Chapter 427: The Lookout's Work
Lukka looked at the charts and felt a little embarrassed.
If the two troublemakers were to be sent back, the Silent Reaper's course would have to travel hundreds of nautical miles south, which would have taken a big circle and could take more than a month. But if he took the two of them with him, the constant noise every day really gave him a headache.
After thinking for a while, he finally made a decision: "Don't send it back yet, let them follow." ”
Finch and Gavin were about to cheer, but they heard Luca say again: "Leave it to them on the watchtower, day and night, every twelve hours, so that you don't quarrel when you meet." ”
Although both of them felt that the working hours were a bit long and the working environment was really not very comfortable, at least they didn't have to look at each other's disgusting faces every day, so they reluctantly agreed.
"Then I want daytime, I like to bask in the sun!" Gavin said preemptively.
"What sun are you basking in? Have you ever seen the sun in all these years underground?" Finch refused to back down.
"Enough for the two of you!" Luca exclaimed, "one day off every five days of work, and then a rotation." In the first round, Gavin was on duty during the day. ”
"Why did he go first?" Finch still didn't give up.
Lukka ignored his grumblings: "Daniel, you throw Gavin on the top of the mast now." Ollie, you lock Finch into his room, and let him rest well, lest he snooze on the mast at night. ”
After dealing with the two dwarves, Lukka finally got a rare clean time in half a month. The route had been decided, and the magic practice was in the recuperation period after the recent upgrade, and he could now relax with a cup of tea and be lazy in the lounge for a while.
It will take about twenty days to get to Moonspring Island, at the speed of the Silent Death.
In the boiling sea, the sea breeze is also often affected by the large amount of gas coming out of the water's surface, causing the wind direction to change rapidly, and neither the Silent Death nor the Peregrine Falcon can sail at full speed stably, so even an experienced navigator like Crete can only estimate an approximate time.
Sailing here, not only is the speed sometimes fast and sometimes slow, but the compass is often affected by unstable magnetic fields, and determining the direction is also a troublesome task. Fortunately, Crete's eyesight is enough to penetrate the thick clouds of the sky, and even on cloudy days, he can point out the position of the sun, and in combination with the date and time, he can still judge the general direction.
Such navigation conditions have led to the fact that the shipping business in the Boiling Sea is far less developed than that of the Sunset Islands, and the transportation of goods between the islands is almost monopolized by the Undercurrent Chamber of Commerce, and the profession of piracy has disappeared here.
In the days that the Silent Reaper had sailed, the only ships it had encountered, apart from a few cargo ships on the black market, were small dhows that could only fish in the offshore waters.
Three weeks later, in the morning, when the sea breeze gradually warmed up, the silhouette of Yuequan Island was finally revealed in the rising sun.
Arriving at the destination soon, everyone should have been quite relaxed, but shut up and stood on the parrot statue at the bow of the boat, tilted his head sideways and listened carefully for a while, then turned back and asked, "Did you hear that? Why does it seem that there is a war going on over there?"
Lukka also heard the sound of continuous explosions, and according to the density of this sound, at least a dozen cannons were firing at the same time every second, which was not a small battle.
"Is there really a war, are we going to fire two shots?" asked Daniel.
"No," Ollie nodded, "only the sound of cannons, no shouts of killing, doesn't it look like a war?"
From the top of the mast came Finch's shout: "That's the salute of Moon Spring Island!
"Catch up with what?" Lukka asked, looking up.
The springs of Moonspring Island only gush out once every few months, and when there is an omere of a gushing spring, the people of the island will fire a salute to celebrate. Finch said, gesturing.
"Is that a good spring?" asked Luca.
"It's not just delicious, it's a rare water of youth, and it is said that no matter what illness you have, you can take a bath in it!" Finch was so excited that he jumped off the mast.
"Is it that amazing? It sounds like a lie. Lukka wasn't convinced.
"How can it be a lie? I don't believe you ask your fire spirits. Finch said.
"Ahh ”
"Believe it or not!" Finch turned his head a little angrily.
"Hey, why are you up there? Aren't you supposed to be on the night shift?"
Finch shouted, "Do you think I think that green-skinned bastard hasn't shown up yet, and no one has replaced me!"
"What's so noisy?" said Gavin, rubbing his eyes, and stepped out of the cabin.
Lukka took out his pocket watch and looked at it, pinched his green pointed ears and said, "I said that the shift will change at six o'clock in the morning and evening, what time is it?"
"I can't be blamed for this!" Gavin protected his ears, "He came last night until almost midnight, and I haven't slept enough!"
"Forget it, the one above is also hurry down. Lukka shook his head, "It's going to be the port soon, I don't know if either of you are up there, so let's shut up and keep an eye on it." ”
A few hours later, the Silent Death docked in the harbor of Moonspring Island.
The docks were almost all black market boats, probably having received orders in advance, and one of the best seats on the dock was vacant, but none of the crew came to talk to them.
That's for the best. Lukka thought to himself, he didn't want to make his trip known to everyone, and the more low-key his actions were, the less likely it was that the Void and the Three Main Gods would find him. However, given the size of the Silent Death, his idea was actually quite difficult to realize.
He led everyone off the boat, and the person in charge of registration on the dock was an elf who had a slight resemblance to Nora. It seems that Moonspring Island is indeed one of the most open islands in the Boiling Sea, this elf looked at this group of strangely shaped crews, even the rare humans in the Boiling Sea did not let him look twice, but it was the silver coin that Lukka hid under the registration form that made him smile a little.
"No problem, you can moor!" the elf picked up the stamp on the table, quickly stamped it on the registration form, and handed it back to Luca, completely ignoring that the name of the ship written on it did not match the behemoth on the dock.