Chapter 15: The Flooded Seas
The Goshawk's captain's quarters had been destroyed by Bermangard more than half a year ago, but the restored rooms were more spacious than ever, with all the furniture fixed to the four walls, which could be kept motionless even when the hull swayed, and the four corners were evenly lit by oil lamps......
Compared to the deck, which was washed by heavy rain, the room was indeed much warmer, except for Xiao Yi and Kagami, and Sieg and Melva were talking at a round table. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"It's really like that...... It's hard to imagine if you hadn't seen it with your own eyes......" she looked at Sieg.
"According to my sister, Eric seems to be a good person, but unfortunately...... I'm not him. From their conversation, it is known that Melva linked Sieg to his friend Eric, but Sieg denied this.
"Whew...... Sure enough, it was still comfortable in the cabin~"
Xiao Yi came to sit down next to the two of them and asked, "Sister Melva, I want to ask you something...... Can you tell me?"
She nodded, and Shaw asked, "Is Delacro alright?" I mean in the Holy Sect ......."
"Victor...... It's good that he married his crush Jamila at the beginning of July, and his abilities are also valued, two months ago the Pope gave him a secret mission, but recently he was sent to the technical department, and now he has been delving into the science of alchemy......"
Melva told Shaw everything about Delacro's recent situation, but Sieg suddenly fell into deep thought......
He said intermittently, "Delacro...... Victor Delacro...... The name...... What does it have to do with the Destiny Project...... Hell, I can't think of anything!"
Sieg ...... Are you alright?" asked Shaw, puzzled by his performance.
"Somehow...... Maybe it's a coincidence, I'm fine. He shook his head and sidestepped the subject.
"Really...... I had wanted to visit Delacro in the Holy Church...... But seeing how well he's doing, don't go!" Shaw said casually, as he seemed to complain.
"It's because he didn't say goodbye, and he hasn't been back to Chanda for more than half a year, right?"
She got up from her chair and walked to the door, where she replied to Melva: "I don't want to mention these sad pasts...... I just wish he could come and see Zenda, that's it! Now I'll go to the lower deck!"
Leaning against the wall and flipping through the mirror, he smiled at Xiao Yi's departing back and said, "Commander, you are really a strange person...... I once said that I would forget all this, but I still cared about it, which is not the performance of a person who does great things. ”
In the middle of the night, the rain slowed down, and the Strait of Calidos took on a more mysterious color, the sky was still overcast, and the waves that hit the side of the ship gradually receded, and the sea level also lowered after the calm, and many strange reefs could be found in the distance......
It was the early hours of the morning, and a large part of the crew was resting on the lower deck, except for Lemuel and a few experienced veteran sailors who were still busy on deck, while Nabal's sturdy figure was still at the helm where he rightfully belonged......
"Nabal, it's not far from Minella, and I'll be there in the morning!" beckoned Samuel, who was looking at the charts with an oil lamp.
"Don't be too happy...... It is said to be the most dangerous area, with all kinds of dangerous reefs and ......"
"And what?" Samuel asked.
A whisper of resentment came from the water below the ship, which made Samuel, who was a stunner, furious, and Raguil, who was at the Sailding Lookout, suddenly pointed to the sea and shouted, "Hey!! Look at the sea! What are those?"
The sailors on board immediately ran to the side of the ship to look out to sea, and immediately everyone fell into extreme terror, and the sea was filled with gray-white faceless figures, floating down the current towards the back of the ship.
"This ...... It's a ghost...... "The sailors were frightened by what they saw and retreated to the inside of the deck.
A daring sailor picked up a bottle of red wine and threw it into the water, the bottle passed through the white figures and sank to the bottom of the water, splashing a splash, followed by a sudden attack by the gray and white figures, one of them instantly floated from the surface of the sea to the deck, and in the blink of an eye, the sailor was dragged directly under the sea without any struggle or shout......
The murmur echoed in his ears again, and in an instant several gray-and-white figures appeared on the deck, and before they were about to drag the crew into the water, Nabal threw several axes to disperse them all, and he jumped from the rudder and landed in front of the frightened sailors, and reprimanded: "You can't listen to me! This is the place where all the drowning souls of the sea are said to be, and now it's trouble! Take up arms and fight!"
After receiving the order, the sailors quickly picked up the javelins, harpoons, short axes and other weapons at hand, and the drowning spirits in the sea appeared on the deck in an instant, and dragged the crew into the water with their hands full of death......
"Hey!!Are you still sleeping!!Hurry up!!
Raguil shouted as the crowd fought, and it wasn't long before footsteps could be heard below deck, and the armed sailors quickly joined the battle, leveling the strength of the two sides.
There was a continuous burst of gunfire in the captain's room, six steel bullets pierced through the door and crushed several drowning spirits, and in the blink of an eye, the door was rushed open, and Shoey rolled on his back and landed face up in the middle of the deck, holding his gun in both hands and shooting at the drowned spirits hovering over the goshawk, killing a large number of drowned spirits in an instant.
At the same time, a thin steel cable was fastened to the top of the sail along the steel nails, and Melva, who was in front of the captain's room, swung the mechanical crossbow in his hand along the steel cable to the lookout, and threw several star-shaped darts in the air in succession, dispersing the flying drowning spirits, and landing beside Laguil.
"Brother, go down and fight with your buddies! this is a good sniper spot, just leave it to me!"
"Don't underestimate me, an elite longbowman...... I'll go down now. ”
Raguil nodded and grabbed the sail line and slid down, landing on the deck to draw his sword and fight the drowning spirits, while Melva adjusted the mechanical crossbow and raised a golden crosshair in front of the crossbow, locking on to several drowned spirits in the air that pounced on her......
The moment she pulled down the spring, the wheel loaded with sharp steel nails spun rapidly, and all twenty steel nails were shot out in just a dozen seconds, and the drowning spirits above the Goshawk were all annihilated by Melva's rapid fire, she quickly removed the wheel and replaced it with another spare wheel on her waist, and continued to shoot at the drowned spirits around her repeatedly.
As a drowning pair was about to grasp its target, a spinning scimitar split it in two, and the scimitar returned to Mo Cha's hand, and he shouted to one of the sailors, "Watch your back!"
"Behind you!!!," the sailor reminded.
The sword flashed, and the drowning spirit behind Mo Cha disappeared, and Xige appeared behind him holding the sky wolf and said, "Senior, you should pay attention to your back!"
"Ahh......h I'm really unwilling!Let's come to the competition to see who will kill the most ghosts!!!This one is mine!!" He waved his knife to disperse the two drowning spirits in front of him, and Sig was not far behind, swinging the sky wolf to cut all the drowning spirits beside him, and said: "You are so cunning! It's a pity that you still can't win me!"
When the battle on the deck was in full swing, a drowned spirit sneaked up on Samuel at the helm, and dragged Samuel off the deck with its pale hands, and at the moment when he was about to enter the water, a steel nail pierced through the drowning spirit to destroy it, Samuel continued to fall into the water, he struggled to surface, and found that the drowned spirits around him were gradually approaching him, so he shouted to the boat: "Hey......!
But no one had the opportunity or time to throw the lifeline at Samuel, so Nabal swung his axe to disperse the drowning spirits around him, and then desperately fell over the ship's side fence and fell into the sea, he wielded a short axe to drive away the drowning spirits, and at the same time swam with Samuel and the goshawk swam along, Melva slid down the steel cable to the deck, shuttled between the large number of drowned spirits and threw the lifeline into the sea, the two immediately swam to the rope and climbed up, and when they re-boarded the ship, everyone worked together to repel the attack......
Suddenly there was a loud bang on the hull, and at the same time there was a violent vibration that caused the crew to lose their center of gravity, and Nabal looked at the unattended rudder and yelled, "Hey! You don't have any brains! It's finished now, it's definitely on the rocks!!"
Seeing that the drowning spirits were no longer impacting frequently, the crew took up their positions to inspect the damage to the ship, and Shoey put away his two guns and went to the bow to look down, the ship was only slightly bruised, but the dense reef on the left side fixed the ship in place and could not move, so she informed Nabal: "Fly head! Try to turn quickly, we are lucky, we just brushed it!!"
Nabal had already come to the rudder and turned the rudder to the right, but by this time the sea breeze had stopped and the ship was not moving, and everyone could only wait in desperation, and felt sorry for the crew who died in the sea, and this attack made everyone dare not relax in the slightest.
As the minutes ticked by, the drowning spirit did not attack the people on board again, the wind gradually blew, and Nabal gave the order to set sail again, and the Goshawk shook off the reef, raised its sails, and readjusted its course to the northwest......
Mo Cha and Sieg sat back to back under the mainmast to rest, Sig held the wolf to support his tired body and said, "Whew...... I've killed more than two dozen ghosts...... You've lost!"
"Come on...... I didn't say what to do if I lost......" Mo Cha, who was also exhausted, responded.
While the two of them were resting, Melva took out a powerful magnet, retrieved all the steel nails scattered on the deck, put them back into the wheel, and folded the mechanical crossbow back to the captain's room...... How can you escape, everyone needs you!"
"Seeing that everyone is working so hard, I'm embarrassed to make a move, and I'll only make a move when you really need me, now...... Captain, you'd better go and rest, it's not far from Minella!"
Shoey shook his head and came to Nabal's side and asked, "Nabal...... Everyone's okay?"
"Hah! Not a big deal! except for the five brothers who died, not a single hair was lost!" replied Nabal.
"Are we safe now?"
He picked up a nearby nautical chart, pointed to a large island on it, and replied: "Minella, we will arrive at dawn, and it will be all right now!" If the captain does not believe me, he can go and see the surface of the sea......
Shaw walked quickly to the fence and looked down, and now the sea level was empty except for the bottomless water.
"Alas...... It looks like it's finally over!~" Shaw adjusted his mind and walked towards the captain's room......