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Conquer the sea, the White Pearl.
In the dark night, the huge cruise ship was cutting through the waves and moving forward. In the roaring waves, the huge ship was carrying a long track as it sailed forward.
In a cabin against the side of the ship, Dorothy was sitting on her sofa with a frown on her face, analyzing the important intelligence she had just eavesdropped on.
'Hymohois... a giant sea monster with the blood of the Abyss Serpent according to legend... one of the objects of worship of the Abyss Cult... based on current information, the captain of this ship, Costa, a large part of the crew, and the jewel collector Massimo... may all be members of the Abyss Cult.
"Heh... Do I have some kind of fate with the cult? I can meet a new one whenever I go out, and it's the same afterbirth. How many of them are there?"
Dorothy couldn't help but complain in her heart, starting from the Holy Communion in Igwynt, the Wolfblood Society in Pettivian, and now the Sea Abyss Cult that is conquering the sea, Dorothy has encountered three cults that are related to the Afterbirth along the way. There are already three cults of different sizes. She has encountered two of the three Afterbirth Cults, and now she hasn't encountered the Filthy Order yet.
'Although I thought about whether I would encounter other associations before traveling, that was only after I reached my destination. I didn't expect to encounter them while I was still on the road.
'Speaking of which... When I first took the train to Tivian, I also encountered the Eight Pointed Ones causing trouble, but that time they just killed someone and robbed something, it was not as outrageous as this time. Now these guys actually want to sacrifice the entire ship! '
Dorothy was thinking anxiously in her heart that based on the conversation between Costa and Massimo, combined with what she had read in "The Atlas of the Sea", it was obvious that this group of cultists of the Sea Abyss wanted to hold a sacrificial ceremony to sacrifice all the thousands of passengers on the ship, including herself, to Hemohois!
'No wonder the ship began to quietly deviate from its original course. It turned out to be heading towards the sea area where the sea monster lives. If what is said in the "Lost Sea Map" is true, and the sea monster really has the blood of the Abyss Serpent in its body, then it is related to the true God and may have some kind of divinity. This is not something I, a layman, can handle now.
"So... no matter what, we must stop this ritual before it is completed. If the sea monster is summoned, there will be no way to escape."
Sitting on the sofa, Dorothy thought seriously in her heart. Now she was very glad that she chose the Thundercaller as her first simulated profession. If it were not for the Thundercaller's unique ability to sense the planet's magnetic field and thus determine the course, she would not even be able to detect the deviation of the ship. She could only wait foolishly for the group of cultists to drive the ship into the sea monster's lair.
After realizing the danger that she and all the crew members on board were in, Dorothy began to think seriously about the current countermeasures. Her primary goal now was to stop the sacrificial ceremony, no matter what method she used.
'How about we fight those guys directly? No... Judging from the anti-detection measures outside the captain's cabin, the captain is undoubtedly a Cretaceous Wave Path Extraordinary. The tone of the jewel collector when talking to the captain was very arrogant, without any respect or humility. His status seemed to be equal to that of the captain. In this case, he might also be a Cretaceous being.
"If we analyze it this way, this ship is equivalent to having two white chalks from the Waves Path, a number of black soils and apprentices. In the case of the other party's sea battle, I have only one white chalk and Neveu has only one black soil. It can be said that it is very difficult to fight against them. The key is that there is no official extraordinary force to use as leverage on this isolated ship overseas, so the reporting method will not work."
Dorothy analyzed in her mind that in the past, when she was fighting against powerful enemies, she liked to borrow the power of official extraordinary organizations such as the Security Bureau and even the church. However, in the current environment, she had no way to report it. The only other force she could mobilize was Neveu, so it would be very difficult to fight against the Sea Abyss Church this time.
'It is unrealistic to fight them directly. Not to mention the field issues and the gap in strength, launching a Cretaceous-level extraordinary war in such a closed environment on this ship is very likely to cause widespread harm to innocent people.
'Even if I don't care about innocent people, even if I can defeat those two guys and their gang in a direct fight, what if they get cornered and the ship sinks? If the ship breaks down or sinks, the cultists in the Wave Path will be fine and can swim back with their abilities, but I and the other passengers will be in trouble... Therefore, we can't fight these cultists directly unless it is absolutely necessary.
"So... we need to seriously think of other methods."
After making up her mind not to come into conflict with the cultists, Dorothy began to think about other ways to stop the ritual. She continued to control the small corpse dolls scattered around the ship, and continued to carefully observe the movements on the ship, especially Costa and Massimo. Dorothy tried to find some more clues to break the deadlock.
After the secret meeting, Massimo left the captain's cabin and returned to his own cabin not far away, which was also protected by water vapor, to rest. After observing the layout of the two people's rooms, Dorothy canceled her original assassination plan.
"The rooms of these two guys are too close. If I attack one of them, the other will be alert very quickly. There are also Beyonder sailors guarding the door of each person. In addition, both of them are Cretaceous Cups with strong vitality and abnormality. It is almost impossible to assassinate them both silently without causing any resistance, not to mention that they have any Beyonder means to save their lives..."
After observing the situation, Dorothy gave up the idea of assassinating Costa and Massimo directly, because if she couldn't kill these two guys silently, it would develop into a head-on war. And it was too difficult to assassinate two chalk "cups" at the same time. Even an elephant would be easier to kill than them.
Theoretically, Dorothy's methods of killing a white chalk with one strike were based on connecting the opponent with spiritual threads, either using the corpse puppet to transmit fatal injuries, or controlling it with spiritual threads and then using a fully charged thunderbolt. And these two guys would not lie outside drunk and wait for Dorothy to draw puppet marks on them.
Assassination didn't work, Dorothy began to think about other possibilities, and soon she focused her attention on the jewel that Costa and Massimo had mentioned before - the Deep Blue Heart.
"This Deep Blue Heart... looks like the key item in this sacrificial ritual. According to those two guys, the Deep Blue Heart must be installed on the bow to attract the Seamohois lurking in the abyss. This is why the Deep Blue Heart stand must be installed on the bow... Since this sapphire is the key item in the ritual, can I stop the ritual if I can get my hands on it?"
Sitting on the sofa in the cabin, Dorothy thought so in her heart, and then she continued to mobilize the small corpse dolls on the ship to search for the whereabouts of the Deep Blue Heart, and soon she got the result.
Using the corpse doll on the ship, Dorothy saw that the towering angel statue on the bow of the White Pearl was now covered with a layer of white cloth. The large white cloth was fixed to the railing and completely covered the angel statue. Only a vague outline could be seen from the outside.
Looking at the angel statue covered with white cloth, Dorothy remembered what Massimo had said before. He said that the Deep Blue Heart would be placed in advance, which means that before this, the Deep Blue Heart might have been placed, and it is now in the hands of the angel statue.
After realizing this, Dorothy began to let her small corpse continue to come to the front deck and quietly approach the Deep Blue Heart. At this time, she found that although it was not night, there were many sailors gathered on the front deck patrolling back and forth. Some of the sailors were still looking at the angel statue covered with cloth on the bow in the distance from time to time during the patrol. It seemed that they were really guarding it.
Seeing this scene, Dorothy controlled the small corpse dolls to sneak towards the bow. Finally, after bypassing the guarding sailors, Dorothy's several small corpse dolls successfully climbed onto the angel statue under the white cloth, and climbed all the way up along the angel statue. Finally, with the help of the corpse doll's vision, Dorothy successfully saw the blue gem placed in the angel's hand.
In the darkness covered by the white cloth, a deep blue light emanates from the angel's raised hands. Looking closely, a huge blue gem is quietly placed in the angel's folded hands, as if a deep and brilliant light from the depths of the gem is shining softly. This fascinating light is blocked by the white cloth and cannot shine to the outside world.
"This is a beautiful gemstone... and it's self-luminous. This kind of unusual thing is obviously an extraordinary item. Not to mention the extraordinary people, ordinary people can tell its extraordinaryness after seeing it. No wonder it can't be displayed in the port, but needs to be displayed at sea under the pretext of a jewelry exhibition."
Looking at the big sapphire in the angel's hand, Dorothy thought in her heart, this deep blue heart exudes a deep spiritual light, it is a very obvious extraordinary item, and it is most likely the extraordinary item of the "Cup".
After discovering that the Deep Blue Heart was in the hands of the angel statue, Dorothy immediately began to figure out how to get it off. She had her small corpse puppet try the Deep Blue Heart again and again under the cover of a white cloth, but in the end she failed to successfully remove the Deep Blue Heart. Dorothy then began a comprehensive investigation of the angel statue and the Deep Blue Heart, and then discovered that ordinary means would not work at all to remove the sapphire.
After Dorothy's inspection, she found that the interface of the angel's hand seemed to be specially made for the Deep Blue Heart. After the Deep Blue Heart was placed on it, a series of complex mechanisms firmly fixed it on the angel's hand, almost connecting it to the entire angel statue. The angel statue was forged from a solid piece of steel. Except for the wings which were installed later, the others were all solid. The base of the angel statue was perfectly connected to the entire bow.
Just as Massimo himself boasted, it would be a very difficult task to either remove the Deep Blue Heart from the angel statue or to destroy the entire angel statue.
In Dorothy's estimation, let alone swinging a sledgehammer to smash the gem down, even if she used explosives to blow up the entire bow, the gem would probably still be in the hand of the twisted angel statue that had been deformed by the explosion. Besides, the explosives she carried on her were not enough to blow up the bow.
'It's a bit troublesome. In the current situation, even if we use violent means, it will be extremely difficult to take down the Deep Blue Heart. Moreover, violent means usually come with a lot of noise. Even if we succeed in taking down the Deep Blue Heart, it will definitely attract those two guys, and then there will inevitably be another fight.'
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