Deep Sea Embers Chapter 229: Blood Seeking Compass

Steel Battle Gauge is quietly moored in the port of Zengland. The flag representing the Sea Fog Fleet above the battleship stretches with the wind under the sunshine. The pattern on the flag is a cluster of sharp ice crystals, and the middle of the ice crystal There is a crack—the ice crystal is a mark of frost, and the crack symbolizes self-exile

The "rebels".

After the famous pirate captain left with his entourage, no one left from that battleship. The Sea Mist was like an iceberg in a state of silence, mooring quietly. The towering and majestic ship's side and bow blocked all curious sights on the pier. At the same time, a city-state guard came from a nearby station and blocked the intersection leading to the trestle bridge to prevent unrelated people from approaching.

After the magistrate came forward to disperse them, the troublemakers who had gathered near the pier finally gradually dispersed.

First officer Aiden stood on the bridge of the Sea Fog, silently watching the movement on the pier.

He didn't go ashore with Tirian—when the captain left the battleship, he, the first mate, was supposed to stay on board as an interim captain to prevent any trouble.

"Those city-state guards look nervous," a sailor muttered next to him, "Are they afraid that we will go ashore to plunder—I thought the city-state guards of Purand, the pearl of the sea, could compare with the cold sea. The idiots are stronger."

Aiden didn't turn his head back: "If they don't come forward to maintain order, you should say that Purand's guards don't even have the courage to go to the streets to block the roads - really let you fight their steam tanks, Are you going?"

"...I won't go, I don't want to be carried back to the deck in a bucket." The sailor hurriedly shook his head, and then looked up at the direction where the steam walkers left just now , "The captain followed them and left... are you okay? That tall woman doesn't look easy to mess with, I think the captain can't beat her..."

"We're not here to fight, we're invited, do you understand?" Aiden finally couldn't help but cast a sideways glance at the sailor, "You, and you, can you adjust your mentality? Have you forgotten the teachings? We are Haiwu Venture Capital Company now—robbing doesn’t last long, isn’t doing business quicker than robbery?”

"Then when will we rob?"

Aiden thought about it, and a ray of sunlight reflected on his shiny forehead: "Of course it's when the other side is unwilling to do business..."

Several undead sailors nodded one after another, expressing the chief mate's opinion, and after a few seconds of silence, one of the sailors whose left half of his head was completely sunken couldn't help looking in the direction of the city-state, and muttered: "Can we Can't go ashore to have a look? Prand, I heard that this city..."

"Don't even think about it." Aiden interrupted this subordinate directly, "The captain ordered that you are not allowed to leave the Sea Fog without permission-you guys will definitely scare people when they go ashore. Well, Prand is not the north, few people in this place have ever seen a talking corpse.

"So the captain only picked a few guys who looked the most like living people to go ashore, right?" I look pretty good, take half a shell to block this place, and then put on a hat..."

"Shut up, no one is allowed to go ashore without the captain's order!" Aiden gave the talking sailor a fierce look, "If you really have nothing to do, go to the cabin and see those who were killed before. Did the unlucky **** stuck on the deck survive, and if so, let them report..."

A slight clicking sound suddenly came from not far away, interrupting Aiden's instructions.

Everyone on the bridge heard the slight clicking sound, and several lines of sight looked in the direction of the sound, and the sailor who spoke first discovered the source of the sound.

Beside the captain's seat, there is a strange machine composed of many gears, connecting rods and compass pointers. The machine is quiet now, but several of its hands are still trembling slightly, which seems to show that it is It had been running suddenly just a moment ago.

"Did this thing move just now?" A sailor who was closest came cautiously to the side of the delicate and complicated machine, and licked its quiet compass needles.

Aiden also came over, his eyes fell on the center of the machine

In the small hemispherical bowl—there was a little dried blood left there after Captain Tyrian used the device last time.

The bald first officer frowned slightly.

As the captain's most trusted subordinate, Aiden knows this device very well.

Anomaly 203, the Bloodseeking Compass, a brass machine with complex structure and unknown principle, was once the collection of the Frost Queen, and now belongs to Captain Tirian.

This machine should be regarded as a kind of "positive effect" among the "abnormalities" with rankings. Its small central bowl can hold blood, and after absorbing the blood, it uses a series of compass to indicate The direction of the user's "blood relatives" has a certain relationship with the priority of the indication of blood relatives, distance, and user wishes.

Compared with most anomalies that are directly malicious and may be fatal due to improper storage, the Bloodseeking Compass is relatively safe in terms of "storage", and it does not require any special sealing conditions-but in contrast, this one Once the device is activated, it will reveal a sinister side.

First of all, once blood is injected into it, the user will continue to be lured by the compass, and will have the urge to continuously inject blood into it, and those with weak minds will even let themselves die in the continuous bloodletting. Secondly, Although the blood-seeking compass can indeed help users find "blood relatives", it often "entrains bad luck" in the process, and constantly leads things to the bad side as the user and blood relatives get closer.

Only Aiden knows that Abnormality 203 once guided a father to find his long-lost son, but when the two met, he killed each other by accident.

However, these negative effects have never mattered to Captain Tirian—the captain's will is strong enough to resist the "blood donation temptation" of the blood-seeking compass, and as for the tendency of bad luck in the process of blood relatives approaching...

First of all, the captain and Miss Lucrezia will never meet while Anomaly 203 is in effect.

Even if it is the blood-seeking compass, it will not create a reunion scene that is more "nuclear curtain" than two cursed warships covering each other with firepower after meeting.

In the past half century, Captain Tirian has often used the Bloodseeking Compass as a kind of "warning device", using it to determine whether the Lost Homeland has returned to the real world.

Aiden and the sailors gathered around Anomaly 203, several pairs of eyes fixed on the several simple compass decorated with complex patterns around the brass device.

Those gears and hands have completely quieted down.

"...Maybe it just wants to move around," a sailor with a hole in his forehead said cautiously, as if he wanted to ease the atmosphere, "After all, this thing is usually motionless..."

Aiden glared at the sailor: "You don't have to joke if you don't know."

"How about... let's wipe off the blood left in the middle?" Another sailor, who was as shriveled as a corpse, said, "Or I always feel that this thing is going to "wake up, come here."

"No," Aiden shook his head, "The captain told me that the blood in the center of the compass cannot be wiped off manually. You have to wait seventy-two hours for the compass to absorb it by itself."

"...What will happen if you wipe it in advance?"

"No one knows, it's not easy enough to sum up the correct use of 'abnormal', who would be full to test various wrong operations," Aiden said casually, "Why don't you try Try? Count yourself as a contribution to human civilization.”

"No, no, no, that's what I said."

Aiden snorted coldly.

"Ka Ka——"

At this moment, the slight mechanism operation sound came from the blood-seeking compass again, and the conversation between the first mate and the sailors was interrupted instantly. Aiden looked at the machine for the first time. The side wheel of this thing gradually began to vibrate, and the several compass pointers on the edge also trembled violently. Then, all the pointers suddenly pointed to the surroundings of Prand...

Seeking Blood Compass became quiet again, this time it seemed that there would be no more movement.

All its pointers avoid Prand.

Aiden and the sailors looked at each other.

"...I just said that this thing just wants to move around..."

"Shut up." Aiden interrupted the sailor, but his eyes were still fixed on Anomaly 203, and at the same time, he recalled the scene he had just seen in his mind.

All the needles turned to a random direction other than Prand, but he can be sure that at a certain moment just now, there was definitely a moment when the needles of the blood-seeking compass pointed to the same direction ——Pointing to the Puland city-state!

It's just that the moment was very short, so short that one would suspect that it was just a coincidence in the irregular rotation of a few pointers, but in Aiden's view, it seemed that the "eyes" of the compass had just focused on their target , then shifted his sight in panic.

Now that the pointers of anomaly 203 are all pointing to the sea near Purdue, in Aiden's view, it has become a kind of "disguise"

He suddenly thought of a sentence the captain once said to himself——

Anomaly 203 occasionally exhibits the properties of a "living creature", which does not always function mechanically.

This thing ~IndoMTL.com~ will be scared.

"Something is wrong... there is a problem with this city-state!" Aiden suddenly reacted, "We need to tell the captain about the situation here.

"But didn't the captain order that we were not allowed to go ashore?"

"Send a message first," Aiden said quickly, looking at a sailor, "Go, bring Poli here!"

The sailor ran away quickly, and after a while, he ran back to the bridge - a huge parrot with colorful tail feathers was standing on his shoulder, grinding the exposed skull of the sailor's head own mouth shell.

"Purley, I need your message," Aiden said loudly.

The parrot immediately stopped bullying the sailor, raised its head and stared at the first mate: "Polly, you can send a message.

"Go to the city-state cathedral, look for the breath of the captain, and tell him—the blood-seeking compass points to Purand, the city-state is not safe!"

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