"Little guy, take me to that ship again."
The little white whale pondered for a long time, a little sluggishly, before he figured out Huo Yu's intention.
The next moment, the little guy plunged into the water with Huo Yu.
The fins flapped and the little beluga swam deeper into the ocean.
Huo Yu, who was familiar with the essentials of whale riding, observed the seabed scenery with great interest.
No matter how many times he saw the scenery of the deep sea, he always felt a feeling of emotion from the bottom of his heart.
From the vibrant shallow sea to the dark and eerie deep sea.
The sea shows its inclusiveness and variability in this extremely realistic and concrete way.
Huo Yu rides a white whale and slowly approaches the sunken ship.
Suddenly, as if he noticed something, Huo Yu frowned slightly.
From his perspective, several cannons on the deck were faintly pointed in the same direction.
Huo Yu looked in the direction of the muzzle.
It's just a protruding stone wall, nothing special about it.
It must be a coincidence.
Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Huo Yu untied the knot connecting the little white whale to himself.
【Just wait for me here obediently. 】
Huo Yu patted the little white whale on the head and pointed to the sunken ship, indicating where he wanted to go.
The little white whale rolled its eyes and opened its mouth to respond.
But it apparently forgot that this was underwater.
"GuluGulu~"
A string of bubbles emerges from the beluga's mouth.
Seeing the cute behavior of the little white whale, Huo Yu smiled helplessly, turned around and swam towards the sunken ship.
The feet with webbed feet swung up and down, and nimbly got into the hole again.
There was nothing to see in the cargo hold on the top floor. Huo Yu turned a blind eye to the cultural relics in the hold and swam straight to the passage leading to the upper level.
The good news is that the passage inside the cabin was not blocked, and Huo Yu easily reached the upper level.
As he expected, this floor was indeed where the crew rested.
The entire cabin was divided into small single rooms, and Huo Yu patrolled the central corridor outside each room.
Unlike the crowded cargo hold downstairs, the cabin on this level is surprisingly clean.
It was as if the owners of these rooms had long known that the ship was going to sink and evacuated the place in advance.
Huo Yu became more and more certain that this boat was a sacrifice for someone's burial.
Ships can allow people to be buried, but the crew members on the ships cannot, let alone allow themselves to be buried.
In that era, the captain had a high degree of restraint on the crew, but he did not have absolute control.
The rights of a ship are not entirely in the hands of the captain, the officers can also exercise their rights.
Such as helmsman, first mate, second mate, boatswain...
The relationship between the officer and the captain is similar to the relationship between the U.S. Congress and the president.
The captain has various rights, but the senior crew members have the right to propose the removal of the captain. They are the representatives of the public opinion of all grassroots sailors.
There are many captains who were voted out of office because of their blind command and were eventually exiled to a deserted island.
These individually isolated small rooms are provided for senior crew members to rest.
The interior space of a medieval sailing ship was always insufficient, and ordinary crew members were not entitled to their own rooms.
As long as there is room for it, any place on the ship can be used as a sleeping place for the crew.
Not finding anything of value, Huo Yu put his last hope in the large independent room at the highest point of the stern.
This room is in the raised cabin behind the mainmast and is the largest and most comfortable room in the entire ship.
That is the captain's cabin.
Most sailboat structures must meet the condition of being convex forward and backward. Except for the bottom two cabins, the bow and stern have buildings protruding from the deck.
The ship's bow building generally consists of a watchtower, a rotating turret and a courtyard.
The captain's cabin for the captain to rest is usually placed at the stern of the ship.
The passage to the captain's quarters was blocked by the collapsed hull.
Fortunately, Huo Yu found the lattice cover used to light and ventilate the cabin.
The wood of the lattice cover was also corroded by the sea water. He pushed the lattice cover lightly and it broke into pieces.
After getting out of the broken grid cover, Huo Yu finally reached the deck.
He calmed down, carefully observed his surroundings, and immediately discovered something unreasonable.
There are usually some boxes placed at the door of the captain's cabin to store more precious trophies and cargo.
But there is a stone tombstone placed at the door of the captain's cabin of this ship!
There is no text on the tombstone, only a skull pattern.
In traditional Chinese concepts, skulls represent death, ominousness, evil...
When a skull and crossbones pattern is found on a medieval ship, there is only one possibility: it is a pirate ship!
A simple pattern symbolizes the terror, danger and violence on the high seas.
Huo Yu swam over slowly and looked carefully at the tombstone made of stone.
From the workmanship point of view, it is not exquisite, but looks like the practice work of a new stonemason.
This is also logical. A pirate captain would naturally make a tombstone in a sneaky way.
The skull and crossbones symbols that symbolize pirates are mostly the same.
Only the famous pirates would make unique innovations on the Jolly Roger.
There is a big difference between the image of pirate culture that most people know from movies and the real pirate culture, especially the iconic pirate flag.
In most cases, pirates in history would not fly the pirate flag when not in combat. Even if they were thieves at sea, they had to keep a low profile.
Because flying the pirate flag is equivalent to telling all ships that they are pirates, which will scare away the plunder targets in advance, and is likely to attract encirclement and suppression by warships.
In the history of Huo Yu's previous life, there was only one lunatic like the one in the movie who always flew the pirate flag openly and roamed the sea without fear of warships, and even took the initiative to attack the navy. There was only one madman in the entire Age of Discovery. .
That is the famous pirate, known as Blackbeard - Edward Teach!
Edward Teach's Jolly Roger depicts a devil holding an hourglass and a spear piercing a heart.
The purpose of this pirate flag is to promote terror and intimidate prey, but the black background also means that he does not want to see scenes of bloodshed and sacrifice, which is a bit of a waste of money and avoidance of disaster.
Similarly, another legendary pirate from France in the 18th century, Emmanuel Wynn, his pirate flag image is a white skull with an hourglass underneath.
The hourglass symbolizes the passage of time, which is also a pattern used to create psychological pressure.
This pattern will clearly tell the plundered that we are pirates, and the patience of pirates has limits. You are already in danger. Before the sand in the hourglass runs out, you need to consider whether you want money or your head.
These famous pirates always use special pirate flags to show their transcendent status.
The skull logo on the tombstone in front of Huo Yu is also a special pirate flag logo that is different from ordinary pirates.
It was a huge skull, and there was a small burning flame below the skull.
