Chapter 36: The Sea of Ghost Mist

"It's ...... Ghost Mist! Hedram looked at the white sea fog in front of the Vestelos with a solemn face, "From now on, the rotation on deck will be doubled, and the number of rotating officers will be increased from two to four. Also, Gerhardt, one of the three of us must have someone on deck at all times! ”

"Three?" Gerhardt said knowingly.

"Get that bastard out there and tell him that the confinement is postponed for the time being!" Hudram said dejectedly.

"Oh, Alfred, you're talking about!" Gerhardt pretended to be enlightened and high-fived him with a fist.

"Gerhardt, you're less and less like a German now, more like Charlie's Frenchman!" Hedram said angrily.

Seeing Hedram depressedly turn back to the captain's room, a smile appeared on Gerhardt's face, which belonged to Gerhardt, a German, to express his dissatisfaction.

In fact, Xu Mo's disobedience to Hedlam's order was indeed a very serious disciplinary violation. The most serious violations of discipline are such as desertion, and the superior officer can even be directly executed on the battlefield. Of course, if the degree is relatively light, such as Xu Mo's violation of discipline because of the rescue of his companions, there is no need for whipping, and a fine salary is enough.

Xu Mo's disciplinary behavior is certainly not worth advocating for Gerhardt's status as an officer, but for his other identity, a German aristocratic gentleman, he admires it very much. Hedlam's excessively harsh punishment naturally led to Gerhardt's dissatisfaction.

As for why one of the three people, Hedram, Gerhardt, and Alfred, had to be on duty on the battleship, the reason is also very simple. As long as any of these three people were on deck, then the sailors on deck, no matter what emergency happened, would not panic and lose the best opportunity to dispose of it at that time. It's like a child who has parents by his side, and no matter how terrible things are, he won't have a psychological breakdown, because in the eyes of children, parents are omnipotent.

At present, these three people are the only ones who can be the spiritual support of the sailors on duty on the deck, and they are even the spiritual pillars of the junior officers and alternate non-commissioned officers. This was not possible even by Charlie, the chief gunner, and Manuel, the seafaring officer, because they convinced the sailors of their abilities, not their charisma.

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"Selena, what's the Ghost Mist?" Ahan asked, surprised, "Why is Admiral Hedram so nervous?" ”

"Not to mention that in this era of backward technology, even in the real world, the sea of fog near the Arctic Ocean is a very dangerous weather phenomenon for ocean-going ships!" Selena said solemnly.

In Selena's narration, Ahan also understands what the ghost fog is and why she takes it so seriously. The sea fog transmitted from the Arctic Ocean is a disaster weather phenomenon in the real world with advanced technology. It is formed by the interaction of glaciers, the atmosphere and the ocean, and the physical causes of its formation are complex and diverse, and it is impossible to predict.

It is especially easy to produce in the summer of the northern high-latitude ocean, when the warm air flow of the southern low-latitude goes north, melting the offshore glaciers in the Arctic region, and the melting of the glaciers absorbs a large amount of heat energy in the air, producing a cold air snap in the south.

When these cold currents from the south meet the warm air currents from the north, they form storms at sea, which fill the atmosphere with a large amount of water vapor and form sea fog, which is only one of the causes of sea fog in the Arctic Ocean.

Because the sea fog is full of water vapor, it will produce a mirage at some moments, and even map the aurora in the Arctic region, and will attract large unidentified creatures in the deep sea to appear on the sea surface for some unknown reasons, and the thick sea fog will also cover some icebergs drifting down from the Arctic Ocean, so the sailors on the sea ships in the Middle Ages will imply many unknown phenomena, and the sea fog that appears in the vast sea area near the Arctic Ocean is called "ghost sea fog".

The "ghost sea fog" is the main culprit of many shipwrecks, and the probability of shipwrecks is even higher than the probability of shipwrecks caused by major storms at sea, which is why Hedram is so nervous.

"Sir Alfred!"

"Sir!"

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Xu Mo walked on the deck expressionlessly, silent at the warm greetings of the sailors on the deck, not stingy, but the sailors didn't mind, as if this was a matter of course.

"Who does that bastard think he is, these Swedish men are idiots, doesn't anyone see that he is arrogantly dismissive of them at all!" Selena sat on the mast and said sarcastically.

"Selena, why do you keep targeting Lord Alfred? In my opinion, he is indeed a good boss! A gleam flashed in Ahan's eyes.

"Ahan, what's wrong with you? I really don't understand, we and he are both reincarnated, why do you have to call him Your Excellency according to the honorific title on the battleship? Selena said with a frown.

"Oh, this is just my agreement with him in the last mission!" Ahan went back and explained the reason for his name to Selena, and just as Selena was relieved, Arhan said, "But now, I really want to call him Your Excellency!" ”

"Ahan?" Selena looked at Ahan in shock, her face ugly, "We've cooperated so many times, do you think I'm really not as resourceful as that arrogant bastard?" Why did you recognize him so quickly! ”

"No, Selena, it's not about Gambit!" Ahan furrowed his eyebrows, then let go again, and asked calmly, "What do you think of Lord Alfred's behavior last night?" ”

"There are brave and unscrupulous actions, and I can understand some of the heroic acts he made in order to win the favor of the characters in the plot. But in the presence of me at the time, he shouldn't have done that. If I sneak up on an ordinary sailor, even if you don't die, you have to use up the precious recovery items, which is completely reckless and more than worth the loss. Selena scoffed.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Am I doing something wrong? Selena frowned, glaring at Ahan.

Ahan lowered his head, sighed softly, and said indifferently: "Selena, if in the past I thought that you were not suitable for the position of the leader of the merged team out of personal emotional dissatisfaction, then now I confirm that you are not the right person for the head of the group. Selena, you and I are not suitable to be the leaders of the merger team! ”

"Why? Give me a reason? Selena stood up in a fit of rage, and of course she could tell that Arham wasn't joking.