Chapter 296 Arrival at Gemini Island
The exquisite three-masted sailing ship with a beautiful bird's head as its figurehead was once again sailing on the blue sea.
The boundless sea surface sparkles under the unchanging sunlight in the sky.
Golden waves rise and fall on the sea.
Everything looks so comfortable.
A long flag with the emblem of the Virgin Mary and the Church of the Holy Trinity was fluttering on the rudder, guiding the direction of their progress.
"What do you see now?" Alka asked Jason in front of him.
At this time, Alka was raising his right thumb, as if he was plucking a piano, and it was undulating like a wave.
The light pink smoke spread out like a thread and wrapped around Jason.
"A...deer, no, it looks like a horse, what is that?" Jason's eyes seemed clear at this moment, but also seemed to be a little confused.
Hearing this answer, Alka nodded, then looked at Jason: "Are you trying your best to resist?"
"Yes, I even attached the mental strengthening spell to it."
"That's fine. It looks like the impact is profound." Alka said, waving his hand.
Lines of silver smoke followed and dissipated.
The confusion in Jason's eyes also disappeared, and he looked at the scene around him.
"Is that your new skill? I have to admit, it's pretty deceptive if you're not prepared."
The two were chatting when Juanlu walked past them and heard a crisp clicking sound.
The two turned to look.
I only saw Juanlu chewing something, and the sound was extremely harsh.
"What are you eating?" Jason asked curiously.
At this time, Alka saw the orange-red magic on Juanlu's mouth when he turned his head.
It obviously doesn't look like he's eating anything good.
"Ore." He raised his hand and showed the two the metallic ore in his hand.
Then he turned and walked towards the kitchen.
The two looked at his back.
"I don't know if it's my illusion, but ever since he got the treasure through the challenge mode, his requirements for food have not been as strict as before."
"It's not an illusion. After such a challenging experience, I have to change a little bit."
Alka recalled and said helplessly.
Then he couldn't help but sigh.
The reason why Juanlu eats these minerals is because his treasure can help him absorb the energy in the minerals and bring about some changes in properties.
For example, making Juanlu's bones and skin harder.
Coupled with his activated bloodline, it makes it easier to digest these things.
It’s just that minerals like this are somewhat difficult to digest, and after eating them you have to keep using magic power to eliminate them.
It is a relatively time-consuming project.
But for Juanlu, it is acceptable, after all, it can permanently improve some effects.
It's just very unpalatable.
But now Juanlu has developed a very strong resistance to bad taste.
For him, these ores were already a good experience.
Before the two of them could chat for a while, Juanlu came over with a plate in his hand.
Watching Juanlu coming over with a tray of food.
Polo, who had just jumped out of the sea, jumped back into the sea silently, as if he had never come out.
Seeing this through the mirror beside him, Alka silently turned his head to look at the sea, pretending nothing had happened.
Only Jason didn't seem to notice anything wrong and continued chattering beside Alka.
Until Juanlu turned his head and looked, and locked his eyes on Jason, who was more conspicuous at the moment, walking towards him.
Jason seemed to feel someone walking towards him and turned to look.
When he saw Juanlu and the plate in his hand, his expression changed immediately.
His face was bitter, but he forced a smile and said, "Why, what's wrong? I'm not hungry yet."
"It's okay, try my new experimental dish."
Juanlu smiled and said.
Seeing that Juanlu had already identified the target, Alka turned around and looked at Jason with a smile.
And Porro once again jumped out of the sea and onto the deck, as if he had just come up.
According to the previous rules, after Juanlu asked one person to taste the food and got his evaluation, he would not look for a second person.
So the two of them are now in a relatively safe state.
Jason smiled bitterly, looking at the food on the plate.
...if it's food.
It was a long, strip-shaped creature that was dipped in some sauce and swaying slowly on the plate.
Probably only one finger long.
The creature's skin had rather disgusting markings, and it looked very unappetizing.
Even though it exudes a faint fragrance, it is still somewhat unacceptable.
But knowing he couldn't escape, Jason silently pinched the long creature's tail with his fingers.
Lifted it up.
As it was lifted up, the long creature swung rapidly, and the twisted patterns on its body were visually deceptive as it swayed.
It makes people feel dizzy easily.
But for Jason, it naturally had no effect.
But such twisting will make people extremely uncomfortable.
He pinched his nose and swallowed the thing in one breath.
“Hmm… Hmm?” Jason chewed twice, as if savoring it carefully.
"It's actually not bad? It just tastes a little weird, but it can't be considered unpalatable."
After receiving Jason's evaluation, Juanlu nodded.
"It looks like it needs some improvement." He took the plate and left.
“You actually won the prize.” Alka said from the side.
Pororo beside him also looked unhappy.
Looking at the expressions of the two, Jason smiled smugly: "Nothing I can do, I'm just lucky."
At this stage, Juanlu often uses all kinds of weird, even disgusting foods to make dishes.
Let everyone on the boat help taste and draw conclusions.
At that time, I didn't understand why everyone agreed so readily. After all, Juanlu's cooking skills were there, so how bad could the experimental prototype be?
Later they all regretted it.
Because these trial products are not only unpalatable sometimes, they can even cause double torture both mentally and visually.
Sometimes, even all three come together, which is hard to accept visually, spiritually, and tastefully.
If it tastes good on a particular occasion, it will be considered a win.
Because in that case at least it tasted good.
Watching Juanlu enter the kitchen and get busy.
Alka sighed and said, "Perhaps this is the price of being aggressive."
Juanlu used to hate weird food and always used real ingredients to make delicious food.
For example, when Alka was asked to experiment with some strange ingredients to see if they were edible, Juanlu would always refuse.
But if it were now, he would definitely start making it with great interest.
But now Alka doesn't dare to make some weird suggestions for no reason.
Because then the others on the ship will be the ones who suffer.
I don’t know if this can be considered progress.
…
"According to the time estimate mentioned before, we should be there soon." Xia Daiti said, looking at the guidance flag fluttering on the rudder.
According to what Nova said when Alka took over the Banner of Guidance.
The so-called Twin Islands they were heading to were only about 20 days and nights away from the Trial Island.
It is relatively close when sailing on the sea.
"That's right. We've seen ships passing by recently," Alka said.
On the vast ocean, it is a great fate to encounter other ships during normal voyage.
Unless it's next to some islands.
And they have encountered it many times in the past few days, which means there is a landmark island around this sea area.
This situation will only occur in the sea area formed by the Signpost Island and other islands connected to it.
Because in this way there will be enough people active in this sea area, and they will all sail in this area.
Moreover, in these few days they encountered more than a dozen ships in total.
This shows that the landmark islands around here are obviously the more famous ones.
"Look ahead! Look at that ship!"
Jason's voice came from above my head, and he sounded obviously excited.
After only a short while, a ship came from the front.
Alka looked carefully.
It was a huge three-masted sailing ship in gold and green colors, more than 60 meters long.
As soon as I saw this color combination, I felt a sense of familiarity.
Because the Church of Our Lady often uses ships with this color scheme.
Sure enough, as the ship got closer, everyone could see the emblem of the Church of Our Lady printed on the huge sail.
How long has it been?
It has been several years since I left my home sea.
Seeing the emblem of the Church of Our Lady again was a familiar feeling.
As the Sound of Dawn passed by the ship a few hundred meters away.
A ray of light inexplicably appeared on the hull of the Voice of Dawn.
The speed of the entire ship increased by one knot in an instant.
There was some cheerful music coming from the dawn.
Feeling the familiarity in this light.
Alka and the others on the boat couldn't help but smile.
This was obviously a benefit given to them by the ship of the Church of Our Lady next to them.
Obviously, it is impossible that every ship encountered by the Church of Our Lady will be like this.
Or maybe Alka and the others were lucky.
Or someone on this ship noticed some characteristics of Alka's ship.
Let them be sure that there are followers of Our Lady on board this ship, even an apostle.
"It looks like we are not far from the Twin Islands."
As Alka looked ahead, he couldn't help but feel better.
It didn't take long.
Just as it was getting dark, they saw an island in the distance.
There were also many more ships around.
People come and go, but they keep a certain safe distance from each other.
“Ah, this place is so prosperous.”
Xia Daiti couldn't help but speak as he looked at the ships around him.
Because she was already wearing glasses for detecting data.
This kind of glasses is extremely concealed. It is mainly used to detect fluctuations in magical power rather than to spy on individuals.
So generally speaking, few people would notice that they were being probed.
And you can find it by wearing these glasses and looking at the ships around you.
None of these ships are ordinary ships, they are all spell ships. The most outrageous thing is that there are more than a dozen ghost ships among the ships coming and going.
In the glasses, the ghost ship has much more energy response than the spell ship, and it is very easy to identify.
The sailing is getting closer.
Everyone finally had a clear view of the twin islands.
The island is indeed very large, with both sides connected and extending to the end of the sight.
The sky darkened in an instant, and the black starry curtain covered the blue sky and white clouds.
The sea surface fell into darkness in an instant.
There were a lot of lights coming from the island ahead, and two huge beams of light suddenly shone over and pierced the sky.
The two beams of light could be seen from far away.
There should be light from two lighthouses, guiding the ships sailing around in the dark.
Look around.
The structure of the Twin Islands is somewhat strange.
It is hard to imagine that such islands exist in nature.
It is composed of two islands that are almost stuck together.
The entire island is similar to a relatively regular circle, divided into two in the middle of the circular island, and a round hole is dug in the middle again.
This results in a relatively straight ocean current channel that runs through the entire island, with a huge circular inland sea in the center of the channel.
And that inland sea is the shared port of the two islands.
The direction they were facing was the side heading out to sea.
All the ships were heading in the same direction, out of the exit in front of them.
Not a single vessel was seen moving in the opposite direction.
Judging from the ships sailing on this waterway, there are really too many ships around.
It looked like if they wanted to land on this island, they would have to go around to the other side of the island, enter from another entrance, and then stop at the port in the central inland sea.
A small boat came by, and the color of the boat was a bit strange.
The entire ship is in gray and black color. When it was passing by, everyone realized that this was not the color at all, but the material of the entire ship, because it was a steel ship.
The style is very unique, with a very sharp bow. There is no bow or stern structure. There is only a command tower in the center of the ship.
Seeing this look, Alka couldn't help but recall the past.
The ships of the past world were so similar to this ship.
There is a flag on top of the boat, and you can clearly see the gear logo printed on it .
This is the ship of the Holy Machine Church.
A somewhat shrill alarm sounded on the ship, and it stopped in front of them.
The sound came from a distance.
The sound was not a specific language, but a sound composed of strange syllables.
I clearly don't understand what it says, but I can understand its meaning.
"This is the exit. If you want to enter the island, please enter the inner sea port from the other side."
Although everyone had noticed this, they were stopped before they had time to adjust.
The Sound of Dawn quickly turned the boat around.
Only after seeing the Voice of Dawn turn its bow did the steel ship leave.
"Is that the iron ship of the Holy Machine Church?" Xia Daiti looked at the departing iron ship, turned his head and asked Simon not far away.
Simon nodded. "Yes, but it's strange. Why are these ships exactly the same as those used by the church in the Bright Sea?"
After all, the two churches are so far apart, but the technology they use is exactly the same.
"This is normal, right? Why does it feel strange?" Jason asked puzzledly.
“Because the technology of this ship was still a test product when I left, and it had not been used in actual manufacturing, many of the technologies on it were newly researched.
I have met many researchers of new technologies and even participated in the research of some technologies.”
This means that some of the ship's technologies are unique to the Four Gods Sea, and are calculated based on the time it left its own sea.
It's not surprising that this ship has been implemented.
What’s strange is why The Expanse was able to be implemented so quickly.
Because it can confirm that the technology does indeed come from the Four Gods Sea.
Logically speaking, this situation should not occur.
“Perhaps the connection between churches is much closer than we think.
After all, the Four Gods hold the most primitive secrets of this world, don't they? They must have a connection that we don't know about.
For them, the vast ocean may not be as difficult as it is for us.
Perhaps there is an internal passage.”
Because Alka has always had such doubts.
For example, the biggest suspicion is that the Pope of the Home Sea is much weaker than that of the Infinite Sea.
These don't make sense.
You can say that the Home Sea limits the development of strength, but Alka will know how weak the strength is when he truly experiences it.
It's not just as simple as being weak.
Many things require strength to support them.
Including some understanding techniques and ideas.
The most outrageous one is the [Scepter] level spell.
As he already possessed two treasures at that time, he could clearly feel that the archbishop must have a treasure of the [Scepter] level.
Is that an existence that can be controlled by someone who is not even at the second stage?
Obviously unlikely.
Everyone chatted and waited for the Sound of Dawn to travel along the edge of the island and around to the other side.
The island they were circling seemed to be Zuozi Island, which was occupied by the Holy Machine Church.
You can see various strange-looking steel buildings above.
In Alka's words, it looks a bit like steampunk.
In addition to some simple wooden houses, there are also many large steel buildings, which are a bit like factories.
"Look at the sky, there is a ship flying in the sky?" Lucillia said loudly, pointing to the sky.
Always look up.
A huge oval object can be seen, carrying a ship-like structure, flying slowly in the sky.
Airboat, a very conspicuous airboat structure.
Alka once heard Simon say that there were already airships in their sea area.
However, it is said that this thing is not very practical even in the Home Sea.
"That's an airship. Do you see that huge conical balloon on its head? It's filled with some kind of gas that can keep objects afloat."
"But that thing is really hard to use. A little bit of chaotic weather at sea can break it into pieces."
"It can only be used on islands like this, and at most to gather intelligence from afar."
Indeed, they only saw this one ship in the sky and no more.
Indeed, in this boundless ocean world, the existence of airships does not have much effect.
Especially in the vast ocean, the severity of the weather is obvious to all.
Even the existence of the signpost island and the large population gathered on it will make the mist creatures of the dream world give priority to repairing this area.
But it still cannot stop the problem of bad weather, because even in the sea area of the Four Gods, bad weather is a topic that cannot be avoided.
So this thing doesn't have much practicality.
