The sailors were convinced, but the situation was now so critical that they couldn't run away or fight. Did the captain intend to surrender?
"We may not survive..." Captain Xiu De wiped his mouth fiercely, "But these guys won't have an easy life either!"
"Change course and head west!" He turned around and shouted to the giant eye, "I want them to die in the mist of the Black Mist Sea! It would be best if their brains were eaten by the Brain Eater!"
This was a very impressive move, but it was helpless... The giant eye stared at him like a mentally retarded person, and there was no reaction for a long time.
"Captain..." someone beside him whispered, "This thing has been used for almost ten years..."
To be honest, the last time they returned to Inian Port, one of their missions was to replace the fleet's artificial eyes. But who let them encounter such a thing? They couldn't get rid of it even if they tried to escape...
Captain Xiu De was even more helpless. He had to move aside and point to the nautical chart on the table to signal Giant Eye - he poked the sea area marked as "Black Fog Sea" continuously and fiercely, and Giant Eye finally reacted.
“They turned.”
On the Pierre, Ethan was still observing through a periscope. Seeing this scene, he frowned slightly. "The styles of the two fleets are different. All the ships in the front fleet are like skeleton structures. The ships in the back fleet are similar, but they are covered with an extra layer of iron sheets and have three rows of gun muzzles on the side..."
To be honest, the ship structures were all very outdated. He thought this was good news, because no matter which side had a close relationship with them, the scene before him represented Aisha, the lost continent, whose technology and military strength were far behind the outside world.
Then he saw that the blood and bone ships inexplicably grew two things like giant arms from the sides of the hull. They began to paddle like real arms, and the speed increased immediately.
"..." It shouldn't matter, it's just a crooked way. It doesn't have any technical content.
Ethan briefly described what he saw to the others, and urged Teni: "We can catch up now."
"Are we going to fight them?" Teni also became excited.
He has been sailing for so long, and although he may still be new to other things, he has developed some courage.
Damn it... I stare at the darkness at the bottom of the sea every day, and I get scared a dozen times almost every day by the strange fish and monsters that suddenly jump out. Now you want me to fight against humans who also have two eyes and a mouth, then I'm going to be so fucking happy!
"Don't be impatient, Your Highness." Ethan looked at him suspiciously, not quite understanding where his excitement came from.
Aman is excited because he wants to take revenge on those evildoers every moment. Do you also want revenge?
But the logic makes sense... If he really wants to remember the hatred of the princes who were corrupted and killed.
Thinking of this, Ethan actually felt somewhat relieved. He felt that Tenney might have really matured and his level had even been raised to this level. This was something he had never dared to imagine before.
But there was no need to act too early. He saw that the armored fleet behind was driving away the ships in front. They should have a specific target, and this target should not be far from their current location.
"Follow them first." Ethan gave his advice, "Then decide whether to intervene in the battlefield depending on the situation...see where they are going."
If it was any other situation, his suggestion would be questionable. But considering that they were looking for someone, no one else thought there was any problem.
The logic was simple - if there was a destination nearby that was worth exploring, it was most likely a real island. If there was an island, there might be people, and according to their previous calculations, the fragment might have landed nearby.
Therefore, the purpose of all actions is still at the core. They do not miss any possibility and want to find the real captain of the Pierre.
"The fog nearby is getting thicker." Tenney was controlling the submarine more and more easily. He just kept one hand on the Rubik's Cube and used the other hand to pick up a sausage from the metal plate next to it and put it into his mouth.
No matter how fast the two fleets raced, they could never be faster than the Pierre.
No one was worried about the gray fog because they had confirmed during the voyage in the past few days that... at least on the Blood Sea, the gray fog had lost its strange power.
It no longer has the ability to make people disappear or teleport people to another world. It has turned into ordinary fog. Even if the Pierre continues to float on the sea, the fog has no other function except blocking the view.
If you have to look at the overall picture, this is actually bad news, because it means that the Pierre is trapped in a sea of blood and they can no longer try to get back in this way, which is bad in the long run.
But everyone is not a rookie anymore. Even Darent knows what should not be mentioned at this time and how to find a way to overcome the current difficulties.
The chase continued, and as Ethan guessed, changes occurred in the sea ahead.
One thing is that the gray fog is getting thicker, and the other thing is that the color of the sky is gradually getting darker.
The fog became more conspicuous against the backdrop of the environment. Human vision was suppressed to the limit in such an environment, and the two fleets should have slowed down.
But they didn't - from Ethan's observation, the ships in front not only did not slow down but accelerated. Aren't they afraid of running aground?
Just as I thought of this, there was a vibration from the hull.
It was relatively minor, nothing compared to the big noises they had encountered before. But they all turned their heads to look at Tenetzer.
"... Just a small mistake." Teni was embarrassed and didn't dare to pick up the sausage to eat. He put both hands back on the Rubik's Cube. "The reefs around here are a bit dense. It shouldn't be...anything...to us..."
The further he talked, the more unfriendly his facial expression became. Li Ang realized that the situation was not good and quickly asked him what he had seen.
"Reefs!" Teni exclaimed, "So many reefs... I've never seen such dense reefs!"
In his sight, there were a lot of strange static shadows cast on the bloody seabed. They could only be reefs. His operation of the Pierre began to become unstable.
It swayed back and forth, turning sharply and tilting at an angle from time to time, and occasionally scraping against other ships, which startled the crew members who were unaware of the situation. Some of them were awakened and thought they had encountered a sea monster again.
The Pierre was still holding on, but on the sea, Captain Shude had gone completely crazy.
"Forget about the damn chart!" He roared at the giant eye behind him, "I will use my fingers to draw a route for you on the chart, and you just follow the route I point to! ... Do you understand?"
The giant eye looked over dully, and finally blinked before he went crazy.
"Very good!" The captain showed a bloodthirsty smile, "Let's see how they chase us!"
People need secrets - this is the key to survival that the old captain of the previous generation taught him during the process of training him.
People without secrets will be despised, betrayed, and abandoned, and may not even be qualified to survive in the sea of blood.
For Captain Xiu De, his biggest secret is this: he can sail through the Black Fog Sea without relying on nautical charts, relying solely on his own experience and memory.
It wasn't that he could go through the middle, which probably no one could do, but he was sure that he could cut diagonally and draw a winding arc on the map.
Because this was the way he once escaped here.
He has nightmares almost every once in a while, and the content is exactly here!
This wasn't something that could be used as a trump card, and he couldn't guarantee that he would be able to get out if he did it again. But now someone was pushing him into a corner... He felt that it was a blessing to have this means of counterattack.
"boom!"
The ship channel built by the reefs is both rugged and narrow. The waves here become extremely turbulent. From time to time, the waves that cannot turn in time hit the reefs heavily, making an extremely loud noise.
Such noises were everywhere. As the fleet went deeper into the Black Fog Sea, the surrounding environment underwent a third drastic change.
More reefs are emerging from the water.
It is no longer a complete reef. Many rocks have grown above the water surface... Because they have been beaten by the waves for many years, their shapes are more grotesque than each other, and their surfaces are covered with potholes and small holes. Their bodies are rugged and strange like ghosts. The "Thorn Demon" quickly shuttles among these long and thin shadows. When the waves are flying, you can vaguely see some eyes clinging to the reefs.
This was not a pleasant experience. Even the bravest sailors on the bloody sea could not stand such intimidation. The people on the ship followed the captain's orders while trembling. From time to time, a wave of blood would come and soak them through, but these people did not dare to make any comments.
"Boom!"
The loud noise attracted everyone's attention and they saw a large blood-bone ship - that should be their companion - which, due to negligence, failed to adjust its direction in time and was hit horizontally by the rushing blood waves onto three ghost reefs, shattering it into pieces.
The waves of the sea of blood looked like real blood in the darkness, but this time no one could tell whose body the blood came from. They only felt that hope was slim and that the tragedy of their companions could happen again at any time.
At the critical moment, Captain Xiu De spent all his money. He pulled the sling, and the wall with the giant eye behind him rose up and turned directly into an upright sail standing on top, with the giant eye located in the center of the sail.
He pulled out a knife, cut his wrist, and spilled the blood into a grooved container next to him. He was trembling all over, and no one knew what emotion was causing him.
Soon, something strange happened.
The vessel drank the captain's blood and extracted some tender shoots from it. These things flexibly wrapped around his wrists like the tentacles of a small octopus. Some of the smallest ones found the wounds cut by the captain and crawled in.
"Um……!"
His whole body was tense and veins popped out around Xiu De's eyes.
His perspective changed. One part was in the cabin, which was his own perspective, and the other part was standing on the sail, which was the perspective of the giant eye.
The latter's field of vision and eyesight were greatly enhanced, allowing him to see the reef channel farther away. In this way, he constantly fine-tuned the direction of the "Thorn Demon" and repeatedly broke free from dangerous undercurrents.
"Crack!"
And behind him, another large blood-bone ship was smashed to pieces by the blood waves.
Xiu De was still gritting his teeth the last second, but soon he heard the third loud noise - unlike the previous ones that sounded crisp, this time the noise was louder and sounded like metal friction!
He could not help but look back, and sure enough, he saw that it was an iron battleship. It could not hold out for long in the increasingly violent vortex, and lost its center of gravity under the influence of the blood waves, and even turned sideways in mid-air, crashing into the ghost of the reef with its bottom!
No matter how strong the iron sheet was, it could not withstand such an impact. The metal shell was cut and torn apart without any suspense. He vaguely saw some small figures struggling in the waves, and then as another wave hit the reef, these people disappeared completely.
"Good!" The sailors couldn't help laughing when they saw this.
The atmosphere was so depressing that they didn't even know whether the captain's decision was right or wrong. Now they finally saw the enemy ships begin to lose men, which was a great encouragement.
With this encouragement - and the pressure of the environment, everyone looked at Xiu De differently.
Some people began to firmly believe that the captain could lead them to escape, and some people began to remember that Xiu De's greatest achievement was to enter the Black Fog Sea and leave it alive.
The ideas were transformed into action and they worked much harder.
As time goes by, things are indeed getting better.
Captain Xiu De's team of corpse-salvagers has only one flagship left, the "Thorn Demon". The enemy's many ironclad ships have also suffered heavy losses. From the 8 ships that encircled them at the beginning, only 2 are left, and they are all in a disabled state.
One of the ironclad ships was lucky. It should have been lifted up by the blood waves and stuck on the reef, but its center of gravity changed in the middle of the journey, causing it to flip sideways. Only the side was scratched by a huge crack on the reef, and it fell into the undercurrent channel on the other side of the reef, barely holding the team.
The same thing happened to the other ship. Although it was not overturned, it was still bumped and bruised. Many parts of the iron hull were scratched and torn. I believe that if they hold on a little longer, they will all be destroyed.
Seeing that his decision might eventually lead the survivors to victory, Captain Xiu De felt sad for his dead companions, but also felt the pleasure of revenge in his heart.
He didn't know which force sent these people, he only knew that this matter was not over. Even if he got out of the Gray Fog Sea alive, he would find a way to continue his revenge.
So who is most likely?
He couldn't help but think of the information he got from the gray-haired girl before leaving.
The chart was stolen, and the exploration of the Tomb of the Nine Knights was aborted. Although the trackers had signaled them to hand over the chart several times, they did not seem to want to get it.
It was more like forcing them to move forward into the black fog sea...
Wait? This is a trap?
A flash of inspiration came to Captain Xiu De's mind, and he vaguely felt that he had grasped some idea.
But it was too late.
Right in front of the "Devil's Thorn", a huge strange shadow suddenly jumped out of the dark, misty, mysteriously surging fog and blood waves. It had eight super-long limbs like a spider. After it emerged from the water, all its limbs spread out in the air, and at the end of each limb there was a giant human hand.
The monster opened its eight hands and grabbed the nearby reefs, using them as support to hang in the air. Its inverted triangle-shaped mouth, without eyes, and with huge straight teeth, grinned wildly. It swung its two arms downwards and overturned the "Demon" without any suspense.
"Back up! Back up quickly!!"
On the Pierre, Ethan, who saw this scene, was so scared that he shouted to remind Teni.
"It's that eight-armed monster! It can actually travel through the gray fog at will???"
In the camera, the devil-like figure used several hands to pull the "Thorn Demon" out of the sea.
It was so big that the Thorn Demon looked more like a toy than it. It looked at the toy over and over again, then suddenly threw it away, throwing it directly into the fog behind it.
The remaining two ironclad ships were also attacked in the same way, and finally... Under Ethan's terrified gaze, this thing turned its grinning face around as if it could see through all shadows.
"It found us!" Ethan shouted.
"Back up! Back up!!!"
"You can't reverse!" Teni also yelled at him, "It's already difficult to move forward, and you're still reversing! Don't you see where you are!!!"
The narrow environment with many reefs made the Pierre lose all its flexibility. However, the eight-armed monster could cling to the reefs like a real big spider, and it could move freely here, completely reversing the mobility of both sides!
Everything!
The troll was approaching quickly, but Teni was really helpless.
It came closer and stretched out its hands. Five or six giant hands pinched the metal hull and pulled the Pierre out from under the sea of blood.
Turney tried to release the electric current, but it still had no effect.
“Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh—”
"Ahhhhhhhhhh-"
The people on the boat felt the gravity reversed and they held on to the railings and howled loudly.
"Whoosh!"
The giant monster threw him behind him and he disappeared into the gray mist.
Chapter 120 Blood Oath 5k
After an unknown amount of time, Bariu was the first to open his eyes.
After recalling what happened before she fell into a coma, she could no longer lie down. She sat up suddenly, turned her head and groped around in the darkness.
"Click!" The valve of the reserve power supply was pulled down, and the light in the control room was restored - although the light was not as bright as normal, it was enough to solve the urgent problem.
"Li Ang!" She rushed to her husband first, helped him up and checked his general condition.
