Chapter 880: The Great Ship
Sylvia then took out a strip of cloth with the names of the people on it, wrapped it around the stick, and then found a few stones to reinforce the foundation stone underneath the stick.
Seeing Sylvia's behavior, Leo couldn't help but ask curiously, "Why are you interested in this?"
"Don't forget, I'm a different person. Sylvia patted the dust off her hands and said.
It was then that Leo remembered that Sylvia's other identity was a world-renowned adventurer and writer.
"When we climb the Rum Peak, are you going to put up another stick and tie it with strips of cloth?" said Tessa Mocha, with a hint of a teasing.
"Why not?" Sylvia shrugged, gesturing at a spare hiking stick in Leo's luggage.
"Look. At this time, Randall suddenly let out a small exclamation, and then pointed to the top of the mountain in the distance.
Everyone saw that in the clouds on the top of the mountain, a huge black shadow was slowly moving, judging from the form of the black shadow, it looked like an old-fashioned sailing ship, but soon the black shadow disappeared.
Compared to Mister and Randall, Sylvia didn't show the surprise she should have at this scene, she had seen countless such scenes when she was out on adventures, so she explained to the two of them in a calm tone: "There is no fuss, it is just an illusion caused by the refraction of light, and that black shadow may be a ship sailing in the eastern seas at this moment." ”
"Not necessarily. Leo denied her, saying, "The kind of situation you are talking about can only occur when the weather is fine, and it is impossible to have such an illusion when the weather is gloomy and gloomy, with the wind and snow hanging around, and the clouds are so thick that they weigh on the mountains." And that dark shadow is in the clouds, which is definitely different from the illusion you see. ”
"If it's not that illusion, what is it?" asked Sylvia, stunned.
"I don't know," said Leo, as he walked toward the peak, "let's go, go up and see what's going on." ”
Seeing Leo's decision, everyone didn't say anything more, and continued to follow Leo and climb towards the peak.
Although he thought it was very close when he saw the peak of the black shadow just now, it was actually very far away, and sometimes Leo had to take a long detour to avoid the fissure in the lower glacial layer that was too large.
On the way, they came across several more lists of martyrs, and Sylvia tied strips of cloth with their names written on them, but the strips of cloth on these lists were much less than they had seen at first, and the most recent one was only one, and the owner of this strip of cloth was lying next to the list he had set up, and it seemed that he had already come here and knew that he was not going to do it, so he left a mark of his existence.
There was no list of martyrs going up from this list, and it seemed that the list was the highest altitude that an ordinary climber could reach.
Leo wasn't surprised to learn this, but Mister and Randall felt incredible.
They know very well that although they have a strong ability to resist cold and become a lot stronger because of the mutation, they are still a little worse than the physical fitness of those mountaineers, and now they have come to a place that those mountaineers cannot reach in their lifetime, and the whole process is extremely relaxed, like an outing, they just need to take steps to keep up with the person who leads the way, which makes them have the illusion that they are not climbing the Rum Peak.
Because a lot of time is consumed for wayfinding, detours, etc., this makes the group walk for about three hours before they reach the peak where the black shadow appeared before, this peak has no name, but in terms of height, it should be second only to Rum Peak, and it is very close to Rum Peak, as long as you walk through a relatively steep slope, you can climb Rum Peak.
When they came to the edge of this peak, the black shadow of the boat in front of them reappeared, much more sober than just now, and at this time, everyone saw clearly that this black shadow was indeed a sailboat.
"Pay attention. Leo suddenly felt a slight disturbance in front of him, so he reminded Sylvia before continuing to walk forward.
Sylvia and Tessa Mocha, on the other hand, each prepared for a sudden attack after hearing the alert.
As for Mister and Randall, they have no ability to protect themselves, so they can only follow closely behind Sylvia.
The top of this mountain is not steep, but rather like a platform, and the sailboat is lying on the edge of the platform, and from the surrounding traces, it should have been covered with a large amount of snow and ice, but because of avalanches and other reasons, the snow and ice covering it have slipped down, and the sailboat is exposed.
"Bertcas!" Sylvia said in surprise as Leo was about to inspect the inside of the sailboat with a spirit net.
Hearing Sylvia's name, Leo was stunned for a moment, and then quickly found the information related to the fish bone, and confirmed with some surprise: "Is it the Betkas that explored the end of the Silent Sea?"
"Yes, that's it!" Sylvia nodded, pointing to the statue on the bow of the ship and the broken frozen flag on the flagpole, "That's the Bethkas's unique Goddess of the Sea, and the flag on the flagpole is also the Goddess Star Banner of the Bethkas family." ”
The people around looked at the sailboat in front of them in shock, and their eyes followed Sylvia's fingers towards the two objects with obvious features.
"But didn't it disappear in the Sea of Silence, how did it end up here?" asked Mister with a curiosity in his heart.
For anyone who cares about the maritime history of the world of Velon, the Betkas is definitely one of the most famous ships in the history of sailing.
It was arguably the largest and best sailing ship of its time, with an eight-masted mainsail and five sets of auxiliary sails, for a total of thirteen masted sails, plus the use of extinct tung oilwood, which allowed the ship to sail at great speeds on the water.
It has been calculated that the speed of the Bertkas would be far inferior to that of even the best steamers of the present day, if it were a tailwind.
And the most well-known thing about this ship is that it has never encountered any bad weather at sea, and every voyage is smooth, as if the ship had been blessed by some goddess of the sea who had never been recognized by the Orthodox Church, as the builders claimed.
In addition to the excellence of the ship itself, the experience of the Betkas is even more remarkable, at least in the history of navigation, and it has been left with far more ink than the other ships combined.
It was the first ship to circumnavigate the world and the first to discover the chain of pearl islands, although the Kingdom of England did not admit it, and it helped Sigma mappers to complete the first world nautical charts and island maps, the first topographic maps of the coastline of the three continents, and nearly half of the world's routes were discovered or developed.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Bertmar represents the pinnacle of the Sigmar Kingdom's maritime power, and at the opening ceremony of the Betmar's last voyage, the king of the Kingdom of Sigmar loudly declared to all the guests of all countries that you have mastered the land, but the sea will always belong to Sigmar, even if it sounds like a joke now.
After completing its third circumcontinental voyage, the Bertkas decided to do something no one had done before, and that was to explore the Endless Sea, or the end of the Silent Sea.
In the world of Velon, the ocean on the west side of the continent is called the Endless Sea, while the ocean on the east side of the Minsk continent is called the Silent Sea, according to the Church and some folklore, these two seas are endless and endless, and people in the past never thought of exploring the ends of these two seas until the appearance of the Bethkas.
The Bertcas, on the other hand, disappeared into the Silent Sea and never reappeared, and the last time in its maritime history, it was always gone, not sunk.
For adventurous people like Sylvia and Tessa Mocha, the Bertkas is an immortal legend, and they all have a strong respect for the Bertcas.
For Mister and Randall, who were born in the Kingdom of Sigmar, the significance of this ship is even more extraordinary, it can be said that it is regarded as the embodiment of Sigma, they grew up reading the stories of the Bertkas and watching the plays of the Bertcars.
Someone once joked that if a church of the Bethkas were established in the Kingdom of Sigmar, nearly two-thirds of the people of the Kingdom of Sigma would not hesitate to join the church.
Now, this legendary ship suddenly appeared in front of them, and the shock it caused them was completely indescribable.
While the others were completely immersed in the shock of the Bertcas's appearance, Leo had no special feelings at all, in his eyes it was just a sailboat, and what interested him was the unknown object in the ship that affected the spiritual network, and why the ship appeared on the Rum Peak.
"I'll go in and take a look, and maybe I'll find the captain's logbook or something. Leo suggested.
"Are you alone?" said Sylvia, dissatisfied, "I want to see it too." ”
"Better not, the ship doesn't look solid, I don't know what will happen if something happens. Leo spoke, looked at Mister and Randall, and said, "The two of them will die here." ”
Seeing Leo say this, Sylvia wanted to get on the boat and have a look, but she still endured it and didn't say anything more.
Then Leo jumped under the ship and landed on the deck above, only to see that there were no bones on the deck, cables, buckets and other items were well placed on the deck, and a pair of corpses were tied to a mast, it seemed that he looked like some sailor who had been punished, but strangely there were no other corpses on the deck, and there were no corpses in the hull.
Leo didn't dwell too much on this issue, and walked straight to the room in the captain's room, where the captain's logbook should be stored, and it was also the source of the interference with Leo's spiritual network.
The moment he entered the captain's room, Leo immediately felt that all the extraordinary powers in his body had disappeared, and he could no longer feel it in his body, only the spiritual energy and the blood power of his body remained intact, and the spiritual network was completely affected, and he could not detect any useful information.
Leo, who felt the change in his body, did not panic, he calmly looked around, and his eyes soon fell on an open metal box on the captain's desk.
Leo walked over and looked at the box, and found that the box contained a very ordinary-looking bone, and the reason for the disappearance of various extraordinary powers in the Dao body was this bone.
However, in addition to this bone, this metal box also caught Leo's attention, because judging from the characteristic reddish-purple luster that appeared on the surface of the metal and some metal lines hidden in the luster, this metal was probably made of Edano metal.
In the universe, Edano metal is a unique metal produced on the planet Idano, this metal is also known as the balance metal, its role is to balance any abnormal energy fluctuations in the universe, so this metal is also a key component of all spacecraft and energy laboratory emergency rescue systems, because when the spacecraft and energy laboratory have any abnormal state, such as the spaceship engine is overloaded, the energy laboratory is out of control, etc., the emergency rescue system made of this metal can be operated to balance all abnormal energy fluctuations.
It is precisely because this metal is very important and the effect is extremely special, so the mining, production, smelting, manufacturing and other processes of this metal are all directly controlled by the Supreme Council, and every part used is very closely supervised, and the loss of the situation will directly cause the Supreme Council to set up an investigation team.
Leo had only heard of this metal and had never seen it, but he had personally experienced the effects of this metal, when it was on the battlefield, the enemy used an unconventional energy weapon, and this energy weapon eventually got out of control, and it was very likely to destroy the entire planet and even the surrounding planets, and this metal emergency rescue system was activated, enough to destroy half of the galaxy's energy instantly calmed down.
It was an amazing scene that Leo still remembers vividly.
Now the box made of Edano metal in front of Leo was obviously intended to limit the power of the bone, although he didn't know who made the box and whose bone it was, but he knew that it was now his.
So, he directly closed the box and picked it up, and the moment the box was covered, the effect field around him that affected the extraordinary power in his body also disappeared, and his spiritual net re-scanned the surrounding situation.
"Oops!" Leo couldn't help frowning after receiving the information from the spirit network, picked up a pile of documents on the table that looked like logbooks, jumped out of the window behind him, and then spread his psionic wings, glided through the air, and landed firmly on the ground.
Behind him, a huge sailing ship turned into dust in the strong cold wind, blew into the air, and vanished.