Mystery: Mr. Witch and Miss Hunter

Chapter 329 West and East

When Adele came to the cabin, Tracy was already waiting for her inside.

She was wearing a Royal Navy overcoat, and the loose clothes made her torso slender a bit too much.Seeing Adele coming in, she nodded slightly as a greeting.

In the center of the captain's cabin was a huge ball of black liquid suspended. When something more than 50 meters long appeared within a hundred nautical miles, ripples would appear on the water ball.

The principle of this magic is probably a technique for detecting large floating objects in motion, and it will not cause misjudgments due to things that do not move, such as small islands or reefs.

But now, a faint ripple was slowly spreading around on the water polo, indicating the location of the target to Adele and the others.

Since most of the current crew members are members of the military, they do not reject the existence of mysticism and extraordinary abilities.On the contrary, they will be more in awe of this kind of chief who has abilities that they don't have. Therefore, the matter of the magic detector is not a secret to most of the crew.

"How is the current situation?"

Adele hung her coat on a hook on the wall, and asked Tracy, who was staring at the water polo with a calm expression.

"It is obviously impossible for the other party to find us. I will use magic mirror divination to observe from a long distance later to confirm the other party's armed equipment."

Tracy, who has rich experience in piracy, was very calm and calm: "Judging from the length of the opponent, it is very likely that it is Loen's Galen ship, which is a second-hand product eliminated by the Loen Navy, which is commonly equipped in the colonies."

It was obviously not the first time that Tracy had used a similar spell. She just glanced at the size of the ripples and judged the type of the opponent's ship.

This kind of ship, which originated in Intis, combines the advantages of the previously popular Nau and Caravel ships. It generally has 4 masts, the front two masts are hung with railing sails, and the rear two masts are hung with triangular sails.

Such sailing ships were carried forward by Loen in the end, and were widely deployed in the army, and were praised by the navy because of the flexibility brought by their low bows. Until the appearance of ironclad ships, Galen sailing ships were still deployed in large numbers in the Loen navy. Many of them were sold to the Southern Continent by people who resold arms.

However, in the Southern Continent theater, the original missions of the galleons had been replaced by Loen's clippers and ironclad ships. The galleons that appeared on the border where the two sides were fighting were most likely warships of the colonial rebels.

When there was no sign of the sailboat, Adele was anxious; but now, with the traces of enemy ships right in front of her eyes, she became cautious instead.

"Something is wrong."

Adele frowned, "We've only left Port Behrens for more than two days. Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any enemy ships here. Let's be more cautious and keep a distance of [-] nautical miles, and wait until your divination is clear. , let’s get closer to each other.”

As an Assassin, it is a compulsory course to exercise caution.If you want to act cautiously, the first and most important thing is to look at things beyond your own subjective emotions.

In other words, just because what is happening is what you expect, you cannot ignore the irrationality contained in it.

——There are many people who know this, but not many can actually do it.

Tracy has no objection either. Anyway, as a pirate general, simple plundering does not arouse her interest. The thrill of killing at the beginning may be crazy and impulsive. After living on the ship for seven or eight years, it has already become like clocking in to work. boring.

Besides, this is to help the kingdom's army grab supplies, Tracy lacks interest in this.

The "Snow Wind" first followed Tracy's instructions to speed up and approach the target's position. Relying on its own ship speed twice as fast as the opponent's, when the ironclad ship arrived at the predetermined position, the opponent also drove almost forty nautical miles away.

This data is also very particular. According to the height of the mast of the Galen sailing ship, even with the help of a telescope, and then climbed to the highest mainmast observatory, the limit of the field of vision that the naked eye can see during the day is only [-] nautical miles, and it may be at night. Farther, but never more than thirty nautical miles.

Now the Snow Wind is hanging [-] nautical miles away from the opponent, which is a distance that can perfectly avoid the opponent's observation.Even if there is an error, as long as the opponent does not stop at the same place from the beginning, this range of error is acceptable.

Besides, it was still daytime, and the lights on the "Yukikaze" could not be seen.

In short, everything is ready at present, and all that is waiting is the result of Tracy's divination.

Adele paced back and forth nervously in the room, watching Tracy prepare mirrors, candles, essential oils, herbal powders and other items, consecrate these utensils in a familiar and unfamiliar way, and then use the consumable materials Use a black fire to burn it into powder, add water to make a black paste, and spread them evenly on the mirror.

None of the seemingly sticky paste stuck to Tracy's hands, and all of it seeped into the shining mirror.

Afterwards, the mirror rippled like water waves, and a blurry image appeared on it, which gradually became clear as time passed. It was the ship discovered by the black magic detector.

It was more than 50 meters long, Tracy guessed wrong.

This is not Loen's galleon, this is the predecessor of the galleon, its parent, the carrack galleon, from Intis and Renburg.

The Carrack sailing ship is the first ship on the North Continent to be used for ocean voyages, because of its large size it can remain stable in the vast ocean; in addition, it is divided into a large amount of space to store enough supplies for ocean voyages.

In history, the first explorer to set foot on the Southern Continent took this bulky, huge but durable carrack sailing ship.

Of course, for Tracy and Adele now, the historical meaning of the carrack sailing ship and its position in the ship industry are all trivial issues, but the most serious problem they face is that this ship was produced in The meaning of the appearance of Intis's ship in the Southern Continent.

Tracy was concerned about whether Intis' ship appeared near the battlefield where Loen and the natives of the Southern Continent were fighting, or whether it was the meaning of the act of going deep into the Southern Continent.If the opponent is carrying weapons or ordnance, then the severity of the behavior can be raised two or three levels.

It seems that the righteous gods are continuing to deal with the doomsday with their strength. They have no time and are unwilling to fight another war that will spread to the whole world and cannot win a new anchor for themselves. arch fire.

This is a soft meal, but the arrogant Intis eat it tough.

Adele can sense Tracy's concerns to some extent, but behind her is the Tarot Club, who knows more about the game of the gods than Tracy, and understands the reason why the God of Knowledge and Wisdom Church has a hard waist , I also know that this matter cannot be solved by myself.

——In any case, whether it is the goddess of the night or the goddess of the earth, they are now worrying about the source of their hands. They are either sleeping or retreating. It is impossible to really remove the god of knowledge and wisdom from his kingdom of God. Pull it out and give it a beat.

And Adele was worried about something else, something Tracy didn't care too much about.

Loen is located in the eastern part of the Northern Continent, while Intis is located in the western part of the Northern Continent.

Adele and the others arrived near Port Behrens from the underground wormhole. At this time, they were in the northeast sea area of ​​the Southern Continent, while Intis was far away in the southwest of the Northern Continent, separated by thousands of nautical miles, and had to cross the sea area of ​​the Loen Navy. Defense zone, no matter how you think about it, it is impossible.

Wendy has already told her certain ancient knowledge one after another, including a very important theory "the theory of the circle of the earth", which she has already confirmed from Mr. "Sun"'s chat.

From Intis to the waters near Aleser, this section of waterway is really too difficult to walk. It doesn’t even cross the entire Mad Sea, but comes from a diagonal corner of the Mad Sea. It’s so difficult that people wonder whether they are Take another channel.

Like... come around from the other side?

The Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom has actually secretly mastered a safe passage to the Western Continent that Mr. Hanged Man has been looking for?
While Tracy was continuing her divination, Adele quietly came to her desk, took out a hand-painted sketch from it, and observed it carefully.

It was the ancient world map that Wendy drew for her. Adele had compared that map with the map of the North and South Continents more than once, and found that it was exactly the same as the former North and South America.

According to this inference, the mysterious Western Continent and Eastern Continent are actually connected together, and there may be some kind of mystical separation in the middle.

Adele stretched out her finger to outline the possible route the other party might choose. There was a moment of silence in the room, and Adele could hear her own heartbeat that gradually became faster.

No, it is very likely that He has grasped more than this loophole...

Adele remembered Backlund's Fall of the Angel. At that time, all members of the Tarot Society were caught up in the strange creatures that appeared in the seal loopholes that were discovered. Even Miss "Magician" was involved in the starry sky because of this. , life and death unknown.

Thinking about it now, was that loophole really discovered by Mr. "The Hanged Man" first?If so, was the timing of the problem...too coincidental?

It just happened to involve all members of the Tarot Society, preventing them from going to interfere with the events that happened in Backlund...

And the self-promotion that just joined is just a trivial matter after all, even if he gets the blessing of Mr. Fool, the help he can give is limited after all, and he can't stop the other party's plan.

Thinking about it, Adele felt more and more that everything she saw was just the tip of the iceberg, and there would always be more and more shady things sinking under the water.

Taking two deep breaths, trying to calm herself down, Adele put away the notebook as much as possible without attracting Tracy's attention, picked up the pen, and seemingly casually drew two curved lines on the white paper on the table .

It is not ruled out that Tracy noticed her actions. To be on the safe side, Adele did not directly mark the route she guessed on the map, but left a mark on the white paper that looked like a pen when she was testing it. Two ink lines so that only she can see it.

"The results of the investigation have been confirmed."

At this time, Tracy raised her head with a strange expression, and said to Adele:
"Guess, how many Extraordinary people are on that boat?"

"Ten?" Adele, who was not very interested, randomly picked up a number.

The standing standard on a Loen warship is no more than a six-member team. Considering that the opponent may be a ship that passed through the Misty Sea after all, Adele deliberately overestimated.

"No." Tracy shook her head, her face still full of surprise.

"Stop messing around, if you find something that needs attention through divination, tell me quickly."

Adele was not in the mood to play charades with Tracy, and kept urging her.

"not a single one."

To Adele's surprise, Tracy spread out her palms, "I can't even see anyone on the boat."

……

"not a single one?"

Adele confirmed suspiciously, "You mean, an empty ship drifted across the entire fog from Intis... No, the Sea of ​​​​Storm?"

Since she was still thinking about the channel, she almost blurted out the word "sea of ​​mist", but fortunately, Tracy didn't pay attention to this small slip of the tongue.

"To be honest, I was as shocked as you when I saw it."

Tracy turned the mirror over, the black liquid on it was about to run out, and the scene became a little blurry, but Adele still saw the ship's deck, observation deck and forecastle, these three should have been The place where the sailors frequently moved was empty at this time, and the flag on the ship was still fluttering in the wind.

"how can that be?"

Adele rubbed her eyes, although she knew that the probability of her and Tracy being dazzled at the same time was so low that it was negligible, and even the Ruen government rarely used the excuse of collective dazzledness when explaining extraordinary phenomena, but at this time She really hoped she was dazzled.

However, things backfired. Not only these positions, Adele and Tracy changed several perspectives, checked the captain's cabin, ammunition room, kitchen and other important cabins, but found no one.

The restaurant still has fresh-looking food, the weapons in the gunpowder magazine are also well maintained, and the 24 cannons on both sides of the hull are polished, but the sailors and crew who did all this have disappeared, like ghosts .

Even the ripples on the perceptual water sphere disappeared, which meant that the boat was now unmanned and unmanned.

The two witches looked at each other in the captain's room until the light on the divination mirror dimmed, and the spirituality of the spiritual materials used for divination was completely exhausted.

"Did it really float over?"

Adele was puzzled, "Is this unlikely?"

"It's simply impossible. If an empty ship without sailors can pass through the violent sea, then those noble families in Intis who were enshrined as earls for discovering the New World should all be deprived of their titles."

Tracy replied equally puzzled. As a sailor, she was even more incomprehensible to such things that violated common sense.

"Where did those crew members go?"

However, just when the two were puzzled, the black water polo in the center of the room produced small ripples again, and the ripples continued to spread and become larger, and the source of the ripples was constantly moving away from the point in the center of the water polo that symbolized the "Snow Wind".

(End of this chapter)