Chapter 7: Extreme Cold
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The storm came unexpectedly, thick dark clouds rolled in the sky, and the dense electric light in the depths of the sea of clouds was like a dragon and snake dancing wildly, roaring and shaking the sky. Every inch of the air was filled with the bitter chill of the Atlantic, and the hurricane swept the sky and the earth with rain the size of a bean, like countless whips, whipping the sea fiercely.
A huge three-masted schooner struggled to move forward on the dark sea, like a small leaf, constantly tilting and shaking on the black and boundless sea.
In the rough seas, the boat swayed with the waves in the sea, and from time to time it was thrown high and high, and then fell heavily, washed and submerged by the waterfall-like water, and then miraculously climbed the surface of the sea along the wave slope.
Yalei stood at the bow of the ship, watching the raging rain and waves, and felt that the whole earth and sky were tilting and shaking. He used only a rope to tie himself to the guardrail at the bow of the ship to secure it.
The tidal roar in the body continued, faintly forming a strange rhythm with the storm, and the water fighting qi was like a liquid curtain wall that overlapped and unfolded, forming a translucent arc-shaped convex surface directly above the hull, counteracting the continuous beating of the wind and waves.
The cold hurricane blew his black hair back, and his clothes clung to his body, and the rain in the hurricane was everywhere, and they washed the deck like locusts.
This bit of cold was certainly not the same thing for Yalei, after learning the Hurricane Phantom fighting spirit, his center of gravity was surprisingly steady, allowing the deck to sway in the wind and waves, and his body stood still as if it were rooted.
"Damn the storm, it's a big trouble right now, I don't know where to be swept away by the wind and waves. ”
He cursed loudly with a dark face, and lightning pierced the dark night, and the dull thunder roared like a cannon, quickly drowning out the black-haired knight's voice.
"Chief, I see something in the water!" said Kara, standing on the lookout, at the top of the mast, wiping the water and shouting to the people on the deck.
"What?"
Yalei had been unleashing his senses around the hull, making sure he wouldn't sink by the waves, so he didn't pay much attention to things in the distance.
After hearing the warning from his companion, he immediately radiated his perception to several nautical miles away, and at the same time violently waved his hand forward, summoning the water fighting qi to quickly condense and expand, and rushed straight forward—blatantly crashing into a huge wave that swept in.
As Kara had said, a wave of primordial savage life was rapidly approaching in the sea.
"Yalei!"
Bruno opened the azure demon-breaking barrier with one hand to protect the stern of the ship, and in the other hand held the directional scroll, his whole body wet as if he had been fished out of the water. His eyes were fixed on the shiny red dots on the scroll, and the water beads kept rolling down his beautiful face, and he screamed in the loudest voice:
"We have strayed from the commercial route and been pushed into dangerous waters by a storm!"
"Fish! There are a lot of fish on the sea!"
Lydia stood on the side of the boat on the right side of the ship, clinging to a railing, staring at the dark sea, a delicate knot twisted between her brows.
On the murky cement of the sea, hundreds of different species of sea fish are rushing out of the sea like arrows, as if they are performing some strange ritual, and it seems that they are ...... Hiding from some kind of predator that they fear.
Fish of all sizes, large and small, leaped high in the rain and landed on the deck, bouncing and bouncing to the center of the deck, as if they would rather fall into the hands of humans than return to the sea.
"Heavy rain raging...... Schools of fish fly...... The Sea Devil is born...... No one survived...... Babur...... It's Babur the Sea Devil!"
The captain looked at the fish with a pale face, his body trembling under the rain, and put his hands in front of his mouth, and roared hoarsely:
"We need to get out of here! no one will survive seeing the Sea Devils!"
"What sea devils!?"
The black-haired knight reached out and grabbed it back, and the ripples in the shape of water ripples flew out directly, wrapping the man in layers and pulling him directly in front of him.
"It's a fable of the sea, and it's said that this once-in-a-decade storm has the potential to awaken the demons of the deep sea, and the sign of the demon's birth is a school of fish fleeing the water...... It's exactly the same as what we're seeing now!"
The captain seemed to realize who was being questioned on the other side, and the panic on his face gradually calmed down.
"It's just a sea devil, what's the panic!"
Yare locked onto the position of the monster in the sea, and with a backhand push, the liquid orb returned the same way and sent him into the cabin.
Click——!
A flash of lightning flashed through the sky, illuminating everything on the sea.
Smack——!
A drop of muddy rain slammed into the back of the black-haired knight's hand, emitting a strange fishy smell, and then a large commotion sounded quickly.
As if the sea was boiling, a lot of bubbles were filled, and the school of fish bouncing around the shuttle became denser and denser.
Click——!
Swordfish scrambled to break through the water, arcing through the rain, and by the weight of the fall from a height, the sword-shaped upper jaw pierced the wood and nailed to the deck like daggers.
"There are too many fish!"
"Get rid of them!"
Seeing that there were more and more fish on the deck, and there was a faint tendency to submerge the hull, Goethe and Lolo hurriedly struck, and their figures swept across the deck like a photoelectric whirlpool, sweeping the fish back into the sea in large swaths.
The sea at night is like a large carpet with no edge in sight, which slopes to the left and then to the right. It's as if the whole world is spinning.
On the black sea ahead, a huge shadow is slowly floating in the surging bubbles.
"What's that!?"
"Monster!"
"Sea Devil! It's Sea Demon Babur!"
More than one person saw this scene, and the sailors had more or less heard of the murderous name of the sea devil, and immediately returned to the cabin to take out their weapons, ready to fight to the death - sailors are also a relatively risky profession in this year, and there are no bad breeds of people who have been drifting on the sea all year round.
I saw that the huge shadow lingered beside the ship for a moment, and then quickly dived into the depths of the sea and disappeared, and after a while many whirlpools appeared on the surface of the sea beside the boat. As if the flow of the sea had been manipulated, a large number of fish of all colors that were about to jump out of the sea were swirled in a whirlpool and sank to the bottom of the sea as if they had been filled with lead.
At the same time, the school of fish also stopped, and the sea water gradually became blood-colored ripples, and the thick plasma condensed on the surface of the sea, and a huge viscous figure slowly surfaced.
It was a gigantic octopus that was thousands of yards long. Its back was covered with black spikes, dragon-like spikes, like a row of sharp spears. In the center of the huge skull, which occupies a third of the body, there is a vertical eye that is three stories high, the whites of the eyes glow with a yellow glow, and the pupils are swirling and intertwined with blood-colored lines.
In front of it, the Ruby was like a delicate toy, inconspicuous.
The long, narrow tentacles disappeared with the waves, and no one doubted the power contained in the tentacles, which could smash the Ruby to pieces with a single blow.
The captain felt only a tightness in his chest, and he tried to breathe heavily, but he felt no relief, and his chest seemed to be pressed by something.
In the midst of everyone's terrified gaze, the Sea Demon Babur slowly raised a huge tentacle, the end of which was bent and knotted into two zeros, high in the air, and then a dull loud noise came from the sea:
"Are you still worried about the unpredictable climate of the sea, are you still worried about not being able to find your way in the storm, and are you still having to lengthen the course because of the monsters in the dangerous seas? The opportunity is right in front of you, the deep-sea guide Babur is at your service, not ten thousand or one thousand, only a hundred ounces of gold, you can swim in the Atlantic Ocean as if you were on vacation!"
The enigmatic silence on the deck, including the captain, the sailors, including Yalei and the others, was messed up in the storm.
“......”
Staring at the glazed eyes of the people on the deck, as if thinking they hadn't heard clearly, Babur the Sea Devil brought the tentacles knotted at the end closer, and repeated in a sullen voice:
"It's not 10,000 or 1,000, just a hundred ounces of gold, and you'll be on vacation in the Atlantic!"
"It's expensive!"
The black-haired knight, who had experienced a similar incident, reacted relatively quickly, stretched out five fingers, and shouted with a serious face: "Fifty ounces, at most fifty ounces of gold!"
"Guest, a cut is half, how can you bargain like this. ”
The big octopus Babur complained loudly, shook the tentacles sticking out of the sea, and said indignantly:
"If it weren't for a strong man like you on the ship, I would have smashed the ship a long time ago and taken people and goods away. A hundred ounces of gold is already cheap, and knowing that this is the Atlantic, I can save you half the time you fly. ”
It turned out that he was still the familiar sea devil, but he worked part-time as a tour guide when he encountered hard stubble......
The sailors let out a sigh of relief, and their expressions quickly returned to normal, with expressions of understanding and approval - in fact, the sailors of this era had very low discipline values, and they would not mind making a cameo appearance as a pirate if they had the opportunity.
"In that case, a hundred ounces will do, but what if you take us into a pirate's den or send us to a reef somewhere?" the black-haired knight looked distrustful.
"There can be a contract for this. ”
The big octopus Babur blinked, looking completely honest businessman.
"Well, let's give you half first, and then pay you the other half after sending us to the Caribbean?"
"No problem. ”
"The deal is set up, Bruno, to fetch the gold. ”
......
The torrential rain poured down, and the great octopus Babur swam through the sea at a seemingly slow pace, and the three-masted galleon was encircled inside by it with two tentacles, unaffected by the crashing of the waves.
As a monster of the deep, Babur follows the most basic laws of the jungle and disdains to deal with weak creatures, who are regarded as food and slaves, and will not communicate with anything other than giving orders.
If the idle merchant ship wants to encounter it, there is only one way for the ship to be destroyed and people die, and it is useless to intercede, so this guy has the title of sea devil in the Atlantic.
Relatively speaking, as long as the strength reaches a certain level, Babur will lower his posture according to his level, and the stronger the strength, the more courtesy he can get.
Generally speaking, it will kill (neng fourth sound) the ability below the third order, blackmail the ability of the fourth order, hook up with the ability of the fifth order, curry favor with the ability of the sixth order, kneel and lick the ability of the seventh order - if the other person is injured, or cannot exert his strength due to some kind of influence, or has super potential, then talk about it separately.
Don't underestimate the wisdom of a thousand-year-old man, it is precisely because of this law of survival that it can live incomparably chic until now, and the more it passes, the more nourishing it is.
The black-haired knight is a true sixth-order, and in Babur's rules of survival, he is an object of please, so the two beings with a large difference in size actually talked happily along the way.
Through the exchange, Yalei learned that Babur is a giant of the deep sea, because he likes storms, he often haunts this weather, has about 300 wives, more than 60,000 children and grandchildren, so he spends a lot of money on weekdays.
In stormy weather, he likes to raid merchant ships to support his family, but these are small sums of money, and according to Babur, he and his wives have long learned to grow corals and raise pearl mussels. Usually I often accept pirates to make money, and robbery is more interesting than substance, is it a monster...... Always like to bully weak ......
When the black-haired knight asks how it spends its money, Babur looks disdainful and asks Arley if he thinks that the monsters are fools, and who likes to hunt every day if they can make money to feed their stomachs.
The black-haired knight felt very reasonable when he heard this, and was speechless for a while.
Then the big octopus began to show off its riches, and it usually instructed its servants to plant corals for itself, and after planting the corals, it would be exchanged for precious stones in the indigenous countries in the southwest of the World Island, where the gems were cheap and the corals were precious.
The gems were then transported to the Federation in the New World and exchanged for a variety of canned goods, where food was cheap and precious gems were precious.
Then he took the cans to the southern part of the New World and exchanged them for gold, where gold was cheap and food was precious.
After this trip, it can often make more than ten times the profit, and there is no tax, as long as it is done once a year, it can make it and his wife and children eat and drink.
After hearing this, Yalei was deeply encouraged, and it seemed that as long as he was willing to use his brain, even an octopus could make huge profits from smuggling, and his own arms smuggling must have a bright future.
One person and one fish chatted non-stop along the way, and after gradually getting acquainted, the black-haired knight began to advise it not to rob and kill people indiscriminately, otherwise it would be chased and killed by the enemy sooner or later, since it can make money by smuggling, then keep smuggling.
Babur thinks it makes sense, but says it's a habit that if you don't rob in stormy weather, you'll feel uncomfortable.
Yalei came up with an idea for the big octopus, saying that now there are two camps in the human world, and you can't offend both. It is recommended that Babur keep an eye on the merchant ships of the Freedom Alliance, and if there is an accident in the future, there is still a thigh to hold.
The big octopus was very happy after hearing it, and felt that he was a very reliable person, so he wanted to make a deep friendship, and the black-haired knight could call him Squidward in the future.
If you meet in the future, you can get a 20% discount. (To be continued.) )