620. The gift of fate

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the wind on the sea was getting stronger.

Kikika came out of the cabin and pulled the rope from the mast, trying to lower the sails, which were blown up by the wind.

With such large winds and waves, without a sufficient number of experienced sailors, it is not easy to control a brig. He had to lower the sails, at least one side.

The ship was picked up by Kikika at sea.

He used to work as a private tour guide on the island of Tubuai, relying on simple conversations in several languages, and his business was not bad, and tourists often tipped him to drive around the ring road or take them to rent a boat.

However, after that magical transient amnesia, everything changed.

He received two strange groups of guests that day, both a man and a woman, and he had no memory of what they looked like or what happened afterward.

All he remembered was that he had taken them to the taboo of Tabu, while he was unconscious in the woods on the edge of Tab.

Later, I don't know what happened, the situation in the entire Tubuai Islands, Bass Islands, and even the Cook Islands suddenly became tense, and the warships of many countries began to cruise here, and there was the roar of warplanes flying in the sky from time to time, and it was said that the aircraft carriers of two major powers were facing each other in the Pacific basin in the south.

Fewer and fewer tourists came to Tubuai, and his business plummeted.

He was going to do something else for a living, but what else could he do on such an island besides tourism and fishing?

Tourism is declining, and fishing is hard.

As a child, he often went to sea with his father, and in addition to the unbearable conditions on board, he had to face the threat of death at any time. When the storm comes, whether or not you can survive in the vast sea can only depend on the face of the god Avaiki.

Kikika's second uncle was the best at doing this on the island, and his car was knocked out by his second uncle, but the second uncle eventually died in the storm, and the wealth accumulated from decades of fishing cheapened the Hawaiian mistress.

Kikika lived in a state of confusion and hesitation on a barren island, and soon after married a local girl with the help of her elders, and gave birth to their child a year later.

His savings were quickly spent, and he sold the car his second uncle had given him, but he was still waiting outside the Mataora airport, trying to wait for one or two generous tourists to earn a little money for the child's milk powder from them.

What made Kikika finally decide to go to sea was the excavation of two corpses in the woods. The place where the body was buried was the same place where he had been unconscious.

Although a long time has passed and the bodies have decomposed, the police still found out the identities of two people, a man and a woman. Kikika concluded that the two men were one of the two pairs of tourists he had received that day.

The police did not suspect Kikika, but targeted Petru, who once lived at the mouth of the harbor behind the taboo of Tab.

Kikika also thinks that Petro did this, because the red-bearded strange man has been rumored all kinds of strange things since he arrived on the island of Tubuai. Some say he's a pirate, some say he's wanted, and others he's a terrorist. He had a brig, much like the pirate ships of the Middle Ages. The harbor where he docked was so dense with reefs that even the natives of the island did not dare to stay there too long.

The most important thing is that since the day Kikika fell unconscious, this strange man left the island of Tubuai and never returned.

The police put up a bounty and demanded clues from the islanders. The money was tempting, but Kikika didn't dare to take it. He always felt that this matter was evil, and it was not good for him to say it, so it was better to pretend not to know. What if Redbeard comes back for revenge in the future? Although he can't actually provide any more valuable clues.

He finally decided to go to sea.

Borrowed some money and rented a small fishing boat. The Tubuai people generally use such small boats to fish in the nearby waters, and although the harvest is not as good as those of the big fishing boats, it is enough to provide food and clothing.

Kikika didn't want to make such a fuss in the near sea, he wanted to go further, on the one hand, he wanted to return with a full load, and when he returned home, he would give the woman and children who stayed at home a full surprise; On the other hand, he was also running away, although he didn't know what he was running away, as if he could be safer if he walked farther.

Then he saw the brig, drifting like a ghost on the dead sea.

He felt that fate had choked his neck, and with fear, the ghost sent the god to get on the brig.

There was no one on the ship, and there was dust everywhere.

After two days of waiting on the ship as if waiting for trial, and still not waiting for Redbeard to appear, Kikika finally determined that it was not a joke played by fate, but a gift from Avaiki.

That Redbeard must be dead.

The interior of the ship is not as old as it seems, but rather surprisingly luxurious. The cabin was filled with weapons and supplies, and even a whole box of dollar bills.

Kikika had thought about carrying the dollar bills home on his boat, and with this money, he could make the happiest life for the rest of his life for the woman and her children. But greed prevailed over everything, and he finally decided to sail the big ship back and find a place to hide. Even if there is no way to dispose of the arms inside, you can dispose of the other supplies on the ship, which is a lot of money.

Just as he was walking home with the helm in his hand, whistling and looking forward to a better life in the future, a strong wind suddenly blew on the originally calm sea.

Large clouds gathered in the sky, obscuring the sun. The water was so turbulent that the boat, which was not too large, became uncertain.

Kikika knew that a storm was coming, but there was no warning, much to the horror of his island background.

To maneuver such a brig in a storm, it would have required at least ten or more sailors to control the sails and keep the hull steady, and now he was the only one who had to lower the sails and balance only with the rudder.

He had scarcely untied the first mast when he saw a huge wave coming.

Kikika had never seen such a big wave, bigger than the largest mountain he had ever seen.

The waves lifted the bow of the ship at an almost vertical angle, slowly rising all the way up into the sky. Kikika clung to the mast so that she didn't fall.

When the hull of the ship was pushed to the highest point, Kikika felt like she could reach out and touch the clouds in the sky. Those clouds spread all the way to a far, far away, over the vast expanse of the sea, forming a huge wheal.

Kikika knew she might be finished. Living on a Pacific island all year round, he certainly recognizes that this is no ordinary storm, but a severe tropical cyclone, commonly known as a hurricane.

The wind is getting stronger and stronger, and the sailboat swings like a kite in the air for a long time.

Torrential rain poured down.

Standing at the top of the waves, Kikika could see a huge whirlpool appear on the surface of the sea ahead, and his ship was on the edge of one side of the whirlpool.

There was a dark shadow in the center of the whirlpool, and it was impossible to tell what it was in the storm, but it was certain that it was not a reef, because the shape of the reef could not be so angular.

The waves fell, the ship nearly flipped over, and Kikika felt the blood flow to her brain, but he also saw the shape of the dark shadow because of thisโ€”

It was a pyramid.

Yes, that's right, it's the pyramids. If he hadn't been standing upside down at the moment, he wouldn't have been able to see it. In other words, the pyramid was also originally upside down.

Then, the pyramid suddenly emitted a dazzling light, like a nuclear bomb exploding, and exploded with a bang.

Kikika felt like her body had vanished in the nuclear explosion, leaving only a cloud of consciousness. Consciousness spreads with the force of a nuclear explosion far, far away.

He saw his wife holding her baby in her arms, standing on the brown reef by the sea looking into the distance, waiting for her husband to return with a full load.

For the first time, he felt that his wife's eyes were so beautiful......