The Traveler Chapter 166 – Noon and Night
Hoo! Ho!
The sound of loud gasps slowly and regularly reached Klein’s ears, sending chills down his spine, and making him feel fearful for no apparent reason, but with no premonition of danger.
He was not the only one who heard the wheezing, but General “Starry Night”, “Toxin Specialist” Frank Lee, and all the other pirates, who either turned their heads sideways, or looked out, or grabbed their weapons, or were on high alert, showing their own wealth of experience.
With a little discernment, Klein realized that the violent gasp originated from the ruin to the side, between the stones and pillars stacked in peaks above the sea.
It was at this moment that Heath “Bloodless” Doyle emerged from the shadows, covering his head with both hands and letting out a low grunt of pain:
”There’s a body ……
”There’s a body there!”
A corpse? A corpse that lets out a loud gasp? In the midst of Klein’s electric thoughts, Kadriya, who subconsciously removed her heavy glasses to look at the ruins, suddenly stared with a grave expression on her face and turned her head to the pirates in the dining room:
”Quickly!
”Speed up and go around there, don’t get close!”
Her voice, with a slight magnetic quality, woke up the crowd at once, and the sailors immediately ran out of the dining room to where they needed help. Under the command of Chief Navigator Ottorov and Chief Sailor Nina, they adjusted their sails, altered their lines, and crossed the ruin from a farther distance.
It was only when the peaks of the stone pillars disappeared into the sea horizon that “Bloodless” Heath Doyle lowered his hands, his expression no longer so painful.
Seeing this scene, Klein narrowed his eyes, feeling that this “Rose Bishop”, the second mate of the “Future”, might be a big hidden danger for this voyage.
This is not his discrimination against the “Secret Prayer Man” pathway extraordinary people, but the combination of the “Star General” description and Heath Doyle’s performance just now to make a judgment:
Just now, everyone heard a loud gasping sound, but only Heath Doyle became agonized, intuitively believing that there was a corpse buried in the ruins, and Gadelia’s performance after the examination indirectly proved his words.
In other words, even if Heath Doyle didn’t actively listen to the voice of the “Real Creator”, he, with the extraordinary ability of the “Listener”, would have heard more than the ordinary people and most of the low and medium-serial Extraordinaires in a normal environment. When he meets the gasping sound just now, when the source of the sound is close enough, he will be more affected and get more information about the danger.
Here, it is not that avoiding similar ruins and relics can solve the corresponding problems, because according to “Star General” Gadelia, this sea is filled with sounds that can make demigods lose control and should not be heard, if one day Heath Doyle is not in a good condition or is too good, he might hear the “deadly whispers”.
Similarly, even if there is a difference between the “Rose Bishop” of Sequence 6 and the demigods who are not good at listening, the difference is not too big. Using the “Dice of Probability” to explain it is that you only need to cast 2 points, not 1 point, and Heath Doyle will go crazy in the voice he shouldn’t have heard! Or lose control of …… have to warn the “hidden” lady, although she should have thought of it and prepared accordingly …… Klein retracted his eyes, heard his stomach make a not so obvious rumbling sound. He hadn’t had a chance to eat breakfast yet.
He hadn’t had a chance to have breakfast yet.
And by this time, the pale ale was spilled all over the floor, the cream had been stepped on all over the place, and the pan-seared fish, toasted toast, white bread and other food was either lying around or hanging, all of which had become quite dirty.
Remove the outer layer and you should be able to eat …… Klein looked at a loaf of bread leaning against the foot of the table and hesitated to put it into action.
It was a bit of a contradiction to the persona of Germaine Sparrow!
As he decided to wait for lunch, “General Starbuck” Gadelia instructed the cook:
”Re-prepare breakfast for the rest.
”These for Frank. Maybe, maybe he’ll have a use for them.”
Raising “monsters”? Klein mentally spat.
After a while, he finally had a breakfast that wasn’t as rich as the one he’d had earlier: a smoked pork sausage with two slices of toast with a crispy outer layer, and a glass of light beer with no sedative added to use it as water.
Since he was traveling in very dangerous waters where things could go wrong at any time, Klein played up the cafeteria style of his college days and swept up his breakfast in just a minute or two.
Out of the pirate dining room, he went to the deck, half after-dinner walk and half observing the environment.
At the moment, the sea was still tinted with a vague golden color from the midday sun.
Klein stopped to look out for a while, and saw a point of light in front of the side getting bigger and bigger.
Under the sunlight, the point of light refracted a shining dreamy hidden multi-colored glow, like a huge, transparent jewel.
As the “Future” continued to sail forward, the point of light gradually revealed itself.
It first split and then became clear, and turned out to be four huge pillars carved out of pure diamond.
They were like the giant towers supporting the sea in myths and legends, extending downwards, standing steadily and holding up a not so small floating island.
On top of the floating island, the soil was scorched black, without a trace of green. In its depths, the light was unusually bright, better than the midday sky.
Suddenly, a long hiss came out from there.
It was loud and reckless, but without the sense of danger that made one’s hair stand on end.
It wasn’t long before Klein heard the sound of clattering horses running and saw two steeds that seemed to be made of gold rushing out of the floating island, pulling a magnificent chariot of the same golden color behind them.
At that moment, the voice of “Star General” Kadriya was amplified and echoed sharply in every corner of the “Future”:
”Look down!
”Don’t look!”
Klein, never one for bravado, subconsciously followed the words and looked down at his boots.
He noticed that the sunlight shining on the deck grew brighter and brighter, then went from strength to strength and flew back to its previous appearance.
”No problem.” Kadriya’s voice echoed through the ship once more, with no apparent mood swings.
Only then did Klein look up, realizing that the two gold cast-like steeds and the magnificent chariot they were pulling were already gone, and the huge pillars of diamond silently supported the floating island, flowing with a brilliant glow.
What a big diamond …… What a strange floating island, just now if I don t lower my head and watch that golden chariot rushing out, what will happen? Klein looked around and suddenly had a frown on his brow.
Before he was only seven or eight meters away from him, a pirate, at this time has disappeared, originally stood where there are two black out of oil footprints.
Looking at the scattered ashes in mid-air, Klein vaguely knew the end of not bowing down just now.
Luckily, the “Star General” has been here a few times before, and knows which ones to avoid and which ones to bow down to. If I had hired Mr. “Hanging Man”, even if he was sailing a phantom ship, he would have been killed by now…. …No, if the “Future” hadn’t arrived at its destination ahead of schedule and didn’t leave any buffer time, I would have already asked the “Serpent of Destiny”, Will Ansettin, for advice…Magicians don’t do unprepared shows! …… And, if I had hired Mr. Hangman, I would have asked Ms. Hidden One for the appropriate information at the Tarot… …Klein sighed, then regained his composure.
He did not propose to go to the floating island to have a look and explore it, and let the “Future” pass through the side and sail ahead.
For the next few moments, the ocean was like the outside world, only the undulating water, empty, silent, boundless.
Klein could see the occasional fire floating on the surface, but there was no sign of any marine life, including the mermaids.
Time passed and lunch was soon ready.
Klein was about to leave the deck and head for the dining room when he suddenly realized that his surroundings had darkened!
The sky, which had always been at midday, had lost its sunlight, and was completely covered by a dense darkness.
The change was so quick and sudden that Klein’s first thought was who had turned out the lights!
Without a sound, the “Future” was covered with a layer of bright stars, illuminating the way to all places.
The slightly magnetic voice of “The Hidden One” Gadelia was once again amplified and echoed in everyone’s ears:
”Return to your room, or find a random corner, and put yourself to sleep.
”and wait for nature to awaken.”
”The toxin expert,” Frank Lee asked in a somewhat puzzled high voice:
”What happens if you don’t sleep?”
For the moment, his voice rumbled as if a giant bear were speaking.
Gadelia stood behind the window of the captain’s cabin and said:
”When we wake up, we’ll realize you’re missing, never to be found.”
Are the nights so scary here? Klein was curious, but didn’t have the slightest idea of trying to stay awake.
He went back to his room, and by the starlight of the Future, which was not extinguished for the time being, he spread out his paper crane, took out his pencil, and wrote quickly:
”What are the matters to be attended to in traveling to the dangerous waters of the easternmost part of the Sunia Sea?
”Where can mermaids be found there?”
Putting down his pencil and folding his paper cranes, Klein, without taking off his coat, lay straight down on his bed and, with the help of meditation, quickly fell into a deep sleep.
The gray, cloudy world woke him up at once, clearly cognizant of the fact that he was dreaming.
Wasn’t invaded by anyone ah …… Klein looked around and realized that he was on top of a mountain, with monastic black patchwork buildings behind him and to his left and right, and a withered tree and a raised boulder in front of him.
At the top of the boulder, “Star General” Gadelia was sitting alone, with her hands on her knees, leaning forward and gazing at the opposite peak.
She was still wearing the classical black robe that had a mysterious flavor, and her expression had an unspeakable confusion.
At this moment, she did not make any movements, as if she had turned into a stone statue.
Why is she in my dream? Klein took a few steps forward and leapt onto the boulder.
Before he had a chance to ask, he was suddenly struck by the scene that opened up in front of him, a feeling that shook him physically and mentally.
In front of the boulder was a cliff whose bottom could not be seen, and on the opposite side of the cliff was a mountain covered by countless palaces, countless towers and majestic walls.
Those buildings were magnificent and magnificent, cascading and encircling, and individually they were unusually huge, unlike a place inhabited by human beings, and together they had an indescribable sense of epic, miracle, and myth.
The sun hung in the extreme distance, spilling the colors of dusk onto that city, the light as if frozen.
”This is the dreamland …… that we all share,” said Gadelia, still sitting with her knees clasped, her tone as if she were dreaming.