Chapter 67
Xia Yi was awakened by a commotion, and as soon as he sat up, his expression changed abruptly.
It was the voices of a group of people, although a bit distant, he couldn’t understand what they were saying, but it was definitely excited shouts.
Oh no, could it be that another group of people happened to drift over on a boat from the sea?
No, this noise was too loud, probably not just a dozen or twenty people, at least hundreds.
Looking up, Siren was already leaning against the stairs looking up. His hair was partly scattered in front of his neck, so Xia Yi could clearly see two or three blue bruises on his smooth back, just below the protruding position of the scapula.
It must have been from the previous fall.
The pale silver scales no longer gleamed, tightly pressed against the fish tail. The skin that was originally pearl white became particularly pale due to dehydration. Siren was not used to having his hair dry like this, so he subconsciously tilted his head slightly to avoid the strands falling into his eyes.
The eyes of the mermaid were very beautiful, a kind of extremely hazy purple. Initially, Xia Yi was fooled into thinking fairy tales were quite reliable because of these eyes.
But that was in the beginning. Now when Xia Yi looked into Siren’s eyes, he didn’t see the pure and beautiful qualities of a wild creature anymore, but rather an emotionless coldness.
It felt very much like a lion staring at migrating antelopes across the river, its gaze sweeping through the muddy splashes, not caring at all about the animals that seemed to be running wildly because they were just food…
This sudden association startled Xia Yi.
Siren seemed to sense something and turned his head.
Seeing Xia Yi awake, he uncomfortably shifted slightly and reached out to hold Xia Yi’s shoulder. Although this gesture made Xia Yi uncomfortable and repulsed, instinctively pushing away, he accidentally kicked an empty tin can, making a loud noise that froze Xia Yi instantly.
The aircraft carrier was too big, and those people outside hadn’t even climbed onto the deck yet, let alone heard the commotion here. It was like a group of people shouting outside a football field, being able to hear the sound of a soda can rolling inside was odd, wasn’t it?
But this little incident made Siren realize something.
Last time when we went ashore, Siren had this feeling, but it wasn’t obvious. What caught his attention was when he brought dolphins to accompany Xia Yi, and a group of people came on rubber boats from the sea. Xia Yi actually dived to the bottom of the sea to avoid them, waiting until the group left before daring to move.
This time was the same. It seemed that Xia Yi always felt particularly nervous and unwilling to interact in crowded places.
“They still don’t dare to come up—”
Xia Yi couldn’t understand this sudden sound wave and asked directly, “Why?”
“…I can’t understand your human language.”
Siren looked at Xia Yi with confusion, as if he should be asking Xia Yi where those people came from and what they wanted by surrounding the ship and shouting for so long!
But considering what happened before, Siren was cautious enough not to dare to mention or do certain things lightly.
Humans, land, leaving… Hmm, this was a very taboo and nerve-wracking topic.
Siren remembered very clearly that Xia Yi didn’t care about dying at all. In such times, because he didn’t want to or even demanded to be killed directly (Ahem, Xia Yi thought you wanted to eat him, not ‘eat’ him, so this conclusion was also foggy), Siren felt that using his life to threaten Xia Yi and force him to stay had no effect at all.
So, regardless of how, even if it meant deceiving him, he had to bring Xia Yi to the Bermuda waters.
Now there was only one problem: staying here made it impossible to discern the direction. Abiseth still hadn’t caught up, so they must have deviated from the direction of the current. After the storm, the aircraft carrier continued to drift along the shallow sea currents. Siren really couldn’t say where they were now.
He leaned against the railing of the stairs, unable to see the situation outside at all, only able to judge from the emotions of those humans.
Very excited and excited, mixed with genuine fear.
Because of this fear, they still hadn’t dared to come aboard. Siren was a little confused.
Impure negative emotions were of no interest to merfolk. Suddenly, he lightly rubbed Xia Yi’s shoulders.
There were no extra movements, nor any hint of desire.
Xia Yi’s restless mood calmed slightly. Siren didn’t know how soothing his actions were. In fact, he was anxious to confirm that Xia Yi was still by his side, but because Xia Yi didn’t push him away, the distance between them narrowed, almost bringing them together.
Just as Xia Yi felt the warmth of their breath and was about to tremble slightly, he heard a clear and loud shout, which was very rough and different from the previous chaotic shouting.
It seemed that as soon as he spoke, the surroundings gradually quieted down, and he could even hear the sound of the waves.
Obviously, this was a leader who was good at speaking.
“What did he say?”
Siren saw Xia Yi frowning as if he was listening attentively.
“I don’t know.”
Xia Yi also felt strange. He clearly confirmed that he couldn’t understand what the loud voice was shouting about. The aircraft carrier was almost the size of two and a half football fields, and if all the machinery wasn’t stagnant and there was no noise, it would be impossible to hear.
However, the loud voice was becoming clearer. At least a crude megaphone was used. The voice occasionally drifted, and several familiar words could be heard.
That didn’t sound like a place name, and the pronunciation wasn’t too strange. It was clearly English.
It seemed to confirm Xia Yi’s feeling that the person shouting stopped abruptly, and a few seconds later, another person took over, speaking in clear American English. Xia Yi, who had watched many foreign-dubbed films, probably understood the content.
Probably, this aircraft carrier appeared too mysteriously, unexpectedly drifting alone.
Anyway, the fishermen on the island were very excited at first, thinking that America had come to rescue them. However, after a lot of effort, they found no signs of activity on the aircraft carrier.
Now they were debating whether to go up and see what was going on.
The speaker was probably an American. He kept saying that this was the wealth of America. Perhaps they had encountered an unfortunate accident, but according to international rescue regulations, you guys couldn’t use any string of clichés.
Xia Yi added the term “you guys” himself; the original seemed to be the name of a country, but unfortunately, Xia Yi had never heard of it, only vaguely catching a pronunciation.
Since the United States was the so-called world police, many island countries around the Pacific had unclear “intimate relationships” with it.
Xia Yi had to start recalling the maps of the South China Sea in his mind from this pronunciation, one by one, filtering through.
Indonesia didn’t seem like it, nor did the Philippines.
At this time, there was a wave of dissatisfaction outside, with one voice particularly sharp and distinctive.
Japanese?
No way, after a night of storms and two days and nights of drifting, could the aircraft carrier be blown from the South China Sea to the Sea of Japan?
Just as Xia Yi was dizzy, the noise outside grew louder. He suddenly felt uneasy.
They were standing in such an obvious place; as soon as they descended the stairs from the deck, anyone could see them.
Ignoring the trouble of being encountered by these obviously unfriendly people, what should they do?
Just the appearance of Siren alone could cause a lot of trouble.
Siren was also hesitating.
If it were humans filled with negative emotions, he could easily solve the problem and have a meal on the side. But these people were in a strange excitement. Controlling the secondary sound wave resonance, he could indeed kill them all, but the problem was!
Xia Yi was right beside him!!
As Xia Yi was thinking about where to hide to avoid being discovered, he reached out to grab Siren’s hand, but his arm couldn’t exert any force and he almost stumbled. It then occurred to him that he couldn’t take Siren to hide on the lower decks right now.
Although the aircraft carrier was large, apart from the machinery room or under the beds of officers, there were hardly any safe hiding places to be found. Rushing to hide like this without being discovered, what would happen afterwards?
How could they quietly find food?
The restless mood instantly shattered any thoughts of hiding.
Outside, the people trying various ways to climb onto the high deck felt surprised. It seemed like the undulations of the waves became more intense, hitting them several times. The aircraft carrier also began to sway slightly, causing several unlucky fellows to fall into the sea.
Xia Yi made up his mind, his gaze suddenly sharp. They absolutely couldn’t let these people come up!
After receiving the message from the island and still rowing over to this side, the people saw an extremely terrifying scene in an instant. That aircraft carrier, which was drifting silently on the sea, suddenly moved forward with a big wave.
Not only did the sea water not flow to both sides with the deck, but instead it accumulated around the aircraft carrier. In just a few minutes, the hull of the aircraft carrier below the deck was submerged in vertical sea water, like a huge water wall stacking up higher and higher.
All those who had climbed halfway or clung to the side of the ship were ruthlessly knocked down by the surging waves, even those who barely held their breath in the water wall. It was useless.
In the mist of the splashing waves, the hull of the aircraft carrier began to appear faintly, with only a tall command tower clearly visible.
“A ghost ship, it’s a ghost ship—”
Some people screamed and rowed away without looking back.
Although they had seen countless wonders since the apocalypse, such a terrifying and bizarre sight exceeded the psychological endurance of many people. They hadn’t received any rescue, but seeing the aircraft carrier from America made them feel relieved and joyful.
Some questions that they hadn’t thought of before surfaced—where was the escort fleet of the aircraft carrier?
Why was there not a single person on the deck?
And most importantly, why couldn’t their own ships move?
How did this aircraft carrier come over?
Everyone was horrified, and the more they thought about it, the more afraid they became.
This fear was more intense than the surging waves and the overwhelming fear that rose. Siren’s eyes darkened even more.
He grasped Xia Yi’s hand tightly, stopping his laborious movements. In the midst of the cascading water curtain, he swam upwards like an arrow.
The speed of a mermaid was extremely fast, but the sudden shock wave from the explosion of the second aircraft made Xia Yi’s vision go black for a moment, and he even coughed up blood, despite Siren blocking most of it.
However, this force only made Siren swim faster. With a sudden leap, they jumped down from the edge of the water wall, dozens of meters high. Since Xia Yi controlled the waves, all the seawater on the aircraft carrier followed them, and the water wall collapsed abruptly.
From afar, the blue sea surged, with rolling flames soaring above. The flames, carried by the seawater, spread in all directions.
After a calamity like a tsunami, those who were fortunate enough not to be swept away looked at the silent aircraft carrier and the dead silence. Because all the flames fell with the sea, only two burnt aircraft remained smoking on the surface of the sea. They continued to drift silently, but no one dared to try to approach them again.
It took Xia Yi half a day to recover from being choked by the seawater.
Breathing was a passive sensation for everyone, and it was not easy to suddenly stop this action.
But now they were out of danger.
Siren released his arm, and they looked up, seeing the sea trembling violently. Various fish panicked and fled downwards. Because oil floated, the lively flames burned wantonly in the seawater above them, creating a magnificent scene.
