First mate is not easy

At that time, most of the sailors on the Seaz were ecstatic about their discovery, and one more salvaged treasure meant that more rewards from the Queen would fall on their heads—maybe You can buy one more lamb for your family than you planned; maybe you can also bring one more piece of clothes that are currently the most popular in the Silton Imperial Capital to the mother-in-law than the agreed-upon rouge perfume; or, it is for the family In addition to the candy promised by the youngest daughter, there is also a plush toy that only a child of a rich family can have... The unexpected receipt is more like an unexpected bargain to them at this time, and it must be expensive when they spend it. Will not be soft.

"—Aha, now I think I can understand a little bit why those pirates spend so much money!"

"——What are you talking about, how can you be willing to degenerate and compare with those guys!"

"—Anyway, I really want to go home in the next second, I can't wait to see what my mother-in-law's expression will be when she sees the new dress I bought for her-she must go door-to-door Show off enough!"

"—Aha, everyone, come and see, this soft-eared guy, hahahahahahahaha!"

The deck was bustling with activity, the sailors were chatting and laughing, and they were carrying heavy mission items. They couldn't wait to return to the voyage to receive the glory and reward from the royal family.

Although the clouds were thick and a storm was about to hit, the cheerful music on the Schitz did not stop. When the captain returned to the deck, the sailors stepped on the beat of the music and began to welcome Prepare for the storm—perhaps the storm at sea might make the new sailors tremble, but this time most of the sailors who followed Resardin were experienced sailors. It's easy to say.

The important thing is that at this moment, everyone is immersed in the joy that the task has been successfully completed, and they almost feel that they are full of invincible power-in such a relaxed atmosphere, no one even noticed that they After the captain and first mate returned to the captain's lounge with the wooden box they found from the pot, they didn't show their faces for a long time.

As a matter of fact, at this very moment, their first mate was also very puzzled by the completely different heaviness in the captain's lounge compared to the outside.

"I don't know why you are frowning, Resardin, the mission is going well. When we return to Silton, the Seaz will be the most famous commercial fleet in the entire Babylon Sea. When they mention us again, they will Say 'oh I know it's the ones who served the Queen' and you, my old chap, you're going to be the youngest Royal Caravan Captain," Pad said hoarsely, waving the fan The big hand yelled nonchalantly, "And you are now acting like as soon as we set foot on Sildon's land, we will immediately be hanged like those pirates!"

Reza Ding glanced at his first mate expressionlessly: "Aren't we like pirates? Just like this, without anyone's approval, we wantonly snatched these two items from the depths of the ocean."

Pad's eyes almost rolled to the sky: "It's really unbearable conversation - since you think so, then just give the 'Leviathan statue' to the Queen, and let's do pirates again , withhold the 'Aria of the Mermaid' and sell it privately to a good businessman, this will make us crazy."

Pad was just joking at first, but in the end, he seemed to see countless mountains of gold and silver in front of him, and his eyes unconsciously radiated greedy light.

And of course Resardin would ignore him.

"My fears are not unfounded, Pad," said Resardin, "before the 'Leviathan Statue' broke through the water, there was still a sun in the sky, and now you see it's clouded over without warning. , This is unavoidable to make people feel uneasy-I have read some ancient books brought by businessmen from the East earlier, which recorded a lot of knowledge that we have never thought of. Some scholars in the East believe that whether it is forests, swamps Or lakes and oceans, these natural environments have their own aura, once someone destroys or moves something in them...they call that thing a 'township', and the movement of the township will destroy the natural world own balance aura, then bad things will happen next.”

"absurd."

"I don't think it's absurd, Pad. How can you tell that the Babylonian Sea was always not so calm in the past few years, but after the royal government issued an order to prohibit fishermen from overfishing this year, the number of fishing boats involved in accidents at sea has decreased a lot compared to before?"

"Those people who don't allow fishing will not go out to sea by boat. Of course, accidents will be reduced if no one goes to sea by boat." Pad dragged out a chair and sat down on it. "You always Indecisive, Resardin, as if this time we're sure we won't—"

The first officer hadn't finished speaking.

It was interrupted by the sudden severe tilt of the hull.

All the decorations that were originally placed on the desk in the captain’s lounge fell onto the carpet. Resardin hurriedly grabbed the decorations fixed to the wall behind him so that he didn’t fall to the ground in embarrassment, but Pad was not so lucky. , he smashed the chair and the person on the ground, and the chair was crushed by him. The first officer of the Sheath got up cursingly, opened the door of the lounge, and was about to poke his head out and yell, but at this time, he was surprised by the bad weather outside. I stayed away—it was supposed to be the sunniest afternoon, but at this moment the weather outside was as dark as night, and the strong wind mixed with sea water was blowing past. It was obvious that the sudden storm was the culprit that caused the serious tilt of the ship’s hull just now. !

"Captain Barcelolo! My lord captain, this storm is more violent than we imagined!" The sailors shouted from the deck, and the voice finally sounded a little nervous compared to the relaxation between them. Element.

"Oh, damn it, your captain is not deaf! Why are you shouting so loudly? When did our ship bring a little Mao Mao who would pee his pants in fright when the wind blows, huh?"

Pad yelled back with a rough voice, quickly retracted his head and slammed the door of the captain's lounge. When he took out his handkerchief to wipe his hair that was wet from the sea or rain, Resardin had already walked to the deck. Come on—almost immediately came the order from the captain of the Sheez to direct the crew to deal with the storm.

Although the howling wind almost swallowed his orders!

Soybean-sized raindrops fell from the sky, hitting people's bodies with pain. The sailors were running around on the deck, some of them were trying to keep the hull balanced, and most of the rest were frantically fixing the cloth-covered legs. The statue of Vitan and the "Mermaid's Aria" that can be moved into the bilge moved toward the entrance of the bilge——At this time, even the Shiz, which is known as the most stable in the entire Babylon Sea, gave out an overwhelmed sound. There was a creaking sound, and the waves beat the side of the ship relentlessly, every time it seemed that the sea turned into a beast was about to swallow this shaking merchant ship into its belly!

When a bolt of lightning fell from the sky and cut a mast down the middle, everyone was startled—looking up at the scorched wood and the flag of Shilton, which was riddled with holes and whose original color could no longer be seen. There was a brief silence on board: the sailors felt fear at last.

It's unbelievable, just a second ago they were laughing and fantasizing about what would happen after they went back.

But now, he had to face the threat of death.

The ability of the sea to change its face is stronger than everyone imagined. Sailors have been walking on the Babylon Sea for many years, but they have never seen the Shitz shaking so violently like it is now. The tilt became 45 degrees, and every time the waves swelled, the sailors suspected that the whole ship would be overturned alive in the next second. They didn’t dare to let go after the cut was broken—at least after they saw the scene where their partner fell into the sea like a dumpling because of a slipped hand and was instantly swallowed by the sea, they were frightened and trembling, but they couldn’t help it. If you don't mobilize yourself, put all your strength in your own hands...

And at this moment, when the tilted side of the Schitz slammed back into the sponge again, a sailor yelled uneasily from the deck—this yell as if they had discovered something made everyone involuntarily echo Turning their heads, so they saw at a glance, a sailor firmly grasped the linen covering the statue of Leviathan with one hand, and the linen had somehow broken away from the top of the statue. , Blown by the wind!

When another huge wave came and the hull was lifted again, in order not to let himself be blown away by the strong wind, the sailor who was still thinking about protecting the statue at the last second still had to let go of his hand—thus, The linen cloth that had lost its final binding force was blown up and quickly disappeared from people's sight. At the same time, a huge thunder sounded from the horizon. The deafening thunder was accompanied by lightning, and the black sky was almost Illuminated like daylight!

The statue of Leviathan, which had just been carefully dried, was drenched again by the torrential rain.

The helmsman in the cockpit yelled anxiously: "Captain, our rudder wheel is out of control!"

The news was like a death notice to everyone on board the Sheets.

Just as everyone closed their eyes, prayed or simply waited for death in silence, at this moment, Pad shouted "Look at the statue" and attracted everyone's attention. Renbian saw an astonishing scene: the statue of Leviathan firmly fixed on the deck changed. During the rainstorm and lightning, the black eyes of the snake head shone with icy light, and the coiled body of the snake Slightly lifting and stretching, the whole process was extremely slow, and when the snake body was slightly lifted under the shocked eyes of everyone, the wings that were originally restrained on both sides of its body were also fully extended.

Probably a natural storm or lightning and thunder touched the delicate mechanism in the statue.

It was more like the statue itself came alive.

Under the incredible eyes of everyone, the statue of Leviathan, which had lost its linen cover, was fully stretched.

……

Lando: "Let me remind you, at this point in the story, I only heard that the Seaz was almost sunk by Chief Officer Pad's death - no matter what happened to the statue at the end to make you sit in front of me swaggeringly, In short, I haven't seen where your heroic appearance is for the time being."

Pad: "At that time, everyone closed their eyes and stared at death. I just noticed the change of the statue. Isn't it something to be proud of?"

Lando: "As if you can't change without seeing it."

Dill: "Do you still want to hear the story?"

Lando shrugged and seemed to want to say something, but at this moment, Xiao Bai, who was sitting next to him, covered his mouth with his hand, turned his head to look at Pad, and said calmly: "Continue."

Pad took a deep breath: "Then, an even more shocking scene appeared—"

……

Yes, compared to the changes in the statue of Leviathan, a more shocking scene appeared-accompanied by the wings of the statue, at that moment, the Shitz seemed to break into another The world—oh, to be precise, it was more like God heard the good sailors listened, and finally stretched out his helping hand—

The violently shaking hull stopped swinging, the storm overhead gradually diminished, the wind stopped blowing, and the terrifying sound made by the huge waves hitting the ship's side disappeared, and the "squeak" sound from the hull's violent sound subsided... At the beginning of all the changes, the sailors still couldn't believe it, knowing that after they hesitantly let go of the hemp rope they were holding tightly in their hands, they still found themselves standing firmly on the deck.

There was a brief silence on the deck.

About a few seconds later, I don't remember who took the lead, they burst into cheers, and gratefully hugged anyone who he could hug at hand-when the cheers on the deck rang out, standing in the cockpit The sailor stuck his head out, with joy on his face after the catastrophe, but more or less contradictory anxiety, he looked for his captain in the crowd: "Report to the captain, the rudder wheel is still out of control—— This ship turned on its own navigation like crazy, and headed in a certain direction, no matter what, I'm sure it's not the direction back to Silton!"

This news was really earth-shattering. When people heard it, they calmed down a little and were waiting to hear what their captain had to say. At this moment, everyone unexpectedly found that they were standing by the stairs leading to the second deck, Resardin was fixed in place like a statue. He raised his head, opened his mouth, and looked palely at the top of their heads.

Everyone was taken aback for a moment. At first, they didn't quite understand why the captain waited for the sky as if possessed, until they raised their heads unconsciously. Then, they showed the same expression as Resardin——

Because they found that the storm has not stopped.

The outside world is still thundering and lightning, the wind is raging, and the rain is pouring. The sponge is still turbulent and the sea is stormy.

However, only the fleet of the Schitz was not affected by these—it was as if they were suddenly put into a glass bottle, isolated from the outside world, protected from wind and rain, and the entire fleet moved quickly and quickly. Steady thinking about moving forward in a certain direction.

"This is really his mother, it's out of the way."

First officer Pard's swear words summed up the inner activities of the sailors at this moment in a high-level way.