Chapter 886: Chapter 886: Haunted House on the Island Chapter 886: Chapter 886: Haunted House on the Island The mad captain, like a wild beast, lunged at Huang Xiaolong. He raised the pen in his hand and jabbed the tip toward Huang Xiaolong.
However…
To Huang Xiaolong, to Shirley White, or to Qingqing and Xiaohong, he was just an ordinary madman with no threat at all, no matter how crazy he was.
Huang Xiaolong gently reached out his hand and, with a pat through the air, the captain froze like a clay statue.
Huang Xiaolong had sealed his acupoints, temporarily depriving him of the ability to move.
“Damn it! Kill! Kill! Kill! I’ll kill you! I’ll kill all of you!” the captain scread hysterically.
“Master, can this man be cured? He seems seriously ill~~~” Shirley White asked. “You must cure him, for he’s the only one who found that small knife, the sole key!”
“Hehe~~” Suddenly, Huang Xiaolong’s eyes narrowed. “He’s been through a trendous shock, but that’s not the point.”
“Master, what’s the key point?” Shirley White’s curiosity was stronger than anyone else’s.
“He’s possessed,” Huang Xiaolong stated succinctly.
Indeed, as soon as Huang Xiaolong entered the sickroom, he noticed a thick ghostly aura in the deep center of the captain’s forehead—an indication of possession.
“Could it be that the secret of the Bermuda Devil’s Triangle really has sothing to do with ghosts and evil spirits? I just don’t know if they are ghosts from our Huaxia or foreign ghosts…” Huang Xiaolong chuckled, then took out a talisman, burned it to ashes, found a paper cup in the sickroom, filled it halfway with water, poured the ash into the cup, mixed it well, and had the captain drink it.
Soon, the captain bent over and began to vomit, spewing out a black, viscous liquid.
Half an hour later.
Binhai City First People’s Hospital conference room.
The captain was still sowhat weak but had clear eyes and had regained his senses. Holding a steaming cup of coffee with his pale face showing a trace of having survived a catastrophe, he muttered, “Damn… This was truly a nightmare… a real nightmare.”
Sitting opposite the captain, besides Huang Xiaolong, Shirley White, Qingqing, and Xiaohong, there were no others.
“Alright, you’re awake now, right? Get on with it!” Shirley White urged impatiently. “This knife you drew, what’s the deal with it?”
With that, she unfolded an A4 paper with the drawing of a small knife that the captain had made.
One had to say, the captain had so drawing skills; the small knife was well drawn. Huang Xiaolong had seen it too, and it was indeed the kind of mysterious dagger he was searching for!
It bore an ancient seal character—”One.”
“Er~~ dear miss…” the captain showed a flattering and ingratiating expression. Working for Shirley White’s family, he naturally had to be obsequious to this young lady.
“Cut the crap! Get to the point!” Shirley White’s eyes flashed fiercely.
“This knife, I’ve seen it in an ancient mansion on an island…” the captain stated with utter conviction. “The mont I saw it, I was srized… My instincts told that this knife must be a treasure…”
Upon hearing this, Huang Xiaolong’s face also slightly changed as he thought, ‘Now it’s confird. The whereabouts of this black dagger lie within an ancient mansion on a certain island! If I can acquire this black dagger numbered 1, then I will have four in total. I wonder if I can unlock the hidden shocking secrets within!’
“What island? Speak up, you!” Shirley White’s eyes were filled with impatience.
“Let ask him,” Huang Xiaolong said with a smile.
“Mm-hmm.” Shirley White, who was originally quite fierce, imdiately beca as docile as a lamb.
The captain watched this with amazent.
“Ah, respected sir, my na is ‘Cao Dabiao’. I work for the world’s largest shipping company as a captain of a freighter,” the captain, Cao Dabiao, was extrely sycophantic to Huang Xiaolong. “I heard that you cured , for which I’m really thankful. Um… so, can I start from the beginning? This matter is complex and… also quite horrifying…”
“Go ahead. I’ve got plenty of ti,” Huang Xiaolong said with a smile.
“Hmm…” Cao Dabiao took a big gulp of coffee, sorted out his thoughts, then started narrating. “Respected sir, I don’t an to toot my own horn, but I’ve always loved the ocean and every marine adventure since I was little… When I was ten, I vowed to beco a captain! A navigator! Well, I’m 43 this year, and I think I’ve fulfilled my childhood dream. I beca a sailor at 18 and a captain of an ocean freighter at 37…”
Shirley White could hardly contain herself and slapped the table, almost roaring, “Get to the point! No one cares about your dreams!”
Huang Xiaolong gave Shirley White a look and she stuck out her tongue, containing her fiery temper.
Cao Dabiao grumbled, “Yeah, in the eyes of you top-tier tycoons, what does a dream of a little man like worth? Well… actually, I was trying to demonstrate my professionalism. A captain with my experience shouldn’t et with any accidents. Yet, that day, against all odds, sothing happened… It was absolutely unbelievable, under circumstances where nothing should have gone wrong… but… but sothing happened… Perhaps, it was the mysterious curse from the Bermuda Devil’s Triangle.”
Huang Xiaolong did not interrupt Cao Dabiao’s narration.
Qingqing and Xiaohong were also listening intently.
“It was a day when nothing could possibly go wrong—the weather, the ship itself, the sailor steering the ship, and I were all without issue, especially during the dayti.” A deep fear flashed in Cao Dabiao’s eyes as he took another big sip of coffee. “We were navigating normally. But then, during the voyage, suddenly! A thick fog arose over the sea! All the high-tech instrunts on the ship failed at once!”
“Oh, is that why you didn’t send out a distress signal in ti?” Shirley White had an epiphany.
Cao Dabiao was completely lost in his mories, this ti ignoring Shirley Bai as he continued, “In the thick fog, I… I saw… I saw… ships, other ships…”
Sailing at sea and sighting other ships is an extrely normal occurrence. It’s puzzling why Cao Dabiao would be so terrified and distraught.
Huang Xiaolong was also gradually becoming captivated and blurted out, “What ships?”
“Strange, they were… they were wooden sailing ships! My God! Wooden sailing ships! The largest one, with four decks, had nine masts and twelve sails. I estimated it to be at least 140 ters long and 60 ters wide… I swear, I’ve only ever seen such massive wooden sailing ships in movies!” exclaid Cao Dabiao in fright.
“In addition to this unbelievably huge wooden sailing ship, there were… there were dozens of smaller ones… this… this was a fleet! A vast fleet of wooden sailing ships!” Cao Dabiao’s hand holding the cup began to tremble violently.
“Based on my experience… these were not replica ships, but rather, really ancient wooden sailing ships…” Cao Dabiao said with a quivering voice. “I… I’ve researched these things, these wooden sailing ships should be part of so fleet of Huaxia, and… they date back at least several hundred years… Those ships were incredibly beautiful, like outstanding works of craftsmanship, with majestic tiger head carvings at the bow, solemn Feilong figures or paintings on the front sides, phoenix paintings at the rear, and a depiction of a soaring Dapeng bird above the stern board…”
Shirley Bai blurted out, “It’s a ghost ship! The ‘ghost ship’ talked about by seafarers, which are ships that have long sunk to the bottom of the sea, yet suddenly reappear on the surface. This phenonon can’t be explained by science, but indeed, there are at least dozens of eye-witness records in history.”
After a pause, Shirley Bai turned her gaze toward Huang Xiaolong.
Huang Xiaolong chuckled. “Actually, it’s not that supernatural; I think it might be a ghostly deception. In other words, Captain Cao, during his voyage, encountered spirits or fierce ghosts, and the ships he saw were just illusions created by these ghosts.”
Given Huang Xiaolong’s authority in matters of the supernatural, naturally Shirley Bai couldn’t question him, after all, she had seen Huang Xiaolong catching ghosts and even slaying a dragon once.
“I see.” Shirley Bai suddenly realized.
“However~~” Huang Xiaolong slightly furrowed his brow. “There is one doubt.”
“What doubt?” Shirley Bai, Qingqing, and Xiaohong asked in unison.
“The incident happened in Bermuda, which is not within our Huaxia territory; it’s foreign land. It’s a world away from Huaxia. In such a place, a ghostly deception allowed Captain Cao to see ancient wooden sailing ships of our Huaxia… that’s odd.” Huang Xiaolong appeared sowhat puzzled. “Feilong sculptures, phoenix paintings, the Dapeng bird… These patterns, which Captain Cao could accurately describe, seem to be what he personally witnessed, not a fignt of his imagination. These belong to our Huaxia civilization.”
If Captain Cao, after being affected by a ghostly deception, had seen Western-style ships, there would be nothing suspicious. But it was odd that he saw Huaxia wooden sailing ships.
“The only explanation is that in that sea area, there were people from Huaxia who died there and turned into fierce ghosts, their resentnt lingering and haunting people…” Huang Xiaolong nodded slightly. “Maybe it’s an ancient spirit.”
“Our ancient Huaxia mariti industry was nowhere near as developed as it is today. Who could have sailed to the Bermuda area, died in a foreign land, and beco a fierce ghost?” Cao Dabiao rebutted.
Huang Xiaolong didn’t continue to analyze and simply smiled. “You continue.”
“The situation was too terrifying at the ti, I vaguely saw that on those wooden sailing ships, there were people standing…” Cao Dabiao swallowed hard before continuing. “Our ship had almost lost control and was heading towards them…”
“Suddenly! Ahead of our route in the dense fog, there appeared an intensely bright light! That light was so glaring, and it… it was filled with a kind of… a very mysterious aura… Our ship couldn’t avoid it anymore. Finally… finally we sailed into that mysterious light.”
“What happened next? What happened after that?” Qingqing asked with great interest.
“After that… after that I passed out. When the cargo ship entered the light, I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I found… found myself on an island. My ship was gone, my crew, not a… not a single one was around… I was very scared… truly scared, I have never been so frightened before… my ship and I, sailing in the ocean, why, suddenly… suddenly ended up on such an island…”
“Formation? That fierce ghost, set up a formation that transported a huge cargo ship along with its crew to an island?” Huang Xiaolong’s eyes narrowed slightly.
If that was the case, then the ghost at the very least had to be of Ghost King level, if not more powerful; otherwise, it would have been impossible for an entire ship to simply vanish in the vast sea. Keep in mind, that was a behemoth with a displacent of tens of thousands of tons!
“What kind of island was it?” Huang Xiaolong felt the matter was getting more and more interesting.
“I don’t know what island it was, just that it felt very desolate, especially desolate, I have never been to that island before… nor to any similar islands…” Cao Dabiao shook his head in bewildernt. “The place where I found myself was a dense forest, filled with towering trees. I didn’t have ti to identify what type they were, as I called out my crew’s nas while walking towards the edge of the forest. I don’t know how long I walked because I had lost both my watch and my phone. Finally, when I erged from the dense forest, I saw, I saw a very large and ancient house…”
“Let’s say, that house, I think, must have been several hundred years old at least, incredibly ancient, and… it was built with materials like brick, glazed tile, and hardwood. It’s a bit like the residences of officials in Huaxia… with overhanging eaves and heavy arches…” Cao Dabiao recounted as he reminisced.
“Huaxia architecture?” Shirley exclaid in shock. “What kind of island is this to have Huaxia architecture?”
“I walked towards that ancient house… When I got closer, I saw that the ancient dwelling was in a state of disrepair, almost the entire house was covered with vines. But it was indeed grandiose, at the entrance there were even two towering stone Pixiu as guardian statues, several ters tall… However, it was still daylight, yet from inside the house, there emanated an eerie presence, I… I thought I heard, inside the house, there were… there were… people crying~~~ many many people crying~~”
“Ah!” Qingqing, utterly engrossed, couldn’t help but let out a scream.
However, Huang Xiaolong thought to himself, ‘It’s probably a haunted house.’
Xiaohong glanced at her with disdain and said contemptuously, “Sister Qingqing, you’re a monster, why are you making such a fuss? It’s embarrassing for the rest of us monsters.”
Shirley and Cao Dabiao themselves were in a state of terror and didn’t pay attention to Xiaohong’s words.
“You eventually entered that ancient house, right?” Huang Xiaolong smiled.
“Yes… yes…” Cao Dabiao’s facial muscles twisted. “I… I was very scared, I didn’t dare to go in, but for so reason, it felt like soone was whispering in my ear, non-stop… telling to go in, to take a look…”
“I was getting a bit woozy, I… I seed to be as if I was drunk, in a daze, so I walked into the house.” Cao Dabiao began to sweat profusely on his face and forehead.
“What did you see after entering the house?” Shirley, Qingqing, and Xiaohong almost asked in unison.
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