An ironclad ship that cost a lot of money to build slowly sank to the bottom of the sea, as the last splash dissipated, the tide surged, there was no longer the shadow of its former existence on the sea, I don't know how many people staying on the ship died inexplicably, but all this did not cause too much sadness in the outside world.

The crew members of the other ships did not have any sadness about the death of rabbits and foxes, because they knew that their lives should be like this, so they had to get by all their lives, panicked, hurried, and did not have any extra time to grieve and sorrow.

What's more, after so many years of floating on the sea, they have seen too much life and death, and their hearts have long been numb, and even in their subconscious, every time they go to sea, they have already prepared for not coming back this time.

Sailors at sea, like horse bandits on land, are actually the work of the head and trouser belt, so once these sailors go ashore, they often either spend all day drinking, indulging in sex, or lingering in the casino, spending a lot of money, they never think about saving money, thinking about the future, but will soon spend all the money they have earned desperately for half a year, and no one knows if they will get it back next time.

As for the reason why the big people on the ship will not be sad, it is just because as a businessman, they have habitually measured one thing by the loss of money, in their opinion, anyway, if the person is gone, they can recruit again, how many people in the two continents begged grandpa to tell grandma, and they all wanted to eat under their Qiankun Chamber of Commerce, as long as they made a list, they would not worry about no personnel to replenish.

And the ship can be rebuilt if it is gone, as long as there is money, how much such thing there is, and how many docks can only be built in the queue by relying on relationships.

As for the only thing that could make them sentimental, it was nothing more than that because they didn't have time to rescue other goods, only some slaves remained, but fortunately, they rushed in time, and while the ship had not completely sunk, the corpses of the sea beasts lying on it were dissected, and all the valuable parts were retrieved, and the others sank into the water with these slaves who were seriously injured and dying.

What is worthless is thrown away, and what is valuable is bought and sold, and they have no mercy for human life.

Gu Xuan and Adam were both successfully rescued in the end, the former was conscious because he was awake, but he was just a little out of strength, and he was able to calmly call for help, adhering to the principle of not wasting it, those crew members naturally saved him by the way, and Adam was the goods to be retrieved by name, belonging to the life to see people, death to see corpses, had to be dragged back along the cage.

After experiencing the sudden attack of this sea beast, the fleet sailed along the course for a few more days, and then entered the calmest and safest looking in the entire Star Sea, but in fact it was the most terrifying windless zone.

Killing people in silence is the terrible thing about the windless zone.

Because the average wooden boat sails on the sea, its power is basically from the natural wind propulsion, but in the next long voyage, the entire fleet will lose the assistance of the wind, and must rely on the power of the ship itself to sail.

Here, I don't know how many lives have been lost, and God knows how desperate the first people who came here must have been after unknowingly falling into it.

Fortunately, this is an ironclad ship, it has abundant new mechanical power generated by the cutting-edge wisdom of the human race, and this is also the result of the careful calculation of the Qiankun Chamber of Commerce, as long as there is no accident, the probability of successfully sailing out of the windless zone is as high as ninety percent.

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"Whew!"

Gu Xuan couldn't help but straighten up, loosen the bones on his body, supported the shovel with both hands, raised his head, and breathed a long sigh of relief upward, even if he was a strong person, he would feel a little bored and hot after staying here for a long time.

The place where he was now was the bilge of the ship, but it was not a place for the slaves, but a core power room full of fuel, where the special ore could be burned for a long time, continuously generating a large amount of heat, and after a series of complex transformations, propelling the ship forward, and his task was to shovel the ore into the blazing boiler in front of him with a shovel.

Just imagine, in such a closed environment, there is a fire that has never been extinguished, so how high should the temperature be in it, in short, except for Gu Xuan, almost everyone is naked, many people don't even wear pants, sweating like rain, obviously extremely tired, but they don't dare to breathe heavily, because this scorching air can burn people's throats.

That's what he does every day now.

After coming to this ship, Gu Xuan found that the people here didn't seem to care about his identity at all, and they didn't even ask normally, but after he recovered, a person who was obviously the little steward of the ship came over and said, "Fortunately, you didn't lie down for another day, otherwise you would have been used to feed the fish, listen, your name will be Wu Xianyi in the future, remember, but don't forget", after that, he threw an iron sign at him, which was engraved "Wu Xianyi" Three words, before the man left, he reminded again, "The brand has been collected, and I will get paid for this in the future."

From now on, Gu Xuan's name here is "Wu Xianyi", maybe the rules on each ship are based on the captain's personal preferences, and the Qiankun Chamber of Commerce will only formulate a basic framework, for example, on the previous ship, although they are not very humane to each other, they will not completely use numbers to give people code names like now.

Where he is now is the most obvious flagship in the entire fleet, and naturally it is where the real owner of this fleet lives, of course, not to mention that the other party lives in a simple place, and with his identity, there is no way to see the other party at all.

It seems that this is a cold-blooded captain who treats human life like a mustard, and doesn't even bother to remember the real names of his subordinates, and only uses numbers to call others, because everyone is a cold-blooded captain who can be replaced to him, Gu Xuan thought about it.

But that's fine, at least, because after the relationship between them is not so close, no one wants to explore his specific identity, but unfortunately Adam is locked up in another place, and he has no chance to contact each other again.

Besides, he hadn't been on the ship for a long time, so he didn't want to go so rashly to find out where Adam was, so he wouldn't be able to tell if he was discovered, anyway, Gu Xuan knew that before arriving in the Eastern Continent, these people would never let Adam die so easily, and the treatment here was even better than before, after all, in terms of value, he could afford better treatment here.

There are always two sides to the story, and for Adam, the pure businessman in front of him seems to be better.

However, Gu Xuan did have to thank Adam, not only because he had helped him so much, but because if it weren't for the emergence of something new like aether energy, which successfully attracted his full attention and immersed him in the joy of exploring this new world alone every day, he would definitely not have been able to sustain it for so long.

Loneliness is enough to destroy a person, even if he can endure loneliness, he can't suppress the thoughts and pain in his heart, and patience is destined to be an extremely painful process, especially this kind of patience that has no clue and no end in sight.

Because no one knows when he will be able to successfully return to Liangguo, maybe a few months later, maybe a few years later, this is not certain, and what kind of situation should Liangguo be at that time, even if he goes back, what is the use, just thinking about these every day can already make him crazy.

After the day's work was finally completed, the next group of people came to take over, Gu Xuan and the others walked out together, and the rest of the people were basically so tired that they couldn't even move, including walking back to their rooms, they had to support each other, but Gu Xuan was different, this kind of exercise was actually nothing to him, but his body was a little hot.

So at night, he could sneak out to the deck alone and look at the stars.

The first mate had told them before that the owner had worked hard for them, and they could come out to breathe some fresh air, of course, for other people, this benefit was really useless, and it was better to increase their wages.

Gu Xuan walked onto the deck, and at the same time moved as lightly as possible, carrying light skills, without making a sound at all.

The windless zone in which it is located right now, as its name suggests, no matter morning or evening, you can't feel a cool breeze, and the water is calm like a mirror, and the starry sky above is projected vertically, making the whole fleet feel as if it is sailing in the starry sky, like a dream.

No wonder this place is called the Sea of Stars, Gu Xuan thought to himself.

He lay on the railing, couldn't help but stretch out his hand, his fingers slid gently in the air, and he wanted to pick up a handful of stars in his hand, but the ship was too high to reach the bottom, and when the ship sailed by, there would be a circle of ripples underneath, and the sea of stars would shatter, and the scenery in front of him began to become hazy.

He looked at it for a long time, the corners of his mouth suddenly curled, and then he flicked his fingers, and the next moment, the water in the distance suddenly exploded, as if someone had thrown an invisible pebble into it.

He flicked his fingers again, causing a small splash, but that was it, he didn't make any other moves.

"Gollum. ”

Suddenly, an embarrassing sound sounded, Gu Xuan helplessly touched his stomach that was protesting against himself, then spit out a breath of turbid air again, turned around, and strode towards the bottom.

I heard that it's a vegetable soup today, and it's pretty good.