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Chapter 433 The Strange Cabin

The dark passages, the blackened wooden boards, the musty smell in the air and the fishy smell of the sea all gave a depressing feeling.

While the other team members were prying open the nearby cabin door to check the items in the cabin, Chen Ziyang took out a yellow candle from his backpack.

If you look closely at this candle, you will find that this is not an ordinary candle.The candle is not made of wax, but is made of yellow talismans. These talismans are rolled layer by layer to form the body of the candle, and even the wick of the candle is made of a talisman. twisted.

The method of making this kind of candle was learned by Chen Ziyang from Taoist cheats found in the Taoist holy land. The name of the candle is Qianfu Candle.

Literally, a thousand-talisman candle should be made of a thousand talismans, but the candle in Chen Ziyang's hand only used 99 talismans, plus the one rolled into the wick. Zhang Lingfu, a total of one hundred pieces were used.

A hundred talismans are rolled together, and this candle is already very thick. If a thousand talismans are rolled into a candle as described in the literal meaning of the thousand talisman candle, I don’t know how thick this candle will be. To what extent, it is likely to be inconvenient to hold.

But even though only a hundred talismans were used, the thousand-talisman candle in Chen Ziyang's hand was not bad.

He had tested it several times before, and this candle has a very sensitive detection effect on evil spirits. When the candle is lit, if there are evil things nearby, the flame from the candle will emit a green light.

The closer you are to this evil thing, the more conspicuous the green light in the candle flame will be. If the candle flame turns completely green, it means that the person holding the candle has come in front of this evil thing.

Although the compass of the Du family can point out the direction of the organ coffin, it can't mark the distance to the organ coffin, so Chen Ziyang took out this thousand-talisman candle, hoping to find out the distance between the evil thing and himself , so that I have time to prepare, so that I will not be at a loss when I am suddenly attacked by evil things, and I am not prepared at all.

After the Qianfu Candle was lit, the outer flame of the candle flame had already turned green, accounting for almost one-third of the entire flame area. Chen Ziyang knew that he was not too far away from the organ coffin.

However, he estimated that it is very likely that the organ coffin should be on the second floor of the cargo hold. After all, judging from the structure of the cargo hold currently being investigated, the first floor should be for people to live in, and the second floor should be for some large or very large quantities. place of goods.

Yang Lei and Shan Shishuai followed closely behind Chen Ziyang and did not join the search team.Several other team members under Liu Cong kept prying open the doors of one room after another, looking for traces of iron books in each cabin.

Without exception, there is nothing worth noting in these cabins. Although some non-rotten utensils can be found occasionally, these things are not antiques transported by Bailang Wan before, and they should be people who lived in these cabins before. Personal belongings left by crew members or passengers.

Because it was parked on the sea for one night, the seawater in the upper cargo hold has almost been drained. Although occasionally there is still seawater accumulated in some low-lying places, it does not affect the search.After a while, Chen Ziyang and others searched six or seven cabins one after another.

"Strange?" The speed of the search was so fast, but Chen Ziyang's doubts deepened.What was the team that came in before doing?Where did their people go?Why haven't I seen anyone yet?
The design of the door of the cargo compartment is very simple. Even if there is a lock on it, it has been corroded very badly. You only need to use a crowbar to open the door, and the room is not large. It is clear at a glance.

It took less than half a minute from using a crowbar to pry open the cabin door to looking at the contents of the house, and the previous team had a lot of people, so the search should be very fast, but why did they I just searched the first few rooms, but didn't look at the back rooms?

"Something must have lured them away!" Chen Ziyang confirmed his idea more and more.And at this moment, the handsome Umbrella behind him pushed his shoulder, and pointed to a cabin door that had just been opened. It was obvious that he found something in the next room.Chen Ziyang followed Shuai Sanshi into the room.

The musty and rotten smell in the cabin was very strong, and there was nothing special on the ground except for some sea water and a few piles of black and rotten things.After looking around, Chen Ziyang raised his head and looked towards the bulkhead with Shuai Sanshi.

It was the bulkhead in front of the two of them that attracted the attention of Shuai Umbrella.The several wooden boards in front of the two people were covered with scratches one after another. These scratches were densely packed and intersected with each other. Even on the blackened wooden boards, they were very conspicuous.

After taking a look, Chen Ziyang knew why Shuai Sanshi paid attention to these scratches.Although these scratches have been soaked in seawater for many years, they are still relatively clear, but the edges of the scratches have no edges and corners.

Scratches exist in groups. Each group of scratches is three or four parallel lines. The length of each scratch is about ten centimeters. These scratches are scratched by nails at a glance. .

After looking around in the cabin, Chen Ziyang found that in addition to this bulkhead, there were many scratches like this on the back of the hatch and near the hatch, even more scratches than those on this bulkhead. dense.

The dense scratches in front of it seem to want to tell a scary story, tell a tragedy, or describe a terrifying monster to those who watch it.But obviously the effect of these scratches is not very ideal. Although a terrifying atmosphere has been created, the matter has not been explained clearly.

After careful observation for a while, Chen Ziyang found that these scratches should not have been made by one person, because the length of these scratches and the distance between the two scratches were not the same. Everyone has contributed some scratches on this wall.

These scratches should be very deep before, even after so many years of seawater immersion, they are still clearly visible. From this point, it can be judged that those who made scratches on this wall before must have felt very scary, and Or suffered great torture.

"Strange?" Chen Ziyang scratched his head, then lowered his head to look around on the floor of this cabin, and then he kept picking away piles of sundries on the floor with his feet.

"What are you looking for?" Yang Lei, who wandered around the room for a few times but found nothing, came over. After seeing Chen Ziyang's intentions, he offered to help.

"Corpse."

"What? A corpse? Whose corpse?" Yang Lei, who didn't understand the situation, asked incomprehensibly.But Shuai Shi, who had been studying these nail marks with Chen Ziyang, reacted.

"Er Yang, you mean..."

"That's right. Don't you find it strange that since we boarded the Bailang pill, we haven't seen a single corpse, not even a complete skeleton, or even a single human bone? It's too strange up.

Even if the list of goods loaded on the Bailang pill is not necessarily accurate and exaggerated, the list of personnel should be correct.

When this ship set off, it carried at least more than 1000 Japanese residents, as well as hundreds of soldiers and sailors. Two thousand people died on this ship. Why don’t we even have a skeleton? See.

No matter whether it was on the upper deck, or in the cockpit, or in this upper cargo hold, there was not a single corpse, which was too unreasonable.

These cabins are all separated, and the area is not large. Obviously, they are used for temporary living. The daily necessities in the cabin can also prove this, but people, why is there not even one person? "

"Maybe... maybe before the Bailang Pill sank, these people had realized that something was wrong, so they boarded the lifeboat, or jumped into the sea directly, so they didn't die in the cabin, maybe their bodies were all in the cabin. In the sea." Yang Lei rolled his eyes and thought of this explanation.

"I thought about this before, but it didn't make sense. I looked around when I was at the bottom of the sea. Although there were many items from the sunken ship scattered around, there was still not even a single bone.

The place where Bailangwan sank is a submarine mountain range. The sand on the stone is not thick, it is impossible to cover all the bones, and I have seen scattered objects much smaller than bones, but a human bone None were found, which means that these people should still have died on the ship. "

"Maybe these people were organized together before the ship sank, and they wanted to be rescued or escape together. After all, it takes a long time for the ship to sink, and they should have enough time to gather." Usaishi Shuai said .

"There is a possibility, but look here." Chen Ziyang pointed at the nail scratches in front of him.

"If I were to get these scratches out now, I wouldn't be able to get them out at all. Judging from the density and depth of these scratches, the people who made these scratches can only stimulate such potential at the moment of life and death. , to make these marks on the wooden board with such a great effort.

So according to my estimation, for some unknown reason at the time, the door of this cabin was blocked, and the Bailang pill was sinking a little bit, and sea water had poured into this cabin, so the people in this cabin He will use his nails to keep scratching on the hatch.

That's because they didn't have anything in hand, and the water poured in very quickly, so they could only use their nails to fight against these hard wooden boards.This is why the back of the cabin door has the most nail scratches, because many people in the cabin want to go out through the most vulnerable door. "

After saying these words, a picture seemed to appear in Shuai Shishuai and Yang Lei's minds. Some unarmed Japanese civilians were trapped in this cabin, and sea water was pouring in from the cracks in the door and the wooden boards. It has reached their waists, and it will completely fill up the space in the warehouse in a few minutes.

But these Japanese civilians have no choice, no way to open the blocked hatch, and no way to shake the solid wooden bulkhead, they can only use their nails to scratch these wooden boards, constantly Scratching.

Until blood seeped from their fingers, until pieces of their nails fell off their fingers, until the sea water filled the entire cabin, they hung their arms weakly.

"You're right. These scratches do match what you described." Shuai Ushiki nodded and said with certainty.

"Then the problem is back again. Since these people were trapped to death in this cabin, that means their corpses should stay here. Even if the flesh and blood on the corpses are all rotten, the bones should always stay. Well, but there's nothing here."

"Zi Yang, do you think someone... or something came into this cabin after these people died and took away their bodies?"

"This... there is a possibility, but wasn't the door of this cabin locked before?" Chen Ziyang stared at Shuai Shanshi and asked strangely. After all, he was the first to notice the situation in the cabin. .

"Ah? I didn't pay attention. I just saw Liu Cong's team members opened the hatch. As for whether they pushed it open or pried it open, I really didn't pay attention. By the way, let's just ask." gone."

After saying this, Shuai Sanshi hurriedly turned around, wanting to find Liu Cong's team members, but he found that there were only three people on his side left in this cabin. It seems that Liu Cong The team members under him were not interested in these nail scratches, they should have continued to search forward.

Shuai Shi, who had chased out the door, was stunned in the passage, and then he waved to Chen Ziyang hastily, and called him into the passage.

Chen Ziyang, who had returned to the passage, was also stunned looking at the dark passage in front of him.At this time, Liu Cong's team members who came here with them had disappeared. The entire passage was very quiet, and no sound could be heard at all. Obviously, these people were not searching other cabins.

In front of this passage, only two hatches were opened, and the forward hatch was still closed. That is to say, after Liu Cong's team members left the room with scratched nails, After searching only two rooms, they disappeared.

"Er Yang! Look!" Yang Lei said in surprise, pointing at the Thousand Talisman Candle in Chen Ziyang's hand.

At this time, Chen Ziyang noticed that more than half of the flame of the Thousand Talisman Candle he held in his hand had turned green, and the flame was shaking very violently.

"No, the evil thing has already moved."

(End of this chapter)