Endless route

Chapter 40 1. The Siren’s Wind

June will be here in a few days.

Professor Zhang from the university formed a group and invited everyone who participated in this mission, including Zheng Yun, Song Wan, and six or seven others.

It was late at night.

At that time, Zheng Yun was driving as a driver near the commercial street. Because the time was awkward, it was only a few days before his teaching assignment, and he couldn't do much while going overseas.

So he drove too much.

The working people are the most glorious and there is nothing to be ashamed of. Although he is in charge of Guixi and has hundreds of underworld soldiers under his command, he is also an ordinary person who is short of money.

He wouldn't even use Yin soldiers to make money. Yin soldiers are dead and no one wants to move bricks at the construction site.

The chat in the group was lively. They were all from the school. Zheng Yun only knew Song Wan and Liu Ming in the group, so he just looked at them without saying anything.

What they probably meant was that Professor Zhang would arrive at Enns Port on June 20th, and the others wanted to organize a team to leave early and go out for a wander.

Zheng Yun did the math.

He wanted to visit the last place his adoptive father visited, on a peninsula in W-05.

If we set off tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and the route takes ten days and another five or six days of detour, we should be able to catch up on the 20th.

Zheng Yun did some homework in advance. Near the destination he wanted to go, there was a very famous tourist attraction among foreign literary and artistic youth circles.

So when Liu Ming asked about his plan, Zheng Yun said it directly, and then Liu Ming sold him out and sent a message to the small group saying that everyone should go together.

Professor Zhang's candidates for this mission had long been dismissed by Liu Ming. Almost all of them were Liu Ming's acquaintances, so he basically agreed with them all.

The ferry ticket from W-02 to W-06 was reimbursed by Professor Zhang. After they disembarked at W-05, they only had to pay a small part of their own travel expenses.

The time is set for the next day.

Let's all go by boat together.

…

In the afternoon of the next day, Zheng Yun set out with his travel bag. When he arrived at the port, others had already boarded the ship.

The ship they took this time was a serious large-scale cruise ship that could carry more than 3,000 tourists and had a pool bar and various entertainment venues.

Tickets are not cheap.

But it’s not too outrageous.

The cruise ship sets sail at 6 p.m.

Zheng Yun originally wanted to take a nap, but Liu Ming led Song Wan and knocked on the door. They had not gotten together since they returned to W-02 and wanted to have a meal together on the ship.

During this period, I also got to know a lot of other people. There were students in the same class, and several of them had experience of going to sea and venturing into the rainforest, but they were all focused on research.

Liu Ming's mouth was very tight.

Song Wan is not a person who talks nonsense.

So others knew nothing about what happened at Hades Pavilion last time, and thought that Liu Ming and the others were lucky enough to meet a professional search and rescue team and get a bounty.

After dinner, everyone studied the travel route together. The tourist attraction they wanted to go to was called Jinhai.

The scenery in this place is really good. More than 130 kilometers away from the coastline in the north, there is a snow-capped mountain range with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters.

This kind of terrain is very rare. The altitude difference creates several climates from hot to cold, including beaches, hot springs, lakes and snow-capped mountains. You can experience them all in one day.

If it were just like this, it would not be enough to attract foreign literary and artistic young people, and it would not become a holy place that can purify the mind and wash the soul in their hearts.

There is an ancient city here.

The name is Qianfuku Castle near the sea.

The characters 福 in such place names were actually changed to get rid of superstitions. The characters 福 were used to replace the characters such as immortals and gods, and the characters such as east, west, south and north were used to replace the characters ghost and demon.

It was originally called Qianxiantai.

This ancient building is also famous in history. It took Mingli Zong more than 40 years to build this place, and more than 3,000 large and small monasteries, temples and churches were built.

But later, several major events occurred, involving clan conspiracy and the fight for the crown prince. The Thousand Immortals Terrace was shelved before it was even completed, and has been abandoned to this day.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, this place was bought by British businessmen and mainly marketed in the West. Inexplicably, it became a tourist attraction and a holy place in foreign literary and artistic circles.

To put it bluntly, foreigners use domestic ancient buildings to fabricate some humanistic beliefs, boast them to the sky, and deceive foreigners who know nothing about them to come to travel.

Nowadays, this place is most famous for ripping off customers. Anyone who goes there has to be stabbed several times before coming out. However, there are still a lot of people who want to purify their souls to go there.

There are many at home and abroad.

Zheng Yun didn't quite understand. This place was quite messy. It was full of messy and unserious things, and the gimmicks outweighed the actual meaning.

Just do a search online.

You can search for corporeal alms, nun confession and gloryhole. Anyone with a discerning eye can basically understand the meaning of such messy advertisements.

Zheng Yun really couldn't understand.

Why would my adoptive father go to a place like this? He also wants to purify his soul? Or is there something wrong with this place?

The Immortal Mansion of Immortality started from W-06. Without the information of W-05, he could not understand it in advance and wondered if there was anything strange here.

It's hard to guess what's going on. You can only find out by going around in person.

…

Eight days later.

The cruise ship docked at W-05 South Continent. Everyone transferred to a small cruise ship at the port. After another day of sailing, they could see the mainland from a distance.

There are two satellites above W-05, which are slightly smaller than the moon. They are both tidally locked in the same orbit. The tidal force makes the waves in this area extremely large.

There are many islands and reefs around the peninsula.

The arrival time happened to be evening.

So the cruise ship kept waiting in the distant sea. After waiting for three hours, Zheng Yun and the others were ready to disembark, but the captain persuaded them to go back through the radio.

Don't know how long to wait.

Most likely we won't be able to dock tonight.

This scene is quite scary. The wind and waves outside the porthole are rolling in the dark, and the ship is rocking all the time, making it impossible for many people to sleep.

This is a common situation on the endless sea route. Humanity's current technology is not enough to conquer the sea, and it is impossible to encounter good weather every day.

In dangerous sea areas like W-05, the probability of shipwrecks has always been high.

The captain of this ship is experienced. Although it is very close to the port, he would rather wait in the open sea than rush to the port.

The storm got worse in the middle of the night.

The sea wind howled fiercely.

Zheng Yun kept looking out the window with his eyes open, listening to the whistling sea breeze, feeling a little unsure as to when the storm would stop.

Bang bang bang.

Someone knocked on his door. Zheng Yun supported the wall and opened the door. He found Song Wan holding a life jacket.

She didn't look good.

He looked up and said nothing.

Many people are not afraid of gods and ghosts, but they are seasick or afraid of the sea. They may be fine at ordinary times, but they will have a phobia when encountering strong winds and waves, and they will tremble with fear.

Song Wan probably is like this.

When she saw Yin soldiers, she dared to throw them on fire, but now her face was white and her eyes were red, her mouth was slightly open and she was panting, unable to say a word.

Obviously scared.

At this time, people tend to find someone they trust to stay with them to gain a sense of security.

The person she trusts most should be herself. After all, they have experienced life and death together before, so she doesn't care about being seen by her classmates and has to come over in the middle of the night.

Zheng Yun helped her in.

He led her to sit on the bed.

Then he went to get a bottle of water, trying to take away the life jacket from her arms and let her drink water first, but Song Wan refused to let go, as if he was trying to kill her.

Zheng Yun asked her to close her eyes and see if she could feel better.

Song Wan nodded and followed the instructions. There was still no blood on her face, but her breathing slowly stopped.

The room fell silent.

The sound of the sea breeze outside was even more pronounced.

It was an indescribable sound, like a strong wind blowing through the hollow on the island, making a very sharp whistling sound, which was uncomfortable to listen to.

Many weird stories about sirens singing in the West should be based on this situation. It is indeed very captivating to listen to and gives goosebumps all over your body.

More than ten minutes passed.

There was another knock on the door.

Zheng Yun had a strange expression. He let go of Song Wan and went to open the door. He found Liu Ming standing outside and said with an extremely serious expression: Zheng Yun, something is wrong!

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