Chapter 1976 The Ghost Ship Appears

A week after the encounter with the giant plesiosaur, the voyage of the "Narwhal" went smoothly, and the "Coral" followed and tracked without any accidents.

Until the last day of November, at dusk when the sea was dyed red by the setting sun, Joan watched the "Narwhal" through the "remote viewing mirror" as usual, and accidentally noticed a strange mist drifting from the southwest direction .

The visibility at sea is not bad, and the weather is good. According to common sense, it is unlikely that there will be fog. Moreover, even if there is fog, it should be blown away by the sea breeze immediately.

However, what is inexplicable is that the group of fog floating on the sea remains lingering under the attack of wind and waves, and has a tendency to gradually expand.

The more Qiao An looked at it, the more weird it became, and he quickly opened the "fog vision" attached to the "prosthetic eye". Through the thick fog, he saw the shadow of a large ship looming in the depths of the fog.

Judging from the silhouette of the ship, it should be an old-fashioned three-masted sailing ship, about two hundred feet long from head to tail, smaller than the "Narwhal", but much larger than the "Coral" that Joan and the others took .

Why is this sailing ship sailing under the cover of thick fog, as if in a dream?

Joan adjusted the observation angle of the "remote viewing mirror" with confusion, and zoomed in to check the mysterious sailing ship, but found that the deck was empty, and there was no one in the bridge. The whole ship had no breath of life, but was filled with Exuding strong negative energy, like a ghost ship sailing on the Styx.

Joan couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly greeted Hailar and Zion.

The three hurried over and watched the picture shown in the "photo mirror".

"It's the Herlinghorn!" Hailaer's voice trembled excitedly when he saw the sailboat shrouded in mist for the first time, "There is a model ship of the Herlinghorn in the mother's bedroom, zoom in It will be exactly the same as the sailboat in the mirror in the future! Also, you can see that on the jib hanging from the mizzen, there is a big red letter 'G' painted on it, which is the initials of our Green family's surname! This is definitely my Father's ship!"

Joan held the girl's trembling hand, trying to calm her down.

At this time, the crew on the "Narwhal" also noticed the strange thick fog in front of the channel, and hurriedly sounded the whistle.

When Francis Messinger heard the news, he boarded the balcony of the bridge, observed the thick fog with a telescope, then hurried back to his room, and when he returned to the balcony, he was accompanied by Am Froddy.

The halfling warlock held up the "weather staff", created a gust of wind out of thin air, and slightly blew away the fog, revealing the silhouette of the sailboat hidden deep in the thick fog.

"Herlinghorn!"

Both Messinger and Frody changed their faces in an instant, and they called out the name of the sailboat in unison.

However, in the next moment, the sailboat that they sank into the bottom of the sea 18 years ago seemed to be frightened, the outline quickly became blurred, and disappeared in the depths of the dense fog in a blink of an eye.

"Hurry up! Catch up with me!" Messinger slapped the balcony railing and growled sharply, with a ferocious face, "We must not let that damned 'ghost ship' go!"

The "Narwhal" was fully powered, and accompanied by the roar of the magic steam turbine, the armored warship rushed into the thick fog with its head raised, as if it was about to crush the sailboat that was only briefly visible.

However, the "ghost ship" is a "ghost ship". Even though the armored warship was rampaging, Frodi kept waving his staff and calling for strong winds to disperse the dense fog, but there was no sign of the "Herlinghorn".

Such a huge sailboat disappeared from everyone's eyes like a mirage.

Joan, Hylar, Audrey, and Holden surrounded the "remote viewing mirror", staring at the empty mirror with four pairs of eyes, and couldn't help but look at each other.

If the companions around them were not all witnesses, who could testify for what they saw just now, they would simply suspect that the so-called "Herlinghorn" was just an illusion that only existed in their own minds.

Messinger and others on the "Narwhal" couldn't believe that what they had just experienced was just a hallucination, and they sailed to search carefully in the sea area where the "Herlinghorn" had just disappeared.

At the same time, Frody casts "scrying" on the ship, trying to track down the ghost ship that was glimpsed.

Through Fenya's eyes, Joan saw the halfling warlock playing with the crystal ball in the cabin through the crack of the door. At first, he was a little worried that he had successfully detected the whereabouts of the ghost ship. It didn't come out, so I had to give up casting the spell.

This result made Joan gloated and confused, so he decided to try it himself.

Facts have proved that Am Flodie's failure was not accidental, and Joan was unable to use prophecy spells such as "Scry" or "Locate Object" to locate the specific location of "Heringhorn".

There are only two possibilities for such a result.

Either the "Herlinghorn" doesn't exist at all, from the "Narwhal" to the "Coral", what everyone on board the two ships see is an illusion, and of course there is no way to detect what doesn't exist; The "Horn" is actually a "magic ship", and the entire hull is under the cover of protective spells such as "avoid detection" or "mage's secret room" to block detection attempts from the outside world.

The former possibility is too unbelievable, and Joan is more inclined to think that it is the latter.

However, this creates a new problem.

Hailaer didn't remember her mother mentioning that the "Herringhorn" was enchanted with spells to avoid detection, and the real "Herlinghorn" also didn't have the magical ability to emit thick fog and disappear out of thin air, which made her feel a little nervous. A question: Although the sailing ship I am tracking looks exactly the same as the "Herlinghorn", is it really the same ship that sank into the sea 18 years ago?

If the answer is yes, the "Herlinghorn", which has been immersed in seawater for 18 years, is too neat and tidy, with no traces of time passing and seawater erosion at all.

Joan felt that Hailar's suspicion was very reasonable. However, there was still too little information about the fleeting ghost ship. Under the cover of many doubts, it was impossible to draw any reliable conclusions.

After encountering the ghost ship, the voyage of the "Narwhal" was temporarily put on hold.

Messinger ordered his men to search around in small boats, and sent people to dive into the seabed, as if digging three feet to find the "Herlinghorn".

The "Narwhal" couldn't stay there, and the "Coral" didn't dare to chase too close. Joan and the others discussed it, and finally decided to accept Captain Odysseus's suggestion, turn the rudder to the west, and go 30 nautical miles away. I stopped at Sierra Island and went ashore to replenish fresh water.

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