Chapter 14 There is a dragon here (11)
The three dolphins marched with the flying Shiramite for a long time. When they left, one of the dolphins threw a small fish onto the boat, as if giving gifts.
——And then, the night fell.
The torch on the Freemaid's statue lit up, and the pirates also turned on lights around the boat. But even so, the visibility was still much lower than that during the day.
"It's easy to get approached by the stinging rays." Ella asked the officers in the army who were skilled in sailing, "Do you have any ways to increase visibility?"
"Generally speaking, at night, just hang a light on the mast to prevent the oncoming ships from colliding with oncoming ships. As for the ports and the dangerous reefs, there will be lighthouses flashing." An officer replied, "But take the initiative to search for things in the water... Maybe we can set up a few more lights?"
"The lamp needs to be burned. It is far beyond expectations to light the lamp like now." Amy said with some embarrassment, "If you set up a few more lamps, the oil on the boat will probably not be able to hold on to Aztland."
"I don't know how the animals in the sea are like, but if they are on land, they will be afraid of huge noises." Dust said, "Maybe we can make some huge noises so that the stinging rays dare not get close?"
"A huge noise?" Ella asked, "such as?"
"For example, the sound of thunder, the explosion of the ocean fire... and the sound of the orchestra playing?"
"Orchestra! Great idea!" Ella clapped her hands, "I got a military band from Andrea and kept it on the boat! I'll let them play!"
"Wait a minute, Your Majesty... Isn't it a bit difficult for you to play all night?"
"It's Captain Blackbeard." Ella first corrected it seriously, and then said, "I'll divide the military band into several more shifts and let them play in shifts."
"No, I mean, will this disturb the soldiers' rest?"
"For the safety of the ship, there is nothing we can do about it." Ella said, "Just do what I said and let the soldiers hold on for a few days!"
According to Ella's order, the number of people on duty in each period must be more than 70%, so the soldiers changed from rotating on duty to rotating rest. In other words, the average sleep time per person per day is less than five hours. Not only that, if it is unfortunate to rest at night, then they will have to endure the sound of gongs and drums of the military band to fall asleep.
In this high-intensity alert, the flying zodiac was sailing for several days in the sea where the pineal rays were active.
"Why did the trumpet stop?"
The sudden silence made Ella wake up suddenly in her sleep. She was wearing pajamas and barefoot and ran to the deck. When she saw the calm sea and the soldiers were just huddled on the deck to rest tiredly, she breathed a sigh of relief. She knew that the soldiers were all tired and did not blame them, but encouraged the soldiers: "As soon as the trumpet sound stopped, the stinging rays should approach us! Hold on for a while, and when you leave this sea area, I will let each of you have a full meal of mutton!"
But the soldiers only stood up a few people. A soldier holding an Avros tube cried and said, "Captain, we really can't hold on! We have to blow for the middle of the night these days every night. My cheeks are swollen like apples, and I can't sleep well!"
"What! Isn't your military band just on duty at night?" A pirate opened his big dark circles and his face was exhausted. "I only slept for fifteen minutes yesterday! For the remaining hours, I listened to you there, 'Ancestors! Grandfather!' Have you stopped playing now? My ears are still buzzing!"
After the soldiers said this, Ella suddenly felt a sense of fatigue. Although she had a contract with Drague, it was still difficult for her to get used to sleeping in the sound of the military band. At the moment, the stinging rays appeared, and the sea was like a battlefield, and she had no intention of sleeping at all. The soldiers took shifts every few hours, but she had to patrol the boat every half an hour. After so many days, she couldn't hold on, so she just sniffed for a few minutes, but she woke up again.
She waved her hand tiredly and shouted, "Where is the Navigator? Where is the Navigator?"
The pirate who served as the navigator stared at a dark circle of the same size as Ella's black beard and hurriedly ran over and opened the chart in front of Ella. He had been summoned by Ella these days and didn't know how many times he had been summoned by Ella. Before Ella could ask questions, he pointed to a point on the map and said, "Captain, we are here now."
Ella leaned over and saw that the point the pirate was pointing to was already at the tail of the prickly ray pattern.
"It seems we are about to drive out of the sea where the stinging rays are active."
Hearing Ella say this, the soldiers on the deck breathed a sigh of relief.
"But don't take it lightly, danger always happens when you take it lightly." Ella opened her eyes that were about to close, and encouraged the soldiers on the deck, "Persevere for one night, that's all night! I'll be with you! We'll release the alert until tomorrow morning!"
This was the most exhausting night. The military music became intermittent and weak. Eira was either missing this part or that part, and the lights on the boat became blurred. Ella wanted to sleep on the mast several times, but was awakened by the sea breeze at night again and again.
When the sun rises the next morning, the flying people sail intact on a quiet sea.
"What a peaceful and peaceful day!"
Dust stretched out of the cabin, and saw a group of people including Ella falling to the ground. He shouted in panic: "Come on! Come on! The Swedish King was attacked!"
"Cai, Cai was not attacked." Ella opened her eyes, "just... she fell asleep accidentally."
"Sleep? King of Sweden, why are you sleeping here? Isn't it cold?"
"Master, why are you so in good spirits...? Isn't the music aloud?"
Dust shrugged: "It is also an important skill to fall asleep immediately in a noisy environment."
"It seems... my soldiers and I still need to be repaired..."
Ella's eyelids gradually drooped, and then she suddenly opened.
"No, I want to go to have a sleep... I will send a command to lift the alert, recover, recover, recover..."
Ella's eyelids drooped again. Dust quickly directed the soldiers who walked out of the cabin to shift: "Take the King of Sweden back to her cabin! Be lighter, put a few sponges into her ears! You heard that right, put a few sponges! No matter what happens today, don't disturb her sleep!"
"The King of Sweden...No, the big black bearded captain! Come and take a look!"
Before Dust could finish his speech, the soldiers on the watchtower shouted at Ella:
"There is something swimming towards us in front... it's a dolphin... it's sitting on it... a person?"
"Man?" Ella raised her head in a daze.
Chapter completed!