The passage of the cabin was empty, with only one hatch neatly lined up on either side. Chen Ziyang looked at both ends of the passage, and in the entire passage, except for the cabin where he was, the hatches of the other cabins were closed.

An ominous feeling permeated Chen Ziyang's heart, although he didn't see any clues, he always felt as if something bad had happened. Recalling the strange dream he had just had, Chen Ziyang hurriedly returned to the cabin and closed the hatch.

After waking up the sleeping umbrella Shishuai and Yang Lei, Chen Ziyang told them to hurry up and get dressed. The sleepy-eyed two people realized that something must have happened, and they gritted their teeth and woke up.

"Eryang, what's wrong?" Yang Lei, who was dressed, couldn't wait to ask. In the past few days, his little life has been very comfortable, and he is already a little lazy, and Yang Lei doesn't think anything bad will happen on this boat.

"I can't say it, I always feel that something is not right." After thinking for a while, Chen Ziyang picked up the internal phone hanging on the bulkhead and dialed the number in Liu Cong's room, but no one answered the phone.

"It's really bad." The uneasiness in Chen Ziyang's heart became more and more intense. Their mobile phones have long been taken away by Liu Cong, and even if they don't take them away, their mobile phones are useless at sea, and if they want to contact each other, they can only use this kind of internal phone.

So when he got on the boat, Liu Cong once said that at any time, at least one person in his room would stay there, and even if he was not in the room, someone would answer the phone. But now there is no answer to the phone, which means that there is a good chance that something is really wrong.

The three of them became serious, and since they couldn't be reached by internal phone, there was only one way left to knock on the door.

Chen Ziyang took out the Xuanming Ancient Sword, opened the hatch, and was the first to walk into the passage, with Yang Lei and Umbrella Shishuai following behind. Umbrella Shishuai took out a fire axe from the fire box in the passage, and the three of them were vigilant before and after, and slowly walked towards the cabin where Liu Cong was.

Every time he passed through a closed hatch, Chen Ziyang had to bang on the hatch for a long time, but the back of the hatch seemed to be empty, and there was no answer at all. It's normal to say that there are no one in one or two cabins once in a while, but it's impossible that there is no one behind all the hatches.

The more the three of them walked, the more they felt that something was wrong, and simply, Chen Ziyang stopped knocking on the cabin door, but directly led the two people to the cabin door where Liu Cong was. After a sharp knock, there was still no answer from behind the hatch.

"It's broken, hurry up and go to the coffin nail." Chen Ziyang suddenly realized something, and hurriedly pulled the two people to run towards the deck superstructure where the coffin nails were located.

The makeshift laboratory where the coffin nails were placed was not in the cabin, but on the second floor of the deck superstructure. Chen Ziyang and the three of them, who came to the deck, became more and more uneasy, there was no light on the deck of the entire ship, and there was no one, which was too abnormal. Even the searchlights that were turned on to avoid the ships colliding at night went out.

"Where have all the people gone?" Although the deck is not very lively, it is not so deserted, there are always crew members fishing at night, or smoking in the sea breeze, and a few observers are responsible for checking the anomalies of the nearby sea surface to see if there are any reefs underneath. But now all of them are gone, as if they had been discussed together.

"II...... Eryang ...... This ship isn't going to turn into a ghost ship, is it? Is there only the three of us left in the whole ship......" Because of fear, Yang Lei's voice trembled a little.

Chen Ziyang didn't answer Yang Lei's question, his uneasy feeling intensified again, although he didn't know what happened, but he estimated that this must have something to do with the coffin nail, after all, the weirdest thing on the whole ship was that thing.

But the coffin nails have been placed in a glass cover shielded from the magnetic field, and Liu Cong has been guarding them, how can anything happen? Now you have to see for yourself to find out.

The three of them ran towards the gate of the superstructure. Far away, Chen Ziyang saw that the hatch of the superstructure was tightly closed through the night, and he prayed in his heart, this hatch must not be closed, otherwise it would be difficult to get in.

Holding his hands on the handwheel above the hatch, after a fierce force, Chen Ziyang's heart thumped suddenly, broken, the more he worried about something, the more he was worried, the hatch was locked inside.

He hurriedly took two steps back, staring at the superstructure on the deck, while Yang Lei and Umbrella Shishuai grabbed the left and right sides of the handwheel respectively, constantly using brute force.

After opening the Yin and Yang Eyes, Chen Ziyang looked towards the room on the second floor of the superstructure where the coffin nails were placed, probably because the thick steel walls blocked the Yin and Yang Eyes, he just saw a few traces of black gas floating out of the cracks in the window, but it was these few traces of black gas that made his face change suddenly.

The scene in front of him suddenly reminded Chen Ziyang of the scene when the White Wave Pill sank, but I don't know if these black gases are the kind of thing that made the White Wave Pill sink, but I can't leave it when I think about it. But fortunately, these black gases are not very rich, and it seems that this giant crane ship cannot sink for the time being.

At this time, Yang Lei and Umbrella Shishuai were already so tired that they were out of breath, and the two of them used all their strength on the handwheel on the hatch, but they still couldn't open the hatch, and now the two of them were sitting on the deck and panting.

Chen Ziyang took a few steps back again, letting the entire superstructure appear in his eyes, trying to find a way to enter, but the ship was very airtight, and he couldn't find a second entrance other than the hatch at all.

At this time, the sound of metal collision sounded behind the hatch, followed by the sound of hinge rubbing, and the hatch that had been closed slowly opened.

Yang Lei, who was sitting on the ground, jumped up all of a sudden, and it seemed that someone had opened the hatch from the inside, which made Yang Lei, who had never been able to find anyone else, and was a little hairy in his heart, so he didn't notice anything wrong at all, and ran towards the hatch.

At the moment when the hatch opened, Chen Ziyang noticed that there seemed to be no one behind the hatch at all. At first, it was closed all the time, and then it opened inexplicably, and even if you think about it with your heels, you know that something is wrong here.

The dark passage behind the open hatch at this time was like the open mouth of a monstrous monster, waiting for its prey to enter.

Before Chen Ziyang could say anything to remind, suddenly, a pale arm stained with blood stretched out from the darkness behind the hatch, grabbed the defenseless Yang Lei, and pulled him into the hatch.

This arm appeared very suddenly, and the speed was also very fast, and Yang Lei didn't even have time to let out a shout, and disappeared into the darkness behind the hatch.

Umbrella Shishuai, who had just reacted, hurriedly raised the fire axe in his hand, and wanted to enter the hatch to save people, but was stopped by Chen Ziyang, who rushed over.

Umbrella Shi Shuai, who suddenly stopped, reacted, how could he dare to venture into the hatch? The act of wanting to save Yang Lei just now was only subconscious, and he didn't think about it at all, which is not like his own style of acting.

A few people came out in a hurry, without a flashlight at all, and after stopping the umbrella Shi Shuai, Chen Ziyang hurriedly took out a combustible spirit talisman, lit it and threw it into the hatch.

The side walls of the passage are very smooth and painted with white paint, so that the passage is like a simple mirror, allowing the fire to shine farther. But Chen Ziyang and Umbrella Shishuai were all stunned when they looked at this passage.

The firelight shone out nearly 30 meters at once, but there was no Yang Lei in this 30-meter passage at all, and the most incomprehensible point was that there were no other hatches on both sides of this passage, just a straight passage, with steel walls on all sides.

From Yang Lei being caught in the passage to Chen Ziyang throwing out the combustible spirit rune, only two or three seconds have passed at most, which means that the thing that grabbed Yang Lei crossed a distance of more than 30 meters in only three seconds with a person weighing more than 100 pounds and still struggling, which is also too incredible.

After the rune burned completely, the passage was once again plunged into darkness. Seeing that there was no danger in front of them for the time being, Chen Ziyang and Umbrella Shishuai entered the passage one after another.

Using the burning spirit runes as illumination, the two of them did not advance too fast in this passage, although both of them were very anxious to find Yang Lei, but now the safety of the two people is more important, if they are in a hurry and accidentally hit something, it will be too late to regret it at that time.

After walking through the passage of more than 30 meters, a relatively large warehouse door appeared on one side of the passage. Unlike the hatch in the cabin below deck, this hatch was actually open, and Chen Ziyang saw that there were a few finger-thick blood marks in the crack of the door, which looked like a blood-stained palm.

Recalling that the miserable white hand that had just grabbed Yang Lei seemed to be stained with blood, the two of them hurriedly opened the hidden hatch and walked in.

Behind the door is the place where the canteen is, there are long steel tables and steel benches on the ground, and the two of them walked around the canteen without seeing Yang Lei and the monster.

The cafeteria is very empty, and there should be no place to hide, so Chen Ziyang estimated that if Yang Lei was brought here, the only place he might be taken to was the kitchen, but now the hatch between the kitchen and the canteen was tightly closed, and there was no way to open it at all.

At this time, Chen Ziyang's spirit talisman was about to burn out, and Umbrella Shishuai used the mop and a barrel of oil in the canteen to make a torch, and finally solved the lighting problem.

Seeing that there was no way to find Yang Lei for the time being, Chen Ziyang turned the target back to the coffin nail, and finding the reason for the strange thing first was the most important thing.

With the light of the torches, the two of them moved much faster, and in such a narrow place, the firelight illuminated every corner at a glance. In the process of leading to the second floor, Chen Ziyang has not seen any other traces of bloody fingers, and it seems that Yang Lei should have really been caught in the kitchen.

After coming to the second floor, Chen Ziyang walked towards the room where the coffin nails were placed in his memory, and when he passed through several cabin doors, he reached out to try it, and all the cabin doors on the second floor were closed, and there was no way to open them at all.

The closer he got to the room where the coffin nail was, the stronger the uneasy feeling in Chen Ziyang's heart became, and at this time, the umbrella stone shuai who was following him kept shaking his head, looking a little dazed.

"Brother Umbrella, what's wrong?"

"It's okay, I just feel groggy and have some tinnitus, as if someone has been shouting in my ear, and this noise makes me very headache." After slapping himself vigorously a few times, Umbrella Shishuai looked a little more sober, he gritted his teeth to prevent himself from losing his mind, and followed Chen Ziyang closely.

Coming to the outside of the room where the coffin nails were kept, Chen Ziyang tried with all his strength, but the handwheel showed no signs of being able to be turned at all, and the hatch was still locked. Then he pressed his face tightly against the round hatch window and looked inside.

Although all the lights in the entire superstructure have been turned off, it looks like there is a power outage, but the indicator lights and LCD screens on the instruments in the room are still on, and it seems that in order to ensure the safety of the coffin nails and to be able to monitor the magnetic field all the time, Liu Cong has turned on the backup power supply on these instruments, which can ensure the operation of the instruments even in the event of a power failure.

The light of these instruments allowed Chen Ziyang, who was lying on the window, to see the contents of the room, but the glass box containing the coffin nails was placed far away, and it required an extremely tricky angle to see.

He adjusted the angle, and then squeezed his face the glass, and after repeated adjustments, Chen Ziyang was finally able to see the corner of the coffin nail, and at this time he was surprised to find that a very wide crack appeared on the glass box that had been covering the coffin nail.

"Sure enough, it's a problem with the coffin nails, why did this box crack?" Although he doesn't know how the magnetic field emitted by the coffin nails will affect people, Chen Ziyang has now determined that all this has something to do with the coffin nails, and it is precisely because the box is broken that the magnetic field of the coffin nails affects the people on the ship.

But now that the hatch is closed, there is no way to open it at all, just when Chen Ziyang turned around and was about to discuss what to do next with Umbrella Shi Shuai, he suddenly saw the blood-red Umbrella Shi Shuai raise the fire axe high and slash towards him.

(End of chapter)