Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 70: Fog Spirit, Stage, and Magic Mirror
On the deck of the Valkyrie, Cheng Lang subconsciously took out the whip given by the heart of the ship, and Shenba also picked up the huge mace fixed on the side of the open-air control panel.

"Prepare the artillery!" Cheng Lang, who could not even stand, issued the order weakly.

In just a moment, the gun ports on the Valkyrie's gun deck opened one after another, and the cannons were loaded with grapeshot and pushed out at the fastest speed.

"Don't fire"

At this moment, Yun Ji ran onto the deck as fast as she could and said in a very low voice, "Don't fire."

"Why?" Cheng Lang asked in a low voice. He didn't lower his voice on purpose, he really didn't have the strength.

"Mist Spirit"

Yun Ji supported Cheng Lang, who had no strength left, from the other side and explained in a low voice, "It's Wu Ling."

"What is that?" The uneducated Shenba asked the same question that Cheng Lang wanted to ask.

"Only in places that are covered by thick fog all year round will there be a very small chance of a fog spirit being born."

Yun Ji suppressed her fear and said, "Once a fog spirit appears in the thick fog, it can control the movement of the fog."

"So those ghost ships are actually fog"

"The mist spirit is not evil, it is more like a simple child."

Yun Ji said, "But the thick fog controlled by the fog spirit is also the best medium. Captain, do you see that stone shrouded in sunlight?"

"I see," Cheng Lang nodded.

"That stone is not special; the water in the lake is the true form of the Mist Spirit.

But that stone is like a stage. If the people standing on the stone have evil thoughts, then this thick fog will have the power to deceive people, and those ghost ships will also be able to...

At this point, Yun Ji paused, "The original sailors of those ghost ships were most likely bewitched by the things on the stone and killed each other, eventually turning into ghost ships."

"What about those people?"

Cheng Lang asked. Fortunately, those who turned their heads to look at them had turned around and looked towards the lake again.

"Perhaps they are all those who have survived after entering this fog," Yun Ji whispered. "They... they all want to be on the stage."

"What did you say?" Cheng Lang looked at the other person in surprise.

“They all want to be on stage.”

Yun Ji repeated, "Look at their clothes; they are all captains.

You can think of the island where the fog spirit lives as an alternative ship, and those people want to be the captain of this ship.

They all want to imbue this thick fog with their own ideas, which is equivalent to..."

"It's like owning a ghost fleet," Cheng Lang sighed.

"That's right"

Yun Ji sighed, "Whoever can climb onto that stone will become the captain of this foggy sea and own a fleet of ghost ships. Captain, I suspect this is a conspiracy."

"conspiracy?"

"The Siren's Conspiracy"

Yun Ji said with almost certainty, "Most ghost ships are built by sirens. They are also one of the sirens' best weapons against humans."

"So what do we need to do?" Cheng Lang asked with energy.

"Those captains"

Yun Ji pointed at the "crowd" surrounding the lake and said, "In a sense, they are in a half-dead, half-alive state. So they are considered dead, but at the same time, they are very likely still able to use the abilities granted to them by the ship's heart. This is why I stopped you from firing at them."

By the time Yun Ji explained this, cold sweat had already appeared on Cheng Lang's forehead.

The abilities bestowed upon the captain by the ship's heart are so varied that he has hardly ever seen any two of them twice.

By analogy, there are at least three to five hundred people gathered around the not-so-big lake in the distance. If they use the power given by the ship's heart to fight against their stranded ship,
Seeing Cheng Lang looking at her, Yun Ji said, "I just learned all this, but I don't know what to do next. I used to think that fog spirits were only things that existed in legends, but I never thought I would encounter one day."

"If we don't attack them, they won't attack us either, right?" Cheng Lang asked worriedly.

"Unless you want to climb that rock," said Yun Ji.

"Go back to the meeting room first"

Cheng Lang suppressed his uneasiness and said, "Let's discuss what to do first."

Upon hearing this, Yun Ji and Shen Ba immediately helped Cheng Lang back to the conference room. A moment later, Yun Ji also helped in Yafusuo, who was covered in black and looked like a mini vine goblin. A little later, Shen Ba also brought Gerta, who had two big bumps on his head, to the conference room.

"Let's talk about our own situation first," Cheng Lang said weakly.

“Almost all the supplies were thrown into the trash.”

Gerta said with a bitter heart, "All the live poultry, all the vegetables, all the pickled meats were thrown in. All we have left is wheat and various beans."

"And we are stranded," Shenba followed, "and the hull is covered with festering black mushrooms."

Seeing everyone looking at her, Yafuso shrank back and then said, "If it weren't for the spores I hid, we would have been swallowed by the ghost ship long ago."

“No one blames you”

Cheng Lang waved his hand and looked again at the metal bowl still in his hand, and the small boat in the metal bowl that was still spinning around.

He already roughly knew that the only way to leave this dangerous sea of ​​fog was probably to get rid of the fog spirit.

"But what should we do next?" Yafuso asked pitifully.

"Well, let's go back and change our clothes first."

Cheng Lang stood up as he spoke, "Shenba, please take me to the office."

"it is good!"

Before Shenba, the crybaby, could finish his words, he had already imitated the gorillas' usual princess carry and picked up their captain and carried him out of the meeting room, walking on the slippery mushroom pus all the way to the captain's office.

After sending Shenba away, Cheng Lang put the metal bowl in his hand and the cups and divination blocks on the table back into the wooden box, then slowly stood up and walked to the balcony outside the floor-to-ceiling window.

Standing here, he could clearly see the stranded sailboats on the edge of the island, and the horrific scratches left by the Valkyrie. He could even see the crabs covered with black mushrooms busy repairing the damage to the bottom of the ship.

How come even these crabs are covered with mushrooms?
Cheng Lang muttered irritably. This was the reason he didn't let Yafuso study those dangerous corpse mushrooms. After all, they were on the same boat and the living space was limited. Once those poisonous mushrooms that reproduced extremely quickly started to grow wildly, just imagine how much trouble it would be.

The only thing he was thankful for now was that these poisonous mushrooms at least did not affect their minds this time.

But why is there no effect?
Is it because of the ship's heart or because of this bewitching fog?
Cheng Lang couldn't help but frown. At this moment, he didn't know what accident had happened to the magic mirror, and Yun Ji was at a loss. He was afraid that he could only rely on himself this time.

After calculating the combat power in his hands, Cheng Lang discovered in despair that apart from the captain's cannons, the only thing he could use to compete with those captains was probably the undead sailors accumulated in the loyal tombstones.

But in order to use those sailors, he still needed a cup of Poseidon's blood.

Unfortunately, all the blood of Poseidon he had was thrown into the center pool of the ship and used as nitrogen for acceleration.

Is there Poseidon's blood on those broken ships? Cheng Lang couldn't help but look at the broken sailboats in the distance that were almost next to each other.

Forced to push that thought aside despite exhaustion, the real problem wasn't the captains who might attack him at any moment, but the object resting on the rock in the center of the island. What was there? That was the most crucial thing.

In addition, he also had to consider two other issues: where the magic mirror went and what happened to the Honest Man.

Would they be eaten by Chuan Xinchi? Cheng Lang couldn't help but shudder. Today, he had witnessed Chuan Xinchi's good appetite.

Just at this moment, there was a knock on the door from behind him. When he turned around, Yun Ji had already pushed the door open and walked in.

"I have some ideas," Yun Ji said as she walked straight to the balcony outside.

"Explore those sailboats?" Cheng Lang asked.

“It seems we have the same idea.”

Yun Ji said, "I plan to take Shenba to the surrounding sailboats to collect anything that can be used, whether it is cannons, gunpowder, Poseidon's blood, or anything else we might need."

"I now"

"Shenba and I are confident that we can ensure our own safety," Yun Ji said seriously.

"Get some more elven healing potions," Cheng Lang pointed to his desk behind him.

“Then comes the second thought.”

Yun Ji said, "According to records, the fog spirit can manipulate fog to move across the sea."

"You just mentioned it," Cheng Lang said.

"But how did this island move?" Yun Ji pointed to the ground outside the balcony.

"You mean, this island floats on the water?"

Cheng Lang followed this line of thought and asked, "Is there a secret under the island?"

"We need to take some risks," said Yun Ji.

"I need to recover my strength."

Cheng Lang said truthfully, "When I have enough strength, I will consider going to the bottom of the island to take a look."

After a brief pause, Cheng Lang continued, "Go ask Yafuso if she has any way to cultivate corpse mushrooms."

"What are you going to do?" asked Yun Ji.

"If there's no other way, we'll just let this island grow poisonous mushrooms."

Cheng Lang said gloomily, "Isn't that thing on the broken rock using the sea mist to deceive people? I want to see which is more powerful, it or those poisonous mushrooms."

“This might actually be a method!”

Yun Ji's eyes lit up, "I'll go inform Yafuso right away, and then Shenba and I will go for a stroll on the surrounding boats."

"be careful"

Cheng Lang gave his final instructions and watched Yun Ji take enough elven healing potions from the drawer, then quickly left the captain's office.

A moment later, knowing that she had another chance to cultivate those terrible poisonous mushrooms, Yafuso immediately smiled and directed the vine goblins to help her search for living mushrooms all over the ship.

Cheng Lang, on the other hand, staggered downstairs to his bedroom, lay down on the sofa and closed his eyes. He needed to recover his strength as soon as possible.

At the same time, at a considerable distance from them, amid the hoarseness of the chorus, the Honest Man was still moving straight in one direction.

Finally, at a certain moment, the Honest Man was lucky enough to catch a current.

Almost at the same time, Yafuso also found a pure black poisonous mushroom with blood-red stripes in the nest of the heron at the top of the mast.

As for the dark elf siblings, Yunji and Shenba, their gains were the smallest. After exploring several ships in succession, they did not find any cannons, shells, or gunpowder barrels, let alone the blood of Poseidon.

Even food supplies and even copper coins were not found on these ships, as if these ships had been thoroughly looted long ago!
Although nothing was brought back, the situation inside these ships was also a gain. At this time, Yun Ji was almost certain that everything here was definitely a crucial part of a major conspiracy of a certain force.

Thinking of this, Yun Ji couldn't be happy at all. Such an important link suggested that it might be difficult for them to escape alive.

On the contrary, if they managed to escape from here, they would probably completely destroy the key to this conspiracy, and would undoubtedly provoke an enemy that was almost the same size as the Boerlan Demon Hunter Group, or perhaps even larger.

Compared to his crew members who were worried, Cheng Lang had a good dream while he was fast asleep. He dreamed that he was standing on a stage, giving a passionate speech under the spotlight, which drew thunderous applause from the audience.

Unfortunately, when he was awakened by the knock on the door with a smile on his face, his fatigue was not much relieved, and he could not remember the content of the speech in his dream at all.

"what happened?"

Cheng Lang looked at Yun Ji who walked in and asked, "Are you back?"

"I came back with nothing. Even the text and emblems on the ships were erased."

Yun Ji said, "What's even more troublesome is that the sun is about to disappear, and the captains around the lake seem to be leaving. Do you want to go and take a look?"

"Walk"

With the help of the other party, Cheng Lang stood up shakily, walked out of the captain's room step by step and came to the open-air bridge.

At this time, the beam of sunlight projected onto the lake had become much dimmer, and the captains around also stood up and walked towards the outside of the island as if sleepwalking, and finally walked into the calm sea.

Under the horrified gaze of Cheng Lang and others, accompanied by the surging waves, ghost ships emerged from the water and then headed in all directions around the island.

Almost at the same time, many ghost ships came back and sank into the water as if they were changing shifts.

As the captains, whose only skeletons were left, emerged from the sea, the sunlight shining on the small island turned into cold moonlight without everyone noticing.

"Something seems to have appeared on that stone"

As Yun Ji spoke, she handed the telescope to Cheng Lang.

He took the telescope and looked at the big rock in the middle of the lake. When he finished focusing the telescope, he was surprised to find that there seemed to be something on the rock.
Magic mirror?

Cheng Lang rubbed his eyes in disbelief and raised the telescope again.

"It's a mirror," Yun Ji whispered beside her.

"Yes, it's a mirror."

Cheng Lang murmured, that was indeed the magic mirror, the magic mirror he had when he first came to this world, the magic mirror before he accidentally fell into the boat pool.

But why is he there?
Just at this moment, Cheng Lang also noticed that the pale green face of the magic mirror, which was full of flattery and fawning, appeared in the lens of the telescope.

Putting away the telescope, Cheng Lang said, "Send me to the conference room, right away."

Before he could finish his words, Shenba gave him another princess hug, ran downstairs with him, and placed him safely on a chair in the conference room.

"You go out first"

Cheng Lang rubbed his face vigorously, then looked at the mirror hanging on the wall.

Before Shenba could close the door of the conference room from the outside, a green face with a flattering smile appeared in the mirror.

(End of this chapter)