It was not sand that filled the air, but a fine dust much finer than the grains of sand, a fine dust like flour suspended in the air, and with each breath, filling his nostrils and mouth, Jonah immediately understood the origin of the sand fog, the waterfall of sand up to seven hundred yards apart, every second there were tons of heavy yellow sand falling to the bottom of the valley, and the fine particles in the sand were raised high by the huge impact, forming an earthy yellow cloud that covered the sky and the sun, although the northeast wind was very strong, it could not be blown away like a sand fog solidified in the air,

"Drop the full sails. Hannah's voice came, and the visibility dropped quickly, and she was no longer visible from where Jonah was.

"Understood,...... Captain. Danny replied angrily, but without delay in his hands, he deftly swung between the sails, and as the sails were lowered one after the other, the speed of the "Bactrian Wind" dropped rapidly, until it lost all propulsion, and only squirmed slowly in the dusk fog by chirping.

"Ahem......" Danny came to Jonah's side, coughed a few times, and grumbled, "Hell, the sand fog hasn't been on this scale in previous years, and we're still 2 or 3 miles away from the Great Sand Falls." ”

The astrologer's apprentice opened his eyes with difficulty, "It makes sense to judge the slope by the sand fog, Danny, if there is data from previous years to compare, I should be able to calculate the average slope for this year, and if I can add contour topographic maps and wind data, it is also possible to find the area with the most gentle slope, Hannah is right, if even a layman like me can understand it, these should be the basic skills of a navigator." ”

"I'm not a damned navigator, I'm a sailor, at most the work of the chief sailor and the spinnaker, I haven't had a day of training in nautical mapping except with a telescope, there are only two people on this ship, do all the work except the helm alone. The boy of the Stuart family shouted innocently, and then choked and coughed,

Jonah felt that he had said the wrong thing, and he didn't know how to comfort the other party, and suddenly there was that regular tremor under his feet, this time the amplitude was larger, and his whole body shook,

"No, Hannah. Danny looked up suddenly, his face turning pale, "The chirp is sending out the signal of fear again, the second time, this is not the case in previous years." ”

"Never. Hannah replied in a calm voice,

Danny silently untied the belt of his robe, tied himself to the railing of the ship's side, and fastened the buckle, Jonah couldn't help but learn him to untie the belt, and trapped his waist firmly to the mainmast, and tied a dead knot.

For a moment, no one spoke, the three-masted galleon sailed slowly in the sand and mist, the surroundings were as dark as a cloudy dusk, the visibility was less than ten yards, strangely enough, the strong northeast wind that blew all the way seemed to suddenly disappear, the tips of Jonah's hair did not tremble in the slightest, there was a kind of whirring low wind in front of him, it must be the sound of the rolling quicksand of the great sand waterfall, and the thought that the abyss seven hundred yards high was somewhere in front of him that he could not see clearly, and that he might fall off the cliff in the next moment, Jonah felt that the muscles all over his body were tense, his bladder was compressed, and there was a strong feeling of wanting to urinate, and his fingers tugged the cable on the mainmast, and he tightened his legs,

"Want to pee, don't you? Danny glanced at him,

The astrologer apprentice bowed his head in shame, and after waking up from a hangover, he didn't have time to go to the toilet,

"Me too. Danny said frankly, almost shamelessly,

The horror of the unknown is one of the most terrifying of horrors, and the sense of falling is one of the psychological factors that are most likely to make people feel terrifying, Jonah gritted his teeth tightly, knowing that it was impossible to see anything from the thick fog, but he still tried to look ahead, trying his best to give himself a little psychological comfort,

Time passed very slowly, he felt that he had waited too long, the sound of quicksand was not loud or small, and it was always flowing in front of him.

The third shiver rippled through the hull, and Jonah felt the fear of the sandworm chirping through the deck, "Third ......" Danny patted the side of the ship, "Chirp, do you remember, when my dad was still alive, there was a year when the slope of the big sand falls was very gentle, and the whole quicksand surface was nearly 5,000 yards long, and we sailed through the northeast wind, so fast that it almost flew, Hannah, what year did it come from?" ”

"The year before my dad died. The sister replied,

Suddenly the sound of quicksand disappeared, and there was an eerie silence around him, and Jonah looked around at a loss, and the knuckles that were clutching the cable turned white from excessive exertion,

"Here we go. Danny said,

The deck tilted, the astrologer apprentice felt a sharp shift in his center of gravity, and the blood in his body began to flow backwards to his head, and the "Bactrian Wind" first tilted the bow slightly, then fell into the quicksand waterfall, and began to dive downward at an extremely steep angle, and a deafening roar sounded all around, thousands of tons of yellow sand rolled down, and the whole world was wrapped in sand and dust, only the violent shaking of the deck showed that the sailboat was in the torrent of sand and waves,

Jonah's feet floated off the ground, he grabbed the cable in horror, the bow of the main god Luta pointed to the void, the front became below, although it was still a dull sand mist, but every organ in his body told his master that he was beginning to fall,

"Sure enough, this slope ...... Poof. The boy of the Stewart family only said half a sentence because an unsecured wooden basin flew up and slapped him in the face, almost smashing the bridge of his nose flat.

Everything on the deck was suspended, the ropes holding them taut, even the heavy iron anchors rose in the air, the steel anchor chains creaked, from the frequency of the mote slapping against his face, Jonah could feel their speed increase dramatically, his back pressed against the mainmast by the acceleration, the copper rivets sank into the muscles, the astrologer's apprentice felt no pain, fear had overcome any other sensation, and of course, even the headache of a hangover had been completely conquered,

A wooden basin and a few red beads slowly floated past Jonah's eyes, and it was a nosebleed spurting from Danny's nostrils, "Hannah, the slope is over 100%." "Wipe a nosebleed," Danny yelled, "how fast will the end be so that you should hoist the sails and slow down." ”

"You're crazy, hoisting the sail will change the angle of force on the chirp, and if we are blown off the quicksand, we will fall. Hannah immediately rejected her brother's proposal,

"But if the speed is higher than the sandeater's capacity...... She's going to die. Danny exclaimed,

There was silence for a few seconds, "I hope Dad can lend us good luck." Hannah said,

"Luta is on the ......" Danny began to close his eyes and pray, small red droplets of water floating out of his nostrils,

Jonah opened his mouth wide and wanted to scream, but his throat seemed to be choked by the ubiquitous sand, and he couldn't make a sound at all, the speed of the three-masted galleon became faster and faster, the shaking of the hull intensified, the "wind of Bactria" made a twisted moan everywhere, the simple reinforcement rattled, a copper nail flew out, swirled and fell into the dust, and was swallowed by quicksand in an instant, and the astrologer's apprentice was attached to the mainmast, feeling that he was being squashed little by little,

With a drop of 700 yards and a gradient of more than 120%, with a simple calculation, Jonah could calculate how long it would take for the sailboat to hit the bottom and how fast it would eventually reach, but at the moment he couldn't think at all, his brain seemed to be squeezed out of his skull, and his consciousness became a blank.

Enough, it's almost time to reach the ground, he couldn't stop thinking, but the long sandfall seemed to have no end, and whenever he thought that his speed had reached the limit, the feeling of lack of blood in his body reminded him that the acceleration was not over,

The violently shaking three-masted galleon was like a fallen leaf in a hurricane, which could be slammed into pieces at any moment, and then submerged by the yellow sand, every screw was shaking and struggling to get out of the deck, and suddenly there was a loud cracking sound from the bow, "Be careful." At Danny's exclamation, Hannah, who had her hands tied to the rudder, jerked to dodge, and a swarthy behemoth rolled past the tips of her hair, slammed into the foremast and split in half, and pierced the mainmast's rope net like a bullet, flying behind her.

As the thing flew in front of him, Jonah saw the head of Luta, the god of fertility, with his mouth open, as if in silent protest, "Brand new ship's bow, a full 65 silver coins, although the money has not been paid, but the debt has increased, oh my God......" Danny's screams rang out,

The Stewart family's doom was not over, and a few seconds later, the foremast that had been violently hit with the snapping sound of wood fibers breaking, and then broke in half from the center, collapsing with countless sail lines, and Jonah watched the dark shadow magnify in front of his eyes, but there was no way to dodge.

"Boom. Half of the mast grazed his left arm and slammed it on the deck, knocking a large piece of wood to pieces, then bounced up, spun with the wind, and the bundles of fibers that had not been completely broken at the crack creaked and twisted, crackled and snapped, and finally the last trace of implication was torn off, and the broken mast flew into the air at once, but the messy ropes were entangled, and the mainmast was tensed, and the half-foremast was held in the air like a kite.

"Hannah, you're all right. Danny yelled,

"I don't care. In the sand fog, the current head of the Stuart family could be seen covering his forehead, presumably slightly injured, but Hannah glanced back and immediately shouted, "Cut the rope, or the mainmast will not hold on." ”

Jonah looked up with all his strength, and saw that the mainmast was bent again like a great bow, and the iron sheet that had just been repaired had cracked, and he tried to get out of this dangerous place, and then found that he had tied himself too tightly to break free, and when he fell at high speed, untying the rope was tantamount to suicide,

"Danny. Hannah saw Jonah's condition and immediately called out to her brother, Danny gritted his teeth and drew his dagger to cut off his belt, his body immediately levitated, his feet swaying in the hurricane, "Wait, I'll go right away." He stuck his dagger into the deck, steadied himself hard, and tried to approach the mainmast,

"It's too late. Hannah watched as the mast bent beyond its limit, and it wouldn't be long before the mainmast broke like the foremast, uprooting the tangled sail and falling into the quicksand along with the stunned cargo friend, she bit her lip and made a gesture that no one expected.

"Catch, please......"

Thirteen red crystals glowed in the sand mist, and Jonah saw the ivory-white magic pistol enlarge in front of his eyes, and Hannah threw out the "Summer White Sakura", her most cherished weapon, to ,,, a cargo to someone she didn't know yet.