Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 851 Daily Life on the Ship
After Sparrow said a few casual words, he stopped interfering and left the helm to the first mate.

The surrounding ocean was constantly changing subtly, and the visual feedback was unreal, with a dreamlike haziness. You wanted to see clearly but couldn't, as if the ship wasn't sailing on a real ocean.

I heard this voyage will take about two months, but of course, those two months are the actual two months for the crew members.

The Black Pearl was the fastest ship in history. Legend has it that some people saw the Black Pearl leave the coast when they were young, and only when they were old did they see it return. When it docked, the merchants were as young as ever, and the extinct animals were locked in iron cages by the merchants and were jumping around.

There is also a legend that a merchant ship was plundered by pirates aboard the Black Pearl, and all the wealth on board was looted by the pirates. The merchants had no choice but to return home, but they encountered the pirate ship again halfway there.

When the two ships met, the merchants noticed that the other ship's sails were old and damaged. They carefully boarded the ship and found that the pirates they had seen that morning were now just skeletons, but the ship's hold was filled with the gold and silver treasures they had plundered over the course of their lives.

The legendary Black Pearl was indeed fast. Sometimes it was fast for others, and sometimes it was fast for the crew. How fast it was depended entirely on the ship's route and the skill of the helmsman.

This time, their speed is relative to people in the present world. The first mate said that it would only take one day for people in the present world to see them again.

Of course, this day is for people in the present world; they have to sail for two months and stay in the Scar Age for some time.

In the blink of an eye, they had been at sea for more than a month. Xia Shou sat in the cabin, feeling a little bored. He looked at the cooldown time of his self-destructive path and knew how much time had passed in the real world.

The effects of self-destruction only apply to the present world, and its cooldown is determined solely by the time it takes to cool down in the present world.

I can't go to the Heavenly Choir anymore because the physical perception of time is different from the physical perception of time when I entered the Heavenly Choir. In my dreams, I can chat with other club members for a few minutes, but on the ship, it might take several days.

The day before yesterday, he had just entered the club and hadn't done anything when Su Weiyu slapped him awake.

Because Sparrow suddenly knocked on the door, and knocked for a long time.

It was then that Xia Shou realized Sparrow's scheme.

Because of the speed difference between the club and the ship, if someone sleeps for too long, they are likely to have gone to the choir club and will be easily recognized.

If Su Weiyu hadn't woken him up, he might have slept for days and nights, and even a fool would have guessed that he was Faust.

From then on, Xia Shou never dreamed of going to the club again.

As long as I don't go to the club, entering the Root Sea in my dreams won't have any impact.

Life on the boat was monotonous; they could still fish normally on weekdays, and occasionally they could catch a glimpse of other boats passing by in the fog.

As time went by, Xia Shou gradually became familiar with everyone on the ship. The old crew members on the Black Pearl were only responsible for navigating and guarding the ship on this journey, and would not go ashore with them after reaching their destination.

The temporary helpers recruited by Sparrow had their own reasons for boarding the ship. The vast majority of them were there because of the Fountain of Youth promised by Sparrow, a few were simply after the money, and some were vague, seemingly for other purposes.

The few people on the ship looked like thugs and were very wary of him, who was likely a member of the Control Bureau, but after Sparrow mediated several times, emphasizing that everyone was a key figure in the operation, Xia Shou and the others were able to get along peacefully.

The only one who didn't know his own mortality gave up challenging Xia Shou after Xia Shou used Su Weiyu once.

Xia Shouyue invited the other man into the cabin for a friendly chat. When he came out, the others only saw that the guy had been beaten so badly that he didn't have a single tooth left, but he was still full of stubbornness and didn't care about losing his teeth.

After everyone pointed out the abnormality of his "losing all his teeth," the person finally overcame his rationality and believed that losing all his teeth was abnormal and that Xia Shou had influenced his mind with some kind of powerful supernatural ability.

To be honest, Xia Shou admired this guy's reaction. His acceptance that losing all his teeth was an abnormal phenomenon was no different from an ordinary person with normal cognition believing that "the sun rises in the west" is the truth.

What does this mean?
This means that he is receptive to advice, and even if he believes he is right, he will still follow the judgment of the majority.

From that day on, no one bothered Xia Shou anymore. They discussed Xia Shou's abilities in private, and some even changed their greetings when they met.

When the crew members meet, they all say:
"Hi, how am I?"

"You look good, and what about me?" "You're fine too."

"Everything is as usual?"

"It's business as usual."

They used this method to prevent themselves from being reprimanded by Xia Shou without their knowledge.

On the ship, besides drinking, there was also fighting among those who didn't use their superpowers. Temporary crew members like Xia Shou were okay, as they could control themselves with willpower, but the veteran crew members seemed to regard this behavior as a daily psychological adjustment and did not suppress their emotions at all.

Most of the people who boarded the ship were men, with a few women, but no normal couples. Among them, the relationship between two people was particularly delicate—Hu Ling and Hippolyta.

They publicly claimed to be siblings, but anyone could tell from their appearance that they were not actually siblings.

And before long, everyone knew that they would do that in their room at night, and the two of them didn't care at all that others knew about it.

Some bolder people have teased them about this, but the two of them are not angry. They frankly stated that in their minds, this kind of thing is just like eating and sleeping, and it's something that can be resolved between acquaintances to avoid trouble.

Xia Shou wasn't interested in the two people's strange thought processes. It was just that the two of them lived next door to him, and the soundproofing on the Black Pearl was ridiculously poor, which made his sleep quality very low. As a result, he developed the habit of wandering around the deck at night and going back to his room to sleep during the day.

Since the start of the voyage, what has made Xia Shou happiest is that he has finally begun to have in-depth exchanges with Ximen Qing.

He had figured out a reason to deal with Sparrow.

If Sparrow became suspicious, he would imply that Faust had sent him to find Ximen Qing.

This reasoning is also quite reasonable from Faust's perspective.

In contrast to his idleness, Su Weiyu found something interesting. She was very interested in the craft of sailing and often went to the deck to observe the daily work of the other crew members when she was not with him.

She recently claimed that she had mastered the basic skills of piloting the boat, but Xia Shou thought she was just bragging.

More than whether she could sail the boat, Xia Shou was worried about the depth of Su Weiyu's Root Sea.

A few days ago, he asked casually and learned that Su Weiyu's depth had already sunk dozens of meters from the beginning.

However, Su Weiyu said that since she developed the abyss syndrome, she sinks a little bit every day, and she has not experienced delusions or any discomfort, so she has gradually gotten used to it.

Xia Shou wasn't sure if such a slow descent was normal; he knew he was an exception among the Deep Ones and couldn't be taken as a reference.

Therefore, I specifically asked Ximen Qing about it.

Ximen Qing believed that as long as there were no obvious abnormalities, slowly sinking was a normal phenomenon, and that by slowly sinking, it would eventually stabilize at a certain depth.

Once a stable depth is reached, as long as there are no more sudden ascents and descents, there will be no major problems. This is the best state for patients with apnea to coexist peacefully with their terminal illness.

Only after receiving this answer did Xia Shou feel relieved.

And so, the entire ship of people lived a chaotic yet orderly life.

Gradually, Xia Shou got used to the old crew members fighting, to the two siblings staying up late at night, to chatting with Ximen Qing every day, drinking strange-tasting fresh water, and gossiping about baseless rumors with his new acquaintances on the ship.

And so, two months passed, and the land of the Scar Era finally emerged from the horizon.

(End of this chapter)