endless route.

Chapter 4 4. Ten Days at Sea
The sea water spreads along the coastline into a crescent moon, and the city lights are refracted into fine light spots on the sea surface. With the ups and downs of the waves, you will feel dizzy if you look at it for a long time.

The taxi pulls into the port.

Zheng Yun looked at the sea with complicated emotions. This is his first time to go out to sea to seek gold, and everything ahead is unknown.

He flipped through the photo album just now.

There is W-06's Northern Continent on the ancient sea chart, but the outline is very distorted, and it doesn't match the place he is going to. We can only study it after the mission is over.

While thinking about it, the taxi stopped in front of a retro and old cruise ship called Elizabeth, which lay across the shore and the sea, like a city on the sea.

It is indeed an old ship. It was built in 1930. The facilities are old and aging. The advantage is that it is cheap. It was a top cruise ship a hundred years ago, and the speed is not slow.

Getting off the car is the gangway.

Zheng Yun carried a backpack and followed the tourists to check the tickets, boarded the gangway to observe the hull at a close distance, the white paint could not hide the rust, and several giant depressions were shocking.

According to the ticket to find their own single room.

The room is in a classical Western style, with clean and cheap carpets, a soft and old iron bed, the only porthole is small and rusty, and the viewing angle is very limited.

Professor Zhang reimbursed the boat ticket after returning from the mission, and he had to pay for it at his own expense in the early stage. He didn't have a lot of money, so he could only choose this old cruise ship and live in an ordinary single room.

The cruise ship will depart at ten o'clock tonight.

The end point is W-06's Enns Port. The whole route is more than 8000 kilometers, which is about [-] nautical miles. It has to pass through four foggy seas and three planets.

The average speed of the old cruise ship is 20 knots, and it will take about ten days to arrive including the stopover.

……

Two days later.

The cruise ship was sailing in a large white mist, sailing straight to the west of the route, the window was filled with thick white mist, and the visible distance was no more than five meters.

Accompanied by a steady wave of space, the Elizabeth cruise ship built in the last century jumped into space again and entered W-03.

Zheng Yun has been watching from the window.

He only felt a faint vibration, and then the sky suddenly darkened, which meant that the ship had crossed the endless starry sky and jumped to the next planet.

The window is still full of white mist.

This sea area is relatively stable, and the temperature and climate are similar to those of the earth, but in fact, it is 170 light-years away from the earth, a complete deep space outside the system.

"It's amazing."

Zheng Yun sighed.

As expected of a relic of ancient civilization, the cruise ships of the last century were able to sail interstellar without pressure. No wonder the ancients thought that the Misty Sea was the dwelling place of immortals.

Thinking about the ancients back then, riding the wind and waves in ancient boats, passing through the fog and seeing the stars change drastically, it is not difficult to understand why they were so superstitious.

However, today, this route has been thoroughly developed, and it is bustling with ships, and there are huge cargo ships with a unit of [-] tons coming in and out.

But there are some exceptions.

Zheng Yun took pictures of several antique sailing boats with his mobile phone, and dreamed back to the era of great exploration hundreds of years ago. Last night, he saw two speedboats suspected of being pirates in the distance.

Almost any boat is available.

There are even some people on the Internet who challenge to swim across the misty sea and rely on their physical bodies to navigate interstellar space, but there are very few successful ones, and they often lose contact halfway.

The marine life on the endless route is not a joke. Occasionally strayed into the earth, the creatures that were regarded as "sea monsters" by the ancients are everywhere on the route.

Before humans go to sea.

They are the route overlords.

The transition rules of the Misty Sea are also beneficial to marine life. Only substances near the sea surface can transition, and flying and deep diving are difficult to transition.

"Mainstream speculation believes that the endless route is made by a highly developed marine civilization. Perhaps at the end of the route, that civilization still exists in the world."

"But that's too far away. The UAV's exploration of the endless route has reached W-42C at the farthest, almost across the cantilever of the Milky Way, but it's not the end yet."

Go to the porthole and look out.

The outside world is not completely pitch black, and you can faintly see the dark blue sea water, as well as some luminous creatures in the depths of the sea water, which looks unreal.

My adoptive father mentioned before that a colleague once found a sunken ship in the early Ming Dynasty in this sea area. The silver ingot was soaked like a sponge, and he made ten lifetimes of wealth in one day.

In the early Ming Dynasty, some people came to this sea area and left traces in this deep space...

……

Two days later, at nine o'clock in the evening on May 5th, the universal time, ten o'clock in the local evening of Ennsport.

The cruise ship finally approached the port.

Zheng Yun saw the city again. Through the porthole, he could see a distant but dazzling bustling port floating at the end of the dark sea.

The cruise ship slowly entered the south side of the port.

Zheng Yun changed his clothes in the guest room, with a thin black jacket and T-shirt on his upper body, off-road pants on his lower body, a brown hat and a rough and durable backpack.

The outdoor temperature is about 30 degrees, so it is very comfortable to wear and looks more like a tourist.

Everything was packed, walked out of the guest room, followed the tourists to disembark, stepped from the gangway to the land, and stepped on the hard concrete road.

My feet are a little weak.

The aftereffects of a long boat ride.

Looking around, Zheng Yun walked to the taxi beside him and announced the name of a hotel, which was included with the purchase of the ferry ticket, and he could stay for three days for free.

The taxi driver is a middle-aged brown Asian who can speak multiple languages. He chatters along the way, constantly introducing the surrounding environment and major facilities.

This place does not belong to the country. It was a French colony at first. It became half independent in modern times. Almost all resources are controlled by French capital. Enns Port is the port city mainly invested and developed by the Bank of France Group. Regardless of culture or camp, it is considered a Western city.

Taxi arrives at the hotel.

Zheng Yun paid [-] tips and got off the car successfully. He carried his things into the hotel and exchanged the boat ticket for a room. After entering the room, he put down his things and went downstairs immediately.

Downstairs is the beach.

The sea breeze is slightly cool and refreshing.

Along the way, I met many tourists in cool clothes. The hotel has beach barbecues. Young bodies and alcohol are intertwined under the night. The picture looks very good.

ten minutes later.

Zheng Yun walked into a coffee shop and found his college classmate Liu Ming on the table at the door.

"It's so hard to see you."

Liu Ming stood up and walked to Zheng Yun, and gave him a strong hug just after entering the door.

"When did you arrive?"

Zheng Yun smiled. He and Liu Ming were not in the same dormitory back then, but their relationship was very good. No one else knew that this guy was a rich second generation.

"I arrived this morning. I have been waiting for you at the port for a whole day, but you are finally here."

Liu Ming punched Zheng Yun's chest, and suddenly noticed something, and squeezed his arm forcefully: "Your arm circumference, this time buddy depends on you to protect."

"You're not much worse."

Zheng Yun lowered his head to look at Liu Ming's figure. He was also doing well, and he should have also kept exercising.

"My buddy doesn't have your talent."

Liu Ming shook his head and pulled Zheng Yun to the table, and introduced him to another alumnus of the same class: "This is Song Wan, a school girl who is a few years behind us."

"Hello."

Zheng Yun nodded to the girl.

He knew about this in advance, Liu Ming was pursuing Song Wan, and this school girl liked to explore more, so Liu Ming pulled her into Professor Zhang's team.

This kind of her is the same as a university internship, she has no salary, and she just follows the team to gain insights.

Song Wan was also brought along to find someone for private work, but the two of them counted as one person, half of the money was shared, and the rest was given to Zheng Yun, and Liu Ming covered all the expenses along the way.

Speaking of this, Zheng Yun couldn't find a reason to refuse. When he went out to surf the Internet with Liu Ming, he paid for all the tobacco, alcohol and meals except the Internet fee.

And if it wasn't for this, I might not have this opportunity, I just hope he doesn't lose money in the end.

"Hello, Senior Zheng."

Song Wan got up and said hello, she looks very cute, and she is dressed neatly, in sports attire, aside from other things, at least she is very polite.

"Professor Zhang's graduate students are all overseas. They found my supervisor and asked me to find some people for him. Otherwise, this good task will not fall into our hands."

Liu Ming took Zheng Yun to sit down, took out a tablet and put it on the table, and clicked on a plant photo:
"The target plants are widely distributed, and there are many caves and mines. It is not particularly difficult to find. We mainly focus on finding people, and time is relatively tight."

Liu Ming turned a page.

A photo of a woman appeared on the tablet, wearing a black ski suit, with blond hair and light blue eyes, she was very beautiful, obviously not Chinese.

"This woman's name is Daphna, 25 years old. She left our W-02 half a month ago and disappeared after arriving at W-06. The location is about [-] kilometers south of Crogalt Lake. Isn't it a bit of a coincidence?"

Liu Ming smiled.

Zheng Yun thought about it. The place they were going to find the plants was near Crogalt Lake. The distance was not too far, so it was just a coincidence.

"There is only one thing that is strange, this Daphna is wearing a positioning emergency device, which will be activated every two or three days.

She should still be alive, but she didn't send any information with the distress device, and her family couldn't contact her, so they asked someone to find her. "

Liu Ming introduced the situation carefully.

The place where Daphna disappeared is also deep in the tropical rain forest. It is rumored that there are several gold mines nearby, which has attracted many gold diggers.

The target's family is quite rich, and it is said that they also have a considerable amount of property in Fuen City. In addition to those who stopped by to find someone like them, they also hired a professional search and rescue team. They happened to bump into Liu Ming when they were on the boat.

The search and rescue team is different from them. Each person has 40 yuan, and they have to pay whether they can save someone. There is no competition with their bounty-like ones.

Liu Ming wanted to go with them.

So he boasted that he was a graduate student in the Department of Rainforest Biology, and that Zheng Yun opened a pawn shop, he was knowledgeable and knew everything, and he also had special skills passed down from his ancestors.

These words really worked. They discussed it yesterday. The search and rescue team will start first, but when they arrive at the place, the two teams will act together.

Zheng Yun nodded in his heart.

Liu Ming's mind was blurry. Going into the rainforest to find someone was extremely dangerous. He also knew the pros and cons. It must be a good thing to act together with the search and rescue team.

(End of this chapter)