Volume 1: The Storm of the Sea Chapter 5 The Confusion of Confusion
"Ah......h
A violent shaking pulled Alez out of his stupor, but before he could open his eyes, two slaps had already been received on his face, making two crisp and pleasant "pops------ at least for him.
"I'm ......" Alex moved his lips and asked with a little surprise, "I'm still alive?"
"You're still alive, sergeant, at least for now. A voice rang out from the right to answer his own question. Alex opened his eyes to see who was speaking, but found that his right eye was completely blind, and he couldn't even turn his neck.
He struggled to stand up, and lost sensation in his right arm, as if hanging a mallet. There was still some strength in his left hand, but it was a drop in the bucket, and before he could stand up, he was weak again and collapsed.
"Knox, give him a hand," a slightly majestic voice came from in front of Alex. The person on his right received the instruction and immediately held his right shoulder, and with another effort, he also propped himself up and leaned against the head of the bed.
Only then did he realize that standing in front of his window was the commander-in-chief of the fleet: Viscount Eric. For a while, he was a little cramped and uneasy, but after experiencing life and death in his dream, and the tragic situation now, Alletse was not panicked, he fixed his mind, and he also looked at Eric: about thirty years old, burly, not handsome, just an ordinary middle-aged person, with a beard, I only felt some inexplicable vicissitudes.
Viscount Eric was also a little surprised, as a low-level citizen, he would cast a scrutinizing gaze at the nobles, but fortunately, he was not a person who was bound to small things, and he was not to the point of making people angry, so he only paused slightly, and said:
"I wish you could recount what happened, the death or disappearance of all of your team, and the cause of your coma. ”
"If I say it all, I guess they won't believe it, and there is no excuse to excuse me, no matter how you do it, it's over, you can only assume that they believe my words" Alez didn't panic, and planned a little in his heart for a while: "But since they will believe me, it is necessary to make some fakes, there is no need to cover up the injuries on my body now, I am the injured party, but if you want to mention the toxins and parasites of monsters and the like, it is inevitable that they will think blindly, this must not be said." ”
Thinking about all this, Alex organized his language a little, and then recounted the existence of the monster Hamm toxin and the gray and black worm's purpose, only saying that he had lost too much blood and fell into a coma, and stabbed the monster's mouthparts to turn the monster into ashes and escaped.
"Are you saying that you were attacked in a dream, and even your real body was dysfunctional due to injury?" "Eric's personal guard captain Knox said with a slight annoyance, "Do you think it's a demonic fable to deceive children, you tell a lie like this, which makes people doubt your purpose." ”
"Knox" Viscount Eric stopped Knox, but smiled at Alez and said, "Do you know what happens if you deceive a nobleman and deceive your own supreme commander?"
"That would be hanged," Eric said slowly, "Of course, we are at sea now, there is no gallows, but there is a springboard. ”
"I don't dare to deceive you, master" Areci was slightly startled, but he still tried to keep his voice steady and said: "If you don't believe it, I can't help it." ”
"Good!" Unexpectedly, Viscount Eric did not get angry, but smiled slightly, stepped forward and patted Alez on the shoulder: "Since you are so sure, I will believe you once, after all, anything can happen in this devilish sea." However, since the injuries are so severe, you can not move out of here yet. ”
After speaking, he beckoned Snooker and walked towards the door, the captain of the guard, Knox, was still a little angry with the nonsense of Alex, but since the viscount decided to leave, this means that he has pardoned Alez, and he as the captain of the viscount's personal guard is not good to say, so he has to leave, after all, Viscount Eric can be said to have the power of life and death over the entire army.
As soon as he stepped out of the room, Viscount Eric's face fell, and his face showed a deep solemnity.
"Knox, this soldier named Ariz is the only one of the unconscious people from three days ago who is still awake," Eric asked.
"That's right, Lord Viscount, in the process of being unconscious, the nearly sixty soldiers died one after another," Snooker replied truthfully, adding: "But they have no scars on their bodies, and they died very strangely." Come to think of it, the soldier's statement is true. ”
"That's not a reasonable conjecture for me to say. Viscount Eric shook his head.
"Then why did you let him go, he deceived you so much. ”
"I said it's not a reasonable conjecture, snooker," Viscount Eric paused and said, "but a bloody reality, do you believe it?"
"Why does the Viscount think so, although there is no reasonable explanation, but this process is too bizarre, even if the unreasonable explanation is very simple to make up, I can make one up now" Knox was a little surprised by Viscount Eric's words, and turned to disdain for Alex, and said: "You don't really believe that kid's words." ”
"It's not that his words make me believe," Viscount Eric shook his head, "but that his words prove that what happened to me is not unique. ”
"What are you talking about?"
Looking at Knox, who still didn't believe it, Viscount Eric pointed to his left eye: "I also had a dream, and the price is my left eye, which is no longer visible." Although the process is a little different from that of the soldier named Alez, it is also true, those sixty people are afraid that they all died like this. ”
"This ......" Knox seemed to be a little unacceptable, and stayed where he was for a while. Seeing this, Viscount Eric sighed: "I trust you, Knox, and you should trust me too." But it's not easy to accept this, and I don't force it, you'd better go back and be quiet. ”
"Good lord" Knox regained his expression and half-knelt to Viscount Eric once again saluted his allegiance: "Thank you for trusting me so much, my loyalty to you will never change." I'll step back first. ”
When Knox left, Viscount Eric looked at the deep water and let out a long sigh: "At the end of this vast sea, there is an inexhaustible wealth or a devil's cave of sin." ”
At this moment, Bourcho, the internal affairs officer, and two knightly officers hurried towards the viscount.
"What's the matter, so flustered?"
The shortage of supplies not only worries Eric, but even the face of Bourcho, the internal affairs officer, is a little annoying. Seeing that Viscount Eric's face was not very good, Bourcho hurriedly smiled, but mixed with the eager look, added a bit of comical to the fat face.
"No...... Oh no, Lord Eric" The fat Bourcho gasped, but hurriedly said to Eric: "The group, the untouchables have rebelled"
"What!" Viscount Eric couldn't stand still, and hurriedly asked, "What happened, and how big is it?"
"Someone encouraged the untouchables, saying, 'The conquest of the sea is blasphemous, and the gods have sent down a plague to punish us for blasphemy, and if we turn back, everything can be avoided,' even if we taught them that they could not return to land before the storm,' and they did not believe it, even if we taught them that they could not return to land before the storm," said Bourcho with an anxious look at the viscount.
They also said...... He also said......"
"What else do you say, if you spit it out, I'll hang you on the mast!" Eric yelled impatiently.
"They also say, you ...... You are the reincarnation of the devil, who specializes in eating people's souls, and those sixty people died mysteriously because you ate their souls. Bourcho was so frightened by Eric that he hurriedly spoke, and said with tears in his voice: "They are still going to sacrifice you to the sea."
Viscount Eric's face twitched, resisting the urge to slap the broom star, suppressed his anger and said, "What about the scale, how many people participated in this rebellion?"
"It is estimated that there are more than a thousand people, not counting the sick, many of them want to kill you" Bourcho hurriedly replied: "There are all ships on them, and there are already two capital ships that have been completely controlled by them, and the heads of the knight officers on top have been removed, Jin Yan is okay, the rebellion has been suppressed, but the situation of the other ships is worrying." ”
"How is it possible, a group of untrained peasants, the total number of which is only two or three thousand, how can it be easy to break up the troops commanded by the knights," Eric roared angrily, "Could it be that those knights are all waste bales?"
"My lord, you don't know, those rebels followed like a demon, one by one, the sailors and militia on our side are not opponents at all, and when they fight, they will defect in large numbers" Seeing that Eric was angry, Bourcho hurriedly explained.
"Evil ......" Eric seemed to have some eyebrows in his heart, but before he could think about it, a fierce cannon sound came, and the enemy ship opened fire. With a "bang", the hull of the "Golden Swallow" shook ------ was unlucky enough to be hit by a shell. Fortunately, the location was not accurate, and although a few people were killed, there was no water in the hull.
"Damn it!" Eric cursed bitterly, and before he had time to think about it, beckoned the two knights to rush to the command post. As for the fat Bourcho, let him fend for himself.
Naturally, the "Golden Swallow" would not sit still, and Eric, who hurried to the command post, hurriedly gave the order and ordered the artillery to fire at the controlled capital ship. The guns continued to roar, and the other warships seemed to have received orders, but all the guns that could be controlled opened fire on the other ships, and for a moment the battle was inextricable, and several small ships were immediately sunk and interrupted.
The sheer size and numerous decorations of the "Golden Swallow" made it a worthy target, and from time to time shells hit the hull, causing a jolt or killing several people.
But whether it was the insane rebels or the Imperial troops desperately fighting back, no one noticed that in the distance, a gloomy cloud was rushing towards the battlefield with a huge wave.