Chapter Forty-Eight: The Strange Dock
The next morning, the sun rose from the sea and the sun was shining all over the island, and Shanglin's Xinyan had already gone in the direction of Princess City, and it took Shanglin's handwritten letter to Princess City to report the news.
The sailors had already prepared a steaming breakfast, and there was an extra pile of ice and fire on the hillside. Last night, Kabayashi said that his ship needed to be replenished with ice and fire stones along the way, and the sailors had seen ice and fire stones at the bottom of the Kuril Sea, so as soon as it was dawn, they dived into the sea and fished a lot of them.
After breakfast, the teenagers refueled and fed, the hot air balloon slowly lifted into the sky, and the spaceship flew west to the sky with the blessings of the sailors.
The weather on the second day of going to sea was a bit muggy, and the oxygen in the air seemed to be thinning. Although it was still sunny, the clouds piled up in the southeastern sky were unusual.
Shortly after leaving the Kuril Sea, the sea became choppy.
The morning passed quickly, because at the request of Kapok and Yama, Wang Fan told his companions how he met Zhen'er and her uncle, and then went to Pakistan to rescue the adventure to buy a gun and missed, and then was rescued by Ah Hu, in which Zhen'er added a lot of details.
By the time the story was finished, it was almost noon when the sun slowly climbed overhead, and the oncoming wind gradually became cooler.
Suddenly, there was a bird's chirping in the sky behind them, and the teenagers turned their heads in surprise, only to see Xinyan with a yellow ribbon around her neck rushing out of the rolling dark clouds, and in the blink of an eye, Xinyan flew to the gondola.
When it stood on the bow of the boat, Wang Fan found that one of its legs was tied with a strip of gray-white cloth. Xinyan walked up to Shanglin and shouted "Yaya", perhaps expressing the joy of parting and reunion to her master.
The teenagers clapped and cheered for Shinyan's safe return.
Kabayashi removed the strip of cloth from Xinyan's leg and looked at it, then turned to his companions and said, "My father praised us for finding my uncle and them, and asked us to guard against the attack of the fishmen on the way. My father will send a hot air balloon to help my cousin and cousin take my uncle and them back to the Heavenly King City. It's going to change, so let's see if there are any islands down there to escape the storm! ”
The spacecraft continued to sail for half an hour, and there was still no trace of the island in the vast sea, and the dark clouds in the southeast spread and moved with the wind to the sky, and soon half of the sky was covered by dark clouds, and the wind became stronger and stronger.
Ah Hu had already folded his wings, and he had been stretching out his electronic eyes to look at the sea just now.
"There's a target in the northwest!" Ah Hu suddenly shouted.
"What goal?" The companions asked in unison, and all their eyes followed Ah Hu's guidance to the northwest.
"There's a glow on the surface of the sea, maybe it's an island, let's go northwest!" Ah Hu said.
Shanglin immediately activated the power plant to adjust the flight direction of the spacecraft, and the wind was blowing from the southeast, and the hot air balloon carried the spacecraft forward with a very fast wind speed. A few minutes later, all the creatures on the ship saw an unidentified object reflecting sunlight on the surface of the sea, but it was certainly not an island, as no such island had ever been seen.
Dark clouds soon obscured the sun in the western sky, and the luminous body on the surface of the sea suddenly eclipsed.
The spacecraft flew close to the target, and everyone saw that there was an artificial dock-like object floating on the sea. One half of the pier is a dark platform that can accommodate at least five gondolas, and the other half resembles a large house, with a vaulted roof made of a smooth, mirror-like off-white material, which is undoubtedly reflected by the sunlight reflected by the roof made of this particular material.
Although they did not understand how such a pier could float in the sea, the teenagers did not have time to think about it. The whole sky was already occupied by dark clouds, and it was as dark as night at once, and they had to land as quickly as possible to avoid this impending storm.
About 500 meters from the dock, the spacecraft had landed only a few dozen meters above the sea. Shanglin turned off the burner, the hot air balloon swayed and collapsed to envelop the gondola, it was very dark, Ah Hu turned on the light in his eyes, and the others worked together to lift the colored cloth that covered the vision, and Shanglin operated the spacecraft to slowly land on the platform.
As soon as the gondola hit the ground, Kabayashi was the first to jump out of the cabin and pull a rope from the bow of the boat, and then tied the other end to a post outside the house.
The others took out the leather bags under their seats and got off the boat, and the strong wind swept over with cold rain, and a big wave "roared" on the pier, and the pier shook violently, and several people stood unsteadily and fell on the platform.
Ah Hu was the first to get up and rush to the front of the house and pull hard, a door was opened, Ah Hu walked in, and then Xinyan flew into the house, followed by Zhen'er, and the others crawled into the house with rolling belts, and then closed the door to block the wind and rain outside.
The entire dock and the house shook in the wind and waves, and several people saw some messy things scattered on the ground through Ah Hu's eyes, as if they were disassembled machine parts.
Everyone leaned against the wall and staggered around the house, and Ah Hu's eyes looked at the wall, and saw a painting hanging on it, in which there were five animals that looked strange like fish and people, and they were wearing exactly the same clothes, and there were pieces of fish scales on their exposed hands, feet and necks.
Their heads are shaped like the heads of large fishes, but their faces have human-like features, and they have several thick, long dark beards at the corners of their mouths, and they are laughing. Although it was creepy to see a fish laughing for the first time, it is certain that they were human because I had never seen a fish that could laugh.
The painting shows five fish-men standing, holding tools and other objects in their hands, and the background of the painting is the outside of this large house.
"Hey, they're fishmen!" Jane was the first to express her opinion.
"Undersea people, to be exact!" Ah Hu corrected.
"The undersea people are ugly!" Yama commented.
"Hey, Yama, you can't say that, people are of different races and have different aesthetic standards, maybe these fish people are the five beauties in the underwater world!"
Kapok's words amused everyone, and the tension caused by seeing the fish man suddenly disappeared.
A storm hit the roof, and the roof emitted a "ding!" While! While! The roof was made of some kind of metal plate. Another wave struck, and the houses swayed violently.
"I think this pier is where the undersea people repair their machines!" Wang Fan said that the scene in front of him was obvious, and he just spoke before his companions.
"But people can't live on the sea, so why do their repair shops float on the surface?" Kabayashi asked suspiciously, looking at the portrait of the fishman.
"I think it was an accident, maybe there was a strong earthquake on the bottom of the sea recently, and the repair shop of these people on the seabed was shaken out of the water." Ah Hu replied.
Ama said: "Looking at the mess on the ground, it must be a sudden accident at the bottom of the sea, and these people at the bottom of the sea fled in a hurry!" ”
The storm outside the house seemed to have become smaller all of a sudden, and the shaking of the house was no longer so violent.
Shanglin said worriedly: "It seems that the technology of the seabed people is much more advanced than that of us prairie people, and if the living environment of the seabed deteriorates, they will definitely find ways to immigrate to live on land, and it will inevitably invade our prairie." ”
Kapok said: "Ah Hu, can you teach us to make a machine that can dive, so that we can go to the bottom of the sea to see what the underwater world is like and what the people are doing at the bottom of the sea." ”
"The diving machine is very complicated, and I don't know how to make it. Once you've got Mr. Hal's space pass, you can go to the Russ Star Technical School to learn the science and technology you want. ”
Shanglin said: "That's exactly what my father thinks, that's why no matter how much it costs and how difficult it is, we must go to Qizhou to retrieve my grandfather's space pass." ”
"Hey, let's find out if the fish-man has something good to leave here to take with him, maybe it can be used to make a diving machine." Amma suggested.