Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 2821 The Runaway Wolf (4)

  Before twelve o'clock, the three of us returned to the hotel, and Van Helsing took Dr. Self and me to his room. I've never seen anyone's room be as chaotic as it is in front of me, yet orderly.

  Van Helsing sat on the bed, the only one in the room, and Dr. Self and I had to stand and talk to him.

The ship was called the Adonis, and Van Helsing found the captain's diary. He received a strange request to transport some silver sand and a box of soil back to Rotterdam, and the captain felt that the silver sand was not important to this customer. If it weren't for the weirdness of just shipping a box of dirt, he might just want to haul that box of dirt.

  The boat departed from Tejirda, Turkish officials boarded the boat, the captain gave a tip, everything was normal, and sailed at four in the afternoon. Had a little trouble crossing the Dardanelles, more customs officers and a frigate, the officers checked thoroughly, and the captain gave another tip to get them out of port as soon as possible, into the Aegean in the evening .

  After passing Cape Matabong, there was commotion on board, one person was missing, the weather was calm and the crew became very anxious. One of the crew members ran to the captain's room and told him tremblingly that when he was on duty, he saw a tall and thin man standing at the stern who didn't look like a crew member. When he walked along the deck, the man disappeared. Due to superstitious reasons, he felt very scared, and the captain comforted him. In order to prevent him from infecting others with his fear, the captain promised to give the crew a raise when they disembarked.

After sailing safely for four or five days, they encountered a storm. The sailors were not afraid when facing the stormy sea, but after the storm was over, they found that another person was missing. The crew became suspicious and even suspected that the ship had been destroyed. To the curse.

  The captain gathered them together and told them that surrendering to such stupid ideas would affect morale. He led people to search from the bow to the stern of the ship, not letting go of any corner.

   There was nowhere to hide, and after the search everyone was relieved and went back to work happily, only greatly unhappy. He was a Romanian, and in his homeland there was a legend that vampires and wizards would rise from the ashes, and the mate advised the captain to throw the box of dirt into the sea.

  The captain did not agree to do that, not only because it was the customer's cargo, but also because he thought what the first officer said was too ridiculous.

  Everything went well when passing the Strait of Gibraltar, but when entering the Bay of Biscay, the weather became bad again. Encountered two big storms in a row, what was worse was that another person was missing. The mate became angry, the crew became terrified, and they demanded a two-man vigil, which resulted in a short manned life as hell.

  People are exhausted, the captain doesn't know how to arrange the night watch, the second officer volunteers to take the helm and watch the night, so that the crew can sleep a few more hours. The wind weakened and the wind and waves were still strong, but the boat eased a lot.

  According to the nautical chart, they should be approaching England. The weather on the second day was fine and the sails were all up. The captain felt at ease until the first mate told him that the second mate was missing.

   This time the first mate brought all the remaining crew and helmsman, and they all armed themselves. Obviously, if the captain did not agree to their request, they would throw the captain and the box into the sea.

The captain exhaustedly agreed to their request, but the good weather also disappeared. For two consecutive days, no ships could be seen in the thick fog, and no one answered the distress signal. Get your bearings.

He was awakened by a cry, and the captain met the first mate when he rushed to the deck. He told the captain that another person was missing, and he said that they must have passed the Dover Strait. According to the time, they were almost at Rotterdam. .

   In fact, it doesn’t matter if they don’t arrive in Rotterdam at this time. They can dock at the French port, but the captain didn’t tell the first officer, because the man’s eyes were full of despair and panic.

  Thick fog seemed to follow them all the time, and God seemed to have abandoned them. At midnight, the captain took over as the helmsman. Except for the sea of ​​fog, the rest was calm. Then the captain saw a tall, thin man, wrapped in a black robe, standing on the side of the ship.

The captain let go of the rudder and took up his sword, and just as he was about to get close to the man, the first mate rushed from the cabin to the deck and struck him madly with the dagger in his hand, but the knife came out of its It passed through the body, as if it was inserted into the air.

  At this time, the wind picked up, and the wind blew the lantern, as if in the next second, the first officer calmly jumped onto the side of the ship and jumped into the sea.

   "God help me, how am I supposed to explain these horrors when I get to shore?"

  The captain wrote in his diary, again as if murmuring, and then he went back to the cabin and let the rest of the crew inspect the remaining cargo, and among those boxes he found another box of "clay".

I don’t know when this box of soil was put on the boat. The captain was very angry and ordered everyone to carry it out, but they moved it in vain, and couldn’t lift it up, as if the box had already merged with the boat. One.

  A crew member said, simply blow up this piece with dynamite, and the captain told him in a firm tone that he couldn't do that, but these crazy people couldn't listen at all.

  If the captain is a sailor, he will go on deck and lower the boat. The Dover Strait is a busy route. There will be ships passing by soon, and he will be saved.

   But he is the captain, and the captain cannot leave his ship without authorization, and he will sink with it if necessary.

All he could do was to leave the cabin and go back on deck, and while the fog was still there, he saw the sunrise, which must have been sunrise, not sunset, though he could no longer tell day from night . He stopped listening to what was going on below, and took the helm again, performing his last duties as captain.

The "mysterious incident at sea" ended with the death of all the crew and the madness of the captain. The captain was finally buried in the parish cemetery. During the funeral, a passer-by led a dog past. The dog kept barking a few meters away, regardless of its owner. Stop it, it keeps barking.

  I looked at the box of soil at Van Helsing's feet in fear, but Van Helsing calmly told me not to worry, because the ship was not a "ghost ship", but a spirit ship.

  Ghost ships will appear on the sea, but the coffin is used for funerals. It is equivalent to a coffin. People will put the deceased on the coffin and let him float away with the water.

  I asked Van Helsing why the Lingship was docked on the second floor of the villa. Van Helsing said it was because the villa was also a coffin, I wondered if he was speaking metaphorically. Doctor Self said that the captain had a family, and although they no longer lived here, no matter what kind of ship it was, it was bound to land.

  Van Helsing said that Dr. Self's metaphor was too poetic and inaccurate. The place where the captain's soul wanted to go was the same as the place where the body was. The immaterial spirit ship could float in the sea of ​​fog and come to his destination. But I do remember that the captain's body was in the cemetery.

  Van Helsing stood up now.

   "The only way to solve the mystery is to find the exact evidence."

   Then he borrowed a shovel from Mrs. Harker. I hope what he is going to do is not what I think.

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  “The Egyptians believed that the body is the container of the soul, so they often have the experience of ‘fugue travel’.”

   When Pomona came back with eggnog, Snape said to the three sixth graders.

   "Fugue is not sleepwalking, your body is still on the bed."

   "It's like an out-of-body experience," Ben said.

   "When I need to ask your opinion, I'll say it, Gryffindor..."

   "It's the holidays, Severus." Pomona interrupted him. "If you hold it like this, Gryffindor's hourglass will bottom out."

  He showed obvious displeasure, but let Ben Cooper go.

   Poor Ben breathed a sigh of relief.

   "Come on, drink eggnog," said Pomona. "What's sailing without rum?"

  Everyone looked at her strangely.

   "Oh, I get it." Liz said with a sudden inspiration, "It's like what my grandma said, the big summer bird!"

   "What does that mean?" Ben asked.

   "It probably means 'timely rain'." Liz said.

   "Where did you go?" asked Pomona.

   "Tell her." Severus pointed at Ben Cooper, but drank the eggnog himself.

   "Let me tell," said Barnaby.

   "I don't want to hear a Parseltongue tell a story." Snape smiled wickedly "even though Carter said that almost every Parseltongue traces back to Salazar Slytherin."

  Pomona was so shocked that she was speechless.

   But sit quietly and listen to Ben tell a story.

  (end of this chapter)