Chapter 305: Death and Survival
Instead of swearing from the cabin passengers, Leo uses the method of training his body control to separate his perception from the outside world, artificially creating a quiet room environment.
Then he took out the Wyzik necklace he had received from Fernando, took out some pen and paper, and carefully copied the patterns and words on the necklace.
The script of the Wyzk people is a separate script from the language system of the Vilun world, and some of the patterns that are only decorative in the eyes of the people of the Vizk world may be a kind of ideogram unique to the Wyzks.
Because of this, when Leo analyzed these characters and patterns, he picked out the writing system of the Wyziks, called up the various scripts of the various cosmic races in the universe where the Earth Federation was located, and compared them.
When Leo was still a cyborg, he often needed to enter other galaxies and contact with various aliens in order to carry out missions, so when he was created, he had already instilled more than 3,000 languages of different races in the universe in his brain, and the latest language update version added more than 2,000 more.
In terms of the number of languages he mastered, even all the linguists in the world combined could not compare to him.
In the past, he did not use the languages of these cosmic races, but now the analysis of the language and script of the Wyziks has made these useless languages the best comparison database.
In just a few hours, Leo had already identified three languages of the cosmic race that were somewhat similar to those of the Wyziks.
Through the comparison and continuous comparison of the rules of writing, Leo gradually explored some of the grammatical rules of the Wyzik language, and he found that the Wyzik language turned out to be a ring language.
In the universe of the Earth Federation, the ring language is a higher language, and the three universal lingua franca are composed of the ring language, and the pronunciation of this language varies according to the different races, but the meaning expressed by the language itself is unified.
To put it simply, the ring language is to connect the things to be said into a ring through the special words and characters of the ring language, and the ring has no head, no tail, and no end, so the meaning of the expression can change indefinitely.
In the Earth Federation, a linguist once wrote a general history of the earth using the ring language, and the outward manifestation of this ring language was just a ring printed on sixteen carat size copy paper.
Now Leo found that the words and patterns engraved on the Wyzik necklace were combined to form a language sequence that was very similar to the ring language, and although he could not yet decipher what the language sequence was saying, he felt that the content of it was probably beyond imagination.
For the next few days, Leo stayed in his room, not even opening the door except for a moment when he was delivering food.
At first, the passengers in the same cabin were puzzled and curious about Leo's strange behavior, after all, they hadn't come out of the room for so long, and they hadn't even used the toilet, which made them wonder if Leo was convenient in the room, but they didn't smell any strange smell, coupled with the fear of weirdos, so they didn't have the courage to knock on Leo's room door.
However, with the past few days, Leo's strange behavior did not cause any trouble to the lives of these people, and they did not take Leo to heart anymore and began to have fun to pass the boring time at sea.
Although the shape of this ship is the shape of a traditional sailing ship, because the wood of the vinylon world is tough enough and can withstand the pressure and corrosion of the sea, the ship is not much smaller than the steel ship, and the cabins are also divided into three, six, nine and so on.
The passengers in the lower cabin of the ship are all people at the bottom, and it is extremely chaotic here compared to the order of the upper cabin, but also in the chaos, there are also some fun that the upper cabin does not have, such as someone directly opened a temporary tavern here and held a small dance party, and then some women at the bottom will also make a cameo appearance at this time to the kind of people they usually look down on to subsidize the family.
During these days, Leo's fellow passengers would mingle in the lower cabins, sometimes bringing a few women into the cabins, which made the three people they didn't know very close, and also made the transmission of diseases very simple.
Yes, just five days after the ship had been at sea, a strange plague quickly spread on the ship, and this plague did not first appear in some people and then spread to others like other plagues, but like a time bomb, almost everyone on board fell ill at the same time, and quickly entered the danger period less than an hour after the onset of the disease, and there was no time for treatment.
Two hours later, there were less than twenty people alive on board, only the first mate and the mechanic in charge of the steam engine were the ship's crew, the others were all passengers, and nine of them were underage children.
Faced with this situation, these people who survived could not drive away from this steam sail dual-powered cruise ship at all, and there were so many corpses on board that died of plague that could not be disposed of, and there was a danger of contracting the disease for a moment longer if they stayed on the ship, so the survivors did not hesitate to make the decision to abandon the ship.
They found the ship's lifeboat, used three to sit and two to store food and water, connected to each other with ropes, and then lowered the lifeboat and hurried away from the plague ship, which was all corpses, without looking closely to see if there were any other survivors in the cabin.
At this moment, Leo was completely unaware of what was happening in the outside world, he was completely immersed in his study of the spoken and written language of the Wyziks, and as long as no one knocked on the door, the ashram he had created would not be broken, and he would not hear anyone shouting outside the door in this environment.
Originally, there was no first-class waiter to deliver food, which should have aroused Leo's vigilance and suspicion, but at that time, his research on the language and writing of the Wyzik people happened to be the most critical, and when he got on the ship himself, he also prepared a lot of food, and when he felt hungry, he naturally took out the food directly from the storage space, so he was not able to detect the abnormal situation outside.
In this way, the uncontrolled, sail-only ship was at sea for two more days, and a sudden storm appeared in the sea area where the ship was, and the unmanned ship appeared in an extremely abnormal tilt situation, and at this moment Leo also noticed the anomaly, opened the door and walked out of the room.
At the moment when he walked out of the room, a strong smell of corpses came to his face, which immediately aroused Leo's vigilance, he did not look with his eyes, but directly scanned the situation of the entire ship through the spiritual net, and found that everyone else on the ship had become a decomposing corpse except for him, and his heart was suddenly surprised and surprised.
"What's going on here, how long have I been in the room?" Leo felt a little dazed at the moment, but he quickly put the doubts in his mind behind him, his mind returned to normal, and his state of consciousness adjusted.
He did not rush out of the room, but let his body sway to the same frequency as the ship, and then walked to the rooms of the other cabin passengers as if he were walking normally, to check the cause of death of the corpses.
I saw that these passengers were all neatly dressed and sitting on their chairs, although their rotten faces were full of fear, but their posture was solemn, it seemed that they knew that they were about to die, so they wanted to maintain the last bit of dignity before they died.
Because of the hot weather and the humid climate of the sea, the corpses showed a high degree of decomposition, but it was still clear that they had a large number of lesions on their bodies, these abscesses were not large, like small bumps, but there were many of them, densely packed together, and the abscesses created deep wounds, deep into the internal organs, and it was almost certain that the cause of death of these people was organ failure caused by lesions.
Leo didn't check it hastily, but put each corpse on the ground and carefully dissected it, but after dissecting the three corpses, the doubt in his eyes not only did not disappear, but became thicker.
After that, he went to other cabins, and after dissecting five or six corpses in turn, he found that all the corpses were organ failure caused by abscesses, and with his battlefield medical knowledge, he could also see that the lesions of these abscesses were very fast, and almost reached the fatal level in a short time.
"It's not the plague!" Leo made a judgment in his mind at the moment.
At first, when he found out that the people on the ship were all dying of illness, Leo immediately thought of the plague that had broken out in Miria City, but when he examined it repeatedly, he found that the abscesses looked like they were caused by some kind of plague virus, but in fact they had nothing to do with the plague, but rather a wound that looked like a plague.
"It's witchcraft. A conjecture quickly crossed Leo's mind.
He then removed the power-limiting ring from his hand and released the suppressed paranormal sense, carefully sensing the wound for psionic reactions.
It's a pity that the time of death may have passed a long time, and the power interference in the storm outside at sea makes it impossible for him to perceive anything useful.
Faced with this situation, Leo did not have a good way to find out the death of the ship's passengers, and now that the storm was getting stronger and stronger, the giant sailing ship could capsize at any time, so he had to give up the search for the truth and leave the ship of death alone.
After that, he moved quickly, found the storage room of the ship's galley, looked for some food in it, and also found traces of food being carried, so it was very likely that there were still living people, and those people should have left in the lifeboat.
Having found food, he immediately rushed to the deck where the lifeboat was placed.
At this time, a huge wave hit the side of the ship, and the originally shaky ship was completely overturned to the side by the huge wave, and Leo grabbed the side of the ship so that it was not swept away by the huge wave.
After stabilizing his body, Leo didn't care about using the cable and lowered the lifeboat, but directly cut the cable of the lifeboat and threw the lifeboat into the sea, and then he took the oars, jumped into the sea, and dived all the way to the lifeboat.
After climbing into the lifeboat, he paddled the oars hard, adjusted the bow of the boat, and swam all the way along the direction of the waves, like a small fish, flexibly dodging waves dozens of meters high.
Behind him, the Queen Mary cruise ship was overwhelmed by the repeated lapping of the waves, shattered, and disappeared into the sea in less than ten minutes.
Leo can't do anything now, in the face of the great power of heaven and earth like the sea storm, even a fifth-level psionic person like him may not be much better than ordinary people, and only by stepping into the level of an omega-level advanced creature can he fight against this world power.
Moreover, in this environment where all kinds of chaotic world forces are mixed, Leo can't perform witchcraft at all, because the final effect of the uncontrollable psionic energy encountering this chaotic environment will be unknown, and it is very likely to backfire itself.
Now the only thing that can be relied on is the strength of the body, but fortunately, after Leo's body has undergone a metamorphosis evolution, both physical strength and strength have increased a lot, and he is still able to cope with this kind of sea storm with ease.
In this way, he carefully chose the direction, rowed hard, shuttled through the gap between the storm's waves, and swam quickly towards the edge of the storm.
After paddling at sea for more than half an hour, Leo finally passed through the storm zone as the waves gradually calmed down, only now he was not out of his predicament, because he did not know where he was now.
Leo hadn't carefully studied the situation in the sea area where the route from the port of Venaya to the Kingdom of Inge was located, but because he didn't know how long the ship had been sailing, and how far the ship had deviated from the course after all the people on board were dead, he couldn't judge his current position at all.
Leo was not in the mood to continue studying the spoken language of the Wyziks, and although he could extract drinking water by other means and catch plenty of food from the sea, this situation of drifting at sea reminded him of a very bad experience in the past.
During that experience, his ship was destroyed in a space war, and he had to board an escape pod to drift through space.
Originally, the escape pod was equipped with a hibernation device, which could help the people in the escape pod enter a dormant state, and would not be awakened until they encountered a rescue ship or landed on a certain planet. If there is no one to rescue and no survivable planet has been found, then it is a very merciful thing for the survivors to gradually die in a dormant state.
However, the problem was that Leoda's escape pod was not equipped with a dormant device, and he drifted through the universe for three months while extremely conscious before being rescued by a passing alien merchant ship.
This experience was definitely the most painful experience for him, and even if he was still a cyborg without any emotions at the time, he would never want to go through it again.
Although he was not in a state of absolute solitude as he was in the universe at sea, this environment, this situation, and everything that awakened one of his most disgusting memories made him decide to find land or other ships as soon as possible to get out of this damn situation.