The copy has 0 error tolerance, and the last words on the ground are all wrong for me.

Chapter 168 Ghost Ship

"Don't panic, speak slowly." Wu Chang said without any fluctuation in his expression.

He was not surprised at all. As an A-level copy on the verge of getting out of control, shipwrecks and accidents were almost certain to happen. It would be surprising if it could reach the destination smoothly.

But in the eyes of the secretary, the Four Heavenly Kings, and the Sword Star and the Master of Negotiation who followed behind, what they saw was a strong composure and confidence.

What does it mean to remain calm even when Mount Tai collapses in front of you?

He is worthy of being the actual controller of Xingtian Group, the emperor of the underground world of Gaogi Country, and a hidden character with a small probability of refreshing in the copy.

What a thick thigh.

The secretary said, "The captain said that at four in the morning, there was a heavy fog on the sea, and the satellite positioning and electronic systems on the ship failed inexplicably, so the captain had to switch to manual mode."

"According to the original route, we would have passed by Danshan Island for resupply at around 6 a.m. today. But when we arrived at the time, we not only did not see the signal lighthouse of Danshan Island, but we also did not see the outline of the island in the fog."

"The captain can only confirm that the Star Leap has deviated from its course, but we need to wait until the fog clears and the electronic equipment on board is repaired before we can determine where it has deviated to."

Wu Chang came to the seventh-floor deck and looked down. He saw that the passengers on the lower deck were in chaos, with many people gathering on the lower deck. The crew was trying their best to maintain order and get people back to their rooms.

The ordinary passengers were panicked by the incident, and the upper-class people on the sixth and seventh floors were not much better off.

Without opening the door, you can hear shouting and cursing coming from all around. The difference between the passengers on the lower deck is that the passengers are cursing the damn weather, while the VIPs are cursing the captain and crew.

They cursed with full force, but everyone knew that they were facing nature and standing on the vast ocean. Their power and wealth in human society would play no role at all.

In the face of death, everyone is equal.

When everyone is panicking, it is the best time to collect intelligence.

Wu Chang did not stay in the room, but took everyone to the lower deck of the cruise ship.

When he reached the third floor, he saw Park Changmin with a group of priests, who took the opportunity to preach to the panicked tourists.

Most of the tickets for the third and fourth floors of Star Leap are group tickets, and the third floor is jointly booked by three private high schools.

All the people on the boat are senior high school students who are on a school trip. They have just entered their senior year and are facing the brutal sprint of the college entrance examination. This trip will be their last relaxing time.

Unexpectedly, disaster struck as soon as we set out to sea.

After hearing the information from the secretary, Wu Chang frowned and quickly asked about the students' grades. He was relieved to learn that students could enter Gaomu National Elementary School at the age of 8 and all the senior high school students were already adults.

It seems that large-scale vicious incidents against minors are a taboo topic that even the Abyss Game dares not touch, and the administrators of the Abyss Game also have a desire to survive.

One of the three high schools on the ship is a church school. They already have faith, although their sects are different. But when the New Universe Sect was first established, they used marketing to claim that they and many mainstream sects believed in the same Supreme God.

The suspension bridge effect, coupled with Park Changmin's instigation, has led many teachers and students to join the prayer ranks of the New Universe sect.

Not only teachers and students, but also many passengers who were not very religious were in urgent need of spiritual sustenance to help them overcome their fear and joined in the prayers.

Wu Chang could clearly see that once these people joined in the prayer and had the thought "It would be great if the Lord really existed", the mystical energy net covering the Star Leap would split into threads and penetrate into their bodies.

Cracks invisible to the naked eye appeared on the skin where the silk thread was inserted, and in the cracks, an eye could be vaguely seen gradually taking shape.

Disaster and death are the best catalysts for the spread of religion.

As the New Universe Sect gradually took control of the situation, cheers from the crew suddenly came from the deck outside.

"Look over there! It's land!"

Hearing the crew's shouts, people rushed to the deck again and looked in the direction of the crew's finger.

A dark shadow could be vaguely seen at the two o'clock direction of the ship. People looked at the shadow hopefully, hoping that it was Danshan Island where the route was originally scheduled to stop.

Unfortunately, people's wishes were soon dashed. When the ship turned around and sailed in front of the black shadow, people found that it was just a black reef.

There was nothing on it except stones, and no signs of human activity at all.

The change from hope to disappointment hit people hard, and they returned to the hall with heavy steps to continue praying.

They prayed to God to allow them to see land again.

Facts have proved that people should not think that life has hit rock bottom and become disappointed with the current situation just because of one setback.

We must believe that fate is not so fragile. How could we fall to the bottom just because of a setback? This is just the beginning.

You have to go through at least three or four setbacks and feel despair about life before you can think that life has reached rock bottom.

As people were praying, a dark shadow appeared in front of the ship again. People became excited again, cheering and celebrating the greatness of the Lord.

But soon they could no longer laugh. The closer they got to the shadow, the more familiar it looked to them.

It was not until the boat came to the front that people were sure that this was the reef they had just passed by!
When passing by the reef before, a passenger angrily threw the beer in his hand over, and the white can is still lying on the reef.

what happened?

People began looking angrily at the crew, thinking they were circling the reef.

But the captain soon appeared and explained to everyone that the ship had been sailing straight without any deviation, and invited several teachers from the school and several upper-class guests to the captain's room to prove it.

Not long after, a dark shadow appeared in front of the ship again. When we got closer, we found that it was still the reef.

Now people were completely panicked. Not only did they deviate from their route at sea, but they also got stuck in a dilemma.

All of a sudden, stories about the world's unsolved mysteries, such as the Millennium Quadrilateral, the sudden reappearance of a cruise ship that had disappeared for a hundred years, and the Flying Dutchman, all flooded into people's minds.

Some passengers with poor psychological quality could no longer bear the pressure and started shouting.

Just like at the banquet last night, Wu Chang would record those targets who did not actively approach him. In this kind of situation, he naturally had to focus on those targets who were not panicking.

The first person to be marked was naturally Park Changmin. The occult rituals on the ship were arranged by the New Universe Sect. As the highest-ranking person in the New Universe Sect, he was obviously involved in the plan.

The second person who was not panicked during the deviation and remained calm even when he encountered a dilemma was Captain Jiang Junxi.

Most of the sailors on the ship were in a panic, except Jiang Junxi, first mate Li Yuanzhi and four or five other crew members who remained very calm.

Especially when passing the reef for the second time, the invitation of passengers to witness and the speech to prove their innocence seemed as if they had been rehearsed several times and did not seem like a temporary plan.

After the captain and others came the few people that Wu Chang had noted down in his little notebook last night.

Among the six people recorded last night, five of them were pretending to be panicked, and their acting was very stiff. They thought they would not be noticed by blending in the crowd, but they didn't know that someone had been targeting them yesterday.

Wu Chang seemed to be casually instructing Jian Xing and the negotiation master to test a few people. Jian Xing, who was eager to show off, did not hide his ability to sense other people's inner fluctuations. He walked around the few people and confirmed that they looked panicked on their faces, but were as calm as old dogs on their hearts.

Park Changmin of the New Universe Sect, Captain Jiang Junxi, and the sneaky five from last night, these are already three groups of suspicious targets.

The small Star Leap is truly home to hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

Wu Chang finally turned his gaze towards Li Yubin who had appeared last night. Surprisingly, the woman with the highest status besides his original body was totally unprepared for the scene before her.

She thought there was something wrong with the reef, so she kept taking pictures of it and even wanted to take a lifeboat to the reef for a closer inspection.

Thanks to the dissuasion of two players around her, she was pulled away from the lifeboat.

Wu Chang asked Jian Xing to come over and confirm it, and his conclusion was that he was panicked and couldn't believe it.

Wu Chang touched his chin. He used to think that Li Yubin was just creating a persona. Even if she was not the mastermind behind the incident on the ship, she was one of the people behind it.

Now it seems like she was implicated by accident. Could the children of a chaebol family really be so innocent?

Leaving Jianxing and the Negotiation Master to investigate the situation, he turned back to his room to continue completing the second job transfer task.

This time, he planned to change his strategy and no longer quickly advance the progress of the dungeon strategy.

As a qualified Lao Liu, the enemy is in the open, I am in the dark, the most ideal state. As long as he keeps wearing the vest of Li Zaishe, most players will not only not be wary of him, but will be like Jianxing, with the purpose of obtaining clues, and will take the initiative to run to him to serve as cattle and horses.

He will circle out suspicious people through behavior that does not conform to the logic of their identity, and others will naturally do the same.

In order to hide, he had to act like a native.

While Wu Chang was accepting the contamination of occultism and changing his body, he was also thinking about his next move.

As a native, he cannot behave in the same way as the player, at least not like the player, whose goals and actions are very clear.

No, we should think in a different way. His identity as a native may not necessarily be a constraint on his actions. After all, the role he plays is Li Zaishe, the underground emperor of Gaomu Kingdom.

If you don't want to arouse players' suspicion, you don't have to be roundabout. You can also be more radical than the players.

When the players thought he was too radical, as radical as a native, they naturally would not suspect him.

Immersed in the transformation of mysticism, feeling the body becoming visibly stronger, time passed exceptionally quickly.

In a blink of an eye, it darkened outside.

Of Wu Chang's facial features, only his tongue has not yet been strengthened. The rest of his eyes, ears, nose and mouth have been contaminated by mysticism, turning into a state between energy and flesh and blood.

He was just about to complete the transformation of his tongue in one go and make the head completely transformed, when a faint murmur suddenly came from his ears that had been transformed by mysticism, interrupting his actions.

He listened carefully and found that the calling voice in his ears was calling his name.

The voice was so intimate that he couldn't help but want to respond.

He stood up and walked in the direction of the voice, from the bedroom to the seventh-floor deck.

Looking in the direction of the call, there is the depths of the sea.

A strong urge came over me. I jumped off the boat, turned into a giant whale, and swam over!
As soon as this impulse came into being, it was interrupted by his cold snort.

That’s enough. Why are you still being so arrogant? You asked me to swim over, why don’t you come over by yourself?
Wu Chang restrained his inspiration and actively closed his ears to sense his occult abilities, and the calling voice in his head suddenly disappeared.

The calling voice disappeared, but his expression remained solemn.

The call just now was not the first time he heard it. Before in the quiet town, when he had just obtained the transformation of the deep-sea clan and was transforming into a giant whale, he had also felt a similar call in the sea.

The call comes from the bottom of the sea, tempting you to go to the depths of the ocean.

At that time, his inspiration and will were still low, and he almost fell into the opponent's trap. Unexpectedly, he heard a similar call again in the Silent Route copy.

Why does this happen? The two copies, Quiet Town and Silent Route, are not in the same plane.

Could it be that all planes related to the sea are connected to the call from the deep sea?

impossible.

Wu Chang shook his head in denial. He had great confidence in the solidity of the plane barriers. Even an existence like Irene who became a god in the Wilderness would be suppressed by the plane rules. How could the Wilderness accommodate a powerful existence that spanned multiple dimensions?

Before he could figure out what the call from the bottom of the sea was, his eyes, transformed by mysticism, saw that the ship seemed to break through a thin membrane.

They came from the mysterious sea area to another sea area.

The sign of entering a new sea area is that the reef that served as a landmark of a ghost wall disappears. At the same time, the thick fog covering the sea surface fades, leaving only a hazy layer of water vapor.

A wider field of vision means it is easier to distinguish directions and find the correct route.

Everything seems to be developing in a good direction.

But Wu Chang doesn't think so.

From the moment the Star Leap sailed into the new waters, the mystical energy on the ship became stronger. In addition to the core node of the ritual on the fourth deck, a secondary core node appeared in the captain's room.

The plan of the New Universe Sect seems to have reached the next stage. They can no longer hold back and begin to take action.

Wu Chang stood on the seventh-floor deck, focusing his energy on his eyes and looking hard into the distance.

Under the influence of energy, his sight penetrated the remaining mist on the sea surface and continued to extend into the distance.

In fact, strictly speaking, the mysticism mastered by humans is not mysticism itself, but only the rules of mysticism.

People use the rules of mysticism to leverage a certain energy that originally belongs to the world and transform it into the shape they want.

Mystical pollution is actually the mystical energy itself and the source of mystical energy.

It’s just that this energy is too powerful, so powerful that the ordinary human body cannot withstand it.

The final form of the Arcane Knight, which was also the goal at the beginning of the design, was to use the body to merge with the origin of mysticism to reach the state of transcending the rules of mysticism and directly controlling mysticism at will.

Now Wu Chang's eyes can do similar things.

When he used energy to activate his eyes, his mystical eyes could directly see through the maze created by mystical energy. He could also achieve the effect that could only be achieved by a wizard using the Eagle Eye technique without having to understand the rules of mysticism.

As Star Leap moved forward, the shadow of another ship soon appeared at the end of his sight. Judging from its size and appearance, it was also a passenger ship, no smaller than Star Leap.

Are there other ships in this area?

He looked towards the ship carefully, trying to see clearly what was on board. Was it a large group of people from the New Universe Sect who had been waiting there for a long time, or were they the unlucky ones who had been abducted like the Star Leap?

When the two ships came closer, he saw a red dot on the hull of the ship in the distance.

Dense red dots.

Every red dot represents a resentment.

Thousands of meters away, he could not directly read the information in the resentment, so he could only quickly go down to the third deck, wait for the two ships to approach, and then observe carefully.

Walking all the way to the third-floor hall, he saw that the number of people praying in the New Universe Sect had more than doubled.

Almost the entire hall joined in their prayers.

After a whole day of hard work, the eyes of each new member were at least half open.

It won’t be long before these new believers will become mature seeds, just like the outstanding believers who participate in team building.

The shrill sound of the alarm interrupted everyone's prayers.

The crew of the Star Leap saw another passenger ship coming towards them.
While the Star Leap was sounding an alarm warning, it was also operating the signal lights to signal the other party in the distance to stop.

But the other party didn't react at all and continued to drive towards them.

When the two ships were less than a kilometer apart, the approaching ship slowly stopped and remained still on the sea.

A crew member held a horn and shouted to the oncoming ship, but the other side did not respond at all, but just stayed where it was strangely.

The Star Leap slowly approached the other ship, and the passengers gathered on the deck gradually saw the name of the incoming ship.

Song of the Sea.

What a familiar name.

People were thinking about the meaning of this name, and soon someone remembered that two years ago, a cruise ship set out from Pen Island and headed for Midi Country. It passed through Takagi Country and disappeared at sea shortly after leaving. It has not been found to this day.

The name of the cruise ship that disappeared was the Song of the Sea.

A ghost ship that had disappeared for two years now appeared in front of everyone intact.

The moment the news came out, everyone on the ship fell into fear.

(End of this chapter)