The time spent drifting on the sea did not last long.
That is to say, after putting away the Alpha character card and Xu Shuo was thinking about which card to play next, the entire fantasy of the script suddenly disappeared.
Then, the team list of the two disappeared.
They opened their eyes, and in front of them was a tent stationed by the river, and the dark matter on the humanoid object in the center of the tent also disappeared.
That's not a monster.
He was just an ordinary fisherman who died miserably when his belly was dug out while out at sea.
"Did the script extraction succeed?" Xu Shuo reacted and asked.
"ah?"
Luo Kai looked even more stunned than him, and he was holding a card in his hand.
The card surface is green lace, and the pattern is a book standing sideways. The cover of the book is a dilapidated boat in the wind and rain, and the title of the script "The Ship in the Legend of Navigation" is written in cursive characters below.
Luo Kai put away the card, touched his head and said, "I thought it would be finished only after we had to deal with the big monster under the boat, but it turned out that the script was extracted just after Sister Suo was rescued by people on the shore."
Xu Shuo remained silent.
——Because monsters die relatively early.
He asked casually, seemingly curious: "What's the plot over there, Sister Sui?"
Luo Kai: "There isn't much plot. She relied on the guidance of the water compass to walk all the way north, and was rescued after being discovered by a ship in the offshore waters."
"So... the story of this script does not need to wait until the Daping sails into the river to end?" Xu Shuo thought thoughtfully.
"Oh, I almost forgot!"
Luo Kai went on to say: "After Sister Sui was rescued by a passing ship, before landing on shore, she threw the compass into the sea, and then the extraction was 100% complete on my side. Could it be related to this thing?
"
You know, the original purpose of the two of them coming here, in addition to solving the suspected abyss erosion, was to investigate the "ghost ship incident" on the river entering the sea in Xinnan District.
Although it turned out to be a script in the end.
But there is still a question, why did the Dahira appear on the Haihai River? Why did it float here accurately from such a distant place?
It seems that it is not impossible...
Xu Shuo looked at the dead body lying on the ground in silence, then took a step forward and squatted next to the body to look at it carefully.
"Did you find anything?" Seeing this, Luo Kai also came over to observe.
"Did you bring anything?" Xu Shuo suddenly asked him.
"what?"
"You touch it."
Xu Shuo pointed at the corpse and said.
Luo Kai: "..."
After the two looked at each other in silence for a long time, Luo Kai realized what the man had just said. He just disliked this corpse so he didn't want to get his hands dirty?
He twitched his lips, took out a pair of white gloves from his backpack and put them on.
Then, Luo Kai started to feel around the body from the jacket. When he reached the pocket of his pants, he paused, then reached inside and took out a mobile phone that was covered in blood.
The scene was silent again.
But obviously, this phone shouldn't be an important clue.
Luo Kai put the phone aside, but until he touched the other person's clothes, he didn't find anything useful.
Xu Shuo watched from the side, his eyes lingering on the chest of the corpse for a while.
"Inside," he commanded.
"..." Luo Kai glanced at him speechlessly.
Then he raised his hand and pressed it on the body's somewhat shriveled belly after a hole had been dug out, and then tried to press the surrounding areas.
Suddenly, he moved his fingers to his chest and paused.
Luo Kai narrowed his eyes slightly and reached his left hand through the bloody hole in his stomach. After groping inside for a while, he pulled out a rusty iron plate with blood-stained hands.
The diameter of the plate is about ten centimeters, and the words and lines carved on it are blurred, and the magnetic needle in the middle has even disappeared.
"It's the compass." Luo Kai said.
"Is this supposed to be the reason why they were attacked?" Xu Shuo raised his eyebrows, pointing to the current ship.
"That must be it. After all, this thing appeared in his stomach, and the cause of his death is still quite strange."
"Take it out and show it to the fishermen."
…
The police officers guarding outside the camp were looking intently. They vaguely heard the voices of two people talking inside, and then saw one of them walking out with a compass in his hands covered in blood.
"Take me to those two fishermen." Luo Kai instructed 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 kept alone somewhere. Because it was not known whether they had "sources of pollution" or whether they would affect other people, the treatment they received was almost the same as that of the fisherman shrouded in darkness.
The "source of pollution" is the official explanation of the origin of the abyss. Whenever similar things happen across the country, the site will be sealed off with some kind of infectious disease and dealt with.
Although this will also cause a small-scale panic, it is at least easier to deal with than "unknown things".
The unknown and unsolvable is the scariest thing.
Currently, for the officials of this world, the "abyss" is an unknown and unsolvable thing, and they have absolutely no way to deal with it.
Therefore, it is impossible to disclose the existence of the abyss to the public.
The two fishermen were reassured that the infectious disease was highly curable, so their mood was relatively stable now, at least they didn't make a big fuss.
Of course, facing countless gunpoints, they may not be able to quarrel.
"Have you 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 with blood on his hands" and just stared at him dumbfounded. It wasn't until Luo Kai asked again that anyone reacted.
One of the fishermen took a few glances and said in surprise: "Isn't this the scrap that Xiaojie caught? He thought it had a sense of age, so he caught it, and planned to take it back as a souvenir."
Luo Kai frowned: "After you caught it, how long did it take before your fishing boat had an accident?"
"How long...I can't remember clearly, it should be about ten minutes?"
"In ten minutes, we saw the ghost ship just after he put it away!" Another fisherman suddenly said.
"What are you talking about? Didn't we collect a net of fish after he caught it? It must have been at least ten minutes!"
"You remembered it wrong!"
"You must have remembered it wrong!"
The two fishermen suddenly started arguing.
The man who said he would see the boat soon was holding back his face and flushed. He glanced in Luo Kai's direction from time to time, and his fear could hardly be concealed.
The police officers next to him looked at Luo Kai and saw that the orderer had no intention of stopping him, so they did not pull away from the quarreling fishermen.
At this time, Xu Shuo suddenly said: "Have you seen that ship a long time ago?"
He was looking at the fisherman who was eager to argue.
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..."
