captain migraine

As Caesar said before, no one in the entire Mediterranean knows where the so-called "land of the rising sun" is, and the language documents in Zhizhi's hand don't explain too much about that mysterious place. A place that no one should be able to reach, in addition to using the correct method to find the way forward, you must also go through extremely hot and extremely cold places——

In the past history, most of the pioneers who searched for the "Land of the Rising Sun" fell on this first threshold. The rapid alternation of cold and heat made them quickly infected with severe wind chills, and then the wind chills aggravated Afterwards, the disease quickly spread in the fleet like the most terrifying plague and became more and more serious. Every day, countless crew members fell down. Buried are the wrecks of countless ships.

There are only a handful of people who can see the sea monster that finally guarded the kingdom of the rising sun, and none of them can come back alive.

And everyone on the Stormrage was clearly prepared for this - Lake almost emptied all the gold in Caesar's treasure chests, and exchanged them with pepper that might not be used up in this lifetime. At this time, pepper It was still a rare item, and a small bottle as thick as a finger could be sold for a good price of five gold coins, so when Lake moved large bags of pepper onto the ship for free, almost all the crew members were dumbfounded.

Then there are cotton clothes, necessary fresh water, enough kerosene for heating, and the most airy and comfortable summer clothes——

As if Christmas had come early, all the crew members of the Stormrage who were willing to follow Caesar received a luxury that they didn't even dare to think about.

……

On the third day of Stormrage’s trip, after listening to Zhizhi crying all night without sleep, McGar finally had a restless sleep before dawn. In his dreams, he always dreamed of messy things, sometimes Good and bad, the only thing in common is that when the black-haired young man opened his eyes, he found that he couldn't remember any of them.

McGarr was awakened by the heat.

Even though he stayed in the captain's lounge, which was much cooler than the deck, he still couldn't resist the hot, sea-smelling air coming out of the open window—the sun was shining brightly outside. He got up from the bed, and when he came to the window, he even suspected that he heard Zen's call.

Scratching his head, McGarl, who couldn't stand the heat, stretched his head to look. Not surprisingly, the pirates on the deck were still working, and most of them had already stripped their upper body naked. Drops of sweat dripped down their buns and cheeks onto the deck that was almost smoldering under the sun. Their skin was stuffed black, and a thin layer of sweat was coated on it. Under the reflection of the sun, The skin appeared darker and firmer.

Reports of sunstroke among crew members can be heard on deck every hour or so.

The weather is too hot to believe this is the rhythm of autumn.

"We've entered extreme heat."

A female voice without much emotion sounded behind the black-haired young man. McGarl turned her head, and as expected, she saw Zhizhi standing behind him. After seeing him turn around, the iceberg on the girl's face melted a little, and she pouted. Pouted: "After sunset, we will encounter an extremely cold place. We will arrive when the boat passes there."

"It's that simple?" McGarl was obviously a little unconvinced.

Sure enough, Zhizhi covered her mouth and laughed, and raised the corners of her lips in a very mocking way: "This is unbearably hot, right? Let me tell you, the best is yet to come. I heard that the hottest place is the most It can set the deck of a ship on fire when it's hot—'the heart of the sun,' someone once said of a place of extreme heat."

What the fuck?

McGarl froze in place.

In order to save you, we have to go through the two heavens of ice and fire, big dog, look at you, look at what evil you have done!

Zhizhi’s voice was neither loud nor small, but following the sea wind, all the crew members on the deck heard it clearly. People were shocked. The former walrus crew of the Stormrage jumped onto the deck, and led a group of crew members to start hey yo Hey yo yelled and washed the deck with buckets of seawater. Even though the seawater was evaporated by the scorching sun and the heat on the ship was like hell, no one dared to complain. Even if the heat took off, no one wanted to find their captain Burn your own boat first.

As more and more people collapsed due to heat stroke, Bakir's medical room was finally full to the point that it could not fit any more, so Lake led a group of people to clean up the bottom cabin, which was like a steamer above the deck. The interior of the cabin is much cooler, and it was vacated as a place for some unbearable crew members to take a breather.

"Persist for a while longer, and the sun will set." Lake said words that he couldn't convince himself, and comforted the screaming crew members with blood on his face.

McGarl squatted aside, flipped over a bucket of seawater, and the water in the bucket splashed on the deck, soaking the dry deck in front of the black-haired young man again: "Guess what Caesar would say if he was here ?”

"He'd tell us to shut up," Lake said without looking up. "It's always been his pattern to say things like, 'Your voices make me feel hotter.'"

McGarl squatted on the ground and smiled, but said nothing.

"Now I think that I might prefer the cold winter to the summer." Lake picked up the empty wooden barrel that McGarl knocked over to prevent it from rolling on the spot. Throw the wooden barrel with the rope into the sea, fetch a new bucket of water, and splash it on the spot where Megal had splashed it before, "I don't know when the sun will go down—are our cotton padded jackets really useful?"

In the end, Sea God told Lake with the facts that God would not cheat.

It's so hot during the day and so cold at night.

……

As soon as the sun went down, the temperature immediately dropped, and a thin layer of frost suddenly condensed on the deck that was still steaming hot a second ago, and the water surface in the wooden barrels that still had seawater Instead of shaking, a thin layer of ice formed, and the barrel could no longer be lifted, for the water at the bottom stuck it to the deck.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and half of the stars could not be seen. On the contrary, most of the snowflakes mixed with ice particles fell from the sky, and it was freezing cold.

"Even the sea water is freezing, is this against the sky?"

Rick muttered while putting on warm clothes on himself, and beside him, McGarr was holding the iron rod with his stiff hands and trying to ignite the kerosene wick—he almost doubted that if it continued to be so cold, he would not In the middle of the night, the kerosene freezes because it is too cold.

Strangely, the water in the small wooden box with Sinan fish was not affected, and the transparent little fish was swimming happily in the water at this moment.

Envious and jealous of a group of stupid humans who are about to vomit from the weird weather.

Since Caesar was gone, the drum band on the Stormrage also announced its disbandment.

Since Caesar was gone, the rough rules he set have been blatantly violated one by one - such as gambling on the ship, the crew have been thinking about doing this for more than ten years, and now they finally have a chance ... A group of old men were as excited as elementary school students whose teacher temporarily announced that self-study was given a short-term freedom.

At this moment, the group of desperadoes who chose to stay on the deck are now gathered on the deck wrapped in blankets, the only pile that must be constantly filled with materials to keep it immortal is pitiful They drank the strongest wine to keep their bodies warm, even though their mouths were glued to the bottle, but they didn't know it. After drinking, they continued to gamble and laugh without restraint until the people sitting around Turning around, I found that the person next to me was laughing wildly, "Bring me the money" with a real bloody mouth.

McGarr looked at it with his chin propped up for a while, and suddenly realized a truth - the reason why the self-study class can be excited is because the students probably know it well, no matter the next class is Chinese class, math class or English class. For the time they lost in class, there was always someone who could force them to fill in the vacancy.

You have confidence, so you can be fearless.

That's how they firmly believed that Caesar would definitely come back.

……

"I think they just want to play," Zhizhi said, poking her head to look at the deck with a disdainful face. Her lips were blue from the cold. Next to Megal, "Sleep, dear, it will still be bright tomorrow."

"I'll see him in the morning."

"...You are hopeless, Luo Chenzhou."

Such a familiar dialogue, the time, place and characters remain the same, so it came again.

Megal was half-forced to sleep by Zhizhi. At first, his hands and feet were cold and a little excited, and he couldn't fall asleep anyway——Maggal curled up in the bed, listening to the lively yelling from the deck outside, thinking that he might be He had to open his eyes and wait for dawn, until at some point, a pair of cold hands gently reached into the quilt and touched his calf.

The touch of that hand is very familiar, rough, wide, and without warmth.

McGarl opened his eyes, only then did he realize that he had fallen asleep.

At this moment he woke up.

When he saw clearly the familiar outline of the person pressing above him, the black-haired young man's pupils shrank slightly, and then quickly returned to normal.

This is not a dream.

Absolutely not.

He stretched out his hand and held the outline of the man's face pressing on him.The two of them were so close that McGarl could smell each other's breath, could feel the upper body tightly pressed together, and the powerful beating from under the other's chest... He opened his mouth and found his His throat was terribly dry, however, after a few meaningless "hehe" sounds from his throat, he finally called out the name that made him almost suffocate——

"Caesar?"

"..."

"Caesar?"

"Well, it's me."

"……How did you come?"

"No one ever said I couldn't leave the Land of the Rising Sun."

"So you're here?"

"So here I am."

"I miss you."

"I never stopped thinking about it for a moment."

"...You came to see me?"

"Well, I'm here to find you." The man's voice was still low and magnetic, and his speech was flat without ups and downs. He stretched out his hand and pressed the corner of the black-haired young man's lips with his rough thumb just as he liked. , the latter suffocated, his eyes became sore - he stared at the man on top of him.

But the man just gently picked up McGarr, and said lightly: "I came to you, and I hope you can go to a place with me."

"Where?"

"Don't ask, just follow me."

McGarl froze for a moment, then sat up with the opportunity. In the darkness, he could even hear the grunting of Zhizhi next to him, who was sleeping like a dead pig—other than that, everything seemed very quiet. On the deck outside the window The drunken voices of the crew seemed to be far away. The black-haired young man stood by the bed and stared at the place where the other party was holding his wrist for a long time.

Finally, he raised his head—

Relying on the swaying kerosene lamp outside the boat, he could only vaguely see the silhouette of the other party.

The man pulled him, pulling him almost unwaveringly toward the deck, the cold wind blew, and the wind, like a knife-cut mixed with ice particles, hurt his face, McGarl hung his head, almost Obediently following the man step by step out of the captain's lounge, they crossed the three decks and came to the highest ship's side.

The man looked at the tumbling water beside the boat, looking hesitant.

But at this moment, McGarl withdrew his hand from the opponent's.

Under the slightly astonished eyes of the other party, he hooked the corners of his lips.

"I don't know who you are, and I don't know what you want to do-but, now that I'm ready to die, I can go with you wherever you want to take me... But, that is After I found Caesar."

The dark-haired young man said casually——

"But can I spare you one thing, please stop pretending to be him-this lifeless picture is not like a living person at all, it is really uncomfortable to watch."

After McGall finished speaking, he tilted his head and stared at the unknown figure in Caesar's appearance with those deep pupils that seemed to be able to see into the depths of people's hearts.

He watched very calmly as Caesar's skin melted like a melted candle, revealing the pale female face underneath. The ground cracked, and from there, a pair of bird wings spread out, and the scattered blue feathers were caught in the falling snow, which was extremely eye-catching.

It stretched out its hand, as if it wanted to touch the cheek of the black-haired young man, but when it was about to touch it, it withdrew its hand suddenly as if it had been scalded, and then it flapped its wings, Braving the wind and snow, it spread its wings and flew towards the gray-black sky—the creature's beautiful and melancholy melody hovered over Stormrage.

……

"The siren... it's the siren siren! The first batch of messengers sent by the demon of the sea has appeared, guys, plug your ears! Get ready to fight!"

On the deck, Lake's voice sounded suddenly, like the heaviest note, piercing the tranquility of the night.