Chapter 78: Pondering and Fearing

"The underworld is a very strange place...... The passage of time there is completely different from our world, dozens or hundreds of years have passed there, and we may have only passed a minute. The old captain frowned, as if trying his best to recall the memories inside: "I only remember that when I came to the underworld after I died, I stayed there for a long, long time, and then one day by chance, I made a deal with a blood-robed man and took possession of the flesh. Then he fled. It's just that when I escaped from the underworld, the laws there were automatically triggered, and all memories of the underworld were erased, and it wasn't until the ghost ship from the underworld was about to approach us that a little memory fragment appeared in my mind. ”

"After the return of the underworld...... I saw my rotting corpse adrift on the sea, its face swollen and mutilated by predators...... But, I still recognized it, it was me. The old captain's face suddenly became frightened: "Mr. Sige, can you understand the horror of seeing your own corpse with your own eyes!"

Sieg looked at him calmly and didn't make a sound.

"But I'm obviously not dead, who is the rotting floating corpse on the sea? Because I lacked the memory of the underworld, and I had a headache and a mess in my head at that time, I simply forgot about it selectively, and regarded it as an ......illusion," the old captain told the memories in his mind one by one.

"And because I successfully reached the port of the New World, I ...... As far back as I can remember, I subconsciously thought that everyone on our ship was dead, and that I was the only one who had escaped. The old captain was in some pain at the moment, holding his head in his hands.

"The dead person that the Underworld Ranger just spoke of should be you. Sieg stared at him and said deeply.

"It should ...... Right. The old captain was dripping with cold sweat on his forehead.

The Voyager of the Underworld seemed to have restored some of his erased memories, but for the old captain, it was better not to recover.

"You say that once a person escapes from the underworld, all memories of the underworld will be automatically erased, right?" said Sigurd.

"Yes, it seems to be the law of the underworld. Although the old captain's memory has not been fully recovered, he still remembers some key things.

"You died in a mysterious event decades ago, and then your soul entered the underworld, lived in the underworld for many years, and then made a deal with a certain blood-robed man, and then escaped from the underworld, but all memories of the underworld were erased, and after returning to this world, because of the time difference, you mistakenly thought you were the only survivor, right?"

"That's true, if it's not that...... The monster is closing in on us, and I'm afraid I'll never be able to awaken these memory fragments. The old captain looked a little distressed, as if he could not accept the fact that he had already died once.

"That'...... You said you saw your own body when you came back from the underworld, can you be sure it's your body?" asked Sigurt tentatively.

"Yes. The old captain had nothing to hide, nodded and said, "I won't admit my mistake!"

Siggy's face changed in a flash, and his eyes were staring at him, gloomy and terrifying.

His mind drifted back to the corpses he and Jon had seen in the Pahlavi citadel not long ago......

There is his own corpse in it!!

Sigur shook his head violently and took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down and not to think wildly.

There are some things that cannot be thought through.

It's scary to think about!

......

After sailing into the blue seas, the Blue Jewel never encountered any danger again, and approached the New World day by day.

After the mysterious events in the Wraith Sea, the crew of the ship was silent for a long time, and the eyes that looked at Sigur were full of fear.

After all, this is the one who can make way for the ghost ship.

Sig didn't go to the old captain, the old captain was just a mortal, and his memory was seriously broken, he only remembered a rough idea, all the details were missing, and he didn't know anything about the underworld.

Sig could see that he was not lying, and he was too lazy to embarrass an old man who had died once, so he locked himself in the cabin and tried to read the book "General Theory of the Study of the Nature of Bloodline".

Finally, after more than half a month of sailing in the vast open sea, a vast outline of the continent appeared on the horizon.

All the crew of the ship crowded onto the deck at once, cheering excitedly.

The New World has finally arrived.

More than half a month of sailing has long exhausted the last trace of patience of the sailors, and at this moment, seeing that the mainland is ahead, where can I hold back the excitement in my heart.

The rest of the rum on board was all carried to the deck by them and they reveled to their heart's content.

Instead of getting involved with him, Sig found a place where no one was around, quietly looking at the vast continental coastline ahead.

Near the long coastline is a dense tropical jungle with the occasional patch of white sand exposed, but it is quickly submerged by the tropical jungle.

After turning a corner, a busy and noisy new dock comes into view, and behind the pier is a dense human town.

At this moment, all kinds of ships are moored on the dock, and the flags of various trading companies are flying high on the ships. Dock workers carrying sacks across the docks were bustling with activity.

Dawn Harbor has finally arrived.

The New World is a vast continent discovered by human navigators 800 years ago, where countless strange races live, most of them are low-civilization and uncivilized.

People often name this place after the first navigator to discover the continent, Dijama, so it is called Dijama Continent. But in the local indigenous language, it is known as the Land of Twilight.

Over the past 800 years, countless explorers, colonists, merchants, pirates, and speculators have poured into this new continent, bringing a glimmer of civilization here, but more than that, endless killing and disaster.

Nowadays, the shores of the New World are dotted with trading posts of major corporations, and the influence of the royal power is minimal here, after all, none of the rice worm nobles want to travel so far to open up some uncivilized natives.

But trading companies are different, they are capitalists, and as long as there is profit to be made, they will swarm like flies that smell blood.

According to Seeger's knowledge, the Kingdom of Blackcastle only had twelve colonies in the New World, a large part of which was obtained by confiscating some of the companies that supported the February Revolution.

In contrast, the Red Fox Corporation has a total of 376 colonies in the New World, even in the rainforests deep within the continent!

The New World is so vast that even now, less than a tenth of the places explored by humans have been explored, and no one knows what lies deep in the rainforest.

Merchants transported the resources, specialties, and slaves of the New World back to the Mother Continent in large quantities to earn high profits.

Dawn Harbor is a small port in the New World, now nominally part of the Kingdom of Blackcastle, and its governor is a middle-aged nobleman named Cowell.

A few months ago, his territory suffered some mysterious events and many people disappeared, so he had to ask the Wilden family for help, and it was in this situation that Sig took the opportunity to take over the mission and escape from the royal capital.

Dawn Port originally belonged to a chamber of commerce called [Eastern Coast], but this chamber of commerce was suspected of participating in the February Revolution of that year, so it was banned by the kingdom, and their original colony in the New World was also taken over by the royal family.

The ship was soon docked and moored at the pier.

Sig simply said goodbye to the old captain and some of the sailors he knew, and went ashore alone.

The Blue Jewel is here to dock for resupply and will soon set sail for other ports.