"Oh?"

"The first day of the fleet was spent safely." The old drunkard swept his eyes, saw that there was still half a bottle of unfinished wine left on the ground, and swallowed his saliva. After seeing Zhang Meng nodding, he hurriedly picked up the wine bottle and drank it all, before he had the courage to say: "The second mate saw that there was no accident the next day, so he completely relieved his mind and never took what he saw that night seriously." But the second mate didn't know at the time that the scene he saw had already begun to appear in the entire fleet one after another. ”

"One after another?" Ye Jiu frowned slightly.

"Yes." The old drunkard took a long breath and continued, "Actually, this second mate only learned about it after the incident. ”

"So what the hell happened?" Zhao San asked.

In the face of Zhao San's questioning, the old drunkard poured a whole bottle of vodka before he dared to speak loudly: "The next day, the same black shadow was found on another battleship, but the people on that battleship didn't care. On the third day, another battleship spotted the shadow and reported it to the fleet commander like the first second officer to discover it, but was also reprimanded. On the fourth day, when the entire fleet had sailed to the high seas, two more warships spotted the shadow. After discovering such a strange thing for a few days in a row, the rumor immediately spread in the fleet, and after such a breath, the first second mate knew that things were not as simple as he imagined. The black shadow did not disappear, but got closer and closer to everyone. The second officer knew that things were not good, so he found the deputy commander of the fleet, who was quite wise and courageous, and immediately sent several warships to wait for the rabbit at night. ”

"And then?" Zhang Meng asked.

"Later......" The old drunkard looked confused, and seemed to still be unable to see what was going on: "When it was dark, several battleships that had long been ready for battle deliberately drove to the periphery of the fleet. ”

"Did you see this ghost ship?"

"Nope." The old drunkard shook his head: "Not only that, but not even half a ghost." ”

"If someone finds a dark shadow one after another, they can't all be mistaken, right?" Zhao San thought for a while and said, "Is something weird happening again?" ”

"That's right." The old drunkard's expression was grim, and his face was a little pale: "Although the second officer and the deputy commander pounced, neither of them dared to be careless, they both felt the seriousness of the matter, and they were going to send a few more ships to take a look the next day." ”

"Hmm."

"But what the other two people didn't expect was that their private use of warships was discovered by the commander-in-chief, and the two were immediately dismissed, and then without even listening to the explanations of the two, the two and the officers and soldiers involved in the matter were sent back to China overnight."

"Huh." Hearing this, Zhao San sneered: "I thought that this kind of officialdom was only known to our ancestors? I didn't expect Lao Maozi to have this kind of jealous and jealous master. ”

The old drunkard couldn't understand Zhao San's words, and Gongsun Sheng didn't translate them.

The old drunkard continued: "But not long after the two of them left the fleet, they heard the bad news of the fleet. ”

"Bad news, what's the bad news?" Zhang Meng's heart chuckled.

The two had just left the fleet for a day, and before they had returned to Vladivostok, they were startled by the fierce artillery fire behind them, and the two hurriedly turned the ship around and went back to check. But the whole sea was empty, only scattered fragments, and the battlefield baptized by artillery fire. ”

"Ugh." Zhang Meng was stunned and said: "So, is it the bad news that the fleet has been wiped out?" ”

"Hmm." The old drunkard nodded: "Then they finally caught a sailor in the sea who still had a breath left, and the sailor told the two of them before he died, and on the night after they left, the black shadow appeared again, and this time it was even stranger than the previous times, because the black shadow had rushed into the interior of the fleet without realizing it." When the sailors found out, they immediately told the fleet commander, who remembered the advice of the second officer and the deputy commander, and feared that the two would use this incident to suppress him, so he immediately ordered the black shadow to be completely destroyed. ”

"So the sound of artillery fire was actually their own fire?" Zhao San shook his head helplessly: "It is estimated that the destruction of the entire fleet was actually caused by their own loose discipline and accidental damage by artillery fire, which is the same as what happened to the Daming Naval Division." ”

"Da Ming Water Master?" Hearing Zhao San say this casually, Zhang Meng vaguely felt that these things of the Japanese might really have something to do with the Ming Dynasty. However, Zhang Meng did not interrupt the old drunkard's words.

"It's true that most of them were injured by mistake." The old drunkard continued: "But the root cause is still that dark shadow. It was precisely because of this black shadow that suddenly appeared in the fleet that it caused accidental damage from firing. And at that time, the Black Shadow Ship, when it encountered a cannonball, it was like having eyes, and it was wandering around the fleet, you said this was not a ghost ship, what was it? ”

Faced with the old drunkard's questioning, no one responded.

Only Zhang Meng continued: "How do you know that the black shadow is the Japanese battleship in front of you?" In the story you mentioned, the shadows appeared at night, and most of the sailors were killed, so there's no reason to see it, right? ”

"It was the surviving sailor who said it before he died."

After listening to the old drunkard's account, everyone looked at each other.

Zhang Meng said: "Even if what you say is true, how do you know such details? Didn't you say that no one survived? ”

Hearing Zhang Meng's inquiry, the old drunkard took another sip of wine and sighed: "I am the son of the second mate, and it is precisely because of this incident that not only the war situation in East Asia has changed, but even the trajectory of my life has changed." The Russian tsar finally announced that the fleet was missing, but in fact, no one knew that it was a halberd and sunk in the sand, and all of them were buried in this sea. ”

Hearing the old drunkard's stunned tone, although everyone was a little sympathetic, they were more puzzled by this matter.

Maybe it's not just the second mate, but even those who listen to the story will find this incredible.

"No, no." After a pause, Zhang Meng seemed to remember something, and hurriedly interrupted Gongsun Sheng's translation and said: "If I'm not mistaken, didn't that old drunkard say when he went to sleep at that time, according to our established sailing route, he shouldn't have been able to touch the thing in his mouth, why did we encounter this ship now?" ”

"This." Gongsun Sheng didn't seem to think of this question, and when he heard Zhang Meng say this, he hurriedly turned around and asked the old drunkard.

Hearing Gongsun Sheng's question, the old drunkard also shook his head in confusion, lest Zhang Meng and the others not believe it, and muttered unclear Russian in his mouth, desperately explaining for himself.

Seeing that what he said didn't look like a fake, everyone looked at each other, as if asking what to do next.

Looking at the people around him, Zhang Meng looked at Ye Jiu's sharp gaze again, and a firm sense of trust arose in his heart, and he nodded after a moment and said, "I decided to listen to Brother Jiu'er, so let's see what kind of ghost is haunting this sea!" ”