Chapter 148: The Master
"How fast is it now?" Charles, standing in the cockpit, staring at the charts, asked.
"Chapter 15, Captain," Knona asked Charles with his eyes shiny after reporting.
"Captain, this time the voyage is completed, there should be a long rest time, right? Since you have occupied a living island, my goal has been achieved. I want to take a leave to go back to Volcano Island and take my family over."
"Yes, after the God of Light comes, you can go back with their ship. When I get to the top and stabilize, I will send someone to pick you up." Charles agreed.
Knona shook the helm in his hand, looking at Charles's back, feeling a little reluctant but stopped.
"Speak up if you have anything, don't hesitate."
"Captain, if there is really a place of light, you probably wouldn't stay with us on Hope Island, right?"
Charles glanced at him without saying a word and continued to look at the chart on the wall.
Knona smiled embarrassedly. "Actually, everyone can feel your desire to go back. The ship doctor said that you don't have any nostalgia for this sea area, you are always running away from here."
Charles took the pocket watch and looked at the time, and used a pen to draw a dotted line on the wall.
After looking at Charles's face, Knona spoke again and said, "Captain, if you go up, you won't be able to pick me up. Even if the Narwhal no longer sails, you will always be my captain."
"You don't go to the surface? Why?" Charles, who was very surprised, turned his head and looked at the second mate.
"Captain, just as your world is above, and my world is in the sea. I have fulfilled my wish and I plan to spend my next life on Hope Island."
"Have you heard me tell you about the situation above? Why do you want to stay in such a ghost place?"
"Because I have become a person in the island. I don't want to make trouble anymore."
"Everyone above can live the life of a person who is interested in the island."
"That's why I don't want to go up!" Kenona's voice suddenly shone.
He breathed quickly and shouted indignantly: "I finally became a superior person, so I don't want to go to a place where everyone is equal!! I want to enjoy the privileges of the island's heart! I want to live the same life as other island's hearts! Do whatever I want!!"
Charles looked at his second mate with some complexity. He didn't expect that the second mate didn't want to go up was this.
"Am I wishful thinking? Perhaps the surface is heaven for me, but it may not be that beautiful for them?"
The air in the cabin was a little dull. "Captain, why don't you just stay here as the governor? What do you want here? Why do you need-"
"Okay, I don't want to discuss this with you. Push the boat towards Monzi's boat and I'll see how it's going on over there." Charles interrupted him.
Since he doesn't want to, it's all right, and he doesn't want to force it.
Knona swallowed the words in her mouth and silently turned the rudder.
When he saw Monzi's ship searchlight coming, Charles walked out of the cockpit and lifted his prosthetic limb towards the exploration ship not far away.
The anchor hook shot on the opposite hull in an instant, and Charles' heart moved slightly, and the chain contracted and quickly pulled him over.
Looking at the captain leaving, Knona took out a pendant on her chest, stared straight at it for a while, and then put it back again. His eyes turned slightly red. "Misha, don't worry, I am also a person in the island now, I can grab you back."
As soon as he got on the boat, Charles saw a purple crystal the size of a grapefruit kept in a glass bottle, tightly held by Meng Qi.
Seeing Charles fly over, Mengqi greeted him. "Governor General, the crystal has just lit up for a while. I judged that if I leaned over a little, I should be able to contact him."
"There will be no problem at the critical moment of your relics, right?" Charles said with his index finger at the crystal.
"Absolutely no problem. This teleportation crystal is a family heirloom of our family. It was discovered by my great-grandfather in the belly of a big fish. It has been used for almost a hundred years. It has saved its lives several times."
Charles stared at the crystal, and inexplicably felt like the crystal was also staring at him.
After looking at Monzi, who was full of gloomy face, Charles was a little away, and the side effects of this relic were probably quite good.
Just as Charles was about to ask what the cost of using this crystal would be, Mengqi squinted his eyes and looked over there. "Governor, look over there, there is something."
Charles turned around quickly and soon saw a hazy white under the water in the distance.
"Stop looking, when it doesn't exist, slogan the Narwhal and let them go." Charles immediately gave the most rational order.
Whatever it is, Charles doesn't want to have troubles at this time.
The bright yellow flag swayed quickly, and the fleet began to turn quickly, away from the hazy cool color.
Just when Charle thought that this incident was just a small episode, the ball of white suddenly appeared again, and this time it was closer, so close that Charles could see the deck covered with barnacles.
It was a steam boat, a ghost ship sailing under the water.
The thick barnacles and coral hull emitted the cold light of the moon, making the wreck very conspicuous underwater.
As expected, there was nothing good when the critical moment came. Charles's face looked ugly.
At a glance, you knew that this thing was targeting him. Charles did not hesitate and immediately issued an attack order.
As the cannon continued to sound, the water column more than ten meters high continued to splash, but when the water surface calmed down, the thing did not damage at all, as if it was a reflection on the sea surface.
Seeing that the shell was useless, Charles took out his short thunder and lightning staff.
At this moment, the ghost ship quickly floated to the sea, and the disgusting stinking sludge spread rapidly, and a translucent green man walked out of the ghost ship's cabin.
It seemed to be a ghost. He did not wear the usual outfit of the captain of the Earth and Sea, but was wearing a capable naval uniform.
Just as everyone on the boat was looking at it with horror, the ghost politely saluted Charles not far away.
"Hello, sir, I am the captain of the transport ship D134. I am lost now. Please tell me where Dongnuode is."
Looking at the strange ghost, Charles thought quickly and slowly spoke: "I don't understand where Dongnode you are talking about."
Whatever it was, he didn't want to irritate the ghost.
Chapter completed!