Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 220 Moving Eyes

Deep in the Sea of ​​Despair, the Valkyrie docked at the edge of a small island.

The island has a coastline that is hundreds of meters high, and in most places, there are foul-smelling waterfalls flowing outwards.

If it were just an ordinary waterfall, it wouldn't have been a problem for Cheng Lang and the others who had rushed here. But Ye Di jumped out before everyone could disembark.

"You'd better not let those waterfalls touch your bodies," Nightshade warned, swinging his sword.

"Are those springs poisonous?" Yavso asked first.

"Poison? I'd say it's poisonous."

Night Demon licked its paw and explained, "That's the Bone-Corroding Spring. The only difference between that spring water and ordinary spring water is that it can corrode flesh and bones, just like its name suggests."

After a brief pause, Ye Di extended a sharp claw, "Just a drop is enough to corrode you two-legged rats into a lump of mud."

Do you know about the Bone-Eating Spring?

Cheng Lang turned to look at the two people on the ship who were currently the most "educated".

"We know," Yun Ji and Yun Lan answered in unison.

"The Bone-Corroding Spring is usually a spring that grows from the body of a powerful ferocious beast or sea monster. The spring will continue to exist until the corpse is completely corroded."

Yun Ji spoke first, "The spring will only disappear after the corpse has been completely decomposed."

"There is a rumor that after the source of the Bone-Eating Spring disappears, it will transform into the source of a sweet spring," Yun Lan added.

“That sounds disgusting,” Cheng Lang said, frowning.

"Not disgusting at all"

Yun Lan rolled her eyes. "The reason why Lica's wine is famous is because the spring water used for winemaking comes from such a sweet spring, and this spring can be moved."

"Can it be moved?"

"That's right"

Yun Ji and Yun Lan nodded in unison again, "Before and even after the appearance of the ship bottle, such a spring has always been a treasure that long-distance ships dream of."

"After saying all that, how are we going to get up there?" Shenba asked, scratching the top of his head.

"I might have a way."

The one who said this was Uncle Gerta, who had come from the Thorn ship on the other side to watch the commotion.

"What method?" Cheng Lang asked immediately.

"We once traded for two ice cores that were larger than oak barrels in the icy seas of the Arctic."

Gerta reminded him, "Captain, I have some tricks that orcs often use to make the ice core release all its low temperature in a short time. Combined with your whip and Princess Yunlan's thorns, it might be possible to freeze a passage to the island in a short time."

Let's give it a try!

Cheng Lang stated his position without hesitation. Although Old Man Gerta usually appears unassuming and unassuming, he is definitely a trustworthy old friend.

"Bring out a piece of ice core."

Gerta said confidently, "Shenba, you must have secretly bought a lot of red lotus flower tea. Take it all out. I also need some gunpowder and lubricating oil."

"how do you know"

Shenba muttered something awkwardly, then turned and ran into his cabin on the Valkyrie.

Soon after, an ice core that continuously released low temperatures was brought out of the ship's hold, along with everything Gerta needed.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Gerta carefully heated the lubricating oil from the Frost Duchy to a boil, then threw in a full bag of red lotus flower tea to brew it.

Gradually, as it was heated, the originally clear, light golden oil turned crimson, and everyone felt the heat wave coming towards them.

With the help of Shenba, the bucket of slippery tea was brought down. Gerta plucked a feather from Xinweng's wing, dipped it in the slippery tea, and drew even patterns on the ice core. Then, she gently tapped it with a small hammer.

"crash"

The ice core, larger than an oak barrel, immediately shattered along the drawn lines and was gradually divided into pieces the size of cannonballs by Gerta's method.

Next, he carefully added spoonfuls of gunpowder to the still-hot oil tea, eventually creating a bowl of oily gunpowder paste.

That's fine.

Gerta breathed a slight sigh of relief. After putting on fish-skin gloves, he wrapped each ice core in a thick layer of paste and then wrapped it in a layer of burlap.

These things are very unstable right now.

Gerta cautioned, “This was originally a trick used by pirates on the icy sea to set traps. It would explode with the slightest impact, freezing the sled to the ice.”

Therefore, you must be extra careful when using it later.

"Captains, you'll probably need to work together. We only have this many ice cores left; we need the last one to preserve our food."

"It seems we don't have many chances," Cheng Lang said, looking at the burlap sacks.

"I think we should practice it."

As Yun Lan spoke, she summoned long thorns that wove a staircase around the main mast, then lifted her skirt and walked up.

"Such elegant aristocratic manners," Cheng Lang shook his head, and summoned invisible whips to entangle the dangerous ice core bombs that Gerta had made. He let one whip wrap around his waist and lifted him to the lookout tower at the top of the mast.

"We don't need to freeze all the waterfalls."

Yun Lan, holding up her binoculars, said, "All we need to do is build a causeway on the cliff top at the edge of the island that we need to climb."

Those waterfalls looked intimidating, but the flow rate didn't seem to be very high.

"Or we could ask Princess Fog Shadow to help stabilize the Valkyrie."

Following her up, Yun Ji suggested another possibility: "If Princess Yun Lan's Thorns can build a tower taller than the island using the main mast, we can use the height difference to fly over."

"This method seems safer," Cheng Lang nodded in agreement.

"Then, before they land, use these ice core bombs to create landing sites?" Yun Lan followed Yun Ji's line of thought.

"That's right"

Yun Ji nodded. "If the captain's whip is long enough and Princess Yun Lan's tower is sturdy enough, we can even set up a zipline."

“Try it”

Cheng Lang had no intention of wasting any time. "Silver Queen, could you please have Princess Mist Shadow secure the Valkyrie?"

"no problem"

The Silver Queen, who had been drifting among the sails, agreed.

Soon after, Princess Mist Shadow threw tassels around the Valkyrie, securing one end to the ship's side or even the mast, while hooking the other end directly to the seabed.

With the help of these reins, the Valkyrie stabilized, and Yun Lan immediately set about building a tower that rose above the edge of the island, using the main mast as a support.

As the crumbling tower was gradually raised, Princess Mist Shadow, carried up by the Silver Queen, repeatedly lowered her bridle to reinforce it, just as Cheng Lang had requested.

Finally, as the tower woven from thorns gradually rose higher, Cheng Lang, Yun Ji, and Yun Lan, who had been climbing along with it, could see everything on the island clearly.

To put it simply, this is an oversized plate.
In the center of the plate is a lush green stone, from which the so-called Bone-Eating Spring emerges and overflows along the edge of the "plate" into the sea.

Apart from that, there seemed to be nothing else on the island.

"I'll go first."

As Cheng Lang spoke, he held the Night Raven Messenger's feather pendant in his mouth and flew towards the small island first.

As they drew closer to the dangerous island, Cheng Lang dropped an ice core bomb that he had been carrying with an invisible whip.

"Snapped!"

The ice bomb exploded upon impact with the water, immediately creating a vast expanse of ice along the edge of the small island.

Almost simultaneously, Yun Ji flew over, carrying Yun Lan.

Before even landing, Yun Lan summoned thorns on the ice surface that Cheng Lang had just created to build a high platform for landing, and then shattered the towering tower on the Valkyrie mast.

The three carefully landed on the thorny platform, and Yun Lan immediately built a second watchtower on the platform.

Using the height difference created by the watchtower, the three climbed to the top and continued flying towards the rocky mountain in the center of the island. Just like before, they worked together to create a second platform.

At the same time, Mist Shadow, who had climbed to the top of the Valkyrie's mast, once again cast out a bridle, setting up a bridle rope between the edge of the island and the mast.

Following closely behind, the vine demons carried planks or logs, rode on the bridle and ran onto the island. Using the first platform built by Yun Lan as a foundation, they drove in wooden piles and built a more stable platform that was much higher than the water.

Just as Wuying was re-pulling the reins between the mast and the platform built by the gorillas to prepare to build a simple suspension bridge, Cheng Lang and the other two had already climbed to the top of the simple tower of the third thorny platform.

Standing here, they can clearly see the entire view of the rocky mountain covered with vegetation in the center of the island.

But the more this was the case, the more nervous the three of them became.

"We must be seeing things correctly, right?" Yun Ji, the first to remove the Night Raven Messenger mask, unconsciously gripped the dagger in her hand tighter.

"There can't be any mistake."

As Cheng Lang removed his mask, Yun Lan chimed in, "That should be Poseidon's head, right?"

"Is he still alive?" Cheng Lang asked, removing his mask.

No wonder he asked that question. This small hill in the center of the island was not a rock at all; it was actually a huge head covered with island vegetation.

Most of the head lying horizontally had rotted away, and the Bone-Corroding Spring gushed out from its already skeletal mouth, flowing through half of its equally skeletal face and an eye socket before spreading out.

But strangely, his other eye was not only intact, but it even slowly moved and looked over because of the three of them.

It was in that one glance that all three could clearly see that a blood-dripping spear was stuck in the other's eyeball, and inside the eyeball, there seemed to be a heart hidden.

"I do not know"

Yun Lan swallowed hard. "But I guess he should still be alive."

"What should we do next?" Yun Ji asked.

"Kill him," Cheng Lang answered without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)