"Hey! If you don't let go, I'll give you a shot."
Mersin groaned and let go, as if she accepted the conditions proposed by Schliemann reluctantly.
Looking at Gada who was lying on the side panting, Schliemann simply turned to ask Mersin.
"what happened?"
"I found an island, over there! I found it first! Gadafei said what I saw was a piece of booger on the telescope!
First discover that Sky Island has the right to name it, right? captain! right? "
Schliemann grabbed the telescope and looked in the direction of Mersin's finger, and indeed found an empty island. According to regulations, the person who discovered the empty island first did have the right to name it.
"What's going on, Gada? Who discovered it first?"
"Ahem...Oh, Captain...I discovered this empty island. She was not looking in this direction at all!"
"Are you still talking nonsense?"
Mersin began to roll up his sleeves, looking angrily and ready to fight again.
"Mersin, which direction were you looking at?"
Mersin pointed in the direction of the newly discovered empty island, and Gada pointed in another direction. The angle between the two directions was very small.
Schliemann raised his telescope and glanced in the direction Gada pointed. He was shocked to find that there was also an empty island over there.
"That empty island is the one you discovered... Mersin!"
As Schliemann said, he handed the telescope to Mersin and adjusted the observation position for her hand by hand.
"Let me tell you, my ship is not Dark Star City. Fighting is not allowed, otherwise I will hang you overboard."
"I found the one on the east side, and yours is on the west side..."
Gada spoke in a low voice, for fear of being beaten again.
"Oh...hehe, I'm sorry Gada, there are still many things I haven't learned..."
Hilpeter came over, and they on the bridge also discovered the existence of two empty islands.
"Captain, do you want to dock?"
Schliemann thought for a while and said: "Fuck, replace all those black mushroom cakes and insect jerky..."
The crew cheered as they were finally able to get rid of the black mushroom cake that was so dry that it irritated their throats.
Schliemann didn't like eating that stuff either, not because it was too dry, but because the conversation with Apton made him understand that what nourishes these mushrooms and worms is the unconscious soul of the ancient god.
He didn't want to have anything to do with the ancient gods.
"Captain, which island are we docking at?"
Schliemann looked at the two islands again. The two islands were not big and not far apart.
"Let's go around both islands and take a look. There's still plenty of feather energy, isn't it?"
"Okay Captain."
Hilpeter left, and Mersin came over again, smiling playfully and stretching out his hands, as if asking for something.
"What are you doing?"
"Didn't you just say you wanted to give me something?"
Schliemann was astonished and glanced at Ampton, who was watching the excitement. Ampton shook his head in confusion.
"I didn't say I wanted to give you something?"
"You, a captain as big as you, don't keep your word?"
Mersin grimaced, obviously very unhappy.
"Then tell me, what did I say just now?"
"You said you were going to give me a shot!"
Ampton, who was watching the excitement from the side, burst into laughter. Selu, who was checking Gada's injury, also laughed out loud. Even Gada, who had just recovered not long ago, couldn't help laughing.
Schliemann was speechless. He always felt that Mersin had a weak mind, and now this feeling was verified.
Speaking of being weak, she and Hill Peter both have weak bones, so they are a perfect match. They are much more suitable than the noble Vivian who can only be seen from a distance.
These are two very small islands. The area of each island is only equivalent to a town on the Valance continent. Moreover, the two small islands are not far apart, no more than twenty kilometers at most. They belong to Can see the distance between each other.
Schliemann was speechless. At the distance just now, it was just a distance that would not appear in a telescope. If the two guys glanced in the direction where the other was staring, they would not fight.
As they got closer, Schliemann was surprised to find that these two small islands had airports, and there were flying ships docked in the airports.
Those flying ships are not large in size and do not seem to be prepared for long-distance navigation.
The Crescent sailed towards the empty island on the west side that Mersin discovered.
As the distance shortened, things in the telescope became clearer. Schliemann could even see the people running nervously in the airport and the coat of arms on their robes.
"This is already the edge of the key exploration area. Do you sense anything?"
Schliemann asked Apton who was standing aside. Apton shook his head and stared at his telescope expressionlessly.
"Schliemann...don't you find it strange?"
"It's a little strange. Why are these people wearing burqas? What is that petal-like coat of arms?"
"It should be the family crest of a certain lord."
While the two were talking, the flying ship in the airport left its berth and rose leisurely.
"A certain lord? Then isn't this... a military port? Hilpeter!"
Schliemann shouted as he ran, and Hillpeter's head poked out of the bridge window.
"That's a military port! Turn around! Keep the distance!"
In a very short period of time, there was no one on the deck. Even Gada climbed up to the observation deck and climbed into his post.
Those small flying ships began to accelerate after completing their ascent. They moved through the wind very agilely. The Crescent Moon, which was much larger than them, completely lost to them in agility.
"Captain! They are signaling! But they can't understand it at all!"
Gada's voice came from the microphone.
"Does this treat us as invaders...Have their two islands never conducted trade? Is a flying ship making them so nervous?"
Schliemann muttered and used the microphone to tell Connie in the lower power cabin to increase the speed.
However, the Crescent Moon was still caught up, and those small flying ships were as fast as ghosts.
They approached the Crescent and began firing empty steel spears. It was obvious that they did not want to board the ship and fight.
A steel spear penetrated the glass of the bridge, and Schliemann cursed.
"Sil Peter! Let the bosun prepare to fight! Mad is not done yet, I won't leave until you let him go!"
The crewmen with safety ropes hanging around their waists rushed out of the cabin. They rushed to the front and rear decks and gathered in tacit understanding around the six steel spear launchers.
After a burst of vibrations with a special rhythm, the crew launched steel anchors towards their respective targets.
Boatswain Gada took the lead, taking advantage of the incline created by the Crescent's ascent to fasten the safety rope and slide towards the enemy ship.
The crew took out the steel spear again, put the original rope on the tether groove next to it, refilled the steel anchor link rope, and launched again.
This was the first time that Apton saw the Crescent fighting as a group. This kind of tacit understanding and fearlessness was something he had never seen on a merchant ship.
