Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 98: Oversized Sea Urchin in the Thick Fog

"what happened?"

Cheng Lang quickly closed the box and asked as he walked out, holding the metal bowl that only he could see.

"You'd better see for yourself," but the magic mirror kept the secret for the rare time like this.

Hearing this, Cheng Lang couldn't help but quicken his pace.

Before he could even run to the open-air bridge at the stern of the ship, he saw the situation in the surrounding sea.

The thick fog reduced the visibility around a lot. He could only see the situation within a circle of ten meters around the ship. This visibility was definitely dangerous for a ship.

Cheng Lang glanced down at the metal bowl in his hand, then looked again at the not-so-calm sea outside the boat.

Beneath the surging waves, you can see dense aquatic plants, which have turned the sea surface into dark green.

Compared to the underwater forest, which may or may not hide dangers, what the magic mirror wanted Cheng Lang to see was the situation above the sea surface in front of the left side of the bow.

Hidden in the thick fog, he vaguely saw a fleet of ships arranged in a dense formation in the distance.

"Silver Queen, can you dispel the fog?" Cheng Lang asked.

"I can only dispel the fog within a radius of up to 100 meters, and it can only last for ten seconds."

The Silver Queen said apologetically, "There's something wrong with the sea fog here. It's completely out of my control, and even I can't see clearly what's in the sea fog."

"Dear Captain, that fleet seems to be approaching us." The magic mirror reminded in time.

Upon hearing this, Cheng Lang immediately manipulated the ship's center to summon the giant jellyfish, which enveloped the entire ship. He also asked, "Can you see what's in the fog?"

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, my dear Captain. I can't do that this time."

The magic mirror explained apologetically, "But I'm a mirror. Although I can't see clearly, the closer they are to us, the bigger their image will be in the mirror. That's why I can sense that they are approaching us."

"Reasonable."

As Cheng Lang muttered, the Valkyrie's hull disappeared in the thick fog. The Silver Queen and the Vine Goblins also stopped the Valkyrie at Cheng Lang's signal.

The people on the boat didn't have to wait long. The shadowy fleet in the distance came closer and closer with the sound of increasingly clear heartbeats, and finally passed by their bow sideways at a distance of less than 50 meters.

At Cheng Lang's wave of the hand, the Silver Queen immediately mobilized her utmost ability to dispel the fog within a hundred meters around the Valkyrie.

It was during this brief 10-second gap that Cheng Lang saw a horrifying scene.

What kind of fleet is this!
This is clearly a giant sea urchin floating beneath the sea, and those ships lined up in a tight formation are just decorations on its body covered with spikes!
In other words, those ships were pierced by those huge spikes!
What was particularly terrifying was that many of the peeled-off ship cores were pierced through those spikes, but those ship cores were not dried up, but were still beating slowly!

Those heartbeats just now came from the hearts of these ships?!
Before Cheng Lang could react, the thick fog around him filled the hundred-meter range that was dispersed by the Silver Queen. The giant sea urchin carrying dozens of boats also continued to move slowly into the distance, leaving only a clear track of eaten seaweed on the sea surface.

The width of this track was at least ten times the length of the Valkyrie's hull. On the sea, which was once again rippling with waves, there were some rotten wooden boards that seemed to have fallen from those broken ships.

Looking down at the metal bowl in his hand, Cheng Lang subconsciously lowered his voice and said, "Silver Queen, continue moving in the current direction."

"As you wish, Captain."

The Silver Queen lifted her skirt slightly in salute, then floated to the stern of the ship. Working with the vine gorillas and gorillas, she re-maneuvered the Valkyrie across the track left by the giant sea urchin and headed towards their target.

"Magic Mirror, what was that just now?" Cheng Lang stood on the second deck at the bow and asked in a low voice while observing his surroundings.

"I do not know"

The magic mirror gave an unexpected answer, "I can be sure that he is a sea monster, but he has never been discovered, or he killed all witnesses when he appeared."

"Are there many sea monsters like this?" Cheng Lang asked in a low voice.

"No one knows," the magic mirror replied in a low voice, "but one thing is certain."

"What?" Cheng Lang asked.

"Panini is the only sea monster with reason and wisdom"

The magic mirror whispered, "That's why he can manage the Pirate City. The rest of the sea monsters are just lunatics who have been stripped of their sanity and wisdom."

"Tun Island too?" Cheng Lang asked subconsciously.

"That's simply because he had just eaten and you helped him. Of course, Swallow Island is indeed quite docile among sea monsters."

The magic mirror said firmly, "But I can guarantee that if we see Tundao again next time, if he happens to be hungry, he will definitely not mind eating us."

"Full right rudder"

Cheng Lang, who had been staring at the metal bowl, suddenly spoke, and the Silver Queen and the vine goblins immediately cooperated with each other and changed direction.

"How strong is the sea monster's combat capability?"

Cheng Lang waited until the ship completed its turn and began to move in the opposite direction of the track left by the oversized sea urchin before asking.

"We encountered the half-blood sea monster Cytus Disaster"

The magic mirror said, "Although he is called a half-blooded sea monster, the difference in combat effectiveness and destructive power between him and a real sea monster is as great as the difference between a drunken Miss Tinisha and a serious Miss Yunji."

"The difference is indeed huge," Cheng Lang suddenly had a clear understanding.

"Although the combat effectiveness of the Cytus Disaster is not high, it still caused some trouble to Poseidon back then."

Sunglasses added, "Just like if Miss Tinisha had the chance to pluck the strings of a zither, she would be able to enchant Miss Yunji."

"How did those Cytus disasters cause trouble for Poseidon?" Cheng Lang asked.

“Of course it’s the quantity.”

The magic mirror replied, "Back then, Cetus had been trying to become the new sea god with the astonishing number of her children, and she almost succeeded."

"Left Hand 50"

Cheng Lang, who had been staring at the metal bowl in his hand, gave another order. The Silver Queen also steered the boat onto another track where all the seaweed had been eaten.

However, not long after running along the boat, Cheng Lang and Silver Queen both looked up at the sail above their heads, and then looked at the surrounding water.

The wind died down, and the sea was so calm that there were barely any ripples. It was the doldrums, or rather, the doldrums again.

"Use the dragonfly fins to leave here," Cheng Lang whispered. Before he finished speaking, the broad, light dragonfly fins on either side of the ship began to swing under the control of the Silver Queen, carrying the Valkyrie forward with its sails furled.

"Stop!"

But at this moment, the magic mirror suddenly said, "That sea urchin is coming again! To the left front!"

"Quiet"

Cheng Lang gave a gentle reminder, and then issued an order, "Right rudder 20 degrees to avoid."

Upon receiving the signal, the Silver Queen immediately turned the steering wheel, and at the same time, the dragonfly fin on the left side of the hull also swung faster, completing the turn in a very short time and continuing to move forward.

Once again passing by this strange and mysterious sea monster, Cheng Lang did not ask the Silver Queen to disperse the fog within the surrounding range. Instead, he asked her to speed up the swinging of her dragonfly fins, and put some distance between herself and the sea monster that was running in the opposite direction again.

"I have a question," Cheng Lang whispered, "Since the sea monster is so powerful, can't he find us?"

"Dear Captain"

The magic mirror replied respectfully, "The reason our ship escaped detection twice may not be because it can hide its appearance, but because of the sheltering ship lights behind the sea."

"You should have reminded me of this sooner."

Although Cheng Lang said this, he did not remove the Valkyrie's concealment ability for the sake of safety.

Under this double protection and under the guidance of the small boat in the metal bowl, the Valkyrie narrowly avoided the giant sea urchin that kept swimming around again and again.

"Why does this big sea urchin always follow us?"

Cheng Lang frowned and muttered, they had been sailing in this dangerous fog for half a day under the guidance of the metal bowl, but the sea monster would suddenly appear from all directions around them from time to time.

On one occasion, it even rushed towards us from the front.

If Cheng Lang had not reacted quickly and released the guillotine to make the Valkyrie sink rapidly, their ship would probably have become a decoration on the other side's spikes that were almost as thick as the mast.

"Dear Captain"

The Magic Mirror, also on high alert, responded, "I have a not-so-good guess."

"What guess?" Cheng Lang couldn't help but tense up.

"Is there a possibility?"

The Magic Mirror paused mid-sentence, then said in fear, "My suspicion is true! Silver Queen! Please clear the fog! Towards the bow! To the left and right of the ship! Three sea monsters are coming towards us at the same time!"

"sink!"

As Cheng Lang shouted, the ship's hull swelled rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, most of the Valkyrie's hull sank beneath the sea.

At the same time, the Silver Queen also tried her best to clear the fog within a radius of 100 meters around her, allowing them to clearly see the three giant sea urchins that were getting closer and closer!
"Hurry up!"

Under Cheng Lang's urging and prayers, the dragonfly fins on both sides of the Valkyrie's hull began to change the direction of their swinging to assist in sinking.

Finally, just before the three giant sea urchins that almost surrounded him were about to collide with each other, the masthead of the Valkyrie slowly sank beneath the sea.

At this time, Cheng Lang, who had climbed up to the main mast watchtower, could clearly see through the hull of the ship that these three huge, spherical sea monsters had more than two-thirds of their bodies hidden under the sea.

With the dragonfly's fins swinging vigorously again, the Valkyrie narrowly avoided the sharp and huge spikes of the underwater parts of the three sea monsters.

"Kerala"

Amidst the piercing noise, three oversized spherical sea urchins collided with each other. After those sharp and huge shadow spines easily tore apart the "decorations" on each other's spines, they each used the force to separate like three pinballs at the first touch, and "bounced" in different directions.

Looking up at the various marine equipment slowly sinking overhead, and the wreckage of the ship that had just been transformed into countless wooden fragments and scattered across the water, Cheng Lang couldn't help but shudder. He quickly signaled the Silver Queen to manipulate the dragonfly's fins to swing faster and clear the way of the garbage sinking overhead.

However, just as everyone on the ship breathed a sigh of relief, a massive mass of seaweed suddenly sprouted from the seabed behind them! These seaweeds scrambled to entangle metal objects such as anchors and cannons, and the metal objects that fell down became mottled and even melted away in the blink of an eye, as if corroded!
"Captain! In front!" the Silver Queen reminded.

Subconsciously looking back, Cheng Lang quickly maneuvered the Valkyrie to surface - there was a large area of ​​seaweed in front!

"What's going on with these seaweeds?!" Cheng Lang asked the magic mirror.

"I have no record of these seaweeds!"

The magic mirror immediately replied, "But I roughly know that those sea monsters seem to be using those broken ships as nutrients to grow this strange seaweed! And then they use this seaweed as their own food."

"So these sea monsters are actually vegetarians?" Cheng Lang thought inexplicably.

"Even if they are vegetarians, they will definitely not let us go." The magic mirror reminded.

"last question"

Cheng Lang asked, "Where do so many ships come from at the border of the Sea of ​​Despair?"

"The five countries of the Star Sea Continent, and even the Pirate City, have been sending adventure ships to secretly enter the edge of the Sea of ​​Fog." The magic mirror gave an unexpected answer.

"Looking for resources?" Cheng Lang asked after a moment of silence.

“No one knew what they were looking for.”

The magic mirror replied, "It could be the reverse scale, it could be the answer that a treasure map ultimately points to, it could be the seed of the Verdant Sacred Tree, or even the sealed Poseidon. Who knows?"

"Which one do you prefer?" Cheng Lang asked.

"The Sealed Poseidon"

The magic mirror replied without hesitation, "This is probably the easiest option to find among the above options, and it also has the highest prerequisite benefits."

In just a few words, the Valkyrie had already floated the watchtower on top of the mast out of the water.

As the hull disappeared, the fresh air rich in the smell of the sea blew away the stench from the half-blood sea monster's scuba diving inside the hull. But it was only for a moment, and Cheng Lang, the magic mirror, and even the Silver Queen noticed that there were many whirlpools of various sizes on the surrounding sea surface!
These whirlpools themselves do not pose much of a threat to the Valkyrie, which can sink underwater, but at the center of each whirlpool there is a huge rock.

It is this stone that turns these whirlpools of all sizes into dangerous crushers.

"Captain, there is also a whirlpool ahead! How do we get there?" the Silver Queen asked loudly.

"Right rudder 30!" Cheng Lang quickly gave the order, "Let's go around!"

As the steering wheel was turned and the sail was pulled, the dragonfly fin on the left began to swing rapidly, and the Valkyrie also brushed the edge of the vortex in front of it that was big enough to swallow them, and continued to rush towards the Misty Island.

(End of this chapter)