Chapter 52: Exploration in a Shipwreck
Compared with the clarity of the seawater outside the cabin, the water in the cabin is relatively turbid, the ground under the feet is piled up with silt, and the roof of the head is floating with debris. Everything in the hallway was almost still, no different when there was silence all around. Walking in this corridor, it seems that a group of panicked sailors can also be seen stumbling out of their respective rooms, only to be knocked down by the oncoming high-pressure waves, rolling involuntarily in the corridor, and desperate screams resounding in the cabin.
The water was surging, and Pannis suddenly sprang upwards diagonally, and the dagger brought up a line of water and stabbed into the debris above his head. Catherine followed closely, and at the same time as Pannis's dagger was withdrawn, she had already stood up in front of Pannis, and there was no gap in the cooperation. But Pannis smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said, "I saw it wrong, it's this thing." ”
On Pannis's dagger, there is a huge double crow more than a meter long, the two large crows of the double crow are larger than the human face horizontally, and the uneven hard teeth on the pincers make the claw look even more hideous. The brain of the double crow shrimp was pierced by Pannis's dagger, and the body had lost its vitality, but the five pairs of feet were still writhing in the water, especially the two feet that turned into double crows, and they opened and closed hard in the water, and the girls had no doubt that if it was an ordinary person or a low-level professional, the bones would break if it was clamped at will. Just now, the double crow was stimulated by the light and moved slightly in the clutter, but even such a slight movement was extremely noticeable in the completely stationary cabin, so it caused a big disaster.
"Hmm. Pannis looked at the trophy on his dagger with some embarrassment, raised it in front of Lina, and let the tongs wave it in front of Lina: "We can eat double shrimp tonight, it is said that this shrimp is very delicious to eat raw, and there is no fishy smell." ”
"Eat it yourself, we're not a sea tribe. Uh, it's ugly. Lina stretched out her finger and poked Pannis's waist hard, snatched the struggling double crow shrimp as Pannis dodged around, looked at it curiously for a while and said: "We don't eat at the bottom of the sea, and we don't want to eat a mouthful of food and spit out seawater, so let's continue to suck our underwater special liquid food." ”
"Hey, give it back to me. Robbed of the loot, Pannis glared at Lina fiercely: "That's my prey." ”
"It's mine now. There were no outsiders around, and the surrounding environment was relatively calm, Lina immediately regained her nature, crazy like a child, learning Pannis's movements, bringing the double shrimp close to Pannis, and making him constantly open and close the double pincers to force him to retreat again and again: "Clamp you, clamp you, clip you." ”
"Don't make a fuss. Catherine snatched the half-dead prawn, threw it aside, glared at Pannis dissatisfied, and said, "You also follow her to mess around, don't look at what place this is." And you, Lina, have to play until you get to a safe place, but it's not safe yet. ”
"Hmm. Lina lowered her head and pursed her lips, but Vivien and Freya gloated in exchange for a gloating smile.
"Now the first floor is basically gone. Catherine glared at her, coughed dryly, and said, "There are twenty-four sailors' rooms, two weapons rooms, and one dining room, but there is nothing of value, well, and all kinds of value, not even a single gold coin can be found." Then, counting the corpses in the sailor's room in the corridor, the total is ......"
"Ninety-two. "If there were six sailors in each room, and all the rooms were full, there would have been one hundred and forty-four sailors on the first floor, and now we have found nearly two-thirds, a very high percentage." ”
"But according to you, you still can't explain anything, only that they may have been pulled to the bottom of the sea in an instant. Catherine said wistfully, "Go to the second floor, you might find something on the second floor." ”
"Actually, there's a problem on the first layer. Pannis touched his chin and said with interest, "Have you been on a ship? not a passenger ship, but a ship that transports goods or sailors." ”
"Passenger passengers have ridden, freight has not. Catherine and Freya said almost at the same time, and as for Lina and Vivien, they simply shook their heads, they had never been on any sea boats.
"All cargo ships have a common habit when it comes to cabin arrangement. Pannis said: "The first floor is the most spacious, and it is the closest to Class A, and there are portholes, so it is the best position in the whole ship, so the captain's room, the first and second officers, and the rooms on the middle floor of the fleet will be on this floor, and the rest of the rooms are assigned to the strong stormtroopers, because they will rush to the front line in battle, so they should be given the best treatment." If you are a regular sailor, the rooms will only be on the second and third floors. But now the ship is reversed, and the ordinary sailor's room is actually on the top floor. ”
"So what?" Catherine asked, seeing that Pannisy was silent, "what does that mean?"
"Who knows. Pannis shrugged his shoulders as if he had nothing to do with himself and said, "I just found out that there is something unreasonable, but how can I know the specific reason, and it is not the ship I built, and I am not the captain." ”
Catherine rolled her eyes, turned her head and left: "Let's go, be careful on the road, there will be no portholes on the second floor, complete darkness, be careful of the monsters hidden in the dark." ”
Between the first and second floors, it is connected by a short staircase. Instead of blindly jumping from the entrance into the darkness below, several people stepped on the stairs, step by step, step by step. The second floor is noticeably narrower than the first, but noticeably cleaner than the first. There were a lot of debris floating on the top of the corridor on the first floor, but not on the second floor, and the second floor was clean, with almost no debris except for the corpses. Yes, there were also dozens of corpses on the second floor, but no one would be stupid enough to think that these were the bodies of sailors, and they did not float on the top of the corridor, but lay quietly on the floor of the corridor motionless.
The bodies of these corpses were covered with thick scale armor, and although the metal armor had long since rusted and rotted, no one touched it for many years to keep the armor in its original position, and the heavy weight pressed down on the corpses, preventing them from rising. It is difficult to see the original appearance of the rusted scale armor, and it is impossible to infer their identity from the style of the scale armor. Each of their corpses carried a standard sword, but the alloy sword was also covered with rust.
"The appearance of this sword, I seem to have hidden, I have seen who painted it. Lina held her head and thought for a long time, gritted her teeth and said, "You wait for me, I'll go back and ask, who should have seen them." ”
Several people watched Lina stand in place for a while, and suddenly their eyes lit up, their hands were on their hips, and they just wanted to speak but were directly filled with seawater. After struggling to spit out the water in her mouth, Lina regained her lofty expression and said in the way of the sea: "Inferior creatures, this king is back. Now hand over your souls for the king to enjoy, and it is the greatest honor of your life to be devoured by this king. ”
"I actually called her out. Catherine rubbed her eyebrows and said with a headache, "Is there no other candidate?"
"What do you mean by pariah?" Lina glared at her round eyes and said angrily, "Are you dissatisfied with the appearance of this king?"
"No, no, no. Pannis shook his head vigorously and said, "How dare we be dissatisfied with Queen Isabella. ”
"That's pretty much it. The young Empress Isabella regained her smugness, looked up and said, "What do you want this queen to see?"
"This is it. Vivien bent down and picked up a long sword and handed it to Isabella's face, "Come and smell it, and then help us find the others." ”
"Bastard, this queen is not a dog. Isabella immediately jumped on the spot, waving her hands in anger to express her anger: "This queen will punish you and eat your soul." ”
"Alright, Vivien, don't bully her. Catherine shook her head helplessly, stepped forward and touched Isabella's long silver hair from Lina, and said gently: "Help us take a look, Lina said that you know the source of this long sword, thank you." ”
Isabella narrowed her eyes comfortably, enjoyed Catherine's touch for a while, rubbed the top of her head against Catherine's palm, and then said, "Okay, this king reluctantly told you." I've seen this kind of weapon before, this is the standard weapon of a small ** team not far from our Saint Sawyer Kingdom, and we have captured a batch of it in the previous war. What is the name of that country, I think about it, Dunk Daken? It seems to be called Daken, I don't remember exactly. ”
"A small country of the Tertiary Period?" Catherine asked in a low voice, "the standard weapons of the army?"
"You can't be wrong. Isabella nodded: "The scale armor on their bodies is also the standard equipment of the most elite professional troops in the army, although it is only a group of low-level professionals, but the combat effectiveness is not bad." ”
"It seems that these are not sailors. Pannis and Catherine looked at each other and said, "This is a small army of professionals that has always been made up. ”
"It's getting more and more complicated. Catherine said suspiciously, "It's strange that the army has no reason to appear here, and it is still in conflict with the Sea Clan." ”
"Nothing else. With a disgusted expression on her face, Isabella said unabashedly: "I'll go back if it's okay, I don't want to stay with this group of fanatics, even if it's just a corpse, it's uncomfortable." ”
"Wait, you say they're fanatics?" Catherine was stunned for a moment, and asked eagerly, "That Daken is still from Donk, is it a theocratic country, and the army is all believers?"
"yes, didn't I say that?" said Isabella, "they ......."
"Who. Pannis suddenly asked, and at the same time turned around, protecting the three relatively fragile girls behind him. At the same time, Catherine, who heard Pannis's question, did not hesitate at all, and Ti Dun met the three figures who rushed out from the shadows. (To be continued.) )