"There's a question I've been wondering about. Lina pushed Catherine's back and made her turn in place, and the pillar of light behind her circled the wide space around her: "If the mermaid and this giant beast were fighting side by side, I would love to know how it died, and if you want to kill such a huge beast, the wound left behind should be very large, but at least until now, no trace of bone damage has been found on its body." ”

"You may not know it, but killing a giant beast of this size doesn't leave any scars on the bones. "The best way to inflict lethal damage on this behemoth is to attack it from within, and it is almost impossible to penetrate their tough skin from outside and break through their muscles thicker than a human body," Pannis explained. So, if I were to fight this beast, I would do everything I could to penetrate its mouth, and then either destroy its brain upwards or its internal organs inward, whichever choice I chose, it would not show up on the bones. ”

"Hmm, so this man wanted to burst into the mouth of the giant beast, but was bitten off by the giant beast on the way?" Catherine said to herself, "It's possible, but the person with only half of his body left obviously can't kill this giant beast." ”

"It's not just one person, maybe ......" Lina suddenly shook her head halfway through her words: "Let's search around again, maybe there are other humanoid corpses, if they can be found, we can verify everyone's guess." ”

"That's too difficult, forget it. Pannis shook his head and said: "I have participated in this kind of excavation work, just to dig through the space in the mouth of the giant beast, I'm afraid it is unlikely to take a few days, plus the range beyond the corpse, don't think about it without a month or two." So instead of wasting time on this kind of thing, why not check out the wreck now, and maybe find some clues there. ”

"And this corpse...... This is Doris's ancestor. Catherine looked at the mermaid's corpse, hesitated for a moment before gritting her teeth and said, "Put it here first, if we can solve the matter, let Doris and the others deal with it themselves, if it can't be solved, we will take it out." As for this unknown corpse, it was buried on the spot according to the etiquette of the adventurer. ”

Several people simply buried the remains in the mud and sand at the bottom of the sea, and instead of jumping back to the bottom of the sea, they swam directly from the sea to the wreck.

From a distance, the shipwreck is covered with phosphorus algae, and it is as bright as the moon on the dark seabed, and the cold white light is not dazzling, but everything outside the wreck can be seen clearly. Seeing the wreck, everyone looked at each other, and felt that it was not unexpected at all, this is a very old wreck, and it is completely impossible to see which era it belongs to, although the original wooden structure has decayed, but the coral polyps and seaweed attached to the wreck have strengthened the decayed part, so that the wreck still maintains its original shape.

Half of the shipwreck was buried in the mud and sand, the front half of the hull was upturned, exposed to the seawater, and from time to time there were mollusks on the bottom of the sea along the wall of the ship, feeling the current brought up by a few people who were gradually swimming, and quickly drilled into the cabin along the porthole of the wreck. The five men swam to the wreck and circled the ship, but no obvious signs of damage were found on the exposed hull, and the reason for the sinking of the ship could not be seen. Of course, it is also possible that the hull was partially damaged by the mud and sand, but it is not known for sure at this time. The whole ship is not very large, and it is considered a medium-sized sea ship now, and it would be tantamount to suicide to sail in the Trek Zone with a ship of this size, but this ship is here.

Everyone stepped on the water and slowly descended to the sloping deck of the wreck, on which there were no sailors, the steering wheel near the bow had fallen off, and the mast was mostly broken, leaving only the tragic aftermath of the catastrophe. Walking around the deck, which was exposed to the surface of the seabed, everyone was lucky to find that the door to the cabin had not been buried, which meant that there was no need to drill into the hull through the narrow portholes. Switching to walking mode, several people cautiously climbed into the staircase that led to the cabin.

The inside and outside of the cabin are almost two worlds, and there are no phosphoalgae growing inside, and in the cabins with portholes, you can see things clearly with the help of the light coming in from the windows, but in most of the cabins without portholes, there is only darkness in front of you. Catherine turned on the illuminator behind her again, and the lighting equipment that was not very effective in the open seabed was particularly effective in the hull of the ship, and once it was turned on, the whole environment was clearly illuminated.

Walking down the stairs, a long hallway appeared in front of you, flanked by doors leading to the various cabins. All kinds of debris float on top of the corridor under the buoyancy of the seawater, like a spectacle where gravity has been reversed. Slowly moving along the corridor, from time to time there were small fish that were alarmed and fled from several people, and even some panicked creatures hit the girls headlong directly, and the sudden impact would also startle the girls.

Pushing open a few cabins, it looked like an ordinary sailor's room, a few beds fixed to the walls of the ship in a small room, the bedding had long since rotted into pieces, and even the bed board would break a large hole at the slightest touch of a finger. The empty sailor's room is empty except for the necessary beds, which is also very in line with the identity of the sailor's room, after all, the first requirement of the ship's room is to save space, and these sailors, who exist at the lowest level of the ship, are naturally the main objects of space saving.

"Huh?" suddenly let out a cry of surprise as Catherine pushed open a door again. On top of this sailor's room, six corpses were floating in white bones. The corpses are clearly humanoids, or judging by the shape of their skeletons, they are likely to be humans. The corpses were held to the roof by the buoyancy of the water, and the skeletons remained relatively intact in human form due to the difficulty of the water flowing quickly inside the ship.

Catherine silently put on her gloves, took off a leg bone and looked at it, and with a slight break, the leg bone was broken into two. Catherine shook her head: "These sailors are not professionals, they are just the bones of ordinary people. ”

"It can be imagined. Freya nodded: "Even if it is a low-level professional, even if it is a sailor, it is a high-level sailor, and it is impossible for the captain to let such a sailor live in such cramped conditions." ”

Exiting the room and continuing along the corridor, there were more and more rooms where the corpses of the sailors appeared, and sometimes even the bones were floating in the corridors. Seeing this, Catherine frowned and whispered, "Something is wrong. ”

"There is indeed a problem. Pannis nodded: "There is not a sailor who dares to sail in the trek zone who is not an experienced veteran, they are as familiar as they are at home on the ship, and even if there is a shipwreck, no matter how quickly the ship is silent, it is unlikely that such a large number of sailors will be sealed in the cabin and drowned." ”

"Yes, for a sea ship of this size, the number of sailors should be two hundred to three hundred, and now we have seen more than thirty corpses, and this is only the first floor, and less than half of the rooms are inspected. Catherine bit her lip, but there was not much doubt on her face, only a look of disbelief: "Judging from the appearance, this ship should be a five-story structure, even if the lowest floor is a warehouse, there are three floors for sailors' activities." At least half of the sailors were trapped in the cabin and drowned alive according to this ratio, which is not reasonable at all, and there is only one reason I can think of, but how is it possible?"

"After all the distracting answers are removed, the only remaining answer may be the correct answer, no matter how bizarre it is. "If nothing else, the ship was not shipwrecked, but pulled directly from the surface of the sea into the sea, and the whole process was probably only a few seconds." ”

"So these sailors won't have time to escape?" Catherine said in a deep voice: "No, even so, these sailors still have a chance to escape, their swimming skills are far better than ours, and they are much more familiar with the sea, even if they suddenly enter the sea, they can escape along the corridor, unless, unless the ship is quickly pulled closer to the deep sea, the sudden increase in water pressure makes them die directly without any chance of escaping." ”

"Weston is on top. Freya exclaimed, "Even a demigod can't do such a thing, it's incredible to pull a ship of this size directly from the surface of the sea to the bottom of the sea." ”

"No, what if it's the beast out there?" Catherine asked rhetorically, "I think I'm strong enough to do that." ”

"Behemoth......" Freya smiled bitterly, "Maybe you're right, it does have the strength to do it." ”

"I think we've got a clue. Catherine said with a serious face, "I tried to imagine if one day a long, long time ago, a ship entered this area with a secret that could allow the Sea Clan to be controlled, although I don't know what its purpose is, but it did enter this area. Then this matter was discovered by the Sea Clan, so at that time, the strongest person in the Sea Clan harnessed the deep-sea beast and launched a surprise attack on the ship. The result of the attack was obvious, the sea tribe and the giant beast died in battle, but before they died, they also died with the top powerhouses on the other ship, so the secret was left at the bottom of the sea. ”

"Two questions. Pannis cocked his finger and said, "First, if there is really a secret that can control the Sea Clan, why is the Sea Clan who fought not controlled. Second, if it is such a serious problem, there are so many strong people in the Sea Clan, why don't you come and fight together? If these two questions cannot be explained, your conjecture can only be conjecture. ”

"I really can't explain that. Catherine shook her head, "But I always felt it was the right idea. ”

"Why?" asked Pannis.

"A woman's intuition. Catherine gave Pannis a blank look: "If you don't believe me, keep looking, maybe you can find evidence to support my suspicions." (To be continued.) )