Chapter 2 Part 1: The Ghost Ship on the Sea

The most thrilling shipwreck in history is probably the one where the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank during its maiden voyage. Of course, before the Titanic, there were more shipwrecks that are very surprising, but because of the long history of the incident, there are no definite records, so the impression is not so deep.For example, when the Mongolian army marched east to Japan and the entire fleet sank in a hurricane, it must have been more thrilling, but the actual situation is unknown.However, the sinking of the Titanic cruise ship happened in modern times, with convenient communication, the unfortunate news spread all over the world in an instant, and even some people wrote it into novels and movies, and the impression was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so it became a well-known event. Shipwreck.

Recently, a television company in the United States produced a science-fiction TV series, which involves turning back time. There is a section in which the subject of the Titanic cruise ship crashed into an iceberg and sank.The general idea is that two modern people, because they went back to decades ago, suddenly found themselves on a large cruise ship, and then discovered that the cruise ship was actually the Titanic. These two people naturally knew about the great tragedy of Titanic's shipwreck, so they panicked, found the captain, and told the captain that his ship would hit an iceberg and sink at a certain moment. Of course, the captain didn't believe it and took them The two, treated as lunatics, were imprisoned.

But misfortune finally happened, as recorded in history, the Titanic finally hit the iceberg. This is a very strange story, but if I were to write such a story, I would have to change it a little, so that when the two people told the captain, the captain didn't believe it at first, but later he believed it. The route of the Dani ended up hitting an iceberg instead, and it suffered misfortune, just as recorded in history. There is also a reason for such a change, because the tragedy of the Titanic was shrouded in an atmosphere of mystery from beginning to end.First, there should not be huge icebergs on the route; second, with the equipment on board at that time, even if there were icebergs, they could be avoided in time, but in the end, they crashed into them by accident, causing It became a huge tragedy, so we know that there must have been some weird things happened at that time. Maybe there were really two people who went back to the past, and their good intentions caused disasters instead. It is also possible.

The title of this story is Shipwreck, which means that a ship sank in the sea. It has nothing to do with the problem of time regression, and the ship involved is by no means the Titanic, so the Titanic was used as the beginning. I want to explain that there is no such thing as absolute safety on the unpredictable sea, and any unimaginable weird and mysterious accidents may happen.The Titanic was known as an unsinkable ship, but it sank at the bottom of the sea on its maiden voyage. Now that science has advanced, the safety equipment of the ship is better, so there should be no problem. However, the safety equipment of any ship is better than nuclear weapons. Powered submarine?A US nuclear-powered submarine, the Thresher, sank at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The reason is still unclear?Well, the sea is unpredictable, and any accident can happen, but human beings' enthusiasm for sailing has not declined since thousands of years ago, and has not been deterred by the mysterious sea. Therefore, the shipwreck is almost It happens every year, and it is no longer special news.

I have a friend who indirectly made an appointment with me. The friend said that there is a captain of Moa who wants to discuss something with me. I met Captain Moa in a bar. In my imagination, a captain must be a tall, dignified middle-aged man with beards, dressed in a straight uniform with gold trim on the cuffs and collar, full of air. However, when I walked into that bar, I saw a dark-skinned, thin, nimble young man in casual clothes, no more than twenty-seven or eighteen years old, walking towards me. The young man has a very amiable face and a pair of extremely flexible eyes. As soon as he saw me, he stretched out his hand: You are Mr. Wei, I am Moya.

I gave a strange oh, and said: Captain Moya? He nodded and shook hands with me enthusiastically: Yes, I am so happy to finally meet you. My mother is a Maori native. My best skill is actually canoeing! I laughed out loud at what he said, and I immediately liked him because he was a very easygoing, unassuming guy, so I sat down with him. The first impression he gave me was that he was a lively and honest person, so I thought there was no need to say unnecessary polite words to him, and I said: Captain, that friend said, you have something embarrassing, come to me discuss?Thank you for looking up to me!

Captain Moa laughed. He has white, neat, and small teeth, which may be one of the characteristics of the Maori people. He said, "First of all, don't call me captain. Captain is my profession. If you If I call me by my occupation, I will also call you by your occupation, then you will become the chairman of the import and export industry, an adventurer and a writer! I laughed again, and said: Alright, Moya, you seem to know me well enough, so what is it that you want to discuss with me? The smile on Moya's face gradually faded and became very serious. After a long silence, he said: First of all, I have to introduce myself first, lest you think what I said is the nonsense of a Maori native Gossip.

I spread my hands and said, "Okay, I have no objection." Captain Moya said: My mother is an ordinary Maori, not a princess, she has no education.My father was born in a very wealthy family, so I have been formally educated like Caucasians since I was a child, maybe because I have half Maori blood, so I especially like sailing. After several years of literature, he finally gave up his studies and switched to sailing. I nodded and said: Anyone who is full of adventure will not study literature, even if his wish is to be a writer, he will not. Moya laughed again: I have been living at sea since I graduated from the sailing school. It was a year ago that I was selected as the captain. I can guarantee that it was entirely due to my personal ability, not due to My father owned a lot of stocks in steamship companies.

I smiled and said: There seems to be no doubt about this! Moya laughed very happily when he heard me say that, but then he sighed again and said: But now, I don't have a boat. I raised my eyebrows, and Moya smiled wryly and said: My ship sank, and the shipwreck incident is under investigation. Before the investigation is over, I will not have a new ship, and if the investigation results, the shipwreck is due to my fault When he was talking here, he stopped and stayed for half a minute before saying in a hoarse voice: Then, I will never have a boat! It pained me very much when he spoke that way, for I saw that he loved sailing so much, and loved his captaincy so much, that if he never had the chance to take command of a ship again, it would be a great thing to him. An irreparable blow!

For a while, I couldn't think of any words to comfort him.There are many reasons for the sinking of a ship, and, from what he said briefly, it seemed that he was largely responsible! Moya's expression was very sad, he lowered his head, and after a while, he took out a map from the briefcase beside him, opened it, pointed to a place, and said, "Here is the location of the shipwreck." I looked where he was pointing and recognized a chart of the Atlantic off Bermuda. Here, I add some words about the topography of Bermuda Island.Bermuda is located in the Atlantic Ocean. It can be said that it is isolated in the Atlantic Ocean. In terms of terrain, it is very strange. If you open the map, you can see that the south of Bermuda is more than a thousand kilometers away. To the north, the Indian Islands are also about a thousand kilometers apart, and to the west, the situation is even more pitiful. It takes almost the distance equivalent to crossing the American continent before some islands appear.

In other words, within a range of one thousand kilometers on all sides of Bermuda, there are hardly any islands that can be found on the map. Since ancient times, sailing in Bermuda has been regarded as a very difficult task by navigators. After sailing in the sea for a long time, all kinds of strange things will happen. This is the mantra of old navigators. As soon as I saw that the place Moya was referring to was an area about 100 kilometers south of Bermuda, I was stunned: I have a few friends in the sailing world, and they called this area the Devil's Triangle. , that is a danger zone for navigators. Moya smiled wryly, and said: My ship sank in this area! Speaking of his shipwreck, there was a special sadness in his tone, and he seemed to ignore what I was saying, and just continued to talk about it on his own, he said: My ship is a medium-sized ship. The cargo ship has quite advanced equipment and a total of twenty-six crew members. When he said this, his voice became even hoarse! From his voice, I can hear that there must be a greater misfortune in this shipwreck! Sure enough, Mo Ya raised his head and said: Twenty-six crew members, none of them survived! Moya's hands were resting on the map, and he clenched his fists tightly. He clenched so forcefully that his knuckles were making rattling noises. I put my hand on his fist and pressed it lightly: sometimes, disasters are unavoidable, why do you push this misfortune completely on your own head? Moya smiled wryly: I was the only one who survived. This is not the point. The key point is that I ordered to change the course before the accident, so when the ship sank, it was twenty miles west of the normal course. It is my responsibility! When I heard him say this, I couldn't help being stunned for a while, I didn't know what to say! If a captain changes the normal route without a good reason and causes a ship to sink, then this captain cannot shirk his responsibility! If Moya's ship sank because of his wrong judgment, then he might not have the chance to be the captain again in the future! I looked at him for a while, and then said: Then, why did you order to change the normal route? Moya took a deep breath: I told the investigation court about the reason for changing the normal route, but it was not accepted, so I had no choice but to come to you and tell you! I couldn't help laughing bitterly, thinking to myself: What's the use for me?I can't change the decision of the investigative court. Moya looked directly at me. At this moment, the expression on his face was enough to make anyone unreservedly believe that what he said was true. He said: Mr. Wei, I saw the ghost ship. I was shocked suddenly, and said loudly: What? Moya repeated, his voice sounded calm, he said: I saw the ghost ship. I waved my hands unconsciously, trying to say something, but no sound came out. I have to explain again that the so-called ghost ship is actually almost a technical term, specifically referring to the kind of sinking ship that will appear on the surface of the sea under certain circumstances. Although the ghost ship cannot be explained from a scientific point of view, there are more than dozens of records of witnesses. However, most of them were the things of the navigators in the 19th and 18th centuries. Those who witnessed the ghost ship can clearly Tell what they saw of the ship.However, since the beginning of the twentieth century, there seems to be no conclusive record of ghost ships! I waved my hand and stopped, Moya said: Do you know what happened to the ghost ship? I nodded and wanted to talk, but still didn't know what to say. I didn't make a sound, Moya said again: I was not the only one who saw it, the first officer also saw it, but unfortunately I was the only one who survived, so no one believed my words at all! I finally burst out a sentence: what was the situation at that time? Mo Yadao: At that time, it was one o'clock in the morning, and the chief mate was on duty. He was the one who saw the ghost ship first. I was reading a book and I was still awake. The first mate knocked on the door. I opened the door and he pulled me away. Going out, I saw with him, before us, three Spanish barques, which we would surely hit if we went in the same direction again! I shook my head and said: You should know that there will no longer be such a ship sailing on the sea now! Moya smiled bitterly. He smiled wryly for a long time before he said: It was dark and the sea was foggy. The three ships were already very close to us. Before I had time to think about other issues, I ordered to change the course and turn west to avoid them.But when we turned to the west, the three ships were still in front of me. They seemed to be forcing me to sail westward. It took only about 20 minutes for my ship to hit a reef. I frowned. Captain Moya was very serious when he said this, but I still frowned unavoidably. Moya looked at me, smiled wryly, and said: You must be saying that I am really not suitable for sailing! I was thinking about how I should speak so as not to make him too sad, so I didn't speak for a long while, and after a while, I said: The so-called ghost ship is actually an illusion, although sometimes, there will be Several people saw it at the same time, but that does not prove that there is a ship, because in the vast sea environment, hallucinations are produced by psychology, and psychological effects will cause many people to have the same hallucination. From Moya's expression, I can see that he tried his best to listen to my words. And after I finished speaking, his expression became very disappointed again. He took several sips of wine in succession: I am really disappointed if you think so, forget it! He put down his glass and stood up. I looked up, looked at him, and said: "Then what do you mean?" Moya's hands were pressed against the table: I can tell you for sure, it is definitely not an illusion, indeed, there are three large sailing ships, forcing my ship to sail westward. I didn't make a sound, still looking at him. Moya was already a little agitated, so he said it very bluntly, and he said: "But you, with the attitude of an expert, told me that this was my hallucination, and told you, Mr. Wei, that I was at sea. Time, more time than you have spent on land, I know what hallucinations are and what are not hallucinations! I sighed, he was so stubborn, I really had nothing else to say. Moya said again: There are too many fake experts like you. The investigators, like you, will quote scriptures and think that I am an illusion. At sea, hallucinations occurred, which caused the tragedy of the ship collision. The conclusion is that I am not suitable to continue sailing! When he spoke up to this point, he clenched his fists and thumped the table heavily, causing all the wine bottles and glasses on the table to jump up. His voice was loud, his expression was excited, and he even patted the table. All of a sudden, everyone in the bar looked at him. I was also a little angry, Huo Di stood up and said: I think, if the investigation court makes such a decision, it is a very reasonable decision. Moya stretched his head over, looking like he wanted to fight with me. Although he was small, his aura was very intimidating. He said loudly: Humph, I thought about it, say it, scare me! kill you! I sneered and said: You can say whatever you want, I am not so timid! Moya said loudly: I want to confirm that, in fact, these three ships do exist!I still want to go there! I immediately said: Since they are ghost ships, what can you do to prove their existence? Mo Ya said: "Ghosts must have their roots. Where there are ghosts, there must be dead people. Where there are ghost ships, there must be sunken ships. Moreover, I have found those three sunken ships!" I stared and fixed him.He snorted: I don't need to talk to you anymore, you are just like everyone else! He turned around and left, I stretched out my hand, grabbed his arm, and said: Then, may I ask, what did you want to do when you came to find me? Moya laughed: I was thinking too naively, did I?Haha, I want you to go with me! I was stunned for a while, and said: "Thank you so much for looking up to me, you will come and invite me to go with you!" Moya waved his hand: I thought you would agree. I even spent a lot of effort to find the information of the three ships beforehand, but now, there is no need to mention anything! I stood still for a moment, sat down by myself first, and then said: Please sit down, let's start from the beginning again! Moore looked at me.I said again: I can't make any promises to you now, because the whole thing you said is completely nonsense, but I would like to hear what information you found! Moya looked at me for a long while before sitting down. After he sat down, he didn't speak for a while, and then he said: I'm sorry, my attitude just now was too rude, you know, I came here with full of hope, once disappointed He spread his hands and didn't say any more. I smiled: It doesn't matter, at least we haven't fought yet. Moya glared at me, and I added: Actually, even if we fight, it doesn't matter, as long as you can convince me, I can also admit that it is my fault! Moya also laughed. Although his laughter was quite bitter, his expression was quite hearty. I said: Tell me, did you find the information on those three ships?This is really impossible! Moya said: At that time, I really did see the three ships, not only saw them, but also left a deep impression on the three ships with a kind of emblem inlaid on the bow. When he talked about this, he paused for a while, and then said: I have longed for the sea since I was a child, and I have long made up my mind to take sailing as my lifelong career. Therefore, I have read a lot of books related to sailing, especially It is a story about ancient explorers who took adventures at sea. At that time, I felt that the coat of arms on the three ships seemed to have been seen somewhere. Afterwards, I went to check the relevant information, and it really gave me Found it!