Including the three of us, there were a total of fourteen people on this boat, and Lao Tang took us around the boat twice, which was considered to have recognized everyone. m.

Except for Lao Tang himself, who revealed his full name in front of us, when introducing other people, he only said the first name, not the surname, but when he introduced us to the other crew members, he did not pay such attention to it, and the specific reason is unknown.

Because there are too many people on the ship, I won't introduce them one by one here, if I break down the eleven people separately and talk about them in detail, I will be annoyed to write it, and you will also be annoyed to read it, so I will go back and find the right opportunity to introduce them to you one by one.

After meeting all the crew, Lao Tang and the captain led us to the inner warehouse, where the fighters' bedrooms were located.

The captain of the Iron Lady is called Benjamin, a middle-aged man with a strong physique, but the people on the ship rarely call him by his real name, most of them call him "Captain" according to his position, and the others on the ship are the same, almost everyone has their own nickname or code name, and rarely calls each other by their real names.

The captain was very hospitable, and he has been by our side ever since Old Tang introduced us to him, telling us all the stories that happened on this ship.

As we approached the inner warehouse, the captain told us in his extraordinarily thick voice: "The name of this ship is due to the fact that its owner, a beautiful and strong woman, was a beautiful and strong woman who discovered the black channel hidden in the sun with her twelve companions and created a sea market in the center of this black channel. ”

Lao Tang corrected: "The first person to discover the black channel was Zheng He. ”

I asked, "What is the Black Fairway?" ”

The captain patiently explained to me: "Many people think that the sea is like what we see, as blue as the sky during the day and as deep as the starry sky at night, but very few people know that there is a gully in the sea that is invisible to the naked eye, and the ocean that most people see is located outside this gully, which is called the open sea, and there is also a sea area located within the gully, which is called the inland sea, and the channel that runs through the inland sea is the black channel." ”

Lao Tang picked up the captain's words: "The ocean occupies seventy percent of the earth's surface, we mortals can't see through the earth, let alone the ocean, the open sea and the inner sea are like two sides of a ball, the outer sea is on the yang side, the inner sea is on the yin side, for human beings, even the open sea hides countless secrets, not to mention the unpredictable inland sea." ”

A question suddenly occurred to me: "Does the legendary Devil's Delta also belong to the Inland Sea?" ”

The captain said: "It can only be said that part of it belongs to the inland sea. Oh yes, the sea market was built in that area. ”

It's strange, this is obviously a very common word, but why does the captain feel empty when he says this?

Maybe his weakness doesn't come from the topic we're discussing.

As we spoke, we were already in our bedroom.

It was a small cabin, and there was hardly anything metal to be seen on the ship, except for the door to the bedroom, which was a round gate made of stainless steel.

I looked at the door shaft, and it was 90% new, including the metal gantry used to inlay the door shaft.

This gave me a very bad feeling in my mind, as if the people on the ship had installed such a door to ward off some kind of danger hidden in the dormitory.

The environment in the cabin also gives people a very uncomfortable feeling, the whole room looks relatively old, but the four hammocks in the room are all new, it seems that the people on the ship in order to hide some traces of the old bed, and deliberately replaced the new bed, there were originally two valve lights on the ceiling, but one of them has been broken, resulting in only half of the room being illuminated, and the other half is very dim.

In addition, there was an overly strong smell of jasmine in the air, apparently someone had sprayed air fresheners here not long ago, but under this somewhat pungent scent, there was also a fishy smell that seemed to be absent, I shrugged my nose and sniffed it carefully, and I could faintly tell that the smell seemed to be a residual smell of blood.

The captain looked at the broken valve lamp and frowned vigorously: "The chief is too careless, why did he forget to change the lamp." ”

The chief he spoke of was the black-faced man we had seen before we got on the ship, he was the shipwright on this ship, and his short name was Epiri, who was said to have been the chief of a tribe in Africa, but because he had little interest in managing the tribe and preferred navigation and shipbuilding, he left his tribe and boarded the Iron Lady and became a shipwright.

However, Lao Tang generally calls him "Lao Qi", and the reason is also unknown.

At this time, Lao Tang said to me on the side: "This is the exclusive dormitory for the fighters, and the fighters I called in the past all lived here. ”

When I heard Lao Tang say this, I remembered that he had also said before that the first few groups of fighters who boarded this ship had all lost their lives during the journey, and most of them committed suicide in an extremely tragic way, and a small number of them were killed by him, but none of them survived.

No wonder there is still a residual smell of blood in the house.

I looked closely at the surrounding walls, and sure enough, I found blood stains in the corners that could not be cleaned up, and since the blood had seeped into the texture of the wood, it was definitely impossible to clean it by wiping it alone.

Lao Tang said to me unapologetically: "There is no other cabin for you to live in for the time being, if you are not used to living in it, you can go to the captain's room for a while, and then you can move there when we pack up the warehouse." ”

I waved my hand: "Don't bother, this place is fine." ”

When I said the words "good", the captain's expression became rather unnatural.

It seems that the remnants of the drama that once happened in this bedroom cast a large shadow in his heart.

The captain noticed that I had been staring at him, probably a little uncomfortable, so he said as if he had nothing to say, "Then you can rest first, and in two hours the cook will bring lunch." ”

I thanked him, and the captain and soup quickly left the dormitory.

They still have a lot of work to do, and they don't have time to spend it with us all the time.

I set up my luggage in a clean corner, then lit a ghost candle and scanned the light around the room.

I heard Yunshang muttering behind me: "Why is there still a dead person in this place, it's really unlucky." ”

Lu Shengcai snorted and said, "What is a dead person, you have seen so many evils, and you are still afraid of the dead?" ”

"It's not that I'm afraid, but I feel unlucky."