Deep Sea Embers

Anomaly 077, ranked in the top 100, has caused double-digit ships and thousands of sailors to die in storms. It has the characteristics of consciousness and "living creatures". No matter which city-state it is placed in, it is a dangerous anomaly worthy of careful treatment by the local church—— Just like that, he chose to close his eyes and pretend to be dead in front of Lawrence, refusing to use his strength.

Lawrence imagined countless possibilities after activating Anomaly 077, and conceived several plans to reseal "Sailor", but he never expected this to happen!

The old captain raised his head and looked at his first mate in blank dismay. Both of them felt that the situation of the mummy in front of them seemed to be different from what was recorded in the data, and at the same time wondered what went wrong—but soon, from Their astonishment was interrupted by the roar of the water column from the nearby sea and the firing of the White Oak's self-defense artillery.

Now is not the time to be dazed, the "Haiyan" is about to catch up!

Unable to fight and fight, unable to run and run away, the "sailor" with the ability to teleport the ship is already the only hope for the White Oak to get out of danger.

Lawrence lowered his head, staring at the mummy who was closing his eyes and pretending to be dead - no matter what happened to this thing, he had to find a way to make it go out of control!

"Wake up!" Lawrence stretched out his hand, grabbed Anomaly 077's collar and shook it - such close contact with a mummified corpse would undoubtedly make people feel conflicted, but at this time he couldn't care less about it, "I know you are out of the seal. Listen, you are at the helm of this ship—"Sailor", don't you have the instinct to control the ship? Don't you have the tendency to lose control? Do it! Take over the ship , take us out of here!"

The mummy lying on the ground was shaken and made a strange creaking sound of joint friction, but still closed its eyes tightly, but the obvious ups and downs of the chest could not be hidden from anyone's sight, and at the same time, there were constant noises around the White Oak. The sound of the explosion made Lawrence even more irritable, and he finally couldn't help but slap the mummy: "I know you're awake!"

The mummy on the ground finally couldn't lie down anymore, and opened its eyes in a series of shaking, but its first reaction was to dodge to the side, trying to avoid Lawrence's sight while yelling: "Don't make trouble! Don't make trouble! I'll go back to sleep, can't I go back to sleep?! You can't make such a joke! You can't touch this boat, you can't touch it!"

How can Lawrence control these? When he saw the mummy opened its eyes, he immediately pulled it up and dragged it toward the bridge. Several seamen beside him also reacted at this time, and those who were brave came forward to help. Almost pressing the shriveled body of the "sailor" to the front of the bridge, the first officer shouted from the side: "Press it on the steering wheel! This way its ability will take effect the fastest!"

However, Anomaly 077 kept screaming and screaming, struggling extremely violently: "Let me go! Let me go!

"You can't do this! Help, help!

"Who are you all... Please, please, please!"

"Just touch the steering wheel!" Lawrence yelled while pressing the mummy onto the rudder with all his strength, "It will be over soon!"

"I don't! Help!" Anomaly 077's resistance was so powerful that several bulging white oak crew members couldn't even hold down its arms. , "Let me go back! All right—you just put that rope around my neck, just put it on for a while, I will sleep well, and I will never get up again! Or you can give me the rope, I hang myself... don't let me touch this!"

There was chaos on the bridge, and this scene was extremely weird—among the captains and sailors of the Boundless Sea, there was the notorious anomaly 077, who struggled and begged for mercy like a victim tied to a ship, but Bai Bai, who was in a desperate situation. The crew members of the oak wood fiercely pressed the "abnormal" arm to the rudder. This scene, even those madmen with zero sanity in the mental hospital, could not imagine it in their craziest illusions, but now it is true in white. Happened aboard the Oak.

However, Lawrence didn't have much time to think about how wrong what happened at this moment. He only knew that the figure of Haiyan was getting closer and closer, and the accuracy of its artillery was also increasing rapidly. The side of White Oak had been shot continuously. The stern was on fire, and if the next shell hit the machinery bay or ammunition store, or even the bridge, it would be all over!

And just as he was thinking this way, a shrill whistling sound suddenly entered his ears. Hearing the direction where the whistling sound fell, Lawrence's mind suddenly went blank.

Oops.

The next second, an earth-shattering explosion swept across the upper deck. A huge fireball rose against the bridge and exploded. The shelling of the Haiyan hit the side of the bridge of the White Oak. This blow... was fatal. .

The air waves came crashing down, metal and glass were torn into pieces under the power of the shells, and the flying wall structures turned into deadly fragments. A dazzling fire lit up in Lawrence's vision, and then he saw his own The first officer flew up, and his body was instantly swallowed up by the waves of fire coming from beside him, followed by the other sailors on the bridge, and then himself.

The flames engulfed everything. Lawrence watched the fireball expand and engulfed the entire bridge. He saw his body gradually being burned in the flames. Time seemed to slow down. He clearly watched all this happen, and even watched the flames inch by inch. Spread in the air, and a little bit dyed with a layer of strange green - dark green?

Lawrence's mind was suddenly stunned. Before he had time to realize what happened, he saw that the red fireball pouring into the bridge instantly turned into a dark green sea of ​​flames, and the sea of ​​flames formed by the flames of the spirit body licked everything in sight. , metal, wood, glass, leather...

All the things burned by the flames appeared translucent like spirit bodies, and those crew members who were swallowed by the fireball also fell to the ground one by one. They were wrapped in the flames of spirit bodies, and their flesh and bones were as crystal clear as chalcedony. The two climbed up as if nothing happened, and looked at each other in astonishment.

This scene...is exactly the same as the first encounter with the Lost Home.

It was as if the horrible scene that happened on the White Oak that day was repeated.

A sense of down-to-earth came, and Lawrence woke up from a trance, and saw that he had been standing in front of the bridge at some point, and his body was also burning with raging spiritual flames—he subconsciously grabbed forward, and his hand was grabbing on the helm.

For a moment, he felt——

He felt everything about the White Oak, from a screw, to a window, to a rope, as clearly reflected in his mind as his own body.

He has been with this ship day and night for so many years, and he has never been so closely connected with it as he is today.

And along with this feeling, there was an extraordinarily strong idea that flooded into his mind, as if a voice filled with endless majesty was announcing his fate——

Now, you are a member of the Lost Fleet, and do your duty to Captain Duncan.

Lawrence held the steering wheel blankly, feeling the White Oak turning deftly in his own mind, and pointed the bow of the ship little by little at the "enemy ship" that was rapidly approaching in the distance.

Anomaly 077 is still there, and the mummy is almost curled up next to the bridge, watching the flames of the surrounding spirit bodies tremblingly, while wailing: "I said I won't touch it, but if you insist on letting me touch it, I dare not touch it." If you touch me, sailors who usurp power will be tied up with cannonballs and thrown into the sea! I understand the rules on board! I am a sailor!"

Lawrence slowly lowered his head and glanced at the "sailor". In fact, he was still in a deep daze and couldn't figure out what happened, but his gaze made Anomaly 077 instantly quiet.

The mummy closed its mouth, stood up cautiously, and took a look at the surrounding situation—the bridge that was torn apart by the shelling just now is recovering quickly in the burning of the spirit body flames, and all the crew members are standing at their posts. People looked like ghosts now, but their instincts and remaining rationality still allowed them to return to their posts immediately, waiting for the captain's next order.

"Captain..." Anomaly 077 turned his head and looked into Lawrence's eyes, "What do you want to do next..."

Lawrence was dazed again, then slowly lowered his head as if sensing something.

"The Lost Fleet is under attack...retaliates."

"Fight back!" Anomaly 077 immediately shouted, "Fight back!"

"Fight back!" The voice of the first mate, Gus, also sounded from the side. He was covered in flames, and the crackling and crackling sound of the flames was mixed in his voice, "The captain orders, fight back!"

"fight back!"

On the bridge, the crew shouted loudly, and in every corner of the White Oak, every crew member transformed into a ghost "heard" the command from the captain at the same time, and the ship that had completed its transformation in the flames acted immediately Get up—its steam core roars, all the forts start to rotate, and a burst of loud whistles mixed with roars resounds across the sea!

The ship under his feet began to speed up towards the Haiyan, and almost at the same time, Lawrence saw another shadow beside the White Oak—it was another ship, a ship with almost only a black outline, surrounded by thick fog and The ship shrouded in smoke and dust.

Its outline is faintly similar to the White Oak, as if it is a sister ship of the same type.

The shadowy ship accelerated side by side with the White Oak, and launched an attack in the direction of the Haiyan at the same time.

Through the rising flames of the spiritual body, Lawrence stared in amazement at the phantom-like warship that suddenly appeared on the sea beside him. After some time, he murmured its name as if in a dream——

"The Black Oak...Martha?"