Chapter 345: Red Sea
Just now, the captain stopped the engine when the sightseeing boat tilted for the second time. He thought www.biquge.info part of the ship was faulty, so he was going to examine it carefully. Of course, he also heard exclamations from the deck and the sound of tourists falling overboard, but he believed that it was caused by two sudden tilts of the hull, and that the sightseeing boat was staffed with sailors and crew who would immediately rescue a tourist if he fell overboard. The captain thinks that in today's sunny weather, even if a tourist falls overboard, it will not be too much of a problem.
For a few minutes, the captain has been inspecting the important parts of the boat one by one, and he is confident that with his many years of experience in boating, he will soon be able to find the root cause of the fault and eliminate it.
But the crew's voice interrupted his inspection, and he turned his brow still tightly locked, as if he was still wondering what the cause of the failure was. Because from the process of their own inspection, no part of the ship is intact, and there is no obvious fault at all, "What did you just say, can you say it again?" ”
"It's an octopus! A giant octopus! The crew couldn't wait to say, he gestured with his hands, but as soon as his hands were raised in the air, he realized that he had only seen one tentacle of the octopus, and he didn't know how large the octopus's body was.
The captain's brow widened at this moment, he shook his head and smiled, "Giant octopuses only appear in the deep sea, but now that we are in the shallow sea, how big can the octopus living here be, about the same size as you?" The captain's face was full of ridicule, as if to say that this young crew member was too rare and strange. Even if the presence of a 'giant' octopus in the shallow waters resembling a human might make some unseen visitors scream, a trained crew member like him shouldn't be so alarmed.
The crew was so anxious that they were eager to leave the place on the sightseeing boat. At this moment, the tail of the sightseeing boat suddenly sank, as if it had been pressed against a thousand pounds of boulder in an instant, causing the wheelhouse where the crew and captain were located to be slightly cocked, almost volleying above the sea below.
The elderly captain was unsteady on his feet, and he grabbed the round rudder in front of him to stabilize his figure, and the captain muttered in disbelief, "What the hell, what the hell is going on this ship?" ”
The crew clutched a handle in the wheelhouse from beginning to end, knowing that the giant octopus would not let go of the cruise ship easily, as if in its eyes, the cruise ship had become its prey. The crew cried out in despair, "Oh God, it's here again!" ”
After seeing the crew's expressions, the captain realized that something was wrong, this was the third time that the hull had been abnormal, and it was still when the engine had been turned off. Even if the ship's parts were to fail, it would not have been possible to have the effect of the ship tilting upwards, and now it really seems to be a bit like the scene in a Hollywood movie where giant creatures in the sea attack a human ship.
The crew clutched the handle in the wheelhouse and remained motionless, cold sweat on their foreheads like beans, for fear that if they didn't exert a little force, they would be thrown out of the cruise ship and become a delicious meal in the mouth of an octopus.
"Get out of the way," said the captain, pushing the crew across his body, stepped out of the sloping wheelhouse, grasping at the railing on the ship's side, his deep eyes looking to the rear of the deck.
"Captain, come back quickly, it's dangerous outside!" The crew shouted loudly, but his hand still clung to the handle. He knew that the best time to escape had passed, and if the captain had started the engine in the first place, he might have been able to escape the range of the octopus's attack, but it was too late. The crew had just seen the octopus's red tentacles easily skimming the deck of the cruise ship, which showed that the places near the side of the ship were all dangerous areas, and the captain rushed out at this time, undoubtedly exposing himself to the octopus's attack range.
It was only then that the captain realized that in just a few minutes, his sightseeing boat had completely changed. The tourists who had been leaning on the deck railing to chat and sightsee were now long gone, and the deck, which occupied nearly half of the ship's space, was now empty, as if it had been emptied by a hand.
At this time, the stern of the boat continued to sink, and the place where the captain was standing was leaning more and more, and he had to hold on to the railing with both hands so that his body would not slide down the side of the boat. The squealing area in the center of the boat erupted, and the captain looked through the glass walls to see that almost all the tourists were crammed into the small space like canned sardines. The few who couldn't squeeze in were clinging to the glass wall, trying to get as far away as they could from the back of the boat.
Did you really run into a so-called giant creature, a huge red octopus? The captain's mind flashed through the thoughts, and although he heard the words of his own crew and saw the reactions of the dozens of tourists, the captain with sailing experience still did not believe that the giant octopus in the deep sea could appear near the shallow waters of Copenhagen.
Until there was a snap, as if a whip had been whipped across the water, and the captain saw a red shadow appear at the end of the deck. It stretched out from behind the sloping side of the ship, and then wrapped itself like a snake's tail around the iron post of the railing, the soft and tough tail twisting itself on the railing, and the large white suction cups at the mouth of the bowl were shocking.
The captain's expression suddenly stiffened like a statue, he never thought that what the crew said was actually true, what could make the whole ship tilt violently was really a giant octopus!
Although he only saw one tentacle of the octopus now, he could conclude from this tentacle that this octopus must be very large, and I am afraid that it can be compared to the sightseeing boat he pilots!
In fact, he had seen an octopus of this level once, when the captain was young, as a sailor traveling with an ocean-going ship. As they passed through the Pacific Ocean, they suddenly saw a red sea next to the ship, and at first the captain did not understand what caused this special sight, but when the red water grew larger and closer to the surface, he realized that it was a giant octopus slowly rising.
Almost all the passengers on the cruise ship saw the deep-sea creature at that time, and they let out a scream of excitement that even the young captain himself was eye-opening. The captain still remembers that scene from decades ago, but the octopus, despite its size, was still compared to the much larger man-made cruise ship. So after a short stay at the surface, the octopus dived back into the deep sea with great interest, but today, the situation he faced was completely different!