"It was a missing cruise liner, and we still haven't established whether there were any monsters aboard!"
Shiqi corrected the error in Qin Ran's words.
Then he gave Qin Ran more detailed information.
"The Sunshine Mary left the East Coast in June, Er875. Its intended destination was Holons Port on the West Coast, and the voyage should have taken about four and a half weeks. But it still hadn't arrived by the fifth week. Realizing something was wrong, people began searching for it, but faced with the vast ocean, all their efforts were futile."
"The search continued for about a year. In August, Er876, the government at the time declared that the Sunshine Mary had been lost, along with all four hundred people aboard!"
"I went through the newspaper records from that time. Although the government had announced that it was giving up and declared those people dead, the families of the missing never gave up!"
"After that, the searches continued for ten years, twenty years—no one knows how long."
"Still, there was one report in the entertainment news. A notorious Spirit Channeling practitioner of the time claimed to have encountered crew members and passengers from the Sunshine Mary. He said they were suffering..."
"Of course, that fellow was later exposed as a fraud!"
"He wasn't like you or Lei!"
Qin Ran couldn't help shrugging at Shiqi's words.
Lei was, of course, a genuine Spirit Channeling practitioner.
But him?
He couldn't exactly be called a fake, but he only barely qualified.
At least he could see ghostlike creatures and resolve some of the incidents they caused.
"Could it have met with some sort of accident back then?"
"You know how merciless the sea can be!"
Not wanting to linger on a topic that made him uncomfortable, Qin Ran asked for