127. Suspicion is triggered by the mysterious chest
November 23rd
Cloudy, light wind, cold temperatures, southwest wind, headwind, no currents
On the ninth day, the fleet turned to an angle of 70 degrees to the east and arrived at Haijiang City for replenishment. (Logbook)
Today everything is calm, and for those of us who often go to sea, calm is the greatest good news.
In the early hours of the morning, the fleet completed the steering work, sailed for a long time, and finally arrived at the southernmost seaport of the central continent, Haijiang City.
This resupply is mainly to replenish fresh water resources, and I don't know how far the voyage will be after that. Archbishop Wijnat once showed us a nautical chart, which, according to the chart, could reach the sea of mist within two months.
But who knows the specifics?
No one has ever been to the Sea of Mist, and I should say that no one has ever returned, but it seems to me that these cowards have just run out and hid. It's just a sea area, is it so evil? I've been sailing for decades, and I've never experienced a lot of wind and waves?
Moreover, it seems to me that this chart is nothing more than the Archbishop being deceived by some street vendor, I have never seen such a chart in all my years of sailing, and nine times out of ten it is fake.
If there is a great fog that will make the fleet go and never return? This is impossible, not to mention that there is no such fog at all, and even if there is, what can it be? Pull out the sails and sail northeast, and it won't be long before you can see the land, and you can see the boundless eastern continent. Once you find any city and determine the route, you can find it back.
Today is the last day to be able to spend on the ground, and this last replenishment will not take long, but everyone wants to rest on land tonight, including those masters.
The ship had to be guarded, and I could have avoided guarding it here, so I could have gone to the city to have some fun and set off early tomorrow morning. But for some reason, I don't want to leave this ship tonight, I want to stay here.
At the southernmost tip of the continent, even if it is late at night, the sea breeze is howling, but the temperature is as warm as ever.
I walked around the deck several times in a depressed mood, but I didn't feel the slightest sleep, and I always felt as if I hadn't done something.
It wasn't until the officer on duty on patrol changed shifts that I was going to lie down for a while. Even if I can't sleep, I can't sleep without sleeping, and I, as the captain, can't sleep in the daytime after a long voyage from tomorrow.
Good night and good dreams, tomorrow is about to start a new journey, God willing. (Captain's Diary)
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When Lin Jue saw this, it happened that this page was finished, and then look at this ending, it seems that the diary on the 23rd was written here.
But he didn't care, just like reading a novel, the habit he had developed over the years made him subconsciously turn the page again, waiting for the date of the first line in the convention.
As a result, the first line that catches your eye on the next page is not the date.
Lin Jue was stunned and glanced at it, and there was no imaginary date record.
"Did you forget to write it? Where did you go on the 24th?"
He glanced at the notebook again, and then at the top of the page on his right, he saw the words November 24.
"That'...... What's going on on this page in the middle?"
While muttering softly, Lin Jue began to check the extra content on the second page.
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To be honest, I did fall asleep just now, but I still couldn't sleep after tossing and turning for a while.
So I got up, put on my coat, and went to the cabin.
The whole cabin was empty, but it was not without people, after all, there were always some such sailors on board, and the money that had just been paid in hand was all turned into wine and poured into the stomach in a few minutes. These people, who have no money to have fun, voluntarily apply to stay on the boat at night. Actually, most of the time I still sleep. Anyway, as long as they don't make trouble, no one will care about such a trivial matter.
Just as I was about to leave, I stopped because I finally remembered that I couldn't sleep because of something.
In front of me was the large officer's room, which contained two boxes, and what were they within?
Driven by curiosity, I gently pushed open the door to the officer's room, and after a soft creak, I was so frightened that I quickly withdrew my hand.
At this time, I just felt that my heart was beating fast, thumping, and it was very uncomfortable. Blood was flowing rapidly, and it seemed like a beating heart would come out of my throat at any moment.
What am I worried about? There's no one in there anyway.
My heart, which was beating rapidly, slowly calmed down, I took a deep breath, made a calm expression on the surface, and pushed open the door of the officer's room very naturally.
It was empty and pitch black, except for the little lights on the docks of Haijiang City reflected in the windows.
I lit the light, and with the help of the light, there was no one here.
It can be seen that these masters want to hide the existence of these two boxes, not deliberately hide them, which will make people suspicious. They wanted people not to notice it, and there were piles of clothes piled up on it, and they deliberately covered it there with curtains, and it looked like these things were just placed there very casually, and there was nothing special about it.
Walking to the leftmost corner, I removed the curtains and removed my clothes.
The two chests were still calmly placed there, one on top of the other, and the white seals were silently covering the chests, and I remember clearly that the coat of arms painted on them was not the usual cross of the Church, nor the golden six-pointed star crest of the Department of Magical Affairs or the Wizard's Club, but the double-headed eagle of the Commonwealth of Brandon.
What's hidden inside?
I very carefully unsealed the box and opened it.
The moment I opened the box, the room, which had only been lit by a faint oil lamp, was instantly filled with a fiery red light.
It was a beautiful round ball, the size of which I was familiar with, like the shells of an eighteen-pounder cannon.
But these balls the size of cannonballs are completely different from cannonballs, they are not black colors, they are bubbling with a bright luster like flames, this layer of luster is tightly attached to the balls, oh my God, like the rare jewels used by the royal family, the light is like flowing water, flowing slowly.
If it weren't for the line on the seal, I might have thought it would be a box of jewelry.
I thought about it for a long time, but from what I knew, I still couldn't figure out what it was.
I closed the box and reglued the seal, and as I turned to stand up, I was startled by what I saw.
It was a boy shrouded in shadows, and I couldn't see anything but the immature voice and the eyes that looked like a dead man.
"What are you doing?" said the boy in his green voice, cold.
This young man is not simple, he is as delicate as a flower, but he has a look that does not match his age at all.
Until I wrote about this experience, I was still glad that I was so quick to react. I was still calm, and I don't know if the cold sweat on my forehead had exposed me. I only know that at that time, I have even seen the cold light on his cuffs, if it weren't for this timely answer, maybe I would have died at this moment, right?
"Sorry, I'm just curious, I didn't think of the idea of hitting these two boxes of jewelry, I'll go. ”
If it hadn't been for the mage who suddenly appeared behind me, maybe I would have just treated them as jewels, right?