Struggle in the Steam Age

After thinking of new possibilities, Lawrence used divination three times in the six or seven hours before dark. As expected, the place pointed to by the results of each of the three divinations was different from the other two. In other words, the target point this time is indeed an active location.

"Your Excellency, do you mean we are looking for another target that is active?" When Lawrence showed the data that he analyzed to the Captain of the Enterprise, the captain also showed a curious look. After all, for him, he had no previous experience of tracking certain moving objects outside the line of sight.

"If the result of the divination is not wrong, it should be like this." Lawrence pointed to the captain of the opponent's route map analyzed by the result of the divination and said, "I connected the four points I detected before and found that The other party seems to be on some sort of random voyage."

"Your analysis is correct, Lord." The captain frowned and looked at it for a while and said, "The other party's route is very strange, and it is impossible to tell where the other party's destination is. At the same time, the other party's speed is also very strange. The speed of 3 is the same as ours. I can't figure out why the other party should sail like this?"

"The new telegram." Just as Lawrence and the captain began to analyze the situation of the target they were tracking this time, the sailor in charge of the telegraph room on the ship came in and handed Lawrence a telegram full of garbled codes. Speaking of. "The telegram just sent from the Passion Church."

"How is it possible?" After simply translating the telegram, Lawrence frowned, because the telegram showed that a regular passenger ship located in the sea area where he had just sailed a few hours ago had found a part of the hull on the sea. It was confirmed that it was the ship that John and the others had boarded before, but no bodies were found around.

"John... he..." After Lawrence's translation was over, Resso said to Lawrence in disbelief after reading the text of Lawrence's translated text. "Is it true in the text? Can they be sure that the ship they found is really the one the expedition boarded."

"The identity of the ship can be confirmed 100%, because one of the ship boards they fished out of the sea has the name of the ship written on it." Having said that, he raised his head and looked at Reso, "But this does not mean that John and the others have already After all, you saw it, and the telegram also said that no one's body was found on the side of the ship."

"The most important thing is that when I fortunetelling their team's goal just now, there is a prerequisite that they must be alive." Lawrence turned around and patted Reso's shoulder, who looked sad. "So don't cry for now, they must be waiting for our rescue somewhere."

"You're right." Resso nodded. He was just overwhelmed by the terrible news just now. After being comforted by Lawrence, he calmed down, and then he recovered quickly. The fighting spirit before. "It's not time to give up. We should cheer up."

Next, Lawrence relocked the opponent's target every two hours on average. From more and more information, almost everyone on board realized that the squad was not annihilated like in the telegram, but was still alive and tracking its target while waiting for rescue.

In this way, the special sense of mission made the morale of the ship visibly increased. Especially after they sent their own analysis telegram to the church, they were told that the church is now calling for the suspicious areas they had planned before, and they can only rely on them for the suspicious areas here.

Fortunately, although the target's fastest speed is about the same as that of Lawrence's ships, it sails at a very low speed in most cases. So after nearly two days of chasing, Lawrence and the others finally approached the destination they had been moving before.

"There is an...an island in front of us." Because at this time, he was close to his destination, and the sky was slowly darkening. So Lawrence and the others had to slow down the speed of the ship to avoid accidentally hitting the rocks. Just as they were searching cautiously, a shout suddenly came from the mast lookout.

After hearing the shouts, Lawrence and the others ran onto the deck, and they saw a faint black shadow appearing on the horizon on the left string of the ship, which should be an island. However, after careful observation, they unexpectedly saw the island moving slowly on the horizon.

"Is the legend true?" After confirming that they had indeed encountered a moving island, a young sailor on the ship exclaimed in a low voice. Then, under everyone's inquiry, the sailor who was born as an indigenous fisherman who had fished in this sea area for several generations told an ancient legend on the sea of ​​stars.

"When I was young, my father told me that there were some very dangerous places wandering in this sea area." For safety reasons, the Enterprise slowly stopped, and then people on duty gathered around to listen to the sailor. Tell the story of this sea area. After the overall arrangement was completed, the sailor stood in the middle and spoke.

"There are huge whirlpools in these places, as well as bottomless sea eyes, and even the entire island is a huge life. Sometimes it will suddenly wake up and swallow all the life on the island. But in these terrible places, there will be The islands that I move are also among the most dangerous."

"According to my father when I was young, his great-grandfather used to work on a whaling boat, and on that boat he saw the moving island." said the sailor, "he said that the island is in this area. The sea is wandering. At the same time, it will seize the opportunity to attack all nearby ships and lives."

"He told me that the whaling ship that my great-great-grandfather boarded happened to kill two whales when it encountered a moving island and was about to stop to refine whale oil, but at that time this moving island suddenly appeared. The impact destroyed the ship he was working on. Fortunately, he was thrown out on the deck, and after two days of floating on the sea, he was successfully rescued by a passing ship."

"You just said to appear suddenly?" After listening to this short story, Lawrence found a suspicious point in it. But just as he asked the question, the watchmen who watched the surroundings on the mast suddenly shouted hoarsely, "Warning, the island in front is sinking~www.wuxiahere.com~Your lord, we must move now. The sailor looked at Lawrence and said, "My father told me that when the mobile island attacked the whaling ship that my ancestor was on, it suddenly emerged from the water to attack."

"What?" After hearing the news, Lawrence immediately rushed into the cab next to him and shouted to the captain. "That moving island may suddenly attack after navigating underwater for a while. We must move quickly now."

"Understand." The captain also knew that the matter was urgent, and some things would rather be trusted than not. So he immediately shouted into the brass microphone connected to the power warehouse. "Now give me the maximum horsepower, we may need to escape now."

Because the boiler still maintains a relatively high pressure even when it is parked just now, the sailors working in the power warehouse only need to close the main shaft clutch and the propeller starts to rotate. Then he pushed the sharp inclined bow to stir up a little wave on the sea and drew an arc like the direction he came before.

At the same time, Lawrence summoned the phantoms of those aquatic monsters and ordered them to start surveying the surroundings to avoid being attacked by the strange island from underwater.