Section 772 Shipwreck at the bottom of the lake
The water is stagnant and full of foul odors. When the fluorite falls, you can clearly see the black flocculent floating in the water.
Soon, the fluorite hit the bottom.
The huge shadow at the bottom of the lake also revealed its true colors.
"It's ...... Boat?" The tattered canvas stuck to the wooden posts, wilting and composing in the water. The bare mast frame, the black sediment, and the looming cabin all indicate that this is a shipwreck.
Shipwrecks are not unusual, but it is strange to sink at the bottom of this lake.
The area of this lake is not small, but Ingres has circled it before and has not found any outlet to the sea. There are no tributaries to connect to the sea outside, how did the ship sink, or rather, how did the ship get to the lake?
There will never be a boatwright who somehow repairs a boat by this lake, only to find that he can't get out after repairing the boat, and finally simply sinks.
It's a possibility, and Ingres thinks he's stupid just thinking about it.
No boatsmith would have made it to a dead lake to repair a ship, and from the moment I had just glimpsed it, it was supposed to be a cargo ship. The journey of the cargo ship is an endless ocean, and it is impossible to live in this small lake.
So how did the ship come about?
Angel decided to go down to the lake to explore.
The purification field turned on, shielding out the surrounding filth, and Angel circled around the bottom of the lake to make sure that there was no so-called secret passage in the lake, and then returned to the shipwreck.
The shipwreck is located right in the center of the lake, and when you look down at the lake, you feel that the ship is huge. But in real close contact under the water, the size of this ship is not as big as imagined, and it is even smaller than the Yunluo, probably about the same as the Lingfan.
The standard of the ship is indeed a freighter, but it is a ship of which era, Ingres cannot tell. If Helen or Alwyn were here, they would probably be able to give the answer.
Angels went into the cabin and found that it was full of foul-smelling black flocculents, and in the light of the fluorite, there was nothing to prove the ship's identity.
When Angels came to the basement, he found that the midline stringer of the keel was broken, and broken wood was floating in the water.
Judging from the cracks, it seems to be a strong impact that caused the stringer to break.
But the scar was at the bottom of the ship, and there was hardly anything that could inflict such a big impact except for the giant sea beast. But there are no sea beasts in this lake, not even living creatures.
So where did this crack in the bottom of the ship come from?
Aside from a skeleton, Ingres could not find anything of value on board. Even the cargo on the ship was empty, and the captain's room was nothing.
Angel had no choice but to give up and return to the lake.
Aside from the origin of this ship, there are currently two doubts about this ship. Why did it sink to the bottom of a dead lake with no way out, and who caused the keel break at the bottom of the ship?
There are no sea beasts in the lake, so where does the bottom-up impact come from?
"It can't fall from the sky, does it?" Ingres muttered, and suddenly the whole person was stunned.
A flash of inspiration flashed through his mind, as if he had captured some clue.
He hung silently in the air, seemingly motionless, but in his brain, the box of memories was rapidly flipping through memories of the past and combining them with what he had seen when he entered the area.
"Why can't it have fallen from the sky? Doesn't the fact that the Ling Fan can go from here to the Misty Zone, and then disappear from the Misty Zone back here? Angels opened his mind, guessing the possible facts.
Ingres looked up at the pitch black sky.
Perhaps this strange area is extremely unstable, and from time to time a ship falls into it. And one day, a crack in space appeared above the lake, and the boat fell directly from a high altitude.
Then the violent impact caused the bottom rails to break, causing the ship to wreck.
"Falling from the sky explains why the cargo ship is in a lake with no tributaries. It can also explain why the bottom of the ship is broken. ”
Ingres's gaze wandered to the iron pot on the shore stand, and his mind made up a picture. Perhaps when the ship fell, all the people inside had not yet died, but some people had survived, swam to the shore, and built a stove.
"But even if someone survives, there is no food to be found in this dead place. In the end, there must be only death. Ingres thought to himself that perhaps the bones of those who survived were nearby.
There is no light, there is no food, even the water is dirty. They must have been injured and couldn't run far.
Sure enough, after a while, Toby brought back two white bones from a few hundred meters away.
It is worth mentioning that Angels found an iron box necklace around the neck of a skeleton. This kind of iron box necklace, he once saw some sailors on the Yunluo wearing the same necklace.
The sailors themselves knew very well that they would have to endure precarious consequences when they begged for a living at sea. Therefore, leaving a suicide note when setting sail is a must.
And this iron box necklace is actually similar to a suicide note, and the iron box generally contains the personal information of sailors and precious items. The sailors hoped that if their bones were to be found, the discoverer would be able to identify him through the contents of the tin box and return their bones to their homeland.
The precious items in the iron box are the trading materials they prepared for the discoverers.
If the discoverer takes the precious item, it means that he has taken the promise, but if he only takes the item and does nothing, he will suffer the curse of the deceased in retaliation. Of course, this is just a legend and has no basis.
The boat at the bottom of the lake, Angel can't find a clue. He thought about it, maybe he could find some clues in this tin box necklace.
The tin box is not large, estimated to be one-third the size of an adult's palm. The iron sheet on the outside has decayed, revealing mottled traces of rusty red.
The tin box was opened, freeing up a cloud of dust. After the dust settled, the contents of the box appeared in front of Angel's eyes.
A ruby ring with a broken pattern, and a piece of parchment folded to a very small size.
The ring is a mortal thing, and it is estimated that it is the money to buy bones and return home.
Angels opened the parchment to see who the man was and whether it had anything to do with the shipwreck.
At the top of the parchment, the identity of the owner of the skeleton is recorded, named Goblin Frando, whose hometown is in the Red Maple Country in the Magic Eaves Corridor......
The personal information is neatly written, presumably written before setting sail. But at the bottom of the profile, it is written in an extremely sloppy manner, which should have been hastily confessed before his death, which shows that the state of mind of this Geblin was not calm when it was recorded.
When Angel read everything, his expression flashed.
His guess was correct.
The shipwreck, named Yefu, was originally a cargo ship bound for the Ferran continent from the Devil's Eaves Corridor, but when it passed through the Gear Abyss, it suddenly fell into a fog, and before they could react, it fell from the sky and smashed into this dead lake. The ship fell, and the people died. Geblin survived, but lacked water, and held out here for a while, writing this passage, and sleeping here forever with the Yefu.
In addition to this information, Ingres obtained two additional pieces of information from the parchment.
One is time, the time when the Yefu fell into this lake is three hundred years ago, which is actually not that long. The second is that Geblin wrote a sentence in a puzzled tone in the last row:
"Am I dazzled? Why, I see a shadow that resembles the legendary King of Violence?"
The legendary King of Tyranny?
If this wasn't a hallucination of Goblin before he died, does it mean that there was another person here?
Angel suddenly remembered the black shadow he saw not long ago, could it be that black shadow is the so-called king of violence?
If it really is, then the other party has lived for hundreds of years.
Whether it is or not, Angels also cheered up the spirit of twelve, and in this strange place, he could not relax at all.
Stuffing the parchment and ring back into the tin box and putting them back on the skeleton's neck, he had no intention of bringing Goblin's skeleton back to his homeland. If the Magic Eaves Corridor is a place where he can go along the way, it doesn't hurt for him to do good deeds, but unfortunately the Magic Eaves Corridor is far from the Enlightenment Continent he wants to go to.
As Ingres prepares to leave the lake, the pressure of the wizard makes him feel like a negative mountain, and he must find Lucas's treasure as soon as possible before leaving here.
With Toby with him, Angel continued to gallop down.
It didn't take long for them to leave the mountainous area, and at the same time Angel had a vague sense of the other side of the island. Because the smell of the wind was even stronger, which meant that they were not far from the sea.
In this area, Ingres also walked around, and there was no sign of anyone except dead wood.
But when Angels emerged from a withered palm grove, his expression suddenly froze.
In front of him was the coast, but it was much more lively than the shore behind the cliff where the Fan had run aground. Because in Ingres' line of sight, he saw countless ...... Boat!
All kinds of ships, expedition ships, icebreakers, freighters, cruise ships, sailboats, pirate ships...... There are almost everything, but these ships are all full of stale atmosphere, and they are almost exactly the same as the Feather Fan, and they all die here.
Some of the ships also have the glow of fluorite, which makes the coast not look bleak.
But the light of these fluorites, combined with this lifeless ship, is heart-wrenching. It's like in a dark mountain forest, you can't see anything, but at this time, a pile of phosphorus fire suddenly rises, and the horror will be even more magnified.
"This is the graveyard of the ship. Ingres whispered.
If it was because of the instability of the space, the Yefu fell into this strange dead place. But even if it was unstable, it should have landed in various areas, just like the Yefu and the Lingfan, instead of all piling up on this coast?
Moreover, Ingres flew in a straight line from the other end of the island where the Feather Fan was located, and in the process he found no place to hide the treasure. It can't be said that this ship's tomb is Lucas's treasure, right?
Angel was completely confused.
There are more and more mysteries surrounding this strange island.