The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Perhaps it was because they faced a crisis of a deep-sea fish monster attack together, and their mutual vigilance weakened a lot. After the five ships came to a relatively safe small bay far away from Horseshoe Bay, they all stopped for a little repair and counted the losses. The captains of the five ships each boarded a lifeboat, came to the middle waters where the five ships were berthed, and started a meeting.

When they learned that their respective goals did not conflict, and even that many places could cooperate, they took out the Pirate Code and swore to form an alliance temporarily with the sea gods in order to add more power to the melee between the Gold Ship Fleet and the Pirate Alliance fleet. much survival rate.

However, they didn't know that although the corpses and flesh of the fish monsters on their respective ships were cleaned, this cleanliness was only superficial. It has penetrated into the hull, gradually forming a curse-like imprint. In other words, even without Leo and Silvia, these ships have already been targeted by Daru.

This kind of being targeted is not literally being targeted, but actually being targeted. In the cabin of the Beloved, both Leo and Sylvia could clearly feel that as the bloody curse of the fish monster condensed and formed, It was like a lighthouse that continuously sent out signals to the surroundings, and soon the power felt in the Daru Temple fell on the ship following the guidance of the signal, and imprinted a mark on the ship again.

Neither Leo nor Sylvia felt any threatening power from this imprint. This imprint was more like some kind of signal source, as if Daru was announcing the ownership of these ships to all the existences at sea.

Although these imprints go deep into the hull, they are not particularly powerful in themselves. Both Leo and Sylvia have a way to dispel them, but they did not do so, because these imprints guide Daru's direction, but also It exposed Daru's location.

At the same time, this imprint should belong to one of Daru's original imprints. Although the power aura emanating from it is not strong, it is the same as Daru's original power. This imprint contains too much of Dalu's original power. Information, analyzing the power in this imprint is equivalent to analyzing part of the mystery of Daru's power.

However, deciphering the mystery of the power of the gods from the imprint of the gods is very difficult, even for the gods, it is difficult to do it, so the gods don't care about imprinting their original imprints.

But what the gods can’t do doesn’t mean that Leo can’t do it. His body itself is very unique, it can hold various god imprints, and imitate or borrow the power of the gods through imprints, and his devouring power, nightmare power The combination of power and the power of the stone throne can easily suppress a trace of god consciousness in the imprint of the gods, and absorb the power of the gods, imitate the power of the gods, etc. The combination of these talents and abilities makes Leo's whole person like a power analysis device , can arbitrarily decompose, absorb, and imitate any power he sees.

Now, Daru's original imprint is clearly in front of him, Leo will naturally not miss this opportunity, he directly introduces the power of the imprint into his body bit by bit, uses the power of the stone throne to suppress Daru's consciousness in the pressure, and then forms The imprint of the Daru spirit that belongs to him absorbs the power emanating from the imprint through the devouring power of the chaotic stomach, analyzes it, and uses the power of nightmare to imitate it.

The moment he imitated Daru's power, he seemed to have turned into Daru. All the statues of Daru on the five ships emitted a faint light, and a blurred image around his body also turned into Daru. its package.

"Is this Daru? It's really ugly." Sylvia looked at the image covering Leo and said with a little disgust.

I saw that Dalu's real appearance is completely different from the idols that the world has created for him. Although Daru's idol is also in the form of a sea monster, the appearance of that sea monster is still within the acceptable range of human thinking. Daru's real appearance It is completely out of human imagination. To put it simply, Daru is a mass of foul-smelling pustules that form a half-fish-half-squid shape, and countless tentacles full of sharp teeth protrude from the pustules, stretching their teeth and claws around. Various sounds.

This sound is not a language in any conventional sense, it cannot be heard by ordinary people, but it can affect ordinary people, because at the moment when Daru's power incarnation was created by Leo, this sound beyond human hearing It has already spread to the Beloved, and everyone on the Beloved has fallen into a state of mental hysteria, muttering words, and their eyes are dull and lifeless. Only the Barbarisa and his wife have not been affected, and even Joan and Penny have been affected. affected.

"Should this be called words of demagogy, or words of blasphemy?" Sylvia, whose life form was no different from a demigod, could naturally hear this voice, and this voice became two in her ears. There are two recognizable languages, one is bewitching her into the embrace of the ocean, and the other is cursing the world with the most vicious language.

"Neither." Leo, who is almost equivalent to the incarnation of Daru at this moment, obviously knows Daru's situation better than Sylvia. Easier to deal with."

Afterwards, he gave Sylvia a little bit of the essence of Daru he had analyzed, and while narrating, he and Sylvia further perfected their means of dealing with Daru's attack.

Although Daru is now a god recognized by the churches of the civilized world, and he can openly build churches and shrines and preach, but after analyzing Daru's original imprint, he found that Daru is essentially a sea creature driven by instinct. No wonder, the wisdom, character, and divinity displayed by Him are all just a disguise.

Daru can be regarded as one of the lucky ones among those sea monsters. He seems to have found a way to gain wisdom and faith, and this way is to rescue the victims in the storm.

Although this kind of thing is very simple, it is very difficult for those sea monsters who only know how to act instinctively. When they encounter a drowning person, they will only eat it as dessert and will not rescue it, but Daru is One of the lucky ones among the sea monsters, an accidental rescue allowed him to gain the belief of mankind, and along with the belief came human wisdom and emotion, which made him break away from the category of sea monsters and enter another level.

It’s just that these intelligences and emotions are at the risk of human beings, they are not produced by himself. His essence is still the instinct of a beast. He doesn’t know how to deal with these intelligences and emotions from humans, and he is not a god in essence, and he has no ability to deal with the power of faith. Ability, in the end, these complex substances from human beings accumulated in his body, which helped him pretend to be a god with wisdom and at the same time turned into poison, corroding his essence little by little, so his essence gradually changed from a The sea monster's mutated form, which can be accepted by humans, is now in this indescribably disgusting state.

If it is a real god, Leo and Sylvia can only fight against it through external means, but a sea monster like Daru disguised as a god, and it is still a sea monster with fatal flaws, Leo They had better ways of dealing with him, or it.

According to the essential situation of Daru, the coping methods adjusted by Leo and Sylvia are completely different from the original version. As for the original version, they did not waste it, and regarded it as a preparation for possible accidents plan.

On the other side, the captains of the five ships also returned to their respective ships, and according to the discussed plan, they sailed away from this temporary stop and headed for the bitter sea eye where the gold ship and the main battlefield of the pirates were located.

In order to avoid breaking into the battlefield, the five ships all slowed down. The route that originally only took half a day walked for a whole day, and until nightfall, they still hadn't reached the planned observation stop. They had to drop anchor directly at sea and wait until dawn tomorrow.

Although no abnormalities were found around after repeated inspections and tests, the sailors who had experienced the attack of the deep-sea fish monster did not dare to relax at all. People patrolled the ship repeatedly throughout the night to avoid any accidents.

However, they felt fortunate that what they were worried about did not happen. It was very calm until dawn, but after dawn, when the five ships lifted anchor and continued to move towards their planned observation stop, they were on the water. Fragments of some ships were found.

It is not uncommon to find wrecks of debris ships at sea. Most of the time, sailors will use fishing nets to pick up these debris wrecks to see if they can find anything of value. Even if nothing of value is found, those slightly Intact pieces are also collected for lumber to repair ships.

"Dogs, Dogs of Tages!" When the sailors on a ship scooped up the fragments as usual and looked for something of value, a pattern engraved on a fragment immediately caught their attention. A sailor who knew the pirate flag very well immediately pointed at the pattern and shouted loudly.

The captain who heard the shout immediately ran over to confirm the pattern, and then reported the news, and the captain who got the news also passed the news to other ships.

These people said that Tages was a pirate wandering along the southern coast of the New World, because his pirate ships were numerous, and they were all small and medium-sized speedboats. When encountering prey, it was like a pack of dogs hunting. Hunting and hunting, so his pirate group is also called the dog group.

Among the many pirates, the sea dog Tajes is not the most powerful, but it is the most difficult to deal with. In addition, Tajes likes to transform the shape of his car to be the same as other ships under his command, and then hide among the dogs Therefore, it is difficult to solve Tages by destroying the flagship of the Dog Group. As long as Tages is still alive, even if the other ships of the Dog Group are sunk, Tages can quickly rebuild the Dog Group and continue Privateering at sea.

The black reef waters belong to the southern waters of the New World, and among the members invited by the Pirate Alliance, the sea dog Tajes is naturally indispensable. Among the big pirates in the alliance, Tajes may not be ranked, but it is also a big force. .

Judging from the current situation, Tages has obviously been in contact with the front-end escort fleet of the Gold Ship Fleet, and had a fierce battle, and judging from the debris situation, the battle seems to be overwhelmingly against Tages Well, because the wood used in those pieces is the thin wood used by some cheap offshore speedboats, and the wood used by ocean-going ship frigates is stronger and thicker.

When the five ships arrived at their scheduled observation point, it was not difficult to see from the large number of ship debris floating in the waters and some corpses that had not had time to be eaten by fish, and it was not difficult to see that Tages, the seal seal, might have been planted here this time.

This observation point has no name, it is just a deep water area with few hidden reefs, because its location is right next to the Kushui Sea Eye, you only need to bypass an obvious group of reefs to enter the Kushui Sea area, so it is also the first choice for some ships Temporary stop, before entering the Kushui Sea Eye, the ships that take the route of the Black Reef Sea will have a little repair here before moving on.

Originally, the plan discussed by Hailesa and the other captains was to have the five ships stop here, and then each try to understand the situation of the Kushui Sea Eye, and then decide whether the next step is to go directly through the Kushui Sea Eye or stay in a safe place. wait for the opportunity.

However, the debris now floating on the sea shows that both sides of the war were obviously not so friendly to bystanders and neutral ships, because there are also quite a few pieces of merchant ships in the debris, suggesting that at least one merchant ship was involved in the battle.

Just when the five ships were still discussing whether to continue to stay at this temporary location as originally planned, or to enter the bitter water sea eye first, a siren sounded from the original place, and then the watchman saw seven or eight medium-sized steam ships The battleship transformed from the ship appeared on the sea level in the distance, and more ships could be vaguely seen in the farther place.

When the lookouts reported the news to their respective captains, the captains of Hailesa knew that their luck was really bad. The route they chose coincided with the route of the gold transport ship, and the time also coincided.

They knew very well that if they continued to stay here, they would only be treated as pirates by the gold transport fleet, so they came up with a backup plan without hesitation, and ordered to enter the bitter water sea eye in advance and swim along the edge of the sea eye. Avoid getting involved in the flames of war.

Just when the five ships were about to sail into the sea of ​​bitter waters, a non-human employer on one of the ships found the captain of his ship and said that he could help the five ships hide under the eyes of the gold fleet. be found.

Then he asked the captain to notify the other four ships to approach his ship, and then took out a device the size of a shoebox, handed it to the watchman, and fixed it on the highest mast.

Although the captain didn't understand what his employer was going to do, but thinking of some special abilities used in the fish monster attack, he felt that what the employer said should be true, so he followed the order to notify other ships to approach.

The other four ships didn't understand why they did this, but because it didn't take much time to do so, they didn't ask much, and just leaned over like this.

However, just after the five ships approached a certain distance, they were surprised to find that a colorful light barrier suddenly appeared on the central ship and moved around quickly, trying to cover them.

When the mask moved, people outside the mask found that the ship they were on disappeared little by little, feeling as if they were being swallowed by something terrible. Some sailors were even frightened by this and jumped into the water. Trying to escape the cover of the mask, it wasn't until they were covered by the mask that they realized that nothing happened to the ships.