Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 73 Negotiating the Silver Queen

Cheng Lang simply sat down cross-legged on the huge rock in the middle of the dried-up lake, put the boat bottle aside, calmed his mind and looked at the things on the rock again, while also secretly paying attention to everything in the boat bottle.

The reason why he was so sure that the pale green figure in the bottle was not the magic mirror was purely because of his understanding of the magic mirror during his time with it.

Although this self-proclaimed "omniscient and omnipotent Saint Barbara's Magic Mirror" is often not omniscient and omnipotent, he is not only a flattering bootlicker, but also a person who will not do anything without profit.

According to his behavior, if the fog spirit was collected in the boat bottle and he had the initiative in it, there would be no need to destroy the music box in such a violent way. Instead, he would find a way to let him out.

Because of this, it seemed too suspicious and too deliberate that he had just made him smash the music box, which was probably of extremely high value or at least extremely crucial, in such a violent way.

I carefully approached the music box and took a closer look. This palm-sized object was made of a beautiful white seashell. There was even a key fixed to the top of the music box for winding it.

After a slight hesitation, he looked at the chain again.

Compared to the confusing music box, he had some guesses about the chain.

It is obvious that it must be closely related to the chain under the water of this island.

Still not in a hurry to take action, Cheng Lang even kept a little distance and then waited patiently.

He was waiting for Yun Ji to come back. He believed that the black elf with the apprentice bard would give him some clues.

At the same time, he was also paying attention to the magic mirror in the bottle. He seemed to have returned to his original appearance at this time, saying something flatteringly. However, the woman in a dress that was almost exactly the same as the doll on the music box remained in a daze and did not move.

After waiting patiently for about half an hour, Yun Ji came over while stroking her wet long hair.

"Can you go up?" Yun Ji asked Cheng Lang in surprise.

"It's easy to get up here."

Cheng Lang nodded and asked, "Did you see it?"

"I saw it. It was horrible."

Yun Ji said with lingering fear, "Also, I saw the symbols on those closed holes. They are marine characters, a type of writing promoted during the era of Poseidon. Few sea monsters use them now."

"What do those words mean?" Cheng Lang asked.

“I don’t understand.”

Yun Ji shook her head. "I only know that it's ocean language, but I have no idea what it means. But I recognized the chain."

"You recognize that chain?"

Cheng Lang immediately became interested, "Tell me quickly, what is that thing?"

Hearing this, Yun Ji raised her head and explained uncertainly, "That seems to be the Sea God's bridle. Probably, probably the Sea God's bridle."

"Probably? Seagod's Bridle? What is that?" Cheng Lang asked curiously.

"The reins of the sea god," Yun Ji explained simply and directly.

"Poseidon."

"It's the reins of the sea god."

Yun Ji corrected him, "Although Poseidon was once the god of the sea, there are many other gods of the sea. The reason why Poseidon is more famous is not only because he was killed by the Valkyrie, but also because he was the last god of the sea."

"Poor Poseidon."

Cheng Lang muttered to himself, then asked, "What is this bridle? What is its function?"

"Imprisoning Sea Monsters"

Yun Ji explained simply, "Just like when we asked those sea horses to help us pull the boat."

"Poseidon still needs a boat?"

"Pulling is an island"

Yun Ji gave an answer that Cheng Lang couldn't even imagine. "It's rumored that the island where the Pirate City is located was once the chariot of the Sea God. Even Panini was once just the Sea God's charioteer. The island even needed the Nine-Headed Island Swallower to barely pull it."

“These rumors are too far-fetched.”

Cheng Lang said as he had already thrown down the whip and wrapped it around Yun Ji's waist and one arm, "I'll pull you up."

Upon hearing this, Yun Ji immediately cooperated and stepped on the side of the stone.

However, the stone that Cheng Lang had easily climbed up just now seemed like an invisible barrier to Yun Ji. Even though Cheng Lang had pulled her to the same height as himself, she could not "squeeze" in at all.

Fortunately, although people could not come in, it did not affect her from seeing the things on the stone.

But it was precisely when she saw the thing on the stone that a look of shock appeared on Yun Ji's face.

"what is that?"

Cheng Lang, who was pulling Yun Ji with a whip, asked. He was now just glad that the slim Yun Ji was not a big guy like Shen Ba, otherwise he would have been pulled down long ago.

"Dance of Resentment"

Yun Ji said in horror, "It's the Wrathful Dance Magic Box. Which bastard came up with this insidious plan?!"

"Is this thing dangerous?" Cheng Lang asked with a frown.

“It wasn’t dangerous.”

Yun Ji explained tremblingly, "It was originally just a prop from a horror house in an amusement park. They are usually made of resentful dead souls.

When the music starts and the vengeful spirit begins to dance, people within a certain range will experience the most terrifying experience the vengeful spirit has ever had in its lifetime.

This kind of thing is very popular in Pirate City, and some people even specialize in collecting different Wrath Dance Magic Boxes.

Correspondingly, Yuan Wu will use the fear of those around her as nourishment to regain her sanity, which can be regarded as another form of living."

"Which genius came up with this idea?" Cheng Lang asked curiously.

"The famous armor-making master Vanhart," Yun Ji replied.

"That's the one who got screwed because of cheating."

"it's him"

Yun Ji rolled her eyes. "Now is not the time to discuss him, Captain. This is the territory of the Mist Spirit. The mist will amplify Yuan Wu's resentment. I'm afraid..."

"Didn't we capture Wu Ling?" Cheng Lang pointed to the boat bottle at his feet.

"But why doesn't the fog disperse?" Yun Ji asked a question that made people's hair stand on end.

"Should we disperse normally?" Cheng Lang asked.

"I do not know"

Yun Ji shook her head. "This is the first time I've even encountered a Wu Ling. Before this, I doubted that Wu Ling could exist."

"Okay, last question."

Cheng Lang asked, "What suggestions do you have about how to deal with the Wrath Dance Magic Box and the reins?"

"Just close the Wrath Dance Magic Box. No matter how powerful it is, closing the lid will put her into a deep sleep."

Yun Ji said, "But I don't know what to do with that bridle either."

"It's like unplugging the power cord, right? I'll put you down first."

Cheng Lang muttered the first half of the sentence secretly, then called out to Yun Ji, slowly extended the whip, and put her back on the dry lake bed.

After a slight hesitation, Cheng Lang reached out and picked up the Wrathful Dance Magic Box, carefully snapping the two shells together.

After waiting for a while on guard, Cheng Lang discovered something was wrong. The zombies that had just surrounded the Valkyrie had dispersed, and some of them even fell to the ground with a plop.

Obviously, until this time, the influence of the Mist Spirit and the Wrath Dance, which used the Mist Spirit as a medium to spread evil ideas, on the living dead on this island had just disappeared.

However, Cheng Lang didn't know that compared to the calmness of the island, the ghost ships hidden in the foggy sea began to run around like crazy headless flies. In fact, these ghost ships shuttled through the thick fog and started to collide with each other in order to hurry!

"How is this going?!"

At the edge of the thick fog, Kervik on the Honest Man shouted in panic.

But no one could answer his question at this time. All the sailors were stunned looking at the ghost ships rushing out of the thick fog as if escaping for their lives!
"Captain! There's a ship coming towards us!" White Bread shouted to warn.

"Get out of the way! Hurdle hard left to get out of the way!"

Kervik shuddered and shouted quickly. They had not seen the ship before because of the thick fog, but from the beginning, the fog had been thinning at a speed visible to the naked eye, and these ghost ships that were originally hidden in the fog gradually became clear.

But this brings up a problem, they are too close to the originally hidden ghost ship!
"But it's our captured ship."

"Don't worry about them! Run!" Before Kervik finished speaking, he had already pulled apart the long white bread on the deck and personally turned the rudder to hurriedly avoid the ghost ship rushing towards him at high speed.

"Crack!"

Almost immediately, the ghost ship brushed past the edge of their stern and crashed straight into the ship they had captured three days ago.

In this violent collision, the three-masted sailing ship that was still repairing itself broke into two sections, and half of the bow of the ghost ship was also smashed.

But it still did not stop. Many sailors on the Honest Man even clearly saw that on the stern of the ghost ship, a captain stumbled up and grabbed the steering wheel.

"How could there be a captain on a ghost ship?" An unconventional question arose in everyone's mind.

The captain of the ghost ship naturally would not answer their questions. He just couldn't wait to drive the ghost ship out of the fog.

"Is he crazy?"

Amid Belvik's bewildered questions, the ghost ship finally left the thin sea fog, allowing the bright sunlight to shine on the dilapidated ship and on the captain with his arms outstretched.

Through the telescope that Kervik raised, he saw the ghost ship gradually disintegrating under the sunlight, and the captain turned into ashes, eventually dyeing the sea water in that area black.

"What's going on?" asked the mermaid Tinisha in panic.

"The ghost ship's biggest enemy is sunlight"

"It's clear that the Ghost Ship is committing suicide," Kerwick said.

"Can the ghost ship commit suicide?" asked Tinisha.

"If there is no captain, it probably won't happen."

Kervik looked around and saw that more and more ships were chasing each other out of the thick fog. The captains of those ghost ships also opened their arms and let the sunlight melt them away, and finally they and their ships turned into a ball of ink on the sea.

"Something must have happened in this sea fog, and it must be related to the Valkyrie." Kervik said confidently.

"What should we do?" asked Belvik.

"Sail!"

Kervik pondered for a moment before issuing an order, "Let's go into the sea fog and search for the Valkyrie!"

"Yes! Hoist the sail!"

"Sail!"

As orders were issued one after another, the Honest Man, which had captured the ship after a hard battle three days ago, once again sailed into the thick fog against the ghost ships.

At the same time, Cheng Lang finally reached out for the chain that Yun Ji called "Yingpi".

Contrary to his expectation, the chain looked small, but he couldn't lift it at all, or rather, he couldn't lift it at all.

Seeing this, Cheng Lang decisively chose to give up, turned around and left the stone with the help of the whip.

"What should we do next?" Yun Ji asked immediately.

"Let's go back to the ship and discuss it later."

Before Cheng Lang finished speaking, he was already jogging to avoid the zombies around him, and he and Yun Ji returned to the Valkyrie, which was no longer being watched.

"Beware of the living dead who might board the ship"

Cheng Lang gave the order without waiting for his feet to stabilize. He then quickly ran into the office, casually looked at a mirror and asked, "Magic Mirror, are you there?"

After waiting for a while and seeing no one responding, Cheng Lang asked again, "Wu Ling or Yuan Wu, are you there?"

After waiting for a while, Cheng Lang hesitated for a moment before taking out the music box he had brought back, opened it, and placed it on the table.

This time, without waiting for his hand to leave, the zombies on the island stood up again and began to surround the Valkyrie once again.

"Yuanwu or Wuling, come out and talk."

Cheng Lang placed his hand on the lid of the music box. "Otherwise I'll close the lid and throw it to the bottom of the sea."

After waiting for a while, Cheng Lang saw that no one was paying any attention to him, so he simply stood up and took out a wooden box. He decisively picked up the music box and was about to close the lid.

"Wait a moment"

A strange voice, a mixture of hoarseness and sweetness, said, "I am willing to negotiate."

"Who are you?" Cheng Lang put the music box back on the table and asked, "Where are you?"

In the Mirror

After saying this, Cheng Lang also noticed that there was a woman in a dress in the dressing mirror not far away.

This woman was extremely strange. She had a pair of antlers that were not really cute, but could even be called adorable, pointed ears like an elf, and long gill holes on her slender neck. Even her hands and exposed neck were covered with a layer of fine, silvery scales.

"Who are you?" Cheng Lang asked again.

"I?"

The woman smiled and said, "I am the Silver Queen."

"Silver Queen? I'm still the Golden Horn King."

Cheng Lang tapped the lid of the music box with his fingers. "I haven't heard of you."

"It's ok"

The Silver Queen said nonchalantly, "How do you want to negotiate?"

"Open your chips first," said Cheng Lang.

"Destroy the Music Box"

The Silver Queen said very simply, "This is my only request."

"Before that, how about explaining what happened on this island and the difficulties you are facing?" Cheng Lang asked slowly.

He had already realized that although the Silver Queen looked intimidating, she was actually too naive.

His previous attempt was just to throw out a 3, but he didn't expect that he could trick the opponent into using a royal bomb so easily.

"You don't have much time left. Are you sure you want to waste it in a place like this?"

As the Silver Queen spoke, the mirror also displayed the situation around the Valkyrie.

At this time, the stranded ship was almost climbed onto by the zombies!
“I have plenty of time”

As Cheng Lang spoke, he had already controlled the dragonfly's fins through the center of the boat and began to swing rapidly.

"laugh!"

With just an unignorable sound of wind blades, the zombies in the mirror were cut into thin slices of uniform thickness at a speed visible to the naked eye.

　Thanks to EVdr for the huge reward. I owe you a lot, so I'll take my time. The flu is killing me. It's hard to keep up with the basic updates every day.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)