Chapter 25 Chapter 24: The Ghost Ship

Iga peeled off the wax pill, and inside was a small blue pill. Iga said: "This can make people die instantly, and there is no pain. I can divide it into three parts." Little Barr said disappointedly: "Poison, you are quite generous, I don't want to take it." Linfeng said: "I would rather die by my own hands than be killed by the sea." The whale was still sinking, and the three of them felt hopeless, Iga divided the pills into three and distributed them, Little Barr raised his eyes for the last time, and there was no sign of a ship in the surrounding sea area.

The water was waist deep. "Thank you both for making this journey with me!" Iga said. He raised his neck and was about to put the tablet into his mouth, but Linfeng suddenly knocked the tablet away with his hand, and the tablet fell into the water. Linfeng said loudly: "Wait, I seem to see a ship." Iga and Barr Jr. looked around, the sea was calm and there was nothing. Iga asked, "Where is the ship?" Linfeng said: "Under water!" They looked down, and there was a faint silhouette of a ship under the sea. The ship rose slowly and surfaced with a crash beside them.To be precise, this is the wreck of a three-masted ship, covered with various algae and shells, which makes it look even more ugly and terrifying, like a sea monster that suddenly jumped out of the water and floated dripping in front of them.

The three of them had no time to think about it, and jumped on it immediately, because the whale under their feet was about to sink. The power of the tornado is so great that the sunken ship in the sea is sometimes sucked into the air. This ghost-like sunken ship was rolled up from the bottom of the sea by the tornado.The hull was made of wood, and it had been sleeping underwater for an unknown amount of time. The seaspout stirred and removed the sand covering the hull, and the sunken ship slowly surfaced. In the history of human navigation, the story of the ghost ship makes the world both shocked and frightened, and at the same time puzzled.Ghost ships are unexplained ghostly ships, usually lost or sunk ships that reappear for unknown reasons.Some ghost ships are unmanned empty ships that cannot reasonably explain the disappearance of the entire crew.

A newlyweds on their honeymoon encountered a ghost ship, which was well-equipped but empty; a sailor reported seeing the steam ship Valencia, which had been sunk for 27 years, appearing near Vancouver Island; the most famous ghost ship was Belonging to the Wandering Dutchman, the ship sank in the 17th century and has been reported by eyewitnesses for centuries, with some claiming that the ship ghostly shadowed other ships before disappearing suddenly. Linfeng, Yihe, and Barr Jr. boarded a mysterious ghost ship! They found that the windows of the cabin on the upper deck of this strange ship were all boarded up, and there were deep ax marks on the starboard handrail. Iga found a rusty ax in the crack of the deck, and he picked it up. Carry in hand.Linfeng brushed away the seaweed on the mast, Little Barr raised his head and screamed in fright, there was actually a skeleton hanging in the cage on the mast!

There are many sharp wooden sticks in the hanging cage, and the people locked inside can only maintain a standing posture. It seems that the skeleton was exhausted standing in the hanging cage, or died of starvation. This process may take a week . The three of them opened the sealed cargo compartment cover, and the bilge was in a mess, and a lot of water had already accumulated. Because the next door was the kitchen cabin, pots, spoons, dishes, and plates were all floating on the water, and there were many wooden barrels in the bilge. In the water, it appears that the barrels contained some heavy objects that kept them from floating.

Little Barr opened a wooden barrel and screamed again in fright. The wooden barrel was full of bones—human bones! Iga opened the barrels one by one, and each barrel was filled with skeletons. Linfeng said: "This may be a pirate ship!" They entered the back cabin, and there was silence inside. With a few rays of light, they could see some strange things stored in the back cabin. Iga picked up a pair of iron shoes, and there was a steel needle standing inside the shoes. Barr Jr. said: "I believe more, this is a ghost ship, who would wear such shoes?" Linfeng looked carefully at those weird things, and he recognized that they were some ancient punishment devices. Experts in the army once explained the knowledge of punishment.Those shoes are also called punishment shoes, and they are often used together with handshakes. After wearing them, the prisoner can only rely on his toes to support his body, otherwise, the steel needles at the back of the shoes will pierce the heels.

Linfeng introduced other torture devices to Yihe and Barr Jr. Little Barr picked up a strange-shaped iron fork from the wall of the cabin, and asked, "What is this for?" Linfeng took the iron fork, put the lower end between his two collarbones, then raised his head back forcefully, and put the three pointed ends of the fork on his lower jaw. After Linfeng's demonstration, Barr Jr. said: "This little fork can cure a hunchback, and it can also make any human being confess." They used tools to open the airtight nautical cabin, everything was damp, but the furniture was intact, the canvas hammock was fastened firmly, and there was a logbook on the table, the fonts on the logbook had been damaged due to the damp. It's illegible, and I can only vaguely see that the last page is dated a month ago.No abnormalities were found in the nacelle, and they opened the first mate's cabin next door, where the portholes were closed, and everything was in order.

Little Barr picked up a compass and said, "Strange, this compass doesn't guide or point north." Iga asked, "Then where does it point?" The three of them were concentrating on looking at the compass. At this moment, there was a strange sound, as if a human hand was scratching a door. They looked at each other, indicating that they had heard it, and then turned their gazes to the door of the captain's cabin. There seemed to be something hidden behind that door, and after a while, there was another scratching sound. The three felt creepy and listened attentively. Suddenly there was a shrill scream in the silence. The sound seemed to be made by a person. They could hear it clearly and took a step back in fright.

Little Barr said tremblingly, "Is there a person or a ghost behind the door?" "Whatever it is, go see it, because we have nowhere to go," Iga said. Linfeng clenched the fork in his hand, Yihe held up the ax he picked up on the deck, and the two walked forward cautiously.They turned the handle of the cabin door, and the door slowly opened a crack, and there was an unpleasant smell of decay in the sealed cabin.Linfeng bravely walked in, but the captain's room was empty, only some scratch marks appeared on the wall. Linfeng said: "What's going on, there's nothing."

Linfeng turned around, he saw the terrified expressions on the faces of Yihe and Baer, ​​Linfeng asked in panic, "What's wrong?" Little Barr stammered and replied, "You...you have something lying on your shoulders..."