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"Did you hear that?"

"What did you hear?"

"...Our new sails are calling out."

On the vast ocean.

【The Abyss】is like a cold and profound behemoth, silently and swiftly breaking through the azure sea.

only......

The art style is somewhat disjointed, especially because of its sails.

The blue and white striped triangular sail billowed in the sea breeze, as if shouting a visual cry:

"I am happy!! I am healthy!! I am full of sunshine!!!"

Klaus and Ivan sat side by side on the deck, gazing at the sky, one relaxed, the other in despair.

"My God..."

The engineer groaned for the fifth time, "This sail... is not even as good as the one you ruined and then sewed up to look like a centipede."

Ivan, who was meticulously trimming his nails with an axe, retorted upon hearing this:

"First of all, I didn't break the sail; you tore it yourself by accident. And I repaired it very well; it hasn't let in any air for a long time!"

"Secondly, I think Xinfan is great, it looks very spirited, like the naval uniform of our Russian bear."

"...That's a sailor's shirt!"

"Pretty much the same, they all have the same color scheme."

"..."

Klaus decided to give up on communication and turned to look at the others, hoping to find allies with similar aesthetic tastes.

However, his disappointment was inevitable.

She casually put on a brand new off-white wide-brimmed hat. The brim was very wide, and the edges had a playful curve. It was made of linen by Aurora.

When he first got it, he looked at his reflection in the glass for a long time, and asked uncertainly:

"Isn't this the women's version?"

Aurora sincerely explained, "No, Captain, this is a universal style. Men and women in my hometown wear it to shield themselves from the sun."

He simply said "Oh" and accepted it.

He hadn't originally planned to wear it.

But the midday sun was really intense. After returning from the Sea of ​​Mist, I sat down for a while without much sun protection and my head started to feel hot, so I had to put my hat on.

Um......

He just didn't want to disappoint Aurora's kindness (｡◕‿◕｡).

He was fiddling with his brand-new fishing rod.

After Klaus used the [Trouble Silk] to re-equip the fishing line, the [Salvation] panel, which was no longer a fishing stick, also changed.

【Pudu (Lv5)】

Feature 1: Toughness.

Feature 2: Temptation.

【Characteristic 3: Hands-off manager.】

[Groove: 1 (Already inlaid with: Troublesome Hair)]

[Evaluation: Now it can not only shoot where it's pointed, but also cut where it's cut. If you want, you can now use it to fly kites, harvest wheat, and... perform a magic trick for your engineer. PS: Please don't try the last one; you might end up with an angry engineer, or a headless engineer.]

He's not that bored!

I turned off the panel and happily baited the hook.

"captain,"

Nathan came over with two cups of "tea" and handed one to anyone. It was made with seaweed that Bob had gotten, and the taste was indescribable... it was both fishy and pungent.

But Nathan actually liked it?

This guy's taste buds must be extraordinary...

Nathan gestured with his chin toward Klaus and Ivan, a smirk playing on his lips, clearly enjoying the spectacle.

"Look at them, they're arguing again."

He casually took the teacup, took a symbolic sip, and put it down before turning his gaze to the top of the mast.

It's normal for there to be minor disagreements within a team.

Disagreements are necessary for effective management.

"Siddo!" he cried, looking up. "Can you see anyone?"

Sita hung upside down on the mast beam made of bones and shook his head.

"No! Captain!"

He furrowed his brow slightly.

But it's normal that there's no one there...

After all, this was the location Pei Canghai had given them two days ago, and they had been searching along this route for almost three hours.

Has the person already drifted away, or... met with some misfortune?

The Emir of the Camel Kingdom: Lord of the Sands.

The sequence looks plausible, but at sea... it sounds like a moving target.

"Boss, could the intelligence be wrong?" Ivan asked.

"Or that guy has already fed the fish..." Klaus's voice sounded flat—it seemed the engineer was in a low mood.

"Let's search in this direction for one last hour."

Having made his decision, he cast the baited fishing hook into the sea, and casually picked up Xiao Jiu, who had been tugging at his trouser leg, and placed her on his head.

"If we can't find it, we'll stick to the original plan and head to the territory first."

Xiao Jiu got a new home and curiously used its tentacles to feel the slightly rough texture of the linen.

But they soon became restless—

"Goodness, at least you know to find a shady spot! I want some sun too!"

"Cover me up too!"

Before Renyi knew what had happened, Xiao Jiu suddenly tumbled under the brim of her hat.

Although it is small, it is quite heavy.

The fall caused the hat to tilt all over the place, and the hat and Xiao Jiu ended up right on his face.

"Hmm!"

It's black in front of you.

Just as Renyi was about to remove the hat and Xiaojiu from his face, the [Pudu] in his hand suddenly felt heavy again, and quite forcefully!

He had no choice but to grip the fishing rod tightly with both hands, but he was still pulled and stumbled.

"help!"

"Don't pull too hard, the fishing line is...sharp!"

Yes, sir!

Nathan slammed down his teacup, Ivan put down his axe, and Klaus didn't even have time to complain.

The three people took the fishing rod at different positions—

"One, two, three, let's go!"

With her hands free, she took a step back, grabbed Xiao Jiu, who had turned herself into a creamy white color like the hat, and removed it from her face along with the hat.

Little Nine Beans glanced nervously left and right.

Just as Renyi was preparing to give her child a safety lesson on "no mischief while fishing," she heard a splash of water and a sharp whooshing sound.

The three men, who had just finished shouting their commands, fell backward together.

"Whoosh—whoosh—!"

The force exerted by the three of them together was probably too much. The thing in the sea had no room for stalemate and was lifted off the surface, almost soaring upwards!

"Reporting, boss, it's...it's...it's a ship?!"

Sita cried out in surprise.

The seawater was stirred up, and a large area of ​​salty rain fell. The four looked up at the sky in the direction Sita pointed—

It's like a pie fell from the sky!

No... it was an enormous, brownish-brown lump that fell from the sky!

It went through a standard vertical upward throw, kinetic energy conversion to gravitational potential energy, power exhaustion, and free fall phase, landing precisely on the deck of the [Abyss].

The four people moved back several meters in four different directions in perfect unison.

"Smack!!!"

【Durability -5】

[Current durability: 9995]

The big lump hit the deck, and it also sent up a huge spray of seawater and mud in a radial pattern.

"Ptooey, ptooey... So dirty—wait, what?"

Klaus brushed the mud off his clothes in disgust, but quickly realized something was wrong. He picked up a little and rubbed it between his fingers; it was granular material.

"This looks like...sand?"