Silent Crown

Chapter 537 Sain

Chapter 537 Sain

In the beginning, there were still stormy waves and heavy rains.

Even if the aether engine operated at full capacity, the ship could only sail at a speed of 20 knots.

Except the necessary sailors, all the rest of the passengers were ordered to get into the cabin and waiting for the storm to end. After an unknown amount of time, the storm began to dissipate.

When the stormy waves calmed down, they had already passed through the thick fog and sailed into the depths of the Lightless Sea.

Even at midnight, there were still no stars.

The sea was dead and calm, without any waves. The cold wind blew from afar and into the bone marrow of those on the ship, a bitter chill they could hardly bear.

Here, the breathing sound was hard to notice, as if it had been diluted.

In the darkness, only the lonely lights were shining, illuminating the fairway ahead.

On the deck, Ye Qingxuan sat in a wet chair and looked at the silent sea under the searchlight, pondering something in silence.

After a long time, Igor, who handed the rudder to the first mate after finishing the shift, took his precious liquor to the deck and sat beside Ye Qingxuan.

"Mr. Ye, you don't want to sleep?"

"I can't sleep." Ye Qingxuan shook his head. "The cabin walls are so thin that I can clearly hear the snoring sounds from the next room. Captain Igor, your ship is passable."

Igor felt helpless. "Don't be so picky, Mr. Ye. It's just a clipper, not a fortress on the sea like one of Asgard's ships. It doesn't have a name, 'cause it was launched as soon as it was built. In order to contain over 300 people for you, I even had my captain's lounge torn down. You should be more lenient, and put up with the sound of snoring."

After he spoke, he shook his liquor. "Have a shot?"

"I'd love to."

The liquor rippled in the glass.

Ye Qingxuan held a glass of liquor and looked at the sea. "When I was outside of here, I thought that it would be stormy waves everywhere. I did not expect it to be so quiet."

"Yes." Igor sighed. "It is like sailing in the Styx."

"Actually, they are not the same." Ye Qingxuan thought for a second, then shook his head. "I've seen the Styx; it's not as big as this."

"Haha, Mr. Ye, you've got a sense of humor." Igor laughed and didn't believe him.

Hearing that, Ye Qingxuan didn't care, but just asked, "Did you shut down the main engine? I can't hear the operating sound of the first wheel set. Can we arrive in Alderney tomorrow at such speed?"

"It's okay. We're lucky! We caught a free ride." Igor shook his head carelessly and pointed to the sea below.

After reading through the perception thread, Ye Qingxuan was stunned.

"An ocean current?"

"Yeah." Igor nodded.

To navigate the sea, one had to be familiar with the flow of ocean currents.

"Each year in winter and summer, this current forms from East India, and flows through the Asgard Channel with a large number of spawning fish, then passes by Anglo and Caucasus, and finally travels on to the East. Her name is 'Igni.' In the Highland language that means 'the daughter of the sea.'"

"I see."

"The arrival time that we predicted is tomorrow, but with her, we may get there in four hours or so," Igor said. "However, I heard that few people were willing to go to Alderney. That was a deserted island on which there was no city but some trees. It was not close to the main fairway, and even can't play the role of a hub. Mr. Ye, I thought you were busy saving Anglo, so why do you want to get there?"

"To try my luck," Ye Qingxuan replied calmly. "That is a fiefdom of my friend. If he didn't lie to me, I should be able to find a way there to save the country."

"…"

Hearing that, Igor shrugged. "Then I wish you luck."

To be honest, he wished that Ye Qingxuan would be outside on the sea every day and couldn't go deep into the center. He had spent a lifetime in saving money. He owed a heavy debt, and finally got a new ship from the shipyard in the Sacred City though a lot of relationships.

Now the world had changed, and almost no one needed to rent a ship.

He counted on it to make a fortune.

"Although Ye Qingxuan's payment was sufficient for me to repay the loans, and I could even earn an additional large sum of money. But who would be complaining about having too much money?"

"Therefore, it would be better if they circle around the island several times and go home."

"Of course, that is impossible."

Thinking about that, he couldn't help sighing.

"The world is tough. After having shaken off my bad reputation, I still have to earn money at the risk of my life. What is the difference between this and being a pirate on the Illusion Islands before?"

He shook his head and took a shot. Then he no longer thought about that and chatted randomly with Ye Qingxuan.

"Mr. Ye, you rarely put out to sea, right?"

"Well, although I grew up in Anglo, there aren't many opportunities for a boat ride." Ye Qingxuan took a sip and said softly, "When I first arrived in Avalon, I took a ship like this, but that one was very old and crowded. One hundred pounds for one bed in the bottom tank, ten days of board, a public toilet, no bathroom. Ten days, that almost drove me crazy."

"Most of the ships are like that." Igor shrugged. "When I was young, I dreamed of having a boat that only belonged to me. I could sail it, with my woman, wherever I wanted to go. Unfortunately, I've got the ship, but I haven't found my woman. I should have gotten some prostitutes on board. At least we could have some fun now."

"Speaking about that, you reminded me of something." Ye Qingxuan smiled. "There was a special service on the ship that I took previously."

"Oh?" Igor's eyes lit up. "How special?"

"Thirty pounds." Ye Qingxuan raised three fingers. "Only thirty pounds, and you could enter the captain's sheepfold and stay with the sheep there for half an hour… I didn't understand at the time. When I heard the sheep bleating in the room, I felt that everyone was so kind and caring. Later I heard that someone thought thirty pounds was too expensive, so he quietly shaved the wool off. Then, the captain got angry and people couldn't stay with the sheep anymore."

Hearing that, Igor slapped his sighs, "Oh, what a pity!"

Ye Qingxuan was silent for a moment and smiled cunningly. "However, the sailors told us that although there were no sheep, you could also go for the captain…"

"Hahahaha!"

Igor almost laughed his yellow teeth out of his head. "To the great captain."

"To the great captain." Ye Qingxuan made a toast and drank the glass, then put the empty glass on the bench. Igor was about to pour more liquor, but saw Ye Qingxuan waving his hand.

"I'm bad at drinking, it's already enough."

"What a pity." Igor didn't mind, boozing directly from the bottle. "The rest is mine."

In the silence that followed, he finished the bottle and threw it into the sea. Suddenly, he asked, "It's hard to play vicious, right?"

"Hmm?" Ye Qingxuan looked up. "Why do you say that?"

"Because you don't look like a villain."

"Maybe I am."

Igor sighed and pointed to his own wrinkled face.

"Mr. Ye, I'm forty-five," he said. "I have been sailing on the sea for thirty years. The people I deal with every day are the sailors who escaped on a ship after committing a crime, and the bad guys who are about to get off the ship and commit a crime. I've seen many bad guys, and you're not one of them."

Ye Qingxuan kept silent for a long time, and scratched his head. "Is something wrong?"

"Vicious people hate this world. Because the world is not good to them, they could only be good to themselves. But Mr. Ye, when you look at people, where does the sorrow and sympathy in your eyes come from?"

"Presumably you read that wrong." Ye Qingxuan shook his head. "I take so many people to meet death for my own sake... If I'm still not a villain, then what kind of person am I?"

Igor thought for a moment and spoke with a serious look which showed that he was not telling a joke.

"Probably… a saint?"

Ye Qingxuan was shocked for a while, but suddenly laughed. "Am I such a kind person in your eyes?"

"You are not bad, you are just arrogant." Igor got up and patted him on the shoulder. "A madman like you always thinks that he can change everything, so he show so much mercy and sympathy to the world."

"Do you want to talk for another few minutes?"

"No, I'm sleepy." Igor waved. "You should go to sleep too, Mr. Mad, and think about how to toss this world tomorrow."

As soon as he stopped, a loud noise suddenly burst out.

Boom!

A horrible snarling suddenly rose out of the dead sea.

The anxious silence turned into boiling craziness, and countless bubbles floated out of the sea. Something rose from the depths of the dark sea, rolled up a few meters high, and hit the hull bottom fiercely.

The steel wheels that weighed hundreds of tons almost overturned under the terrible impact, and drifted like duckweed.

Igor's feet slipped in the fierce turbulence, and he was thrown out by the shaking deck.

He screamed and fell towards the dark, boiling sea.

A hand suddenly reached through the air and grabbed his collar. The next moment, a strong force, like a rolling winch, hauled him up and pulled him back to the deck of the ship.

Igor fainted and almost passed away.

In an instant, he passed by Death.

He panted in fear, looked up and saw Ye Qingxuan in front of him, but he felt so strange about him.

It seemed that something terrible was awakening in his body. It was operating with a large sound, burning vigorously, spewing out grand power stronger than an aether furnace.

His dark eyes were ignited with cold moonlight.

Like a resurrected saint who walked down from the base of a stone statue, he looked majestic even without any jewelry or laurels.

"I'm sorry, Captain Igor. I'm afraid you can't sleep tonight." Ye Qingxuan looked at him and pointed to the dark sea beneath them. "When you finish pissing your pants, can you tell me what the hell that thing in the sea is?"