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23. Life at sea


The Belan sailed on the vast sea, following a current, all the way east, at full speed.There seems to be no clear dividing line between the blue sky and the vast sea, in the sky, the white is the clouds, and on the sea, the white is the churning waves.There are thousands of islands in the Vasqui plane, large and small, but there is no inland on a large scale, and this is a world of water.The waves of the sea, several meters high, were surging like a herd of horses galloping on the grassland, slapping on the side of the ship one after another.The Belan was like a sharp blade that cut through the blue waters, splitting it in two.We are warriors who ride the wind and waves, and when the sailboat splits the waves several meters high, it will make us feel excited.Karantso stood at the bow of the boat, struggling to break Deborah's grip on the cable.Deborah stood aggrieved on the tip of the brass horn in front of her, her wings slightly spread to keep her body as balanced as she could from falling off the boat, her hands clutching a rope in the bow of the boat, her face pale with fright, and a pleading face at Karantso.A few seagulls hovered above the two of them, chirping lightly from time to time, as if mocking the man below with a strange pair of wings."

I'm so scared, Karantso!"

Deborah cried and screamed at Karantso.Karantso shook his head resolutely, broke her grip on the cable, and kicked her off the boat with all his might.There was a shrill howl from the bow of the ship, and Deborah fell headlong from the ship.The sailors on the deck couldn't help but smack their tongues secretly, and when they looked at Karantso, their eyes were full of awe.Karantso turned his head to Katarina, who was leaning on the foremast, and said, "It's that simple!

”Caterina raised her pointed white chin, ignoring Karantso's provocation, and just quietly watched a few dolphins chasing the sailboat in the distance.Three seconds later, a white and black figure burst up from underside of the ship.Between the blue sky and the sea, she is like a fairy dancing in the wind, sometimes hovering, sometimes diving, sometimes chasing the frightened thief gulls flying around, sometimes passing by the lookout, provoking the fascination and dumbness of the sailors on the lookout.She looked at her wings in amazement, looking at her body flying in disbelief, and she spread her wings and soared in the wind, following the example of the seagulls at the stern of the ship.Deborah gradually discovered that as long as she mastered some simple flying skills, flying in the air was actually a very interesting thing, and although there were still a few crystal tears on her innocent face, it was full of surprises.She was like a child who had found a new toy, and kept tempting it, both good and bad.Doing it right is a kind of gain, and doing it wrong is a warning to yourself.Gradually, she began to be not satisfied with following the hovering back and forth by the side of the sailboat, and she began to try to fly farther away.She found that the higher she flew, the wider her vision became, so she kept climbing upward, and she wanted to fly into the clouds in the air, and her figure kept getting smaller and smaller in our line of sight. ”Bronte stepped out of the captain's cabin, walked over to me, put his hands on the railing, and asked me.Wherever he went, his wooden prosthetic leg would hit the floor with a powerful bang.Shaking my head, I pointed to my heart and said to him, "We are here, we have some connections. ”"Magical pact?"

Captain Blunte said to me with emotion: "Sometimes, magical contracts can't stop those who yearn for freedom!

”"No, I mean to say, she has my blood in her body."

I replied.As she spoke, the small black dot in the sky kept getting bigger, and Deborah gathered her whole body and swooped down from the sky like a cannonball.In our horrified gaze, falling.

When he landed on the side of the ship, he spread his wings and glided his body against the sea level for a long distance before turning back.It's just that her landing posture is terrible, well, our Deborah didn't learn how to land perfectly from the seagull, and when she tried to fold her wings and land on the crossbar, she found that her feet were very different from the claws of the seagull, and she couldn't hold on to the crossbar firmly.So the moment she stood on the crossbar, her feet suddenly slipped and she hit her head on the sail.Perhaps, this is Deborah's first flight in the true sense of the word, because this flight has made her feel the joy of flying.Although a quarter of an hour ago, Deborah almost held Karantso and cried, fearing her like a tiger, but a quarter of an hour later, although Deborah hit the sail and accidentally broke her foot, she still followed Karantso with a smile on her face, just because of Karantso's casual compliment, she could be happy for a long time, like a child who does not remember to eat.Captain Bronte stood in front of me, trying to smooth the flesh off his face with a smile, but he was a murderer in the truest sense of the word.The sailors of the whole ship were terrified of his cruelty, and this time three unfortunate ones did not escape the catastrophe, and were tied to the mast as spies by him for three days and four nights, and finally the three sailors died of dehydration under the scorching sun.Miss Cherry, the righteous Bena swordsman, approached Captain Blundy several times to try to convince him that he could change the punishment, but Captain Bronte turned a deaf ear.However, after the death of the three sailors, things became a little troublesome, and Captain Blundy did not seem to want to dismantle the corpses and throw them into the sea to feed the sharks, he continued to expose the three corpses to the sun, and saw that the corpses of the three sailors were rotting in the hot weather, and their stomachs were already swollen like a pregnant woman in October, and there was a danger of exploding at any time.This behavior has not only seriously affected Ying Li and Shirley.

Newman, including the girls, were in the mood to let off steam, and the danger of spreading the disease to the whole ship.Of course, what worries me the most is that after the sailors were tied to the mast, Ying Li locked himself in the cabin and did not leave the cabin for five days.I think that when the weather is fine and the ship is sailing on the sea, I should spend more time on the deck in the sun, but I can't always lie on the deck chair and look up and see three stinking corpses full of flies hanging overhead.So, I gave Bronte some advice and taught him some basic knowledge about the disease.At last he complied with my advice, and removed the bodies of the three sailors who had been taken as spies from the mast, and instead of continuing to tie them to the mast to the scorching sun, he tied them firmly with a noose, and threw them from the stern of the ship into the sea and dragged them until there were no bones left.However, this move made the stern of the boat have another school of scavenging fish trailing.The sailors on the ship are actually very leisurely in such a sunny weather, regularly inspecting the various facilities on the ship every day, and they can generally do three shifts, that is, divided into three groups of daytime, the first half of the night, and the second half of the night to take turns to steer the sailboat.The rest of the time, the sailors will have a variety of activities, but the most popular are the ones who gather in the room, smoke marijuana and gamble at the same time.Otherwise, they would get together in the restaurant to drink, and after getting drunk, they would run to the deck and fight each other alone, beating the other party to a blue nose and swollen face, and being beaten by the other party to a blue nose and swollen face, so as to vent those exuberant energy.Very few sailors are willing to sit on the deck and fish quietly, although their fishing skills are considered grandmasters, and they can casually hang a piece of fish oil or entrails on a rusty iron hook, tie a thick hemp rope, and throw it into the sea to get a big fish out.It was Rand and his knights who loved to fish.Every day at sunrise, I could see Knight Rand and his squad training on the deck, usually doing some common chopping and parrying moves, just like the basic moves that Jonbach had taught me.After the Rand Knights trained, they would sit on the side of the boat with a fishing rod and fish, and when they went out to eat, they would sit on the deck for almost the whole day.In less than a week, two layers of skin had been peeled off from the sun's exposed parts of their bodies, and their skin had become tanned.What Joan has to do every day is to stand on the aft attic terrace, holding on to the railing with both hands and looking at the Rand Knight and his party obsessively, in her eyes, the Rand Knight is a gentleman with a manly taste, and Jacques, who is pestering him, can only be regarded as a hairy boy who has not yet grown his hair, needless to say, I can see it in her eyes.Actually, it wasn't my lobbying that got Captain Blunte to pay attention, it was I who converted a storage warehouse for canvas on deck into a bathroom.The sailors cleaned up all the clutter in the warehouse, and then I asked the sailors who were skilled in carpentry to nail a wooden wall in the warehouse, dividing the warehouse in two, and nailing ten water gathering copper magic talisman plates to the walls of the two rooms, and installing a sink on the wall, and a large water tank on the wooden shelf in the corner of the bathroom, and the water pipe protruding from the water tank connected the two shower heads in the left and right rooms.In this way, a very simple bathroom with no hot water was built.The water condensed from the ten copper talismans of the Water Gathering Technique, and fell into the sink bit by bit, and the water flowed down the sink into the tank and stored, as long as you stood on the head of the shower and unscrewed the valve, water would flow out from the top of your head.The appearance of this bath immediately alleviated the panic of sailors about fresh water.Prior to this, the first mate of the Belan had even advised Captain Blundy to limit the supply of fresh water on a daily basis, since the sailboat's tanks were not filled with enough fresh water for the voyage when he left port, unless it rained heavily for several days.Although the sailors still did not have the right to bathe in fresh water, the fresh water that slipped out of the bathroom drain was carefully stored up by the sailors who lived below deck, put it in a wooden basin, soaked it in sackcloth, and wiped it off their bodies.Only our group and a limited number of people, such as Captain Bronte and the first mate, had the right to bathe in the bathroom.The core energy of these copper runes is the magic crystal fragment embedded in the gem base, and this lowest-level water gathering rune plate does not require a whole magic crystal.I took a few shards out of my purse and handed them to Captain Brundy, telling him that when the shards on the pedestals were drained, they would be set on the pedestals and the shards would be ready to be used.Captain Blunte squinted, scrutinizing the shards.I said to him, "This is a magic crystal fragment, as long as you have gold coins in your hand, you can exchange it for magic crystals in any magic shop, of course, these simple runic plates do not need magic crystals, as long as some magic crystal fragments can work normally." ”"I know them!"

Captain Blundy said to me, pointing to the shards of the crystals.After saying that, he walked back to the captain's room, took out a money pocket, and poured all the gold coins, gems, and magic cores on the table, and those golden gold coins jumped on the table, and the first mate standing next to him showed a fascinated gaze in his eyes.Captain Blundy reached out into the gold coins, found a few dark cores the size of walnuts, and said to me, "The magic crystals are polished from here, but not every piece is available, these are the rewards left to me by an adventuring party when they left, I polished a few pieces, and only one of the magic cores contained a magic crystal the size of a fingernail." ”His eyes fell on the sea outside the window, as if caught in a memory, and said to me: "A few years ago, my ship was carrying an adventuring party, and they asked us to take him to the sea where sea beasts are rampant, and they said that they would pay me a hundred gold coins, and I could not resist such an temptation.

Confused, risking that the sailboat would be capsized by sea beasts, he took them to the notorious abyss. ”"That time, I lost almost all the sailors on the ship, as well as one of my left legs, and the ship was almost completely scrapped, and it was repaired several times before it became what it is now, but the gold coins that the party promised to pay me at that time had these black stones, and later I learned that these were actually the magic cores in the skulls of some low-level sea beasts, and if I was lucky, I could open the magic crystals that all magicians like."

Captain Blunte said quietly, a vicious look in his eyes.Then, he instructed the first mate, "You go find someone and open all these magic cores, I need more magic crystal fragments!"