On the fourth night after the cargo ship vanished, two more freighters went missing. Both flew Mana Country flags; one belonged to a Mairui Country company, and the other to a Yaxi Country company.
Besides both being massive vessels of over one hundred thousand tons, the two freighters had something else in common—they were both carrying wheat.
Including the Mairui Country-registered freighter, the three missing cargo ships had been carrying more than three hundred thousand tons of wheat.
For a time, every freighter bound for Yaxi Country was on edge, especially those carrying wheat.
A fifty-thousand-ton freighter turned around halfway through its voyage and headed straight for Leo Kingdom. It notified Yaxi Country that it intended to wait there for them to collect the cargo. If they did not come within a month, it would return the way it had come.
Two freighters of over thirty thousand tons simply breached their contracts. They would rather forgo the business than accept similar orders.
Two days later, a Champa freighter of more than ten thousand tons, fully loaded with rice and bound for Yaxi Country, also disappeared near Yaxi Country's waters. A day later, its wreckage was discovered on the seabed. A huge gash had been torn through its hull, as though it had been sliced open by a sharp sword.
White rice blanketed the seafloor, but it appeared that far less than ten thousand tons had spilled out.
Yet the world's attention was not focused on that, but on the dozen or so dead crew members. The recovered bodies bore one obvious trait—they had already died before falling into the water. They had clearly not drowned.
Huh? The eyes of the entire world were immediately led astray—had some unprecedented sea monster appeared beneath the ocean?
Several Mairui Country media outlets believed