It took half a day to complete the modification of the sail. The soldiers turned the sail into black according to Ella's request. In order to have a threatening effect, they also put a white skull on the black sail.
Dust disguised Ella and glued a thick, black beard under Ella's nose.
"I am Blackbeard, a pirate who is known by merchant ships, and the owner of the Flying Dutchman. I travel between the old and new continents, specializing in piracy! That's the setting!"
When Ella was talking, this big glued beard twitched and was very conspicuous.
"The merchants of Alemany are not familiar with this route, so they can't say 'why have they never heard of it'! This setting is perfect!"
In order to catch up with Lübeck's merchant ship as soon as possible, Ella planned to set sail immediately that night.
Before leaving, Ella gave a stack of gold coins to a worker at the port and explained: "Use these gold coins to prepare food and water for two ships. In a few days, a group of people in strange clothes with feathers on their heads will dock. Give them the prepared food and let them catch up as soon as possible. Keep the extra money yourself and treat it as the hard work I gave you."
"Don't think about taking it all for yourself." Amy warned from the side, "The Knight King of Britain is our ally, and the Chamber of Commerce of Alemany is also our friend. You can't run away."
Having thus arranged, the Flying Zealander hoisted her black sails and sailed westward into the sea. After a night of sailing, in the early morning of the next day, the flying Zealander officially entered the strange and mysterious unknown sea.
Looking around, there is the sea all around. The earth seems to have disappeared. Even if you climb to the observation deck or take a hot air balloon, you can't find even an island.
"His Majesty……"
"It's Captain Blackbeard!"
"Okay, Captain Blackbeard." Amy said helplessly: "According to Tesosomoc's description, it will take two months to sail from here to Aztlan. I don't know what we will encounter in these two months. To what."
"It's okay, we have the chart."
Ella spread out the sea map full of monsters in front of Amy.
"Thanks to this famous chart, I already knew the situation in the North Sea when I was in the Seven Hills Empire. Let me see... where is our current position? Navigator!"
The sea is not land. In the waters that extend infinitely in all directions, there is no reference point for sailors to judge their position. But using the sextant, Ella was able to determine exactly where the ship had sailed.
The pirate who served as the navigator ran over in response to Ella's call and pointed at a certain place on the map.
"Well, are you going to enter the area where spinyback rays live?" Ella read the caption attached to the chart carefully, "'This fish is covered with hard bones and is as big as a shark. Its fins can capsize boats, but It will carry people overboard safely to shore. But if it suspects that the carrier has eaten a ray, it will eat the carrier in turn'. Amy, has there ever been a ray in my menu?"
"Yes, we have always lived by the sea! And there are thousands of people on this ship. Even if we don't, there must be others who have eaten."
"You're right." Ella nodded: "Compared with whether we can be safely escorted back to shore, I hope that the ship will not be overturned in the first place. Inform the entire army to enter a state of alert!"
Ella left the cabin, strode to the deck, and at the same time issued orders one after another:
"Let the giant crossbows and catapults be ready for loading!"
"Ask all oarsmen to stand by the oars on the third floor! If necessary, make a close detour!"
"When flying a hot air balloon, there should be people on the observation deck and on the deck! Pay close attention to whether anything is approaching our ship from three heights!"
"Someone must patrol every floor and every cabin. If you find any hard bones piercing the cabin, report it to me immediately!"
"By the way, pay attention to whether there are floating planks on the sea! If there are any, I'm afraid we will have to go to sea to salvage the sunken ship in Lübeck!"
In response to Ella's order, there was a flurry of footsteps on the ship. Some soldiers who were on duty last night and were resting were also pulled from the ship and put on alert.
Soon a soldier ran over: "Report, report...!"
"What happened?" Ella grabbed the soldier and asked, "Did you find the sunken ship in Lübeck?"
"We found black shadows!" the soldier shouted in a panic. "There are three black shadows, all as big as sharks, right next to our ship! King of Sweden, come and take a look!"
Ella hurriedly ran to the guardrail beside the boat and looked down. She saw three huge and dark shadows under the water, shuttling back and forth around the boat.
"What should we do?" the soldier yelled in panic, "As soon as we are not careful, they will come nearby. They are too close. At this distance, trebuchets and giant crossbows will not be effective!"
"Don't panic." Ella decided immediately, "Take out the ocean fire we used on the hot air balloon and throw it down!"
The Ocean Fire used in the hot air balloon is the Paracelsus model, which ignites when it encounters air and explodes when it encounters water. In addition to being installed in the device that supplies the hot air balloon to fly, some are also put into small bottles for the soldiers on the hot air balloon to throw down. Although it is somewhat dangerous to detonate ocean fire around the flying Sealander, the situation is critical, and Ella can't control it so much.
"Okay, okay!"
The soldier hurriedly ran into the cabin and fell on the deck because he was so anxious.
"Why panic!" Ella shouted again, "The flying Sealander will not be overturned so easily. Move it slowly, don't let it fall on the deck and burn the ship!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a black figure suddenly jumped up. In the waves, its huge body rose high into the air!
"Your Majesty, look, it's not a spiny ray, it's a dolphin!" Amy pointed to the black figure in surprise, "The dolphin is very docile and will not attack me violently!"
Ella wiped the sweat from her forehead—it turned out to be just a false alarm.
The three dolphins paraded around the flying Zealander, sometimes diving into the sea and sometimes jumping from the sea, seeming to welcome the rare guests.
But Ella's mood was not at all relaxed.
"It's too dangerous this time. Fortunately, it's just a dolphin. Something like this will never happen again!" Ella shook her black beard and taught the pirates on duty on the deck, "Keep an eye on your surroundings 24 hours a day. Turn on the lights at night! Before sailing away from this sea area, the number of people on duty at each time period must not be less than 70%! No matter what, the Spinyback Ray must not be allowed to get close to the flying Sealander!"
(End of chapter)
