There were more than a hundred officers and men on board the frigate Swordfish, and with the exception of William Halsey, the rest were lying on their beds in the dormitory, as if they had made an appointment, and at the same time, in the same clothes, and in the same position, they lay down on the bed, and died with dignity together.

Such a scene looks as weird as it gets.

Fortunately, not more than a hundred people died in one room, and the rest cabin of the ship was divided into many dormitories, and there were not many people in each dormitory, at most seven or eight, probably according to the branch and function.

At first, Mrs. Larry carefully examined each corpse by the light of the fire, but when it came to the occasion, I don't know if it was because of the oppressive atmosphere, or because she had lost her patience, she simply stopped looking, and only glanced at the torch at the door of the cabin and withdrew.

At the other end of the aisle, there is the officer's quarters, which are smaller, but more refined. Most of the lieutenants were in a room for two people, and the few private rooms were filled with colonel-level officers.

Boris did not give up and found a number of small arms from the cabinets and other places in the room, but none of them worked, except for a few sabers, which looked as good as new when pulled out of their sheaths.

Boris was like a treasure, and he did not forget to show off in front of Petru. Petru searched for it, and later found not only a saber, but also a number of tools that could be used, such as ceramic cups, glass bottles, and multi-purpose knives, but what excited them most was to find several well-packaged bottles of wine, including whiskey, brandy, and rum, presumably the private possession of some officer.

To make sure the wine was still drinkable, Boris opened one of the bottles and spilled a little on the ground, and the rich aroma of the wine wafted through the cabin.

"Oh, it smells so good!" The crow shook its head continuously, as if it had a dog's nose, and then sneezed.

"That's great!" Boris took a sip of the bottle and laughed happily, completely oblivious to the centuries-old corpse lying on the bed next to him.

Petru warned: "Boris, you bastard, be careful! The air here is not well circulated and very dry, and we light torches and your alcohol may make it burn. ”

Boris was very unhappy, but he could only obediently cover the wine bottle, and said unconvinced: "Hey, Redbeard, how about we compare the amount of wine when we go out in a while?" ”

Petru said: "Bibi is Bibi, you think I'm afraid of you!" ”

"Why don't you add me?" The crow said excitedly when he heard that they were going to fight for wine.

"You drink too?" Boris said.

"Of course, I not only drink, I can also taste. Do you know how to make it? Good wine is to be tasted, not poured into the throat! When it comes to drinking, none of you can compare to a flower. She's the best bartender in Willow Lane, and she's also very good at drinking. If she's here, I'm sure none of you can drink her. ”

The crow chattered again.

"Oh yes, what a braggart bird!" Boris teased.

"Who says I'm bragging?"

Since Boris and Petru were left behind in search of weapons, the crow had to turn around, and was about to have a good debate with them, when suddenly he croaked, and almost jumped up from Aoki, and even spread his wings:

"W-what's that?"

The people all turned to its cries, and the flames of the torches flickered, and the faint light could only illuminate the distance in front of them. In front of him was a dark passageway, lined with dormitories full of dried corpses. The front of the aisle was in darkness beyond the light of the fire, and there was no end in sight, except that there was a hatch there, and it was through that door that they had entered.

When Aoki also turned around, the crow above his head happened to be turned in another direction, facing the other side, and then croaked again.

"Who?"

The cries of the coal boss echoed through the dark narrow aisles and bulkheads, and it was terrifying to hear. It is then that people remember that they have been blinded by its excessive intelligence and occasional cuteness, and forget that it is actually a crow, an ominous symbol in many local folklore, and its cry is often a harbinger of death and disaster.

The atmosphere in the cabin, which had just been improved by the discovery of wine, was now tensed up by the crow's cry.

"What are you calling nonsense?" Su Huilan said.

"Well, I'm not screaming, I seem to see ......"

"What do you see?" Aoki was also curious.

"Like...... A shadow? Raven said.

"Shadows? Where is it? ”

"First there—" The crow jumped around, keeping in the same direction as Aoki, pointing with the tip of his wings in the aisle where they came, "there, he's standing behind you, watching you!" ”

People looked in the direction the crow pointed, and there was nothing but darkness. Except for a few savages who helped to hold the fire, they couldn't understand what the crow was saying, and everyone else couldn't help but have chills down their backs and goosebumps all over their bodies.

"Damn, are there any who aren't dead?" Boris snatched a torch from the savage and walked over first.

Ivan also walked over with a torch.

They walked a little further, and then they entered the dormitories on either side, and then came out and went back again, and so on until they reached the end of the aisle, went out of the hatch, and walked back again.

Ivan shook his head and said he hadn't found anything.

Boris said to the crow: "Are you crows mistaken? The people here are dead anymore, and the mummies of Egypt are no more. ”

The crow dragged its chin with its wings and pretended to be thoughtful: "Well, I've heard that mummies come back to life." ”

"you, that's a lie! It's just a cliché story about a stall without nutrition and a girl in a bar! ”

"Wow, no wonder there are often blue kids in the bar telling girls stories like this."

"So what the fuck are you calling? You see, the ladies are all scared by you! ”

"Quack, maybe the wine you spilled just now made me a little drunk, you know, as soon as I drink, my eyesight is not very good, and there are always a lot of sauce elbows walking towards me in front of me......"

The people of the "......" were speechless, but they were finally relieved.

When everyone thought that the crow was mistaken, Aoki frowned. Because he knew the coal boss too well, and although the bird was poor-mouthed, gluttonous, and spoofing, sometimes clever and sometimes stupid, he was never timid, and the horror that came from the hard grip of the claws above his head just now was not fake.

"What do you see?"

As he continued walking, Aoki asked the crow in a soft voice.

"Quack, I said it's a shadow."

"Not sauce elbows?"

"No, it's a human shadow."

Their conversation was soft, but it couldn't hide anyone's ears in this small, quiet space.

Situ suddenly asked Aoki, "Do you feel that something is wrong?" ”

Aoki said, "You mean spiritual power, indeed, I found it when I came in, and the spiritual force field here is isolated from the outside. ”

"I've found this problem too." Su Huilan said, "Everything was normal on the deck and on the bridge. When I got off the bridge and entered the lower cabin, the natural spiritual force field on the island began to weaken, as if it was blocked by something. ”

Situ nodded: "I suspect that this ship is not completely out of the static space. Where we are, we may still be in a state of superposition of two spaces. So what the coal boss saw just now may not be an illusion. ”

"What's that? Could it be...... Escape with the Swordfish from the ghosts of the cosmic stationary space? ”