Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 59: Target Dragonfly Island

After returning to the captain's office, Cheng Lang first communicated with the magic mirror.

"Respected Captain, your idea is far too risky," the Magic Mirror said in panic. "We only have two ships. We can't resist an army of 1800 sea cavalrymen."

"It's enough for us to just hold off those deaf sea cavalrymen among them," Cheng Lang said, "the rest can be left to the Qinwei Mermaids."

"What if they also make themselves deaf?" asked the Magic Mirror.

"They made themselves deaf because they knew there were lyretail fishmen on our boat."

Cheng Lang said, "If they didn't know, why did they make themselves deaf?"

"Okay, then how can we ensure that 1800 marines can surround us and stay within the range of the singing of those merfolk?" The magic mirror asked a new question.

“That’s what I’m considering, too.”

Cheng Lang threw the question back, "Do you have any suggestions?"

"Dear Captain, I suggest we go directly to Misty Island?" The Magic Mirror said cautiously, "We don't really need to..."

"That boatman, Wilton, might be the only one who can transplant dragonfish fins onto a boat."

Cheng Lang sighed, "Even if we don't care about the other people on the island, we must at least rescue Mr. Wilton. This is also an opportunity for us."

"What opportunity?" asked the magic mirror in confusion.

"All along the way, I've been worrying about what to exchange for the dragonfish fin."

Cheng Lang tapped the table lightly with his fingers. "So this is an opportunity. If we solve the crisis on Dragonfly Island, we might be able to get the Dragonfly Fin."

"Oh! Dear Captain, you are really..."

"stop"

Cheng Lang didn't give the other party a chance to continue flattering him, "Magic Mirror, do you have any other suggestions on this matter?"

“I do have a few small suggestions.”

The magic mirror said flatteringly, "After all, we are facing a full 1800 sea cavalry. Compared to artillery and grape shells, the toxin released from your whip may be the key to killing the enemy."

Seeing Cheng Lang nod, the magic mirror continued, "The poison in that black elf dagger may be no less than that in your whip. If we can mobilize the poison in it, perhaps our chances of winning will be higher."

"I'll talk to Yun Ji." Cheng Lang nodded again. "Anything else?"

"That's all I can think of," the magic mirror said respectfully.

"Signal the honest man to get Kervik over here."

After that, Cheng Lang stood up and left the office, went upstairs and shouted, "Gerta, stop the boat and come to the meeting room."

“I’ll let them know.”

Gerta, who was at the helm, responded and shouted to the goblins to cooperate in rolling up the sails to slow down the boat, and poured a bucket of fresh water towards the bow to lure the sea horses pulling the boat to stop.

A moment later, the Honest Man slowly approached, and Kervik, the brains of the pirate brothers, also grabbed a cable and swung over, running into the meeting room as if he knew the place well.

At this time, not only had the conference room been filled with various lunch foods and juices by Yafuso, but even the leader of the Qinwei Merman Band, Tinisha, and her "bathtub" were moved into the conference room by a gorilla.

"captain"

Kervik walked into the conference room and greeted Cheng Lang warmly and flatteringly. Then he saw the merman hiding in the oak barrel with only his head sticking out.

"sit down"

Cheng Lang greeted him, and after Kervik sat down, he asked Tinisha to repeat the situation on Dragonfly Island.

"I'm going to rescue Dragonfly Island," Cheng Lang said after Tinisha finished speaking.

"Why?" Kervik asked subconsciously.

“Of course because I’m a good person.”

Cheng Lang spread his hands, raised his cup and gestured, then took a big sip of the sweet orange juice and carefully explained his considerations. Finally, he said, "So this is actually an opportunity for us. With the assistance of the Qinwei Merman Band, as long as we use the right methods, the 1800-man Marine Cavalry may not pose much of a threat to us.

I asked everyone to discuss this matter to see if there is anything we can do to increase our chances of success.”

"Fog! Dear Captain, we need a large area of ​​fog!"

Kervik was the first to say, "We need you to summon a large amount of ink from underwater to dye the sea water black, just like you did a few days ago. This will make those stinky..."

Kervik, speaking mid-sentence, carefully glanced at Tinisha hidden in the oak barrel, cleared his throat, and continued, "This will make those sea cavalry lose sight both on the surface and underwater."

"Let's fight at night"

Yun Ji continued, "As far as I know, the Qinwei Fishman's zither music can be blessed by the night."

"It's just because it's relatively quiet at night," Tinisha answered cautiously.

"What's your best song?" Yun Ji asked casually.

"Happy Love Overture"

Tinissa replied quietly, "We're a trainee band working at the Dragonfish Hatchery, so that's our best song."

"Those Marines are going to make a fool of themselves," Kervik said gloatingly, but he didn't notice Cheng Lang's strange expression at all.

"This is the first time I've seen a lyretail fishman."

Yun Ji said, "As far as I know, if someone eats the fingernails of the Qinwei Fishman Band and sings along, it will enhance the effect of the music."

“That’s exactly what happened.”

Tinissa nodded quickly, "The song for the love prelude is very simple."

"It seems that we have to fight those sea cavalry while singing." Yun Ji looked at Cheng Lang.

"Let's organize the sailors from the two boats to sing together later," Cheng Lang made a decisive decision.

"Captain, I want to talk to you alone next." Yun Ji said, pulling out the elven dagger from her waist.

"Come with me"

Cheng Lang stood up as he spoke, "Kervik, you two should discuss the battle plan first."

"As you command, Captain," Kervik responded respectfully.

After leaving the meeting room with Yun Ji, the two went upstairs to the side of the open-air driving platform.

"Is your whip poisonous?" Yun Ji asked directly.

"That's right," Cheng Lang nodded. This matter could not be concealed.

"The undead in the Black Elf Dagger recorded the method of brewing the Black Elf poison."

Yun Ji suppressed her fear and uneasiness and said, "Eighteen hundred sea cavalrymen, even with the Qinwei Merman Band, this many enemies are still too terrifying. If we are not careful, we might not even have a complete bone left. So I think we need to mix some black elf poison to increase our chances of victory."

"You're going to configure it?" Cheng Lang asked.

"I need strong liquor, a cup of Poseidon's blood, the blood of those merfolk, and 10 elven potions." Yun Ji made the request.

"No problem," Cheng Lang agreed readily. He had no reason to refuse.

"I hope only the two of us know about the black elf poison." Yun Ji made her final request.

"There is no such thing as black elf poison. Those poisons all come from my whip." Cheng Lang made a serious promise.

"Thank you." Yun Ji breathed a sigh of relief.

Just at this moment, a letter flew from a distance, circled for a while and landed beside Cheng Lang.

Reaching out and taking the glass bottle with the Flamingo Company seal from the neck of the letter old man, Cheng Lang took the dagger handed to him by Yun Ji, pried it open, and took out the note from the bottle.

"My friend, we have returned to Furnace Port safely. We look forward to working with you again."

Handing the note to Yun Ji, Cheng Lang walked back while saying, "Please write a letter back to them for me. I wish them good business." Returning to the conference room, Cheng Lang did not explain Yun Ji's whereabouts. Instead, Kervik took the initiative to say, "Dear Captain, perhaps we can stay for a day. My foolish brother and I are going to make some tools to improve our combat effectiveness."

"Tools to improve combat effectiveness? What tools?" Cheng Lang asked curiously.

"The horn, of course it's the horn!"

"We're planning to make some big speakers and put them on the boat," Kervik said. "I think that would be helpful, at least to make the singing sound travel farther."

"Then let's stay for a day," Cheng Lang agreed again happily, "and our banquet will be postponed until we rescue Dragonfly Island."

"Captain, Yafuso and I are also preparing to do something."

Gerta said, "So if you can, please give me 10 Elven potions, and maybe we can grow some hallucinogenic mushrooms."

"No problem," Cheng Lang agreed again.

"I don't know how I can help," Shen Bahua said, pulling his head back. "Captain, is there anything I can do for you?"

"There will be a time when we'll need you," Cheng Lang said soothingly with a smile.

But in fact, he himself was also unsure. With two ships facing 1800 enemies, even he felt that this was a suicidal idea.

Regardless of whether they were seeking death or not, the crews on the two stopped ships began to get busy.

Under the command of the pirate brothers and the help of those small sailors, a row of large loudspeakers made of wooden boards, each with a diameter of one meter, were set up on both sides of the Honest Man's ship.

I have to say that the pirate brothers' carpentry skills are impeccable. The sound-collecting effect of these speakers is exceptionally good. The two ships even deliberately kept a distance from each other to give it a try.

With those small sailors shouting together, the two boats could still hear clearly what they were shouting even though they were five or six hundred meters apart.

Seeing that this thing was useful, the pirate brothers worked overnight and installed a row of large speakers on both ends of the Valkyrie's side - even though those vine goblins could only say "oh".

The pirate brothers were busy, and the others were not idle either.

After the fiddleheads woke up with the help of cups of tarte berry juice and figured out what was going to happen, they immediately split into two groups and began teaching the sailors the accompaniment of the chorus of the love prelude.

Gerta and Yafso, the grandfather and grandson, hid in the lower cabin, using diluted elven potions to speed up the cultivation of some poisonous mushrooms that should have been cleared, and they collected the spores of these poisonous mushrooms with extreme care.

Also hiding in the lower cabin was Yun Ji. At this time, she had already mixed barrels of black elf poison that was not lethal, but was enough to make people, sirens, and even some low-level sea monsters react slowly.

With everyone working together to prepare, by the next morning, behind the gun ports of the Valkyrie's gun deck, there were full barrels of the Dark Elf poison, which made one dizzy just by smelling it.

"Now let's sing it one last time!"

On the stern deck of the Valkyrie, behind two huge speakers, the harp-tailed merman Tinissa and her band members gently plucked the colorful strings at the end of their tails.

In the melodious tune, Fuji Xiao, who served as the "lead singer", also led the small sailors on the boat not far away to sing the background song of the love prelude:

Liquor burns in the blood, and our love burns in the sea.

The moonlight shines on the rocks, and you smile gently in my arms.

Fearless of this vast ocean, our story has just begun.

The stars lead the way for us as we journey through this prelude to love.

Neither sirens nor sea monsters can stop our melody of love and adventure.

"Whoa whoa!"

The Fujigods bent over and stood behind the loud speaker, singing in unison to create an atmosphere. Fujigods also led the sailors to start the second round of singing with a slightly faster piano music.

Amidst the piano music and singing, the sea horses pulling the oars were restlessly splashing waves, and some of them even started to rub their ears against each other.

"stop!"

Satisfied, Tinisha stopped the chorus and played, "We'll sing like this then, speeding up a beat with each cycle! And every three cycles, we'll slow down a beat. We'll keep singing until all the enemies lose their fighting power."

"in addition"

Cheng Lang leaned over to a large wooden speaker that the Great Sage was holding and said, "In the next battle, I will give a bottle of Poseidon's blood to the most courageous sailor. After drinking Poseidon's blood, it will have a chance to transform into a human or a siren."

After these words were spoken, the small crew members on the Honest Man immediately cheered. Although there were more than a hundred of them and the reward this time was only a cup of Poseidon's blood, it was enough to make them excited.

Of course, it wasn't just the small sailors who received incentives. The vine goblins received barrels of fruit wine, the pirate brothers were promised that if they could catch the golden fin, they would be able to pick one of the trophies first, and even the dark elves had the opportunity to get a hypocritical mask.

For the Qinwei fish people, being able to recapture the Dragonfly Fish Island is already the greatest motivation.

Amid the busy work of many sailors who were fully motivated to fight, the two ships turned off all the lights and set sail again in the night, heading straight for the nearby Dragonfly Island waters.

In the cargo hold of the Honest Man, Kerwick was still busy with carpentry work with the help of the small sailors.

He wanted to build at least two more crossbows based on the crossbow on the bow of the Valkyrie, but this was not Cheng Lang's request, but came from Gerta and Yafso.

Although he didn't know what the grandfather and grandson thought, Kervik readily agreed and worked hard to rush the production.

Amidst everyone's intense preparations, one day later, a crossbow was added to the bow and stern of the Honest Man, and to the open deck at the stern of the Valkyrie.

These three newly appeared crossbows are larger in size, but their range is barely equal to the one on the bow of the Valkyrie.

But even so, it is enough. They are not responsible for setting off a powder keg this time.

Late at night the next day, the sailors on the two ships finally saw the brightly lit Dragonfly Island from afar through telescopes in the darkness.

In the conference room of the Valkyrie, Cheng Lang stared at the Dragonfly Island on the nautical chart, and discussed the next battle plan with Yun Ji, Gerta, Kervik, and the merman Tinisha for the last time.

The area of ​​this Dragonfly Island is not very large. The overall terrain is high on one side and low on the other, in the shape of a gourd with a large circle next to a small circle.

This gourd, lying horizontally on the sea, has a large belly that's extremely low-lying. According to Tinisa, at high tide, the reefs are barely a meter above sea level. This atoll, a natural haven, is also the nesting ground of dragonflies.

The mountains around the other circle are dozens of meters above sea level. In the middle of this circle of mountains is the dragonfly fish hatchery. The residents of the island live around the hatchery and live a peaceful life with the dragonfly fish.

Tinisha and her apprentice band, which had only been established for less than a year, originally had the responsibility of playing music in the hatchery to promote the reproduction of dragonflies. This was also the first job of every apprentice band on Dragonfly Island after its establishment.

"What's the weather like in the next hour?" Cheng Lang asked in the conference room.

“It was a nice day with no wind”

Kervik said, placing the crystal ball armor he had captured in the last battle, which could predict the weather and sea conditions within a 10-mile radius for the next hour, on the table. "But there's no sea fog within the 10-mile radius."

"Where around here are the waves calmer?" Yun Ji asked the question Cheng Lang wanted to ask.

"Southwest of the island," Kervik and Tinisha gave the same answer in unison.

"Reiterate the battle plan again."

Cheng Lang cleared his throat. "At midnight, the Valkyrie will circle to the southwest of the island and create a sea fog. Honest Man, you need to hoist your ship lights a little later, sail into the fog, and then launch a few artillery attacks."

"Will they come?" Kervik couldn't help but ask again.

"They will come," Tinissa replied. "We will lure them here."

“Then comes the fighting part.”

Cheng Lang continued, "We need to lure the first batch of marines over and use sufficiently fierce artillery fire to eliminate them. What we need to do next is to wait patiently.

Wait for Dragonfish Island to send more sea cavalry into the sea fog, and find a way to lure them to send more people over over the next day."

"In the meantime, I will take advantage of the fact that the Sea Troopers are distracted and sneak into Dragonfish Island."

Yun Ji said, "I will find a way to kill Jin Fin. If I succeed, I will light a bonfire at the highest point of Dragonfly Island."

"Are you really sure?" Cheng Lang asked with a frown. This was not the first time he asked this question.

"80% sure"

Yun Ji replied that she was nominally going to deal with Jin Fin, and indeed she was going to deal with Jin Fin, but at the same time she was also going to find the boatman named Wilton.

Of course, she was willing to take such a risk, and the hypocritical mask that the captain offered as a reward was also one of the driving forces.

"In that case, let's get started." Cheng Lang said as he stood up and was the first to walk out of the meeting room.

(End of this chapter)