Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 178 Who Stole My Breakfast?

“Whatever it is, I think we should take it to the Magic Mirror to see; he’ll definitely recognize it!” Yafso said first.

"makes sense"

Cheng Lang nodded, then looked into the distance. At this moment, as the remaining monsters were killed one after another, Vanhart was about to enter the first floor of the tower under the escort of Yun Ji and the others.

"Vanhart!" Cheng Lang shouted, "Come back here for a moment."

"what happened?"

Vanhart was quite "obedient" and decisively abandoned the progress, retreating with Yun Ji and the others.

Do you recognize that thing?

As Cheng Lang spoke, he cracked his whip, pointing the tip at the syringe-like object fixed to Poseidon's arm.

"I don't know him," Shenba shook his head first; it would be strange if he knew him.

“I don’t know either,” Yun Ji shook her head.

“I’ve never seen it either,” Vanhart shook his head in agreement.

"I"

Yun Lan frowned and said, "I don't remember very clearly, but... I feel like I've seen it somewhere before."

"Where?" Yavso immediately asked.

After a long period of recollection, while Shenba and Yunji were already wielding their weapons to kill the monsters that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, Yunlan finally shook her head and said, "I don't remember."

“Take it if you want,” Vanhart urged, “and then we’ll go rescue Eleanor!”

"Then I'm not welcome."

As Cheng Lang spoke, he flicked his whip, which wrapped around the strange-looking syringe. With a gentle tug, he successfully pulled it off.

The syringe was only the size of an arm. This size was indeed a bit large for a human, but it was really small and insignificant for Poseidon's arm.

Strangely enough, as the syringe was pulled off, Poseidon's arm visibly withered, and even the mushrooms began to decay rapidly.

"His arm is also excellent forging material."

Vanhart said, "Once you help me resurrect Eleanor, I will help you forge some decent weapons with that arm."

Cheng Lang and the others obviously couldn't resist this temptation. They quickly put away the large syringe and rushed towards the first floor of the tower, shouting and yelling.

Amidst the crackling sounds of whips striking, fewer and fewer monsters remained. Finally, each person lit a boat lantern and carried it into the first floor of the tower.

This is a concentric circle space that sinks down in stages, and above your head is a huge forging hammer hanging high.

Directly below the forging hammer was a strange mold that was still crimson red.

At the edge of this mold stood a mechanical creation that could barely be considered humanoid.

what is this?
Yun Ji and the others couldn't help but ask questions.

Is this some kind of mecha?
Cheng Lang's inward exclamation gave this thing a different definition.

Let's call this copper-colored mecha a mecha for now.

It wasn't much bigger than Vanhart's current size, but its shape was similar to the monster they had encountered in the tunnel, with a crab-like lower body and four arms on its upper body.

On one of these four arms is a huge crossbow, while the other two arms have been modified at the wrists into a large drill and a large hammer covered with mysterious patterns, respectively.

As for the remaining arm, it placed its hand on the crimson mold directly below the forging hammer.

“Eleanor, I will resurrect you, Eleanor, my Eleanor,” Vanhart murmured, staring blankly at the mecha.

"What did you just say? That's Eleanor?" Cheng Lang asked in astonishment.

"Yes, yes, that's Eleanor."

Vanhart said bitterly, "After Rang's soul fell into a deep sleep, she returned here and transferred her soul into this cicada-molting multi-purpose armor, waiting for me to resurrect her."

As he spoke, Vanhart pointed to the huge forging hammer above his head, "For so many years, this multi-purpose armor has survived entirely thanks to the energy generated by the impact of that forging hammer. Now it's time for me to awaken her."

"And then what?" Cheng Lang asked abruptly. "After she's resurrected, where do you plan to go?"

"We'll give you the answer to that question once my Eleanor wakes up."

As Vanhart spoke, he spat out the blazing red flame and walked step by step toward the so-called cicada-molting multi-purpose armor.

Cheng Lang gently raised his hand to stop Yun Ji, who was trying to stop Fan Hart, and said before the wary girl could speak, "Whatever he plans to do next, let's fulfill his wish first."

“You are truly a generous captain,” sighed Yun Lan, who had also intended to stop Vanhart.

“Everyone says that.”

Cheng Lang said nonchalantly, while taking off the firefly necklace and taking out the burrowing beetle. "Get ready. If things don't look good, just burrow out and drill open the waterway and the dam."

"That's a great idea!"

As Yun Lan spoke, she had already walked to the tail of the digging beetle, ready to fight to the death.

As everyone prepared, Vanhart placed the spark in the palm of the mecha's hand, which was placed inside the mold.

"Respected Captain, once I'm ready, could you please press that control lever for me?" Vanhart asked Cheng Lang, pointing to a large red control lever not far away.

"No problem," Cheng Lang readily agreed to the task, took a few steps forward, and swung his whip to entangle the control lever.

"Thank you"

Vanhart respectfully performed a chest-touching salute, then walked around to the back of the mecha, opened the armor-like protective plates, and gradually integrated his body into them.

At the same time, everyone heard the sizzling sound of flames roasting flesh, the smell of burning flesh, and Vanhart's muffled groans that he tried his best to suppress.

"Let's begin!" Vanhart said through gritted teeth.

"Crack!"

Cheng Lang decisively pulled the whip and the control lever, and the huge forging hammer above his head fell with a "whoosh!" and then slammed hard into the hand stuck in the mold with a "thud!"

Under this immense force, the flame was also pressed into the palm of the hand. In that instant, crimson flames flowed like lava along the arm to the entire body of the mecha, from which came Vanhart's uncontrollable screams.

"Kara! Kara! Kara kara kara!"

Amid the clanging of gears, the massive forging hammer slowly rose, and the mech, its entire body engulfed in flames, laboriously retracted its arm, which had been placed in the mold.

"The reservoir outside has started filling with water!" Yun Ji was the first to warn.

Coming to his senses, Cheng Lang immediately cracked the whip and released the control lever, shouting as he ran out, "Quick! Get inside the beetle! Yun Lan, can you use the beetle to take that arm away later?"

"Unless the burrowing beetle also has an arm like that!" Yun Lan, who had already burrowed into the burrowing beetle, shouted back. The arm outside was no smaller than the burrowing beetle itself; there was no way they could take it away!

"Let's get out of here first!" Cheng Lang said, already the last one to crawl into the belly of the digging beetle.

In just a short while, the screams of those monsters could be heard from inside the dam, and the mech covered in flames staggered up step by step from the bottom of the sinking space.

Do you think he's still rational?

Before the metal elytra completely closed, Cheng Lang looked at Vanhart and asked.

"All I know is that if he wanted to kill us, it would be as easy as turning his hand!" Yun Lan said, already activating the beetle and charging desperately towards the outside of the tower.

"Boom!"

But at that very moment, a dull thud came from beneath the ground outside the tower, or more precisely, directly below Poseidon's arm.

"What was that sound?" Cheng Lang asked in fear.

"Boom!"

The response he received was a second impact, this time so powerful that even the burrowing beetle and Poseidon's arms trembled!
"Leave quickly!"

"The burrowing beetle can't move!"

Yun Lan shouted, "The undead inside have been suppressed!"

"I knew the undead were unreliable!" Cheng Lang cursed. "Let's get down here!"

Before he could finish speaking, the elytra of the digging beetle suddenly sprang open in the most urgent manner as Yun Lan pressed down the control lever, and everyone hurriedly crawled out.

"Boom!"

Almost at the same time that Cheng Lang put away the digging beetle, a third impact came from underground, and everyone fell to the ground with a thud. At the same time, the shock made their legs go numb and their heartbeats almost go haywire.

Looking again at the crook of Poseidon's arm, a section of the floor had already been smashed open by the force from below, creating a sufficiently large breach.

"Smack! Smack! Smack!"

Before everyone could get up, a clear, no, a huge smacking sound came from the crack in the ground.

"Quick, to the dam!"

Cheng Lang, who had gotten back up, urged everyone on, and they immediately followed him, running towards the steps leading to the top of the dam.

"Boom!"

With another dull thud, the floor was smashed open, and a pale blue monster emerged from the hole.

At first glance, this monster looks like a giant sea anemone, but its tentacles are all shaped like the bodies of elves or orcs!

But as this huge, disgusting monster slowly climbed up, its tentacles gradually appeared, each one a bizarrely shaped monster body that could be described as randomly assembled!

What's even more disgusting is that at each end of this monster is a huge carapace, and at the tail is a huge sea cucumber-like thing. The mouth of this sea cucumber is covered with sharp teeth and is sucking up the meat paste that seems to be flowing out from inside the dam!

To put it more precisely, this disgusting monster is a geoduck clam magnified countless times and infected with cauliflower!

"Puff, puff, puff, puff!"

Just then, the tentacles on the monster's body sprayed out bizarre monsters. These monsters, covered in slime, stood up unsteadily and then roared and stumbled as they charged toward Vanhart, who had just stepped out of the tower!

At the same time, the geoduck also pressed its mouth, full of sharp teeth, against Poseidon's arm, which resembled a piece of cured meat.

"Crack!"

With a crisp cracking sound, a large number of sharp teeth broke off from the disgusting monster's mouth, and the monster also let out a roar.

"Who? Who stole my breakfast?"

In the empty underground space, the voice of that disgusting monster echoed repeatedly.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

Just then, one after another, blazing red steel arrows flew from the crossbow in Vanhart's hand.

The geoduck reacted quickly; in an instant, it locked all its tentacles inside its two shells, leaving only the disgusting fleshy tube still trying to gnaw at the dry, hard arm.

Inside the mecha, a beautiful woman's voice overlapped perfectly with Vanhart's voice, asking, "Abyss Nightmare, what are you doing here?"

As the question was asked, the mech's crossbows and even the crab's two large pincers on its base were rapidly reaping the monsters.

"Why am I here?"

The geoduck clam, its shell now fully open, spoke with an air of utter madness: "Look whose voice I hear! It's the pirate queen Eleanor and her dwarf lover, Van Hart."

"It seems you've been kept here and turned into a tool for breeding monsters," the voice of the man and woman in the mecha was full of sarcasm.

"Dwarf! I'll kill you! Kill you!"

The geoduck clam, named Abyss Nightmare, suddenly went mad. As its shell opened, a large number of monsters spewed out from the ends of its tentacles, and its size gradually shrank. However, as its mouthparts at the tail began to frantically feed on the flesh again, its size grew back.

"Should we help them?" Yafso asked in a low voice, having already climbed to the top of the dam with Cheng Lang.

"How can we help?" Cheng Lang asked in a low voice.

“I’m really confident this time,” Yafso said, “but I need Sister Yunji to risk her life to help me.”

"Tell me, how can I help you?" Yun Ji asked readily.

"this!"

As Yafso spoke, he took out a bottle from his bag containing the mushroom that Cheng Lang had recently picked for her. "Sister Yunji, I need you to quietly drop this mushroom into the hole that the monster crawled out of."

"It's not a big problem," Yun Ji said after looking at it.

"Give!"

As Yafso spoke, he handed the glass jar containing the mushrooms to Yunji.

After glancing at Cheng Lang and Yun Lan and receiving their nods, Yun Ji immediately held the feather pendant in her mouth, spread her black wings, and silently began to glide from the top of the dam.

Under the watchful eyes of Cheng Lang and the others, Yun Ji opened the glass bottle cap as she glided over the cave, letting the mushroom spin and fall. She then turned around and let Cheng Lang wrap his whip around her waist, like flying a kite, and brought her back to the top of the dam.

Meanwhile, the newly born monsters, covered in slime, rushed toward the combination of Vanhart and Eleanor, while the geoduck clam named Abyss Nightmare opened its mouth wide, devouring the fresh and nutritious meat paste.

"puff"

A particularly pretty little mushroom landed on the soft, mushy meat, shaking off a large number of spores in the process.

(End of this chapter)