Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 218 The True Form of the Tongue of Slander

In the calm zone of the Despair Sea, the Valkyrie and the Thorn took turns relying on their dragonfly fins to travel.

Behind them, hundreds of ghost ships were also chasing after them, relying on the oars of the undead sailors.

Under the deliberate control of Cheng Lang and others, the distance between the two sides was already within the visible range of the telescope.

This is why Cheng Lang and the others could see through their binoculars that the undead sailors on those ships were decaying more and more severely—a sign that the undead had consumed too much energy.

"How many days is it now?" Cheng Lang asked, putting down his binoculars.

"Day Eight"

Yun Ji, who was standing next to her, replied, "This is our eighth day in the Calm Belt."

"Don't those undead sailors ever get tired?"

Cheng Lang asked with a hint of helplessness, "We've been chasing those ghost ships for eight days now, but they still haven't stopped following us."

But compared to these tireless undead sailors, the Valkyrie and Thorn ships had to change shifts almost every day to avoid "exhausting" the dragonfly fins.

"I guess they won't last much longer."

The one who said this was Big Cat Night Truth, who had been squatting on the open-air cockpit almost the entire time these past few days.

At first, Cheng Lang thought he was just curious, but now he was certain that the big cat seemed to be afraid.

"So, should we keep running?" Cheng Lang asked.

"Whatever," Ye Di said indifferently.

"Then let's keep running."

Cheng Lang made his decision with a clear conscience, returned to his captain's cabin, found the metal bowl, and glanced at the small boat on the beautiful liquid surface.

Now, both the Valkyrie and the Thorn on the other side are moving day and night toward the direction indicated by this thing.

But he had no idea how far he needed to run in that direction.

Cheng Lang secretly hoped that he could leave those tails here.

Shortly after he put away the metal bowl, the Magic Mirror appeared in the office, skipping the knocking process. "Dear Captain, good news! Some of the ghost ships have already stopped, and there are more and more of them."

"Really?"

Cheng Lang, who had just sat down, immediately got up and ran to the open-air bridge at the stern. Sure enough, all the ghost ships stopped.

"It doesn't seem like it stopped voluntarily."

Holding up her binoculars, Yun Ji warned, "Watch out for the first ship; their sailors seem to be asleep."

"In that case, let's stop the ship as well."

Cheng Lang breathed a slight sigh of relief. "Then find a boat to approach and stop, and let the sailors board to search for the spoils of war."

"Then let's go with the ship on the right," the Silver Queen said, already maneuvering the Valkyrie closer to the ship she had chosen and stopping it.

There was no need to anchor in such a calm and waveless place, so Shenba led half of the gorillas across.

This time, Shenba quickly returned carrying a bucket full of gold coins, excitedly shouting, "Captain! Big haul! There are several buckets of gold coins in this ship!"

"Put it back," Cheng Lang, Yun Ji standing beside him, and even Yun Lan who rushed over all said in unison, making the same judgment.

"W-what's wrong?" Shenba asked, puzzled, even subconsciously looking down at the oak barrel in his hand.

"Find treasure maps, nautical logs, and the blood of Poseidon or armor," Cheng Lang said. "Just leave the gold coins on the deck. Don't bring them back, not a single one."

"Oh, I, I understand."

Although Shenba did not understand what he meant, he still put down the oak barrel full of gold coins and went back into the cabin.

This time, it took Shenba even longer to bring the gorillas back to the cabin. He said with disappointment, "We didn't find them. We didn't find any of the ones you mentioned."

"come back"

Cheng Lang waved his hand and said, "Not a single gold coin can be kept for yourself."

“Especially inside your boots,” Yun Ji reminded her.

"Oh"

Shenba plopped down on the sun-damaged, cracked deck, took off his boots, and poured out a considerable amount of gold coins.

"besides"

Yun Ji squinted and said, "Either you clean yourself out, or the gorillas will strip you clean."

"No! I'll do it myself!"

Shenba instinctively covered his crotch, then pulled out a number of gold coins from various parts of his body.

"Come up"

Having watched the spectacle to his heart's content, Cheng Lang finally beckoned the big guy and the gorillas back to the Valkyrie.

"Captain, why don't you want those gold coins?" Shenba asked, puzzled.

"It will increase the load."

Cheng Lang casually offered a seemingly absurd reason: "It was what Lord Ye Di said a few days ago."

"How come I didn't know?" Shenba asked, puzzled.

"Back then, the Thorn was running here, and you were at the helm."

Yun Ji helped explain, "Lord Ye Di said that every gold coin that does not belong to us will bring a heavy burden."

"So we won't gain anything?" Shenba said with disappointment and even despair.

Not only not, but...

Cheng Lang said helplessly, "Moreover, in order to reduce weight along the way, the funds and reserves on both ships have been thrown into the sea." These are all true, and they all happened in the past eight days.

The Silver Queen and the two captains felt this most acutely. As gold coins were thrown into the sea, the speed at which the dragonfly fins moved increased dramatically, while the wear and tear on the ship's core decreased significantly.

In other words, for the past few days, they have been paving the way almost entirely by scattering gold coins.

They didn't know if the ghost ships chasing them had also discovered this money-sprinkling secret, but if they hadn't, it seemed plausible that the undead sailors were so exhausted that they fell into a deep sleep.

"Continue on your journey"

Cheng Lang said, "Stop every now and then to see what's on the surrounding ships, but don't worry about the tail behind."

"Yes!"

Shenba was the first to agree, then shook out a few gold coins from his sleeve, chuckled foolishly, and tossed them back onto the boat next door.

Soon after, the Valkyrie slowly resumed its voyage and gradually distanced itself from the tails.

"Inspect the entire ship!"

Soon after, Cheng Lang issued a new order: "Don't let a single copper coin go to waste, including on the Thorn! Throw all the coins into the sea!"

"Please let me do it."

The Magic Mirror and the Silver Queen agreed to the task in unison. The former drifted to the Thorn on the other side, while the Silver Queen began to inspect each crevice one by one.

Soon, the Silver Queen found several dirty copper coins and a deformed silver coin in the gaps of the ship's hold, while the Magic Mirror plundered some of the sailors' hidden valuables from the Thorn.

"Make a note of whose property it is, and we'll compensate them when we get back."

After Cheng Lang finished speaking, the Magic Mirror and the Silver Queen immediately threw the coins in their hands into the sea.

"Wow!"

Almost the instant the coins fell into the water, a gentle breeze caused the Valkyrie's sails to billow in a slightly deflated arc.

"Let's go!"

Urged on by Cheng Lang, the Silver Queen made the Dragonfly Fins exert all their strength and start paddling like crazy, and the Valkyrie gradually reached an absurdly fast speed.

"Two-legged mouse"

Night Demon suddenly appeared, licked its paws, and said, "Try firing a cup of Poseidon's blood at those tails with your ballista."

"Do we still have the blood of Poseidon?" Cheng Lang asked.

"Gone"

Yun Ji replied, "We haven't had that in a long time."

I have some here.

As Yun Lan spoke, she took out a cup of Poseidon's Blood and handed it to Shenba, saying, "This is a supply sent by my father."

"Paying players."

Cheng Lang muttered something only he could understand, while focusing his attention on the direction behind him.

"Whoosh!"

The thick arrow shafts, coated with Poseidon's blood and tar, flew towards the distant ghost fleet.

"Boom boom boom——!"

The fleet was clearly on high alert; before the arrow even hit the ground, they used their penetrating cannons to unleash a barrage of bullets from afar.

However, as the small goblet containing Poseidon's blood was shattered by the cannonball, a large amount of Poseidon's blood surged onto the calm sea.

"You singing mice, sing louder! Everyone else, sing along too." As Ye Di spoke, he excitedly began kneading the oak barrel.

The lyretail fishman Tinesa rolled her eyes and slapped the deck hard with her beautiful tail, prompting her teammates to immediately raise their voices.

As the music grew louder, all the sailors on the ship, including the whistling Fujin and the wide-open-mouthed Yati, began to sing along.

It was during this chorus that the calm sea began to ripple, and then a gigantic, monster-like whale surfaced, opened its mouth wide, and silently devoured the ghost fleet shrouded in the spreading blood of Poseidon.

That's it? Cheng Lang looked at Ye Di in astonishment.

"Sing! Don't stop! Run!" Ye Di, seemingly having caused trouble, shouted a warning with a hint of schadenfreude.

"Get out the oars! Row forward!" Realizing something was wrong, Cheng Lang quickly gave a new order.

"Lord Yedi! What is that?" Cheng Lang asked, almost singing out his question.

"A sea monster! A sea monster that once challenged Poseidon!" Night Demon's reply was also sung!
"he"

"He's a carrion-eating sea monster!" Nightshade continued singing, "You may have heard his name before!"

"What is it?!" Yun Lan asked in a mocking tone.

"Greedy tongue! It's greedy tongue!"

As Ye Di spoke, he casually flicked his long tail, scattering the magic mirror that was singing in unison, just as he always did—he was Greedy Tongue.

"No, that's not right!"

Yun Ji sang along, "Isn't a gluttonous beast? Besides, it's not strong at all."

"How can you eat ferocious beasts and sea monsters if you're not strong?"

The rhetorical question sung by Ye Di plunged everyone into silence: "He's just not the strongest among the ferocious beasts and sea monsters, which is why he likes to eat carrion."

"We can talk about these issues later!" Cheng Lang shouted, "First, let's escape from here! Let's get out of here!"

Upon hearing this, everyone finally stopped singing randomly and returned to the right track of the chorus, following the tune that they had almost led astray.

(End of this chapter)