Dark clouds shrouded the Black Crow, and Norman could only hear the violent turbulence of the water outside the dark clouds. The helmsman didn't pay much attention to the change in the environment. He whistled and looked at the palm-sized lens in front of him, then turned to look at Sarah who looked curious.
Non and Norman made disdainful expressions and continued to sail. As the lenses moved, the surrounding environment also moved. Now the Black Crow was driving in a waterway with the edge visible.
Is this entering the water? Are we in the sea now? Norman and Shanon came to the edge of the boat and tried to look out of the thick dark clouds, but Zozo came behind them with long strides and grabbed one with one hoof.
The back collar: "Don't stand beside the boat. If a fish or stone blows away the sea clouds, the two of you will be swept away by the ocean current."
Norman tried to struggle. Every time he was beaten by the people on the ship, Norman would be lifted up by the collar. However, Zozo silenced Norman with a headbutt: "If you two brats are interested in Haiyun, go to Dio, he will
There should still be some Haiyun left. Don't think that I care about you, but that the boss has arranged the task for you in South Stella." Then Norman and Shanon were thrown to the ground casually, and Norman even hit a bulge on the ground.
A vertical plank of wood.
But now is not the time to cry out in pain. Norman and Shannon got up and came to Dio, the lookout who was furling the sail: "Dio! What are sea clouds? Why can we breathe in the water? Will the clouds disperse? Will they disperse?
Will we suffocate in the water?" A series of questions bothered Dio like a barrage, and Dio kicked two children down: "It's so noisy, you bastards, come and furl the sail!"
At this time, Norman was becoming more and more like Arthur when he was a child in terms of seeking knowledge. He took the hemp rope thrown by Dior without hesitation, and worked with Shannon to furl the main sail. There was no need for a canvas under the water. Dior sat down.
On the board of the ship: "What's the use of you two knowing so much? This time I went to South Stella to hear rumors that you weren't... Forget it, I'll tell you because you're curious. Haiyun was made by people on all the sea islands.
The object looks like a cloud on the surface, but it is actually something similar to a cement mixture. I don’t know the details. I am not one of those bachelor professors. I don’t know the mystery. I only know that sea clouds can preserve other things in various forms.
Items, especially the sea clouds we use, contain oxygen. The cultivation method has been around since the old calendar. At first, I heard that only a small piece of sea cloud could be cultivated. Later, there were sea clouds that could wrap a ship. Two sacks of sea clouds were stored.
The air can last for ten days. As long as you don't push the sea clouds with sticks to your death, we will all be in peace. Any small collision will soon be made up for by other sea clouds."
Norman gritted his teeth and put away the main sail, and another lookout on the mast tied the canvas with a hemp rope. The work on the deck was completed, and Norman sat down next to Dio. At this time, Dio was coming from
He took out a piece of Star Fireweed root from his pocket, crushed it into pieces and rolled it in tissue paper. He also took out a match and lit the end of it, and inhaled deeply the Star Fireweed smoke: "After entering Nanstra, at the water channel
Oxygen bubbles are provided in some places. Once you arrive, you won’t need Haiyun. This cost Haiyun 500 Ed. I have to put them away again..."
As Dior began to ramble, Norman patted Shannon on the back, and the two children slipped from the rope ladder into their sailor's cabin on the next floor. They were not willing to continue to listen to Dior's nagging. Generally speaking, Dior
The complaint will last for more than half an hour. The structure of the cabin is extremely simple. Apart from ten hammocks hanging on the auxiliary poles, there are only two wooden cabinets for storage. Shanon will often clean the cabinets. At this time, Norman is sitting
Swinging her legs in her hammock: "Shannon, tell me, what on earth did that guy from Cavendi want us to do in South Stella?" When there were only two children around, they would use all kinds of insults.
Words to describe Cavendi, Zozo, Abby and others. Of course, this is a secret only between the two children.
Shannon took out a few pieces of old notebook paper from under the pillow of her hammock, and carefully took out half a bottle of red ink from the cabinet. She dipped the end of the straw in the ink and wrote crookedly on the paper. Norman knew this.
The ink was given to Shannon by Cavendi half a month ago. At the same time, he asked the ship's doctor, old Jeff, to teach Shannon how to read and write. Norman just watched Shannon write the words stroke by stroke. When he was at KazNorman Academy, he
Her godmother Elise once taught Norman how to read and write, so sometimes Shannon would ask Norman how to write. Shannon muttered the spelling and writing words in her mouth, and it took half a minute to answer Norman's question:
"I didn't quite understand it before. Both the pig and Cavendi mentioned goods. What goods do we need to get from the mermaid? Didn't I follow Cavendi in the orc tribe of the Southern Continent for a while? They have a variety of goods.
There is a variety of everything. Just like the white wine you almost burned before, Cavendi suddenly decided to bring it back to Constantinople to sell it three months ago, and then used a telegraph to tell the people of the Birmingham family in the Eastern Continent.
Apply for the qualification to sell white wine, what kind of goods will you get this time?"
Norman shook his legs disdainfully: "I heard my former godfather say that the mermaid's most famous goods are pearls and raw materials. Cavendi refused to say it clearly. It must be something illegal so that other people who are not members of the Birmingham family cannot let it go.
The sailors know that I am not willing to help them do this kind of thing! I will definitely run away secretly in the future! Shanon, don’t join Birmingham. Run away with me when you get to the Eastern Continent. I have people I know in the Eastern Continent.
oh..."
"Yes, yes, you have said it dozens of times. Your aunt is in the Eastern Continent, right? She is the first female internal medicine doctor. Her husband is her assistant. She is also proficient in surgery. When we get to the Eastern Continent, I will
I tried to find a way for you to escape, but I let it go. Although Cavendi is a bastard, and although the Birmingham family are all bastards, they were the ones who saved me..."
Norman no longer insisted. The aunt he mentioned was Arthur's sister, the former little nurse Li Qi. With the help of George, one of the three military generals in Brighton City, Li Qi was 24 years old.
She officially became the first female physician in orthodox medicine in the new era of mankind. At the same time, Tino and Lizzie also got married. The reason why Norman did not choose to escape on the Black Crow was because he could find a way to go to Constantinople after arriving in Constantinople.
The city of Stofaya where Liqi is located.
Then you don't have to be bullied anymore, Norman thought.
The sound of ringing bells came from the deck, followed by the chef's voice: "It's time to eat! Today's lunch is potato and whitebait soup!"
...
The Black Crow, wrapped in sea clouds, sailed out of the waterway and docked between two boulders. Next to it were two whale shark mermaids who directed the ship to berth. The largest number of people living in South Stella City were shark mermaids, who controlled the traffic.
The mermaid is the whale shark mermaid. Norman hid in the cabin on the deck used for temporary rest and peeped at the sailors using fishing nets and sacks to collect the sea clouds again, while Cavendi was discussing something with the two whale shark mermaids.
Norman shifted his gaze to the bubbles that replaced Haiyun and allowed him to breathe. Norman had seen something similar. It was the water witchcraft mirror world of his grandfather, Principal Parrish. The bubbles surrounding the Black Crow now looked crystal clear.
The world in the clear mirror is similar.
Shanon was leaning on Norman's back and also looking at the bubbles. He had been asking Norman quietly whether the bubbles would burst. Norman interrupted Shanon who was interested in breathing bubbles and asked: "Shannon,
Look, Cavendi gave 20 crystal shells to two mermaids, why is that?"
"Protection fee, Norman, that's the protection fee. I saw Cavendi give it to the orcs when I was in the orc tribe. We are now in someone else's territory. These fees are for the mermaids to help us take care of our ships, and at the same time, let some mermaids take care of our ships."
The goods turned a blind eye." Shanon was not surprised by this. He made a gesture of counting money: "No matter what race or what kind of person, money is the best way to solve the problem. Yes.
Well, the Karl family, I asked when I was helping in the kitchen a few days ago. They are our opponents who have the same way of making money as us. The trouble is that the opposite party has more people and better equipment than us. You know, that is
As for the guns, we only have three percussion guns, which don’t have many bullets and are of poor quality. Moreover, the chef Bruce told me that a few days ago, Zozo was drunk and mentioned that the Carl family ship was already sailing on the South Stella route. We
It is very possible to meet someone from the Karl family in Nanstra."
Norman seemed to understand. For a six-year-old, he only had a partial understanding of many things. He didn't care what Shannon said. At that moment, Saozuo passed behind the two of them holding a square wooden box: "Get ready, kiddos.
Going into town. Go find Abby and get two pieces."
Shanon heard this and tugged on Norman's clothes. The two turned and ran to Abby at the stern of the ship. At this time, Abby was squatting next to the box where the guns and short-hand soldiers were stored in the Black Crow's suit, holding the star fire grass in her mouth.
After arriving at Norman and Shanon, he waved to the children: "Kid, come here, both of you." After rummaging through the miscellaneous tools, he threw two knives as long as his index fingers to Norman and Shanon.
Shanon. "It's for your self-defense. Please pay more attention to your own safety when you get to the city."
Just as Norman was about to ask something, the deck of the Black Crow became much brighter. Haiyun had been collected by Dio and others, while Cavendi and Zozo were loading the goods onto the backs of five seahorses brought by the whale shark and mermaid.
He is 1.5 meters long, with a curved head and an upright body. The head is similar to a horse's head, and his dorsal fins are in two rows. Cavendi is currently standing on the back dorsal fin of a seahorse, pulling the reins, surrounded by a circle of transparent foam. At this moment, Cavendi is standing on the back of a seahorse.
Cavendi was like a king in the old days. He pointed at Norman and said: "Kid, you and I ride a seahorse, Shanon, you and Saozu ride one, Abby, Ishan Manda,
Dio, you take the other three horses."
During this month of getting along, Norman roughly understood that among the ten remaining pig-headed orcs and sixteen humans on the ship, only eight belonged to the Birmingham family. The boss Cavendi, his right-hand men Zozo and Abby, and the thug Ishan Manda
, a young thug with a girl's name like Shanon, the old ship's doctor Jeff, the lookout Dio, and another pig-headed orc, Zog, who is slightly slimmer than Zog, also carried the box and chatted with Zog at the beginning.
Pig-headed men. These two pig-headed men are usually the most afraid of Cavendi on the ship.
Norman carefully climbed onto the seahorse's back, stepped on the seahorse's hard dorsal fin, and hugged Cavendi tightly. Cavendi shook his body and asked Norman to relax: "Kid, have you got the weapon?"
"Yes, a pocket knife."
Cavendi nodded with satisfaction: "Then get ready to go and get what belongs to us."