Two days later.
On the ghost sea, a large ferry began to set sail amid the sound of the whistle.
Dudu yawned and pushed open the lid of the box to look outside. Shen Yan didn't come to wake him up today. It was time to feed him.
Seeing this, Meng suddenly woke up with a beep. He got up and ran to the deck, pointing in the direction of the mercenary city that was getting further and further away and yelling.
His treasure house, he was getting further and further away from his treasure house.
Shen Yan naturally wanted to take Dudu with him. This guy was actually not that easy to take care of.
The atmosphere on the deck was a bit subtle.
Jiang Yu and Kappa are playing chess. To be precise, Gaia and Boci are playing chess.
When two people play chess, they must let someone else play the game.
Jiang Yu and Capa looked helpless. They not only helped to play the chess game, but also helped to pass the message. The two were clearly on the opposite side, and the words they passed were getting more and more sinister. They felt that it would not be a surprise for the two of them to suddenly stab each other at the next moment.
They were surprised for a long time when they found these two mythical figures on the boat.
When Shen Yan came out, he felt the strong smell of gunpowder in the atmosphere.
He muttered: "Any chess game can make the situation tense."
The game was taught by Shen Yan.
The black and white chess pieces are very round and consistent in size, which is very different from the ones he messed with at the beginning. These are pebbles that Shen Yan picked up by the Emerald River. Then he asked the brothers of the Tiger and Leopard Mercenary Group to take one and help polish it.
Only then did I come up with such a Go chess piece that feels and looks very good.
Shen Yan glanced at the chess board and saw that Gaia was going to win.
The corners of Gaia's cold mouth raised a bit.
Across from him, Boji stared at the chess board with wide eyes: "It's impossible."
Gaia: "Quick move."
Boci: "No, as long as I don't make mistakes, I don't lose."
Shen Yan: "..."
In the end, the game of chess was messed up and ended unhappy.
Jiang Yu and Capa arranged the chess pieces again, and they started playing happily.
Bo Ci walked to Shen Yan in thought: "I am so angry that I am so embarrassed. Look, I have a frozen face since I was little. I can't take any jokes."
Then he lay down on the string of the boat and looked at the sea: "I don't know whether what you said is true or false, but I hope you won't lie to me."
The consequences of deceiving a person who pins his last hope on illusions are dire.
Shen Yan also lay on the side of the ship: "To be honest, I don't know the authenticity. Just think of it as the myths and legends I collected."
"For example." Shen Yan looked at the sea: "It is said that there is a terrifying giant beast sleeping deep in the sea."
"Some people say that it was formed due to mutations caused by discarded medical supplies, while others say that it suddenly fell from the sky one day and fell into the sea."
Boji frowned: "Falling from the sky?"
Shen Yan nodded: "It means entering this world from outer space. If human beings' definition of God refers to existence outside this world, then it counts."
"I don't know why this giant beast chooses to sleep in the deep sea. It makes strange whispers while sleeping."
"There was once someone
Trying to get closer to it,
But thinking can cause confusion,
Its whisper sounded like an onomatopoeia similar to "Cthulhu." "
Boji looked at the sea, not knowing what he was thinking.
In fact, there is a saying among the mercenaries: Don't try to explore the sea, as you will wake up the terrifying beasts in the deep sea.
It is very lonely above the sea, but fortunately there are many people with us.
Dudu sighed feebly in the corner and took a nap. How could he be tricked out?
Mr. Dong was standing on the boat: "If we had a big net, we might be able to catch a lot of fish."
Shen Yan said "Hey" and smiled. In order to prevent water ghosts, this big ferry has a very high hull. It is not that easy to cast a net to catch fish.
Several other young men are also explaining life at sea to the newly boarded brothers from the Tiger and Parlor Mercenary Group. The members on the ship will be replaced by a few at a time and take turns going to sea, so that each of these young men can go out and gain experience. .
The old wizard Uther was standing melancholy on the side of the ship blowing the sea breeze.
Shen Yan walked around and returned to the cabin. Zhao Kuo was still trying out a sleeping place there, and he was very enthusiastic about it.
Because there are a lot of goods packed there, there are not many places to rest.
Shen Yan asked, "How was the trial?"
Zhao Kuo: "It's okay, but it's not easy to turn over."
Shen Yan thought to himself that the Abyss people and ghosts designed this big ferry according to their own body shape, and they probably did not expect such a big man to come up.
Shen Yan looked at it and spread a blanket: "Try again."
Zhao Kuo: "It seems a little more comfortable."
Lying on your back: "I'll sleep on the bottom, and you sleep on the top."
Shen Yan: "..."
The room door was arranged by Mr. Dong. Because there were so many people, it was impossible for each person to have a room door.
Zhao Kuo: "You want to try too?"
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Shen Yan thought to himself, what should I try in broad daylight?
At this time, the city of mercenaries, the Tiger and Leopard Mercenary Group.
Sunzi was patrolling around with his little steel fork and furrowed eyebrows. Shen Yan left the door for a while, and the task of guarding the students was left to him.
Bamboo shoot: "Holy Infant, feed me quickly. After feeding, I still have to patrol."
People in the mercenary city knew about Shen Yan and Zhao Kuo's departure.
If anyone comes to ask, the members of the Tiger and Parlor Mercenary Group will only answer: "Work hard to accumulate merit. When Shen Yan comes back, I will help you get on the list at once. As for the expansion of recruitment, it can be done after returning."
Externally, Shen Yan and the others were just on a business trip.
The journey to the sea is very long, but I have not been idle these days.
Kapa's Guangming family has taken root in Brahma Emperor City for countless years. Kapa, as a native of Brahma Emperor City, was once known as the little sun in the arms of God like Zhao Lan. He visited the Holy See all year round and had a profound influence on the entire Brahma Emperor City and the Holy See. Have some knowledge.
It was for this reason that Shen Yan brought Kappa with him this time.
Capa is drawing a map: "This is a detailed map of the streets of Brahma Emperor City. What is more troublesome for us now is that we are not sure of the specific location where Archbishop Geras is imprisoned."
The layout of Brahma Emperor City is simpler than that of Mercenary City.
Shen Yan thought for a while: "This is not difficult, I have my own way to confirm."
Geras
I probably don’t even know where I am being held, but there are also portraits of people around Geras on the boat in the Sea of Damon. As long as I pull the portrait of the person closest to Geras in and ask about the location, I can roughly get it. The location of Geras has been determined.
At this time, Gaia interjected: "In addition to the Pope, the Vatican in Brahma Emperor City usually has four archbishops and eight presiding judges. However, now they should have strengthened their defenses. There are a total of 24 archbishops and 48 presiding judges in the Vatican. I don’t know how many of them have returned, but their lowest strength is the legend from the third prologue.”
Shen Yan was stunned: "Why?"
Why did it suddenly return to defense? Didn't it mean that although the Holy See's power was powerful, it was very scattered?
Gaia: "..."
Last time, because of the "Golian Travels" incident, the Holy See classified him as a counterfeit and withheld his book sales fees. He took people to make trouble.
The discussion continued: "The Archbishop has been imprisoned for hundreds of years. Even though the guards were very tight at the beginning, a hundred years have passed and even the most terrifying evil things have been loosened."
"Moreover, our purpose is to save people, not to truly confront the Holy See."
"So, we need some people to attract the attention of the Holy See and get the Holy See's strongest power to leave the target location and go to support."
"Only two His Highnesses can make the Holy See feel like it is facing a formidable enemy and send all its forces to support it."
"Just hold the door for a while, wait for us to rescue Geras, send a signal to notify, and then evacuate together."
The plan is actually very simple: lure the snake out of its hole and attack in the east and west.
The Holy See probably didn't expect that a hundred years later, someone would still remember Geras and be more daring to rescue him.
Jiang Yu and others gasped when they heard the excitement.
As mercenaries, adventure and exploration are unavoidable, but they are not so exciting. They want to stab the Holy See's lair, and even if they run away after just one stab, it still feels like a cardiac arrest.
Shen Yan and his group gathered around the map and began to study where to harass, where to easily escape, rescue routes, etc.
The night on the sea is lonely and dark. The fog lights on the ferry can barely penetrate the fog. The sea with no direction and no boundaries is an instinctive fear for people.
At this time, Brahma Emperor City, the Holy See dungeon.
A dim yellow oil lamp stayed in front of Geras as before.
Warden Belki stood there quietly and did not start questioning, because he knew that the subject himself was unwilling to speak, and no amount of torture or criminal law could make the subject speak.
But Geras raised his head, and his dry cheeks that were no longer human-shaped squirmed and said: "Do you believe in fate?"
Belki: "?"
Geras: "Perhaps destiny always catches people off guard."
"No one can control destiny, but some beings can arrange destiny in extremely wonderful ways."
Belki felt that the prisoner was getting more and more strange, and began to say some mysterious words: "Maybe you can make me feel more relaxed by explaining some more meaningful content, such as helping us translate the contents of old documents."
Geras smiled horribly. If he had told the Pope that he could not translate any ancient texts, he would have died long ago.
Letting the Pope keep expecting a result that will never come to fruition can be regarded as a kind of revenge on the other party.
Belki stayed for a while, knowing that there would be no results today, and then turned and left.
As he walked, he muttered: "Fate? Who would believe it?"
But sometimes you have to accept your fate.
Just like him, he was appreciated by the Pope and rose step by step from an ordinary clergyman.
But I never thought that I would spend my whole life with a prisoner in the darkness without seeing the light of day.
In everyone's eyes, he must have been a non-existent dead person for a long time. He has not known the warmth of the sun for a long time.
As he was thinking about it, he left. He didn't go far when he suddenly felt a tug in his mind. !
