Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 365

[Chapter 363 “Sinking Island”]

Agatha took a step forward and said in a serious tone: “Where did the ‘ship that failed to arrive’ come from?

” Once, and then Cold Harbor,” the soldier who came to report the situation immediately said, “Frost is its last stop—until the replenishment at Cold Harbor, the ship’s condition was normal.”

” Damn it…” Colonel Liszt pressed his forehead hard, obviously in a very bad mood, “We are all in trouble now… There is also a ship that disappeared when it was about to reach Frost… Where is there now? Focus on managing the affairs outside the city-state…”

Agatha stared at the defense commander in front of her, her tone was particularly dignified: “But as you said, Mr. Colonel, it disappeared when it was about to reach Frost— So it cannot be ruled out that it was also affected by some kind of supernatural phenomenon.”

Liszt raised his head: “You mean…”

“Frost is in a state of being infected by some kind of supernatural power, and abnormal cases frequently occur in the city-state , the Haiyan incident proves that this ‘abnormality’ is not limited to this island, and now another White Oak is missing at the edge of the sea, I have reason to suspect that a ‘vision’ on a scale far beyond our imagination is covering the entire Frost Region ——Not only on the land under our feet, but also a large area around the sea.”

Liszt propped up the table with both hands, and suddenly raised his head after a few seconds: “Expand the blockade and issue a warning to all neighboring city-states—— The pollution of the frost is spilling out, and the physical blockade may not be effective.”

Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped, gritted his teeth, and seemed to be very hesitant, and Agatha certainly noticed this scene: “What worries do you have, Colonel?”

“…we’re afraid we’ll have to talk to that great pirate,” Lister said sullenly, “although I personally don’t want to do it very, very much.”

“You mean… Tirian Abnomare?” Agatha’s tone also changed slightly—even though she is the “gatekeeper” of the city-state, she is still a native of Frost, and she also listened to her since she was a child. I grew up with horror stories about the sea fog fleet, “If you don’t sleep again, Captain Tirian will take you away when the fog rises” is the most impressive childhood memory of every Frostman under the age of 50. Agatha is no exception, “Do you think he will accept our negotiation?”

“It doesn’t have to be a negotiation, but at least a conversation is needed,” Liszt raised his eyelids and stared at the gatekeeper in front of him, “He is in the most sensitive I came here at the right time, but I have not made any further actions until now. I once suspected that he was involved in the ‘fakes’ that appeared in and out of the city, but now it seems that he is simply blocking This area – as we are doing. We need to send someone to talk to him, at least to understand what he wants to do.” “…

the legend says that he is a cold and crazy cursed man, breathing like The wind on the cold sea is as cold as the wind, and the eyes can freeze the sea,” Agatha said softly, “Who can act as this ‘messenger’?

” The fleet has relatively normal communication channels with many forces on the cold sea, and the so-called ‘Sea Fog Venture Capital Company’ even set up an ‘office’ in Cold Harbor – that big pirate is just extraordinarily ruthless to Frost ” Liszt sighed softly, “the envoy’s problem will be solved, there is never a shortage of brave men among the city-state’s soldiers, and…”

He stopped suddenly, raised his head thoughtfully, and looked out the window at someone direction.

“Ms. Agatha, did you hear any strange sound just now?”

“Strange sound?” Agatha frowned, and also looked up to the window, and almost at the same time, she also heard some distant and A low, strange sound.

It sounded like a constant hum, but it wasn’t any sound she knew to occur in nature.

That’s the direction of Dagger Island.

In the Frost Offshore area, a steel warship with a white hull, three main guns, and the Queen’s flag is slowly cruising. A short and stout captain is standing at the bow, watching the situation in the distance with binoculars—— He was wearing the uniform of the Queen’s Guard from half a century ago, but there was a horrifying hole in his abdomen that could be directly seen opposite. The fragments of clothing at the damaged place floated slowly in the air as if soaked in sea water, and occasionally emerged out of thin air. Make a series of bubbles.

He is a member of the Sea Mist Fleet and the captain of the powerful battleship “Sea Crow”, Nixon.

He looked at the small island with its winding coast in the distance.

And on the sea surface in that direction, you can still see some little black shadows lingering.

Those are the naval ships of Frost City-they are carrying out the blockade mission on Dagger Island in another direction, and at the same time, they are carefully observing every move of the Sea Crow and other nearby sea fog ships.

“Those ships are really annoying,” a sailor strolled over, beside the stocky captain Nixon, said, “Can you fire two shots at them to say hello?” “No, unless you want to

be General Tirian stuffed himself into the machine room and stirred for twenty-four hours,” Nixon said without turning his head, “We didn’t come to fight the Frostmen—in the words of the general, we are standing on the same side with them for the time being.” “

“Okay,” the sailor shrugged, “They’re blocking the other side of Dagger Island, and we’re blocking this side. It’s not bad to ‘cooperate’, but if those guys get dizzy and really want to come closer, But don’t blame our artillery for going off?”

“If it goes off, you will be the first to be fired.” Nixon looked back at his subordinates, and then turned his gaze to the small island in the distance, “Dagger Island… Tsk, I still remember when I stood guard there.” “

At that time there was still gold to be mined, and there was even a town on the island,” the sailor sighed, “Oh, the good old days are gone forever I.”

Nixon frowned, as if he wanted to say something, but suddenly, he seemed to hear something, and his expression suddenly became serious.

A strange buzzing sound… came to his ears.

“What was that movement?” The sailor next to him also reacted immediately, with a nervous expression on his face, “Did those Frost people make it?” “I don’t know,

but the ships of Frost didn’t act suspiciously… Nixon immediately raised the binoculars, “They don’t seem to know… Wait, Dagger Island is shaking!”

He suddenly took away the binoculars and looked at the distant sea in astonishment.

A hazy mist was rising from the direction of Dagger Island, and a low humming sound came from there, stirring his mind as if it wanted to penetrate into a person’s mind. He saw that the island seemed to be alive, Dim tentacles are spreading out from its edge. The tentacles are rising and wriggling in the mist, stirring the surrounding sea and fog over and over again, while the island itself is sinking little by little. The countless huge shadows on its surface are like giants standing up. Appears in the fog.

Nixon was taken aback for a moment, then quickly picked up the binoculars, wanting to take a closer look at the situation on the island.

However, just when he was about to do this, a loud noise like thunder suddenly came from the sea area of rising mist, followed by countless explosions that sounded densely – the smoke rose up on the island, and The surrounding sea fog merged into one, and the flashes and flames soaring into the sky could be seen clearly even without binoculars!

Dagger Island was detonated—all facilities on the island were exploding, and all “ultimate security measures” pointed to the same answer: Procedure 22, nitroglycerin explosives.

Nixon stared at this scene dumbfounded, and it took a moment to realize what happened, but then, the scene in front of him once again exceeded his imagination.

Dagger Island was sinking, like a battleship that had been blown through its hull, sinking rapidly in a series of explosions.

“The island is sinking?” The astonished voice of the subordinate came from the side. The sailor who had served on the ship for more than half a century had never seen such a spectacle, “The Frostmen… blew up Dagger Island!? They Can sink an island?!”

“Nonsense! There is no such explosive in the world—how could the island be ‘bombed’ and sunk?!” Nixon immediately shouted instinctively, but what he saw made him swallow the words behind: Dagger Island

really It sank, and the sinking speed became faster and faster, and finally reached an unbelievable level. One minute ago, he could still see that two-thirds of the island remained on the sea. One minute later, the entire island Only a small hill remained on the island, and a few seconds later… the island had completely disappeared on the sea.

The mist dissipated, and there was no trace of Dagger Island in the cold sea.

“Not even a vortex…”

Captain Nixon swallowed hard, muttering in disbelief.

The sea in the distance is still calm, and the sinking of an island will theoretically trigger a terrifying vortex, the size of which will be enough to swallow the world’s largest ship, but in fact… there is no vortex at all.

It’s as if… the island didn’t sink, but melted into the sea water.

(end of this chapter)