My heart skipped a beat, and I quickly turned around, trying to get a better look at the human figure peeping at me, but the damn fog was so thick that it condensed water on my eyelashes! I blew in two breaths,

But it didn't help at all. I quickly grabbed Dr. Lin and the weirdo next to me and pointed them to the ocean behind them. But when they turned their heads, the shadow was completely gone!

Are my nerves so tense that I feel something is wrong again?

I thought about it, this is not a swimming pool near the coast. It is impossible for anyone to dare to jump into the sea of ​​morning mist. In the battle just now, no crew member of the Shark fell into the sea, so no human beings could stare at it.

Looking at the back of my head.

Maybe it's because Dr. Lin's shadow was hit behind by the light? Or maybe I turned my head too sharply and saw a double image!

"Don't be too nervous, you are so young, no one will plot against you!" The weirdo comforted, "I went a little earlier than you for the eavesdropping. They said that this ship can only take one woman at a time, so there was a leak.

Lu, they probably didn’t regard you and Old Mrs. Liang as women, you are safe.”

I thought to myself that this seemed to be comforting on the surface, but actually it meant the same thing as making fun of my figure...

Watching the crew members coming and going in front of me, I know that our relationship with most of them has become a bit rigid because of Lulu's incident. I have gone from admiration to fear to them, while they think that we have changed from partners to being a soft foot in the way.

shrimp.

There was nothing more to discuss about the way forward. After finishing the meal in an awkward atmosphere, we had to go back to the cabin to rest.

Grandma Liang was not in the room, so I climbed back on the bed and tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. My mind was filled with thoughts of the terrifying sea monster and Lulu, who was hungry and cold.

Turning over, I happened to be facing the handwriting left by Lingling on the wall. I read it again, sentence by sentence, unnaturally:

One, I'm bleeding.

Lingling must have been injured at that time.

Two, he saw me.

"who is he?

I thought about the men on the ship. They were all ordinary sailors. It would not be surprising for anyone to see Lingling!

Suddenly I thought of something again, and a chill ran down my spine. Could "he" be the human figure in the sea behind me?

Three, don’t look for me.

Judging from the order, Lingling should be afraid that "he" will come to her.

Four, I want to go home.

This is easy to understand. I also want to go back if I see something like a sea monster.

Five, I want to die.

She must have encountered something very sad.

Six, another one was eaten.

I still don’t know how to understand this sentence. Does it mean that the stored food has decreased by one?

Seven, I'm next.

When I read this sentence, I suddenly felt that it was related to the previous sentence. Since another person was eaten, that's why I said "next". And the next one turned out to be "me"! Could it be that the one who was eaten

The thing is actually the crew of the Shark?

Eight, you are next.

My body shook like electricity. The word "you" made me suddenly feel that the dead Lingling was talking to me. But I came back to my senses and comforted myself. She died on her fourth voyage.

Oh, she has no way of knowing who will sleep on this bed next!

Despite this, I was still shivering with coldness. The yin energy in this bed must be very strong. My weak body cannot withstand the resentment of evil spirits.

I got out of bed and opened the drawer, looking for a newspaper to stick on the wall. With those last words, I didn't dare to close my eyes.

This drawer is almost falling apart, and the iron handle is coated with a particularly old green paint.

The drawers were filled with miscellaneous gadgets, including horn combs, iron hairpins, and rotten pens...

After pushing these things aside, I found an old newspaper that was so old that it turned yellow. However, the newspaper was wrapped in a flat rectangular box. I couldn't bear my curiosity and quietly opened the newspaper while Grandma Liang was not around.

Pack something——

It was a slightly moldy wooden picture frame.

Maybe it was a photo of Grandma Liang when she was young. I turned it over with great anticipation and was a little dumbfounded!

She was indeed a young woman. She looked familiar, but I was sure I didn't recognize her.

Fluffy long hair, exaggerated eyeliner, a curvy figure, and a slightly lazy suspender nightgown.

Damn, she was dressed like Lulu who was hung up!

But that face shape and expression are completely different from Lulu's.

I sat on Grandma Liang’s bed holding the photo frame and was stunned for a long time, and suddenly I understood:

On the night when Little Curly and I were drinking, we got out of bed in the middle of the night. Grandma Liang’s bed was also empty. The weirdo and I heard that she and the captain said something in the lounge that made me feel inexplicable at the time.

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Now that I think about it, don’t those words correspond to my doubts?

The "her" they said they wanted to make Lulu look as similar as possible must be the woman in the photo!

Lulu had the same hair as hers, the same exaggerated eyeliner, and the thin nightgown she wore was also left behind by her.

This room originally belonged to Grandma Liang and Lingling. Since the person in the photo is not the young Grandma Liang, it could only be the Lingling who died on my bed!

They want Lulu to become the second Lingling!

I held the black and white photo as if it were a portrait. I didn't dare to look at her again, so I quickly turned it over and wrapped it in newspapers.

There were footsteps outside the door. I was so frightened that I immediately stuffed the package back into the drawer and jumped back into bed before Grandma Liang entered the room.

I hurriedly closed my eyes and listened as Grandma Liang took two steps up the ladder, as if to see if I was asleep. Then she returned to the lower bunk and lay down. A few minutes later she started snoring.

I suddenly felt very afraid of her. Her attitude towards me was getting colder and colder. She even talked to me when we first got on the boat, but now she ignored me at all.

Why does she want Lulu to become Lingling?

I sat up and gently took out a pen and paper, and listed a timeline of the Shark's five voyages, trying to restore the chronological order and personnel configuration of their embarkation:

168 days after the first voyage, Wu Jincheng and the first crew went to the Sea of ​​Morning Fog with the purpose of investigating the cause of the sinking of the Yuejin.

The second voyage lasted 44 days, and the crew was slightly smaller than the first. The purpose was to verify that the sea of ​​morning fog can divide time.

The third voyage lasted for 110 days. Su Liyao, Xiao Gangya, Lingling and other newcomers boarded the ship. They met Poseidon and began to accumulate experience in counting "blind grids".

The fourth voyage was the shortest, with Grandma Liang boarding the ship only on (day), and Lingling died.

Is it because Lingling died that the Shark returned early?

Next, Lulu got on the boat and followed Wu Jincheng, and Little Curly Mao pulled the strings and tricked Donghuang's group into coming aboard.

A question suddenly occurred to me: This is the fifth voyage, and their hourglass counting method has been very perfect, which means that all the situations they foresee have happened once.

Since they would hang Lulu as a human sacrifice, there must have been a precedent for women successfully attracting the Poseidon before.

Lulu is now locked in an iron cage, wearing Lingling's nightgown and Lingling's makeup. If the captain thinks that this can better attract the Poseidon, that means that Lingling like that has attracted the Poseidon once!

What I can speculate is that the fourth time it only took such a short time was precisely because of Lingling's death that made the voyage impossible. Without her, Poseidon would not have come.

Lingling died, but she was a good bait. A group of people still insisted on using Poseidon to commemorate their lives, so the captain and the others got a fool Lulu and dressed her up exactly like Lingling. The purpose was to continue Lingling's function and use it again.

Bring Poseidon here!

I had some difficulty breathing, and my eyes unnaturally fell on those lines:

"He saw me."

"You're next."

My chest felt so tight that I could only breathe heavily.

Just now on the deck, I was also seen by a "he".

I won't be the next bait, right?

Thinking about it, it’s wrong. First of all, my body is not considered “female”. I gave it to Poseidon for free, and no one is interested. Secondly, there is no possibility that the figure in the sea exists. Lingling might have gone to the kitchen to steal something.

, which male crew member saw it? Besides, after Lingling died, Lulu was the one who took over her shift. This "you" can only be predicted correctly if it is said to Lulu.

I remembered what the weirdo told me about eavesdropping, and glanced at this small and crowded room again, feeling that my head hurt as if it was about to explode. He said that only one woman could be brought on this boat, and here is

There is only a female dormitory. Among the two beds, Grandma Liang will definitely be able to live in the lower berth for her age, so no matter which unlucky woman comes to the ship, she must live where I am.
Chapter completed!