my age of magic

Chapter 921 23. Life at Sea

The Bellan was sailing on the vast sea, following an ocean current, sailing eastward at full speed.

There seems to be no obvious dividing line between the blue sky and the vast sea. In the sky, the white ones are clouds, and on the sea, the white ones are the churning waves.

On the Vashj plane, there are thousands of islands, large and small, but there is no large-scale inland. This is a world of water.

The waves several meters high were churning, like a herd of galloping horses on the prairie, slapping on the side of the ship one after another.The Bellan was like a sharp blade cutting through thorns and thorns, cutting the azure sea water from it and splitting it in two.

We are the warriors who ride the wind and waves. When the sailboat breaks through the waves several meters high, it will make us feel excited.

……

Kalancuo stood at the bow, trying to break away Deborah's hand that was gripping the cable. .

Deborah stood on the tip of the copper ram in front of her with an aggrieved face, her wings spread slightly, trying to keep her body balanced so as not to fall off the boat, her hands tightly grasped the bow of the boat. A rope, pale with fright, pleading to Kalancuo.

A few skuas were hovering above the two of them, making a few frivolous calls from time to time, as if mocking the person with a pair of strange wings below.

"I'm so scared, Kalanzo!" Deborah screamed to Kalanzo, crying.

Kalantso shook his head resolutely, broke away her hands holding the cable, and kicked her off the boat forcefully.

There was a piercing howl from the bow, and Deborah fell headlong from the boat.

The sailors on the deck couldn't help clicking their tongues secretly, and when they looked at Kalancuo, their eyes were full of awe.

Kalantso turned his head and spread his hands to Katerina who was leaning on the foremast, and said, "Look...it's actually that simple!"

Katerina raised her pointed white chin, ignored Kalantso's provocation, and just quietly watched the dolphins chasing the sailboat on the distant sea.

Three seconds later, a black and white figure rushed up from under the side of the ship.

Deborah stretched her wings and stretched her body flat. With a gust of sea breeze going upstream, her figure was beautiful and enchanting. Between the blue sky and the sea, she was like an elf dancing in the wind, sometimes hovering, sometimes Swooping, sometimes chasing the frightened skuagulls flying around, sometimes passing by the watchtower, which made the sailors on the watchtower look fascinated and stunned.

She looked at her own wings in amazement, and looked at the body flying in the air in disbelief. She imitated the way of the skuagulls at the stern, spreading her wings and soaring in the wind.

Deborah gradually discovered that as long as she mastered some simple flying skills, flying in the air is actually a very interesting thing. Although there were still a few crystal tears hanging on her innocent face, it was full of joy. surprise.

She is like a child who has found a new toy, and keeps trying to find that toy, both good and bad.

Doing it right is a kind of harvest, doing it wrong is an admonition to yourself.

Gradually, she began to be dissatisfied with following the sailboat and circling back and forth, and she began to try to fly to a farther place.

She found that the higher she flies, the wider her field of vision, so she keeps climbing up, she wants to fly into the cloud in the sky, her figure keeps shrinking in our sight, get smaller...

"Aren't you afraid that she'll be like a bird flying out of the cage, gone forever?" Blondie came out of the captain's cabin, walked to my side, and asked me with both hands on the railing.

No matter where he went, his wooden prosthetic leg would knock on the floor very forcefully, making a 'thump, thump, thud' sound.

Shaking my head, I pointed to my heart and said to him: "We are here, we have some connection."

"Magic contract?" Captain Brondy said to me with emotion: "Sometimes, a magic contract can't stop those who yearn for freedom!"

"No, I mean, she has my blood in her body," I replied.

Just as she was talking, the small black spot in the sky kept getting bigger. Deborah gathered her whole body and swooped down from the sky like a cannonball.

Under our horrified eyes, it fell to the edge of the ship's side, spread its wings, and slid a long distance close to the sea level before turning back.

It's just that her landing posture is terrible. Well, our Deborah didn't learn how to land perfectly from the skua. When she wanted to fold her wings and land on the crossbar, she found her heel skua Her claws were so different that she couldn't get a firm grip on the bar.

So the moment she stood on the crossbar, her feet suddenly slipped and she bumped her head against the sail.

Perhaps, this is Deborah's real first flight, because this flight made her feel the joy of flying.

Although a quarter of an hour ago, Deborah was almost begging and crying with Kalancuo in her arms, and she was terrified of her, but a quarter of an hour later, even though Deborah bumped into the sail and accidentally sprained her foot, she was still a fart. He followed Kalancuo with a smile on his face, just because of a casual compliment from Kalancuo, he could be happy for a long time, like a child who remembers eating but not beating.

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Captain Brondy stood in front of me, trying to wipe off the bruises on his face with a smile, but he was an out-and-out murderer.

For his cruelty, the sailors on the whole ship were extremely afraid. This time, three unlucky guys did not escape the catastrophe. They were tied to the mast by him as spies and exposed to the sun for three days and four nights. Died of dehydration.

Miss Cherry, a bena swordsman with a sense of justice, has approached Captain Blondie several times, trying to convince him that there is another way to punish him, but Captain Blondie turned a deaf ear to him.

However, after the death of the three sailors, things became a bit troublesome. Captain Bronty didn't seem to have the idea of ​​dismantling the corpses and throwing them into the sea to feed the sharks. He continued to let the three corpses be exposed to the sun. The sailor's stinking corpse was rotting in the hot weather, and his stomach was already distended like a pregnant woman who was pregnant in October, and his corpse was in danger of exploding at any time.

This kind of behavior not only seriously affected the mood of the girls including Ying Li and Shirley Newman when they went out on the deck, but also brought the danger of infectious diseases to the whole ship.

Of course, what I am most concerned about is that after the sailors were tied to the mast, Yingli locked himself in the cabin and never stepped out of the cabin for five days.

I think that when the weather is fine and the ship is sailing on the sea, we should spend more time basking in the sun on the deck, but we can’t lie on the deck chairs. You can see three flies hanging above your head. stinking corpse.

So, I made some suggestions to Bronty, and popularized some basic knowledge of the disease to him.

He finally obeyed my suggestion and untied the corpses of the three sailors who were regarded as spies on the mast. Instead of continuing to tie them to the mast for exposure to the scorching sun, he tied them firmly with nooses and threw them into the sea from the stern. Dragging, dragging until there are no bones left before giving up.

However, this move brought another school of scavengers to follow at the stern of the boat.

The sailors on the ship are actually very leisurely in such a sunny weather. They check the various facilities on the ship regularly every day. They can generally work in three shifts, that is, they are divided into daytime, first half of the night, and second half of the night. Three groups take turns steering the sailboat.

The rest of the time, the sailors will also have various activities, but the most popular is to gather in the room, smoke weed and gamble.

Or else they would drink together in the dining room, and when they got drunk, they would run to the deck to fight each other one-on-one if they disagreed with each other, beat the other party until their noses and faces were swollen, and they themselves were also beaten by the opponent, so as to vent their exuberant energy.

Few sailors are willing to sit on the deck and fish quietly. Although their fishing skills are considered to be masters, they casually hang a piece of fish oil or offal on a rusted iron hook, and tie it A thick hemp rope can be thrown into the sea and a big fish can come out.

It was Rand and his knights who liked fishing.

Every day at sunrise, I can see Lant Knight and his team members training on the deck, usually doing some common slashing and blocking moves, just like the basic moves that Jenbach taught me back then .After seeing the Rand Knights and their training, I realized that Qiang Bach’s requirements for me were simply too low. After the Rand Knights trained, they would sit on the side of the boat with a fishing rod to fish, and when they went out to eat, they almost Will sit on deck all day.

In less than a week, the sun-exposed parts of their bodies lost two layers of skin, and their skin was tanned as a result.

What Joan has to do every day is to stand on the balcony of the attic at the stern, leaning on the railing with both hands and staring obsessively at Knight Lant and his party. His Jacques can only be regarded as a hairy boy who hasn't fully grown yet. Needless to say, I can see it from her eyes.

Actually, having said that, it wasn't my lobbying that turned Captain Bronty's attention, but my conversion of a canvas warehouse on deck into a bathroom.

The sailors cleaned up all the sundries in the warehouse, and then I asked the sailors who are good at carpentry to nail a wooden wall in the warehouse, divide the warehouse into two, and nail ten sheets on the walls of these two rooms. Water gathering technique' red copper magic rune board, and a sink was installed on the wall, and a large water tank was installed on the wooden frame in the corner of the bathroom. The water pipe extending from the water tank was connected to two shower heads in the left and right rooms respectively. middle.

In this way, an extremely simple bathroom without hot water was built.

Water is continuously condensed from the ten red copper rune plates of "water gathering" and falls into the water tank bit by bit. The water flows into the water tank along the water tank and is stored. Just stand on the shower head and turn on the valve , there will be water flowing out from the top of the head.

The appearance of this bathroom suddenly relieved the panic of the sailors about fresh water.

Before that, the first mate of the Beran even suggested to Captain Blondie to limit the supply of fresh water every day, just because the water tank of the sailboat was not filled with enough fresh water for the voyage when it left the port, unless it lasted for several days. heavy rain.

Although sailors still do not have the right to bathe with fresh water, the fresh water that slips out of the bathroom floor drain will be carefully accumulated by the sailors living below deck. They put the fresh water in wooden basins and soak it in sackcloth After getting wet, wipe the salt stain off your body.

Only our group and a limited number of people, including Captain Bronty and the first mate, have the right to take a shower in the bathroom.

The core energy of these red copper rune plates is the magic crystal fragments inlaid on the gemstone base. This lowest-level 'water gathering' rune plate does not need a whole piece of magic spar.

I took out a few magic crystal shards from the purse and handed them to Captain Bronty, and told him that when the magic power of the magic crystal shards on the gemstone bases was exhausted, I would embed these magic crystal shards on the gemstone bases. The magic rune tablet can continue to be used.

Captain Blondie squinted his eyes and carefully looked at these magic crystal fragments.

I said to him: "This kind is magic crystal fragments. As long as you have gold coins in your hand, you can exchange them for magic crystals in any magic shop. Of course, these simple rune boards don't need magic crystals, just some magic crystals." Crystal fragments can work normally."

"I know them!" Captain Bronte pointed to the magic crystal shards and said to me.

After speaking, he walked back to the captain's cabin, took out a money bag, and dumped all the gold coins, gems, and magic cores inside on the table. Fascinated gaze.

Captain Brondy reached out his hand into these gold coins, found a few dark magic cores the size of walnuts, and said to me: "The magic crystals are polished from here, but not every piece has them. These are an adventure I grinded away a few pieces of the reward that Tuan left for me before leaving, and only one magic core contained a fingernail-sized magic crystal."

His gaze fell on the sea outside the window, as if lost in memory, and he said to me: "A few years ago, an adventure group was on board my ship, and they asked us to take him to the sea where sea beasts were rampant. At that time, they said that they would pay me a hundred gold coins, but I couldn't resist the temptation, and risked the sailboat being capsized by sea monsters, and took them to the notorious abyss."

"At that time, I almost lost all the sailors on board, as well as one of my left legs, and the ship was almost completely scrapped, and it became what it is now after several repairs, but the gold coins that the adventure group promised to pay me at that time , but there are these black stones, and I later found out that these are actually the magic cores in the skulls of some low-level sea beasts. If you are lucky, you can get out the magic crystals that all magicians like." Captain Bronty Youyou said, with a look of resentment in his eyes.

Afterwards, he ordered to the first mate: "You find someone to open all these magic cores, I need more magic crystal fragments!"

(End of this chapter)