Behind the Scenes: From Pirates to Tokyo

Chapter 36 Sea Monster, It's a Sea Monster!
Off the coast of Japan.

As an island country with an export-oriented economy, Japan has extremely busy sea trade routes, industrial raw materials, industrial products, agricultural and sideline products...ships full of various goods are sailing on the routes.

If these routes are suddenly stopped one day, the whole of Japan will collapse immediately.

"Wow!!"

A cargo ship loaded with 10,000+ tons of rice from Southeast Asia is slowly driving on the ocean.

If 10,000+ tons are converted into city catties, it is equivalent to a ship carrying hundreds of millions of catties of grain. Such terrifying data is undoubtedly an astronomical figure in ancient times.

But just under this freighter, a tens of meters long ocean monster slowly swayed its body.

But to say that it is a giant beast is actually only relatively speaking. In front of this cargo ship several hundred meters long, the sea beast's figure still looks so petite.

"Guru~"

Swinging its body, the sea beast is not afraid of the huge monster above its head.

This kind of thing called 'ship' also exists in the pirate world, but the ships in the earth world are all made of steel, which looks harder.

But in essence, they were all just a bunch of things with thin skin and big stuffing. He was very confident that with a little scratch with his claws, he could make a gap in the ship.

Although, it still prefers to prey on those non-threatening foods in the ocean, and it is fine to eat and sleep when it is full, and has no interest in taking care of this kind of steel creation, but who told this to be the order of the 'master'.

It can only be executed reluctantly.

"The port of Yokohama is just ahead, we will be docking soon, and we can finally go home."

The Japanese crew on the deck stretched out with a smile on their faces.

The life of a seafarer is really tormented. It takes a long time to sail on the vast sea. There is no WIFI on board, and the network is expensive and poor. Only by downloading something in advance before each voyage can pass the time during the long voyage.

In such a working state of being out of contact for a long time in a year, getting married is a bit wishful thinking.

Besides, even if you are married, with a job like yours, you don't know when a grassland will grow on your head.

The condition of the other young people on the ship was similar. Just as the Japanese crew member was thinking about things, he suddenly caught something under the sea surface out of the corner of his eyes.

"Gollum."

It was a huge black shade.

Although it was only fleeting, he promised that he would never be wrong.

"What is it, a whale?"

Even whales will avoid giant steel ships like ships because of fear, but there are exceptions to everything, and the rare whales crashing into ships occasionally happen.

Even some whales will deliberately 'attack' the ship to rub off the barnacles because there are too many parasitic barnacles on their bodies.

But before the Japanese crew had time to confirm whether it was a whale in the ocean, the ship suddenly shook from side to side!

"Squeak~~crack!!!"

Although the shaking was very slight, the sound was extremely strong.

Something is hitting the hull, and it must be a huge one, otherwise the ship carrying 10,000+ tons of cargo is absolutely impossible to be shaken.

"Buzz! Buzz!!"

What was more flustered than the deck was the cabin where the captain was. The violent fault sound accompanied by a red flash made everyone in the cabin jump up instantly.

"Struggled on the rocks?" The captain was about to use the radio system to issue an alarm on the rocks, but suddenly remembered that this is not a sea area full of reefs, and hundreds of millions of ships have passed by here, so there is no reef at all.

"No, it's impossible to hit the rocks..."

In any case, he immediately notified each engine room of an emergency stop to avoid a bigger accident.

The huge anchor was thrown from the hull, hitting the bottom of the sea like a long steel snake.

But just as the captain was about to contact the external maritime department, the ship creaked again.

"Squeak~~~嘎！！！！"

This long sound came from the bottom of the ship, and it sounded like the sound of tearing the aluminum packaging of a soda can by hand.

However, there are no aluminum products on the bottom of the ship, and the whole is forged with steel.

So what was torn apart was...the bottom of the boat!
"Not good... the bottom of the ship is damaged!"

"Second officer! Listen to VHF! Report, communicate with the radio station, and issue distress messages. First officer, you will assist the pilot to look out. The boatswain will lead the crew to prepare plugging equipment, and the carpenter will check the liquid level of the ballast tank of the fresh water tank... ...Close watertight doors, windows, ventilation holes...to ensure the operation of the furnace..."

Orders came out quickly from the captain's mouth, but the situation was far worse than they imagined.

Although a normal rock strike is dangerous, at least it will give people time to react. If it is slower, it will be a few hours, and in the worst case, it will take a few minutes.

But the situation from each cabin made the captain's heart sink to the bottom of the sea immediately.

"The right ballast water tank of No. [-] compartment is broken and flooded! It is planned to discharge the left ballast water..."

"The cargo compartment is flooded!"

"Unable to secure vessel, request tugboat assistance."

"Ballast adjustment failed!"

"The third cabin is also..."

Bad news came from everywhere on the ship. If this situation were changed to the human body, it would be like dozens of bullets in the whole body, riddled with holes.

"What exactly did we hit?" Sweat burst from the captain's head in an instant.

The sinking of the ship is not only due to the constant speed drop after entering the water, it is more likely that such a 10,000+ ton behemoth will exceed the load due to the critical stress of the damaged hull, and then directly break and quickly smash into the seabed.

"This is the third tube wheel, we..."

From the console in front of the captain, the three-pipe wheel screamed in horror: "Weird, monster! There is a monster under the ship!"

"Monster? What monster? What are you talking about?!"

"Roar!!"

A terrifying roar came from the other side of the communicator.

"Beep beep beep!!!"

Immediately afterwards, there was only a current blind tone.

The person on the other end of the communicator... lost contact.

"What the hell happened down there?"

It didn't take long for the captain's doubts to be answered, and a strange and terrifying scene suddenly appeared in the blurred surveillance video of the cabin.

A relatively complete cabin was suddenly torn open by a pair of sharp giant claws, and then the sea water surged, and a scarlet eye appeared on the monitor.

A monster in the water, looking at them from behind the torn bulkhead!

After tearing open the gap, the monster did not directly enter the cabin, but swam around again, and then another damage alarm came from another part of the hull!
"Then, that, why is there such a thing in the sea..."

Everyone who saw the screen stood stiffly in place, a bone-piercing cold enveloped their bodies.

From the coldness of the tailbone all the way to the back of the head, everyone was shrouded in infinite fear.

(End of this chapter)