There's definitely something wrong with this script.

Chapter 523 The Compass
The time of drifting at sea did not last long.

That is to say, after putting away the alpha character card, when Xu Shuo was thinking about which card to play next, the illusion of the whole script suddenly dissipated.

Then, the team list of the two disappeared.

They opened their eyes, and in front of them was the tent camped by the river, and the dark substance on the humanoid object in the center of the tent also disappeared.

That's not a monster.

It was just an ordinary fisherman who died miserably when he went out to sea.

"The script was extracted successfully?" Xu Shuo asked in response.

"what?"

Luo Kai looked more dazed than he was, and he was holding a card in his hand.

The surface of the card is green lace, and the pattern is a slanted book. The cover of the book is a dilapidated boat in the wind and rain, and the title of the play "The Ship of the Sailing Legend" is written in cursive script below.

Luo Kai put away the card, touched his head and said, "I thought it would be finished after solving the big monster under the boat, but after my sister was rescued by the people on the shore, the script was extracted."

Xu Shuo remained silent.

——Because the monster died earlier.

He seemed to be curious and casually asked: "What's the plot with sister-in-law?"

Luo Kai: "There is not much plot. She followed the guidance of the water compass and walked all the way north. She was rescued after being discovered by a ship in the near sea."

"So... the story of this script doesn't need to wait until the Daping enters the river?" Xu Shuo thought.

"Oh, I almost forgot!"

Luo Kai went on to say: "After my sister was rescued by a passing boat, she threw the compass into the sea before going ashore, and then my side was [-]% extracted. Could it be related to this thing? "

You must know that the original purpose of the two of them here was to investigate the "ghost ship incident" on the river entering the sea in Xinnan District, in addition to solving the suspected erosion of the abyss.

Although it turned out to be a script in the end.

But there is still a question, why did the Taiping appear on the Irikai River, and it floated here precisely from such a far away place?

It seems that this is not impossible...

Xu Shuo silently looked at the dead body lying on the ground, then took a step forward, squatting next to the dead body to examine it carefully.

"Did you find anything?" Seeing this, Luo Kai also came up to observe.

"Have you brought anything?" Xu Shuo asked him suddenly.

"what?"

"You touch it."

Xu Shuo pointed to the corpse and said.

Luo Kai: "..."

After the two of them stared at each other in silence for a while, Luo Kai finally realized what this person was talking about just now. Could it be that he despises this corpse so he doesn't want to dirty his hands? ?

He twitched the corners of his mouth, took out a pair of white gloves from his backpack and put them on.

Then, Luo Kai directly started to grope the corpse from the jacket. When he reached the pocket of his trousers, he paused, then reached out and took out a bloody mobile phone.

The scene was silent again.

But obviously, this phone should not be an important clue.

Luo Kai put the phone aside, but he didn't find anything useful until he finished touching the other person's underwear.

Xu Shuo watched from the side, his gaze resting on the corpse's chest for a while.

"Inside," he directed.

"..." Luo Kai glanced at him speechlessly.

Then he raised his hand and pressed it on the body's somewhat shriveled stomach after a hole had been dug out, and then tried to press the surrounding area.

Suddenly, he moved his fingers to his chest and paused.

Luo Kai narrowed his eyes slightly, and stretched his left hand through the bloody hole in his stomach. After groping inside for a while, he pulled out a rusty iron plate covered in blood.

The diameter of the plate was about ten centimeters, and the words and lines carved on it were already blurred, and the magnetic needle in the middle was even gone.

"It's the compass." Luo Kai said.

"This should be the reason why they were attacked?" Xu Shuo raised his eyebrows, pointing to the ship in this world.

"This should be the right one. After all, this thing appeared in his stomach, and the cause of his death is quite strange."

"Take it out and show it to the fishermen."

……

The police officers guarding the tent did not look sideways. They vaguely heard the voices of two people talking from inside, and then saw one of them coming out with a compass in his hands covered in blood.

"Take me to those two fishermen." Luo Kai ordered unceremoniously.

The police officers here had already received relevant orders, so they naturally obeyed and led the two of them to another camp.

The two surviving fishermen were locked up somewhere alone, because they didn't know if there was any "pollution source" on them and whether it would affect other people, so the treatment they received was not much different from that of the fisherman wrapped in darkness.

"Pollution source" is the official explanation of the origin of the abyss. As long as similar incidents occur across the country, the scene will be sealed off with some kind of infectious disease and dealt with.

Although this will also be a small-scale panic, it is at least easier to deal with than "unknown things".

The unknown and unsolvable is the scariest thing.

At present, for the officials of this world, "Abyss" is an unknown and unsolvable thing, and they have absolutely no way to deal with it.

Therefore, the existence of the abyss is impossible to make public.

The two fishermen were appeased. The infectious disease has a high curative effect, so their emotions are still stable now, at least they haven't made a big fuss.

Of course, facing countless gunpoints, they might not be able to quarrel.

"Have you ever seen this thing?"

After Luo Kai walked in, he showed the compass to the two of them.

The two fishermen were frightened by his "cold expression + bloody hands", they just stared at him dumbfounded, and no one responded until Luo Kai asked again.

One of the fishermen looked at it for a while, and said in surprise, "Isn't this the scrap that Xiaojie caught? He thought it looked old, so he picked it up, and he planned to take it back as a souvenir."

Luo Kai frowned: "After catching it, how long has it been since your fishing boat had an accident?"

"How long... I can't remember clearly, it should be about ten minutes?"

"How could it have been 10 minutes, it was clear that he had just put it away, and we saw the ghost ship!" Another fisherman said suddenly.

"What are you talking about? Didn't we collect a net of fish after he caught it? It will take at least 10 minutes!"

"You misremembered!"

"You remember it wrong!"

The two fishermen immediately quarreled.

The person who said he would soon see the boat blushed, and looked in Luo Kai's direction from time to time, almost unable to hide his fear.

The police officers next to him looked at Luo Kai and saw that the commander had no intention of stopping him, so they didn't pull away the quarreling fishermen.

At this time, Xu Shuo suddenly said, "Did you see that ship a long time ago?"

He was looking at the eagerly arguing fishermen.

After the words fell, the fisherman's face froze and his eyes flickered: "I don't know... I didn't see anything, I don't know anything..."

"If you don't tell the truth, you're going to die right away."

"I saw it!" the fisherman admitted immediately.

"..."

……

(End of this chapter)