The Turning Gears Chapter 32: The Journey (1)

Lin Moyang leaned on the guardrail on the deck, the white sails swayed overhead, the whole ship rose and fell in the undulating waves, and the keel of the whole ship creaked, making people worry about whether the broken ship would fall apart at any time.

"I said, why should we take a sailboat, it's too shaky. Lin Moyang looked at the undulating waves, his stomach was turning over the river and the sea, and he had basically spent the past few days in the cycle of seasickness, vomiting, and seasickness.

"Because there are only 60 days a year to the Tristan da Cunha Islands, we have to take other routes, and if it were a private jet, it would be too ostentatious. Green leaned beside Lin Moyang, and he handed over a glass bottle with an apologetic face, "Take a sip?" I heard from the crew that they would have a little liquor when they were seasick, which would help overcome it." ”

Lin Moyang waved his hand to refuse Green's kindness, and his stomach was now like 10,000 live loaches, rolling in it and bubbling out. Lin Moyang had never been on a boat before, and he didn't know that seasickness felt so uncomfortable, and now he would rather fly in the sky than swim in the sea.

"I have to say that, then there must be some truth in it, why don't you give it a try? really, just a little?" Green looked at Lin Moyang's sad expression and brought the wine bottle over again.

Lin Moyang was now sick all over his body, and he was washed away by the smell of this spirit, and his whole person felt bad.

"Forget it, Grimm, you've been deceived again. Taylor tucked her hair, tossed by the sea breeze, and the Indian girl snorted coldly. "How could this crew have a seasick moment. Since they don't get seasick, how can there be such a thing as relying on spirits to relieve the symptoms of seasickness. ”

Green scratched his head and replied embarrassedly, "It seems that this is really the case, these seafarers are really dishonest." ”

Lin Moyang turned around and faced the sea, trying to breathe in the salty sea breeze, trying to try to stick his head out of the dizzy mess, but after a little movement, he almost vomited again.

Taylor patted Lin Moyang on the back, and she said faintly: "Moyang hasn't eaten for several days, and I don't know how long I can last with drinking water and fruit alone." ”

Lin Moyang retched a few times, but there was really nothing in his stomach that he could vomit, he gasped, and his face was getting paler and paler.

Since going to sea, Lin Moyang has only discovered a very serious thing in his life in the past few days, there is no gas in the sea, probably because the middle of the sea is not a place where human civilization lives, the gas here is as thin as oxygen on the peak of 10,000 meters, and as the sailboat advances in the sea, the content of gas is getting thinner and thinner, Lin Moyang has a very bad premonition, if there are not enough Chinese on this Tristan da Cunha island, then there is no place to replenish gas there? The reason why Lin Moyang vomits like a grandson now is mostly because he doesn't dare to use the qi in his body to relieve the symptoms of seasickness.

"Haven't your Excellency's symptoms lessened?" a rough male voice came from behind the three of them, like the murmur of a blue whale immersed in the deep sea, and like a lemon soaked in sea salt. A pair of arms that were blown rough by the sea breeze wrapped their arms around Lin Moyang's shoulders and patted him on the back very affectionately.

Green apologized apologetically to the man with thick arms and rough skin: "I'm sorry, this person seems to be too sensitive to boating, and his symptoms have not been relieved much." ”

The man straightened the white hat on his head, took out a ceramic pipe from his arms, struck a match and lit the pipe, and took a deep breath, the white smoke that he spit out was quickly dispersed by the fierce sea breeze. "It doesn't matter, there are wizards like this once in a while, we're all used to it. ”

"Sorry to spit on your precious boat. Lin Moyang tried to squeeze out a softer smile from his ugly face, but it didn't look much better than crying.

"It doesn't matter, seasickness is normal, and if anyone doesn't get seasick, it only proves that the sea really likes him. The big man took a puff of his pipe, and a sunset smile appeared on the face of the weather-beaten tough guy, "There are no taboos on the ship of the sea breaker, we are the darlings of the sea." ”

Lin Moyang patted his numb face: "Thanks to you, otherwise we wouldn't know how to carry out the task." ”

"Yes, allow us once again to thank the seabreakers, Captain Wei. Green reached out to the man.

The captain known as Wei straightened his hat, and the man who had been turned into a sculpture by the sea breeze rubbed his hands embarrassedly, he stretched out his big hand and shook it with Green, and said with a smile: "Don't say that, the Round Table Council and the Sea Breakers have always been allies, and I just follow the orders from above to do my own thing." ”

"But I'll send you to the offshore sea at most, and the seabreakers are never within 10 kilometers of the coast except for their own bases, so you should have already arranged for someone to pick you up, right?" asked Captain Wei, taking another puff of his pipe.

Green nodded: "It's already arranged, and someone will come to pick you up when you get to the designated sea area." ”

Captain Wei snorted, indicating that he heard it, he frowned and glanced at Lin Moyang, and took out a small glass bottle from his arms: "If it's really uncomfortable, try this." ”

He handed the glass bottle to Green and explained: "This is the purest sea salt, the treasure of the sea breaker, which can enhance the human affinity for the sea, we believe that seasickness is due to the lack of human and sea compatibility, this sea salt is generally used in the ritual of the sea breaker, it should help the teenager's symptoms, use it with your fingers to dip a little." "Read a book with a quick eye

Green picked up the glass bottle and thanked him, he opened the lid of the glass bottle, and it was filled with snow-white crystals, which were really pure sea salt. "Sueyang, you try?"

Lin Moyang stretched out a finger and dipped it in a little sea salt, and then he asked helplessly, "And then?"

Captain Wei showed a row of bright teeth, under the high-intensity ultraviolet radiation, this captain was a little black, it seemed that his teeth were particularly fair, not at all like a perennial smoker, he smiled: "Then apply this salt to your temples, and then close your eyes and pray for the mercy of the sea, and the sea will be close to you and accept you." ”

Hearing this, Lin Moyang smeared these delicate sea salts on his temples, but except for being a little greasy, the disgusting feeling still did not subside. He shook his head and told Captain Wei that it didn't work.

Captain Wei spread his hands with his pipe in his mouth: "Then there is no way, it shouldn't be." ”

Lin Moyang handed the bottle back to Captain Wei, and Captain Wei carefully hid the bottle, looking at his cautious appearance, the sea salt contained in it seemed to be really precious.

"Well, maybe my constitution is quite special, and most of the magic items don't work particularly well on me. Let me blow the wind. Lin Moyang smiled, as an inland resident, his dream was to see the sea with his own eyes and look at the endless sea level, but now he is almost lying on the side of the boat, and he is really not in the mood to enjoy this refreshing beauty. He has been on his knees and crawling on the deck and in the cabin for the past few days, lying on the ground and finding a place to vomit.

"It's amazing. Captain Wei muttered, and he took out the precious sea salt with a painful feeling, this sea salt is called the tear of the mother within the sea breaker, it is a precious token and ritual object, it is easy to let people take it out, only the captain of each ship will carry it, and the legend says that as long as there is the tears of the mother of the sea, then the ship can find its way home. But this is the first time Captain Wei has seen a human whose motherly tears have been ineffective. But the sea never rejected any of her children, and all the creatures on earth were her children, and the first life originated from the sea.

"Why didn't you see that Lady of the Blood Clan?" Green patted Lin Moyang on the shoulder, hoping that he would be able to divert his attention, so that he might feel better.

"Ah, she said she was afraid that her skin would get tanned, so she didn't go up to the deck, and stayed in the cabin below. Lin Moyang wanted to laugh when he recalled Liliel, the three generations of the dignified blood clan, before getting on the boat, he shouted and shouted, saying that the blood clan could not pass through the moving waters, but a group of people really coaxed and deceived her in order to get her on the boat, this guy got on the boat in fear, but there was no, this girl is still not very suitable for her new human identity, and some places can't turn around, for example, this guy now has to eat two portions a day, and he drools when he sees anything.

"Anyway, this blood lady is really curious, she seems to be hungry all the time, according to her food, our food reserves are really not enough, I have asked three sailors to go to the bow of the boat every day to fish, good guy, yesterday the girl ate two squid with mayonnaise alone, just like sucking noodles!" Captain Wei joked jokingly, Liliel also brought a beautiful scenery to these sailors, the sea breakers are very traditional, although they have no taboos on riding the wind and waves on the sea, but many of them are descendants of former pirates, so it is rare to see women on the ship, especially such a beautiful woman. "It's whether she's hungry very fast, and sometimes the sailors always see her drooling and looking at our sailors, and she keeps saying things like patience. Some of our sailors were afraid to walk alone outside her cabin, lest she suck her blood. ”

Oh no, this shouldn't be her bloodthirst, right? She's just hungry for the bodies of these fierce sailors outside the door. Lin Moyang showed a meaningful smile that only he knew. This dream demon really can't change this, and now she is a normal human woman, and her psychological habits still haven't had time to change, and she drools when she sees a man.

Thinking of this, Lin Moyang couldn't help but sneer, I don't know if it's because Brother Fenglong is not good at learning, the seal of the ancestor of the ancestor can not only restore the human body of the eldest sister of the silver wind, but also retain the ability of the blood clan, the seal of the Fenglong is good, and it completely turns Liliel into an ordinary human girl. However, Lin Moyang is still very grateful to his big brother Fenglong, who talks a lot and is usually very unreliable, he not only saved the students, but also lifted Moira's curse and Liliel's curse. I just don't know how he did it without anger.

"Have a good rest, we will be at the designated place in about a day, and we will find a way to get a good meal tonight, do you want to taste the sea that you don't normally taste, such as whales or sharks?" asked Captain Wei, smoking his pipe.

"Eh, aren't sharks and whales all protected animals?" Lin Moyang was furious at the thought of these huge animals, and he now suspected that he might still have a phobia of the deep sea.

"The Seabreakers do not belong to any international organization, the laws of all international organizations are not in force against them, they only follow the precepts of ocean currents, which is the internal code of the Seabreakers. "Taylor, as the most rational person in this group, is now responsible for the work of eradicating the literacy of Lin Moyang, a common sense idiot, and she only learned a few days ago that His Excellency Lin Moyang, who has explosive combat effectiveness, is simply an idiot in terms of common sense in the wizarding world, and I don't know if he has undergone some closed special training that has not seen the light of day since he was a child.

"Yes, the current precept only requires us not to kill marine animals indiscriminately, and it does not distinguish between protected animals. By the way, has this little lord heard of the legend of the Eskimos?" Captain Wei took a puff of his pipe, and he closed his eyes beautifully, when Lin Moyang noticed that the burning thing in the pipe was different from the tobacco he had seen the old people used to smoke, and more like something after the seaweed had been dried.

"I don't know, I just know that the Eskimos seem to be a people who eat raw meat, living in the Arctic. Lin Moyang remembered that he had watched a wilderness survival show before, and a retired special forces soldier surnamed Bei once introduced Eskimos as people who eat raw meat, and he didn't know much about the rest.

Captain Wei took a puff of his pipe, and he smiled: "That's right, the Inuit are also called Eskimos, which does mean people who eat raw meat, but don't call them that in front of them, they will be unhappy, and you should call them Inuit." There is an interesting myth about them, which is that when the Biblical Flood occurred, the Inuit did not board the Noah's Ark of salvation, but took their own boat to drift through the flood full of water, and just when the ancestors of the Inuit were about to starve to death, a bowhead whale swam to these hungry people and volunteered to give its body to the ancestors of the Inuit, and the Inuit survived the difficulties with the help of whales, and finally landed on land, and since this contract was made, every spring, the bowhead whales come to the North Pole to provide food for the Inuit。 And the Inuit will worship the whale as a savior because of the whale's good deeds, and the Inuit will only hunt whales for their own living needs, and every whale hunt will have a grand and solemn ceremony. Captain Wei's beard shook up and down as his lips went, "Of course, this story is just a myth of their own people derived from the Bible by the Inuit, but their respect for whales is real." ”

"It is the same with the Sea Breakers, who are rumored to be sons and daughters of the sea, pirates, exiled navies, descendants of the ancient sea priests, all abandoned by the human world on land, who have found their home in the sea. In their own way, they appease the anger of the ocean and maintain the balance of the marine ecology. This is their pact with the sea, many of whom will never set foot on the mainland, hiding in their own ships and on the unclaimed islands scattered in the ocean. They made a pact with the sea, and many of the sea creatures who had died would swim to the island of the Sea Breaker and dedicate their bodies to the Sea Breaker, who called it the gift of the sea. The original sea breakers also relied on the love of the sea to gain a firm foothold in the vast sea. Taylor seemed familiar with the legend of the Seabreaker, she added.

"Hahaha, that's right, we do have the spell to be able to communicate with the sea creatures, and the sea creatures also remember our ship and breath, of course, the sea is unconscious, but we still regard the sea as a mother, when we are abandoned by humans, when we are not recognized by any country, when we are not allowed to set foot on the land of any country, it is the sea that accepts us with her big heart. But ma'am, why do you know our traditions so well?" said Captain Wei, who made a sound like a flag waving in the sea breeze, with the smell of the salty sea.

"I am a descendant of shamans, following the ancient shamanic ways, my ancestors once went to war with the Inuit and drove the Inuit all the way into the Arctic Circle, and then my ancestors did not expect the same massacre to happen to them, we were destroyed by the colonizers from the West, and at that time we reached a reconciliation with the Inuit, and the shamans brought animistic beliefs and shamanic traditions to the Inuit, and then in the communication with the Inuit, we learned of your existence. Taylor blinked, "The Inuit legend is true, but it's not the gods who send the whales, it's you, the Sea Breakers who have mercy on the Inuit who are also desperate, communicate with the aging sea creatures, provide food for the Inuit, and then every year you will secretly trade with the Inuit to buy some land specialties or shamanic witchcraft products that are difficult to find in the ocean." Every year, an Inuit caravan travels south with pearls and precious seal skins to trade in large quantities of produce. I guess behind this caravan are you seabreakers. ”

Captain Wei rubbed his nose embarrassedly: "After all, the territory of our seabreakers is very small, and the small islands and ice fields cannot be said to be abundant, but we have all sworn never to set foot on the land of other countries, so we can only rely on the Inuit to help us trade." They are also poor people who have been persecuted by humans and have lost their foothold, except that it is the glaciers, not the oceans, that have taken them in. ”