Chapter 61: Gezhi (1)
The captain knew the danger of forcibly setting sail at this time, but there were few things in the world that were not risky, and he very much agreed with Mr. Ecovacs. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Isn't there a 50 percent chance of success in an info adventure? His mood told him that he should find someone to dine with and talk about the idea of sailing. The sailors on the ship were vulgar fellows, and the begging fellows from the northern continent of Europa and the southern Mediterranean did not even have a napkin around their necks, cutting food with shiny utensils, and discussing the various things of life together. Therefore, the only person on this ship who can talk to the captain is Ecovacs, the owner of this voyage. It is not surprising that Mr. Ecovacs was not seen on deck, and the sailors said that he rarely came on deck. It is precisely because of this that the captain has not found a good chance to talk to Mr. Ecovacs since he set sail. There was no answer from the knock on the door, and when I asked the sailor, Mr. Ecovacs had been back to the cabin for a while after a moment of unfolded canvas in the moonlight since last night, and never came out again. The ship was sailing on the vast sea, and Mr. Ecovacs was still on board. It was probably the bad night's sleep that made him still sleep when the sun was so high. It is not surprising that it is common for people who participate in a voyage for the first time to turn black and white upside down. To be sure, Mr. Ecovacs has not been on many voyages. Thinking of this, the captain thought that he could add some anecdotes about the voyage to his meal for a while. The captain twisted his beard with pride, which is not something that any one person can say a lot.
Knocking on the door again, there was a response from inside, to be exact, the sound of the object falling and smashing. This was not a normal voice, and the captain was eager to express his concern, and he called out to Mr. Ecovacs several times in succession. Mr. Ecovacs's voice finally came from inside, and it sounded a little hurried. When Mr. Ecovacs learned of the captain's origins, he politely declined the captain's invitation. Then, after some hesitation, Mr. Ecovacs asked the captain to have the meal brought to his room after he had been greeted by him. The captain shook his head and freshly dressed up, which seemed to be of little use. He left Mr. Ecovacs' doorway, lamenting that he had a quirk. No wonder the sailors said that the gentleman was a strange man, and that the captain told the cook to prepare the meal for Mr. Ecovacs, and then he went to eat alone. It must be a gift from God that this weather can still be found in this sea every year. He should take advantage of this wonderful morning and have breakfast on deck.
Breakfast was laid out on an oak barrel and the meal began. If it's not this time, if it's not at work. The view in front of you is perfect with the breakfast. The captain cut the steak and stuffed it into his mouth, and immediately let out an expletive, the old chef, who had forgotten how much he wanted to grill the steak every time, and this time it was a little overdone. Once back in Europa, he had to find a younger chef. However, these days, young people are disgusted that sailing is a hard job. When the time comes, maybe you can offer a price that the other party can't refuse. No matter how unreasonable this society is, there is at least one point, and it is difficult for anyone to refuse even excessive demands if they can take out yellow gold coins. What liquid was dripping down the edge of the canvas and falling on the plate on the barrel, and on a sunny day, the strange captain lifted his neck and blocked the light with his hands, and he saw not seabirds passing by, but sailors standing in baskets leaning against the top of the mast. What madness is this sailor? He waved the second mate and motioned for him to ask the sailor what had happened. The sailor's voice was incoherent at all, he just pointed frantically to the position ahead, jumped to his feet and cried and shouted.
The captain hurried to the bow of the ship, ignoring the nausea caused by the urine that had been ticking down the canvas after the sailor had peed his trousers. Now is not the time to curse, the strange island in front of you should not only not appear on this route, but also the island that is constantly growing. Dropped anchor and sailed. The captain told the first mate to park the ship about two nautical miles from the growing island. To be precise, the island does not grow, but rises from the bottom of the sea. Looking at this structure, the captain felt a little familiar. Four slanted sides of length, at the same angle, end up at one point. The top position was strangely revealing a complete hole, and the captain remembered that the cousin in the family, who was often scolded by the elders for not doing his job, was not studying something like this in the Philek continent? The captain hastened to bring a nautical chart, and the corresponding position on the map indicates the location of the strange island. When he wrote down the word island, the second mate reminded him if it was more appropriate to call it this thing. Yes, it looks very similar to the tomb towers of the ancient kings of Philek, and it should be called a tower. A growing tower appeared directly in front of them, and all the sailors huddled on the deck to look ahead, some began to pray silently, others laughed and said that it was probably a place to hide treasure, a windfall that God was going to give them. The captain asked everyone not to get off the ship and wait and see.
Someone knocked over the captain's breakfast, someone stepped on a greasy steak and fell to the ground, but all eyes were on the strange tower ahead. No one noticed that the hatch door at the top of the stern was open, and Mr. Ecovacs came out to stand in the doorway. His expression didn't look any different than usual, except for his left hand behind his back. He watched the tower with a grim expression, and when the captain decided to go around and continue sailing, Ecovacs shouted slowly, attracting everyone's attention. Then they heard something that surprised everyone, "I am going to the tower, and the captain asks you to send a dinghy." The captain thought he had misheard, hesitated for a moment, and then asked tentatively. Ecovacs didn't wait for him to finish asking, and then emphasized his decision. His attitude was very resolute, it was really crazy, everyone involuntarily retreated as Ecovacs walked down from the top, and no one wanted to approach Ecovacs at this time.
Ecovacs's attempt to hire sailors and himself to the tower with a high reward did not materialize, and the sailors even hid on the other side of the ship far away from him, where the captain tried to calm the emotional-looking Ecovacs. He persuaded the other party to abandon the decision, but Ecovacs could not listen. Ecovacs waved his cane in his right hand and asked again who would? A childish voice came from the cabin on the ground floor, I do, sir. The captain complained in his heart, but he didn't expect that there was a second crazy guy on the ship. Everyone looked back and saw Warman, a skinny midshipman, who had climbed up from below. With his good friend Little Monkey in his hand, Warman agreed to the offer of Ecovacs. The captain remembered that everyone had forgotten that the captain also had an interstitial sailor who was almost a supernumerary. Warman is just as weird as Ecovacs, like the origin. Warman's skin was different from everyone else's, and at one point the captain wondered if he was an indigenous Indian from the Myers Continent. But his language told the captain to be sure that it was not, and how the natives could have learned the same wandering habits as the Jews. Seeing that Warman was pitiful, the captain took him in. However, the captain said that if after the probationary period, Warman could not reach the basic level of a sailor, the captain would introduce him to another job and tell him to leave the ship. In fact, the captain's idea was to find a place to sell him, and he knew that Warman had no family. When the captain saw that it was him, he immediately thought that the sum of money he might have received was about to be lost, and he scolded Warman to hurry back. Ignoring this, Warman walked straight to the dinghy's rope and untied one.
The dinghy cannot be untied like this, because there will be danger. Apparently unaware, the captain told the sailors to help free the dinghy, and he told Mr. Ecovacs that they needed to talk first. When Ecovacs was told that hiring Warman would require a security deposit for the captain, Warman pointed to the ship's cargo hold and asked if his cargo was worthless. The captain was speechless by the question, so he had to provide the dinghy with some necessary food and fresh water, and watched Ecovacs get into the dinghy, and the two clumsily rocked the dinghy away. He and Ecovacs agreed that if Sunset was ten minutes before Ecovacs could not return to the ship, the ship would continue sailing and would not wait any longer. Ecovacs agreed. But when the Ecovacs dinghy approached the tower, the captain hurriedly asked the first and second officers and everyone else to get busy and lift the anchor and leave quickly. Everyone thought they had misheard, the captain had no explanation, none of them dared to ask the captain to give an explanation, everyone was in place, what a morning that was overwhelming!
Ecovacs got into the dinghy and rowed the dinghy with Warman as he approached the tower. He asks Warman why he wants to accompany him on his adventures. Warman said that I knew what was going on in the captain's mind, that I had no one to teach me what to do since I got on board, and that I would not meet his requirements by the end of the apprenticeship. And where in the world there are casual job introductions, there are wanderers of unknown origin who have been sold. Warman looked back at the big ship that was getting farther and farther away, and said that leaving the big ship might just be the right choice. Ecovacs took the initiative to say to Warman that I am different from you, I had a half-real and half-dreamy dream. Warman turned his face to the gentleman in his gown who was paddling on a dirty dinghy like he was. Ecovacs did have a dream, and the first half of this dream was when he came to a magical place, where creatures swimming outside the transparent windows made him think he was at the bottom of the sea. He was alone in the long hallway, and no one told him why he was going forward or backward, he just walked forward. The two hands that were waving normally became heavier and heavier, and he slowly raised his arms, and found that the two wrists that came out of the cuffs had changed. The folded skin is dark green, and the fingers become four. The astonishment made him stop walking, not only because he had changed, but also because of the saying that has been handed down by the family, when the four fingers point to the sky, the distant will no longer be far away and reappear in his mind. The second half of Ecovacs' dream becomes real, when someone knocks on his door and he is awakened to find himself in bed as a monster. The self in the dream became the real self, and the hands that I couldn't control collided with the objects near the bed when I got up in a panic and shattered to the ground. The cut arm was not a bright red liquid but a dark green close to the skin, and he grabbed the quilt scattered on the ground and rubbed it vigorously, and the captain's question he replied hesitantly. After the captain left, he waited in the cabin to change back to his original self. Fortunately, it didn't take much time, and just as he was about to walk out of the cabin, the agitation of the people outside caught his attention, and when he opened the door, he saw the tower appear. A feeling of déjà vu came from the bottom of my heart. A crazy idea came to him, and he wanted to go to the tower.
Warman asked Ecovacs if there was any danger. Ecovacs shrugged, not knowing. He noticed that Warman did not express his fear of him, and Ecovacs couldn't help but ask Warman, who actually said that he had seen the shapeshifter. He explained that it was a lizardman who had become like a lizardman and could no longer stand upright and lie on the ground. However, Warman then goes on to say that he is lying, and that he has seen actors dressed as lizardmen while lying outside the circus tarpaulin. He said that the people's costumes were terrible, that they were funny, and that they didn't feel scary. When the skinny Warman said this easily, his face changed. He pointed behind him and said, Mr. Ecovacs, look.
After the ship turned around, the heavy anchor was lifted. The captain ignored them and left them. Apparently the captain had reneged on their agreement, and only by the dinghy Ecovacs knew that he and Warman would not be able to return to land, but that the tower was getting closer and closer as their best hope. There is no way back, and that's it. Warman also thought of this, and it was impossible to catch up with the big ship, so he simply went to the tower. When the dinghy reached the tower, Ecovacs found himself feeling a restlessness in his heart, but it did not help him find any way into the tower. On one side was him and Warman, who was also a trainee sailor who had no way out, and on the other side was the tower that could not be entered, standing quietly on the surface of the sea, and the waves on the surface of the sea were slightly rippling against the surface of the tower. The two rowed around the tower in the dinghy, and Ecovacs gave a rough estimate of the size. Surprisingly, there is still a slight difference in the degree to which the four sides are exposed. It can be concluded that the base of the tower is sloping, Ecovacs is not a random risk-taking person, before making the decision to cross the ocean at this time, he also did some research, and indeed did not hear of any towers appearing here in the club.
Ecovacs tried to touch the surface of the tower with his hand, and there were some potholes on the surface of the sea water, and of course there were traces of hermit creatures left on it, not too recent. Ecovacs felt the vibration as he touched his hand, and he instructed Warman to start rowing the dinghy and quickly open the tower. To Ecovacs' surprise, the tower shook, and then the water ripples trembled where it came into contact with the sea, and the tower began to sink. Ecovacs knew that if the tower descended too fast, the whirlpools that appeared around it could suck tiny objects such as their dinghy in.
The captain couldn't help but go to the cabin to see the reward of this treachery, he was not a person to do it easily, but the reward this time was too tempting, not to mention that no one knew more than one person in the vast sea. Before he set sail again, he tricked Ecovacs into signing a voyage contract that was not registered at all, which meant that the voyage was not on the register of the shipping bureau at all. Then it can be said that this voyage does not exist, he smiled proudly, he took care of the sailors, he saw nothing, did not know anything. When you get to Europa, everyone gets an extra sailing bonus. When he was frightened of the bilge, the second mate came in and told the captain that the tower that had come out of nowhere was missing.