I Created the Myth of the Old Ruler

"Regarding the investigation report of the Stars, the Stars set off from Yangshan Port on October 15, 2020. The estimated journey will be 21 months. During this period, it will pass through island countries, Solomon Islands, Australia and other ports, and finally arrive in New Zealand. It’s quite rare to see this voyage with ocean views as its main selling point.”

"However, ten days after departure, the Constellation encountered a rare sea storm in the western Pacific Ocean, so it was forced to dock at Pohnpei Island, north of the Solomon Islands, to wait for the storm to subside."

"During the long and abnormal duration of the storm, many accidents occurred on the Constellation, and a serious fire broke out on November 21. The hull tilted and entered the water. A week later, the rescue failed and sank into the sea."

"The passengers on the ship returned to China after the off-season storm in the Pacific subsided completely in January. Among them, a considerable number of passengers developed mental problems to varying degrees. The aftermath of the Stars is still in progress."

Lu Jian saw the investigation report of the Qunxing incident that could be made public.

He remembered that during the storm, the passengers of the Stars seemed to have captured some videos of the stormy islands and urban architectural relics.

Lu Jian searched the Internet, and most of the videos have expired with the passage of time, but on the old video website, someone left an archive of the second screen shot.

He re-watched the videos carefully.

In the storm, you can indeed see the shadows of some buildings. Most of those buildings are towering spiers, with a strange style that does not belong to this era. In fact, Lu Juan did not see the buildings of any era from these buildings. Style, they exist there like art and aesthetics born out of this world, like a black spot on a white paper, distorted and unnatural.

When I first saw it, I didn't have such a strong feeling, but now Lu Jian is almost sure that these buildings are not human creations, but palaces of some weird, mysterious and indescribable existences.

As for the accident on the Qunxing, Lu Jian thinks it might be caused by weirdness.

He read some interview materials, most of which were with the captain, crew, and passengers. Because the accident was already considered serious, there were many speculations left, and there were different opinions. Some people thought that there was a mutiny among the crew, while others thought that It was the plunder commanded by the captain, and some people thought it was haunted.

In fact, the testimonies of these individuals are also contradictory.

For example, Lu Juan saw the clip of the first officer Zhao Liren being interviewed.

"......then,

At that time, I told the captain that there was a problem with the equipment in the engine room and manual maintenance was needed, but the captain didn’t seem to care too much and didn’t agree to my request. As a result, within two days, the equipment in the engine room broke down, causing a fire, no no , I didn’t say what the captain did was wrong, it’s just that his behavior at the time was really not calm enough in my opinion. Even if the fire spread, he didn’t take effective countermeasures. I’ve known the captain for several years, he’s not that kind of person, there must be Something affected him, maybe there were too many changes in this trip, and the pressure overwhelmed him..."

In this clip, the chief mate believes that the captain's insufficient response was the main cause of the accident, which sounds reasonable.

In the mouth of a tourist, things have become different again.

"...Those crew members were particularly fierce. They didn't let us walk casually on the ship at the beginning, and locked us in the room like prisoners. They could only come out to get some air every day when they were eating, especially during the few days when the storm worsened. God, I feel like the whole ship is about to sink. I haven't seen the captain, but the first mate spoke to us very harshly. He seemed to have encountered something, and the dark circles under his eyes were heavy. Until later, we disembarked at the port , things were a little bit better, we didn't notice at all when the fire happened because the storm was so big, so big."

From what he said, the first officer restricted their movements, guarding them like jailers, and behaved a little nervously, which was not at all the calm state that the first officer himself said.

"...these crew are taciturn and not talkative. It wasn't like that at the beginning. Since the storm started, they have become a lot more serious. I can understand that such a storm at sea is very dangerous and shouldn't be joking, but They seem to have changed after the storm, and they have been depressed a lot. For our safety, the crew told us not to move around. I can understand. I talked to a crew member, and he said that the current situation is very hopeless. The ship might be gone. I thought he was scaring us at the time, but who knew that after a while after landing, the ship caught fire. Fortunately, we were all in the hotel at the port at the time, and it seemed that some crew members were burned to death. On a boat? I don't know."

Some tourists showed another scene. The crew seemed to change because of the severity of the storm, and the measures to restrict personal freedom were also for safety.

Lu Jian saw the interview with the captain, Johnson Gustav again.

This is a German with a beard and looks very haggard in the interview.

"I've answered these questions many times, the storm we had was historically rare, and for that, I had to make sure all the crew and passengers were safe, so they all stayed in their rooms, yes, that's right, on the ship Some crew members had mental problems due to stress, and I asked the ship doctor to give them medicine, at least when we docked to Pohnpei Island, all problems were not serious."

"What's really serious is that after going to the island, those people on the island are very strange, I can't tell. Sometimes they stand in the port, stand in the storm, and make some strange gestures of worship towards the center of the storm. Some islanders even sneaked onto the boat, not knowing what to do."

"I went around the island, and there are many strange statues on it. On the mountain in the center of the island, there seem to be ancient temples, all of which are primitive beliefs."

"Those statues look like octopuses, or some kind of soft-bodied creature mixed with humans. I know that the natives of the sea always have inexplicable worship for the creatures in the sea, but those statues give people a very uncomfortable feeling. , although that temple has been damaged, but I don’t know why, whenever you look up the mountain at night, you can always find it at first sight, just like it emits green fluorescence.”

"After the fire broke out, the people on the island did not participate in the rescue. They just stood in the rain, stood on the pier, and made sacrifices to the burning cruise ship. I swear, I have never seen such a weird sacrifice. Thanks to the movement, I once suspected that these people were occupied by some kind of monster."

"It's just that, in the light of the fire, I seem to have seen something rise from the ship and flow into the storm. It's hard to describe that feeling. I think maybe my spirit is not normal, no, it should exist , it's there, I know, it's coming, I'm sorry, I don't know what to say, when the Astral ship sank, I felt like it really came alive, and each of us was a witness to its birth."

"What is it?"

The reporter who interviewed asked curiously.

"It's...it's...it's the stars, it's the stars, it's coming, it's coming soon!"

Captain Gustav became hysterical and the interview was interrupted.

Lu Juan saw the final outcome of the captain. After being interviewed, he rested at home. A month later, he drowned himself in his own washbasin. It is said that when he died, both hands were twisted behind his back, and He held down his head, as if those two hands were forcing him into the water to prevent him from raising his head.

He drowned himself!