Dorothy's Forbidden Tome

"Send the order, the whole fleet slows down, and the Boone hangs a signal flag, ask them what's going on?"

"Yes, Your Excellency!" After receiving the order, the adjutant retreated decisively. On the deck, Joad still looked solemnly at the cruise ship in the distance.

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In the distance of the pilgrimage fleet of the Radiance Cult, on the front deck of the Shining White Pearl, Costa, Massimo and others from the original Sea Abyss Cult saw the church warship on the distant sea, and their faces were frightened. Pale, after reacting, he immediately ordered the cockpit to immediately operate the cruise ship away from the glowing fleet, but as soon as Costa gave the order, an unexpected situation happened.

The explosion came from below the deck, and the explosion in the depths of the cabin shook the whole ship, and then the course of the ship dropped significantly. Costa stood firm amidst the shock, and then immediately turned his head to look beside him subordinates, and shouted loudly.

"What happened to the explosion just now! Go down and check for me!"

"Yes, yes sir!"

Hearing Costa's stern order, a Haiyuan Cult sailor immediately ran to the cabin, and then Costa continued to stand on the deck, looking solemnly at the church fleet in the distance, while Massimo spoke in a panic.

"Rogue K...it's that thief K!

Inexplicably encountered the church’s fleet in this place, and at this time, an explosion happened inexplicably! All of this must be caused by the thief K! He may want to use the church’s fleet to get out of this ship!"

Massimo yelled so angrily, and Costa beside him couldn't help but look even more dignified after hearing what Massimo said. Indeed, judging from the current situation, all this should be the thief K in the dark. What a joke, although I don't know what tactics the opponent used, but the sudden appearance of the church fleet and the explosion just now are too coincidental, and the smell of premeditation is too strong, so it is right to suspect Rogue K now.

"Thief K...you bastard...what the hell are you planning?"

Staring at the fleet in the distance, Costa murmured, at this time, passengers startled by the explosion appeared on the deck one after another, and they began to ask the crew members about the situation with anxious expressions, and the crew members were in Costa's Under the instruction, comfort the passengers to their own cabin.

After waiting for a while, a seaman from the Abyss Cult who was covered in stains ran from the cabin to the deck in a panic, and came to Costa to report.

"Mr. Costa! The cause of the explosion is clear! It happened in the boiler room! Two boilers exploded! It's a mess below! I don't know if the explosion affected the transmission, and now the whole ship has stopped. There is no momentum at all! There are still fires in some places, but they are not big, and we have started to put them out!"

"What...the boiler exploded? Shouldn't our people guard the boiler room all the time? How could something happen!"

Costa said to the sailors in front of him, the boiler room is the power core of the whole ship. Costa not only sent his subordinates to guard it, but also sent people to patrol there frequently. Nothing should happen.

"Too, I don't know the exact reason! When I went to the boiler room, it was fine! The workers were shoveling coal, Hama and they supervised it there. Now when I go there again, it has been blown up into a mess! Listen to the people who escaped The workers said that they heard the abnormal sound of the boiler and sensed the danger, so they all ran away before the explosion, while Hama and the others said they saw something suspicious before the explosion and left to investigate, and then disappeared. up!"

The seaman continued to report to Costa in a panic. Listening to the seaman's report, Costa's brows became more and more deeply frowned. Obviously, the suspicious figure he mentioned was the thief K, and he should have gone to the boiler room to do something. The explosion caused by some hands and feet, and Hama and the others chasing after him have no news now, I'm afraid it's more ominous.

After listening to the sailor's report, just as Costa was about to say something, Massimo on the side suddenly continued to speak.

Chapter 390: Signal

"Hey! Costa, look at the magic stick fleet! They are flying the signal flag!"

Listening to Massimo's words, Costa continued to look at the fleet in the distance. After a short pause, he chose not to use his ability to look, but took out a small telescope from his purse and placed it in front of his eyes for observation. Then he saw that the flagship of the distant fleet was already on the flag rope, hanging a combination of signal flags with distinct colors and shapes. As the captain, Costa could naturally interpret the meaning of these combinations of signal flags. The meaning of the situation here.

Seeing the signal flag played by the distant fleet, Costa couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Since the other party still patiently asked about the status of the ship on his side, it means that he still has Massimo's identity. They don't know the pagan anomaly on their ship, they are just conducting routine inquiries about the accident ship.

'Since this is the case, then they can still be sent away...'

Costa thought so, and then he immediately turned his head and shouted to his subordinates on the deck.

"Those magic sticks didn't discover our identities, they just used signal flags to question us after hearing the explosion, and we can respond in the same way and let them go.

"Bins! Ask your people to arrange a flag to respond immediately! Just say that my ship has encountered an acceptable fault, and it can be rectified by itself! Let them not waste time coming over."

"Yes, sir!"

The chief mate on the deck quickly responded to Costa's words. After seeing the response from his subordinates, Costa breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to look at the Glow fleet in the distance. After seeing the signal flag on their side, the fleet was able to leave immediately.

The situation at sea is ever-changing, and the ship is an extremely large and complex huge system, so it is reasonable to have various failures, and most of them can be eliminated by themselves, even if some seem to be quite It's scary, so it's okay for Costa to reply like this. Normally, after seeing this response, the church will leave directly.

At this time, Costa was already thinking about the cost-effectiveness. After the glowing fleet saw the signal flag and left, he tried to restore the power system of the Shining White Pearl, then corrected the course, and then continued to drive the ship to Bailei. island.

If the power system cannot be restored, then Costa can only resort to the last resort, slaughter the ship! By slaughtering all the passengers, find the thief K hiding inside, kill him and take back the Deep Blue Heart, and then the ship that just slaughtered Collect enough food on the finished ship, take the lifeboat with Deep Blue Heart to White Tears Island.

Although more than 2000 sacrifices are gone, at least the Deep Blue Heart is still there, and you can wait for the next opportunity. Although you and Massimo will be severely punished, as long as the Deep Blue Heart can be kept, then the punishment should still be paid. If it does not reach an unacceptable level, at most it will be executed.

But if you lose even the Deep Blue Heart...

Thinking of the ending of the mission failure and the loss of the Deep Blue Heart, Costa shuddered. In his mind, the Deep Blue Heart must be recovered, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

Just as Costa was thinking in his heart, at this time on the distant sea, the flagship of the Radiance Cult raised a new signal flag in response. Seeing the other party's actions, Costa carefully watched the other party raise However, after he finished interpreting the meaning of the new signal flag, his complexion suddenly sank.

On the flagship of Glory, the newly raised signal flag basically means "Our ship and fleet will do our best to rescue."

"Rescue with all your strength...Rescue the fart! I am telling you to get out! Get out as far as you can!"

Seeing the model flag hanging high on the flagship of the distant glow, Costa couldn't help cursing directly. He didn't understand that he clearly said that he could handle the accident without their intervention, so why did they come here directly! What else did he say to rescue with all his strength? ?

Angrily, Costa almost took down the binoculars, then looked up at the flag rope of the Shining White Pearl, but when he saw the signal flag hanging on the flag rope, he froze in place.

The meaning of the combination of signal flags hanging on the flag rope at this time is not at all the meaning expressed by Costa's previous order "my ship encounters a fault within the acceptable range, and it can be eliminated by itself." Combination of opposite meanings.

"My ship suffered a serious accident, a fire and severe flooding occurred, and it was necessary to abandon the ship and request rescue. There were a large number of people on board."

Seeing the signal flag flying above his head, Costa's face was deathly pale. What he wanted to do most at this moment was to jump up and tear off the flag rope and throw the damn signal flag into the sea, but his reason told him He can't do this, at this moment, there are countless pairs of eyes with extraordinary vision staring at this side on the Huiguang fleet, as long as there is a little abnormal movement on his side, the turret on the other side may turn around.

It’s too late to change the signal flag now. If the signal flag with the opposite meaning is hung twice before and after, it’s no wonder that there is a problem if you are not suspected. Once you are suspected by the glow, no one on your side may be able to escape. .

"Hey, Costa, what is the meaning of the flag they hang over there? Did you just say rescue? Didn't you say that you want to let them go? They feel that not only did they not go, but they moved towards this side instead!"

At this time, Massimo, who was beside Costa, asked him with doubts. Listening to Massimo's words, Costa gritted his teeth. He did not respond directly to Massimo, but turned to the deck roared angrily.

"Bins! What's the matter with your flag!"

Costa roared like this, but after his roar, there was no voice responding to him. At this time, Costa felt something was wrong.

"Something may have happened to Binns, let's go there quickly!"

While speaking, Costa walked quickly towards the deck building. Although Massimo saw the situation, he was a little confused, but he followed immediately. In this way, Costa took Massimo and climbed all the way. Deck building, climbed to the position linked by the flag rope.

Later, in the cabin near the link of the flag rope, he found a large body of Bins, including Bins, a total of three dead bodies of sailors lying on the floor of the cabin, all of them were subordinates of his Sea Abyss Cultists, Everyone died on the ground with horrified faces and wide-eyed eyes. The visible scars on their bodies were either on the neck or the heart. It can be preliminarily judged that all three of them should have died of assassination and were killed by a single blow.

Looking at the scene in front of them, Costa and Massimo couldn't help opening their mouths in astonishment. They all knew that among the three people, including Binns, there was a black soil and two apprentices who were able to move silently. To kill these three people in a short time, the other party is an extremely professional assassin... Only a superb "Shadow" Extraordinary can do this.

"This, is this... the work of the thief K?"

"Well... I'm afraid it is. On the current ship, she is the only one who can do this... It seems that we were completely calculated by her. She not only calculated that the arrival of the church fleet destroyed the boiler, but also calculated that we would Hanging the flag to deceive the church fleet, the flag just now was not hung by Bins... but she hung it... Bins was killed by her before that...

"Hmph... You've been tricked by her, that guy!?"

He punched hard on the wall of the cabin, Costa gritted his teeth and said, and when Massimo was about to say something, he suddenly saw a slight abnormality in the body of Binns, he I don't know why I hold it tightly with one hand.

Seeing such a scene, Massimo frowned and squatted down, then he opened the hand tightly held by Binns' corpse, and then suddenly found a button of his clothes in the palm of his hand!

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Conquer the sea, the passage to Ivig.

On the vast sea, the huge cruise ship came to a complete standstill on the sea surface due to the explosion accident in the boiler room. The Glory Pilgrimage Fleet in the distance immediately changed its course after seeing the signal flag hoisted by the cruise ship asking for rescue. He approached the cruise ship where the accident happened.

"Your Excellency, we are approaching the Shining White Pearl, and now the other party has come to a complete stop, it seems that the power is indeed severely damaged."

On the flagship of the escort fleet, the man dressed as an adjutant reported to the officer Joad beside him after seeing the situation of the Shining White Pearl in the distance, and after hearing these words, Joad took a serious look at the distance The status of the cruise ship, and then continue to speak.

"Well...according to the signal flag that the other party just responded, the accident over there should be quite serious now, and water has already begun to appear. If this is the case, we must do our best to rescue it."

Joad said with a serious expression. Generally, when there is an accident on a ship at sea, they will rescue each other and help each other, not to mention that they are still a pilgrimage fleet to the Holy Land of the Virgin. According to the teachings of the Virgin, they must take care of this situation. of.

"For a passenger ship of that size, there are at least one or two thousand passengers. Our rescue must be done in time to rescue all the people before the ship completely sinks. Santos, send an order that all ships in the fleet are ready for rescue work. All the lifeboats were mobilized, and after approaching the accident ship, the lifeboats were used to transport the passengers in batches, and scattered them to each ship.

"In addition, signal flags will be hung to inform the other party's crew, and let them gather the passengers on the deck in an orderly manner, set up the gangway, and prepare to transport the passengers."

Joad said that, while he was talking, there was another loud explosion on the cruise ship in the distance, after hearing the explosion, Joad frowned and then spoke solemnly.

"There are new explosions coming out. Seeing that the accident over there is still getting worse, we can't wait too long, act quickly."

"Yes, Lord Joad!"

As the adjutant said so, just as he was about to go down to deliver the order, he suddenly seemed to remember something, so he continued to speak to Joad.

"By the way, Your Excellency Joad, just in case, should we conduct extraordinary tests on those passengers, in case there are pagan extraordinary people mixed in, it will become a hidden danger to bring them into the fleet."

Listening to the adjutant's words, Joad thought for a while, and then immediately

"Hmm... What you said makes sense. You really should check it out, but you can't delay saving people because of the cumbersome inspection process. How about it...you arrange for people to check every person who boards our side. Passengers on the ship are conducting preliminary extraordinary detection, everyone should take a look at it for a while, remember, saving lives is the top priority now."

Joad gave such instructions and said that although the "lights" of the Glory Fleet are enough, it is still a lot of spiritual expenditure to conduct extraordinary inspections on more than 2000 passengers. If the inspection level is too high, it may make the entire fleet In the next period of time, there will be an overall lack of spirituality, and it may become passive when encountering other crisis situations.

From the present point of view, what the Shining White Pearl is encountering is an ordinary shipwreck without any trace of extraordinary intervention, so after thinking twice, Joad decided to only conduct a preliminary spiritual detection of the whole ship, probably It's just turned on to detect everyone's random glances.

"Yes sir, I will arrange it immediately!"

While responding, the adjutant stepped back to execute the order, while Joad continued to stand on the spot, looking at the huge cruise ship that was getting closer and closer in the distance.

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At this time, on the deck of the Shining White Pearl, Costa was standing by the railing, staring at the glowing fleet that was getting closer and closer in the distance. In the cabin behind him, the three of Binns The dead body of Costa was still lying there, and since seeing Binns dead, the anger in Costa's heart could not be increased.

"Damn thief... Is all this in your calculations? Do you really want to pretend to be ordinary passengers and sneak into Huiguang's fleet?"

Gritting his teeth and muttering, Costa stared at the fleet in the distance and muttered angrily, the railing he was holding on to had been bent and twisted, at this moment he already felt deep despair in his heart.

Facing the Glory Fleet, he dared not show any extraordinary ability. Once the other party noticed the abnormality, he would have a dead end. Mixed into the Glory Fleet, with a deep blue heart, completely out of his control.

As the Glory Fleet looked closer, he rationally told Costa that after formal contact with the Glory Fleet, his side would be very passive and dangerous. Before the fleet came, they jumped into the sea quietly to escape, using the ability of the path of the waves to dive away from the glowing fleet, and then swam to the nearest shore after they left.

But... In this way, it is tantamount to watching the thief K successfully escape with his dark blue heart. Once the other party returns to the land in the glowing boat, he will never be able to find him, and the sacrificial ceremony is messed up , and lost the heart of deep blue, Costa can't imagine what will be waiting for him when he returns to the Sea Abyss Sect under such circumstances?

Now Costa has three choices, one is to jump into the sea with his men to escape, and return to the Sea Abyss Sect after arriving on the shore, accept the punishment, and life will be worse than death from now on. The second is to jump into the sea with his men to escape, but immediately Breaking away from the Sea Profound Sect, from now on, I will live a miserable life of being hunted down by black and white. The third is to break the can and smash, and now immediately show extraordinary traces to the Glory Fleet, and lead the Glory Fleet to attack the entire ship. Conduct depth detection and let the Cult of Light find that thief K directly.

If the third point is handled well, you can even dive directly to escape after showing your traces. If you are lucky, you can rely on your advantage in the water to get rid of Aura's pursuit. detection, the thief K has a high probability of being unable to escape.

Thief K is very likely to be a member of the Nest of Eight Points, and he is also an evil heretic to the Radiance Cult. If he is caught by the Radiance Cult, there will be no good results. Guangjiao, but that hateful thief K will also pay the corresponding price! He may be tied up and burned to death by the church!

'Huh...huh...what should I do...what should I do now...the people from the church are coming soon, what should I do now? Is to immediately dive into the water and escape quietly, and go back to accept punishment Or run away after diving... to a place where Master Jianlin can't find, and live a life of fleeing every day to avoid divination. Or give that damned thief a surprise before diving, let him The gods stick to catch their own fruit, and if I'm lucky, I can still escape...'

At this moment, Costa's heart is full of resentment towards Thief K. He desperately wants Thief K to be sanctioned, and he desperately wants him to pay the price. It doesn't matter whether the sanction comes from himself or the church. If he really wants to If you live a life of running away, why don't you let the damn thief pay the price before running away?

'Yeah...that thief...he must be secretly happy in some corner now, I can't get him, he must be welcoming the church's ship with hope now, he must think that I dare not risk exposure Come on! Hmph...you really underestimated me...

'Now there are only two large battleships in the Glory Fleet, that is to say, there are only a few chalks on them at most, and there is no Chicheng. If I concentrate on diving and escaping, with my physical strength and ability, I will cause extraordinary damage. It is not impossible to escape under their noses after the signs... But the thief is different... In this vast sea, under the full detection of so many magic sticks, he will definitely not be able to escape dropped!

'I...Even if I have to live a life of fear and fear in the future, I won't make it easy for you! Hmph...You think I dare not show my extraordinary traces to attract the attention of the glow stick? You are so wrong !Even if I am caught by the Shining Rod, I will make you pay for your arrogance! Besides, in this vast sea, they may not be able to catch me if I run away when I run out of power!'

Gritting his teeth, staring at the fleet in the distance, Costa thought in his heart with a distorted expression, after being teased several times by Thief K one after another, his greatest wish at the moment is already to make that Thief K pay the price no matter what, In his angry heart, the Deep Blue Heart has gradually become less important. Because he understands that in the current situation, the Deep Blue Heart cannot be taken back no matter what. In the hands of Guangjiao, then instead of letting the thief continue to be arrogant, it is better to give the Deep Blue Heart to the church, so that the thief can be sanctioned.

With the idea of ​​breaking the jar, Costa, who was staring at the distant fleet, slowly raised his hand, ready to openly use his ability in front of countless pairs of eyes on the glowing fleet, to attract the opponent's attention.

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But just when he was determined to activate his ability, Massimo's voice behind him interrupted him.

"Hey, Costa, would you like to see this thing?"

"Cut... what else is there to see now!" Hearing Massimo's words, Costa turned his head angrily, and then he saw that Massimo, who was squatting on the cabin floor, was pointing at the dead body of Binns, Pointing to the dead body's hand, where a black button was placed at this time, the button looked like it had been torn from the clothes.

"This, this is..."

Looking at the button in front of him, Costa's eyes widened, while Massimo, who was crouching down, said seriously.

"Before I saw that Binns's hand was tightly squeezed, which seemed a little abnormal, so I opened it to take a look, and found that he was holding this button in his palm. Neither Binns nor the other two had such a button on their clothes. Button, Costa . . . whose button do you think it belongs to?"

With a sly smile, Massimo said to Costa, listening to Massimo's words, Costa's eyes gradually became fixed, his eyes fixed on the black button in the dead man's hand .

"This is... that guy's thing, Bins ripped it off from him when he was dying?" Costa murmured like this, and then he also squatted in front of Bins, and began to carefully examine the Check that button.

"It seems that Binns struggled a bit before he died, and he managed to tear off this thing. He tried his best... But it's a pity that we still can't help him with just this button. .”

Looking at the scene in front of him, Costa murmured, while Massimo on the side spoke again.

"Can't help him? Not necessarily, Costa, you can smell the button."

"Smell it?"

Listening to Massimo's words, Costa picked up the button in his hand, sniffed it lightly with his nose, and then couldn't help being taken aback.

"It's... the smell!"

"Yeah...yeah...there's a smell on it, and it's not just Binns's smell, it's that guy's smell on it, it's got that guy's smell on it! We can find that guy by the smell! "

With an excited look, Massimo said to Costa, looking at the button in his hand, Costa frowned slightly, and then spoke again.

"No...Didn't you say it before? That guy knows how to smell, so you didn't smell him when you stole the Deep Blue Heart, and because of that, you couldn't use Breath Seeker to track that guy, Therefore, he should strictly remove the smell when he does it. How could there be a smell on it? Could it be that guy stuffed it into his hand after killing Binns? To divert our attention force?"

"Um... I'm also a little surprised why this has a smell on it. But I can be sure that this button must have been held by Binns himself before he died, not someone else who stuffed it in and held it for him. Okay, you can see that Binns's hand is all covered with blood, especially the back of the hand is completely stained with blood, but there is no trace of pressing on the blood, which proves that Binns is dead No one touched his hand after that! He must have held this button in his own hand!"

Massimo said so firmly, it seems that in order to block the attack, Binns had two stab wounds on the hand holding the button, and the blood that flowed out almost stained the hand, and the blood on it was still very wet. However, although there were some scratches on the wet blood stains, they did not show any traces of being pressed by other hands. Therefore, it is unlikely that the button in his hand was artificially stuffed into his hand after death. , should have been held by Binns himself.

Although Massimo's thinking is a little slow, but as a jewelry collector, he still has the ability to observe.

"Didn't it be stuffed in later? Then it's really the button on that guy's body? But why? Why did he know how to remove the smell... this time he was so careless and didn't cover up his smell Just do it..."

Costa frowned and muttered, he stared carefully at the button on his hand, and the seafarer beside them, after looking at the button, couldn't help frowning and said in a low voice.

"That button...doesn't look like a button on a coat..."