Episode 281 Drifting Bottle
After seeing Elizabeth off, Donk focused on finding Zela, but it was difficult to hear from the fish-people on the shore. After careful consideration, he decided to go to sea first. When he reached the sea, he recruited a few Naga fish people and made the "mentai fish" he had recruited last time their captain.
"Ming Taiyu" has made great contributions in the battle of the turbulent sea, and it is not an exaggeration to be a small leader.
Donk sent all the fishmen out to the bottom of the ocean to find out about Zela. Fish-people have no defense against their own kind, and it is easy for them to find out the news.
The shore and the bottom of the sea have been inseparable since ancient times, as if they were two different worlds. The ashore races confuse sea monsters with sea beasts, treating them as beasts rather than sapient races. The Sea Beasts also have no interest in the shore, and with the exception of a few amphibians, most of them are unable to live on the shore, and naturally regard them as useless places.
There is an insurmountable chasm between the two sides, and little is known about each other. What is widely spread on the shore may not be known to anyone when it reaches the bottom of the sea. The famous sea beast warriors at the bottom of the sea will only be regarded as nameless monsters on the shore.
It was only in recent years that the situation improved, and the sea beasts and the shore races gradually strengthened their ties and began to communicate with each other. The reason for this beautiful thing is naturally the cause of interests. There are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests.
All kinds of scarce resources on the shore may be everywhere at the bottom of the sea. Blade armor that cannot be made at the bottom of the sea is a bargain on the shore. Both sides have their own needs, so they naturally hook up together. Toad Island is a very representative example of a surname, who worked as mercenaries for the Donk, earning commissions and supplies on the shore to improve life on the island. It's not just the Spitter Frog that serves as a sea mercenary for the shore races, other Sea Beasts also do the same thing, such as the Absolute Marlin, the Thunder Emperor Eel, the Bow Fish, and so on.
In the past two years, Tang Ke has encountered many types of sea beasts one after another, and they have been scanned into the system list. It's a pity that he is short on reward points, and he can't recruit hordes of sea beasts, and it's useless to recruit a few of them. However, this state of scarcity is gradually changing, and after he has a territory and a fleet, the reward points begin to increase automatically, and there is a momentum to get bigger and bigger. When his reward points are rich enough, he will organize an outlier special forces. He is more optimistic about the Hawkman Flying Force, which has an absolute advantage over the sea and air, and he has already tasted the sweetness of this advantage through the Cangtian.
The strategy of using the fish-people to find out the news at the bottom of the sea is the right one.
In just five days, the mentaiyu brought important news. Zela had traveled to the Black Sea a few months earlier and has not returned. The news came from a tribe of Naga fishmen, and no one knows why Zela went to the Black Sea.
Donk has set the goal, regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, go to the Black Sea first. During the voyage, it is necessary to continue to send fishmen to find out the news, and there are many tribes of Naga fishmen along the way, so they will definitely be able to find out more accurate information. He must kill Zela this time, because the side effects of the Curse of the Fish are getting stronger. From time to time, his body would seep out of the surface of the inexplicable seawater, which was the first precursor to his transformation into a fish-man.
He acts relaxed on the outside, but in fact he has been worried about the curse of the fish. Whenever he recalls Harold's transformation into a sea monster, cold sweat breaks out on his back. This time to the Black Sea, which stretches for more than 10,000 nautical miles, will take at least a month to reach. In doing so, it pushed him even harder. Counting his fingers, he has been cursed for a year, and in another two years he will completely become a sea monster, and he doesn't want to die like that.
After a few days, the Black Pearl took advantage of the ability of the dark sea to drag two ordinary ships and gallop towards the south.
Donk stood at the bow of the ship, his hair blowing in the wind, his head now empty, thinking nothing, silently staring at the vast expanse of the sea. The sea has an all-encompassing momentum, and it has taken away all his troubles.
Something on the surface of the sea shone brightly, and it was very dazzling.
Shocked by the light, he squinted slightly, and he followed the unusual light and saw a drifting bottle on the surface of the sea.
There are many drifting bottles at sea, containing letters and notes, mostly with blessings, but occasionally there is information about a shipwreck or a warning of an attack. When a sailor encounters a drifting bottle, he will definitely pick it up, firstly, to relieve the loneliness of life at sea, and secondly, he may be able to get useful information.
Tang Ke picked up a coiled rope on the ground, pulled out the Bloody Moon Scimitar with the other hand, and slashed hard at the sea. The sword qi was agitated, shaking a pillar of waves, and the drifting bottle was on the cusp of the storm, bouncing high. He waved the rope again, wrapped the drifting bottle firmly, pulled it to his side, and got the drifting bottle in his hand.
The drifting bottle was only palm-long, and in the transparent bottle, there was a folded piece of pink stationery, and under the protection of the stopper, there was not a drop of water in the bottle.
"Pink letterhead, isn't it some kind of love letter?" Tang Ke laughed, and with a dark force, shattered the glass bottle, took out the letter, and unfolded it to watch.
To my future love.
Such an affectionate title must surprise you, right? Hehe, I really want to see your face when you receive this letter, it must be very exciting. I am not joking, but I mean it and a deep desire.
This is a confession letter, and I hope that through this letter, we can build a bridge between you and me, so that we can come together and know and love each other.
The girl's family should not have said such explicit words, because it was unreserved. But I have tasted enough of loneliness and suffered from loneliness in the closed environment that has accumulated over the years. If I don't do something bold, I'm afraid I'll end up alone in this gorgeous cage.
Everyone is entitled to love, I think so. Even though my circumstances didn't allow me to have love, I wanted to take the plunge. Even if I enjoy love for a day and be an ordinary girl for a day, I will be satisfied. After indulging this time, no matter what misery fate puts me in, I will not cry again, at least I once had.
Although we have never met, I feel that you are the person I have been waiting for for decades. I have fantasized countless times about you, you may be a suave wandering warrior, or a tall and mighty knight of the sea, or a well-read prince and nobleman.
Girls love fantasies, and so do I, and I hope you can fulfill my fantasies, as tall and handsome as I think you are.
I knew it was an extravagant fantasy that would be difficult to fulfill, so I prayed to the unjust Divine every day and every night, that the Divine would grant my wish, only this once.
However, the number of times God has done my way is really small.
In case you are far from what I have in mind, please put this letter back in the bottle and help me throw it at sea, as if nothing had happened. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you. Your act of helping others will surely be blessed by Heaven.
But if you are young, unmarried, healthy, handsome, fully in line with my fantasy of a lover, and have a slight affection for me, you can write back to me through this piece of paper, and I will communicate with you further.
The pen does not move forward.
A girl in a gorgeous cage, Little Fish.
It was written on the 12th day of the solar month in 1746 in the Golden Sea Calendar.
And: This piece of letter paper is called "acacia paper", one or two sheets, as long as you write on one sheet, it will be automatically mapped to the other paper. When the paper is full, just blow and the ink on it will disappear, and you can write repeatedly.
"What is this?" After reading the contents of the letter, Donk couldn't help but laugh dumbly. Is this a girl who is pregnant? Looking at the tone of speech, the text is crepe, and the "gorgeous cage" is also mentioned, it seems that she is still a lady.
Another thing that is strange is that she always calls herself a girl, and what she says has been waiting for decades is a bit contradictory. From this point of view, she must not be a Terran girl, she should be a long-lived race like elves, so she is still a girl when she is dozens of years old.
The writing period is 46 years, a year ago. This drifting bottle drifted across the ocean and fell into the hands of Tang Ke, which can be regarded as a wonderful fate.
As for this kind of acacia paper, Tang Ke has never heard of it, and once he used the investigation technique, he learned that this paper does have the effect of repeated writing and transmission of words, and it is still a small treasure. How can a girl from an ordinary family have such a good thing, which further verifies that the girl who wrote the letter has an extraordinary background.
"Anyway, it's okay to leave the left and right, so let's take your pastime."
Tonk shrugged and returned to the captain's cabin with the pink letterhead, where he blew on it, and the ink drifted away like a puff of black ash. He leaned down in front of the table, pulled out his quill and wrote a reply.
Hello Xiaoyu, I was fortunate enough to pick up this drifting bottle a year after you sent the letter. Perhaps your prayers have been answered by the Divine, and I am the man of your imagination. I'm young, unmarried, healthy, and good-looking, just what you're looking for.
But I'm not a knight, I'm not a nobleman, I'm a pirate leader.
If you are not satisfied with my evil identity, you can write back to me. For your sake, I can help you deliver the letter to a knight or nobleman when he meets him. Well, when I meet these people, they're already my captives, and I hope you don't mind.
A certain pirate leader replied.
Come to think of it, you probably won't be paying attention to this letter that has been sent for a year, so let's save a date. Maybe you'll find some fun in this pirate's reply many years from now.
The golden sea calendar is 1747 on the 18th day of the flower month.
Donk held up the letter and admired his vigorous handwriting, quite satisfied, the pleasure of writing a letter was greater than the pleasure of seeing it.
The time span of this letter is too large, and it is unlikely that there will be a response to it. Donk didn't pay attention to it, closed the letter, pressed it down to the book, and went back to the deck to blow the wind.