Golden Fishing Village

Chapter 930 937. Ghost in the Box (15)

That night, the big ship and the platform weighed anchor and headed south.

This was the first time Ao Muyang had seen a salvage platform in action. This thing was similar to a ship but different. It also had a cockpit and an engine, but these were the only two things that were similar to a ship.

He had seen a large transport truck with an engine on the highway before. This salvage platform was the underwater version of a transport truck.

The two sea monsters were galloping on the water, and their speed was surprisingly not slow. The platform had an exaggerated deadweight, and it was very stable on the sea. Ao Muyang could even place a cup of Coke without splashing it.

What he was curious about at this moment was not the salvage platform, but the narrow ship in front.

He felt that it was a warship.

Since he came to Nereus Salvage Company, he had become interested in the flagship not far from the platform. The ship was sixty meters long, and its front deck was low and covered with a gun coat, just like the water cannon of the Big Dragon Head.

But it was different further back. The ship had a tall central superstructure bridge, with a comprehensive closed main mast installed on its rear edge. Further back were two double rectangular cylindrical buildings. Ao Muyang had seen them through a telescope. There were protruding exhaust ports on them, which looked like chimneys on warships.

There were two rows of round iron covers between the cylindrical building and the main mast, but they seemed to be all welded shut. There was a streamlined sphere on the cylindrical flat platform. He had seen this thing many times on warships at the Hongyang Base. Du Yulong told him that it was a satellite communication system fairing...

In addition, there were still gun covers on the top of the ship's bridge, and there were two of them, one on each side. There was a lifeboat on the ship, which was hung on a davit on the starboard side, and next to the davit was a device that looked like a missile launcher...

Ao Muyang was not a senior military fan, and he didn't know much about the navy. What he knew about warships was what he learned from cramming a few days ago. Anyway, in his eyes, this ship looked like a small warship.

But this is not justifiable. Su Li helped him investigate. Nereus is just an ordinary marine treasure salvage company. Maybe it is large in scale and strong in the industry, but a commercial company is definitely not related to a warship.

Ao Muyang wanted to get closer to the big ship to take a closer look, but he didn't have the chance. The big ship remained mysterious. The people on the ship never communicated with the staff on the platform. There were people on duty day and night.

Everything was just his suspicion. Bar, Old Frey and others did not introduce it, so he didn't need to ask.

Too much talk will lead to mistakes. He is just a guide. If he cares too much, it may arouse suspicion.

The two sea monsters swaggered southward and finally approached a large ship.

Bal, holding a beer bottle, pointed to the ship in the south and said, "That's the flagship of X-Deep Sea. They are a bunch of country bumpkins who don't understand the marine salvage industry at all. They just dive in and get their heads broken."

Ao Muyang asked, "What's their background?"

Bal shrugged and said, "Who cares? Maybe some rich man wants to have fun on the sea. Believe me, Honoré, they won't find any shipwreck treasures. They are just a bunch of troublemakers."

According to Ao Muyang's observation, Nereus's people are not very interested in X-Deep Sea. Maybe the two sides have had some conflicts before.

After nightfall, everyone returned to the cabin to rest. Ao Muyang found out the patrol duty rules on the platform, and then entered the sea in the thick night.

In order to avoid suspicion, he did not wear a deep diving suit or bring an oxygen tank, and he left Black Dragon on the boat to cover him, so that even if he was found to have gone into the water, he could explain: I just went to take a shower.

Silently, he sank to the bottom of the sea, staring wide-eyed as he searched the area.

The surrounding seawater depth was about 30 meters. The anchorage chosen by the two ships of Nereus was a seabed hill. The seawater would gradually deepen as he swam around, with the deepest point being 300 to 400 meters.

He searched gradually, but did not find anything about the target, but he found several large boxes in the deep sea area. These boxes looked like coffins, made of wood, and tied to reefs with thick nylon ropes around them. It was obvious that someone deliberately sank them here.

Ao Muyang searched around and found that there were more than a dozen boxes here. After carefully observing and finding that there was no danger, he approached a box to see what was inside.

The wooden box was made of straight wooden boards. It was obviously made not long ago, and the wood grain was very clear and had not been soaked by seawater.

Strangely, the lids of several boxes were skewed to varying degrees, which might be caused by the waves hitting them while they were descending in the water.

After walking around the box, Ao Muyang wanted to see what was inside through the gap between the lid and the box, but unfortunately the gap was too small for him to see anything.

He also patted the box with his hand. The sea water was shaking, but the wooden board was motionless. It was obvious that the material used was very solid and the thickness of the wooden board was considerable.

He carried a sharp dagger with him. The lid and the box were tied with thick nylon ropes, and there were pieces of reefs hanging on them. It was these reefs that sank the box to the bottom of the sea.

He cut the nylon rope with the dagger and pulled up the lid of the wooden box.

It was easy. Maybe the lid was made of thick wooden boards, but because of the shape, the buoyancy of the lid was very large. Ao Muyang exerted force and the lid of the wooden box floated up.

Then, three ghosts followed and floated up...

These three ghosts were three corpses. Their faces were extremely hideous, their eyes were extremely wide open, their tongues were extremely long, and their limbs were extremely twisted. Ao Muyang suddenly saw this kind of thing deep under the sea, and he shivered several times in fear!

The corpses floated up with gray-white eyes without pupils staring angrily. Ao Muyang subconsciously grabbed the lid of the wooden box and pulled it down hard to close them again.

At this moment, he noticed that there were many scratches on the inside of the lid, and the fingers of the three corpses were twisted strangely, and their nails were all broken!

The moment he noticed this detail, Ao Muyang realized what was going on.

Someone stuffed three living people into this wooden box, tied stones to it and sank it to the bottom of the sea. The three people were suffocated to death. Before they died, they had struggled with all their strength and tried to pry open the lid, but it was in vain...

It was too cruel. Lao Ao shuddered subconsciously.

There was no doubt that a horrible murder had happened in the nearby sea area. Thinking of this, he suddenly felt something was wrong. According to his experience of watching TV and movies, when the protagonist discovered such a murder, there would usually be a villain behind him, lurking.

So he immediately grabbed the saber and looked back vigilantly. Behind him was the deep sea water.

He looked up again, and there was ordinary sea water above his head. Nothing terrible happened.

This made him feel relieved. The three bodies in the wooden box were too terrible, and the murderer's methods were too terrible. He was terrified from the bottom of his heart.