Treasure hunter, sailing on the blue sea

The exquisite three-masted sailboat with a beautiful bird's head as its bow once again sailed on the blue sea for a long time.

The endless sea surface sparkles under the unchanging sunlight in the sky.

Golden waves ripple on the sea.

Everything looked so pleasant.

A long flag with the coat of arms of Our Lady and the Church of the Holy Mechanicus was standing on the rudder and swaying, guiding their direction.

"What do you see now?" Alka asked Jason in front of him.

At this time, Alka was raising his right thumb, as if playing a piano, undulating like waves.

The faint pink smoke passed out like a thread. Wrapped around Jason.

"A...deer, no, it seems to be a horse, what the hell?" At this time, Jason's eyes seemed clear, but seemed to be a little confused.

Hearing this answer, Alka nodded, and then looked at Jason: "Are you trying your best to resist?"

"Yes, I even relied on the spiritual strengthening spell."

"That's okay. It seems that it can have a profound impact." Alka said and waved his hand.

Lines of silver smoke followed.

The trace of confusion in Jason's eyes also disappeared, and he looked at the surrounding scene.

"Is that your new skill? I have to say that it is indeed very deceiving if you are not prepared."

The two were chatting, and as Juanlu walked past them, he could hear a crisp clicking sound.

The two turned to look.

I could only see Juanlu's mouth chewing something, and the sound was extremely harsh.

"What are you eating?" Jason asked curiously.

At this time, Alka saw the orange-red magic power on Juanlu's mouth when he turned his head.

It seemed like he wasn't eating anything good.

"Ore." He raised his hand and showed the two of them the metallic-colored ore in his hand.

Then he turned and walked towards the kitchen.

The two looked at his back.

"I don't know if it's my imagination, but since he got the treasure through the challenge mode, his requirements for food are not as strict as before."

"It's not an illusion. Having such a challenging experience will lead to some changes."

Alka recalled and said helplessly.

Then he couldn't help but sigh.

The reason why Juanlu eats these ores is because his treasures can help him absorb the energy in the ores and bring about some characteristic changes.

For example, making Juanlu's bones and skin harder.

Coupled with his activated bloodline, it can digest these things more easily.

It's just that ore like this is a bit difficult to digest, and you have to use magic to destroy it after eating it.

It is a relatively time-consuming project.

But for Juanlu, it is acceptable, after all, it can permanently improve some effects.

It's just very unpalatable.

But now Huanlu has a very strong resistance to unpalatable food.

These ores are already a good experience for him.

Before the two chatted for a while, Juanlu came over, holding a dinner plate in his hand.

Watching Juanlu come over with a dinner plate.

Pororo, who had just jumped out of the sea, silently jumped into the sea again, as if he had never come up before.

Alka, who saw this situation through the mirror placed nearby, silently turned his head to look at the sea, pretending to be nonchalant.

Only Jason didn't seem to notice anything wrong and was still chattering next to Alka.

Until Juanlu turned his head and looked around, locking eyes on Jason who was more conspicuous at this moment and walking over.

Jason seemed to feel someone walking towards him next to him and turned to look.

When he saw it was Juanlu and the dinner plate he was holding, his expression changed immediately.

His face looked bitter, but he forced a smile and said, "What, what's wrong, I'm not hungry yet."

"It's okay, let's try my new experimental dishes."

Juanlu said with a smile.

Seeing that Juanlu had determined the target, Alka turned his head and looked at Jason with a smile.

And Pororo jumped out of the sea again and jumped onto the deck, as if he had just come up.

According to past rules, after Juanlu lets one person taste it, he won't look for a second person after getting an evaluation.

So the two of them are now in a relatively safe state.

Jason smiled bitterly and looked at the food on the plate.

…if it’s food.

It was a long creature dipped in some condiments and swinging slowly on the dinner plate.

Probably only one finger long.

The skin of the creature has rather disgusting markings, and its appearance makes people unappetizing.

Even though it exudes a light fragrance, it is a bit unacceptable.

But knowing that he couldn't escape, Jason silently pinched the tail of the long creature with his fingers.

Lift it up.

As it was lifted, the long creature swayed rapidly, and the twisted markings on its body exuded visual deception as it swung.

It can easily cause dizziness.

But for Jason, naturally it has no effect.

But such twisting can be extremely uncomfortable.

He pinched his nose and took this thing into his mouth in one breath.

"Hmm...huh?" Jason chewed twice, as if savoring it carefully.

"It's not bad? It just tastes a little weird, but it's not unpalatable."

After receiving Jason's comment, Juanlu nodded.

"It seems we need to improve it." He took the dinner plate and left.

"You actually won the prize." Alka said next to him.

Pororo also looked unhappy next to him.

Looking at the expressions of the two of them, Jason smiled sheepishly: "No way, good luck."

At this stage, Juanlu often uses all kinds of weird and even disgusting foods to make dishes.

Let everyone on board help taste it and draw conclusions.

At that time, I didn’t understand that everyone agreed. After all, with Huanlu’s cooking skills, how could even the experimental creation be so unpalatable?

Later they all regretted it.

Because these trial works are not only unpalatable at times, they can even cause both mental and visual torture.

Sometimes even the three come together, making it difficult to accept visually, mentally, and tastefully.

If it tastes good on a certain occasion, it will be treated as a lottery win.

Because in that case at least it tastes good.

Watching Juanlu enter the kitchen and be busy.

Alka sighed and said, "Maybe this is also the price of progress."

Juanlu used to hate weird food the most, and he always used serious ingredients to make delicious food.

For example, Alka would sometimes have suggestions to experiment with whether certain strange ingredients could be eaten, but Juanlu would refuse.

But if it were now, he would definitely be very interested in starting production.

But now Alka doesn't dare to put forward some weird opinions when he has nothing to do.

Because then it will be the other people on the ship who will suffer.

I don’t know if it can be considered an improvement now.

…

"According to the time estimate mentioned before, we should be arriving soon." Xia Detti said while looking at the guidance flag flying on the rudder.

According to what Nova said when Alka took over the flag of guidance.

The so-called Twin Islands they went to were only about 20 days and nights away from the Trial Island.

It is relatively close when sailing on the sea.

"I think so. Haven't we seen ships passing by recently?" Alka said.

In the vast expanse of sea, meeting other ships during normal navigation is simply a great fate.

Unless it's next to some islands.

And they have met many times in the past few days, which means that there is a sign island around this sea area.

Only the sea area formed by the signpost island and other surrounding islands can produce such a situation.

Because in this way there will be enough people active in this sea area, and they will all sail in this area.

Moreover, they had encountered a dozen ships in total in the past few days.

This shows that the surrounding signpost islands are obviously the more famous ones.

"Look ahead! Look at that ship!"

Jason's voice came from above, and he sounded obviously excited.

After only a short while, a ship came from ahead.

Alka looked carefully.

It was a three-masted giant sailboat with a golden and green color scheme, more than 60 meters long.

As soon as I see this color scheme, I feel a warm feeling.

Because the Holy Mother Church often uses ships with this color scheme.

Sure enough, as the ship got closer, everyone saw the coat of arms of the Holy Mother Church printed on the huge sail.

How long has it been?

It has been several years since I left my homeland.

Seeing the coat of arms of Our Lady Church again makes people feel friendly.

When the Voice of Dawn passed by a few hundred meters away from the ship.

A ray of light appeared inexplicably on the hull of Dawn Voice.

The speed of the entire ship increased by one knot in an instant.

The somewhat cheerful music of the Dawn Sound came on.

Feel the familiarity in this light.

The Alka people on the boat couldn't help but smile.

This was obviously a layer of buffs given to them by the ship of the Holy Mother Church just next to them.

Obviously, it is impossible for every ship encountered by the Holy Mother Church to behave like this.

Either Alka and the others are lucky.

Either someone on this ship noticed some features of Alka's ship.

Let them be sure that there are followers of Our Lady on board this ship, even apostles.

"It seems we are not far from the Twin Islands."

Alka said as she looked ahead, feeling very good.

It didn't take long.

Probably when it was getting dark, they had already seen the islands in the distance.

There are also many more ships around.

Coming and going, but keeping a certain safe distance from each other.

"Ah, this place is so prosperous."

Xia Detti looked at the ships around and couldn't help but said.

Because she has put on the glasses used to detect data on her face.

This kind of glasses is extremely concealable. It is mainly used to detect the fluctuations of magic power, rather than spying on individuals.

So generally speaking, few people will notice that they are being probed.

And you can find it when you wear these glasses and look at the ships around you.

None of these ships are ordinary ships, they are all curse ships. The most outrageous thing is that among the ships coming and going, more than a dozen ghost ships have been seen.

Among the glasses, the energy response of the ghost ship is much more than that of the spell ship, and it is very easy to distinguish.

Sailing closer and closer.

Everyone finally had a clear view of the twin islands.

The island is really big, with both sides connected and extending to the end of the field of vision.

The sky darkened in an instant, and the black starry sky curtain covered the blue sky and white clouds.

The sea surface fell into darkness for an instant.

A large number of lights came from the island in front, and two huge light pillars suddenly shone over and shot straight into the sky.

Those two beams of light can be seen from a distance.

It should be the light from two lighthouses, guiding the direction of the ships sailing around in the dark night.

Look around.

The structure of the Twin Islands is somewhat strange.

It is difficult to imagine that such an island exists in nature.

It is composed of two islands that are almost touching each other.

The entire island is similar to a relatively regular circle. It is divided into two parts in the middle of the circular island, and a round hole is dug again in the middle.

This resulted in a relatively straight ocean current channel that ran through the entire island, and there was a huge circular inland sea in the center of the channel.

The inland sea is the shared port of the two islands.

The direction they were facing was the side out to sea.

All the ships were heading in the same direction, heading out from the exit in front of them.

Not a single ship was seen moving in the opposite direction.

From the ships sailing on this channel, it can be seen that there are too many ships around.

From the looks of it, if they want to land on this island, they have to go around to the other side of the island. Enter from another entrance and stop at the port in the central inland sea.

A small ship came over, and the color of the ship was a bit strange.

The entire ship was made of gray and black. When it came over, everyone realized that this was not a color at all, but that the entire ship was made of this material, because it was a steel ship.

And the style is extremely strange, and the bow is very sharp. There is no bow and stern structure. There is only a command tower in the center of the ship.

Seeing this look, Alka couldn't help but recall the past.

The ships in the past world were so similar to this ship.

There is a flag on top of the ship, and you can clearly see the gear logo printed on it.

This is the ship of the Church of the Holy Mechanic.

A somewhat harsh alarm sounded on the ship and stopped in front of them.

The sound came from far away.

This sound is not a specific language, but a sound composed of weird syllables.

Obviously I can't understand it, but I can understand its meaning.

"This is the exit. If you want to enter the island, please enter the inland sea port from the entrance on the other side."

Although everyone had discovered this, they were stopped before they could adjust.

Dawn Voice quickly turned the ship's bow.

Only after seeing Dawn Voice's bow turning around did the steel ship leave.

"Is that the steel ship of the Holy Mechanism Church?" Xia Detti looked at the steel ship leaving and turned to Simon who was not far away and asked.

Simon nodded: "Yes, but it's strange. Why are they exactly the same as the standard ships used by the church in the Minghuo Sea?"

After all, the two churches are so far apart, but the technology they use is exactly the same.

"Is this normal? Why do you think it's strange?" Jason asked doubtfully from the side.

“Because the technology of this ship was still an experimental product when I left and was not used for actual manufacturing. Many of the technologies on it are newly developed.

I have met many researchers of new technologies and even participated in the research of some technologies. "

In other words, some of this ship's technologies are unique to the Sishen Sea Area, based on the time it left its own sea area.

It’s not surprising that this ship is actually installed.

It’s strange why The Expanse was implemented so quickly.

Because it can determine that the technology does come from the Sishen Sea Area.

Logically speaking, this would not happen.

“Perhaps the connection between churches is much closer than we think.

After all, the four gods hold the most primitive secrets of the world, don't they? They must have a connection that we don't know about.

For them, the boundless sea may not be as difficult as it is for us.

Perhaps there is an internal passage. "

Because Alka has always had such doubts.

For example, the biggest suspicion is that the strength of His Holiness the Pope in the Home Sea is much weaker than that in the Boundless Sea.

These don't make sense.

You can say that Home Sea limits the development of strength, but with such a weak strength, Alka will know it after truly experiencing it.

It's not just as simple as being weak.

Many things require strength as support.

Includes some understanding of techniques and ideas.

And the most outrageous thing is the [Scepter] level incantation.

Having already owned two treasures at that time, he could clearly feel that the Archbishop must have a [Scepter]-level treasure on his body.

Is that an existence that someone who doesn't even have the second stage can control?

Clearly unlikely.

Everyone chatted and waited for the Dawn Sound to drive along the edge of the island and around to the other side.

The island they circled seemed to be Zuozi Island, which was occupied by the Holy Mechanism Church.

You can see various strange-looking steel buildings above.

In Alka's words, it looks a bit steampunk.

In addition to some simple wooden houses, there are also many large buildings made of steel, which are somewhat similar to factories.

"Look at the sky, are there ships flying in the sky?" Lucilia said loudly, pointing to the sky.

A human being looks up.

A huge oval-shaped object can be seen, carrying a ship-like structure, flying slowly in the sky.

Airship, a very conspicuous airship structure.

Alka once heard Simon say that there were already airships in their waters.

However, it is said that this thing is not very practical even in the home sea.

"That's an airship. Did you see the huge cone-shaped balloon on its head? It contains some kind of gas that can make objects float."

"But that thing is really not easy to use. A little chaotic weather at sea can break it into pieces."

"It can only be used on this kind of island. At most, it can be used to detect intelligence in the distance."

Indeed, they only saw this one ship in the sky, not more.

Indeed, in this endless ocean world, the existence of airships does not have much effect.

Especially in the boundless sea, the severity of the weather is obvious to all.

Even the existence of the signpost island and the large population gathered on it will make the foggy creatures in the dream world prioritize restoration in this area.

But it still cannot stop the problem of bad weather, because even in the waters of Sishen, bad weather is an unavoidable topic.

So this thing doesn't have much practicality.