The steel battle rules were quietly anchored in the harbor of Zengland, and the flag representing the sea mist fleet above the battleship stretched in the wind in the sun, and the pattern on the flag was a cluster of ice crystals as sharp as a knife, and there was a crack in the middle of the ice crystals - ice crystals, which were the mark of frost, and the cracks symbolized self-exile

of the "rebels".

After the famous pirate captain had departed with his retinue, no one had left the ship, and the Sea Mist had anchored quietly like an iceberg in silence, its towering and majestic sides and bow blocking all curious views from the docks, while a city-state guard arrived from a nearby garrison to block the access to the pier to prevent unrelated people from approaching.

After the sheriff intervened to disperse, the do-gooders gathered near the dock finally dispersed.

First mate Aiden stood on the bridge of the Sea Mist, silently watching the movement on the docks.

He didn't go ashore with Tyrion - while the captain left the ship, he, the first mate, was to remain on board the ship to temporarily take over the captain's powers, in order to prevent chaos.

"Those city-state guards look nervous," one of the sailors muttered beside them, "for fear we'll come ashore and plunder—I thought the city-state guards of Plain, the pearl of the sea, would be a little better than the bales of the cold sea."

Aiden didn't reply, "If they don't come forward to maintain order, you should say that Purland's guards don't even have the courage to go out and close the streets—if you really want to fight their steam tanks, will you go?"

「.…… I'm not going, I don't want to be carried back to the deck in a bucket." The sailor hurriedly shook his head, and then looked up in the direction where the steam walkers had left, "The captain followed them...... You okay? That tall woman doesn't look easy to mess with, I don't think the captain can beat her......

"We're not here to fight, we're invited, do you understand?" Aiden finally couldn't help but glance at the sailor, "You, and you, can you adjust your mentality, have you forgotten the captain's usual teachings?" We're a sea fog venture capital company now—robbery doesn't last long, and business isn't faster than robbery to make money?"

"Then when are we going to rob?"

Aiden thought for a moment, and a ray of sunlight reflected on his shiny head: "Of course, the other side is not willing to do business......

Several undead sailors nodded their heads one after another, indicating their first mate's opinion, and then there was silence for a few seconds, and one of the sailors, whose left half of his head was completely deflated, couldn't help but look in the direction of the city-state, and muttered, "Can we go ashore and have a look?" Plant, I heard that this city is ......."

"Don't even think about it." Aiden directly interrupted the subordinate, "The captain ordered that you are not allowed to leave the Sea Mist without permission - you guys who have come ashore will definitely scare people, and Poland is not the north, and there are few people in this place who have seen a talking corpse."

"So the captain only picked a few of the ones who looked most like living people to go ashore," said the sailor, who had gone down in his head, and raised his hand to help his head, "Actually, I think I'm pretty good-looking, take half a shell to cover this place, and put on my hat......

"Shut up, no one is allowed to go ashore without the captain's orders!" Aiden glanced at the sailor viciously, "If you really have nothing to do, go to the cabin and see if the unlucky ones who were glued to the deck before are alive, and if they do, let them ......report it."

A faint clicking sound suddenly came from not far away, interrupting Aiden's command.

Everyone on the bridge heard the slight click, and several eyes looked in the direction from which the sound came from, and the sailor who spoke first discovered the source of the sound.

Next to the captain's seat was a strange machine of gears, connecting rods, and compass hands, which was now quiet, but its hands still trembled slightly, as if to show that it had suddenly run a moment before.

"This thing just moved?" One of the nearest sailors cautiously approached the intricate machine, and jingled its compass hands that had quieted down.

Aiden also walked over, his eyes falling on the center of the machine

Hemispheric bowl - there was a little dried blood left in there, from Captain Tirion from the last time he used the device.

The bald first mate's brow furrowed slightly.

As the captain's most confidant, Aiden knew the device well.

Anomaly 203, the Blood-Seeking Compass, a complex brass machine of unknown origin, once the collection of the Frost Queen, is now the possession of Captain Tirien.

This machine should be regarded as the more "positive" type of "anomaly" in the ranking, its small central bowl can hold blood, and after absorbing blood, a series of compasses are used to indicate the location of the user's "blood relatives", and its indication priority is related to blood kinship, distance, and the user's will.

In contrast to most anomalies that are directly malicious, and can be fatal if only kept properly, the Blood-Seeking Compass is relatively safe in terms of "safekeeping", and it does not require any special sealing conditions - but on the other hand, this device, once activated, will show a sinister side.

First of all, once it has been injected with blood, the user will be constantly tempted by the compass, generating the urge to continue to inject blood into it, and the mentally fragile will even put themselves to death in the continuous bloodletting.

As only Aiden knew, Anomaly 203 had the "deeds" of guiding a father to find his long-lost son, only to kill him by mistake when the two met.

However, these negative effects have always been of little concern to Captain Tirien - the captain is strong enough to resist the "lure of blood donation" from the blood-seeking compass, and as for the doom tendencies of blood relatives in the process......

First, the captain and Miss Lucrecia will never see each other while Anomaly 203 is in effect, and secondly, Abnomar and his son have always been "fathers and sons."

Even if it was a blood-seeking compass, it wouldn't make for a more "provocative nuclear scene" than two cursed warships covering each other with fire after they met.

For the past half-century, Captain Tirion has often used the Blood-Seeking Compass as a sort of "alert device" to determine if the Lost has returned to the real world.

Aiden and the sailors gathered around Anomaly 203, several pairs of eyes fixing on the quaint compass with intricate patterns around the brass device.

Those gears and hands have been completely quiet.

「…… Maybe it's just trying to move," said a sailor with a hole in his head, cautiously, as if trying to lighten the mood, "after all, this thing is usually motionless......

Aiden glared at the sailor, "No kidding, no joke."

"Or ...... Shall we wipe off the remaining blood in between?" Another shriveled sailor spoke, "Or it always feels like this thing is going to wake up, come here."

"No," Aiden shook his head, "The captain told me that the blood in the center of the compass cannot be wiped off manually, and it will take seventy-two hours for the compass to absorb it on its own."

「…… What happens if I wipe it in advance?"

"No one knows, it's not easy enough to summarize the correct use of 'anomalous,' who would have enough to test all kinds of wrong operations," Aiden said casually, "Why don't you try it?" You are counted as contributing to human civilization."

"No, no, no, that's what I said."

Aiden snorted coldly.

"Click-"

At this moment, the blood-seeking compass suddenly heard the slight sound of the mechanism running, and the conversation between the first mate and the sailors was interrupted instantly, Aiden looked at the machine for the first time, he saw that the side wheel of this thing gradually began to vibrate, and several compass pointers on its edge also shook violently, and then, all the pointers suddenly pointed to Prander...... surrounding

The Blood-Seeking Compass fell silent again, this time as if there really wouldn't be any more movement.

All its hands avoid the Prand.

Aiden and the sailors looked at each other.

「…… I just said this thing just wanted to move......

"Shut up." Aiden interrupted the sailor, his eyes still fixed on Anomaly 203, as he remembered what he had just seen.

All the pointers were pointing in a random direction other than Plain, but he was sure that at some point just now, there was definitely a moment when the pointers of the Blood Compass were pointing in the same direction—pointing to the city-state of Plain!

It was just a very brief moment, so short that one might suspect that it was just a coincidence of the irregular rotation of a few hands, but to Aiden, it was as if the compass's "eyes" had just fixed their eyes on their target and turned their gaze away in horror.

And now that the pointers of Anomaly 203 are all pointing to the sea near Purland, it has become a kind of "desire to cover up" in Aiden's opinion

He suddenly remembered what the captain had said to himself—

Anomaly 203 occasionally exhibits the properties of a "living thing", which does not always operate mechanically.

This thing, will be scared.

"Something is wrong...... There's something wrong with this city-state!" Aiden reacted suddenly, "We're going to tell the captain about the situation here.

"But didn't the captain order us to go ashore?"

"Send a message first," Aiden said quickly, looking at one of the sailors, "Go, bring Pelly here!"

The sailor ran away as fast as he could, and a few moments later he ran back to the bridge, a huge parrot with colorful tail feathers standing on his shoulder, grinding its beak with the skull exposed from the back of the sailor's head.

"Polley, I need you to deliver a message." Aiden said loudly.

The parrot suddenly stopped bullying the sailor and raised his head to stare at the first mate: "Polly, you can send a message.

"Go to the Cathedral of the City-State, look for the Captain's breath, and tell him that the Blood-Seeking Compass points to Poland, and that the City-State is not safe!"

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