The paladin who came in a hurry whispered two words in Betty's ear, and the other party's face suddenly changed.

The man's voice, though low, did not escape my ears, and what he said was that there were a large number of icebergs near the ship, and it was impossible to sail.

I couldn't help but frown slightly.

Just now, I felt that Ye Xun's incident of hitting the reef was strange, and now I think that the sinking of the stowaway boat was not as simple as an accident.

Although Ye Xun's skills in driving a boat are not as good as those of a professional sailor, it is not easy for him to hit the reef, especially since we are still running for our lives, Ye Xun will be more careful, how can he easily hit the reef.

I turned my head to look at Ye Xun, who also had a solemn look on his face.

Betty instructed the Paladins to keep an eye on us, and she followed her men to the wheelhouse, and it was not long before the speed of the ship slowed down, and at last it was almost to the point of cruising cautiously on the sea.

I subconsciously turned my head to look at the sea, but what I saw was a series of floating black shadows.

Iceberg?

The first thing that comes to my mind is an iceberg.

We are in an ocean that is not at the poles, how can there be floating icebergs of such magnitude?

However, there is nothing but icebergs that can threaten ships floating on the sea.

As this question continued to fly in my mind, there was a sudden loud noise from the mercenary ship, and the hull of the ship suddenly tilted, and in less than a few moments, half of the hull had sunk into the sea.

The terrible thing is that the mercenary ship went from hitting the iceberg to tilting and sinking, and the mercenaries on the ship didn't make the slightest sound, as if the whole ship fell into a deep sleep, until the throat was choked by death, and they didn't wake up from their sleep.

During the whole process, there was no screaming, no blood, and no corpses, but this silent death was more chilling than the tragic shipwreck.

I could visibly feel the paladins watching over us tremble slightly.

His trembling didn't last long before his fear intensified, and the corpses that should have sunk to the bottom of the sea floated to the surface one by one, each of them keeping their bodies stretched out, their legs together, and their hands folded in front of their chests, like floating logs, rising and falling with the waves.

What's even more strange is that the faces of the non-corpses seem to have a layer of white frost condensed, except for the contours of the facial features, everything else is hidden under the terrible whiteness.

"All go up to deck, prepare the cross, prepare the holy water, prepare the ......," Betty's command came one after another, and the paladins erected a cross every few steps on the side of the ship to surround the ship. Several priests strode from the cabin, standing behind the knight with Bibles in hand, ready to answer.

In just a few minutes, the whole ship turned into a heavily guarded steel fortress, and the corpses floating on the sea, like sharks ready to hunt, approached the bottom of the ship one after another, and after a while, there was a sound of corpses frequently hitting the iron plate under the ship, which sounded like hundreds of people were hitting the hull with their heads, even if there were many armor on the ship, they couldn't stop their madness.

Betty slowly walked to our side: "Wang Huan, do we need your help?"

"Condition!" I said simply.

Betty was silent for a moment before she said, "I have no right to let you go, the only promise I can give you is that I can ask the Inquisition for mercy." ”

I looked at Betty, "You're a knight, but you don't look like a knight. ”

Betty knew exactly what I was talking about.

She adheres to the rules of a knight, and even in this critical environment, she still keeps her loyalty.

But she didn't look like a knight, and in the dark castle Betty cooperated with Blue Desert Shadow to give up the entire Knights of the Holy Light. This is clearly not the style of a knight.

Betty said gloomily: "To paraphrase your Huaxia words: people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes, right? I don't want to say this, I want to remind you that we are on the same boat." ”

Betty is right, "in this boat" is the wisest choice, otherwise, the ship sinks and we all have to become water ghosts.

I said in a deep voice, "If you want me to help you, I first need to know the legends of this sea. ”

When I said this, I didn't really have much hope, as a papaladin of the Holy See, Betty may not have been exposed to any legends outside of the biblical story.

Unexpectedly, Betty blurted out: "There is only one legend in this sea, and that is the sinking of the Titanic." ”

"What did you say?" I froze.

What I know about the Titanic is nothing more than the movie that swept the country many years ago.

Although I don't know the specific location of the sinking of the Titanic, I know that it is silent in the North Atlantic, and I only have two days to leave Britain, and our stowaway boat can travel such a long distance?

Betty shook her head slightly: "In fact, I also knew that we were on the North Atlantic Ocean through the coordinate positioning. ”

I couldn't help but feel a chill in my vest - I hadn't seen the scene outside since we got on the boat, but I could clearly feel the concussions of the ship a few times, could it be that we had jumped on the sea a few times?

I was in silence when a flickering green fire suddenly appeared out of the corner of my eye, and when I turned my head to look, the first thing I saw was a flame rising above the sea.

"Ghost fire?" Ren Tianqing's face turned pale in an instant: "Ghost ship, there is a legend that the Titanic was sunk at sea by a ghost ship. ”

The sinking of the Titanic, in the official version, was the sinking of the iceberg, in fact, there have been different legends among the people, the most famous of which are the "ghost ship" and "the curse of the mummy"

In particular, the ghost ship is not unfounded.

"San Francisco Documentary" published the account of the surviving Titanic crew: When the shipwreck occurred, they stood on the deck of the Titanic and observed, and found that there were some strange "ghost fires" in the sea moving out of nowhere, and these confusing "ghost fires" seemed to run out of a 'ghost ship' of unknown origin. ”

Captain Lord of the USS Californiar, who has been accused by historians of being a dead man, was commanding a ship in nearby waters. Even when he died, he insisted that the "ghost fire" of another ship of unknown origin could be clearly seen from the ship. The mysterious ghost ship was in the waters between the Titanic and the Californiar at the time.

At that time, although no one told me the legend that the Titanic was hit and sunk by a ghost ship, I instinctively felt the crisis.

I abruptly turned around and said, "Betty, let people start the boat immediately, don't care what is going on in front of you, get out of here first." ”

"Sail!" Before Betty's order could be passed away, a missionary objected: "Captain Betty, I am disappointed by your actions, as a knight of the Holy See, you should be brave enough to face all evil forces. Even if there is a legendary ghost ship here, the light will protect us from the darkness, but you choose to believe in a heretic and choose to flee. ”

Although Betty's face was gloomy, she did not refute the other party, which showed that the status of that priest was far higher than Betty.

Seeing that Betty did not refute, the priest nodded with satisfaction: "Knight-Commander Betty, now, please order your knights to shut up the heretics, and then go to meet the ghost ship and do what you knights should do." ”

The missionary was impassioned, but Betty remained motionless, and it seemed that she was leaning towards my judgment.

Seeing that Betty was not moving, the missionary was about to open his mouth to reprimand, but the sea suddenly lit up with countless lights and shadows.

Thousands of ghost fires inexplicably appeared on the surface of the sea, and the sea area within a radius of thousands of meters was under the light of the ghost fire, which was like hell and terrifying, and the green rays floated.

The ghost fires gathered on the surface of the sea, not only did the flames grow suddenly, but they almost soared into the sky, and the number was still increasing rapidly. In just a few moments, the number was multiplied several times, and the originally black sea water instantly turned into a strange blue wave. Every time the waves of the sea turned, it made me feel that something was about to break through the water.

"This is ......" When the missionary said the two words meaningfully, the green flames on the sea seemed to be pulled by some force, and suddenly concentrated in one direction, and piled up on top of each other.

In less than a few moments, the green flames that had been piled up had become the appearance of a huge ship, and standing on our ship, we could clearly see that three miserable white sails were slowly rising on the deck of the ship.

"My God!" the missionary, who had just insisted on fighting the devil to the death, could no longer speak except to exclaim.

"Sail, quick!"

The freighter beneath us started its engines at Betty's scream, and the ghost ship in the distance was full of sails, and the huge hull stirred the waves and quickly reversed direction, and the wooden side of the ship opened one cannon after another, and the black hole cannon was pushed out of the side of the ship and pointed at us.

"Accelerate, accelerate......" Although Betty was constantly urging the captain to speed up, we had already missed the best time to escape, and no matter how much we accelerated, we were exposed to the opponent's gun.

Betty drew her sword and shouted, "Attention, all ready to defend." ”

As the loud chant burst from the ship, the golden light and shadow rose from the cross.

My first reaction was to quietly inform Ye Xun and them to find a way to evacuate.

Judging from the speed at which the Holy Light rose on those people alone, the paladins brought by Betty this time were obviously inferior to the Knights of the Holy Light.

Perhaps, before they could defend themselves, the other side would have opened fire.

I appeared calm on the surface, but in fact I was in a hurry to stomp my feet, the paladin's defensive shield was not raised, and the gun muzzle of the ghost ship was rapidly adjusting. If this continues, sooner or later we will have to become a living target for each other.

As the minutes ticked by, the Knights' reticle finally closed overhead after covering the deck.

The roar of the ghost ship's guns followed.