Chapter 404: The Iron Beak Eagle
Strangely, the contents of the logbook come to an abrupt end here, and if you look back at the previous content, you can only find this sentence in an early logbook: "The city is rooted in the water mirror".
The Ironbeak Eagle also completely disappeared after entering the water mirror, during which Haiting could repeatedly send people to the sea to find the ship, but every time it sailed in vain.
It wasn't until two years later, when a fleet of ships passed through that area, that a fog rose inexplicably on the sea, and a huge black shadow faintly appeared in the mist.
At that time, the fleet only thought that it was an ordinary shipwrecked ship floating in the inland sea, but when they got close to the ship's shadow, they found that it was the Iron-billed Eagle, which had been missing for 48 years.
The wind howled, and the waves pushed from west to east one after another, but the Ironbeak Eagle seemed to be frozen in the mist, and it was pressed motionless on the sea.
Although the sails had been stowed, it was impossible for the ship to remain motionless in the ever-moving sea.
The men of the fleet boarded the Ironbill Eagle to inspect it, and found that the ship had appeared as if it had just appeared here yesterday, and forty-eight years had passed since everything on board remained in its original state, and the mast and deck had not rotted in the slightest from the moisture, and not even the inkwell in the captain's room had not been shaded.
All the survival supplies on the ship, including food and fresh water, were emptied, and there was not a single person on the ship, but in a wooden box in the deepest part of the cabin, there were three bones.
The anchor did not sink to the bottom either, and the ship was firmly anchored to the surface of the sea without any pulling or traction.
Later, Haiting found someone to perform autopsies on the three skeletons, and found that all three people died forty-eight years ago, which should correspond to the time when the Ironbill Eagle disappeared.
Listening to Fis'er's explanation, I kept imagining the scene when the fleet found the Ironbilled Eagle, and I felt an inexplicable awkwardness in my heart.
It wasn't until he stopped talking that I asked, "Didn't the fleet find the city in that sea?" ”
Fiser shook his head: "The city can only appear in the water mirror, and that water mirror seems to be able to appear only in the long rainy season." ”
"What did the crew do with the Ironbeak?"
"They pulled the boat back, but no one dared to sail it except for that incident, and now it is the personal property of Eros, and it is parked in the harbor of a thousand sails."
I stood up from the bench with a row of knees: "Let's go, go see the boat." ”
"Everything on the ship has been emptied, and if you look at it now, you can only see one hull." Fiser said so, but quickly walked to the door of the bar and pushed it open.
On the way to Qianfan Harbor, I asked Fis'e, "Why did Haiting choose the location of the final test in the Dead City?" ”
A few days ago, I overheard the Bishop's conversation with Blackfire, and the Bishop made it clear that this final test was just a formality, and that no matter how it was tested, only the Brotherhood would pass the test.
Since it was a formality, why did you choose the test site in the dead city?
It wasn't a peaceful place, and if all the people of the Brotherhood were to fold there, wouldn't the Bishop be offended by the Brotherhood?
"The test site was originally chosen on a reef island in the West Sea, until three days ago, when the bishop suddenly changed his mind and chose the location in the city of Death, for unknown reasons. ”
"Of the four teams, which one is the Brotherhood's team?"
Faced with this question, Fiseu shook his head: "At present, I only know that the Oak team should have nothing to do with the Brotherhood, as for the Flying Fish Team and the Sea Worm Team, it's hard to say, these two ships are in contact with the Brotherhood." ”
But why do I think Team Flying Fish is the most suspicious?
"Do you know anything about these fighters on the Exocet?"
"The Exocet is a new ship that appeared only three years ago, from the ordinary crew to the fighters on board, they were all reorganized not long ago, these people have no beautiful records, and second, they don't have enough sailing miles, and no one pays special attention to them."
It is estimated that Fiser also because he couldn't answer several questions in a row, and his heart was a little frizzy, and this time he was embarrassed to say that he didn't know a few fighters of the Exocet, so he talked so much.
I then asked, "Since you're a newcomer, how did you remember to take the final test?" ”
Fiser asked rhetorically, "Aren't you also a newcomer?" In fact, the more newcomers like to take difficult tests, of course, you do have the strength to participate in the final test, but most newcomers participate in this kind of high-level test just because they overestimate their strength. ”
As we spoke, we had turned into a dark alley.
After passing through the dark alley, you will come to a high platform built on the edge of the dam.
Standing in this position, you can overlook most of the Thousand Sails Harbor.
I thought Fiser would take me straight into the harbor, but he took him to the dam.
Fiser raised his hand and pointed to the east side of Thousand Sails Harbor: "See, that's the Ironbeak Eagle." ”
I leaned over to him, pressed my face to his arm, and then looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a very familiar wooden ship moored at the eastern end of the harbor.
As soon as I saw the boat, the awkwardness in my heart was suddenly magnified several times, and I couldn't help frowning several times.
Fiser noticed that my face was different: "What's wrong?" ”
I straightened up and said, "I've seen this boat, no, I've seen another boat that's exactly the same." ”
I'm talking about the big wooden ship that is upside down in the underground city, and although the ship is upside down in shallow water, I can still recognize it at a glance, and the Ironbill Eagle is exactly the same in size, shape, and the outline of the bow.
Hearing me say this, Fiser was also a little surprised: "Where did you see that?" ”
"Underground."
"It's impossible, I've been living here since the beginning of the establishment, there can't be ships in the old city, and when the new city was built, Haiting drove all the ships out of the port."
"There is indeed an identical ship underground, and that ship is upside down in the shallow waters."
As I said this, I was more and more shocked.
According to Fis'er, when the new city was built, there were indeed no ships stranded in the old city, which means that the big ships in the underground city were transported in after the new city was built.
How did you get it in?
In the entire drainage system, there is no sewer that can pass through something of this size, let alone the entrance to the underground world is narrower, so small that even the mast can't penetrate it.