Fog Formula-Warning Book of Fog City Search Chief's Strange Talk - Chapter Zero

On the sea, dark clouds weigh down, and the sea wind howls.

“The weather is a bit bad today…”

On the big undulating ship, the young crew members stretched out their heads to look at the weather outside. After seeing the dark clouds in the distant sky, they couldn’t help shrinking back, and said to the captain in the cabin with some worry:

“It won’t be a storm, will it?”

“What are you afraid of? It’s already 2035.” However, the captain who was cutting the side dishes on the table didn’t even lift his head. He just glanced at the scenery outside the window and continued to cut the pickles on the table.

“Besides, this is an offshore area. After the eternal night, the entire Xuejian Ze will be blocked. Which ship can go to the ocean? This is a 1,000-ton fishing boat! Are you afraid of such a small storm in the offshore area?”

Even though the boat was ups and downs on the sea, the captain still laid the knife very steadily, and there was a sound of collision between the knife and the chopping board, with a skilled sense of rhythm.

“What are you still standing there for?!”

The captain glanced at the figure of the young crew member who was still standing there, and rolled his eyes. After cutting, he shoveled the pickles into a small iron bowl next to him with a shovel. Then he licked the back of the knife and shouted loudly at the dazed young man.

“Still come to work!”

“Oh, oh, ok, ok.” The young crew member came in with a smile from the door of the cabin, and began to help the captain make all kinds of food.

All kinds of fish were quickly made into various dishes in the hands of the two. The conditions on the sea are rough and the method of preparation is simple, but it has a special flavor when paired with freshly caught fish.

Soon, the ginseng dishes on the table gradually became more abundant. The same kind of food also began to be prepared. Placed on the table, the oil lamp sways slightly with the ups and downs of the cabin, and the candlelight shines on the dishes, giving them a bright color.

“You young people are always inexperienced and like to take things for granted.”

Gradually, as the heat from the electric stove gradually warmed the damp and cold cabin, the captain’s mood seemed to rise accordingly, and he even began to hum a little song. Then while cooking, he casually chatted to the young crew members beside him.

“Only by experiencing the knowledge of the sea can you know what it is. Before you have experienced it, no matter what others tell you, it is just something in other people’s minds.”

“Yes, the captain has rich experience.” The young crew member smiled and said aha, complimenting him, but he didn’t take it seriously in his heart. “We students who have just graduated from the ocean department should learn more from the captain.”

“Yo? Look down on my low education, don’t you?” However, the captain seemed to understand his mind, but he was not angry. He just hummed and said, “Then I will teach you. You know that Xue Jianze’s On the sea, what are you most afraid of encountering?”

“Typhoon?” The young crew member thought for a moment, then replied. “Captain, you just said that this is an offshore area. Our ship is fully loaded with a thousand tons, and there are few winds and waves in the offshore area that can threaten us. If you think about it this way, the typhoon should be the most feared thing?”

“Typhoon? How can a typhoon come from a temperate continental climate? It would be nice if you can encounter it once in your life.” The captain rolled his eyes. “It’s better to worry about fog than worry about wind and waves.”

“On the sea of ​​Xuejianze, the most terrifying thing is never the wind and waves.” The captain said seriously: “It’s the fog that suddenly appeared at an unknown time!”

“Mist?!” The expression of the young crew member changed slightly, becoming a little unnatural. The injured chopping vegetables subconsciously stopped for a while. “You’re talking about… the fog? Are those legends… all true?”

“I don’t know the truth about the legend you mentioned,” the captain said calmly, opening the cabinet next to him, taking out his treasured sake, and pouring himself a small cup.

“But the existence of the fog must be real.”

“This… why are you so sure?” The young crew member shivered. “Things that obviously cannot be explained by science…”

“Can science explain why Xuejian Ze was closed?” However, the captain interrupted him directly. “People outside couldn’t get in, people inside couldn’t get out. All communication was cut overnight. The sun didn’t rise for nine months. Can science explain it all?”

“Science…” The young crew member was speechless, as if he wanted to argue something, but he didn’t know how to say it.

“After the incident five years ago, all kinds of urban legends spread in Xuejian Ze. Like the mysterious area that can change the body of a person, the mysterious fog that can fulfill wishes, and the forest in the mountains… These legends are spread in almost all circles and Regional spread. Naturally, our sea is no exception.”

“Have you heard of the legends on the sea?” The corners of the young man’s mouth twitched. “Don’t scare me, it’s nothing more than legends about those ghost stories, why do we have them in the sea?”

“The less populated the place, the easier and weirder it is. It’s not surprising that we have such things at sea.” The captain raised his head and took a sip of hot wine. “Just three days ago, did you hear about Lao Xia?”

“The thing about Captain Xia’s disappearance?” The young crew member immediately remembered what the captain said, and his body shook violently. “Is it related to those mysterious fogs?”

“I don’t know, but someone saw his ship sail into a fog and never came back.” The captain shook his head. “Experienced crew members at sea know that those fogs cannot be entered, but when they saw Lao Xia’s boat sailing straight in, they didn’t respond to shouts. It was as if they hadn’t seen those fogs. Some people even said… “

The captain’s expression changed slightly, even alcohol could not suppress his slightly frightened expression.

“At that time, there was no one on Lao Xia’s boat, and the whole boat was empty. The boat seemed to have sailed in by itself. It was like a ghost boat.”

“…” The young crew member shrank suddenly.

“Ghost…ghost ship?”

“We were going to sea on the shore that day, didn’t you see those men in black who came to investigate Lao Xia’s disappearance?” The captain sneered and pointed out the part that the young man didn’t realize. “That’s the people from the Search Bureau, and those people have the badge of the Search Bureau printed on their uniforms.”

“The legendary…the search bureau that specializes in investigating supernatural cases?” The young crew member faltered a bit. “But didn’t the Search Bureau publicly say many times that they are just ordinary investigative agencies? Didn’t their spokesperson say at the press conference last time that everything must respect science?”

“Do you believe what you say? Who knows how many miles away from the truth.” The captain drank another glass of wine, and his face began to flush slightly. “Have you ever thought that every time those people questioned these supernatural events, they finally used the investigation conclusions of the search bureau? They said that those were all fake, but they set up an agency to investigate these things. This Isn’t there no silver three hundred taels here?”

“The matter of Lao Xia was investigated by someone from them.” The captain shook his head. “At that time, those men in black, who were usually invisible at all, stood in a row on the pier. Bah! Bad luck! It’s even more like a crow that is dying.”

“You…don’t scare me.” The young crew member was a little scared. “We won’t encounter such a thing, will we?”

“Hmph, generally not, after all we won’t be so stupid as to drive into the mist by ourselves.” The captain shook his head. “But if the fog falls directly on your head, there’s nothing you can do about it. The fog mostly appears at night, but people in our business often go out to sea at night to fish with lights. If it really falls on your head, then I can’t run even if I want to.”

“Most of the people who are still in this industry these days are experienced old sailors, but many people have been lost on the sea over the years. Some people were involved in sea accidents, and some people were just like Lao Xia. , disappeared mysteriously.”

The captain sighed a little.

“It’s not surprising that we suffered disaster for nothing.”

“You must not say such things…” The young crew member was taken aback, and when he was about to interrupt the captain’s words, suddenly there was a shout from outside.

“Captain! The net is drawn! We caught a lot of fish!”

“Haha! Come right away!” The captain suddenly laughed and raised his hand to turn off the stove. Immediately pulled the boy who was blocking the position to the side, took three steps in parallel, and walked directly to the door.

“Let’s see how much good stuff we get in this net! We’ll be making a living out of it for the next month!”

“…”

However, the young man who was pushed aside by the captain suddenly became dizzy, holding his forehead and feeling that there was something wrong with this matter.

Close the net? Just saw that the sky outside was still daytime, how could the network be closed at this time? The practice on board is obviously to lure fish at night and set up nets in the early morning! At this time, they should not even download the Internet! Why did it suddenly shut down?

But the captain didn’t feel that there was anything wrong with this obviously abnormal question, and even the dizziness and uneasiness in the hearts of the young crew members seemed to disappear suddenly in the next second. Stepping like a young machine, he followed the captain all the way forward.

He saw that the sky outside seemed to suddenly become pure black, as if more than ten hours had passed between their conversations, and he saw the captain laughing and talking with the crew member who collected the net. Those voices were obviously very close to him, but they seemed to be far away from him. Those voices seemed to come from outside the sky, as if separated by some hazy mist.

In the next second, the young crew suddenly felt that the scene in front of them seemed very familiar! A kind of great panic suddenly rose in his heart, and a kind of urgent anxiety suddenly rose in his heart. He desperately wanted to stop something, but his throat seemed to be stuck and he couldn’t utter a word! His breathing became more and more rapid, watching the captain jump down and untie the net belt, watching the fish leaning from the gap in the net bag. That inexplicable sense of familiarity and fear is getting deeper and deeper! He must have seen this scene somewhere! He must change something!

This feeling of uneasiness and familiarity finally reached its acme when he caught a glimpse of something in the pool! It was a fish half a meter long! However, it has clearly identifiable facial features! That face was covered with green scales, and it looked like madness and laughter! Those facial features are clearly human faces!

At this moment, the young crew member suddenly understood where his uneasiness came from. He widened his eyes and yelled!

“Run–! Run away–!!!!”

However, it was too late, and the laughter of the captain and other crew members who were still laughing stopped abruptly. Their heads turned to him one by one. With strange smiles on their faces, they walked towards the young crew members with stiff steps. The sea breeze blew their clothes, revealing the skin with blue scales underneath!

Then they seemed to say something, and a strong sense of drowning suddenly flooded the brains of the young crew members. He was clearly in the air, but he couldn’t breathe as if he was soaked in sea water! He could feel his alveoli being compressed and his blood rushing up. He collapsed on the ground with widened bloodshot eyes, clutching his throat, and could even hear the sound of bubbling bubbles in his throat.

His body was convulsing constantly, and the skin on his arm twitched as if something was about to pop out. The muscles on his face twisted, as if he was showing a crazy and weird smile like that fish…

“No–!!!!”

…

“Are you awake?”

Utsui sat up suddenly from the hospital bed, jumping the girl who was taking care of him beside the bed. But she still showed joy quickly, took out a silver-white pen from her chest, and comforted the boy.

“It’s okay, you’ve been saved.” The girl in a black uniform comforted him softly.

“It is indeed easier to have nightmares after experiencing this kind of thing just now.”

“Nightmare?”

Utsui looked a little confused, he looked around. It was a crude tent with hospital beds stuffed inside. They seemed to be right by the sea, with bottles of distillers attached to their arms.

“Well, do you remember who you are?” The girl blinked and asked, “Is there any effect on memory?”

“I…memory…”

The girl’s words seemed to touch something deep in his brain, and those things suddenly became active. He suddenly remembered his identity, and suddenly remembered those things.

He is Utsui, a graduate of the Department of Oceanography at Yukimizawa University of Science, and works as a crew member on the ship. His captain was Xia Yan, known as Lao Xia, he went out to sea with the boat that day, and then…

The captain is Lao Xia…

Cold sweat broke out on Utsui’s forehead.

The one who disappeared three days ago in the dream…

Just themselves.

That dream… those strange fish… that fog…

“Your ship was wrecked at sea three days ago. You were floating on the sea for three days, and you were discovered today. You were rescued.” The girl in uniform said softly beside her, “I dreamed of something insane. ?”

“I am… Utsui. I went to sea with Lao Xia, and then… I don’t know.” Utsui’s expression looked a little confused. He suddenly covered his face in pain and wailed:

“Then what happened? I don’t know…I can’t remember…”

“That’s okay.” The girl looked a little disappointed, but she didn’t urge her. “You just woke up, you need a rest now. You can think about those things for now.”

“…Where is the Chief Inspector?”

Then there was a loud noise outside the tent. Utsui saw a man in black in the corner of the tent who he hadn’t noticed just stood up and walked outside. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the man in black carrying a box in his hand. From the half-open opening of the box, a section of… a fish tail covered with green scales was faintly exposed.

“Search Chief!”

However, people outside seem to be really eager. Before the man could go out, people from outside had opened the tent and rushed in. When the visitor saw the man in black, his face immediately brightened, and he walked up to him and whispered a few words.

“These gangsters will only get me into trouble.”

After listening to what the visitor said, the expression of the man in black changed slightly, he opened the tent directly, and walked outside with a suitcase.

“Prepare the car and go back to the Venus Tower!”

“yes!”

The man followed him abruptly, leaving only the girl alone in the tent, watching over Yujin who had just woken up.

“It’s okay, don’t worry about it.” The girl noticed his gaze, handed him a glass of water, and said softly:

“That’s something else, none of your business. Just get some rest.”

“Oh, alright.”

Utsui took the water glass, and when he reached out to take it, he suddenly saw the badge on the girl’s chest.

It was a bright white double star logo. In Xuejianze, this logo represents…

[Search Bureau]