Chapter 165: 165
Under the bleak and cold moonlight, a small cargo vessel with the word "Friendly" written on it drifted along the inner sea of New York like a wandering ghost .
At this time, it was two or three o'clock in the middle of the night . Within the bitingly cold breeze, two seemingly tall and skinny figures could be seen walking around the deck .
Both of the two men had cigarettes dangling on their mouths as they walked back and forth on the deck without talking or saying a word at all . Suddenly, one of them stopped in their tracks as a man's nose twitched, sniffling as he sensed something lingering in the air . Throwing the cigarette on the deck and stepping on it, he said in a hoarse voice, "Louis, it's here! I can smell something weird . "
"Are you sure, Cassandro?" Upon hearing his words, his companion whose face had been hidden underneath a hat stopped and asked in a whispering manner .
Right at this moment, one of the containers piled at the bottommost part of the deck of the cargo vessel opened . A middle-aged man that was dressed like a normal ocean sailor but had a temperament similar to a laboratory scientist walked out hastily before talking in a whisper, "It's here, Mr . Louis . This place had that unusual ocean current fluctuation just now . "
"Dr . Sanchez, you don't have to whisper so softly . We're drifting on the Atlantic Ocean right now and other than seagulls and fishes, there isn't even a ghost near here . " Louis smiled and turned to look at his companion . "Cassandro, your nose is really good . "
"It's not that my nose is good but it's just that that fellow has killed too many deep-sea animals . Even a dog could smell the weird bloody smell in this area . "
"Are you certain it's done by a human?"
"There are only two possibilities . It's either those mad scientists in the military's secret institutions that were experimenting with high-quality sonic bombs or air-explosive bombs in New York's inner sea or a terrible animal we don't know anything about has gone berserk and released its tension in the deep sea . Which one would you prefer?"
"If it was two years ago, I would have gone for the first one . However, of course, I would choose the second one right now . " Louis smiled and shouted into the communication device on his collar, "Send one group to collect samples of the sea surface within a one-kilometer radius . One group will dive to the sea to capture images and collect 20 sets of specimens and another group will make an immediate scientific analysis to simulate the possible causes of ocean current fluctuation . . . "
As he shouted his order, hundreds of hasty figures suddenly gushed out of the containers on the small cargo vessel .
These people automatically and silently divided themselves into groups . Some put down their lifeboats and began to collect seawater in blue light-colored glass bottles around the ship; some put on thick heavy wetsuits that looked like spacesuits with the help of their companions and began to prepare to dive into the deep sea; some, on the other hand, opened up black metal cases that revealed scientific instruments that glowed either red, green or yellow on the open deck and began to work in a hurry . Everyone began to do their own work in an orderly manner .
"Louis, what we have to currently deal with is not a conventional creature . How useful do you think this kind of routine inspection would be?" Looking at how the insipid cargo vessel that was turned into a scientific research ship in less than a minute, Cassandro asked the commander on board with a mocking tone .
"I don't know how useful it will be, Cassandro . That weird thunderstorm two months ago and now the hurricanes on the sea surface and the sudden changes within the deep ocean currents that took place one after another today . None of them could be explained by any scientist at all . South Africa has already been attacked by the supernatural realm today so only God knows what would happen in the future . It's a new era right now so the only thing we can do is to be on guard…"
Louis walked towards Cassandro and held onto the ship's railing as he stared out into the sea . Suddenly, a brightly lit spot within the dazzling New York City which was a stark contrast to the dark coastline of the suburbs caught his attention .
"Where is that? T-That seems to be the new factory called the LS Slaughterhouse . I can see it now . When three of our investigations were being carried out, it seems like this factory is the building the closest to us… Dr . Sanchez, can you give me the locations of the investigations and the detailed location of the factory please?"
"Of course, let me see…" Sanchez took out a tablet from his pocket and tapped a few things on it . "Yeah, taking the center axis of the factory as the coordinate point, the first thunderstorm center point is 15 degrees west, 9 . 4 nautical miles away; the second hurricane was 14 degrees west, 9 . 11 nautical miles away . We're currently at a position of 79 degrees west, 67 . 51 nautical miles . According to the data, putting the three investigated locations together, it's indeed confirmed that this building is the closest to us . "
"Drop it, Louis! There are a lot more buildings by the coastline that are not lit up . This kind of data means nothing at all . "
"I know, Cassandro, but at least, in this situation where we don't have any lead at all, wouldn't it be better to at least have a target?" Louis locked his eyes on the new LS Slaughterhouse as he answered, currently deep in his thoughts .
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