After secretly "assisting" the sailors in repairing the leaky bottom of the boat with the help of the Annunciation, Fang Zheng returned to his room to rest. He originally thought that Katie's misfortune had ended there.
But what Fang Zheng didn't expect was that this was just the beginning.
Fang Zheng woke up early the next morning, but she didn't wake up naturally. Instead, she was woken up by the noise outside.
"Ugh...what happened?"
Hearing the quarrel, Hu Tao also turned over and climbed up from the bed, rubbing his eyes. Fang Zheng shook his head, then he stretched out his hand to push open the door and walked onto the deck. Then, Fang Zheng saw the captain holding a whip and whipping a thin sailor hard.
"You idiot! What did I tell you to do! You idiot!! Look what you did?!!"
"What's wrong? Wait, why are you hitting someone?"
At this moment, Walnut also came out. He was shocked when he saw this scene and hurried forward to stop it. The captain glared at the sailor, then kicked him to the ground and sighed helplessly.
"Miss Mercenary, you don't know the situation. This idiot was supposed to be on guard last night, but he actually fell asleep! And now, we have been pushed off course by an ocean current that came from nowhere. In short... we are lost!!"
…Meow meow meow? ?
Hearing this, Fang Zheng's eyes widened immediately, and then he silently glanced at Katie who was standing next to him...
Is this young lady's curse of misfortune not over yet?
"Deviating from the route? What's going on?"
At this moment, other passengers also came over and were shocked when they heard what the captain said.
"Hey, don't you have any solution? You should have a compass!"
"The compass was lost in the previous storm. I have sent people to look for it, but I don't know if it is still on the ship..."
“Haha…”
Hearing this, Fang Zheng sighed helplessly, and then she walked forward.
"I know a little bit about magic, maybe I can help you..."
"Really? Great, Miss Mercenary!!"
The captain did not doubt Fang Zheng's words. Some mercenaries did know some basic spells. Of course, they might not be as good as regular mages, but sometimes they could work wonders. The captain himself had been traveling around for many years and had seen many mercenaries. So when he heard this cute red-haired girl with twin ponytails say that she knew magic, he was immediately happy.
"Please help us determine the location..."
"no problem."
For Fang Zheng, this was certainly no problem. She stretched out her hand, whispered a few words, and quickly determined the direction. Then the captain took out the nautical chart and compared it with the magic cast by Fang Zheng. He finally figured out their current location, and then immediately changed direction and headed back to the destination.
Seeing that the matter was resolved satisfactorily, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and returned to their cabins. After yesterday's storm and the leaking bottom of the boat, which took a long time to fix, everyone was already exhausted. Now they were almost having a heart attack, so those who had nothing to do went back to their rooms to rest.
“What bad luck…”
Back in the cabin, Kurumi also muttered something.
"I've been on a boat before, but I've never seen anything like this. It's really strange."
“…”
Hearing Walnut's mumbling, Katie trembled for a moment, then lowered her head and said nothing. However, Fang Zheng had already seen that the little fellow had almost curled up into a ball.
The rest of the journey was uneventful. Although the atmosphere in the cabin was a little gloomy, after Fang Zheng made grilled fish and fish soup, everyone felt much more relaxed. It might not be delicious, but it was still a very pleasant feeling to be on the boat and eat grilled fish while looking at the endless sea.
By the way, all the fish were caught by Hu Tao, and Kurumi didn't catch any.
This shows that it also depends on luck.
After eating the fish soup, everyone stayed in the cabin to rest and chat. However, Katie obviously had no interest in chatting, or the young lady began to use her powerful invisibility ability again. As they chatted, they felt that they could not find Katie. Fortunately, the young lady did not move, and they could catch her as long as they found the right place and took a look.
Soon, the sun sets, the bright red sun slowly falls below the horizon, the whole world begins to gradually become dim, and this ordinary day is about to end...
“Ding ding ding ding ding!!!”
The shrill and rapid sound of bells broke the silence on the ship. Hearing the sudden sound, Fang Zheng, Kuang San and Kurumi jumped up immediately, and Katie raised her head like a frightened hamster, looking around anxiously. Not long after, the sailor's shouting from outside penetrated the entire cabin.
"pirate!!"
"Bang!!"
At the same time, as if to prove his words, accompanied by a dull explosion, everyone felt the ship tremble slightly, and then someone shouted again.
"The cargo hold was hit and caught fire. Someone come and put out the fire!"
“…”
Hearing this, everyone looked at each other, then rushed out of the cabin again.
When Fang Zheng and his party came to the deck again, they saw a pirate ship biting the side of the ship tightly behind it, firing shells from time to time and flying towards them. Although most of the shells failed to hit the target due to insufficient range, a few shells still hit the hull and ignited a raging fire.
"Put out the fire! Put out the fire! Damn it! Fight back! Fight back quickly! Over there, aim and shoot!!"
The captain was almost mad at this time. While directing the sailors to put out the fire, he strode to the cannon, took a cannonball and loaded it, then aimed at the pirate ship in the distance.
No one noticed that at this moment, Fang Zheng was standing not far behind the captain. Her fingers trembled slightly in the air, outlining a series of magic runes, and then the mysterious power quietly and silently entered into it through the barrel of the gun.
"Damn bastard, go to hell!"
The captain shouted, then he pulled hard, and the next moment with a loud "bang", the cannonball whizzed out of the barrel and flew towards the pirate ship in the distance.
However, no one noticed the almost invisible dark red color attached to the shell.
"boom!!"
However, the next moment, everyone saw the pirate ship in the distance suddenly explode, flames shot up into the sky, and the entire ship was completely torn into pieces as if it had been hit by a missile.
Seeing this scene, even the captain himself was stunned, and the others were also stunned. After a moment, they suddenly cheered loudly.
"Captain, you are awesome!"
"You hit their ammunition depot with one shot. You are worthy of being the captain!!"
Obviously, everyone thought that the captain's previous cannonball hit the pirate ship's ammunition depot, which directly caused the explosion. The captain himself widened his eyes, slapped himself hard a few times, and then grinned triumphantly.
"Hahaha, Goddess bless you, this is Goddess bless you! This time when we land, I will invite all of you to the Pipe Tavern! Let's drink to our heart's content! For this cannonball!"
“Captain, Captain…!!”
However, before the captain finished his words, he saw another sailor rushing over.
"What's wrong? What happened again?"
“Whirlpool——!!”
The next moment, the sailor shouted something that was enough to make everyone's scalp tingle.
"Big whirlpool, there is a big whirlpool in the channel ahead of us!!"
"What?!!"
Hearing this, the captain's face suddenly changed. He pushed away the sailor beside him, rushed forward in two steps, then raised the telescope and looked into the distance.
The next moment, his face suddenly turned pale.
Fang Zheng, who was not far away, helplessly reached out his hands to cover his face.
Will this ever end?