Steel steam and flame

From start to finish, Chillman witnessed with his own eyes how an entire ship's worth of people perished. He has always believed that as humans who control the entire Zuoxiang Continent, they can also raise dragons in captivity as a continuous supply of raw materials, which will definitely have many advantages.

Those who joined the ocean-going fleet were selected step by step, and Chilman was still deeply impressed by the many tests at the beginning. In terms of psychology and willpower, everyone involved must pass several tests and tests. Only after the results are evaluated and passed by a professional team can this be considered an important step in the selection process. Perhaps he did not take into account the impact and time of the past fifteen years. Afterwards, Chilman thought carefully about that incident.

The separation of the ship from the main fleet was not accidental, but someone did it deliberately. After deviating a little from the course, when the people in the control room realized that they could not receive the radio signal, the captain made a very correct decision and continued to sail at a slow speed and pretended that nothing happened, just like he had been doing for a month. , this ship always follows the edge of the main fleet.

But the news was bound to leak out, and it would happen much faster than the captain imagined. At first, the captain's words could provide a certain degree of comfort, but when some people realized that they were in an endless sea covered by fog, the panic that came over them was like the storm they had encountered in the past fifteen years. All the emotions of these people were knocked to the deck.

Chillman never understood why this kind of panic could spawn so many terrible things in just half a day. As long as it takes half a day for the fog to dissipate, it will be impossible to get out of the exploration range of the main fleet at the speed of the subsidiary ship. At that time, all you need to do is wait for the main fleet to send ships to rescue.

But the actual situation was completely different from what he imagined. Panic became a nutrient-rich hotbed, and various types of mold quickly grew on it. Half an hour later, the first conflict among the crew occurred, which was like a trigger, adding a layer of chaos to the panic, followed by despair. All kinds of desires are ignited under the fog like darkness.

In just two hours, the products of various desires were staged everywhere. The control room was destroyed soon after, and the weapons that had been hidden for several years were briefly brought out to breathe in the misty air.

When the stern caught fire, the flames became a driving force of death, keeping the dwindling crew together.

Bodies were everywhere, and every aisle was stained with fresh blood. Chillman had never thought that killing would be a good way to vent his emotions, but at that time, others told him with practical actions that this was the best thing to use to vent his emotions. Unstoppable, Chilman seemed to be a bystander, and then seemed to be infected. When he exited this state, he realized that he had become one of them, and that he was just a human being affected by the environment.

Half a day later, the fog dissipated, and the entire attached ship was engulfed in flames. As the only survivor of that ship, Chilman couldn't remember how many people he killed in the next hour or two. When he woke up, he only knew that he was in a lifeboat. He waited until about 4 p.m. before being taken away by other boats that came over to search.

What comes next is, of course, a full range of investigations and interrogations. All the information he had before entering the exploration fleet was printed out and used as a reference for this incident. Of course, the thoughtful Chillman understood that even if he told the truth in this situation, it would not bring him good results. After being locked up in a solitary room for a few days, something suddenly dawned on him. Fifteen years have passed, and the vast majority of people have changed subtly, and their consciousnesses have affected each other, so that not many people can detect the changes in the entire fleet. Perhaps only the people on the main ship of the Venetus can maintain it. Stay awake.

I am also one of those affected, but the difference is that the temperature required to ignite myself is higher.

And whether it was luck or not, Chilman did not tell the truth during the interrogation. He attributed the source of everything to this fog. Because it is known that there are certain substances in it that can affect radio communications, then whether these substances can affect the crew themselves, similar to a powerful hypnotic effect.

He was not released immediately, but three days later, when the same incident occurred on three other ships, Chilman saved his life. And as the only survivor on four ships where such things happened, Chillman was accidentally recruited into the temporary response team. Since then, Chillman has been one of the few people who was exposed to the first major loss from the outset.

Only one of the four ships was recovered intact. For the next ten days or so, everything seemed to be peaceful, and not a single incident occurred during this period. But in those ten days, the main fleet changed its course three times in a row. This action made many people see something abnormal.

"I remember it was the third time we changed course, five days later." Hilary and Nonoska seemed like a pair of good students tutoring each other.

Nonoska nodded, "It's the fifth day. It's a very unusual day, because the fog that has filled the air for a month and a half did not arrive that morning. Just when everyone thought they were out of the foggy area, at three o'clock that afternoon, the entire normal navigation In the fleet, I remembered the sound of explosions. At that time, I was still sorting out the records of those years of exploring unknown seas. When I heard the sound, I went to the deck and saw a large hole in an auxiliary ship, which was slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea. "

"At that time, everyone thought it was just a simple steam furnace explosion." Hillary's face was heavy. "In the next two days, the death toll in the entire fleet rose rapidly. By the third day, it had exceeded a thousand people. The situation of us surgeons was better. Among the ordinary crew members, panic actually began to spread after the incident on the auxiliary ship. What really made me feel terrible was that a crew member who had lived with me on the same ship for fifteen years died one night. Several people, their body parts scattered all over the dining hall."

"But fortunately, two days later, the floating island appeared within the observation range." Nonoska recalled, "I don't know whether it was good or bad."

"Although it brought about the first major loss incident, I think the result is good. After all, that is the source, otherwise with the continued impact, I don't think we will have better results in another situation. And we will continue to do so in the future. During the voyage, it was on that floating island that I first saw ancient ruins and strange writings about the continental group."

"There is also an agreement about the ancient historical era." Nonoska reminded, "It provides some conjecture directions for us to guess the destruction after the ancient historical era."