they are often accompanied by floating plants on the sea surface and shadows scattered like roots underwater. Although it is a ghost ship, it has never surfaced and is more like a submersible.
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Li Anlong's words made the two of them deep in thought.
Captain Clark's expression was very troubled, while Morgan was always frowning.
Victor's eyes glanced at a wound on Morgan's wrist, and he couldn't help but reveal a sly smile.
"There are rumors that the Deep Diver is a parasitic ship, and its body is actually an unknown creature on the seabed." First Officer Clark said, "Perhaps it wants to use the Northern Faith as a new host."
After speaking, First Officer Clark quickly gave the captain advice: "We must organize the passengers to escape."
Hearing this, Captain Morgan vetoed it without even thinking: "Are you crazy? If we abandon the Northern Faith, we will not only lose our jobs, but we will also be saddled with debts that we will never repay in our lifetime!"
"But that's the Deep Diver! A ghost ship that has swallowed up countless ships over the years! There's no way we can resist that kind of thing!" Mate Clark fiercely confronted the captain.
But it is a pity that he was suppressed by Morgan in his duties. As long as he did not give an order, no one could lower the lifeboat without permission.
"I will find a way to clean them up, and you, Clark Hugo, your job is to maintain order!"
"Okay!" First Officer Clark gritted his teeth, "But I have to check those lifeboats to make sure..."
Before he could finish his words, someone screamed from above, and then the lifeboats on both sides of the cruise ship were lowered into the water one after another, causing violent waves.
Clark was shocked. He had been tricked by a gang of thieves before, which made them wary. He had already arranged for manpower to stand guard on the passage leading to the top terrace, and did not let irrelevant people go up. Who would have thought that an accident would happen.
Those small boats were launched directly into the water without anyone on board. This should have been done deliberately to prevent the people on board from escaping.
Seeing this, Victor suddenly frowned.
"Who did this?!" Morgan yelled, but did not issue any orders to remedy the situation.
Clark immediately called people into the water to take control of the boat.
But after his order was given, no one dared to carry it out. Only then did Clark remember the bad luck that had befallen the previous group of thieves.
In any case, they could not bear the consequences of losing all the lifeboats, so he took off his shirt and took the lead in jumping into the sea himself.
He kept swimming towards the lifeboat, but nothing appeared under the water to attack him.
Under Morgan's urging, many sailors jumped into the sea one after another and followed Clark to rescue the lifeboat that was about to drift away.
Because the Northern Faith was out of control and kept sailing into the ocean, Captain Morgan immediately cut off the fuel supply to slow down the cruise ship.
In the end, Clark and others only rescued one small boat, and the rest gradually disappeared into the night.
The boat that was rescued was also lucky. There was a rope hanging on the Northern Faith and it was not thrown away.
The speed of the cruise ship became slower and slower. Two more ropes were thrown from the deck to tie up the boat and drag it along. Clark and the sailors struggled to get back to the boat, and they were all panting.
One of the sailors seemed to have been mentally stimulated, muttering in shock: "Captain... Captain... Under the water... There is something under the water!"
He must have seen something and was frightened to death.
After being pressed by others, he made it clear that after diving, he dived underwater to watch and found a huge and terrifying shadow under the hull of the Northern Faith!
It was a disgusting mass, with countless thin whiskers swaying with the ocean current, like the hair of a dead person.
This scene made the sailor feel panic and fear, and he couldn't even speak clearly.
"That's the Deep One!" First Officer Clark shouted nervously, "We must..."
"Now the escape method has failed, first mate, we must let the underwater ghosts abandon the Northern Faith." Captain Morgan was surprisingly calm.
He planned to attack the deep divers underwater, but he didn't have a detailed plan yet, so he organized the ship's crew to discuss it intensively.
Victor and Li Anlong were on the periphery and did not participate in their discussions because he had his own ideas.
"I guess it was the crew disguised as Abyss Painting who lowered those lifeboats," he said.
Li Anlong also agreed: "Well, after all, ordinary passengers cannot go up to the balcony above, but from what you think, does the abyss painting have something to do with the underwater deep divers?"
"Obviously..." Victor nodded and asked a new question, "But why does it prevent people from escaping? The Abyss Painting Skin only chooses to parasitize humans?"
"I can't say for sure, but there aren't many living people in the deep sea. Their primary parasite target shouldn't be humans, and neither will their food." Li Anlong replied, "Do you have any ideas?"
Victor stared at a circle of shipping staff who were discussing the plan, and said to Anlong: "The deep divers are parasitic on the ships, and the abyssal paintings are parasitic on humans. Things and people are interesting... I guess the people on this boat are
There are other purposes for deep divers...but I am quite concerned about another thing, why not wait a moment now and watch how that gentleman performs?"