The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"It's the Fish of Death! It's the Fish of Death of the great pirate Robert!" Among the passengers on the Ice Queen, there are many people who have studied the legendary pirates. The origin of this ghost ship was identified.

In that era of sea adventure, all kinds of legendary pirates emerged in endlessly, but there were very few controversial pirates like the dead fish.

It is said that he is quite controversial because he is indistinguishable between good and evil, and he is good because he often rescues slaves at sea, distributes the money he plunders to poor people in need, and establishes the first charity in Mozambique. It is no exaggeration to say that his reputation among the common people even exceeds that of the kings of various countries.

He is said to be evil because he never leaves anyone alive when he robs a ship. Once he finds the target, he will kill all the people on board and rob all the treasure on board. Far surpassed several pirate kings.

Such a highly controversial person is naturally also the target of the attention of the navies of various countries. Even in order to solve this big pirate, the enemies of the Kingdom of Engel and the Kingdom of Sigmar secretly cooperated several times.

However, because of the great pirate Robert's reputation among the common people in the colony, he was often able to get help from the common people, and several times of encirclement and suppression were able to save the day.

However, luck does not often appear on a person, and soon after a planned robbery was completed, he found himself surrounded by the fleets of the navies of the two major sea kingdoms. The goods, or the people on board, are the bait set by the two countries.

After confirming that all escape routes were blocked, the legendary pirate Robert could only find another way out, and this way out was to enter the Sea of ​​Falling Stars and bypass the encirclement from the Sea of ​​Falling Stars.

As a result, Robert piloted the Fish of Death and his crew entered the Sea of ​​Fallen Stars, and never came out again.

Although the outside world has also reported that Robert has actually escaped from the siege of the two countries, sailed to the mainland of Mozambique, and then gave up his career as a pirate, using his years of robbery to live a prosperous life.

Some people even claimed that Robert Jr., the speaker of the House of Representatives of the Kingdom of America, is a descendant of the legendary pirate Robert, but this incident was later proved to be a deliberate rumor by Robert Jr.'s political opponents.

Now that everyone saw the ghost ship appearing in the fog in the distance, they all clearly realized in their hearts that those rumors from the outside world were probably all false. When the Fish of Death entered the Sea of ​​Falling Stars, it was true that they could no longer escape.

In contrast, while the passengers on the ship were excited by the sudden appearance of the pirate ghost ship, Leo's attention was on the ship itself.

Because when the ship entered his spiritual net, he used the spiritual net to explore the inside and outside of the ship.

Just like in the legend, there is no one on board the ghost ship, and the furnishings of all parts of the ship are still the same as before. Leo can even see that there is an unfinished diary in the captain's cabin, and the pen used to write the diary is still set aside. It feels like the captain was called out halfway through writing the logbook, and never came back.

It would be fine if it was just an empty ship without people, Leo would not have any interest in an empty ship floating on the sea, but for some reason, Leo felt that there seemed to be an unknown life hidden on the ship. It's the same, but this kind of life seems to be able to avoid his spiritual net, so that the spiritual net can't perceive its correct position, and can only vaguely feel that there are living beings on the ship.

"This is not a good thing!" Old Beren walked to Leo's side, looked at the ghost ship with some worry, and said.

"It's just a ghost ship." Although Leo felt a little puzzled about the life forms hidden on the ghost ship, he didn't feel any danger from the ghost ship, so he looked at old Belen with some puzzlement .

"Fish of Death..." Old Belen was about to say something, but was stopped by the old captain who came over.

The old captain pointed to the ordinary passengers who were discussing the ghost ship, and then pointed to the observation deck at the stern where the rudder was located, motioning to speak there.

Old Beren didn't object either. He nodded and walked over there. Leo followed without asking any further questions.

After the three of them reached the stern, Old Belen looked at the old captain and said, "Did you say it, or did I say it?"

"Let me tell the story! After all, you don't know the details. Most of them are just hearsay." The old captain took the initiative to take the topic, and then said to Leo with a serious tone: "There are many legends about ghost ships. See There are quite a few people who have visited the ghost ship, but most of the ghost ships appear far away and will not cause any harm to the discoverer, but the Death Fish is different..."

While talking, the old captain could not help but pause, looked at the Fish of Death in the thick fog, and said: "The Fish of Death is the most vicious ghost ship, and its appearance usually brings death. There have been three More than ten ships have encountered the Fish of Death at sea, and the people on more than twenty of them have all disappeared. Although there are still people in the remaining dozen ships, they are all crazy, and even if they ask, they will only Answer words that don't mean anything."

"Then what are you going to do now?" Leo asked in a deep voice.

The old captain said in a deep voice: "I will increase the speed of the Queen to the highest speed to see if I can get rid of this ghost ship."

"If not?" Leo questioned: "According to the various rumors I have heard, the speed of the ship does not seem to have any effect on the ghost ship."

The old captain hesitated, and said: "If not, I hope to hire you to go up and check the situation before the ghost ship approaches. It would be best if you can solve it in advance. If not, I hope you can find out some Useful stuff."

Hearing the old captain's request, Leo frowned and did not immediately refuse. In fact, he was indeed very interested in the ghost ship. After all, such mysterious things often have some unexpected surprises, and of course they may also be unexpected shocks.

So after thinking about it for a while, Leo looked at the old captain with interest, and said, "What price are you going to pay to hire me to do this? You know, I'm not very interested in money."

At this time, old Belen saw that Leo was going to agree to the old captain's employment and went to explore the ghost ship, and wanted to stop Leo from making a decision, but was stopped by the old captain's angry expression full of warning.

In order to prevent old Belen from getting involved and changing Leo's mind, the old captain immediately offered a condition: "Aren't you trying to decipher the secret language of the tower? I have a note on the interpretation of the code from the apprentice of the wizard of the tower. Maybe Useful for you."

"You know I'm interpreting the secret language of the tower?" Leo frowned, and then turned to look at old Beren. It seemed that he was the only one who knew that he had a magic book note of the wizard of the tower in his hand, and he also knew that he doing what.

"I said it." Old Belen showed an embarrassed look on his face, then turned his head and glared at the old captain, and said, "It's just that I didn't expect him to have such thoughts, I just thought he was going to thank you for your support in Port of Shackles." What you did, I was going to prepare a gift for you, I didn't expect him to do this."

Leo didn't blame the old Beren. After he asked the reason, he said to the old captain: "Yes, as long as the interpretation of the secret language in the apprentice's notebook is true, I will agree to accept your employment."

"Don't worry, that notebook came from William of Miris. He worked as a court wizard in Deliyat for seventeen years and helped Deliyat establish some contact with the tower," the old captain said with a smile on his face. With a smile, he said, "If your Excellency is interested in the matter of the tower, you can go to Dailiat for a walk when you have time. I believe Her Majesty the Queen will be very happy."

Leo looked at the old captain, and said in a deep voice, "Did you propose this invitation, or did your queen order you to say so?"

The old captain froze for a moment, didn't say anything more, and after saluting to Leo, he turned around and walked down the viewing platform, and went down to his own captain's room, ready to activate the hidden power on board and speed up the ship.

The passengers on the deck were all driven back to the cabin by the sailors at his request.

"You shouldn't have agreed to this matter." Old Beren said with a sigh.

"Why?" Leo asked.

Old Belen explained: "Five years ago, a research ship of the British royal family encountered the Fish of Death. At that time, there were four senior agents of the Special Bureau on the research ship, who were also priests of the Church of the Sea God. The priests who really possessed magical powers also disappeared like other ships. They only left an unfinished diary on the ship, saying that they could not get rid of the Fish of Death, so they had to board the ghost ship Settle this matter."

"I'm neither an agent of the special bureau nor a priest of the church." Leo replied in a bottleneck, the implication was to let old Beren not use the example of failure to apply to him.

Regarding this, the old Belen didn't know what to say. Although Leo was a little arrogant, he was indeed right in a certain way. At least after getting along these days, the old Belen could feel that The young wizard in front of him possessed an unimaginably powerful ability, and what seemed like a catastrophe to others was nothing more than an insignificant thing to him.

At this time, Leo suddenly asked suspiciously: "There is one thing I don't understand. Since the Fish of Death is so dangerous, why haven't I heard any related legends outside? Judging from the performance of the passengers just now, they It is obvious that this ghost ship is regarded as an ordinary harmless ghost ship, otherwise it would not be so stable, and there is no fear at all."

Old Beren also seemed a little puzzled, shrugged, and said a reason casually: "I'm not very clear about this, maybe it's to avoid unnecessary panic!"

Hearing this reason, Leo shook his head, and was about to say something, when suddenly the hull under his feet shook, and then Leo found that the speed of the Ice Queen's ship had not changed at all without any change in the external wind speed. Ascension, and soon the bottom of the boat was sliding like a speedboat.

Although the ship was protected by a special energy shield, the sudden acceleration still made it difficult for people on the deck to stand still. Those sailors had to tie ropes to themselves to avoid being thrown out by the strong thrust, and Leo Can easily use psionic energy to cling to the ground. As for Old Beren, although he was an ordinary person, he performed better than those sailors by virtue of his extraordinary balance, his body swayed with the ship, he didn't need ropes and he was not in danger of being thrown out of the deck.

At this time, Leo opened the Spirit Net and explored the interior of the Snow Queen. As he thought, he saw the different combinations of the Turing radicals of the Snow Queen, and once again he was deeply moved by the creator of the Snow Queen. Admiration, after all, using the Turing radical imitates most of the power of the three-dimensional radical, and there will be no backlash. This can only be done if the mastery of the Turing radical reaches an extremely deep level. At least Leo can be sure of himself For a long time, this level cannot be achieved.

On the other side, Old Belen had already adapted to the speed-up of the Ice Queen, but the surrounding environment still made him feel a little nervous, so he greeted Leo and prepared to enter the cabin.

"Wait, I have a question." Just as Old Beren was about to step off the viewing platform, Leo suddenly called out to him.

Old Beren grabbed the railing of the stairs and looked back at Leo.

Leo said: "Just now I mentioned that some people who encountered the Fish of Death survived in the end. They are all crazy and can only speak some languages ​​they don't understand. Do you know about this?"

Old Beren showed a trace of sadness on his face, nodded and said: "I know, in fact, there is one of them who is my friend, a very good friend."

"Do you know how to read that language?" Leo asked again.

Old Beren was stunned for a moment, looked at Leo in puzzlement, and suddenly showed surprise again, and said: "I see, Rembrandt always said that you have a unique talent in language, do you want to Look at the languages ​​those people speak for any clues, right? Unfortunately, you will be disappointed, in fact, many linguists have studied those languages, including Rembrandt, and the final conclusion is that there is no such thing as meaning."

Leo said in a flat tone: "Let's listen to it, whether it has meaning or not, I will judge by myself."

Hearing what Leo said, Old Belen didn't talk nonsense, and directly said a series of sounds that sounded like birds, or some kind of whistle.

Old Beren changed his voice several times, then repeated it twice before stopping, and looked at Leo, but he didn't find anything from Leo's face, which was just as he expected , so without asking too much, he turned around and walked down the viewing platform, and entered the cabin.

However, Old Belen didn't realize that after she left, the expression on Leo's face became a little weird, and he turned his head to look at the ghost ship looming in the thick fog, which was closely behind the Snow Queen. With a pensive expression, it seemed that the series of inexplicable shouts of old Beren just now provided him with some information.