The days that Tari Hydrofin had calculated had passed, and it was now the fifth day - but the lookout on the top of the ship still saw no sign of land, even with the telescopic function of the Light of Wisdom goggles turned on. ，

This made Archbishop Valcy think that Tari's calculations were wrong, but after many subsequent calculations, Tari's calculations were correct, and it can only be said that the ocean of Ferren was too vast.

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Sailing on the vast sea without a trace is a very boring thing, half a month has passed, and after the initial novelty has worn off, the moonlight rats can only wait boringly in the cabin and on the deck, hoping to reach their destination quickly.

There were some radical young men who wanted to see something at sea - though, any veteran sailor who had sailed for more than half a year knew that such a thought was terrifying, after all, there were so many giant sea beasts in the oceans of Torrell that they had a uniform name: the Sea Monster!

"Archbishop, the mistake has been found. ”

"There is one less figure in this book for the difference in latitude and longitude distances!"

As an overall champion in outland swimming, Tary Finfin has a natural sense of lakes and oceans – and he has been wondering why he calculated it was a three-day voyage for the past few days, but ended up sailing for half a month without seeing the island.

Eventually, he searched through the textbook and finally found the answer – there were two numbers on the textbook about the distance represented by the latitude and longitude scale, and the latter number was ten times that of the previous number.

The former number is used for the vast majority of the textbook, but in the opening narrative it is the latter - and most of the moonlight mice, including Tari Finfin, never pay attention to the title page when learning about navigation, but start directly from the text.

After recalculating the latter number several times, Tari Waterfin was given the corresponding date - thirty days, and it would take a full month to get from the sea portal opened by the gods to the designated location.

And such an answer made Archbishop Valcy happily pat Tari's back with pleasure, so that he could not be stingy with his praise—with Tari's answer, Archbishop Valcy could use it to appease the moonlight rat civilians on the wooden boat—they were much more agitated than they had been a few days ago, and needed some definite news to comfort them.

"Hello everyone, I am the commander-in-chief of the Moonlight Rat Advance Force, Archbishop Valcy of the Moonlight Rat God Church. ”

"We have received definite information that there is a miscalculation due to an error in the nautical textbook. In fact, we will be at sea for a month. ”

"Rest assured, we have enough water and food to meet your needs. ”

In this situation, telling the truth is the best way to do it - everyone is a reasonable moonshine rat, originally just anxious because of the unforeseeable future, now that there is a definite time, most of the moonshine rats have settled down.

An hour after Archbishop Valcy had finished announcing the news, the voice of the lookout on the top of the ship was heard.

"Report, a miniature island has been spotted in the sea about thirty kilometers to the right!"

"Turn the rudder right and go full speed. ”

Tari Finfin glanced at Archbishop Valcy, and with the latter's permission, he immediately gave a loud order - although there was plenty of water and food on board, every day in front of the endless blue sea and sky, one's ability to discern would gradually decline.

Now there is an island nearby, and even if you can't land, the green plants and the yellow rocks are enough to lift your spirits.

However, as the distance got closer, a tight alarm bell suddenly came down from the lookout.

"Stop, stop!"

"That's not an island, it's moving!"

"It's coming towards us!"

What? Not an island?

Tari Waterfin and Archbishop Valcy glanced at each other, and without saying a word, Tari rushed out of the door and quickly climbed onto the lookout - although obscured by the goggles, Tari could feel his horror, and in the direction of his finger, Tari immediately activated the farsightedness function of the goggles, and then he was not a good rat!

In the sea, a dark figure that can be seen without a telescope is approaching the Dry Stick Battleship at a speed visible to the naked eye - a giant creature that is only a hundred meters in circumference, according to visual estimates.

Compared to this creature, even with the wooden boat behind it, it is only slightly more than in length.

"That's a nautilus!

"We need to make a U-turn right now!"

Archbishop Valcy was undoubtedly more knowledgeable than Tari's Fins, and with a glance he could see the identity of the approaching sea monster - a huge sea monster with an octopus head and a conch carapace, which was able to adjust the amount of air stored in the carapace to gain different buoyancy.

And this kind of sea monster also has a characteristic, it likes to bask in the sun - the miniature island that the lookout sees is a nautilus that fills its carapace with air and floats on the water to enjoy the sunbathing, and when it sees the steel battleship approaching, it immediately approaches the battleship with joy when it thinks it has encountered a free lunch.

"Full right rudder! Full speed ahead!"

Before he could get off the lookout, Tari Finfin commanded the ship's lieutenant standing on the bridge to turn the rudder, and the Iron Battleship slowly turned its bow towards the way it came—and on the deck, the shooting champion Rott Talon and his Moonlight Mouse Shooting Force were already in place—and they would be at the helm of the Iron Battleship's already prepared guns, ready to counterattack!

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The speed of the steel battleship was an absolute advantage over the wooden ships of this era, but not over the upper nautilus, a creature born with a more advanced waterjet propulsion system than the propeller, which used small holes on its sides to suck in seawater, which then gathered in its mouthparts, and then used the compression of its muscles to eject a powerful current.

Under the thrust of the current, the maximum speed of the Nautilus can even exceed that of the steel battleship, but it cannot last.

And at this moment, watching the steel battleship start to escape with a series of wooden ships full of delicious food behind it, this nautilus immediately became anxious - although it is a sea monster, there are many sea monsters stronger than it in the Traceless Sea, and every time it looks for food, it must be careful to avoid encountering dragon turtles, Leviathan whales and other giant sea monsters that can be used as food.

And now, the meaty food floats on the surface of the sea not far away, and it only needs to be chased and eaten with its tentacles stretched out - which makes the nautilus instantly dazzling.

Squeezing his muscles and making the spurting water more turbulent, the Nautilus pursued its prey faster than the steel battleship.