Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 22 Some Little Accidents
Option 52.2 4.3%, Option 43.5 [-]%, Option [-] [-]%.

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【Option [-]】

[Working on deck]: responsible for confirming the weather and ocean conditions, inspecting and maintaining the hull, etc.

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"I want to work on deck."

Zheng Zhuo said while writing [deck work] next to his name.

"As you said, I am somewhat confident in my observation skills. In addition, my major studies are marine biology and meteorology."

……

After Zheng Zhuo signed, Chu Huairen took the form and left.At dinner time, he returned to the cafeteria with a form signed by all the students.

Zheng Zhuo took a look. 3 people work on the main console and 3 people work on the deck.Chu Huairen and the girl who can radio are both at the main console.

Granted, no one chooses to work in the kitchen.

"(So, why did that option appear on the [Subconscious Voting] interface... No, did I really consider helping the cook...)"

Zheng Zhuo laughed dryly.

He did not deny that when Chu Huairen asked him about his job expectations, his first reaction was to help the cook.

"(No no. Bringing in real preferences. That's not okay.)"

Zheng Zhuo tried to hint to himself that he is now a doctoral student at Ocean University.

"(There are more clues on the deck. Go to the deck.)"

……

After the work was settled, everyone went back to their rooms and fell asleep.The next day, Zheng Zhuo and two other students who chose to work on the deck came out of the ship together. While trying to adapt to the bumpy and slippery deck during driving, while enduring the howling sea breeze, they listened carefully to the sailor's instructions on how to confirm the anchor, cable and internal combustion engine. situation.

Zheng Zhuo is different from other students: he has not received relevant professional training.Many times, Zheng Zhuo couldn't keep up with the terminology spoken by the sailors.To make matters worse, he didn't know what words he "should know", so he couldn't question the sailors, lest he give away his knowledge and invite unnecessary suspicion.

But fortunately, he still has 【Appraisal】.

"This pipe is connected to the solenoid valve of the steering gear oil pump."

During the re-examination stage, he accurately stated the position that needs attention, which attracted the attention of the other two students.

"As expected of Dr. Zheng! He actually knows so much about ship power equipment!"

"Haha, it's okay..."

Zheng Zhuo was called Doctor for the first time in his life.He is a little guilty.

……

After that, the days passed peacefully.On the sea without wind and waves, [Beautiful Future] keeps moving forward day and night at a fixed number of knots.

sleep, eat.

Take turns to be on duty, and confirm the safety status of each position on the hull according to the list.

Sailing, sailing, sailing.

After sailing hundreds of nautical miles, Zheng Zhuo gradually got used to this kind of life.

He even occasionally feels that this is the reality. [Collective subconsciousness], pure white space, people on the verge of death... are all just a dream.

Whenever this happens, he will call out the [Subconscious World] page.

The icy percentages on the interface remind him that he is in an ocean of human consciousness.

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【Ocean World】

[1.2%]

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"In this world, there are also percentages."

Zheng Zhuo looked at the progress bar under the world and muttered to himself.

"It's still a long way from the [Wise Man] card."

……

That night, Zheng Zhuo was put on duty in the evening.When he patrolled around in the dark and opened the cabin door to return to the dining room, he found that all the students did not leave after eating as usual, but gathered around the dining table.

Professor Lin Wen is also here.

Zheng Zhuo approached the crowd.He found that there were many maps and charts on the dining table, some of them were printed products under modern technology, and others were very old.The map with a sense of age is drawn on the sheepskin and preserved by rubbing and plastic sealing.

"Zheng Zhuo, you are here."

Professor Lin Wen saw Zheng Zhuo and greeted him.

"I was about to tell everyone about it."

"We... are almost at our destination."

……

Not long after departure, Professor Lin Wen once said about the destination.

In a satellite remote sensing shooting a few years ago, a research team from Ocean University captured an image of a suspected ancestral hall on an oceanic island.After that, after many times of review, analysis, and data collection, the Department of Marine Science and the Department of Archeology jointly set up this investigation project.The project is hosted by Professor Lin Wen from the Department of Marine Science, with only one purpose: to go to the small island and conduct field surveys.

During these days of sailing, Professor Lin Wen mentioned this topic many times.He believed that the ancestral hall was related to the legendary lost civilization "Atlantis".Because geographically, the island is located in the Atlantic Ocean.This is also where the legendary continent of Atlantis sank.

Students and crew members were less in agreement.Some people are as convinced as Professor Lin Wen, some people think that it is another ancient maritime civilization, and some people simply think that the ancestral hall does not exist at all-there are only rocks that look like ancestral halls.

Zheng Zhuo believed it.

There is no other reason: when he entered this world, he saw it with his own eyes.

but……

"(When entering the world, the card did not land at the shrine...it continued to fly far away...)"

After arriving at the ancestral hall, how to persuade everyone to move on?
He hasn't figured it out yet.But he thought, since he landed on that pier, there must be a way to continue.

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When Zheng Zhuo was distracted, Professor Lin Wen announced the current progress: In four days, they will arrive at the small island.

It's finally here!Everyone is very excited.Many students could not sleep at night because of the news, and the next day, they appeared in the cafeteria with dark circles under their eyes.

Zheng Zhuo slept well.He walked through the corridor and saw Chu Huairen, who had faint dark circles under his eyes, and the girl who was good at radio handed over the chart situation at night.

Zheng Zhuo boarded the deck, felt the sea breeze, and started today's work.

During the day today, there is not much work assigned to him, because the preliminary survey will start from now.

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The morning passed quickly.At about [-]:[-] noon, the [Beautiful Future] turned off the engine, opened the hatch at the tail, put down the miniature deep-sea probe, and conducted underwater surveys in a radius of several nautical miles around.

If the main console team was free and the deck team was busy a few days ago, today the main console team is busy and the deck team is free.

During the survey period, Zheng Zhuo and two other students were idle and bored, and invited several sailors to fish on the deck together.

...It is conceivable that sailors with the [Fishing] skill catch more fish than everyone else combined.

“It’s time for an extra meal at night!”

"Fish! At sea, what kind of extra meal is fish!"

The sailor was joking with the students.

However, at this moment.

There were noisy voices in the cabin.

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what happened?
Zheng Zhuo entered the cabin together with everyone. As soon as he entered, he saw many students and sailors walking around in a hurry.

"What happened?"

A student hurriedly stopped a familiar classmate and asked.

"No...they're all minor incidents. It just happened to happen together."

The classmate replied.

"situation?"

"The condition of the miniature deep-sea probe is not very good, and it is going up ahead of schedule. The radio signal is intermittent, and Old Dong is too busy to debug it by himself. Xue Ying was on the night shift. She was supposed to be sleeping, but now she has to call again. She got up—it can’t be helped, she can only speak the radio. There was also a sailor who suddenly became ill and was sent to the infirmary just now.”

It's really the little things.Zheng Zhuo thought.

"Do you need help?"

"Let's figure it out! Oops, I'm in a hurry—"

Ok……

How to do it?

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【problem】

[Several small accidents happened on board!Where do you want to see what's going on? 】

【Option [-]】

[Go to the cabin at the stern to see the floating miniature deep-sea probe]

【Option [-]】

[Go to the main console to watch other people repair the radio]

【Option [-]】

【Go to the infirmary to see the situation of the sailor】

【Option [-]】

【Back to the deck to continue fishing】

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