Since the end of the Age of Discovery in the 17th century, or around the 18th century.
In short, as early as that time, humans had completely explored all the surface sea areas on the blue sky.
This is actually not a difficult thing.
But on this day, humans above the blue stepped into an unknown sea for the first time.
How long have they been sailing in these unknown waters?
have no idea.
Where is their destination?
have no idea.
Just like the name of the ship this group of humans were on.
No clear number.
The night is long, the night is dark.
…
"Ha! Captain, I caught a fish!"
The youngest sailor on the Wuming smiled excitedly.
The other sailors also shouted to express their congratulations.
They were happy from the bottom of their hearts, because it was one of the few "normal" things they encountered during their long voyage.
This group of people no longer knew how long they had been sailing with the Wuming.
They were traveling on this unknown sea, and everything was so strange and bizarre.
The sea water is no longer so salty, and even occasionally the fragrance of sour lemon emerges.
The waves are no longer one piece of white flowers, but one by one, like wavy curves.
The sea breeze blows.
The clouds in the sky turned into smiling faces one after another.
Those little faces of white clouds pressed down from the sky above, turning into a dark mass, as if countless smiling faces were staring at Wu Minghao, making silent mockery.
A crew member once asked the captain: "Captain, where are we?"
The captain's answer was beyond everyone's expectations.
He didn't say an obvious answer like "weird world".
The captain replied: "It doesn't matter."
"Can……"
"It doesn't matter!"
The captain roared in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter where we are, it won't affect our fight against Weirdness!"
This answer caused his crew members to look at each other in confusion.
In fact, at the beginning, because they were infected by the captain's anger, the crew did not notice anything unusual about the captain.
But as the voyage continued, many of the crew members became vaguely aware of the "wrongness" of the captain's previous behavior.
They seem to have killed a lot of people.
Those people regarded Wu Ming as the last ark, but ended up dying due to their betrayal.
Is this...not quite right?
As time went by, this doubt gradually expanded and gradually enveloped the minds of everyone on the Wuming except the captain.
They can only escape this idea by fighting one after another with strange creatures.
Gradually, the supplies on the Wuming were exhausted.
But when the food was eaten up, everyone discovered that they didn't actually need to "eat".
Ever since, almost everyone felt that something was wrong.
Except that one——
captain.
"That's good!"
The captain held the rudder in his hand and used the intercom to broadcast his words throughout the Wu Ming.
"We don't need anything else!"
"Sailors, take up your weapons! Let us continue the war!"
OK.
At this time, the crew members of the Wuming were sure that their captain was indeed "crazy".
The crew wanted to run.
But where can we go in this vast unknown sea?
Kill the captain and seize power?
This idea was no longer considered after one crew member was scalded alive by the captain's steam.
In desperation, the crew could only follow the captain's wishes - or "anger" and continue their voyage.
They are trying to find something "normal" in this strange sea.
For example...that fish.
The fish caught by the young crew member was not meant for eating.
It is regarded as a precious "treasure" and kept in the crew's lounge to remind the crew that they are still "human beings".
The Wu Ming continued sailing.
The war between man and the strange continues.
Most of the strange creatures cannot withstand the impact of Wu Minghao.
But after all, the Wuming is just a "ship" of excellent quality.
Maybe it was because he had served for too long, or maybe it was because he encountered more terrifying and strange creatures.
The Wuming was damaged.
There is no dock here, so we can't find anyone to repair the ship or replenish supplies.
what can we do about it?
The captain thought of a way.
"Skin and bone the weird creatures we killed!"
The captain shouted angrily: "Use their flesh and blood to repair the Wu Ming!"
"this……"
The crew members looked at each other with confused expressions on their faces.
Indeed, it seems that due to the special nature of this sea area, the strange creatures they killed did not disappear into black shadows, but left "bodies" like dead animals.
In the past, crew members would simply throw the corpses of those strange creatures into the sea for easy cleaning.
But now the captain actually wants them to use the corpses of strange creatures to repair the Wuming?
Not so good……
However, when the crew saw the burning anger in the captain's eyes, they were unable to utter any rebuttal.
The kind of anger that is approaching materialization is something that no crew member dares to disobey.
In desperation, the crew could only follow the captain's order and began to repair the Wuming with the corpses of strange creatures.
Use skin to replace the iron on the hull;
Use bones instead of steel ingots to hold the iron sheets in place.
And so on.
Gradually, as the damage to the Wuming became more serious, more and more parts of the entire ship were replaced by the corpses of strange creatures.
The "Wu Ming" gradually became no longer like the former "Wu Ming".
Many items on its hull have been replaced by the corpses of strange creatures.
It feels like...
Ship of Theseus.
Yes, the case of ignorance reproduces this classic philosophical theory almost perfectly.
Right now:
If the wood in Theseus's ship was gradually replaced until all the wood was no longer the original wood, would the ship still be the same ship?
If everything on the Wuminghao is replaced by the corpses of strange creatures, is it the human Wuminghao? Or is it a strange creation made of the corpses of strange creatures?
At least on Wuminghao, no one can answer it perfectly.
But it doesn't seem like an unsolvable problem, as the captain's rage is engulfing everything.
Until later...
Gradually, the crew on the Wuming discovered another problem.
They seem to have killed so many weird creatures that the Wuming has been sailing for a long, long time without being able to hunt down another weird creature.
There are no weird creatures to kill, there are no weird creatures' corpses to obtain, and there are no materials to repair the Wuminghao.
what can we do about it?
The captain didn't care, but the Wu Ming could no longer hold on.
At this moment, an older sailor suddenly stood up.
He smiled and said to the others: "We have to move on, there is no turning back."
Everyone was puzzled.
The older sailor continued: "Use my flesh, blood and bones to continue repairing the Wuming."
"One day, we will sail to the strange end and see the end."
