Chương 211: About the story of the shipwreck of the Daughter of the Sea ten years ago
Ten years ago.
A cruise ship named Daughter of the Sea started its maiden voyage, carrying a group of dignitaries, departing from country E, passing through the North Pacific to country D. The cruise ship belongs to a shipping company in country H. It was not the largest passenger ship at the time, but it was the most expensive and luxurious cruise ship at the time.
The ship has the most sophisticated instruments and is equipped with the most experienced captain and crew. In comparison, the first mate is slightly less experienced, but he was allowed to board the ship just for the sake of the person who introduced him.
The cruise ship stopped at the port of country Y once, made supplies, and embarked on the journey again, bringing all the passengers on the ship into the last journey of their lives.
That should have been the most advanced instrument, which other ships did not have, only this ship had, the most advanced navigation system.
What does it take to make the most advanced instrument go wrong? Sometimes, just a cup of coffee is enough.
The ship only had a few days left before reaching the destination. Everyone relaxed their vigilance. The captain was called to attend the banquet, the first mate and other crew members also went. This sea area is very safe, the latest technology can be used to switch the ship to automatic driving.
Those who appeared at the banquet were all people of status. They held wine glasses and spun in the ballroom, looking for suitable chat partners. If they wanted, they could make deals in this entertainment event, all kinds of deals.
The first mate was also among them, wearing a uniform, holding a wine glass, chatting with several noble ladies.
"I heard that the latest system is installed on this ship, it can drive without human operation. Is it true ma?" the noble lady asked.
The first mate raised his head proudly: "Of course, this ship is the most advanced ship in the world today, equipped with an artificial system. As long as it is given an order, it can achieve it perfectly."
"Then will there be no need for people to drive the ship in the future?" A straightforward and charming lady blurted out.
The smile on the first mate's mouth paused, his eyes swept across the other's delicate face and the gem necklace on her neck. In the eyes of the first mate, the clothes and jewelry these women wore were equal to their worth. Just that one ruby was something that a man like him couldn't afford.
But not being able to afford it didn't mean he couldn't take it off. The first mate had a sneer on his lips, he covered it up with the action of drinking. When he put down the wine glass, he was still the suave first mate. He handed the wine glass to the waiter passing by, showing a little pitiful expression and holding the hand of the lady in front of him: "If one day artificial intelligence is too advanced and I lose my job. Then, madam, would you be willing to give me a meal at that time ne?"
He winked at the lady in front of him, the lady smiled and replied: "If you can satisfy me."
The ambiguous flirting lasted for a long time, until they saw other people coming, then they left.
While no one noticed him, the first mate quietly left the dance hall. He felt thirsty after drinking too much, so he simply made himself a cup of coffee to sober up and came out to enjoy the sea breeze.
Thinking of what the pampered young lady said, the first mate sneered.
"Replace humans? He." It's just a machine.
He staggered to the control room with coffee in his hand. The first mate kept poking the control panel with his other hand, shaking his body left and right: "Still want to replace humans? Just you, a piece of metal without blood and flesh?"
"You know ma, I a, will become the greatest captain in the world in the future. I want to have my own ship. A luxury cruise ship!"
"My ship, will never be equipped with iron things like you. What latest research technology." The first mate put the coffee on the control panel and leaned over to look at it. "I don't think you have anything new, it's just a a--"
The hand knocked over the coffee cup, half of the hot coffee spilled, part of it spilled on the first mate's hand, and part of it splashed on the machine. Flowed into the machine through the gap.
No matter how drunk he was, he was sobered up by the heat. The first mate hurriedly wiped the machine with his arm. He didn't know if it was waterproof, but he wiped it clean first.
Seeing that no one had come yet, he destroyed the body and left with his coffee cup.
This thing seemed to be high-tech. Since it was high-tech, it was only half a cup of coffee, so it didn't matter ba.
The first mate who left did not notice the pointer and the direction of travel that were gradually deviating due to the influence of water.
High technology will not be completely defeated by a cup of coffee, but it will be affected a little. But when the ship is sailing, even if the direction is only a few degrees off, the ship will come to a completely unfamiliar sea an hour later.
Not to mention after a night of drinking and having fun.
The ship completely sailed into an unknow foggy sea no one knew where it was.
On the deck.
"Wow, it's so foggy, I can't see anything clearly. Can the fog on the sea be so heavy ma?"
"Don't know, it should be affected by the weather ba, maybe it will dissipate in two days."
"With such heavy fog, is it okay for the ship to sail ma?"
"This is something the captain should worry about, let's go have fun ba."
"You're right. It's time to take care of your skin."
In the control room.
"Deviated from the route? Why did it deviate from the route? Who was on duty last night?"
"No one last night, Captain. After switching the ship to automatic driving mode, everyone attended the banquet."
The captain held his forehead: "No one stayed? First mate?"
The first mate was in a panic, the captain called him several times before he came back to his senses: "What? Captain, you said you wanted to try the automatic driving mode of this ship, you also said last night that everyone should have fun."
Captain: "Then you should also leave one or two people in the cabin to watch."
The first mate said embarrassedly: "I left someone on the observation deck, I thought I only needed to be alert to whether there were other ships"
Captain:" But the observation deck cannot determine whether the sailing is correct!"
"But, Captain." The second mate said, "This ship has used the automatic driving mode before, and there were no problems at that time. Is there any other reason for the deviation from the route?"
The first mate was startled and immediately said: "This thing is also used for the first time on our ship. It didn't have any problems before, but it doesn't mean it will always have no problems. I think it just happened that it broke down yesterday!"
At this time, the automatic driving system was not fully mature, and the technology was not perfect enough. The first mate's words were easily trusted by everyone.
Yes, it is useless to investigate why it happened now, and we must remedy it quickly.
"First, confirm our position!"
"No way, Captain, the positioning system seems to be broken, and there is no way to confirm the current position."
"This... then bring the compass!"
"Captain, the compass is broken, the needle is not moving."
"What?" The captain grabbed the compass from the first mate and shook it. The needle kept spinning and would not point to any direction.
The captain suddenly felt suffocated. The ship was trapped in the foggy sea, not knowing where it was. The guidance was broken, the positioning was broken, and now even the most basic compass could not be used?
Then how could they leave this foggy sea?
"It's okay, it's not impossible." The captain put away the compass in a heavy tone and comforted the crew, "As long as the fog is gone, I can still identify the direction."
In the ancient times when the compass did not appear, ships sailed by the sun during the day and by the stars at night.
As an old captain, at least he still remembered how to identify the stars.
"Captain, when will this fog dissipate a?"
The captain did not speak, in fact, he did not know.
The fog has never dissipated. The ship has been sailing at a very slow speed. The captain steered the ship in one direction, hoping to sail out of this foggy sea.
On the first day of entering the foggy sea, the guests on the ship discussed the bad weather.
On the second day, the ladies began to complain that they could not appreciate the beautiful sea and that such weather was not friendly to the fabric of the clothes they were wearing.
On the third day, some people began to ask the sailors why there was so much fog in the sea? Was there a big storm coming? Or even a more terrible typhoon at sea?
Upon hearing this rumor, the captain immediately came out to explain that it was impossible for a large typhoon to occur when there was fog, so there was no need to worry about this problem at all.
The guests' restlessness eased a little, but there was no change to the current situation.
On the fourth day, the ship was still in the sea of fog, the fog became thicker and thicker. It seemed that they had entered the center of the fog.
It took four days, not to say that they did not leave, but entered the center of the sea of fog?
This was definitely the worst situation, because if they wanted to leave here, they would have to spend at least four more days.
And this ship was scheduled to end its journey in three days.
"Still no signal found ma?" The captain came to the control room exhausted and asked the first mate.
The first mate was no longer has an elite apparence. He had not appeared in front of passengers for the past few days, and he did not even go back to his room to rest. He had been squatting in the control room, just to not miss even the slightest signal to answer.
His clothes were already wrinkled, his hair was greasy, his beard had grown a little, his face was full of decadence. Others in the control room could not bear it and went to rest, only the first mate stayed here.
"No, nothing at all." The first mate shook his head and wiped his face, "There are three days left."
The captain sat in his seat in silence, looking at the dark outside the glass window.
It was night now, and he should have looked at the stars to navigate, but the boundless darkness swallowed up all hope.
The captain suddenly slapped the pager several times in anger, picked up the microphone and kept shouting.
"Call, call, seek help!" The ship lost contact with the headquarters, and no one knew where they were, including themselves.
"Call, is there a ship a!" The only hope was to send a distress signal in the nearby sea area.
But, there was nothing.
It was as if they were the only ship left in the world.
The first mate was about to cry: "Captain, I want to go home."
Although he had no home.
The first mate lost his parents, was alone, had no money and no status, but had a good face, and found a job as a seaman. Then he was lucky enough to be spotted by a noble lady and became her underground lover.
Later, I found out that this noble lady was only a glamorous status on the surface, but secretly she was also the lover of a big businessman, and the other party also had a title. So what, the knight supported her, and she supported him, which sounded good.
The reason why he was able to go from an ordinary seaman to the current position of first mate was also thanks to her.
Later, the lover gave birth to a child for him, named McPhail.
McPhail's face was very similar to hers, and he was very smart, so smart that the knight actually made the identity of the illegitimate child public. When the news came out, the first mate didn't know how happy he was. Someone raised a son for him, even if McPhail could not get anything from the knight except money.
The price was a bit high, the lover was targeted by the knight's wife for revenge, and was sent to a mental hospital. But it didn't matter, it was a necessary sacrifice.
But now, he couldn't be happy.
He died here, no one will remember.
Even the child who was connected to him by blood didn't know.
He didn't want to die, even if he died, he didn't want to die without anyone knowing.
The first mate and the captain had a quarrel. The ship was no longer saveable, and the number of lifeboats could not even meet half of the passengers. He wanted to take advantage of the night and sneak away on a lifeboat before the passengers knew that the disaster was quietly coming. But the captain naturally didn't allow him to be a deserter. During the dispute, the first mate took out the gun that had been prepared long ago and shot the captain.
This old captain, who was only fifty years old, died here unjustly, ended his life hastily, not even completing his last voyage.
Unfortunately, in order to appease the uneasy emotions of the passengers, a lively singing and dancing banquet was being held on the ship. Everyone forgot about the unhappy things, sang and danced happily. No one heard the gunshots, no one paid attention to the death of the captain and the escape of the first mate.
The turmoil was hidden under the singing and dancing.
The next day, the second mate found the captain's body, his face changed drastically, he called all the crew members to discuss. Because the first mate could not be found anywhere, and one lifeboat was found to be missing, it was confirmed that the first mate killed the captain then absconded. They decided to hide this fact from the passengers, the second mate temporarily took the captain's position and continued to find a way out of the dilemma.
Pointless struggle.
On the fifth day, they were still in the foggy sea. The kitchen reported a shortage of food. Although they had prepared enough, they could not hold out for ten days.
On the sixth day, they were still in the foggy sea. The emotional stimulation brought to the passengers by singing and dancing had subsided, and fear began to spread. Don't know where the news came from, passengers gradually learned that the ship was trapped.
On the evening of the sixth day, a group of people gathered in front of a crew member and asked loudly, and was told: "It's not the date yet, please wait patiently."
On the seventh day, the scheduled end date of the voyage arrived, and they still did not leave the foggy sea. All the passengers went to question the crew and asked the captain to give an explanation. One crew member couldn't stand it and said that the captain was killed and the first mate disappeared. The whole ship was shocked.
On the tenth day, an old man who was sick and had run out of medicine died.
On the twelfth day, the passengers rioted and had a dispute with the crew on the ship, which eventually turned into a fight. Several crew members and passengers died here. They finally realized that the status and reputation they once had, during the shipwreck, were worthless.
On the seventeenth day, the fresh ingredients began to be gradually consumed, leaving only flour and canned food that were easy to preserve. There was no water that could be directly drunk. They tried to distill fresh water from seawater for drinking. No one disliked the unclean seawater.
On the twentieth day, the fuel of the cruise ship was about to run out, and the cruise ship would be anchored in place.
On the twenty-second day, the ship stopped.
On the twenty-third day, a fight broke out again on the cruise ship to compete for the right to use the lifeboat. However, the first two lifeboats could not be started after falling into the water, and the plan to leave using the lifeboat was stopped.
On the twenty-fifth day, the food on the cruise ship became increasingly tight and a fight broke out. There are no nobles or commoners here, only humans who will do whatever it takes to survive.
On the 30th day, the cruise ship staged an ancient drama of the law of the jungle, and everything returned to its original state, whether it was human nature or civilization.
On the 33rd day, cannibalism.
On the 37th day, there was nothing left. A man put down three yachts and sent the last few survivors to the sea, rowing with wooden boards, begging for the last chance of survival.
On the 40th day, the last survivor on the cruise ship lingered on the ship for three days, and died after leaving his last words.
Before he died, he placed his last words and a notebook in the control room.
[I am the second mate of this ship, and I have the obligation to tell you who may find this ship what happened on this ship.
But first, please let me say to my family, I am sorry that I gave up going home, in fact I don't think they can go back alive.
I am the second mate, I didn't do it when I should have stayed here and kept an eye on the control panel. I should have gone to mediate after the riot, but I didn't do it either. When people become beasts, I should manage them. Not only did I not do it, I even became one of them.
If small sacrifices can bring stability to the overall situation, then everything is worth it. I thought so at the time, and ignored the first sacrifice, the seriously ill old man.
But I was wrong. As long as there is the first sacrifice, there will be a second and a third one. It is no longer limited to seriously ill old people.
When a person decides to become a beast, there will be a second and a third one. When more than half of the survivors are beasts, the people on the ship are no longer human.
I even suspect that there are demons on this ship.
Maybe there are, otherwise why have we been spinning in this foggy sea for so long? There is an invisible hand controlling our ship, spinning in circles here.
Or maybe, as William said, there is something wrong with the magnetic field in this sea area.
Does this sound scientific? But I don't think so. I always feel that there is something in the sea, they are climbing up the side of the ship and invading the ship. It is said that there are often ghosts who died in the sea before. Once they see a passing ship, they will attach themselves to it and make us become one of them.
I was very scared, but I also accepted this reality.
There must be something on this ship.
I left the captain's notes and completed it on behalf of the captain. I hope that when you see this ship, the notes are still there.
Remember, no matter what this ship becomes, even if it is intact, it must not be used again.
This ship is no longer an ordinary ship. I really saw them attached to the ceiling, and they have always been there.]
The captain's notes contain a thin will, which is the only information left by the people who have survived on this ship.
The author has something to say:
Countdown to the end.
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I used to think that coffee could save the situation, but recently I found that not only can it not, but it will also increase the burden on the body.
So it is recommended not to drink coffee after drinking alcohol o.
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