Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 60 Unfair Battle
In the darkness of night, the Valkyrie circled and arrived southwest of Dragonfish Island.

Manipulating the heart of the ship to summon jellyfish that wrapped around the hull to hide his body, Cheng Lang boldly commanded the Valkyrie to approach the atoll less than two nautical miles southwest of the island in the night before stopping.

"beep--"

As the Mirage Horn was blown, the sea water within a radius of one nautical mile with the Valkyrie as the center began to boil, and an almost thick sea fog rose up at the fastest speed.

In the center of the sea fog, Cheng Lang manipulated the center of the ship to lift the concealment of the entire ship, and then waited patiently.

At the same time, in the lower cabin of the Valkyrie, the veiled Yafso carefully collected the last bucket of urgently cultivated poisonous mushrooms and collected the dangerous spores in an oak barrel filled with black elf poison.

This was what she and Gerta had harvested from the previous three days of hard work, less than a bucket of poisonous mushroom spores.

These poisonous mushrooms, grown with a nutrient solution mixed with elven healing potions, fake heart blood from the bow, and a little bit of Poseidon's blood borrowed from Yun Ji, have a strong hallucinogenic effect and a terrifying growth rate.

Their only drawback is that they can be easily killed by sunlight, but fortunately, it is night time now.

After carefully packing the half bucket of dangerous but ordinary spores that had been mixed with the black elf potion into a dough-like state into canvas bags, Yafuso closed the lid without even breathing. Then she took out the mushrooms that had been shaken clean of spores, chopped them up, and put them into several other canvas bags.

She was not the only one making preparations. Yun Ji had already changed into the sea snake combat suit that she had asked for from the wandering circus and knocked on the door of the captain's bedroom.

"Have you really decided to take the risk?" Cheng Lang asked as he let the other party in.

“This is not an adventure”

Yun Ji said, "Tinisha said that they saw several bands being captured on their way to escape. They must have been sent back to Dragonfly Island. As long as we can find them and get them to sing, we will definitely cause trouble for the Siren raiding group."

"They must also know that eating nails is okay."

"But they have 1800 Marines."

Yun Ji said, "Even if we boiled all the captured merfolk into soup, there wouldn't necessarily be enough for every siren to have a bite, so it's certain that most of them didn't get the merfolk nails."

Having said that, Yun Ji paused, lowered her voice and added, "And we also need to find the boatman Wilton."

"Come back alive"

Cheng Lang opened the drawer and handed the other party a bundle of elven healing potions. He then handed over the Sea Queen's Shelter Oil Lamp that he had prepared in advance, as well as the hidden blade that he had seized.

"Thank you for your trust," said Yun Ji, reaching out to take the healing potion, oil lamp, and hidden blade, then turned around and left.

"This cool girl."

Cheng Lang shook his head secretly. He naturally knew that the other party wanted to get the hypocritical mask he promised.

At the same time, the Honest Man also lit up all the ship lights, increased the speed and headed southwest of Dragonfly Island.

On the open-air bridge at the stern of the Candide, Kerwick weighed a glass bottle no bigger than his fist.

This bottle was given to him by Tinisa before he returned to the Honest Man. It was filled with the blood of Tinisa and her bandmates, and it was also the best bait for those sea cavalrymen and their leader, Goldfin.

Of course, there are more than just these baits. There are also several large buckets of "bath water" that Tinisha and others have changed in the past two days.

"Wow!"

Kervik kicked over an oak barrel filled with bath water, allowing the water to return to the sea, and allowing the oak barrel to fall in with it.

"Crash!" Kervik waited for a moment and then kicked over the second oak barrel.

This time, he even dropped some of the merman's blood into the sea water.

Almost at the moment he put the wooden stopper back into the glass bottle filled with blood, there seemed to be more lights on the nearby Dragonfly Island.

Looking at the thick fog that was only three or four miles away, Kervik shouted, "Gun deck! Fire!"

“Boom, boom, boom, boom—!”

As the order was given, the Honest Man's double gun deck fired one wooden cannonball after another.

The shells had no killing power, but they were enough to splash bright waves at the edges of the fog and inside and outside.

"Come in!"

Kervik issued a new order, and the Honest Man arrogantly changed course and rushed into the thick fog.

Almost at the same time, the Valkyrie and the Honest Man opened fire one after another, but this time, the gun barrels of the two ships were only stuffed with gunpowder bags and wooden boards to block the shells, and they even aimed at the same direction, Dragonfly Island.

"That's almost it, let's get started!"

At Cheng Lang's command, the vine goblins immediately cut the traction ropes of the seahorses pulling the boats. Driven by the sound of the cannon, these docile seahorses almost subconsciously ran towards the direction of Dragonfly Fish Island.

And among these seahorses, there is also Ji Yun, with the sea queen's protective oil lamp hanging around her waist.

At the same time, Kervik opened the glass bottle in his hand and poured all the blood inside into the sea. The vine goblins also sent half of the spores mixed with the black elf poison that Yafuso and Gerta had painstakingly prepared to the Honest Man.

While the two ships were busy, the crossbows at the bow and stern began firing at the maximum distance amid the sound of mock artillery fire.

This time, what were thrown out by those thick arrow shafts were not gunpowder barrels, but well-sealed empty barrels.

These empty barrels were all filled with an appropriate amount of sea water, and fixed on the outside were canvas bags containing a mixture of poisonous mushroom spores and black elf poison, or simply chopped poisonous mushrooms mixed with a little blood of the merman - they were more toxic and more attractive.

After using these poisonous mushrooms to create a circle of nests around, the guns of the two ships were silenced one after another, and they were quickly replaced with grapeshot wrapped in asphalt and canvas.

"Love Prologue, Ready! Go!"

On the open-air bridge at the stern of the Valkyrie, Tinissa gave an enthusiastic signal and led her band to pluck the strings of the fish's tail and begin playing between the two oversized speakers.

At the same time, Shenba, who was the lead singer, also came to the side of a big loudspeaker and sang the background song of the love prelude with the sailors on another boat not far away.

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

Amid the beautiful piano music and chorus singing, Cheng Lang, Yafuso, Gerta, and even the pirate brothers on another ship were each guarding the crossbows at the bow and stern of the ship.

Things went unexpectedly smoothly. They didn't have to wait long before a team of sea cavalrymen rode on large sea horses into the sea fog and were clearly seen by the sailors on the two ships through the "mirror watches" on their wrists.

As the Marine Cavalry team moved closer, they were attracted by the unique bloody smell of the merfolk and discovered the wooden barrels hanging in the sea.

All of this was seen clearly by the magic mirror, and it immediately sent out a signal.

Suddenly, the Qinwei Fishman's playing became much louder, and Shenba, who was in charge of leading the singing, also raised his voice a lot.

The Marines looked at each other in disappointment when they saw that there was nothing in the broken barrels. They turned around and continued to control their seahorses towards the center of the fog.

However, they did not notice the restless seahorse under their crotch, nor did they notice that small purple-black mushrooms with a hint of pink had grown on their bodies and those of their companions.

Not long after, when the whistling sound and the chorus singing reached their ears, this group of sea cavalry consisting of a hundred people seemed to have forgotten the purpose of their trip. They dully shouted at the sea horses that also had small mushrooms growing all over their bodies, and continued to approach the center of the sea fog.

"What kind of mushroom is that?" Cheng Lang asked Yafuso beside him.

"Corpse mushrooms. They usually grow in cemeteries and on corpses."

Yafuso explained, "Ever since we left the Pirate City, one or two of these poisonous mushrooms have occasionally grown among the mushrooms we cultivated. I guess they were probably the spores you or Sister Yunji brought back from the Pirate Cemetery."

"Are they poisonous?" Cheng Lang asked with interest.

"It won't kill you, but it will cause small mushrooms to grow on your skin, and it has a strong hallucinogenic effect. Although it will heal with just some sunlight, if you don't get sunlight for a day, it will leave ugly scars." After explaining, Yafuso warned, "Captain, those sea troopers have appeared."

After taking another look at the foggy sea, Cheng Lang turned to look at the mirror on his wrist. On that small screen, he could clearly see more than a hundred sea cavalrymen with corpse mushrooms growing all over their faces, looking dazed, as they rode on sea horses that also had a lot of mushrooms growing on them, rushing over.

Among these marines, the gill openings of several of them were blocked by the growing mushrooms, so that they opened and closed their mouths almost subconsciously, and chewed the poisonous mushrooms in their mouths.

"This looks so disgusting." Cheng Lang couldn't help but mutter.

"We didn't expect them to be this long."

Yafuso, who also had a look of astonishment on her face, had not yet finished speaking when Cheng Lang covered her eyes with his hands. The reason was that the Marines had stopped and started kissing their companions who were covered with mushrooms.

"Don't look at it, it's disgusting."

Cheng Lang kindly reminded her, but the little girl still used her hand to open the gap between his fingers and took a look, then shuddered with a look of disgust.

As the distance between these marines gradually shortened, the gun deck of the Valkyrie was also ready.

"Fire!"

When these mushroom people were less than a hundred meters away from the Valkyrie, Cheng Lang also issued an order.

“Boom boom boom boom—!”

Amid the rhythmic sound of artillery fire, the chorus and the love prelude paused temporarily, and bags of grapeshot covered the cavalry squad that had fallen into a dream without knowing it, easily turning them and the sea horses they rode into rags, rotten meat, and poisonous mushroom soup, and incidentally dyeing the sea red.

The sound of artillery fire here naturally attracted the attention of Tingyu Island again. Soon after, a large number of sea cavalry came out in full force and surrounded the sea fog from all directions.

At this time, they did not notice that on the sea near the Dragonfly Island, a figure was quietly crossing the atolls around the Dragonfly's nest and swimming along the edge of the sea water towards an underwater secret passage leading to the hatchery.

"Buzz!"

Amid the vibration of the bowstrings, Cheng Lang and others, with the help of the sailors, once again shot arrow shafts carrying poisonous mushroom barrels in all directions.

"Love Prologue, Ready! Go!"

Tinisha gave another order, and immediately, the sailors on the two boats began to sing softly under the lead of Shenba and the performance of the Qinwei fishman.

With the help of the magic mirror, Cheng Lang clearly saw the sea cavalrymen riding on large sea horses swarming in from all directions.

As the distance between the two sides gradually shortened, the volume of the Love Prelude played by the Tinisha Band suddenly increased, and the volume of the accompanying song sung by Shenba also increased.

At the same time, the sea cavalry, ignoring the oak barrel hanging in the sea, also charged towards them.

However, as they went further and further in, the speed of those in the front slowed down, the expressions on their faces gradually became confused, and even mushrooms grew all over their lower bodies, including their mounts.

There were naturally a small number of sober marines among them. Most of them had become deaf, and without the interference of the merman's piano music and the singing from the loud speakers, their condition was much better.

However, before they could escape from the thick fog, two thick arrows carrying several gunpowder barrels flew over and exploded in mid-air.

Amidst the rustling sound, the shattered oak barrels created the first wave of damage, and the dark elf poison that was blown into mist right after that also made the few conscious sea cavalrymen's eyes begin to blur.

"Boom boom boom!"

After only one round of artillery fire, the two ships fell silent one after another, and the marines who had surrounded them from all directions, with dazed minds and only thinking about killing grass fish, also suffered heavy casualties under the attack of grapeshot.

Those who managed to survive, guided by the singing, drew their weapons and began to kill each other with their companions around them - in their minds, they were competing with their rivals for mates, just like dragonflies.

When the battle here reached this point, Yun Ji had already sneaked into the dragonfly hatchery inside the island through the underground sewer.

This place is like a huge arena, with a lake in the middle for hatching dragonflies, and a large number of rooms carved out of the volcanic rock walls around it.

However, at this time, there were a large number of sirens active on the lake and in the corridors on the surrounding rock walls, and bright ship lights were hung everywhere.

After carefully surfacing and taking a few breaths, Yun Ji dived back into the water, swimming along the edge looking for the merman who might be imprisoned there, while patiently waiting for an opportunity.

At the same time, at the top of the circular rock wall not far from him, a mermaid who was over two and a half meters tall was holding a telescope and looking at the sea fog in the distance.

On his back, there is a folded golden dorsal fin, and at the end of the dorsal fin, there is even a sharp spike nearly half a meter long.

"It's those running harps!"

Jin Fin said confidently, "How many sea cavalry are there on the island?"

"Apart from a deaf squad guarding the islanders, a small cavalry regiment has just been dispatched, and there is currently a complete cavalry regiment on the island." Jin Fin's adjutant replied immediately.

"Except for those guarding the prisoners, have the remaining cavalry regiments poke their ears and go up to provide support."

Jin Fin said, "You go too. Launch an attack from underwater, sink all the ships in the sea fog, and bring back all the sailors on board."

"Yes"

This adjutant was also a ruthless man. He directly pierced his eardrum with his sharp and long nails, casually shook off the blood on his nails, and then issued orders loudly.

Just like he had just done, this cavalry regiment punctured their own and their mounts' eardrums without hesitation, and blocked their ears tightly with water plants. Then, led by the adjutant, they rushed towards the distant sea fog.

"Dear Captain, more sea cavalry are coming, and they seem to have dived into the water from outside the fog." The magic mirror reminded.

"Fire!" Cheng Lang immediately gave the order.

Suddenly, the two ships opened fire one after another, using dense grapeshot to launch a final round of harvest on the remaining enemies at sea.

Without waiting for the smoke from the gun ports to clear, Cheng Lang manipulated the heart of the ship and adjusted the hull, causing the Valkyrie to slowly sink and release a large amount of rich black ink into the red sea water.

Not only that, before the Vine Goblins completely sank underwater, they first used an unfamiliar hoisting frame to send Tinisha and others to the Honest Man, and then poured all the black elf poison prepared by Yun Ji into the dark red sea water.

After accepting the merman, the Honest Man slowly moved to the top of the Valkyrie, using the crossbows to throw barrels of fish oil around and set them on fire.

At this time, the Valkyrie had completely disappeared in the sea water that was stained black by blood, dark elf poison and ink, just like the Honest Man, which was full of ship lights, was the only ship in this sea shrouded in thick fog.

At the top of the mast, Cheng Lang, who was standing in the watchtower, swung the whip in his hand outside the boat, and at the same time, his eyes looked at the mirror hanging on the mast.

Almost at the moment when the fleeting Marines appeared inside, he also manipulated the whip in his hand to release the poison.

"I knew it."

Cheng Lang cursed inwardly after failing to poison the boat. He climbed up the mast and squeezed out of the boat unwillingly. He hung in the dark sea water full of toxins and swung the whip in his hand again.

Now, the black mold on the Valkyrie faded at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the thing in Cheng Lang's hand also turned snow-white.

A moment later, the marines who rushed in from the sea water on all directions plunged drowsily into the dark sea water.

Beneath the black sea water, white bones slowly sank, as well as the seahorse that had become stupid due to the interference of the black elf poison.

This was a battle that was not fair at all for the Sirens, but if one really pursued fairness in a battle, then there would be no battle at all.

On the Honest Man, the merman Tinissa and her band stopped singing and playing, and the small-time sailors around them also stopped the chorus led by the two captains.

At this point, the battle had nothing to do with them. Even Belvik couldn't lead the sailors into the sea to fight - the sea was full of deadly toxins, at least for those small sailors, the toxins were enough to take their lives in an instant!

(End of this chapter)