Volume 2: The Undersea City Chapter 66 A Strange Warning
"Let's talk about this later," Ke Lan half-knelt down and put his upper body into the diving chamber, "If there is any danger, we will choose to give up."
"...I'm afraid it will be too late when we encounter danger." Caroline said angrily. How could this group of people be so ungrateful? So many people have already died, and they still want to come forward give away more heads.
Good words can’t persuade a damn ghost!
Just when Caroline was thinking about how to make them completely give up this idea, Ke Lan's voice suddenly came from the diving cabin.
"First Officer Caroline...are you sure the security personnel have really checked this diving chamber carefully?"
His tone was very strange, as if he had seen something unbelievable.
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Caroline squatted down in the power armor and looked into the diving cabin.
"...There are some things carved on the inner wall of the diving chamber. Give me the flashlight." Ke Lan said.
Liao Zilang immediately found a flashlight and handed it in.
"How is that possible?!" Caroline was very surprised. If there was something engraved on the inner wall of the diving chamber, the security personnel would have cut off the steel plate and taken it away. There was no reason for them to leave it here... Could it be that they didn't find these things? That didn't make sense!
"What is engraved on it?" she couldn't help asking.
It was a line of crooked English letters with extremely severe deformation. The engraver seemed to be in an extremely unstable mental state when he carved the letters. Several letters even overlapped.
However, Ke Lan still managed to recognize the letters. All the letters together formed exactly three words.
"LEAVE THE BED"
"Leave...the...bed?" Ke Lan read out word by word.
"Leave... this bed?" Caroline was stunned. She knew every word and could understand the sentence together, but in this situation, this sentence made her completely confused. "What...what does this mean?"
"Bed doesn't necessarily mean a bed for sleeping, it also means the seabed." Ke Lan said in a deep voice, "So the meaning of this sentence should be that we should stay away from that seabed... This is a warning."
Ke Lan always felt that something was wrong, as if he/she had missed some important details, but he/she could not figure out what went wrong that made him/her have such a strange feeling.
Was it because the security bureau didn't erase or take away this clue? No... He had already considered this doubt, but the strange feeling didn't come from this...
"A warning?" Caroline thought for a moment. "Was it left by the deceased? When he was dying in despair?"
"We can't rule out this possibility." Ke Lan nodded slightly. His fingers traced the handwriting of the letters, trying to restore the mental state of the carver at the time... No, that emotion didn't seem like despair...
A person in despair would not have the mind to carve such a warning on the inner wall . What's more, the deceased was an elite agent of the Security Bureau. Such people have undergone very cruel psychological training. If they had the opportunity to leave any information before dying, they would only choose useful intelligence as much as possible, rather than this meaningless "warning".
Moreover, these handwritings are not continuous. For example, for the letter H, there is a distance of four or five centimeters between the left vertical line and the right vertical line. If it were not for the two letters T in front and E in the back, it would be difficult for ordinary people to connect these marks with the letter H.
Ke Lan also thought at first whether this was caused by the bumpy environment , but then he noticed that the depth of these marks was almost the same, that is, they were carved in a relatively stable environment. How the letters became unrecognizable could only be the fault of the engraver.
“That’s so weird…”
Ke Lan repeated these handwritings over and over again, and suddenly he discovered that these distorted letters were very similar to the handwriting of children when they were just beginning to learn to write. In the minds of those children, they did not even have the concept of words and symbols, they simply regarded it as a special kind of "picture".
There is no stroke order or font structure, and each letter looks like a ghost painting...
The letters carved into the inner wall of the diving chamber look exactly like this.
This situation should not happen to a mentally normal and literate adult. For Ke Lan himself, reading and writing have almost become instincts. Even when he is drowsy, the words he writes with his eyes closed are much easier to recognize than these letters...
Wait! Instinct... lack of instinct...
Ke Lan was startled. He had just experienced this unspeakable feeling of pain once before. Could it be that the person who carved the words had also encountered a similar experience?
Could all this have anything to do with that black skeleton?
Thinking of this, Ke Lan immediately said to Caroline: "By the way, when can we know the analysis report of the black skeleton just now? To be honest, I am also very curious about that kind of monster."
"It will take at least half a day to send the things back, and then a series of related procedures will also take half a day... As for the analysis report, it will not be available until the day after tomorrow at the earliest." Caroline thought for a moment and replied.
"Okay then. If the report comes out, please notify me immediately."
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In the next hour, Ke Lan carefully checked the diving chamber again, but apart from the "warning" engraved on the inner wall, he failed to find any valuable clues.
Those people from the Security Bureau were so cruel that they didn't leave even a single hair, but... why did they leave the warning on the inner wall there?
Although those letters are difficult to recognize, they are so conspicuous that there is no reason why they would not be discovered.
Or... after the security bureau people left, this line of letters has not appeared on the inner wall yet?
When Ke Lan thought of this possibility, he suddenly felt the hairs on his back stand up... If that was the case, then who carved these letters?
"First Officer Caroline, has anyone else entered this cargo hold before us? I mean after the security department sealed it off."
"No." Caroline shook her head decisively. "If you want to open the cargo hold, you can only use this key card, but this key card has always been kept in the cabinet in the captain's room."
Although the entire cargo hold No. 9 is not small, the entire space is still visible. Except for the only hatch, there are no other passages. The only ventilation duct is only 15 centimeters in diameter, and the ducts are welded with wire mesh, so it is impossible to use it as a secret passage.
"I mean... is it possible that someone stole the key card, or opened the hatch in some other way?"
"The captain's room is monitored. If someone sneaks in, they will definitely be discovered. As for opening the door in other ways, it will directly trigger the alarm system."
"In other words, we are the first group of people to enter cargo hold number nine after the Security Bureau left?"
"Right...what do you want to ask?" Caroline's tone was filled with helplessness. "Do you think these letters are a prank by a crew member? Please...no one would do such a boring thing, and they would risk being fired."
"Maybe I'm overthinking..." Before leaving cargo hold No. 9, Ke Lan took a last glance at the diving chamber. He always felt that he was almost able to touch the truth inside, but just a little bit away, just one step away, he still couldn't step out of the fog.
