Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 46 The Secrets and Conspiracies of This World
In the captain's cabin of the Valkyrie, Cheng Lang sat on the sofa holding the box that he had never been able to open, staring blankly at the ceiling with his head tilted back, digesting the shock brought by these things.

He hadn't expected to run into an old friend in a foreign land, and certainly not in this way. Inevitably, he began to wonder what the so-called reverse scale was.

On the other hand, he couldn't help but start to analyze whether the senior Qin Jinyan's design was hinting at something.

If I remember correctly, that wild island only allows one ship in and out every hundred years.

So was it an accident that I appeared on that island?
What if I had backed down and not gone to the temple in the heart of the island? Wouldn't I have had to wait a hundred years again? Could I live to be a hundred?
I'm not a cuckold
Cheng Lang cursed inwardly at himself, but at the same time he had to cast his suspicion on the magic mirror.

It was the magic mirror that encouraged me to go deep into the island, so could it be him?
Unfortunately, not to mention that the magic mirror is not on the ship at this time, even if he is, it would be meaningless unless there is sufficient evidence.

After thinking it over, he put the box in his hand back to the stair compartment, and then went to the lower cabin to take a look worriedly.

Just like the two previous times when they docked, the sea-viewing vine produced fruits all over the lower cabin.

At this time, the vine goblins also crowded together, each holding a coconut shell helmet filled with fruit wine, and each guarding a fruit that was about to ripen - and protecting the food as usual.

"Stingy"

Cheng Lang, feeling bored, walked onto the open deck and calmed himself down. Then he stepped onto the gangplank and walked onto the pier again, heading towards the hotel alone.

"Captain, are you okay?"

Before he could even walk up the winding slope, Shenba jumped out from not far away.

"Why are you here?" Cheng Lang asked.

"Sister is worried that you will get lost"

Shen Ba said with a silly smile, "Captain, do you want to have a drink?"

"I don't drink with kids"

Cheng Lang said with disdain that this Shenba was small in age but big in stature, and his drinking tolerance was really not that good. On the way here, he was drunk with fruit wine by the Tengxiaos more than once, and then he hugged the oak barrel and cried and said dirty words.

"I'm not small"

"Yes, yes, I am. I am a little brat."

Cheng Langman casually said, "Shenba, is there anything worth visiting in Pirate City at this time?"

"This time?"

Shenba subconsciously turned his head to look in a certain direction, then glanced at Cheng Lang, and said as if he had suddenly realized something, "Oh! Yes! The House of Pleasure! The Night Maiden Tavern, or the Wind Dance Theater! There are many beautiful girls there, but..."

"But what?" Cheng Lang looked at Shenba's side and back and asked with a smile.

"But I have no money, and my sister never lets me go to places like that."

Shenba said expectantly, "So, Captain, I'll show you the way, and you take me in to see the world. Ouch!"

Shenba subconsciously shrank his neck, and when he turned around, he saw his sister squinting at him.

"Give"

Cheng Lang silently took out the whip and handed it to the other party, "I still have a lot of elf healing potions here. As long as you don't kill him, I can definitely save him."

"Snapped!"

As Yun Ji swung the whip, Shenba, who was frightened to the point of almost becoming a ghost, also ran away.

"This bastard!"

Yun Ji cursed with gritted teeth, then returned the whip to Cheng Lang, "You want to take Shen Ba to the House of Pleasure? The Night Maiden Tavern or the Wind Dance Theater?"

"As the Valkyrie testifies, that was Shenba's suggestion. I don't even know where those places are."

Cheng Lang put away the whip and said, "I just want to find a place to sit down."

"Come with me"

Yun Ji snorted and waved to Cheng Lang, leading him to an alley not far away that was filled with the smell of fireworks.

This alley is quite spacious, and one end of the alley faces the pier.

In the alley, besides the boat lanterns lined up one after another, there are stalls lined up one after another with fragrant smells.

These stalls sold mostly snacks made from various cheap seafood, and the stall owners were mostly men who looked even older than Gerta. Most of them had gills on their necks and scales on their arms.

Even without Yun Ji's explanation, Cheng Lang had already roughly guessed that they were most likely elderly mixed-race sailors.

Of course, in the mouths of most people, including Magic Mirror, they also have a special derogatory name - grass carp bastards.

“This is Fishtail Alley”

Yun Ji said, "It only takes 10 copper coins to fill your stomach. Even if you walk all the way to Yuwei Alley, a person won't spend more than a single silver coin without wasting money."

"Do you come here often?" Cheng Lang asked.

"My brother and I loved coming here when we were little. Or rather, this was the favorite place for kids who grew up in Pirate City."

As Yun Ji spoke, she took out a handful of copper coins and bought two portions of charcoal-grilled squid from an old stall owner wearing an eye patch. She gave one of them to Cheng Lang and said, "Try it. It tastes very good."

"Were they all sailors?"

Cheng Lang asked as he took the grilled squid, then took a big bite. It was indeed as Yun Ji said, the grilled squid was very delicious.

"Sailor Who Survived"

Yun Ji corrected him, “If all mixed-blood sailors can live to the age of 45, even the most brutal and vicious captains will send them to the Pirate City.

In fact, most mixed-race sailors are sent to Pirate City by their captains when they are 35 years old.”

"I didn't expect that Pirate City is so humane," Cheng Lang couldn't help but say.

"Pirates are actually dreamers and idealists," Yun Ji said. "Do you know what the wishes of those mixed-race sailors are?"

"What is it?" Cheng Lang asked.

"Their greatest wish is to obtain a cup of Poseidon's blood before the age of 40."

Yun Ji said, "As long as they obtain a cup of Poseidon's blood before the age of 40, they can randomly transform into a complete human or a complete siren. However, many mixed-blood sailors may not know this secret until they die in battle."

"Poseidon's blood is really useful." Cheng Lang couldn't help but sigh.

Turning her head and giving Cheng Lang a strange look, Yun Ji didn't say anything else. Instead, she continued to use handfuls of copper coins to buy a lot of snacks. Then she took Cheng Lang out of the other end of the alley and climbed onto the roof of an abandoned building. She placed the food she brought on several wooden boxes that were placed there for some unknown reason.

“My friends and I used to come here often”

Yun Ji said, "We buy a lot of snacks, and if we have more money, we also buy a few glasses of juice."

"Do you want to invite your friends?" Cheng Lang randomly chose an oak barrel to sit down, looking at the harbor in the distance and the starry sky and asked.

“Most of them have already gone to sea.”

Yun Ji said, "In Pirate City, many people choose to go out to sea when they turn 16, and vow to return to Pirate City in their own boat in the future."

"Why are you talking about this?" Cheng Lang asked curiously.

"You are so unfamiliar with everything on the sea that you seem like you are not from this world." Yun Ji accidentally revealed the truth without realizing it. "Especially, you don't seem to know the secret of Poseidon's blood."

"The secret of Poseidon's blood?"

"The era when Poseidon ruled the ocean was the nightmare of all the Sirens on land and in the sea."

Yun Ji picked up a snack and ate it nonchalantly while saying, "Later, the Valkyrie killed him and sealed him at the bottom of the sea. Using his blood as a medium, they encouraged all intelligent and rational life forms to draw upon Poseidon's power through his blood and armor."

"To prevent him from resurrecting?" Cheng Lang asked.

"Yes, to prevent him from being resurrected."

Yun Ji said, "This is why his armor and blood are jokingly called the universal patch and universal glue of the Xinghai.

Although humans and sirens generally have a competitive relationship, they all maintain a tacit agreement regarding Poseidon. No one, including the sirens, wants him to come back to life.

"Where is Boerland's witch hunting group?"

"My father said that it was just a sympathetic opinion. Even they wouldn't want Poseidon to live."

Yun Ji explained, "In fact, the country most enthusiastic about collecting Poseidon's blood and armor pieces, and the most enthusiastic about making armor, is precisely the Principality of Boerland, which is under the pretext of resurrecting Poseidon."

"He's standing up again and planning to eat alone?" Cheng Lang muttered secretly.

"And the Murphy's Tower, or rather, the Murphy's Tower of Grass Carp."

Yun Ji sighed, "That was originally an attempt at a grand fusion of humans and sirens. If humans and sirens could truly merge into one race, the resulting hybrid children would work even harder to find Poseidon's blood, forming a virtuous cycle."

"It seems that someone doesn't want to see this scene," Cheng Lang said.

"Yeah, some people don't want to see this."

Yun Ji sighed, "So the unpleasant name of grass carp Murphyta appeared, and then the grass carp hybrid.

Likewise, there is the black-haired Rica royal family, who are born with sin and are rumored to have had affairs with ancient dwarves.

Queen Gotland is rumored to have been raiding young siren for mysterious sacrifices to maintain her youth.

There are also rumors that the royal family of Boerland had long been taken over by pirates, and the Pirate City was actually a conspiracy of the sea monster Panini.

There are also those unspeakable vicious slanders against the Orcs, as well as the slander of the Valkyries and the burying of related history."

Having said that, Yun Ji looked at Cheng Lang and said, "Captain, this is everything in this world. Some people don't want the secrets of this world to be discovered."

“Thank you for your explanation.”

Cheng Lang picked up the purple-red juice in a ceramic cup and handed it to the other party, then picked up another cup and clinked it with the other party, then tilted his head back and poured it into his mouth.

Then, he widened his eyes and saw the teasing look on Yun Ji's face.

"I'm almost certain now that you're from another world"

Yun Ji took a sip of the juice in the cup, and then her whole face shrank into a dot because of the sour taste.

After swallowing the small mouthful of juice with difficulty, Yun Ji shivered and said with a smile, "Even a child knows that tartberry juice can only be drunk in small sips."

"gollum"

Cheng Lang finally swallowed the extremely sour juice, and then he felt a sudden sweetness.

"The more you drink of tart berry juice, the more intense the sweetness behind the tartness becomes."

Yun Ji smiled and explained, "That's why it's also called Warrior Juice, because only warriors can drink it in one big gulp and taste the rich sweetness."

"I"

Although the taste in his mouth was intoxicatingly sweet, Cheng Lang still felt that it was so sour that even his teeth disappeared. Even so, he still said, "I just want to be a warrior."

"Then let's have another time?" Yun Ji picked up the cup again.

"Let's wait a moment."

Cheng Lang decisively admitted his mistake and changed the subject, asking, "Yun Ji, do you know Misty Island?"

"Misty Island?"

Yun Ji looked at Cheng Lang in confusion, "Is there an island with this name?"

"Isn't there one in the Sea of ​​Despair?" Cheng Lang asked back.

“I shouldn’t be mistaken.”

Yun Ji said, "There is definitely no island with this name, whether in the Sea of ​​Despair or the Sea of ​​Stars."

"In that case, tell me what you siblings are looking for."

Cheng Lang picked up a fried snack and said as he put it into his mouth.

"It's a seed," Yun Ji said, "I'll tell you the details when I have a chance."

"also"

Cheng Lang didn't ask any more questions. He was now eagerly waiting for the magic mirror to come back soon to see if he knew about the Misty Island and what he thought about the things in the box.

It was not known whether Cheng Lang was accompanying Yun Ji or Yun Ji was accompanying Cheng Lang. The two of them drank up the extremely sour and sweet juice in the cups one after another, and ate the snacks they bought. Then they stepped on the wooden boards between the buildings and took a shortcut back to the inn of Yun Ji and Shen Ba's family.

Perhaps it was because of the conversation with Yun Ji, or perhaps it was because of the delicious snacks, but Cheng Lang had a good sleep after returning.

He didn't know if it was because he was used to the rocking of the sea or because he lacked the desk lamp that allowed him to have a sweet dream, but he felt like the whole world was shaking all night long.

The next morning, when he was awakened by the sound of seabirds tapping the glass window with their sharp beaks outside the window, the bright sunlight outside the gauze curtains had already squeezed into the room.

After putting on his clothes, drawing open the gauze curtains and pushing open the window, Cheng Lang looked at the harbor and town under the bright sunshine, and his mood became much better.

"Captain, you're finally awake."

Downstairs, Yafuso, who seemed to have just returned from somewhere, was sitting in a carriage and waved happily at Cheng Lang who was standing by the window.

"What did you do?" Cheng Lang asked with interest.

"Buying clothes! I bought a lot of clothes!"

Yafuso, wearing a beautiful princess dress, pointed to the carriage behind her and said, "The pirate market over there is very lively!"

"Do you need me to take you there?"

Yun Ji, who was driving the carriage, looked up and asked, "We brought you breakfast, or maybe lunch."

"Thank you"

Cheng Lang asked, "Where are the two of them?"

"Grandpa and Shenba are still at the market."

As Yafuso spoke, she jumped off the carriage, took the canvas bag handed to her by Yun Ji, and walked into the hotel with it with difficulty.

(End of this chapter)