Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 208 One Hundred Twenty-Three. Fog

   The current speed of the boat is 12 knots, and the sailboat will reach the target water area in about an hour and a half, when the sun sets.

  If you can see the sun behind the dark clouds.

  Lu Li thought while forking a piece of fish.

  The meat of the silverback fish is delicious and the broth is milky white. Lu Li didn't like to eat fish, because the bones on the fish would make eating inefficient, and choking would be a big trouble - but the silverback fish didn't have such worries, except for the vicinity of the fins and the skeleton, other parts of the fish had no bones.

  Captain Rowe opened a bottle of treasured wine, and loudly introduced the silverback fish to Lu Li while shaking the glass.

   When he was almost full, Lu Li left the captain's cabin with a warm body, and went to the front deck to look into the distance.

  The sea breeze caressed the ends of his hair and the corners of his clothes. As evening approached, the mist-like drizzle stopped unexpectedly. Under the gloomy sky, the lead-grey ocean occupied all the field of vision.

  In addition to the ominous and weird color of the sea, the calm sea is not as dangerous as rumored.

   A few idle crew members stayed on deck, gathering in twos or threes to talk about the topics of greatest interest to the men. Lu Li glanced over them, thinking that the investigator who followed him might be hiding somewhere on the ship.

   A gust of sea breeze blew, and Lu Li returned to the room with the curious eyes of the sailors on the deck, preparing for the upcoming event.

   As time passed, the sky gradually became dark, and oil lamps and torches were lit all over the ship. Lu Li looked out the window, the clouds in the direction of the sunset glowed an ominous dark red.

   watched it quietly for a while, the sunset behind the clouds lowered to below the sea level, the dark red clouds turned to dark purple, and became indistinguishable from other clouds again.

  Lu Li finally sorted out his backpack and asked the crew outside the door to bring a life jacket and lifebuoy.

   When it was completely dark outside the window, Captain Rowe appeared outside the door.

  Lu Li put away the psychic gun, put on a cape raincoat, draped the hood on his back, put the life jacket on the outermost, picked up the backpack and lifebuoy and walked out of the room.

   "Sail down! Anchor down!"

  Louis shouted from the deck.

   Lu Li, who followed Captain Luo Wei across the deck, heard the shout, and frowned slightly.

   Shouldn't some words be avoided on board...

   The beating sail fell, and the thick iron chain at the bow of the boat slipped down one by one with the sound of "crashing", and the anchor sank into the sea.

   "We can't go any further, this is the limit, and there are dangerous reefs ranging from a few meters to a dozen meters above the sea."

  Captain Luo Wei said, and led Lu Li to the side of the ship. Several sailors put ropes on both sides of the small wooden boat with a length of about three meters and hoisted it out of the outside of the sailboat.

   "We will wait for you here after you go down. There are searchlights on it to point you in the direction." Captain Rowe clapped his palms and shouted: "Second Officer, turn on the searchlights!"

boom!

   Thick snow-white beams poked out from the top of the sailboat and shone into the dark sea in front of the sailboat.

  Lu Li threw the lifebuoy and backpack to the wooden boat, stepped into the wooden boat with the oil lamp and sat down.

   "The sea likes those who dare to take risks." Captain Rowe said a proverb to bless Lu Li and motioned the sailors to lower the wooden boat.

The ropes on both sides of the    wooden boat began to fall, and the wooden boat that was no longer flush with the sailboat fell into darkness in an instant. After a few short breaths, flickering sparks lit up and finally became a steady source of light.

  The wooden boat was getting farther and farther from the lively deck and closer to the dark sea. After a while, the bottom of the boat shook slightly and fell into the sea.

  The ripples smashed by the small wooden boat were swallowed up by the undulating waves in an instant. The hemp ropes held at both ends of the wooden boat were no longer stretched, and the hooks automatically separated from the hull and went up.

   Lu Li, who was sitting on the wooden boat, raised the oil lamp, and leaned his upper body to the outside. The sea water that was close at hand was as impenetrable as black ink, reflecting a broken and distorted reflection.

   With several heads protruding from the edge of the deck of the sailboat above, Captain Rowe, who was in the lead, took off his hat and waved downwards.

   Looking back, Lu Li placed the oil lamp on the bow to fix it, picked up the carpenters on both sides, and slowly slid forward.

  The relatively calm weather and the sea gave Lu Li the opportunity to make his move, and he rowed his wooden oars out of the shadows under the sailboat. The beam of the searchlight moved to the front of the wooden boat, indicating the direction of the wooden boat.

  Under the irradiation of the thick beam, the seabed appeared rugged and strange, and strange flocculents floated under the water surface.

  The rowing wooden boat is a little further away from the sailboat, and the beam becomes more diffuse, which makes the field of vision farther away, but it is also more difficult to penetrate the sea.

   There is something hidden under the dark sea that cannot be melted.

   Gollum - Gollum Gollum -

  A large bubble suddenly appeared on the right side of the wooden boat, Lu Li's black eyes stared at it, and after a few seconds, he looked back.

   That was just an illusion.

   The Nikolai counter on the wrist is calm.

  Lu Li has turned on his flashlight, and the weak beam shines around the wooden boat and on the sea.

   He was almost 150 meters away from the sailboat. The searchlight beam on the sailboat barely reached here, but it was already the limit.

   But at this moment, the sound of the surrounding waves was mixed with the faint panic shouting, floating from behind.

  Luli stopped the wooden oars and looked back at the sailboat.

  The sailors on the deck were lying on the right side of the ship, pointing and shouting something in the dark, and the searchlights illuminating the surrounding waters suddenly flashed rapidly.

  Lu Li couldn't understand the meaning of the flashing searchlight, but he could guess that something bad was happening there.

  He picked up the oar and turned in place without thinking, and rowed towards the wooden boat.

  The wood pulp smashed into the water, splashing large waves, and the small wooden boat became restless and quickly approached the sailboat.

   The shouts on the deck were becoming clear, but still indistinguishable. Lu Li kept his composure, panting and paddling his oars.

   As Lu Li was returning quickly, there was a sudden commotion on the deck. The sailors on the deck seemed to have seen something and rushed back to the cabin with panic and shouting.

   At the moment when it swayed to the right side of the sailboat, Lu Li saw that something was coming from the sea——

  Lu Li continued to row the wooden oars quietly. When he was only fifty or sixty meters away from the sailboat, the oil lamp on the wooden boat suddenly flickered a few times, becoming dim, as if covered with a veil.

It's getting foggy.

   a little—— a little——

  Nicholas' counter suddenly made a faint sound, Lu Li released the wood pulp in an instant, held the flashlight in his backhand to shine to the left, and grasped the gun handle behind his waist.

  Mist surrounded Lu Li from all directions, and the oil lamps barely illuminated a small area outside the wooden boat.

   The boat was still sliding forward. The originally noisy sea surface was silent at the moment when the fog appeared, and the waves were no longer surging, and it was as dead and strange as a mirror.

   A lonely canoe floats on the dark sea shrouded in mist.

   (end of this chapter)