Chapter 14 Blood Moon and Gray Mist (Part 1)(1/2)
The square pluck used red and blue pencils, compass and rulers to mark the chart. On October 9, the Seven Seas Traveler crossed the southern edge of the Asuna Sea to the Gray Whale Islands, and then crossed there to the east into Saint Huán. After a brief stop at Luflyn, he continued northwards around Quintaros Island and deep into Saint Huán Cape.
The Asuna Sea is located southwest of Nognes, and is the third largest offshore of Kaurin-Ishurien adjacent to Istaniya. It is far away from the Asuka Rain Forest. The Kourin Navy entered this place in the Second Age and established an anchorage in the Gray Whale Islands, which was later Luflyn.
There were successively occupied by rebels and pirates, and later liberated for the summoned, re-entered to the kingdom, which has continued to this day. Due to the lack of control of the area south of the Old World Tidal Mountains, this place has always been a free anchorage, and the Seven Seas Traveler can successfully replenish the supply here.
They stayed here for twelve days, repaired the hidden dangers of all sizes on the ship, and then continued to sail northward, passing through the Peto-Kalki Strait between the Cape Catran and the Gray Whale Island. The Ishurien Lizards, the ancestral land of Quintaros, is located directly north of the Gray Whale Island.
A branch of the Tada lizard tribe lived here. During the "Great Turbulence" period, it fled from the holy land of Cortitlan, including priests and astrology, and later split into the Asuka and Ka-Cuilan lizard tribes of Ishurien. Fang Zhu once saw one of them.
He had an agreement with one of the Tada priests. He originally planned to go deep into the Isthmus of Ka-Cuilan on a whim, but after more than two months of communication between the two worlds, he still had chaos and could not contact the lizard tribe in the rain forest, let alone find the settlement of the Tada tribe, so he had to give up.
It is said that Tenerik once brought him a message that as the sea of light faded and the blood moon came, the lizards in Aitalia faced two choices - to escape from the world or cooperate with the empire, and the lizards in Ka-Tuelan might have closed their contact with the outside world.
Crossing the easternmost side of Quintaros Island, Cape Saint-Huean is close to you. The land fringe of Kaorin-Isuean once again entered the sight of the Seven Seas Traveler. It was a very different style from the empire. It was a vertical cliff, lush vegetation on the rock walls, drooping waterfalls, and a flock of flat-mouthed crested birds flying over the mountains - a seabird unique to the sky and sea.
"A little further north, we will have about two days to get to Freeport," Alissa put down a roll of map beside Fang Yu and spoke, "Catherine said that privateer pirates have a secret anchorage near Cape Lavia, where there is a shipyard."
"Then let's go there first." Fang Zhuan replied without raising his head.
"Have Miss Silvede heard of that place?" Alisa looked at Miss Shipman again.
The latter raised his head, smiled slightly and nodded. She put down the quill in her hand, clamped it into her notes, closed the title page with a green and gold edge, and introduced: "The indigenous town is called Navalta, which is a mixed local indigenous and colonists who went south from the Changhu area to explore. About a thousand people live there. It is an official record-keeping stronghold. Unexpectedly, it is one of the royal private pirates."
"But isn't Cape Saint Hugh'an a paradise for pirates? I heard that this is a place that people who cannot remember yearn for, and there will be ordinary people who settle here. Are they not afraid of pirates?" Tianlan was also in the captain's room, sorting out her music score. After listening to the conversation between the two, she couldn't help asking curiously.
"Not only have it, but there are many," Silvede replied softly: "Since 421, people have settled in Saint Huán. Of course, it has become a rampant place for pirates. And the sky blue, guess where did the pirates come from?"
Alisa added: "Saint Hugh'an is far beyond the control of the kingdom. Poverty and ignorance are the breeding grounds for pirates. The indigenous villages are in poverty and even the pirates look down on the property inside. Compared to the young people who were trapped here for their whole lives, all the young people born here yearn for the wonderfulness of the sky and sea."
She paused, "—and the only way they could get in touch is to be pirates."
Tianlan blinked, "Does the kingdom care?"
"Where can the kingdom be taken care of?" Silvede smiled, as if mocking the king whom she looked down upon. "The Cowlin royal family cannot even order the southern border, while the dwarves in Elderon only care about the minerals, elves, Isses, and desert people all care about their own affairs. But your people have been infiltrating south over the years, trying to change this side and rebuild the ancient Saint Hugh'an route."
Fang Yu couldn't help but say: "Silmide, Xingmen Port only believes that this stable route is more beneficial to Saint Hu'an, Kaurin, and Ishurien."
Silweid did not refute him, but said, "It's your people from Xingmen Harbor, and the others are not like this. They are in Cintaan, and the Hill of Giant Trees is much more offensive. We have seen it in the Empire." She smiled, "Actually, I don't object, and I even appreciate it. This is the case with ancient politics, but Kaurin-Ishurien himself can't do it."
"Sister Silvede is so amazing, why do you know everything?" Tianlan exclaimed, "But isn't Your Highness Princess Brian opposing the annoying His Majesty the King? Maybe after he steps down, Kaurin-Ishurien will be well."
"I hope so."
Silvede responded with a smile, looking at Fang Ling with a pretty gaze, "Maybe it depends on what your captain thinks?"
"Me?" Fang Yu was stunned for a moment, why did he pull him back, "I have such great influence? Have you overestimated my weight in Princess Brian? We have only seen her a few times."
"Your Highness the Princess will definitely teach you a lesson after hearing what you said," Alisa couldn't help but say, "Although she hasn't seen us a few times, she sincerely treats us as friends, and do you think you can stay out of the matter of Kaurin-Ishurien? The Southern Warlock Alliance, the Istani, Elpahin and Fenris, although they each have their own political opinions, they are all gathered under the same banner because of you."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Fang Yu shook his head. Although this seems to be true, he didn't care much about it.
He has favors to Istani, Fenris and Elpahin, but how much is the favor worth on the political scale? Except for Princess Rupert and Yunlong Mirleucimes, whose teacher Ander sincerely supports him, most of the others use him as a banner.
But what he needed before was actually just the function of this flag.
"Kaolin's domestic affairs, let's consider it after the boundary communication is restored," Fang Rong said. He looked at Miss Nightingale again and asked: "Have the communication with Star Gate improved recently? Where is the Crystal Tower Network?"
"Not even." Alisa shook her head, "Jita has been in charge of this matter, but nothing has gone."
Fang Yu couldn't help but remain silent for a moment. The cross-border communication was interrupted for more than two months, which made people feel a bit meaningful. The Qihai Traveler was eager to know what was going on outside, but they had no way at the moment.
When he was in Luflyn, he also had a disconnection from the outside world and only relied on a shuttle bus that traveled once a week to and from the nearby port, but the port located in the Isthmus of Katchurang isthmus was also in silence of communication.
Speaking of the naturalist Miss, Fang Yu couldn't help but remember the injuries he had suffered in the previous battle: "Is Jita's eyes better?"
"It's nothing serious. The shrapnel passed through the corner of her eyebrows and cut a hole. In fact, it didn't hurt the eyes," Alisa replied. "It's just that there was a scar left there. She was a little distressed. Tianlan told her that there would be no more resurrection. It made our naturalist Miss cry."
Fang Yu glared at the poet lady, is there such a comforting person?
Tianlan quickly stuck out her tongue and lowered her head to do her own business. She was kind-hearted, but she always did bad things.
Cui Xisi was looking at the scene outside the porthole, and the golden light of the sunset was sinking under a series of winding land edges east of Cape Lavia. The clouds in the sky first condensed their colors and became golden like flames, a miserable red, and then gradually dimmed.
After the golden red light faded, only a faint blue was left, and finally the deep blue turned into a dark purple. Several lonely stars hung on the clouds, which were still very sparse before nightfall. As the last light jumped into the sea of clouds, it became extremely bright.
The surrounding scenery quickly became darker, the cliffs in the distance became blurry, and the shadows of the woods became deeper and deeper. The forest whistles occasionally made a few whistles, and it was a bit terrifying when it was far away. She saw an unusual fog rising from the distance - it was very common to fog near the land edge, but the fog seemed to be glowing.
Cui Xisi couldn't help but turn around and was about to say something to others, but it was at this moment that the door of the captain's room was pushed open, and Catherine, covered in sweat, walked in from outside. She seemed to be on her own boat, took off a towel, wiped the sweat from her face, and said to everyone:
"It's foggy, everyone."
"fog?"
After hearing her words, Fang Yu turned around and saw the arch window at the back of the captain's room. The sailboat was about empty from the land edge, but the glowing mist could be vaguely seen.
Fang Zhu had never seen this form of fog. Sometimes, light came out of the fog, reflecting the rising fog itself into gray-green. The gray-green fog rolled around, as if it were the essence, gradually spreading towards this direction.
Fang Yu looked at it and found that it was difficult to avoid the Qihai Traveler. He immediately contacted Tata in his consciousness - and Miss Dragon Soul had already spoken on his own initiative, and a gentle voice came, "Mr. Knight, the fog is not very ordinary."
"Miss Tata, do you know the fog?" Fang Yu asked, "I have never seen such fog."
The fairy lady closed her mouth, as if she was looking for something in her memory, and then shook her head for a while, "There is no correct description in the Silver Library." The closest one should be the ghost ship that people witnessed, but there is no record of the ghost ship appearing in this area."
She frowned slightly, "Ed, that mist is not like something from our world, it is blocking my perception of the Sea of Ether."
Fang Zhu was surprised. The fairy dragon soul is actually an etheric creature. Their entities are just a projection of the etheric sea in the material world, so Tata and Nini both have the ability to cover up all the peeping.
The material world of Aitalia and the Sea of Ether reflect each other. Everything in the world comes from starlight and elements. Even in the deadly silent area, ether creatures can also penetrate into the sea of light, which can block their perception of the Sea of Ether?
What kind of fog is that?
He immediately asked Catherine on the side, "Ms. Catherine, when did you find the mist?"
Catherine shook her head, "I was outside to give guidance on the box and Luo Hao's sword skills. About a quarter of an hour ago, when the sky became dark, fog appeared in the fjord."
This female private pirate took on the job of Big Cat Man, which was originally acquiesced by Fang Yu, and she was better competent. The silver-level strength was enough to withstand the joint attacks of most people on the ship, and to see the unfamiliarity between the cooperation between the people.
She had a high opinion of the people on the boat. Box, Luo Hao and the Paparals were almost the same as her attack, and the other group, May and Dalier, also had similar strengths. When Miss Maid and Alisa took action, she even took some effort.
The three echelons on the ship were more than enough to deal with ordinary enemies, and it was enough to be her confidant in her own fleet. Kaurin-Ishurien had more privateers, but to be honest, they were far from being as good as these.
What's more, there are two extra specifications on the ship.
Catherine put down the towel and looked at Fang Zhu. She also had a fight with Fang Zhu. Although she won in the end, it would be hard to say if she could let Fang Zhu go and make it work in an open place instead of on the Qihai Traveler.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! And that battle made her very tired. She has never fought with the combat craftsmen, but she has never seen such endless flexible structures, and the other party has not used the killer weapon - the Seraph of the King of Gray.
She paused before saying: "I am very familiar with this area. It often fogs in the fjords after nightfall, but the fog rarely spreads to the sea, let alone such a faraway place. I noticed something was wrong, so I came to inform you."
"That is," asked Fang Yu, "Ms. Catherine doesn't know the origin of these fogs?"
Katherine nodded.
Fang Zhu had already walked out and came to the deck - Luo Hao, the box and the Paparal people were here, lying on the side of the boat, looking at the heavy fog in the sky. The latter two were still a little surprised, and Luo Hao had already noticed something was wrong.
He turned around and looked at Fang Zhu, but Fang Zhu did not respond to the other party, but directly released a group of clockwork fairies. The clockwork fairies swept through the wings and rushed past everyone, rushing straight into the fog, but after only a moment - they lost contact with him.
Fang Yu only felt that the camera was dark, and he was very familiar with the situation. He lost the etheric connection with the clockwork fairy.
His heart tightened. If the fog could block the connection between the sea of ether and the material world, he was worried that Miss Tata would be affected by anything in it. He couldn't help but ask immediately: "Miss Tata, do you feel okay?"
"I'm fine, Mr. Knight," said Miss Tata warmly, "the fog only blocked my perception. What we have to do now is to protect the Qihai Traveler. We have no time to withdraw from the fog, and I am worried that we will not be able to control it."
Fang Zhuan was relieved.
"I understand, Miss Tata, try to get closer to Luyuan," he made a quick decision. "If the worst happens, find a way to make the Qihai Traveler run aground on nearby land, so we can still imagine."
Tata nodded and disappeared.
Fang Yu walked to the side of the ship, but the worst case did not happen. When he saw fog coming from all directions, completely covering the Qihai Traveler, nothing happened - even Miss Tata could control the sailboat.
However, once her perception extends outside the ship, it will be blocked by an invisible barrier.
However, the visibility in the fog was extremely poor. In case of precaution, Fang Zhuo asked Bakins and Luo Hao to lower the sails, stop the boat, and then continue to move after the fog dissipated. After all, no one knew whether there would be a cliff in front of him after deviating.
After about a few minutes, Miss Tata's voice came from his mind again: "Ed, something is wrong."
"What's wrong?" Fang Yu asked.
"Our ship is moving, and I feel it is moving in one direction."
This is impossible.
The first thought that flashed through Fang Yu's mind was that they had an illusion that although the Qihai Traveler did not cast an anchor stone, the sailboat itself was still quite stable, and it was impossible for it to move forward on its own without ocean currents and winds.
But the surrounding fog was filled with no wind, and most of the currents on the sky and sea were related to airflow. It was nothing more than the flow of wind element under the elemental layer, but neither of these was the same, and the ship could not move by itself.
"Is it inertia, Miss Tata?" Fang Yu asked in a low voice.
"No," the fairy lady shook her head gently, "Our ship is not slow, and its direction has not changed. Ed, I feel that it is not us moving, but the space around us moving-"
Fang Yu was creepy when he heard it. He had never heard of such a strange thing. Compared with the legends about ghost ships, they were all pediatrics. The fog itself did not move at all, but the space around him was pushing them in one direction?
Could it be that they were mistakenly involved in a space rift?
"Catherine," he asked immediately, "I need to know what is going on in the seabed nearby."
"Our ship is moving?" Katherine is worthy of being a veteran and immediately noticed something. "This is not a suitable anchorage nearby. You can't find the anchor stone here. It's meaningless." There was sweat on her forehead, "Can we bump into the mountain wall?"
"That may be the best situation," Fang Rong felt more and more uneasy, "What I worry about is those unknown conditions."
There are too many strange events on the Akira Sea, especially in the turbulence of space. Isn’t Sir Mawei’s fleet just missing? They went to find the Jazz fleet and didn’t want to be the next victim.
At this moment, the Paparals who were lying on the side of the ship suddenly exclaimed: "Ghost Ship!"
To be continued...