Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 11: Collision
In the turtle shell left by Tundao, Cheng Lang looked up at the first thing. It was an egg with a diameter of about five meters and was green all over.

Its size has exceeded the size of the holes in the turtle shell's limbs, head and tail. In other words, it is impossible for it to leave the shell.

When he looked through the mirror, the green finger in the mirror was shaking so much that an afterimage almost appeared.

Obviously, this thing is not without value, and it is probably something that should not be messed with.

The second thing was a cone that was nearly 10 meters long and had a diameter of four or five meters at its widest point. It was also the only thing that made Magic Mirror give a thumbs up repeatedly in the small mirror he brought.

The tip of this cone-shaped object, which was covered with turtle shit, was even firmly stuck on the turtle shell.

He even suspected that the reason why this big turtle named Swallow Island had such a bloody rebirth to cure constipation might be because of this "thorn".

Fortunately, although this thing was very large, it was lighter than the magic mirror. Cheng Lang didn't have to spend any effort at all. He endured the nausea and picked it up easily.

Rather than picking it up, it took him a lot of strength to pull its tip out from the bone gap of the turtle shell.

"Keeping this thing around will give me a stomachache, so I'm just being nice and taking it away."

Cheng Lang said this, pulling the oversized awl out of the empty tortoise shell like a mouse pulling a shovel. He rowed the small boat back to the side of the Valkyrie, letting Teng Xiao help lift the oversized awl onto the deck before climbing onto the rope net.

After taking a bucket of seawater to rinse off the turtle shit on his body, Cheng Lang hurried into the captain's room and shouted, "What is that?"

"Which one?"

"Explain both of you!" Cheng Lang said as he ran into the bathroom. The smell of turtle shit was too strong.

"That egg is the Swallow Island"

The magic mirror explained, "Look, the turtle shell has sealed the entrance and exit holes and is starting to sink."

Hearing this, Cheng Lang looked up at the huge turtle shell outside the bathroom window.

As expected, the holes in the turtle's shell's limbs, head, and tail had completely closed, and most of them had sunk below sea level.

However, what Cheng Lang and Mo Jing did not expect was that as the turtle shell sank into the sea level little by little, they discovered that there was something growing on the top of the huge turtle shell of Swallow Island.

When Cheng Lang hurriedly took a shower and walked out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel, the magic mirror showed the image of a turtle shell without him reminding him, and the picture was enlarged.

With just one glance, Cheng Lang recognized that there were actually several coconut trees growing on the top of the turtle shell!
"It's coming towards us!"

Magic Mirror said this a little nervously, but then his tone suddenly became enlightened, "Dear Captain, I guess that Swallow Island wants to give us some gifts."

"Are you talking about those coconut trees?" Cheng Lang asked.

"Who knows?"

The Magic Mirror's tone was a bit irresponsible. "But I think you can accept it no matter what it is. As I said, the Swallow Island is a relatively docile sea monster, unless it is hungry."

After a brief hesitation, Cheng Lang asked, "Let's first talk about the awl I brought back. What is it?"

"My dear Captain, you are quite humorous. That is not an awl, it is the horn of a sea rhinoceros."

"Sea rhinoceros? Is it also a sea monster?" Cheng Lang asked.

"You are the wisest captain I have ever met, bar none."

The magic mirror flattered him, then explained, "The sea rhinoceros is an ancient sea beast that was slaughtered to extinction during the era when Poseidon ruled the ocean.

It was slaughtered simply because a mad sea rhinoceros once overturned Poseidon. In anger, Poseidon killed all the sea rhinoceroses in the sea.

At this point, the magic mirror continued, "The authenticity of this legend remains to be verified, but the horns of sea rhinos are indeed found from time to time.

At least a hundred years ago, many powerful pirate ships were proud to have a sea rhino horn as their flagship ram.

"So it's very strong?" Cheng Lang asked.

"It is, and it's light enough that it doesn't add any weight to the vessel."

The Magic Mirror urged, "The turtle shell of Swallow Island is very close to us. It must be offering a thank you gift for helping you remove the thorn in its stomach. Dear Captain, it would be extremely rude to refuse the sea monster's kindness and might even anger Swallow Island."

"You'd better tell the truth," Cheng Lang said, and finally walked out of the meeting room.

After such a delay, the huge turtle shell floating under the water was almost close to the side of their boat. Naturally, the coconut trees full of fruits were also very close to them.

After a slight hesitation, Cheng Lang carefully walked to the edge of the boat and looked down under the gaze of the vine goblins who had become nervous again.

However, there was no turtle shell under the sea at this time. There was only a hexagonal turtle shell as big as half a basketball court and a cluster of coconut trees growing on the shell.

Suddenly, the wind began to blow in this sea area, and slight waves began to appear on the sea surface.

"Pick it up!" Cheng Lang reacted and immediately gave the order.

With cries of "oh oh oh", all the vine goblins joined in the battle, passing a vine through the pulley on the edge of the mast's crossbar, and then hooking it around the coconut tree beside the side of the boat.

With rhythmic cackling sounds, the goblins worked together and easily pulled up the coconut tree and the hexagonal tortoise shell on which they were rooted.

Under this piece of tortoise shell, he could still see dense roots as thin as hair, and there were even traces of blood at the ends of those roots.

"Whoa whoa!"

The Great Sage, acting as captain, shouted at Cheng Lang, pursing his thick lips and gesturing around. Clearly, he was asking a question that required the captain's decision, "Where should I put it, Boss?"

"There! Put it under the mainmast."

Cheng Lang made a decision after thinking for a moment. Each of these coconut trees was three or four meters high. Placing them under the main mast would be the only thing that would not affect the rotation of the sails.

After receiving the order, the vine goblins immediately pulled the vines and shouted as they dragged the huge piece of tortoise shell to the bottom of the main mast.

The magical scene that followed was no longer surprising to Cheng Lang. Almost at the moment the tortoise shell fell to the ground, it merged with the deck and adjusted itself to the area centered on the mast.

However, the few coconut trees that had withered and decayed after the adjustments began to crumble and collapse, turning into rotten wood. Only two dozen green-yellow coconuts, each the size of a basketball, remained.

I picked up a coconut and weighed it. It weighed at least 20 kilograms, which was obviously not the weight a coconut should have.

Cheng Lang returned to the bedroom holding the huge coconut. Before he could speak, the magic mirror took the initiative to say, "I'm afraid I'll disappoint you, my respected captain.

I also don't know what the purpose of the coconut in your hand and the tortoise shell piece that is fused with the hull is.

This has never happened before, but I am sure that the tortoise shell will be of benefit to us."

"Is this coconut edible?" Cheng Lang placed the coconut on the table and asked a crucial question. He was hungry. Before his first trip to this ship, he had only eaten a few bananas. Since then, all sorts of bad things had happened one after another. Apart from a few glasses of fruit wine, he hadn't had time to find anything to eat.

“I also have no way to answer this question.”

The Magic Mirror's tone was filled with sadness and embarrassment. "I'm afraid only Saint Barbaya can give the correct answer to this question. However, for safety reasons, I don't recommend trying to eat those coconuts."

"All right"

Cheng Lang was quite open-minded. After a yawn, he changed the subject and asked, "Let's talk about that horn. How can I turn it into a ramming horn for this ship? Pour a cup of Poseidon's blood?"

"No, no, no, of course you can't do that."

The magic mirror said quickly, "This matter is much more troublesome than you think. We need to find a specialized corner-bumping craftsman to complete this task, so you will need some patience."

All the work in vain?
Cheng Lang shook his head helplessly, picked up the coconut again and walked out of the bedroom, calling a small vine goblin to take the coconut in his hand and the coconuts piled under the main mast to the lower cabin for storage.

Similarly, even the spotless white sea rhino horn that had been cleaned was carefully carried into the cargo hold through the ventilation grille by the goblins.

While they were busy, Cheng Lang also walked into the kitchen in the forecastle, preparing to make some food for himself. After filling his stomach, he took advantage of the calm sea conditions to take a nap.

Speaking of which, although the wind and waves last night almost capsized the ship several times, they also brought many gifts to the deck.

In addition to an unknown sea fish that is nearly one meter long, there are also many octopuses, crabs and even shellfish.

All these unexpected gains were collected by the vine goblins who were controlling the sails and kept in several water tanks in the kitchen.

As for the food that was looted from the sailboat of the Boyerland royal family, there was not much, only a few bags of barley. The rest were either taken away by the savages or destroyed by the rampaging crocodile.

Ignoring the giant sea fish, Cheng Lang, with the help of a short Vine Xiao, boiled water and cooked a large pot full of crabs and shellfish for himself. He also put some dry bread he got from the boat in the pot to steam, hoping that it would become softer when it was taken out of the pot.

While waiting for the meal to be cooked, he did not forget to take a careful tour of the boat.

Above the open deck of this three-masted sailboat, there is a forecastle at the bow. In front of the forecastle is a small triangular bow deck used to place the figurehead. There is even a table and a deck chair here.

Inside the forecastle, on both sides of the passage that runs through the bow deck and the open deck, there are the kitchen, food warehouse, coal warehouse, ship light room and a room that is not sure whether it is a cell or a stable.

This barred room not only contained a wooden trough, a flock of hens and several milk-producing goats stolen from another ship, but also several rusty shackles on the walls.

Above this forecastle is the open deck at the bow. There are no cannons here, but there is a crossbow that can shoot huge arrows.

What is quite exaggerated is that on this huge arrow shaft that is nearly four meters long, there is a circle of gunpowder barrels as big as five gas tanks firmly fixed!

Behind the bed crossbow, there is a huge cable shaft, and the vines wrapped around it are probably one or two hundred meters long.

This thing was not stolen, but a weapon that came with the Valkyrie sailboat. It was repaired in the heart of the ship just last night.

Out of curiosity, I asked a big Vine Mandrill to try it out. It turned out that it took the combined efforts of two Vine Mandrills to open the bed crossbow.

You know, these gorillas can carry artillery and run very fast.
Compared with the forecastle, the poop is above the second-floor open-air deck and has an extra layer close to the stern.

The indoor control panel is located inside the floor-to-ceiling windows on this floor facing the second-floor open-air deck, and above the head is the open-air control panel at the highest point at the stern of the ship.

Behind the indoor control panel, separated by a thick pillar extending from the downstairs to the upper floor and a horizontal corridor, is the ship's conference room and two single rooms on its left and right sides.

After the all-night repair work carried out while sailing last night, the three rooms have been restored to their original state. Even the moldy carpets have been replaced with new ones. There is no doubt that the carpets were also stolen.

One level down, the poop is located above the open deck. Inside is a T-shaped corridor. On both sides of the corridor leading to the open deck are four deck sailors' dormitories, each with several hammocks hanging on it, and two public toilets with showers.

The intersection of the T-shape is a pillar that runs through the upper and lower floors, and seems to be related to the steering of the ship. The horizontal line is the captain's office with a large table and two single rooms on the left and right sides.

The gun deck is one level below the open deck. This single gun deck can only accommodate 22 captured guns.

On this floor of the stern deck, the T-shaped corridor and the pillars at the intersection still exist, and the horizontal part is a luxurious bedroom that belongs entirely to the captain.

On both sides of the vertical passage are single rooms with slightly smaller areas and slightly smaller windows, as well as two public restrooms with showers like the ones upstairs.

At the bow of this floor, in addition to a huge capstan for lifting the anchor, there is also a gunpowder preparation room and a shell preparation room.

Continue walking down the ubiquitous stairs and you'll arrive at the cargo hold.

There are no windows on this floor, and the lighting in the entire cargo hold depends entirely on glass-covered oil lamps hanging everywhere.

In the dim light, he could see that in the cargo hold, wooden boxes, oak barrels, and sacks were firmly fixed by vines.

A cursory inspection revealed that the looted supplies consisted of only a few sacks of barley, a barrel of salted meat, a box of dry, hard, and moldy bread, a barrel of green beans, and several barrels of slightly smelly fresh water. And, of course, the giant sea rhino horn.

However, there is a not-so-big millstone in the cargo hold itself. Right next to the millstone at the bow, there is an inconspicuous small room. It was disguised as the ship's ventricle and successfully deceived the sailors who boarded the ship yesterday.

But when Cheng Lang walked in here, he unexpectedly discovered that the pool was not only filled with blood-red water, but also immersed in a slowly beating red heart as big as an oak barrel. This heart and the surrounding walls were also connected to a large number of blood vessels.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, he continued down and walked into the lower cabin of the ship.

This floor is also filled with goods and has many oil lamps hanging on it.

But the surface was completely covered by dense vines. Not only could he not take a peek at Poseidon's spine, he couldn't even see the ballast iron ingots and stones. This made him feel a little relieved.

In the lower cabin, apart from a gunpowder barrel warehouse tightly wrapped in copper at the bow, the rest of the compartments were either filled with oak barrels filled with coal or fish oil, or with cannonballs, or with spare wood.

He even found the skeleton and skin of the crocodile he had killed in an inconspicuous room.

When he walked to the stern, in addition to the stairs and secret door leading upstairs and to the real heart of the ship, there was also a boiler room where a Vine Goblin was specifically guarding the boiler.

But don't think that this sailboat doesn't need a boiler. At least last night, if it weren't for the warmth brought by the hot water that was supplied to every part of the ship by this stove that burned all night, he would probably have frozen to death.

More importantly, the supply of hot water anytime and anywhere eliminates the safety hazards caused by drinking raw water.

This boiler was also the purpose of Cheng Lang's trip, or rather, he mainly wanted to see the oversized ship bottle the size of a wine bottle.

Unfortunately, just as the magic mirror said, there was no sailboat in this large bottle except fresh water.

It was not disappointment. Cheng Lang asked the Tengxiao who was guarding the boiler to help him find a few empty oak barrels. He took out the boat bottles he carried with him and filled these oak barrels with fruit wine again for the Tengxiao to drink. Then he returned to the kitchen in the forecastle.

Just as he was looking at the relatively calm sea outside the window and enjoying the stewed seafood to fill his stomach.

At this moment, he did not know that less than 50 nautical miles away, a fleet of eight three-masted sailing ships was wandering in the surrounding waters. Their white sails were all painted with the emblem of the Royal Witcher Group of the Principality of Boerland.

(End of this chapter)