The people who fell on the deck were only traumatic injuries, and nothing else. Alebayo led the men to push the strange man's body into the sea to prevent anything else from happening.

Now the most troublesome thing is that the second sail of the ship is gone, and the speed of the ship has slowed down a lot.

Zhang Xiaohu was worried that there were other weirdos hiding on the ship, so he took advantage of this riot to clear them together.

It was later confirmed that Zhang Xiaohu thought too much, except for those few weirdos, everyone else on the ship was able to tell their origins and names, and some were similar to Zhang Xiaohu's situation, all of them came here at the same time.

Having solved the problems inside the ship, they began to seriously consider how to deal with the problem of the great replacement, according to the past practice, there are still 9 days of darkness, this time is the most difficult to hold, the situation on the bottom of the sea is too complicated.

Because there is no change of sun and moon, everyone has long not known what time it is, and the personnel on duty have been arranged to ensure the normal navigation of the ship, and everyone else has returned to the cabin to rest.

Zhang Xiaohu was carried back to his bed, but he was also a little tired. Recently, he has no time to take care of sleep, and now his body is a little overwhelmed.

When he was about to close his eyes and prepare to rest, the door was suddenly opened, Peng Jiadong walked in with a serious face, sat on the side of Zhang Xiaohu's bed, patted him gently, and said, "Hey, captain!" Don't sleep yet, I have something big to tell you. Just now, there were a lot of people outside, and it was always inconvenient, so I was worried that others would panic if they heard it. ”

Zhang Xiaohu opened his eyes, moved his body, and said, "What's the matter?" ”

"Big deal!" Peng Jiadong said nervously: "Our compass is out of order!" ”

"What, when did you find out?" Zhang Xiaohu was shocked, in this period of great replacement, it was impossible to judge the direction by the direction of the sun, moon and stars, and relied on the compass to indicate the direction. If the compass had failed, wouldn't they have been blind and completely lost at sea.

"That's how the big replacement began, but the eldest brother wasn't convinced, and tried a few more times, and now it has been confirmed that it has failed." Peng Jiadong said.

"What kind of situation?" Zhang Xiaohu asked.

Peng Jiadong took out a palm-sized compass from his arms, which not only indicated the north and south, but also displayed several other information such as direction and scale, with a long and two short on it, a total of three pointers, the longest of which was shaking slightly.

"I'm not going to look at this thing!" Zhang Xiaohu said helplessly: "Just explain to me what went wrong." ”

Peng Jiadong explained: "You will find out in a minute! ”

The two men stared at the compass, and in a few minutes, the long hand began to slowly sway, faster and faster, and soon began to rotate rapidly in the indicator dial.

But after four or five breaths, the hand stopped again and began to shake slightly.

Zhang Xiaohu clearly remembers that the direction pointed by the pointer before was completely different from now. He rubbed his eyes and confirmed, "I remember it wasn't pointing in this direction before?" ”

Peng Jiadong nodded and confirmed: "Yes!" It's not this direction, so it's troublesome, if the compass can't fix the direction, then it's out of order. ”

Zhang Xiaohu said: "Could it be that this is broken, is there anything else on the ship?" In fact, after saying that, he himself knew the answer. Alebayo and Peng Jiadong and others are all extremely experienced veteran sailors, how could they not think of using other methods to detect them.

Peng Jiadong was able to come to him and explain that they had tried other methods.

The door was opened again, and Alebayo also walked in, and he said, "Young Master Zhang, Jia Dong told you, right?" You know where we are now, we are probably already off course, so we will not be able to reach the island you mentioned. The most important thing is that if we keep drifting like this, we won't be able to hold on to the arrival of the day. It's likely that we've been going round and round! ”

"Two uncles, you have been living in the sea for many years, is there no other way?" Zhang Xiaohu didn't believe that these old sailors would not know other methods.

"Of course we know some other methods that can be used in times of emergency, but now this situation is really peculiar, we can't see the stars, so we don't use them to justify; It is a great change, and there is no sun to determine the position; The most terrible thing is that the position of the moon is fixed now, and in the end, the method of relying on the moon cannot be realized. That's why the two of us came to you to see if you had any other options? Alebayo said sincerely.

"Uncle, I have no other way, I was born in an inland city, hundreds of kilometers away from the sea, let alone sailing on the sea in a boat." Zhang Xiaohu said helplessly.

"If you think about it again, Jiadong and they have been praising you and saying that you have a lot of ideas. Didn't you just follow your idea and solve a big crisis? ”

Zhang Xiaohu couldn't smile bitterly, are these people going to kill themselves? Why do people think they have more ideas?

He had never thought about it that way, but he felt as if his ideas had never been fully realized, and there would be some problems every time.

He heard in his ears that there seemed to be waves on the sea outside the deck, and he wondered if it was the monsters lurking in the water, who couldn't bear their hunger, and wanted to come out again to look for opportunities.

Ocean wave! The waves, he had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and hurriedly said: "By the way, Mr. Alebayo, I remember that the tide of the sea seems to have a fixed trajectory, can we use this to identify our direction!" ”

Alebayo pondered for a while, and then said, "We can try this method, so let's go out and see the situation on the sea, and then remember the changes in the ocean currents along the way, maybe this method can really help us get out of this predicament!" He patted Zhang Xiaohu with his rough big hand and said with a smile: "Look, you have many methods, you can't come up with one right away." You're going to have a good rest here, and ah, let's think of a few more spare. ”

After speaking, Alai Bayo left with Peng Jiadong and returned to the cockpit. They also need to carefully look through the voyage diary, analyze the changes in the ocean currents along the way, and then analyze which direction they will go further according to the trend of the ocean currents, combined with the current situation. That's the only thing they can do at the moment.

For the rest of the ship, they had no idea what the Goddess was facing.

It's just that because of the endless night and the crises all around, everyone consciously reduced their solo actions, and they all gathered together in small groups, guarding the dark room, and passing the time with each other.

Since entering the period of great replacement, all the lighting materials on board have been managed and distributed in a unified manner. Priority must be given to ensuring that there is light on the deck, and as for the other rooms, it is better to reduce wear and tear.

In the past few days, Zhang Xiaohu's injury has recovered a lot, because he no longer has to be tired, he finally got enough rest and leisure.

The injury in his abdomen is no longer so painful, and now he doesn't need the help of others, he can walk slowly, but he can't exercise vigorously yet.

He looked out the window at the dark sea every day, always thinking about his missing companions, and wondering what was going on and whether they were still alive.

Did Zhao Zixuan reach the top of the mountain, did he enter the aircraft? If he entered, why didn't he rescue everyone in the first place! These questions linger in his mind all the time, and he can't be quiet at any time.

But the only good thing is that Ma Xiao's state has stabilized a lot, and now he is no longer so neurotic, and he can chat with people calmly for a few days, but he is still extremely sensitive to some things, especially when asked what has happened to him for so many years, he will enter that neurotic feeling again, curled up in a ball, and trembling.

Zhang Xiaohu was also helpless, so he had to continue to wait patiently.