Chapter 290 289. It's Coming

"Regarding the investigation report of Qunxing, Qunxing departed from Yangshan Port on October 15, 2020. It is expected to travel 21 days and will be close to one month. During this period, it will pass through island countries, Solomon Islands, Australia and other ports, and finally arrive. In New Zealand, the main selling point of this voyage is ocean scenery, which is quite rare."

  "However, ten days after the Astronomy set off, it encountered a rare maritime storm in the Western Pacific and was forced to stop at Pohnpei, north of the Solomon Islands, waiting for the storm to subside."

  "During the long and abnormal storm duration, several accidents occurred on the Stars, and a serious fire broke out on November 21. The hull tilted and entered the water. After a week, the rescue was ineffective and sank into the sea."

  "The passengers on the ship took a flight back to China after the off-season storm in the Pacific completely subsided in January. Among them, a considerable number of passengers had mental problems of varying degrees. The aftermath of the Stars is still in progress."

  Lu Yi saw the investigative report of the Qunxing incident that could be made public.

  He remembered that during the storm, the passengers of the Stars seemed to have taken some videos of the islands in the storm and the remains of urban buildings.

   Lu Yi searched the Internet, most of the videos have been invalidated with the passage of time, but on the old video network, someone left an archive of the second screen shot.

  He took a serious look at these videos again.

In the storm, you can indeed see the shadows of some buildings. Those buildings are mostly towering spires, with strange styles that do not belong to this era. In fact, Lu Zie did not see any era of architecture from these buildings. Styles, they are like art and aesthetics born out of this world, which generally exist there, like a black spot on white paper, distorted and unnatural.

  I didn’t have that strong feeling when I first saw it. Now Lu Yi is almost certain that these buildings are not human creations, but some strange and mysterious, indescribable temples of existence.

  As for the Qunxing accident, Lu Zie thought it might be caused by weirdness.

He flipped through some interview materials, most of which belonged to the captain, crew, and passengers. Because the accident was actually considered serious, there were many speculations left. There were divergent opinions. Some believed that mutiny had occurred among the crew, while others felt that there was a mutiny among the crew. It was the captain who commanded the crew to plunder the passengers, and some were whimsical and said it was haunted.

  In fact, the testimonies of these people also contradict each other.

  For example, Lu Kie saw a clip of first officer Zhao Liren being interviewed.

"At that time, the captain and I said that there was a problem with the equipment in the engine room and needed manual maintenance, but the captain didn’t seem to care and didn’t agree to my request. As a result, within two days, the equipment in the engine room broke down. Fire, no, no, I didn’t say that the captain did something wrong, but his performance at the time seemed to me not calm enough. Even if the fire spreads, he did not take effective measures. I have known the captain for several years, but he is not like that. People, something must have affected him. Maybe there were too many changes during this trip, and the pressure was overwhelming him."

  In this clip, the chief officer thinks that the captain’s insufficient response is the main cause of the accident, and it sounds reasonable.

  In the mouth of a tourist, things have changed again.

". Those crew members are very fierce. They didn't let us walk around on the boat at first. They kept us in the room like prisoners. We were only able to come out for air every day when we were eating, especially during the days when the storm worsened. The ship was about to sink. I hadn’t seen the captain, but the first officer spoke to us very harshly. He seemed to have encountered something with heavy dark circles. It was not until later that we disembarked at the port and things got better. Some, we didn't notice it at all during the fire, because the storm was too big, too big."

  In his mouth, the first officer restricted their actions, guarding them like a jailer, and behaved a little nervously, not at all the calm situation the first officer said.

". These crew members are taciturn and not talkative. They weren't like this at the beginning. Since the beginning of the storm, they have been a lot more serious. I can understand that such a storm at sea is very dangerous and should not be joking, but after experiencing the storm, It seems that we have changed a lot of individuals. We are depressed a lot. For our safety, the crew told us not to move around. I can understand. I talked with a crew member. He said that the current situation is desperate. This ship may have to No, I thought he was frightening us at the time, but who knew that after a while after landing, the ship caught fire. Fortunately, we were all in the hotel at the port. It seemed that some crew members were burned to death on the ship? not sure."

  Some tourists showed another situation. The crew seemed to change because of the severity of the storm, and the measures to restrict personal freedom were also for safety.

  Lu Yi saw the captain, Johnson Gustav’s interview again.

  This is a German with a beard and looks very haggard during the interview.

"I have answered these questions many times. The storms we encountered are rare in history. For this reason, I must ensure the safety of all crew and passengers so that they can all stay in the room. Yes, yes, on board. Some crew members had mental problems due to stress. I asked the ship’s doctor to give them medicine. At least when we docked to Pohnpei, everything was not serious."

"The really serious thing is that after going to the island, the people on the island are very strange, I can't tell, they sometimes stand in the harbor, stand in the storm, and make some strange postures of worship towards the center of the storm. Some islanders still sneak on the boat, not knowing what they want to do."

   "I walked around the island, and there are many strange statues on it. On the mountain in the center of the island, there seems to be an ancient temple, all of which are primitive beliefs."

"Those statues look like octopuses, or a mixture of soft creatures and humans. I know that the aboriginal people on the sea always worship the creatures in the sea inexplicably, but those statues give people a very uncomfortable feeling. , Although that temple has been damaged, but I don’t know why. Whenever you look up the mountain at night, you can always find it at first sight, just like it emits a faint green fluorescence."

"After the fire broke out, the people on the island did not participate in the rescue. They just stood in the rain and stood on the pier, making worship towards the burning cruise ship. I swear, I have never seen such a weird sacrifice. Thanks to the action, I once suspected that these people were occupied by monsters."

"It's just that, in the light of the fire, I seem to see something rising from the boat into the storm. It is difficult to describe the feeling. I think maybe my spirit is not normal. No, it should exist. It’s there, I know, it’s coming, I’m sorry, I don’t know how to say it, when the stars sank, I think it really came alive, and each of us is a witness of its birth."

"What is it?"

  The interviewer asked curiously.

  "It is. It is the stars, it is the stars, it is coming, it is coming soon!"

  Captain Gustav became hysterical, and the interview was interrupted.

Lu Zan saw the final outcome of the captain. He was resting at home after being interviewed. A month later, he drowned himself with his own wash basin. It is said that when he died, both hands were twisted behind him and he tried hard. He pressed his head, as if the two hands forcibly pressed him in the water to prevent him from lifting his head.

  He drowned himself by himself!

  (End of this chapter)