Chapter 3: Winter (3)
The metal door opened and closed, and Lin Sheng entered the freezer. This is the deepest part of the cold room, and no one usually comes.
Lin Sheng stood in front of the rusty iron door, his eyes glancing around. The walls on both sides are made of hard steel, and chandeliers hang from them, and pale golden lights shine down from the walls until the end of the passage. At the end is a pitch-black gate inlaid with golden glazed tiles, which are staggered and distributed on the metal door, and are painted in the shape of a dragon.
Lin Sheng walked over and pushed the door, which was locked.
"Ymir, can you open it?" Lin Sheng said.
"The door is encrypted, and the code is known only to the captain. But...... It's not hard for me. ”
"Drop-" Ymir's voice hadn't quite fallen, and the light on the door had turned from red to blue. With a "click", the access was brushed off by Ymir. The pitch-black gate slowly swirled and retreated to both sides with a "boom". It's like a seal that has been sealed for countless years has been quietly opened.
"Alert!" Ymir reminded.
"Poof!" With a bang, without its signal, the exquisite box in Lin Sheng's hand had been bounced open in an instant, and the two silver-white desert eagles lying inside were completely exposed.
"Riot", "Black Kite". (Note: The "Black Kite" is a pistol in the Shadow of Chernobyl series in the game Stalker, originally named 'Big Ben')
The body of the gun made of sterling silver, a large caliber of 0.357, has a capacity of 9 rounds, a range of 200 meters, and an extremely fast discharge speed of up to 378 meters per second. It is powerful and produced in Israel.
"Smack!"
Lin Sheng threw away the exquisite box, and the desert eagle inside was held by him. The icy metallic texture passed from his hands, and every cell in his body began to cheer.
He's excited, yes. The excitement does not come from emotions, but is mobilized by every cell in his body, every drop of blood. He's like a natural warrior, and fighting only makes his blood boil even more.
The cold fog was spreading, and the icy mist began to rise slowly. In the cabin, Lin Sheng held two silver-white desert eagles alof, and looked around with cold eyes.
On the way, thousands of handicrafts are stacked on carved cherry wood shelves, the cabin roof is a marble ceiling, and the walls are covered with mica stone chandeliers. The light was very faint, hazy on the wooden frame, like the taillights of a car when it was fogging.
What kind of cold room is this? It's a huge treasure trove!
Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna of the Rocks, Michelangelo's Genesis, and even Queen Elizabeth's St. Edward's Crown are stacked on shelves. If this is known to the world, there is no doubt how many people will go crazy about it.
"The first captain of the Miracle seemed to know the origin of the dragon eggs, so he placed the 'eggs' in the bilge and sent his most trusted crew to guard them." Ymir's voice came at the right time.
"But he overestimated the vigilance of the most trusted crew." Lin Sheng's face was unwavering, and he said lightly.
The defense system on the Miracle is truly top-notch, with patrolling ship-wide searches every ten minutes. If it weren't for Ymir, it would have taken him more than half a day to hack into the Miracle's fire protection system.
However, after entering the cold room, it went well, he just pretended to be a wine delivery guy sent by the captain, and in a few strokes poured the old man of the guard to the ground.
Ymir smiled and didn't retort. Its voice has a characteristic magnetism, and because it is synthesized by the system, it can sound a little hoarse.
"Edward von Johann Smith, the first captain of the Miracle, was an Englishman, a wealthy merchant, and half French. He bought the Miracle in Russia in 1974 and began to travel the world. Ymir memorized all this information mechanically, and it wasn't difficult for him to find it.
Anyone, as long as he has existed in this world, there will always be a trace.
"I'm afraid it's not just about traveling around the world." Lin Sheng accosted.
"Yes." "Since the Miracle was acquired by Edward, the ship has rarely been near land. Except for some necessary special supplies, it travels back and forth between the north and south poles in winter and summer every year according to a fixed pattern, and has continued unchanged for 44 years. ”
"If they were just ordinary ships, they could have sailed into Australia or the South China Sea to dock and recuperate, and they didn't have to sail directly from the South Pole across the Pacific Ocean to the North Pole. Because that would cause a lot of unnecessary trouble. Running at sea for a long time will bring a lot of mental torture to the crew, which can easily make them suffer from depression and become very emotionally unstable. Ymir paused for the last moment, "So I reasoned...... Maybe it wasn't that Edward didn't want the Miracle to dock at the time, but that he ...... Don't dare to dock. “
"Don't dare to dock?" Lin Sheng repeated his words and frowned.
In this world, in addition to human beings, there is actually another civilization, an ancient civilization that is far older than human beings and far more powerful than human beings...... Orcs.
The Orcs are a race composed entirely of beasts, and they have a wide range of races, whether it is the snake in the Atrium in Norse mythology or the ancient dragons in Chinese mythology, they are just one of the beasts, just one of them.
The number of orcs is very large, and if you have to distinguish them according to their strength, they can be divided into three levels.
Beast slave, beast species, king.
Beast Slaves are the lowest rank among the beasts, and although they are very numerous, they usually gather in the realm of some beast species, and obey the orders of the beast species. Their status is somewhat similar to that of soldiers in ancient times, while the beasts are the generals who rule over them. Their strength is weaker than that of the beast species, and the degree of strength can probably be compared to the werewolves in the Western heretical texts.
The existence of the beast species is higher than that of the beast slave, and its strength can even be compared to that of the king. Although their number is relatively small, there are only about two hundred. But relative to the beast slaves, every beast species is the backbone of the beast clan, and can be regarded as the elite of the elite in the beast clan. And as for the king......
The king's position is supreme and the most noble symbol among the beasts. They are superior to all species in the world, both in bloodline and strength, and few are able to fight them.
And it is precisely because of this that during the dark years, the orcs occupied almost the entire world, and countless races were enslaved by them, and later people called that period of time the "dark ages", because all races were shrouded in the shadow of the orcs. Including humans.
Therefore, in this world, it is not allowed to hide the "eggs" of dragons, or any beast "eggs" that do not belong to "this" world, whether in the real world or in this covered world, once discovered, what awaits them will be the most severe sanctions.
"The orcs are too powerful, and if they wake up from their slumber, it will ...... to humans ...... to the world It's all a disaster. Yumir's voice sounded from the silence, as if it had traveled from the primeval era and reached Lin Sheng's ears.
"I know," Lin Sheng said with a firm look in his eyes, "this is my duty...... It's our job...... We...... Never back down. ”
"Dada-da-da!" The woman's footsteps began to become hurried, and she ran quickly down the corridor, like an antelope being chased by a lion, panicked.
"Wait, ma'am!" The captain was out of breath. He couldn't understand why a woman in a court dress could run faster than a man. He thought that the woman should be frightened, but he didn't know why.
"Hey, stop!" The captain's face changed suddenly, and he raised his two arms and waved them in the air, "Stop! Stop, ma'am! ”
A loud scream shook the entire cabin, and the crew woke up from their slumber, and one by one poked their heads out of the windows to see what was the impudent guy yelling. But when they saw the captain's figure, they immediately wilted again, and collectively retracted their heads timidly.
"Strange, what is the captain running to the deck on the big night?" Some of the curious crew members muttered quietly.
"It's like chasing a woman." Another crew member spoke.
"Won't it?" Some people don't believe it, "After the old captain left, he never saw the captain have a heart for any woman." ”
"Who knows, maybe he figured it out out of the blue?"
The crew chattered as if Columbus had discovered a new world, and they didn't feel sleepy for a while.
"Damn, is this woman crazy? It's a bulwark, a bulwark! Does she want to jump into the sea?"
The crew was teasing, but the captain was so anxious that he jumped to his feet. The woman was mad, but ten cows couldn't pull it.
The silver-gray sheen bulwarks were rested in the wind, and the frenzied cold wind blew it "whirring". It was as if someone had stuck a dagger in the vent, and the sharp blade split the air flow in half.
The woman is still running wildly, at this moment she is only two or three meters away from the side of the ship, this distance is close to her, and the woman is in danger!
For a moment the captain was furious. If you can't even catch up with a woman, what kind of man is you! He didn't want to wake up tomorrow morning and hear his crew talking about his "brilliant deeds" from last night.
"Bastard!" The captain angrily threw aside the captain's hat on his head, and the muscles of his whole body began to contract rapidly, and his body, which was originally loose because of casualness, seemed to be tensed to the extreme in an instant. It's like a male lion who hasn't hunted for years, suddenly ready to pounce on its prey.
"Boom!" There was a loud bang from the hard deck, the roar of the deck as the captain struggled to pedal. In an instant, his figure disappeared into the darkness, and when he reappeared, it was behind the woman.
With a "poof", he took the woman into his arms, fell sideways to the side, and slammed it on the ground.
The captain was already very tall, but he usually kept his body bent, so he looked so thin.
But now, the lion that had been silent for many years has finally awakened, and it has once again shown its due edge.
"Boom!" The sound of metal shook, and the hull of the ship shook violently and let out a long roar. The captain fell to the ground on his side, his face aching from the cold deck.
I haven't moved my muscles and bones for many years, but I am tired enough to choke after suddenly running, which is really a loss. He thought.
But before he could finish complaining, the woman slipped out of his arms like a loach.
Yes, he read that right, just use "slippery"!
He was stunned for a moment, and there was a slimy feeling in his hands, wet, a bit like the adhesive fluid of kelp when it was fished out of the deep sea.
"This ...... What?" In a trance, he raised his head and looked at the woman with dull eyes. At this time, the woman had already stood up, she was facing the captain, and her whole person was pressed against the bulwark, her eyes were hollow, showing a dark green, like a deep cold spring.
The captain was on his back, and suddenly he felt like he was being watched by a wild beast, and the fear that came from the soul began to take over his body.
That's definitely not a human eye! In other words, the woman standing in front of him is not human at all!
"Giggles!"
An eerie laugh seemed to float from the sea and echo around the Miracle, very low, but with a frivolous cheerfulness, as if mocking the captain's ignorance.
(End of chapter)