in the dream world.

Arka wakes up at night, in a bubble of his dreams.

With his eyes open, he turned his head to look at the giant crystal floating in his world.

At this time, in the transparent crystal, there was only a little bit of dream energy that had been stored for a long time before.

Watching this little bit of energy float in it, Arka couldn't help but sigh.

"I can think that it will cost a lot to construct something physical by pouring into reality in a dream by pouring into reality with dream energy, but I didn't expect it to cost so much."

Arka simply constructed three metal lightning rods with lightning guiding properties, but he didn't expect that these three would almost consume the dream energy he had stored for several months.

This is the result of his use of mirrors to reduce the consumption required between dreams and reality.

If the barrier between the two is broken directly and violently, it will cost even more, and perhaps the energy injected into the outside will only be enough to build two lightning rods.

It seems that the only way to understand how to get the most out of the least amount of energy is to see for yourself the moment when the barrier between the dream world and reality is broken.

It is not uncommon for Arka to know the world of dreams, but it happens sporadically all over the world.

Forget it, don't think about it anymore, after all, the reason why there is only so much energy is because there are too few creatures in the dream realm of the forward channel, and this place is too desolate.

It takes several days before you can come across a target that can be hunted.

Take control of your body and float bubbles.

When Arka came to the outside world, he looked at the surrounding scene with a slight surprise.

This is due to the presence of many tiny bubbles in the surrounding area, which are aqua blue and unusually transparent.

The seawater filled with water can be clearly seen from the outside, indicating that these are dream bubbles of sea creatures.

But this is the first time that Arka has seen so many bubbles floating around in the forward channel.

It seems that this place is no longer as desolate as it used to be.

Looking at the bubbles, Arka turned his head.

only to find that in addition to his dream bubble, all the surrounding teammates' dream bubbles have all kinds of light and shadow creatures outside the dream bubbles, attacking the bubbles.

Although there are a lot of creatures, they are still some of the things that Alka has seen, or something like that, and they are simply cleaned up.

Curious, Arka began to explore the dream world around him.

I can really see it, it's a little more lively, there are a lot of dream bubbles floating around, large and small, but they are all transparent, they are all dreams of some wild animals, and there is nothing special about it.

The appearance of these bubbles also means that there are many creatures in the outside world.

But why is there such a change in this last paragraph?

Because the sea next to it belongs to the sea god?

Not to mention the ability to identify intelligent races that live in the path of progress.

After taking a turn and finding nothing special, Arka came to the periphery of his dream bubble.

A mirror appeared on his face, and the Dream Catcher floated out of his chest.

The forces of the two begin to interact, making changes to the surroundings.

This is Arka conducting a test of strength, as well as some validation of his own ideas.

These are the main things that Arka has been doing in his dreams during this time.

He wanted to work out a way to isolate parts of the dream bubble, and how to build a defense against the bubble so that it wouldn't be disturbed by the dream creatures while sleeping.

This matter has been bothering him for a long time.

He couldn't have been able to sink into dreams every time the members of his ship rested.

And it is impossible for dream creatures to be so weak every time that they will not have an effect on their dreams.

And once you really encounter the deadly enough impact, it's too late.

Even if it is not fatal, it is unacceptable to cause excessive damage.

It's okay to plan ahead.

And there is enough time in the dream world, and the body in the outside world also needs to rest in this way.

But apparently Arka didn't get anything.

It wasn't until early in the morning that Arka returned to his dream, where he fell asleep and quickly recovered from his mental exhaustion.

When you wake up in the morning.

Arka washed up briefly and came to the restaurant.

Breakfast for the morning was already set on the table in the dining room.

After a while, Xia Daiti also walked in from outside.

"Morning."

"Early."

After saying hello, Shadetti sat down opposite the Arka and had breakfast.

"How long will it be before we fully cross the forward path?" Arka asked as he ate.

Arka doesn't know much about this, and it's usually Xia Daiti who pays attention.

Hearing Alka's question, Xia Daiti chewed the food in his mouth, nodded to the table and said, "I don't know, after coming here, the current of the forward channel is getting faster and faster, and the interval between the impacts of powerful waves is becoming more and more frequent, and I can't calculate how long it will take."

But at this speed, it will not take more than 10 days to sail non-stop. ”

Hearing this, Arka nodded.

He could feel the speed of the ship under his feet.

More people then came to the restaurant.

After breakfast, Arka left the restaurant.

As soon as he came outside, he saw a cable floating down, and then patted him.

"What's wrong?" Arka asked curiously.

The melodious singing voice came low, and after hearing the song, Arka understood the meaning of the song and nodded.

"It's already this time, and it really hurt you a lot yesterday."

Then he turned his head to look into the restaurant, and saw Poloro and Jason who were still eating, Arka said: "Don't be sluggish, it's time for maintenance today, and the Voice of Dawn is already urging." ”

"Is this time?" Jason said, quickly eating the food in his hand.

Bororo threw the food around him directly into his mouth, got up and clapped his hands and walked towards Alka.

Jason followed, still holding the unfinished food in his hand.

After watching the actions of the two and hearing what Arka had just said, Simon also followed curiously.

"If you don't mind, let me help too, how about it? I'm curious about the ship's construction, and the holes that were repaired yesterday need to be checked a lot, and to be honest, I haven't seen any other ghost ship yet. Simon came up and said.

"Other ghost ships? Have you seen anything else before? Bororo asked casually.

Hearing this question, Jason sneered next to him and said, "You are stupid, isn't the captain of the ship he used to be on a treasure in possession?" The steel ship is, of course, a ghost ship too. ”

In response to Jason's words, Simon smiled and nodded.

As Jason said.

Alka nodded at Simon's request.

After all, it is just a routine maintenance, and it does not involve the core area, but only the exterior of the deck, sails, masts, etc. of the ship.

And the damage that was struck by the lightning yesterday was also repaired by Simon and him.

After a day, I did check if there were any problems with yesterday's patching.

Luckily, these patches don't make the ship ugly, after all, it's a pretty girl.

And this is a ghost ship, a ship with life, and these patches on it will be like flesh and blood will merge with this ship, and it will be perfectly repaired.

This knowledge was told to Simon yesterday when he was tinkering.

After taking the tools, everyone began to separate and maintain.

Simon followed Alka.

Originally, the place to maintain the ship was supposed to be on the shore, but it was too difficult in the sea area such as the forward channel.

After sailing such a long distance, Arka and the others only encountered two islands in total, or because Arka found a dream of terrestrial creatures in a dream.

If it weren't for this, they would have drifted all the way to the sea from head to tail, with no island in sight.

So I can only do it.

The sails were lowered, and the ship went along with the current, with no change except for a slight slowdown.

Carefully inspect the sails, mainly for the degree of corrosion of the materials on them, and whether there are any broken areas of the spells on them that need to be repaired.

"The spells are neatly arranged and perfectly distributed." Simon looked at the distribution of these incantations on the sails and couldn't help but say with some amazement.

"You know how to build ships?" Arka asked, not looking up.

"I learned and participated a few times during my time in the church, but all in a helping capacity."

Hearing this, Arka nodded.

The maintenance work is not difficult.

It didn't take long for everyone to finish it all.

At this time, there was a tinkling sound from the observation room.

This indicates that there is a situation around.

Shadetti's voice came from above.

"What's behind us?"

Hearing this, everyone came to the stern of the boat.

After a while, an object was moving quickly on the surface of the sea.

However, it was not directly behind them, but diagonally behind, far away.

Even if they get closer and closer, they will pass by them, and there is no intention of approaching them.

As the speed of the object increased, everyone finally saw him in its entirety.

"Fish?" Jason held the binoculars and looked at the object, and couldn't help but make strange noises.

It was a sea fish, but it was huge, about 90~100 meters long.

The whole color is light blue, and it is difficult to spot it if it is not too fast and far away.

"No, it's a boat!" Alka's appearance at this time has changed into a crocodile frog.

A pair of huge eyes looked at the fish-like creature and said.

"Boat?" Julia's voice was a little surprised, and she looked at Arka.

"But it's a giant fish-sea beast?"

Julia could clearly sense that the giant sea beast was alive, not a fish-like vessel.

Whether it's a creature or not, she can still feel it clearly.

While they were talking, the huge sea fish had approached their flank, and then quickly moved forward from a distance of about five or six hundred meters away from them.

There was no stop, and the distance between them and Arka was kept out of the safe range.

At this time, everyone also clearly saw that the fish was engraved with a pattern like words, and there was a flag on its back.

The fish was apparently carrying some strange man-made device, with people coming and going.

It felt as if they had taken the fish for a horse, and saddled him and put room after room on it.

Fish is used instead of boats.

At the same time, they saw that the people above were watching them as well.

"They use a giant fish-sea beast as a vehicle to pilot?" Bororo looked at this scene, thought for a moment and said.

Arka nodded, and his head returned to normal.

"Maybe that's what you say."

"It's funny, how did they do it?" Lucilia said with a twinkle in her eyes.

Driving a fish and galloping on the sea, the more I think about it, the more interesting it becomes.

And look at the man-made facilities hanging on them, they are room by room, and there are simple suspension bridges connected to them.

They even saw weapons on it.

Xia Daiti also slid down from it, and as soon as he came up, he asked everyone, "Have you seen it?" Those people were on the fish, and they even built something like a house on it. ”

Everyone nodded their heads, indicating that they saw clearly.

"So, is this a feature of the Southern Storm Sea?" Arka couldn't help but ask.

After all, the Southern Storm is still the sea area of the Sea God, and when they passed by that storm yesterday, they were sure that the gate was open.

The appearance of such a ship at this time is most likely the person who came out of the stormy sea.

Hearing Alka's words, Simon said beside him: "But they haven't approached, if they have just come out and see a strange ship, it is impossible not to come up to say hello or understand the situation." ”

Hearing this, Arka asked himself, if it was him, he really wouldn't have slid directly past the side like he had just done without the slightest stop.

"That's right."

"Forget it, I don't want to do this, I'm going to leave here soon, and I'll naturally know when the time comes."

Everyone nodded, and that was true.

At least no one else really expressed any hostility.

And this way does make them very curious.

Still chatting, the fish that had just passed by them.

……

At this moment, the body of the huge sea fish that had just left was surrounded by a room in the head of the fish.

A woman dressed in a cooler dress with tattoos on her body said, "Have you seen whose ship we passed by just now?" ”

One of the people standing next to him shook his head: "I don't know, I've never seen a sign like that, I don't know whose it is." ”

They're obviously talking about Arka.

"Not with us, but while waiting at the gate, I was sure that I had not seen the ship, nor the flag.

And I never got any information about the ships at that time. ”

An unknown fish-man said.

Then the human male sitting behind the desk spoke.

"Are you sure? Are you sure you don't have that ship? ”

"Of course, I'm pretty sure I'm not misremembered, and I'm not mistaken." The fish-man nodded, confident in his words.

He's in charge of intelligence-related things here, and he can't go wrong with that.

"Is that ......," repeated the man sitting behind the desk, and then the room fell silent as he thought.

And he's clearly the leader here.

At that moment, the door was pushed open, and another man walked in.

"What are you doing? Why is it so quiet? ”

Then the leader asked, "Did you see the ship we passed by just now?" ”

The man who had just come in shook his head when he heard this: "No, I was just checking on the health of the big blue fish, but I heard the crew discuss it outside." ”

"So a ship just passed us?"

"Yes." A member next to him nodded and said.

"Interesting." The newcomer leaned against the wall and said with a funny expression.

"We are galloping on the sea with big blue fish, how can there be a boat that is faster than us, look at you like this, you haven't seen that ship, right?"

The fishman who had just spoken nodded: "Yes, I haven't seen that ship at all." ”

Hearing this, the man nodded.

"A ship that I haven't seen before, but it ran ahead of us, which means it didn't come out of our sea with us, right?"

Everyone nodded, almost all along the same lines.

"So what else is there to guess? Either it's people who live outside here, or people who come from other seas. ”

The man said, spreading his hands.

Of course, he obviously felt that it was someone from other seas.

Everyone here knows that the only intelligent race that lives outside is the group of gatekeepers.

"Are there really other seas?" The person next to him asked with a solemn expression.

Although in their waters, rumors have been circulating from the outside world.

The existence of the Infinite Sea is not a secret to them, but the specific information related to the Infinite Sea is a secret.

Because it's a point of no return.

This leads to a lot of rumors, and when they really find out, they find that most of them are rumors, and there is very little real information.

And there are other seas, and other gods are also part of the rumors.

It is clearly the church that knows the outside world best.

But they are not members of the church.

"Why don't you believe me?" The man turned to ask, then chuckled and said, "Didn't I say that?" You don't know as much about the outside world as I do. ”

The people in this room are the hearts and minds of this team.

Knowing the situation of the man in front of him, he picked up a diary of a voyage from the outside world on an abandoned ship when he was a child.

Through the records in his diary, he learned a lot of information about the outside world.

And as they really prepared for the outside world, many of his accounts were confirmed.

"I once read in my diary that the map of the world was semicircular, like a crescent.

And the junction to the Infinite Sea is ahead, and we will be there in a few days, so we must be the ones who live at the bottom.

The diary said that it took him more than three months to travel to the Infinite Sea. ”

At this time, the sound of the table knocking sounded, and everyone turned their heads to look.

The leader sitting behind the table spoke: "Okay, there is nothing to worry about, or we will reach the gate to the Boundless Sea in a few days, and when we leave the Boundless Sea, we will naturally know everything." ”

As his words fell, the crowd shut their mouths.

"Now, let's talk about something else."

It was just a small episode, and he was only curious about the identity of the ship he had just asked these questions.

Since it has been determined that it is from other seas, there is nothing to worry about.

Huge blue fish swim in the water, and the upper body of the fish floats above the surface.

And this half of the body is covered with something that looks like a horse's saddle.

In this way, around and on the back of the saddle-like object hung one room after another, and the improvised road built on it.

The members of this team, walking around on this improvised suspension bridge, live on the back of a fish.

That's what this ship is all about.

(End of chapter)