Chapter 147: The Deep Sea
() Shuttling through the cabin behind the crew, Xia Feng couldn't help but ask the ace next to him.
"Brother ace, I have a question for you."
"What?"
"Does Colombia have a navy?"
"Navy?"
"An army fighting on the oceans? For example, warships and the like. ”
Ace thought for a moment, then replied.
"Navy..... At least I haven't heard of such a thing, not just in Colombia, but probably not in the world. ”
"Why?"
Ace grimaced.
"If you ask me why, I don't know how to answer you, after all, in any country in the world, the ocean is a place where little is touched."
"Huh? Why ....."
The crew member who was walking in front suddenly interrupted Xia Feng's words.
"Where are so many why, because they will die, understand?"
I saw him holding half a cigarette in his mouth, and he looked unhappy.
"If you didn't know anything and dared to come and take a boat out on the high seas, if you hadn't paid a lot of money, I would have kicked you ignorant stowaways off the boat."
The little fire dragon next to him rolled up his sleeves.
"You guy dare to talk to Lord Ben in this tone, it's boring...... Let me go. ”
Xia Feng immediately grabbed the little fire dragon that was about to go crazy, and replied to the crew with a smile.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, we'll stay on the ship and listen to the command, please continue to lead the way."
Xia Feng was really cowardly, he didn't want to make any more trouble at such a critical moment, not to mention that the crew yelled at him, even if he came up and kicked him twice, he probably could grit his teeth and endure it for the escape of the little fire dragon, it didn't matter what he did, as long as he didn't hurt his friends.
Continuing to walk towards the cargo compartment with the crew, Ace began to explain to Xia Feng in a whisper behind him.
From the mouth of Big Brother Ace, Xia Feng probably knew the reason why people rarely set foot in the ocean.
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In fact, in the offshore area, the ocean of this world is no different from his original world, the moon is half full, the tide rises and falls, and the water is also very rich in marine life.
The real difference is the high seas.
According to records, a few decades ago, the source stone technology system of the world of Terra suddenly developed rapidly, people bid farewell to the almost primitive way of life, and almost all countries in the world invested manpower in industrial development, with the development of science and technology and industry, various large-scale vehicles driven by the source stone also came into being, and people at that time quickly stretched out their hands to the resource-rich ocean.
In the beginning, people did taste the sweetness, the abundant marine resources near the sea met the needs of the country, and soon, countries around the world expanded the scope of exploration to the open sea, and ocean trade and transportation also became popular.
Until one day, a bizarre thing happened.
A 50,000-ton medium-sized cruise ship from Colombia mysteriously disappeared as it sailed into the waters near Agore, carrying more than 600 crew members and passengers, as well as countless cargo.
On the seventh day of the cruise ship's disappearance, Colombia sent a search team consisting of 7 ships, 2 large and 5 small, to the waters off Agor to search for the missing medium-sized cruise ship.
It wasn't until 1 month later that the missing Columbia cruise ship was found off the coast of a marginal city in Casimir.
When a rescue team of local military police boarded the boat, they were stunned by the scene in front of them.
The situation inside the entire ship can only be described as tragic, hundreds of corpses with hideous expressions in various parts of the cruise ship, some of which have been severely decomposed, and the cruise ship is full of traces of fighting.
However, after being identified by professionals, they did not find any biological corpses other than the crew and passengers in the entire ship, nor the traces left behind, which is more like a kind of fratricidal among the crew.
And judging by the distribution of the corpses, this was not a unified battle of organized and camps, but at the same time, suddenly killing each other in different places on the ship.
If you want to describe it, this is like a good person for some reason suddenly received a certain signal, and relatives and friends who were drinking and talking happily in the last second suddenly became the target of killing in an instant, and the scene of the whole ship can only be described as weird and terrifying.
However, this is not something more incomprehensible.
When the entire cruise ship was dragged back to shore from the fog by the military police, people were surprised to find that there was a deep depression in the center of the entire hull, as if it had been strangled by something.
If you compare a ship to a banana, this phenomenon is like putting a tight rubber band on a banana, and the whole ship is strangled into two thick ends, and people can't tell what makes the hull like this, you know, this is a 50,000-ton cruise ship made of steel.
Subsequently, the news quickly spread around the world.
Colombia sent the military to bring the ship back to its home country, but the whereabouts of the seven search teams that had been sent are still unknown.
The matter should have come to an end here, but unexpectedly, something even more terrifying happened again.
Half a month later, a merchant ship from Victoria also disappeared in the waters near Agor, and in the following period, ships from all over the world began to disappear frequently, and as time passed, the disappearance location was not limited to the waters of Agor.
Similarly, there are some ships that appear in inexplicable offshore locations a few months later, and what happens on board is very similar to the first ship, the corpses on board are very eerie, as if they had experienced something very frightening before dying, but there was nothing else on board but the corpses.
At this point, the countries of the world finally realized that there seemed to be some kind of taboo in the ocean, and their exploitation of the ocean had clearly violated this taboo.
With the strength of various countries at that time, it was impossible to explore the ocean at a deeper level, whether it was technology or source stone skills, it would seem very small in front of the mysterious and boundless deep sea.
Since then, countries around the world have stopped the construction of ships, and other seas have been basically blocked except for the near sea, and the distant sea has become a forbidden area for this world.
This phenomenon has continued until recent years, with the development of trade, in the face of huge lucrative lucies, ocean transport has been reactivated, however, what happened decades ago is still a reminder of the need not to encroach too much on the sea.
Countries around the world have severely controlled the number of ocean-going vessels, and fishing is absolutely banned, according to official statements, after the number is reduced, there are very few cases of ships going missing, but it is not excluded that they go missing for other reasons, such as ship breakdowns or storms.
However, according to insiders, there have still been strange disappearances of ships over the years, but very rarely, and the news is strictly forbidden to be blocked and forbidden to be public.
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After listening to Big Brother Ace's explanation, Xia Feng fell into deep thought.
Soon, the crew led them to the door of a small room in the deepest part of the hold.
"You stay in this room for the time being, after an hour and a half the ship will leave the port, and in four hours it will sail into the open sea, and then you can come out of here, and our people will come and inform you, if you don't want to get into trouble, you will stay here honestly until then, understand?"