I kept making stupid mistakes in the survival game.

Chapter 92 Chapter 92: Desperation in the Ocean

The boatman sat down on the deck again, and said, "The fishermen were still sent back by the fishing boat that took them out to sea."

"But when they came back, they had become what they were in the cabin, turned into statues."

"Then why are they on your boat again?" Ying Qianyuan asked.

The boatman gave a low laugh and replied, "Because I am also an ominous person."

"When I was born, my mother died because of dystocia, and my father failed to return because he went fishing. Since then, I have become the cursed person in the village."

"Fortunately, there was an old woman who thought I was so pitiful and adopted me. Otherwise, I wouldn't have lived to this age. I would have starved to death long ago."

After that, the boatman pretended not to care and waved his hand again. "However, she also passed away when I was a little older. In this world, I am the only one left."

"Other fishermen don't want to see me. In the fishing village, I could only do some dirty work to make ends meet."

"Later I learned to go to sea and fish, and at least I was able to survive. The fishermen put all these statues and figures on my boat. Anyway, I was the only one in my family. In the end, I just became a boatman on the sea," he said ,Sighed. "If you can survive, it doesn't matter where you are or what you do."

"Are all the fishermen in the cabin?" Ying Qianyuan recalled the clothes of the statues in the cabin, and some of them didn't seem like the fishermen the boatman said.

"Not quite," said the boatman. "Some of them are like you, they will appear on the pier every once in a while, and then board my ship."

"So, they will also become statues?" Lu Wan thought for a while. "Then why was Sui Jing not turned into a statue, but thrown into the sea?"

"Not everyone will become a statue." The boatman said, "If some people tear off the drawing paper like the one in your team, they will be killed and eaten by the monsters inside."

"This is also the first time I've seen him thrown into the sea."

"Then do you know what's going on with these monsters?" Ying Qianyuan asked.

The boatman shook his head. "I don't know that. No one knows where these monsters come from, or how to destroy them."

"But the lady who fell into the sea may have found the trick."

Ying Qianyuan nodded, and they saw Sui Jing kill the black shadow monster with their own eyes.This shows that they can cause harm to it.

But... they also saw how fast the black shadow monster was, and knew how big the difference in strength between themselves and the monster was.

After all, even Sui Jing couldn't avoid the monster's attack in time.Just rely on them, can it work?
Forget it, that's not the point.Ying Qianyuan looked at the boatman again. "You just said that Sister Sui Jing may not die. Why is that?"

"This—" the boatman hesitated to speak. "You may not know, but it is said that there are sharks living in this seabed."

Ying Qianyuan frowned, "Why is it said?"

The boatman looked at him like he was an idiot, "Of course it's because no one has seen it."

"..." Okay, that's an idiot question.

"Actually, among the fishermen who went to sea that time, there was only one survivor left." The boatman said. "At that time, when he was halfway there, he saw the lifeless sea and was scared. He hid at the bottom of the deck and refused to come out. When other fishermen saw him like this, they laughed at him, but they didn't persuade him any more."

"Later, when the fishing boat returned to the village, he got out from under the deck. The fishermen were shocked to find that, except for him, everyone else had turned into sculptures."

The players know the possible reasons for these humanoid sculptures from the boatman's narrative.

After the timid fishermen return to the village, they will naturally be asked what happened on the way out to sea to make them what they are now.

He also answered naturally, but since he was hiding under the deck at that time, he couldn't fully describe the whole process of the matter.

All he knew was that the fishing boat that had sailed for many days stopped suddenly, and then he heard a beautiful singing.But there was a chill behind him, as if the singing was for his life.

He hid under the deck, not daring to make a sound.Waiting, waiting.

Below deck, he couldn't distinguish between day and night, so he could only take out his pocket watch from time to time, and judge how much time had passed by the light of the kerosene lamp.

Finally, three days passed.He felt the fishing boat start again, but turned around.He didn't know where the fishing boat would be driven.

But he still didn't dare to go out, so he could only stay below the deck, and he still had some food left, which could barely maintain his vital signs.

At first he thought the ship was going to hell, until he heard the familiar cries from the fishing village.Only then did he realize that he was home.

"I was still in the fishing village at the time, and I saw him being carried down with my own eyes. He was already thin, yellow and dry," said the boatman. "But fortunately, after about a week of recuperation, the person is still alive."

"But other people who became sculptures never came back to life."

"You know the siren, right? I suspect it's the work of a monster similar to it." The boatman looked a little excited.

The other players glanced at him without answering.Thanks, I don't really want to know.

The boatman felt bored and continued talking to himself.

"Those sculptures are naturally regarded as ominous symbols, just like me." The boatman's tone was as calm as if he was not talking about himself. "But I was eager to go out on the water. So they put these sculptures on my boat."

"Anyway, I'm an ominous person, so I plan to venture into this so-called cursed sea. Life and death don't matter."

"But the strange thing is that after I went to sea, I could never go back." The boatman said, "No matter how I control the rudder, I am always on this sea area. The only place I can reach is the dock where I just picked you up."

Ying Qianyuan nodded, indicating that he understood.

"Then have you seen that shark?" Lu Wan asked.

The boatman shook his head, "I haven't seen it."

"Then if they become sculptures, don't you see?" Ying Qianyuan pointed to the sculptures in the cabin and asked in disbelief.

"No." The boatman replied confidently. "Although I seem to have heard the so-called singing, maybe, but I have never seen it with my own eyes."

"Every time I hear the singing, I faint," said the boatman. "And every time I wake up, they turn into sculptures. Then I put them in the cabin."

"Although I was a little scared when I first heard it, I later discovered that I would not be turned into a sculpture."

It seems that this is because the system blocks the influence of other NPCs in the game on the boatman.

Ying Qianyuan sighed, it seems that these people are players just like them, but they just lost their lives here.

"But you still missed the point." Ying Qianyuan complained. "We want to know why Sui Jing will not die. We are not here to listen to your story."

The boatman gave him a blank look. "Young people are impetuous. If you don't listen to me, how can you understand what I said?"

Ying Qianyuan was choked by him and didn't know what to say.

It seems that what he said is quite reasonable, but there seems to be something wrong.

"If she can be picked up by the merman and not killed, she should be able to survive."

Ying Qianyuan was stunned. Although this possibility was not impossible, was it really realistic?

(End of this chapter)