Based on Klein's experience of watching so many detective movies and animations, people who cover their faces with scarves and hide their body features with coats are most likely problematic and are likely hiding some unspeakable secrets, especially since it is not winter yet and the temperature in the Raging Sea is far from cold.
However, this has nothing to do with me. Even if a murder in a locked room occurs, the captain should be the one who has a headache... I will go above the gray fog and do some divination to see if this journey will be smooth... Klein thought, not caring much but not negligent at all.
He then withdrew his gaze and looked at the Desi grilled fish brought by the waiter.
After dinner, he returned to his cabin and completed a divination above the gray fog. He concluded that his environment would not change much and everything would go smoothly.
This allowed Klein to fall asleep easily without the help of meditation, and he slept until dawn.
The whistle sounded, and the passenger ship started to move slowly and left the port of Harman.
When the pier was still vaguely visible, Klein saw a figure suddenly appear there.
The figure was wearing a white shirt and a dark blue jacket. He had a high nose bridge, deep eye sockets, light blue eyes and slightly curly brown hair. His features were hard and his chin was slightly raised, giving a feeling that he looked down on everyone.
He glanced around and quickly locked onto the passenger ship that Klein was on.
At this moment, the sky suddenly darkened, as if it had become a door leading to a dark and illusory place.
A deafening hurricane rose from the bottom of the sea, mixed with a large amount of blue and rushed straight upwards. The deep lightning was like a crack in the void, constantly appearing and disappearing due to self-healing.
This blocks all sight lines between the ferry and the pier, making the two seem like they are in different worlds.
The raging sea once again showed its horror.
The passenger ship could not avoid or resist and could only continue to move forward along the safe channel where the storm was weaker.
What a coincidence... This can't be a coincidence... Klein, standing behind the glass window of the cabin, first sighed inwardly, and then thought that there were unnatural factors behind the sudden changes in the violent sea.
Although it is normal for the weather in the stormy sea to change suddenly, it is still suspicious if it changes at a certain point.
"Is the gentleman at the dock tracking down the suspicious passenger who boarded the ship last night? And when that passenger realized his whereabouts had been exposed, he simply changed the weather to force the passenger ship to move away?" Klein thought of what happened before and had some vague guesses.
And if that's true, it means that the suspicious traveler with a scarf covering his face is likely to be a demigod, or carrying a "1" level sealed object!
You know, with Klein's current strength and items, if he doesn't use the "Scepter of Poseidon", he won't be able to cause this level of celestial changes.
Of course, he might have another way, which is to throw out the Azik copper whistle to see if he can make the entire violent sea violent.
“Really? I just wanted to go to the southern continent like a normal rich man, but I encountered demigod-level pursuits along the way... Alas, I have endured too much pressure that does not belong to my sequence..." Klein laughed at himself and finally chose to believe the divination he did last night.
In the storm, the passenger ship sailed precariously along the relatively calm gaps in the doomsday-like scene, and most of the passengers on the ship had calm faces, as if they had already adapted to this state. Only a few who were passing through the violent sea for the first time were trembling with fear, clinging to whatever they could.
As time passed, the strong wind and lightning gradually subsided, and the sky became brighter.
At this moment, Klein, who was on the deck, was suddenly inspired and subconsciously turned his head to look at the place where Harman Port was located.
Above the undulating deep blue sea and below the scattered white clouds, a point of blazing white fire was flying towards them at high speed from far away.
The fire grew bigger and clearer, and finally took on its complete shape: a gigantic flaming spear!
The flaming spear streaked across the sky and landed on the front of the passenger ship's deck, but it did not ignite anything. It burned through half of the wooden board and simply scattered, reorganizing into a human figure.
This figure has a high nose bridge, deep eye sockets and blue eyes. He is exactly the man who suddenly appeared at the dock before!
He looked to be in his middle age. He looked around slowly, walked among the passengers with wide eyes and half-open mouths, and entered the cabin.
Dwayne Dantès, who was also "stunned", breathed a sigh of relief silently, confirming that the other party was really not looking for him.
His appearance just now was very handsome, worthy of being a demigod... The only problem now is that I hope the two of them don't fight. Even if a conflict is inevitable, try to go to the next sea, otherwise, the ship will be lost... I can "teleport" away by myself, which is still relatively smooth, but with so many passengers, how many can I save... Klein habitually drew a scarlet moon on his chest, praying for the goddess's protection.
Just as he had this thought, he saw a figure flying out of the cabin door and falling heavily on the deck. It was the suspicious passenger who had covered his face with a scarf.
At this time, half of the gentleman's face was exposed. The front of his nose was red, and he had a thick beard around his mouth with residual saliva.
His eyes were full of fear as he approached the triangle. He supported himself on the deck with both hands and kept moving his body backwards.
"Who told you to carry that thing and dress like this?" At the cabin door, the middle-aged man with a high nose and blue eyes walked out slowly and asked in a deep voice in Intis.
The suspicious traveler shook his head frantically and said:
"No, I don't know. He was dressed like this too. He gave it to me, gave me 100 pounds, and told me to take this ship to the southern continent and then return on my own!"
The middle-aged man watched silently, his eyes sharp as if he could see through a person's soul.
This made the suspicious traveler sweat profusely on his forehead, his body tremble violently, and he stammered as he began to explain again, but the content of his description did not change at all.
The man withdrew his gaze, and white flames suddenly rose from his body.
Then, he transformed into a giant flaming spear and threw it towards the area where Harman Port was located.
The flaming spear was getting farther and farther away, and soon only a little flame was left.
During the entire process, except for the very beginning, the demigod never even glanced at the passengers around him, as if they did not exist.
“A very simple yet clever trick… have someone pretend to board the ship and leave, and use some method to manipulate the celestial phenomena to create evidence that the person is on the ship. In fact, he stays in the port and waits for the enemy to catch up before finding another way out…” Klein made his own judgment with sudden enlightenment.
This made him wonder if the person being chased was once a "conspirator", "magician" or some other extraordinary person who was good at tricks.
As for the man just now, from the details such as the incarnation of fire, the blazing white spear, the arrogant and disgusting behavior, and the fact that he spoke Intis, Klein believed that he was most likely a demigod of the "Hunter" path, and possibly an "Iron-Blooded Knight."
I don’t know why they had a conflict... Klein shook his head and walked back to the cabin.
On the deck, the passengers finally came to their senses and discussed in low voices the supernatural phenomena they had just seen:
A person can actually turn into flame, and a flame can reconstruct into a human being!
Amid the noise, the passenger ship continued to move along the safe channel without encountering any accidents on the way, and arrived at another port in the evening.
As usual, Klein did not get off the boat to avoid any further trouble.
He took out his gold-cased pocket watch, opened it and glanced at it to determine what time he should go to the restaurant.
Wait another quarter of an hour... Klein muttered to himself silently, raised his head, and looked out the window.
At this time, many passengers who were scheduled to disembark at the current port were carrying their suitcases and walking along the gangway to the pier.
After a quick glance, Klein's gaze suddenly stopped on a figure.
The figure wore a black soft hat, had dark gold sideburns, a high nose bridge, tightly pursed lips, and his profile was deeply lined, like a classical sculpture, without a single wrinkle.
Without picking up his luggage, he quickly followed the crowd onto the dock and disappeared around the corner of the road.
Klein just watched like that, his body motionless, as if it no longer belonged to him.
He felt his blood running colder, and a name popped up in his mind:
Ince Zangwill!
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The gas street lamps on the dock had been lit up one by one, and the different windows of the passenger ship were dotted with lights.
Dwayne Dantès's first-class cabin was dark and silent.
Klein had already sat down, his face expressionless, and all kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind uncontrollably:
"This is the first time that Ince Zangwill's trace has been found since the Backlund smog incident...
"The target that the demigod was chasing should be Ince Zangwill...
"His scheme went deeper than I thought. He asked someone to pretend to be him and gave him items, not to distract people from tracking him, but to create a blind spot in people's thinking, so that people would subconsciously exclude this ship as a wrong option...
“He’s been here since the beginning…
"That coincidental change in the celestial phenomena should have been created by Ince Zangwill using '0-08'...
"Why is he being chased by an Intis 'Hunter' demigod... What is he planning..."
As his thoughts raced, Klein suddenly took out the Adventurer's harmonica and put it to his lips to play it.
Silently, the messenger lady Renette Tinicole appeared in front of him, carrying four blond, red-eyed heads.
Klein opened his mouth, then closed it again. He took out a pen and paper and quickly wrote:
"Mr. Dwayne Dantes discovered Ince Zangwill's whereabouts on the island in the middle of the Raging Sea."
Klein folded the letter and handed it along with a gold coin to the messenger:
"Send it to the mailbox at 7 Pinster Street, North District, Backlund."
The four heads held in Renette Tinicole's hands turned at the same time, and eight eyes looked at Klein.
She said nothing and bit the letter and the gold coins.