The Underwater Alliance Chapter 3

It's broken, run and call for help immediately.

When Benjamin walked out of the restaurant, she could still hear the discussions of the people around her.

"...falling down out of nowhere, it looked like a heart attack."

In fact, this was not a big deal, but Rayan was terrified. He walked and looked around, fearing that bodyguards would rush out and take him back. But before he could get back to the cabin, he saw a stretcher carrying an old man with convulsions all over his body out of the bowling alley.

"When you get older, you shouldn't overdo it..."

"Manager Zhang, this is called dying under the peony flowers. Even as a ghost, he is still romantic. Haha!"

These whispers made Rayan regain his composure quickly, and he was also very happy:

"Brother Xia, these rich people are so lustful that they don't care about their lives!"

Benjamin saw the ship's doctor running over with a medicine box. No, behind the ship's doctor, the sky above the distant sea was filled with seabirds that were supposed to be returning to their nests. They were chirping loudly and circling above the sea.

The sea surface far away from the light of the cruise ship seemed to be shimmering with a hint of silver light, as if a big fish came out leisurely to take a breath and then immediately sank down. Benjamin quickly walked to the deck and looked while holding the railing. There was nothing there except those seabirds that shouldn't be flying at night. The sea was very calm with only slight ripples.

There was a sudden strange pain on Benjamin's forehead. He turned around to look at the brightly lit Goddess Tarasa. Every deck was filled with men in suits and women in low-cut evening gowns. They were talking to each other in the music, smiling leisurely and hypocritically. All this made Benjamin's ominous premonition even clearer.

It was as if there was a terrible monster staring at the cruise ship grimly across the sea.

Benjamin didn't sleep a wink the whole night.

His memory is much better than that of ordinary people. Although there are many things that he is not interested in, and he will even forget things like numbers ten minutes after writing them down, he has a very deep impression of movies. If he thinks about them carefully, he can remember all the details and lines.

So he couldn't help thinking of the horror movie called Deep Freeze, and the story described in the movie happened to take place in the South China Sea. It was a movie that used blood as a gimmick, and the corpses all over the cruise ship would probably make many people lose their appetite. But the Goddess of Thalassa was not just a big monster, and the so-called sea monster that was more than ten meters long was only one percent of it.

Besides, it's just an absurd story. Even if there are such terrible monsters in the world, they live in the deep sea. The strong water pressure means that they would die if they float to the surface.

Benjamin often feels anxious for no apparent reason. Asperger's syndrome is a very special type of autism. People with other autism are mostly indifferent to the world around them, but people with Asperger's syndrome are different. They still pay attention to the outside world and are eager to establish connections with it, but they cannot do this, cannot understand others, and cannot express their meanings clearly and properly. Moreover, this is a vicious cycle. Because they cannot make friends and live in an environment, they will have deep self-doubt and disgust, and even instinctively avoid everything related to social interaction.

They will take a small matter very seriously.

If Rayan saw the same situation, he would just think about it for a moment and forget about it in an instant, but Benjamin's memory and imagination made him keep thinking about everything that happened today.

The old man who suddenly fell down, the news and newspapers I saw before boarding the plane...

Benjamin, who was very sensitive to details, didn't have to toss and turn in bed for long before she immediately thought of the extremely terrifying connection between the two. The same seabird, the same fish, but why only heart disease?

The old man sitting behind Rayan in the restaurant happened to be within Benjamin's field of vision. It seemed that when the old man was hugging the female secretary and laughing with his head tilted back, he didn't pay attention to the process in the middle, but he suddenly fell straight down while laughing, and then he saw... Bowling is not a strenuous exercise at all, you just need to bend over slightly and then lift up---! !

Could it be the carotid sinus that causes a heart attack due to suddenly raising the head?

For people like Benjamin, the focus of looking at problems is different from that of normal people. If a relative or friend suffers from heart disease, most people will just exclaim and ask the doctor how serious it is. But Benjamin will ask what kind of heart disease it is. Although the purpose is exactly the same, that is, to judge the severity of the disease, the thinking logic is very different.

Because of this unique habit, Benjamin was destined to remember many nouns and knowledge that had nothing to do with him, because that was the fundamental basis for him to make judgments about the external environment and things. It was also a vicious cycle of poor communication. Once he understood the meaning of unfamiliar nouns, he would not take the initiative to ask questions.

Benjamin stayed up until the early morning before she began to feel a little groggy.

The Terrassa was so huge that on the slightly choppy sea, people in the cabin could hardly feel the shaking of the bed, and the bed was fixed to the floor, so even Rayan, who was severely seasick, adapted to the situation in high spirits after more than an hour.

The cabin where Benjamin lived was not a sea view room and had no windows so he couldn't see the sea. But this was just what he wanted. If he saw the dark sea through the window, he would be suspicious and his eyes would twitch even if he drew the curtains that night.

So he vaguely felt his body swaying slightly to the left, but he didn't pay much attention in his daze. There would always be some bigger waves on the sea. Too many people thought so. At four o'clock in the morning, no matter how much people partyed, they were exhausted and ready to rest. People on this side of the cabin occasionally saw a slender black shadow through the curtains illuminated by the lights. They subconsciously rubbed their eyes and walked over to open the curtains. Well, the light from the cruise ship was very bright and shone within a few hundred meters around, but the shadow cast by the ship itself seemed even heavier.

Benjamin was awakened by a loud noise.

I looked at the watch on the bedside table and it was already nine o'clock.

In the life schedule of people who are used to partying all night, it is not time to get up before 2 pm. But after all, none of the rooms around here have sea views, which means that they are either unknown artists like Benjamin or middle-level managers of important departments of a certain company. Assistants like Rayan are at a lower level and have to live in one room with two people.

Therefore, due to their working habits, they wake up relatively early, and even if they have a hangover, their biological clock is still very punctual.

"That's ridiculous... I paid 100 yesterday, but today I can't even buy it for 1,000?"

Benjamin rubbed his forehead because he felt something was going to happen. He was lying in bed with his clothes on last night, and his shirt was now wrinkled and hanging on his body. He had no interest in watching the fun, but it was obvious that the guest in the room next to him was standing in the corridor at the door and yelling at the waiter, so no matter how good the sound insulation was, it was useless.

"That's right. I know you are the best in Asia... but you can't raise the price tenfold just because you are away from the coast..."

A sharp female voice made Benjamin sober up a little, and she heard a waiter repeatedly apologizing:

"Sir, Miss, I'm so sorry, we have run out of milk on board..."

"What a joke! Isn't the Thalassa Cruises known for satisfying all the needs of its guests? If there was no wine, that would be understandable, but do you expect people to believe that the carnival last night was bathed in milk?"

"We are sorry that we cannot meet your needs."

The dispute outside the door was still going on. It was nothing more than an opportunity to question and get a good lunch as compensation. After all, all the expenses on the Goddess Thalassa were enough to make the hearts of these self-proclaimed successful white-collar workers twitch.

As if going against Benjamin's premonition, eighteen hours after setting sail, the sea was calm and the sun was shining. After noon, more and more people came to the deck. Men and women chatted with each other, judging each other's identities and the benefits they could bring to themselves, and laughed constantly. At this time, the brand and taste of clothes were the key. Many men raised their wrists slightly to the sea breeze, revealing famous watches of various shapes. As long as they were of high quality, they would immediately have a wonderful encounter.

At this time, who would care whether the soda is eighty-one cups or the cocktail is priced in four figures? Everyone would generously take out their room cards and ask the waiter to pay the bill.

"Brother Xia, Boss Han is having a party in the Bibo Ballroom on the tenth floor tonight. Manager Zhao said that everyone in the company must go."

As Rayan spoke, his eyes couldn't help but stare at the fashionably dressed women. They might be white-collar workers or mistresses of some wealthy businessmen. It was not known whether it was due to the ocean climate, but in January, although the latitude was very low, the temperature was as warm as April. There were beauties wearing all kinds of styles, some wearing thin tight skirts, some wearing expensive little dresses. The long, slender legs wrapped in stockings made this young man, who had not even been in the society for a year, stare blankly.

However, it is inevitable to see women who have neither good figures nor good looks. However, on the contrary, the jewelry on such women is more expensive and more tasteful, and they are surrounded by the most men.

"Ah, these people are really grandsons!"

Rayan muttered a few curses, and then he realized that Benjamin was not listening to him at all.

"Xia brother?"

What's so beautiful about this sea? When Rayan first saw it, he wanted to run to the bow and strike a classic pose like in the Titanic. But now he is numb and has no feeling at all. There is nothing but water. Rayan estimates that when he gets off the boat, he might feel like vomiting when he sees the vast blue sky.

A group of snow-white seabirds gathered on the sea not far away, following the cruise ship from east to west. Something was wrong.

This is far away from the coastline and there are no islands nearby, so these seabirds should not be there. Moreover, they are obviously exhausted, with stiff postures, and they do not have the courage to fly in the storm.

"Ha, see? Where seabirds gather, there are a lot of fish on the sea!"

Another man with slicked-back hair at the railing boasted to his companion:

"I bet there's a school of sardines over here. Look, they're about to start their hunting trip!"

Before he could finish his words, a few seabirds folded their wings and dived into the sea like cannonballs.

Benjamin's eyesight was not very good and he couldn't see clearly from such a distance, but he felt that the behavior of these seabirds was very abnormal.

"You know, our company's culture is the petrel. Although we are not this kind of bird, they are also very tenacious. They can dive four or five meters underwater in the sea. After grabbing a fish, they will immediately float to the surface and return to the sky..." The man continued to talk big, but the people around him were not interested. For example, Rayan was only concentrating on looking at the beauty. Only Benjamin's hand holding the railing was trembling slightly.

No, that's not right!

None of those seabirds surfaced again.

The physical energy consumption can vary greatly even for the same species of seabirds, so if you don't watch closely, it's hard to notice. It seems that the group of seabirds are turning around irregularly and flying everywhere, and from time to time a bird dives into the sea, no, falls into the sea.

Benjamin's breathing began to quicken.

He wanted to deceive himself, it was all his hallucinations from beginning to end.

Benjamin took out his cell phone from his pocket, and sure enough, there was no signal. However, it was normal to have no signal at sea, but if even those expensive high-end satellite phones had no signal...

"fcuk, I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this phone, but it has no signal before even reaching the high seas! I shouldn't have believed those hype ads that say there will definitely be a signal as long as we're on Earth!"

Benjamin was stunned for a moment, then he looked at the sun in the sky with fear, and almost turned around and ran, not slowing down until he was in the shadow where the sunlight could not reach him. Because he always behaved strangely, Rayan complained a few times and followed him reluctantly.

"Brother Xia, don't forget the party tonight! Uh, why is the weather getting hotter and hotter?"

On January 8, in the South China Sea, the clouds were sparse, the weather was sunny and there was a light breeze, and the Goddess Thalassa was sailing safely.

Beneath the sea, military satellites passing through the area captured high-definition images of a huge shadow beneath the sea.

At this moment, in the main helm control room of the Goddess Thalassa.

"Yes, Captain. The radio has been having problems since yesterday. It just went completely offline! Now we have to run to get messages up and down the deck."

"Captain, something's wrong. Another passenger has had a heart attack, and it looks like he's in a very bad condition..."

The captain cursed softly: "What happened to this voyage? Is it because Han has committed too many sins?"

This luxury cruise ship has never encountered such a bad thing. This morning, all the gallons of fresh milk stored in the warehouse at 4 degrees Celsius disappeared, and the staff on duty insisted that they did not see anyone entering or leaving the warehouse...

Benjamin's face turned pale. When he realized that all his speculations were most likely true, he saw Rayan seemed to be about to leave to continue looking at the beauties in the open-air cafe, so Benjamin immediately pulled him back.