Chapter 1465: The Past and Agreement of Ocean Exploration (Part II)
There was no response to the past communications, and after observing from a distance, the fleet noticed that something was wrong with the supply ship at the beginning, so it issued an order to all ships not to approach. In order to retrieve the data of the material ship observation over the years, a team composed of all surgeons and wearing protective clothing went to the ship to find out the specific situation.
Originally, it was a perfectly normal situation on a single voyage, but the problem was that there was always a small sea breeze at that time. The exploration team did not bring the deadly germs with them, but under the action of the sea breeze, the material ship, which had already become a natural breeding ground for germs, produced a large number of spores-like objects, and when the exploration team discovered this fact in the ship, even if they immediately contacted the mothership Venitez, it was a little late.
This was the first recorded incident since the voyage began, and several retinue ships close to the supply ship were infected with deadly germs. Fortunately, the route of transmission of the spore-shaped object was known, and the emergency clean-up and preventive actions carried out afterwards minimized the damage. But in less than two weeks, nearly 2,000 people were killed, including more than a dozen surgeons.
And the impact of pathogenic germs is far from as simple as the death of nearly 2,000 crew members. But at the time, neither Nonosca nor Hillarily had experienced such a thing, and they didn't think about it more openly.
As if setting an example of what would happen in the future, the crew members infected by deadly germs were initially actively treated, and their optimism kept them cooperating with the medical staff.
It was a week and a half after they had been infected with deadly germs. Looking back now, Nonorska and Hilarily don't know what the cause was. Did the medical staff accidentally reveal the information that it is difficult to cure after being infected with deadly germs, and even if they are cured, they will leave serious sequelae? Or is it that the mentality of those infected has already undergone a distorted change in their mentality seven years after sailing, even if they themselves are not aware of it?
In the days leading up to death, some of the infected people became visibly irritable. After that, they destroyed the medical equipment, the hospital beds and medical equipment on the ship, and finally directly attacked the doctors, and even the female nurses, completely turning the infection caused by the sea breeze into a man-made farce.
It was only a few years later that Nonoska learned about it by chance. Only a very small percentage of those infected eventually died of the germs, and the rest were artificially cleaned up. But it is undeniable that the first incident has planted the seeds for everything that followed.
This is the end of the first episode seven years later, when almost no one realizes that the ocean-going fleet, as a group of steel islands on the sea that has been detached from the mainland, has lost its normal human social activities, and that there is actually a beginning of decay under the appearance of harmonious coexistence.
In the second half of the seventh year, the ocean-going exploration fleet entered truly uncharted waters for the first time. The speed of the voyage was much slower, and the curiosity and enthusiasm for exploring the unknown diluted the effects of germs on the fleet. But secretly, it seems to be human nature, or a normal reaction after seven years of life, when there are already some so-called fusion circles on every ship. There isn't much conflict between them, but when some boundaries emerge, something will always change the flavor of something.
At that time, Chilman, who had not known Nonosca and Hilarily, had a keen sense of smell and noticed this subtle change. He saw that something was wrong, and it was his instinct to walk in the dark world for many years.
After three years of calm, the second recorded incident in the ocean-going fleet was not due to natural forces, but to the crew themselves. For ten years, some people treated the ship itself as their own territory. Some of the people who have come together with each other are like small forces that are beginning to take shape, and they are gradually becoming aggressive and xenophobic.
Ten years of life on a ship, no matter how big a ship is, for everyone, every detail of him can be mastered. Living in such an environment for too long, a conflict later turned into a confrontation between several ships. In the end, the arsenal was destroyed and the combination lock was removed. And this time, the bloodshed ended with the deaths of hundreds of people. But its effects are worse than the first deadly germ.
The guns in the arsenal were not completely recovered after the incident, and some gunpowder and bombs were lost to varying degrees. Then, the consumption of knives in the kitchen and tool room was rapidly increasing, and even the consumption rate of some steel pipe items was rapidly increasing. By the beginning of the twelfth year, the status and role of ships with different functions seemed to have changed.
Towards the thirteenth year, by chance, Chilman discovered that a network of transactions had begun to take shape among the ships. By that time, the number of crew deaths was no longer normal, and in just three years, the total number of deaths exceeded 5,000. Although in the end, it is all attributed to some diseases, but the real cause is very clear to some people.
After his own investigation, Chilman realized that in a relatively closed environment, even if he is in an unknown sea, he will die from time to time due to the influence of the natural environment. But among them, the most terrible is never nature, but a group of human beings who have lost their normal social activities.
Later, the hallucinogens were concocted by doctors with ulterior motives, and it was unclear how long it first appeared. By the time he was on his own again, the web of transactions for hallucinogens, weapons, and meat, body, and trade was spread across dozens of ships. Although the USS Venitez was immediately dispatched for a six-month cleanup, some people never looked back after experiencing what it looked like normal life.
And some of them have already made this a voyage without return, and some of them are eager to become the king of this new land. Subsequently, it is only a matter of time before the contradictions deepen. During this time, even Chilman himself was attacked by assassination attacks by surgeons. Although it was dissolved, following the clues, Chilman also solved the boss behind it. But he understood that many of the attached ships had begun to decay, and he didn't notice it at first, just because of his status as a surgeon. Because most of these are ordinary people's lives, only a small number of surgeons are currently involved.
By the end of the fourteenth year, the ocean-going fleet had been on and off in uncharted waters for seven years. During this period, there were no other recorded incidents due to the loss of an attached ship due to an attack by a marine type 2 creature.
At the beginning of the fifteenth century, one morning, an abnormal fog began to appear on the sea surface, and the temperature fluctuated violently. Only by noon, when the sun is strong, and the fog clears, can normal sea area exploration be carried out. At that time, the main ship of the Venitez made a special trip to this purpose, in case the auxiliary ships were separated from the main fleet in the thick fog in the morning. Another important reason is that there are unknown components in the fog that can affect the transmission of wireless signals.
At that time, as if knowing that the ocean-going fleet had entered a dangerous sea, the second great change in the mood of many crew members began at this time.
The fog exists in a very large area, and the ocean-going fleet has been traveling for almost a month and still has not come out. Soon after, the first major loss record event for the entire ocean-going exploration fleet began with the loss of contact with an auxiliary ship on the edge of the fleet in the morning.
At that time, Chilman happened to be on the lost annex ship that was the beginning.