Part 4 The Undead Chapter 173 – Thinking Blind Spot
According to Klein’s experience of watching so many episodes of detective movie detective anime, this kind of person who covers his face with a scarf and hides his physical features with an overcoat most likely has a problem, and the probability is that he is hiding an ulterior secret, especially now it’s not even winter yet, and the temperature of the Berserk Sea is far from being cold.
However, this has nothing to do with me, even if there is a murder in a secret room, the headache should be the captain …… wait to go to the gray mist above to do a divination, to see if this journey will be smooth …… Klein thought with little concern but no negligence at all.
He then withdrew his gaze and looked at the Dixie grilled fish that the waiter had brought.
After dinner, he returned to his cabin and completed a divination over the gray mist, and came to the conclusion that the environment would not change much, and that everything would go more smoothly.
This allowed Klein to fall asleep without the aid of meditation, and he slept through the night.
The whistle sounded, and the passenger ship slowly left the harbor of Halman.
When the pier was still faintly visible, Klein saw a figure suddenly appear there.
Dressed in a white shirt and dark blue jacket, the figure had a high nose, deep-set eyes, light blue orbs, and brown, slightly curly hair, with a hard silhouette and a slightly lifted chin that gave him the impression that he looked down on everyone.
With a sweep of his gaze, he quickly zeroed in on the passenger ship that Klein was traveling on.
It was at this moment that the sky suddenly darkened, as if it had become a door to a dark and unreal place.
Deafening hurricane winds leapt up from the bottom of the sea, interspersed with a great deal of azure blue that shot straight upwards, and deep lightning bolts appeared and disappeared like fissures in the void, healing themselves.
This blocked the entire line of sight between the passenger ship and the docks, making the two seem like they were in different worlds.
Once again, the Raging Sea showed its terror.
The passenger ship was unable to avoid it, unable to fight it, and could only continue along the safe channel where the storm was weaker.
What a coincidence …… This should not be a coincidence …… Klein, who stood behind the glass window of the cabin, first secretly lamented, and then thought that there was an unnatural factor in the sudden change of the Berserk Sea.
–While it was the norm for the weather of the Berserk Sea to change at will, the fact that it happened to change at a certain point still aroused suspicion.
”The gentleman on the dock was tracking a suspicious passenger who came aboard last night? And that traveler, seeing that his hide was exposed, simply changed the weather so that the passenger ship was forced to move away?” Klein thought about what happened before and vaguely had some guesses.
If that was the case, it meant that the suspicious passenger who had covered his face with a scarf was probably a demigod, or was carrying a grade 1 seal!
It must be realized that with Klein’s current strength and items, if he didn’t use the “Scepter of Poseidon”, he wouldn’t be able to trigger this level of celestial anomaly.
Of course, he might have another way, which was to throw out the Aztec Copper Whistle to see if he could make the entire Raging Sea go berserk.
”Really, I just want to travel to the southern continent like a normal rich man, and on the way I would encounter a demigod-level chase …… Hey, I’m under too much pressure that doesn’t belong to my sequence …… “Klein smiled to himself and finally chose to believe in that divination done last night.
In the midst of the storm, the passenger ship sailed along the calmer gaps, staggering through the apocalyptic scenes, while most of the passengers on board had a calm face and seemed to have adapted well to such a state of affairs, and only a few of those who were passing through the raging sea for the first time trembled with fear, and held on to every kind of grip they could.
Time passed by, the wind and lightning gradually subsided, the sky also a little bit brighter.
At this time, Klein who was on the deck suddenly had a touch of inspiration, and subconsciously looked sideways to the place where the harbor of Halman was located.
Above the undulating deep blue sea water, below the scattered white clouds, a little blazing white fire light flew over at high speed from far and near.
This fiery light grew bigger and clearer, and eventually took on a complete appearance, which was a huge flaming lance!
The flaming lance cut through the sky and landed on the front of the passenger ship’s deck, but it didn’t ignite anything and burn through half of the wooden boards, it directly scattered in all directions and reorganized itself into a human figure.
This silhouette had a high nose, deep eye sockets, and blue eyes, and it was the man who had appeared abruptly at the pier earlier!
His appearance was close to middle-aged, he slowly looked around, walked through the passengers with round eyes and half-open mouths, and entered the cabin.
Dawn Dantes, also “dumbfounded”, breathed a silent sigh of relief, confirming that the other man was really not looking for him.
Just now the appearance can be said to be very handsome, worthy of the demigods …… Now the only problem is, I hope that the two of them do not fight, even if the conflict is inevitable, but also try to go to the next sea, otherwise, this ship will not be able to save …… I can myself! “Teleportation” to leave, still relatively smooth, but so many travelers, I can save a few …… Klein habitually drew a Crimson Moon on his chest, praying for the blessing of the goddess.
He had just turned such a thought when he saw a figure fly out of the hatch and fall heavily on the deck, and it was the suspicious traveler who had covered his face with a scarf before.
This gentleman had by this time shown half his face, the front of his nose reddened, and his whiskers were thick around his mouth, with a residue of saliva.
His near-triangular eyes were filled with fear, and he braced his hands on the deck and kept his body moving back.
”Who told you to carry that thing and dress like that?” At the door of the cabin, the middle-aged man with a high nose and blue eyes who had just walked out slowly and asked in a deep voice in Intis.
The suspicious traveler shook his head frantically:
”No, I don’t know, he was dressed like that too, and gave me, gave me 100 pounds to go to the southern continent on this boat and return on my own!”
The middle-aged man looked on in silence, with a gaze so sharp that it seemed to pierce a man’s soul.
This caused that suspicious traveler’s forehead sweat to seep out crazily, his body trembled violently, stuttering as he once again opened his mouth to make an explanation, but what was described, did not change in any way.
The man withdrew his gaze, and a blazing white flame abruptly rose from his body surface.
Then, he transformed into a huge flaming lance and threw himself towards the area where Halman’s harbor was located.
This flaming lance grew farther and farther away, and it didn’t take long for only a little bit of firelight to remain.
Throughout the entire process, this demigod did not even glance at the travelers around him again except at the very beginning, as if they did not exist.
”A very simple but also very clever ruse …… to have someone pretend that they boarded the ship and left, and use some way to manipulate the sky to create evidence that they themselves were on the ship, but in actuality, they stayed in the harbor and waited until the enemy chased them down, then found another way out… … “Klein made his judgment somewhat dully.
It made him wonder if the one being chased was a “schemer”, “magician”, or some other extraordinary person who was good at trickery.
As for the one just now, from the details such as the flame body, the white spear, the arrogant and annoying behavior, and the Intis language, Klein thought that it was most likely a demigod of the “hunter” path, and possibly an “Iron-blooded Knight”.
I don’t know why they clashed …… Klein shook his head and walked back to the cabin.
On top of the deck, the travelers finally came back to their senses, and each of them whispered about the supernatural phenomenon they had just seen:
It was amazing that a person could turn into a flame, and a flame could be reorganized into a human!
In the midst of the noise, the ship continued along the safe passage, and without any further incident, arrived at another port in the evening.
As usual, Klein did not get off the ship, lest he encounter something else.
He took out his gold-cased pocket watch and pressed it open to determine when to go to the dining room.
Waiting for another two quarters of an hour …… Klein muttered silently to himself, raised his head, and looked out the window.
At that moment, a number of travelers scheduled to disembark at the current port were carrying their suitcases along the gangway to the pier.
With a sweeping glance, Klein’s gaze suddenly rested on a silhouette.
This silhouette wore a black fedora, with dark gold sideburns, a high nose, pursed lips, and deep lines on the side of his face, like a classical sculpture, without a single wrinkle.
He did not carry any luggage, and quickly followed the tide of people onto the pier and disappeared around the corner of the road.
Klein watched like that, his body motionless, seemingly no longer belonging to himself.
He could only feel his blood turning a little colder as a name burst into his mind:
Ince Zangwill!
……
The gas streetlights on the docks had come on one by one, and the different windows of the passenger ships catered to the stars.
Dawn Dantes’ first-class room was dark and silent.
Crane had sat down, his face expressionless, and various thoughts flashed uncontrollably through his mind:
”This is the first sighting of Innes Zangwill since the incident of the Great Haze in Berkland ……
”That demigod from before, the target of his pursuit should be Ince Zangwill ……
”His trickery goes one level deeper than I thought, he got someone to disguise as him and give items, not to lure away the tracking, but to create a blind spot in the mind, so that people subconsciously exclude this ship as a wrong option ……
”He’s been here since the beginning ……
”That coincidental change in the sky would have been created by Ince Zangwill with ‘0-08’ ……
”Why is he being chased by an Intis ‘hunter’ demigod …… What exactly is he plotting ……”
As his thoughts rolled around, Klein suddenly pulled out his adventurer’s harmonica and brought it to his mouth to blow.
Wordlessly, the messenger lady Renette Tinicol, who carried four blonde hair and red-eyed heads, appeared in front of him.
Klein opened his mouth, closed it again, took out a pen and paper, and wrote quickly:
”Mr. Dawn Dantes has discovered the whereabouts of Ince Zangwill on Cheng Island in the Raging Sea.”
Folding up the letterhead, Klein handed it, along with a gold coin, to the messenger lady:
”Deliver it to the letterbox at 7 Pinkster Street, Birkeland North.”
The four heads that Renette Tinicol carried in her hands turned simultaneously, and all eight eyes looked at Klein in unison.
She said nothing and bit down on the letterhead and the gold coin.