The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"What should we do now?" After a while, after everyone had recovered from the out-of-control emotions, the first officer walked up to the old seagull and asked.

"Turn around, let's go over there and have a look, maybe we can find something!" The old seagull was silent for a moment, and ordered to everyone.

Hearing the order, although the crew members were somewhat reluctant, they still followed the old seagull's order, turned the bow, raised the sails, and sailed towards the direction where the huge island fell.

The old seagull's boat was driving very fast, and it didn't take long to come to the sea area where the island fell, but the sea surface was very calm, there was no abnormality at all, and nothing useful was found.

"Could those just be phantoms on the sea?" The first officer leaned forward and asked suspiciously.

The old seagull shook his head and said, "Have you ever seen such an illusion on the sea?"

For people who have been traveling on the sea all year round, sea illusions are not uncommon. Almost every sailor can encounter them once or twice a year, but all sea illusions they see are very illusory, and they are by no means like what they saw just now. as real as it gets.

However, the reason why the old seagull judged that the scene just now was not an illusion on the sea was not because of his past experience, but after careful recollection, he was almost sure that the island that fell from the sky that he saw just now was his trip The mysterious island of the destination.

Judging from the scene just now, there must be something wrong with that mysterious island, so he really wanted to know what happened there.

The curious old seagull walked to the rudder, motioned the helmsman to get out of the way, then turned the rudder in his hand, and steered the boat towards the depths of the sea.

He didn't know what he was looking for when he sailed into this sea, but he always had a feeling that he would find something here.

The ship sailed for about half an hour, and suddenly the people on the observation deck yelled a few words, and then pointed in one direction.

The old seagull immediately turned the rudder and steered the boat towards the direction pointed by the watchman.

Not long after, I heard the sailor standing on the bow shouting loudly: "There is someone, there is someone there."

Hearing the shout, the old seagull handed over the rudder to the helmsman beside him, quickly ran to the bow, and looked forward.

I saw a person floating there on the sea ahead, floating with the waves, looking like a shipwrecked crew member. It's just that the sharp-eyed old seagull can easily recognize that the person has not been in the water for a long time, not the kind of dead person who has been in the water for a long time and whose body has been soaked to swell many times.

"Whether it's dead or alive, pick him up first." The old seagull immediately gave a loud command to his subordinates, and then looked at the man floating in the sea with doubts in his eyes. Although there is no basis, the old seagull still has a feeling that this person is what he insists on looking for back and forth in this sea area.

"I feel something is wrong." The first mate came forward at this time, looked at the approaching person on the sea, and said cautiously.

"Why do you think so?" The old seagull asked back.

"He doesn't look like someone who fell into the water for a long time, but he just fell into the water not long ago." The first officer has no less sea experience than the old seagull, so he can easily see the situation of the person who fell into the water on the sea, "This The sea area is not on any route, and ocean currents do not pass through here, even if it falls into the water on a nearby route, it is impossible to float here, and just now..." He paused for a while, before finishing his words, he continued : "Anyway, this person appears strange, we shouldn't catch him easily."

The old seagull didn't use other words to prevaricate the first officer, but calmly asked: "Have you forgotten the rules of our sea people?"

The first officer opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, retreated, and went to do his own thing.

For everyone who lives at sea, it is a matter of time before they encounter a shipwreck. After encountering a disaster, they naturally hope that they can meet a ship and get rescued. No one would like to see a ship passing by. Don't lend a helping hand to yourself. And those who were not shipwrecked also worried about whether they would be rescued by passing ships when they were shipwrecked.

Ever since, under the influence of this common worry, all people who seek life at sea will abide by an unwritten rule, that is, whenever they encounter shipwrecked people, they must spare no effort to rescue them.

Although this rule does not appear in the laws of any country, and no country recognizes the legitimacy of this rule, the effect of this rule far exceeds any law in the world. It can be said that all sea people will Compliance, which also includes the navies of various countries.

The most famous story about this rule of unconditional rescue at sea is a naval battle between the Kingdom of Sigma and the Kingdom of Engel. According to the rules, those imperial navy soldiers who fell into the water were rescued. No other warships around attacked this warship. Really a prisoner.

Ten minutes later, the ship of the Kingdom of England was also sunk. This time it was the turn of the ship of the Kingdom of Sigma to rescue, and the other warships stopped attacking the rescue ship.

In such a sea battle involving five fleets, although the warships suffered huge losses, the casualties were very few, and none of them died because they were far less than drowned.

So when the old seagull said this rule, the chief mate couldn't say anything more, no matter how good the reasons for worrying were.

The sailors on the ship were skilled in rescuing the victim from the sea. Although they were not able to judge the situation of the victim from a long distance like the old seagull and the first mate, after rescuing the victim at close range, they It can still be judged that the victim should have just fallen into the water not long ago, and it seems that he should still be alive.

"Rang Rang, Rang Rang, don't just stand around here, don't you all have to do anything? Now go and move back all the cargo that was previously ballasted." The first officer came over, yelled at the crowd, and then Walking to the side of the victim, he squatted down, reached out and felt the pulse on the victim's neck, and after feeling the strong pulse transmitted by his fingers, he turned his head and nodded to the old seagull, then stood up Asked, "What now?"

The old seagull didn't answer right away. He squatted down and searched the victim's body, and found some odds and ends. However, those items were just some common items, and there was nothing special about them. Only a stump of a boat ticket caused his panic. Notice.

He picked up the stump of the ticket and looked at it, with a look of surprise on his face, and he couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

"What's the matter? Head." The first mate asked.

"Look." The old seagull handed over the stump of the ticket to the chief mate.

The first officer took a look at the ticket, and immediately showed a look of surprise, and couldn't help asking: "Is he a passenger on the Queen Mary that disappeared half a year ago?"

"Should be." The old seagull nodded, then he stood up and instructed his subordinates next to him: "Move him to the guest room, and when he wakes up, we will know what happened on the Queen Mary. Then, he walked quickly to the rudder and shouted to the sailors on the deck: "Pull up the sails, let's go back."

"Oh!" Hearing the order, all the sailors immediately became very energetic, cheered and rushed to their posts to busy themselves with their own affairs after sweeping away the dullness just now.

Driven by the wind, the large sailboat with its full sails quickly crosses the water surface. The swaying hull is like standing on flat ground for the sailors on the ship. They sang loudly while balancing their bodies Sailor's song.

The old seagull standing by the rudder looked at these enthusiastic sailors, showing a rare smile on his face, but also showing a trace of sadness, because he knew that this kind of sailing ship would disappear from the sea soon, and The final destination of these sailors may be the boiler rooms on those steamships.

In fact, long ago, when he saw the steamship, he knew that the era of sailing had come to an end, but he still retained a passion for sailing, and wanted to take advantage of the sailing before it completely withdrew from the stage of history. Then enjoy the fun of driving a sailboat on the sea.

However, he never imagined that steamships would come so fiercely and quickly. In just a few years, steamships had become the mainstream of ships at sea. Sailboats are rarely seen on the sea anymore.

Seeing this kind of scene, the old seagull felt tired of sailing for the first time. In fact, there was one thing he didn’t tell his subordinates. Sell ​​the ship, and the money from the sale will be given to the men on the ship who have followed him for many years to settle down, and he will also introduce some reliable jobs to them through the relationships he has established in the past.

And he himself may go back to his home in Sigma, stay in the study, and write his sea experiences over the years into a book. After all, he still holds the title of a best-selling author, even though he has been writing only one book for so many years. Books only.

Time soon entered the night, and the old seagull handed things over to the first mate, then turned around and prepared to go back to his captain's cabin, and wrote what he saw and heard today in the captain's log. But when he touched the door of the captain's cabin, he stopped again, turned around and walked outside the passenger cabin in the lower cabin.

The old seagull pushed open the cabin door, walked in, picked up the lamp stuck next to the cabin door familiarly, lit it up, and illuminated the cabin.

I saw that the victim who was rescued during the day was lying quietly on the bed, breathing heavily and long, and seemed to have no problem.

The old seagull stared at each other, frowning, feeling a little uneasy.

In fact, he also had the same concerns raised by the first officer. Even now, he also felt that the victim was weird, and even had the urge to throw the victim back into the sea.

"Who are you?" the old seagull said to himself.

I don't know why the old seagull thinks that this person should be from the mysterious island, because he fell into the water because the mysterious island was destroyed.

In fact, the old seagull has a secret about the mysterious island that he has never told anyone, because he knows that there are people living on the mysterious island.

According to common sense, it is not a big deal for an island to be inhabited. It shouldn't be necessary for him to hide it for so many years, but the question is, what if the people living there may all be dead?

The old seagull still remembers what happened when he accidentally found the mysterious island and led his men into the depths of the island to find useful resources. At that time, he and his men were attacked by inexplicable creatures, and they had to run away In the end, he and his men got separated, and after passing through a huge dense forest, he came to a beach.

The scene of that beach is still deeply engraved in his memory, because there are countless ships that are famous in the world of Velen piled up on that beach, and these ships have all been proved to have suffered shipwreck and sank to the bottom of the sea without exception. But now the wreckage of these ships has piled up on this beach, which makes people feel extremely weird after seeing it.

What was even weirder was what happened later that night. That night he saw a ghost, letting him know that the world was not as simple as he thought in the past, and he also saw traces of human habitation near the beach.

After leaving there, the old seagull swore that he would never approach this mysterious island again, but what he never imagined was that an extinct ancient badger would climb onto his boat without his knowledge. A series of things happened later, and because of this, a lot of pressure from the world fell on him, but he had to board the mysterious island again.

In fact, seeing the mysterious island falling from the sky during the day and disintegrating and disappearing when it was about to fall to the surface of the sea, the old seagull was very happy in his heart, because so many people saw the mysterious island disappearing, and they would definitely spread the word, so He no longer has to be pressured from all sides to go to the mysterious island to catch some ancient badger.

But now the sudden appearance of the victims of the Queen Mary made him feel that this might be another trouble, because the disappearance of the Queen Mary half a year ago was a very special event in the Kingdom of England, the Empire of France and neighboring countries. Many countries sent many fleets to search around the route of the Queen Mary, but in the end they found nothing.

There are rumors that the reason why countries attach so much importance to the Queen Mary is because there is something very important to the Kingdom of England and the French Empire on the Queen Mary. Dual-purpose ships will be so important.

Although half a year has passed, the search fleets of various countries have long since disbanded, and the outside world seems to have lost interest in the Queen Mary, but all this is based on the fact that there is no news from the Queen Mary. If the news of the surviving passengers of the Queen is spread, it will inevitably trigger the craze half a year ago again, and the old seagull who is very familiar with that sea area will definitely not be able to escape the result of being recruited by various countries.

Thinking of this, the old seagull couldn't help but feel a little worried, and regretted the behavior of handing over the stump of the boat ticket to the chief mate just now.