The World of Pirates

Chapter 141 Superstition
When Ella opened her eyes, she saw that Lancelot was still standing there in a daze, but the knife in his hand seemed to be missing?
Not caring about such details, Ella hurriedly looked up, but the strange snake disappeared for some reason.

After going through the baptism of death just now, Ella seemed to have a burst of courage in her heart.She got up from the deck, grabbed Lancelot who was still in a daze, and ran towards the cabin.

The swaying ship had regained its balance at this time, and when the two came to the hatch, Captain Frank asked in surprise, "When did you go out?"

Before Ella returned, he continued, "It's dangerous outside, go back to the cabin!"

As he said that, Captain Frank pushed the two of them with his hand, so the two hurried back to the cabin.

After a while, Captain Frank found that the strange snake that stirred up the storm seemed to have disappeared, and the "Queen" that seemed about to capsize just now also returned to calm.

If it weren't for the damaged mast on the ship, the messy scene, and the corpses of the sailors scattered everywhere, he would almost think that everything just now was just a dream.

After waiting for a while again, Captain Frank held the fire and looked around the deck cautiously. After confirming that the strange snake had really left, he returned to the cabin door and said to the boatswain: "Call some brave brothers Come out and straighten the sails."

"We need to get out of here as soon as possible!"

"Yes!"

The boatswain rushed into the cabin, called a few trusted brothers, and began to quickly rest the ship when he came to the deck...
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The sun had already risen when Ella and Lancelot came to the deck again.

The sailors were silently busy on the deck. They felt as if they had woken up from a nightmare, and they couldn't believe what they saw last night was true.

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Ella didn't sleep all night last night, and her spirit was a little sluggish. Now she was leaning against the side of the boat, blowing the cool sea breeze in the morning, and her mind was cleared.

After blowing the sea breeze for a while, Ella turned her head to say something to Lancelot, but saw the navigator on the ship coming to them.

"Mr. Lancelot, Miss Ira, the captain is here."

The attitude of the navigator is very respectful, far better than when they were drinking yesterday.

Although I don't know what Captain Frank is looking for them to do, but now they are on someone else's ship. After Ella nodded, she pulled Lancelot and followed the navigator to the captain's cabin.

As soon as the three of them entered the captain's room, Captain Frank, standing in the center of the room, greeted them immediately, and bowed deeply to Lancelot.

"Captain, what are you doing?" Ella asked puzzled.

After a long time, Captain Frank stood up and said to Lancelot, "Thank you for your help last night!"

Ella: "???"

Lancelot didn't say a word, looking like a wooden man, obviously didn't know what to say, so Ella quickly waved her hand and said, "Captain, have you misunderstood something?"

Captain Frank nodded knowingly, and then said: "Miss Ella, don't worry, I won't reveal this matter."

"The reason why I asked Dane to invite the two of you," Captain Frank pointed to the navigator, "instead of me going in person, is because I was afraid that there would be too many people on board and the news would be leaked."

"Please forgive my rudeness!" Said Captain Frank bowed again.

Ella hurriedly reached out to help him up, and said while supporting him: "Captain, you must have misunderstood..."

Lancelot, on the other hand, watched the "performance" of the two of them, completely indifferent.

After Ella explained, Captain Frank sighed and said, "Okay, I'll show you two something."

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A merchant ship as big as the "Queen" has more than one floor of hold, the bottom is the ballast stone of the township, on which sundries are usually piled up, and the kitchen occupies half of the floor.

The cabin door is pushed open, and the smell that hits the face makes one faint. It is the smell of chicken excrement and pig manure, mixed with the smell of blood, and mixed with the smell of cooking in the kitchen. It is warm and dull, making people unable to tell uncomfortable.

Even Ella, who was used to living a hard life since she was a child, couldn't help feeling sick, but Lancelot looked normal instead.

The cabin was dark, with only a few small side windows showing some light. We could vaguely see dozens of fat pigs around here, hundreds of chickens over there, and freshwater fish in big buckets. There are wilted vegetables growing in soil troughs.

"If you just eat fish during a long voyage, the sailors will inevitably suffer from diseases, especially scurvy, which will kill people. Therefore, although this kitchen is smelly, it is a place to save lives." Captain Frank is very used to the smell here.

"You... are really a good captain." Ella complimented, suppressing her discomfort.

Captain Frank was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head, and stopped talking about this topic.

Navigator walked to the far end of the galley and opened a heavy wooden door.

Inside the wooden door is a separate cabin, which is empty, only a table, made of a whole piece of bluestone, extremely bright, slightly high around, concave in the middle, and a deep groove in the center leading to the wooden barrel next to it.

The big fish that was caught yesterday was placed on the table right now, its body coiled up and its tail dragged to the ground.

"Here?" Ella looked around.

"This is where the fish are killed on the boat." Captain Frank explained.

The big fish's brilliant golden scales did not change color at all. Under the candlelight, it looked like it was made of pure gold. The sharp-edged fish head and horn bones revealed a bit of majesty, while the fish tail was gentle and feminine.

"It was so chaotic at the time, it's rare that the fish didn't fall into the sea." Ella said.

"I can't run away. Those fishermen are thieves. They buried a cross hook in the fish's mouth and tied it to the deck with a rope."

With both hands, the navigator opened the fish's mouth, revealing a row of sharp and small teeth.Inside the big mouth of the wine barrel, a cross hook gleamed coldly, and four sharp hooks were inserted into the fish's mouth.

"They were afraid the fish would slip away."

"Where can dead things go?" Ella asked puzzled.

The navigator explained: "Miss Ella doesn't understand the thoughts of these fishermen. If the fish is not dead, they might want to release it. But once it dies, they will have other ideas. They think that sea kings are immortal. We Kill him once, and if it comes back to life, it will slip away and call its mates to take revenge on us. So you have to hook it! It’s nothing to hook a rotten mouth, don’t care about them, they’ve already ripped the fish to pieces.”

"I think they also set up a cross... to pay homage?" Ella recalled what she had seen before.

"Sacrificing it is to keep its soul from waking up before chopping it into eight pieces." Said the navigator darkly.

Ella: "..."

(End of this chapter)