Chapter 153: Arrival, or Beginning?
After a period of scramble, the sailors, who were out of control and gradually recovered from the effect of sedatives, were able to steer the "Future" under Nina's command to avoid the storm and the waves and return to the right course.
Behind them, the "Death" had completely disappeared into the fog on the sea and the thunder that flashed from time to time, and I am afraid that in the short time that it had just taken off in the air, the "Future" had already left it far away.
As for the purpose of the "Immortal King's" sudden attack on them, Angel speculated for a long time, but could not confirm it.
However, the opposing ship was obviously badly damaged, and I am afraid that it had experienced a major battle, and the attack on the "Future" may have been just to force back the flagship of the pirate general, so as not to be overturned.
The Death is the opposite of what we are heading on, and have they just returned from that dangerous stretch of water east of the Sunia Sea?
Thinking about it, she and Crane returned to the inner cabin and stood still at the door of the captain's room.
The rooms for the two were at opposite ends of the hallway, and if there were no "special circumstances", it was time to separate.
"Hmm...... Good night? โ
After staring at each other for a moment, Klein squeezed out two words, then amused at his hesitation and put a smile on his face again.
"Good night."
Angel responded, leaning in and hugging him lightly while Crane wasn't paying attention, and then pulled away slightly and walked towards his room, leaving Crane stunned in place.
As she turned around, she glanced at the door of the captain's quarters, and saw that there seemed to be countless green leaves and vines in the cracks of the door, filling the entire room without revealing a single thing.
The "Star General" Gadelia may have been injured when she drove the "Future" to escape just now...... Angel looked away, pushed open the door and returned to his suite.
A moment later, she opened the door again and walked towards the restaurant with her rumbling stomach in her handsโshe had forgotten to eat dinner.
Fortunately, the "sedative disease" was used to quickly cure the sailors, and in addition to some of the personnel who were still busy operating the ship on deck, the chef of the restaurant was also at her post, she served a cold muffin, a few slices of bacon and fried fish, and found a window seat to sit down.
In addition to the sickly "Bloodless" Heath in the dining room, there were also several extraordinary sailors who had previously shown some uncontrollable tendencies, and they nodded when they saw Angel, although their eyes were still aggressive, but they were no longer unscrupulous, but with a hint of respect.
Strength is the passport to the five seas...... Angel summed up, grabbed a muffin, smeared it with butter and stuffed it into her mouth, and looked out the window at the inky sky and the rushing sea, and the torrential rain that wasn't too far from a safe passage.
Suddenly, an electric light flashed in the rain, as if it was a thunderbolt connecting heaven and earth, and as the light dissipated, a stream of phosphorescence lit up, forming a shape that was narrow at the bottom and wide at the top, with several protrusions.
The light traveled through the torrential rain at such a fast speed that it approached the Future in the blink of an eye, causing the busy sailors on the deck below to exclaim.
I just left the "Death Number", and what is it?
Angel's muffin had fallen back into the plate, and she stared at the phosphorescent light in amazement, because she had dark vision, she was not blocked by the darkness outside the window, so she could clearly see the pitch-black hull, deck, mast and sails not far away.
The three-masted galleon, which was nearly 100 meters long and had guns and ammunition boxes neatly placed on the deck, but did not see a single sailor, split the waves in front of it in an extremely unscientific way, as if gliding on the sea, and staggered with the "Future" in a few seconds, leaving a proud back, and quickly disappeared into the storm.
As he staggered by, Angel seemed to see a petite figure with black hair and bare feet between the ammunition boxes lined up on the deck, and the pair of golden eyes indifferently glanced at the "Future" from beginning to end, and stayed at the window where Angel was for a moment.
That's Anne, and her ghost ship, Queen Anne's Revenge.
As it passed, the various runes engraved on the deck and side of the "Future" lit up one after another, as regular as the army that reported the number one after another, but it was not as strong as the reaction when it dodged the "Death" before, but it seemed to be passively carrying out some kind of response.
And Angel in the restaurant also felt that the positive and negative effects of various passive effects of the magical items on his body had almost completely disappeared, as if he was not under his control.
Is that Annie's extraordinary ability? Some kind of mandatory "observance of the law"?
Angel poked his head out, tracking the ghost ship's tracks, but he had a suspicion in his heart.
The "Death", which fled from the east side of the Sunia Sea in embarrassment and was covered with scars, was beaten up by the "Queen Anne's Revenge"?
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After everyone was almost out of control, the "Star General" was injured and escaped the attack of the "Death", and encountered the mysterious ghost ship at night, the "Future" finally did not encounter other accidents, and after a night of detours, sailed out of the safe channel and came to a calm sea.
By dawn, the Future had returned to its normal state, which only required a handful of sailors to control, and Angel guessed that the Admiral had returned to normal after the night.
Sure enough, in the dining room, which was quite lively at breakfast, she saw Gardelia, whose face had returned to ruddy and her purple eyes were deep behind her thick-rimmed glasses, who stood still at the table of Angel and Crane, who were dining together, and said calmly:
"We're almost there."
Arrived so soon? I thought it would take two or three days...... Angel swallowed the toast in her mouth a little stunned, and was about to ask, when she remembered that the ship had been flying at great speed for a long time last night, perhaps saving most of the voyage.
Such a convenient "flight", why didn't she use it directly? Perhaps because she would have her strength damaged, and there were two "danger factors" on the ship, Crane and me, she would rather spend a few more days in the storm and waves, until the "Immortal King" appeared as a greater threat, and she had to activate this ability of the "Future......
Angel nodded silently and asked:
"How much longer? Do we need to prepare in advance? โ
She remembered hearing Klein talk about the dangers of the sea more than once and wanted to do the best way to deal with it.
"No, and besides, I'm afraid it's too late."
Gadelia pressed the frame on the bridge of her nose with one hand, and lifted it lightly with the other, and a little starlight appeared around her.
What?
As soon as an ominous premonition flashed through Angel's mind, she felt the ground rise and fall violently under her feet, and then she flew into the air.
No, it's not that she's flying, it's that the "Future" is falling!
Glancing out the window, Angel quickly confirmed the current situation.
A huge gap suddenly appeared in the originally calm sea, as if the butter had been cut by a hot knife, and the rushing sea water poured down to the bottomless abyss, and this lonely boat in the sea naturally could not avoid it, and the whole ship fell from the sea as if rushing out of a waterfall.
The weightlessness quickly appeared on everyone and every object in the restaurant, except for Gardelia, who was protected by the stars and seemed unaffected, everyone had their feet dangling in the air, dancing with their hands, either crashing into the ceiling or scratching in vain between toast, butter and salted fish, and the scene was chaotic for a while.
Phew, boom.
Silk threads appeared around Angel, barely visible to the naked eye, most of them wrapped around her, and Klein, who had regained his balance with two simple movements, held the two firmly in the middle of the dining room, while the rest of the threads stretched out to the other helpless sailors, hoisting them and hanging from the ceiling or bulkhead like cocoons.
But the danger was not lifted, and the Future fell bow down into the deep dark crevice, and just as it was about to be swallowed by the darkness, a thick current of water gushed out from below, holding the ship up, sending it back to sea level and throwing it to the other end of the cliff.
Bang โ
After a low muffled sound, the "Future" landed steadily on the sea, and Angel felt that the hull of the ship was no longer shaking, before she put away the silk thread and lowered the sailors.
Outside the window, the hazy morning sun in the sea fog had somehow become hot and bright, and the small sound of the waves that had been lapping against the hull of the ship from time to time had disappeared, leaving only the light or heavy breath of the sailors in the restaurant.
"Arrived at your destination?"
Angel muttered, looking at Gardelia beside her, who had already dispersed the star of her body, and her face was indifferent, as if the chaos just now was in her expectation.
"Getting to the world's most dangerous sea is just the beginning."
She replied softly.
"More dangerous than the Furious Sea?"
Crane asked abruptly, his expression still the same as that of a "mad adventurer", but Angel noticed that his gaze was quietly looking at the toast on the ground mixed with cream, soup, and someone had stepped on itโit was the breakfast he hadn't had time to swallow.
"I haven't been here many times, and it was a long time ago, but I can confirm that this place is much more dangerous than the Raging Sea."
After answering solemnly, Gadelia instructed the chef to remake breakfast, and then, with small steps, dodged the spilled breakfast and walked outside the restaurant.
I'm afraid the fall just now wasn't entirely in her plan...... Angel chuckled and helped Klein get a newly baked breakfast before the other sailors could react.
(End of chapter)