Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 15 The Seasick Captain

"Wake up! Honorable Captain! Wake up! Something terrible has happened!"

When the magic mirror's panicked cry woke Cheng Lang, the sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window was not yet completely bright.

"What's wrong again?" Cheng Lang sat up hurriedly and asked.

"Boats! Seven of them!"

The Magic Mirror shouted in panic, "It must be the fleet of Poseidon's lackeys! They've discovered us! They're coming!"

"Set sail! Set sail! Set sail! Set sail!" Cheng Lang ran out of the captain's room holding clothes in one hand and a magic mirror in the other.

By the time he arrived at the indoor control panel, the sails, which had turned white due to the rising sun, had been inflated by the sea breeze, and the anchors had been pulled up and fixed on both sides of the bow by the vine goblins.

Driven by the wind, the Valkyrie, which had been stationary for a whole week, began to move.

However, before she could reach her maximum speed, the seven boats behind her had already spread out one after another and surrounded her from both sides at high speed.

"beep--"

Almost at the same time as the seven ships opened fire at him one after another, Cheng Lang blew the Mirage Horn again.

However, before the fog rose, shells had already hit the Valkyrie.

"They sent out flag signals, asking us to stop the ship!" said the magic mirror that had just been hung on the wall.

"Stop! Run! Run!"

Cheng Lang roared out orders while putting on his clothes. At the same time, he moved the center of the ship and summoned the huge jellyfish again.

"Boom boom boom!"

Another series of cannon shots rang out, and finally, a cannonball hit the side of the Valkyrie's hull, smashing a large piece of the ship's side.

Under this attack with amazing accuracy, even the jellyfish he had just summoned disappeared into thin air!

Even so, Cheng Lang still did not stop the boat. He had to make the boat move as quickly as possible and leave their encirclement before the ships on both sides took over the T-head!

But it is obvious that the Valkyrie's ship speed is not superior, and since the tortoise shell piece broke, its defense has returned to its original state.

“This is really the end.”

Cheng Lang clenched the steering wheel and thought wildly. He even began to wonder whether he would be taken back and hanged or killed and thrown into the sea after being caught by them as a pirate.

Amidst the dense gunfire, more and more solid shells hit the Valkyrie, either stirring up large splashes of water or smashing the hull and scattering large amounts of wood chips.

Fortunately, the resurrected vine goblins had an extra set of armor on them, which allowed them to continue to operate the sails without being affected by the wood chips that were deadly enough.

"Ugh——!"

With a dull sound of air bursting, a pair of chain bullets flew in from a distance, spinning and tearing the longitudinal sail on the last mast.

"Wow!"

The lower half of the sail fell down and hit the open-air bridge above Cheng Lang's head with a clang.

It's over.
Cheng Lang felt a chill in his heart. The sailing and learning in the past few days had made him realize that without this longitudinal sail, their use of the wind would be greatly reduced. At present, the impact on sailing with the wind was not too great, but sailing into the wind would be affected.

In other words, he doesn't dare to turn now!
So he simply locked the steering wheel, left the indoor control room and ran onto the deck.

In just a short while, a Vine Goblin had already run from the cargo hold to the last mast at the stern with a spare sail, preparing to urgently replace the longitudinal sail.

However, the sailboats around and behind were firing more and more chain bullets!

Under such fierce firepower, the sails on the other two masts of the ship were also torn off.

"Prepare for a boarding battle!"

Cheng Lang gave the order and put on the mask, replacing his face with that of the captured sailor.

Almost at the same time as the goblins took the scimitars and flintlock rifles handed up from the gun deck, the surrounding ships gradually gathered around.

"Boom boom boom!"

In a series of bombardments, circular damage was blown out on the waterlines on both sides of the Valkyrie, which had just escaped the fog. The enemy had no intention of leaving anyone alive!

"Stop the damage!"

Cheng Lang let out a loud shout, and the vine goblins in the cargo hold immediately used the wooden boards prepared in advance to nail up the wounds that were leaking water into the cabin. Even the Sea-Watching Vine that was parasitic on the ship began to surge its vines to help seal the leaks. At the same time, it used its dense root system to draw seawater that poured into the lower cabin, and discharged it into the sea through vines all over the ship.

But as more and more shells came flying, the sailboat that had just set sail again was about to sink!

It's over.
Cheng Lang's heart sank to the bottom. He knew that he had no chance of survival.

Well, if I die, maybe I can return to the world I'm familiar with.
Thinking of this, he took out his long whip and prepared to jump into the water before the ship sank. If he could kill one person on the other side, he could at least break even!

However, almost at the same time he raised the whip in his hand, a small island emerged from the sea not far away!
No, that's not an island! That's a giant turtle shell! It's Swallow Island!

Before he could react, the island-swallowing turtle had already stretched out its limbs, head and tail from its shell, and then crashed into the flagship of the pursuers behind it at an astonishing speed!

"Boom!"

With a muffled sound like thunder, the flagship actually fell apart!
But the island-swallowing ship didn't slow down at all. Instead, it made a smooth circle and crashed into the second boat like an oversized billiard ball that was pushed out with great force!

"Drain the water! Drain the water! Everyone drain the water!" Cheng Lang reacted as the second enemy ship disintegrated, and immediately shouted and issued orders!
As the order was given, the goblins put down their weapons and spare sails, and either rushed to the cargo hold to seal the leaks, or relayed the oak barrels filled with seawater to the open deck, poured them into the sea, and then passed them back to the lower cabin.

While they were busy saving themselves, the island-swallowing monster had already smashed the fifth boat!

Seeing that the situation was not good, the last two remaining ships began to flee, but how could their speed compare to that of the sea monsters that occupied the top of the food chain in the ocean!
After two more muffled sounds were heard shortly after each other, the last two ships also disintegrated one after another, and the island-swallowing creature opened its big mouth and sucked hard at the sea surface.

Suddenly, the struggling sailors who were still floating on the sea seemed to be caught in a whirlpool, moving uncontrollably towards the Swallowing Island, and were eventually sucked into the huge mouth that was like a black hole.

“Puff! Hiccup!”

Tundao raised his head and spit out a water arrow that was dozens of meters high, and then he burped loudly.

Immediately afterwards, it swam over under Cheng Lang's nervous gaze, looked at him from a distance, and then dived underwater.

"Wow—"

Before he could react, the Valkyrie was pushed out of the water. As it tossed to and fro, the seawater that had flooded into the cabin poured out from the damaged area.

Cheng Lang, who was thrown from the stern to the bow, pushed away the vine goblin that was pressing on him and stood up with difficulty, but found that the Valkyrie was now parked steadily above the sea level, with the copper skin covering the bottom of the ship completely exposed.

But the Swallow Island that supported the boat did not move, and it seemed that it had no intention of eating them!
Is it because of that tortoise shell?

After a moment of hesitation, Cheng Lang tore off the mask on his face and stuffed it into his bag. Then, ignoring the magic mirror's call, he jumped into the sea.

Cautiously swimming to the front of Swallow Island, the sea monster glanced at him nonchalantly with its cold and emotionless eyes, and continued to slowly chew the snack in its mouth, with a little red inevitably diluting from between its lips and teeth.

"thank you"

Cheng Lang, who had survived the disaster, spoke sincerely, and a string of bubbles came out of his mouth.

The Tundao suddenly moved closer, looked at Cheng Lang with his huge and deep eyes, and then moved his head back slightly.

"puff--!"

Pushed by a light red current that was filled with a strong smell of blood but not violent, Cheng Lang was easily pushed out from underwater. Before he was thrown onto the deck, he was once again caught steadily by a vine goblin in a princess-carrying posture.

Even when he was put down, the big brother Tengxiao helped him to wipe the sea water off his body.

"Thank you too."

Cheng Lang shook his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and then shouted, "Speed ​​up the drainage of seawater and repair the damage!"

"Oh! Oh oh!" The vine goblins immediately responded enthusiastically.

Running back to the control panel quickly, Cheng Lang looked at the magic mirror with a questioning look.

"The Valkyrie may have gained the friendship of the Swallow Island"

The magic mirror said in a speculative tone, "I guess it's because you helped it clean the thorn in its stomach."

"I hope so." Cheng Lang paused, but couldn't help asking, "He won't eat us, will he?"

"Probably not in the short term. Tundao is a relatively docile sea monster, especially since he just ate some dessert."

"Small dessert"

Cheng Lang twitched his lips. Just looking at the seven ships just now, the sailors on them probably added up to at least four or five hundred people!
"Respected Captain, you shouldn't be wasting your time chatting with a humble mirror like me."

The magic mirror reminded him, "You should go to the wreckage of those ships as soon as possible to see if there are any supplies that can be taken before the Valkyrie is repaired.

Most importantly, go find some Poseidon's blood. You can give it to Tundao as a gift. I'm sure he'll love it."

"Does Tundao like Poseidon's blood?" "Of course, all sea monsters and sirens cannot refuse Poseidon's blood."

The magic mirror said, "Please take a mirror and set off as soon as possible. Generally speaking, all the treasures, especially the blood of Poseidon, are in the captain's cabin."

This time, without any hesitation, Cheng Lang picked up a small mirror the size of a palm, left the cab and jumped into the sea again.

Because of the power given by the ship's core, his speed underwater was fast enough. The distance was only a few hundred meters and the depth was less than a hundred meters, and he did not waste much time. He arrived near the wreckage of the almost disintegrated flagship.

It was really difficult to find the captain's room among such a pile of wooden frames at this time, but fortunately, they had just emptied all the belongings of a Boylan sailboat not long ago, so he easily determined the place he was looking for from the wooden frame with a piece of white carpet left.

What surprised him was that there was a white uniform with gold edges here, but inside the uniform was a shark that was only one meter long.

But he actually saw a hint of fear on the shark's face.

Before he could react, the shark escaped.

It would have been fine if it hadn't moved. As soon as it moved, Cheng Lang immediately noticed that the shark also had a belt fixed around its waist, which was almost the same as the one he had snatched from the prince!

"puff!"

Cheng Lang reacted extremely quickly and swung the whip in his hand, accurately wrapping around the shark's body. He subconsciously tightened it and injected deadly toxins.

When all the blood and vitality in the body flowed back into the whip along with the toxins, the shark turned into a naked, middle-aged man with shriveled skin.

Holding back his nausea, Cheng Lang flicked the whip and untied the belt that was slung across the man's shoulder.

This belt also had three modest pockets. The first pocket contained another flat boat bottle, barely the size of a cigarette box. However, this time, it contained a strange-looking, slender boat, barely the size of a melon seed, without a sail. The boat even had a crimson metallic sheen.

It's a submarine? No. It can't be?
Cheng Lang suppressed the crazy speculation in his mind and turned to look at the second pocket.

Inside was a metal box the size of a lunch box. When the box was opened, there were 10 cups of Poseidon's blood fixed one next to the other!

Looking at the third pocket, there was only a roll of parchment in it. When he opened the parchment, he found that what was drawn on it was a chimpanzee sculpture in the original form of Fujiman!
Is this the treasure map of that earl?
Cheng Lang was delighted and quickly hung the belt on his shoulder, then continued to search in the wreckage of the ship.

Soon, he found a wooden box that was almost buried but preserved exceptionally well.

Although the box is locked, we can tell from its weight that it most likely contains gold coins.

He pulled out the uniform that contained the shark and tied the small box around his waist.

Cheng Lang continued to search the wreckage of the ship until he was sure that he had found nothing. Then he swam back to the Valkyrie with all his gains.

First, let the vine goblin drop the hanging basket and send up the small box that seemed to contain gold coins. Cheng Lang came to the huge head of the turtle on the Swallowing Island again, pulled out the metal box containing the blood of Poseidon, opened it and handed it forward.

This Tundao was quite straightforward. Without thinking, he reacted very quickly and opened his mouth full of sharp teeth, looking as cute as if to say "feed me".

"Don't eat anything you don't want to eat. It will upset your stomach."

Cheng Lang spit out bubbles and muttered something, then threw the 10 cups of Poseidon's blood in the box into the big mouth of the abyss one by one.

It seemed that it was very satisfied with Cheng Lang's feeding. The Swallow Island sprayed out a soft stream of water again, pushing him directly to the vicinity of the next warship wreckage.

Cheng Lang was naturally happy to cooperate. After searching for a while, he finally found a metal cabinet that looked like a safe.

The cabinet was not locked, but Cheng Lang cautiously moved away from it and carefully wrapped the whip around the handle to open the cabinet door.

The space inside the cabinet door wasn't very large, with only two layers. On the upper layer, there were two cups of Poseidon's blood, while on the lower layer, there was only a piece of sea-blue armor.

The moment Cheng Lang saw this thing, his eyes lit up. It was a piece of armor!
He quickly stuffed the armor pieces and Poseidon's blood into the belt pocket hanging on his shoulder. After searching for a while without success, he swam to Swallow Island again and threw the two cups of Poseidon's blood into his mouth as if he was familiar with the place. He was pushed to the vicinity of the next shipwreck by a stream of water sprayed by the other side.

In the relatively pleasant cooperation between the two parties, Cheng Lang then found two cups of Poseidon's blood in the remaining shipwrecks, and also discovered a lot of miscellaneous things.

Among them, he only found the original piece of Poseidon's armor, but he found two more wooden boxes that were suspected to contain gold coins.

In addition, he also found a small box of glass tubes of unknown purpose. These cigarette-length glass tubes were all sealed with green liquid.

In addition to these things that the magic mirror liked, he also found a bucket full of oranges, which was a real surprise.

Of course, what concerned him more were the cannons and large numbers of solid shells scattered around each shipwreck.

However, he couldn't lift these heavy artillery pieces by himself, so he could only wait until the Valkyrie was repaired and then find a way to ask Vine Mandrill to help with the salvage.

All the blood of Poseidon found this time was thrown into the mouth of Swallow Island, and Cheng Lang was sent to the open deck by a stream of water sprayed by the other side.

However, before he could get down from the arms of the Vine Xiao who caught him again, the Swallow Island under the ship moved again. The people on the ship and the Vine Xiao were caught off guard and fell into a heap again!
"How is this going?"

Cheng Lang wrapped the whip around the mast, pulled himself up and shouted in horror. At this moment, Tun Island was actually carrying their boat and moving rapidly on the sea!
The goblins naturally had no way of answering this question. When he ran into the indoor cab amidst the huge bumps and asked the same question to the magic mirror, the latter was about to fall off due to the bumps!
In desperation, he could only stumble into the captain's room holding the heavy magic mirror and throw it onto the soft big bed.

"I guess!"

The magic mirror, which had nearly fallen off the bed several times due to the turbulence, replied in fear, "It seems that Swallow Island is preparing to send us away from the Sea of ​​Despair!"

"Is there such a good thing?!" Cheng Lang asked loudly.

"This is not a good thing!"

The magic mirror also shouted in a voice so loud that it almost broke, "If we send it to the port, Swallow Island might eat all the ships near the port! If we send it to unfamiliar waters, we will definitely get lost!"

"Don't you know the way back?!" Cheng Lang asked loudly while pressing the magic mirror with a quilt.

"I only know the route from Savage Island back to Pirate City!"

Because the magic mirror was covered by the quilt, its voice was inevitably a little muffled. "I may not know other waterways! If I can't determine my location, I won't recognize even the waterways I've been to!"

"Aren't you the all-knowing and all-powerful Saint Barbara's Magic Mirror?!"

"That's just a description!"

The magic mirror shouted angrily, "Besides! It's Santa Barbara! Not some Barbara!"

"Whatever it is! Can we refuse Tundao's kindness now?" Cheng Lang asked in a hoarse voice, "I still want to salvage the cannons from those sunken ships!"

"What do you think?!" the magic mirror shouted back, "Hold me down! I'm about to fall!"

"Your special code is harder to press than the pig during Chinese New Year!"

Cheng Lang cursed and simply wrapped the magic mirror completely with a quilt. Then he dragged it and stumbled into the relatively small stairwell.

There is no way, the turbulence caused by the swallowing island has begun to cause the furniture in this room to shift!
Cheng Lang narrowly avoided the piano and sofa that were rushing towards him like a truck, and before the big bed hit him, he grabbed the magic mirror and got into the stairwell.

"Boom!"

Before he could close the door, the oversized bed hit the door frame.

"Oh!"

Cheng Lang kicked the door of the compartment roughly and locked it.

"Where is this? Where is this? I can't see anything!" the magic mirror wrapped in the quilt shouted.

"Stairwell, we are in the stairwell!" Cheng Lang responded loudly.

"Go to the ventricle! Go to the ventricle! It won't be so bumpy there!"

Before the magic mirror finished speaking, Cheng Lang had already pulled the quilt wrapped around it through the small door leading to the ventricle of the ship.

When he closed the door, the frightening shaking did not disappear at all. Instead, the magic mirror, which was still wrapped in the quilt, slid down the wooden stairs with a distorted scream because of Cheng Lang's mistake.

By the time Cheng Lang stumbled down, the magic mirror and the quilt wrapped around it had already fallen into the blood-red pool right under the center of the ship!

"Magic mirror!"

Cheng Lang quickly reached out to grab it, but what he pulled up was only half a quilt covered with goose down.

I subconsciously put my hand into the pool. Where was the magic mirror in it?
No. No more?

Cheng Lang couldn't help but be stunned. Although he had only been with the magic mirror for a short time, the other party was the only "person" he could communicate with since he came to this world.

Now even the only mirror with which he could communicate is gone. The loneliness hidden in the corner of his heart and the guilt towards the magic mirror, which was both his teacher and friend, also arise spontaneously.

Not giving up, he fished in the pool again. Amidst the constant turbulence, Cheng Lang struggled to reach the small door leading to the lower cabin and passed through. He then discovered that all the leaks and damages had been blocked, and the bottom of the boat had become dry again. Even the vine goblins were firmly fixed to the floor by vines, and they were even sharing red wine while holding coconut shell helmets!

Before he could react, the nearest vine goblin had already pulled a vine and tied it around his waist, and even stuffed a sack full of barley under his butt.

But even so, Cheng Lang, who seemed to be wearing a seat belt, began to feel dizzy in the violent turbulence. He grabbed an empty oak barrel and started vomiting.

It would have been better if he didn't vomit, but those vine goblins actually untied the vines around their waists with great disgust, held the coconut shell helmets that served as wine bowls in both hands, and ran out of the lower cabin in a flash while their captain raised the middle finger to greet them. These dead monkeys didn't even spill a drop of fruit wine in such a bumpy ride!
For the whole day that followed, the turbulence that almost broke Cheng Lang's body never stopped. He didn't care about the magic mirror whose life or death was in danger, whether the boat had been repaired, or even where Swallowing Island would take them.

The only thing he could do was to hold on to the oak barrel that was also fixed by vines and vomit on and off. When he could vomit nothing out, he began to dry heave. He was seasick, and the seasickness had never been so severe.

Finally, in this violent turbulence, he completely lost consciousness.

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