The ban on the port system is still ongoing, the price of fish continues to soar, on the island of Sicily, the price of a salted fish is actually several times more than mutton, and a live fresh sea fish is comparable to the sky-high price, is a precious material that money cannot buy.

Tempted by money, some fishermen have taken risks and secretly sailed from the beach in small boats to catch some marine fish.

Rambo gives enough food and other jobs, and they can have enough food, but unfortunately their stomachs can be filled, and human greed is a gully that can never be filled.

A fresh fish is equal to the harvest of a day's work in the past, and a boatload of fish can be exchanged for a cow.

Ignorance is like that, pitiful, hateful.

In the northwestern corner of Sicily, there is a small village called Cape Milazzo. The terrain looks like a long horn jutting out of Sicily, and the village is surrounded by the sea, where even children are skilled in boating and swimming, and adults are mainly fishermen who make a living.

During the lockdown, a small group of soldiers was stationed here to monitor the situation in the village and prevent anyone from sneaking out to sea.

Twelve Imperial soldiers supervising a village with only a hundred people is just a simple small task, usually such a task with one soldier is enough to complete the supervision, now is a special moment, increasing to twelve is naturally more than enough.

However, the main target of these soldiers was to focus on the adult fishermen, and inadvertently to ignore the children who were not yet twelve years old and had not yet developed their physical strength.

They underestimate the children's ability and courage, but also overestimate the children's judgment and vision. When a twelve-year-old learns the news of the soaring price of fish, all he can think of is the dazzling gold coins he gets from fresh fish, and the compliments he might get when he gives them to his parents.

In particular, the supervision of the soldiers brought a different kind of excitement to the incident, which led to even more pleasant pleasures, so that the three children, Tom, Saul and Cruise, who were just taller than the water tank, secretly made a plan to secretly go out to sea to fish.

The boats in the village were so tightly controlled that they couldn't get their hands on even the smallest monorail, so Tom the clever suggested that he make a raft out of the trunks of the small trees in the bushes south of the village, and Thor, who had no opinion, gladly agreed, and fetched an axe and rope from his house.

Cruise, sturdy as a calf, could cut down a small tree in an hour, and three days later, a simple raft tied with a dozen trunks and ropes appeared in front of the three of them.

They found sturdy barrels from the village and tied them to the sides of the raft to increase welfare, and stole three oars that were not very tightly controlled, and quietly slipped out of the village and rowed out of the harbor on a quiet night when the stars were sparse.

Cruise, the least watery of the three, was able to swim in the sea for a full three hours, and all kinds of strange undercurrents in the sea could not stop them at all, and soon the raft was driven by a strong offshore current, and quickly sailed into the vast sea.

Thor was very bold when he went out to sea, and after being away from land for a long time, he developed an irrepressible sense of fear, especially since the village had recently spread the terrifying legend of a man-eating monster on the sea, which added to his fear.

Tom saw that Thor was not in good shape, so he suddenly spoke in a strange tone, "Hey, Thor, Cruise, do you know the legend of the ghost ship of the seas. ”

As soon as he heard Tom's strange tone, Thor was already panicking, and he hurriedly said, "Tom, we don't know, and we don't want to know, let's concentrate on rowing and fishing, and don't forget the purpose of our coming." ”

Cruise, however, gave Thor a blank look, looked at Tom with interest and said, "I haven't heard of it, Tom, you tell me, I really want to hear it." ”

Tom had said this to scare Thor, but he didn't expect Cruise to be so cooperative, and he immediately continued: "Hey, hey, it's said that there are ships that never dock on the sea, full of treasures that can blind you, and the cabins are full of shining gold coins, and the decks are full of gems and pearls the size of eggs, and even the masts that hold up the sails are carved from thick and long ivory. ”

Listening to Tom's narration, Cruise's eyes showed a look of fascination, but Thor shouted in a sharp voice: "You liar, how can there be such a big tusk, if it is real, how big the elephant should be." Besides, if there really was such a ship, it would have been taken away by those nobles a long time ago, how could it be our turn. ”

Tom smiled contemptuously as if he expected Thor to say this, looked at Thor condescendingly and said, "Hey, fool, have you forgotten the name of that ship?" No one can take the treasure from that ship. Because the owner of the ship is not a human being, but a ...... Terrible ghosts!! ”

With the last half of the sentence, Tom's voice rose sharply, mimicking the terrible howl of a ghost, and he cried out loudly.

Thor screamed in panic, tears already rolling in his eyes. Cruise was also stunned, and his expression became a little apprehensive.

Tom laughed unscrupulously, clutching his stomach and saying, "Hahaha, look at you fools, I lied to you, there are no ghost ships, those are all lies made up by adults, trying to scare us and prevent us from going to sea." ”

At this moment, there was a sudden hollow crash on the side of the raft, and the sound sounded like a ship had crashed into their raft. The raft shook violently suddenly, and the feeling of being hit was very strong.

"Ahhh The ghost ship is coming! Thor was so frightened that he almost broke down, and he screamed desperately, even trying to jump directly from the boat into the sea and swim to escape.

Cruise was a little unsteady from the violent shaking, but he still grabbed Thor by the belt and grabbed him under him with a hard tug to prevent him from making a fool of himself and jumping into the water.

Tom's face was also a little pale, as if he had been frightened, and he clenched the oars with both hands, and said in a rather annoyed manner, "Don't make any noise, I'll go and see what it is!" ”

Tom was the most authoritative of the three, and as soon as he heard that he was angry, Thor immediately closed his mouth and stopped screaming, while Cruise looked up at the direction Tom was facing, and he wondered what had just hit the raft.

Tom cautiously walked forward, holding his oar aloft like a warrior about to fight, and walked towards the rear.