Chapter 43: Wooden boat


   One month soon, and soon it’s time to go to sea again.
   The pipe of the Narwhal once again smoked, and Charles took the newly recruited crew onto the deck.
   "Bandage, you go and allocate time for the new crew member." Charles said to the chief mate beside him.
   The silent chief nodded, and walked his newly-grown leg with the new crew toward the deck.
   And Charles took Audrick to the captain's room, and the huge newly bought chart was spread out on the table, and the islands, dangerous areas, and dark areas were clearly marked.
   Charles said to the vampire in front of him, "Where is Sodom? You mark it."
   "Uh, I can't see, please tell me the location of Dark Crystal Island."
   Charles put his hand on a pushpin and told him that this is the Dark Crystal Island.
   Audrick followed the Dark Crystal Island, drew an arc on the chart with his finger, and poke lightly on it with his sharp nail. "Here."
   To Charles's surprise, the place was not as far away as he thought. "Sodom is here? So close?"
   "It is here sometimes, on the 6th and 25th of a month, it will appear here."
   Charles was taken aback. "Appear? Isn't it an island? Is it mobile?"
   "Yes, Captain, it is a ship to be exact, a big ship made up of ships plundered by pirates."
   Looking at the distance of the dot, Charles quickly estimated the sailing time and supplies in his mind.
  Although Odrick said so categorically, it is the information 40 years ago after all. If there is nothing there, there will be no supplies back.
   "Is there enough plasma packs?"
  Audrick nodded quickly, "Enough, I have enough for 60 days."
   "Reserve a part, I may need it if there is a high-intensity battle."
   "Understood, but Captain Charles, after all, the relic of the blood family, you'd better use it sparingly."
   "I see, you go."
   Audrick bowed, turned into a bat and flew out quickly.
   Near the waters of the island, Charles deliberately walked a little slower to let the newly joined crew run in with each other.
   This time, most of the crew members are locals from Coral Island, and some even have a relationship with Charles, and they get along fairly well.
On the eighth day after    left the port, the Narwhal slowly approached its destination, and the dark sea finally began to change.
   "Captain, there is a boat ahead!!"
   "I saw it." Charles looked through the glass at the ship in the distance.
   It was obviously not Sodom, the ship was too small, only half the size of the Narwhal, and it was still a wooden ship.
   Wooden boats are rare in the earth and seas. Generally, most of the places where wood can grow are flattened to grow edible crops.
  As the ship slowly approached, more details were presented in front of Charles. Unlike the Narwhal turbo drive, this wooden ship is actually powered by sails.
   Not to mention that there is basically no wind in the earth and sea, but there is wind, and sailing by sail alone is afraid that it will be too long.
   "Captain, what should I do?"
   "I'll take the helm, you go out to play semaphore, tell them to follow the usual rule, left rudder to left rudder."
   This can be regarded as the basic operation of navigation. I am afraid that the two ships will not communicate with each other.
   "Okay!" Dip with the bracelet rushed out with the flag.
   The red flag was quickly waved by the boy, and the wooden boat began to turn, as if he understood the semaphore.
   The two ships passed by. Charles looked at the old wooden ship, and a trace of doubt flashed in his heart. This ship was also going to Sodom?
   "Papa Papa!" The crisis appeared instantaneously. The gun door on the left side of the wooden ship opened directly, and a black muzzle pointed at the Narwhal.
   Charles, who was tight all over, made a decisive action and turned the steering wheel wildly, trying to use the smallest area to meet the opponent's shells.
Even if Charles reacted urgently, there were still a lot of shells hitting the deck, but the expected explosion sound did not come. The shell seemed to be soft. It stuck wherever it hit, and it began to emit dark purple smoke. The smoke enveloped the entire Narwhal.
   "Lily! Counterattack!!" Hearing Charles' voice, the rats on the deck rushed towards the fort, and the 125 mm muzzle began to move towards the wooden ship.
   At the same time, black shadows drifted out slowly along the black and purple mist. Their pitch-black bodies were as thin as paper, representing the position of their heads without facial features, and they held weapons of the same material in their hands.
   The weird paper man just stood still and ran towards the deck gun, hacking frantically at the mouse above, and the movement of the muzzle was forced to stop.
   The crew shot quickly at those things, but the bullets passed through them, without affecting their movement at all.
   Charles, with frowning brows, did not dare to delay. He took out the mirror and wiped blood on it.
  The ghost tricks on the side of the gods can't scare him. The wooden boat in the distance is the key, and he must be stopped.
   Just when he bit his finger with his teeth, his abdomen suddenly hurts. Shocked Charles looked down, and a knife pointed out from his chest.
   He hardly thinks about anything, UU reading www.udkahnshu. Com drew the pistol with his right hand and pointed it at his back, but stopped abruptly when he was about to pull the trigger.
  The person who stabbed him was Captain Dip, his face showed a weird smile, and a cold voice came from his mouth, "Shoot...Shoot..."
   In the next second, Charles took a deep breath, resisting the severe pain and directly put on the clown mask.
  The mask was covered, Charles pulled the trigger directly, and Dip was shot to the ground.
   Controlling the muscles in the body to clamp the blade in the body, Charles stumbled out of the cockpit.
   The crew outside have already fought with the paper man. They are obviously weak. Except for the huge James, the attacks of other people are not effective at all.
   Charles, holding his wound, held the bat mirror and threw it at the air bat. "Blind man! I shook his boat!!"
   The bat held the mirror and quickly flew towards the wooden boat.
   As soon as the voice fell, a piece of paper appeared behind Charles at some point, holding a dazzling weapon and slashing at his head.
   Charles retreated quickly and rammed into his arms directly. The black knife in his hand flew up and down, and the paper man quickly turned into confetti.
   "Cut, that's it?" Charles was about to rush into the battle with the knife, his body suddenly stiffened, and blood began to ooze from the wound.
  He didn't dare to act rashly, his body was in precarious condition, and if he moved again, he was afraid that he would bleed directly.
   Charles quickly found another solution. He slowly squatted down and took out a handful of steel nails from the wooden barrel next to him.
   The steel nails were thrown out, and they were accurately inserted into the paper man, nailing them to the ground, but this was only a mitigation.
   There are more and more people on paper, as if it is endless, Charles' consciousness has also begun to blur.
  
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