I woke up in a dripping cave.
It seemed to be daylight and I could see everything around me clearly.
I saw Tikriti lying on the ground, covered in charred black.
He saw the first mate of the Fish Skin with a black cheek.
Saw the dwarf lookout with one arm slung across his chest.
There weren't many people who survived, and I didn't find the figure I wanted to see most...
This realization made my heart feel painful, so painful that I almost couldn't breathe!
Tick-tick-tick---
Water splashed everywhere, making my cheeks wet.
"Miss Messiah?" Unexpectedly, a familiar face squeezed into my field of vision. There were many scratches on his face, and his left eye was red and swollen, but it was filled with joy, "Thank you to the Holy Light! You finally woke up! Do you...recognize me?"
"...Glico..." For some reason, as soon as that syllable was spoken, my eyes began to become sour and hot quickly, and hot liquid immediately came out of my eyes. I quickly covered my mouth, but failed to cover up the first sob.
"Oh my God...what's wrong with you?! Do you still have a bad headache?!"
*
"I have released red fireworks. If passing ships see it, they will come to rescue us..." At that time, I suddenly heard a familiar voice speaking.
That voice made my spine stiffen. The next second, I stood up suddenly and turned around to look over.
At the entrance of the cave, I saw a tall figure like a grizzly bear. His left arm was wrapped in mottled bandages, and there were several dazzling blood marks on his bald head.
Oh, that's... that's...
I wiped my eyes hard and looked more carefully!
Holy light! It's really him!
Dallion...is not dead!
His hands and feet are still intact, his back is still straight, and his eyes are still shining!
At the first moment, the boy also looked at me. At that moment, his thick eyebrows curved, "Messiah...oh!"
What he said later was not spoken, because I rushed over and knocked him against the rock wall, "...I thought...I saw you fall into the fan blades, but I couldn't catch you, I thought……"
"Hey! Don't cry! Beautiful girl!" He carefully held my cheek with his right hand, "I'm still alive and well...Messiah, Messiah, come, look at me."
I wiped my blurred eyes and looked into his eyes.
His eyes were bloodshot, but the pupils were still blue and clear, and I could even see my own reflection in them.
In the reflection, I saw that my hair was messy and there was a thick bandage on my forehead, but there were still two strands of curly hair disobediently protruding from my head, which made me look like a ridiculous cat.
If he laughs at me for this, I will definitely beat him!
Almost at the same moment, Darian, who had been looking at me carefully, laughed out loud, which made me raise my eyebrows and give him a hard backhand punch!
"Oh, don't!" The boy arched his back like a blue devil shrimp and held my wrist. The pain on his face was not adulterated at all, "...Me...Messiah, my ribs hit It's stuck on the fan blades, please spare it!"
"Oh..." I took a breath, immediately retracted my fist, and supported his broad shoulders, "...you, you are really involved..."
"I almost broke into two, but Brother Fengge saved me."
Wind song?
brother?
Following his gaze, I saw the night elf still standing outside the cave entrance.
As always, he was wearing a loose green robe, and his prominent right ear swayed in the sea breeze.
He was looking at me sideways, but when he saw me looking at him, he immediately looked away.
"He turned into a seal and dragged me out of the fan blades." Dallion continued, "Thank you to the Holy Light, he is always there."
"…Thank you, Alan."
The elf coughed awkwardly and tried to wipe the tip of his nose with his right thumb as a habit. However, he only made it halfway before he stopped abruptly.
"I didn't follow you all the time," he turned and scratched Deep Blue's cheek, "I went to look for the Black Shark. I heard it was nearby. After all, uh..." He didn't go on.
I noticed the ring on his right index finger.
That thing was too shining, and from time to time, a dark purple arcane halo leaked out.
Moreover, the hollows on it are also very strange, like twisted clouds or entangled worms.
Um?
Where did he get such a ring?
He didn't have anything like this before.
All he has is the bell on his chest, a small bag on his waist, uh... maybe a pair of shoes?
So, this ring...
oh! Will it be eternal? !
I remember that the current owner of the Eternal Time - Old Man Hafey, his former ship was also called the Black Shark!
"So, you want to take him to see the Black Shark?!" My question stunned the night elf, and then nodded casually.
*
"...Black...Black Shark...number!" God knows what happened, but those words made Tikrik, who had been sleeping, excited. If he could move, he would definitely jump up from the ground at this moment.
"Captain! Captain!" The loyal first mate Torun immediately held his shoulders and let him lean on his hairy chest.
"Yesterday! The one that attacked us... was the Black Shark! Cough, cough, cough!" Tekriti stared at his blood-red eyes and shouted angrily!
What? !
"I clearly saw the statue on its bow! The upper body of a lass, the lower body of a shark! Tikriti will not admit it! That is the Black Shark! Cough cough cough cough... The Black Shark sank Tikriti The boat they carried also killed most of my crew! They must pay the price!"
"Pay the price!" the first mate also waved his hoof and roared.
*
"Are you all here?" Unexpectedly, a hoarse shout came from the entrance of the cave, "We are the Sailboat, we saw the distress signal!" A bearded human male shouted as he got in.
He has dark skin and piercing eyes.
He saw us first, and after a moment of surprise, his big mouth grinned to both sides, "Ha! Young man, find a place where no one is around to continue!"
oh!
Only then did I realize that I was still leaning on Darien's chest. The steaming heat from his body made my cheeks heat up, and I immediately wanted to run away.
But the bad guy was still holding my waist stupidly, even though his ears had turned red!
In desperation, I stepped on his boot, making him huddle up like a blue devil shrimp again, "Oh!"
The bearded man laughed loudly and turned to look at Tikriti, "Oh! Isn't this Captain Tikriti?!" After looking at it several times, he raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Are you roasted? ! Where’s your ship?! Where’s the treasure chest full of gold coins?!”
*
Thanks to Sail.
Before the sun set, he took us back to Jinfenglin Port.
The guards were worried about our encounter, "Black Shark... um... do you remember? The night before, a ghost appeared next to Jig's hotel. The ghost had a nameplate on his body, and the name on the nameplate Second officer belonging to the Black Shark.”
"So, something happened to the Black Shark?!" the bearded lookout sitting across the wooden table shouted in disbelief, "Then, where is his captain?"
"The undead that attacked the Fishskin may be Captain Thunderfist." Unexpectedly, Dallion, who was sitting above me, replied in a low voice.
That sentence made Allen almost stand up, "Undead?! How is that possible?!"
The guards looked at each other in disbelief.
"Elafonsos Thunderfist has great abilities. If it weren't for his bad personality, he would probably become the captain of the patrol!" the leader said, and I heard them calling him Lord Suarez.
He has a cold, square face, and the gap between his eyebrows seems to never be filled.
Dallion nodded towards him, "The undead man was covered in lightning, and he crushed the deck with one foot, and..."
"Moreover, he looks like a night elf," the loud-voiced lookout took over. For a moment, his eyes widened. "With his beard, maybe he really is Captain Thunderfist. Then he died so miserably!"
"What else did you see?" Suarez asked after a pause.
"Magician!" the lookout immediately replied, "There is a magician in black robes with him. Is there a magician on the Black Shark? In other words, the magician in black robes killed Captain Thunder Fist. Then, they stuffed the foul-smelling magic into his corpse and made him stand up again?!"
The dwarf's guess was shocking, yet impeccable.
"What's even more frightening is who is manipulating the Black Shark? Is it the crew members filled with stinking magic? Or is it the black robes?" Dallion's words were even more shocking.
"It must be the black robes, they control the crew!" I couldn't help but say.
Suarez, who was at the top, keenly noticed our alternative address and immediately asked, "What black robe?"
"They are a certain evil cult that appeared recently. They believe in a powerful, evil and mysterious being." Dallion squeezed my shoulder gently and answered for me, "Our King Terenas Menethi I have ordered an investigation and hunt for them, but... there seems to be no clue."
"I, I've seen them too..." Suddenly, a faint voice came from the corner of the house.
Turning around, I saw a young and jerky human boy wearing a blue turban. He was clearly the apprentice on the Fish Skin who had peeked at me.
Seeing us all looking at him, he flushed nervously and didn't know where to put his hands.
"Say it! Little wolf!" the lookout shouted dissatisfied, making the boy shrink his neck in fright.
"He...they call themselves the cursed people. They say that as long as we are loyal, we can live forever. They came to my hometown to preach and came several times..."
"Your hometown? The one in Lordaeron...what..."
"Ann, Andorhal City, Mr. Leonid."
That place name made Dallion and I look at each other and frown together.
You must know it too, right?
Andorhal is north of the Royal City of Lordaeron, and we met them south of Lordaeron.
These guys are literally everywhere!
"They robbed ships and killed sailors. They have reached out to our land." After a moment of silence, Suarez knocked on the wooden table, leaned over and ordered to a guard next to him, "You go south, toward the rusty coast." The patrol team in Water River reported this incident.”
When the guard walked out of the door, he frowned and glanced around us again. Finally, his eyes fell on the deck chair. In the deck chair was the unlucky captain of the Fish Skin - Tikriti.
"How did you escape? As far as I know, the undead will not leave anyone alive, and you... you are no match at all, right?"
That question made me sit up straight and look at the sailors, wondering what happened in the end.
Our ship has sunk and we have all fallen into the water. The Black Shark can completely crush us all with its turbines, or more directly, smash us into broken corpses!
After looking at me and me for a while, First Officer Torun, who was guarding Tikriti, spoke, "...disappear...disappear..."
His voice was rich and human language was very stiff, so it took us a long time to understand that the Black Shark had suddenly disappeared in the dim light of dawn, just as it had suddenly appeared.
Those descriptions made us look at each other. After a while, Allen stood up first, "I think it is necessary to let Lord Evolon Thunderfist know about this. I will send the news back now!"
"Brother Fengge, don't forget Raven..."
"I know!"
"Thunder Fist?" Tikriti opened his eyes in the recliner and repeated the last name through gritted teeth, "The person you are talking about is a family member of Elafonsos, right?!" When he didn't get an immediate answer, he shook his head Staggeringly, he half propped up his body and shouted at Allen's back, "Stop! Night Elf! Answer me!"
Allen had to stop at the door. He put his hands in his sleeves and looked impatient.
Of course, who would be impatient with rude and greedy, ugly and violent goblins? !
"...Yes, he is the nephew of Lord Evolon."
"In that case, you must tell Lord Evolon that he must repay Tikriti's losses! Cough cough cough!"
"...Do you know what you are talking about?" Allen looked in disbelief, "He is just the nephew of Lord Evolon..."
"But they are all Thunder Fists! One Thunder Fist sank my ship, and the other Thunder Fists must be compensated with gold coins!"
"Maybe their surname is Thunder Fist, but they haven't even met a few times..."
"But they are all Thunder Fists! Do you want to default on your debt?!" When the money was mentioned, the goblin shouted as if he was greatly stimulated. "You must tell him, Tikriti swears to the Holy Light and the Sun." , I swear to Elune, to the earth, to all kinds of things, even if I go to the end of the world, I will pursue my debt to the end!"
Those words made Allen curl his lips and sneak away without looking back.
"Goblins are all lunatics, right?" Glancing at Tikriti with a distorted face, I gloated and asked Darien with lip language.
The boy rubbed my hair helplessly.
Immediately, the Holy Light punished me.
"And you!" The green-skinned, oh no, now the black-skinned dwarf turned his twisted face in the direction of me and Dallion, "You must also repay my losses!"
I was simply stunned, "...what?"
"You!" The goblin's index finger with long nails pointed at my nose, "You have brought bad luck! Women with epilepsy are cursed by evil spirits. In my hometown, they will all drown!"
oh!
"I don't have epilepsy!"
"You saw with your own eyes that you fell to the ground and kept twitching! The evil spirit is merging with your soul!"
If Dallion hadn't hugged my shoulders, my boots would have flown to the goblin's aquiline nose at this moment, "Dallion, did you hear what he said?!"
"Oh! Calm down! Messiah! You will kill him! Captain Tikriti, I swear to the Holy Light, Messiah has never been cursed by an evil spirit! You must apologize!"
"Apologise? Ha! She has to apologize and then be sunk into the sea!"
"I swear, if you say that again, you will be the one who sinks into the sea!"
"Stop talking!" Suarez knocked on the table in displeasure, "Tikriti, don't go too far! No one here will be sunk into the sea because of epilepsy!"
You see, even the poker-faced guard can't stand it!
No one can sink me into the sea... No! I don't have epilepsy at all!
"Watch! She will bring big trouble to Golden Maple Leaf Port! She will spread bad luck to everyone!"
oh! Go to hell!
I was about to explode, but there was someone faster than me!
"That's enough!" He stood up loudly and slammed his hands on the wooden table. At that moment, I seemed to see dark liquid splashing everywhere.
Everyone was stunned.
The one who got angry was Gregor. He has always had a good temper. This was the first time I saw him look like this. "She won't bring any bad luck! I will! I brought it!"
The corners of his mouth kept twitching, and his eyes were filled with anger, as if...as if he wanted to eat up anyone who contradicted him alive.
Calmly, the black-faced First Officer Torun blocked the goblin behind him.
There was dead silence in the room.
Then, in this dead silence, Grigou hobbled out on crutches.
"...Gligo!" I pushed away Dallion's hands and chased after the poor boy. At the door, I paused and turned back to glare at Tikriti fiercely, "Captain Tikriti, I curse you. They will come to you tonight with Thunder Fist and a ghost ship. ghost!"
