125 - In the Mist (Part II)
Pease didn't see anything, but he thought he did.
As the ship had just entered the fog, he was standing behind Will, and he looked ahead, as if another figure had appeared in front of him, beckoning to him, and Pease did not dare to move, because the scene was so terrifying. But at this moment, he was suddenly slapped on the shoulder, and Pease couldn't help but scream.
Only then did I realize that I was standing at the bow of the boat, and as long as I took two or three steps forward, I would fold down from the bow. Pease is small, but he is not stupid, on the contrary, Pease is much more mature than the average child. He knew that he was in danger now, that something must be watching him in the mist, like the man named Lorenzo.
The ship was still sailing forward, "Captain, have we been walking in a straight line since we came in?" Boris asked suddenly.
"If you look at the movement of the current, we are not yawing, it is a straight line." Hierro was adamant that he had been observing the currents on both sides, which an old captain knew very well, even if he hadn't sailed a boat for a long time, but he would never forget them.
"But the star I set up beyond the fog...... And not in the back of the hull, but on the sides of the hull...... Captain Hiero, it's not that I doubt your skill, but that we may have been led by the fog and have strayed from the right course. Boreth sensed the sign he had set up, and the sense came from the side of the ship, and if they were going straight ahead, it should have come from the back of the ship.
Hierro's brows furrowed, "No, this is absolutely impossible, I have memorized the movement of the ocean current since before I entered the fog, and it would be fine if I didn't see the current, but watching the ocean flow forward, even if the fog is so thick that I can't see my fingers, the sea will not deceive me, and the sea will not deceive me." High priest, I am convinced, that we are going in a straight line, and there is absolutely no deviation. ”
The scene was at a stalemate, and Wille listened to it, remembering what the Elder Fishmen had said before they set off, "If you follow this current, you will definitely reach the reef where the King Octopus is located, but now that the fog has blocked the view and the sea, we Fishmen can't see the route in the fog clearly, and you may have a way, but you must be careful, because this fog is very strange, and sometimes, what you see with your eyes is not necessarily real." ”
Thinking of this, Wille interrupted. "Captain Hierro, I trust Boreth's judgment that Starlight's beacon should not be wrong......"
"No way, boy, the direction of the water is the same as it was before I first entered here, and there is absolutely no problem with my direction."
"But Captain Hierro, Boris blew the fog away some time after we entered it, and perhaps, by that time, we had already gone aside?"
"The sea ...... in such a short time" Hierro, who was just about to argue, suddenly froze, anyway, he did not see the current for a while, although it was very short, but Hierro looked at Pease standing behind Weel...... "Well, maybe I was confused...... High priest, can you point out your mark? ”
"Okay." Boreth nodded at Veil, and the light of his other hand radiated like star-sand, drawing a galaxy-like path of light in the air, slowly swinging along the side of the ship into the sea.
Hierro looked at the ribbon of light with a solemn look, lifted the rudder in his hand lightly, and as if he had made up his mind, he turned the rudder and sailed in the opposite direction of the light path.
"The currents still haven't changed......" Will looked to the side, still unable to see any signs of the currents under the boat.
"No, there are changes...... While we haven't traveled too far, we can go back to the original course. High Priest, I think it is possible that your star has been misled, it is always easier to change the magic than to change the nature......" Hierro frowned and looked at the current under the ship, there were some changes in the subtleties, is there some water that does not belong to the hull of the water splash coming out from the side.
"I don't feel that my magic is disturbed, and I don't know if I can interfere with other people's abilities, but it is much more difficult to interfere with my magic than to interfere with nature......" Bo Ruisi also said unceremoniously.
"Hahaha! Well, sure enough, it's the high priest. Anyway, I think I've not sailed for decades, and even my guts have become smaller, no matter if it's right or wrong, I can handle anything I see! Hierro laughed.
The ship, just like that, turned around in the fog and headed in another course.
The fog is getting heavier and heavier.
After sailing for a long time, "High Priest, there is a reef ahead. Hierro spoke up suddenly.
"It's okay, captain, you keep sailing, I'll take care of the reef business. Just try to avoid large reefs. As he spoke, Bo Ruisi squatted down and pressed his hand on the deck, and a wave of magic power spread to the bottom of the ship, spreading a layer of light on the bottom of the ship, and after the small reef under the water touched, the tips of the stones touched were cut flat.
"Hmm." Hierro gently turned the rudder, and the hull of the ship turned in a tortuous path through the sea.
Veil looked around and saw that it was foggy, and he had no idea where the reef was. But in a short time, Weir noticed that on both sides of the ship, there were dark shadows that looked like reefs.
And their boats, on the path between these reefs, shuttled.
"I'm going to ~ so powerful." Wiel just wanted to admire Hierro's boatmanship.
Suddenly, Hierro quickly grabbed Wiel's hand and put him on the rudder, and Wiel realized that this was the "emergency brake" signal they had discussed when they were preparing, and without thinking too much, Wiel quickly silently recited in his mind, "Stop!" "The back of the hand flashed, and the lines on the rudder went on and off.
The boat slowly came to a halt on the water.
"What's wrong?" Weir asked, confused.
"There's something up ahead, it's a big guy, it doesn't feel like a reef."
"Listen, Will, what is that sound?" Behind him, Pease tugged at Vere's clothes and signaled that he heard something. "Huh?"
Everyone held their breath and listened.
"Squeak ~ Empty Knock Knock ~ Squeak Quack~" is the sound of wood rotting and twisting, and it is an eerie sound made when bearing weight.
"There's no reef down there?" "Nope." Boreth dissipated his magic, stood up from the ground, and gently wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Lift up a bright cluster of light. "The light of the sacred tree! Illuminate it! Boris sighed softly, and the light in his hand seemed to turn into twinkling stars, blowing away a large area of dense fog around him.
In front of everyone's eyes, a shadow appeared, standing and rocking on the water in front of the bow of the ship.
It was — a wooden boat.
"Pilot ship?" Hierro looked up at the wooden boat and muttered.