When I set up the light array, I could clearly feel that the crew's eyes were not normal. m.

When they looked at me, there was obvious wariness in their eyes, and some even avoided me as soon as they saw me.

Even Lao Tang was like this, he became cautious when he talked to me, for fear that the sentence would be wrong and stimulate my fragile nerves.

It seems that the queen didn't lie to us, most of the old fighters in the past had accidents in this sea area.

Not all crew members avoided us, though, with the exception of two others, one being the captain and the other being Miller.

Miller is the second water on this boat, in terms of rank, he should be regarded as one of the lowest people on this boat, his original name is Christine, is the captain's cousin, the two have similarities in figure and appearance, and even their personalities are very similar, the two have a lot in common in personality, that is, they are very calm no matter what situation they encounter.

The reason why everyone calls him Mile is because this guy has a very high loyalty to rice, he hardly eats other staple foods, only rice, and can eat a big bucket every time, so some people also call him Rice Bucket.

When I came down from the top of the mast and re-landed on the deck, I happened to run into Millet reinforcing the mast.

When he saw me coming down from the mast, he not only did not leave immediately, but smiled and waved at me.

When I finally met someone who could speak, I clapped my hands and walked up to Miller: "Listen to the queen, we are about to enter the sea of fog." ”

Hearing me say this, Millet was immediately happy: "The queen made a special trip to find you? She certainly didn't have anything good to say. ”

"It's really not good." I pursed my lips and said, "What kind of place is the Sea of Fog?" ”

Miller stopped what he was doing and answered my question intently: "The exorcists of the Great Sea Journey era called it the 'Banshee Sea', that sea area is shrouded in fog all year round, and there are many dangerous things lurking in the fog, the most famous of which is the mermaid, don't think that the mermaids in the sea are the same as depicted in fairy tales, real mermaids, and they have no good feelings for humans." They will use their songs to confuse their crews and lead the ship to a place of no return. ”

"Listen to the queen's meaning, the old fighters on this ship have all had problems near the sea of fog?"

"It should be said that there was a problem at the edge of the sea of fog, anyway, in my impression, every time they had an accident, our ship was only less than ten nautical miles away from the sea of fog."

"Can't you get around that sea of fog?"

"No, the Sea of Fog is the only way to the Sea Market, and if we bypass the Sea of Fog, it will take us at least two more years to reach Bermuda."

I frowned, not intending to ask any further.

On the contrary, Mi Le took the initiative to say to me: "Don't worry, the first mate will not lock you in the bedroom, everyone knows in their hearts that the iron gate will not close you at all." ”

I asked Miller, "Wouldn't it be dangerous for you if we really went mad?" ”

Miller grinned at me, "It's not just dangerous, if you go crazy, everyone in this boat will die, so I've been praying for the three of you to have a problem right now." ”

I'm sure he said it from the heart, but there was a hint of ridicule in his words.

Miller and the captain are both of this kind of character, and no matter how dangerous things are, they can be used for them.

I remember that Old Tang once made such an opinion about the personalities of Miller and the captain, saying that Miller and the captain were both born pirates, and they were the purest Viking descendants.

Looking back now, this assessment is quite apt.

When I got back to the cabin, I ran to the canteen to get enough food and canned food, and then I went back to my dormitory and closed the gates.

Doing so will at least give the people on board a little more peace of mind.

I hung my watch on the head of my bed, glancing at the time and waiting for night to fall.

Lao Tang said that the old fighters in the past began to have problems at night, and the strange thing is that every time the ship arrived at the edge of the sea of fog, it was also at night, if Lao Tang deliberately controlled the speed of the ship and tried to enter the sea of fog during the day, the sea would stir up wind and waves out of thin air, and send them to the edge of the sea of fog on time at night.

The sun rises at six o'clock this morning, and the day lasts for eight hours, followed by a sixteen-hour night, and the deeper you go in the inland sea, the longer the night lasts.

It's eleven o'clock in the morning, and there are only three hours left before night.

Lu Shengcai handed me an open can: "Big head, you say, will we be as crazy as those old fighters?" ”

I scraped a spoonful of mashed meat from the can and stuffed it into my mouth, and responded with the salty smell of meat: "You remember that I told you before that human nature is originally good and evil, and morality may not be completely the embodiment of goodness, most of the time, it is just a benign need derived from the development of human civilization." If the human race is to survive better, it must act in accordance with morality. Also, human beings are inherently great, but they are also inherently small. ”

Lu Shengcai nodded: "Remember, since you got on the boat, you haven't said this kind of thing once or twice." ”

"You remember what I said, and I promise you won't go berserk."

Recently, I suddenly figured out a question.

When I was in the treasure house of Jingyun Mountain, why was I affected by the whispers of the deep sea?

Although I couldn't understand most of the whispers at the time, the deep voice pierced a thorn in my subconscious, and it was this thorn that made me feel fear.

This thorn tells me that the existence of us human beings has no value in itself, we are a speck of dust in the universe, and our life and death are meaningless to this world. At the same time, it also tells me that there is a very large and destructive force in the whispers, and that I, as a mortal, have no chance of winning in the face of this force.

First defeat your values, and then make you despair, and that fear that goes deep into the bone marrow is derived from despair.

At the same time, I also figured out that in the face of the Tao, there is no point in discussing whether human existence is worthwhile or not, including the power that whispers show me.

Human existence has value, it is a manifestation of the Tao, human existence has no value, it is also a manifestation of the Tao, whether you have the power to destroy the world, or you have the ability to reshape the world, it is also a manifestation of the Tao.

Let's take the fact that I went to sea to find the Heavenly Sect, for the "Dao", it has no meaning in itself, but because I am doing it, I give it meaning, and it is precisely because I am doing it that it has meaning for the "Dao".

The root of the Tao is to start from nothing, nothing is the beginning of heaven and earth, and there is the mother of all things.