Chapter 149

"What's the speed now?" Charles, who was standing in the cockpit staring at the chart, asked.

"Knot 15, Captain," Kenona asked Charles with bright eyes after the report.

"Captain, this voyage is completed, so there should be a long rest period, right? Since you have occupied a living island, my goal has been achieved. I would like to ask for leave to go back to the volcanic island and pick up my family. come over."

"Okay, after the light gods come over, you can go back with their boat, and when I reach the top and stabilize, I will send someone to pick you up." Charles promised.

Kenona shook the steering wheel, looking at Charles' back, hesitant to speak.

"Say something quickly, don't hesitate."

"Captain, if there really was a bright place, you wouldn't stay with us on Hope Island, would you?"

Charles glanced at him without saying a word, and continued to look at the chart on the wall.

Kenona smiled a little embarrassedly. "In fact, everyone can feel your desire to go back. The ship doctor said that you have no nostalgia for this sea area, and you have been running away from here."

Charles checked the time with his pocket watch, and drew another dotted line on the sea area on the wall with a pen.

Kenona looked at Charles' face, and said again: "Captain, if you go up, you won't be used to pick me up. Even if the Narwhal is no longer on a long voyage, you will always be my captain."

"You don't go to the surface? Why?" Charles, who was very surprised, turned to look at the second officer.

"Captain, it's like your world is up there, and mine is on Earthsea. I have fulfilled my wish, and I plan to spend my next life on Hope Island."

"Didn't you hear what I said about the situation above? Why do you have to stay in such a ghostly place?"

"Because I've become a person from the heart of the island. I don't want to bother anymore."

"Every one of them can live the life of a person in the heart of the island."

"That's why I don't want to go up!" Kenona's voice suddenly became louder.

He took short breaths and shouted indignantly: "It took me a long time to become a master, I don't want to go to that kind of place where everyone is equal!! I want to enjoy the privileges of the heart of the island! I want to surpass other people of the heart of the island Same day! Do whatever you want!!”

Charles looked at his second officer with some confusion. He didn't expect that the reason why the second officer didn't want to go up was this.

"Am I wishful thinking? Maybe the surface of the earth is a paradise for me, but it may not be so beautiful for them?"

The air in the cabin was a bit dull. "Captain, why don't you just stay here and be the governor, you can get whatever you want here, why do you have to—"

"Okay, I don't want to discuss this with you, let the boat approach Monzi's boat, and let me see what's going on with him." Charles interrupted him.

Since he doesn't want to, forget it, everyone has his own aspirations, and he doesn't want to force it.

Kenona swallowed back the words in his mouth, and silently turned the steering wheel.

When he saw the searchlight of Monzi's ship approaching, Charles stepped out of the cockpit and raised his prosthetic arm towards the exploration ship not far away.

The anchor hook shot at the opposite ship in an instant, and Charles felt a slight movement in his heart, and the chain contracted and quickly pulled him away.

Seeing the leaving captain, Kenona took out a pendant from his chest, stared straight at it for a while, and then put it back again, his eyes were slightly red. "Misha, don't worry, I'm also from the heart of the island now, and I can snatch you back."

As soon as he boarded the boat, Charles saw a purple crystal the size of a grapefruit kept in a glass bottle, which was hugged tightly by Monzi.

Seeing Charles flying over, Monzi came up to meet him. "My lord governor, the crystal has just lighted up for a while. I judge that if I move a little closer, I should be able to contact you."

"You won't have any problems with this relic at a critical moment, right?" Charles said, pointing at the crystal with his index finger.

"Absolutely no problem. This teleportation crystal is a family heirloom. It was found by my great-grandfather in the belly of a big fish. It has been used for almost a hundred years. It has saved several lives."

Charles stared at the crystal, inexplicably feeling that the crystal was also staring at him.

Glancing at Monzi with a gloomy face, Charles moved a little away. The side effects of this relic may not be small.

Just when Charles was about to ask what the cost of using the crystal would be, Monzi squinted his eyes and looked over there. "Governor, look over there, there is something."

Charles turned around quickly, and soon saw a hazy white under the water in the distance.

"Don't look at it, when it doesn't exist, signal to the Narwhal and let them go around." Charles immediately issued the most sensible order.

Whatever it was, Charles didn't want to make a fuss at this point.

The bright yellow flag waved quickly, and the fleet began to turn quickly, away from the cloud of hazy coldness.

Just when Charles thought that this incident was just an episode, the white ball suddenly appeared again, this time closer, so close that Charles could see the deck covered with barnacles.

It was a steamship, a ghost ship that sailed beneath the surface of the water.

The hull covered with thick barnacles and corals emits the cold light of the moon, making the sunken ship very conspicuous underwater.

Sure enough, when the critical moment comes, nothing good happens. Charles' face was ugly.

This thing knew at a glance that it was staring at him, Charles did not hesitate, and immediately gave the order to attack.

As the gunfire continued to sound, the water column more than ten meters high continued to splash, but when the water surface calmed down, the thing was not damaged at all, as if it was just a layer of reflection on the sea surface.

Seeing that the shells were useless, Charles took out the Lightning Sceptre.

At this moment, the ghost ship quickly floated to the surface of the sea, and the disgusting stench of mud quickly spread, and a translucent green man walked out of the ghost ship's cabin.

It seemed to be a ghost, he was not wearing the usual attire of Captain Earthsea, but a smart navy uniform.

When everyone on the boat looked at it with horror, the ghost politely gave a military salute to Charles who was not far away.

"Hi sir, I'm the captain of transport ship D134, I'm lost now, please tell me the direction of East Nod."

Looking at the weird ghost, Charles thought quickly in his mind, and then slowly said: "I don't understand where you are talking about."

Whatever it was, he didn't want to anger the ghost.

Upon hearing that Charles didn't understand, a hint of doubt appeared on the ghost's translucent face. "You don't understand? How could you not understand? There is an elevator leading to New Territories City? Haven't you heard of it?"