The moment the ship crashed into the windless zone, Nagamasa felt that something had changed.
He heard the roar of thunder and lightning becoming deeper, and the storm that was still raging not far away suddenly calmed down. The noise that originally filled his ears disappeared, leaving only a world of silence.
He felt that even the air was stagnant, his breathing became difficult, the originally light air became heavy, and even his own reactions began to become stagnant.
However, the next moment, like the spring breeze blowing on the side of his face, Nagamasa felt that everything was back to normal. He took a big breath of fresh air, turned back and looked at the storm behind the ship.
The strong wind outside the windless zone still continues, but in the windless zone, the years are peaceful.
The ship stopped less than a hundred meters away from the edge of the windless zone. It seemed that even a violent storm would be difficult for the ship to take advantage of the situation to penetrate deeper.
Or to put it another way, those who can sail in the windless zone mostly have some kind of extraordinary ability.
Nagamasa looked into the depths of the windless zone. He saw that the sea water was as smooth as a mirror, with no ripples caused by the sea breeze. He took a button from his pocket and threw it into the sea.
I saw that button submerged in the water, causing a little splash, but soon the waves calmed down and returned to its original calm appearance.
"There's really no wind here."
While Nagamasa was sighing, he saw the sailors coming out of the cabin one after another and looking around curiously.
"What are you doing standing still? Take out that device."
Nagamasa hurriedly directed.
The sailors carried the heavy equipment up and installed it on the stern of the ship. Nagamasa poured a barrel of wine, threw the burning fire core into the spark plug, and started the steam engine.
"Um?"
He found that the machine was unresponsive and pulled the rope that set the piston in motion again.
This time, the sweet sound of engine running finally started.
The propeller turned and the whole ship began to move slowly.
"It's pretty good, but it's a bit wasteful."
Nagamasa sighed, took a big gulp of the wine in his hand, and then poured the rest into the steam engine.
Lu Jian also came to the deck.
Shia's spell ensured that there was no pollution around the ship. Lu Jian looked around with [True Sight], and countless words emerged.
[The power that makes everything stand still surrounds you here, don’t stop your steps]
[There seems to be something unusual ahead, so be careful]
[If you die here, your body will not decay for hundreds of years. Isn’t it very touching! 】
[It’s best to keep your voice down, in this quiet place, any movement will attract their attention]
"It seems there are other creatures here."
This is normal. Those monsters are drawn on the treasure map. Although the windless belt will make everything become still, there must be creatures that can rely on their own extraordinary abilities to save.
This can also explain that in such a quiet sea area, if something can move normally, it will definitely be noticed by those monsters quickly.
Like...now.
Lu Tiao glanced at the roaring steam engine.
The next moment, he felt some kind of throbbing.
Arriving at the bow of the ship, under the reflection of the starry sky, Lu Jian saw some kind of dark shadow gathering under the calm sea ahead.
Pollution attracts each other.
These monsters that can move freely in the windless zone must have suffered a lot of pollution. They will also crave other pollution. After catching someone entering the windless zone, they will follow the movement.
In Lu Jian's [True Sight], he could see the monster in full view.
It was a long snake-like monster, about as thick as an oil tanker. Its body was covered with sharp scales, and its head was covered with pale bone armor, just like the monster in the treasure map.
But this time Lu Kan saw clearly that it was not that the bones were wrapped outside the skin, but that the head itself had only bones.
Without skin, muscles and blood vessels, the head was empty, and the two eyes were flashing with blue flames. The flames burned violently in the sea water, illuminating a large area of the sea and dimming the stars.
The body of the long snake is also made of bones, without flesh and blood. It is like an undead that has been dead for many years crawling up from the pile of bones. Its bones are black and looming in the sea water.
This long snake was a full hundred meters long, enough to capsize the entire ship. It was very fast, and it was within a short distance of it in the blink of an eye.
Lu Jian stood at the bow of the ship, and a silver revolver [Last Words] materialized in his hand.
After loading the bullets of the great being's raving words, he aimed at the monster swimming over and shot decisively.
The invisible bullet suddenly hit the monster, and Lu Jian saw that the monster's movements were suddenly not so smooth.
It suddenly began to twist, causing waves in the water, breaking the calm sea surface. The monster headed towards the sky, and the flames in its eyes turned red and quickly spread to its whole body.
It seems that although these creatures can move in the windless zone, they are still unable to resist the ravings of the great being.
After all, this is the early Wajima, and the place should not have been so polluted yet, so these monsters do not have anti-pollution properties like dirt, and one bullet is more than enough.
This long snake got into the clouds, writhed in the sparse clouds, and released crimson lightning.
"It doesn't seem like it's enough."
Lu Tan watched as a layer of down quickly grew on the monster's black bones. The down quickly expanded and turned into flesh. In the blink of an eye, a big snake full of rotten flesh appeared above the clouds.
Although it fell into madness due to the ravings of the great being, it did not die directly, but only lost its original goal.
At the same time, due to the erosion of pollution, it began to release its own pollution to the surroundings. Fortunately, the windless zone itself has the characteristics of stagnation, and the diffusion progress of these pollutions was also extremely slow, and finally stagnated.
Then, an extremely strange situation occurred.
The rotten snake was tumbling in the clouds, and its speed suddenly slowed down.
Then, its movements froze.
The crimson thunder, the pitch-black clouds, and the looming big snake among the clouds were just frozen in mid-air.
It seems that it has always existed since the past, and it seems that it will always exist in the future.
"It seems that the reason has been affected, causing the extraordinary power to resist the characteristics of this sea area to fail, so it is bound here."
Shia glanced at it and turned around. The sailors stared at all this with their mouths agape, and there was an illusion that a nightmare had come into reality.
To a greater or lesser extent, their sanity must have been reduced.
With his mouth wide open, Axiang looked at the big snake frozen in mid-air, and suddenly inspiration came to him.
"If this place has such characteristics, then are there some ancient creatures that also remain here?"
"Or...human?"
Amidst the noise of the propellers, they soon saw a magnificent and brightly lit ship moored in the water ahead.