Kraken Alliance

By Hulai Deng

When the end times come, the protagonist is on a ship, because the fairy tale legend brings disaster and fear of the Sirens sirens became people's impression of the wonderful and kind mermaid, in fact, they like to drag people into the endless waves under, being in the end times, the precarious, desperate situation quietly waiting for death of Xia Yi thought he would be...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jun 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9781312451551

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Kraken Alliance

Author: Hulai Deng

Synopsis: When the end times come, the protagonist is on a ship, because the fairy tale legend brings disaster and fear of the Sirens sirens became people's impression of the wonderful and kind mermaid, in fact, they like to drag people into the endless waves under, being in the end times, the precarious, desperate situation quietly waiting for death of Xia Yi thought he would be...

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===Chapter 1 Prologue===

Jan. 8, Ross Sea, Antarctica.

    It is a large bay surrounded by a long and narrow coast of the South Pacific Ocean extending into the Antarctic continent, which is larger than the two provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan combined, covered by ice throughout the year, a beautiful intersection of ice and blue, there will be two or three deep dark holes and narrow cracks that can barely be used for small boats, and that is the cold and unusual seawater below.

    But at the moment this quiet and remote ice sea boiling, countless round penguins and seals wobbling forward, have jumped off the cold water, the distant icebergs issued a huge roar, that is pieces of ice in the melting fracture.

    That's weird.

    A whaling ship en route to the Ross Sea has a crew on board that looks sideways.

    Penguins will leave a part of their companions to look after the young members, such a flock dragged, regardless of whether the chicks have learned to swim, headless to the sea, the situation is too bizarre.

    Hurry to leave may be the ice break if trapped here will be in trouble

    All the people on board yelled up, but somehow, the propeller turned and turned more and more slowly, and finally simply stopped not moving, the motor emitted an ear-piercing strange sound, is the crew have cursed when, suddenly the whole ship bizarre upward upside down.

    God, what's that?

    A long wrist foot thicker than a bucket broke the ice, let people shudder and shiver is that the top is not dense round suction cups, but sharp incomparable barbs, water droplets from the top scrambled to fall, the snow is so bright that it is reflecting.

    And then the second one

    A dry snap on the hull, the steel made a toothsome creaking sound.

    The whaling ship lost its balance and buckled high at one end, the icy seawater poured in, and although the crew members who fell off the deck grabbed something firm in time, the whole ship had been firmly entangled and dragged down to the surface in less than fifteen seconds.

    People under the icy cold sea water, a minute to die, not drowning, is frozen to death.

    There were able-bodied crew members who stayed up a little longer, desperate at the end of their lives to look into the icy depths of the crystal clear water, a pair of large, terrifyingly bright black eyes staring eerily this way, a huge body with only three wrist feet stretched out, easily dragging a ship into the sea, two much longer tentacles floating in the water, leisurely allowing seals and penguins to trample over its body.

    Little did these wasted crew members know that a terrible change was taking place above the Ross Sea.

    The ice melted at a rate visible to the naked eye, and the seals that didn't have time to escape down let out a mournful wail.

    Under the cold deep water, the sea monster's bulbous brain leaned back and again stretched out its wrist feet, covering the whole seawater ice layer by its vigorous upward pounding, immediately into pieces, some penguins and seals fell smoothly into the seawater, but still late, some have been painfully convulsing in the water, immediately a number of seals and penguins swam over, they did not hesitate to hit with their bodies, only to quickly carry these injured kind into the deep sea.

    At this point, the crew was frozen alive by the cold water slowly sinking, the sea monster with no barb tentacles poked one by one, about wondering why these human beings to a safe place instead of dying faster.

    Noticing that all the life aura on the ship had disappeared, the sea monster released the three wrist feet wrapped around the ship.

    The sturdy steel hull appeared obvious strangulation marks, as well as a piece of horrible mottled marks, that is the sea monster wrist feet on the barbs left, these roughly triangular barbs sharp tip incomparable, will be strangled after 360 degrees rotation, nothing can resist.

    It was as if there was death raging invisible to the naked eye, and in just a few minutes, there was no more wailing of creatures above the Ross Sea.

    The sea, has become the only barrier, and the boundary of life and death.

    In another fifteen minutes, the ice melted away, the unfortunate bodies of the creatures fell into the water, and the temperature of the water gradually increased, so that the surviving penguins and seals below the surface had to endure the limit to dive deeper into the water. They are not fish, and there is a limit to how long they can stay underwater.

    The appearance of this completely squid, but more than 40 meters long sea monster is not far from the surface of the sea swimming, and after a while, about to notice that the sea water is not evaporated, it carefully out of the tentacles out of the sea, the long thin tip like a tentacle wiggling from the surface of the sea with a long water mark, and then it immediately sank quickly, everywhere in the echo of a human ear can not The infrasound that human ears can not identify.

    As if they got the meaning of the message, the penguins and seals in the sea came up to the surface.

    But some of them still sank forever into the cold, cold sea.

    Now there is only one whaling ship floating aimlessly on the ice-free sea.

    This is about to become the legendary ghost ship, with the instruments on board intact and the crew all gone.

    Or maybe the mottled marks on the hull can prove that it encountered a terrible sea monster.

    That legendary horrible creature that attacks ships and swallows humans alive.

    January 6, 15:51, a country's satellite monitoring a magnetic cavity in the Ross Sea, a terrible change in the atmosphere, resulting in 100,000 square kilometers of sea ice all melted, the direct shine of radiation in ten minutes killed many lives, the sudden thinning of the atmosphere, so that just in the polar day in this Antarctic region, the temperature rose steeply, the sea level rose several meters, although after the surrounding Atmosphere slowly move to fill over, but also can be described as a disaster of the same kind of destruction.

    Doomsday movies or novels start like this: people rush to start the day's work, completely unaware of the shadow of death in the gradual envelope, the world is about to be destroyed, if not biochemical virus has spread, or aliens have stopped outside the Earth's orbit, in short, the sad little people in the face of sudden changes can only panic, desperate struggle.

    But the real end of the world it comes, not only with foreshadowing, but also holding the scythe of death is always moving in slowly.

    But its movements are so slow that it is almost imperceptible.

===Chapter 2 Initial===

A few days ago, a large number of dead fish on the British coast, washed up on the beach by the waves of the corpses, at least tens of thousands, scientists analyze, may be the sea water temperature is too low, resulting in the mass death of marine life

    The female anchor appearing on the LCD screen hanging in the airport waiting hall is reporting the morning news.

    Public places are somewhat noisy, far away there is no way to hear the news, but also must be good eyes to see the subtitles.

    A man in the crowd, wearing a gray tweed coat and wrapped in a scarf, grabbed a morning newspaper and flipped through it.

    Page b news, bold headline Large number of seabirds die in strange crash in a small town on the American coast.

    He glanced up at the TV screen, but the news report had already ended, the female anchor was talking about the war situation in the Middle East, and the man thoughtfully read the news of the collective death of seabirds in his hand carefully.

    This is one of the successive bizarre deaths of creatures that have occurred in coastal cities around the world since a week.

    The so-called scientific explanation, nothing more than climate change disparity, or suspicion of man-made infrasound, it seems quite logical, but any one carefully pondered, it feels strange, how can there be the same area, only the death of this kind of biological things, as if this news, a small petrel like rain fell in a small town in America, did not find the slightest signs of poisoning, as if they suddenly will not fly straight From the sky to fall, but in this town, other birds and animals are safe and sound.

    As well as the news just now, it seems that the bodies washed up on the British coast are all the same kind of fish, right?

    The world is really getting more and more bizarre

    This man's name is Xia Yi, twenty-seven years old, a member of the masses in the entertainment industry, belongs to mention his name, will make people think half a day after asking who is this, is a star kind of person, obviously acted in many TV dramas, but his predecessors and peers and even juniors have become popular, he is not high and low, as if only the people in the circle know that he exists. The third-rate actor.

    Xia Yi is waiting for a flight, he also sat next to a young man with a round face wearing rimless glasses, yawning, looking unhappy, looks no different from those running business around the white collar, this is Xia Yi's assistant Li Shao, just three months with him, in fact, also just survived the training of newcomers in the industry, inexperienced and incompetent, Xia Yi's business is not much, but can make him busy.

    Li Shao shallow eyes, when things love to fuss, but time will slowly sharpen his character, no more, as long as in this circle of eight or nine years, he will also become stable and reliable, the brain nine curves of the excellent agent, but only if he really has this opportunity.

    Xia, I said to follow the company's chartered plane together, you refused to do it, dragged a day, now I do not know what those people behind the back to mutter said Li Shao's complaints came, according to the itinerary, today noon to Sanya, the afternoon can be on the luxury cruise ship Talassa to the high seas, even a glance at the Sanya style time is not, if yesterday, how can

    Ah, a seafood barbecue under the coconut trees, just thinking about it is a treat.

    Entertainment media assistants, and catching up with the notice shooting stars as tired, running around, even a public holiday are not, if you can have a long vacation, it should panic, star actors do not work is no income, that the future still need to say

    By the way, Xia you say, that and Liu dating Han boss is not really going to marry her, this is a big deal, first bought thirty percent of our company shares, and chartered a luxury cruise ship to invite all the company's artists to participate, along with the annual meeting

    As soon as he thought of that hefty Goddess Talassa, Lishao's eyes shone.

    All entertainment facilities are available on that, billiard hall shooting range, swimming pool, even casino, when it reaches the high seas, it will hold luxurious parties around the clock, it is simply a dream field in the movie.

    In fact as early as a week ago when the company announced the news Lishao was so excited that he could not sleep well.

    Compared to him, Xia Yi was lackingin interest and just folded that newspaper. At this time the sweet female voice in the terminal was repeating the flight schedule of the upcoming security check boarding. Xia Yi ignored Li Shao's ramblings, bent down and pulled open the luggage lever, dragging it first.

    Ah Xia, wait for me.

    Li Shao hurriedly ran to follow with the rest of his luggage.

    The waiting hall is full of people, Xia Yi does not stand out, in fact, he walked outside, rarely recognized, I guess it would have to be a die-hard fan, in order to glance at the heart of confusion, and then look a few times after a sudden realization.

    But an actor like Xia Yi, who specializes in small supporting roles and is considered to be at the bottom of the company's contracted artists, doesn't even have an official fan forum. If he wants to reveal his identity, it's not that easy, even if there are paparazzi present, they don't even bother to take him as news.

    In this circle Xia Yi is known for his aloof personality, off-screen completely uncommunicative, even if many directors think his acting skills are okay, but his personality is not really see, plus Xia Yi is not particularly outstanding looks, or a male, so the darkness of the entertainment industry Xia Yi is seen, but the subtle rules of this kind of thing, hitting the lantern will not hit him to come.

    This is not bad.

    Not everyone thinks of success and fame, Xia Yi is a person who lives in his own world.

    The correct term, he is a person with Esperger's syndrome, a simple overview can be understood as a kind of autism, Xia Yi was found to be suffering from this disease at the age of six, it can be said that his life is almost finished, but Esperger's syndrome is an extremely special kind of autism, people with this disease have no problem with intelligence, can also talk, but thinking jumps a lot without coherence, the worst thing is that they never explain what is said The worst thing is that they never explain what they say, they can mechanically memorize many things, and even never forget them, but they have no interest in what they write down, they do not know how to interact with people, and they cannot understand what other people's expressions and reactions mean.

    Autism is definitely a worldwide problem, and most of it has nothing to do with the acquired nature, it is a stubborn disease born. There is no expert who can say that this disorder can be cured, but it is usually treated by movement, images, music and hope that the patient will come out of his own world.

    Xia Yi is suddenly one day, the people who take care of him but found him staring at the Shakespeare play on TV, word for word followed by the words, and the more you read, the more coherent, and not stumbling sentences, and even later, can completely imitate the drama actors on TV, raw and eccentric repetition of the sad and gorgeous lines, apparently he did not understand what Romeo was saying, but it did not affect him to repeat.

    It was one of the rare times he showed interest, and his parents and attending physician were ecstatic.

    The next ten years, Xia Yi's life is countless scripts, countless TV dramas, it can be said that he is through acting, slowly out of the narrow world, through the first mechanical substitution, as those tragedies and comedies inside the characters to experience the sadness and happiness, know what is anger, why people will be angry with this kind of normal people will be born things, Xia Yi is quite difficult to understand, and then the rigid categorization Divided, the accumulation of less into more, and finally understand what is called human feelings right and wrong.

    But Esberg syndrome is still incurable, leaving the role he plays, he is less talkative, looks completely stereotypically serious and uninteresting, and does not even show too much expression on his face, much less laugh.

    Xia Yi understands many things, but also understands a lot of reason, almost no different from normal people, but he is still a natural lack of emotion, how tragic and terrible things, his reaction is not a slow beat, but simply no reaction, although he will feel incredible in his heart, and even surprised, but the feelings of fear and pity is very light, people with a disease like his, to live This thing is not much feeling at all.

    So the industry's money transactions, those slightly red peers on his deliberate suppression, framing and even sarcasm, to be honest, does not affect Xia Yi at all. The face that is incredibly important in the eyes of normal people, or you can say vanity, Xia Yi simply does not have.

    This time, avoiding the company's chartered flight and taking a separate flight to Sanya before meeting up with the agency, was also intentional. Xia Yi knew he had to participate in such an event, but he would deliberately break away from the group for a while.

    Passengers passed through the security check one by one, and after a series of tedious procedures, the plane started to take off on time and was slowly sliding on the tarmac.

    Xia Yi, who repeatedly checked her seat belt, did not know how nervous her behavior looked in the eyes of her assistant Li Shao.

    He just had an extremely ominous feeling like there was no way to ever come back.

    Could there be a plane crash?

    The human-made steel wings flying above 10,000 meters, below is a thick layer of clouds, the roar of it deftly avoid the dark shrouded with lightning clouds, in the past decades, people conquered the sky, completely boast that they are the owners of the planet, the ability to face all the changes that occur on the planet.

===Chapter 3 Luxury Cruises===

The thassa, also known as the Goddess of Talassa, displaces 160,000 tons and its fixed voyage starts from Sanya, goes through the South China Sea, the East China Sea and finally sails into the North Pacific Ocean, making it arguably the top cruise ship in the whole of Asia.

    The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you want to do.

    In fact, Han boss is in this cruise ship annual meeting, in addition to their own under the manager of the regional ceo, but also invited and he has business dealings with all the business giants, as well as the need to pull the prince grandson, living is a money social, but such an attraction is not enough, those who are not worried about money and power, the most important need is to stimulate.

    The so-called invitation to all the artists of Chao Hua Star Entertainment Co Ltd, it is better to say that they come to liven up the atmosphere, which is not a wonderful role to play. It can be said that a perfect subterfuge, depending on which rich and powerful can see the right eye.

    Xia Yi's only regret is why the New Year slot, he happens to have no drama to catch, as a non-popular actor, what entertainment programs are not his part, so there is not even a reason to resign.

    Sanya is so well lit that you can still see the coastline while sitting at the small white round tables in the open-air cafe.

    The waiter standing in front of him, wearing a straight tuxedo and bow tie, bowed slightly and looked very respectful. But Xia Yi such a lonely and alone, neither a female companion, nor subordinate entourage of guests, the status is not high, so the waiter also slacked a little, did not pass the high-priced wine and coffee list, but only softly asked:

    What would you like to order, sir?

    Xia Yi also did not speak, is looking at him, in fact, he is quite serious in waiting for the menu it.

    A minute later, the waiter began to cold sweat on his forehead, about muttering in his heart, this person is a bit abnormal, right, is embarrassed beyond words, suddenly heard a laugh from behind.

    Senior Xia was here.

    This is an enchanting woman, eyelashes painted with silver powder charm blue eyeshadow, her figure is very good, is typical of the front convex, after the pouting s, wearing a blue and white background cheongsam, twisting the waist when walking over, near the men's eyes beads are going to fall out, gaze stuck on the dead can not be moved.

    The senior side of that new assistant it is really no rules, in this kind of cruise ship running around, if offend should not offend the gentry, can be miserable.

    She touched a slender cigarette, the smooth lines of the silver lighter casing pattern proves that this is a limited edition of a brand, a finger movement, lighted the fire gently, honey-colored lip gloss left a light trace on the mouth of the cigarette, her movements are enchanting and elegant, a ruffle of large waves of hair, said to the waiter who looked straight next to her:

    A soda and an elephant mussel for the gentleman.

    There were whispers all around.

    That's who looks quite familiar.

    It seems to be some famous print model, by the way, I saw the name Anli in a magazine

    When countless people stared at Xia Yi with morbidly jealous eyes, the woman did not sit down at the table, but stepped on her high heels, recklessly threw a few winks around, as if nothing had happened, and suddenly half of the customers in the open-air cafe were shouting for the check, and the souls followed her.

    Xia Yi was three minutes before the raw logic in his head sorted out what she meant beyond her words.

    This is to remind themselves not to be too eye-catching, it is best to let Li Shao also less out of the cabin door, this cruise ship there are not a small number of people, absolutely they can not afford to mess with.

    In fact, this trip from the beginning of Xia Yi has a sense of foreboding.

    I was anxious when I was on the plane, and I was still in a state of anxiety when I boarded the ship.

    People with Esbog syndrome are sometimes particularly sensitive, especially when they have feelings of severe unease.

    At 17:00 on the afternoon of January 7th, at the open-air cafe on the far right side of the seventh deck of the Goddess of Talassa, table number 17, it was clear from this that Xia Yi was in a strange kind of agitation, he was not seasick, and this feeling had no origin.

    Tallasa Goddess is nearly 200 meters long, 30 meters wide, the height of the exposed sea is 49 meters, a total of ten decks, such a behemoth, is a perfect scale of the sea city, locator help system and so needless to say, unless encounter hundreds of meters high tsunami before the danger of capsizing, but there are satellites in the sky, the captain will be the first to know the weather conditions of the surrounding waters, which is not Titanic years, the Goddess of Talassa driving path up to about 40 degrees north latitude, there is no such thing as icebergs.

    The setting sun renders the sea a dazzling golden color.

    It is at nightfall that the crazy carnival on the Goddess Talassa begins.

    Numerous men wearing famous designer, brand rare in the country can not buy suits, they casually decide the target of this evening's hunt, self-proclaimed successful people, with a gold card or with the clothes on their bodies, they can attract the attention of many beautiful women, but what makes this trip interesting to these men is that there are many stars.

    Cruise ship is too big, just different styles of bars there are eight, special restaurants and twelve, divided into Italian, French, Chinese and Japanese, the fifth deck in the middle of even a real fashion boutique shopping street, the two sides of the store selling new fashion from Paris, Swiss watches, the tail number of at least seven zeroes jewelry, this sight makes seasickness vomit half dead, dragging half a life crawl out of the Lishao dumbfounded, all All his belongings can not afford to buy, those who squander without blinking their eyes, deeply stimulated him.

    Brother Xia, I finally know what a really rich person is.

    Li Shao said with a sad face, he was staring at the menu handed to him by the waiter, the corners of his mouth twitched.

    This is still he deliberately found a Chinese restaurant on the bottom deck, but the small dumplings 300 dollars ten, milk a hundred dollars a cup, beef noodles also one hundred a bowl, which is what concept because it is the sea, every day need helicopters to airlift fresh supplies over, so the price of milk is ridiculously high

    Li Shao gritted his teeth and ordered the noodles that came up with the 10 yuan beef noodles on the street without any difference

    No, it's not as good as the street, Li Shao angry straight grunt. Completely no excitement before boarding, the whole person like being frosted is sickly, Xia Yi also did not say anything, in fact, his afternoon meal is not even a meal of seafood, against eight bowls of noodles.

    Brother Xia, look, I don't have much money with me.

    Li Shao puffed and stirred the bottom of the bowl with his chopsticks.

    Xia Yi is not a popular actor, income is not low because he received a lot of drama, the director as long as once to speak the play can be in good shape throughout the whole process, so people feel that the worry, but the reputation of him so good, hard work for two or three months to play a TV series is only five or six figures of pay, how can you compare with those who can easily millions of film pay superstar

    Li Shao is his assistant, know Xia Yi's financial situation, every time before work meals or eating out, it is Xia Yi pay for, Li Shao quite peace of mind, but today his outlook on life was seriously hit. This is not the most expensive meal they ate, just a few hundred dollars, but the thought of living on a cruise ship for half a month, Li Shao turned pale.

    But Xia Yi seems to see nothing, the room card will be taken out to signal the waiter to buy the bill, the goddess of Talassa cruise ship according to the level of the room where the guests stay, can temporarily credit a certain amount of money, only need the guests to settle once a day can, the highest level of luxury sea view rooms, even when you can get off the ship and then settle the bill, of course, that bill must be an astronomical figure.

    Li Shao a little sarcastic want to say something, suddenly came from behind a strong force, will he slammed down on the table, a smash on the noodle bowl, soup spilled all over, forehead also knocked a piece of skin.

    Who has no eyes to mix

    Li Shao has not yet finished cursing, turned his head to look, and suddenly scared to exit a good distance.

    That is a dress stereotypical serious old man, originally sitting at a table behind Li Shao, without warning, tilted his head and fell down, his face blue and twitching, seeing that there is no air in and out of it, the old man's original embrace of the female secretary also scared helpless, losing his voice and screaming.

    He fell on his own, I have nothing to do with ah, Li Shao nervous, shouted.

    On the contrary, the restaurant waiter trained to run over to take a look, immediately radio shouted foreman to notify the ship's doctor.

    "The waiter looked at the earpiece intercom and thought it was broken, so he immediately ran to call someone.

    As Xia Yi walked out of the restaurant, she also heard the chatter of the surrounding crowd.

    It looks like a sudden heart attack when you fall down for a good reason.

    In fact, this is not a big deal, Li Shao but scared, while walking while looking, afraid that there are bodyguards and other characters rushed out to catch him back. But did not walk back to the cabin, the road and saw a stretcher from the bowling alley to carry out a full-body convulsions of the old man.

    When you're old, don't play so much.

    Manager Zhang this is called peony flowers die, do ghost also wind flow haha

    These whispers allowed Li Shao quickly regained his composure and also followed with joy: the

    Brother Xia, these rich people, they are so horny that they don't want to die.

    Xia Yi saw the ship's doctor hurrying with a medical kit, no, behind the ship's doctor, the distant sea sky was filled with sea birds that should have returned to their nests, emitting a clear chirp, hovering above the sea.

    Away from the cruise ship light of the sea seems to be flooded with a silvery water, as if a big fish leisurely out of the breath, and immediately sink the same, Xia Yi quickly walked to the front of the deck holding the railing to look, in addition to those who should not fly in the night outside the sea birds, nothing, the sea is very calm, only some slight ripples.

    The corner of the forehead suddenly had a strange tingling, Xia Yi turned back to look at the brilliant lights of the Goddess of Talassa, layers of deck are men in suits, or women wearing braless backless evening dresses, talking to each other in the sound of music, idle and hypocritical smiles, all this, but let Xia Yi's ominous premonition more and more clear.

    It was as if there was a terrible monster that was staring eerily at the cruise ship from across the water.

===Chapter 4: The End is Near===

Throughout the night, Xia Yi did not close his eyes.

    His memory is much better than normal, although there are many of them he is not interested in, something like numbers he will even forget ten minutes after writing down, but the impression of the film is extremely deep, a little careful thought, can be complete to the details and lines.

    So he couldn't stop thinking about the horror film called Extreme Deep Freeze, and the story depicted in the movie happened to take place in the South China Sea. It's a film that takes gore as a gimmick, and the corpses all over that cruise ship will about keep many people from eating. But the Goddess of Talassa is not the usual huge, the so-called dozen meters long sea monster, which is a tenth of it.

    Moreover, that is just a ridiculous story, even if the world really has that terrible monster, but also live in the deep sea, the strong water pressure is destined for them to float to the surface is equal to looking for death.

    Xia Yi is often inexplicably anxious. People with other autism disorders are mostly indifferent to the world around them, but unlike Esperger's syndrome, they are still concerned about the outside world and are eager to connect with it, but they are unable to do so, unable to understand others and unable to express themselves properly and clearly, and it is still a vicious circle, because there is no way to This is a vicious circle, because there is no way to make friends and live in the environment, so there is deep self-doubt and disgust, and even hear everything about socialization and instinctively avoid it.

    They can take a very small thing very seriously.

    If the same situation was seen by Li Shao, at most think about it, and then instantly left behind, but Xia Yi's memory and imagination, so he kept thinking about everything that happened today.

    The old man who suddenly collapsed, the news he saw before getting on the plane, the newspaper

    For the details are very keen Xia Yi do not need to toss and turn in bed for a long time, it immediately thought of the extremely terrible correlation point, the same kind of sea birds, the same kind of fish, and then why only heart disease

    The old man sitting behind Li Shao in the restaurant, which happens to be within Xia Yi's field of vision, seems to be the old man with his arm around the female secretary tilting his head and laughing, the middle of the process did not pay attention, it is known that he was laughing and suddenly fell straight down, and later saw that bowling is not at all considered strenuous exercise, only a slight bend, and then lift

    Is a heart attack caused by a sudden head lift a carotid sinus?

    In Xia Yi this type of people, the focus of the problem is different from normal people, if a family member or friend suffers from heart disease, the average person will only exclaim and ask the doctor how serious or not Xia Yi's will ask, which heart disease although the purpose is exactly the same is to determine the severity of the disease, but the logic of thinking is a hundred thousand miles apart.

    Because of this distinctive habit, destined to Xia Yi will remember many terms and knowledge that have nothing to do with him, because that is the fundamental basis for his judgment of the external environment and things, but also the vicious circle of unsociable, all understand the meaning of the out-of-the-way terms, it is more likely not to take the initiative to ask questions.

    Xia Yi stayed up until early morning, when she became somewhat disoriented.

    Goddess Talassa is too big, in the slightly undulating sea, people in the cabin can hardly feel the bed shaking, and the bed is also fixed on the floor, so even the sea-sickness is serious Lishao, more than an hour later, the spirit of adaptation.

    Xia Yi lived in the cabin, not the sea view room, no windows can not see the sea, but this happens to his appetite, if through the window to see the dark sea, then he this night, is to pull the curtains also to suspicious eye cramps.

    So he vaguely felt the body slightly swayed to the left, confused and did not care, the sea will always be some slightly larger wind and waves, so think too many people, four o'clock in the morning, how to party people are also exhausted and ready to rest, this side of the cabin occasionally from the light reflected in the curtain to see a long, thin black shadow of people, are subconsciously rubbed his eyes, go over to lift the curtain, well, the cruise ship light is very bright Cast shine in the surrounding area of several hundred meters, but the ship itself cast a shrouded shadow, it seems more dense.

    Xia Yi was awakened by a clamor.

    Looking at the watch placed on the bed, it was already nine o'clock.

    In the life table of people who are used to partying all night long, less than 2 p.m., are not wake up time, but after all, this neighborhood are not ocean view cabins, that is, either not living with Xia Yi such a no-fame artist, or is the middle management of an important department of a certain company, while piggybacking on an assistant like Li Shao, is at the bottom, have to be two people living in a room.

    So they wake up earlier because of their work habits, and even if they are hungover, their biological clocks are on time.

    Too outrageous yesterday was 100, today 1000 can not buy

    Xia Yi rubbed his forehead because he thought something would happen, he was lying in bed with his clothes on last night, his shirt now hanging crumpled, he had no interest in watching the action, but apparently it was the guest in the room next to his who was standing in the corridor by the door and ranting at the waiter, so even the best soundproofing didn't help.

    That is, I know you are the premier in Asia but you can't leave the coast and raise the price tenfold

    A shrill female voice made Xia Yi sober up a little and heard a waiter make a series of apologies:

    Sir, Miss, I'm very sorry, there's no more milk on board.

    Joke Talassa cruise ship is not claimed to meet all the needs of the guests, if there is no wine is still understandable, you want people to believe that last night opened a rave party is showered with milk?

    We are sorry that we cannot meet your needs, we are very sorry.

    The argument outside the door continued, and was nothing more than an opportunity to question in order to rake in a nice lunch as compensation, after all, everything spent on the Goddess Talassa was enough to make the hearts of these self-proclaimed successful white-collar workers twitch.

    As if in opposition to Xia Yi's premonition, eighteen hours after sailing, the sea is calm and sunny, after noon, more and more people on the deck, men and women accost each other, judging each other's identity and can bring their own benefits, laughter, this time, the brand of clothes, taste is a key, many men if intentionally if not unintentionally to the sea breeze slightly raise the wrist, revealing The watch is of different shapes, as long as it is indeed classy, there will be a wonderful encounter immediately.

    At this time who cares if the soda is eighty a glass, cocktails are not four-figure price, generous incomparable pull out their respective room cards, shouting waiter to buy the bill.

    Brother Xia, Boss Han is having a party tonight in the tenth floor Bebo ballroom, and Manager Zhao said that everyone in the company must go.

    Li Shao said while his eyes could not help but stare at the women dressed fashionably, the identity may be white-collar or some rich businessmen to bring on board the honey, do not know is the ocean climate, January season, although the latitude of navigation is very low, but the temperature is as warm as April, wearing what style clothes of beautiful women are, taut thin narrow skirt, set of expensive small dresses, the pair of long, slender and delicate wrapped in stockings long legs. Let the young man who has not been in society for a year look straight.

    But it is inevitable to glance at women who have neither the body nor the looks, but in contrast, such women have more expensive jewelry, more tasteful, and surrounded by the most men.

    Aww shucks, these people are really grandchildren

    Li Shao muttered a few curses, and then he realized that Xia Yi was not listening to him at all.

    Brother Xia

    The sea has what to see, Li Shao when first seen can't wait to run to the bow of the Titanic classic pose, now has been numb no feeling, in addition to the water or water, Li Shao estimated that when they get off the boat, maybe see the blue piece will want to vomit is not certain.

    A flock of snow-white seabirds gathered around a short distance out at sea, suddenly following the cruise ship east and west, very wrong.

    This is far from the coastline, and there are few islands nearby, there should not be these seabirds, and they are obviously some exhaustion, stiff posture, not at all dare to fly in the storm of heroic vigor.

    Ha, see, where the seabirds gather, that means there are large schools of fish on the sea

    Another man with greasy hair by the    railing bragged to his companion beside him:

    I bet there's a school of sardines over here, and lo and behold, they're about to start their hunting trip.

    The words are not yet finished, there are several seabirds gathered wings, cannonball-like head into the sea.

    Xia Yi eyes are not too good, so far away, he did not have a way to see clearly, but feel that the behavior of these seabirds is very perverse.

    know well our corporate culture is the sea swallow, this bird is not, but they are also very tenacious, so head under the seawater can reach four or five meters, take away a fish will immediately surface, back to the sky the man continued to boast, but the surrounding people are lack of interest, such as Li Shao, only concentrated on watching the beauty it, only Xia Yi The hand holding the railings trembled slightly.

    No, that's not right.

    None of those seabirds, none of them surfaced again.

    Physical exertion, even the same kind of seabirds, there will be a lot of differences, so it is difficult to find if you do not stare, it seems that the group of seabirds do not have a regular turn and turn, flying around, and now and then there are birds head into, no, is falling into the sea.

    Xia Yi began to breathe heavily.

    He was tempted to lie to himself that it was all his hallucinations at work from start to finish.

    Xia Yi took out the cell phone from his pocket, it is true that there is no signal, but no signal at sea is a normal phenomenon, but if even those high-grade satellite phones worth a lot of money also

    Shit, I spent more than 100,000 cell phones, it is not even to the high seas no signal I should not believe that boo-boo advertising words, what as long as the Earth will absolutely have a signal

    Xia Yi stagnated for a moment, then gazed fearfully at the sun in the sky, almost turned his head and ran, until he could not shine in the shadow of the sun before slowing down, because he always behaved strangely, so Li Shao also complained a few times, reluctantly followed.

    Xia, the night party, don't forget ah uh, why this weather, getting hotter and hotter

    January 8, South China Sea, thin clouds, clear with a light breeze, the Goddess Talassa is traveling unharmed.

    Below the sea surface, military satellites passing through the area captured in high definition a huge shadow beneath the surface.

    The main helm control room of the Goddess Talassa at this moment.

    Yes, Captain, the radio has been having problems since yesterday, and just now it was completely cut off now to get on and off the deck, you need to use a runner to transmit the message.

    Captain is not good, another guest had a heart attack, and look at the situation, very bad

    The captain let out a low curse: What's wrong with this voyage, is it because Han's sins are too many

    This luxury cruise ship, has never encountered such a bad thing, so many gallons of fresh milk placed in the warehouse under 4 degrees Celsius this morning, and the staff on duty insisted that they did not see anyone enter or leave the warehouse

    There Xia Yi face pale, in the realization that all speculation is most likely true, see Li Shao seems to step away to the open-air cafe to continue to see the beauty, Xia Yi immediately pulled him back a hand.

    Not in the sun

    Li Shao froze, he followed Xia Yi for three months, of course he knew that he hardly spoke when he was not filming, but such headless and strange sentences, it was really hard for him to understand.

    Don't appear in the sunlight, Xia Yi said in a more fluent sentence, looking rather nervous.

    Hey, I get it, it's just a clothes disgrace, I understand the sadness of the poor ah

    Lishao shrugged his shoulders and walked dejectedly towards the cabin, as for lunch forgiving him for already having a meal a day plan.

    Xia Yi stared at the diminishing number of seabirds in the distance, hesitantly seeming to make a decision, but in the end he was silent and turned to walk back, unsure of what to say and whether anyone would believe it, which was a problem.

    Seabirds are lost and fallen, fish die, elderly people suspected of suffering from carotid sinus heart disease develop a change in the magnetic field, even that the Earth's magnetic field is gradually disappearing, so that anadromous and seasonal migratory creatures lose their instinct to distinguish their direction and die in droves due to hunger and fatigue, and patients with pacemakers are the first to suffer misfortune.

    Damn, why did he think of the boring horror movie like Extreme Darkness last night, it should be the doomsday movie that was released 3-4 years ago

    Well, the temperature is now abnormally high, probably because the atmosphere is gradually becoming thinner under the influence of the weakening of the magnetic field

    Xia Yi almost stepped off a step and rolled down the stairs.

    If this is true, everything is going to extinction even if the high technology, but also can not stop the disappearance of the atmosphere brought about by the horrific changes, unless you bring enough food and water to immediately hide in the hundreds of meters deep underground

===Chapter 5: The so-called fluke===

If someone would look up the information, they would find that the energy of the Earth's magnetic field began to weaken continuously as early as about 1900.

    Initially, its impact on human beings is really minimal, during which the occurrence of bizarre phenomena is increasing year by year, stacking up a statistic, the strength of the Earth's magnetic field than 150 years ago weakened by at least ten percent, those countries with artificial satellites, the information collected through satellites show that the magnetic field that should envelop the entire Earth is no longer intact, in some places, especially the North and South Poles, have appeared several large holes.

    Magnetic field is an invisible and untouchable things, most people do not care about it, even if the state held a conference to say that the magnetic field is not good soon to all disappear, it is estimated that many people are going to jaw to jaw, said that is very serious, is not the compass can not be used

    This time about the film is the best science, but that film does not carefully describe the horrific consequences, so for most people, you tell him the biohazard, he will be scared more serious to better understand the seriousness of the problem, and the geomagnetic field, that is what

    But dignitaries, including scientists calm not chaos or there is a reason, because it is said that the Earth's magnetic poles every 250,000 years to flip once, that is, the South Pole to become the North Pole, the Earth itself is like a giant magnet, magnetic pole flip which is a natural phenomenon, but it began to flip when there is a slight violent change is normal, the initial estimate of this process will continue slowly for more than two thousand years, humans need to do things to adapt, as well as to protect the environment. and protect the environment.

    Until the evening of January 7, the Pacific region suddenly appeared several magnetic field holes, very close to each other and influence each other, causing many marine life into chaos, although according to experience, the magnetic field is changing, not more than three to five days, the situation in those areas will be slightly alleviated, the important thing is that so far all slightly serious magnetic field disorders are appearing on the ocean, so this will stir up the stability of the situation is not announced. Scientists are straining to study what effect this accident has on the climate for a whole year in 2012, and flood and drought prevention must be prepared in advance.

    South China Sea.

    The infinite ocean, the night is dark as a devil.

    On its body, the brightly lit luxury cruise ship moves smoothly, this is its last voyage, yet no one knows yet except the increasingly anxious captain and crew.

    In the evening, the Goddess of Talassa communication with the land intermittent, radio does not work, and occasionally can hear the snorting of electricity. There were several people on board who had heart attacks, and the captain was anxious, there are often such things happening at sea, it may be the weather, or there may be strong magnetic fields from iron ore under the sea, but it is better to sail out of these waters.

    In fact, that's what he had the crew explain to the guests.

    Only the previous voyage through this side, there has not been such a serious problem.

    The captain is a middle-aged man nearly forty years old, he is well paid, experienced enough, only need to sail three to four times a year, each time only about a month, so he is very satisfied with this life, in order to stay in this position in peace and quiet, until the last resort, he really do not dare to disturb those who are in the mood of the big man.

    Especially on this night, a thousand dollars to charter the cruise ship's boss Han is on the tenth deck of the ballroom to have a rave party.

    All eligible to participate, which is not powerful and perhaps that ticket stars except, and Xia Yi was able to attend or the light of the entertainment company, such as Li Shao's assistant, the middle of a certain enterprise, were turned away, in the eyes of those who boast of high society, the assistant subordinates are just senior wage earners, the occasion is not as practical as a bodyguard

    Elegant round dances resounded through the hall as the slender fingers of a famous pianist danced on the black and white keys.

    The long table under the crystal chandelier was filled with various seafood, pastries, dishes and famous wines.

    Of course some of this food will be taboo to each other, not serious, may lead to diarrhea, but no one cares, such a party in the real come to eat and drink is very few people, if regardless of catch a meal to eat hard, just so others see the joke.

    No juice, there is a small blues bar, a bartender's wrist flexible control of a variety of different sizes of cups up and down, flying out a cup of different colors of cocktails, there is a favorite of the ladies, of course, where they are, there are always men with all kinds of thoughts.

    Except for the big shots, everyone was politely asked to hand over their cell phones and cameras before entering, after all, no one is much cleaner than anyone else in these circles.

    In fact, Xia Yi did not want to come, but he absolutely no way to swim to escape back to shore, fear, and can not change anything.

    If tomorrow is the end of the world, then what are you going to do

    Xia Yi stood in the corner with a glass of lemon tequila, his parents, who had him as their only son at the age of forty, almost tore their hearts out for him, fortunately their family could, their father's generation were doctors, and Xia