Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 55 Free Ocean Currents
"Left full rudder!"

In the fog outside Exile Island, Cheng Lang on the open deck of the Valkyrie turned the steering wheel hard and shouted orders.

At the same time, Yun Ji behind him also quickly sent out a light signal to notify the Honest Man, which was only a hundred meters away.

Further behind them, the first demon hunting ship also entered the fog and hit the reef shortly afterwards.

This sudden change also caused the demon-hunting ships behind to quickly slow down and keep their distance.

At the same time, mixed-race sailors or siren sailors with ropes tied around their waists jumped off these ships and dived to the bottom of the ship to observe the surrounding sea conditions.

But at this time, the first boat was stuck between a reef and could not move at all.

"Back off! Let's get around this sea fog!"

The captain of the fleet gave a decisive order, and the remaining ships immediately changed course and circled to try to leave the fog.

But just this order caused a ship to hit the reef.

Fortunately, the remaining five ships finally escaped safely and began to circle around the thick fog, which was nearly 100 nautical miles in diameter, searching for the targets hiding inside.

"Where is that grass carp bastard?" asked the captain who had escaped by chance.

"It's gone," his first mate replied.

"Let the Quick Knife bring him back," the fleet captain gave the order casually.

Soon, a speedboat was detached from the fleet and took the Desperate Trade Winds again to chase the Golden Tooth.

Cheng Lang had no time to pay attention to what was happening outside the fog. At this moment, he had followed the instructions of the magic mirror and ordered both boats to retract their sails, allowing the turbulent currents between the reefs to push the two boats forward.

"Right rudder 30!" Cheng Lang issued the order again, and this order was also conveyed to the Honest Man through Yun Ji behind him.

Amid the harsh friction between the surrounding reefs and the copper-clad hull, the two ships turned again and continued to be pushed forward in the fog by the turbulent current.

"Turn the rudder! Full sail!" After a moment, Cheng Lang issued a new order based on the prompts in the mirror.

"Crash!"

The sailors on both boats immediately spread out their sails and let the inexplicable wind push them forward.

After sailing for less than ten minutes, the two boats retracted their sails and turned the rudder to the left again at Cheng Lang's command.

During such frequent maneuvers, the two ships gradually entered the deepest part of the fog. The compass needles on the ship's bell base also lost their ability to point and began to circle fast and slow.

"Fold the sails! Release the steering wheel! Everyone return to the cabin!" Cheng Lang issued the last order according to the prompts in the mirror!
Although she did not understand the meaning, Yun Ji still conveyed the order to the Honest Man behind her. Similarly, the pirate brothers chose to give up thinking and called on the small sailors to fold the sails. Then they also let go of the steering wheel and ran into the cabin with the sailors.

In the thick fog that was almost tangible, the two ships began to drift with the current, and all the sailors hid by the windows and looked outside nervously.

With occasional scrapes and collisions, the two ships shrouded in fog moved forward between the reefs, sometimes fast and sometimes slow. Occasionally, they could see dilapidated sailboats on the surrounding reefs.

The appearance of those sailboats was even more terrifying than the Valkyrie that was cursed by Poseidon at night. On the moss-covered decks, there were undead spirits walking around aimlessly from time to time, or mechanically waving signal flags, or operating the extinguished signal lights to send out distress or even farewell signals.

When the bow of the ship was once again washed by the current and turned, everyone could vaguely see a stone lighthouse built on the reef.

"We are beginning to enter the core waters of Exile Island," the magic mirror whispered beside the indoor control console, "but we will not be allowed to enter."

"What did you say?" Cheng Lang glanced at the magic mirror.

“But we’re here after all.”

The magic mirror explained with a heavy breath, "Also, our ship is drifting now, but there are no criminals on board who need to be sent to the exile island.

So we will be sent out by the warden who is guarding this place, and then we will take a little-known ocean current."

As soon as he finished speaking, the steering wheel in front of Cheng Lang was covered with a hazy green light and then began to rotate on its own.

Under Cheng Lang's nervous gaze, the two ships changed their course again, and even their speed increased a lot.

Suddenly, the thick fog around them disappeared, and the people on the two boats immediately noticed a small island on the right side of the ship.

This small island is only half the size of a playground. Everywhere you look, there are black rugged reefs, and even the reefs are only less than half a meter higher than the surrounding sea level.

Because of this, every time a wave hits the island, it will be washed away.

On such an island reef, there were ragged people staggering and chasing each other.

Every time someone was knocked down, more people would swarm around like a flock of vultures.

"Roar--!"

Just as the man who was knocked down was reduced to a skeleton in the blink of an eye, several people roared like beasts towards the Valkyrie and the Honest Man, which were only a few hundred meters away.

All of a sudden, everyone around looked over, then dropped the food in their hands, picked up the rusty scimitars and even stones, rushed into the sea, and began to swim hard towards the two boats.

But as soon as a wave hit them, they collectively turned 180 degrees. By the time they reacted, they had already swam back to the shore of the island.

"Gulu."

Everyone who saw this scene, including the vine goblins, swallowed their saliva in unison.

It was not known whether they were warning the Valkyrie and the Honest Man or luring the people on the island, but the two ships drifting with the current were getting closer and closer to the island reef, and in the end the distance between the two sides was less than 50 meters!
Just when the two ships were about to hit the island, and Kervik on the Honest couldn't help but reach for the green steering wheel, the two ships began to turn at the same time. Finally, when they were less than 20 meters away from the island, they cut diagonally and left the island behind, and returned to the fog again.

The fluorescence on the steering wheel still did not disappear, and the captains of the two ships waited obediently, letting the steering wheel turn by itself, lightly bypassing one reef and terrifying sea whirlpool after another.

Finally, the fluorescence on the steering wheel gradually dissipated, and the two ships began to be pushed faster and faster by an ocean current hidden under the sea surface.

"Have we caught the ocean current you mentioned?" Cheng Lang asked with a sigh of relief.

"Yes, the free ocean current, the ocean current that only pirates released from prison have the opportunity to ride."

The magic mirror explained flatteringly, "This ocean current will carry us all the way to the edge of the Sea of ​​Despair."

"Has this ocean current never been discovered by anyone?" Cheng Lang, who had relaxed, asked curiously.

"Who would come to a place like this to look for ocean currents?" the magic mirror asked. "Dear Captain, once we leave this thick fog, please use the ship's armor to summon the mist. It will bring us some safety."

Hearing this, Cheng Lang nodded and took note of it.

Meanwhile, the remaining four ships of the Demon Hunter fleet were still circling the edge of the fog. The captain had his lieutenant release a signal: "After unremitting efforts, our fleet has successfully trapped the target ship within the fog of Exile Island."

No matter who this letter seeking credit would eventually be delivered to and what kind of credit it would bring, the captain did not know that at this moment on Xiangsha Island, a beautiful woman of mixed blood of orcs and siren had put a hypocritical mask on her face, and then took out a bottle of poison and poured it into the mouth of the sleeping Prince Marian.

Looking in the mirror at her face which was exactly the same as Prince Marian's, the naked woman slowly put on Prince Marian's clothes, then picked up the dead Prince Marian and threw him into a box and locked it.

Clearing her throat, the woman commanded in a voice identical to Prince Marian's, "Notify the Major General and arrange a speedboat immediately. I want to return to the Duchy of Boerland immediately!"

"Yes"

The beautiful attendant not far away responded respectfully, pushed the door and walked out of the bedroom.

After patiently waiting for several hours, the Valkyrie and the Honest Man finally reached the edge of the fog near dusk. Cheng Lang simultaneously summoned a cloud of moving fog to obscure the two ships, continuing to ride the free current towards the Sea of ​​Despair.

At the same time, the Demon Hunter Fleet's Quick Blade finally caught up with the Golden Fang, which had stopped due to the disappearance of the trade winds, when the sun was setting.

At this time, although the ship was brightly lit, a white flag representing surrender was hung on the top of the mast.

“Garbage is garbage”

The captain of the Quick Knife snorted, "Prepare guns! Boarding!"

"Yes!"

The sailors on the Quick Knife responded in unison, then took out huge oars and slowly approached the Golden Tooth pirate ship.

As the distance got closer, the sailors on the Quick Knife also saw the charred body in the captain's uniform hanging upside down on the mast of the Gold Fang.

"It appears that a mutiny has occurred on this ship."

Although the captain of the Quick Knife said this, he did not relax his vigilance. Instead, he sent several sailors to board the ship in a transport boat.

A moment later, the sailors shouted and gave the signal of safety.

"Captain! There is a lot of blood on the ship, but the sailors are gone!" one of the sailors shouted.

"First mate, take a group of sailors aboard. After daybreak, we will seize the wind and leave the desperate trade winds to return."

The captain of the Quick Knife gave an order and then released a letter with his own hands: We have found the ship.

"Yes!"

The ship's first mate immediately took orders and boarded the Golden Tooth with a group of sailors.

That night, the Valkyrie and the Honest Man rode the ocean currents farther and farther away, completely leaving behind the thick fog surrounding the Exile Island and the witchers who had just circled to the other side of the fog before dark.

It was also on this night that the Golden Tooth Shark Rant, under the cover of darkness, and his first mate each brought a group of sailors aboard the Golden Tooth and the Quick Knife respectively, and launched a bloody massacre under the starry sky.

"cheers!"

In the Valkyrie's conference room, Cheng Lang raised a full glass of fruit wine and clinked it with the glasses of the people around him.

After gulping down the fruit wine in the glass in one gulp, Kervik picked up a leg of lamb covered in thick sauce and took a big bite. He mumbled as he chewed, "Captain! Respected Captain! This is truly amazing! I never thought I would be able to see those unfortunate people on the exile island and actually leave there alive!"

"Don't talk about what happened on that island!" Yafuso said quickly, "or you'll be eating wormy bread from now on!"

Kervik quickly put on a smile and changed the subject, saying with lingering fear, "I almost couldn't help myself and touched the steering wheel!"

"Fortunately you didn't touch it," Cheng Lang said, "otherwise you would have to stay there."

"It's a pity we can't rob those demon-hunting ships," Shenba said regretfully, "their ships must have a lot of valuables on them."

"There are still many demon-hunting ships. We will have a chance in the future."

Gerta then said that now the two boats were being pushed forward by the ocean currents, so they not only did not need to devote people to steering the boat, they didn't even need to spread out the sails.

"When we return from the Sea of ​​Despair, I'm afraid there will be countless demon-hunting ships waiting for us."

Yun Ji said worriedly, "If the entire demon hunting fleet is already trapped in the reefs around Exile Island, it would be fine. But if a demon hunting ship leaves there, I'm afraid everyone will know that there are vine goblins on our ship."

"At worst, we can just stay in the sea of ​​despair."

Kervik said, "It is said that some small islands in the Sea of ​​Despair have already been inhabited by humans and sirens. We will always be able to obtain supplies."

"A small island with human settlements appeared in the Sea of ​​Despair?" Yun Ji looked at Kervik in surprise. "How is this possible? Isn't the Sea of ​​Despair the territory of sea monsters?"

"They are all sailors stranded in the sea of ​​despair"

Kervik explained, "Then there are some weak sirens. It is said that they all hid in the Sea of ​​Despair."

"What are they hiding from?" Shenba asked curiously, "I mean those sea monsters."

"I don't know," Kervik spread his hands. "I heard it on Shipbreaking Island, and I'm not even sure it's true."

"Whether it's true or not"

Cheng Lang raised his glass and said, "Let's have another drink!"

"cheers!"

All the sailors in the conference room raised their cups again. At the same time, the gorillas on the open deck and even on the masts also raised their coconut shell helmets.

That night, pushed by the free ocean current, the Valkyrie and the Candide were constantly closing the distance towards the Sea of ​​Despair.

That night, the Golden Tooth Shark Rant and his sailors recaptured the Golden Tooth pirate ship at a heavy price, and also captured the Quick Knife and obtained enough supplies.

On the same night, Prince Marian, his maid and several large boxes filled with treasures boarded the witch-hunting ship bound for the Principality of Boerland.

The world is beginning to stir up waves
(End of this chapter)