Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Mysterious Island
Any ship is small in front of nature, and once a storm exceeds its limit, it can cause damage or even capsizing.
Some people think that as long as the technical content is high and the precision requirements are high, then modern ships can go head-to-head with storms of any level. However, this view is absolutely wrong, and the aircraft carriers do not dare to make such guarantees......
So, fate is not forever unfamiliar with creating dramatic effects and climactic scenes, and the ship is rightfully finished.
Everything happened very quickly and suddenly, Mo Chen didn't even have time to go back to pack his luggage, and the two swells set up the cruise ship, letting it be crushed by his own gravity.
Immediately after that, a huge wave entered the cabin, causing the entire ship to sink rapidly.
The torrential rain was falling frantically, and the bright lightning swam like a silver snake through the cracks of the dark clouds, illuminating the whole sea again and again, and the rumbling thunder was deafening, as if it could pierce one's eardrums.
The heavy rain became more and more crazy, the dark sky seemed to collapse, and the black and oppressive sea was even more choppy, and the undercurrent was surging.
The waves of several meters high were wave after wave, Mo Chen was in this apocalyptic scene, drifting with the waves in the huge waves, if any huge waves hit him, he would dive under the water in advance to avoid the terrible force blow.
Lightning streaked through the clouds, and the electric light stretched through the overlapping clouds, like a giant python or dragon snake swimming behind the clouds, and the light reflected by the scales was the thunder that could briefly illuminate the entire sea.
The sky seemed to have cracked countless openings, and the torrential rain merged into a waterfall, pouring down towards the sea, smashing people almost without opening their eyes.
Mo Chen's condition was okay, he was not panicked, and calmly dealt with everything that happened. Even in the icy waters, he had room to help pull a drowning man nearby.
In the intermittent lightning, a column of rising and falling heads appeared on the rising waves, struggling desperately and dancing against the water, screaming in panic.
It's just that in front of the angry energy and terrifying power of this violent nature, Mo Chen really can't do more.
Even he himself, except for the cube and the folding knife, the two most important items on his body, which he carried with him, and he still hadn't lost anything.
However, with his sense of magic, Mo Chen could feel that his luggage was not too far away from him, which meant that the location of the wreck was nearby.
From just now to now, at least he has not been carried by the storm and turbulence to push too far.
"Nearby!! Is there anyone else?! β
I don't know how long it has been, after pushing the last drowning person in his vision onto a broken wooden plank, while struggling between the waves and peaks with some effort, Mo Chen shouted at the top of his voice, and then pricked up his ears to listen.
But all that responded to him was the sound of crazy rain or roaring thunder.
Or maybe someone else was crying out for help, but his own voice would be drowned out by the background of the raging storm, so it was almost impossible to expect other people's cries for help to be heard.
He sighed, only to feel that his face had been numbed by the dense raindrops the size of beans, and suddenly there was a loud sound in the sky, and the thunder echoed between the heavens and the earth, as if shaking the entire ocean.
Seeing a three-story high wave peak rising high and about to fall with a bang - Mo Chen took a deep breath, and then a fierce man plunged under the surface of the sea.
For a moment, he felt as if he had ushered in the silence of the whole world.
Storms and waves are raging above the sea, but below the sea floor is another extreme.
Calm, very calm, as if you had suddenly arrived in another place. The effects of a storm begin to weaken after reaching a certain level of depth, and quickly become mild until they disappear completely.
The waters in the depths of the seabed are very calm, with turbulent currents and turbulent waters only present in areas close to the surface of the sea.
Mo Chen squinted his eyes and turned on the spell state of void perception, searching the surrounding sea area as keenly as radar, and according to the faint magic sense, he continued to move in a certain direction.
He is not yet a fish lifeform, so it is unlikely that he can breathe underwater on his own bodily functions, but with his enhanced physical fitness, holding his breath for a long time is no problem.
The world record for the longest time to hold your breath in the water is said to be twenty-two minutes, held by the Dane Stig-Severinsen. Nicknamed "The Man Who Doesn't Need to Breathe", he holds several records in diving.
And the key to controlling his breathing is his "Zen" technique.
Mo Chen didn't know whether this matter was true or not, because if the brain was deprived of oxygen for a long time, it should cause irreversible damage. Lack of oxygen can lead to loss of consciousness for about eight to fifteen seconds, and coma for more than six to ten minutes, and brain death in severe cases.
This is supposed to be a world record of inhaling more oxygen in advance to assist in breath-holding, that is, before the test, oxygen will be specially inhaled or something.
However, Mo Chen didn't have that kind of conditions, and he didn't test his limits, but he kept holding his breath and diving, diving quickly in a certain direction under the surface of the sea, like a big fish that was nimble.
And after two minutes or so, he didn't feel any discomfort, and this breath seemed to be able to hold for a long time.
In the process, he also discovered the land at the bottom of the sea, which was only about 20 or 30 meters deep from the surface of the sea, and the slope was not uneven, as if it was a sign of land or islands nearby.
After all, it's an ocean, not a river or lake. When the ocean floor is only a little bit deep from the surface, there is a high probability that there will be land or islands nearby, as this should be a sign of proximity to the shoreline.
After Mo Chen retrieved his belongings from the wreck, he might be able to try to travel to nearby land or islands.
But now, he must first swim to the depths in the opposite direction to find the location of the wreck.
This can barely be regarded as good news, after the shipwreck, if it is really on the helpless sea, I am afraid that few people will survive such bad weather.
And if there is a land site nearby, there is a chance that many people will be able to be carried to the shore by the current, even if they don't know anything...... Maybe it's not a big chance, but at least it's much better than the other scenario.
Such a thought flashed through his mind, Mo Chen sighed in his heart, and continued to kick the water flow and dive in that direction.
Now he has the opportunity to do something good, but he finds that his abilities are still very limited, and he can't even ensure that he can actually save anyone.
All he could do just now was to see someone who was out of power, drowning, or stunned by the waves, so he tried to swim over and rescue the other party, and then find a more reliable floating object for the other party.
That's all.
As he continued to dive forward, Mo Chen found that it was probably the impact of the storm, and there seemed to be no fish under the surface of the sea, or they all ran away.
His idea of finding a fish to possess was also frustrated.
He could only give up the idea of searching for the wreck while manipulating the swimming fish to find the direction of the nearby land or island, and instead prepared to finish one thing and do another.
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I don't know how long it took for the nearby sea to finally return to calm and barrenness, and the storm came to an end.
At dusk, grey seabirds hover low near the shore, and the slanting sunset casts a sparkling soft golden glow on the sea.
Mo Chen, who was wet, walked out of the water step by step and walked towards the shore.
When he finally approached the island, he looked up and saw a large expanse of verdant mountains and forests, as well as the steep cliffs and rocks surrounding the beach.
"This place of the hell...... Where exactly? β
He glanced back at the sea, which was close to the edge of the coast, full of sharp, dark reefs, and could see countless wrecks of ships of all sizes, sizes and forms, including all kinds of ships from the past and present.
Countless broken masts, broken sails of all kinds stood next to each other, and a large number of wrecks were stranded in the reef near the coast, and the scene of this terrible shipwreck stretched over an unknown wide area of sea.
There are big and small, and there are old and new.
Most conspicuous of all was a large, modern steamer, which, like the rest of its kind, looked relatively new, but had also suffered a devastating disaster.
Mo Chen even clearly saw that inside the broken hull, there were huge cables or other facilities, which were constantly sparking, which was very conspicuous.
"It seems that our cruise ship is not the only one who suffers...... Presumably the ship was also a victim of this storm? β
With a low dry laugh, Mo Chen turned his head back again and looked at the steep cliff in front of him, it is absolutely impossible for ordinary people to find their way to this ghost place, and they must go around in a big circle from other places.
He wasn't going to do that, though, and after locking on to a foothold, his form disappeared into thin air.
As the sun set, listening to the sound of waves crashing against the reefs and rocks of the coastline below, looking at the sky dyed by dusk and the large number of seabirds hovering in the distance, Mo Chen casually found a vacant lot on the island.
He also seemed to be a little tired and sat down on the spot, and then opened the large suitcase that he had been dragging in his hand.
The contents were already soaking wet, and he quickly began to tidy up silently, throwing aside electronic devices such as laptops, which were now scrap metal in the absolute sense of the word, no matter how you look at them.
The rest of the clothes were thrown aside, and the only items in the box that belonged to the category of magic were left.
However, the books and notes were already soaking wet, and he didn't know if he could handle it well, so he sorted them out and put them aside, and then finally there were runes, amulets and other very troublesome things.
For example, crossbows, pistols, bullets, grenades, wire storms, and the like.
The old witch's severed left hand was among them.
Mo Chen grinned, couldn't help sighing, and looked at the cube next to him, he was about to open a door and return to the world of shame, and first dispose of the soaked books, notes, and so onβif the Rubik's Cube could be used normally.
The location of the portal in the other world, the house has been bought and expanded by him, so the teleportation has become safe.
Sometimes he would use the cube as a storage space, after all, as long as he opened the portal, it would be his house and secret room in Danwall.
However, in many cases, this is not a panacea, and unexpected situations also need to be taken into account. It's impossible to put everything over there, wait until you need to, and then slowly twist the Rubik's Cube and open the door.
It's just this incident that makes him feel that he might really need the "storage slot" function, which is something that changes the game experience, and he really shouldn't be stingy in this regard.
Mo Chen looked at the runes in the box, which he had accumulated and was going to use to strengthen other aspects of magic, not to develop new spells, but to strengthen the existing spells to a certain extent.
But now it seems that we have to slow down.