Chapter 41: The Lighthouse

A deafening hurricane burst up from the bottom of the sea, mixed with a large amount of blue rushing upwards, and deep lightning flashed like a crack in the void, constantly appearing and disappearing as it healed itself.

As the minutes passed, the wind and lightning never subsided, and the sky became even darker, making it impossible to judge the time by the sky.

"We're almost there." Okfa said suddenly.

"Hey," Anderson wiped a handful of the rain running down his hair, "it's actually there." ”

No more people were involved in their meaningless topics, and everyone looked at the faint light that gradually appeared at the junction of heaven and water with serious faces.

All people at sea are familiar with such a light.

"From the point of view of the intensity of the light, the technology applied before Russell the Great, using a kerosene lamp as a light source, through a lens system floating in mercury, the lighthouse keeper controls the lens system through a device, and the light is projected on the surface of the sea." Adevina looked at the lighthouse in the distance and spoke.

"It's normal," said Sbasnereki, "that the Grim Reaper made waves in the Furious Sea before the Fifth Age. ”

"Everyone get ready for battle," Edvina nodded, and gave instructions to the crew, "Control the speed and direction, we're ready to dock." ”

"Obey, Captain." The crew on one side smiled and raised their hands to caress the brim of their hats, saluted, and ran back.

Even though the light of the lighthouse was far away, it still took more than half an hour to actually see the land.

Agnes narrowed slightly, still looking at the dark shadow in the dark rain with her thin black eyes.

She saw the wisps of pitch black and blood intertwined, wrapping the island in front of her like a cocoon, and the ends of those undetectable silk threads reached into unknown places, dyed with a faint gray-black color.

There was an indescribable sense of separation, and Agnes blinked, and the fine black under her eyes vanished.

"They're going up with us?" Agnes glanced at the busy crew around her and whispered beside Adevina.

"They'll stay on board." Adevina spoke.

"Indeed," Angnes nodded thoughtfully, "it is dangerous enough for them to even stay on the shore. ”

The crew on the Averina was skilled enough, but even that took a lot of time to get close to the lighthouse-guided harbor.

The people in the dimly lit hut on the side of the harbor seemed to spot the approaching Avelina and walked out of the house.

"Damn it!" Anderson's face turned ugly when he saw the figure holding an umbrella and carrying a lantern.

"It's Ex......" Okfa also looked not very good, and whispered the name of the person who came.

"Looks like your former companions." Agnes raised her hand to press the wide-brimmed hat above her head and whispered.

The two did not speak, but approached the side of the ship.

The man with the lantern commanded the Avelina to dock in a standard manner, and then looked up to take a closer look at the people on the side of the ship.

Agnes' keen vision allowed her to see the man's shriveled face and a smile that gradually appeared at the corner of his mouth, which looked relaxed and happy.

The next moment, Angnes saw the man drop the umbrella, waved exaggeratedly, opened her mouth, and shouted:

"Heyβ€”hey, is it little Oakfa and Anderson?" After the man's voice was swallowed up by the sound of rain, it managed to penetrate the ears of the people on the side of the ship.

Agnes saw Anderson retract his ugly face, leaned almost half of his body against the side of the ship, leaned down and shouted, "Hey, Ex, call him that, Okfarco is angry." ”

"Fart," the man below scolded with a smile, his voice piercing the rain with a little illusion, "it's definitely you who said that he got angry." ”

"Nonsense," Anderson patted the side of the boat with a look of distress, "is Okfa such a person?" ”

Anderson's small talk with the man who appeared to be named "Ex" below him seemed unusual, but the visible shriveled face and the shriveled hands peeking out from under the wet sleeves reminded everyone of the anomaly in him.

"Are you going to get off the ship?" The man with the lantern asked.

"Sailors are to keep an eye on," replied Anderson, seemingly unsuspectingly, "and my friends and I are going to go into town to buy something to replenish our supplies." ”

"Then you'll have to put away the gangways later, keep a vigil with more people, and don't listen to the sounds you shouldn't hear," said the man with the lantern with a smile on his face, "and the ocean is always full of 'surprises' at night." ”

"Of course." Anderson said with a triumphant look.

He took a step back, a little further away from the side of the ship.

"He's no longer distinguishable from those things in the city," Okfa sighed under his breath, "though his mind still seems clear." ”

"Put away the side of the ship, send more people to keep vigil, and don't listen to unusual sounds......" Edvina frowned as if thinking of something.

"It doesn't hurt to do a little more preparation," Sbasnereki began, his voice hearty, "even if that unfortunate gentleman didn't say it, we would have made such an arrangement, wouldn't we?" ”

"She's just gotten this kind of information, and she's unwilling to dig out something deeper in it." Anderson shrugged his shoulders and said with a heartless look.

"We need to be a little more cautious," Advina said, looking up at the crew around her, "If there's anything out of the ordinary, you ......

"Captain, you can't prepare everything for us," said a young crew member with a smile on his face, "and since we have come to sea and embarked on this adventure on the stormy sea, we are ready......"

"I don't think the crew of the pirate general in the future will have to be taught by their own captain how to deal with unconventional events at sea, right?" The young crew replied with a little jokingness, "The people of the Five Seas will not give us the opportunity to 'resign' ourselves. ”

"I just hope you don't underestimate the anomalies of the Raging Seas." Edwina was silent for a moment, and said with a serious expression, "After we leave, your safety can only depend on yourself, and I can only leave you with the contact methods agreed before, and I may not be able to take care of you." ”

She paused and continued, her voice slightly confused, "Besides, I need one of you to go to the lighthouse over there, I always think there's something strange there." ”

The young crew seemed a little strange and asked, "Then captain, won't you go and investigate for yourself?" ”

Edwina shook her head, "My instincts tell me that everything in the city is the prerequisite for solving all mysteries. ”

Agnes listened to the conversation between the two and cast her eyes on the lighthouse towering over the edge of the cliff.

"Whatever it is, at least light it for someone in the dark." She said casually.

In the dim rain curtain, there are a few blackening marks on the solid tower, maybe the moss is just the wet marks of the rain.