Struggle in the Steam Age

After thinking of new possibilities, Lawrence used divination three times in the six or seven hours before dark. As he had expected before, the locations pointed to by the results of each of the three divinations were different from those of the other two. In other words, the target point this time is indeed an active location.

"My lord, do you mean that we are looking for another active target?" When Lawrence showed the data he had analyzed to the captain of the Enterprise, the captain also showed a curious look. After all, for him, he didn't have this kind of experience of tracking a certain moving object outside the line of sight before.

"If the divination result is correct, it should be like this." Lawrence pointed to the captain the opponent's route map analyzed by the result of divination before, "I connected the four points detected before and found that The other party seemed to be on some sort of random voyage."

"Your analysis is correct, my lord." The captain frowned and said after watching for a while, "the other party's route is very strange, and it is impossible to tell where the other party's destination is. At the same time, the other party's speed is also very strange, from our 1/ 3 to the same speed as ours, I can't figure out why the other party wants to sail like this?"

"New telegram." Just as Lawrence and the captain began to analyze the situation of the target they were tracking this time, the sailor in charge of the telegraph room on the ship walked in and handed Lawrence a telegram full of garbled characters. Speaking of. "A telegram just sent by the Church of the Passion."

"How is it possible?" Lawrence frowned after simply translating the telegram, because the telegram showed that a regular passenger ship located in the sea area he had just sailed a few hours ago found part of the ship's hull on the sea. It was determined to be the ship that John and the others had boarded before, but no corpses were found around.

"John...he..." After Lawrence finished translating, Lesso said to Lawrence in disbelief after reading the content of the telegram translated by Lawrence at a glance. "Is it true in the telegram? Can they be sure that the ship they found is really the ship that the expedition took."

"The identity of the ship can be confirmed 100%, because one of the boards they fished out of the sea has the name of the ship written on it." Having said that, he looked up at Lei Suo and said, "But this does not mean that John and the others have already Died, after all, you have seen it, and the telegram also said that no one's body was found beside that boat."

"The most important thing is that when I divined the target of their team just now, there was a prerequisite that they must be alive." Lawrence turned around and patted the sad-looking Lesso on the shoulder and comforted him. "So don't cry now, they must be waiting for us to rescue them somewhere."

"You're right." Lesso nodded. He was just confused by the bad-sounding news just now. After being comforted by Lawrence, he also calmed down and recovered quickly. It's the look full of fighting spirit before. "It's not time to give up yet, we should cheer up."

Next, Lawrence re-locked the opponent's target by divination on average every two hours. From more and more information, almost everyone on the ship realized that the team was not completely wiped out like in the telegram, but was still alive and chasing its target, while waiting for rescue.

In this way, the special sense of mission made the morale on the ship visibly rise. Especially after they sent their own analysis telegrams to the church, they were told that the church is now manning the suspicious areas they planned before, and the suspicious areas here can only be left to them.

Fortunately, although the fastest speed of that target is similar to that of Lawrence and their ships, most of the time it is sailing at an extremely low speed. So after nearly two days of chasing, Lawrence and the others finally approached the destination that had been moving before.

"There is an...an island in front of us." Because at this time, he was already close to his destination, and at the same time, the sky was slowly darkening. So Lawrence and the others had to slow down the speed of the ship to avoid accidentally hitting the rocks. When they were searching carefully, there was a sudden shout from the mast observation deck.

After hearing the shout, Lawrence and the others ran onto the deck, and they saw a black shadow looming on the horizon far from the left string of the ship, which should be a small island. But after careful observation, they unexpectedly saw the island moving slowly on the horizon.

"Could the legend be true?" After confirming that they had indeed encountered a moving island, a young sailor on the ship exclaimed softly. Then, under everyone's questioning, the sailor who was born as an indigenous fisherman who had been fishing in this sea area for several generations told him an ancient legend about the Sea of ​​Stars.

"When I was young, my father told me that there are some very dangerous places wandering in this sea area." For safety reasons, the Enterprise stopped slowly, and then people who were not on duty gathered around to listen to the sailor Tell the story of this sea. After the overall arrangements were made, the sailor stood in the middle and started talking.

"In these places there are huge vortexes, there are also bottomless sea eyes, and even the entire island is a huge life, sometimes it will suddenly wake up and swallow all life on the island. But in these terrifying places, there will be The degree of danger of the island that I moved is also one of the best.”

"According to my father when he was a child, his great-grandfather used to work on a whaling ship, and it was on that ship that he saw the moving island," said the sailor. Wandering on the sea. At the same time, it will seize the opportunity to attack all nearby ships and life."

"He told me that the whaling ship that my great-great-grandfather was on encountered a moving island and just killed two whales and was about to stop to extract whale oil, but at that time this moving island suddenly appeared, through The impact destroyed the boat he was working on. Luckily he was thrown out on the deck and floated on the surface for two days before being rescued by passing boats."

"You just said you appeared suddenly?" After hearing this short story, Lawrence found a suspicious point in it. But just as he asked the question, the lookout on the mast who was observing the surroundings suddenly shouted hoarsely, "Warning, the island in front is sinking."

"Your Excellency, we must move now." The sailor looked at Lawrence and said, "My father told me that when the mobile island attacked me and attacked the whaling ship my ancestor was on, it suddenly emerged from the water and launched an attack. attacking."

"What?" Lawrence immediately rushed into the next wheelhouse and shouted at the captain after hearing the news. "The mobile island may sail underwater for a while and then suddenly attack. We must move quickly now."

"Understood." The captain also knew that the matter was urgent, and some things would rather be believed than not believed. So he immediately shouted to the brass microphone connected to the power compartment beside him. "Give me full power now, we may need to run for our lives now."

Because the boiler still maintained a relatively high pressure even when it was moored just now, the sailors working in the power cabin only need to close the main shaft clutch, and the propeller will start to rotate. Then push the sharp sloping bow to stir up a little spray and draw an arc on the sea surface, driving in the same direction as before.

At the same time, Lawrence summoned the phantoms of those aquatic monsters and ordered them to start scouting around to avoid being raided by that strange island from underwater.